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's an underlying motive in calls for protecting syrian civilians. sanctions in general do not work because countries always find ways to go around the sanctions and saw that sanctions would start only in the town we 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 the u.s. there is no question of a humanitarian intervention and there's no question of them financially saudi

arabia no question of intervention to help the palestinians so the humanitarian question cannot be de forced political and economic questions you have to find the political and 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 is another reason which is far more important while syria's a struggle drags on a let's see how it's impacting on the people of the stricken country. 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 sing until it all ended in the snip . of many customers that would compromise 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 but sanctions have to survive is to put the economic pressure on which the political

how about trying to help the people of syria to achieve the magician 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. 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. to syrian government have chosen their path and no matter what measures are taken against them continue down that road. so anxious are sold as

a precise weapon to hit the regime where it hurts but syria now the list 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. and coming up shortly events in libya. stay with us to check what's happening in the country divided both sides are ready to fight to the bitter. green demanding stick to its deal.

israeli security forces are given clearance to shoot palestinian 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. has the details . 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 now for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some a seed and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this and we're being told that they have demarcated a line around every six women from the waist down can what this means is that palestinians who approach beyond that red line will be 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 girls that the army has been undergoing safety and 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 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 a folk 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 and really what they're 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 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. reporting for us there 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 waiting for the green light to crush one of the last remaining pockets of resistance by khadafi supporters rebel negotiators say ceasefire talks in the town of bani walid have broken down but the country's interim government is certain there's still hope for a peaceful solution the national transitional council says the colonel sons who had been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area and a number of gadhafi loyalists are holed up in the town one hundred fifty kilometers from tripoli earlier been given until saturday to lay down arms more loyalists are

making a stand in his hometown of syria as well and several other areas but as our national reports it's 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 path towards. facilities in the area by the way 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 at all across the country and have been dying for. all the time in supporting gadhafi who has provided them with very good 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 host larry has been known and while. 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 the national transitional council has. repeatedly been claiming recently that foley 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 that we see on the ground actually made so. successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges this country actually currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and. politically situation is 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 is maria financial reporting from tripoli libya now british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims that u.k. intelligence agents extradited terror suspects to libya allegations that surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six. programs but former british intelligence officer. 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 at the inquiries act two thousand and five an inquiry this is established including this an inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case m i five an m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that peter 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 and this ng deliberately bad. he probably won't shine a bright light in the dark corners 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 reese 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 says it's now willing to negotiate over gas prices with russia after the kremlin said it would rigorously defend the already agreed to deal in international courts foreign minister sergey lavrov made his ukrainian counterpart to talk energy costs after kiev pushed for a new discount because of struggles in paying the current contract artie's alexia chatzky 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 and very loud statements made by president bush president of ukraine he planned to you russia in the international court to have the two thousand and nine gas contracts revised 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 the law of 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 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 as a 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 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 and the us 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. 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 r t reports 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 trish a he said it's absolutely imperative to tighten the monitoring of countries in the euro calling for a single european government to impose economic decisions on countries according to a more governance within the eurozone is absolutely essential i mean if you talk to you call them it's here in brussels they're not sure. 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 talks between i.m.f.

and the greek officials have fallen apart the e.u. says greece has failed to cut its deficit joules of 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 they use given greece a few more weeks to go through with their it's a plan that will 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 financial writer peter builder believes that the eurozone 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 to 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 free 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 scuffles have broken out both inside and outside according 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 with 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 unhappy 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 the statesmen 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 the 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 kilometer wide wide wildfire 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 thousands of in flames as powerful winds from tropical storm but leave 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 the next forty eight to seventy two hours are crucial and that residents should heed the evacuation orders

. and that was a look at the main news bulletin for this hour now for decades america and europe 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 now hears from india that interview is coming up shortly.

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 me an advert to had a world bank department he's now the chairman of india's planning commission mr monti exciting 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 us 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 is 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 word in which there would 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 will be much less than the growth rate in the emerging market countries i mean china 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 but 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 power and 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 of 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 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 counted in providing they call. 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. 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 for school policy but to back a single currency they must have a very shared understanding of who's going to pay the bills the problem arises that will become a substitute for the single product i don't think that's been sufficient be 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 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 to be 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 political decision making i mean that's good democratize asian of the globe 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 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 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 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 is growing out there somewhere between it and the hall for nine percent another market is very good. 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. it'll certainly be interesting to see how 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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it with us the syrian government forces are launching their biggest sweep against protesters in the northwest of the country blocking their escape to turkey meanwhile russia urges the un security council to bring both sides to the negotiating table. licensed to kill israeli special forces get green. to shoot at independence protesters the un is expected to vote on palestinian statehood later this month something that israel opposed. seeking solutions russia and ukraine agreed to talk to kiev pushes for discounted gas supplies unable to cope with the current pricing levels the deal that is in place now struck into nine and ended a european debt crisis. down with education expert alan goodman to disk.