never heard. of them. as countries gather for a conference on libya's future critics say tripoli will struggle to know who its real friends are this comes as russia recognizes libya's transitional council as the functioning authority but says nato is approach to bring down gadhafi violated international rules. u.k. police pressure the media to hand over footage of august riots promising court action if broadcasters don't comply. alarm bells ringing across the eurozone as the bailout some of the greek government declares its economy is out of control even if you can announce it took a new austerity measures to deal with its own debt our top stories this hour. the plane has played a new card in its long last week and if you pass it with russia more in business in twenty minutes.

international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow was just past nine pm and seven pm in libya a conference on the country comprising sixty countries is underway in paris to discuss life after gadhafi russia was attending the meeting off to recognizing the national transitional council as the legitimate power but still expressing its opposition to nato its methods to remove the former libyan leader well teasing you correspondent daniel bushell has more from brussels for us daniel so this conference there in france what is going to be discussed between the countries. the violence russia wants a specific reaction from this meeting for the nato countries to come up with a plan with which to stop the ongoing bloodshed that is going on in the country of

your other issue on the table be unfreezing now with these proceedings to unfreeze the. money owed by libya of ruled and there are concerns russia has expressed concerns that that money will not get to the right people that it will not go to the libyan people. as the money is handed out to the new. really leadership over libya but reports have emerged today of a deal from the get one third of the entire libyan oil reserves africa's largest now while friends did noise this it has raised suspicions that saving civilians isn't made for real a going into libya russia's representative to libya is because he says the national transitional council worked with other countries not just those who helped them to power. in libya won't be able to keep in line with the interest of just the european union or the united states and all the states of the persian gulf russia

will always want to play said mr varied and multi-colored picture those who think that the notion of russian friendship day treated as a possible way would be totalitarian regimes are the traitor ships are italy mistaken i think if. i believe that the term of rushing out of friendship i want to ship up to date as they used to be fifty years ago it's strange that only russia has recognized libya's national transitional council as the official government of libya for minister sergey lavrov the russian never approved of it i've always said that he should go but principles of international norms. by nato aggression in that country let's listen to exactly what he had to say. russia has never approved of the former libyan regime back in may president an advantage clearly stated the issue of guns and the way the united nations resolutions were implemented by some one time members and other states meant that

the principle of the supremacy of law was disregarded. and un initiatives were ignored leading to an increase in civilian casualties however it was the protection of the civilian population that was sent as the major objective of the security council resolutions implemented by nature it's absolutely sure that justice is cannot be done using a mobile format this will set up road which. we also expect the leaders of this meeting to agree more humanitarian aid and more money as libya starts the long process of rebuilding the country all of this. ok thanks very much indeed for that update live there in brussels. and there chris noth i'm from the stop the war coalition based in london police this so-called meeting of friends doesn't have a friendly intentions and it's hawt. the whole basis for the meeting is frankly quite shocking we're in

a situation now where the old regime appears to be over in libya and any aspiring new regime should be spending its time listening to the desires of the ordinary people in libya and not listening to the lectures which i reckon they're going to be getting from the world's great powers it strikes me that this is like something out of the nineteenth century where the big imperialist colonial powers are dictating to. what is placing a leadership they themselves have selected about exactly who's going to get what france is going to get thirty five percent of the oil no doubt britain will be putting in a big climb for another third or so other countries will be following suit and all ranges leaving the meeting is being chaired by the two main protagonists the british prime minister and the french. leader who are going to be chairing a meeting about the future of libya what is going on we were told this was a war that was being fought for humanitarian reasons is in fact turned into what is

basically a nato take over the country as far as i can see it's plenty more to come in the program this hour here in r.t. including random reporting with foreign media from the country amid ongoing violence dance grow over the authenticity of reports coming from syria. and russia commemorates the painful seventh anniversary of the vessel and school siege that shocked the country in the world when more than three hundred people were killed mostly children and. so the story sort of comes up at first talk media outlets in the u.k. are resisting calls from london's metropolitan police to hand over footage and photos of august riots police say the images could help them identify criminals and bell to get them through a court action if the broadcasters and newspapers don't comply what is more emmett's brings us the details from london. they say that those face crossed in that first stage could contain evidence of crimes in action crimes being committed

and that therefore they could catch people red handed this following prime minister david cameron urging the media to take its share of the responsibility essentially said play its part in bringing these people to justice just as the general public has see and so he urged media organizations to immediately hand over first police forces since then across the country particularly where the rights to place have been informally approaching their local newspapers local television stations to hundreds of voluntarily and immediately. broadcast for to which is almost ok because that will then a pair on you tube another video websites but also on broadcasts from state and the news space across and that's where the rub really is people see this is a huge freedom of media issue and. seeing newspaper organizations that have green approach say that they're going to fiercely resisted essentially to avoid being seen as the evidence gathering all of the police by the general public now there is

a procedure. for a stage and face across the police must apply for a coup but it seems that the police on the government are willing now because of the riots to bypass that procedure and thus really compromising the freedom of the press this is part of a sort of why is a crackdown on the media if you like particularly social media facebook twitter and blackberry messenger which police say they have evidence of those kinds of media having been used to incite the riots people have been arrested for using social media to to incite violence lawyers and civil rights groups are calling a lot of the sentencing disproportionate but particularly in the case of two men who were jailed for four years each for inciting the riots on facebook they opened up their facebook events and asked people to subscribe to them to go and bust up their local towns essentially and those are some of the toughest sentences they've been handed down. reporting there from london well for more on the impact of the

police drive to obtain unused media materials i'm now joined live by investigative journalist tony goldwyn joining us live there in bristol newquay good to see here a latino as a journalist have you had any firsthand experience of police requesting material from you. yes i certainly have around about decade ago i was involved in the campaigning around genetic foods and found the police rather than actually just trying to investigate the people who were doing the campaigning what i decided to do because i'd been getting some of my footage on through our local t.v. here in the southwest of england the police actually went to the headquarters of i.t.v. west and they demanded the footage from them saying that they wanted all the rushes they wanted to know where they pulled the film from very professionally on t.v. he told the police to go and get a court order which they didn't actually subsequently bother to do but it is

actually quite traumatic when all you're trying to do is record events as a freelance video camera person and then you find that actually the police are trying to not only basically targeting the messenger shooting the messenger in that sort of case so i'm really really disappointed and i was very disappointed to see that they did cameron in the emergency debate about the riots was actually saying and i quote the media has a responsibility to hand over pictures and i think this is absolutely appalling thing to say that's the sort of thing you would expect in a police state where the police can go down truly independent and just demand good man details of people who've been taking film this kind of thing then go around potentially raid their homes too so i don't know where they can is coming from on this at all as i know we live in a liberal democracy and we got a free and independent press attorney there would be no real have to go and ask the high court if they want to actually get rights put in there would be those of course those argue that you were actually by withholding the information protecting those alleged criminals from being pursued by the police and indeed by the courts.

well you could get into all the sort of stuff to do intellectual property but when you take a video footage or take pictures this is actually your own personal property and it's what you do with it is absolutely up to you if the police believe that you have evidence of some serious crime then they have to go and actually go to a charge and demand from the judge that were put a court order if the judge agrees but actually i think the police here are just chancing and i think there's many many police out there who would totally disagree with this whole procedure who would actually like to see a free and independent press still here in britain and you know if as i say i know this from my own experience and it's actually quite frightening the other thing is ultimately what's going to happen in a demonstration situation is you're going to have the crown turning on the journalist they will come to the lynch camera people thinking and if this goes through quite rightly in this case thinking that these people are actually this

they're filming evidence for the police and this is an absolutely unacceptable situation i mean this is a traditional tension between the police and the media often trying to do the same job you know for a moment as. though there is a symbiotic relationship in their course between the police and the media this is our supposed could could damage that relationship there. well it's i think it's the police and the media are trying to do a similar thing in certain circumstances particular when a crime has just taken place and it's very important that both of them are doing it independently and that if the police want to get information from the media they have to ask what we're seeing increasingly since this new conservative government came to power here in britain is that actually the police are not doing that and what they're doing is they're they're almost acting like a kind of judge dredd characters you know almost like they're above the law they're going around because they have got forty thousand they told us hours of c.c.t.v. footage to go through and it seems to me that maybe they're getting

a bit bored with doing that and they're actually trying to actually co-opt the press in britain to be evidence gatherers for the police and that would be a horrendous thing if it ever takes place but in an extreme case like this something that has shocked the nation shocked the world indeed if criminals can be identified with the help of the likes of you of journalists who've got information that can actually be in the public's interest why not make exception or particularly occasions like this and bring those writings to justice that's what many people be asking you. well the problem of course is that we're dealing with actually a lot of these are very very small petty crimes i would like to see the police focusing on some of the much bigger crimes in our society such as fraud you know we're talking about the little looters here thank you what about the big looters in the city of london what about people who are actually doing enron accounting financial ford what on earth is going on where the scotland yard are actually spending most of their time concentrating on people who've been stealing water i'm

not on those who've been stealing billions of pounds in our economy so we have time for turning interesting here we have to say thanks very much for your time live there in bristol thank you but right. to syria now where the government is accuse of yet more vicious and deadly assault on its restive cities but with most foreign correspondents there remaining under tight control it's hard to get balance reports and objective commentary. go is one of the few reporting from the troubled country. mass murder tearing 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 available online that you can watch of of the footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing to seeing footage and different stations with different backgrounds usually

dragoon so there are some very strange things that are going on right now an example of such manipulation is the case of palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium in the dark it became the center of the controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred thousand people were gathered here 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 to some of the palestinians when they got to the stadium their ideas were taken. the way their cell phones were also taken away and they're really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries somewhat over very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so don't go saying has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in stadiums and then and then and meeting 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. some people walking

around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea soon and 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 there a sign from the usual patrol boat still gunfire did break out between army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. we wanted to lead so that our kids would hear the gunshots we hear in our house and when there was a break in the fighting we went to the stadium and stayed there for three days. and so did two thousand. only to realize there was no air and media attack taking place on the city. i felt like we were lying to the heart of the. syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them

who start shooting first station it's time to bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media there are heading syria is fighting a media war and it's losing. the syrian government might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country and the media law has overturned the ban but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards changing series image as portrayed on major networks in those quite see syria. reese. enormous debt is now out of control that's according to a little report to be presented to the country's parliament by a special budget committee facing a ruinous recession the country simply can't keep up with interest payments on its near half trillion dollar debt says the leaders continue to bicker over greece's second two hundred thirteen billion rescue package with finland and morgan collateral in return for its participation as comes of portugal's prime minister declares a new wave of a sturdy measures and tax hikes across the spectrum to meet the country's own

rescue bailout interest pains and james me way senior economist at the new economics foundation told me earlier that he believes the leak reveals the true state of the greek economy. the cat is out of the bag and to be quite honest the statement is quite close to simple statements of the facts greece cannot close believe repay its debt under under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far to begin with simply no earthly way it's going to be able to repay this own any causal timescale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original kind of hope that the other european nations the divisions that are in place right the way across europe now with countries completely unable really to agree on any kind of a way forward out of this mess other than the essentially tried and tested and tried and failed methods they've happened last year which essentially is give a bit of a bailout it's a certain countries and then impose austerity measures we've got to bear in mind that this bailout isn't really about helping the greek economy and certainly not the people have a great series of suffered under austerity now for you know eighteen months of the

most dreadful current huge cuts in public spending in services and people's wages rising unemployment and no real prospects for the future that's what's thirty means that the bailouts really were always about trying to support your in financial system rather than supporting say the greek economy we are certainly i think in the early stages of disintegration europe the deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system imbalances that built up for the last ten years so i'll be surprised to see the euro continuing in its present form given the situation we're in at the moment. james me talking to me a little earlier coming up to twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow time now to check out some other well headlines in brief in our world update more than a hundred people mostly children are known to have died in southwest nigeria in flooding that began almost a week ago thousands of had to flee the area with the red cross facing the huge task of looking after them downpours that began on friday almost also damaged bridges because the dam to overflow and to rates some of the floods last year

resulted in some off a million people being displaced. the u.n. chief responsible for refugees arrived in somalia to view firsthand the crisis gripping the country hundreds of thousands affected by famine and a long standing war have been displaced by the region's worst drought in more than sixty years and in the refugees are fled minutes and extremists are for the vital humanitarian aid into areas under their control. people who want to stay at least twelve kilometers away from erupting volcano in mexico it shooting ash into the air which is expected to rain down on mexico city around sixty kilometers south it's one of the most active volcanoes in the region. russia marks the painful anniversary of the beslan hostage crisis in which over three hundred people died most of them children hundreds gathered at the school to lay flowers and candles in memory of the times mourning continued to the third of september marking me to ration of the hostage ordeal which lasted for fifty one els and fifty

minutes and is not used within a culture over reports the tragedy has left some wounds that simply because. i saw one of the terrorists shooting in the back of a young dory and i thought it was my brother lino was among the lucky ones who go out of dallas on school number one a lawyer it all happened seven years ago when a group of armed militants stormed the local school on the first of september after the siege finally and on the third day russian forces answered the building to save the hostages after explosions rang out and to have a gun fire and risking their own lives they bundled both women and children to safety. it all happened within the walls of this school here more than a thousand people were kept without water all food and in constant fear for many parents who had been waiting outside and praying they hold joyce on the last day of

this each was merely of their children with it's not the hunger all the fear of doubt that on her darkest memories i can really remember the most terrifying moments really in these three days this was when i thought i lost my brother i thought he was killed i mean his brother our suvorin she herself is now married to another victim of that savant and though the tragedy you know very agreed never to talk about it other courageous survivors have found lots of the past a difficult road to travel four years ago is back pack his bags and left his native land of north in search for a new life in moscow it was a difficult decision for him but he says he never regrets the death of so this is very hard for me to even believe. money from someone who just like don't want to stay here any longer it is very difficult for me though he gave himself a promise never to come back when september approaches something bring the same

hand and he now never passes without stopping at the cemetery the location of this cemetery which is called the city of angels was not chosen by accident it is so two aces on the road that leads to the region's port so everyone who visits 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 odyssey reporting from your society. by the way if you missed any of our stories you can find them and plenty more on our website and here's some of what's there at the moment should you don't want to watch a dot com after the apocalypse with news of one of the world's dirtiest cities that look like marginal landscapes on earth where life spring slowly choked to death brought out more and that by visiting exclusive gallery there on the web site and also. laughing in the face of danger recent stories of rocket crash maybe bordering

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a lower price artie's on its. the gas deals between russia and ukraine two thousand and nine have again found themselves in the spotlight over the past several weeks ukraine is insisting that it's paying a very high price for the russian guys i'd like to remind you of us that now for the time being ukraine prays up to four hundred dollars per one thousand cubic meters of gas which it buys from russia now the government insists that the price is too high and wants. thousand and nine. and. back then prime minister yulia timoshenko to be revived and the price changed to a lower one at the same time we're understanding position of moscow that it's that ukraine doesn't want to bargain on the price and it wants something in return for a discount on the russian gas which ukraine has been buying over the past decade or so but at the same time we also understand that ukraine is looking to diversify its

gas supplies we understand that it is due to sign a major agreement with the shell company on the exploration and the development of shale gas in ukraine it is still unknown how much shale gas ukraine possesses but experts predict that these resources could be quite huge and could be quite sufficient for ukraine to almost completely abstain from using the gas which by strong from russia. i look at the markets stalks all know often people in the u.s. apply for unemployment benefits last week in this report a strong so it's not just productivity also declined in the second. let's have a look at europe britain's puts a finish flashes investors moved to the sidelines off to two days of gains though banking shares advanced on reports that a shake up of the sector may not come into force until twenty fifty. one percent in first his vast range wherein be just an impressive german economic team to. dine here in moscow after some markets have provided stellar losses at the close of play

crazy remained as fresh investors. digesting data on manufacturing activity in the u.s. and europe that's mounting concerns over growth into the economy that's a look at some of the individual share moves my six spare poncas having just a not yet set says the decision on partial privatization of russia's biggest lender will be made in the next few weeks telecoms provider will still accomplish downfall and its takeover of regional mobile operator volgograd. also comes a quiet remaining fifty percent stake for eighty million dollars and b.c.p. was seeing strong gains after posting my first talk results the banks that profit growth of one hundred that two percent to one point eight minutes or less. figure for high from troy provided so's the trend on the market is upwards. today in the morning we opened it we don't just do differently kind of correction to markets we were both two percent don't and why do you need day after the release of years

numbers of the markets almost recovered all the losses just a wee wee showing the morning you've. got a global picture of. the mood is definitely changing and many investors writes i think those are two for news from a fed meeting which will be later in september and also i think the markets are also expecting some positive news from germany that selection of the decision on broadening old for eight four years old in general. here for high from troika dollar has just wrapped up the trading day for us that perhaps not the business bullish in more announced time.

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