tv [untitled] September 3, 2011 2:00am-2:30am EDT
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as libyan rebels attempt to bring order to the streets of a country ravaged by the war and they are a nation seek the oil rewards of their battle against gadhafi. inconceivable grief russia mourns more than three hundred thirty victims of terrorist school siege that added seven years ago. and turkish disgust ankara severs diplomatic ties with israel after that your state refuses to apologize for the raid on the gaza of balance let's hear what killed nine turkish citizens last year.
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i am in the russian capital watching r.t.i. marina joshie welcome to the program libya's new rebel leaders are seeking to restore order in the capital tripoli encouraging fighters to either return home or join the army colonel gadhafi still remains at large and some parts of the country are still under the control of the loyalists nato continues airstrikes on canal the troops near his last stronghold the city of sirte saying the u.n. mandate to protect civilians still stands the coalition's also moving to release billions of dollars of the former leader's frozen assets to fund reconstruction and while mostly vians are enjoying the first taste of revolutionary freedom there are some accusations that nato states are looting a vast oil riches daniel bushell reports of the powers lining up for a look or to energy contact. for the company and he has already moved his workers back into britain's. crossover talks with the interim government for
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a tribal to hold noise reports that france was promised a third of the country's forced reserves by rebels patel and should pay france's foreign minister calls it a fair and logical to favor those who broke the winning side war against gadhafi is not even over but already appear to be fighting for the resources he once controlled actually this war with this activism. it was a war france against italy. ownership of libya's oil say experts is key to control of the country libya's a very unusual economy in that it depended it depends entirely on the oil production and the money coming from oil shale oil is so crucial some libyans call for in some way on the. patient which they say they will challenge that people will not accept. he was speaking at a demonstration that's brought together the north africans and europeans who oppose
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the takeover of libya's resources that these people of the announcing what they're calling the looting of libya they say nato states this country's oil under the pretext of helping its civilians libyan politicians say they should be most important assets libya is a population and we have we have the foresight of determination we don't want oil companies to lose them and our future but i listen rebels a certain group warding states whose bombing helped them to power then you will shortie. the learning and of new year's campaign in the be seen by some as the beginning of a race for oil reserves in a wider middle east political analyst an expert on africa as a killer says the alliance is only thinking of it. they carried out over twenty thousand sorties or possibly seventy five hundred air strikes against a country of six million people that has virtually no our defense and
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a very minute and very limited military defense capability so this is clearly not a war are on the part of the libyan people against the government but a war on the part of nato to really explore the resources in libya they had a meeting to discuss the future of libya and paris this meeting did not take place in africa and did not take place in libya it took place in europe and this is nothing but an attempt to colonize north africa and they're beginning with libya which has the most lucrative war resources in africa had a higher standard of living in africa so this is clearly an act of force removal and definitely regime change. but analysis an expert on africa here sharing his thoughts on in libya's conflict. syria's facing a fresh round of sanctions targeting its oil exports with e.u. states agreeing to adopt an embargo it puts even more pressure on the syrian regime
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over its violent crackdown of anti-government demonstrations on friday at least fourteen people were reported to have died in mass protests the u.n. says more than three thousand two hundred have been killed since pro-democracy rallies began a mart the annual revenue from the sale of syrian fuel accounts for about a quarter of the country's income was a banned now choking the country's economy russia says it will not support a new e.u. proposed draft resolution at the u.n. security council critical of syria and author and blogger dan schachter says it's not right to jump to conclusions without clear evidence of what's happening in the syria. mike and many other conflicts the coverage tends to reflect the often the political outlook of the countries for whom the t.v. networks work and the question of armed groups is not definite on one side or the other there are have been some armed groups there are there are reports of
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headquarters of the basque party being burned down and the like so that gives credence to certain syrian claims but in the absence of having journalists there from around the world to investigate all of this to look into it the coverage of these conflicts has been so poor in many many countries that you know you have to kind of not rely on just t.v. images you have to also look at social media you have to read press accounts and in some cases press reports differ from country to country about the very same incident so i think you just have to be suspicious and not jump to conclusions because a lot of what you're watching is really in the process of happening we don't really have a lot of perspective and context yet. going out shortly here on our t.v. landing and your job that's exactly what thousands of americans can do with little or no new vacancies in august i doubt who's being blamed for. an
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escape moscow fail to find common ground on their gas deals ukraine sets its sights on alternative bites or. more than three hundred thirty bellew's will be released in the skies above the taliban's line in the republic of north to syria today one each for the victims of russia's deadliest terrorist attack seven years ago the school siege ended when a group of caucuses extremists held around a thousand people hostage three days without food or water more than half of those killed in the assault were children but you know caution there were reports from north to say. this day marks the third day of mourning in the small self and town of beslan in russia's north caucasus dozens of people are visiting the ruined school number one to lay flowers and light candles that's one zero five pm moscow time that's exactly the time when this cool stream where the hostages were house was blown up a church bell will ring twice to mark the blast fold by
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a minute of silence also three hundred thirty one balloons will be released into the sky one for each of the victim the morial services will continue at the cemetery for the victims and the cemetery is called the city of angels the key keeper of the cemetery is also a father of one of the victims he was a caring father for his eleven year old daughter but when she was killed he couldn't cope with the last move to the cemetery and now takes care of it's everyone here knows about him but this is a tragedy the hundreds of lives school siege is the deadliest terrorist attack average to take place and russia seven years have passed but the pain runs just as deep. in their reporting their turkey has expelled israel's ambassador and severed all military ties or words refusal to apologize for last may's raid a u.n. investigation into the attack which killed nine turkish activists found israeli commandos used excessive force when boarding the ship although it also concluded
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the blockade of gaza was legal relations had deteriorated since the incident israel's insistence acted in self defense. regrets the report hasn't healed the rift dr alan neil out of the israeli diplomatic mission to israel has to make peace was before her becomes right again. his word is lost its closest friend in the region in the last two decades which is a strong diplomatic political blow also a strategic blow because the the army's used to create together i think in addition on top of the damage to the by letter relations we have to see if there will be a spillover to egypt and jordan i think this is a moment that we think will be sure if the question is about these welly politicians the only thing they can do in the in the near future
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is improving their relations with the palestinians same thing again and trying to reach an agreement i think the issue of the israeli palestinian relations will be the critical issue also regarding their relations with turkey i don't think the lead truly something to be done now i don't think it's too late to apologize so i think by literally very little could be done things have to woo originally. we allow the un is preparing to vote on whether to recognize palestinian statehood later this month the u.s. says it will veto any you know admiral dead which doesn't include peace with israel . editor a man line journal concerned whether human rights of palestinians as israel should face sanctions for its actions as occupiers. but in order for peace to be achieved you have you have to have israel either concede that peace would
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have to be achieved or israel to be arraigned in as any other vulgar occupier of another country a palestinian recognition or a recognition of a palestinian state and is not going to remain in israel as of yet i think it's a step it's a crucial step and it depends on two major factors how will this international support translate in terms of action in the future and b. will the palestinian authority will the palestinian leadership have the backbone have the have the courage to use that as a platform to acquire further international support to call for sanctions against israel to punish israel for the harm they have been doing to the palestinians or will you come up with it succumb to american pressures again because of the issue of funding we all know that the palestinian authority gets much of its money from from the united states and their allies will that money it should prove again
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a factor in. preventing the palestinian authority from taking further steps to isolate israel internationally and to further bring palestinian rights to the fore of the international community. the american jobs sector continues to leak as new thinkers show zero new jobs were created last month the u.s. unemployment rate remains at about nine percent there's also an ongoing volatility on the stock markets as financial confidence lines there are plenty from the trans research institute says ordinary americans are facing cuts while the banks are given a get out of jail free card. we know that the washington is talking about more austerity about the same kind of voice parity measures that are racking through europe as well what does that mean it means more cutbacks so at
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a top when the economy is already slowing down they created zero jobs which is just perfect for washington because they bad zero on just about everything that's thrown at that war rod drugs wars in afghanistan wars education you name it they it's what they do is zero so what it shows us is that at a time when things are slowing down it's going to become much worse all the news. media lists all of the old promise and bush top where did the money go it's too big to fail so the money went all to the too big and the rest of the people are too small to say the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest in the united states than any of the industrialized nations and it's the same trend that's going on worldwide. still have for you this hour on our t.v.
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all changes and the top as he says top commander in afghanistan dates of files there well into the military will look at the news france the army faces plus. would you categorize that war on terror as a failure. as necessary. they've won. you don't want to let the terrorists win so it's just it's not easy to come up with the right. ten years now after the nine eleven attacks as the war on terror made the world a safer place or want deidre's one we asked the question on the streets of new york .
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if. russia would be so much brighter if you knew about sound from phones to impressions. whose phone starts on t.v. don't come. more news today violence is once again fled the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. sheinkopf orations arrested a. wealthy british style sun. sometimes the title.
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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause report on our. as russia and ukraine can seem to agree on the price of gas deal signed two years ago switching its focus to other energy solutions its contract with anglo dutch firm shell to explore ukraine's rich shale gas reserves is worth around eight hundred million dollars but as i see her she has been reports of faces huge problems as it tries to reduce its energy dependence on moscow. when the two thousand and nine disruption to european gas supplies sparked when ukraine blocked transit of russian gas and that the continent gave a collective sigh of relief but the issue has remained
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a thorn in the side for. pushing hard for a discount from the current market price of four hundred us dollars four thousand cubic meters. we made ourselves clear because they want cheaper gas and integrate with us into a common economic space if they don't won't go out and give us a good commercial offering like selling their gas transportation system tunes they don't want any of those only discounts however it seems key of is already looking for an alternative escape route it has signed an eight hundred million dollar contract with royal dutch shell to explore its reserves of shale gas but experts warn about the danger to public health that with the boy the chill gases extracted by hydro fracking that means special chemicals are out of the water to break up the rock formations the components of these chemicals are kept secret by the companies in the united states who claim it's a commercial secret put that water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water some shale gas development poses
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a serious threat to the environment and health apart from being seen as unsafe it is also described by many as too expensive and can hardly replace natural gas. we're watching the situation and we think that locally it's very viable but it will remain a local gas supply it's impossible to extract gas at a loss for long and if you look at the shale gas suppliers right now you'll see that most of them are losing money experts say shale gas reserves in ukraine maybe the biggest to europe but it may take up to attack eight to develop them nevertheless kiev claims next year it wants less russian gas slashing the amount it plans to buy by more than a third a move that violates the two thousand and nine deal and could see europe's energy supplies once again on shaky ground another thoughtful over gas price between fear and moscow left many warring in europe that there will be another gas war and another disruption of supplies into the european continent but the russian energy
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minister reassured that the events of two thousand and nine will not happen again and that there is still enough time to find a compromise solution alexy recess. reporting from kiev in ukraine. moscow was more eager than ever to receive legal guarantees from nato that its anti-missile shield is not aimed at russia after turkey gave its backing for the project ankara has agreed to host an early warning radar as part of a system in europe russia has damned washington for steaming ahead with a plan despite reaching an agreement with moscow the u.s. insists shield is aimed to protect europe from any potential attack from countries like iran or north korea but moscow fears it could threaten its security the kremlin and the white house are currently seeking a compromise. the u.s. is top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has been farewell to the army after thirty seven years as he has for his new job as head of the cia and he's
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party speech he's warned against deep cuts to the pentagon budget as over three hundred fifty billion dollars are to be slashed over the next ten years are his military contributors says the problem is that the u.s. army is no longer fit for the ever changing challenges it's facing. during his farewell address the fourth mayor's general petraeus touched upon several very significant things first the general caution against the evening american mistake after vietnam war and to prevent holing the u.s. army he also cautioned to keep counting insurgency doctrine alive and he called for maintaining the full spectrum operation capabilities for the united states forces are there real gains or for the parents are going to twenty first century is not that the budget cuts my family to a hollow army but the army itself is growing more and more irrelevant and
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conventional challenges at least for the united states for two reasons first due to the metropole nature of the current over horizon challenges and secondly that it is more exception than as a rule but really the american g r i's and grounds being the most expensive soldier in the world it is the united states has to be its last more than anything else regarding the pentagon it's. own lots of uneasy winds when you want it on our website that's hardly dot com here's some of what we've gone lined up for you today . even after the war crimes tribunal asks arts need to hand over an interview with former bosnian serb general rocking the line what's the channel manstein the ensign army chief stands trial over all its crimes of jams. and police and firefighters from around the world swap the organs and holds us for hockey sticks to our teen
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says feeds now in the palm of your. else take a look at some other stories from around the world a chilean air force plane with twenty one people on board has crashed off the country's pacific coast it's believed the jet tried without success to land at the airport of an island of juan fernandez and windy conditions rescue boats are now searching for the plane's wreckage some of which has been seen in the water. we can lease has disclosed its entire archive of us to say state department cables much of it and sands or the move has already drawn stinging criticism from major newspapers which had previously collaborated with the online whistleblower papers say the publication of the cables in this way may put sources at various. friends as well and president hugo chavez has returned to public life and apparently route health after extensive chemotherapy treatment for cancer he wasted no time getting in the
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spotlight of the t.v. cameras playfully boxing and jogging to demonstrate his recovery he also hit out at nato operations in libya and was cheered by crowds of supporters turning to the presidential palace for. pressure is building on yemen's president ali abdullah saleh after more than two million people all over the country rallied against his regime the protests were calling for revolutionary forces to take decisive action after several months of unrest in the country president saleh has fled to saudi arabia after an attack at his palace earlier this year but has. now it's almost a decade since the nine eleven attacks on american soil that shook the country to its very core it led to the so-called war on terror and the invasions. in and iraq the president or harvard has asked people in new york if they feel they are living
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in a safer world. the so-called war on terror that launched after the tragic nine eleven attacks on the us has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars by some estimates though ten years later as the effort been worth it this week let's talk about that i think it's more secure now i think that i believe that yes is it trillions of dollars safer. i can say that i don't know the war actually and so i think more terror that it's that's my opinion but that's a european opinion so to speak as you know the europeans they are not as aggressive in the war against terrorism as the americans so america or the u.k. anybody's involved just just back off. the facts because you know because if you to back away they've won and you don't want to let the terrorists win so it's just
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it's not easy to come up with the right answer if anybody wants to you know to cause trouble or to or to provoke some kind of attack they can do so with or without a war so would you categorize the war on terror as a failure. as necessary do you think the world is safer because of it i don't know i think that we have been out of any day i put waiting for to get in more than three hours and i think maybe it's excessive but i don't know so do you think that some are giving up too much liberty in the world in the name of security i think that yes the danger is very close we have to give more liberties and it's the world become safer or maybe we can get them back you're ok with giving them up for a while i think so we should probably stop using the word for some for for starters and the war on terror is that is in a phrase just this is just a stupid phrase and was calling for political reasons i think we should should stop
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using vet and to. just do what needs to be done whether or not you think it's been worth the effort but the bottom line is the war on terror has been bloody and costly and we still have yet to see any clear plan for it then it's. hardly a special report looking back on the movement to which campaign to stop the us war in viet nam and it's after a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. today
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