freeboard video for your media projects free media john darche john thomas. this morning's headlines and tried khadafi forces continue their onslaught on loyalist towns but as archie discovers in tripoli some are living in fear of those who supposedly a liberated the country. and a look at other big stories of from the week the u.s. launches its european missile defense plans as three countries signed up to host parts of the system with russia strongly objects to the proposed deployment of calling it a threat to national security. and agreeing to disagree with moscow put aside their political differences to focus on business during the first visit by a british prime minister to russia in six years. and in kosovo ethnic tension is rising after pursuing a seized of two border checkpoints sparking outrage with

a local serbs claiming the rights are being violated by kosovar albanians. welcome back it is five a one in the russian capital moscow this is r.t. and this is a recount of the stories that have shaped your past week in libya fighting between moammar gadhafi the remaining war lists 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-government forces are making slow progress at another stronghold bucky's hometown of syria hundreds of civilians have been caught up in the crossfire with battles continuing in a few remaining pockets but as artie's murtha motion 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 it's 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 our only one our even if we have to give our lives. fervent support for the ousted leader to solve once they see our camera yeah it. was a weird telling me how could you tell it on camera why. it's the same situation with others two. 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 we're going to tell the camera no no basic rights be front of the camera they will send the food to my

room all the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember enough the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after hearing hearing on t.v. don't do that you sags you slogans news pages on the rebels who are out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council the business authority arise in the capital in four large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really out. those who don't support mr fogg and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago thanking khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here their bridge their. right. foot.

it afaik is effectively gone and you all sorted have settled 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 their 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 an opinion we settled in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and arrest us of course money or enough for. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for make and critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dock is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu sleen though it may be the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear

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 by some here but more is in store reef notion r.t. tripoli libya. and on to 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 moscow hosted the country's opposition leaders the kremlin insists the conflict in syria should be resolved without external involvement and international pressure previously russia rejected calls from the u.s. and e.u. urging assad to step down saying he should be given more time to push through reforms anti-government demonstrations flared up in march that least twenty six

hundred people reportedly killed in clashes and almost michel chossudovsky says that the russian a delegation faces a tough task in syria with the opposition being extremely diversified. any kind of military intervention in syria immediately so. this is something which hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation it's the scotians with the syrian authorities well 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 points of the law which has also dialogue with the killing of an event is an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. this is the launching integrated like this list it's a job this looks like this as well as both the brother. and consequently this

insurgency is there to destabilize create a pretext all responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria. moscow has reiterated its a deep concern over america's plans to base part of its missile defense shield in poland some of which could be in place by twenty eighteen russia is calling for. agent talks with nato saying that the u.s. program is stuck in the past the plans are for putting missiles on a polish soil follow separate deals sealed this week with romania and turkey who also agreed to host sections of the system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter powerful attacks from states such as iran and north korea but russia sees the plant as a direct threat to its security and have proposed building a joint shield instead a suggestion nato has declined asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the shield is in danger of keeping iran in check because it poses no threat to the u.s.

. some of the best strategists military strategists in the world already russia and they know that iran first of all they don't have the capabilities to attack iran even if they wanted to number two they may be a very hard core regime but they're not suicidal this excuse against an idea jot or against ayatollah family from a part of the west is absolutely ridiculous the law it's basically the sure is their guest russia and eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia would have any interest in trying to undermine the european union which are excellent markets where poles and where they saw most of their products in the case of china. many more of the week's top stories still to come 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 developing with forty percent capacity. and a clash of the tycoon t.v. debate gets to the russian billionaires part under the car. 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 prime minister from britain in the six years the sizes signed multibillion dollar deals in science innovation and trade relations between the two nations soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander yang in a month or so david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed that the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively in the science and technology project in chile u.k. and russia sees real potential. does 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 is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing countries developing and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the weather up all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited that i think is really key to the interesting future. russia has in store in this area. tensions in northern kosovo

continue after serbs set up barricades head to disputed border crossings and they are angry at the deployment of e.u. and kosovo customs officials on the frontier which was previously under serb control well grade top negotiator called for calm urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution. for a report from near one of the seas checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the cable forces it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato a peacekeeping mission working here at the border points with you like they go there bob wire fence is not legal the sound bites as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at the border point and also many of the men and that 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 a population here in the north as an extension of pushiness control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making only to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is a war of nerves because both the checkpoints and the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing of the no one wants to make a meal and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard of bayside there's cool 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. first reporting for us no political analyst alexander poverty the nato led mission in kosovo is

violating the u.n. mandate by feeling. ok for meeting nato has absolutely overstepped their man being 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 these the session is the government in prishtina of the capital of course of all we have the security council we're we have five states each with a 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 there are entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard person for it right 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 moscow says 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 a charge tehran denies political analyst to ali a foothold from the university of london told r.t. that according to all of 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 and over it the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence

a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. a new 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. a lot of a party representing the large ethnic russian minority has captured the most votes in the country's snap parliamentary election with almost all ballots counted all about twenty nine percent of the vote went to the harmony central party it's the

first time in two decades that a pro russian political group has dominated the elections meanwhile there is speculation that the second and third place levy and rival parties may form a coalition to keep harmony from forming the next government about one third of the country's population are ethnic russians but some are still classed as that non-citizens and have no voting rights mourners are 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 that were 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. strauss kahn has given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped a former international monetary fund its chief was questioned on a french channel by an interviewer who is a friend of his wife he insisted the hotel encounter did not involve violence but

it needed a moral failing on his part strauss kahn 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 blood rooms in the head face and chest it was the first significant crackdown in weeks on the daily protests demanding president someday step down. in the u.s. investigators are looking into how a vintage aircraft lost control and crashed into spectators at a 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 a thought a mechanical fault is 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 killing the pilot in that accident. the release of two u.s. hikers convicted of spying in iran has of been postponed until a second judge ruling on the case comes back from holiday demands a lawyer was in court again on sunday trying to please paperwork for their million dollar bail out release the americans were each sentenced to eight years in prison last month after crossing into northern iraq and they say they crossed the border by mistake because. of the. euro zone leaders have delayed a decision on paying out the next batch of emergency loans to greece as the country struggles with its huge deficit the greek prime minister has canceled a trip to the u.s. to deal with the worsening debt crisis european finance ministers will now wait

until october before deciding whether to release of the next eight billion euro bailout installment for greece athens is being criticized for missing a series of deadlines and failing to implement reforms quickly enough despite introducing a new property tax greece says a vet without e.u. help it will run out of cash by mid october but financial journalist johan van overtveldt believes the only way to rebuild its shattered economy is for greece to bed the new euro. rick economy is in an outright depression now keep going at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that greek and greece can escape from this situation unless there's

a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safely meet with india's eurozone louise willis let's see if we can be organized the only way but the risk is of course that there will be front page in the direction of countries like for example portugal maybe ireland's and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. meanwhile italy's parliament has approved a fifty four million euro of cuts to try and keep europe's third largest economy afloat the package includes changes to pensions slashing government spending and a new tax on the rich but as i ever bennett discovered there is one town that is unwilling to take it lying down welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy it also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it even started printing its own money the man on the new

note says town mayor lucas a lot now self proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boring and so did i now i get to live that dream. filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding it wants small towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred village tino and its mayor of the shop was a. terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but he means

a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their clearest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time at the moment these notes aren't legal tender they just say vinnie's but the plan is to theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here business is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the

economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course attracting many people to the towel. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it. he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands phillip teano is the source of rome's water supply and that man is threatening to cause it's own he doesn't get what he wants other than it's see. it's early so if you're looking on for more coverage from russia or italy and abroad are key dot com is the place to be here's what's online for you right now. the highest awards for the deepest voices coming washing baritones in basis take the top prizes at a leading operatic contest plus. life behind bars for some and

a money spinner for others find out why the private prisons in the u.s. love having a full house on a whole lot more authority 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 exclusion zone poles and thousands of tourists looking for a truly unique experience and as. the reports from ukraine 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 kiev dedicated to the clear 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 markets 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 chernobyl itself over the past decades tourists have been floor can hear more than ten thousand of them each year that's right forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the ghost town of pretty dad 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 from the critic would. you need to have different reasons. similar to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history of. the some of 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 the emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as making and on 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 what. we were to the ministry to inform the governments of every dollar earned by the strips we know that a lot of money is in money and 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 and chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other

purposes cheaper due to decontaminate and 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 biophilia 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. looks you were sort of ski on the seat because you're from q. and. ukraine. trouble or disneyland i know which one i would pick 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 this came to blows after a difference of opinion is that we're doing or sergei polonsky had a recording of a discussion for one of russia's main channels and alexander was there but at the

end of two british newspapers punched him saying he was defending himself claiming he thought he was going to be next and first just moments earlier polanski have told you about it what he wanted to punch him in the face of angrily stood up as the other businessman of tend to become him moments later attacking punch drunk along twice in sending him sprawling from his chair young t.v. channel which posted the program's preview on its website aired the show on sunday night. to. moving away from conflicts on this channel though shortly we travelled to southern russia to take in the best of the krasnodar region with its curious traditions and unique food but before that i'll be back to remind you of the week's top stories from our review of the week right here on the.

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