the un must immediately urge talks in the syrian conflict says russia after condemning the e.u. sanctions which stressed the hope the people were not the regime. libyan rebels prepared to attack one of colonel the families the last day as it strongholds after efforts to negotiate the surrender of his remaining supporters breaks down. and israel gives its security forces the mission to fire in the west bank ahead of a palestinian march in support of the state has. also a key of says it will not engage into a gas war with russia as ukraine will comply with its current agreements and so

a new deal is reached more adults and business cards each but you get. a very warm welcome to this is r t live from moscow russia says the un should immediately call on all sides in the syrian conflict and strong violence and start talking russia's foreign minister says that president bashar assad has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict fast sort of a level of also admitted not all syrian opposition members want to engage in talks with the government cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from negotiations last week the e.u. imposed an oil embargo against syria and warned of further steps in

a five month crackdown didn't stop any mcleish to report sanctions seen one. the theory and people then the author. is a master barber those small his shop was floored until it all ended in a snip. in the midst of many customers there was controversy forest when the kilometers away from damascus with now the flow has come down a lot first came the under arrest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions. is to put the economic pressure on the chief the political. the budget. help the people of syria to achieve a traditional aspiration at first all major credit card transactions were stopped earlier this month but mainly the foreign tourist 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 impose 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 continue down that route. sanctions are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian alast say there are two planted to war and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about the. call it brought on my life as a serious citizen. 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. believe business will pick up again. if you go school r t damascus syria. now russia condemned western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective a stance has largely been echoed by its partners within the brics group presell india china and south africa thanks earthly them charlie a professor at the school of international affairs in india please this important their alliance is united in dealing with the situation in the middle east. is a microcosm ask the movement towards a multi multi lot of work and you can only do multiple l.t. through joint action by brick nations it's very very important that sanctions could be dishonest step. and other military intervention why you do and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria and it's important to prevent this you know

what because it made end up in a situation similar to what we have in libya we're there is this transition and reach was created by western military intervention and prop got america said the deal leading from behind where basically the point was that france britain and the united states are not the arbiters of libya's just me french oil companies i'm in congress of british oil companies are talking about how they're going to be number one in libya not so we don't want a board on the part again allowing yet another country which is part of the so-called arab spring board which is no increasingly being militarized to external interventions allowing the for mentation to happen from within so it's important the conditions part of this stand united front and try to present. 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 dr three round

professor at the school of international affairs in india. now libya's rebel forces have surrounded the come or go down there the taliban he will lead southeast of tripoli saying and talk with the former leaders loyalists failed iraqis chimps have been given until fact today to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault out is where the national reports from tripoli. fighting in the area known as you were lead 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 engine is 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 quite a long time with nature helping them this operation has actually started well be

tween the rebels and gadhafi loyalists on the ground on a peaceful surrender failed this area of bani walid has always been known as. stronghold and people from this area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels actually daffy whose whereabouts there 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 lawyers may use people local residents as human shields and they've recently called for old people in the area to help by conduct these courses to come over to its side from the scene they will not be any revenge for them and security could be guaranteed the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming that tripoli is now secure and is

not safe and they're working hard to try to restore the city and the country actually is currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable and it's quite unclear who either actually control in tripoli right now is think she is full of. armed people with their own clear agenda with little knowledge of how to use weapons it is quite unclear who is controlling them national transitional council has recently claimed that they are now trying to bring these irregular fighters under their control but as we can see they're not successful so far actually. when it's two weeks since the libyan capital fell the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being egged exactly loyalists because that's first head raul

says a new civil war seems inevitable i have some sympathy for the lobby and his call to get rid of the former regime figures i mean it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the from the government that is just and those 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 with any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience in the end or 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 to kill each other in libya. today and we think if we kill the gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. still ahead this hour here on r t in tulsa ration kept the city overcrowded prisons are

a breaking point as the government's hands out tough jail sentences in a hard line approach to street riots is because it's. run as america's top commander in afghanistan its final falwell's of the military look at the problems he's leaving behind as. russia is trying to corner ukraine over gas prices in response to accusations from ukrainian authorities moscow's says water that she wants is a partnership ukraine's are happy with the price it paid for russian gas from the contracts signed back in two thousand and nine it's threatening to take the matter into court with the russians paul saying it will stand its ground in any dispute however ukraine's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed. palestinians prepared some knowledge in support of a bid as stated at the un later this month could face more than they bargained for

israel's a given security forces and west and settlements a license to shoot out protesters organizers insist the rallies will be peaceful and will not approach settler homes but israel says it's carrying every eventuality . is a crossroads for. in some quarters there is talk of a into fodder 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 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 now for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation because operation summer seeds and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to descend we're being told that they have the most hated reason line around it if we stay at home in the west bank and what the sunnis are palestinians who approach that red line and will

be shot by folders who has a mission to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups in the settlement they have been participating in that the army has been undergoing stacie 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 thousand police officers have been mobilized around the country one of the focal point that there will be watching is jerusalem which is where many here most of the rhine and could run on saturday we saw the largest protests in this country's history where some one hundred thousand demonstrators took to the streets of cities here in tel aviv was one of the focal points a number of speakers a number of artists addressed the crowd a folk about making history they said really that this was a turning point. in the history of this country what protesters has deemed demanding for the vision part of two months is the social issue just as maybe what

they say is that committed now to 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 that he is facing a criticism that he is spending too much time on issues on the international agenda rather than addressing the real domestic concerns here at home just this past weekend tookie expelled the israeli ambassador and for all military cooperation between both countries the relationship between israel and egypt is at an all time low after israeli for i mistakenly killed a number of egyptian 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. all recognizing that 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 nickel yahoo government not to a great real concerns that people have you know i mean talking to protesters they

accuse netanyahu of being passive of being responsible and of being out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. now the u.k. the chief prosecutor says looters are being punished too harshly there an arrest that gripped the country and people smashing windows burning cars and looting shops where hundreds of things been given a stiff sentence there is an already overcrowded jails the prime minister has called tough love there's been a report 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 disappearing fast we're looking at literally what we can pack into this already intern 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 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 next mum capacity of one thousand six hundred sixty five 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 of upgrade wandsworth was built in the victorian period times literally stood still but nothing escapes austerity here

especially when it costs forty five thousand pounds a year to howes an inmate the prison building scheme has been reversed despite prison the numbers. doubling in the last two decades start and now outnumbered four to one the amount of stuff has actually already 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 if you just work those 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 reassembling if you send people to prison all of them suggests that it is it is not by any means the most effective way of reducing reoffending

we know that certainly with young people and we can quote short term prison sentences up to seventy percent of all reaffirmed within twelve months of coming out and about can not be good for you suppose all three is a week or two words appearing at the prison service insists it has enough prison places for those being sentenced to custody as a result of public disorder and i think 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 than i catching that is it for you whenever you want support here's just a taste of what we've got lined up you right now and there it is ailing car making capital find it can't get out of rebirth here as the country's government admits is failing to create jobs for its new millions of unemployed. and live music

on my web under ground laser see how to run capitol celebrated its eight. all first day with a bang and you can watch it. all you tube channel. u.s. troops.

in the country meanwhile the u.s. is top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has been. head of the cia. what he's leaving behind. the main legacy of general petraeus career. he's totally of a counterinsurgency doctrine we chico third read the us marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to the fact 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 intellectual awakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction from their callous in my optic bunker mentality

conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general of the trail has to be older with suspected remembered and that my and for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor we had the coin dog training that precipitated the declarative shift in the military thinking from their conventional and complacent mentality to their conventional and a symmetrical modus operandi. the economic situation around the globe continues to look bleak with the u.s. creating no new jobs in august and europe struggling with a number of debt ridden member states one of india's leading economists believes it's time the world turns to get. any medium term a long term projection suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may

grow a little bit faster going to power the u.s. has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is likely to grow faster in europe but the growth rate in these economies would be much less than the growth rate in emerging market countries 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 and i think you're thinking of a world in which there would be a large number of relatively equal economic grouping and you want to global system that can accommodate it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying well look this is the center of power and everybody else must adjust.

and what's happening to you in an hour's time here on bring you some more news in brief now from around the world and clashes have erupted between police and protesters outside a court in cairo where the channel of egypt's ousted president regimes hosni mubarak's charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters my favorite uprising toppled him he denies the accusations will fall pigskin will take the stand to testify against the ex and the harrowing. health concerns passed a shadow over the outgoing trial of former presidential president. seven g.o.g. rolled faces two counts of bezel and punishable by up to ten years in prison suffering from a condition which affects his notoriety the job will the medical evidence before deciding whether to dispose of the child or allow it to continue in shanghai its absence. the un peacekeeping balls and hey she's been hit by fresh controversy

after five years of why he's keepers recuses sexually assaulting a teenage boy video of the alleged assault has surfaced on the incident in spades with the perpetrators must be justice while you're of why has paul b. accused peacekeepers out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and dozens missing after typhoon dallas through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and homes cutting off access to many remote villages thousands of people are still stranded and awaiting rescue the storm is the most devastating of its kind to hit japan last seven years. again just a few minutes from now we debate whether taxing the rich could help overcome the financial crisis in the e.u. and us after the business with dmitri. hello and warm welcome to business r.t.

pressure seems to be easing in the gases between russia and ukraine he have says it will honor the current agreement but still wants to renegotiate prices down its terms it wants to see ukraine agreed to merge the state run nafta gatt as with russia's gazprom now this would effectively mean lost will gain access to the gas transit network ukraine's president says the country will not allow this however experts say it's hobson's choice for kids. the real id greed to create a joint venture eludes the trends of business if they want cheap gas they will have to give all but the pipeline people don't buy these they will have to pay market prices for gas it will be around three hundred in age dollars per thousand cubic meters starting from october and the thing is the industry in ukraine is much more power hungry the new rule so ukrainian goods will inevitably be more expensive. so you look at the markets now or start with commodities oil is losing ground

investors are speculating signs that the u.s. and chinese economies are weakening indicate fuel demand will falter in the world's largest crude consuming nations brant is down more than a dollar more than a dollar and a half per barrel this hour. sovereign debt worries coupled with bad jobs data from the u.s. this is all leading european financials lower markets dropping significantly as a result of the x. down almost four percent federal housing and finance agency alleges that major u.s. and european banks misrepresented the quality of mortgages that they sold during the housing bubble as a result world bank of scotland and the voyager bank mentioned in the lawsuit are down ten and eight percent respectively similar picture in russia although the markets are holding up somewhat against. the drop seen in europe markets coming down around one and a half percent this hours take a look at the main movers on the my sex than a g shares are low on of course of prices but will coming down gazprom is down one

point three percent was never a good bet in the market point six percent but the worst hit is the bank is down one point nine percent or so. and the falling market represents some opportunities for bargain hunters however maxime call from what else he believes it is too early to call the bottom and the prudent investor would be better off sticking to the side. it might be some of the boredom some people believe from sea and recreational water and fishes around but you know prudent more you 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 from russian metal companies when there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so the major was in this game consoles you know obviously

and then a recovery scenario companies like iraq's magill could be a very good bargain so the search for. good weather and the end of the grain export ban 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 the authorities say they'll be lucky to export even twenty five million and sold you to the inability to get the grain from the farms to the ports. to the best you could we achieve more than three million tons of green exports in august we'll because stealing but if we see the railway system is not able to transfer more to the ports where the docks can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month really we can barely manage to transfer the august volumes. so for me to join my colleague julia bach where she'll be here in around thirty five minutes time to bring you a business update and headlines are next with me to stay with us. all

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