on r t. useless but harmful russia's foreign minister sums up a new set of e.u. sanctions against the syrian regime. ukraine's gas pressure another winter of discontent looms as kier fails to reach a compromise with moscow over its previously agreed fuel bills. russia pays its respects to more than three hundred thirty victims of the terrorist attack on the school seven years ago. international news and comment live from my headquarters here in central moscow

where it's just past eight pm this saturday europe's launching an economic offensive against syria this time targeting oil imports which russia's foreign minister says will be useless in solving the arab countries drawn out conflict so you have rome's comments came at a summit of c.i.s. countries where you also spoke about libya's new leadership qualities a couple in approach over is there. so he a lot of criticized what is described one sided sanctions against syria including imposing in part on oil exports from the country sanctions are rarely the best possible solution he said and could even make matters worse the european union imposed embargo on all experts from the country and western powers are pushing for father naturals against president assad for the brutal crackdown on protests as russia's fears concerning sanctions against syria are justified as many believe that sanctions are the first step to repeat leave years disastrous scenario in

syria russia calls for more cooperation rather than military action and today sergei lavrov in particular said that moscow sent an official invitation to representatives of the libyan national transitional council to come to russia to discuss potential energy projects and the best part is daniel bushell report not everyone is eager to cooperate or even share with libya lining up for its look pretty energetic posits italy's top oil company any has already moved its workers back into libya britain's b.p. is said to be in private talks with the interim government french rival to tall did noise reports that france was promised a food of the country's forced reserves by rebels telegenic pay france's foreign minister calls it a. call to favor those who put the winning soit poor against gadhafi is not even over but already appear to be fighting for the resources he wants control actually

this war with this activism. it was a war of frost against italy. ownership of libya's oil say experts key to control of the country libya's a very unusual economy. depended it depends entirely on oil production and the money coming from oil shale oil is so crucial some libyans cool full rooms. on the sexton occupation which they say they will challenge. will not accept. patients he was speaking at a demonstration the spruit to give the north africans and europeans who opposed the takeover of libya's resources these people are denouncing what they're calling the looting of libya they say nato states stealing the country's oil under the pretext of helping its civilians libyan politicians say they should have their most important assets libya is a population and we have we have not i force out of the nation we don't want oil

companies to our future but analysts say rebels are set on brooding states. help them to power then you will sure. libya's new leadership claims rebel forces will lay siege to pro get a few strongholds until they surrender or stolen them next week the national transitional council is moving to the capital from its base in benghazi kind of gadhafi remains at large hands pave across the country as tense as people refuse to give up arms fearing for their lives as he wants to release billions of dollars of the former leaders frozen assets for rebuilding the stricken state the rebels say china is trying to block the move on and risk watching the situation say the alliance is only thinking of profit. 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 a very minute and very limited military first capability so this is clearly

not a war 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 it did not take place in libya it took place in europe and this is nothing but an attempt to meall colonize north africa and they are beginning with libya which has the most lucrative oil resources in africa had the highest standard of living in africa so this is clearly an act of forced removal and definitely regime change. so you have also spoke out over nato as missile defense shield in europe which the u.s. is actively developing the russian foreign minister says there's no indication of washington's willingness to cooperate with moscow on the issue of the kremlin wants to create a joint defense system that the of has been met with a lukewarm response from nato on friday turkey agreed to host a radar for the western shield and russia feels the system could threaten its

security but brussels claims it's aimed against so-called rogue states. requests for written guarantees of so far been brushed off by the night's. dream and while the u.s. for making lots of corporate russia is working to make sure its own nuclear arsenal is in top shape it's successfully test fired an upgraded version of its total ballistic missile on saturday with a maximum range of ten thousand kilometers it's capable of evading advanced missile defense systems the mobile weapons being modernized to make it even more difficult to detect which military official say isn't in direct response to washington's plans for europe. there's a lot to live here in moscow still ahead this hour for you the pressure to push aside palestinian statehood america plans to block the road to recognition of the upcoming u.n. vote on giving a voice to occupied palestinian territories. that story comes first ukraine's

struggling to pay its gas bill to moscow but is ruling out merging its nationalized energy firm with russia's gazprom to try and lower costs present it says kids proposals on the shore not concrete and the current deal can't be revised unilaterally previous disputes left europe in the cold off the transit supplies of carson's next year especially reports ukraine's now busy looking for ways to go it alone. when the two thousand and nine disruption to european gas supplies sparked when ukraine blocked transit or russian gas ended the continent gave a collective sigh of relief but the issue has remained a thorn in the side for t.f. you sporting hard for a discount from the current market price of four hundred us dollars four thousand cubic meters. we need arsenals clear if they want cheaper gas and integrate with a common economic space if they don't want that can give us a good commercial offer like selling their gas transportation system to ensure they don't hold any of those only discounts however it seems ki of is already looking

for an alternative the state 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 just chill gas is extracted by hydro fracking that means special chemicals are added to the water to break up the rock formations the components of these chemicals are kept secret by the companies in the united states claim it's a commercial secret water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water here is some shale gas development poses a serious threat to environment. and used it apart from being seen as unsafe it is also described by many as too expensive and can hardly replace natural gas and we're watching the situation and we think that locally for a bottle well it will remain a local gas supply on the us it's impossible to extract gas to last for long years and if you look at the shield guess where it's right now you'll see believe it most

of them a losing money experts say shale gas resources great maybe the biggest if you are a little a take off to it jackie to develop them never the last key of claims next year it wants less russian gas slashing the amount of plants 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 tussle over gas prices between kiev and moscow left many warring in europe that there will be another gas war and another disruption of supplies in through the european continent but the russian energy 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. see reporting from kiev in ukraine. coming up to ten minutes past the hour here let's have a quick look now at what's being updated for you at all t. dot com a web site where we can see a wall for wiki leaks is the whistleblower takes

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video on demand our keys my old girls and all the streets now in the palm of your. american lawmakers are considering changing the un's funding rules to effectively cut off the cash for any program supporting the palestinian bid for statehood and a draft legislation says palestinian attempts to boost its voice on the international stage will undermine negotiations with israel and human rights journalist ramzy good says the focus should be on global sanctions against israel to kick start the peace process. in order for peace to be achieved you have you have to have israel either concede the peace would have to be achieved or israel to be arraigned in as any other vulgar occupier of a country listening to commission or a recognition of a palestinian state and the u. is not going to reign 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 it come with it come 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 issue again a factor in. preventing the palestinian authority from taking further steps to isolate israel internationally and to and further bring palestinian rights

to the fore of the international community to turkey seven military ties with israel for refusing to apologize for killing nine turkish activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid was also expelled israel's ambassador former head of the israeli diplomatic mission to turkey told r.t. that the real france is for israel to be left isolated in the region. is one 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 acquaint together i think in addition on top of the damage to the bilateral relations we have to see if there will be a spillover to egypt and jordan i think this is that the olympics we pickle issue if the question is about these wally politicians the only thing they can do now in

the near future is improving their relations with the palestinians sitting 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 that by lead to early something could be done now i don't think it's too early to apologize so i think by literally very little could be done things have to move regionally. u.s. markets have taken a nosedive as fears over a new recession grow they were fueled by the worst jobs report in a year which showed employers have virtually stopped hiring can cast a gentle soul and he believes that washington's under the impression that regular americans simply don't deserve a bailout. we know that the now washington is talking about more austerity measures the same kind of voice staring measures that are racking through

europe as well what does that mean it means more cutbacks so at a time when the economy is already slowing down a created zero jobs which is just perfect for washington because they bad zero on just about everything that's thrown at the war on drugs wars in afghanistan wars on education you name it they it's what they do zero so what it shows us is that at a time when things are slowing down it's going to become much worse for all of these q we list all of the promised stimulus and bush talks where did the money go it's called too big to fail so the money went all to the to big and the rest of the people are too small to say the gap between the rich and the war is the widest in the united states than any of the industrialized nations

and it's the same trend that's going on worldwide. america's decade long war on terror is just one of the drains on the country's economy costing trillions of dollars and thousands of lives later we'll see whether it was really the price when. the war actually incited more terror it's good but 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 we're in new york the epicenter of the nine eleven tragedy to find out when the people there feel safe. nearly a billion people in the world are going countries every day. in the united states even our trash cans or food that. you just have to go get it all of these perfectly

good takes because one was cracked in even get all over the other ones just threw them all the way up and she's from the german oh you clearly like the upper five. in the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake is made from and one dozen. egg whites. delicious breakfast for the family take some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.

from july from the russian capital eighteen minutes past the hour now the sky above

the russian town of beslan turned white today as hundreds of balloons were released in memory of the victims of the country's deadliest terrorist attack over three hundred thirty people died when a group of terrorists held around a thousand people hostage in a school for three days without food or water seven years ago is really a question of our reports from the republic of north setter. today is the third day of mourning here in the smallest such an town of bassline where hundreds of people from across the republic of north are such a are coming to pay their last respects to worse the victims of the busline siege their memorial service place first at the ruins of the school number one where the hostages were held burnham at the cemetery for the victims which is called the city of angels the names of the victims and their worth three hundred thirty one people who were killed during the siege were rest out to the sound of the ticking clock and during this time and it took more than twenty five minutes to read all the

names people remained silent as the roots of the school at one o five pm moscow time that's exactly the time when first explosions at the ski school in the rain alger as church bells ring twice followed by a minute of silence and during this minutes most of the women started to cry and there was one woman she was time to very close to us and she started calling for her son and she was calling so loud that it was a terrifying moment for many than the vast and tragedy destroyed lives of hundreds over here in the north of such a and the seven years have passed the pain still remains. now it's time to update you on other news making headlines this hour the taliban says it's holding the thirty pakistani boys who were kidnapped after mistakenly crossing the afghan border the boys aged between twelve and eighteen were visiting a nature sponsored celebrate the wisdom festival of when they were seized some

managed to escape and alert local authorities both sides face a challenge in securing the almost two and a half thousand kilometer boundary. in south sudan felons of refugees are fleeing the disputed border region after violence flared up it's the third outbreak of fighting since the country became independent the july state of emergency was declared in the region on friday after clashes broke out between old forces and rebel groups the decades long war for south sudan's independence has claimed thousands of lives. clashes in central somalia have taken the lives of thirty people and injured a hundred but heavy artillery fighting happened in the rest of town divided between two neighboring regions is to be between two rival clans reports a group linked to islamic radicals also part of the violence in residential areas small is also facing a worsening drought catastrophe with deaths rising and disease spreading rapidly.

twenty one people are feared dead after a chilean military jet went down in the pacific ocean one body has already been found in the water the plane made two attempts to land before disappearing from radar among those on board were chilean t.v. crews including one of the country's most famous presenters the search is underway for both the plane and the victims. plaited patris has retired from the u.s. military off the years of commanding the wars in iraq and afghanistan he takes it with the cia next week and wants to keep a firm hand on the money saying that any military budget cuts will hamper the fragile and reversible gains made by the forces but all of these military contributed thinks it's about time the pentagon cut its cloth and during his farewell address that fourth mayer's general petraeus touched upon several very significant things first the general cautioned against repeating american mistakes

after vietnam war and to prevent hollowing u.s. army also cautioned to keep counting insurgency doctrine alive and called for maintaining the full spectrum operation capabilities for the united states forces there real danger for the panzer get in to try to first century is not. my pally to hollow army but the army itself is growing more and more irrelevant in vic conventional challenges at least for the united states for two reasons first due to the ast symmetrical nature of the current all the horizon challenges and secondly that it is more exception than as a rule but rivet american g. i's being the most expensive soldier in the world it is the united states bad has to be a slash more than anything else regarding the pentagon comes. in just over

a week america will mark a decade since suffering its worst tourism one hundred soil none in the libby touch paper for a war on terror that saw the u.s. invade iraq and afghanistan and eventually led to the killing of osama bin laden the scars in new york remain and their health and solace people there whether they feel today's world is any safer. 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 ten years later as the african 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. and i don't know i could say that i don't know the war actually incited more terror but it's that's my opinion but. the european opinion so to

speak as you know the europeans they are not as aggressive in the war against terrorism as the americans so both america the u.k. anybody's involved in it just just back off. you know because if you do back away they plunge. and you don't want to let the terrorists win so it's just 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 a necessary do you think the world the safer because of it i don't know i think that we have been out of the following day i bored waiting for to get him more than three hours and i think that maybe is excessive but i don't know so do you think that says we're giving up too much liberty in the world in the name of security i think that yes if the danger is very close we have to give more liberties and if

the world becomes safer maybe we can get them back you're ok with giving them up for a while yeah i think so we should probably stop using the word for starters and the war on terror stop using the phrase it's just a stupid phrase and was coined for political reasons i think we should should stop using bad and just just do what needs to be done whether or not you think it's going. worth the effort 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 than. just turning twenty six minutes past the hour here i'll be back with the headlines very short me that softer a short break stay with us life here and. i

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