russia recognizes libya's transitional council as a functioning live you know sort of mistake and russia's foreign minister emphasized moscow as long called for gadhafi to go but says nato is approach to bringing him down violates international law. that syria is fighting and media war and it's losing it. with almost all foreign press banned from the country amid ongoing violence doubts row over the authenticity of reports regarding syria. and russia remembers the victims of the beslan school siege that shook the country and the whole world seven years ago leaving over three hundred people dead most of them children.

this is are you coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program while russia has recognized libya's national transitional council as the legitimate governing authority of libya speaking shortly after the announcement russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said russia has never want to put up a stay but opposes nato methods to remove him well for more details we're now joined live by his dog here. so you go or what is the message coming from moscow today. while moscow has recognized to be a national transitional council as the sole legitimate authority in the libya and according to russia's foreign minister silvio level of since the beginning of the conflict in the country moscow has been stressing that it will support the choice of the libyan people. and has been stressing that it's up to the libyan people to

decide which direction they want to see their country to be moving in and this is when they want to see in power off libya but at the same time moscow has been criticizing the methods for being used in order to achieve this goal. i've seen going to russia has never approved of the former libyan regime back in may president medvedev clearly stated again it should go the way the united nations resolutions were implemented by some nato members and other states and that the principle of the supremacy of law was being disregarded the african union and u.n. initiatives renewed leading to an increase in civilian casualties however it was the protection of the civilian population that was set as the major objective of the security council resolutions implemented by nato felt absolutely sure that justice cannot be done using. with. just

a reminder russia initially supported the u.n. no fly zone resolution which gave the green light for the alliance's military operation in libya but when it became clear that says the goal of the operation was to stop the violence and protect civilians but it became clear that the west was taking one side in this conflict that moscow started criticizing operation well given the circumstances what is russia's stance towards libya's future. well what's next for libya is a huge question right now and on thursday the meeting off the contact group on libya is being held in paris it includes the member states of the alliance which took fourteen are still staking court in the military operation in the country also

in total sixty countries are present their russians russia's representative is present there as well there's a lot of issues on the table of course on how the new authority softly be are going to interact with the international community energy is a very important issue with libya being one of the biggest energy producers in the world but as it is the discussion is now being held with the national transitional council recognized by most states as the sole legitimate power in libya the previously frozen assets. are being released and moved to the libyan opposition and now the former opposition and now the authorities well russia says that it's vital to monitor that all these billions of dollars are spread transparently and equally to the alevi and population so they don't get stuck in another new v.a.p.

small group of people meanwhile as these discussions on the future of libya go on in the west there on the ground the. national transitional council has the control over most force off the country the core of the town of sirte the hometown of gaddafi surrounded the have an ultimatum until saturday to put down their weapons and recognize the national transitional council as authorities or stand one of get out the sons says that he's still ready to fight till the end against. the rebels while there are also reports of his or other son is reason for negotiations to surrender previously got athenaeum sells through his a representative reportedly said that he was ready for negotiations as well but. our butts the the opposition now the legitimate power recognized by most states the national transitional council they say that they're not going to stop until that is

under arrest and will face justice. before thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest to snuff there. phyllis bennis of the is used for policy and studies in washington says it's still not clear whether nato is ready to listen to the leading people. we do know that the nato military actions have already gone beyond what was authorized by the un resolution and now we don't know how they will define a future role or they have so far been very clear that they do not want you women are made to force his own ground rather nato was prepared to listen to what would be a. leadership itself says we don't know yet they don't have a good history a binding by decisions made by the countries themselves. railcar gallop who will

attend the meeting of levy as friends in paris told r.t. that and and only the libyans themselves know western partitions must decide the country's future interview with russia's invoice coming your way while you're at this hour but here's a bit of what he had to say. the final decision on what libya is going to become easy one for the libyan people to make not the world's politicians have been playing leading parts recently the national democratic vote will determine this and it should be well prepared. this is where the international community and russia in particular he's eager to render active support to the libyans those who think that the notion of russian arab friendship as it was a passing away with the totalitarian regimes of dictatorships and brutally mistaken . the crackdown on anti-government protesters are reportedly continuing in syria but was most foreign media expelled from the country and the correspondents who remain

under tight control a true picture of the situation is hard to stablish are just renegotiate was one of the few foreign journalists reporting from a troubled country. mass murder the military in catastrophe a country on the brink of a revolution this is what you see every time syria pops up in the headlines but what is really happening in a country where hardly any foreign journalists are present there's even been the implication that some of the images we're being shown have been digitally manipulated and there have been reports about a little online that you can watch of the footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing the same footage and on different stations with different backgrounds digitally drop in so there are some very strange things that are going on right now and example of fast manipulation is the case of palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium attack it became the center of a controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundreds they were all thought. people were gathered here and most of those people were

palestinian refugees who came from the palestinian refugee camp in the sunni quarter of latakia now according to the opposition forces and do some of the palestinians when they got to the stadium their ideas were taken away their cell phones were also taken away and they really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries them with other very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle sprain has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in the stadiums and then and then committing mass executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from warplanes and navy ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened we've got. some people walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea soon everyone has to get out i didn't go anywhere just stayed in my house i can see the bay from my window and there was nothing in there aside from the

usual patrol boats still gunfire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. we wanted to leave so that our kids wouldn't hear the gunshots we hear in our house and when there was a break in the fighting we went to the stadium we stayed there for three days then we came back on the ground and so did two thousand refugees only to realize there was no air and navy attack taking place on the city. and we felt like we were lying to. the syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first demonstrations prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media for syria is fighting a media war and it's losing it. the syrian government might have realized. mistake

of banishing foreign journalists from the country and media law has now returned but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards changing series image as portrayed in a major networks in those courts syria every day continues to follow events in syria and you can get her latest reports on our twitter feed well and hara latest message she reports that she's hearing rumors several newborn babies have died in the city of hama which was reportedly raided by government forces so you can follow us on twitter at r.t. underscore coffee. if. you.

oversee the u.s. now to patch up or catch up we should be leading the world was this a big record rock obama has coal for investment to boost a stagnant economy and create new jobs the federal reserve is expected to come up with a new set of measures in september to try and do just that by political commentator lou rockwell believes as measures fall short of helping average americans. it takes a hammer and hit them in the head is one of the we're still in a recession there's not been a recovery and one of the reasons is because what the government is doing with the federal reserve is doing to hold on interest rates so low to benefit the federal government to benefit places like goldman sachs and j.p. morgan and just like europe is being raked over the coals to the benefit of the big banks so our american so the average joe the average janet is being harmed to the benefit of the you know the power elite so what is quantitative easing it's it's

money printing and they print this money and it has a horrendous effect on the economy and we're already starting to see prices increase notice clothing food many other areas prices are going up enough already we stand face really a hyperinflation worse than what happened in the one nine hundred seventy s. i don't think they're going to put us into zimbabwe care of a category but you know we can't we really can't know bernanke is like the mad printer and he's doing it again for wall street for the big banks for the government and to the detriment of the american people and really the people of the whole world this is a criminal act but their conduct. being in the euro zone is like being in a straitjacket says the czech president vaclav klaus a member of the e.u. the czech republic kept its national currency the current president blame the euro for the debt crisis that's currently ravaging the e.u. his comments echoed growing still its words the single currency within the union

and the czech prime minister has questioned the obligation to join the euro zone country faces under review membership rules saying they were told it was a monetary union not a debt the e.u. leadership maintains the crisis is temporary and the euro is safe and secure something that one and over felt the editor in chief transparency disagree with. the president is probably more right than the european politicians because in effect we at the moment have a monetary union here in europe that has really very important structural handicaps and. handicaps we have and i would situation a full blown crisis that is threatening. the further existence of the euro zone everything is done at the moment arrive at such a situation where it would be rather shameful to accept the exit off the country the first possibility of course being greece but that should not lead

there's a strain terms of what is the real full. focus of the discussion and that is that i don't have the conditions met to have a structurally healthy monetary union and unless we do something about that we will have one crisis country after another there is so much political capital invested in this project that it's very hard if not to say impossible for the politicians who are at the moment running the european council to give give up on the idea of a monetary union. and european banks are in big danger and that's coming from the world's top banker watch artie's financial experts next kaiser and stays in herbert and a kaiser report about fifteen minutes time here. to guard urges recapitalization of europe's banks so this is christine legarde head of the i.m.f.

one of the arguments that she poses for how european banks can recapitalize is to borrow from this new four hundred forty billion euro european stabilization fund so more debt. the new euro stabilization fund starts off in debt it's bankrupt from day one so her idea is to borrow from this bankrupt institution which only means that the debt to equity ratio for the global banking system is to be expanded but look are talking about is to expand the debt to equity board there's no other solution that you could possibly come up with because she's just an academic neil liberal won't whose only purpose of life is to theoretically come up with new ways to expand the debt burden her solutions are absolutely and fema to something that would be beneficial to anyone except that peddler's of whom she represents.

well let's take a brief look now at some of the stories from around the world and chief responsible for refugees has arrived in somalia if you firsthand the crisis gripping the country hundreds of thousands affected by famine and longstanding war have been displaced by the worst drought for more than sixty years many of the refugees have fled to extremists of these lamas group after they blocked vital humanitarian aid and three areas under the control. of one of the hamas founder a shaken son use of has reportedly been detained by the israeli army less than an. after he was released from an israeli prison his current whereabouts is unknown hassan yousef along with two hundred other political prisoners were granted early release by israel's authorities as a gesture and author of rabbits out shake us on a new sofa a prominent west bank a mosque leader has been in jail since two thousand and five after being convicted

by israel of terror. while the americas north recovers from severe iranian storm of fears battle is underway in northern texas fights nine raging wildfires weeping the region scores of homes have been destroyed with hundreds force to evacuate from the area strong winds have fanned the flames and hinder its firefighters with helicopters and joining the battle against him for the fire is the state's second in four months making it one of the worst seasons for such destruction in texas history. well seven years on the russia commemorates the victims of a deadly hostage crisis that to place in a school in the town of beslan over three hundred people died during the brutal siege most of them children and as artie's medina caution the reports the tragedy has left behind wounds unlikely to ever heal.

it all happened within the walls of this school here more than i thousand people were kept without water all food and in constant fear for many parents who had been waiting outside and praying they hold on the last day of this each with many of their children. the siege answered only on the third day russian forces entered the building to save the hostages after sudden explosions rang out on to have a gun fire and risking their own lives they bundled both women and children to safety i you know was among the lucky ones saved by the soldiers she was severely injured and spent several months in hospital but she's last it's not the holger wounds or the fear of death that all her darkest memories. i clearly remember the most terrifying moment within these three days and that was worth thought that i

lost my brother i thought was killed i saw one the terrorists shooting in the back of a young boy and i thought it was him. the brothers out survived but for everyone in beslan those three days in september forever split their lives into before and after i mean a doesn't want to talk about what happened that month the same or so many others who live in the city locals here only add that this tragedy should never be forgotten it's maybe four years since back packed his bags and left his native region of north or south for a new life in moscow but average chance he gets he welcomes an escape from the city to come back home his best friend who slam always meets him at the airport and this day was no exception. should we go. but let's first look at the usual place though the place itself is far from usual because this is a cemetery to the victims of the siege although this young man didn't witness the

tragedy themselves they say it is a nation's grief and never passed without stopping the location of this cemetery which is called the city of angels was not chosen by accident it is who is on the road that leads to the region's airport so everyone who this is the republic will not miss it so as many people as possible will stop and remember those dog days and those innocent lives that would take. might in the question are r.t. reporting from north to south here later today the legacy of the deadly hostage crisis covered in depth in our special report. there conduced child was overshadowed by just putting. these to feel fear they faced. remember every second of this night. it will remain in their memories and hearts

forever. anderson so. innocent. little angel cannot achieve. this is he coming to life from moscow while the next orbital crew have begun exams ahead of the next mission to the international space station that's despite the delay of the flights do last week's failure of the site is rockets that led to a crash of a cargo spaceship actually speeder all over is it star city and a mosque a region for us next team of three astronauts for two cosmonauts one astronauts apparently taken their final examination on the module on the mock up of the module they will carry them into space the difference is they don't know exactly when they going to be heading there their launch day has been put back well i say that

they've been put in somewhat of limbo now i was talking to experience cosmonauts those of being there before them and that they said that this shouldn't be any kind of a problem for the team but i was talking to the guys themselves they seem to think that they'll be going up sometime in october that's big means that the launch of the people but by a round a month but they've been going through that put out their mind right now they're making sure they get those examinations right they tested out everything to do with the module right up until the last minute of course the launch being the culmination of months and months of training and years of training cosmonauts still before the. good ol reporting there well right now it's time for a business of date with kareena. very welcome to our business reports go to our top story this hour ukraine has played a new card in its energy battle with process take off the gas has struck a deal with shell to draw to develop gas on ukrainian territory it's part of the

plan for ukraine to wean itself off the dependence on russian supplies promises to invest eight hundred million dollars in the projects and meantime it in the meantime t.f. is struggling to persuade moscow to sell gas at a lower price financial times reports that ukraine is poised to launch a legal challenge to secure its discount in the coming weeks keepers also decided to cut russian gas purchases by a third next year that's despite saying it's against the terms of the existing long . i'll tell the story is the latest exploration deal between ross knapp and exxon mobil could get the green like in just a few years the company's plans to drill the first wells in northern borders and two thousand and fourteen i think it's russian from i think that people back is likely to take a lot longer. for all sniffed itself i think the deal will mean longer term upside i think here we should be we should make it clear since the beginning that

we shouldn't expect any significant increases in global so we understand offshore exploration and development in arctic waters is a very very complicated business so i think in the best case we will see a first wadhams. after two thousand and fifteen but this is a long term option. no clearly if you feel so much much better positions doing a drawing for you with the reduction wobble. russian government is selling fifty percent state back to the city generated into rao as part of a massive province's ation drive and was valued the stake at over six hundred million dollars the head of the company says that the sale could happen in four years currently the state owns sixty percent and plans to withdraw from ownership by two thousand and seventeen it's seeking to attract more private investors in the troubled generating sector which is suffering from inefficient management one fifty

percent of facilities are out of date with small and medium sized business suffering from an atrocity costs. that's a look at the markets not all of us like you know the solid brant crude is losing sixty nine cents trading at one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel oil has jumped to the highest level in a month on positive chinese manufacturing data clever concerns about global economy is still putting pressure on crude price with lost more than seven percent in august. markets in asia and best events spied by gains on wall street following positive jobs report better than expected manufacturing rather technology stocks are rallying in tokyo and hong kong tech sector is also boosted by reports that toshiba you touch and sony have jointly setting up the world's largest small flat screen producer chairs of sony rose over two percent toshiba climbs one point two percent and touching one percent. european stock market slide into the red after

steady stars investors are taking money off the table ahead of a rout from u.s. data french conglomerate like are there among the biggest followed of course after a profit warning financials and telecommunications shares that higher societe generale in paris and overthe mean a half percent. and here in moscow equity markets slide as well at the start of the trading session reality has is down over ever says otherwise it's his losing point nine percent let's have a look at some individual share moves on the into routing raised early gains as we reported earlier it's being included in state privatization plans energy stocks are also under pressure would look down over one percent and b.c.b.s. around two percent in the red despite posting strong first half results the bank's net profit rose one hundred thirteen percent to one point eight billion dollars and analysts just investor the showing of rising interest in local stocks. defers names

that investors will be coming back into are the name server first of all new chips second to wall names with higher earnings usability and third is. perhaps the names and dad go by russian stocks the names and their firms and derive much of their earnings from the domestic market because you know if we see if we indeed indeed see their significant global slowdown i don't expect to see a recession by the slowdown definitely already has taken place the degree of this old song dollars unclear but if it's you know a large degree with slowdown that i think russia has a fair chance so far to call playing and posting stronger growth and then developed markets because of their you know of their continuing strengths of their internal demand that's our update for this hour during our enough headline.

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