just after three pm here in moscow you're watching r t now to libya first where fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti gadhafi forces loyalist troops are making their last stab at three cities which are under heavy assault by the relentless fighters who are backing the country's new government sirte bani walid are now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire are its lot colonel gadhafi who is still on the run and could be hiding in one of the siege cities. returning to a kind of normality of the capital but his art is muddy if an ocean reports some libyans there already want gadhafi back. and months off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant fearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. that we will do anything for moammar in the memoir even if we have to give our lifes. fervent support for the ousted leader to solve once they see our camera

and be with their. like one with a weird television how could it tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so we're going to tell the camera no no thanks to five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my head whoa whoa whoa whoa the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new slogans new speeches. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no

doubt about who's ruling out. those who don't support mr fogg those only you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here they are there. because i. share. with. you the rest. of. it off me is affectively gone then you also artists have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is you free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the beer fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk. tripoli is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express an

opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money are enough for him. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dock is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear of their homes are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that more is in store. roof notion r t tripoli libya. the

u.s. was quick to support the revolutions in libya and egypt as a democratic expression of the people's free will and that it might not stop there with calls for syria's regime to step down to all of that could leave iran out of the cold in its own neighborhood artie's good education reports as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know . iran is not an arab country the arab spring to spread to absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the mines under the umbrella of the arab revolutions washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both

sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming our side alone i think assad's days just like the darfur number and let's hope that by sure assad is next in line they were overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syria next to take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations son went as far as to predict the arab spring would spread all across the world what this is all about is the arab spring and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's what the libyan people have just achieved oh that's wishful thinking on the part of john

mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government in venezuela and cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its. same control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far it thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that's still in power last week a gyptian storm piece really embassy enraged by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead here washington she wanted leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very

murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the herb spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for an undermining the whole region i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. . moscow is retiring at steep concerns over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland following the announcement that parts of the defense shield could be in place by twenty eighteen by the foreign ministry in moscow said on saturday that urgent talks with nato are necessary as well as hard guarantees that russian security won't be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles on polish soil follows a deal sealed it this week with romania and turkey who agreed to host parts of america's missile defense system that the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea but peace analysts bruschetta all told r.t. that's not what the shield is really about. the u.s.

is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy or the carrot to draw in other countries like turkey and romania making them feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly what we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between the united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland. turkey and other countries in the coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically the encirclement of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its bases in missile defense deployments in japan south korea token now. the u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on their i want and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. more of this week's top news still to come for you sturrock launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the

russians will share facilities successfully wired up to iran's national grid with a deal to send the spent fuel abroad so it can't be used to make your weapons. south st augustine's ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly to europe but some still want to keep their supply so when we'll explain later in the program. the u.k. and russia move to patch things up between them with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week well the leaders of both countries agree that they're on resolved issues shouldn't get in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in six years relations between the two soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer didn't go in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed the case should not hold back their partnership for proper policeman's worked extensively in sides of technology projects between the u.k.

and russia sees potential ahead. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing those days and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's cave whether up all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited that i think is really key to the interesting future that. russia has in store in this whole area as ethnic tensions on

service border with breakaway kossovo mountain both ways chief negotiator is searching for calm on both sides to find a diplomatic solution violence broke out after cost of a police backed by need to lead forces took over two disputed border posts previously under-served control r.t. sarah firth is near one of the scenes checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the case full force is a warning to the ethnics protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission that's been working here at the border points with you like they go there bob wire fence is out there but the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border points not so many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and they'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well take a vote of these control points what they see the essex population here in the north

as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course of the government making of me to try and take these places resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of the serbian ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because the base the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves but no one wants to make a meal and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base sides those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. iran's first nuclear power plant went online on monday the only such facility in the middle east

the russian built reactors are working at forty percent capacity right now and should be at full power in december moscow says it will continue providing help if you offer the plant until iran takes full control in twenty fifteen plus or nations of long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs which tara was repeatedly denied political scientists early for told of their job from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has the same right to peaceful nuclear energy as any other nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west. over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions canonic sanctions if we just listen to the

most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. numerously and on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. and still ahead for you this hour the italian town that wants to run from rome. battered by the likes of italy's plan to ring economy one sleepy rural community is decided to go it alone. and taking an exclusion excursion meet the traditional tourists for their health for a holiday despite the radiation risk. a party backed by the

large russian community there won a majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all votes now counted the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russia supporting party has led the polls in the former soviet state since it became independent what speculation is growing that rival lot of politicians may form a coalition to keep the pro russia party out of government about one third of the country's population are russian speakers but many of them are non-citizens and have no voting rights. of russia and its key european gas customer sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week for the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe all year round moscow has spent the last four years agreeing the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supplies the flow have been disrupted several times in the past along current pipelines that's due to rouse between russia and transit

countries like brother reuss and ukraine south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers german or french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be completed by two thousand and fifteen now energy analyst julia lease says europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea guess what it's seeking to do is to find a balance between

a variety of suppliers delivering gas through variety of routes and nobody is disputing among that variety russian will ease and will continue to be the most important the greek prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. generally general assembly meetings in america to deal with this country's worsening debt battle well greece only has enough cash to see it through the next few weeks and years of finance ministers are from now sitting on the eight billion euro second bailout payment well they say the country has fallen behind on its spending cuts targets and as missed a series of deadlines we still have to wait until october to find out whether it will get the second blow appen says that it's on the verge of be unable to pay the interest on its massive debt for some experts it's too late to say they can economy and it must exit the euro zone for its own good. the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment

is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that greek greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safe within the euro zone. to actually it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example core to gold maybe ireland of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain . across the ionian sea italy's parliament has agreed to fifty four billion euro

package of cuts to try and stop the rot from engulfing europe's third largest economy well that includes changes to pensions reducing government spending as well as a tax on the rich but it's a step too far for some a tally ends as ivor bennett's discovered in a town that's turned its back on rome. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money the man on the new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding it wants mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila tino and its mayor for the chop was

a. terrible idea because it makes economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money regional administrations do nothing we should get rid of them instead of italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be

a matter of time at the moment these notes aren't legal tender they're just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here business is always been so. in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course attracting many people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants on the bennetts see fillets you know it's really. just your mind you were on air and online around the

clock at r.t. dot com where we have more of the stories were talking about such as grabbing the ball by the once the lower manhattan has hundreds protested at the banking system that's left and that the child was sent home was the demo occupy wall street. and also online it being seen to be greener world carfree day is ahead of russia's launch an eco week to get drivers to ditch the wheels saddle off for sale. now of all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations that your noble nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance well twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in a rather than driving them away. he reports now from ukraine the hazardous holidays are a double edged sword. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now

the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clean rubble of the one nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative the contaminated zone around should know bill itself over the past decades tourists have been floor can hear more than ten thousand of them each year that's why forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the ghost town of pretty good has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck.

you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like or someone to feel the history. which for some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important why they come here you know it's what effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we were to the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why

not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems with. the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of there has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on a compact spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel their emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open. looks you were shot ski odd seat reporting from kiev. in ukraine.

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back here's a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories here on our get off these remaining supporters put up a fierce resistance in the libyan cities while his remaining supporters in tripoli say they're gripped by fear and repression loyalist forces are deeply entrenched inserted by the well he would. get off his whereabouts remain unknown. as nato seems ahead with fresh agreement something that american missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns at the kremlin and a call for urgent talks poland and turkey are poised to host elements of the defense shield which moscow feels could neutralize its nuclear arsenal. a lot of the deals before differences with david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the first trip.