until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who still at large is thought to be in that town and three other cities controlled by his troops are now being encircled by rebels ready for a final assault the interim leadership claims could office youngest son who commanded and leave military brigade was killed in the past week artie's wary of a national reports from libya. is the name for the tribe populate in this area one of the biggest lead 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 vast 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 manage to take this stronghold that will officially mean the end of the colonel and the regimes for the national transitional council have recently repeatedly been claiming that tripoli is safe tripoli is now secure but the rebels there is coming here from and guises soon but so far we haven't seen is find of them here if you live in capitals the situation here is very complicated the streets are literally all the armed rebel fighters with. a clear agenda 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. for a financial reporting there two weeks since the libyan capital fell the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional

council to resign for being xcode up a loyalist political satirist ted rall says a new civil war seems inevitable. 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 ex from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you will 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 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 have killed there and they've effectively killed the gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. russia says the un should immediately call in all sides in the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking

russia's foreign minister says president bashar assad has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict and sergei lavrov also admitted not all syrian opposition members ones to gauge in talks with a government lover of cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from the game last week that imposed an oil embargo against syria and warned a further steps if the five month crackdown didn't stop but as i read a little school report sanctions are more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorities. and the dealer is a master barber the small his shop was flourishing until it all ended in the snip. many customers that would come from a source twenty kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down a lot first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions to survive is to put the economic pressure on to achieve the political how to stop the bloodshed and to help the people of syria to achieve that

i just asked for a show at first all major credit card transactions were. stopped earlier this month but that mainly affected foreign tourists because syria runs its own payment system and those with syrian accounts didn't feel the pinch however the e.u. and the us are tightening their grip by imposing oil embargo on damascus so will that have any probable effect on the people here. of course sanctions will have a negative effect on syrian economy it's a diversified economy with a stable death which gives it a certain immunity against these sanctions. and this is not just government gloss in the face of imposed adversity syrian opposition figures are also unconvinced but for a different reason. the syrian government have chosen their path and no matter what measures are taken against them will continue down that road. sanctions are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian album is say there are

too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when talking about the oil the oil for the. citizens. people. but while the power dealers of the west in syria trade insults and blows for syrian workers like nigeria the daily battle is to keep his modest livelihood together while hoping for the best. i believe business will pick up again. even r t damascus syria. who are you going to live from moscow still had for you this hour marching out for future please demand their government focuses on social justice rather a town security as people take to the streets in the biggest protest yet. and as america's top commander in afghanistan bit his final farewell to the

military we'll look at the problems he's leaving behind. the u.k.'s chief prosecutor says looters are being punished too harshly breast agrippa country in early august saw people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundreds have since been given stiff sentences in already overcrowded jails where the prime minister has called tough love but as artie's ivor bennett reports the system could be a breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been full or nearly eighty seven thousand inmates are jammed in a record high just one and a half thousand short of maximum capacity now the government's hardline response to the recent riots across england means those spaces disappearing fast we're now looking at literally what we can pack into the sardine tin and i think that's very unwise and we may well see the disturbances in the streets simply transfer to the

prisons almost a thousand writers are in custody so far and there's plenty more to come the police are aiming to charge three thousand with seventy percent being put behind bars at this rate they won't be any space left by most prisons in britain wandsworth was at bursting point even before the riots just forty five people short of its maximum capacity of one thousand six hundred sixty five but that's already fifty percent over its recommended living and two out of three prisons current league see this safe limit inmates double up in cells smaller the nine square metres sharing an open toilet most prisons are in desperate need of upgrade wandsworth was built in the victorian period times literally stood still but nothing escapes austerity here especially when it costs forty five thousand pounds a year to house an inmate

a prison building schemes been reversed despite prison the numbers doubling in the last two decades staff and now outnumbered four to one. has actually orly fractionally increased by a couple of percent but we're expected to do the same job of rehabilitation in such difficult circumstances in effect with the uterus where those prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to society's problems. the government thinks it is encouraging tougher sentences to deter more writes is like this man who got sixteen months for stealing just two scoops of ice cream but others fear that the cramped conditions this will only if you re offending if you send people to prison who are suggests that it is it is not by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending we know that certainly with young people and with people in

short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of people reaffirmed within twelve months of coming out now that cannot be a good use of resources and there are two ways of doing it the prison service insists it has enough prison places for those being sentenced to custody as a result of public disorder adding there is substantial capacity in the prison system but the numbers suggest otherwise pushing an already strange system to breaking point either bennett's artsy london. protesters in israel prepared to pull down their tanks that have occupied the main streets of tel aviv and jerusalem since mid july they say the weekend's demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people have achieved their aim of mobilizing public opinion activists are angry at the high cost of living and failing social policies they plan to continue their protest until the government proposes real steps to resolve the situation mideast

analyst baskin says israel should spend more money on promoting social cohesion rather than settlement building in the west bank and east jerusalem. the social concerns are extremely valid the gaps between rich and poor in israel are grown from a society that thirty years ago was one of the most egalitarian in the world today to the second gaps between rich and poor only after the united states we have a problem of being. privatisation a philosophy that our prime minister adheres to and what we've seen privatized in israel over the past years are serious social services which should provide be provided by the government in education health and welfare and again the cost of living keeps going up and people earning two salaries or two family household with the cost of education health and welfare cannot make it to the end of the month we've heard a lot of voices in israel when asking the protestors and those who are leading them we are should the money come to pay for all these social services and to close the

gaps to answers that come up quite often is one take money away from the very high military budget and the other is to transfer money which is going from the settlements in the occupied territories to building inside of israel proper so there is a conflict here this government of israel today is a right wing religious supported government which supports the continuation of building settlements and there will be conflict here. well for more on the social protest engulfing israel go to our tea dot com it's our website and here's a taste of what we've got for you there right now america's ailing car making capital finds its can't get out of reverse gear as the country's government admits it's failing to grade jobs for its millions of unemployed citizens. and space junk has reached critical levels scientists warn the debris could damage or even destroy satellites as was proved fatal to astronauts journey to the final frontier the more you had to r.t.

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as u.s. troops begin their gradual pullout for afghanistan concern grows over the surge in targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. says 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 artie's military contributor looks now at what he's leaving behind the main legacy over general petraeus career. he's totally of a counterinsurgency doctrine which he coauthored the u.s. marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to a defect that general petraeus pioneered and led the way to recess aetate to revamp grades and to promote the counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant fact is that general petraeus coined doctrine that has ignited the

intellectual and wakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction for calcified my optic incur mentality conventional wishful thinking into the brand new vision of the world that's what the general of the trail has to be able to respect it remembered and that my and for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intel actual endeavor we had the coin dog training precipitated to parity shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the conventional and symmetrical models operandi. the economic situation around the globe continues to look bleak with the us creating no new jobs in august and europe struggling with a number of debt ridden member states one of india's leading economists believes

it's time the world turned to emerging markets. the medium to long term project suggests that japan boogaloo relatively slowly europe may grew a little bit foster good. the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is like do they grew faster than europe but the group through it in these economies would be much less the growth rate in emerging market countries i mean trying to brazil so i think. over time there is a shift in economic politicking praise one is to show i'm not another we're looking at it is really the rising rate of emerging market countries but i think you're thinking of a world in which there would be a large number of relatively equal economic grouping as you want to global system that can accommodate it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying well look this is the center of power

and everybody else must address. and you can watch the full interview in an hour's time here on our team now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world barack obama has promised there will be no slowdown in getting funding to areas devastated by hurricane irene during his visit to new jersey one of the hardest hit states the u.s. president made it clear of government aid is on its way however obama is likely to face opposition from republicans before securing extra fines for the recovery from the storm hurricane irene rocked the u.s. east coast last week killing forty and causing an estimated ten billion dollars worth of damage or. health concerns have cast a shadow over the upcoming trial of former french president jacques chirac a seventy eight year old faces two counts of embezzlement punishable by up to ten

years in prison is suffering from a condition which affects his memory the judge will consider medical evidence before deciding whether to postpone the trial or allow it to continue ensure ochs absence. the un peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh controversy after a five year old wine peacekeepers work use of sexually assaulting a teenage boy video obvious ledge to sold has surfaced on the internet a u.n. spokesman says the perpetrators must be brought to justice while your clients pull the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. mosque has been celebration central this weekend to ask the city's birthday bash went down with a bang red square played host to a massive military tattoo drawing hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world to show off their skills art is an italian overcoat has been following the festivities the celebration so for moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and that's where they're magnificent laser show project heads

out so most of the state university the oldest university in russia is said to make it to the guinness book of records to see that the celebrations of moscow's very they coincide with the last day hope distrusts gets our festival in annual festival of military orchestras from around the world that takes place on the red square central square looks to three bands from fourteen countries gathered here today to trade alongside each other and to feed the six great seeing your dream that you have become the headliner that is that the first time. for the third time she opens this. rights council very loud to our performance. base now but you see more thousands of you are muscovites have guests over the city for supporting the troops of their own countries to see their own but if you have missed it you can always watch it's on our website our home is r d has been following all the five days of this military orchestras parades. in central russia of course it's

a great happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when military bands gathered for the purpose of music making. the town though with her reporting there. our oceans are fast becoming the world's rubbish dump with every kilometer of sea now said to contain seventy four thousand pieces of plastic waste i doubt what could be done to stop the long term impact of this plastic pollution.

well i can watch that report in just over ten minutes time here on our team before that though well get the business update with dmitri. thanks for the gas pressure is rising between russia and ukraine kiev wants to renegotiate prices but is refusing moscow's offer of a new deal to bring costs down is rejected selling half of its state energy company

nafta gas to russia's gas from in return for cheaper fuel. say you know chefs has the details. experts are speculating whether this is the start of when you gas conflict and you gas war between russia and ukraine as very harsh statements are coming from both sides ukraine's president a victory on the court which has accused russia of humiliating ukraine in the course of negotiations and saying that he will not tolerate a relation like this and may even take this discussion over a new contract or when you get a surprise between ukraine and russia. at the same time we've heard a very sharp response from the ground. the press office of. russia's president to defend stated that russia is ready for any legal action should ukraine decide to take such measures the essence of this new conflict is that ukraine is not happy with the price it is paying for a thousand cubic meters of russian gas kremlin waits for some commercial offer to

provide such discounts such as for instance a merger between the ukrainian gas monopolists enough to gas and the russian gas giant gazprom many people of war in europe that there will be another conflict another disruption of supplies into the european continent as we saw in two thousand and nine of course the situation now is pretty much different to what happened more than two years back because russia right now is not so strongly dependent on the ukrainian gas transportation system as it was back in two thousand and nine. so you look at the markets now we saw with commodities oil is losing ground as investors speculate signs of the u.s. and chinese economies are weakening indicating fuel demand will fall to the world's largest group consuming nations brenda's coming deep down eighty four cents this light sweet eighty five dollars sixty six. to move to stock markets in the posting

shop losses tracking a us jobs report. on friday is weighing on. exporters with sony dropping out of a free percent almost four percent tokyo banks also under pressure with no more oil than four percent in the red. and russia trading will kick off and around one hour the russian markets under the previous week in the red both my sex and the r.t.s. dropped more than two point three percent. have a falling market in russia does present some opportunities for bargain hunters however an extension cord from believes it is too early to call the bottom and the prudent would be better off sticking to the sidelines it might be somewhere close to the bottom as some people believe and say and there are occasional bottom fishes around but you know prudent money of probably we'd before make any serious decisions any quotes you blue chip name which is you know essentially has come off

strongly and has good ability to generate cash to play didn't it would be a good church for russia clearly its own gas company a sort of sniffed will guestroom russian metal company has lost on there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they were the major losers in this game consoles you know obviously they need a recovery scenario companies like iraq's machel could be a very good bargain several style etc. good weather and the end of the grain export ban won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate the total export but tensional of this year's harvest at around thirty million tonnes but the authorities say they'll be lucky to export twenty five billion and that's all due to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports. but chose well wish him the best if we achieved more than three million tons of grain exporting organized we hope it's going to stay like that but as we see the railway system is

not able to transfer more to the ports while the docks can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month the railway system barely managed to transfer the august volumes. and that's all from this edition of the business news on r.t. we will be back in around fifteen minutes time.

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qadhafi as a last desert strongholds the town of bani walid that's after efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders remaining supporters breakdown. russia says the u.n. must immediately call for all sides of the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking we came after mosfet can damn the e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are breaking point working at almost maximum operational capacity this as the government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street dryers and looters. next we look at attempts to curb the ever growing pollution that is plaguing the world's oceans. the thing that's most shocking to me is of all the samples we've taken whether they be at.