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 pig believes there's an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civil. sanctions in general do not work because countries always find ways to go around that sanctions and so far this sanctions would start only 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 because every time the west or other countries talk about a humanitarian intervention the question that needs to be asked is why there is 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 us it was no question of

a 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 d. forced political and economic questions you have to find that political and economic and military interests before you start believing in it she manage your own reasons because most in all so-called interventions humanitarian interventions you there is another reason which is far more important. while syria struggle drags on that see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country artie's any mcgillis goes 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. of 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 quickly stepped in

with sanctions have to survive is to put the economic pressure on the chief the political how about trying 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. about. 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. the syrian 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 lists say there are too blunt a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking about. what we call it it would be my life as a serious citizen. 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 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. with r.t. for the latest from the front line in the hunt for colonel gadhafi as his loyalists remain determined to the end. also 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 israel is 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. across developments there. 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 operating 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 the 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 every six women from the waist bank and what this means is that

palestinians who approach beyond that red line will be shot at by soldiers who have a machine to do this now that also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within these to commence they have been participating in drills at the army's been undergoing say scene 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 if the social issues just as we did what they saying is that the netanyahu government needs to be less 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 past the of been responsible and of being out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. the head of nato and says you know it is. 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. cease fire 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 had been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area and then clear a number of gadhafi loyalists holed up in the town fifty kilometers from tripoli and only been given until saturday to lay down arms more loyalists are making

a stand in gadhafi hometown of sirte in several areas. and if emotion reports the battle for bani walid could prove decisive. they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time with nato helping them clean path towards. military facilities in the area by the way lead has always been known as. stronghold and people from this area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels that all across the country and have been dying for. all the time in supporting gadhafi who provided them with a very good emanation 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 the house where it has been known and well. 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 area as soon as possible the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that really is now secure and is now safe and that they're working hard to to try. in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council that we see on the ground actually make so. that they are successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges that the country . currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation this very unstable the city is full of people with unclear gender many of them very young with little knowledge 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 talks which are expected to take place this week and we'll keep you posted on what happens there. british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims that u.k. intelligence agents extradited terrorist suspects to libya allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia rendition programs but 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 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 circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case m i five and 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. ukraine's is 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 sergei lavrov met his ukrainian counterpart to talk of edgy costs after you have pushed for

a new discount because of struggles in paying the current contract or does it actually 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 very loud statements made by president bush president of ukraine he planned to sue russia in the international court to have the two thousand and nine gas contracts we buy the 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 that of the law the international law was all 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 any go as 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 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 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. their patience is rapidly running out at the european central bank with greece being ordered to sharpen its acting cutting back because of greed in its bailout the euro zone's yawning debt is widening and the e.c.b. chief wants to give brussels a bigger role and how countries manage their own affairs. bushell is there. greece could fail to get its second bailout 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 comments here in brussels they're not sure that. single single government 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 to plan then you can 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. and financial writer peter build he told me that he believes that the euro zone system is so flawed that even a common economic government will not save the single currency. it may indeed be.

too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute financial government for. in 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 of the 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. time now to talk to the world's other main news right now at seventeen minutes past the hour here in moscow yemeni warplanes 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 strikes in the region the insurgents were linked to al qaida and took over the city of april amid the ongoing 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 turn a seventy eight year old is charged with embezzlement while mayor of paris and paying party members for nonexistent jobs. he's suffering memory lapses because of his failing health is the first french president to face trial since the second world war could get ten years in 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. and party is illegal decades of civil war the country split into in july but

tensions remain in disputed territory where. continue to shift the sudanese troops . by the way there's more analysis of the world's main news for you that's our web site here's some of what's there for you to discover should you log on right now revealing the renditions lithuania poland and romania told investigators roles they allegedly played in the cia's secret detention and torture of terrorism suspects. seek out the surreal with colorful gallery of mind. whose exhibition is currently in the russian capital. for a fantastic this is iconic state university building which was the focus of the capital's eight hundred sixty fourth birthday and we got the spectacular show in. at all to dot com. so that was the main news but if we have this. next

four decades american europe the can the global economy and other positions of floundering druggy much of the world with them not everywhere. he is from india and that interview is coming up very shortly stay with us for that analyse. the as and p. downgrade of the united states economy has raised many questions about whether or not america will continue to be the powerhouse in the global economy and now the international monetary fund predicts that china will actually outpace the united

states economy by twenty sixteen so how is all of this going to affect the traditional players and what is the impact going to be on the so-called developing world well joining me to help get some answers on all of this is oxford educated economist and the youngest man advert to had a world bank department he's now the chairman of india's planning commission mr monti singh ahluwalia i want to thank you so much for joining me so first of all i want to ask you is the second wave of the global financial crisis upon us i think what will happen is markets would be disrupted slightly moderate growth prospects for the card in the u.s. and maybe in europe but i don't see this as going back to two thousand and eight and so where do we go from here who's going to fix what's. going on in the world right now the world needs to. get together to work out what's the transition what's

a reasonable transition in a world in which there will be more than one currency and where the traditional reserve currency at the moment in a country which doesn't have a very well balanced macroeconomic situation and is there. in india do you think that perhaps there could be a shift in the world order and that india could be somehow gaining from what's going on in washington there is certainly a shift going on in the world there's no doubt about that i mean any medium term or long term projection suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit foster good and 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 would be much less than the growth rate in emerging market countries i mean trying to brazil so i think over time there is

a shift in economic politicking place one is to show. another way of looking at it is really the rising rate of emerging market countries and i think you're thinking of a world in which there would be a large number of relatively equal economic groupings you want to global system that can accommodate that it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying well look this is the center of pollen everybody else must adjust and it's been said that europe has dominated the air national monetary fund in your opinion is that part of the problem or the solution i do think that the dominance of the industrialized countries of these two institutions has to change remember that. as long as europe and the united states are together the account for almost half the votes in the army or from the world

bank so even if you made a voting system they would be able to get their candidates in providing they collaborate with each other but you don't want to system where it's assumed that one organization will be run by one country and the other will always have a european and do you personally think that the euro is going to survive the creation of a single currency for europe was a pretty major and a bold step i think is generally recognize that if you want to have a single currency it needs to be backed by a single fiscal authority now since euro zone is different countries they obviously don't have a single fiscal of politics but to back a single currency they must have a very shared understanding of who's going to pay the bills if a problem arises that will become a substitute for the single quality i don't think that's been sufficiently clear i think in the first flush of you know

a good feeling about the euro there was an assumption that a lot of benefits that come to european countries from having the same currency but not enough appreciation that there are costs and obviously you know there is reshaping of the world economy actually if that's happening it's probably going to also have fundamental political shift as well what do you expect from our point of view the rise of a number of emerging market countries will create a much more balanced sense of the world economy amongst countries that were earlier seen to be dominant it might create a greater awareness that you know they can't unilaterally decide the future of the world and certainly countries that have felt that they were not part of the critical decision making now feeling part of the critical distance. making i mean that's good democratize asian of the globe which should have positive effects because it'll make these countries behave in

a more responsible manner and the last question i want to ask is you know a lot of people are saying that investors are going to perhaps invest more in these emerging markets if they start to look away from u.s. treasury bonds i mean what's the planning commission it's short term predictions for india in relation to everything that's going on right now the big message coming out of how the global economy is moving is that the industrialized countries are going to grow more grew more slowly whereas the emerging market countries are going to grow faster india has been growing for the last five years at about eight point two percent anybody who's investing and looking around the world if they find one market is growing a little somewhere between eight and a half or nine percent another market is going to grow a two and a half percent i mean they would be very well advised to invest in the markets that are growing so we expect on a medium term basis that there would be it already is and will remain preferred

destination for foreign investment people look at the global portfolio traditionally they've invested too much money in the industrialized world not having anticipated what the consequences of globalization are going to be so over time i think there should be rebalancing a little more towards the emerging markets and within that i think india would be a very good bet. well it will certainly be interesting to see how he has affected by all of this i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me thank you.

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special forces to shoot. this. to prevent bloodshed. backpedals over his threat of taking russia to court to force prices down. already. continue to insist on a price reduction but it's so far refusing to make any concessions. that would warm their stories more developments in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime you can watch how global seas turn to plastic soup as we follow the investigation of a team of environmentalists.