you're watching the weekly artie's round up of the day's news in the main stories from the week as well with me kevin are in the smalling it's now one am here in moscow and first to libya fighting between mama 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 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 was still on the run and has vowed to die in his country could be hiding in one of those several besieged cities meanwhile in the capital tripoli fell the rebels a month ago there are some signs showing of improvement but as artie's roaf national reports there are those who already want to u.-turn want to see gadhafi back into power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who back the old regime remain defiant material in parts of the city the

rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else . i know who will do anything for moammar only moammar even if we have to give our life's. seven support for the ousted leader it is solves once they see our camera there you. know what we are telling me how could you tell the camera why. don't it's the same situation with others to. go if you see 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 could you tell it on camera no no thanks if i appear front of the camera they will send a bullet to my head we're 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 appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new. slogans news piccies. the rebels were out

celebrating again this week when the had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who is 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 backing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards there. you. have. it after it is effectively gone then you also have several 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 or to express our opinion if we see 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 theories are being felt by some here that more his in-store. refn ocean 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 on a fact finding mission to syria and for talks with president assad moscow also hosted the country's opposition leaders last week says the syrian should resolve the crisis themselves without external involved or international pressure anti-government demonstrations fed up and march at least two thousand six hundred people have 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 down so he should be given more time to push through reforms i spoke to analysts michel chossudovsky just now he says the russian delegation faces a tough task in syria with the opposition being extremely diversified. any

kind of military intervention in syria immediately leads 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 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 why isn't 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 job but it's a lot this as well as muslim brotherhood. and consequently this insurgency is there to destabilize and create a pretext for responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria.

moscow's ritu and 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 us program is stuck in the past plans for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deal sealed this week with romania and turkey but 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 secret plans as a direct threat to its security and had proposed building a joint instead that's a suggestion that nato declined peace come campaign a bruce 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 ploy or the carrot to draw in 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 county nearest 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 to china with its bases in missile defense deployments in japan south korea token our. u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on your high wire and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. matter will more of the week's top stories still to come of course this hour including the launch of iran's first nuclear power the russian pushchair facility is 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 good long. while it's really looks forward to major budget cuts one sleepy rule community fed up with the nation's financial difficulties has decided

to go it alone got this story to. the. u.k. and 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 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 had soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron 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. 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 development companies development business and helping

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 found the legacy of the soviet research institutes are 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 that i think is really key to the interesting future but hot right that russia has in store in this whole area. the big story in the week tensions in northern cos of have been stoked after serbs set up barricades to 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 group's top negotiator called for car merging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t.

syria furth reported from near one of those cease checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the k. for 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 there with the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at these disputed border points not so many at the moment but they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and there'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well take a vote of these control points what they see the essex population here in the north as an extension of christina'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 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 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 at both 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 and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved in the weeks to political leaders of the public who told me the nato led mission in kosovo is violating the u.n. mandate by failing to bring to a new trial or to. ok for meeting nato have absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking anyone's side

they're clearly taking the albanian side the secession is the government increased tonight in the capital of kosovo and we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two non western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring kosovo independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they're entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now. 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 they 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 fifteen western nations of long be worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs

a charge that two rounds repeatedly denied political scientist early fertility judd 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. to all the evidence that we have. in latvia 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 russia 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 winner 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 sixty's people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india in neighboring nepal one of those where three people crushed when a british embassy compound was collapsed in the poor 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. was given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped and 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 strauss can resign desired methhead in may after he was arrested for the case fell apart in august after his accuser was credible. security of 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 this is say many of the dead and injured have bullet wounds to the head face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily protests demanding president senate step down. in united states investigators are

looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed in a fit of vibration killing dozens of others injured some critically ill will to plane slammed into an area in front of the grandstand on saturday it's thought a mechanical call was to play but you fish the inquiry is yet to reach. conclusion less than twenty four hours later in more bad luck in west virginia another world war two plane crashed killing pirates. the release 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 man's lawyer though was in court again sunday trying to complete paperwork for their 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 even are g. corporations tied up a twenty five billion dollars 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 transit countries like the recent ukraine the so-called south stream will carry gas directly into europe now avoiding potential conflict with third 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 three major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be charming overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on nazi gas what it seeking

to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through pariah to your roots and nobody is disputing among that variety russia will ease and will continue to be the most important the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the united states and with the countries that worsening debt crisis george purp and dry was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet with the r f chief but said next week was crucial for implementing deficit reducing plans at 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 being put aside of missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough with the debt in europe spiralling out of control struggling countries notably italy have been looking for help from the east for france's learn from hong kong based investment

holding company says chinese cat isn't there then from the solution you would need to solve it over problem. yes precisely saying is europe's debt problem must be solved by europeans are long think of china last lend. last resort to. china and right europe's. politicians have been paying their budget deficits by charging into the future. you catch up with them in two thousand and eleven is the year that debt finally catches up with several european countries like greece and italy so they got to put their houses in order they have to spend what they have but not spend more than they have that has to do all of the stops to gain nascent took in the backing to grow its national get the situation right now i don't have

a italy has that much choice. the audience of the russian talk show got more than the money's worth a debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight on screen two super rich tycoons came to blows after a difference of opinion that they are this is going their sort of gave a long skinny recording of a discussion for russia's main channels and alexander lebedev there isn't radio two british newspapers punched it saying it was defending himself play we thought it was going to be attacked first so it's just moments earlier stories goes polanski told that working across country is a slow death took that seriously angrily stood up to the other prisoner and tried the car and then to follow we go punching him punching polanski twice instead of installing the chair the n.t.v. channel which posted the programme preview on its website is the show on sunday night. what a carry on now if you're looking for more coverage from russia brought r.t. dot com is the place to be of course this is what's on my feet and i couple stories

you picked over facebook may soon do more than just told about productivity at work if you're a facebook fan things u.s. lawmakers are considering a bill would put social networking found in jail sounds harsh but the back story darted up home. and top british t.v. chef jamie oliver a man with a good business brain as well he brings his color a bible journey magazine to russia with a need to assist local flavor how will that be swallowed here find out again and r.t. dot com and of course don't forget always plenty of interesting stories in our you tube channel too. you might not consider chernobyl an ideal holiday destination but the 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 and his art is alexy reports no 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 clean rubble of the one 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 decade 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 goes down a pretty bad 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 kind of you so moment to feel the history. which 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 what'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 another healthy 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. that 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 but your nobles 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. in ukraine. thanks for being with us with

a small room 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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this is r t from moscow our main news story is anti gadhafi forces fighting against the film and leaders loyalists saying they're making progress into one of his last strongholds the city of sirte but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. and then the other big stories of the week washington launches its missile defense plans into eastern europe will remain of turkey and poland signed up to host the u.s. shield but moscow reiterate security concerns and calls for urgent talks. moscow and london agree differences shouldn't stop them doing business during the first trip by a leader the russians think she is a multi-million dollar contracts were sealed during david cameron's visit. and ethnic tensions between serbia and breakaway kosovo ridged boiling point is disputed border post is seized by kosovan forces local serbs set up.