if you move. from violence to freshen. stance on t.v. dot com. sites headlines on r.t. anti gadhafi fighters say they're gaining ground on one of the libyan leader's last strongholds but in the capital tripoli many say it's those claiming to fight for freedom they fear right now. you know the big stories of the week washington fires up its missile defense plans for eastern europe with three countries signed up to howes american rockets russia repeats it security concerns and calls for urgent talks. getting down to brass tacks moscow and london agree differences should stop them doing business with multi-million dollar contract sealed during the first visit by a u.k. leader in six years. and the ethnic tension between serbia breakaway kosovo reaches boiling point as disputed border posts the seized by cost of and forces.

are you watching the weekly artie's roundup of the day's news of the main stories from the week with me kevin no internet it's now eleven pm here in moscow in libya fighting between mama gadhafi 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 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 is still on the run and has vowed to die and his country could be hiding in one of several scenes cities may well be capital tripoli that fell the rebels a month ago shows some sign of improvement for this artist from national reports that of those who already want to u.-turn and seek a daffy back in power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels' hands

those who backed the old regime remain defiant but fearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else . we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to give our lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera. like the one with a weird how could it tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. here from television so could you tell it on camera no no surprise the front of the camera they will send a bullet through my head. the criminals you don't know them you call them the

rebels hey guys do you remember they have a black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing 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 arise in the capital before large crowds leaving libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr hart those are you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing caffie now trying not to leave their own backyards here. with. the rest. of. it after it is effectively gone then you also are things 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 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 an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi you can kill us and restless of course money or in future. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of his 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 of their hands are covered and 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 reflection r t tripoli libya. the syrian leadership says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change members of russia's of the house of parliament on a fact finding mission to syria and their talks with president assad after hosting of his opposition in moscow here last week let's talk more about this kind of there we're joined by michel chossudovsky from the center for research on globalization which of related to things spoke on r.t. international's could see russia as it is real the western powers are piling pressure on the syrian regime but turning a blind eye or the other side to atrocities by the opposition i mean can russia and its delegation help shed light on what's really going on do you think. well first of all we must clarify what is the opposition visit all opposition within syria's

civil society which operates within the called plays of the law and which has also dialogue with the government and then there's a good search and see which is funded and supported by outside forces. this insurgency is largely integrated put islam is just it's a job is this as well as muslim brotherhood and consequently this sea is there to destabilize and create a pretext all. responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria ok moscow's saying that the syrians should resolve the crisis themselves at least try to without that external involvement international pressure in any shape or form where it may come and do you think the people of syria can manage without western involvement. first of all i think that there's absolutely no

justification for any kind of foreign interference modeled on libya. if there is any kind of action to be taken it should be taken to begin the nato pause which are interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign countries they have blood on their hands they present themselves as humanitarians with the few ensuring so-called pro-democracy movements in various countries in this case syria when in fact those forces are largely integrated by terrorists this is well documented i think what is required. in the wake of the russian delegation is fission is an investigation into the causes and consequences of this insurrection we have information that. waters and cross all of the turkish

high command aipac drawing up plans for their first military steps into syria and we also know that nato is in fact recruiting. harvest's to assist. in these various countries so what you're saying. maybe likely to see a repeat of the libyan scenario where that's all played out you think can go that way them. well you know people live. syria is a country of more than twenty million people it is a crossroads of all me all producers. he says it's in the heart of the middle east it's surrounded by by all the countries and any kind of military intervention in syria would immediately lead to a scenario of escalation and this is something which hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation in its discussions with the syrian authorities what is

the pentagon's point board from the ninety's is a military can be directed against syria which inevitably would also trigger a much broader conflict with the involvement of israel lebanon or possibly even iran because it affects the key to point if you the road goes through damascus so we're in a very dangerous weather a very dangerous prosperous and hopefully this mission by why the russian up a holes or the dubai up will clarify matters but it should certainly lead to targeting those countries which just phones ring this insurrection all right you know but i mean you know very gloomy picture there taken everything you say but you know russia is calling on both sides to talk in syria from what you've been saying

there isn't any danger that they're going to talk anytime soon though no well the question is there's an opposition within syria which exists within civil society and then there's some reaction i'll cite there's a there's some form of a national salvation calls all in turkey which doesn't necessarily represent syrian public opinion. terrorist attacks directed against the. community. in various parts of the country which are well documented syria is the secular society and i think there's a lot of rules for progress between the government in opposition forces but this is not what what one cause. what the well is the d.c. belies turkey by funding and supporting you know it's a reaction which does not represent a very large sector of syrian public opinion in fact a very small minority ok michelle michelle truth from the center for research on

globalization thanks for joining us on the line tonight from montreal oh very good to get your view on developing news events thank you. what has reiterated his 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 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 soil follow separate deals sealed this last week with romania in turkey but also agreed to host c. sections of the system u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from states inches around in 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 nato has declined asia times correspondent pepe escobar told the shield is an aid to keeping around in check because it poses no threat to the u.s. . some of the best strategists military strategists in the world are in russia and

they know that the run first of all they don't have the capital it's just to attack iraq even if they wanted to number two they made a very hardcore regime but they're not suicidal so this excuse i guess to ahmadinejad's or against or how many from the part of the u.s. is absolutely ridiculous they know it's basically the shield is against russia and eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia will to 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. pepe escobar there are many more of the week's top stories still to come this hour including the launch of iran's first nuclear power plants the one will be sure is really working at forty percent of its capacity and it set to go full speed ahead by the end of the year we get more details on for you. and with europe's during

a second recession in the face criticism saying the greece and its inability to stick to deadlines to keep the bailout money flowing. next though the u.k. and russia looks to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week the leaders of both countries agreed unresolved issues shouldn't 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 david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed the case should not hold back their partnership padron full of goods extensively in science and technology projects between u.k. and russia seems 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 in that is going to be absolute

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 allowed in weather up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes and a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited them but i think is really key to the interesting future book what russia has in store in this whole area. tensions and over the course of a stroke after serbs sort of barricades to speak to border post their own group the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the front previously and the control. of called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t.

syria first is near one of those points this is where she's reporting from there. you can see the sign put up by the cable forces it's a warning to the ethnics the protest is ok for the nato a peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they've got their gold wire fences out they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of third protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border points not so many of the moment that 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 ethics the population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take the place resulted in the death of

a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we seen is a huge number of. ethnic 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 of the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the k. four forces at the actual crossing themselves at the no one wants to make in these and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base side those calls the calm and for peace but of course the actions to seem quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. so. this week iran's first nuclear power plant went on line the only facility of its kind in the middle east russian built reactors and i work in your forty percent capacity in the say that should be full by december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until around takes full control in twenty fifteen western nations have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's

a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge to round repeatedly denied political scientists to early fertility jad from the university of london told us that without evidence around 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 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. according to all the evidence that we have. a lot via a party but by the large russian community this scored a big win in the snap general election got most all votes now counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party it's the first time a russian supporting political group has led the polls since the former soviet state became independent meanwhile speculation is growing that the second and third place latvian rival parties may join forces to keep a pro russian russian women from power but a third of the country's population are russian speakers but many are not citizens and have no voting rights. one who is making the headlines now is nightly sixteen people killed after a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india and neighboring

a pole among them 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 roads were blocked and power was cut off across the region. only shows cars give his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid would drop the former international monetary fund chief was questioned on a french channel by an interviewer friend of his wife he insisted the hotel encounter did not involve violence but admitted that quote moral failing on his part stress can resign resign meth head in may after he was arrested but the case fell apart in august over the says accuser was credible. security forces opened fire on protesters in the yemeni capital killing at least twelve and wounding dozens reports say over one hundred people were gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops along with snipers on the roofs started shooting witnesses say many of the dead and injured have bullet wounds in the head face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily

protests demanding the president simply step down. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how vintage aircraft lost control crashed it's an interesting take to exhibit vibration that did just about as good some critically when the world rooting plane slammed into an area in front of the main grandstand and some sort of a chemical feel is to blame but you fission fire is yet to reach a conclusion less than twenty four hours later west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing the pilot. release of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in a random street perspire and now into the second judge ruling on the case comes back from holiday the man's lawyer was in court again though on sunday trying to complete paperwork for their million dollar bail release the americans read sentenced to eight years in prison last month after crossing into northern iraq and they say they crossed the border by mistake. the greek prime minister has canceled

a trip to the u.s. admitted his country's worsening debt crisis was perfect drive was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet with the i.m.f. chief but said next week was crucial for implementing deficit reducing plans at home this comes as euro zone leaders choose to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece despite the recently announced property tax athens is being criticized a series of loans and failing to implement reforms quickly enough with the deaths in europe spiralling out of control struggling countries notably italy have been looking for help from the east france's learn from hong kong based investment holding company says chinese cash isn't an instant solution and europe needs to solve its own problems. it's precisely seeing is europe's debt problem must be solved by europeans long don't think of china last lend. for last resort. china right europe's. politicians

have. budget deficits by charging into future so no you can't charge with them in two thousand and eleven is the year finally catches. several european countries like greece and italy so they've got to put their houses in order they have to spend. what they have not spend more than they have to do the stops to pay a fine nation to clean their backing to roll over its national. situation right now if i don't think it really has that much choice. you know if you're looking for more in-depth coverage of the exclusive content for russia brought r.t. dot com our web site is the place to be online if you deny these stories going a lot of interest from your face book may soon do more than just hold back productivity and work why we're into the story i can tell you u.s.

lawmakers are considering a bill that could land social networking fans in jail sounds harsh doesn't it follow more r.t. dot com tonight we got the lowdown also top british t.v. show jamie oliver being businesslike again is going to big business how about one who brings his color marry bible the jamie magazine the russia with a unique twist of local flavor we gave the prospects for her that my god and our t.v. or com and our you tube channel is probably on there as well don't forget. you might consider the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster to be an exotic destination but that's exactly the case for hordes of adventurous travelers who do twenty five years after the world's worst atomic exclusion zone pulls in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience and that is a lecturer reports from ukraine that hazardous holidays are causing more than a little local trouble. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiation for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear out of

the one nine hundred eighty six 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 course the political experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough and there is an adventurous alternative you can terminate zone around should not bill 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 as one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations . alexander a former resident of the ghost town of prepared has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that this there is are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. i think you can you people have different reasons but some like to see what an apocalypse could

look like. someone to feel the history. or 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 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 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 form a government of every dollar earned by the strips we know that a lot of money has been mean so we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to sort the skills problems with. 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 bill's own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. but due to decontamination procedures 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 biophilia. 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. looks you are seriously artsy reporting from kiev and should not be in ukraine. the audience so the russian talk show got more of the money's worth in a debate on the financial crisis than

a bit of fistfights to super rich tycoons came to blows off their difference of opinion right this is billionaire so get along i recording of a discussion of one of russia's main channels and alexander limited of the owner of two british newspaper that's him punched it so use the full of himself thought he was going to be attacked for this i just moms earlier told him but if you want to quote punch me in the face every little thing for that literally never did i'm going to stood up every other business with a tenth of the comment that moments later. punch yes punching gloves quite to the school and on the shelves in t.v. channels post programs pretty good just read sides planning to broadcast the show on sunday night. no comment moving away from conflicts on this channel of course and the surely we travel to southern russia to take in the best of the krasnodar region beautiful place with its curious traditions unique food dishes to be thought of about to remind you of the week's top stories from our

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