are you watching the weekly artie's roundup of the day's news in the main stories for the week with me kevin o. into night it's no ten pm here in moscow and in libya fighting between one mcduffie's remaining loyalists and former rebels shows no sign of letting up and to get out 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 too with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets it's thought the ousted libyan leader is still on the run and there's about 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 is rare for national found the revotes who already want a u. turn and see gadhafi back in power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed deals with jean remain defiant fearful. in parts of

the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. i know that we will do anything from our only memoir even if we have to give all nice. seven support for the ousted leader just saw once they see our camera it was. like one with a weird 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 to five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my well all 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 appeared on t.v. don't do that new 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 leave in libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr fogg those only you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. would. be a very. have. it off it is effectively gone then you all sources 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. all the bear fear.

one youngster finally agrees to talk. cripple 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 if we say something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and arrest us of course money or in the future. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dock is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their homes are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture

of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that more his in-store roof notion 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 on a fact finding mission to syria and they had 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 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 saying should be give more time to push through before. moscow has 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

eight russia's calling for talks with nato saying that the u.s. program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish saw 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 possible attacks 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 instead that's a suggestion nato declined peace campaigner briscoe says the system represents america's plans to boost its influence in the region. u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the poor the carrier to draw you know other countries like turkey in romania making them feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly what we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between the united states' missile defense deployments that are now going into poland. turkey and other countries in the

coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically the encirclement of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing. china with its bases in missile defense deployments in japan south korea token now. the u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on your i want and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. many more of the week's top stories still to come this hour on our team clinton the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant was built to 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 them for you also while it clean up 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 now 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 david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed that that case should not hold back their partnership so to patrick fuller whose work extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees real potential options. 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 is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing is this helping russian high tech business is expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains

a kind of aladdin's whether all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the research institutes the first great 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. to jews in all the kosovo stoked after serbs barricades the disputed border posts their own group the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the front two which was previously under control top negotiator call for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution to syria firth has been one of those checkpoints you can see the sign put up by the k four forces it's

a warning to the ethnics protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has 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 of 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 they'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 violent clashes over the course of the government making of me to try and take these places resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of the serbian i think servants turning out at these barricades but

what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because the base the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing. but no one wants to make a move and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard of a side this 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. co-sponsor of reporting in the week this last week around first nuclear power plant went online the only facility of its kind in the middle east the russian built reactors in a working of forty percent capacity and they say there should be a full power 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 been worried about the country's atomic program playing it's a cover for making nuclear bombs that's a charge that iran has repeatedly denied political scientists are they for telling

the 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 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 and we just listened 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. he loved the party but by the large russian community there and scored a big win in a snap general election with almost 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 speculation is growing that the second and third place latvia rival parties may join forces to try to keep the pro russian women from power about one third of the country's population of russian speakers but many are not citizens and they have no voting rights. money is making headlines tonight at least nine people have been killed off a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india and neighboring nepal 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 cuts and roadblocks. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed in to spectators slipped in the botheration. dozens of others were injured some critically when the world war two planes slammed into an area in front of the main grandstand of south africa it's not mechanical fault is to blame but the fish inquiry is yet to reach a conclusion it's been a bad luck week to 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 face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the day when protesters manning the president some extent. these are two

u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has been postponed until a second judge ruling on the case comes about from all a day the meds 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 via state systems . the palestinian bid for statehood at the u.n. has entered the final stretch leader mahmoud abbas has announced that the move will come of 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 some e.u. states are called 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 guards about aid flotilla last year turkey's prime minister travel to egypt to enlisted support with cairo angry after the jewish state accidentally killed several of its

border guards political commentator you have which bed thinks israel's failing to see the world is changing around that israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli calling israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing even to to if you will believe those doors allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly puts for forward in new israeli image in the people's eyes the country will continue its all to fashion policies while the world around them in their near

vicinity is 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 pub and was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet the chief of the international monetary fund but he says he now lisa stay at home 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 despite a recently announced probably tax athens is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failings of implement reforms quickly enough gray says very you help it only has enough cash now there's a vibe until mid october but financial journalist. says the only way to rebuild it shuts the column is to leave 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 say 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 europe's third largest economy afloat package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich because of a bet 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 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 he 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 the neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional

administrations do nothing we should get rid of them instead of italy's in 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 these notes aren't 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 business. it's

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 mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either venet r.t. filipino italy. now if you're looking for more in-depth coverage another exclusive content from russian or abroad at our website r.t. dot coms of course the place to be online tonight for you 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 sounds harsh doesn't it want to find more r.t. dot com is the place to be tonight for a facebook fan also the this is a recipe set for success or not but top british t.v. chef jamie oliver brings his calorie bible to jelly magazine to russia polyphony hard to swallow again find out r.t. dot com and of course one of our stories my you tube channel is 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 but as art is reports next from ukraine the hazardous holidays are causing more than a little local trouble too. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear up of the

nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative to the contaminated zone around sure the noble 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 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. look. you people

have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone 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 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 an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we urge the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems of. the ministry

is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of the area has acceptable levels of radiation and that's why we can use these large unoccupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow biofuel there where the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours 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. ski r.t. reporting from kiev and children in ukraine. the audience a russian told. more than the money's worth when to the financial crisis ended up

in a fist fight on t.v. two super rich. from a difference of opinion alexander lebedev not this chap is the other one the owner of two british news first punched fellow billionaire surrogate polaski 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 polanski told the punch in the face apparently. the other prisoners would have tended to come in moments later attacking punching b. twice and scolding. the program preview on its website as. the show on sunday night did it. here rather more. on this channel i'm pleased to say surely we hear why cultural heritage is increasingly falling prey to social unrest around the world interview coming up for

you in a couple of minutes time. just before the program about with an update of the week's headlines in our review of the week just a few moments. this

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stories tonight rebel forces against. making progress into one of his last strongholds the city of so many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. other big stories of the week washington launches its missile defense. but. please. stop the business during the first trip i needed to russia and six. point. seven forces local said set up barricades.