while russia was 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 for the u.s. and its west european allies are pushing for action against president assad's regime which they've already sanctioned french political analysts here believes there's an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civilians. sanctions in general do not work because countries always find ways to go around that sanctions and saw that sanctions would start to only look good to go on with production of oil although they would be banning of importation so it's not quite logical and most probably syria would find different outlets for its oil in every single one of these situations is every time the west or other countries talk about a humanitarian intervention the question that needs to be asked is why there is the

intervention 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 close to the u.s. there is no question of a humanitarian intervention and there is no question of them ventured to saudi arabia no question of intervention to help the palestinians so the humanitarian question cannot be divorced from political and economic questions you have to find the political economic and military interests before you start believing in it should manage your own reasons because most in all so-called interventions humanitarian interventions you there's another reason which is far more important while syria's struggle drags on let's see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country artie's area 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 the snip. many customers there would come from

a forest twenty kilometers away from damascus but now the flow has come down a lot first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions to survive is to put the economic pressure on the chief the political. the budge and to help the people of syria to achieve some adjustment 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. and 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 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. government have chosen their path and no matter what measures are taken against them will continue down that road so anxious are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian album list say there are too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about. the what we call it it would be my life as a serious citizen of 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 even goes r t damascus syria. over 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. to

you for the latest from the front line in the hunt for colonel gadhafi as his loyalists remain determined to the. still to come this hour europe's financial bosses plan on tightening their grip on the rest of the eurozone and give brussels a bigger role. but first 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 tel aviv claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed by arming settlers in the west bank for self-defense. is across development. in some quarters there is talk of a intifada that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the first two seculars of whom there are some four hundred thousand living in the land that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank all bracing themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some misdeeds and it's now in

the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this end we're being told that they have demarcated a line around every six women in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach beyond that red line will be a shot at by soldiers who will have a machine to do this now that also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within these statements they have been participating in drills that the army's been undergoing say seen provided with stun grenades with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters on saturday we saw the largest protest in this country's history way 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 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 justice really what they're

saying is that the netanyahu government needs to be focused on issues of security and focus on internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and this is a criticism that 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 protesters they accuse netanyahu of being path of being responsible and of being out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. and there on one peace activist from a joint palestinian israeli ngo has told r.t. that if ton of turns to provocation israelis will answer with protests it may be an indication of the kind of provocation the government is interested to to arms a certain we'll add on the already existing settlers are not the one to be attacked in most of the cases the palestinians are they be attacked the way 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 is what are the intentions of the government and this is what is worrying me brute reaction from these already and a brutal policy by the israeli government may be confronted with mass demonstrations inside israel to. head of nato says the alliances military intervention in libya will not end with the capture of colonel gadhafi on the frontline 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 is still hope for a peaceful solution the national transitional council says two of the colonel's sons who have been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area

unclear a number of gadhafi loyalists are holed up in the town hundred fifty kilometers from tripoli but only been given until saturday to lay down arms making a stand in gadhafi hometown of sirte and several other areas. reports the battle for money when he could prove decisive. they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time with nature helping them clean path towards. military facilities in the 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 all across the country and have been dying for. all the time in supporting gadhafi who has provided them with a very good diminution and the best weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for the rebels to take control over these areas while they need it's actually

daffy host 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 and this is. one more reason to take control over the area as the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that is now secure and is now safe and that they're working hard to try to restore order. in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council but he on the ground actually makes as. they say they are successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges that the country actually currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and. politically situation this very unstable the city is full of people

with unclear gender many of them very young with little knowledge of how to use weapons and it's quite unclear who is controlling them 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 victim of a forward in libya moscow has now invited officials for economic talks which are expected to take place this week and we'll keep you posted on what happens here in r.t. . british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims that u.k. intelligence agents extradited terror suspects to libya. first after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia rendition programs former british intelligence officer told me earlier that she expects the investigation will be brushed under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an

inquiry into these allegations he's being incredibly disingenuous under the u.k. law the inquiries act two thousand and five any inquiry that 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 m i five and m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that subpoena gibson himself is heading up this inquiry was actually 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 if he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he would probably want to shine a bright light in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends to the intelligence agencies 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 that comes into power in libya will trust whatever m i six or the british government now says. scuffles have broken out both inside and outside according current where former president hosni mubarak's trial has resumed

the hearing was disrupted when lawyers for both the prosecution and the defense had to be separated by police outside hundreds of demonstrators including relatives of those children in federal prison attempting to break through the main gate to gain access to the court 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 during egypt's revolution that toppled the protests have been continuing elsewhere in egypt with millions of people still unhappy the slow pace of reforms for. ukraine says it's now willing to negotiate over gas prices with russia after the kremlin said it would rigorously defend the already agreed deal in international courts foreign minister sergey lavrov met his counterpart to talk energy costs to push for a new discount because of struggles in paying the current contract ati's alexia chef ski has more. well certainly over the last seventy two hours it clearly seemed

that the temperature in this new gas crisis has reached critical level especially with somewhat sensational and 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 gas contracts revised to also was a very stern reply coming from the kremlin the presidential press office sad that should ukraine decide to take this case into international court in stockholm then russia would be ready to stand its ground and death of the law the international law was on 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 and you guys 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 pretty much on the happy with russia is not 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 that the north stream by plane 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 the 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 future so this means that the european consumers have nothing to worry about according to all the officials. 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 at the european central bank with greece being ordered to sharpen it acting cutting back as agreed in its bailout the euro zone's yawning debt is widening and the e.c.b. chief wants to give brussels a bigger role in how countries manage. daniel bushell is that greece could fail to get its second bailout if it fails to carry out the terms of its first one that's according to the european central bank chief john claude trichet 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 aaa more governance within the eurozone is absolutely essential i mean if you talk to your column is here in brussels not sure reaching the single single government with the e.u. 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 i.m.f.

and 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 the use given greece a few more weeks to go with through there it's a plan that will check on the situation in the 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 and you push all their financial writer peterbilt he told me a little earlier that he believes that the euro zone system is so flawed that even a common economic government won't save the single currency. it may indeed be getting if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute financial government for europe 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 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 really designed right from the beginning it is certainly a question that parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months if europe needs some vital advice it should look east as we'll hear in about an hour's time when a leading economist from the indian powerhouse gives some currency counseling. i think it's generally recognize that if you want to have a single currency it needs to be backed by

a single for school authorities now since the euro zone is different countries it must have a very shared understanding of who's going to pay the bills if a problem arise the challenge for europe how they're going to handle distribute it through trade i don't need it in anybody's interest to see a major financial collapse. come up to twenty minutes past the hour let's update you on some of the world's other main news right now a yemeni plane has reportedly bombed a mosque in the south that was thought to be occupied by islamic militants killing at least thirty it follows the deaths of seventeen extremists in yemeni airstrikes in the region insurgents were linked to al-qaeda and took over the city of in april amid the ongoing anti-government demonstrations and political crisis in the country . the corruption trial of former president jacques chirac has resumed but the judge says the frail statesman won't have to attend the seventy eight year old is charged

with embezzlement while mayor of paris and paying party members for non-existent jobs. he's suffering memory lapses because of his failing health he is the first french president to face trial since the second world war and could get ten years jail if convicted. and its main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the newly independent. police arrested members and seize property claiming the s.p.l. party is illegal decades of civil war saw the country split in two in july but tensions remain in disputed territory as p.l.m. militias continue the deadly skirmishes with sudanese pretty. rescues in japan and searching for those still missing after a powerful typhoon left at least thirty four people dead a storm caused massive floods and landslides as well as leveling roads and homes thousands of people are still stranded with many remote villages cut off to be japan's worst storm since two thousand and four and almost one hundred people

killed. afghan officials say they found the bodies of two german citizens who were in the country and went missing last month it's unclear whether they were killed by the ton of them which recently stepped up its assault on foreign nationals with the recent resignation of nato his commanding officer in afghanistan military contribute it says it's vital the a month's capitalizes on these work to win the war the main legacy of general petraeus career. of a counterinsurgency doctrine which he coauthored read of the u.s. marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to a defect that general petraeus pioneer and led the way to recess the tate to revamp grades and to promote their counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant fact that general petraeus coined doctrine that has ignited

debate intellectual and wakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction for calcified my optic bunker mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general of the trails to be older respected remembered and that my it for well beyond the military community because it was he's the intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated depair a big shift in the military thinking from the conventional and complacent mentality to the conventional and symmetrical model operandi. by the way there's more now less of the world's main news at r.t. don't comment on our web site online all the time here's some of what you can discover right now could you log on revealing the renditions lithuania poland and romania are told to investigate the roles they played in the cia's secret detention

and torture of terrorism suspects. the surreal with our colorful gallery of. submission is currently the russian capital. and how's this for a fantastic facade this is moscow's iconic state university building which was the focus of the capital's eight hundred sixty fourth birthday a. spectacular show in full for you there on the web site at www dot com. i'll be back with the summer of i'm a new stories for in a few minutes from now in the meantime business update is next with. fellow time to delve into the world of business prussia is easing in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine he says it will all of the current agreement but still wants to renegotiate prices moscow has said down its terms it wants to see

green agreed to merge to stay close enough to gas with russia's gas from this would effectively mean moscow will gain access to the gas transit network ukraine's president says the country will not allow this how will the experts say it's hopeless choice ok if. they will be greed to create a joint venture or lose the transit business if they want cheap gas they will have to go but the pipeline if they don't want 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 and the thing is that industry in ukraine is much more power hungry than emu rule so ukrainian goods will inevitably be more expensive. let's have a look at the markets the u.s. markets were closed for a public holiday on monday and europe's sovereign debt worries coupled with the bad jobs data from the us the tribune financial slow work with the markets dropping significantly as a result of 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 georgia mentioned in the lawsuit put down ten and eight percent respectively. the russians dogs have dropped for a second day all to well the country's main export revenue are not slipped. let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in my six energy may just were among the biggest losers crossness close to unhealthy percent financials also ended in the red cross' biggest lenders for banks slumped almost three percent bucking the trend was the last nickel it gained on the news that one of its main shareholder results tonight the fifteen percent buyback offer made by the world's nickel propping up the day on triple dano from gas pump bite sized market is desperate for the. market lacks any direction i think and any negative data steal way quite heavy on the markets with the what's going on today especially when you were put in

because of the fry the result of poor light labor results from us this thursday obama will speak on the. unemployment problem in the us markets are trying to convince themselves that he will see something you know strong enough to do can use the markets to be better but still people kind of trying to see on the sidelines and wait until something more will came out from out of the speech. and all the business news that all your up to date for more stories you can log on to our website archie dot com slash business. the books. coming to.

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