top stories on our team nato says it will continue its presence in libya as long as it needs to despite also saying that gadhafi regime is now at the game of the past . the revolutionary sentiments are growing daily in syria fears are mounting the political prices may be spiraling into a religious war. palestinian alert israeli defense forces reportedly prepare for an uprising handing out tear gas and stun grenades to sell flowers as the u.n. vote for a palestinian statehood approaches. an american oil giant x. and mobile and russia's rust belt strike a historic cooperation deal paving the way for joint or oil exploration from the gulf of mexico to russia's vast opposition.

just after eight pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. now to our top story nato says it's close to success of libya as the gadhafi regime has fallen all the alliance vowed to continue its presence in the region to secure the u.n. mandate meanwhile still no one knows the whereabouts of the fugitive colonel and fighting between rebels and government loyalists continues near gadhafi is hometown the libyan transitional government is demanding the extradition of the colonel's family after they fled to neighboring algeria this comes as rebels claim to have killed the leaders youngest son although that's not been independently confirmed although in tripoli people are struggling for stability after the rebel takeover archy's many who cannot should have records. graffiti around the city proclaims

will continue to believe the city has indeed changed appearance recently. what used to be one of the most beautiful on the african it's raining incased now looks neglected and dirty. with fighting still continuing in parts of the city but in the rebels and gadhafi forces an army of another kind has taken to the streets where they are. we have forty one year life they have to install this and now. clean all. over the glass. with police no longer on the ground armed volunteers maintain order something that ordinary residents are very concerned about if there is a gun they say it will fire sooner or later i was. going to be once i. was. home 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 rich poor his family lives in a modest house in the center of tripoli but just like every resident they're struggling. this is hard i was close like women were doing fifty years ago with hands like this but this battle is nothing comparing to what's behind them some says. this was the you don't have access to. water and offered all but. at least we get a lot of. at least we have our freedom and peace seems to be shared by many. people who today may not be the best place to live it's dangerous from both

humanitarian and security point of view such as a water medicine 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 wrong since they get it back nothing else matters rich notion our t three pally levy or our karl shero a middle east blogger says the libyan people should be left to decide their own fate there also needs to be an alternative to the western backed national transitional government and it's all who i think. from marshall 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 quite come up with a coherent narrative of what their mission should be in libya or why the should 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 front and

they're saying it's all over we still have all this open ended questions and there's fighting continuing and if you hear certain reports it even says in certain neighborhoods in tripoli so i find it's a very interesting situation on the ground but it actually reflects a bit of the confusion across all camps that are involved in the conflict at the moment 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 gap in libya and i think as time progresses and we see this need for stability and a controlling authority in libya it will get more and more attention under probation and support which i think unfairly by this is a proper healthy political interaction within libya to find someone more credible probably to to take control of libya and lead it forward. you're watching r t and there's a plan ahead for you this hour including more contracting expose u.s.

senate committee fires thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' cash wasted or stolen by contractors in afghanistan and iraq learning that as much again is still a press. well lingering 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 that started crumbling as r.t. seen aleutian reports serious religious minorities are under threat. forces in syria start out with political slogans. and 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 multiple faith for centuries but with an increasing call the clock rests many are starting to wonder whether this could upset the delicate balance of religious tolerance in the country

for now there is enjoying the quiet comfort of her hold like most christians in the country it's a life she's been used to since her childhood but then i was growing up in a place with christians jews 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 bashar al assad 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 there in a lot of heated words all over it's if someone finds a problem with the government. some people believe this because of this belong with district and we have to struggle against the sick and this can be a bloody battle over them really don't know why my son was killed he was just

working in a shop and his killers knew that he was not politically active but he also knew he was an alawite and that must have been the reason reason murder. 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. protected by law which allows us to live according to our customs since the protests started a lot has changed and it's strange because it must be coming from the outside. whoever is rocking out of syria just tolerates aren't reaching your goal just yet 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 if you look at him ask us. the revolution in syria as fuel from the outside and aimed at igniting a civil war which will leave the country in shambles well that's the opinion of dr into him aleutians a professor at these i can

a university in amman. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like turkey and the gulf cooperation council are working very hard to instigate instability in syria and this sort of instability will take a second and bent specifically they are working on agitating a civil war within syria and they want to call that evolution they have they want to but the purpose of such a war is to bring syria down to its knees to destroy syria like they did with iraq and libya course the point is to recreate this syrian regime in a way that is more favorable to the united states government the nato alliance and the royal regimes from saudi arabia tomorrow. by the israeli defense forces reportedly preparing sutlers for the mass uprising of palestinians

expected after the u.n. to vote on a palestinian statehood in september all the preparations include handing out tear gas and stun grenades to civilians are his policy or has more on how israelis are bracing themselves for what they see as a minute unrest. the israeli army is preparing for what it's calling operations on the sea 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 system in this country what this means is that as palestinian protesters approaches islam and at first there will be five f. with tear gas if they then continue to approach closer to the settlements soldiers will be given the order to fire at the fleet 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 with in the settlements themselves 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 include trait of the community it is also a growing fear here that comes of ten that they will be shortages in fuel and gas and groceries particularly within the system and into this it would save lives have been given the instruction to stock up now the working assumption of these ready defense of stablish and is there comes a claim 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 they will be marches by kind of seniors to name roads to enter into junctions between main streets that they will be poachers held communities it will be the destruction and the damaging of any kind of symbols that are associated with the israeli government and through the thin the army is also

preparing for the worst case scenario which is essentially vinings shooting and any kind of terrorist activities. for more on the possible reasons of consequences of the israeli defense forces urgent preparations are joined live by just our per he's a political activist and co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions that's how they are with us mr harper first of all are the corporations justified i mean is he under arrest as inevitable as the defense forces making it out to be. i wouldn't call on the rest i would call that. demonstrating palestinian independence because if in fact in september the general assembly recognizes the state of palestine within the sixty seven borders it means that the settlements the checkpoints the israeli wall everything that israel has is now illegally in the sovereign territory of palestine and there

is actually no no legal justification for stopping palestinians from walking into settlements from crossing checkpoints and i think there's a real concern to israel that simply they'll ignore the fact that the army is there it has the army cannot shoot at palestinians because it has no standing no legal standing there interesting point that you raise or so is palestine is recognized as a state by september so what i mean that will leave israel occupying another lad as you mentioned technically and arming settlers supposin rightful residents and that doesn't bode well for a peaceful and a peaceful outcome doesn't it. it's clear that israel's not going to allow or it's going to try not to allow september to happen israel has no intention of giving up on its control of the occupied territories the until today israel's managed to keep its whole settlement enterprise because it's succeeded in

getting the united states closer to characterize the occupation as disputed territories and not real occupation once the un recognizes palestine we did these borders now there's no argument this is off you please should an international law apply is a problem probably one hundred forty countries will recognize palestine and israel is going to be under a lot of pressure to me to try to maintain the occupation i don't think the the military resistance to the palestinians is going to help i think it's actually going to make a tire national community impose sanctions on israel the big campaign will be after september getting the israeli presence out of the sovereign state of palestine ok atlatl asking about an opinion that's been voicing and some would argue that the move is a provocation and part in essence to stoke violence to discredit palestine ahead of the poet do you think that's fair. in

a way it's fair israel has always tried to frame the palestinians as terrorists the enemy is a trying to attack a peaceful israel and what israel succeeded in doing is somehow to get people abroad the impression that the settlements are part of israel so that attacking the settlements there's no intention by palestinians of attacking the settlements but simply walking into the settlements because they are nawa in the state of palestine is not illegal and israel really shouldn't respond militarily so so israel is in a bind because all this time but trying to tell people that these are legal these are normal every day civilian populations the palestinians have the terrorists and all of a sudden everything's getting turned on its head and now the world is starting to see the settlers as in fact illegal violence people who are merely a part of

a military presence every settlement is basically a military base and that's what you see by the fact that the army is now arming the settlers and training them to fight the palestinians i thank you very much for analysis there jeff helper anthropologist political activist and co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions thank you. well you can always check our website for the latest updates on our stories and hear some of what's on live right now in venice and the ultimate honeypots the story of an airbase in kyrgyzstan and that has the u.s. and russia playing off against each other in the tune of millions of dollars. all by show literally becomes a premier attraction as a pal's of riders roar into town to praise world war two heroes battlecruiser return to action again as pyrotechnics helped evoke memories of this video and much more can be found on i.q. q cham. now the last few months of proven disheartening for america in

afghanistan through july and august being the two deadliest for u.s. troops since the war began a decade ago well that comes as a senate committee into wartime contracting has found that thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' money missing or stolen by contractors or the final report claims the money will swanberg due to poor planning a lack of oversight and outright fraud by u.s. contractors and federal employees and also warns another thirty billion could be wasted unless tough measures are taken for the findings are now to be presented to congress as a cash strapped washington prepares to trim defense spending to tackle its enormous debts but american economists and radio host richard wolfe says the measures of government are undertaking are insufficient. for two to three years and president obama has been saying that his program to deal with unemployment is to provide incentives in 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 we're 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 right. 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 the 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 bailouts of the banks of the crisis itself on the mass of people to have the 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 artie's cars a report focuses on the growing disenchantment of the u.s. economy among the general public and the anger the salvati spilling into the streets or the report is coming your way at seven thirty pm g.m.t. here's a quick look at what's in store for you know the global insurrection against banker occupation we've been telling you about it for months it's coming to new york. anonymous joins you probably wall street there encouraging up to twenty thousand people to occupy wall street or they're going to sort of chance like this in the square or in the square in tunis or in cairo in tahrir square they were demanding the dictator go. the dictator in this situation are the banks yet they need to surround the new york fed which is only a few blocks away and demand the head of the new york federal reserve bank to leave

and they're not going to leave until the head of the new york federal reserve bank leaves. now american oil giant exxon mobil and russia has signed a historic cooperation deal paving the way for a joint oil exploration and development from the gulf of mexico to russia's vast arctic shelf i'm now joined by our live here in moscow for more you cord so could you tell us more of the deal and what it means. this is surely quite an impressive deal which should open new opportunities both for russia's biggest oil company at all and for a u.s. energy giant exxon mobil first of all the two companies will jointly develop the oil fields on russia's arctic shelf there's something about some really impressive figures this new companies are fighting to invest three point two billion dollars

in oil exploration according to russia's prime minister vladimir putin who was also there with the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement. on the size of direct investment into this project in the future could grow by over a one hundred times more that could become a one hundred times bigger this is really great news for me after which has been looking for a quarter to develop these or fuels on the shelf for quite some time now and you are sent off negotiations with the british petroleum on this matter fields but also under the strategic cooperation agreement exxon mobil will get to take pour in the development of the oil fields in western siberia while in cern you have to will get to take order in the development of all deposits in the gulf of mexico and in texas so if you companies will also be able to exchange their experience and know how it was in this industry it is also another factor while why this deal is

a state such great importance also. have agreed to establish a joint institute of arctic studies joint center of oxford studies as well all right thank you very much r t say you go to school for porting there and you can get a more on a back deal this update coming up next with your. poem the very warm welcome to the business program here on r.t. and starting with the huge deal between russia's ross nafta and us. mobile the current will draw a line across nets long lasting quest for a partner to develop the russian arctic shelf all of this year russia's world trying to create to corporates in the arctic with the british royal nature how with these russian partners in the joint venture c.m.p.d. blocked the deal saying it violated their shareholding remit after several court hearings rawson have decided to quit and to discuss this i'm joined by yourself use

of one of the chief economist at deutsche bank hello to your reply thanks for joining us so that's a huge do you and that's obviously the most decisive also step forwards to attract international world heavyweight recently what does this mean for russia's investment climate and broader economy i think it's quite important. that attracting. a heavyweight. to russia's strategic structure such as gas is certainly a very important signal to international investors that is more open to foreign investment and bad such strategic sectors can be platforms can be fields for such. operation between russia and western companies so the problem with which russia was grappling before and until recently

was the lack of foreign investment currently if you look at. foreign investment into russia still nearly fifty percent if we're talking about long term investment nearly fifty percent lower. what we've seen before the crisis i think such deals such strategic partnerships can serve as triggers for greater inflows. went into russia all right how much of the market reacts to the news we no thought process shares were up one point four percent of the claw. and so what are the likely long term implications of this deal you know well i think certainly this is a market friendly and we've seen a pretty thick reaction in russia's stock market and specifically enough chairs reacted. in a major way i think generally this is something that will raise the attractiveness

of russia will suffer with the what is universal to say until recently throughout all of last year gas segment of russia stock market was plagued by uncertainty including in the tax year there were other problems and now you finally have several drivers of wind recently there was this announcement about buying we have a decision on the taxation and the will and gas sector so there is greater visibility and now this deal i think for there will attract interest from portfolio investors and that will really make the will and gas sector especially in this relatively high oil price environment really one of the more interesting sectors within russia's space so we expect the best director of the new send thank you very much yourself mr holik chief economist at deutsche bank. will be of course bring

you more analysis bochy you know all the news we were going to stay with energy majors has been a very strong start to the financial year for russia's biggest company castro increased net profits by forty four percent to sixteen billion dollars that's the full cost the result was supported by both current global sales and prices how were they so a negative free cash flow of two hundred forty two million dollars during the period the company says it has an unusually active investment program not the start of the year spending almost fourteen billion dollars loss when the results are looking quite. the higher pricing in europe and. in europe and this was so generally expected prend but at the same plane with the most negative share prices we sort of quite significant increase in the kaypro expenditures these very inclusive truly. quite significantly but this is all for great projects but for the rest of the year we expect companies he's also to be

strong and that all depends on the company in the course of capital expenditures at this table it's when the growth forecast potential. it will be years later. which brings us to the markets one has slightly recovered our trip turned low on a gauge of consumer confidence which showed she asked consumers are more pessimistic than analysts had expected a report showed that confidence dropped to its lowest level in more than two years because of the world swings in the stock market earlier this month as a quick look at precious metals gold is up again thawing its worst weekly performance in two months last week silver is also higher this hour. and. reaction to the news. negative attributes of consumer confidence has following in august both the dow the nasdaq losing. point two percent that's not news of last ounce the dow is flat on the truth is an hour before my in europe as you came

versus played catch up with the rest of the world on their return from a holiday weekend banks are rallying on validation with rollback of support went up eight point four cents as torture raises waiting to buy so germany's debts has retreated from early morning as you can just standing just as the biggest monthly drop in the last nine years and finally here in moscow they are just and the mice of soy correctional tuesday interrupting their three day rally investors are also digesting vast consumer confidence data that would cause. some of the individual shadows in the my six gas from those well of us just by posting strong thrust forth results false move forwards sharply reports assigning future corp currently at some level of just just cost per phone calls lower fats despite reports that russia's biggest lender has just passed health net profit more than two fold which in turn a portion of the jobs. that brought up

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