news of the week's top stories on our t.v. a rebel forces fight on against gadhafi loyalists in one of his last strongholds but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. washington launches its missile the ground sponsored to eastern europe with three countries signed up to host a new rescue old even a small school reiterate some security concerns and calls for urgent talks. getting down to brass tacks moscow and london agree defenses for them to stop them doing business with multimillion dollar contract c.e.o. during the first visit by a u.k. meter in six years. and ethnic tension between serbia and breakaway kossovo region boiling point as disputed border posts are seized by loss of

a voice. you're watching r.t. coming to you live from several moscow good to have you with us this sunday evening now we begin in libya where fighting between one more gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up and to get off the forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte are the colonels remaining strongholds our meeting heavy resistance hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire witnessing battles in the few remaining pockets of violence it's thought the ousted libyan leader is still on the run and has vowed to die in the contrie could be hiding in one of the busy cities meanwhile the capital tripoli that fell to rebels a month ago shows some signs of improvement for president is many of the national reports there are already want a u. turn to see gadhafi back in power. and months off to tripoli fell into rebels

hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant but feel full. and part 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 new memoir even if we have to do your own lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera it would be. like one with a weird how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so good it felt 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 and the head of the national transitional council leave his new authority arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no jobs about who's really. 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 daffy now trying not to leave their own backyards here they're there. because i. shared. with. you the reason. as. it often is affectively gun then you also are things have

settled 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 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 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 a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels thing only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hands

are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both dark 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 roof notion r t tripoli libya. libya's national transitional council this week obtained a seat at the u.n. words officially recognize the rebels as part of a new resolution easing sanctions on moscow has hill the u.s. plans to lift the no fly zone over libya which was introduced to protect civilians but antiwar activists are currently under nato his role had nothing to do with any humanitarian mission. here come the former colonizers of north africa embraced and welcomed by the nth you see what did from the algeria what did britain do to egypt what it italy and all these countries do to libya before absolutely nothing has

been done about since a few there but that is the whole point of this nato aggression on libya it's got nothing to do with the protection of civilians. you know nathan is head guy in the in the in the rebel slave council as i call it to me it's all he said he said in his speech to in green square just the other day that the islamist will never take over and you know and he said he said to his rebels do not attack the women and children leave them out of this which is an admission from the m.d.c. it's an admission from mr julio that his rebels have been attacking women and children. as antiwar activists who can charge commenting on nato's role in the libyan conflict. and also has reiterated its deep concern over america's plans to base parts of this missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place by twenty eighteen now russia is calling for urgent talks with nato say that the u.s. program is stuck in the past or plans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deal sealed this week with romania and turkey also agreed to host sections

of the system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the plans as a direct threat to its security and have proposed building a joint shield instead as a gesture of nato decline. is a professor of political science based in paris and thinks that america's plans could trigger a new arms race. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one really believed it was a possibility if you ran a checking europe it's nice size did not reach could not reach western europe i think the stakes are purely political washington probably wants to reassure its former satellite countries the soviet union so it's a political move hardly a military necessity and also considering the state of the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of. this research policy would brush at

least she was achieving something called duration russia and she issued this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some kind of new arms race which is. not only because the effectiveness of the shield is problematic duffel but also because it's going to cost a lot of money unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. but there's a lot more to come for you this hour including the middle east first nuclear power plant it was rushing the field already is already working at forty percent of capacity as such go full speed ahead by the. end while italy looks forward to major budget cuts one rural community that up with the nation's financial difficulties will 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 the leaders of both countries agree that unresolved issues should stand at the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a predator prime minister in six years relations between the two nations soured over the murder of four episodes. go in london in two thousand and six but david cameron admitting it. evergrey perfect case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick foley was for the stance of lee as science and technology to project an eternity u.k. and russia sees real potential so 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 companies developing business 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 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 exploitive and that i think is really key to the interesting future but what russia has in store in this whole area. that's tensions in northern kossovo have been stopped after serbs set up barricades to disputed border posts now they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and possible customs officials on the frontier which was previously underserved control or belgrade stop negotiator call for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t. sarah ferguson one of the scenes checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by cable

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 call that bold wire fences out there but the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these risky to border point not so many at the moment but 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 there'll 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 is control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take these places resulted in the death of the policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment

is a standoff situation is a war of nerves because of both the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the cable forces at the actual crossing over no one wants to make in the and although the words have been quite good from what we've heard a base side schools the calm. but of course the actions the scene quite different than there's still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved artists are firth reporting there are political analysts alexandr poverty the neutral led mission in costco is violating the u.n. mandate by feeling to me tragedy. 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 taking the albanian side these the session is

the government increased tonight in the capital of kosovo we have the security council were we have five states each with veto power we would have three western states and two man 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 khosla 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. now this week iran's first nuclear power plant went on line the only facility of its kind in the middle east the russian built reactors are now working at forty percent capacity and should be a full power in december and moscow says it will continue providing health and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in twenty gene cluster nations along with worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge tehran's repeatedly denied political scientists of the foot all of which

are for be university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has this 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 of 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 running of the 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. according to all the evidence that we have. going through a lot in our party backed by the large russian community there scored a big way and they snap general election but with almost all votes now counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party is a first time a russian supported political group has led the polls so this is. the former soviet state became independent meanwhile speculation is growing that the second and third place left in 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. here's more of the top stories from around the world people are dead even on their show tragedy as investigators look into how

a branch of aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators dozens were injured some critically when the world war two plane slammed into a box seat area in front of the grandstand it's thought a mechanical fault is to blame but the official inquiry hasn't yet reached a conclusion only in a similar incident happening in west virginia when out of plane crash and burst into flames killing the pilot. barack obama is to levy a raised minimal tax rate of americans who earn more than a million dollars a year u.s. media reports obama will call this proposal the buffett rule reference to a billionaire warren buffett was repeatedly raised the problem in the past well it's designed to ensure 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 josh ritter is from holiday on tuesday the man's lawyer says he was in court again on sunday

trying to complete the paperwork on their million dollar bail deal with two american hikers are each sentence last month to eight years in prison they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while hiking in border iraq. the former international the international monetary fund chief is to give his first t.v. interview since charges that he attempted to rape a new york hotel maid or dropped so many styles gone will appear at a french channel later on sunday being questioned by a friend of his wife well the man resigned as i.m.f. head in may after his arrest and the case was closed in august because of doubts over his accuser's credibility proscar also basis 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 contract this week the nine hundred kilometer south

pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households well it took four years for moscow to strike the deal of constructing a pipeline and al it will take about the same time to build it biggest routes run into trouble over disputes over transit countries like that ever ukraine now the so-called south stream will carry gas directly into europe avoiding potential conflict with third party nations and despite the new deal energy analysts julia release as europe is still wary of becoming till it gets on russian resources notably in europe 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. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of supply it doesn't want to become only probably on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to try. on north africa.

or indeed on north sea guess what it's seeking to do is use a point. between a variety of suppliers and liberal interest groups. and nobody is disputing pitch among them there are actually russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. greek prime minister has canceled the trip to the u.s. and the country's worsening debt crisis george welcome very was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meets with the i.m.f. chief but said the next week was crucial for implementing deficit reducing plans at home while this comes as euro zone leaders choose 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 has been criticized for missing a series of bad lives and failing to implement reforms quickly enough research without e.u. help it has only enough cash to last until mid october but the national journalist

you have had over developed says the only way for greece to rebuild its shattered economy is to leave the euro. and the greek economy is in an outright depression keep going 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 agrees 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 and i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safe nice within the euro zone we need to act 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 cork and gold maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. meanwhile italy's parliament has approved a fifty four billion euros of cuts to try and keep europe's third largest economy afloat now the package includes changes to pension slashing government spending as well as a new tax on the rich but as iver bennett 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 it also claims to be an independent principality and support it it's even started printing its own money the man on a 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 filleted knows going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants all towns to merge

having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred filipino and its mayor of for the chop. 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 most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead of italy's in deep shit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions are 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 that term and 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 that 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 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 the track to meet peoples of 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 rose water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get or do you want larger than it out see filipino italy. for all the latest news as well as exclusive photos and video check out our website r.t. dot com here's what's on life for you right now facebook may soon have one of them all back productivity at work as was rob akers the siddur a bill that could land a social network in jail or find out why at ardsley dark heart of. hearts that is top shelf and partner of media personality jamie oliver is bringing this coronary viral baby magazine to russia to find data on lives that are too dark calm as well as for you to travel. the scene of chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem an appealing tourist destination but adventurers are flocking to prove otherwise front of five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the

exclusion zone still calls and thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience those are things that if they had a chance 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 kiev dedicated to the clear up 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 markets going to 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 to the contaminated zone around chernobyl 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 goldstone of privilege 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. ok you can you heat will have different reasons but the somewhere to see what an apocalypse could look like for someone to feel the history of which were 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 i mean 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 urge the ministry to inform the governments of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made and 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 of. 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 which are not bill's own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes cheaper 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 but the 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 with the debate remains very much open. looks you are seriously r.t. if you're from here and chicken or will be in ukraine. shortly we. hear why cultural heritage is increasingly falling prey to social and restaurant world but before that a recap of the greeks had lives of us a few moments. in

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