down on the uprisings there this afternoon you countries announced a new round of sanctions against the regime as r.t. daniel bushell reports from brussels many are questioning whether western concern is for a syrian lives or their oil revenues william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have full on syria but bizarrely sanctions won't stoats for over a month. they will kick in only when european world firms complete their supply contracts with syria. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from magnetic or point of view because there are sanctions would start. to go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u. may end up subsidizing the regime they oppose the oil industry can use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into mixed year if a list of crimes the horrific critics also why the e.u. is putting profit above syrian lives. diplomats warn sanctions won't even hit the

mark they hurt ordinary people not the leadership they claim to target and most importantly europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulders of the syrian people while their companies out of protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed as damascus will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the cheney's authorities have said that they would by any count e.u. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya would take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being there a productive until maybe the end of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today of course they would be short. with the wall riggins colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected maybe cutting off one supply before

a secured another new bushel for ati in brussels. dr tawfik shomari from philadelphia university in jordan says although the blame is being pinned on the syrian government the opposition has also been responsible for a great deal of violence there's two thousand people dead sore they say but in these two thousand maybe there are incisions some of them out but they remember there is also one thousand soldiers killed in syria. so these one thousand soldiers are impossible that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstration definitely of them demonstrations in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could it possible that one thousand army men and policemen have been killed during these five months yes there is the mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on the table and negotiate because there is no other

solution to. criticize the sanctions against syria with russia's foreign minister repeating the country's calls for a diplomatic solution. we strongly believe i'm except a bill to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for repeats of believe in scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen. sergey lavrov was speaking on behalf of brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa click on r.t. dot com for more. turning now to libya where rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining strongholds of cut off colonel qadhafi bani walid without fighting parties where if an ocean reports from the country's capital out of why this could be a turning point in the conflict they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time we need to helping them clean path towards. military facilities in the area by the way lead has always been known as khadafi stronghold and people from

they say area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels all across the country and have been dying for khadafy and there they all the time in supporting gadhafi has provided them with a very good imitation and the best weaponry the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that probably is not secure and is not safe and that there. we're working hard to try to restore in the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council but with we see on the ground actually makes. you no doubt that they are successful so far apart from the humanitarian challenges the city and the country extreme currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable the city is full of armed 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. meanwhile british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims u.k. intelligence agents may have extradited terrorist suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured the allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia were dishing programs but former british intelligence officer anywhere shot expects the probe to be swept under the rug. 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 any inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson is circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case 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 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 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. the war in libya could fuel british and french appetite for a new interventions according to rosemary hollis a professor of middle east policy studies at city university london the full interview coming your way in the next hour here's a preview. cameraman taco's he took on a massive gamble that they could pull something off in libya that would contrast with the disaster that was the intervention in iraq and you know how of president

sarkozy talking as though this is a template for future interventions this is very much a kind of proxy war which must be extremely exciting and exhilarating at some level to be involved and so the appetite for further interventions will exist. spain is bracing itself for a mass protests as in senate is due to vote on a hotly contested change to the country's constitution one that would cap the budget deficit in a bid to fend off the debt crisis that's engulfing europe union say fixing a deficit limit means sacrificing social welfare for the sake of the markets and as our teaser in english go reports with rising repossessions and unemployment many people are starting to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time i got him and had guests over at her house just a day after artie came to visit she along with her fourteen year old son was

evicted from the subsidized flat she called home for five years. i was fifteen days late with a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still want to victor me even though i paid everything and it was months ago since then marie carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment she me lou calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack while there but these apartments should be distributed in such a way that people can afford to pay for them but a lot of times they can't and i'm going to fight to make this type of housing more affordable. money carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's an employment rate of over twenty percent means many people are simply unable to make their next mortgage payments in the past two years more than three hundred thousand people have been evicted from their homes as a result of spain's financial crisis this is where members of the fifteen m.

movement come in. according to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing if addiction is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless you just can't kick them out on the street that they're going to zation is known as the indignados or the outraged they staged protests by homes of those who are being evicted hoping to prevent court plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with either action process. these are subsidized housing people who are in tough situation financially so i can't understand how they can evict people who can't afford to buy their own homes. so far fifteen m. have managed to stop fifty vixens across the country and for. at least for me carmen and her son they were powerless in every vixen is the cement job and the

people gathered here believe they are fighting social injustice but some wonder with the efforts of this group of people are enough to solve the problems within the spanish system itself in madrid. i-t. . meanwhile the incoming european central bank leader says the eurozone should be more financially integrated the outgoing chief john clyde thought a federation with a central finance ministry for europe was the only solution to the debt crisis but financial writer peter bell tells r t the euro zone system is so flawed that he thinks 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 in 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. coming your way in a couple of hours max kaiser and stacy herbert talk about the behavior of banks in the ongoing debt crisis here's a sneak peek. union members and activist groups are demanding harsher punishments against the bankers because according to a report this year by the new economics foundation they said the banks have made sixty billion pounds out of the financial crisis they helped create most of it is due to selling debt to the government it's

a bust out scam it's an insurance scam it's arson scam and they get paid out on credit default swaps or other form of insurance so-called insurance and they collect money as mafia terrorist bankers or financial terrorists that's what they are they're terrorist they get paid per acts of terrorism and vandalism. mission. critique ation free storage free. range month three. three stooges free. food free brokers video for your media projects free medio done to our teeth dot com.

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thanks for staying with us here on r t turning now to israel where mass protests against a perceived lack of social justice may have been inspired by a voice from the past a prominent leader of the israeli black panther movement who staged similar protests in the one nine hundred seventy s. has joined the throngs as are his policy reports he says he is frustrated that forty years later the state of israel may have become an enemy of its own people. the social protests in israel are winding down and in much need of

a dose of inspiration stirring the crowds a man whose ideas inspired a previous generation either by the use of passes we rose up to protest against the lack of justice sees the year the year i've been waiting for the next generation to rise up and now forty years later my vision has been realized. it was nine hundred seventy one eight youngsters from one of jerusalem's poorest neighborhoods banded together and changed the course of his way to history they were immigrants from north africa and arab countries and they took their name from the african american black panthers and they call for social justice the panthers game with the raid with anger we became really with the back to the wall and thanks to them for the first time social issues were put on the public agenda radical and sometimes violent they clashed with the establishment over the way they're not nice boys right there in one of my proudest moments was when golda said

it showed that we were powerful and had achieved something that showed us we were on the right path. and it was a path that for nearly two months this year inspired hundreds of thousands of israelis to again take to the streets they gave us a legacy saying that if you really believe in something and you think you are right and you you don't. violence per se you can get whatever you're fighting for and although the tensile slowly coming down prime minister netanyahu still has a lot on so full in three weeks the committee he set up needs to address how to fix the country's mounting social problems. not only have we not progressed but the country has become an enemy of its people everywhere citizens are harassed their need police but now it's not only the lower class who are suffering but the middle class as well. and so forty years on the ideas and dreams of these

men because if but so too are the challenges they face internal leadership divisions regional and evil and the new threat of an israeli palestinian showdown could at any time take center stage or. to resign him. and ahead of a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood later this month israel says it will allow security forces to shoot at palestinian protesters if they marched in support of the big in order to protect west bank settlers we've got reaction on that at our website r.t.e. dot com. this is another one to be abducted most of the cases the british they'd be adopted to raise the settlers opinion from a peace activist who says a tougher response by israel could only escalate tensions between israelis and palestinians also background on the long running conflict ahead of the historic vote and much more at r.t. dot com.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a man is holding a child hostage outside a court in sydney australia where police have cordoned off the area where this is say the man claimed he was carrying a bomb in his backpack some unconfirmed report. let's say the captive may be the man's eleven year old daughter a month ago a fake bomb strapped to a teenager at her home also in sydney. scuffles have broken out between protesters and police outside a courthouse in cairo where the trial of former president hosni mubarak has resumed hundreds of demonstrators tried to break through the main gates and gain access inside for senior police officers testified against mubarak at a hearing which was held behind closed doors the former leader's tries with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the february uprising that

toppled him from power. david petraeus one of the most influential generals of his generation is taking up a new post as america's top spy has become the director of the central intelligence agency after retiring from the military last week in a lavish ceremony that included a seventeen gun salute betray us was a key player behind the military operations in iraq and afghanistan. and plenty more on our top stories a click away at our team dot com here's what's online for you right now. not exactly criminal behavior but a lawsuit from chicago alleges six year old school kids were handcuffed simply for talking in class. and find out more blasts. they did for the guinness book of world records moscow celebrates its birthday with a spectacular four d. a light show with a hundred thousand people getting the chance to travel from sea to the stars in a couple of minutes.

the official. pulled from the. video. now in the palm of your. business an expert dimitri stay with us here artie. banks man alone welcome to business it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it starts filling the new undersea pipeline to europe gas the liveries were the first part of the north stream project due to begin in two months the one thousand two hundred kilometer pipeline is planned to provide fifty five billion cubic meters of gas to european consumers annually when completed next year it will become the longest undersea pipeline in

the world they get to speed between moscow and kiev as more twists and turns than a viper and if that wasn't enough ukraine has big budget problems it's got to get its deficit down in order to receive i.m.f. funding and that's no easy task. very few means of closing the budget deficit so renegotiating with gazprom is one way of doing that it is not in a position of strength ukraine has signed a contract for several years of a certain price for gas and now is trying to renegotiate or how it's going to actually have any kind of success we've got. is an open question for me. ro the national front burner capital with his comments a second look at the markets now while prices are still mixed light sweet under pressure down three dollars this is still on worries slowing economic growth in the united states and china could demand brant is up ten cents to one hundred ten dollars eighteen cents

a barrel precious metals are on the rise gold is trading above the nineteen one hundred dollars per ounce mark has renewed fears over the eurozone debt crisis and global growth concerns that all driving investors to look for safe haven assets like all till there's also a public percent. asian stocks increasing their lives with investors are able to shake off worries about europe's debt woes or the health of the u.s. economy which is pushing down banks and energy companies exporters also coming under pressure with more than seven percent in japan after that it may buy another twenty percent westinghouse electric also hong kong listed c. and c. dropped two percent on news of a hold at one of its key oil fields. here in moscow trading will begin around half an hour the russian markets extended losses seen at the end of last week on monday with the my six dropping one half percent the r.t.s.

two point. one billion dollars from gasper bank says the mood on the market is pessimistic investors are suggesting a more bearish scenario for russia. there is no direction but people are going to be more than optimistic i think the current market the current market multiples especially for russia so just a much more bearish scenario for recalling within it currently is. probably also just quiet. more. little less strong oil prices and currently it is. all in all if nothing. happens in the next two you know couple of weeks i would not be surprised if the russian market will have some sort of revival but before that is all with the russian less turnover on the russian stock market last month was a record for august every sales at the ten largest brokers in the myself almost doubled the usual volume to more than seventy eight billion dollars brokers say

they're benefiting from an increasing number of clients who are rushing to buy into the market after we have he said. russia has seen its first monthly d. fallacious in six years consumer prices fell point two percent in august lowering inflation for the first eight months to four point seven percent analysts say very unexpected result was due to a good harvest and slower economic growth on monday the russian prime minister said he expects consumer prices to grow eight percent all in all this year. business r.t. will be back in around fifty five minutes time with more or you can always log on to website autoconf business for all the stories that you've seen or maybe missed in our previous but it's that's next with headlines.

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demanding an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters there this follows the e.u. . now see a new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on oil imports serves the interests of the european companies rather than those of the syrian people. spain preparing for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on capping its budget deficit a move many fear will lead to social cuts meanwhile the european central bank calls for greater financial integration within the eurozone is the only solution to the crisis. and the pioneers of rallies against social injustice in israel forty years ago joined a recent protest against the same issue members of the black panther movement say they're frustrated by the problems in israel have only gotten worse up next al gore and of spotlight shines on russia universities and whether their competition for their foreign counterparts stay with us here on r.t. .