nato says it plans to continue its presence in libya as people on the ground claim latest threat to their safety now comes from weapons falling into an experience. multiple suicide bombings in iraq the capital of russia's chechen republic on an important muslim holiday leaving at least eight people dead over twenty injured. as israel reportedly trains in the west bank settlers ahead of a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood exposer one it's the anticipation of violence that could actually spark a conflict. worldwide

news live from moscow this is r.t. with me rory seem shy. as it has no immediate plans to end its operations in libya despite the rebels now controlling most of the country. continuing to bomb the town of sort of the main procrit afy stronghold which rebels have given and so saturday to surrender meanwhile tripoli remains under rebel control but as artie's maria from reports almost every youngster in the country now carrying a gun it's far from saif. how much is a libyan medal if you got in politics and fighting against gadhafi soldiers in submission matriculate it was shot coming from this new sound that. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was still scared himself. one of the biggest stories was discovered at the top security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released after

nato bombed the area. of the country in wars with arms it looks like live in kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. when i go out and have real life and will kill bad guys like duffy in your thought if you save of soon start gathering up weapons of mass i won't release a drop on the streets the young gunman got in straight already it's too late for the we'll give it back to them as soon as the asking system but many here are afraid that this is a dictionary they have a painful wrist for the gun has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and freedom for a new country though people want more peaceful symbols but fear of not be easy for many to lay down their arms when the gun has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history. r.t. tripoli libya. patrick a is

a reporter for the online magazine spiked believes that nato wants to stay because it has no clear vision of what actually lies ahead for libya. fundamentally with the transitional government that's being put in place what you have here is a government has been cherry picked by the west these are people that aren't elected they also need to try and win a debate with the libyan people about why they're in any way more legitimate than good athlete so i wouldn't say this is in any way a revolution the west western government basically bombing a half. a rag bag of rebels and filling the vacuum left by gadhafi isn't in any way what i would revolutionize but i mean i think more fundamentally than that there's been no sense from nato from western leaders what they were doing in the first place and they've not at any point have a coherent sense of what the mission is and there's a lot of talk a lot of grandstanding over the last few days about this

a job was done there was no mission creep will click send there was no mission creep going on it was only because they didn't have any idea of what they were trying to achieve in the first place and it's no surprise that now that after he's gone they're still hanging around because they're still unsure it's still unclear they want to get some brownie points from this you know and have made some short term political gains as the result. meantime stephen brown of front page magazine believes the fighting will go on even if colonel gadhafi is ultimately captured. i think even if they do find the daffy this is only the first stage of a multi-stage war in libya now the tribes are going to fight each other over the oil revenues or islamics are going to start the. national transition council they've already assassinated the head of the military i think there's the beginning of the problem this is really a tribal fight these tribes can be bought this can go back and forth and who knows how long it will go on this is really a war about controlling libyan oil supplies they went to war against gadhafi

because these thought they were going to be exploration deals in favor of china and india so we had to be replaced now they'll tolerate a transnational council of nato as long as it can get the contracts that they wanted there was billions and billions of dollars but if the trans national council started even a problem there will be more warfare to get rid of these people. although we spoke to a british labor m.p. barrie gardner who opposed the intervention in libya because the interview was available on our website so you got company and it was a quick sneak peek. 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 occupation force one of the things that troubled me all this was this week and we give an insight as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we. go

left go left go left these instructions being yelled out by obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading battered vance group now that i think is where we've overstepped the line. our six minutes past the hour here in moscow the international has accused syria of killing eighty eight people in prisons during the five month ongoing uprising activists claim the victims were imprisoned and tortured to death for taking part in the anti government demo this comes after at least seven people were killed during a crackdown on the muslim holiday in dr are quite a bit out of the transform conflict analysis center thanks serious religious tension will begin if the opposition does ultimately topple president assad. were the saloon issuing signs or. if you were booing minorities you know as the sects in syria but who all.

those issues forces lose who are you and openly how has after we've talked to you get a few good to give because we will do will strive to feature a lot of words. that is yet to get through an even religious conflict as long as everybody is united because that we are successful but when you see him we may see some tension. and i talked to. a professor at the university in one thinks the revolution in syria is a fuel from the outside and aimed at night in a civil war. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like third and the gulf cooperation council are working very hard to instigate instability in syria and this sort of instability will take

bents specifically they are working on agitating a civil war within syria and they want to call that everybody loose and they can 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 of 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 arab regimes from saudi arabia to. have you with us you with our senior called the call for you this hour financial blame game. the market needs the money ball the trial. trust. political process e.u.

policy makers accuse the markets of threatening the eurozone recovery experts point the finger at the politicians themselves and their indecision. plus a multi-billion dollar war chest wasted by the united states look at where the american taxpayers' money allocated for iraq and afghanistan when you ask the experts if there's more bad news to come. our ten minutes past the hour here in moscow three suicide bombers have carried out attacks in the russian republic of chechnya leaving eight people dead over twenty inches one of the terrorists has been identified as the brother of a suicide bomber who blew himself up in the republicans capital last year i think within a quarter of us has the latest on a story. the capital of the chechen republic grozny was headed by three blasts the first happened late in the evening on the road leading to the seat is ford a suicide bomber blew himself up when police tried to stop him for an id how often

now were later as of the same plays of the first blast of the second and third attacks happened when investigators and emergency workers arrived at the scene overall eight people were killed and among them six are confirmed to be police officers and the other twenty two were injuries this multiple bombings in one place attract more people and causing more casualties is a well known tactic for many terrorists across the world and we've seen that happening in iraq and afghanistan the leader of the chechen republic i was on could it have described. behind this attack as criminals and he said that they have once again shown their true face as they have nothing sacred with these attacks happening on one of the most important most of the celebrations of the day of. the end of the holy month of ramadan and the a number of a terror acts across of the world increases during this holy month for muslims. it

isn't a question of a boarding right or a tragedy in russia chechen republic marked the day marking the end of the holy month of ramadan if you look on your website you can see how it thousands of russian the muslim worship was gathered in the capitals mosques spilling out of the surrounding streets we've got that footage been pulled out of our t.v. dot com. our viewers come to you live from moscow to global energy giants america's exxon mobile and russia have struck a multi billion dollar partnership agreement but cooperation will range all the way from the gulf of mexico to pressures of vast arctic shelf a sweeping deal signed in the presence of prime minister putin of the black sea resort of sochi gives the russian company president access to u.s.

energy projects inside america's the biggest oil company will participate in developing a vast untapped oil reserves in russia's arctic this put an end to the hopes of another giant out of britain's b.p. to be part of the project the state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs of norway which also has a big share in the arctic has told us what role his country will play in the exploration of the territory. the world needs more energy and it must be taken from somebody. one of the many there promising regions norway has it's a physical share of the arctic it feels or how to compensate it's extremely valuable in other. regions certainly seen that the russians are inviting not only or norway in but also all the countries in that we think companies are playing in. rows in different projects all saw it in russia.

you can watch the full interview with the norway's state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs in about twenty minutes time right here on our city. come september israel will be hoping for the best but preparing for the worst the military is training and also reportedly arming the west bank settlers as they expect violence when the un votes on recognizing the palestinian statehood next month but it's artie's reports it's the actions of the jewish state not the ballot it could lead to bloodshed. the united nations might be meeting next month to declare a palestinian state but for more than half a million israeli settlers they couldn't care less there has been so many the sessions they cleared in the un that have absolutely no meaning and are baseless un only wanted nobody's go home the palestinians say they'll be the ones now

going home and like it or not niger and israeli settlers will soon find themselves citizens of palestine once the un recognizes palestine within these borders now there's no argument this is occupation international law apply for months now the israeli army has been fine tuning its response to give you an vote. about a lot of equipment in order to have. stronger meds etc also training a lot of. around twenty million dollars in the separation the army is also training citizens in self defense the working assumption of his ready defense establishment is there come september they will be confrontations between israelis and palestinians they fear that they will be marchers protests and in some cases even violence but it's an assumption and many would say overreaction that threatens to inflame the situation on the ground israel has been doing everything it can to to

devise this whole idea of accord and it's not only the palestinians it's shortchanging this year. through spreading also on their own population with is not justified because at the end of the what the policy of are doing is a political flip and trying to achieve a legitimate the through politics and i think this is far better. to try to achieve . and i think fair or award and the irony is that the army might just be focusing its. resources are one place you think that we are going to leave the country the biggest danger though is that as these rady defense forces prepare for conflict people on both sides of the border begin to expect one. r.t. tel aviv. now your chance to get involved we're always eager to hear what you think about our stories here on r.t. today we're asking you what why israel is arming its citizens are let's have

a look at look at the stats right here on our opinions are divided right now the majority believe it's done to provoke an armed conflict and thus torpedo the u.n. vote on palestinian statehood eighteen percent think israel is just protecting its citizens thirteen percent say the aim is to distract the israelis from the country's economic woes and the majority considers the israeli government to be over cautious log on to article com right now and have your say. i don't just not a quarter past the hour here in moscow the e.u. is economics commissioner olli rehn has expressed concern that uncertainty in the global financial market could derail hopes for european recovery a special meeting of the european parliament hold calls for a new leaders to implement crisis measures agreed upon last month's part of including a second bailout for greece to save the euro from catastrophe but with a deal not yet finalized the markets are wary of what politicians are doing because according to italian business journalist francisco. in europe the

main point is the politics and markets don't see it really the size of political leadership he'll brasso or. steps in with some political real strong measures. i'm afraid will be still in europe have not come to grips with nor old solutions for both the great prizes but i would say also for the european crisis in fact italy and spain are also in dangers and these are much bigger economy and. therefore much bigger risk and dangerous to your royal we are. well with our financial issues no easy across the ocean and ask us discuss ways out of the ongoing turmoil cross-talk is coming your way next hour here on r.t. for now here's

a look at what's in store. the problem in our economy isn't the lack of liquidity in the world's awash in liquidity it just doesn't know where to go japan's long term prospects are terrible and european welfare states are collapsing and of course the big government policies of bush and obama have made the united states very unattractive so i really think the fed is completely out of the picture all they can do is make things worse by giving us i guess nineteen seventies style stagflation the problem is the banks themselves weren't terribly intelligent so they took the free money they made a great deal of profit out of it and then lo and behold they decided that they'd pay huge bonuses to a lot of traders because these traders they regarded as being superman that was very unfortunate because ultimately if you give me money for nothing it's very very easy to make a profit from it and that's all quantitative easing has achieved for all of us.

if you stay with us here on sci fi across talking about an hour's time the u.s. senate committee on wartime contracting has found that thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' money is missing or has been stolen by contractors working in iraq and afghanistan over the past decade a report claims the money was squandered to poor planning a lack of oversight and outright fraud by u.s. contractors and federal employees the findings will be presented to congress as a washington prepares to cut defense spending to tackle america's enormous debt the contents of the report won't be a complete surprise with poor cost control of reconstruction in afghanistan already confirmed last october and this former bush administration official michael o'brien says more money will be squandered for many many years to come. thirty more billion could be wasted because things have been built that won't be able to mean they

can't maintain them in countries like iraq and afghanistan you have to when you build something like a power plant you have to be able to maintain an operating any afghanis simply don't have the ability to do that i predict anyway american firms will have to go over there and they will have to stay there are power plants. and if the government of afghanistan if karzai says no no contractors will take care of it we'll end up paying afghanis engineers and operators to maintain these things and i feel safe in saying that money will disappear. well an assistant editor and he wore dot com john glasses so this report is important but i hope you can change the situation dying fast. the recommendations within the report sort of have the air of usual washington type advice build another bureaucracy to watch over and for

oversight in this department you know hire an inspector general so and so forth i'm concerned that the recommendations of this committee all of their analysis of waste is very valuable and concerned that their recommendations won't even take place or if they do they'll be wasteful still. i have business with kareena is moments away but for now is the world update here on out c b e was launched a special operation in the north of cause of the union in relation to a criminal investigation into the death of a policeman in clashes last month a violent it is skewed with serbia erupted in the regions or try to take control of two border crossing points on tuesday the un called the situation in kosovo tense and unpredictable. hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in south africa ahead of a disciplinary hearing of the ruling party's youth league julius malema is accused

of divisions in the african national congress and embarrassing the president by calling for a regime change in neighboring botswana police used rubber cannons rubber bullets water cannons and stun grenades to disperse stone throwing demonstrators faces expulsion from the party at the closed door here. in the united states the number of dead from tropical storm irene has risen to at least forty eight that's a massive rescue and cleanup effort is underway along the east coast thirteen u.s. states have been affected by the storm which caused billions of dollars in damage the flooding caused by irene is believed to be the worst in decades. and a more dramatic footage should be off the mark of tropical storm irene on our web site and on a lighter note i got to walk free video section for a front row seat to an annual musical spectacle and watch the bagpipes go head to head with the drum sticks as

a musical battle unfolds in the very heart of moscow with the red square hosting the past our military. and there's a new act in town as these fluffy performers are leaving soon to be welcomed into their new home in moscow because like want to be free video section of our website and cast their first steps. mission. critical three. three. three. three. three. three volunteers in video for your media drug free media oh god harjeet dot com. ok i'm outside of the business community.

how about them so our business update is south thanks for joining me and we go straight to our top story just months after the collapse of the tie up with b.p. russia's rustan's has struck a multi-billion dollar deal with the wells biggest oil company x. model he now confirmed because it's main part in exploring the potentially huge reserves of russia now to get the latest let's go live to corpus cannot tell you what's this multi-billion dollar but a million dollar deal is all about. good morning and we are getting more details of this agreement for instance exxon mobil will take on the most of the expenses on the first stages of a project when it comes to the development of the oil fields on russia's arctic shelf we know that they're planning to invest three point two billion dollars in oil exploration alone there and yesterday russia's prime minister was going to put

it was present at the signing of this strategic cooperation agreement between the two energy giants he said back in the future the amount of the direct investment into this project could become over one hundred times bigger it's now become more clear where the prime minister got these figures from since it's estimated that the world because it's all russia's arctic shelf contain around one hundred ten billion barrels of oil now no we also know that you have to and exxon mobil are not planning to swap shares and at this stage according to the representatives of the companies and officials in russia each company is capable of fulfilling its obligations under disagreements without having to swap shares all this is great news for we have since the biggest russia's biggest. well company has been looking for a partner to develop these oil fields all over the arctic shelf for quite some time

but the sixteen billion dollars a share swap deal with british petroleum fields in january also as part of the agreement mobil. is getting to take part in the development of oil fields in western siberia and on the black sea and according to russia's vice premier you're going to see it in the black sea project could grow in the future and enter and also we have to is getting city water in the development of all the prophets in the united states it's going to be at least six projects and it will include texas and even the gulf of mexico so this is a great chance for both companies to change their experiences and know how us in this in this industry in fact exxon mobil has already tried. to attract russian energy company russian oil company to the playing us previously

it was around ten years ago would you go due to the company's legal problems here in russia that deal never went through. ok thank you you can often putting on a. mobile thanks for this update. now let's have a look at the markets light sweet is declining heading for the biggest nothing top since may that's all speculation that increase includes stockpiles in the us in the case. told in the world's largest economy gratis trading just for one hundred forty dollars a barrel. a quick look at precious metals gold is trading flat on wednesday after i've also i'll start of the week selling pressure on the metal is one of my concerns that the us federal reserve is monitoring policy whether to supply the car . markets in asia or trading mixed this hour hong kong stocks on moving higher with key gain isn't on property and technology stocks the nikkei is swinging between. small gains and also has to try flat japanese exporters are under pressure from

a strong yen is talking over two percent chip make it ok to memory down three point nine percent and forty films down to a half cent. here in moscow the trading session began will be r t s up over half a percent and isaacs will open soon so you see at tuesday's closing for gifts. gas stop below us will allow its currency to float freely from its september has been facing its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the soviet union fuelling public disorder and panic buying of staple goods to value which will go by thirty six percent in may after a pre-election spending spree drain the country's reserves meanwhile foreign currency has been hard to find since the spring lifting the black market exchange rate some couple of vehicles. so for now i'll be back in about forty five minutes and some plates.

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