but sergey lavrov also admitted it's not all syrian opposition members wanting gauge in talks with the government a lot of caution against encouraging protesters to stay away from negotiations last week in post and oil embargo against syria and warned of further steps if the five month crackdown didn't stop but as i read about those reports sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorities. and the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floored until it all ended in the snip. of many customers that would compromise forest when the kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down along first came the rest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions to survive the economic pressure on the cheap the political. the budget. the people of syria to achieve something just. 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 continue down that route. sink ships are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian alast say they're too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about oil

or busines or. what we call it it would be in my life as a serious citizen because of this not only that 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. of a very believe business will pick up again will pull through. r t damascus syria. russia condemned western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and in effect of moscow stance has largely been echoed by its partners within the brics group brazil india china and south africa dr sure are a professor at the school of international affairs in india believes it's important the alliance is united in dealing with the situation in the middle east bric is a microcosm of the movement toward someone to want to avoid and you can only.

through joint action by bric nations it's very very important that sanctions could be the final step leading to another military intervention by a new door and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria it's important to prevent this you know want because it made end up in a situation similar to what we have in libya we're there is this transition and which was cheated 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 the companies i mean tell mali 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 part of game allowing yet another country which is part of the so-called arab spring. good teachers know enthusing to be able to rise to external interventions allowing the dition to happen from within so it's important the big nations put up a united front and try to present you hundreds of missions as well as multilateral

sanctions that could be the slippery slope. of war and out there. in the middle east. that was dr professor at the school of international affairs in. levy is ravel forces have surrounded the colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed cut off his troops have been given until saturday to surrender with the rebels now preparing final assault but colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by groups are now being encircled by rebels the interim leadership claims a week ago youngest son who commanded an elite military brigade was killed but two weeks since the libyan capital felt the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commander is calling on other leaders of the national

transitional council to resign being executed at the loyalists but it will 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 exit from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you would see any kind of division like that in a sense 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 are you end up with what shah masood in afghanistan once said in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians the next we kill each other in libya they have killed there and they have effectively killed the kid out the regime and now they're going to kill each other. also had for us our watch out for if your chair israelis demand their government focuses on social justice rather

than security yes people take to the streets in the biggest protest yet. and as america's top commander in afghanistan batiste final farewell to the military will look at the problems he's running behind. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. well known for. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.

it watching our t.v. you case chief prosecutor says looters are being punished too harshly the unrest there gripped the country in early august saw people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundreds have since been given stiff sanitas in already overcrowded jails where the prime minister has called tough love but as i reports the system could be at breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been for 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 are disappearing fast we're no the king at literally what we can pack into the sardine tin and i think that's very unwise and we may well see the disturbances on 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 exceed this divide safe limits inmates double up in cells smaller the nine square meters sharing and

open toilets most prisons are in desperate need. developed great 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 prisoner numbers doubling in the last two decades staff and now outnumbered four to 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 warehouse prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to society's 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 all of it in suggests that it is it is not by any means but most effective way of reducing reoffending we know 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 stretched system to breaking point either bennett artsy london. well for more on the social protests

engulfing israel you can head to our web site r t dot com and also on our website you'll find plenty of other stories and features but here's a taste of what we've got for you today. america's ailing car making capital fines and 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 a live music fireworks and a grand laser show see how the russian capital celebrated its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a bang a can watch it at r.t. dot com or on our you tube channel. he used to.

be official. talk from the. video. feed the palm of your. protestors in israel prepared to pull down their tails to have occupied the main streets of tel aviv and jerusalem since mid june. well 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 well we can now talk to you know our rising from israeli political movement the national left no thank you very much for being here with us in the program so that we can saw the largest procession protest across israel yet gathering over four hundred thousand people there so how much of an impact did that make. i guess we can't packed movie it will be. chosen by the prime minister to show their solutions. would remove the

prime minister says about it we're going to decide to do with this little room to act. i think that would be the first testament to the protests do. furthermore i believe that if prime minister doesn't do anything we would be forced to do even more contest to find a way to share this content from the government so i believe between two weeks to a man to see there was a lot of the demonstration but what about the protesters themselves i mean they are taking down their tents now but they say they will continue to demand change. yes the camps were very very strong protests but it can't last forever school started university starts the high will go through that is coming i think this is the time and next the next. to translate the pap test popular protest

into a political measures to see how we can change the crime government but as. the crime government is not a government that can change and can rebuild the new society so i think the next step will be to create a new. political entity that can give the solutions and to keep on the path this coming and live. one hour protests in israel have been comparative the arab spring that's and golf its neighbors so how dress to fight do you think this comparison is. good compared become past. relatively saying that everything around the area of the middle east is rising. back there are many many many good differences personnel's one of the democracy.

thing that the arab states don't have. the arab people don't have a legitimate legitimacy to to protest we do have. i have rather through a very very very violent people basically had nothing to lose they're prepared to die for their cause and it's one of the protest is violent you could see in saturday you know the place where where the protests took place is one of the richest places with all the stores like louis vuitton on a ralph lauren and if you would think about it as an apple it is probably stores would be shattered and broken into the port it is very very very silent people are listening people are talking and we have a right to do it it's our political right it's our democratic right so there's a great difference between the democracy and the terror any of the arab states all right no razi from the israeli social political movement the national left thanks very much for being here in this new program and sharing your thoughts. thanks for

having us. as u.s. troops begin their gradual pullout from ghana stand concern grows over the surge and targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. the top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has bit farewell to the army after thirty seven years as he has for his new job as head of the cia our military contributor looks now at what he's leaving behind the main legacy of general petraeus career. of a counterinsurgency doctrine rechy coauthored review a summary and general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to. general petraeus pioneered and led the way to recess at tate to revamp grades to promote the counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant effect is that general petraeus coin doctrine 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 pick bunker mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's one of the general trails to be older respected remembered my and for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intellectual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated the paradigm shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the conventional symmetrical modus operandi. the economic situation around the globe continues to look bleak for 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. any medium to long term project suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit faster good. the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is likely to grow faster than europe but the growth rate in these economies will be much less than the growth rate in the emerging market countries so i mean trying to brazil so i think over time there is a shift in economic power taking place one is to show. 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 group if 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 an hour's time here on r t let's bring you now some other stories from around the world health concerns have cast a shadow over the upcoming trial of former french president jacques chirac a seven year old faces two counts of embezzlement punishable by up to ten years in prison suffering from a condition which affects his memory the judge will consider medical evidence before deciding whether to perspire the trial or allow it to continue absence. the un peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh caught of her see after a five year old wine peacekeepers were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy a video of the alleged assault has surfaced on the internet. a u.n. spokesman says a proper traitors 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 dallas' surged through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and helms cutting off access to many remote villages thousands of people are still stranded in awaiting rescue the storm is the most devastating of its kind to hit japan in seven years. business news is next with. hello to you you're watching business artsy pressure is easing in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine kiev says it will stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed that's according to the prime minister of ukraine wants to renegotiate prices but is refusing new deal to bring costs down this rejected so a half of its state energy company enough to go to russia's gas problem easily so you are shifting gears 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 when you gas price between ukraine and russia in stockholm at the same time we've heard a very sharp response from the kremlin. the press office of. russia's president 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 by 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. two to the markets now with commodities is losing ground as investors speculate signs that the u.s. and chinese economies are weakening indicate that fuel demand will fall in the world's largest consuming nations brant is just over one hundred eleven dollars per barrel light sweet just. this. week. losses striking a pull us out of the wall street on friday show me and is weighing on exports. being one of the biggest losers in your bags are also under pressure with

a move holding four percent in the red. here in moscow trading kicked off in the red to the r.t.s. down two percent to my six one point three percent what we're seeing is pretty much a sea of red all across the board take a look at some the main stock movers on the my sex since burbank being the love biggest loser down two and a half percent energy shares are also not feeling well a jew to low energy prices rose zero point six percent slightly better than the market gazprom one point three percent in line the market. now this falling market presents some opportunities for bargain hunters or whatever might seem should go from what else he believes it is too early to call the bottom and the prudent investor would be better off sticking to the sidelines. it might be somewhat close to the bottom some people believe and say and for occasional boredom fished around but prudent money would probably weed before making any serious

decisions any quotes abou cheap name which is essentially has come off strongly and has good ability to generate cash to play didn't would be a good church is clearly its own gas company a sort of sneer to poor gus pro russian metal company has lost on there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they are the major losers in this game consoles you know obviously under any recovery scenario companies like iraq's machel could be a very good bargain several star. good weather and the end of the grain export ban won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate that total export potential of this year's harvest at around thirty million tons but the authorities say they will be lucky to export twenty five million even and sold two to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports as well which to me basically we achieved more than three million tons of green exports in august and

we hope it's going to steal like that but as we see the railway system is now able to transfer more to the ports while the docks can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month the real way system barely managed to transfer the august volumes of business out he will be back in fifty minutes time with the reader is next with the headlines on r.t. to stay with us. company. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money maybe even exist in the real mr a misdemeanor so for the rates during the great financial contraction millions

watched their jobs and all but the rich of only gotten richer should the rich paid . the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years cynthia one million years old warren was promised first come choking the little miss murphy of the west. for many years are you claiming i am during the sermon on me. seemed the the are the a sin our chief. commissioner . the limited to just simply.

say. see. the female i am up. you're watching our show live from moscow and these are the headlines libyan rebels are preparing to tap one of colonel gadhafi as the last desert strongholds the town

of bani walid tapper efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders remaining 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 condemn the recent sanctions which threaten to hurt the people more than the regime. and overcrowded the u.k. prisons are at a breaking point working at almost maximum operational capacity this as the government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street riders and looters. now peter maccallum has crossed i guess debate whether the rich should pay more tax. and.