position members want to engage in talks with the government for off cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from the. last week. and whalebone go against syria and warn the further steps of the five crackdown didn't stop but as i see in a report sanctions even more likely to affect the syrian people. and the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floor until it all ended in the snip. of many customers that would compromise forest 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 is to put the economic pressure on the chief the political. the budge and the people of syria to achieve some adjustment 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. or 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. to syrian government have chosen their path 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 syria now the list say there are too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about. of

course the word we call it it would be reflect on my life as a serious citizen because i am using 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 if you have a very believe business will pick up again will pull through. r t damascus syria. russia condemned western sanctions against syria calling them home full and ineffective. by its partners within the brics group brazil india china and south africa don't says three years around that chinese professor at the jindal school of international india believes it's important we lived in the ninety's dealing with the situation in the middle east bric is a microcosm of the movement towards a multi multilateral world and you can only have general multiple l.t.

through joint action by brick nations it's very very important now but sanctions could be the first step into another military intervention by in utah and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria and it's important to prevent this no more 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 and italian oil companies and british oil companies are talking about how they're going to be number one in libyan oil so we don't want to go down that path again allowing yet another country which is part of the so-called arab spring which is now increasingly being militarized to external interventions rather than allowing the for mentation to happen from within so it's important the nations put up this stand united front and try to prevent you wondered 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. well that was adult three charlie a professor at the school of international affairs in india. now libya's rebel forces have surrounded camel go down held desert to tell of a bunny one needs southeast of tripoli saying talks with the former leader's loyalists have failed to get out these troops have been given until saturday to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault. there are reports from tripoli. fighting in the area known as bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli continues despite the recent claims by the new government's interior minister to take control over what's thought to be cut off his main and last stronghold within twenty four hours this battle is indeed very important for the rebels actually for both sides this is the size of one in

terms of ending a six month long conflict here in libya the rebels need it because taken 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 quite a long time with nato helping them this operation has actually started well. between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists on the ground on a peaceful surrender failed this area by the way lead has always been known as khadafi stronghold and people from this area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels actually could duffy host variables that 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 meanwhile the rebels are afraid that gadhafi forces could have his loyalist may use people local residents as a human shield and they recently called for old people in the area still held by

conduct his forces to come over to his side from a saying there will not be any revenge for them and security could be guaranteed the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that fully is now secure and is now safe and that they're working hard to try to restore the city and the country currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable and it's quite unclear who is actually controlling tripoli right now. the city is full of people with unclear gender many of them very young with little knowledge of how to use weapons and it's quite unclear who is controlling them national security the national transitional council has. claimed that they are now trying to bring.

these irregular fighters and they control but as we can see they're not successful so far actually now two weeks since then they've been capital fell the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies the rebel military commanders corning on the needs of the national transitional council to resign for being axed at the happy loyalists but of course satirists had a role says a new civil war things 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 will 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 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 have effectively killed the kid out of the regime and now they're going to kill each other. still ahead this hour incarceration apt capacity overcrowded prison rape you want the government hands out top of jails and this is the hard line approach to street rises and sits. and is america's top commander in afghanistan it's his final farewells to the military the problems he's leaving behind. russia's denied trying to corner ukraine over gas prices in response to accusations from the ukrainian authorities moscow says what it actually wants is a partnership ukraine is unhappy with the prize it paid for russian gas on the contract signed in two thousand and nine it's threatening to take them out into

court with russia's gas palm saying it will stand its ground in any just beat however ukraine's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed. 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's given security forces in west bank settlements a license to shoot at protesters organizers insist the rallies will be peaceful the will not approach settler homes but israel says it's preparing for every eventuality. is a cross events for us. 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 all 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 it calls operation some the 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 line around every six women in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach beyond that red line will be a shot at by soldiers who has a mission to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within these to commence they have been participating in that on these 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 of the police alone there 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 on saturday we saw the launches protests in this country's history one 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 there's a part of two months is the social issue just as we did what they saying is that the netanyahu government needs to be focused on issues of security and focus on internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and this is a criticism netanyahu is facing a criticism that he is spending too much time on issues. international agenda rather than addressing real domestic concerns here at home just this past weekend expelled the israeli ambassador for 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 egyptian border guards so with that kind of regional i think nation and thirdly in the context that it's just several 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 for the netanyahu government not to address real concerns that people have been talking to protesters they accuse netanyahu of being have been and responsible and have been out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. now the u.k. chief prosecutor says looters are being punished too harsh the unrest that gripped the country your guess or people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops hundreds have since been given stiff sentences in already overcrowded jails what the prime minister has called tough love but as assays either bennett reports the system could be a breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been full or 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 looking at literally what we can pack into this already 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 exeat this certified safe limit inmates double up in cells smaller the nine square meters 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 to howe's 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 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 with those prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to society's 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 with the cramped conditions this will only if you re offending if you send people to prison who 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 on short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of people with a friend within twelve months of coming out can not be. resources a week or two words of. the prison service has enough prison places for those being sentenced to custody as a result of public disorder there is substantial capacity in the prison system but the numbers suggest otherwise pushing an already stretched system to breaking point are the benefits. now more news that eye catching videos that.

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now as u.s. troops begin their ground from afghanistan concern grows over the killings and violent attacks in the country meanwhile the u.s. top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus is bid farewell to the army after thirty seven years as he heads for his new job as head of the cia. behind. the main legacy of general petraeus career. of a counterinsurgency doctrine rechy coauthored re of u.s. marines general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to a defector that general petraeus pioneered and led the way to recess a tate to revamp grade and to promote the counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant fact is that general petraeus coined doctrine that has

ignited the intellectual awakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction from the calcified my optic incur mentality the conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what general petraeus will be older respected remembered and admired for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training precipitated the paradigm shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the conventional symmetrical models operandi. the economic situation around the globe continues to look bleak with the us creating no need to.

struggling with a number of debt to the states one of india's leading economists beneath this time the well turn to emerging markets. in the medium to long term project suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe grew a little bit foster good. the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is likely the grew faster than europe but the group through it in these economies would be mocked. the growth rate in emerging market countries i mean trying to brazil so i think over time there is a shift in economic politicking praise one is to. 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 as you want to global system

that can accommodate it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying well look this is the center of paul and everybody else must address. we can watch that full interview in less than ten minutes time here on it gets me some more world news in brief now this hour clashes have erupted the police and protesters outside a court in cairo where the trial of egypt's ousted president has resumed hosni mubarak's charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in the therapy outcries in which toppled him he denies the accusations will fall policeman who take the stand to testify against the ex in the out the hearing. health concerns has cost a shadow over the upcoming trial of former french president jacques chirac the seventy eight year old faces two counts of a bessel and punishable by up to ten years in prison shark is suffering from

a condition which affects his memory john told consider medical evidence before deciding whether to postpone the trial or allow it to continue in shots absence. you had peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh controversy after five peacekeepers were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy video of the alleged assault has surfaced on the internet and u.n. spokesman says the perpetrators must be brought to justice for europe why has pulled the king's peace keep. is out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and dozens are missing after a thai thing dallas surged through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and homes cut off access to many remote villages panels and the people are still stranded and awaiting rescue the storm is the most devastating of its kind to hit. and in just a few minutes we'll look at the opportunities the crisis in the u.s. and the e.u.

is giving emerging economies but first let's get a business update pretty mitri. thank you very much alice alone welcome to business r.t. pressure is easing in the gas the street between russia and ukraine kiev says he 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 is rejected selling all of its state energy company nafta goes to russia's gas problem. as a dictator. experts are speculating whether this is the start of when you gas conflict the new gas war between russia and ukraine as very harsh statements are coming from both sides where 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 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 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 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. six look at the markets now is losing ground as investors speculate signs that the u.s. and chinese economy all weakening indicate fuel demand will fall in the world's largest crude consuming nations brant right now is down more than a dollar light sweet is just over eight dollars per barrel. so for and that worries coupled with the bad job states from the u.s. is leading european financials lower with the markets dropping significantly as a result two percent footsie the move on the dax. federal housing finance agency in the u.s. alleges that major u.s. and european banks misrepresented the quality of mortgages they sold during the housing bubble as a result the world bank of scotland and barclays which are both mentioned in the lawsuit are down seven and a half percent. here in moscow trading is also in the negative zone although not

to the same extent as in europe the r.t.s. is down one half percent my sex in less than up a set mainly that stoops of falling energy prices if we look at the main movers on the my six you'll see that gazprom and rosneft are both down however rosneft is slightly better than market down point four percent financials were suffering from the most is growing however has come back a bit it's down one half percent while it was losing more than two before. good weather and the end of the grain export ban will not help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate the total export potential of this year's harvest at around thirty million tonnes but the authorities say they'll be lucky to export twenty five million tonnes that's all due to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports as well as to this degree we achieved more than three million tonnes of green exporter in august we hope it's going to stealing 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. for market in russia presents some opportunities for bargain hunters however maximization coffer more also believes it is too early to call the bottom and would be better off sticking to the sidelines. it might be somewhat close to the bottom as some people believe from say and there are occasional boat and fishes around but you know prudent money would probably wait before making any serious decisions any quality blue chip name which is you know in turn she has come off strongly and has good ability to generate cash to play didn't would be a good choice for russia clearly its own gas company a sort of sneer to quote from russian metal companies because last on there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they were the major loses in this

game consoles you know obviously on the new recovery scenario companies like iraq's machel could be a very good bargain several style etc coming up next the headlines with that list of stay with us.

culture is the same realm of taxpayers' money i mean hundreds of years never a real mystery and it's not something the rates during the great financial contraction millions lost their jobs and homes but the rich of only gotten richer should the rich paid. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day the big. this is. says the u.n.

must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop the violence and start talking to people came to moscow condemned the recent e.u. sanctions which threaten to hug the people more than the regime. libyan rebels prepare to a time of colonel gadhafi is lost as a stronghold the town of bani walid. that's in the gacy the surrender of the ousted leader is remaining supporters break down. and israel gives security forces permission to fire a palestinian protesters in the west bank palestinians are planning a march in the area in support of the bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month. of economic climate it's 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.