you're watching r t coming to you live from central moscow good to have you with us this sunday evening now we begin in libya where fighting between one market off is remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up to gadhafi 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 in the few remaining pockets of violence it's thought the ousted libyan leader was still on the run and has vowed to die in the contrie 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 as artie's many of the national reports there are some who already want a u. turn to see get 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 does solves once they see our camera in there. like the one with a weird television how could it tell us on 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 have no television so we're going to tell the camera no no thanks to five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my well 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. 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. the rid. of. gadhafi is effectively gone then you also have several down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is here free country but it seems that there is a police one thing that still remains of all the beer fear. one youngster

finally agrees to talk. tripoli is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or express to. pinion if we say something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course money are 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 you place to 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 on moscow has hailed the u.s. plans to lift the no fly zone over libya which was introduced to protect civilians but anti-war activists says nato is role had nothing to do with any humanitarian mission. here come the former colonizers of north africa embraced and welcomed by the n.t. see what did france do to algeria what did britain do to egypt what it italy and all these countries do to libya before absolutely nothing has been done about seven sixty five but that is the whole point of this nato aggression on libya it's got nothing to do with protection of civilians. you know nato is head guy in in the in the rebel slave council as i call it to nato he said he said in his speech to the

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. it was antiwar activists account chandon commenting on nato's role in the libyan conflict. and moscow 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 all plans for putting missiles on polish soil fall separate deal sealed this week with romania and turkey who 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

a suggestion nato declined pair again law 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 that there was a possibility of iran checking europe its me size did not reach could not reach western europe i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to reassure the former satellite countries this to you know so it's a political move but 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 he was achieving something corporation in russia and she issued but this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some

kind of new arms race which is totally pointless not only because the effectiveness of the shield is problematic it god's will but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. where there's a lie. more to come for you this hour including the middle east first a nuclear power plant it wants russian to build their facility is already working at forty percent of capacity and suck to go full speed ahead by the end of the. ad while italy looks forward to nature a bunch of cards one rural community 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 the leaders of both countries agreed that unresolved issue 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 that the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively on science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees real potential. russia's first steps in establishing the new business. establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there. british involvement 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 ally of the weather 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 i think is really key to the interesting future. russia has in store in this whole area. tensions in northern kossovo have been stoked after serbs sort of barricades at two disputed border posts well they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and cost of and customs officials on the frontier which was previously under-served control well belgrade stop negotiator call for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t. sarf earth is one of the seas check points. you can see the sign put up by the k full force 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. they go there bob wire fence is out

there but the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border points not so many of the 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 ethics or 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 violent clashes over the course of the government making of me to try and take these place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbian. turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is the standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because the 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 move and although the word being quite diplomatic from what we've heard of both sides those calls the calm the peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. firth reporting there now political analysts that pov it says the nato led mission and possible is violating the u.n. mandate by failing to maintain the travel. ok for meeting nato has 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 there 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 in 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 closely 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 at full power in december and moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in twenty fifteen nations have lobbied worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge tehran's repeatedly denied political scientists are told that from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has a smushed 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 and 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. according to all the evidence that

we have. going to lothian our party back where the large russian community there scored a big win and they snapped the 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 since 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. now here's more of the top stories from around the world nine people are dead even air show tragedy as investigators look into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed in discussion daters dozens were injured some critically even the world war two plane slammed into a box seat area in front of the main grandstand it's thought a mechanical fault is to blame but the official inquiry hasn't yet reached

a conclusion on a similar incident happening in west virginia when that plane crashed and burst into flames killing the pilot. barack obama is to levy a raise the 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 reference to a billionaire warren buffett who has repeatedly raised the problem in the past well it's designed to ensure the rich are a tax of 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 jobs returns 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 the two american hikers were each sentence last month to eight years in prison well they say they

mistakenly crossed into iran while hiking in both 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 dominik style scan will appear on a french channel later on sunday being questioned by a friend of his wife or 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 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 that nine hundred kilometer south stream pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households well it took four years for moscow to strike the deal of constructing the pipeline and al it will take about the same time to build it previous routes

ran into trouble over disputes for transit countries like but never said 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 analyst julian lease says europe is still wary of becoming till it 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 that's not in 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 a legally dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea guess what it's seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through variety of routes and nobody'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. amid the country's worsening debt crisis george papandrea was due to attend the u.n. a 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 is being criticized for missing a series of dead lives and failing to implement reforms quickly enough greece has without e.u. help it has only enough cash to last until mid october but the national journalist you have had over to says the only way for greece to rebuild a shattered economy is to leave the euro. and the greek economy is in an outright

depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that greek greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safe release within the eurozone greece will have 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 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 now the package includes changes to pensions 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 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 teano and its mayor for the chop but.

it's a terrible idea because it makes economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing we should get rid of them instead of italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe that 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 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 slow 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 me 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 guillotine as the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett see filipino. for all the latest news as well as exclusive photos and video check out

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now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clean 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 alternative the contaminated zone around should a noble 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 goes down of 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. 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 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 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 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 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 and 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.

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welcome back here's a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories here on are rebel forces fired on against gadhafi loyalists saying they're making progress into one of his last strongholds the city of sirte that many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of the so-called freedom party. washington launches its missile defense plans into eastern europe with romania up turkey and poland side of to host the west field and moscow reiterate security concerns and calls for urgent talks. moscow and london agreed differences shouldn't stop them doing business during the first trip by nuking leader to russia in six years multibillion dollar contracts were sealed during david cameron's visit. tensions between a serb break awake.