eh. nato says it will continue its presence in libya as long as it needs to despite also saying the gadhafi regime is now think of the past. but the evolution are sometimes growing daily in syria here's our rounding the political crisis may be spiraling into a religious trap. palestina alert israeli defense forces reportedly prepare for an art rising particle tear gas and stun grenades to sufferers as the u.n. vote for a palestinian state with. russia's largest oil producer also never has struck a huge deal with u.s. energy giant x. mobil what the deal would bring to both companies find out in business in about twenty minutes.

just after seven pm here in the russian capital you're watching our i would nato says it's close to success in libya as the gadhafi regime has fallen the alliance vowed to continue its for us ans of the region to secure the u.n. mandate meanwhile the one knows the whereabouts of the fugitive colonel and fighting between rebels and government loyalists continues near get out these hometown the libyan transitional government is demanding the extradition of the colonel's family after they fled to neighboring algeria or this comes as the rebels claim to have killed the leader of the youngest son although that's not been independently confirmed now in tripoli people are struggling for stability after the rebel takeover archy's many of the national reports. graffiti around the city

will continue tripoli the city has indeed changed appearance recently. what used to be one of the most beautiful of the african it's rainy and closed now looks they collected and dirty. with fighting still continued in parts of the city but in the rebels and gadhafi forces an army of another kind has taken to the streets. thing here. we have forty one you like to have things for help this and now i know you clean. triggered all of last year with police no longer on the ground armed volunteers maintain order something the old new residents are very concerned about if there is a grandly say it will fire sooner or later i was. going to be. it. came to the biggest aquaduct in the world tripoli has been without running

water for more than a week already the new authorities claim is usually technical problems not because of the street fighting. that's not good weapons in the hands of youngsters on professional people some because himself live in middle class now the rhaetian are poor his family lives in a modest house in the center of tripoli but just like every resident they are struggling. this is hard i wish close like women were doing fifty years ago with hands like this but this battle is nothing new comparing to what's behind them sunny says. this was done to help us this. water. now for the fall but. at least we get. at least we have our freedom and this fall is seems to be shared by many here simple as they may not be the best place to live it's dangerous from both humanitarian and security point of view such

as a water medicine and food coupled with people with guns everywhere and no police but the residents of the libyan capital say they've been living without fresh air for forty two years of gadhafi is role since they get him back nothing else matters. we've. now got more analysis on the situation in libya from carl sharu a middle east blogger from carla remarks thanks very much for being with us today now a nato says it will stay in libya as long as it takes to secure the u.n. mandate basically to protect civilians but at the same time they say the gadhafi regime is over wasn't getting rid of the gadhafi main goal so why are they going to say well these are the very interesting kind of conflicting opinions on reports that we keep getting from the ground in libya in tripoli and other places. coming both from nato who i think from our side there are

to intervene in a situation they didn't quite understand and they were quite frankly caught by surprise this time around despite all the reports and they can't come up with a coherent narrative of what their mission should be in libya or why there should be should be there at all from the beginning and we're getting that as the same from reports on the ground so while some people are jubilant and around and they're saying it's all over we still have all these open ended questions and there's fighting continuing and if you hear certain reports it's even said in certain neighborhoods in tripoli so i find it's a very interesting situation on the ground but it actually reflects a bit of confusion across all camps that are involved in the conflict at the moment are you speaking about reports on the ground i mean that we're hearing that the two sides of the conflict have been negotiating the fate of the house of leaders holding town certain what might be out can be do you think. i think i mean what we've been hearing so far is some sort of transition of power and. we know that

you're going to gadhafi has said that he will never leave tripoli. and whereas you would have heard. consistently throughout the campaign saying there's no place for stuff in the future i think looking at their position now there might be some sort of a lot of them to stay in or evade the kind of justice if it's left up to them now the point that i want to make is all of these decisions should have been left to the libyan people to make on their own but to complicate matters now we have not only nato we have several western nations involved but other arab countries which are themselves not the beacons of democracy involved in this situation and the international criminal court so all of those players involved in that situation will certainly continue may complicate the outcome there likely out of town and make it more difficult for the libyan people themselves to actually agree how they're going to move forward from this situation and that's again something worth

remembering in this country ok now in your blog you were comparing the situation in libya to iraq and afghanistan but you say that many libyans may surprise the international community what how was that. well let's first start with the comparison where does the comparison start from because many people who supported action or the meddling i don't call it intervention anymore than the nato meddling in libya were consistently saying this is not you can't liken this you can't use any metaphor from afghanistan and iraq but i think there's clearly. between those two countries in which corrupt and western. elites were taken power and become very very also returned unaccountable and are kind of artificially sustained in power just on the hope of creating some sense of control within these two societies and we have a parallel here with what happened with the t.n.c.

the transitional national council in libya because it's not a secret that there's friction between them and other kind of more organically it's a movement some people who are don't necessarily identify with a movement that has taken to arms to get rid of gadhafi now the kind of the coalition that stepped in and supported the t.n.c. has disproportionately given them more power over any other possible candidates to fill this power gap in libya and i think as time progresses and we see this need for stability and a controlling authority in libya they will get more and more attention and recognition and support which i think unfairly biases proper healthy political interaction within libya to find someone more credible probably to take control of i think i need it forward now that now the e.u. it's headed by poland now they're they've asked nato to wind up its campaign to libya to basically hurry up with

a deadline of the first of september but does that you have any way do you see nato just prolonging its stay there. well that's a very interesting question and i know again i want to go back because we've heard a lot of critiques of overall this episode where people have tried to revive old concepts of imperialism and the imperialism and trying to understand the situation in libya from this point of view while that is helpful to a limited sense which we have now is a complete confusion on the parts they decided to intervene or not what their intervention was floored how it was justified and not what they see the outcome after so now we're going to get stuck especially when it comes to the e.u. with all these technical i'm going to cause a durations without any clear political direction about what should happen and i think this further complicates this situation i think what needs to happen clearly now is all forms of foreign meddling should stop and the libyans should be given

their rights and the chance to sort things out for themselves which i have maintained consistently from the beginning ok thank you very much there carl shire of middle east blogger from karl marx. well you're watching r.t. and there's plenty ahead for you this hour including one contracting expose a u.s. senate committee finds a thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' cash way sort of are stolen by contractors in afghanistan and iraq warning that as much again is still at risk. and the rural exodus young people flee russian village just leaving desolate fields and crumbling houses were thriving communities once stood. now while lingering of violence in syria shows no sign of abating a more brutal battle may be on the horizon nourished by a series of fierce political clashes the fragile sectarian balance has started crumbling and as artists if you know pollution reports serious religious minorities are under threat. protestant serious carried out with political slogans.

but when violence breaks out people come to blows over issues of faith not politics . but more than four thousand years of history damascus like the rest of syria has been home to model paid for centuries but with an increasing political unrest many are starting to wonder whether this could upset the delicate balance of religious tolerance in the country for now who there is enjoying the quiet comfort of her home like most christians in the country it's a life she's been used to since her childhood with the i was growing up in a place with christians jews and muslims and everyone got along just fine and still do actually but it's not like this everywhere more than seventy percent of syrian population are muslim and just like christians most muslims here belong to different branches of the religion take for example the president himself but shuttle our side is a follower of the elwood branch of islam who are a minority among

a predominantly sunni population so some of those dissatisfied with the current regime spread their animosity towards brits if someone for a problem with the government. some people believe this because of this regime belong to this strict and we have to struggle against this it and this can be a bloody battle indeed i don't know why my son was killed he was just working in a shop and his killers knew that it was not politically active but he also knew he was an alawite and there must have been the reason for his murder such violence is something that's new to syria where religious minorities have a special status largely because the country's leader is himself a member of such well we are protected by law which allows us to live according to our customs since the brutal started a lot has changed and it's strange for us it must be coming from the outside. whoever is rocking the boat of syrian religious tolerance they aren't reaching

their goal just yet the prevailing attitude on the streets is still that of acceptance but if the political unrest worsens the lives of many religious minorities in syria could be at stake in the polls quality in mass chris as a terror and violence will most certainly engulf syria if president assad is overthrown so says beirut based political scientist dr another harshly she also believes this will have a domino effect on neighboring countries. president assad will never step down that's one thing let's not forget in that's remind all the worse than all the surrounding arabic countries that's going against him right now he will never step down this is a dream that will never come true security in violence for sure if that's if that will happen which you will never do we're going to see a turmoil not only in syria we're going to see in all the surrounding countries lebanon jordan sooty all the gulf area has everything it's going to turn upside

down so again i'm seeing this is playing with dede fire so they have to think twice about what's going to happen but the thing is they're not thinking right see the worst this is not their first mistake this is their they're the the hundreds mistake that they've been doing so far and what they did in libya russia will never ever allow there have been in syria and more than one hundred thousand worship or so spilled into the streets of moscow to celebrate the end of the holy month of ramadan as muslims around the world market first of all of a huge tens of thousands of muslims flock to mosques around the capital during the early hours of the morning the turnout was so great for the vast majority of worshippers were four separate outside many streets became blocked or whatever causing chaos of moscow's busy road network authorities commented on how calm the celebrations were and said there had been no incidents islam is the fastest growing

and second biggest religion in russia with more than ten million followers. of the israeli defense forces reportedly preparing sufferers for the mass uprising of palestinians expected after the un votes on a palestinian statehood in september but the preparations include handing out tear gas and stun grenades to civilians are his policy or has more now on how israelis are bracing themselves for what they see as imminent arrest. the israeli army is preparing for what it's calling operations on the seeds it is preparing for september when it's widely expected that the united nations general assembly will vote in favor of establishing a palestinian state now the army has identified rigid lines around every settlement in this country what this means is that as palestinian protesters approaches islam and at first there will be five efforts to your guests if they even continue to approach closer to the settlements soldiers will be given the order to fire at their feet and use any other kinds of means they feel is necessary for dispersing

a crowd the army does seem to be disparate it has been holding intensive training for internal security establishments were in the system and in cells it's also giving specific orders on what it is should you do if people approach the borders if indeed the roads are blocked if they fear that someone has infiltrated the community it is also a growing fear here there comes a timber they will be shortages in fuel and gas and groceries it's security within the system and into this order to close has been given instruction to stock up and now the working assumption of these ready defense establishment is that comes to him that there will be violence there will be confrontations between israelis and palestinians they will be what is being termed here public disorder what we're hearing from the army and from the various reports that are being bandied about is that they anticipate that there will be marches by palestinians to main roads into into junctions between main streets that they will be quotas held communities it

will be the destruction and the damaging of any kind of symbols that are associated with the israeli government and so this in the army is also preparing for the worst case scenario which is essentially violence. and any kind of terrorist activities. whether you were votes or the creation of a palestinian state is really the policy will undergo the ultimate test that's what the former director general of the israeli minister. a foreign affairs expects and this interview is coming up next hour in our program. over the last few months have proven disheartening for america in afghanistan with the july and august being the two deadliest for u.s. troops since the war began a decade ago that comes as a senate committee of the wartime contracting has found that thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' money missing or stolen by contractors of the final report claims that money for support hundred due to poor planning a lot of oversight and outright fraud by u.s.

contractors and federal and more yeas it also warrants another thirty billion could be wasted unless tough measures are taken for the five things are now to be presented to congress as a cash strapped washington prepares to trim defense spending to tackle its enormous debt but american economists and radio host richard roth says the nationals the government are undertaking are insufficient for. the council of economic advisors among them. for two to three years and president obama has been saying that his program to deal with unemployment is to provide incentives and stimulus for the private sector to hire people that clearly has not worked and what we need is to have the courage to break in there and have the government really do something for ninety was throwing up his hands and saying well we'll just wait basically and hope that the economy comes back which in a basic way has been the policy now for three years and the fact that it doesn't work seems not to be

a sufficient frightening prospect for these politicians and leaders to do something but i think they're making a terrible mistake because the costs of this delay of not doing anything are very very severe and are impacting the majority of the american people in ways that are going to have impact on our country for years into the future it's a desire of those who have made a bundle over the last. forty years to get through this crisis without paying the price and to put the burden of the bailout of the banks of the crisis itself on the mass of people to have a conversation always about shall we cut social security shall we take away medicare shall we take away medicaid to have the whole conversation about the burden on the merits of the people rather than on themselves. and what's the drive of many young people in rural russia to move to a big city in search of work and of a new life that's artistic what is going off reports the youth exodus is leaving

behind a ghost villages in even the most fertile parts of the country. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles away for thirteen or some sort or even variety is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no leaders that i know of that they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some left everybody is gone now even the roads. it used to be a successful tiny agricultural community were everyone knew each other's names and so rooted piece together that yearning has been here all her life with no nearly all that's left of the village where her memories this used to be a collective form back in saw good times and now it looks more like ancient ruins rather than something which actually function not so long ago it's astonishing

especially knowing that we are just around two hundred miles away from moscow. as a hobby sygate travels around the country and explores deserted towns and villages he says he's used to seeing tumbledown barns an abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests. this is fertile land you can stick a pole in the soil here and it will have peppers growing on its one side and tomatoes on the other sure some of the cultural percent of teens are still left in some areas but mostly the lands empty abandoned. official figures show that over three thousand villages in russia became deserted and last year alone many small schools and hospitals have shut down there's simply no one to educate or treat anymore life in the countryside is no longer attractive especially for young people who are fleeing to cities looking for

a girl life when you need you know it's not the village which is becoming extinct it's the youth reasons for self motivation people are leaving their villages for big cities but they often don't know what to do there so they can find a job or a family build a life. of course there are examples of successful forming businesses in russia but experts agree they're only a drop in the ocean and i want enough to motivate the youth to work and live in rural communities and as many try to survive in cities looking for work because the side is dying out although some traces of life and still exist here and there it may not be too long before the four silent altogether. but. yet. he go to school or to central russia. or you can always check our website for the latest updates on our stories and here

are some of us online right now sealing of their face drama twelve personals die on the. aquarium but was it a fear of flying that wiped out the star attraction you can find out of our website r t v dot com and also. a bike show literally becomes a premier attraction as a thousand riders or more into towns of praise of world war two heroes a battle cruiser return to action again as pyrotechnics helped evoke memories of this video and more can be found on argue to champ. how the business update is next with the eula. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program here on our team and we start with some breaking news russia's largest producer all staff has struck a huge deal with u.s. energy giant exxon mobile approach which could see direct investment if not just

three hundred billion dollars for one joined by a correspondent for not hello to corso welcome to would bring from both countries. well this is surely a massive deal a loss of the new and promising opportunities both for russia's biggest oil company and the u.s. energy giant exxon mobil strategic cooperation agreement which you signed opens the way for absalom or bell to take part in the development of oil fields in western siberia and in cern rawson yes well we'll get to take part in the development of oil deposits in the gulf of mexico and in texas this agreement was signed with russia's prime minister vladimir putin present there let's listen to what he had to say on this. because when you when you brought in if this corporation is a good opportunity with my russian it will get the chance to enter the u.s. market and work in the mexican gulf there will also be opportunities to work together in other food countries we're happy to have found such

a reliable strategic partner and the russian government will do everything to assist this partnership. so once again great opportunities for both sides but that's not all probably the most important part of this agreement is that also you have to has finally found a partner with which to develop all deposits in russia's arctic shelf and they're talking about some a really impressive figures in terms of a direct investment was could be from two hundred to three hundred billion u.s. dollars but according to a prime minister vladimir putin in the future this figure could even grow to up to five hundred billion euro. dar's of the two sides have also signed an agreement to develop a joint center for arctic studies as well. as our cheesy corpuscle thank you very much on this huge deal between russia and us exxon mobil all the come several months after the collapse so for us to have to deal with pretty sure major b.p.

you fall in a boardroom just let me give you some background and generally the company has agreed to join to develop russia's oil which arctic shelf how with the b.p. is russian partners in the joint venture g m p b p look to the deal saying it violated their shareholders agreement after several court hearings rosner decided to quit the deal lantana business drug to find you. still have time to have a quick look at the markets or has slightly recovered after it turned low on a gauge of consumer confidence which showed us consumers are more pessimistic than analysts had expected the report showed that confidence dropped to its lowest level in more than two years because of the wild swings in the stock market earlier this month. and a quick look at precious metals now gold is up again following its worst weekly performance in two months last week silver is also higher the solid. stocks are

falling on the news consumer confidence has fallen in orders both the dow the nasdaq all losing under one percent to start. but if you're put say is not before here as you can investors played catch up with the rest of the world on their return from a holiday weekend banks were rallying on valuation grounds with world bank's loans are eight point four percent as raise a craving to buy though terms debts recruited from early morning games as it was just fell extending you just as the biggest monthly drop in almost nine years and finally here both in the eyes of saw a correctional tuesday interrupting their three day rally investors were also digesting. consumer confidence data had a quick look at some of the individual show moves here gas probables walked us just by posting strong fast results of crows sharply all reports a sign of a huge corporation agreement with x. mobile as burbank was low but that's just spot reports that russia's biggest lender has boosted its first hard net profit driven two fold to an orchard and then

thoughts. stay with the company will get its european expansion at a lower price russia's biggest lender has agreed to buy vaults bank international with a thirteen percent discount now there causation is estimated five hundred eighty five million tourists down from the earlobes price of six hundred seventy two million the drop is too much of the latest volatility in the markets went to one point p.p.i. lost twenty two percent of its value whole of the deal still hospital by the shareholders. and involved in use direct investment in russia in the past quarter saw a shock to climb compared to the end of last year at thirteen billion dollars the total was twenty percent down on the previous quarter although these central points because show that on an annualized basis investment was up by two thirds. it's.

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