which would result from a troll that would be closer to home with the reviewer who told the truck driver told me. he'd been rebels prepared to attack one of colonel gadhafi is last desert stronghold after efforts to negotiate the surrender of his remaining supporters breakdown. the un must immediately urge talks of the syrian conflict as russia for the down beat you sanctions which threatens it hurts people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are at breaking point as the government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street rioters and looters. watching r t going to live from moscow i'm marina joshing libya's rebel forces have

surrounded a colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of privilege saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed his troops have been given until saturday to surrender and avoid further bloodshed the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by his troops are now being encircled by rebels the interim leadership claims he's youngest son who commanded an elite military brigade was killed in the past week and while the rebels prepare a final assault the capital tripoli is enjoying its taste of revolutionary freedom as national found people there expressing their release from oppression many different ways. it's been now more than two weeks since tripoli fell to rebel forces and it seems everybody here has their way to enjoy the new found freedom perhaps i should feel as a rant because he ran away under the ground hiding there he used to call us rats

he's now himself the rats the only one left. mohamed says if he did his thing like these under the colonel it would have probably been the last team he'd do in his life well you know i feel so happy that i can finally express myself through my painting we've been living with closed in our hands tied finally that's over now that's not easy to find an empty wall into labor and capital it seems making fun of it used to be people's nightmare for decades has become a national pastime. for years of super curly hair we call him chips you could because his hair is long and he doesn't cut it and they are ugly actually in this room these teenage boys are fourteen ball freedom into the news magazine they make and all the facebook page they create there is no longer big brother they claim that only be clark we were into happy and this they were laughing on us so now it's time to get well driving towards

a new future leave it seems to stop for a while for a proper goodbye to his past well mom look at the physics actively go on his bigger remains very strong in the country he ruled for forty two years with his face still everywhere no longer on his portrays but on cartoons and graffiti it's clear it will take time for the libyan people to get used to leave without their trips to far. refresh an hour to tripoli libya. two weeks since the libyan capital fell the interim government already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commander is calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being at gadhafi loyalists political satirist there's a new civil war seems inevitable. i have some sympathy for the alsa lobby and his call to get rid of all these former regime figures i mean it's not much of

a revolution if you have former officials from the ex from the government this is just and. certainly 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 with any kind of revolutionary news and it is an alliance of convenience but in the end you end up with the 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 to kill each other in libya they have killed they are to deal with actively kill the kid got the regime and now they are going to kill each other. russia says the un should immediately call on all sides in a syrian conflict a star violence and start talking russia's foreign minister says president bashar asad has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict as also admitted not all syrian opposition members want to engage in talks with the government for a caution against encouraging protesters to stay away from its last week the e.u.

and post an oil embargo against syria and a warning of further steps of a five month crackdown did stop but as are any military courts sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorities. the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was flourishing until it all ended in a snip. in the customers that would come from as far as twenty kilometers away from the massacres with now the flow has come down a lot first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west quickly stepped in with sanctions purpose of the economic pressure on the cheap the political. the bunch and to help the people of syria to achieve just. a first. all major credit card transactions were stopped earlier this month but mainly foreign tourists because syria runs of payment system and those with syrian

accounts didn't feel the pinch however of the e.u. when the us are tightening their grip by imposing oil embargo on damascus so will that have any probable effect on the people here. or sanctions will have a negative effect on syrian economy it's a diversified economy with a stable gas which gives it a certain immunity against these sanctions. and this is not just government gloss in the face of impose adversity syrian opposition figures are also unconvinced what for a different reason. government have chosen 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 alast say there are too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most. but

while the power dealers of the west in syria trade insults and blows for syrian workers like my dear the daily battle is to keep his modest livelihood together while hoping for the best. i believe business will pick up again. if you go r t damascus syria. well russia can down the western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and effective in ending the crisis moscow's stance on solving the conflict has largely been echoed by its partners within the so-called breaks group comprised of brazil india china and south africa i'm now joined by dr shriram child here. in dallas school of international affairs in india thank you wrote very much for being here with us in the program how the break states are united in the need to resolve this year in crisis through dialogue but western countries tend to resort to sanctions so why do

you think are there such differences within these two blocs. you know i feel that bric nations are making a stand out and learning lessons from the lack of collective consensus on libya when the earlier you know you know more happened before the protests snowballed into an armed rebellion and there were u.n. security resolution is that actually. hijacked for regime change when the resolution was only talking about protecting civilians so it's very very important now that sanctions could be the first step leading to another military intervention by nato and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria and it's important to prevent this normal because it makes end up in a situation similar to what we currently be or we are there is this transition and reach was dictated by western military intervention and propped up america said that they were leading from behind where basically the point was of france britain

and the united states are not the arbiters of libya's destiny french are companies and italian oil companies and british oil companies are talking about how they're going to be number one in libyan oil so we don't want to go down that path again allowing yet another country which is part of the so-called arab spring board which is now increasingly being militarized through external interventions rather than allowing the for mentation to happen from within so it's important that big nations put up the stand a united front and try to prevent u.n. resolutions as well as multilateral sanctions that could be the slippery slope leading to full fledged war and other major unworldly in the middle east i don't tell you as we can see you know countries seem to put a united front in a syrian crisis and in a libyan crisis so the question arises how much such a united position poses how much of a challenge i should say this united position of the brics countries poses to the

west when it comes to dealing with other countries. well it's important it's necessary to contest if you want to can be sions and clearly merely showing through its actions in libya and now the drumbeat for sanctions in syria that they are somehow concerned about the plight of civilians who are being or who are on the receiving end of these kids violence in syria what the point is which missions are also concerned and all of them has said that the regime should treat the protesters respectfully and not with the iron fist but what is important here is war how will this resolution how we do see the situation evolve and why should the west be in a position to dictate the terms yet another transition you how the situation in libya to be very the transitional national council is talking about making sure that the influence of the western powers who back them will be maximum so are we

entering a new neo colonial era and we need to prevent that and the only way to do it is probably to put up a united front greek is a microcosm of the movement towards a multi multilateral word a gin mill a multi-polar world and you can only be calamity through joint action by bric nations to prevent this but whether they can succeed or not is a matter of also of power projection on the ground diplomatically yes russia china india brazil even south africa have central emissaries to syria and they're all involved in behind the scenes but at the end of the b. it also could boil down to military pressure and there i think iran is important because the only deterrent preventing another libya like intervention from the west is the fact that iran supports the syrian regime although iran has asked the sooner you can moderate its response to the protests at the end of the day has been law in iran are there and they will materially prevent

a takeover of syria the reverse impulse of now pretty much taken over libya by hijacking the human race. to protect civilians so it's important the brick also according to to be wrong and make sure that there is a peaceful transition of power we want democracy in syria but it should not be good on the libyan we reached ended up with the cia if you could in terms of all the outcomes on the ground right now in the fields between the end of the gadhafi regime and the people of the new regime so we would like a peaceful transfer of sovereignty when i think that is the message that they're also doing and in fact that's a better message than the you know the big stick that the europeans and americans are talking about seeing that we have a sea of life and immediately impose sanctions on the assad regime all right all right dr charlie thanks very much indeed for sharing your views here with us a professor of the kindle school of international affairs in india. so i have for you this hour here in our team marching out for

a future israelis demand their government focuses on social justice rather than security as people take to the streets in the biggest protest yet. and as america's top commander in afghanistan bids 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 the unrest the grip the country early august saw people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundreds have since been given stiff sentences in already overcrowded jails the prime minister has called tough love but his art he's either a bad reports the system could be breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been full 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 storage intern 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 next known capacity of one thousand six hundred sixty five that's already fifty percent over its recommended leaving two out of three prisons currently exeat this divide the safe limits inmates double up in cells smaller the nine square meters 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 howes an inmate of prison building schemes been reversed despite prisoner numbers doubling in the last two decades staff are now out numbered ball one. has actually only fractionally increased by a couple of percent but we're expected to do the same job of rehabilitation in such difficult circumstances in effect what you actually do you just work those prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to suicide. problems the government thinks it is encouraging tough sentences to deter more writers like this man who got sixteen months for stealing just two scoops of ice cream but others fear that

the cramped conditions they saw only a few re-offending if you send people to prison. wouldn't suggest that it is it is no by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending we know that certainly with young people and with people on short term presence and says up to seventy percent of people refrain within twelve months of a coming out 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 stretched system to breaking point either bennett artsy london. protesters in israel prepare to pull down their tans that have occupied the main streets of tel aviv and jerusalem since

mid july they say their weekends demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people have achieved their aim of novel rising 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 it is now a scarce and ask israel should spend more money on promoting social cohesion rather than settlement building in the west bank and east jerusalem. of social concerns are extremely valid the gaps between rich and poor in israel are grown from a society to thirty years ago it was one of those the galley tarion in the world today to the second gaps between rich and poor only after the united states we have a problem of increasing privatization a philosophy that our prime minister adheres to and what we've seen privatized in israel over the past years are social services which should provided be provided by the government in education health and welfare are going to get the cost of living

keeps going up and people earning two salaries or to 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 sure that when you come to pay for all these social services and to close the gaps. 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's 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. for more on the social protest engulfing is really to go to our team dot com and also on our web site you'll find plenty of other stories and features here is a taste of what we've got lined out there for you right now. america's ailing car making capital finds it can't get out of reverse gear as the country's government admits it's failing to create jobs for its millions of unemployed citizens. and

space junk has reached critical levels just more into the brink of damage or even destroyed satellites as well as proved fatal to astronauts journeying to the bottom frontier morehead to r.t. dot com plus to watch all of our of best meals on our you tube channel. as u.s. troops begin their graduate of ghana stamp concern grows over the surge in targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s.

is talking matter of ghana stand general david petraeus has been farewell to the army after thirty seven years as he heads for his new job as head of the cia our military contributor a look now at what he's leaving behind. the main legacy of general petraeus career . he's totally they counting insurgency doctrine we chico review 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 of grades and to promote the counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant fact is that general point doctrine that has ignited the intellectual awakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction from the calcified my optic

incur mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that some of the general controls to be older with suspected remembered and have myatt for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated their parity shift in the military thinking from their conventional and complacent and tell it to their conventional symmetrical models operandi. so the economic situation around the globe continues to look bleak with the u.s. 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. for any medium or long term projections suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow

a little bit faster than. the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy and like to do the grow faster in europe but the growth rate in these economies will be much less and the growth rate in emerging market countries i mean trying to brazil so i think over time there is a shift in economic power taking place one is to asia. and another we are looking at it is really the rising rate of emerging market countries and i think you are thinking of a world in which there would be a large number of relatively equal economic groups and you want to global system that can accommodate it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying this is the center of power and everybody else must adjust. and you can watch the full interview in less than ten minutes here on our team

right now though let's bring you the other news stories around the world the u.n. peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh part of her sleep after a five year while he's keepers were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy video of the alleged assault has surfaced on the internet a u.n. spokesman says the perpetrators must be brought to justice while your wife has pulled the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and dozens missing after a typhoon surged through southern japan it caused massive. writing and landslides leveling rows of homes cutting off access to manny remote villages thousands of people are still stranded and awaiting rescue the storm is the most devastating of its kind to hit japan in seven years. health concerns have cast a shadow over the upcoming trial of former french president jacques chirac the seventy eight year old faces two counts of embezzlement punishable by up to ten

years in prison because 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 to ensure at sampson's. princeps a day here in our team and time now for the business news with the meeting. morning you're watching business pressure is easing now in the gas feud between russia and ukraine he of says it will stick to the current agreements and to a new deal is signed that's according to prime minister. ukraine wants to renegotiate prices but is refusing so far moscow's offer of a new deal to bring costs down its rejected selling half of its state energy company enough to gas to russia's gazprom in return for cheaper fuel as easily see the ships as a piece of. experts are speculating whether this is the start of a new gas conflict and you gas war between russia and ukraine as very harsh

statements are coming from both sides where ukraine's president if he on the court which has accused russia of humiliation ukraine in the course of negotiations and saying that he will not tolerate different relation like this and may even take this discussion over a new contract when you gas price between ukraine and russia in stockholm at the same time we've heard a very sharp response from the grumble in. the press office of. russia's president it 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 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 now for gas and the russian gas giant gazprom and many people warre 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 restoration system as it was back in two thousand and nine. so you look at the markets now and commodities is what we start with oil is losing ground of most of the speculation science of the u.s. and chinese economies weakening indicate fuel demand will fold in the world's largest food consuming nations blend hundred eleven dollars and fifty or forty seven cents per barrel i should say light sweet as. stocks across asia posting sharp losses for us. and the wall street sell off on friday. b.-l. is weighing on exporters was only dropping over three percent on the almost four

percent banks also under pressure and now let's move to russia where in moscow trading has started already on the r.t.s. is down one and a half percent shortly after the opening what we're seeing pretty much is a sea of red across the boards burbank being the biggest drop by one point seven percent in the red gazprom one point two percent other energy shares also in the on lower energy prices and my sex will start trading around three minutes time and the falling market presents some opportunities for bargain hunters however maximization call from what else he believes it's too early to call a bottom and for an investor would be better off sticking to the sidelines it might be some more calls to the board some people believe from sea and through occasional boredom fished around to no prudent mind you probably weed before me any serious decisions any call to blue chip name which is essentially has come off strongly and has good ability to generate cash we didn't would be

a good teachers pressure clearly its own gas company a sort of sneer of too cool gas broom brush metal company when there is between through to fifty percent year to date so the major was in this game consoles you know obviously and then a recovery scenario companies were killed ross mitchell could be a very good bargain serial star and so through the good weather and the end of the grain export ban won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts to made up the total exports ensured this year's harvest is at around thirteen million tonnes but the authorities say they'll be lucky to export twenty five billion and it's all due to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports. to mystically we achieved more than three million tonnes of green exports in august we're going to stealing because we see the railway system is not able to transfer more to the ports where the docks can handle shipments of up to five million tonnes

a month the real way system barely managed to transfer the august volumes. coming up next and i think the headlines with. the. question is the same on the taxpayers' money money money was given real training is not something the rates during the great financial contraction millions lost their jobs and homes but the rich of only got no.