military brigade was killed in the past week and while the rebels prepare a file assault the capital tripoli is enjoying its taste of revolutionary freedom artie's wary of a national found people there expressing their release from oppression many different ways. it's been no more than two weeks since tripoli fell to rebel forces and it seems everybody here has their way to enjoy the new found freedom to have and i should get daffy 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 shame mohammad says if he did a thing like this under the colonel it would have probably been the last thing he do in his life. 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 in the libyan capital it seems making far out

of what used to be people's nightmare for decades has become a national pastime. he is clearly here we call him ship stupid because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it and they are ugly actually in this room these teenage boys are forging their freedom into in news magazine they make and on the facebook page they create out there is no longer big brother they claim but only be cloth we weren't happy on this new world laughing us so now it's time to them while driving towards its new future leave it seems to stop for a while for a proper goodbye to its past well mom let it cut off is effectively gone his figure 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 livin people to get used to leave without their. resource

now t. tripoli libya. 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 acts if you loyalists political satirist ted rall says a new civil war seems inevitable. 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 from the government that has just been deposed 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 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 have killed there and they would think if we kill the khadafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. russia says the un should immediately call on all sides in the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking russia's foreign minister says president bashar asad has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict as a lover of also admitted not all syrian opposition members want to engage in talks with the government cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from goshi a short last week at the e.u. and post an oil embargo against syria and warned of further steps if a five month crackdown did stop but as are any military court sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorities. and the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was flourishing until it all ended in the snip . in the 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 quickly stepped in with sanctions to survive the economic pressure on the cheap the political how about trying to help the people of syria to achieve something just for a show at first. all the 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 u.s. 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 debt 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. government have chosen and no matter what measures are taken against them continue down that road. so anxious are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian albums say they're too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about. what we call it it would be my life as a soviet citizen. 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. believe business will pick up again . even. damascus syria. while russia can down the western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and

ineffective and 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. school of international affairs in dia thank you very much for being here with us on the program how the break states are united and 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 after learning lessons from their lack of collective consensus on libya when the earlier you know the moment happened before the progress snowballed into an armed rebellion and there were un security resolutions

that were 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 you know mark because it made end up in a situation similar to what we have in libya where there is this transition and reach was dictated by western military intervention and propped up america said that they were leading from behind but basically the point was that france britain and the united states are not the arbiters of libya's destiny french are companies an intel nine 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 which is now increasingly being militarized through external interventions rather than allowing the for mentation to happen from within so it's important the nations put

up this stand a united front and try to prevent you hundred solutions as well as multilateral sanctions that could be the slippery slope leading to full fledged war and other major unworldly or in the middle east what does it tell you as we can see you know the race countries seem to put up a united front in the syrian crisis and the 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 it can be and clearly nato suring 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. who are on the receiving end of these states violence in syria but the point is big nations are also concerned

and all of them have said that the regime should treat the protesters respectfully and not to the iron fist but what is important here is war how will this resolution how will the situation evolve and why should the west be in a position where it dictates the terms of 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 for brick to put up a united front brake is a microcosm of the movement towards a multi multilateral board a gin mill multi-polar world and you can only begin in multiple anti 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 sent emissaries to syria and they're all involved in behind the scenes but at the end of the day 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 syrian regime to moderate its responses to the protests at the end of the day hizbullah and iran are there and they will materially prevent a takeover of syria the weight of us from powers have now pretty much taken over libya by hijacking the un resolutions. to protect civilians so it's important the brig also coordinate with the 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 which ended up with the cia did in terms of all the outcomes on the ground right now in the few years between the end of the gadhafi

regime and the two cold of the new regime so we would like peaceful transfer of sovereignty and 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 months or that the europeans and americans are talking about seeing that we have received like some immediately imposed sanctions on the assad regime all right all right dr charlie thanks very much indeed for sharing your views here with us a professor at the jane doll school of international affairs in india. still 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 in early august saw people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundreds have since been given stiff sentences in already overcrowded jails or the prime minister has called tough love but as r.t.s. i bet it reports the system could be breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been through nearly eighty seven thousand inmates a 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 no the king at literally what we can pack into this already into 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 a 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 limit two out of three prisons currently exeat this divide safe limit 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 a prison building schemes been reversed despite prisoner numbers doubling in the last two decades staff and now outnumbered four to one. has actually

orly fraction we increase 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 with those prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to. it has problems the government thinks it is encouraging tougher 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 who are you happy to suggest that it is it is no by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending we know certainly with young people and with people on short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of people refrained within twelve months of coming out and

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 tanks that have occupied the main streets of tel aviv and jerusalem since mid july they say that we can demonstrate 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 now as 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 to thirty years ago was one of the most egalitarian in the world today to the second of 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 provide to 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 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 protesters and those who are leading them we should the money 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 can go to our tea dot com and also on our web site you'll find plenty of other stories and a taste of what we've got. right now. america's ailing car making capital finds it can get out of the country's government admits it's failing to create jobs for its millions of unemployed citizens. and the space junk has reached critical levels scientists warn that the brink could damage or even destroy satellites as well as prove astronauts to the final frontier. plus you can watch all of our investment in our you tube channel.

as u.s. troops begin their graduate from ghana stand concern grows over the surge in targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. is talk of matter of ghana stand general david petraeus has bid farewell to the army after thirty seven years he has for his new job as head of the cia argues military contributor looks now at what he's leaving behind the main legacy of general petraeus career. these. are they counting insurgency doctrine reach 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 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 bunker mentality the conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general petraeus a real very respected remembered my and for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated depair a big shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality

to the conventional and symmetrical operandi. i think anomic 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 turn to emerging markets. any medium to long term project suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit faster going to power the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is like through the grow faster than europe but the growth rate in these economies will be much less than the growth rate in the 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. and another way of looking at it is really the rising rate of emerging market countries and i think you're

thinking of a world in which there would be a large number of relatively equal economic grouping 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 pollen 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 controversy after a five year one peacekeepers 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 you are why has the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and

dozens missing after a typhoon dallas surged through southern japan it caused a massive. riding on 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 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. that brings up to date here in r.t. and time now for the business news with dmitri. morning you're watching business see pressure is easing now in the gas feud between

russia and ukraine he of says it will stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed that's according to prime minister of ukraine wants to renegotiate prices but is refusing so far moskos offer of a new deal to bring costs down it's rejected selling half of its state energy company enough to gas to russia's gazprom in return for cheaper fuel. as 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 where ukraine's president. 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 in stockholm at the same time we've heard

a very sharp response from the grumble in. the press office of. russia's president to defense 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 four 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 nafta gas and the russian gas giant gazprom many people warry 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 and commodities is what we start with oil is losing ground

of most of the speculation signs that the u.s. and chinese economies weakening indicate fuel demand will fall to the world's largest group consuming nations blend one hundred eleven dollars fifty or forty seven cents per se light sweet says that. stocks across asia posting. for us. and the wall street sell off on friday. b.n. 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 on lower energy prices the my six 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 the bottom and approved investor would be better off sticking to the sidelines it might be somewhere close to the bottom as some people believe from say and there are occasional bottom fishes around to no prudent minute probably we'd before make any serious decisions any cool to 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 choice for should clearly it's own gas company a sort of sneer to cool guys from russian metal companies because last on there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they are the major losers in this game consoles you know obviously they need a recovery scenario companies like give ross mitchell could be a very good bargain. and cetera. good weather and the end of the grain export ban

won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts made that the total export potential of this year's harvest is around for thirty 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 as well as to this nigga we achieved more than three million tonnes of green exporter in august we hope it's going to stealing ninety but as we see the railway system is now 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 analysing the headlines with memory.

culture is that so much of a spiritual leader maybe even hundreds of years of a real craziness so for the rich during the great financial contraction millions lost their jobs and all but the rich of only gotten richer should the rich pay. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. welcome back here with r t here's a look at the top stories libyan rebels prepare to attack one of colonel gadhafi

the last desert strongholds in the town of bani walid a taf there are efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders remain supporters breakdown. russia says the u.n. must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop the violence and start talking plea came after moscow can dam the recent e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people more than the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are at breaking point working out almost maximum operational capacity this as the government hands out tough jail sentences in a hard line approach to street riders and looters. they cannot a climate is not at all bright for the u.s. and the e.u. but there might be better times ahead for developing economies next we sit down with one of india's leading economists to find out how emerging markets are responding to the challenges of turbulent times.