a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow the un's most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria and move all parties into dialogue that's russia's view outlined by the foreign minister during a meeting with his brazilian counterpart on sunday. we strongly believe it's unacceptable to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for a feature of the libyan scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen the un security council will not tolerate how its resolutions are being implemented . russia has sharply criticized the latest e.u. sanctions against syria calling them home full and in effect solving the crisis europe is imposing an oil embargo when we want to further steps to force president assad. five month crackdown on protesters the u.n.

to claims that more than two thousand people died since the anti-government demonstrations began in march but some including the syrian government say the reports about the conflicts are far from reality in the police because among the few international journalists there hazel she found. tarion 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 that are available online that you can watch of footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing the same footage and on different stations with different backgrounds digitally dropped in 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 to several 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 away their cell phones were also taken away and they really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries somewhat of a very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the uncle saying has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in stadiums and then and then committing mass executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from warplanes and navy ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened. some people 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 in there aside from the usual patrol boats still the fire did break out between the army and government so some five thousand palestinians left their homes for the. allies. we wanted to lead so that our kids wouldn't hear the gunshots we hear in our house and when there was a break in the fighting we went to the stadium we stayed there for three days then came back. so did two thousand refugees only to realize there was no air and navy attack taking place on the city. we felt like we were lied to the. syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first during the history prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media. syria is fighting a media war and it's losing it. the syrian government might have realised its

mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country and new media law has overturned that ban but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards changing series image as portrayed on major networks in those court t.v. syria. now across in libya the rebels have surrounded one of the last remaining strongholds of colonel gadhafi supporters a town of bani walid southeast of tripoli the lawyers given until next friday to surrender but rebel against say to say they expect the standoff in the town to be resolved within the next twenty four hours in the libyan capital for. bennett is the name for the tribe populate in this area one of the biggest li bin tribes and staunch in the devotion to the embattled colonel it's played a prominent role during the current uprising he libya since the beginning of the events here in february people from these tribes have been fighting against the

rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for khadafy in misrata things braga and in other cities they've been all the time ardently supporting the colonel who's provided them with the past weaponry in the past and actually khadafi himself as well as his sons tommy thought to hide in that area and that's why many here on the ground are saying that if the rubbles managed to take this stronghold that was officially mean at the end of the colonel and the regimes for the national transitional council have recently repeatedly been claiming that police safe tripoli is now secure and that rebels there is coming here from benghazi soon but so far we haven't seen any sign of them here live in capitals the situation here is very complicated the streets are literally all the armed rebel fighters with actually a clear agenda of the interior minister has recently claimed that the national transitional council will soon try to bring these people under the control but as

we can see here they're not quite successful so far here's my report about that. now how much is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tripoli but with a shot coming from his own side charlottesville have a look i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was so scared himself. this is a reality of today's libya for when the rebels triumphant march through the country tons of gadhafi is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stories was discovered at the top security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released after nato bombed the area of the dude was the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear in revenge from gadhafi loyalists he was among the first to seen and helped destroy

the arsenal. i don't want weapons the role of the hands of my sons or the youngsters i'm concerned where our country will be going with goggles this is a very dangerous thing it's not a toy but with the country in war with arms it looks like libyan kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. but i like it when i go out and have real life and hold how bad guys like gadhafi then you're thor's you say they'll soon start gathering up weapons through mosques and while police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to. will give it back to the soon as they ask a stone which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdrawal the gun has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and freedom for a new country though people want more peaceful symbols but fear of all being is if for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such

a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history. ribbon otieno otty tripoli libya still to come this hour putting pressure on the press british police. proves that the media telling needs creeps they have a responsibility to handle riot procedure polluters to help make arrests. across israel a few areas public have been making sure government no doubt about that and with the largest demonstration in the country's history the social protests have been swelling for two months against the high cost of housing corruption and other living standards policy reports from the biggest rally in tel aviv. it is the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the largest at this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been doubling the million man march they were really hoping that

a million people would turn out on the streets of israel though we're hearing figures of some three hundred and fifty thousand that's three hundred fifty thousand in ten cities where here in tel aviv is the main focal point various speakers as well as artists have been addressing the crowd the rallying call remains that of social justice with people here demanding that the netanyahu government change its focus away from issues of security to issues of social justice that people here are saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel. now one of the new slogans we're hearing is where were you surprised by third that is a throwback to november the fourth nine hundred ninety five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak been ever been was assassinated people say where you've been so of course people here are saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the streets and make a change and make their voices heard and yet instead of concentrating on domestic problems israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been focused on the international stage on september the twenty eighth palestinians will go to the united nations to declare

a state and it in yahoo has responded by arming settlers and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the discounted messes at home. or reaction to the rally and now from what you do to oppenheimer who is the executive director of an israeli n.j. dealing with equality called. many has a big with us here on r.t. the movement demanding social justice began a few months ago in israel why do we see then such a massive rally on saturday particularly and what if anything does it achieve. i think this is a very spatial movement. in people demanding social justice even in a time of political split and political tension and even turf that took place in the nor that in this limbo they offered it over the country they actually cause

some interruption indeed in their fourth estate but nevertheless a lot yesterday we saw the biggest to early in the history of israel in that there chile gives in it gives really power to these two in each shows that people have started in the in particularly the question in the steps of the government in the flow and she eighteen between what's good for the government got what's good for the people of israel and this is becoming though if those strong voice but what do you think is actually going to be achieved most oppenheimer how likely do you think it is that prime minister netanyahu will as a result of these demonstrations redirect some of the money that's being spent on settlements the military operations back to citizens and improving their living standards. well this is still we need to wait for the time being we can say that to political

discourse in these has definitely changed and people are questioning the of the government of the society it's about money goes to the settlements but also that why is the economy is flourishing so is so in match goes and so little for the many in him for young people are growing up in this country going to the court going to the university thinking about the future ways in their families this is a big question and have these demonstrations been in some way a reaction to what's been going on in the wider the muslim world is as ball as high as ever has the spirits of the arab spring if you like reached israel here. i think people have seen and government that creates no hope in this function

in every level that government needs to function on the police on the political. level in terms of the political process the negotiation with the palestinians on no hopes in only fear in perceive beauty and also in the economic and social you see a government that trying to tell people that what is all that is what they can get and that's the best they can get in and do nothing in order to improve the life of people and this is i think there's these. and these negative. no holds and no in rejecting only knew she had thieves on the political and in on this so she alone in this what brings people in the street into the sleeve they're asking for something is ok we're moving our way from israel's domestic concerns now

and looking at some of his international pressures palestinian president abbas is preparing to take his dependence to the u.n. in just a few weeks now and he's getting international support how worried is israel by this. i think i would again be flew to between the israeli government and these really people there israeli government has see you need a it in for the past. six months the only action is the actions of the government to cause. rejecting in this initiative and trying to avoid that in all the political i think that we've seen if you ask people i think they can only see the halt in the. opportunity for change in this initiative in that it's not all of it's not all against but it actually it actually goes hand in hand in what the young people are saying this do they say no to the

status quo will they say that they need a change in that something needs to make these these balance of flit that if the people of these well and the palestinian people to know where you seem to see a real disparity between what the young people of israel want and what the israeli government is after me is after the moment so in your opinion and what do you think international recognition or the palis palestinian state would actually mean for israel and the wider region. i think we need to still be very careful in two way to do them to twenty years to see what is actually happening and before we can. dissipate well what is what is going to be but again i think that it will be welcome within the israeli

public in a more positive way. that is accepted by the government as my older musicians focus in was his head. and i can say that the status quo in jerusalem is not not just a situation that not nothing is that of the nation but actually alone a lot is happening on the ground in many fact ated owned a good. government and by white when organisation that try to avoid a future agreement a future solution in. ne ne's end to the conflict as a whole so there is nothing more dangerous then the status quo any change in any breakthrough will be at least can bring their opportunity for globalists and you did all but i'm a executive director of it i'm in a jerusalem based and dealing with the quality thank you for your thoughts.

ukraine's grumbling over its gas bill again now with a rally over the agreed price with russia freshening to end up in court case having trouble paying what mergers nationalize energy firm with russia's gazprom to bring costs down the kremlin insists the contract can't be revised you know laterally and will stand its ground and its reports. very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now the ukraine president viktor yanukovych is saying that his country is being humiliated in the course of negotiations over the gas price and also says that the ukraine might take this whole negotiation process into international court in stockholm to try to have the two thousand and nine gas deals revised moscow's position is that it is ready to accept any legal action because it is completely confident that justice is on its side and it's ready to fight on in court should this happen saying that until

a proper commercial offer comes in the price will stay the same and the negotiations will continue no the essence of this dispute this time is that ukraine has been very much unhappy with the price it is paying for the russian gas and right now would praise up to four hundred u.s. dollars which is a market price for one thousand cubic meters of gas and it wants a lower price once a discount at the same time mosco says that any commercial offer would justify the discount something like should that be either a marriage of the ukrainian. gas with the russian gas or a purchase by most of the transport gas transportation system in ukraine this harsh stance voiced by ukraine sent shock waves across europe many have been worried whether they would be another gas were another disruption of supplies into the reaping continent but the russian energy minister said that something like what happened in two thousand and nine will not happen this time that there is still enough time to find a proper compromise solution besides russia is no longer so strongly dependent on

the gas transportation system in ukraine to deliver its gas supplies to europe we know that several new pipelines are being built i right now the north stream by plan is due to be completed pretty much soon the south stream by blind will also be available in the next few years so the gas war of two thousand and i will not repeat again even if there will be serious gas conflict and possible suspension of supplies to grow. coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year now it's happy birthday to the big city moscow is eight hundred sixty four years old the russian capital in big style with festivals and a massive. millions are expected to take part in what's turning out to be the most expensive city day celebrations in moscow's long street around seven hundred events scheduled across the capital with concerts in the pogs along with major exhibitions in the city's topics roundly and also they say will be

a laser show like no wall that with russia's oldest university. help in what could be a great catch you can watch it here live on in a few hours from now. ok we're following the celebrations taking place across the russian capital of course on our web site head to r.t. dot com for more moscow's city day and the other news that we're covering for you this hour online right now we hear from an award winning serbian the film director about his plans to build a traditional russian village and an example of that because the down. and red squares rousing spectacular is the first is all of the military tattoo which rounds off this sunday with russian foreign armed forces bands showing their. beating drums to an easy to red square. this week the star scotto military took to. the stick to make sure the standoff.

dati dot com did you front row seats just. and enjoy the show. british police have been putting pressure on journalists this week to hyundai the footage of last month's riots in order to identify looters in action but media organizations are resisting the request to protect editorial standards and avoid being seen as evidence. police forces across the country approach media groups or voluntarily hand over used and unseen footage the scholarly deal said it would have taken a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary and the journalist tony gosling fears the police run the risk of compromising fundamental press freedom. but i was very disappointed to see that david 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 to the independent broadcasters and just demand footage demand 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 david camm is coming from on this as far as i know we live in a liberal democracy and we've got a free and independent press the other thing is ultimately what's going to happen in a demonstration situation if you're going to have the crown turning on the journalist they will come even possibly 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 police in the media are trying to do a similar thing in certain circumstances basically when a crime has just taken place and it's very important that both of them are doing it independently they have got forty thousand they've 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 europe's debt shows no sign of dying down greece and italy are once again facing dire warnings about the state of their finances the european central bank says rome it needs to stick to its forty five billion euro austerity plan to avoid collapse while greece is too weak to implement structural economic reforms or it could lose all benefits of the second bailout but if there is say it's too late and the greek economy is effectively going down the drain. the cat is out of the bag and to be quite honest the statement is quite close to a simple statement of the facts greece cannot applause believe repay its debt under under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and the simply no earthly way is going to be able to repay this debt on any plausible time scale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original kind of hope of 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 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 to 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 of great series 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 he means that the bailouts really were always about trying to support the european financial system rather than supporting say the greek economy we are certainly i think at the early stages of disintegration europe the deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system the imbalances that built up for the last ten years so i'd be surprised to see the euro continuing in its present

form given the situation we're in at the moment. ok let's bring you some more of today's news now with the former head of the council. has returned to sex assault charges were dropped against him in the u.s. he was arrested in new york in may alter a hotel maid accused him of attempted rape trials come with put under house arrest but later the case against this judge as well as having to quit the i.m.f. he faces another sexual assault allegation by novelist. rounds first nuclear power plants now putting electricity into the country's national grid. began in the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the nineteenth when russian sense actually is to complete it both countries have agreed that spent fuel for the plug will be sent to russia to reduce west that around could use the materials to build nuclear arms. probable so only has reached landfall in louisiana in the cell than the us is

a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place opposite fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina floods two thousand and five. less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the. novel victims of brushes deadliest terror atrocity have been remembered in the town of beslan well over three hundred people mostly children were killed in their school this week tunnels and people paid their respects to the victims of the attack which happened seven years ago hundreds of buildings were released in a symbolic display to murder children and the other innocents who died the terrorists held a round of panels and people hostage in the school for three days without food or water. with a recap our top stories in just a few moments don't go away. move

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gadhafi supporters is with time running out for the loyalists and lay down on. its radios the stage their biggest. protest against their dwindling living standards over three hundred thousand people gathered to get the government to spend more on social programs instead of settlements and military. ukraine is turning up the heat with moscow demotic the previously agreed prices on the cards are refusing to make any concessions and russia maintains the current contracts compliance with international quite a call be revised the. next all special report. dr. of dollars of food has been thrown away.