didn't stop stories on our t.v. rebel forces fired on against gadhafi loyalists in one of his last strongholds but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear from so-called freedom fighters. washington launches its missiles are found supplies into eastern europe with three countries signed up to host the u.s. field even as moscow writter raids ensconce security concerns calls for urgent talks. getting down to brass tacks in moscow and london the differences shouldn't stop there doing business with multibillion dollar contracts sealed during the first visit by u.k. leader in six years. and ethnic tension between serbia and breakaway casa reaches boiling point as is needed for the closer seized by castle before since.

it's just after five pm here in the russian capital this is art now in libya fighting between moammar gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up and see gadhafi forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds spotter meeting heavy resistance hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire witnessing battles in a few remaining pockets of violence it's thought the ousted libyan leader who is still on the run and has vowed to die the country could be hiding in one of the besieged cities meanwhile the capital tripoli that fell to rebels a month ago shows some signs of improvement because archy's be a financial reports there are some who already want a u.-turn see gadhafi back in power. and months off to tripoli fell into rebels

hands those who. remain defiant but feel full. 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 from our only one even if we have to give our lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera would you like one with a weird how could you tell the camera why. don't it's the same situation with others. 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 could you tell the camera no no playing surprise the front of the camera they will send a bullet to my room all 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 arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who is really here. those who don't support mr hard 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. with. you there is. it off it is effectively gone then you also have to settle 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 remains of all the bear 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 it can kill us and the rest of us of course money and. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about your regime ironically we are talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels think only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their homes are covered in blogs and list international has recently accused both conduct his

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 reflection r t tripoli libya washington was quick to support the revolutions in libya and egypt as a democratic expression of free will and there is now a klara for syria's regime to step down to read that as artie's educate reports could leave iran out of the cold it's so neighborhood 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 even though iran is not an arab country the arab spring preached bred to absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred. 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. just like a dog for your number and let's hope that russia or assad is next in line they've overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syria now it's 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 i've government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran its own watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations son went this

far as to predict the arab spring would spread all across the world what this is all about is the brain and basher 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 are just achieve. 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 plain a sizing about revolutions by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control departments. for egypt thousands protest against the u.s.

military there that's still in power last week a judge in store and peace really embassy enraged by the killing of five egyptian border guards in lead here washington leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into i will war theory and the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult it washington seems to be using the early spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is that it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for an undermining the whole region i'm going to shake out reporting from washington our. moscow has 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 pats fans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deal sealed this week with the baby and turkey but also agreed to host

sections of the system for the u.s. insists it's designed to counter a possible attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the plans as a direct threat to world security and have proposed building a joint shield instead a suggestion nato declined asia times correspondent purpose cobar says the shield isn't keeping iran in check because it poses no threat to the u.s. . some of the best strategists military strategists in the world ari russia and they know that first of all they don't have to calculate just to attack europe intern if they wanted to number two he may be a very hardcore regime but they're not suicidal see this excuse a guest or an idea or a good start ayatollah family from that part of the us is an absolutely ridiculous do you know it's basically the sure use against russia and eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia have any interest in trying to

undermine the european union which are excellent markets where poles and where they sell most of their products in the case of china. and there's a lot more to come for you this hour including the middle east first nuclear power plant iran's russian built affair facility it's already working at a point percent of capacity as sceptical full speed ahead by the end of the movie. and while italy looks for its of major budget cuts rather will keep reliving it fed up with the nation's financial difficulties as decided to go it alone. the u.k. and russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week but leaders of both countries agreed 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 episode the officer alexandre griffin yankel and london it's

in two thousand and six it david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed case should not hold back their partnership path of political reasons or for excessively aside such technology projects between big u.k. and russia sees real cuts have. 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 is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing these developing business and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the ins whether at all kinds of interesting things to be 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 always. tensions in northern possible have been so south of serb set up barricades and to disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and passive and customs officials on the frontier which was previously under of sort of control now belgrade stop negotiator call for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution to sarah ferguson one of the scenes checkpoints. you can see the sign by the castell forces it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they pull the barbed wire fences up they go the sound bags 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 moment 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 try and be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a vote of these control points what they see the ethics or population here in the north as an extension of prishtina as control over the disputed territory now amid concerns of repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbian ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because of both the checkpoints and the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make a move and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard in

place side 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 reporting their political analysts on exeunt of the nato led mission and kossovo is violating the u.n. mandate i feeling to maintain your trolley. ok for meeting nato 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 anyone's side they're clearly thinking the albanian side these the session is the government increased tonight in the capital of course of all we have the security council we have five states each with lethal power we would have three western states and two non-western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't start that so it's not surprising they've been

sponsoring because it wouldn't and then 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 this make the rounds first nuclear power plant it went online and the only facility of its kind in the middle east now the russian built reactors are now working at 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 have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge to harass repeatedly denied political scientists are leaflets all of a child from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has 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 and put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic 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 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. according to all the evidence that we have. got the party backed by the large russian community there scored

a big win in a snapshot whole election with almost all votes now counted twenty nine percent by the harmony center party it's the first time a russian supporting political group has led the poll since the former soviet state became independent meanwhile speculation is growing that the second and third place in rival parties may drive forces to keep a pro russian winner from power about one third of the country's population are russian speakers but many are not citizens and have no voting rights. well more of the top stories now from around the world people are confirmed dead in a tragedy as investigators look into how a vantage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators dozens were injured some critically when the world war two plane a slav into a proxy area in front of the main ground so far it's thought a mechanical failure is to blame but the official inquiry hasn't yet reached the conclusion a similar incident happened in west virginia when a plane crashed and burst into flames killing

a piper. barack obama it's a levy a raised 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 billionaire warren buffett who has repeatedly raised the problem in the past well it's designed to ensure that the rich are taxed at the same great as middle income earners and contribute to reducing the country's deficit it's thought the president will publish more details on monday. the release of u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has been postponed until the second george returns from all a day on tuesday the manslaughter says he was in court again on sunday trying to complete the paperwork on their million dollar bail deal now the two american hikers were each sentence last month to eight years in prison they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while hiking in northern iraq.

the former international monetary fund chief is to give his first t.v. interview since structures that he attempted to rape a new york hotel maid were brought up an extra guard will appear at a french straddle later on sunday questioned by a friend of his wife the man resigned as i.m.f. head in a after his arrest and the case was closed at all just because of doubts over his accuser's credibility stross can also faces allegations from a french author that he tried to rape or two thousand and three. russia and three e.u. energy corporations tied up a twenty five billion dollars gas supply contract this week the nine hundred kilometers south stream pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households now it took four years for moscow to strike a deal on constructing reply and now it will take about the same time to build it previous routes ran into trouble over disputes with transit countries like the abuse of ukraine while the so-called south stream will carry gas directly into

europe avoiding potential conflict from third party nations well despite the new deal energy analysts julian least 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 three major supplier of carrots to your now and in the future that's not. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety of sources and supply it doesn't want to become. one russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to control locally dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea guess what it's seeking to do is going to. be true in a variety of suppliers. and nobody used to.

actually russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. of the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the u.s. where the country's worsening debt crisis george parker dre was due to attend the u.n. general assembly on meet the i.m.f. chief but said next week was crucial for every magic deficit reducing plants at home what is cons as yours and here is our leaders chose to wait until october before moving on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece or despite a particle tax absence is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough over the debt and grab spiraling out of control struggling countries relatively italy mother looking for help for the kids but passes for me bass and bass at all the company says his cash isn't an instant solution and europe needs to solve its own problems . yes precisely say is europe's debt problem must be solved

by europeans are long don't think of china last lend. last resort. china right europe's their politicians have been paying budget deficits by charging your future so no. you catch up with them in two thousand and eleven is the year that debt finally catches up with several european countries like greece and italy so take to put their houses in order they have to spend what they have but not spend more than they have that it has to do poor all the stops to pay in nascent took in the packing to roll over is national debt. situation right now i don't italy has that much choice. well for all the latest news as well as exclusive photos and video check out our website r.t.e.

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now the radiation for a different reason part of an exhibition in kiev dedicated to the clear rubble of in 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 mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the first post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and the reason adventurous alternative you can terminate at zone around should know. what it was decades tourists have been flocking here more than ten thousand of them each year that's why forbes magazine named it dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the girls down of pretty eyes has been organizing eastwards for several years he told us that this there is are always fascinated by what they see although their motivations for making the trip have always varied. ok.

you hear people have different reasons for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like really someone to feel the history of. their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here but 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 i don't healthy profit every tourist to his own has been carrying around a 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 only we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up and why not put

the money into the budget and use it to solve problems but at 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's zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to the contamination procedures and most have a theory has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use these large unoccupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow bio illinois where the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tourist to be contaminated zone and a fourth is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then with the debate remains very much open. r.t. reporting from kiev and to normal in ukraine. shortly we find out how some of the

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