syria and warned of further steps if a five month crackdown didn't stop but as i read a little school with port sanctions the 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 come from a forest when the kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down along 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. the budget and to help the people of syria to achieve something just an aspiration 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. so anxious 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. the what we call it it would be my life as a serious citizen because it's 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. i believe business will pick up again. even go r t damascus syria. russia condemn the western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective moscow stance has largely been echoed by its partners within the brics group brazil india china and south africa dr shaw. a professor at the gentle 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 towards a multi multi large ward and you can only have general multiple levity to joint action by bric nations it's very very important now that sanctions could be the final step leading to another military intervention by need to and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria and it's important to prevent this no one 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 of france britain and the united states are now 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 part 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. that was dr sharon chali a professor at the school of international affairs in india. maybe as rebel

forces have surrounded the colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalist have failed that office troops have been given until saturday to surrender with rebels now preparing a final salt 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 of weeks ago could duffy's youngest son who commanded an elite military brigade was killed but two weeks since they began capital fell the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commander is calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign kobe x. gadhafi loyalists political satirist ted rall says and 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 would see any kind of division like that uses in a scenario where a 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 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 next to kill each other in libya they go there and they have effectively killed the gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. still i have for you this hour here on r t incarceration at capacity overcrowded u.k. prisons are breaking point as a government hands out tough jail sentences in a hard line approach to street riders and looters. and as america's top commander in afghanistan bids his final farewell to the military with

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the u.k.'s chief prosecutor says looters are being punished too harshly and wrest 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 well the prime minister has called tough love but as archie's i'm a band of reports the system could be a breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been 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 at 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 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 there wouldn'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 limit two out of three prisons current league see this certified safe limit inmates double up in cells smaller than nine square metres sharing and open toilets most prisons are in desperate need of great wandsworth was built in the victorian period times literally stood still but nothing escapes

austerity year especially when it costs forty five thousand pounds a year two thousand inmates a prison building schemes the first despite prison and numbers doubling in the last two decades staff and now outnumbered paul 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. problems the government thinks it is encouraging tougher sentences to deter more riots is like this man who got sixteen months for stealing just two scoops of ice cream it's all this fear of the kind of conditions this will only be a real thing if you send people to prison. suggests that it

is it is not by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending. with young people and with people in short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of people with a friend within twelve months of coming out now that cannot be a good use of resources a week or two ways of doing 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 are the bennetts london. more news and eye catching videos at r.t. dot com for you whatever you want and here's a taste of what we've got lined up 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

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on the. palestinians preparing to march in support of a bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month could face more than they bargained for israel has given security forces in a west bank settlement a license to shoot up protesters organizers insist the rallies will be peaceful and will not approach settler homes but israel says it's preparing for every eventuality well let's not get more from our correspondent paula. so paula is this is giving this or there is a show more likely to make a man spin out of control. well that certainly is the concern on the ground i

mean already now in some quarters there is talk of a intifada that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the first two seculars of whom there are some four hundred thousand living in the land that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank are bracing themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation because operation some is seeds and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this end we're being told that they have demarcated resigned around every settlement in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach so that beyond that red line will be shot at by soldiers who will have permission to do that now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within these statements they have been participating in goals that the army has been undergoing say theme provided with stun grenades with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters

we're also being told that some twenty million dollars has been spent on training the police alone that twenty eight thousand police officers have been mobilized around the country one of the focal point that they'll be watching is jerusalem which is where many fear most of the violence could erupt. pilot seems like israel has been more focused on the palestinian drive for statehood than its own internal problems is that so. well certainly that is one of the criticisms that's been levelled at the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on saturday we saw the largest protest in this country's history way some four hundred thousand demonstrators took to the streets of ten cities here in. tel aviv was one of the focal points a number of speakers a number of artists addressed the crowd they spoke about making history they said really that this was a turning point in the history of this country what protesters have been demanding

for the better part of two months is social issues justice really what they say is that the netanyahu government needs to be focused on issues of security and more focused on internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and this is a criticism that netanyahu is facing a criticism that he is going to get too much time on issues on the international agenda rather than addressing real domestic concerns here at home just this past weekend two key expelled the israeli ambassador and froze all military cooperation between both countries the relationship between israel and egypt is at an all time low after israeli fire mistakenly killed a number of egypt in border guards so with that kind of regional isolation and certainly in the context that it's just several weeks before palestinians will be appealing to the u.n. for recognizing the unilateral declaration of statehood there is a lot of concern that what is happening on the international stage is really

becoming an excuse for the netanyahu government not to address the real concerns that people have here i mean talking to protesters they accuse netanyahu of being passed to have been unresponsive old and have been out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. a policy or thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details. as u.s. troops begin their gradual pullout from of gas stand concerns grows over the surge and targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. is top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has bid farewell to the army after thirty seven years as 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 is. that counting insurgency doctrine which he coauthored the us marine general martin dempsey the importance is

not only limited to that general petraeus pioneer and led the way to recess aetate to revamp grades and to promote of a 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 from the calcified my optic bunker mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general of the trails to be older respected remembered and that my and for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated the paradigm shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the conventional and symmetrical

model 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 turn to emerging markets. in the medium term or long term projection suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit faster going to the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is like 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 asia. and another way of 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 groups and you want to global system that can accommodate that if 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 time here on r t i would bring you some more news in brief from around the world health concerns 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 sure aka 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 in chirac's absence. the u.n.

peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh controversy after a five year old wine peacekeepers work used 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 europe why has pulled the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. twenty five people are dead and dozens missing after typhoon dallas' surged through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and homes cutting off access to marrow 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 well it's time now to take a look what's happening in the world of business with dmitri. thanks marina pressure is easing in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine kiev says it will stick to the current agreement into

a new deal is signed ukraine wants to renegotiate prices but refusing moscow's new deal to bring costs down is rejected selling half of the state energy go but enough to go to russia's gazprom executorship skews 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 the 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 when you gas price between ukraine and russia. at the same time we've heard a very sharp response from the grumble in. the press office of. russia's president a 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 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 monopolist nafta gas and the russian gas giant gazprom the 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 start to use oil is losing ground as investors speculate signs that the u.s. and chinese economies are weakening indicate that fuel demand in the countries will fall to the world's largest crude consuming nations brant blend one dollar right

now at one hundred eleven dollars fifty three cents. is just a. sharp losses striking a poor us jobs report and of the. wall street selloff on friday strong yen is weighing on exporters with sony dropping a more than three percent on around four percent in tokyo banks are also under pressure in a more a holding down four percent at the close. second look at the trading situation now in moscow the r.t.s. is down one point four percent the my six point nine percent mainly that stooge of falling energy prices take a look at the breakdown of stocks on the my sex and energy shares are down gazprom point nine percent lower than it is a bit better than the market point four percent but financials are suffering the most was back down two point one percent. while the falling market

presents some opportunities for bargain hunters however maxime's judgment call for more also believes it is too early to call the bottom and uproot investor 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 board officials around but you know prudent money would probably weed before making any serious decisions any cool to blue chip name which is a unit and she 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 is sort of sniffed will gas broom brush metal company was last on there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they were the major losers in this game consoles you know obviously and then your recovery scenario companies will give ross mitchell could be a very good bargain so it's sent through. good weather and the end of the grain

export ban it won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate the total export potential of this year's harvest at thirty million tons but the authorities say they'll be lucky to export twenty five million and it's all due to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports punchers which to mystically we achieved more than three million tons of green exporting or wished we hope it's going to stealing ninety but if we see the railway system is not able to transfer more to the courts one of the dogs can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month the real way system barely managed to transfer the august volumes of diesel back to merion now for the headlines after the special break.

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libyan rebels prepare to attack one of colonel gadhafi as a last desert stronghold so the town of bani walid attack after efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders from reigning supporters break down. russia's sounds the u.n. must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop the violence and start talking the play came after moscow pin damn the recent e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people more than their regime. and israel gives its security forces permission to fire at palestinian protesters in the west bank palestinians are planning a march in the area in support of a bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month. they cannot climb it 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.