here is a reminder of the top stories levy and rebels are prepared to tap one of colonel qadhafi as a last desert strongholds the town of bani walid that's half are efforts to negotiate a surrender of the ousted leaders remaining supporters breakdown. russia says the u.n. must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking became after mosque it can damage ease sanctions which it says threaten to hurt the people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are breaking point working at almost maximal operational capacity this as a government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street criers can looters. and next we look out of tams to curb the ever growing pollution that is plaguing the world's oceans. the thing that's most shocking to me is of all the samples we've taken whether they be at the surface ten meters thirty meters or down a hundred meters every single sample has had taken from the samples we found in one thousand nine hundred nine there was a ratio of six to one stick the plane can now in two thousand and eight

watching r t going to live from moscow marina joshie libya's rebel forces have surrounded a colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of purple saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed cut off his troops have been given until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by his troops are now being encircled by rebels interim leadership claims caught up youngest son who commanded.

here is a reminder of the top stories libyan rebels are prepared to tap one of colonel qadhafi as a last desert strongholds the town of bani walid that's after efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders remaining supporters breakdown. russia says the u.n. must immediately call for all sides of the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking we came after mosfet can damn the e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are breaking point working at almost maximum operational capacity this as the government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street dryers and looters. next we look at attempts to curb the ever growing pollution that is plaguing the world's oceans. the thing that's most shocking to me is of all the samples we've taken whether they be at.

media's roundel forces have surrounded the colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed to get out. troops have been given until saturday to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by groups are now being encircled by rebels the interim leadership claims a week ago the youngest son who commanded military brigade was killed but two weeks since the libyan capital felt the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies and here at all military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign being extradited warless political satirist ted rall says a new civil war seems inevitable. i have some sympathy for. a lot of the call to get rid of all the summary figures and it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the ex and from the government that has just been deposed certainly you would see any kind of division like that you sense in a scenar

libyan rebels prepare to attack want of colonel qadhafi is the last to desert stronghold after efforts to negotiate a surrender of his remaining supporters breakdown. for un must immediately urge talks in the syrian conflict says russia after condemning the e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are a breaking point the government hands out tough jail sentences hard line approach to street rioters and looters. it's eight am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.i. marina joshie media's rebel forces have surrounded the colonel gadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed could office troops have been given until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in town three other cities controlled by troops are now being encircled by rebels ready for a final assault the interim leadership claims cut off his youngest son who commanded and leave military brigade was killed in the past week artie's maria from r

rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining strongholds of cut off colonel qadhafi bani walid without fighting parties where if an ocean reports from the country's capital out of why this could be a turning point in the conflict they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time we need to helping them clean path towards. military facilities in the area by the way lead has always been known as khadafi stronghold and people from they say area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels all across the country and have been dying for khadafy and there they all the time in supporting gadhafi has provided them with a very good imitation and the best weaponry the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that probably is not secure and is not safe and that there. we're working hard to try to restore in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council but with we see on the ground actually makes. you no doubt that they are successful so far apart from

remnants of the old regime this comes as the news that former libyan former rebels breached the colonel qadhafi his hometown of sirte this is been under assault for the last several days with hundreds of civilians fleeing the violence in the area going civil war in libya has claimed the lives of an estimated thirty thousand people. yemeni anti-government activists about to revolt until the end of fall when president ali abdullah saleh speech in which he failed to promise to step down more than one hundred forty people have been killed across the country in the last week in violence that escalated since the president returned to yemen after undergoing medical treatment abroad more than fifteen hundred people are thought to have died since clashes between anti-government activists and security forces began. three men opened fire on the egyptian pipeline to israel and jordan in sinai causing a large explosion that injured one person and cut off the gas supply it's the sixth such attack on the pipeline since february when former egyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted the extent of the damage c

russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie leaders rebel forces have surrounded the colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed cut off his troops have been given until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who still at large is thought to be in the town and three other cities controlled by his troops are now being encircled by rebels ready for a final assault the interim leadership claims cut off his youngest son who commanded an elite military brigade was killed in the past week archy's wary of financial reports from libya. is the name for the tribe population in this area one of the biggest li been tried and staunch in the devotion to the embattled colonel it's played a prominent role during the current uprising he libya since the beginning of the bands here in february people from these tribes have been fighting against the rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for gadhafi. things bragger and in other cities they've been all the time ardently support

watching r t going to live from moscow i'm marina joshing libya's rebel forces have surrounded a colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of privilege saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed his troops have been given until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by his troops are now being encircled by rebels the interim leadership claims he's youngest son who commanded an elite military brigade was killed in the past week and while the rebels prepare a final assault the capital tripoli is enjoying its taste of revolutionary freedom as national found people there expressing their release from oppression many different ways. it's been now more than two weeks since tripoli fell to rebel forces and it seems everybody here has their way to enjoy the new found freedom perhaps i should feel as a rant because he ran away under the ground hiding there he used to call us rats he's now himself the rats the only one left. mohamed says if he did his thing like these under th

colonel qadhafi last strongholds the city that's almost eight hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli controls of the main route to neighboring and asia where it has already been used by members of gadhafi family and entourage fleeing the country fighting also continues in the cities of. lead with reports of growing number of civilian casualties but as nato keeps backing the rebels some western leaders are now facing possible legal action over the military intervention you may find some of the images disturbing in this report from daniel bushell. fringe explorer minister rowland jumo says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin and some states are now claiming the right to kill but not against all international law. images like these are moving french lawyers to turn against the government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france

weekly including who will be the first to face charges of crimes against humanity but hold colonel qadhafi or french president sarkozy who is now facing possible lawsuits over the military intervention in libya. part of being a drug industry destroys afghan lives and fuels terrorism but little is done to stop it up and coming to an artsy admitted weekly we report from kabul. are you with r.t. live from moscow researchers good to have you with us today a finnish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists that have been bought off pastor you want more laurie denounced the center website which she believes act as a. campaign to discuss the issue when are joined by finnish human rights activist johan blackman he's been following the case for several years good to see you sir can you just please clarify how the church actually explains his decision to strip this priest of his role. well the finnish lutheran church has been delivering kind of a propaganda against the priest to harm all henri for a long time now and they are saying the

helped put in power as rebels backed by nato strikes are reported to have entered parts of colonel qadhafi hometown of syria meanwhile russia says it's time to lift the u.n. no fly zone to stay the same civilians as it doesn't help people still trapped in the last remaining stronghold. poland becomes the third country in the space of a week to confirm its participation in a joint missile defense shield plans with the u.s. as washington presses ahead despite.

and then, of course, moammar qadhafi. his reign of despotic rule is finally coming to an end. other calls for reform for political and economic reform from bahrain to yemen remain in flux. as we saw this weekend with the violent and trouble protest in cairo, ousting a repressive regime is one step in a long road toward building effective and democratic long-term institutions. the united states through president obama, secretary of state hillary clinton, stand ready to support these peaceful transitions, but most of the hard work has to come from within, from the people who made the historic change in the first place. mr. president, amid so much upheaval and change and potential hope, it is critically important that we also keep our attention on what's happening in another very important country in the middle east, syria. since march, millions of protesters have peacefully taken to the streets of towns and villages across syria, demanding an end to the brutal dictatorship of the assad family. the syrian people have suffered 40 years of economic hardship, political repression an