and welcome back you are watching our team 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 at another stronghold his hometown of hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets but as artie's marie financial reports there are those who already want to see the ousted leader back in power. and months after tripoli fell into rebels' hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant but fearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did say somewhere else. that we will do anything for moammar anymore even if we

have to do you don't mind us. seven support for the ousted leader just souls once they see our camera he would you like what we're telling me how could you tell us on camera why. it's the same situation because earlier because if he's counted percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we'll throw television without the media good your camera no no links all right at the front of the camera they will send the book to my head. all the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebel is a guy steering them but you're not the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after hearing here on t.v. don't do that you sags you slogans you speech use. the rebels were out.

and again this week when they had of the national transitional council it is new authority to rise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's ruling here. those who don't support mr fogg those illegal and who used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now try not to leave their own backyards here there are prayers there are. shared. with me. for you. have. it off me is effectively gone then you also have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is a new free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the. fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk about how to

better 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. in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course 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 ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the darkest top secret jails the political prisoners known as abu slain don't believe me the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people of this revolution started with killings to intimidate to the fear that their houses are covered in blood amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing good crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians feasibly and for. place something here that is in store. reach notion r t

tripoli libya. libya's national transitional council was granted a seat at the un earlier this week the united nations a new resolution eased the sanctions imposed during the gadhafi regime and promised assistance in rebuilding the country and as james denselow middle east analyst thinks libya's new authorities will face a hard time trying to restore order it's a really dangerous scenario it's similar to what happened in iraq in the fall of baghdad a very weaponized society people with automatic weapons in their homes as well as the looting of large scale military grade munitions r.p.g. mortars and even materials and components of potential chemical weapons this is a very dangerous and are 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 afi their second job is to

give themselves legitimacy by getting the electoral cycle in under and the third job really is to prevent weapons proliferation across the country that's a very difficult job. under serious 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 moscow 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 analyst michel chossudovsky says the russian delegation faces a tough task in syria with the opposition being extremely diverse versified. any kind of military intervention in syria would immediately lead to

a scenario escalation and this is something which i hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation and its discussions with the syrian authorities first of all we must clarify what is the opposition there's an opposition within the syrian civil society which operates within the code lines of the law and which has also dialogue with the go about event isn't and such and see which is funded and supported by outside forces. launched integrated by islamists it's a job this tool but it's the opposite as well as muslim brotherhood. and consequently this so just see 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 u.s. program is stuck in the past plans that for putting missiles on polish soil follow separate deals sealed this week with romania ataturk or 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 had proposed building a joint shield instead a suggestion that nato declined peace campaigner bruce gadahn says the system represents america's plan to boost its influence in the region. the 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 spaces in missile defense deployments in japan south korea token now. the u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on their i want and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain 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 to 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 besides signed multimillion dollar deals in science innovation and trade relations between the two nations soured over the murder of a former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six david cameron and the dmitri medvedev agreed at the case or should not hold back their partnership dr patrick like who is worked extensively in science and technology projects between in the u.k. and russia sees it real potential. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business. establishing what is going to be i suppose

a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing those days helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of ally the weather all callings of interesting things to be found the mega see all the research institutes for us 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. that i think is really key to the interesting future but. russia has in store in this whole area. tensions in northern kosovo continue after serbs set up barricades at two disputed border crossings they're angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the frontier which was previously under serb control

belgrade's a top negotiator called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution artie's sare further reports from near one of the seas checkpoints. 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 that's been working here at the border points with you like they call that bob wire fences out there with 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 the government 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. finding out. what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation it's a war with no it's because the basic checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing of the no one wants to make to me and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard of a side this 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 or to surface 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 for energy generating capacity by the end of the year. moscow 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 iran denies political scientist alley photo from the university of london told r.t. got according to all the evidence iran has the right to carry on with its peaceful nuclear program. 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 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. a new numerously and on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. according to all the evidence that we have. in a lot of via 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 winner from power about one third of the

country's population are russian speakers but 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 nepal 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 were dropped the former international monetary fund a chief was questioned on a french channel by an interview who is a friend of his wife insisted that the hotel encounter did not involve violence but admitted a moral failing on his part strauss kahn 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 and government offices when troops along with snipers on the roofs started shooting witnesses say many of the dead and injured have bullet wounds in the head face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily protests demanding 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 the 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 finish line was stated. to other news 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 of the palestinians bed while some e.u. states are calling on talks with israel to be resumed meanwhile israel's it will ations 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

egypt's border guards were killed by israeli forces political commentator. thinks that israel is failing to see the world is changing around it. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies 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 doors 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 for forward in mute in israeli image in the people's eyes that the country will continue in spalt fashion on the seas while the world around

them in their near vicinity is is really changing powerfully and radically. three e.u. energy corporations have secured a twenty five billion dollar gas supply contract with russia this week now russian gas will be delivered directly to european households through the south stream pipeline has been at negotiating the deal for more than four years and it will take just as long to construct the pipeline existing gas routes have run into trouble after a dispute with transit countries like belarus and ukraine despite the new deal energy analyst julian levy says europe still fears becoming too dependent on russia 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 do is to add.

variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be trial 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 north sea gas what it's seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through a variety of routes and nobody's 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 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 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 only has enough cash to survive until mid october but financial journalist johan van overtveldt says the only way to rebuild that shattered 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 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 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 eurozone greece will ask to exit 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 cork to go maybe ireland 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 tycoons came to blows after a difference of opinion this is that billionaire sergei. recording of discussion for one of russia's main channels and alexander lebedev the owner of two british newspapers punched him saying he was defending himself he was going to be attacked first just moments earlier had told him he wanted to punch him in the face but. stood up as other businessmen attempted to trump him moments later attacking. twice

and sending him sprawling from his chair in t.v. channel which posted that your programs preview on its website aired the show. and if you're looking for more coverage from russia and abroad 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 up russian baritones and basses take top prizes at the leading operatic contests plus. life behind bars and for some 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. 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 pulls in thousands of tourists looking for

a truly unique experience and as our. reports from ukraine 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 chair of mobile 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. over the 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 former resident of the ghost town of 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 for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. 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 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 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 urge the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money 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. that due to the contamination 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 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're going to waste

land will remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open. from kiev. in ukraine. i think it sounds positively. a romantic place to get away thanks for being with r.t.l. be back with a recap of our headlines for you and a review of our week in just a moment. if . you.

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and welcome back to three thirty in moscow russia's capital you are watching a recap of this week and let's get a look at your top headlines and talk about the forces that continued their onslaught on loyalist towns but as our two discovers in tripoli some are living in fear of those who supposedly liberated the country residents of the capital claim civilians have been arrested for merely expressing procrit news. and in that the other big news stories of the week of u.s. launches its european missile defense plan says three countries signed up to host parts of the system russia strongly objects to the proposed deployment 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 a british prime minister to russia.