marcus weiner scandal. why not what's really happening to the global economy because reports on our. size headlines on our sea libya's rebels say they gaining ground now on one of their fees at last strongholds but in the capital tripoli really say it's those claiming to fight for freedom they're fearing right now. and the other big stories in the wake washington fires up its missile defense plan for eastern europe the three countries signed up now the how is america rockets russia repeats its security concerns and calls for urgent talks. getting down to brass tacks moscow or london agree the differences shouldn't stop them doing business with multi-million dollar contracts sealed during the first visit by u.k. leader in six years. and ethnic tension between serbia and breakaway cassava reaches boiling point as disputed border posts to see why course of the forces.

are watching the weekly oxys roundup of the day's news in the main stories of the week with me cabin zero in sanaa it's now nine pm here in moscow and first in libya fighting between moamar gaddafi is remaining loyalists and former rebel shows no sign of letting up and to get a few forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds but 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 run and has vowed to die in his country could be hiding in one of several cities meanwhile the capital tripoli that fell the rebels a month ago shows some signs of improvement but his heart is with the national reports there are those who already want the 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. i doubt that we will do anything from our only one our even if we have to give our lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera and they're. like one with a weird how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so we couldn't tell you on camera no no thanks if i paid front of a camera they will send a bullet to my room 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 eve lads new slogan is news peaches. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority a rise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no dark about who's really out. those who don't support mr far closer to you 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. would. be there if.

it afaik is effectively gone then you also thought it had 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 of libya 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 who can kill us and the rest of us of course money and. the nineteen year old says none 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 though it may be the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear

their harneys are covered in blogs and list international has recently accused both conduct 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's more his in-store written option r r t tripoli libya. washington was quick to support the revolutions in libya in egypt as a democratic expression of free world and there's now a clamor of syria's regime to step down too and that is r.t. is going to if you can report could leave or run out of the cold in its own neighborhood. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble even though. iran is not an arab country the arab strain could spread. and i think in many ways it's

a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the us under the umbrella of the arab revolutions washington is also being the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming our side alone i think. just like the darfur number and let's hope that russia is next in line they've overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or a client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syrian state take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran it's watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are

filled with new hopes and aspirations some went to predict the arab spring would spread all across the world what this is all about is the arab spring and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's where the libyan people are just a cheap. that's wishful thinking on the part of john mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington the seeking to increase its. control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far it thousands protest

against the u.s. backed military there that's still in power last week a gyptian store and peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in leave year washington supported leadership is taking over but because korea is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the herb spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for and undermining the whole region i'm going to shake out reporting from washington our team. and sarah 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 their 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

anti-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. assad to step down saying he should be given more time to push through reforms. what has 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 by twenty eighteen russians calling for urgent talks with nato saying the u.s. program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish sort of follow separately feels 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 a run in north korea but russia says the plans is a direct threat to its security and a proposed building a joint chilled instead that's the suggestion nato has declined here girl as a professor of political science based in paris and thinks america's plans could

trigger a new arms race. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one will believe that it was a possibility if you ran it attacking europe it's 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 so 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 above had this reset policy it would russia at least he was achieving something corp russia and key 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 that shield is problematic a double 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. more week's top stories still to come this hour including the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russians who share facilities are ready working forty percent of capacity and it's said to go full speed ahead by the end of the year we got the latest on that one. and while it's a look forward to major budget cuts one sleepy rule humanity fed up with the nation's financial difficulties is deciding to go it alone we send reporters there we've got a story. the u.k. and russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this last week leaders of both countries agreed on resolve the issue 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 soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but the camera

demeter event of agreed the case should not hold but their partnership patrick fuller converted thanks to science and religion from the u.k. and russia sees some real potential. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley where. british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing countries developing business and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the ins co whether up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes and the 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 right that russia has in store in this whole area. tensions north of course of a subset of barricades of two disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. on course of customs officials and from too which was previously under control but a great stop and go show to call for calm sides to seek a diplomatic solution and that we call to syria first went to one of those points you can see this time put up by take a full force it's a warning to the ethnics the protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they've got their barbed wire fences that they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of the to speak of 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 view of these control points what they see the ethnic said 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 think of the making of me to try and take this place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbian i think serbians turning out at these barricades what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation is called a war of nerves because the basic checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the cable forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make a move and although the word is being quite it will not be from what we've heard in both sides there's calls for calm and peace but of course the actions these seem quite different than there still seems to be

a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. correspondent. 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 a forty percent capacity of the say they should be by december also says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until around and take full control of the twenty fifteen western nations that belong worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs that's a charge that surrounds repeatedly denied political scientist early fertility judge from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence that iran has as much right to peaceful nuclear energy as any other nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west 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 economic 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 confirmed numerously 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 that is sort of big win in a general election with almost all the votes now counted twenty nine percent of the harmony center of party. came through that it's the first time russia supporting

political groups led the polls since the former soviet state became independent speculation is growing that the second and third place latvian rival parties may join forces to try to keep pro russian women from power about one third of the country's population of russian speakers but many are not citizens and the voting rights. more news making headlines tonight at least nine people have been killed after storms quake struck more than parts of india and neighboring nepal among those were three people crushed when a british embassy compound wall collapsed in nepal dozens of others were injured jumping from windows during the quake several buildings came down across the region causing widespread power cuts and roadblocks. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into the take is the nevada air show it killed nine dozens of others were injured some critically when the world war two plane slammed into an area in front of the main grandstand on saturday but thought

a mechanical force to play with the fish and fire is yet to reach a conclusion and less than twenty four hours later in west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing the pilot. security forces have opened fire on protesters in the yemeni capital has killed at least twelve wounded dozens of others reports say over one hundred people were gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops along with snipers on the roof started shooting witnesses say many of the dead and injured have bullet wounds in the head face and chest it was the first significant cracked and weeks on the daily protests the money presidents and the state that. the release of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has been postponed now 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 were each sentenced to eight years in prison last month after crossing into northern iraq and they say they crossed the border states. russia and

three even or g. corporations tied up a twenty five billion dollars gas supply contract this week to 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 will take about the same time to build it previous routes run into trouble over disputes with transit countries like but it will send ukraine the so-called south stream will now carry gas directly into europe avoiding potential conflict with third party nations despite the new deal the energy analyst julian lease is europe still wary of becoming too dependent on russian resources. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably three major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be. on

russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become agreed on north africa. or indeed or not see. what it's seeking to do is. between a variety of supply. stroup. i know greece. actually russia will ease and will continue to be the most important. and great prime ministers cancel the trip to the us have made the countries worsening debt crisis george pub and rare was due to attend the un general assembly and meet with the i.m.f. chief but said next week was no crucial for implementing deficit juicing plans at home this comes eurozone leaders choose to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the billion euro bailout package to greece despite a recently announced problem tax athens has been criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough with the death in europe spiralling out of control struggling countries notably italy of the

look of the health of the east the francis learn from our conversation vessel holding company says chinese power isn't in some solution and europe needs to solve its problems. yes precisely seeing is europe's debt problem must be saw by europeans a long think of child. last resort. china right here europe's. politicians have been paying their budget deficits by charging into future. we will catch up with them in two thousand and eleven is the year i get finally catches. several european countries like greece and italy so to put their houses in order they have to spend . a have not spend more than they have has to do poor all the stops

to paying. into king the packing to roll over is national debt. situation right now if italy has that much choice if you're looking for more in-depth coverage of all the news stories we show you here on exclusive content from russian or abroad r.t. dot com of course place to be our website is what's online future via couple supposed to take that facebook may soon do more than just hold productivity at work that's because lawmakers are considering a bill that could land social networking fans in jail your facebook fans what do you think about that web site r t dot com take a look but will interest you i'm sure it will. also top british t.v. chef jamie oliver brings the scullery bible the j.v. magazine to russia i was not going to go check out the details and much more nazi dot com i know you choose to. this side of the chernobyl nuclear disaster may not seem the most appealing of tourist destinations to most of

us but twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accident the exclusion zone does pull in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience. the reports from ukraine now the hazardous holidays are causing a little local trouble to were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of did it get it to the clear rubble 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 market 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 contaminated zone around should novel itself over the past decades 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 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 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. 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 but 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 healthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multimillion 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 me 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. 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 which are not balls on will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes she didn't 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 here. 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 but the debate remains very much open. alexy rasho ski on sea reporting from kiev and should not be in ukraine. now some of the audience a russian talk show got a little more than the money's worth going to debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fistfight because the pictures to super rich tycoons came the close after a difference of opinion looking at the alexander lebedev the owner of to finish newspapers who pushed for the billionaire of the curly hair thirty polonsky during a discussion on the cover russia's main channels no serious defending yourself you thought he was going to be attacked first just months earlier as becomes controller that he wanted to publish it in the face of well it goes level of anger stood up as you can see as the other business. moments like this. one that we could

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