trying to look for racial slur today. nights' headlines that libya's rebels say they gaining ground on one of gadhafi is last strongholds but in the capital tripoli many say it's those clearly defined for freedom very fear right now got the story coming up. and the other big news we're with washington fires up its missile defense plans for eastern europe with three countries signed up now to house american rockets russia repeated security concerns and calls for urgent talks. getting down to brass tacks moscow and london agree differences shouldn't stop them doing business with multimillion dollar contract sealed during a first visit by a u.k. leader in six years. and ethnic tension within serbia a breakaway kosovo reaches boiling point is disputed border posts the seized by

costs of enforcing. away watching the weekly artie's roundup of the day's news of the main stories of the week with me kevin no internet it's no ten pm here in moscow and in libya fighting between one a gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up i think it a few forces say they're making progress in the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds but that meeting heavy resistance hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire to with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets it's thought the ousted libyan leader is still on the run and there's vowed to die in his country could be hiding now in one of several perceived cities meantime the capital tripoli that fell to rebels a month ago show some signs of improvement but it's not israel from national found there are those who already want to 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 on our own the more and more even if we have to give our own lifes. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera if you would. like what we are coming out with 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 i did tell it on camera no no paying surprise from the camera they will send the bullets in 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 you flags new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before large crowds and even libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr far those all 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 there. you'll die. for.

it after it is effectively gone then you also artists 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 beer here. 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. pinion if we say something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money or in the future. the nineteen year old says no many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about the 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 hearts are

covered in blogs amnesty 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 him or his in-store. regional shin r t tripoli libya. the syrian leadership says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change members of russia's upper house of parliament are on a fact finding mission to syria and they had talks with president a sad loss who also hosted the country's opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external involvement or international pressure to 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 down so you should give more time to push for reform. because reiterated his deep concern over america's plans to base part of its missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place as early as twenty eighteen russia's calling for urgent talks with nato saying that the u.s. program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish saw follow separate deal sealed this week with romania and turkey also agreed to host sections of the system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from states like iran or north korea russia sees the plans as a direct threat to its security and had proposed building a joint sure instead that's a suggestion made to decline peace campaigner rusco says the system represents america's plans to boost its influence in the region. the worst is using nato when you know expansion is the i think the glory of a carrot to draw you know other countries like turkey and you can feel like you're going to be. by your union. but clearly you know we're talking about

here is major tensions in the region between united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland really here turkey and other countries in the coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region worst. basically in sort of online russia at the same time the us is that we do the same thing to china with its spaces in missile defense deployments in japan south korea broken our. u.s. as a ploy patriot missile defense systems are a while and so this is clearly about trying to control and we contain both russia and china. many more of the week's top stories still to come this hour on our team clinton launch iran's first nuclear power plant will be share facilities already working forty percent of capacity and is said to go full speed ahead by the end of the year we've got the latest on that one for you but also while it clean the sort

of major budget cuts one sleepy rural community fed up with the nation's financial difficulties as decided to go it alone will report from there as well. the u.k. and russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron in the week the leaders of both countries agreed unresolved issue shouldn't stand in the way of progress and this is the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in six years relations you may recall between the two nations soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer xander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but they were going to dmitri medvedev agreed that that case should not hold but their partnership. for the full of his work extensively in science and technology projects the tween the u.k. and russia sees real potential options because 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

absolutely key 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 weather up all kinds of interesting things to be on the legacy of the 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 that. russia has in store in this our weary. hundreds and over the course of over and stroked off the set of barricades of two disputed border posts their own group the deployment of the un kossovo customs officials on the front to which was previously under control brokerage top negotiator called for car merging all sides

to seek a diplomatic solution of the syria furthest new one of these checkpoints you can see the sign put up by a full force is a warning to the ethnics that protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they call the above wire fences are they 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 at the moment but they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and there'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a vote of these control points what they see the 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 the relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. ethnic servants turning out at these barricades what we thought at the moment it's a standoff situation is called a war of nerves because the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to making these and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard of a side this calls for calm and for 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. correspondent sort of reporting in the week this last week a ram's 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 and they say that should be by december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until around take full control

of twenty fifteen western nations that have long worried about the country's atomic program planing it's a cover for making nuclear bombs that's a charge that iran has repeatedly denied political scientists elephant olena jad from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence iran has 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 or put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions canonic sanctions if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the 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. a new numerously and on numerous occasions why 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. a lot via the party but by the large russian community there in the school of big win in a snap general election bloggers all votes now 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 meantime speculations growing that the second and third place latvia rival parties may join forces to try to keep the pro russian women from our well one third of the country's population of russian speakers but many are not citizens and they have no voting rights. only is making headlines tonight at least

nine people have been killed off a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india and neighboring appall among those with three people crushed when a british embassy compound wall collapsed in the paul dozens of others were injured jumping from windows during the quake several buildings came down across the region causing widespread power plants and roadblocks. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into the spectators that in the barbara's show. doesn't buy the range of some critically when the world war two planes landed an area in front of the main grandstand and separate it from the public for fall is to blame but the fisher inquiry is yet to reach a conclusion it's been a bad luck week two less than twenty four hours later west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing the pilot. security forces have opened fire on protesters in the yemeni capital it's killed at least twelve as wounded dozens reports say over one hundred people were gathered near the state t.v. building government offices when troops along with snipers on the roof started

shooting witnesses say many of the dead and injured have a bullet wound in the head the face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the day and protests demanding the president some expect that . police or two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran is being postponed until a second judge ruling on the case calls but for knowledge a man's lawyer was in court again sunday trying to complete paperwork for the million dollar bail release the americans reached sentenced to eight years in prison last month for crossing into northern a rant about something they deny they say they crossed the border by mistake. the person taking a bid for statehood at the u.n. has entered the final stretch leader mahmoud abbas has announced that the move will come the general assembly next friday the middle east peace quartet is divided though with the u.s. a little veto the move russia supports the palestinians but while sunday you state support on talks with israel to be resumed meanwhile israel's relations with its neighbors have slumped turkey's threatening further isolation expelling israel's

ambassador over the refusal to apologize for the deadly raid on the cars about aid flotilla last year turkey's prime minister traveled through egypt to enlisted support with cairo angry at the jewish state accidentally kill several of its border guards political commentator have wished better thanks israel failing to see the world is changing around it israel now is getting away from the notion that needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli call it is really decision makers on the political level are choosing only one to two if you will moving those calls allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been done and yes them certainly puts for forward

in mewe in israeli image in people's. country will continue all the fashion while the world around them in their near east in it is really changing powerfully and radically. the greek prime minister's canceled a trip to the u.s. 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 now lisa stead o. deal with greece's deficit instead of eurozone leaders decided to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package for greece despite the recently announced probably tax athens is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failings with lehman reforms quickly enough craig says very you help it only has enough cash now to survive until mid october but financial journalists go on vine over the veldt says the only way to rebuild a chef economy is to leave the euro but 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 and rescan 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 families within the eurozone greece will ask let's see if 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 island and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries right spain. we were

a little east parliaments approve fifty four billion euro cuts to try and keep europe's third largest economy afloat a package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich reserve but it discovered this one town that isn't willing to take it lying down. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy it also claims to be an independent principality and support it even started printing its own money the man on a new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream 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 filipino and its mayor and for the chop with.

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 wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead of italy's in deep shit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but really in the furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their chorused even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but military knows fed up the term and to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy it has no national debt a rare thing in europe 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 but 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. it's always been slow in this sleepy town but short of keepers 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 sorts 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 c filipino italy and if you're looking for more in-depth coverage of exclusive

content from russian or abroad our website r.t. dot com course the place to be online tonight for you facebook may soon be do more than just hold back productivity at work u.s. lawmakers are considering a bill with good land social networking fans in jail sounds harsh doesn't it want to find out more. is the place to be tonight for a facebook fan also i don't know this is a recipe sent for success or not but top british t.v. chef jamie oliver brings his calorie bible to jenny magazine to russia well i find it hard to swallow again find out r.t. dot com and of course one of our stories and i can show you the camel as well. you may not consider the side of the chernobyl nuclear disaster to be an exotic destination that's exactly the case for hordes of adventurous travelers though every year twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accident the exclusion zone pulls in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience and as art is a lecturer jessica reports notes from ukraine the hazardous holidays are causing

more than a little local trouble so. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiation for a different reason or of an exhibition in kiev did a kid to clear up all 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 markets went to fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough and there is an adventurous alternative to the contaminated zone around should not be a good sell over the past decades tourists have been flocking here more than ten thousand of them each year that's right forbes magazine named the dead zone as one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the girls down of preview and has been organizing these stories 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 he will have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. some want 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 have broken the law with these trips as well as making i don't know healthy profit every tourist to the zone has been playing around a hundred us dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we urge the ministry to inform the

governments of every dollar earned by the strips we know that a lot of money has been made and we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve problems. that the ministry is defined as it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters which are not bill's own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. 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 in. the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tourist to 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 russia

ski r.t. reporting from kiev and in ukraine. the audience a russian talk show got more than their money's worth wanted to rate on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight on t.v. two super rich tycoons are they ok the clothes are from a difference of opinion alexander lebedev not this child is the other one the owner of two british newspapers punched a fellow billionaire surrogate polonsky he was one of the soldiers before but. during discussion of one of russia's main channels and he said he was defending himself claiming he thought he was going to be attacked first just moments earlier polonsky told live if he wanted to punch him in the face apparently the level of anger at least through that was the other business would have tended to come in moments later attacking punching problems be twice and sending him sprawling share the n.t.v. channel which posted the programme preview on its website as places that will cost the show on sunday night did it. here rather

more current pursuits on this channel i'm pleased to say surely we hear why cultural heritage is increasingly falling prey to social unrest around the world the latest interview coming up for you in a couple of minutes time when i'm scared i just before the program about with an update of the week's headlines in our review of the week just a few moments here on r.t. .

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