the. syrian forces launch their biggest sweep against protesters in the northwest with reports of several killed that's as russia urges the un to get both sides into talks. with israel authorizes its special forces to shoot at palestinian protesters as they prepare to march in support of the un bid for independence claiming it's to prevent bloodshed. and gas impasse between ukraine and russia with price talks and prospects but turbulent times ahead. kiev has backpedaled on its decision to sue russia in order to have the two thousand and nine. is ready to battle it out the board join me for all the fresh details from

ukraine's capital g. . international news or comment live from moscow this is the war deaths are being reported in syria where security forces have launched raids in the north west to stop protestors escaping across the border into turkey meanwhile russia is running members of the un security council to encourage the sides to stop violence and start negotiations a crime and police president assad has worked to change the situation look around through reforms and his efforts deserve some credit but the u.s. and its west european allies are pushing for action against president assad's regime which they've already sanctioned and french political analyst peer believes there's an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civilians. sanctions in general did not work because countries always try. in ways to go around with

sanctions and so on the sanctions would start the only in the town we go on with production of oil although they would be about banning of importation so it's not quite logical and most probably syria would find different outlets who are for its oil in every single one of these situations is every time but the west or other countries talk about a humanitarian intervention the question that needs to be asked is why there is a good mention in some countries but not in others for example in bahrain the people wanted to get rid of their regime but since it was socialist no question of humanitarian intervention and there is no question of them financially saudi arabia no question of intervention to help the palestinians so the humanitarian question cannot be give forced political and economic questions you have to find that political and economic and military interests before you start believing in it she manager and reasons because most in all so-called interventions humanitarian

interventions you there's another reason which is far more important. or serious struggle drags on let's see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country what is i mean they're going to go is there and has been meeting those at the sharp end of the sanctions. the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floor until it all ended in a snit. and i mean you customers would come from this forest when you kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down a while first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west quickly stepped in with sanctions purpose of the economic pressure on the cheap the political stop the budget and to help the people of syria to achieve the legitimate aspirations at first all major credit card transactions were stopped earlier this month but 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. of course 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 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. simpsons are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian alice say there are too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about of. course. we call it it could be my life as

a serious. 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 even r t damascus syria. over libya the old regime may be toppled but the fighting showing no sign of letting up and the rebels say they've done enough talking while stay with us here a lot see for the latest from the front line in the hunt for colonel gadhafi as his loyalists remain determined to the. israelis to allow security forces to shoot at palestinian protesters who are preparing to march in support of their bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month to live it claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed settlers in the west bank for self defense. is across developments there for us. in some quarters there is talk of a group into florida that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the

first two seculars of whom there is 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 the israeli army and the israeli army and not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some a c's 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 the most hated a line around every settlement in the waistband and what this means is that palestinians who approach so that the on deck red line will be shot at by soldiers who have commissioned to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups in the theorem and they have been participating in girls that are on these behind designing safety and provided with stun grenades with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters on saturday we saw the largest protests in this country's history where some four hundred thousand demonstrators

took to the streets of ten cities here in tel aviv was one of the focal points a number of speakers a number of artists address the crowd they spoke about making history they said really that was a turning point in the history of this country what protesters have been demanding for the better part of two months is social issue justice and really what they're saying is that the netanyahu government needs to be focused on issues of security and will focus on the 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 on the international agenda rather than addressing real domestic concerns here at home talking to protest as they accuse netanyahu of being. of being. and of being out of touch with what people in there are concerned about. and one peace activist from a joint palestinian israeli ngo has told us here at r.t. that it's tel aviv turning to provocation israelis well with protests

it may be an indication of the kind of provocation the government is interested to do on the settlers. already existing settlers are not the one to be attacked in most of the cases the palestinians they'd be attacked raise the settlers the settlers are heavily armed from the very beginning of the israeli occupation in the west bank and gaza. what is important is not that we have more arms you cannot add more to the maximum the question. the intentions of the government and this is what is worrying me a lot of brutal reaction from these really. brutal precede by the israeli government may be confronted with a mass demonstrations inside israel to. the head of nato says the united states military intervention in libya will not end with the capture of colonel gadhafi on

the front line rebel forces are waiting for the green light to crush one of the last remaining pockets of resistance by gadhafi supporters rebel negotiators say ceasefire talks in the town of bani walid have broken down but the country's interim government is certain there's still hope for a peaceful solution the national transitional council says two of the colonel's sons who've been blocking the surrender of bani walid left the area unclear a number of gadhafi loyalists were holed up in the town fifty kilometers from tripoli and earlier being given until saturday to lay down arms more noise for making a stand in his hometown of sirte and several other areas it was all to use were financial reports it's the battle for bani walid that could prove decisive. they've been preparing for this operation for by the long time with nato helping them clean cas towards bombing cities in the area anyway lead has always been known as the stronghold and people from this area since the beginning of this conflict here in

libya been fighting against rebels all across the country and have been dying for. all the time been supporting gadhafi who has provided them with a very good emission of the past weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for the rebels to take control of a nice area while they need it's actually darkie host variables have been known and well. not surprisingly remains the country's number one priority is thought to be right now this is sons in this area this is. one more reason to take control of area as well the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that is now secure and is now safe and they're working. to try to restore order in the country on the territory now controlled

technically by the national transitional council because we see on the ground actually make as. they are successful so far apart from humanitarian challenges this country actually is there currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable the city is full of people who don't clear. many or very little knowledge of how to use weapons and it's quite unclear who is controlling them. while the situation in libya remains tense russia is building up its relations with the country's new government after recently recognizing the rebels as the legitimate authority in libya moscow's now invited officials for economic targets which are expected to take place this week with r.t. for the latest developments around the clock. scuffles are broken out both inside

and outside of course in colorado where former president hosni mubarak's trial has resumed the hearing was disrupted when lawyers for both the prosecution and defense had to be separated by police outside hundreds of demonstrators including relatives of those killed during the federal uprising attempted to break through the main gates and gain access to the call for senior police officers are due to testify against mubarak at monday's hearing which will be behind closed doors a three year old is charged with corruption and ordering the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters to egypt's revolution that toppled him other protests have been continuing elsewhere in egypt with millions of people still unhappy with the slow pace of reforms from the interim leaves. ukraine says it's not willing to negotiate over gas prices with russia after the kremlin said it would rigorously defend the already agreed bulan international courts foreign minister sergey lavrov met his ukrainian counterpart to talk energy costs after here pushed for

a new discount because of struggles in paying the current contract. has more. well certainly over the past seventy two hours it clearly seemed that the temperature in this new gas crisis has reached critical level especially with somewhat sensational the very loud statements made by president going to present of ukraine he plans to sue russia in the international court to have the two thousand and nine desk on tracks revised it also was a very stern reply coming from the kremlin the presidential press office said that should ukraine decide to take this case into international court in stockholm then russia would be ready to stand its ground and that of the law the international law was only its own russia side believing that russia would achieve victory should this law suit a cure now the situation has changed dramatically over the past twenty four hours with the ukrainian prime minister nicolas out of saying that until the new price is agreed until the new contract is signed the ukraine will be sticking to the current

contract and will be fulfilling goal of legations off this contract paying up to four hundred u.s. dollars for one thousand cubic meters of russian gas which is the market price and this is the price which ukraine has been pretty much on happy with russia is not as strongly dependent on the ukrainian gas transportation system as it was back in two thousand and nine now we know according to russia's prime minister vladimir putin the north stream pipeline will be launched pretty much soon in fact it's a test run will be started to morrow on tuesday and winter stand in the months in a month's time european consumers germany in particular will be receiving the gas through the north korean pipeline does that is something which was not existing in two thousand and nine also i understand that the south stream pipeline is also going to going to be completed in the new risk you chair so this means that the european consumers have nothing to worry about according to all the officials in mosul in the astrodome in the russian energy ministry and in the kremlin and we

will not see another gas war which would affect the european continent this time around. patience is rapidly running out of the european central bank with greece being ordered to sharpen its cutting back as agreed in its brain out the euro zone's your debt is widening and the e.c.b. chief wants to give brussels a bigger role in how countries manage their affairs. is that. greece could fail to get its second bailout if it to carry out the terms of its first one that's according to the european central bank chief trish a he said it's absolutely imperative to tighten monitoring of countries in the euro zone now calling for a single european government to impose economic decisions on countries according to a more governance within the euro zone is absolutely essential i mean if you talk to you call them it's here in brussels they're not sure the single single government. bureaucrats making decisions for national economies is the right way to

go ahead or even that it will save the euro anyway with growing numbers of people here fearing the single currency maybe a sinking ship of talks between the e.u. i.m.f. and the greek officials have all been a part of the e.u. says greece has failed to cut its deficit you also have countries like finland who are resisting any more bailouts until they really understand what's going to going on in these troubled countries not just greece but obviously also portugal and spain they use given greece a few more weeks to go with through to plan their check on the situation in that country again of course that's raising even more doubts about greece's ability to avoid quitting the euro so it's understandable why investors may be panicking here in europe at the moment. you're bushell there with european markets on the slide leaders are struggling to keep a lid on their finances yet things are much sunnier out east r.t. here's in just over ten minutes from now when one of india's leading economists gives some currency counseling. i think is generally recognize that if you want to

have a single currency it needs to be backed by a single fiscal of out of three not since the euro zone is different countries that must have a very shared understanding of who's going to pay the bills the problem arise the challenge for europe how they're going to handle this. in anybody's interest to see a major from a collapse. turnout operation some of the world's other main news right now is very nearly eighteen minutes past the hour a yemeni warplanes reportedly bombed a mosque in the south thought to be occupied by islamic militants killing at least thirty it follows the killing of seventeen extremists and yemeni air strikes in the region insurgents were linked to al qaeda and took over the city of jar in april amid the ongoing anti-government demonstrations and political crisis in the country . the much delayed trial of former french president jacques chirac is resuming with

judges deciding whether the frail seventy eight year old is well enough to face court he's charged with embezzlement while mayor of paris and pay party members for non-existent jobs and long serving its leader is the first french president to go on trial since the second world war in faces ten years jail if convicted. and its main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the newly independent south sudan police arrested members and seized property claiming the s.p.l. quality is illegal decades of civil war saw the country split in two in july tensions remain in disputed territory where s.p.l. militias continued deadly skirmishes with sudanese troops. rescuers in japan are searching for those still missing after a powerful typhoon that left at least thirty four people dead the storm caused massive floods and landslides as well as leveling roads and homes thousands of people are still stranded with many remote villages i mean being cut off is thought

to be japan's worst storms since two thousand and four when almost one hundred people were killed. but again officials say they found the bodies of two german citizens who work for an ngo in the country and went missing last month it's unclear whether they were killed by the taliban which recently stepped up its assault on foreign nationals with the recent resignation of nato commanding officer in afghanistan party's military contributor says it's vital the alliance capitalizes on his work to win the war the main legacy of general petraeus career. he's delicately they counting insurgency doctrine we cheat coauthored the u.s. marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to the effect that general of the trails pioneer and led the way to recess the tate 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 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 big bunker mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's where the general controls to be able to respect it remember and that my and for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intel actual endeavor we had the coin dog training we've had precipitated that parity shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the unconventional and symmetrical models operandi. a more more news an article com where we also know not some i popping entertainment for you you can seek out the surreal with our colorful gallery of lost

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merge with the state from nafta from this for a fact if you mean what's the will gain access to the gas transit network ukraine's president says the country will not allow this however the experts say it's hobson's choice ok if i knew the real id agreed to create a joint venture the trans a business if they want cheap gas they will have to go with the pipeline if they don't believe they will have to pay market prices for gas it will be around three hundred eighty dollars thousand cubic meters starting from october and the thing is the industry in ukraine is much more power hungry than you rule so ukrainian boots will inevitably be more expensive which. does have a look at the markets now oil is losing ground as investors speculate signs that the u.s. and chinese economies are weakening into kid fields a month will falter in the world's largest crude consuming nations landis trading at one hundred and ten dollars

a barrel oil light sweet as close to eighty four dollars per barrel. story or as coupled with but jobs data from the if you ask me to european financial slow with the markets dropping significantly as a result of better housing finance agency alleges that major you ass and european banks misrepresented the quality of mortgages they sold during the housing bubble as a result world bank of scotland dorchin mentioned. the lawsuits went down and eight percent respectively. stocks have dropped for a second day after all the country's main export revenue ernest's lips let's have a look at some of the individual stock the moves on the my six energy majors were on the biggest loser this process the last turn health center financial stocks ended in the red cross' biggest lenders burbank's slumped two point seven percent but the trend was rules to nickel had gained on the news that one of its main shareholders who sold didn't like the victim percent buy but made by the nickel producer propping up the day on friday for damage from council buying says the

market is desperate for direction the. market works in the direction i think. they were doing to steel weigh in quite a bit on the markets with what's going on today especially you were pretty because of the friday poor results from. the labor result and yes this thursday will speak on the. unemployment problem in u.s. harps more the markets are trying to convince themselves that you'll see something you're strong enough to convince the markets to be better but still people. do see on the sidelines and we don't feel something more material will come out from i'll just pitch. the falling market presents some opportunities for bargain hunters . from earl so believes it is too early to call the bottom investor would be better off sticking to the side lights. it might be somewhat close to the bottom

as some people believe from say and there are occasional both and fishes around but you know probably wait before making any serious decisions any call to blue chip name which is you know essentially has come off strongly and has good ability to generate cash to play didn't would be a good church question clearly its own gas company a sort of sniffed work will guest room brush metal company just as lost when there was between thirty to fifty percent year to date so they were the major loses and this game kinds for us you know obviously they need a recovery soon there are companies like iraq's machel could be a very good bargain several cents for. good weather and the end of the grain that's what ban won't help russia sending this year's crop abroad experts estimate the total export potential this year's harvest of thirty seven million tons the thorson say they'll be lucky to export twenty five million tonnes and it's all to do with

the inability to get the grain from the thoughts of just what was to the best figure that we achieved more than three million tons of green exporting or wish you well your particular stealing but as we see it the railway system is not able to transfer more to the ports where the dogs can travel shipments it would be five million times a month and really we system barely managed to transfer the august volumes. that wraps up the business bulletin for more stories you can head to our website that started up business.

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