oxys my broadcasts. are as a speech with the palm of your. question on the job call. tonight sidelines and you get a few fighters say they're gaining ground on one of the libyan leaders last strongholds in the capital tripoli many said those claiming to fight for freedom they fear more. than other big stories from the week washington fires up its missile defense plans for eastern europe with three countries signed up now to house american rockets russian repeated security concerns and calls for talks. getting down to brass tacks moscow and london agree differences shouldn't stop them doing business with multi-million dollar contracts sealed during the first visit by you came leader in six years. and ethnic tension between serbia and breakaway cost of a reaches boiling point was disputed border posts a seized by possible forces. hello

you're watching the weekly artie's round of prove the day's news in the main stories of the week as well with me kevin eyewitness morning it's now one am here in moscow and first in libya fighting between mama gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebel shows no sign of letting up and they 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 a 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 of his country could be hiding in one of those several the siege cities meanwhile in the capital tripoli fell the rebels a month ago there are some signs showing now of improvement but as artie's many financial reports there are those who already want to u. turn and want to see gadhafi back in power. and months after tripoli

fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant bits 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 wal-mart only one even if we have to give our lifes. so when support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera yeah. like it was a weird how could it tell them. 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 good to tell you on camera no no thanks if i paid front of the camera they will send the bullet to my room the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey

guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new slogans new species. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council business authority arrives in the capital before a large crowds even maybe ends in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr far 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. with. you. as. it often is effectively gone then you also artists 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 about tripoli is now on the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or. to express an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money are inferior. to 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 the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim don't let me be the rebels they only represent themselves not pollute me and people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear of their hearts are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently

accused both darpa's regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt space some here that's more his in store. r t tripoli libya. the syrian leadership meantime says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change members of russia's upper house of parliament are a fact finding mission to syria and have had talks with president assad moscow also hosted the of the opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external board or international pressure i think government demonstrations for the for in march two thousand six hundred people reported being killed in clashes since then moscow wants the u.n. to take action now to push all sides towards dialogue russia rejecting calls from the u.s. and e.u.

urging assad to step so should be given more time to push through reforms i spoke to analyst michel chossudovsky just now he says the russian delegation feta the tough task in syria will opposition bring it strongly diversified. any kind of military intervention in syria immediately leads to a scenario of escalation this is something which hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation it's the scotians with the syrian authorities but first of all you must clarify what what is the opposition there's a lot position within the syrian civil society which operates within the called wise of the law which has also dialogue with the government then there's an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. this is largely integrated islam is it's a genocide there's a lot of this as well as muslim brotherhood. and consequently this insurgency

is there to destabilize create a pretext for responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria. it is deep concern over america's plans to place parts of its missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place by twenty eighteen russians calling for urgent talks with nato saying that the u.s. program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deal sealed this week with romania and turkey and 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 russia sees it plans as a direct threat to its security and had proposed building a joint instead that's a suggestion that nato declined. your told us 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 of the carrier 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. or clear. really were talking about here is major tensions in the region between united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland mean you know turkey and other countries in the coming nearest as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically the insertion of russia at the same time the us is doing the same thing to china with its pieces to missile defense deployments in japan south korea chronology long u.s. is deploying petri of most of the systems on their own lives and so this is clearly about trying to control and you can see in both russia and china. when a real more of the week's top stories still to come of course this hour including the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russian pushchair facilities

already working a forty percent capacity it's set to go full speed ahead by the end of the year we tell you that's a good long. while italy looks forward to major budget cuts one sleepy rule community fed up with the nation's financial difficulties is decided to go it alone this story. and you can russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this last week the leaders of both countries agreed on resolve 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 had soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but they have a camera dmitri medvedev agreed that that case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees real potential. it is 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 companies developing business and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the ins co 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 that i think is really key to the interesting future hot rod that russia has in store in this whole area. but the big story in the week tensions in northern cos of being stoked after serbs set up barricades at

two disputed border posts they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the front which had previously been under control but the bridge pup negotiate a call for a car merging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t. sarah firth reported from near one of those scenes checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by a full force is a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they call the above wire fences that they go to 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 the takeover of these control points what they see the ethics or 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 of the dozen making of me to try and take these posts resulted in the death of the policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we seen is a huge number of serbian ethnic serbians 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 basic checkpoints at the barricades is the servian protesters and then the cable forces at the actual crossings themselves ok no one wants to make a move and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on both sides there's calls for calm and peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than there's still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved in a week or two political analysts will examine the public who told the need to load russian course oppose violating the u.n. mandate point failing to bring to a neutral ety. ok for meeting nato absolutely overstepped their mandate

un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral ground where they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking any one side very clearly taking the albanian side these the session as the government can preach to the capital of kosovo we have the security council we have five states each with veto power you have three western states and two man western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't start that so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring the independents for years now and they are actually thinking that they're entering the endgame now and there are actually doing a hard push for it right now. this week iran's first nuclear power plant went online to any 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 iran takes full control in twenty fifty western nations of long be worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a charge that surrounds repeatedly denied political scientists early fertility judd from the university of london told us that without evidence that iran has as much right to peaceful nuclear energy as any other nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped up. 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 confirmed by numerously on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. a lot via a party but by the large russian community there 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 russian supporting political group has 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 join forces to keep a pro russian women from power about a third of the country's population are russian speakers but many are not citizens

and have no voting rights world views in preferred the sixteen people being killed off a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india in neighboring new poll among those three people crushed when a british embassy compound was collapsed in nepal dozens of others rigid jumping from windows during the quake several buildings came down roads were blocked and power was cut off across the region. public trust was given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped in former international monetary fund chief was questioned on a french channel by an interviewer as a friend of his wife insisted the hotel encounter did not involve violence but admitted moral failing on his part stress can resign desire methhead it may after he was arrested for the case fall apart in august after his accuser was credible. security opened fire on protesters in the yemeni capital killing at least twelve and wounding dozens reports say over one hundred people gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops along with snipers on the roofs started

shooting when it is said many of the dead and injured have bullet wounds to the head face and chest it is the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily protest amounting president's stepped down. in united states investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into the state is a vibration in dozens of others injured some critically and through plane slammed into an area in front of the grandstand on saturday it's called mechanical has to play with the fish an inquiry has yet to be. in conclusion less than twenty four hours later in more bad luck in west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing a. 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 events 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 after crossing

into northern iraq and they say they crossed the border by mistake. russia and three eventually corporations title twenty five billion dollar gas supply contract this week the nine hundred kilometers south stream pipeline will deliver russian gas directly to european households it took four years for moscow to strike the deal to construct the pipeline and it will take about the same time to build its previous routes ran into trouble over disputes with countries like the recent ukraine the so-called south stream will carry gas directly into europe now avoiding potential conflict with party nations despite the new deal energy analysts today indeed told us europe still wary of becoming too dependent on russian resources. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not seen dispute. what europe is trying to screw is to add.

variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want. on north africa. or indeed on nazi gas what it's seeking to do is point a balance between look the rightly it's. very true pariah to your roots and nobody is disputing. actually russia will ease and will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the united states with the countries that worsening debt crisis george pope and i was to do attend the u.n. general assembly and meet with the i.m.f. chief but said next week was crucial for implementing deficit reducing plan home this comes as eurozone leaders chose to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece despite a recently announced probably tax athens is behind a size of missing

a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough in the dead of europe spiralling out of control struggling countries notably italy have been looking for help from the east for france's love vestment holding company says chinese cat isn't even from the solution you would need to solve it over problem. he is precisely saying is europe's debt problem must be solved by europeans are long don't think love child the last leg. of last resort. china and they're right europe's. halid teachers have been paying budget deficits by charging their future. you catch up with him in two thousand and eleven is the year ted ted finally catches up with several european countries like greece and italy so they plan to put their houses in order they have

to spend what they have but not spend more than they have it has to do all of the stops to gain five nation to pin their backing to roll over its national debt. situation right now and i don't really has that much choice. the audience a russian talk show got more than the money's worth a little played on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight on screen two super rich tycoons take a blows after a difference of opinion they are this is going their seven game prolong spear recording of her discussion for russia's main channels and alexander lebedev there is a radio move to predict these places punched it saying it was defending himself claiming he thought he was going to be attacked first since just moments earlier stories goes from lewinsky told there was a little precursor to his face floated up took it seriously and really stood out as the other prisoner and tried to calm down and then follow we go pushing imposing problems in twice in silence go in the chair the n.t.v.

channel which posted the programme preview on its website is the show on sunday night. what carry on now if you're looking for more coverage from russia or abroad r.t. dot com is the place to be of course this is what's on my feet and i cover stories you picked to have facebook may soon do more than just hold back productivity at work if you're a facebook fan things u.s. lawmakers are considering a bill that could land social networking found in jail sounds harsh but the backstory to r.t. dot com. and top british t.v. chef jamie oliver a man with a good business brain as well the prince's cullen revival virginia magazine the russian with a twist of local flavor how will that be swallowed here find out again and r.t. dot com going to cost of the good always plenty of interesting stories in our you tube channel too. you might not consider it should noble ideal holiday destination but the hordes of travelers do go there looking for adventure twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accidently exclusion zone pulls in

thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience and as art is a lecturer jessie reports now from ukraine as it is 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 kiev dedicated to the clean rubble the one thousand 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 going to fifth anniversary of the disaster 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 no good sell over the past decades tourists have been flocking here 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 girls down of pretty eyes has been organizing eastwards 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. talk to. you people have different reasons for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like for someone to feel the history. which was so much 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 this radioactive tourism has been suspended a prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had grown in the war with these trips as well as making i don't healthy profit every tourist to his own has been playing around

a hundred us 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 the strips 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 problems. and 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 bills only will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes but 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 in. the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and the fourth 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 asking r.t. reporting from kiev and should not go in ukraine. thanks for being with us with a smile around the world are watching this is r.t. from moscow i'm kevin i'll be back in a moment or two with a recap of the headlines from moscow as our review of the week continues. to.

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