you're watching the weekly artie's roundup of the day's news in the main stories from the week with me kevin o. in this morning it's now midnight here in moscow in libya fighting between warmer gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebel shows no sign of letting up and to gadhafi forces say they're making progress into the city of sirte one of the colonels remaining strongholds but the 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 is still on the run and has vowed to die in his country could be in hiding in one of those several perceived cities meantime in the capital tripoli that fell to rebels a month ago there's some sign of improvement but as artie's mayor for national found out there are those who already want to u.-turn and to see gadhafi back in power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who back 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. now who will do anything for moammar any memoir even if we have to give our lifes. fervent support for the ousted leader just solves once they see our camera interview with their. like the one with a weird telling me how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others to. go if he's 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 it's good to tell it on camera no no thanks to five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my well no the criminals we don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember how up the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new slogans new speeches. the rebels were out

celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really here. those who don't support mr fahd 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 they are there. because i. shared. with. you there is. it off it is effectively gone then you also have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is new 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 on. to express an opinion if we say something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course money are enough for. 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 sleen. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with the killings to intimidate through fear their hearts 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. have been felt by some here

that more is in store. refn ocean r t tripoli libya. the syrian leadership says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change meantime members of russia's upper house of parliament are on a fact finding mission there and they've had talks with president assad who is also hosted the country's opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external involvement or international pressure and the government demonstrations flared up in march and at least two thousand six hundred people have reportedly been killed in clashes since then moscow wants the u.n. to take action to push all sides towards dialogue russia rejected calls from the u.s. and the e.u. urging assad to step down saying he should be given more time to push the reforms i spoke to analysts shelter sadowski told me the russian delegation faces a tough task in syria right now with the opposition being extremely diversified.

but any kind of military intervention in syria immediately leads to a slow or real escalation this is something which hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation it's discussions with the syrian authorities but first of all we must clarify well what is the opposition there's an opposition within the syrian civil society which operates within the called close of the law which has also dialogue with the government and then there's an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. this is largely integrated by islamists it's a judge others. as well as muslim brotherhood. and consequently this insurgency is there to destabilize create a pretext for responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria.

moscow's reiterated steep concern over america's plans to place parts of its missile defense poland shield in. 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 of putting missiles on polish soil follow a separate deal sealed this last week with romania and turkey who also agreed to host sections of the system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the plans as a direct threat to its security and a proposed bill in a joint shield instead that's a suggestion made to the klein p.r. her professor of political science is based in paris it also thinks america's plans could trigger a new arms race. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one really believed that there was a possibility of iran attacking europe its myside stude not reach could not reach western europe i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to

reassure the former satellite countries of the soviet union 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 of barmah had this reset all as he would brush at least he was achieving something corporation with russia and key issues 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 godawful but also because it's going to cost a lot of money unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. there are many more ways top stories still to come including the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russian share facilities already working up to forty percent of capacity and is said to go full

speed ahead by the end of the year we've got the latest details on that for you. and while italy look forward to major budget cuts. one sleepy rural community fed up with the nation's financial difficulties has decided to go it alone we sent our of porter the cover story. in. 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 here in london back in two thousand and six but david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed that that case should not hold back their partnership now dr patrick fflick has worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia he says he seals sees real potential. russia's taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is

going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of development companies development business and helping the russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's cave whether up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited that i think is really key to the interesting future but hot right that russia has in store in this whole area. to the north of course of this week after subset of barricades the disputed border post their own

group the deployment of e.u. and cost of a customs officials on the from two previously under control but top negotiator called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution to sort of furthest do one of those points you can see the sign put up by the k full force 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 call that bold wire fences out there but 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 there'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a vote of these control points what they see the essex 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 filing clashes over the course then got 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 the serbian ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is the 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 themselves but no one wants to make a meal and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on both sides those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene 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 the russian built reactors are now working a forty percent capacity and should be at full power by december moscow says it

will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until around takes full control in twenty fifteen western nations of all be worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs that's a charge to rounds of pitifully denied political scientists tell a fatality jad from the university of london told r.t. that without evidence 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 it 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. to all the evidence that we have. in latvia a party about by the large russian community there scored a big win in the snap general election with almost all votes counted twenty nine percent went to the harmony center party is the first time a russia supporting political groups led the poll since the former soviet state became independent the more speculation is growing that the second and third place latvian rival parties may no join forces to try to keep a pro russian women from power about a third of the country's population of russian speakers but many of the i have no

voting rights and did they're not citizens. more news making headlines tonight at least sixteen people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india and neighboring nepal among those were three people crushed when a british embassy compound wall collapsed in the paul dozens of others were injured jumping from windows during that quake several buildings came down roads were blocked and power was cut off across the region. the express card was given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped the former international monetary fund chief was questioned on a french channel by an interviewer is a friend of his wife insisted the hotel encounter did not involve violence but admitted a quote moral failing on his part strauss can resign desire meth head in may after he was arrested at the case then fell apart in august over doubts his 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 roof started shooting when it is said many of the dead and injured had bullet wounds to their head face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily protests demanding that president saleh step down. in the united states avesta gate is looking into how vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators and a virus show killing dozens of others are injured some critically when the world war two plane slammed into an area in front of the main grandstand on saturday it's sort of mechanical fault to play with the official inquiry has yet to reach its conclusion it's been a bad luck week too less than twenty four hours later in west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing the pilot. and police of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has been postponed until a second judge ruling on the case comes back from holiday the meds lawyer was in court again on sunday though try the complete paperwork for the million dollar bail release the americans reached sentenced to eight years in prison last month after

crossing into northern iran for their part they say they crossed the border by mistake. the greek prime minister's canceled a trip to the united states as his country's debt crisis worsens george pump and dry it was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet the chief of the international monetary fund but he says he now needs to stay home to deal with greece's deficit euro zone leaders decided to wait until october now before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package for greece despite a recently announced property tax athens is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough greece says without e.u. help it's only got enough cash to survive until mid october but financial journalist you're an overdeveloped says the only way to rebuild that shattered economy is to leave the euro. 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 and greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safely greece within the euro zone greece will ask to actually 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 portugal maybe i will and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain meanwhile italy parliaments approved fifty four billion euro of cuts to try and keep europe's third largest economy afloat the

package includes changes to pension slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich but i would bet i discover there's one town that is not 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 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 mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila teano and its mayor for the chop. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be

autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time at the moment 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 is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course 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 filipino is the source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy well if you're looking for more in-depth coverage of all the stories we've got here why not take a look at our web site r t dot com plenty for russia as well and i think your

comment little stories facebook may soon do more than just hold back product of a two year work not rushing through this is the us one lawmakers they're considering a bill that could land social networking fans in jail and it could affect us all many of us on facebook we're hearing about that thing on our web site on find out also you're a fan of calorie fare top of british t.v. chef jamie oliver bringing food bible with jamie magazine into russia with a unique twist of a local flavor i want to have that will go down palatable we'll find it again follow the prospects for it r.t. dot com the cost of getting there are you tube channel. you want to consider chernobyl an ideal holiday destination but hordes of travelers do go there looking for adventure twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accident the exclusion zone pulls in thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience as an artist alexi or a jet ski reports now from ukraine the hazardous holiday is of course at war and

a little 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 the contaminated zone around should a 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 former resident of the goes down a pretty good has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that

visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck. you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. or 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 you know 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 were to the ministry to inform the

government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems but. the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of the area has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use these large unoccupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow biofuel there where the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours 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.

sea reporting from kiev and in ukraine. the audience of the russian talk show got more than the money's worth when a debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fistfight two super rich tycoons kind of blows after a difference of opinion there we go this is. there is a recording of a discussion for one of russia's main channels and then this is alexander the great the owner of two british newspapers who punched the other one saying it was defending himself you thought he was going to be attacked first just moments. ago as a quote to the face literally level of anger really stood up as the other prisoners went to tend to the. moment they were attacking him punching prolong the twenty seven spalling from the chair the. t.v. channel which posted the programs preview on its web site's playing to broadcast the show and sunday night because most of you.

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this is our. headlines three forces fight on against the former lawyer. saying that they're making progress into one of his last strongholds the city. but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. in the big new stories of the week washington launches its missile defense plans into eastern europe with romania turkey and poland signed up to host the u.s. shield but moscow reiterate security concerns with calls for a whole. different stop of doing business during the first trip by u.k. leader to russia in seeking his multimillion dollar contracts. and ethnic tensions between. the rich boiling point as disputed to see what course of local serbs set up barricades angry at the deployed.