syrian government forces launch their biggest sweep against protesters in the northwest of the country blocking their escape to turkey. licensed to kill israeli special forces get the green light to shoot at palestinian independence protesters. and seeking solutions to russian and ukrainian agreed to talks as pushes for discounted gas supplies on able to cope with the current uprising levels. in broadcasting live direct from the heart of i says r t glad to have you with us

sequel to top stories the syrian security forces launched their biggest sweep against anti-government protesters trying to flee to turkey it comes as human rights organizations claim thousands have been rounded up and hundreds killed in the last month alone meanwhile russia is that rallying members of the un security council to encourage the sides to stop violence and start negotiations but the u.s. and its a western european allies are pushing for action against president assad's regime which they've already sanctioned a french political analyst appear where lane believes that there is an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civilians. centrals and general did not increase always find ways to go around it sanctions and song sanctions would start to. go on with production of oil. they would be banning the implications least not quite logical and most probably syria would find dip. and

outlets for for its oil in every single one of these situations because every time the west or other countries talk about humanitarian intervention the question that needs to be asked is why there is a dimension in some countries but not in others for example in bahrain the people wanted to get rid of their regime budge since it was so close to us there was no question of a humanitarian intervention and there is no question of them financially saudi arabia no question of intervention to tell the palestinians so the humanitarian question cannot be equal lost political and economic questions you have to find political and economic and military interests before you start believing in humanitarian reasons because most in all so-called interventions humanitarian interventions you there's another reason which is far more in a while syria's a struggle drags on or let's see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country or he's there and has been meeting those at the sharp end of the say

actions. the dealer is a master barber those small his shop was floor until it all ended in the snip. and there are many customers that would come from the forest or in the 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 purpose of the economic pressure on the cheap the political how about trying to help the people of syria to achieve the legitimate aspirations as 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 of the e.u. when the us are tightening their grip by imposing oil embargo on the mask so will that have any probable effect on the people here but. of course sanctions will have

a negative effect on syrian economy it's a diversified economy with a stable death would you 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. to syrian government have chosen their path and no matter what measures are taken against them will continue down that road. sanctions are sold as a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syrian algal is there to plant a tool and it's the people who will suffer the most when you are talking of. course . we call it it could be. not only the region but one of 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. r t damascus syria.

coming up shortly events in libya. stay with us to check what's happening in the country divided with both sides ready to fight to the bitter end. plus europe's financial bosses tighten their grip on greece demanding it stick out too it's a bailout deal. israeli security forces are given clearance to shoot college student protesters preparing to march in support of their bid for state recognition tel aviv has also armed settlers in the west bank claiming the need for self defense or he's clear has the details. in some quarters there is talk of a coup into canada 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 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 some to seize and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to then we're being told that they have the case if he's resigned around it if we stay at home in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach that on deaf red line will be shot at by soldiers who have a mission to do this now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups within the system and they have been participating in drills that on these these i'm just going to say seem 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 raise some two 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 and what protesters have been demanding for the better part of two months is the social issue of justice and really what they're saying is definitely out of the 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 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 protesters they accuse netanyahu of being past the hour been sponsible and have been out of touch with what people in israel are concerned about. are just as they are reporting forces. from tel aviv now the head of nato says the alliance's military intervention in libya will not and with the capture of colonel gadhafi on the front line rebel forces are winning for the green light to crush one of the last remaining pockets of resistance the 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 but national transitional council says the colonel sons who had been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area and number of gadhafi loyalists are holed up in the town one hundred fifty kilometers from tripoli earlier been given until saturday arms more loyalists are making a stand in his home proud of syria as well as several other areas but as our national reports it's the battle for bani walid could prove decisive. they've been preparing for this operation for by long time with nature helping them clean path towards. facilities in the area anyway least 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 all across the country and have been dying

for. all the time in supporting gadhafi who's provided them with a very good. weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for the rebels to take control over this area while they need it's actually could be 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. carry out some of the national transitional council has been lamey. recently that really is not secure and is not safe and they are working hard to try to restore the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council which we see on the ground actually made so that was. successful

so far apart from the humanitarian challenges the city and the country actually ease the currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable the sea 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 is maria financial reporting from tripoli libya. british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims that u.k. intelligence agents extradited terror suspects to libya the allegations that surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and a cia rendition programs but former british intelligence officer and he expects that the investigation will be brushed under the carpet. when david cameron calls

for an inquiry into these allegations he's been incredibly disingenuous under the u.k. law at the inquiries act two thousand and five and the inquiry this is established including this and this torture inquiry headed up i submitted it circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case my five and i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that's a piece of gibson himself he's heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prices 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 deliberately perhaps he probably won't shine a bright light on the dark corner should we say he'll be for instance 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. we're going to negotiate over gas prices with russia

after the kremlin said it would rigorously defer the already agreed to deal in international courts foreign minister sergei lavrov his ukrainian counterpart. pushed for a new discount because of struggles in bringing the current contract where it is all its year of just as 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 gas contracts 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 on its own russia side believing that russia would achieve victory should this

law suit a cure you know 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 school on track them will be fulfilling whole of legations. playing 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 through 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 does that is something which was not existing

in two thousand and nine also understand that the south stream pipeline is also going to be 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 most gas probably 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. reporting from kiev the european central bank is proposing that brussels takes more control over how euro zone countries that manage their financial affairs this comes amid it renewed concerns about the state of the greek economy and its inability to cut spending or at least reports greece could fail 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

aaa more governors from the eurozone is absolutely essential i mean if you talk to you call them it's here i'm not sure. a 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 between. the greek officials are full and appalled 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 where they use given greece a few more weeks to go through there and to plan. 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. financial writer peter builder 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 if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute a 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 true of germany the most pro 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 falsely designed right from the beginning it is certainly a question look parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next

coming months scuffles have broken out both inside and outside a court in cairo where former president hosni mubarak's trial has resumed the hearing was disrupted when lawyers for both of the prosecution and the defense had to be separated by police outside hundreds of demonstrators including relatives of those killed during the february uprising attempted to break through the main gates and 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 the eighty three year old tried to corruption and ordering the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during egypt's revolution that toppled him other protests have been continuing elsewhere in europe with millions of people still one happy at the slow pace of reforms from the interim leaders. on now to some of the world's other main news for you. iran has proposed allowing full supervision of its nuclear program by the

un's nuclear agency but the concession will only come if sanctions are lifted earlier the u.n. nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. accused the islamic republic of failing to cooperate with inspectors tehran is the subject of four sets of sanctions over its refusal to suspend enrichment amid fears it seeks to build a nuclear bomb the country insists its nuclear program is peaceful. the corruption trial of former french president jacques chirac has resumed but the judge says that the frail statesmen it won't have to attend the seventy eight year old is charged with embezzlement while mayor of paris and paying party members for nonexistent jobs lawyers say he's suffering memory lapses because of his failing health he's the first french president to face trial since the second world war and could get ten years jail and one hundred fifty thousand euro fine if convicted. it twenty six kilometers wide wide evolved fire swept across texas on monday as the

u.s. state suffers its worst drought in almost half a century the fire has destroyed about five hundred homes and left the thousands of tears and flames as powerful winds from tropical storm leaf fans of the blaze a twenty year old woman and her baby daughter died in a blaze in east texas on sunday the state governor says that the next forty eight to seventy two hours are crucial and that residents should heed evacuation orders. and that was a look at the main news bulletin for this hour now for decades america and europe will lead the pack in the global economy now their positions are floundering dragging much of the world down with them but not everywhere as our team out here is from india that interview is now coming up shortly.

the asson 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 the oxford

educated economist and the youngest me an advert to head a world bank department he's now the chairman of india's planning commission mr monti axing ahluwalia i want to thank you so much for joining me so first of all i want to ask you is the suck it wave of the global financial crisis upon us i think what will happen is markets will be disrupted good news so i believe moderate growth prospects for the card in the u.s. and europe but i don't see this is going back to thousand and eight and so where do we go from here who is going to. fix what's going on in the world right now and the world needs to. get together to work out what's the transition what's a reasonable transition in a world in which there would be more than one currency and read the traditional reserve currency. at the moment is in the in a country which doesn't have a very well balanced macroeconomic situation and is there is. in india do you

think that perhaps there could be a shift in the world order and. india could be somehow gaining from what's going on in washington and there is certainly a shift going on in the world there's no doubt about that i mean any medium a long term projection suggests that japan will go relatively slowly europe may grow a little bit faster going to pound 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 and the growth rate in emerging market countries i mean china india brazil so i think over time there is a shift in economic politicking praise one is to asia and 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 got it it can't be a global system which is run only by saying well look this is the center of power and everybody else must adjust and it's been fed that europe has dominated the air national monetary fine and your opinion is that part of the problem or the thought wish i do think that the dominance of the industrialized countries of these two institutions has to try to remember that as long as europe and the united states are together they 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 counted in providing the kind. rather 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 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 and ambitious 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 policy 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 applaud i don't think that's been sufficiently clear i think in the first flush of. a good feeling about the euro. there was an assumption that there's 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 and that's happening that's probably going to also 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 political decision making now feeling part of the political decision making i mean that's good democratize asian of the group which should have positive effects because it will 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 in vast areas are going to perhaps. invest more in the of emerging markets if they start to look away from u.s.

treasury bonds i mean what's the planning commission 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 go faster india's 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's growing a little somewhere between eight and nine percent another market is going to grow. i mean they would be very well advised to invest in the markets that are growing so expect on a medium term basis there would be already is and will remain preferred destination for foreign investment people look at their global portfolio traditionally they've invested too much money in the industrialized world not having i'm disappointed with what the consequence of globalisation it would 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. it'll certainly be interesting to see how it affected by a lot and i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me thank you.

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