ok rules we try to preface if it's over the resume to school. in this room is available in some of it's old some of the areas in hotel jerusalem. the un must immediately urge talks of the syrian conflict says russia after downing the e.u. sanctions which threaten to hurt the people not thirty. libyan rebels prepared to tap water pearl could offer as a last desert stronghold after efforts to negotiate the surrender of these remaining supporters break down. and israel gives its security forces permission to fire in the west bank out of a palestinian march in support of a bid for statehood. also kiev says there will be no gas war with moscow as ukraine agrees it will comply with its current contract obligations until a new deal is reached form that's in business and sometimes in its.

bumpy out of the russian capital you watching r t r marina joshie welcome to the program russia says the un should immediately called 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 but sergei lavrov also admitted not all syrian opposition members are want to cave in talks with the government but rauf cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from negotiations last week the e.u. and post an oil embargo against syria warned of further steps if a five month crackdown didn't stop but as opposed to reports sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorities. the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floor until it all ended in a snit. can mean a coaster marriage that would compromise forest for the kilometers away from

damascus but now the flow has come down along first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions to survive is to put the economic pressure on the chief the political how stop the bloodshed and help the people of syria to achieve the legitimate aspirations 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 of the e.u. when the us are tightening their grip by opposing 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 impuls adversity syrian opposition figures are also unconvinced but

for a different reason. government have chosen their path and no matter what measures are taken against them they continue down that route. sanctions are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian analysts say they're too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about. what you call it. in my life as a serious citizen. 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. business will pick up again and. even go r t damascus syria. russia can dammed western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective moscow stance has over and has

largely been held by its partners within the brics were brazil india china and south africa. 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 which is a microcosm of the movement towards of all people want a lot of words and you can only do multiple lengthy to joint action by brick 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 moment because it made end up in a situation similar to what we have in libya where there is this transition and reach was created 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 is this to me french foreign

companies and italian oil companies of british oil countries 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 no increasingly militarized through external interventions rather than allowing the for mission to happen from within so it's important the nations put up this stand a united front and try to prevent you hundreds allusions as well as a multilateral sanctions that could be the slippery slope leading to full fledged war and another major unworldly or in the middle east. so i have three this hour here in our team incarceration at capacity overcrowded u.k. prisons are a breaking point as the government hands out tough jail sentences for hardline approach to street rioters and looters. 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 palestinians preparing to march in support of a bid for statehood and the u.n. later this month could face more than they bargained for israel has given security forces and west bank settlements a license to shoot of protesters organizers insist the rallies will be peaceful and will not approach settler homes but israel says it's preparing for every eventuality aren't you suppose leaders across events force. in some quarters there is talk of a interferometer 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 a land that has them two and a half million palestinians in the west bank are bracing themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police and 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 a resigned around every settlement in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach. back red line will be shot at michaels as he has commissioned to do this now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within these days women's they have been participating in girls that are on these these design safety and provided with stun grenades with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters also being told that some twenty million dollars has been spent on training the police alone there twenty eight thousand police officers have been mobilized around the country one thing the focal point that they'll be watching is jerusalem which is where many here most of the violence could erupt on saturday we saw the largest protests in this country's history 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 address 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 basic part of two months is the social issue jasper's really what they're saying is that when they turn out who government needs to be in this focus on issues of security and also because of internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and this is a criticism that it's a nod who is facing a criticism that he is thinking too much time on issues. the international agenda rather than addressing real domestic concerns here at home just this past weekend expelled the israeli ambassador and for all military cooperation between both countries the relationship between israel and egypt and that an all time low after israeli fire mistakenly killed a number of looking border guards so with that kind of regional isolation and thirdly in the context that it just there were weeks before palestinians will be appealing to the un 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 but in it on yahoo government not true grit real concerns that people have been talking to protest as they accuse netanyahu of being past the i've been and was going to go and have been out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about polls they are reporting there libya's rebel forces have surrounded the colonel gadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli same talks with a former leader as loyalists fail to get obvious troops have been given until saturday to surround it with the rebels now preparing a file assault for more i'm joined by arts and art is in leave your summary it looks like a file countdown for gadhafi is remaining troops in the. rebel forces still assisted by nato airstrikes the question is why is it taking so long. well fighting in the area known as bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli continues despite recent claims by the new government's interior minister to take

control of its thought to be about is made in the last stronghold within twenty four hours this battle is indeed very important for the gravels actually for both sides this is the size of one in terms of into his six month long conflict here in libya the rebels need it because taking control of this area would officially mean the end of the regime and the colonel's fall they've been preparing for this operation for by the long time with nato helping them clean path towards aid for main cities in the area. in the recent days but. what we're hearing from his loyalists on the ground in bendable it makes it absolutely clear that this fight will not be easy and we'll actually be hard. actually started lucian's between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists on the ground on a peaceful surrender failed safe in islam has recently appeared on t.v.

claiming that they will never surrender and they will fight to the death it's not surprisingly because this area only well it has always been known as a stronghold and people from d.c. area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels all across the country and have been dying for gadhafi in all the time been supporting gadhafi who has provided them with a very good imitation and the past weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for travels to take control of this area while they need it actually daffy variables have been unknown and while the hunt for him not surprisingly remains the country's number one priority is thought to be right now with his sons in this area this is one. one more reason for the rebels to take control of little area as on this course while the rebels are afraid that gadhafi forces could off

his loyalists may use people local residents as human shields and they've recently called for all people in the area still held by gadhafi forces to come over to his side from the scene they will not be any revenge for them and security could be guaranteed in that case. well maria what about the people how are they feeling about your first state's taste of freedom in the capital well the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that tripoli is now secure and is now safe and they're pair working hard to try to restore order in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council but we see on the ground actually makes. you no doubt that they are successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges the country

actually is currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and if you will politically situation is very unstable and it's quite unclear who either actually controlling the tripoli right now thinks he is full of armed people with an unclear agenda many of them very young with little knowledge of how to use weapons and it's quite unclear who is controlling them national security national transitional council has recently claimed that the now trying to bring. these irregular fighters under their control but we can see they're not successful so by actually. all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update from the libyan capital tripoli marie financial reporting there. two weeks since leaving capitol fell the interim

government's already being criticized by itself allies and key rebel military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign or being asked off the loyalists political satirist ted rall says a new civil war seems inevitable i have some sympathy for ishmael alsa lobby and his call to get rid of all the former regime figures and it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the ex from the government this is just and. certainly you would see any kind of division like that uses in a scenario where revolution is not fully realized and that seems to be the situation in libya any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end you end up with 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 annexed retail each other in libya they have killed there and they have effectively killed the khadafi regime

and now they're going to kill each other. the u.k.'s chief prosecutor says the looters are being punished too harshly the arrest agrippa country in early august start people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundred steps and been given stiff sanity's in already overcrowded jails and the prime minister's it has called tough love but as our t's are bad reports this is still could be a 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 looking 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 and the 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 it won't be any space left by most prisons in britain wandsworth was at bursting point even before the riots just forty five people short of its maximum capacity of one thousand six hundred sixty five but that's already fifty percent over its recommended limit two out of three prisons currently exeat this divide safe limits inmates double up in cells more than nine square metres sharing and open toilets 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 two thousand inmates a prison building schemes been reversed despite prisoner numbers doubling in the

law. two decades staff and now outnumbered four to one the amount of stuff 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 and in effect what you actually do you just work as 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 which others fear but the cramped conditions this will only fuel reoffending if you send people to prison all of europe even suggests that it is it is not by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending we know that several young people and people

on short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of pink will refrain within twelve months of coming out and that can not be a good seems reasonable so is a better 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. or more news and eye catching videos of r.t. dot com for you whenever you want here's a taste of what we've got lined up right now. in america's ailing car making capital finds it can get out of reverse gear as the country's government admits it's failing to create jobs for its millions of unemployed citizens. there are no wives music fireworks and a grand laser shout see how the russian capital celebrated its eight hundred. and

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on the dot com. as u.s. troops began their gradual pullout from of ghana stand concern grows over the surge in targeted killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. is talking matter 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 are his military contributor looks now at what he's leaving behind the main legacy of general petraeus career. he's clearly they counting insurgency doctrine we've chico third we have u.s. marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to 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 doctrine that has ignited the intel actually 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 brand new vision of the world that's one of the general contrasts to be able to respect it remembered and that my and for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor we had the coin dog training event precipitated the parity shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the unconventional and symmetrical modus operandi. well let's bring you now some other stories from around the world clashes have erupted between police and protesters

outside a court in cairo where the trial of egypt's ousted president is resuming hosni mubarak is charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in the february uprising which toppled him four policemen will take the stand to testify against mubarak at today's hearing. health concerns have cast a shadow over the upcoming trial of former french president jacques chirac a seventy year old faces two counts of embezzlement will buy up to ten years in prison is suffering from a condition which affects his memory a judge will consider medical evidence before deciding whether to postpone the trial or allow it to continue ensure ochs absence. when peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh controversy after a five year old wine 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

pulled the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. these twenty five people are dead and dozens missing after a typhoon dollars surged through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and homes cutting off axis 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 several years. well sure they will be exploring the ways of fighting the problem of plastic pollution that threatens the planet sees an ocean's first though it's the business news with me tree. lone welcome to the program pressure is easing in the gases feud between russia and ukraine kiev says they will stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed ukraine wants to renegotiate prices but is refusing moscow's

new deal to bring costs down this rejected selling half of its state energy company nafta gas to russia's gas problem. as the details. experts are speculating whether this is the start of a new gas conflict the new gas war between russia and ukraine as very harsh statements are coming from both sides where ukraine's president if any 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 press office of. russia's president putin today 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 thousand cubic meters of russian gas

kremlin weights or 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 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 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 so the markets now we saw with the multitudes traditionally oil is losing ground as investors speculate signs the u.s. and chinese economy so weakening indicate fuel demand will fall to the world's largest cruise consuming nations brant is down more than. one dollar forty two cents just over a barrel. stocks across asia posting shop. for u.s.

jobs to report. on friday and the strong yen was also weighing in on x. . waters in japan therefore the nikkei is down one point nine percent banks saying almost three percent at the close to move down to europe's sovereign debt worries coupled with the bad jobs data from the u.s. is leading european financial slow with the markets dropping significantly as a result of bedroll housing finance agency alleges that major u.s. and european banks mis represented the quality of mortgages they sold during the housing bubble as a result royal bank of scotland barclays mentioned in the lawsuit are down seven and a half percent this hour in london. and here in moscow the picture's also negative there although not to the extent we're seeing in asia or europe the r.t.s. is down one point seven percent of my sex one percent and a quarter secular of the main movers on the my service mainly energy shares are

down over ross never slightly better than the market's down just point four percent financials are losing the most was her bank losing two percent there's a. good whatever and again of the grain export ban won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate the total exports potential of this year's harvest is around thirteen million tons but the authorities say they will be lucky to export even twenty five million and it's all do to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports trust works to mystically we achieved more than three million tons of green exports in august we're particularly stealing it is we see the way we system is now able to transfer more to the ports where the books can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month a really weak system barely managed to transfer the august williams problem. you can always log onto our web site r.t.

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