it's just after five pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. now in libya fighting between moammar gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up and gadhafi forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte one of the colonel's remaining strongholds but are 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 as valid 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 shows some signs of improvement but if a national reports there are some who already want a u.-turn secret off the back in power. and months off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant but 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 and the memoir even if we have

to give our lifes. fervent support for the ousted leader to solve once they see our camera in there. like the one with a weird telling me how could you 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 it on camera no no thanks to five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my head 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 a large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really out of. those who don't support mr fahd 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. it often is effectively gone then you also have several down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is 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 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 or enough. 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 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 his

in-store raef notion 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 climber for syria's regime to step down too and that as artie's get educated 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 to spread two absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the law and under the umbrella of 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 the assad 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 some 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're 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. and same control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far eject thousands protest against the us backed military there that still in power last week a gyptian storm piece really embassy enraged by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead near 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 has reverberated 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 deal sealed this week with the media and turkey also agreed to host sections of the system that the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the plan as a direct threat to its security and have proposed building a joint

a shield instead a suggestion nato declined asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the shield isn't doing that keeping iran in check because it poses no threat to the u.s. . some of the best strategists military strategists in the world every russia and they know that iran sure struggles they don't have the capital villages to attack iran even if they wanted to number two they may be a very hard core region but they're not sure which side will see this excuse against it or against it how many from a part of the us is absolutely ridiculous do you know it's basically to show. use against russia and eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia need to have any interest in trying to undermine the european union leaders are excellent markets for bowls 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 build their facility it's already working at a point eight percent of capacity and set to go full speed ahead by the end of the year. and while italy looks forward to major budget cuts what will could really be fed up with the nation's financial difficulties has 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 on resolved issues shouldn't stab in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in his 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 agree that the case should not hold back their partnership properly who has worked extensively sidestep technology projects between the u.k.

and russia sees a real potential. 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 development companies development and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the ins co whether up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institute 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 serbs set up barricades of two disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovan customs officials on the frontier which was previously under serve control now belgrade stop negotiator called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution to sarah firth is 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 at the moment that 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 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. 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 at both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing. but no one wants to make a meal and although the words is being quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base side those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than this though seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved artists are for

three porting their political analysts on the profits the nato led mission in kossovo is violating the u.n. mandate by failing to maintain you try. 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're we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two non western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring of course it will 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 this week iran's first nuclear power plant went on

line 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 if you will 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 tehran's repeatedly denied political scientists ali fatah led the charge 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 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 a lot via a party backed by the large russian community there scored a big win in a snap general election with almost all votes now counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party it's a first sign of 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 latvian rival parties may join 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 vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators dozens were injured some critically when the world war two plane a slob into a box seat area in front of the main ground said 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 the pilot. barack obama is to levy a raised minimum tax rate on americans who earn more than a million dollars a year u.s. media reports obama will call this 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 rate 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 judge 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 dropped from an extra will appear at a french travel later on sunday and questioned by

a friend of his wife the man resigned as i.m.f. head it may after his arrest and the case was closed and all this because of doubts over his accuser's credibility stross god also faces allegations from a french author that he tried to rape her in 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 the deal on constructing the pipeline and now it will take about the same time to develop it previous routes rather to travel over disputes with transit countries like 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 lease as 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 gas to europe now and in the future that's not seen 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 he's seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through variety of routes and nobody's disputing 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 with the country's worsening debt crisis george papa drey 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 well this comes as your euro zone leaders choose to wait until october before ruling out whether to the beast the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece or despite a recently announced property tax athens has been criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough over the debt in europe spiralling out of control struggling countries notably italy have been looking for help from the us but that's just one for me hong kong based investment holding company says chinese cash is an instant solution and europe needs to solve its own problems. europe's debt problem must be solved by europeans along. of china the last leg. of last resort. china right europe's. politicians

have the. budget deficit by charging into the future so no. you can't charge them in two thousand and eleven is a year. five do the. several european countries like greece and italy so they got to put how. they have to spend what they have but not spend more than they have to do poor all the stops to gain five nation two can get back into growing over its national. situation right now italy has that much choice. well for all the latest news as well as exclusive photos and video check out our website r t v dot com unusual song life for you right now facebook may soon be more than bold about productivity at work. consider a bill that could allow the social networking in jail wired dot com.

and a british top chef on the popular radio personality jamie oliver is bringing his colon bible with jamie magazine to russia you'll find that and much more online. as well as our you tube channel. the scene of chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem an appealing tourist destination but adventurers are flocking to prove otherwise twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone still pools and thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience but as. to 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 rubble 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 look turned into the contaminated zone around should know bill itself over the past decades tourists have been flocking here 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 bad 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. someone to feel the history. which to some it's their childhood like the

atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not 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 the emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as making another healthy 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 the area 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 biofuel there where the 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. reporting from kiev and in ukraine. will shortly we find out how some of the world's. most respected financial institutions may profit from fraudulent lending that's after recap of the week's top stories coming up in just a few minutes. and

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