r t live from moscow russia says the un should immediately call on all sides in the syrian conflict to stop all violence and start talking russia's foreign minister says that president bashar assad has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict boss said also admitted not all syrian opposition members want to engage in talks with the government cautioned against encouraging protesters to stay away from the case ations last week of the e.u. imposed an oil embargo against syria and warned of further steps in a five month crackdown didn't stop. reports sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the authorizations. and the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floored until it all ended in the snip. of many customers that would compromise forest when the kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down along first came the under arrest then the crackdown

then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions how to survive the economic pressure on the cheap the political. the budget and how 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 the e.u. when 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 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. syrian government have chosen the path and no matter what measures

are taken against them continue down that road. sanctions are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian alast say they're too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about oil or busying or. what we call it it would be in 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 use of a very believe business will pick up again will pull through even goes r t damascus syria. now russia condemned western sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective mosk a stance has largely been echoed by its partners within the brics group presell

india china and south africa dr earthly them charlie a professor at the school of international affairs in india at least as important their line says the united in dealing with the situation in the middle east bric is a microcosm of the movement towards a multi multi lot of work and you can only have multiple l.t. through joint action by brick nations it's very very important but sanctions could be the first step into another military intervention by neutral and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria 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 of france britain and the united states are not the arbiters of libya's destiny french are the companies an intel of british oil companies are talking about how they're going to be number one. 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 intervention it's rather than allowing the foreman dishes to happen from within so it's important the great nations put up this stand united front and try to prevent 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 where that was dr three round professor at the school of international affairs in india. now libya's rebel forces have surrounded the colonel gadhafi held desert town of bani well and southeast of tripoli saying a talks with the former leaders loyalists have failed kidnappings chaves have been given until fact today to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault out his breath and their 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 if 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 the 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 these areas meanwhile the rebels are afraid that gadhafi forces could have his lawyers 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 that tree 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 an

unclear gender with little knowledge how to use weapons it is quite unclear who is controlling the national transitional council has claimed that the now trying to bring these irregular fighters and they control but as we can see they're not successful so far actually. well 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 african loyalists critical satirist ted ralph says a new civil war seems inevitable. i have some sympathy for elsa lobby and his call to get rid of all these former regime figures i mean it's not much of a revolution if you have the former officials from the from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you will see any kind of division like that uses in

a scenario where revolution is not fully realized 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 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 would certainly kill the gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. still ahead this hour here on our team incarceration capacity overcrowded like a prisoner of breaking point as the government hands out pump jail sentences in a hardline approach to street riot is a big service. plan as america's top commander in afghanistan with his final falwell to the military one of the problems he's leaving behind. russia is trying to corner ukraine over gas prices in response to accusations from

ukrainian authorities while skase says what it out of chile wants is a partnership ukraine's are happy with the price to pay its all russian gas on the contract signed back in two thousand and nine it's threatening to take the matter into court russia's gazprom 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 preparing its homology in support of a bed as stated at the un later this month could face more than they bargained for israel's they've given security forces the west bank settlements a license to shoot protesters. organizers insist the rallies will be peaceful and will not approach settler homes but israel says its bearing for every eventuality. is across the fence for. in some quarters there is talk of a intifada that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the first two

sectors 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 operating 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 some a c. 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 settlement in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach the on that red line will be shot at by soldiers who will have a mission to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within the system and they have been participating in drills with 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 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 largest protest 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 vision part of two months social issues justice and really what they're saying is that the netanyahu government needs to be focused on issues of security and wolf. focused on internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and this is a criticism netanyahu is facing of criticism that he is spending too much time on issues on the international agenda rather than addressing real domestic concerns here at home just this past weekend turkey 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 fire mistakenly killed a number of egyptian border guards so with that kind of regional isolation and certainly in the context that it just several weeks before palestinians will be appealing to the u.n. 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 to have been responsible and have been out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. now the u.k. chief prosecutor says luce's are being punished too harshly the on the arrest that gripped the country and i guess all people smashing windows burning candles and looting shops where hundreds of since been given stiff sentences and already

overcrowded jails or the prime minister has called tough love but i have a better reports the system could the breaking point. prisons in england and wales have never been full 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 now 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 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 and two out of three prisons currently exeat this divide safe limit inmates double up in cells smaller the nine square metres sharing and open toilet 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 a prison building schemes been reversed despite prisoner numbers doubling in the last two decades staff and now out numbered ball to one. has actually fraction we increase by a couple of percent but we're expected to do the same job of rehabilitation in such

difficult circumstances in effect what you actually do you just work those prisoners and i don't think that is the answer to society's problem. 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 that the cramped conditions they saw only a few three offending if you send people to prison who are you happy don't suggest 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 reaffirmed within twelve months of coming out now that cannot be a good use of resources and there are two ways of doing it the prison service insists it has enough prison places for those being sentenced to custody as

a result of public disorder adding there is substantial capacity in the prison system but the numbers suggest otherwise pushing an already stretched system to breaking point either bennett artsy london. more more new video. just a taste of what we've got lined up now america's ailing car making. it can't get out of here as the government admits it's paving to create jobs for millions of unemployed. live music under ground. the capital celebrates hundred sixty birthday with a bang you can watch. home.

now as u.s. troops began their gradual pullout from afghanistan. in. the country meanwhile the u.s. his top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has. his new head of the cia. leaving behind. general petraeus career. he's. of a counting insurgency doctrine which he coauthored the us marine general martin

dempsey the importance is not only limited to a 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 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 bunker mentality the conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general petraeus a real very respected remembered my and for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated the paradigm shift in the military thinking from the conventional

place and mentality to the conventional and symmetrical model operandi. be comic 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 turned to emerging markets. any medium to long term projection suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit faster going to the us has traditionally been viewed as a very dynamic economy is likely to grow faster than europe but the growth rate in these economies will be much less than the growth rate in the emerging market countries i mean trying to brazil so i think over time there is a shift in economic politicking praise one is to

a show. on the other we're 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 you can watch the full interview 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 has resumed hosni mubarak's charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters an affair prizing toppled him he denies the accusations will fall police then will take the

stand to testify against the ex need to haring. health concerns the cost of. coming trial of former presidential presidents as. the seventy year old faces two counts of bezel and punishable by up to ten years in prison suffering from a condition which affects his memory the judge will consider medical evidence before deciding whether to perspire in the trial or allow it to continue in shanghai its absence. the un peacekeeping force in haiti has been hit by fresh controversy after five years of why 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're of why has pulled the accused peacekeepers out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and dozens of missing after typhoon dallas' third through something 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 it is kind to hit japan now seven gives. you came 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. and warm welcome to business r.t. pressure seems to be easing in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine kiev says it will all of the current agreement but still wants to renegotiate prices. its terms it wants to see ukraine agreed to merge the state run nafta with russia's gas prom now this would effectively mean more school will gain access to the gas transit network ukraine's president says the country will not allow this our experts say it's. they will i do agree to create

a joint venture or lose the transit business if they want cheap gas they will have to go over the pipeline if they don't pull these they will have to pay market prices for gas it will be around three hundred eighty dollars per thousand cubic meters starting from october the thing is that 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 so 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 lights we have more than a dollar and a half per barrel this our. 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 backs 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 deutsche 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 there's our secular cap the main movers on the my sex energy shares are lower on of course the price of oil coming down gazprom is down one point three percent was never a bit better than the market point six percent but worse here it is back it's down one point nine percent there so. now 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 somewhat close to the bottom some people believe

from say and their occasional boat and fished around but you know prudent money would probably weed before making any serious decisions any quotes abou cheap name which is essentially has come off strongly and has good ability to generate cash to play didn't would be a good church is clearly its own gas company a sort of sneer to poor guys from rush metal company just as last down there is between thirty to fifty percent year to date so the major was in this game consoles you know obviously and then your recovery scenario companies like iraq's machel could be a very good bargain so the cetera. good weather and the end of the grain export ban won't help russia sending this year's crop of brought 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 to to the inability to

get the grain from the farms to the ports as well as to me based here because we achieved more than three million tons of grain exporter in august we hope it's going to steal like ninety but if we see the railway system is not able to transfer more to the ports while the docks can handle shipments of up to five million tons a month the real wage system barely managed to transfer the august volumes. so for me to join my colleague yulia bach where she'll be here in around fifty five minutes time to bring you a business update and headlines are next with alice on r.t. do stay with us.

the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years. one million new mobile org was promised first come cheap. political must murder for the west. the national hero for many and there's a. general in the serbian army. marc lamont. hill. on our two. cultures that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i seriously am a real serious problem so for the rates during the great financial contraction millions watched their jobs and all but the rich of only got the rich or should the rich pay more.

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must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop the violence and stop talking the big game of the moscow condemned the recent actions which threaten to hurt the people more than the regime. libyan rebels prepared to attack one of colonel gadhafi last doesn't stronghold the town of bani walid after efforts to negotiate the surrender of the ousted leaders remaining supporters break down. and israel gives the security forces permission there to fire a palestinian protesters in the west bank palestinians are planning a march in the area in support of her bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month. now is cross-talk guess debate whether the rich should pay more tax cuts next.