bringing you the latest unsigned skin signals from the rules for. the future of coverage. tonight's headlines anti gadhafi forces are continuing their onslaught on the oil is the town's going as our g. discovers in tripoli some are living in fear of those who supposedly liberated the country. and in the other big stories of the week u.s. launches its european missile defense plans as three countries signed up to host parts of the system russia strongly objects to the proposed to the point of calling it a threat to national security. agreeing to disagree london and moscow put aside their political differences to focus on business during the first visit by british prime minister to russia in six years. and in kosovo ethnic tension is rising after pristina seized two border checkpoints sparking outrage with local

serbs claiming that their rights are being violated by kosovar albanians. and a welcome back you are watching r t it is three o one in moscow russia's capital let's get right to your top stories for this week in libya fighting between moammar gadhafi is remaining loyalists and former rebels show no sign of letting up troops loyal to the ousted leader have launched fresh attacks on the town of bani walid they're using mortars and snipers to target the opposition fighters meanwhile anti kadafi forces are making slow progress i don't know other strongholds gadhafi hometown of seer hundreds of civilians have been caught up in a crossfire with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets but as artie's marie from notional reports there are those who already want to see the ousted leader like in power. and months off to tripoli

fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant and it's fearful. and part of the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. i doubt that we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to do you know nice. seven support for the ousted leader just moves once they see our camera if you were there. like i was how we're going to be so quick to tell the camera why. it's the same situation because they're here because of his country person and good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we'll television without good air camera no no planes right now either a camera or they will send the food to my well who all the criminals i don't know them you call them the rebels they guy still remember the black guy he was arrested

a few days ago after hearing here and on t.v. don't do that you said you slogans news pages among the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council the business authority arise in the capital before a large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's ruling out. those who don't support mr hopkins only and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago thanking dollface now trying not to leave their own backyards here their fridge their. shared. with. the rest. of. it off it is effectively gone then you also have to settle 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 about 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 certain in favor of gadhafi that can kill us and the rest of us of course not only not fire him as the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime that ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the darkest top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu sleen though they may have been the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people of this revolution started with killings to intimidate through the fear of their hobbies are covered in blogs and just international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which

replaced it of committing crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being held by some here that's more is in store. reflection r t three police abia. libya's national transitional council was granted a senior at the un earlier this week the united nations the new resolution eased the sanctions imposed during the off year regime and promised assistance in rebuilding the country and as james denselow middle east analyst thinks with the new authorities will face a hard time trying to restore order. it's a really dangerous scenario similar to what happened in iraq in the fall of baghdad very weaponized society people with automatic weapons in their homes as well as the looting of large scale military grade. r.p.g. mortars and even material for components of potential chemical weapons this is a very dangerous and considering the numbers of groups operating in libya at

present and the fluid nature of the situation so i believe that the the transitional national council their first job is of course to finish off the fighting in the areas that are still holding out that happy that second job is to give themselves legitimacy by beginning the electoral cycle in under undergo and really is to prevent weapons proliferation across the country that's a very difficult job. under syria now where the leadership of the country says it's committed to political reforms and peaceful change members of russia's upper house of parliament are on a fact finding mission in syria and have had talks with president assad last week host of the country's opposition leaders the kremlin insists that the conflict in syria should be resolved without external involvement and international pressure previously russia rejected calls from the u.s. and urging assad to step down saying he should be given more time to push through reforms anti-government demonstrations have flared up in march without least twenty six hundred people reportedly killed in clashes and most michel chossudovsky says

the russian delegation faces a tough task in syria with the opposition being extremely diverse and five. any kind of military intervention in syria immediately leads to a scenario escalation and this is something which i hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation and it's the scotians with the syrian authorities well first of all we must clarify what is the opposition there's an opposition within the syrian civil society which operates within the called poison for law and which has also done a lot with because of them and then there's an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. launched into great to put its limits it's the job of the school but it's the law as well as muslim brotherhood. and consequently this insurgency is there to destabilize create

a pretext all responsibility to protect nato intervention. in syria. moscow has it reiterated its 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 is calling for urgent talks with nato saying that the us program is stuck in the past players are putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deals sealed this week with romania ataturk turkey who also agreed to host sections of the system and 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 had proposed building a joint shield instead a suggestion that nato declined peace campaigner bruce gadahn says that the system represents america's plan to boost its influence in the region. u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy of

a 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 we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between united states missile defense deployments are now going into poland. and other countries in the coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically the encirclement of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing with china with its spaces in missile defense deployments in japan south korea now. u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on your side why and so this is clearly about trying to control the complaint both russia and china. many more of the week's top stories still to come in this hour including the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant. built by russia it is the first operational nuclear

power station in the region and is already working at forty percent of capacity. and we follow developments in the euro zone where public anger over the debt crisis continues with no end in sight. the u.k. and russia looked 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 and sides signed multimillion dollar deals in science innovation and trade relations between the two nations soured over the murder of the former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six david cameron and the dimitri medvedev agreed it the case or should not hold back their partnership dr patrick who is worked extensively in science and technology projects between in the u.k. and russia sees

a real potential. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what he's going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley where. british involvement is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia internet in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's whether all kinds of interesting things to be the mega see all the soffit research institutes for this right 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 but i think is really key to the interesting future. russia has in store in this

whole area. northern kosovo continue after serbs set up barricades to disputed border crossings they're angry about the deployment of kosovo customs officials on the front here which was previously under control the top negotiator called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution. for reports from near one of the points you can see the sign put up by the k full force it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission it's been working here at the border points with you like they call that barbed wire fences out the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at these disputed border points and also many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and they'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well 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 over the course of the government. to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. finding out. what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation is a war because the checkpoints at the barricades is being processed and then the case full force is at the actual crossing ok no one wants to make in the and all the way to being like that and i think from what we've heard a base side this calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than that still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. actually sarah firth reporting for us there now this week iran officially launched its first

nuclear power plant the only facility of its kind in the middle east completed with russia's assistance the plant is expected to reach its full energy generating capacity by the end of the year nasco says that the plant will be working under its close supervision and all the spent fuel will be shipped back to russia for reprocessing western nations have repeatedly expressed concern that iran's nuclear program is aimed at developing an atomic bomb in charge here john denies political scientist alley for television from the university of london told r.t. that according to all the evidence iran has the right to carry on with its peaceful nuclear program. and we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west. 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 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 and on numerous occasions fly the us 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. in a party backed 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 it is the first time in russia 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 the pro russian the general from power about one third of the country's population are russian speakers and many are not citizens and have no voting rights. more news making headlines for you tonight. at least twenty people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck northern parts of india and neighboring to paul among those where 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. so many strauss kahn has given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid would drops the former international monetary fund

a chief was questioned on a french channel by an interview that was a friend of his wife insisted that the hotel encounter did not involve violence but it needed a moral failing on his part that resigned as i.m.f. head in may after he was arrested but the case fell apart in august over doubts his accuser was credible. security forces have opened fire on protesters in the yemeni capital killing at least twenty six and wounding dozens reports say over one hundred people were gathered near the state t.v. building at a 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 president saleh step down. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators out of nevada air show killing nine people dozens of others were injured some critically when the world

war two plane slammed into an area in front of the main grandstand on saturday it is thought a mechanical fault is it to blame but the official inquiry has yet to reach a conclusion less than twenty four hours later in west virginia another world war two plane crashed the pilot. the release of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has it been postponed until a second a judge ruling on the case comes back from holiday a man's lawyer was in your court again sunday trying to complete paperwork for their million dollar bail out release the americans were each sentenced to eight years in prison last month after crossing into northern iran they say they crossed the freely by mistake. to other news that now the palestinians are getting ready to head to the u.n. and ask for a full state recognition this is despite america's announcement that they will veto any such big russia supports the palestinians bid while some use dates are calling on talks with israel to be resumed meanwhile israel's it relations with its

neighbors have soured turkey has already expelled israel's ambassador and cut all military ties with the jewish state over a refusal to apologize for the deadly raid on a gaza bound aid flotilla last year anger is also flaring in cairo after several egyptian border guards were killed by israeli forces political commentator who is thinks israel was failing to see the world is changing around it. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli coalition israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing even to to if you will believe those of us allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been done against them

certainly puts four or were in munich when israeli image in people's eyes that country will continue sprawled fashion on the cities while the world around them in their nearly cynically is is really changing powerful and radical. three e.u. energy corporations have secured a twenty five billion dollar gas supply contracts with russia this week now russian gas will be delivered directly to european households through the south stream pipeline. bennett negotiating the deal for more than four years and it will take a just as long to construct the pipeline existing gas routes have run into trouble after a dispute with transit countries like bellerive said ukraine despite the new deal energy analyst julian levy says europe still fears becoming too dependent on russia resources. notably in europe is suggesting that russia will not be

a major and probably a major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not even the spirit . and what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to leave it on north african gas or indeed or not see. what it seeking to do is point a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through pariah to your roots and nobody is disputing good among that variety russia will ease and will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the u.s. as his country's debt crisis worsens george papandreou was due to attend the u.n. general assembly and meet the chief of the international monetary fund but he says

he needs to stay home and deal with the greece's deficit eurozone leaders decided to wait until october before bullying on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package for greece despite a recently announced a property tax that is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough greece says without e.u. help it only has enough cash to survive until mid october but financial journalist johan van overtveldt says the only way to rebuild that shouted economy is to leave the euro zone. and 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 of crucially at sixteen percent but the reality is 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 say for greece with india's euro zone greece will ask let's see if 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 core to gold maybe islands and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. the audience at a russian talk show got more than their money's worth when a debate on the financial crisis ended up in a fist fight two super rich tycoon who came to blows and peru or france as opinion this is that billionaire sergei. recording of the discussion for one of russia's main channels and alexander level as the owner of the british newspapers punched him saying he was defending himself clean on friday he was going to be attacked

first because moments earlier paul stevens had told him he wanted to punch him in the face with yet a stood up as other businessmen attempted to prompt him moments later attacking and punching a landscape twice and sending him sprawling from his chair in t.v. channel which posted the programs preview on its website aired the show. and if you're looking for more coverage from russia and a broad r.t. dot com is the place to be here's what's online for you right now. the highest award for the deepest voice is up and coming a russian baritones and basses take top prizes at leading operatic contests plus. life behind bars for some and a money spinner for others find out why private prisons in the u.s. love having a full house all that and a whole lot more dodgy dot com. well you might not consider chernobyl an ideal

holiday destination but hordes of travelers go there looking for adventure twenty five years after the world's worst atomic accident the exclusion zone poles and thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience and as our tease alexy ourselves reports from ukraine and the hazardous holidays are causing more than a little local trouble. 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 rubble 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 twentieth 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 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 one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander former resident of the ghost town of pretty much has been organizing stories for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see overall their motivations for making the trip have always varied. so critical you can you people have different reasons. somewhere to see what an apocalypse could look like kind of someone to feel the history but of course there's some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important why they come here i mean 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 i don't know healthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around a hundred u.s. dollars to do so because we're going to a multimillion dollar revenue every year. we are to the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money only we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up being why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems but. the ministry is defying that 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 she proposed that utility contamination or cedars 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 by

a little later where the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometers and you can hear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open. alyse recessed yahtzee reporting from kiev and chernobyl in ukraine. i think it sounds positively. romantic place to get away thanks for being with our tail bag with a recap of our headlines for you and a review of our week in just a moment. to

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