hello you're watching the weekly artie's round up of the day's news and the main stories from the week with me kevin o. into night 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 to get a few 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 still on the rather has vowed to die in the country could be hiding now in one of the several hundred 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 what a u. turn and see gadhafi back in power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed 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 our only memoir even if we have to give our nice. seven support for the ousted leader it is solves once they see our camera. like what we are telling me how could it 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 couldn't tell it on camera no no thanks if i pee in 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 the head of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before a large crowds even libyans in no dark about who's really. those who don't support mr fobbed 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 they're there. with. you there in. darfur is effectively gone then you also 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 remain. 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 our opinion. in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course money are enough for him. 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 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 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 is in store. roof notion r t tripoli libya. libya's national transitional council this week obtained a seat at the united nations which officially recognized 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 don't slow things libya's new authorities will face a hard time trying to restore order. it's a really dangerous scenario 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 of large scale military grade missions r.p.g. mortars and even materials of components of potential chemical weapons and this is a very dangerous scenario considering the numbers of groups operating in libya present the fluid nature of the situation so i believe that the transitional national council their first job was of course to finish off fighting in the areas

that are still holding out their second job is to give themselves legitimacy by getting the electoral cycle in under and really is to prevent weapons perforation across the country that's a very difficult job. of london based middle east analyst james denselow speaking to split earlier 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 and talks with president assad moscow also hosted the country's opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external involvement or 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 rejected calls from the u.s. and e.u. wording assad to step down saying you should be given more time to push for reforms . well schools 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 eighteen russia's calling for urgent 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 romania and turkey 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 had proposed building a joint shield instead that's a suggestion that nato has declined a few times correspondent pepe escobar told us the shield is in danger of keeping iran in check because it poses no threat to the u.s. . some of the best strategists military strategists in the world ari russia and they know that iran first of all they don't have the capital it's to attack iraq even if they wanted to number two the me the a very hard core regime but they're not suicidal soltis excuse against. or

against the ayatollah how many from a part of the u.s. is absolutely ridiculous do you know it's basically the sure is against russia arabs eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia would have any interest in trying to undermine the european union which are excellent markets for bowls and where they sell most of their products in the case of china. coming up this hour the middle east first nuclear power plant iran's russian's first of many working a forty percent capacity and set to go full speed ahead by the end of the you got more on that one coming up. while italy for the major budget cuts one rural community fed up with the nation's financial difficulties has decided to go it alone we report i'm up to. the u.k. 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 relations 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 and the need to prevent have agreed the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick cooley the circumstance of the science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia seems real potential for. russia's 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 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 found the

legacy of the soviet research institutes a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited that i think is really key to the interesting future but. russia has in store in this whole area. tensions in northern kosovo have been stoked after serbs set up barricades at two disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the front here which was previously under control but a great top negotiator called for karma urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution first near one of those cease checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the k. for 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 they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at these disputed border points not so many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and there'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 prishtina is control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course think of the making of me to try and take these places resulted in the death of a policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of the serbian ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war is knows because at base the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian

protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves at the no one wants to make a meal and although the words is being quite diplomatic from what we've heard and based sides those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved so for correspondent. this last week and runs first nuclear power plant went online the only facility of its kind in the middle east the russian built reactors are now working a forty percent capacity in there 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 a charge to run through. pete earley denied political scientist alice fertility jad from the university of london told us that r t that without evidence around 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 in latvia a party backed by the large russian community this scored a big win in a snap general election with almost all the vote 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 meanwhile speculations are 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 of the 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 project lost control crashed into spectators dozens of people. in the world plane slammed into an area from the main grounds around it sort of mechanical fault is going to play but the

official inquiry has reached a conclusion a similar incident happened in west virginia when the plane crashed in both legs killing the pilot. burger bar was set to make americans who were in over a million dollars a year pay more tax than you buffett rule named after billionaire warren buffett who said he should pay more tax introduces a new minimum rate the plan to be published monday is designed to ensure the rich contribute at the same rate as a low and it's up to now earnings for investments are taxed at a lower rate meaning the richest often face a lower tax. the release of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran 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.

russia three e.u. energy corporations tied to 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 and 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 julian lead 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 a 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 gas what a seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through a variety of routes and nobody's disputing that among that variety russian 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 greeks spot a recently announced property tax athens is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough. help it only has enough cash to survive until october the financial analyst. says the

only to rebuild that shattered economy is to the only way rather to rebuild that shattered economy is to begin the euro. or the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment at 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 safely 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. meanwhile italy's parliament approved fifty four billion euro of cuts to try and keep your it's the third largest economy afloat the package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich but as other bennett discovered there's one town that isn't willing to take it lying. 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. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our 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 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 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 there is no exam legal tender 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 be. 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 detracting 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 villa tino's 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 r.t. filipino italy. calls for the latest news as well as exclusive exclusive photographs videos check out our. online tonight for you this one facebook may soon do more than just hold back productivity at work u.s. lawmakers are considering a bill that could land social networking fans in jail but there's major is prick up if you're a facebook fan far more about that online tonight r.t. dot com. and top 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 dot com as well as well as our you tube channel of course was forgot about that. the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem the most appealing of tourist

destinations but 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 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 clear rubble 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 will turn it if the contaminated zone around should know bill itself over the past decade tourists have been floor can hear 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 a pretty good 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 for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like. so moment to feel the history. which for some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important why they come here you know what'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 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 but. 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. ski odyssey reporting from kiev. in ukraine. now the audience of a russian talk show. a little more than their money's worth when a debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight it comes 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 sort of gave polanski juror in the recording of a discussion on one of russia's main channels he said he was defending himself claiming it foldings going to be attacked first here we go just moments earlier told no but every wanted to punch him in the face. of angry stood up. and we're going to see the wrath leashed as the other visible attempted to come in and there

you go moments later praising the long stick twice intelligence calling for this cheer the m.t.v. channel which posted the program preview on its web site is playing to broadcast the show on sunday night. no comment. well we're going to show you here on this show 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 is the subject of our latest interview coming up a bit later my name is kevin just before but program update review the week's top stories in brief in just a minute or two if you're an r.t. international.

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this is all to you from moscow my name is kevin i make this news the real scope stories are reviewing a week rebel forces fight against gadhafi loyalists saying they're making progress into one of his last stronghold of the city of sirte but many in the capital tripoli meantime say that. living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. washington launches its missile defense plans into eastern europe with romania turkey and poland signed up to host the u.s. shield but moscow reiterate security concerns and calls for a tool. moscow and other agree differences shouldn't stop them doing business during the first trip by u.k. leader to russia in six years all two million dollar contracts were sealed during a visit. and ethnic tensions between serbia and breakaway kosovo reach boiling point as disputed border posts are seen as by cost of forces local serbs set up barricades and.