it was with cast glass on the perfect view. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in tripoli where efforts are underway in libya to try and restore water and electricity supplies rebel leaders have asked nato countries to protect the teams trying to repair basic services they've also once again rejected the possibility of holding talks with moammar gadhafi if an ocean is in the capital where humanitarian crisis is unfolding. what we're hearing here in tripoli from the rebels makes their position absolutely clear there will no be any negotiations with gadhafi and all they can provide him they say is safety and trial the rebels' information minister. has said that if

even if gadhafi personally calls him and asks want to go she says he will not never talk to him he has added that the rebels are not negotiating with the criminals and with the killers and trees and not talks but as i had for the embattled colonel earlier. duffy is government spokesperson most able to gain has sent a message to the rubbles about his readiness to hold talks with the rubbles on forming her the transitional government has even sad that khadafi appoints his third son saadi to lead these negotiations but we have to say that khadafi is not right now in a position to negotiate he's not in a strong position at all because the rattles are progressing quite well this statement comes just a week after the assault on the libyan capital tripoli as a result they have virtually control in most of this city they are actually right now controlling most of the can treat as about the situation here in tripoli i

would describe this situation as humanitarian disaster the tripoli council has said that from sixty to seventy percent of all residents of the libyan capital don't have enough water and electricity. due to technical problems they say emphasizing that it's not related to the fight scenes on the streets the city indeed faces severe shortages of food and medicine as well and electricity even here in the corinthia hotel where we are staying and where most of the foreign journalists are staying there is no water and this is a third day water free day here in crete there so this situation is very complicated and people are struggling. well dr franklin lamb from the americans for middle east peace is currently in tripoli as well and he believes nato will not leave the country anytime soon i think nato is now part of the libya. warm. until there's

a new stronger leadership here that's not beholden to it. and who becomes arguably more nationalistic on the street boston ma the checkpoint not a lot of fighting that we're aware of i was out this morning going around the streets lots of checkpoints rounding up our old adoptee people for example an institutional shape was bundled into our. own it's our last night again last the government. officials popping in and out of the hotel yesterday they searched all the rooms looking for khadafy supporters. well the u.k. has gone beyond the u.n. resolution on libya says british m.p. barry gardiner he's from the opposition labor party and voted against the intervention you can watch the full interview later this hour but here's a preview. it was very clear in the original un

resolution it was very clear when our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no patient force one of the things that trouble to be all this was this week. as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we. go they go they go left these instructions being yelled up by obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading that advance group now that i think is where we've overstepped the line. in syria security forces have surrounded a town which reportedly a stronghold for dissidents the latest crackdown comes as president bashar al assad tries to implement promised reforms in an attempt to appease anti-government

protesters largely as arena goes crazy in the country now joins us live reno russia's deputy foreign minister is in syria for talks tell us more about what we know about his meetings there and what will be happening. well at this point we do know that the deputy prime minister and syria's president have been in talks should've been in talks for at least the last four or five hours and they do have plenty to talk about however at this point we do not know about any concrete results of that meeting but of course russia has its own has its own only events that are happening in in syria and particularly on the way that the international community should be responding to these events as we know there is a draft u.n. resolution which seeks which seeks to implement severe sanctions against syria because of the government's crackdown on the demonstrations which have been going on here sporadically sense since the middle of march of this year or so for five months however russia is strongly disagreeing with the u.n.

draft resolution. against the adoption or the discussion of the draft resolution and has actually came up with its own version of a resolution which does not seek to implement sanctions however that is something which the european union nations and the united states see it as somewhat of or too soft a stance on the on the situation into various reports more than two thousand people have died since the beginning of the demonstrations in the country in march over the syrian authorities say that. according to their numbers according to their information is that the number is a lot less than that somewhere around thousand and they also say that there are more than five hundred police and military personnel who have also been killed in the protests so this is this issue which syria is facing right now and we have

where we have yet to find out what exactly has been said and who to retain the russian deputy prime minister and a syrian president. of course president assad is trying to push ahead with his reforms but is there any sign it's answering he's answering the protesters demands . well there just just yesterday as a matter of fact he has come out with a new wall which does allow for greater freedom of press now and according to the newest implementation journalists will be allowed in syria they were not the foreign journalists were not allowed into the country hence a such a such a week a source of information coming from the country into the rest of the world but now apparently the journalists from all over the world are welcome to come to syria and report of what they see and what's happening also there is greater freedom for a syrian president or syrian media however there is a catch i think we should mention which is the fact that. freedom of speech and

expression does extend as long so long as the journalists or any media does not. contribute to different nation off the syrian state and that actually could be open for discussion however there are one of the main issues which was which was touched upon by the demonstrators during their riots is that it is job security they are asking for more jobs and with this current sanctions which have been implemented by the united states and states against syria that is the only task near to impossible to implement because none of the none of the credit cards in the country are working the banks are essentially shut down if you go down the down the streets of damascus you will see among those lines of people trying to get something out of cash machines of course that is not happening because of the sanctions so maybe it may be the president or the government would be happy to do something else in terms of economic security for the syrian citizens because of the sanctions which have already been implemented against the country that it's

a an impossible task so look stupid the west is calling on the president to exactly forms and to solve the bloodshed in the country but on the other hand but the other hand they're also you know not really aiding in god. in the. way. for syria and for the president bashar his father is from a village near the city in which the population is predominantly just like the rest of the province the protests began here in march of this here this is one of the main buildings this is one of the main squares in. syria tell headquarters located on the right in the middle of this syria tell us a company telephone company which was owned by one of the cousins of the president and the protesters expressed their hatred towards the regime by looting the place and then burning it violence returned to again just a couple of weeks ago claiming more than thirty lives and to government protests

broke out in the sunni part of the city officials said they were battling with armed groups which they say have a full treated the area now what's the story here the story goes according to the protesters according to the opposition answer majority of the midwestern media sources is that there were a warship stationed right here in this bay and they were shelling the sunni part of the town which is all along the coastline right over there and the middle of that part of the town is the palestinian camp but you have to keep in mind that according to the u.s. administration who are obviously monitoring the situation there were no warships stationed in this base on the seventeenth of august or earlier on the surface it seems to be life as usual but once you take a closer look signs of unrest come through so we got to the only part of the town and there are no signs of any fire coming from the side of the scene. but they're definitely signs of battle you can see by the bullet holes in the walls.

so. some buildings were damaged but not significantly some people unwilling to speak on camera gave us views critical of the assad regime saying the government is . is to blame for failing to deliver on five month old promises of reforms this they say forced the people out in the streets stirring up protests there a lot of people to be interviewed may not be surprising given that we were accompanied by unarmed military escort throughout our trip from attack in syria if we got our team. and other news when the us car industry was on its knees it took government intervention to avoid a fatal crash but while the automotive giants are once again reaping the rewards of sales people living in the country's car capital have gained nothing detroit is home to america's big three car companies but more and more of its residents lead to life on the margins of society as art is more important i found out.

this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing might. but today detroit is the third most violent city in the u.s. with unemployment estimated at up to fifty percent according to officials the once glamorous motor city now has more people living in poverty than cars on the streets home foreclosures continue flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. is making people leave the city and so there is no money here really in there no there are no jobs here and as the u.s. census points out a quarter of a million people have left detroit in the past ten years the economic scars of this

once a vibrant city are impossible to escape roughly sixty thousand vacant buildings and thirty five thousand abandoned homes line the streets of detroit hollow shells of america's former middle class which have ignited an industry of scrappers people these properties of copper wire and steel pipes as a means of income. scrappers swap ruins for profit at yards like this just five miles out of detroit scrap yard owner albert talat says he sees new faces every day when they get the drive. that make it every day hell even more hellish is the sight of a city looting itself landmark buildings and foreclosed homes are gutted for survival and go around and wait up to do a little bit it's what we go over in addition to scrappers an increasing number of cash jobs working americans. are treated in goods. greenbacks

guy in the lexus and the suit and tie and low brass lamp and you know he's not into the. recycling kind of guy he broke short of money the u.s. president promised things would be better for america's car making capital after the two thousand and nine fifty billion dollar bailout to general motors and chrysler automakers are in the midst of their strongest period of job growth in more than a decade since g.m. and chrysler emerged from bankruptcy the industry has created more than seventy five thousand new jobs for the first time in six years ford g.m. and chrysler are all operating at a profit g.m. has reported six straight quarterly profits in chrysler's revenue is said to be up by thirty percent nearly fourteen billion dollars from last year what about bail in the people out you bell about the corporations who bailed out the banks and doesn't mean

a whole lot because the people who were in the city still don't get those jobs those jobs are still being outsourced in this once great industrial beacon of american idea where henry ford pioneered the famous model t. production schools police and fire stations now stand a bandit as many americans are reduced to dealing in scraps see if you will take long just to make ends meet marina porton on r.t.e. detroit. the view has called for the president of the european central bank among other officials to stand before a special financial committee as the dead plague sweeping the bloc threatens its very unity talks will focus on halting the spread of contagion as fresh data so as panic with revelations even such economic bethink be a month months as germany are not immune another priority will be addressing investor concerns that finland demands for collateral twenty rail a second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece and with the world

markets warily waiting for the outcome i'm now joined by patrick young executive director of the investment firm devi advisors for more on this developing story mr young why does this meeting being called what's going to be on the table as you see it well this is a fascinating meeting because actually it demonstrates that within the e.u. itself there is a very very significant struggle and argument over what is the process by which the eurozone needs to be saved there is a lady called sharon bowles she's the chairman of a committee called he called which deals with economics she's been very very on the happy with the activity and in recent months coming from the european union itself the european commission and the euro zone finance ministers and she's been increasingly critical of the fact that there is basically new leadership in the euro zone we keep having these false agreements that signed wonderful everybody says the euro zone crisis is solved and there's within a matter of

a few weeks we have a further crisis in another economy is going need more money so there's other very very fundamental argument going on within the euro zone within the european union and it's going to kick over the softer noon in brussels and also at the polish finance minister recently announced that the eurozone is at threat of disintegration in sharp contrast of course with the rhetoric we're hearing from germany and france. how much unity is there within the e.u. how much of a fight are we going to see epis meeting well i think we're going to see a very significant argument because let's face it we've got realists like mrs bowles and also. you mentioned the polish finance minister is a thorough realistic in this is a man who understands he's actually a lecturer in economics he's a he's a skilled practitioner of the black art of economics and therefore he understands finance which frankly to be quite frank a lot of the euro zone people don't understand because they're pure politicians and

therefore he's saying it like it is he's saying i want to take my currency the polish swati and suborn it and put it into the euro zone until i knew that the euro zone is earthquake proof and he's absolutely right he is correct in saying that the euro zone needs to come together with sensible moves because at the moment they've been throwing money at any possible problems and all they're doing is wallpapering all for cracks in the edifice in the structure of the building and that just won't do and i think you're going to see a problem because you're going to have people like for example all the rann who's actually in the monetary affairs commissioner well i mean he already looks to be in a very difficult position because he keeps telling us there's not a problem when there is a problem and in fact his own government him being finished the government of finland itself is demanding more money should come forward just cull out troll before it lends any money to greece now the french and the germans are appalled by this whole situation because they want to try and get together

a kind of fuzzy warm solution to what goes on but it's just not realistic the french and the german government want to blame poor ignorant nasty speculators but actually the speculators are wrong the speculators are people who are looking after your and my pension fund money and they see the euro zone as being in danger so there's a very big argument looming today why is there's so much concern on what's to be done when everyone's interests at least seems. delay in saving the euro. well no you see the difficulty here is absolutely you're quite correct everybody's best interests lie in saving the euro the difficulty is that a lot of the politicians on the bureaucrats involved simply have been too slow to realize the extent of the problem because they managed to pin two for the cracks for the past five or six years they thought they could keep doing so but unfortunately not always the debt monton that we have within many euro zone countries is just too great and markets are too worried you know markets go through

cycles and at the moment the cycle of the market has to be concerned about how much money governments are spending and they spent a great deal of money ironically they spent a great deal of money bailing out banks a few years ago which i'm not sure that was a good move anyway but the problem is to stave off recession increase the amount of debt they need to do something very strong to reduce their steps and the problem is you know we can pull borrow money on our credit cards for the rest of our lives sooner or later there is a day of reckoning the problem in the euro zone needs that a lot of the ministers and a lot of the people within the euro don't want to take the necessary medicine because the problem is we can't just take a couple of headache pills and hope that that's going to cure our appendicitis what we need noise is surgery we need very significant activity to come from the leaders and so far really all the euro zone has been giving us has been hype and sticking plasters that they've put across the world and in the hope that the wind will go

septic patrick young executive director of the investment firm davey advisers thank you very much for your analysis. well from those eager for a break from down to earth troubles a russian company has come up with the perfect solution in just five years time they're planning to open a hotel in space and though the price tag is astronomical as daria prisco were found out for some the chance of having the ultimate retreat is worth it. there is getting away from it all and then there's this the first of a hotel floating in space could be the ultimate escape and according to its creators this is no space fantasy stance from a boy in europe which will launch the commercial space station in turn two sixteen and receive our first guests in twenty seven thousand english designed to host seven guests at most it is likely to become the most exclusive boutique hotel in the world to tell you the hotel will be far more comfortable than the current

international space station used by cosmonauts and astronauts guests will be able to enjoy an individual cabin a shower cubicle instead of a sponge balls those aboard the ice says have to do with and toilets with flowing and instead of water due to weightlessness visitors will only be able to sleep in the bags attached to the walls where there is a choice to sleep or eat some type of vertically as for the food it is promised to be delicious with the woods bought here on this it will be a super de luxe trip everything has to be a top level. just getting there will be an adventure in itself two days on board of russian so you spacecraft and a chance to rub shoulders with real astronauts to the hotel will be used as an emergency retreat in case of a crisis on the international space station i think everybody grab the chance if they if they get it to go to space it will be in the future but in making the first

steps now thirty three year old leave guinea want to qantas to become the country's first space tourist he may be lined up for nothing more than a suborbital flight but he says it's just the start so much to the front of the range the old boys dream of this you feel would only fuel felt but there are so many restrictions that can prevent you from goals space for example health or money and that's certainly something that is likely to become the stumbling block for most earth dwellers the cost of the trip at the moment the estimate price for twenty seventeen starts at about sixty million dollars. it is a really rich individuals or corporations interested in their own space research it could also be an interesting options for states which don't have a national space program but we can offer them a really good deal rather than a luxury room in one of the world's leading hotels certainly has its advantages having to choose between sleeping vertically or sleeping here i'd certainly go for

these questions but there's one thing about space hotel that even the most luxurious place on the planet won't be able to beat and that is the me from the window after all that's what most people go there for the view of planet earth in all its beauty gary pushed over r.t. moscow. next it's always business owners with your dad stay with arty. how all this right time to get the latest from the world of business the pessimism about the prospects for the world economy is also being felt here in russia they come up with minister has lowered the country's growth forecast for this year by a notch to food point one percent despite raising the forecast for the average while price of production and investment is growing slower than expected while increasing consumption is mostly being met by imports the ministry expects g.d.p.

growth to continue to slow until twenty fourteen. one of the disappointment off the crisis for russia was that the country's taking too much time to return to pre-crisis brust rates just remind the present specialist romney is seven eight percent of the g.d.p. growth a year now all those with deliveries some growth which is relatively brutal you compare a russian developed country but it's still you know four percent below which is very much impressive in russia's case as local investors do come better russia will start a recount that's when i say i think as a result of all the mills faced say now is the most likely the bulls the surprise offender will come off the falls and fourteen because a buys a time or all of the cabinet will be able to read it but then they put on the whole drama to implement changes to the best climate and basically to build read that to invite international or a rational investments back to stimulate economic growth. plaguing the world's

financial markets push to come but also to a five year high last year and unless from our more. research say foreign investors took almost five hundred million dollars to the country or two of the total emerging markets i'll fall during the period. that brings us to the markets europeans talk stocks a ha a trading is the end as long as the markets close for a holiday treat stocks among the strongest performers here with the main index reading seven percent financials. if there's any hot we point six percent and three point nine percent. of russian markets are trading higher. is getting almost three percent on the my suits is two and a half percent. and a quick look at some of the individual moves on the mines its banking stocks are among the best performing the solid up twenty percent truck make a commodity is gaining as well the company has posted the three new hope million dollar. accounts to almost didn't belong last post last year. electricity produced

a case six is also off to come. it's net profit rose to the point the sense of the first top of the fear. that perhaps all the business both informal stories you can log onto a website or two dot com slash visits. bring

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you're watching our to you live from moscow our top stories this monday water and food shortages bring libya's to the brink a humanitarian crisis as the opposition again says it will not negotiate with fugitive colonel gadhafi. and. more violence is reported in syria amid governments of tabs to implement reforms that's while pollution the country's long standing crisis becomes an ample of discord between russia and its western partners. and the e.u. calls a special meeting of the blocs top global financial officials to resolve growing differences on how to halt the contagion sweeping the block. and now back to libya in the wake of the rubble six.