watching r t coming to you live from central moscow good to have you with us now in libya fighting between more marget off is remaining a loyalist and former rebel shows no sign of letting up and to get off the forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds but are meeting heavy resistance hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire witnessing battles of the few remaining the pockets of violence it's thought the ousted leader who's still on the run and has vowed to die in the country could be hiding in one of the besieged cities meanwhile the capital tripoli that fell to rebels a month ago show some signs of improvement but it's archy's but if a national reports there are some who already want a u. turn to see gadhafi back in power. a month off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant. in parts of the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or

did so somewhere else. now that we will do anything from our only memoir even if we have to give our own life's. fervent support for the ousted leader to solve once they see our camera in there. like the 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 where the war oh 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 they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds leaving libyans in no doubt about who's really in. those who don't support mr fog 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 there is. a darfur is effectively gone then you also artists have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is give free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remain. all of libya fear. one

youngster finally agrees to talk her. 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 they can kill us and arrest us of course money and. 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 the killings to intimidate through fear their homes are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced heard 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. libya's national transitional council this week obtained a seat at the u.n. which officially recognized the rebels as part of a new resolution easing sanctions but there are still appear to be competing agendas among the armed fighters one of which is weapons control the middle east analyst james down slow things libya's new authorities will face a hard time trying to restore order. it's a really dangerous scenario it's similar to what happened in iraq in the fall of baghdad very weaponized society people with automatic weapons in their homes as well as the looting of large scale military grade missions. mortars and even materials and components of potential chemical weapons this is a very dangerous scenario considering the numbers of groups operating in libya at present and the fluid nature of the situation so i believe that the the transitional national council their first job is of course to finish off the

fighting in the areas that are still holding out that afi their second job is to give themselves legitimacy by getting the electoral cycle in under and a third job really is to prevent weapons proliferation across the country that's a very difficult job. that was a lot of base middle east analysts said james slow now moscow has reiterated its deep concern over america's plans to base parts of its missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place by twenty eighteen and russia is calling for urgent talks with nato saying that the u.s. program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deals sealed this week with romania and turkey also agreed to host sections of the system the u.s. insists this inside to counter possible attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the past as a direct threat to its security and had proposed a joint building a joint shield instead a suggestion that nato declined peace campaigner bruschetta says the sister america plans to boost its and forwards in the region. 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 here 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 watch and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. there's a lot more to come for you this hour including the middle east first nuclear power

plant iran's share of pol pot is already working at forty percent of capacity and set to go full speed ahead of next year. while italy looks forward to major budget cuts one of the world community that often with the nation's financial difficulties decided to go it alone. and the u.k. and russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week the leaders of both countries agreed that unresolved issues shouldn't stand 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 nations soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed to the case or should not hold back their partnership. who's worked extensively of science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees

a real potential. russia's 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 where. british involvement 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 whether 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 tensions in northern

kossovo have been stoked after service set up barricades of two disputed border posts well they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the frontier which was previously under serve control belgrade's a top negotiator call for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution artists are firth as near one of the scenes checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the k full forces it's 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 with 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 to 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 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 of both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing of the no one wants to make a meal and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base sides those calls the 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 artists are for earth reporting they're not political analysts on exciter poverty the nato led

mission in kosovo is violating the u.n. mandate by failing to maintain a tragedy. ok for meeting nato have absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking i mean one side they're clearly taking the albanian side these the session is the government in prishtina the capital of course of all we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states in two non-western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop that so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring calls for the independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they're entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now and this week iran's the first nuclear power plant

went online and the only facility of its kind in the middle east the russian built reactors are now working at a forty percent capacity and should be at full power in december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in twenty fifteen western nations along with worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge of terror repeatedly denied political scientists only for told on a job from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has us as much 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. a new numerously and on numerous occasions why 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. according to all the evidence that we have and lot of party backed by the large russian community there scored a big win in a snap a general election with almost all votes now counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party it's a first some are russia supporting political group has led the polls since the former soviet state became independent meanwhile speculation is growing that the

second and third place locked in a rival parties may join forces to keep a pro russian with our power about one third of the country's population are russian speakers but many are not civil citizens and have no voting rights. well more of the top stories now from around the world nine people are confirmed dead and they bought it for a tragedy as investigators look into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators dozens were injured some critically when the world war two plaintiffs lobbed into a box seat area in front of the main grandstand now it's thought that a mechanical failure is to blame but the official inquiry hasn't yet reached a conclusion a similar incident happened in west virginia when a plane crashed and burst into flames killing the pilot. barack obama is to lead to raise the minimum tax rate on americans who earn more than a million dollars a year u.s. media reports obama will call his proposal the buffett rule

a reference to go to their warren buffett who has repeatedly raised a problem in the past it's designed to ensure the rich are taxed at the same rate as middle income earners contribute to reducing the country's deficit the president will publish more details on monday. then as well as cancer stricken president says he will return it to cuba for a fourth and probably final round of chemotherapy hugo chavez underwent surgery in june to remove a tumor full details of his condition and treatment were widely known. to recover and promises he will run for re-election next year and that's despite wider concerns for his health. the former chief of the international monetary fund has to give his first t.v. interview since charges that he attempted to rape a new york hotel maid were dropped so many god will appear at a french channel later on sunday be questioned by a friend of his wife by the man resigned as i have had in may after his arrest but

the case was closed in august because of doubts over his accuser's credibility scott also faces allegations from a friend that he tried to rape her in two thousand and three. russia and three e.u. energy corporations tied up a twenty five billion dollar gas supply contract this week now the nine hundred kilometers south stream pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households it took four years for moscow to strike the deal on constructing the pipeline and now it will take about the same time to build it previous routes ran into trouble over disputes with transit countries like by the routes and ukraine the so-called us south stream will carry gas directly into europe avoiding potential conflict with third party nations now despite the new deal energy analysts julian lease says europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russian resources. 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 i've not seen dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to 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 gas what a seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through a variety of routes and nobody's disputing that among that variety russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the u.s. and the country's worsening debt crisis george problem dreyer was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet with the i.m.f. chief but said next week was crucial for implementing deficit reducing plans at

home now this comes as euro zone leaders chose to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece despite a recently announced property tax athens is being criticized for missing a series of dead lies and failing to implement reforms quickly enough well greece says without help it has only enough cash to last until it up to over a financial journalist you had bad over developed says the only way for greece to rebuild that shattered economy is still read the rules. of the greek economy is in an outright depression 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 court to go maybe ireland of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain . meanwhile italy's parliament has approved fifty four billion euros of cuts to try and keep europe's third largest economy afloat well the package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending as well as a new tax on the which but as i've read discovered there is one town that isn't willing to take it lying down. 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 small towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila tino and its mayor for the chop but. it's a terrible idea because it makes no 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 to get rid of them instead 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 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 meet 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 villa tino's 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 filipino italy for all the latest news as well as exclusive photos and videos to check out our website our time dot com and here's what's on line for you right now facebook may soon do more than hold back that activity at work as the west lawmakers consider a bill that could land its social networking fans in jail why don't why our team doctor. and british top chef and popular media personality jamie oliver is bringing

his coronary bible the jamie magazine to russia by badmaash more online at r.t. dot com as well as our you tube channel. now the scene of chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem an appealing tourist destination but adventurous are flocking to prove otherwise twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone still pulls in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience as art is a mix say at a chef school reports from ukraine the hazardous holidays are causing more than a little local trouble. 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 clear up of the 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 a noble 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 goes down a 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. so moment to feel the history. which 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 what'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 the 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 through 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. sea reporting from kiev and in ukraine. shortly we'll hear why. my cultural heritage is increasingly falling prey to social lot grass around the world but before that i'll be back with a review of the week's top stories coming up in a few minutes.

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back here's a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories here on our team rebel forces fired on against gadhafi loyalists saying that they're making progress against one of his last remaining strongholds the city of sirte but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. walking through the launches its missile defense clouds into eastern europe and with turkey pull one side up to host the west shield in moscow reiterate security concerns and calls for urgent talks. while school in london agreed differences should have stopped them doing business during the first. six years multi-million dollar contracts were sealed during david cameron's visit. and ethnic tensions with.