syrian forces launched their biggest sweeping against protesters in the last west with reports of several killed that's as russia roaches the un to get both sides into towards. israel authorizes its special forces to shoot at palestinian protesters as they prepare to march in support of a un bid for independence claiming it's to prevent bloodshed. the gas impasse between ukraine and russia with price talks in prospect but turbulent times ahead. however most could still agree on lower gas prices that it greatly korea's two parts its state run after gas with russia's gas business in twenty minutes.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour more deaths are being reported in syria where security forces have launched raids in the northwest 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 the kremlin believes president assad has worked to change the situation on the ground through reforms and his efforts deserve some credit but the u.s. and its western european allies are pushing for action against president assad's regime which they've already sanctioned french political analysts believes there's an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civilians. sanctions in general do not well because countries always lie in ways to go around the sanctions and so on but sanctions with slight only in the town go on with production of oil although

they would be banning the importation so it's not biological and most probably syria would find different outlets who are for its miles in every single one of these situations because every time the west or other countries talk about of humanitarian intervention a question that needs to be asked is why there is they did 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 so listen to us there's no question of a humanitarian intervention and there is no question of them actually to saudi arabia no question of intervention to help the palestinians so the humanitarian question cannot be be forced to call an economic questions you have to find that political and economic and military interests before you start believing in it she manager and reasons as most in all so-called interventions humanitarian interventions there is another reason which is far more important. while syria

struggle drags on let's see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country what is only in english goes there and has been meeting those at the sharp end of the sanctions. the dealer is a master barber the old small his shop was floor until it all ended in a snip. in the customers that would come from a forest when a kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down. first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west quickly stepped in with sanctions purpose of. the economic pressure on the chief of political stop the bunch and help the people of syria to achieve the magician aspirations at first all major credit card transactions were stopped earlier this month but that may only apply to foreign tourists because syria runs its own payment system and those with syrian accounts didn't feel the pinch however of the e.u. when the us are tightening their grip by posing 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 from saddam and this is not just government gloss in the face of impuls adversity syrian opposition figures are also unconvinced but for a different reason. because the syrian 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 analysts say they're 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 so yes it was. but while the power dealers of the west in syria trade insults and

clothes for syrian workers like nigeria the daily battle is to keep his modest livelihood together while hoping for the best if you go r t damascus syria. over in libya the old regime may have been toppled but the fighting showing no sign of letting up and the rebels say they've done enough talking still with r.t. for the latest from the front line in the hunt for colonel gadhafi as his loyalists remain determined to the end. to israel now and 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 tentative claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed quite alarming settlers in the west bank for self-defense. is across the evidence there. in some quarters there is talk of a intercom order that will say will be as bloody and as mine and 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 is the israeli army and the israeli police now for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation summer 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 everything command in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach that 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 within the settlements they have been participating in the roles that the army has been undergoing in safety and provided with stun grenades with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters on saturday we call the largest protest in this country history four hundred thousand demonstrators took to the streets of ten cities here in tel aviv was one of the focal points

a number of speakers a number of artists address the crowd they spoke about making history they said really that this was a turning point in the history of this country what protesters have been demanding for the better part of two months is the social issue just as really what they're saying is they're going to turn now to government need 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 then it's on now who is facing the 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 half of being under sponsible and of being out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. their there and want peace activists from a joint palestinian israeli and has told r.t. that it's terms to provocation israelis will also be processed. it may be an indication of the kind of provocation the government is interested to to arm

the settlers. already existing settlers are not the one to be attacked in most of the cases the palestinians baby 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 give more arms you cannot add more to the next room the question is what are the intentions of the government and this is what is worrying me a lot of brute reaction from these really. brutal policy debate the israeli government may be confronted with a mass demonstrations in said he is ready to. head of nato says the alliance's 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 i could ask the supporters rebel negotiators say ceasefire talks in the town of bani walid have broken down but the country's interim government is certain is still hope for a peaceful solution the national transitional council says two of the colonel sons who had been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area and unclear a number of gadhafi loyalists are holed up in the town one hundred fifty kilometers from tripoli and only been given until saturday to lay down arms or loyalists making a stand and get off his hometown of sirte and several other areas and sorties were financial reports the battle for bani walid that could prove decisive. they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time with nature helping them clean past towards bombing cities in the area and he will lead has always been known as a stronghold and people from this area have 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 in supporting gadhafi who provided them with a very good emission and the bass weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for travels to take control over these areas while they need is actually daffy who has been known and while the hunt for him not surprisingly remains the country's number one priority is thought to be right now with his sons in this area this is. one more reason to take control over this area as well the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that tripoli is now secure and is now safe and that they're working hard to try to restore in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council but we see on the ground actually. that they

are successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges this country actually currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable the sink she is full of people we've been clear agenda many of them very young with 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 and moscow is now invited officials for economic talks which are expected to take place this week stay with r.t. for the latest developments around the clock. ukraine says it's now willing to negotiate over gas prices with russia after the kremlin said it would rigorously

defend the already agreed to an international court foreign minister sergey lavrov met his ukrainian counterpart to talk energy costs after kiev pushed for a new discount because of struggles in paying the current contract parties are actually going to shift key has more. well certainly over the pa seventy two hours it clearly seems that the temperature in this new gas crisis has reached critical level especially with somewhat sensational a very loud statements made by president bush president of ukraine he plans to sue russia in the international court to have the two thousand and nine desk on trucks we buy the 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 a lot of the international law was only its own russia side believing that russia would have to be treated should this a 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 all of legations 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 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 so 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 that is something which was not existing in two thousand and nine also understand that the south stream pipeline is also going to going to be completed in the near nearest future 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. their patience is rapidly running out of the european central bank with greece being ordered to sharpen its act cutting back as agreed in its bailout and 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 own affairs are going to bushel is there. a risk to get its bailout 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 calling for a single european government to impose economic decisions on countries according to tradition more governance within the eurozone is absolutely essential i mean if you

talk to you. not sure the creating a 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 between. the greek officials are falling apart 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 spain given greece a few more weeks to go with through there it's a plan. on the situation in the country again of course that's raising even more details about greece's ability to avoid quitting the euro so it's understandable why investors may be panicking here in europe at the moment. well let's talk more on the eurozone crisis with financial writer peter build he's joining us live in

berlin thanks so much for being with us here on our team now new tougher regulations promised by the head of the e.c. so will countries with the euro see their own budget decisions taken away from them . ultimately what he is talking about is a government of financial government for europe this is an enormous step for countries that retain their sovereignty above all their parliamentary sovereignty and it's parliaments that decide budgets now what is happening is that because budgets have run out of control they're supposed to be all reasonably balanced because they've run out of control there is weakness within the euro debts are running up and it is affecting if you like the integrity of the whole euro system. who is the former chancellor of germany has already made the point that basically europe is a confederation actually a united states of europe at least in the financial spear now it's fine to say that

but to get from here to that point is enormously difficult and it's not about economics it's about politics most governments certainly almost parliaments don't want to give up that degree of sovereignty and indeed most people who are elected to parliament also don't want to give up that sovereignty but then they have to accept that they will have to lose their autonomy in order to save the single currency and indeed if these sort of centralised measures are taken is it too late anyway. it may indeed be if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute this thing the system could collapse before it is politically possible to put these sorts of measures in place but at the same time although parliaments if you like don't want europe to collapse there is a growing feeling both within parliaments and also amongst the people who elect

parliaments and that's certainly true of germany the most pros european of all three of all of the countries but there is a certain impatience away in up is it really worth giving up a sovereignty and b. possibly a lot of money in order to save a system that was falsely designed right from the beginning now that's not a question i can answer but he just certainly a question that parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months what about pointing a finger of blame to greece that seems to work the country really is dragging the whole euro zone down it's failing to to meet the austerity measures required what about just kicking greece out of the euro zone wouldn't that solve the problems. you know it wouldn't solve any problems at all because the greek debt is denominated in europe is no even if the greeks were to go back to their drachma they would still owe money and above all their banks would be owing money in your rose money that they would be even less able to repay than they are currently with

the euro's own health so although it might be very tempting to say this is the sort of country that should not have joined the euro zone in the first place because they were in fact lying about their budget deficit it's now i mean the horse has already bolted and there's no point in shutting the stable door unless you think perhaps that this will stop other people from doing the same but that's really no solution because it is up to the european governments the eurozone or therapies themselves to attract more carefully but the figures that they are being told about budgets by individual governments actually are true and this is simply didn't happen peter just really very very very briefly i want to ask you how can you maintain what's left of its fiscal dominance or are we seeing the power now shifting to the east to china for example just finally. well certainly trying because it in fact is the most you close in the world of course

financial power is shifting in that direction. the americans are hugely in hock to the chinese by some trillions of dollars to euro only reside with the creditor because if you know if if. a poll and then it's my problem but if i were buying a trillion dollars and it's going to be the bank's problem through and through the buying is going to be rather nice for your interest here thoughts peterbilt thanks so much for your time joining us live in. let's return now to libya and the fallout of other countries' maneuvers british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims that u.k. intelligence agents extradited terrorist suspects to libya and allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia rendition programs well now let's go live to germany to talk to an emotion she's a former british intelligence officer and he can hear me that. i can enjoy great

thanks very much indeed for joining us there in germany now one of the libyan rebel commanders who's now in charge of military forces in tripoli wants an apology from london and washington for handing him over to gadhafi back in two thousand and four seem likely to get it. i'm sure there be some sort of whitewash i mean when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been credibly disingenuous under the u.k. law the inquiries act two thousand and five any inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson is circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case am i five and i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that it's a piece of gibson himself he's heading up this inquiry was actually the intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role so he's been cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt he's going to unearth anything. perhaps he probably won't

shine a bright light in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends to the intelligence agencies but nevertheless we're seeing david cameron british prime minister being really outspoken about this. you know he wants to make sure this inquiry does go ahead and get the truth now obviously his government was in office when this allegedly was going on so how do you rate his moves as it were a decent call to reveal the truth or is it just simply dishing the dirt on the previous government. well it lovise think it was a decent cool but actually the whole dreadful dance between the u.k. particularly and the rest of the west and libya has been going on for decades so both tory and labor party governments have been implicated in this and i think in fact the u.k. has stirred up a perfect storm in its relationships with the loop relationship with libya and it's created problems which means go on for years now not just for the u.k. itself but also for the nato forces already there so we're looking for example in a morally dubious. looking at the funding of the l i f t the libyan islamic

fighting group of which this man was a member which had al qaeda links for many years and it was funded by m i six in one nine hundred ninety s. and has been backed during this rebellion and we're also looking at issues such as torture and extraordinary addition so all of the most dubious practices which have resulted from the war on terror seem to be coming to such a nexus point with libya as a former intelligence officer does this not surprise you i mean if this is in the interests of national security of working together two countries at that time on tackling islamic terrorists in the interest of national security that is justifiable is no. well what is national security that's a very basic question and quite often we find that certain governmental law class or business interests are going to be national security so for example the idea of trying to exact retribution against colonel gadhafi for his. expulsion from libya after he seized power of the oil industry that's partly why he came crying number one of course you can find

a number of terrorist organizations but then of course once they were invited back in because of the machinations and behind the scenes negotiations between get off his regime and mystically so his intelligence head and the form of government and m i six as well for mark allen who's now very lucrative post suddenly we're seeing. sort of switch back his influence between who is our friends and we have a problem with it because historically you can cozy up one side and then you can cozy up to the other but if you don't betray those sides you end up with both sides hating you and that's precisely the situation we're in now i mean they victimized gadhafi they made him number one private three decades then they close it up to him for ten of ten years and suddenly they're hunting him again and it's a very morally dubious ethically g.u.v.'s but also practically and not very effective approach that they have a veto over the last few decades just very briefly talking about that switching allegiance and the way a lot has changed what about the libyan people actually allegedly killed by gadhafi loyalists over the last six months it's actually possible that some of them were

brought to me because of tension by the work of british and american intelligence. well quite possibly i mean you know the hideous ironies of course that nato is going to protect civilians and yet both sides have been killing civilians as far as i can see in torturing civilians and things so you know it's the poor people that are suffering and they have to questions our support as well as these this new government comes in i mean it's been reported that for example they're going to base the new constitution partly on shari'a law and of course libya has been for decades very friendly very open and very sort of egalitarian when it came to woman's place in this society so certainly they might be feeling a lot more oppression. just briefly very embarrassing though for the british government and damaging perhaps. totally yes i mean they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in libya for decades now and really their chickens are coming home to roost and i can't see how any government comes into power in libya will trust whatever m i six or the british government now says ok

thanks very much ali good to hear from you live from germany that was a former british intelligence officer rushing joining us live there. for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories about four minutes from now next with the latest business news. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update fresh air is easing in the guns just everything russia and ukraine he says well all of the current agreement but still wants to renegotiate crisis has said storms it wants to see creating creech emerge the state will map to gas with russia's gas that's what effectively moscow will gain access to the gas transit network of ukraine and ukraine's president says the country will not allow that's where the experts say it's hobson's choice very quickly if. i hear you but they will i do agree to create a joint venture of aleut the trends of 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 guns it will be room for a hundred and eighty dollars per thousand cubic meters starting from october the thing is the industry in ukraine is much more power hungry than many rules so ukrainian goods will inevitably be more expensive. let's have a look at the markets now well as losing ground as investors speculate signs that the u.s. and chinese economy is weakening into k. field among all fourteen the roles largest group consuming nations friends largest trading just at one hundred ten dollars per barrel by lights which is close to eight hundred four dollars a barrel so in that war is coupled with the bad jobs data from the us needs european financial flow with the markets dropping significantly as a result federal housing finance agency alleges that major u.s. and european banks misrepresented the quality of mortgages they sold during the housing bubble as a result royal bank of scotland and torture mentioned in the lawsuit were down ten

and eight percent respectively. and russia stocks have dropped for a second day after well the country's main export revenue are in a slipped. that wraps up the business bulletin new york to date more stores and now it's time for you. from.

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