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 it piece of the libyan scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen beyond security council will not tolerate how it's reason lucian's being implemented. russia has sharply criticized the latest sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis europe's imposing an oil embargo and warned of further steps to force president assad to end of the five month crackdown on protesters the u.n. claims that more than two thousand people have died since the anti-government demonstrations began in march but some including the syrian government say the reports about the conflict are far from reality are. among the few international journalists there here's what she found a mass murder humanitarian 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 nipple manipulated and there have been reports about that are available online that you can watch of the 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 dock 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 hurting large numbers of people into stadiums carries them would alba 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 walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea soon and everyone has to get out i didn't go anywhere just stayed in my house i can see the bay from my window and there was nothing in there aside from the usual patrol boats still gunfire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. we wanted to leave

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 lined to. syrian authorities have long been insisting rogue armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first during demonstrations 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 realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country a new media law has overturned that ban but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards achieving serious image as portrayed on major networks even those carty syria. across in libya the interim leadership claims colonel gadhafi is

youngest son who. the lead military brigade was killed in the past week commies khadafi were reportedly has reportedly been buried in bani walid a loyalist stronghold one hundred fifty kilometers east of tripoli the town is now surrounded by rebels who are set to begin a final assault that comes after revolutionary leaders said on sunday negotiations over a peaceful handover of the town have failed or he's been a financial reports from tripoli. is the name for the tribe population in this area one of the biggest li bin tribes and a staunch in the devotion to the embattled colonel it's played a prominent role during the current uprising he libya's 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 have all the time in 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 rebels there is coming here from benghazi soon but so far we haven't seen is sign of them here in live in capitals the situation here is very complicated the streets are literally for the armed rebel fighters with actually a clear agenda of the interior minister has recently claims that the national transitional council will soon try to bring these people under their control but as we can see here they're not quite successful so far here's my report about that. mohamed 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 which i know i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my food was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was himself. this is a reality of today's libya for when the rubble stray off and march through the country tons of khadafi is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stories of was discovered at the top security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released after nato bombed the area of the do who's the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear and revenge from khadafi loyalists he was among the first at the scene and helped destroy the arsenal. i don't want weapons to fall into the hands of my songs or the youngsters i'm concerned where our country will be going with god 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. when i grow up i have a real one and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then you're thorough as you say they'll soon start gathering up weapons through mosques and well police are back on the streets the young gunmen demonstrate their readiness to. will give it back to them as soon as they ask a stone which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdrawal and 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 that all be easy for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history river r.t. tripoli libya. well it's been just two weeks since tripoli fell to the rebel forces

but the interim government is already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commanders are calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being acts khadafi loyalists political satirist ted rall sees a new civil war brewing i have some sympathy for. the lobby and his call to get rid of all the former regime figures i mean it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the exit from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you would see any kind of division like that uses in a scenario where revolution is not fully realized and that seems to be the situation in libya any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end where you end up with shah masood in afghanistan once said in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians next we kill each other in libya they can kill their idea of

a fifty flee kill the khadafi regime and now they're going to kill each other still to come this hour. ukraine turns up the heat and it's a gas a row with russia threatening court action over prices plus. the international war crimes tribunal turns to our team for a copy of an interview with genocide suspect ratko melodic where he made serious accusations against iran peacekeepers in the ninety's a balkans conflict. on to israel and now where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country and what has been called the biggest anti-government rally in the history of the state the protesters are demanding social reforms calling on the government to lower the excessive costs of living party's policy or was in tel aviv for us with the latest developments. it was the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the launches that this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been dropping by 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 which people here are 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 oh say that well you know one of the new slogan is we're hearing is where we use the pain but soon that is a throwback to november the fourth one thousand nine hundred five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak bane ever been was assassinated people say where were you then 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 but arming sitters and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the discounted messages at home. israel is also facing a rift on the global stage as turkey prepares to challenge the gaza blockade and the international court of justice it comes amid a dramatic souring of ties between of the once close allies. has expelled israel's ambassador and cut all military ties with the state over its refusal to apologize for last year's gaza flotilla raid by turkish peacekeepers were killed in the attack that recently leaked u.n. report concluded that israeli commandos used excessive force when boarding the ship yet stressed that the israeli blockade of gaza was illegal turkey says that the findings are. not binding and will take the case to the hague israeli foreign political analyst dr golland says losing such an important ally as turkey deals

a serious blow to. this is exactly the situation that the ongoing negotiations of the past month between israel and turkey with american mediation it tried to avoid and unfortunately failed basically the idea being presented an opportunity for israel to mend its relation of the turkey with turkey moving for me its alliance with syria to more coordination with the us a so defect that such an agreement between israel and turkey well there was a very close with eventually not ph is quite a blow to is there a legion of foreign policy especially in the mountain which is always expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the un the whole nation state so now israel has less one friend in the region in a very important and muslim country in nato member an e.u. applicant very important regional player that is now in last four years that for quite some time ukraine is grumbling over its gas bill again with

a rout over the agreed price with russia threatening to end up in court kiev is having trouble paying but won't merge its nationalized energy firm with russia's gas problem to bring costs down the kremlin insists the contract cannot be revised unilaterally and will stand its ground or the 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 moskos 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 the 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 it plays 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 there or merger of the ukrainian gas when opel is now after gas with the russian gas or approaches by mosco of the transport gas transportation system in ukraine this harsh stance voiced by ukraine sent shock waves across europe many have been awarded whether there would be another gas war another disruption of supplies in g.d.p. and 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 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 do you. rain coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year parties alexia cesky reporting from a king of ukraine now still to come this hour putting pressure on the press. british police flex their muscles and the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over footage of looters to help make arrests. moscow's celebrate been celebration central this sunday red square has been marching to a massive military tattoo drawing hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world who've been showing off their skills the russian capital is also been wrapping up its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a stunning light show. is following the festivities. the celebration sofa

moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and that's with them again this is since laser show project tents outside mosco state university the oldest university in russia is set to make into the guinness book of records all see the celebrations of moscow's birthday coincided with the last day hold this just gets our festival an annual festival of military orchestras from all around the world that takes place on the red square in central square. new dream bands from fourteen countries gathered here today to parade alongside each other and it's a famous and strange finger agreement she has now become one of the headliner all of this annual event for the third time in a row for the third time she's movement this truly magnificent very bright sounds very loud speaker our performances he said surely amazing opportunities see more fountains of yours muscovites than guests hope to see who are supporting the troops

of their own countries to see what their own but if you have missed it you can always support you it's on our website. has been following all the five days of. this military orchestras parades. in central russia of course it's a grades a happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when military bands gather for the purpose of music making and his new talent overcover reporting for us there now moving on europe's debt dilemma shows no sign of dying down italy and greece are once again facing dire warnings about the state of their finances the european central bank says rome needs to stick to its a forty five billion euro austerity plan to avoid collapse while greece has two weeks to implement structural economic reforms or it could lose all benefits of the second bailout but experts 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 to believe repay its debt

under under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and that 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 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 heard here which essentially is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries 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 who've suffered under austerity now for eighteen months of the most dreadful kind huge cuts in public spending in services and people's wages rising unemployment and no real prospects for the future that's what the bailouts really were always about trying to support the european financial system rather than

supporting say the greek economy we certainly i think in the early stages of disintegration the euro deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system the imbalances they've 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. british police have been putting pressure on journalists this week to hand over footage of last month's riots in order to identify looters in action but media organizations are resisting the requests to avoid being seen as evidence gatherers for your story police forces across the country approached media groups urging them to voluntarily hand over all footage used or unused scotland yard said it would obtain a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary investigative journalist tony gosling says the police run the risk of compromising fundamental press freedom . and 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 cameron's 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 particularly crimes just taking place and it's very important that both of them are doing it independently they have got thirty 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 as we been recapping the week's top stories let's bring you some of today's world news. the former head of the international monetary fund dominic's transcon returned to france on sunday after sex assault charges were dropped against him in the us he was arrested in new york in may after a hotel maid accused him of attempted rape strauss kahn was put under house arrest but later the case against him was dismissed by a judge as well as having to quit the i.m.f. he faces another sexual assault allegation in france by novelist tristan daniel. iran's first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bush era facility began in the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sense to complete it both countries

have agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. tropical storm lee has reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. there is a state of emergency in the region as well as the coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five the gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. and the u.n. war crimes tribunal has missed a key piece of evidence in the trial against a balkans war suspect. it's asked for a copy of an archive interview with the former former bosnian serb general which aired just a few weeks ago on this channel it was recorded shortly after the shepherd needs a massacre in one thousand nine hundred five where thousands of muslim men and boys were killed. making serious allegations against un peacekeepers in bosnia artes and

he said reports. what was an archive never before seen video footage of that interview before r t published it some two weeks ago very serious claims there and really that's what makes it so shocking that the tribunals missed this what could be very important evidence in the trial r.c. of course will fully cooperate and hand over that video footage to help with the ongoing proceedings in the hague i just want to give you an idea of what exactly was said in that interview one of the strongest statements as we see it and i'm quoting here is instead of disarming the muslim formations as they had committed themselves to doing the united nations forces turned those safe areas into terrorists and fundamentalists bases from where our villages and towns were attacked now malott it also goes on to say that he believes the u.n. was smuggling weapons into demilitarized zone so you can see the severity of these claims and how they could possibly be very important evidence and again shocking

really that the hague tribunals missed this stuff first off because it was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five just after the serbian it's a massacre which is one of the atrocities that melodic shiz is being accused of why he's standing trial in the first place and second of all it was filmed by a western t.v. station is available in the bosnian our costs are very surprising that this video footage which could certainly be a very important moment and very important material in the trial dismissed by the tribunals and it's eighteen years of existence the tribunal has faced harsh criticism about it being biased it's fiercest critics go on to say that it's a political show not a court of law and this is going to not weaken those and same send by this i mean of course this latest news that the tribe you know missed what could be very important evidence and part of the fact the reason i should say and what because these critics base their facts on is that seventy percent of the indictments that

the court has issued have all been against serbs and when you look at. who is been tried over the past almost two decades you could say when you look at the serbs side and then other non serb generals or officials that have been tried a lot of them have been given much lesser sentences by and some of them have even been acquitted and again this plate is if you will missing of evidence by the tribe you know is not going to help in criticism that the hague is in fact biased or cheese and he said no reporting for us of their now that interview with iraq on what it is online in full on our website r.t. dot com as well as our you tube channel and youtube dot com slash r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few. leeches

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the violence suppression of anti. everman protests in syria moscow has called that use new round of sanctions targeting series of oil exports inefficient in resolving the conflict. in libya rebels that surround one of cut off these last remaining strongholds east of tripoli with reports of one of the colonels sons being killed in the area meanwhile time runs out for the pro-government loyalists to surrender in bani walid with opposition leaders saying negotiations have failed. and other top stories of the week hundreds of thousands of israelis take to the streets across the country demanding the government improve living standards rather than spending money on settlements and the military protests have been the largest anti-government rallies into the history of the jewish state. moscow is a blaze of a color with a fireworks and a record breaking laser show as the russian capital celebrates his eight hundred sixty fourth birthday and.