the latest news in the week's top stories on r.t. libya's rebels say they're gaining ground on one of duffy's last stronghold but in the capital tripoli going to say it's those that claiming to fight for freedom they fear right now. washington fires up its missile defense plans race to europe with three countries signed up to how is american rockets russia repeats it security concerns and calls for urgent fall. getting down to brass tacks moscow or london agree differences and stop doing business with bold three million dollar contracts still during the first visit by a leader in six years. and ethnic tension between serbia and breakaway possible reaches the boiling point as disputed border posts to seize by cost of the falls.

are you watching the weekly artie's roundup of the day's news and the main stories from the week with me kevin no internet it's now eight pm here in moscow and in libya fighting between more mcduffie's remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up and you could argue forces say they're making progress in the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds but they're meeting heavy resistance hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets it's thought the ousted libyan leader who is still on the run and has vowed to die in the country could be hiding now in one of the several feet cities meantime the capital tripoli that fell the rebels a month ago shows little sign of improvement but as artie's maria financial reports there are some already not a u.-turn and see gadhafi back in power. and months after tripoli fell into

rebels hands those who back the old regime remain defiant 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 from wal-mart only more on our even if we have to give our own lifes. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera would you. like what we're coming out with it tell about. 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 could you tell it on camera no no thanks if i peed front of the camera they will send a bullet through my head. 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. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr fogg and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. was. a dark meat is effectively gone when you all sorted 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 fear 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. of the in favor of gadhafi who 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 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 sleen don't let me be the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with the killings to intimidate through fear of their harley's are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently

accused both conduct is regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt space some here but more is in store regional shin r t tripoli libya. it is national transitional council this week obtained a seat at the united nations which officially recognize the rebels as part of a new resolution easing sanctions but there's still appears to be competing agendas among the armed fighters one of which is weapons control middle east analyst james then slow things libya's new authorities will face a hard time trying to restore order. it's a really dangerous scenario it's similar to what happened in iraq in the fall of baghdad very weaponized society people with automatic weapons in their homes as well as the looting or large scale military grade. r.p.g. mortars and even materials or components of potential chemical weapons this is

a very dangerous scenario considering the numbers of groups operating in libya present and the fluid nature of the situation so i believe that actually the transitional national council their first job is of course to finish off writing in the areas that are still holding out their second job is to give themselves legitimacy by getting the electoral cycle in under undergo and really it's to prevent weapons perforation across the country that's a very difficult job. of london based middle east analyst james james los biggest fear on the syrian leader leadership says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change members of russia's upper house of parliament on a fact finding mission in syria talks with president assad who also hosted the country's opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external involvement all international pressure and the government demonstrations flared up in march and at least two thousand six hundred people have reportedly been killed in clashes since then russia wants the u.n.

to take action to push all sides towards dialogue moscow rejected calls from the u.s. and e.u. wording assad to step in saying you should be given more time to push for reforms. rascals reiterated its deep concern over america's plans to base parts of its missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place as soon as twenty eight russia is calling for talks with nato saying that the u.s. program stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deals sealed this week with a romanian turkey who also agreed to host sections of the system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter a possible attack from states like iran or north korea but russia sees the plans as a direct threat to its security and has proposed building a joint shield instead but the suggestion that nathan's declined a few times correspondent pepe escobar told us the shield isn't danger keeping iran in check because it poses no threat to the u.s. some of the best strategists military strategists in the world very russia and they

know that iran first of all they don't have the capabilities to attack europe even if he wanted to number two the me the a very hard core regime but they're not suicidal psaltis excuse against them or it is that. part of the us is absolutely ridiculous do you know it's the zyklon the sure is against russia. eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia will have any interest in trying to undermine the european union which are excellent the markets for balls and where they sell most of what their products in the case of china. coming up this hour the middle east first nuclear power plant rounds russians. ready working a forty percent capacity and set to go full speed ahead by the end of the year got more about them coming up. while italy pulled a major budget cuts one rural community fed up with the nation's financial

difficulties they decided to go it alone we reported to. the u.k. and russia looks to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this last week the leaders of both countries agreed unresolved issues should stand in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in six years between the two nations sowed over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london back in two thousand and six but david cameron in the mood for preventive agreed the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick cooley good sense of the science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees a real potential that's the 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 out salute to be in terms of developing countries developing business and helping

russian high tech business is expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allowed in trade whether up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes and 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 but i think is really key to the interesting future but. russia has in store in this whole area. tensions in northern cost of a have been stoked after serbs set up barricades at two disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and possible customs officials on the front here which was previously under control but a great stop negotiator called for karma urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t.

sarah ferguson one of those sees checkpoints. you can see this time by a full force it's a warning to the ethnics the protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission it's been working here at the border point with you like they call that bob wire fence is that they've got 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 or they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're going to defend and there'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well k.k. for these control points what they see the ethics of population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns . of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course they got the making of me to try and take this place resulted in the death of the policeman is actually

relatively quiet here but we seen as a huge number of serbia and i think so it's turning out at these barricades that what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because of the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make a mean and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard a side this calls for calm and peace but of course the actions these things quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved so first a correspondent. this last week and ryan's first nuclear power plant went online the only facility of its kind in the middle east the russian built reactors are now working forty percent capacity in the should be by december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until around take full control in twenty fifth the western nations have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's

a cover up for making nuclear bombs that's the charge to run it repeatedly denied political scientist early fertility drugs from the university of london told us at r.t. that without evidence iran knows as much right to peaceful nuclear energy is any other nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and 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 and 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 elapsed we are a party backed by the large russian community this called a big win in a snap general election with almost all the votes counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party is the first time a russia supporting political group has led the poll since the former soviet state became independent the more speculations growing that the second and third place latvian rival parties may join forces to keep pro russian. about one third of the country's population of russian speakers that many are not citizens of got no voting rights. well more now on the top stories from around the world nine people dead about nevada air show tragedies investigators look into how the

projectile lost control crashed into spectators dozens of people from the world the plane slammed into an area from people around ground it's sort of mechanical fault he's been playing but the official inquiry has reached a conclusion a similar incident happened in west virginia when the plane crashed in both legs when the pilot. burger bar was set to make americans who were in over a million dollars a year paid more tax than you buffett rule named after billionaire warren buffett who said he should pay more tax introduces a new minimum rate plan to be published monday is designed to ensure the rich contribute the same rate as lower up to now earnings from investments were taxed at lower rate meaning the richest often face lower tax. polices to u.s. hikers convicted of spying in around has been postponed until a second judge ruling on the case comes back from holiday the man's lawyer was in court again sunday trying to complete paperwork for their million dollar bail

release the americans reached sentenced to eight years in prison last month after crossing into northern around that they say they crossed the border state that's. russia three e.u. energy corporations total twenty five billion dollar gas supply contract this week the nine hundred kilometers south stream pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households it took four years for moscow to strike the deal to construct the pipeline is it'll take about the same time to build it previous routes run into trouble over disputes with transit countries like belarus and ukraine the so-called south stream will carry gas directly into europe avoiding potential conflict with third party nations spy the new deal the energy analyst union leader told us europe still wary of becoming too dependent on russian resources. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future it's

not seen dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to sources of gas supply it doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way but it doesn't become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on nazi gas what it is seeking to do is eastern. between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through rockier routes and nobody is disputing . actually russia will ease and will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister's canceled a trip to the united states as his country's debt crisis worsens george patton was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet the chief of the international monetary fund but he says he needs to stay home now and deal with greece's deficit instead eurozone leaders decided to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight

billion euro bailout package for greece spot a recently announced property tax saffron's is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough but he says very help it only has enough cash to survive until october the financial analyst. says the only to rebuild it shattered economy is that the only way rather to rebuild it shattered economy is to leave the euro. but the greek economy is in an outright depression now keep the 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 see from greece within the euro zone greece will ask to exit 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 cortical maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. we while italy's parliament approved fifty four billion euro of cuts to try and keep your it's there's lots third largest economy afloat the package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich but is overblown i discovered this one town that isn't willing to take it lying. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy but 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 you're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream philip the nose 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 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 only thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it would even save that much money regional administrations do nothing to 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 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 the 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 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 just souvenirs but the plan is to theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here the. this 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 more 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 filipinos the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants i've given it r.t. filipino italy. called for the latest news as well as exclusive exclusive photographs and videos check out our. online tonight for you this one facebook anything to do more than just hold back probably productivity of work at u.s. lawmakers are considering a bill that could land social networking fans in jail but that's major is break up if you're a facebook fan fond of more about that online tonight r.t. dot com. and british t.v. chef jamie oliver brings his coloring bible the j.v. magazine here to russia check out all the details and much more are to come as well

as well as our you tube channel of course was forget about that. side of the chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem the most appealing of tourist destinations for twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accident the exclusion zone pulls in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience but as art is a lecturer at jet ski reports next from ukraine the hazardous holidays are causing more than a little local trouble right now. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now they radiate for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clean rubble of one thousand 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 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 to contaminate a 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 ghost town of prepared has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see overall their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck. you people have different reasons for. someone to see what an apocalypse could look like kind of 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 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 i don't know healthy profit every tourist to his own 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 districts we know that a lot of money is only what 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. that 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 that your nobles own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. didn't you contamination procedures almost have a theory as 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 biophilia where 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 risky on t.v. because you from. normal grain. now the audience of a russian talk show got a little more than their money's worth when a debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight through europe clubs to super rich tycoons came to blows after a difference of opinion we've got the footage it is in your screens now alexander lebedev the owner of two british newspapers punched a fellow billionaire surrogate polonsky jury in the recording of a discussion on one of russia's main channels he said he was defending himself placing its holdings going to be attacked first he would go just moments earlier

told live it every wanted to punch him in the face level of anger is still there i . think we're going to see the wrath unleashed as the other visible attempt at a car move there we go moments later approaching polonsky twice and things calling for this cheer the m.t.v. channel which posted the program preview is websites trying to broadcast the show on sunday night. no con. well we're going to show you here on this show or rather wacom pursuits coming up for the next fifteen minutes anyway surely we hear what cultural heritage is increasingly falling prey to social unrest around the world it's the subject of our latest interview coming up a bit later my name is kevin i just before the program updates reviewed the week's top stories in brief in just a minute or two during r.t. international from moscow.

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