tons. of blue cheese available in regency. took it spells the israeli ambassador in cups military ties with some of them over the country's refusal to apologize for the deadly raid on the girls of. course. but still finds that the israeli. legal i'll bring you more developments in just a few moments on television. libyan rebels close in on his last remaining stronghold with the colonel himself a man on the run and explore one of the secret bunkers revealed that the fugitives escape route could stretch way beyond the rebels reach. and starving the regime a new round of sanctions against syria is agreed targeting the country's all exports

which account for twenty five percent of its entire income the top stories this hour. and in business ukraine has issued russia and ultimatum one of the castille more business in twenty minutes. international headquarters here in central moscow where it's just past nine pm this friday night. downgrading its diplomatic relations and military cooperation with israel over time of its refusal to apologize for last year's deadly raid on the girls of. turkish activists killed in reports suggest a un investigation has condemned the use of excessive force during the incident. is in and of it. what we are hearing now from turkey is that it is expelling the israeli ambassador from ankara with immediate effect now dollars is also useful to

apologize for killing nine turkish citizens who were part of that first put to them attempts to break the israeli blockade on gaza we are hearing from the turkish foreign minister that in addition to expelling the israeli ambassador they are also downgrading all diplomatic ties between both countries to the level of second secretary and that they are freezing all men to treat corporation not initially tookie had given the israelis the deadline of the publication of this u.n. report as the time by which they expected and were hoping and with planning for an apology that last night thursday the new york times published the u.n. report that report found that the israelis had used to quote it explicit and reasonable force and that the loss of turkish life had been an exhibit of the report though did find that the israeli blockade on gaza was not illegal if it is a comply with international law and it did say that those israeli commando units that had stormed the ship were met with force and have the right to respond with

force the timing certainly is a good if we can on september the twentieth the palestinian leadership will be appealing to the united nations general assembly to a unilateral declaration of a palestinian state now there are already growing concerns on the ground that they could be violent at this time throughout the week we were following reports of the israeli army arming settlers there were reports that they were arming them with stun grenades and tear gas so the first reports are be downgrading of relationships between israel and turkey comes at a particularly bad time when the situation on the ground is already tense and could potentially just exacerbated even further. meanwhile the u.s. congress is considering a legislation that would block american funds for any u.n. body that supports the palestinian push for recognition the bomb administration is staunchly opposed to the bill introduced by a republican lawmaker saying it would undermine washington's international standing with david shore from the foreign policy think tank the stanley foundation joins me

live now to share his perspective on the legislation thanks very much indeed a with a joining us here on our team now the lawmaker who introduced this bill is the head of the foreign affairs committee an influential position but what is the level of support that she has for this. if there's a long way to go between proposing these ideas and having them actually legislatively but you can think of sort of the foreign policy side. the similar kind of. illogical extreme positions you come from particularly the house of representatives since republicans took control beginning the year when it was met with criticism by the democrats in the white house run on the chances this could actually go through. i don't see this taking effect. don't see this taking effect as law but it does

show a certain direction of the debate it does show a problem within the us domestic politics or for our foreign policy. and one which would ring alarm bells fear should the republicans get back into power a reflection on their foreign affairs and that thing on diplomacy. well it's certainly a step backwards if you think about the problems that the u.s. has had in the recent past following points on its contributions and its membership dues and you. know also the republican introduced the bill is also seeking to ban u.s. contributions to the u.n. human rights council now she sees that organization as a platform thought and she is really rhetoric how fair is that claim. well you can make that criticism and to to some extent it will be justified but the important

thing is to distinguish between the the positions that are taken in the u.n. and discussions that take place in the in the councils of the u.n. but it doesn't really make sense i don't think sudan. punish the institution of or the politics that takes place there i think the proper way to look at the united nations is a venue of a location where diplomacy and international politics takes place and i don't think it's a good idea to. take this sort of approach that it expects the united nations to after prove its worth by only having discussions or is there should. not are the war that we like well it speculates on the fact that that institution could not say that nor is voted on it does actually go through i mean that would have a major impact anyway would it not on the un's role in well the issues. i don't

see any good in the united states pulling back from the us. which is what the effect would be here. take the human rights council for instance there are there has been a long time problem with countries getting membership getting seats on the council that are human rights abusers but you know while this legislation takes the position that you should pull back without research i think you can make a much stronger argument that you have to be in there and in fact there have been recent successes for us policy with the obama administration being able to keep iran for instance off as a as a candidate for membership. of course. this all centers around that crucial vote in the u.n. concerning the future statehood of palestine what impact would a vote in favor of recognizing that statehood have on the middle east just finally

you're views on the impact it would have on the region. well it's hard to say it so it's certainly would be. would represent i don't know people are calling a game changer but a lot of a lot of people are concerned. it would be very highly destructive on the other side of the argument you have the fact. that the peace process has really sprawled out pretty badly. in recent times. they will have to leave it that we're out of time to talk to david shaw from the stanley foundation joining us live there in the usa thank you. or you can always access on latest news on the internet by knocking on to our website it has all to dot com he's a taste of what we have waiting for you online at the moment you can watch the full interview with that coming out each which will be used by the hague tribunal as evidence in his trial on our website as well as our you tube channel com slash

russia today. also on the web site wiki leaks exposes a diplomatic cable revealing the gruesome murder of iraqi children by u.s. troops. and also that on line a red sky at night was not this city's delights as well way accident leaves a toxic cloud choking the life out of the urals skies all that available and plenty more for you and all to come. to libya now where the rebels a tightening the noose around colonel gadhafi has lost a major stronghold his hometown set the fugitive lead his forces have been. given an extended deadline to surrender which expires next saturday but in the fine would be a message read by syrian t.v. you could actually run it is supporters urging them to fight on against the rebels

and nato alliance has vowed to continue its airstrikes on launch its forces saying the u.n. mandate to protect civilians in libya still stands the coalition is also moving to release billions of dollars who could have his frozen assets to fund the reconstruction of libya where we can now cross live to the u.s. and talk to the united nations special rapporteur richard fuld thanks very much indeed for being with us now the libyan rebels abandoned non violent measures against gadhafi regime early on before the violence really did escalate and now of course the country is flooded with weapons often in the hands of people with a shady past the n.t. see the national transitional council will have its hands full trying to build a democratic country where it. no question it's very very problematic that the n.g.c. can remain coherent in this period and. it will become the subject of. a great deal of internal factionalism and

it's not clear who will. create a future libya and i have to. give. benefactors of their. revolutionary challenge to. control over the oil industry will european construction companies really call that economic reconstruction of the country there are a lot of questions one has to be rather skeptical about how they will be resolved in this period well interesting you're talking about. perhaps referring to rewards i noticed that we've been reporting in fact that there be revelations in the french media suggesting that paris and sealed an agreement with the rebels giving france more than a third of libya's oil reserves and that if that isn't the reward then what is it

and if that is the case doesn't that make libya a puppet to the west. well it certainly raises questions about the whole really shouldn't ship supposedly humanitarian intervention in the internal affairs of the country and the economic dimension of the undertaking that seemed to explain why libya or. syria why not. why not other places so that you have to be a little bit suspicious about what the motivations were in libya in the first place what accounts for the. use of force what accounts for the failure to limit the action to what the u.n. security council authorized in terms of a no fly zone and the protection of civilians particularly in benghazi it was clear

from the outset that this mission as executed had very little to do with the security council authorizing resolution that several important countries had abstain from in the first place because they were. dubious about any use of force in relation to the situation put it in libya ok then what now then for the future you raise doubts over the nato role there but what about the un you are un reparatory is there a role now for the future in libya for the u.n. to ensure that there are proper elections that there is in fact a stable road to democracy i was talking to a guest a little earlier from the leading democratic party and he was saying the u.n. really should play a crucial role now would that be acceptable to the libyan people and indeed to the international community where we're seeing further foreign intervention interference and intervention in libya's future. well that's a question it would depend on whether the initiative to.

fight. was an authentic expression of libyan self-determination what's really at stake here is whether the n.p.c. really can fulfill its promise as the representative of the libyan people and not the agent of international capital or of nato or of external forces and if there. doesn't happen then i think the doubts about the whole of her taking. on the increase in the future of the u.n. and the potential to play it constructive monitoring and supervisory role in relation to human rights and democracy be avoidance were of. politics in this post gadhafi period but whether that can happen in an

acceptable way or not is anyone's guess at this stage but wouldn't that acceptable help or interference whichever way you want to look at it but more legitimate coming from the african union after all we're talking about a country on the african continent and i could offer was very influential of course in africa but of course the african union's been very reluctant hasn't it to accept the rebels as the legitimate authority in libya put isn't there more of a role here for the african union than anyone else. in one sense yes i mean in the. regional relationship that libya had to the african union into africa. and certainly say that this would be a desirable kind of initiative particularly in africa which has been so much the target of intervention over the years so much exploited and

abused by the european colonial powers that it would be. very important to allow africans to have a major role in planning libya's future what the realities of geopolitics are. as engaged in this massive intervention it's likely to prefer the u.n. where it has been able of leverage over the african union which is viewed as having had this close relationship with the gadhafi regime and not fully trusted in this situation and it is a very limited at the present time ok richard we'll have to leave it there thanks

very much indeed for your time thanks for your thoughts joining us live there from the u.s. united nations special rather richard fuld frank thank you for having me. or call it off the remains of a man on the run two weeks off the rebel forces overran tripoli his whereabouts are unknown and some reports suggesting may even fled abroad but rebels believe he is still in libya hiding in one of his numerous secret because refinish and i went to ground for r.t. to gauge the scale of the challenging hunt for gadhafi. but what's been hidden from the eyes of the public for many years remaining just one of the legends about the kernel the came bailable once the rubble through carefully here it is the entrance to put up is underground city hall the we are going down the sign in arabic at the hatch says the rats this way this is what people in the call khadafi believe in his run away under the ground hiding from the rebels.

there is no sound here of celebratory shootings above ground it's dark and humid and scary some believe that could be heard who the bomb shelter are those that it was a facility for the macabre his intelligence service some rooms look like living rooms like this one others just like prison cells yet there were more exciting findings i had this incredible rooms here i just packed with electronics of all kind. look at this it looks like professional equipment for surveillance and very very old james bond type gadgets abound in a.z. how many with most similarly never having been used shelves we have cases black and brown little and big cases from the more till the ceiling has took hours there.

it's quite old one. this seems to be a briefcase recorder and just next door piles of all do and video recordings apparently taken with it it's not is a day to find a device to play all the tapes looks like some of the secrets will never be revealed. and your type. this is a video recording of the interrogation of a cia agent allison guy and his whose name all people as we found here i classified marked top secret well that's an interesting book about legal and illegal eavesdropping methods but among us it was from here that the libyan brother had been in its residence carefully no one can say for sure how far

these underground tunnels through which i believe four kilometers and kilometers some claim one of the corridors leads to the airport let's try to. that's not easy ok. here we are. this interim slinks completely different the raster is here that's where we emerged in the city of kirkuk talk about either way we spent a while of the ground it's not easy to recognize the area but let's ask the guys in the car. my argument that our family that money. well getting the money as far as i know this is more than fifteen minutes drive from but it is here where we started our hidden there on it which is look at least twenty twenty five kilometers and this is just

a fraction of what's buried there on the ground well well but i think a darkie a priority in the country with the extraordinary facility like we've just seen. and incredibly difficult task. are to tripoli libya syria is facing a fresh round of sanctions targeting it's all exports off to e.u. countries agreed to adopt france britain and the u.s. are also calling for the u.n. security council to condemn violence in the country but he's done a bushel as this report. you has a new round of sanctions targeting syria's oil industry and it comes into force only on the fifteenth of november because italy has asked for an extension to allow its existing contracts to be completed the e.u. does import ninety percent. which accounts for a quarter of the country's income so to risen to the country now did this really syria economically but libya's oil reserves have been. over this week because we've

seen so exposed here say the e.u. can safely go ahead and cut off its syrian supplies without affecting deliveries to europe as well as all sanctions the e.u. also plans to expand the list of people with an assets and travel bans and other four top officials have been added to that list the u.s. wants stronger u.n. resolution condemning the violence in syria russia is against any resolution of such kind it insists on social economic reforms in the country. reports that some two thousand people killed since since march an anti-government protests there is some. grainy footage that no one's very fired most foreign journalists are banned from the country so it's unclear where they're getting that information from some in fact think these are actually anti-government protests the infighting between religious groups in the country. from syria we want to.

get this is where generally people are gathered. at the center of homes demonstrations this is where most of the best you can see this is a very lively area every time something of a transition happens it's more of an effect now when we talk to people they told us that majority. in the city because of the religious basis they're not against the government they're not for any political matter this is most of the things that do happen in homes most because. or see that does happen it holds the problems on the religious basis of the differences between. the sunni muslims in the states you know they're hoping takes down that we have seen we did see some army presence we are trying to keep the area under control or to prevent the end breasts but they are religious groups but other than that we haven't seen or heard any shooting we haven't seen any tanks and life really seems to be running the way it's usually

runs until course television crews show up and start filming in the middle of the day now we also have been in one of the most dangerous areas of homes and right around the time often noon here unfortunately in syria the period after noon prayers has become somewhat a traditional time for people to take to the streets and for violence to break out but we were lucky there was no violence this time around. a lot to bring us up to date for the moment twenty five minutes past the hour very nearly next previous the latest is something. thanks bill that's right time to delve into the world of business secret is preparing another move in the gas to become a chess game with russia the country's prime minister says he wants to close down its gas monopoly naftogaz artie's alexy russia's ski house the details. ukrainian gas monopolists nothing gas company will cease to exist that is according to the

ukrainian prime minister new colors that are full stated that in the next several weeks they will find means to rest. and liquidate the guys in its present form and we also understand that ukraine's president also said that by the first of october the company will be completely restructured renamed and all of its duties will be delivered to several different companies we understand partly enough to get us monopoly of them and after gas company will be merged with the russian gas giant gazprom and we've already heard confirmation on that from the head of the gas company but it's very interesting especially given the fact that ukraine has been pushing very hard to change the gas deal of two thousand and nine being unhappy with the price that is currently playing to moscow for the russian natural gas so some experts suggest that so rapid liquidation of the nafta gas monopoly can be somehow related to the fact that ukraine has been trying to alter

the two thousand and. twenty year. from argus media says the only way out of the energy deadlock for ukraine is to flex muscles and engage in fully fleshed negotiations. russia wants to see green integrated it's in the. soviet zone actually it's a special we're talking about it so it's you know brought to you cream showed no real interest to do that because the people i'm going to war actually they're trying to shoulder they're more interested too in to be integrated in european union the dissolution government of ukraine and leadership are actually the georgia russia to start negotiating because of that russia is talking about it there is no other solution actually very sick which is great at the european union so it doesn't give anything to resolve the gas dispute picture because gas is being

delivered from russia to ukraine and to european customers. let's have a look at the markets now oil has slightly retreated from earlier losses that are still down significantly this sounds like relation to slower job growth in the u.s. like hurdle fuel consumption in the world's largest economy brant client is trading at one hundred thirteen dollars twelve while the double space powering its eighty seven dollars plus talks are sharply lower pushing the dow jones industrial average into next chart true for the week after the labor department reports payrolls remained unchanged in august. and european stocks fell sharply on friday as a few stocks survived a broad based sell off after data show trials dropped close to a halt and all this typing concerns the economy could fall into recession germany's dax index was the worst performer of europe's main indices on including a half percent. and russian stocks with deeply in the red after a close track in europe and the us while on disappointing state i'm glad to have

a look at some of those original show moves on my six energy may just war among the main losers and weak of crude bucking the trend for special type maker t.m.p. the companies us totn at profit were transported to two hundred fifty eight million dollars and whose gold was not only strong of precious metals. but props up the business boys and join me in less than one us time for another business update here on our city.

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