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if the horrific critics called one of the putting profits above syria lloyds. under fire as it emerges its latest sanctions against the syrian regime won't come into force for another two months. spain prepping for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on capping its budget deficit a move that many fear will lead to huge social cuts. and a path of discontent pioneers of israel's rallies against social injustice some forty years ago joining the recent protests against the same issue say the problems that only got worse. also as ukraine attempts to renegotiate gas prices with moscow russia is about to start pumping the first gas through the undersea nord
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stream pipeline bypassing transit countries one that's in twenty minutes. it's ten am in moscow i match it to have you with us here on r t our top story the head of the arab league is due to visit syria wednesday in a bid to persuade the country's leader to end its six month long crackdown on the uprising there this after each country's announced a new round of sanctions against the syrian regime but as are his daniel bushell reports some 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 force in syria but bizarrely sanctions were still it's for over a month. but they will kick in only when europeans or all firms complete their
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supply contracts which. and oil fields developed boy energy giants like french to toll being touched from and it will contribute. because the sanctions would start. to go on with rejection of oil as a result the e.u. me and up subsidizing the regime they oppose the oil industry can use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a list of crimes the horrific critics thought why the e.u. is putting profit above syria lloyd's. diplomats warn sanctions won't even hit the mark ordinary people not the leadership they claim to target and most importantly not europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulders of the syrian people while their companies are protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed as the most this will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities
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have said good by any account you officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya would take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being productive and they are made in the end of next year and it they were an embargo on syrian oil. 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 tartt picture amar with philadelphia university in jordan says although the brain is being laid on the syrian government the opposition is also been responsible for a great deal of violence but there's two thousand people dead it's all they say but these two thousand maybe they are in syria and some of them out of syrians but remember there is also one thousand soldiers killed in syria so these one thousand
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soldiers impossibile that they are being killed by. these falling asleep definitely . patients in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could the possibility that one thousand odd mean men and policemen had 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 if they had been negotiate because there is no other solution moscow has criticized the sanctions against syria with russia's foreign minister repeating calls for a diplomatic solution. which we strongly believe it's an exception bill to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for it piece of the lead in snow through the brics nations will not allow these two how to. start a ladder of talking on behalf of the brakes nations brazil russia india china and
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south africa put on the arteaga for the four story. turning to libya where rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining strongholds of colonel gadhafi bani walid without fighting or he's worried if the notion of reports from the country's capital on why this could be a turning point in the conflict. they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time with nature helping them clean past towards forming facilities in the area anyway lead has always been known as the duffys 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 provided them with a very good imitation and bass weaponry the national transitional council has repeatedly been claiming recently that tripoli is not secure and is not safe and
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that they're working hard to try to restore the country on the territory now controlled technically by the national transitional council that we see on the ground actually. as. they say they are successful so far apart from humanitarian challenges this country. currently facing such as severe shortages shortages of water food medicine and fuel politically situation is very unstable to think she is full of people who have been unclear i joined a menu of them very young with little knowledge of how to use weapons and it's quite unclear who is controlling them. british prime minister david cameron's call for an inquiry into claims u.k. intelligence agents extradited terror suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents
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outlining m i six and cia were additional programs before british intelligence officer anywhere shot expects the probe to be swept under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been critically disingenuous under the u.k. look at inquiries two thousand and five and the inquiry this is established. including this in this torture inquiry headed up by city tickets and it's circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case my five and i six so it's going to be two thirds 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 he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps even probably would 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
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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 i six or the british government now says the war in libya could fuel british and french are outright for a new intervention is according to rosemary professor of middle east policy studies at city university langone forward if you were coming your way of leader of a sour here's a preview. cameraman typo's he took a massive gamble that they could pull something off in libya. that would contrast and with the disaster that was the intervention in iraq and you know have 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 so the appetite for further interventions will exist.
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spain is bracing itself for mass protests as it said it is a hotly contested change because of his constitution that could cap the budget deficit and a bid to fend off a debt crisis in the gulf in europe union say fixing the deficit limit mean sacrifice and social welfare for the sake of the markets is already really blew sure reports with rising repossessions as. unemployment many people seem to be taking matters into their own hands. this was the last time i couldn't have guests over at her house just a day after our visit she along with her fourteen year old son was evicted from the subsidized flat she called home for five years gave me the day i was fifteen days late with a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still wanted it to me even though i paid everything and it was months ago i would out since then marie carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer
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a heart attack. 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. there where you carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's in 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 because vision is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless you just can't keep them out on the street that they're going to see shouldn't is known as the indignados or the outraged these staged protests by homes of those who are being evicted hoping to prevent court
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plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with the diction process. of security these are subsidized housing people who are in tough situations financially so i can't understand how they can evict people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. so far fifteen m. have managed to stop actions across the country unfortunately for maine carmen and her son they were powerless in every direction is the cement job are many people gathered here believe they are fighting social injustice but some wonder whether the efforts of this group of people are enough to stop the problems within this kind of system itself in much greater. i.t. . meanwhile the incoming head of the european central bank says the eurozone should be more financially integrated any outgoing leader john cloud tree shape thought with or thought a federation with a central finance ministry for europe was the only solution to the debt crisis.
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peterbilt tells our t.v. euro zone system is so flawed you get a common economic government won't see the single currency it may indeed be if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute the 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 of all of the of all of the countries so 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 fulsomely designed right from the beginning it is certainly a question that parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next
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coming months. come your way in about an hour max keiser and stacy herbert discuss 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 that'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 assurance and they collect money as mafia or terrorist bankers or financial terrorists that's what they are other terrorists get paid per acts of terrorism and vandalism.
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that are saying with us here on our team turning now to israel where mass protests against a perceived lack of social justice have been inspired by a voice from the past a prominent member of the israeli black panther movement who say similar protest in the one nine hundred seventy s. was join the crowds as are his policy reports he says he's frustrated that forty years on he feels a state of israel's become an enemy of its own people. a social protest in israel on 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've written it's a protest against a lack of justice sees the year i've been waiting for the next generation to rise up forty years later good vision is being realized. it was nine hundred seventy one eight youngsters from one of jerusalem's poorest
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neighborhoods banded together and changed the course of his way to history they were immigrants from north africa and i would countries and they took a name from the african american black panthers and they call for social justice. 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 area and they're not nice boys. one of my proudest moments was when gold was going to show that we were powerful and had achieved something and showed us we were on the right path it's latin. and it was a path there 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're right and you don't use violence or say you can get whatever you're fighting for and all
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the other tents are slowly coming down prime minister netanyahu still has a lot on the fall 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 request for the country has become an enemy of its people everywhere citizens are harassed. police and now it's not only the lower classes suffering. as well. and so forty years on the ideas and dreams of these men always because ever so but so too are the challenges they face in terms of leadership positions regional and evil and the new mean threat of an israeli palestinian showdown could it be any time it takes center stage we're going to see our teen choice a member. of a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood later this month israel says of security forces to shoot at protesters if they march in support of in order to protect the west bank
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settlers or gut reaction of valor in our website archy that car. this certainly is another one to be a good thing most of the cases the prettiest baby a raise a circus. that's opinion from a peace activist who says a tougher response by israel could only escalate tension between israelis and palestinians and also background on the long running conflict ahead of the historic vote and much more a click away at archie dot com. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe police are now negotiating with a man who is holding a child hostage outside a court in sydney australia with the area sealed off witnesses say the suspect claimed to be carrying a bomb in
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a backpack according to some reports the captive may be the man's all eleven year old daughter. scuffles were broken out between protesters and police outside a courthouse in cairo where the trial of former president hosni mubarak is being resume hundreds of demonstrators try to break through the main gates and gain access for senior police officers testified against mubarak at a hearing which was held behind closed doors the former leaders charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the february uprising that toppled him from power. former general david petraeus is taking up a new position as america's top spy has become the director of the central intelligence agency after retiring from the military forces last week trace was a key player behind operations in iraq and afghanistan. remember there is plenty more a click away for us dot com here's what's online right now. not exactly criminal
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. welcome this monday morning you're with business see it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it starts filling the new undersea pipeline to europe gas liveries for the first part of the north stream project are due to begin in two months the twelve hundred kilometer pipeline is planned to provide fifty five billion cubic meters of gas to european consumers annually when completed next year will become the longest undersea pipeline in the world. he while the gases be between moscow and kiev has more twists and turns than a viper and if that wasn't enough to ukraine as big part of problems it's got to get its deficit down in order to receive funding and that's no easy task. very few means of closing the budget deficit so seriously with gazprom is is one way of doing that it is not in a position of strength ukraine is it has signed
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a contract for several years of a certain price for gas now is trying to renegotiate so how it's going to actually have any kind of success with gazprom is an open question for me. so you look at the markets now and traditionally we start with commodities oil this hour is down light sweet is under pressure there and worries that slowing growth in the united states and china could curve demand of sound more than three dollars this hour while grant has descended below one hundred ten dollars per barrel. precious metals however on the rise calder's trading above one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce has renewed fears over the euro zone's debt crisis and global growth concerns are driving investors to seek for safe haven assets silver's around a third of a percent. so if the stock markets now in asia they are snide ing
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investors unable to shake off worries about europe's debt woes all the health of the us economy is pushing down banks and energy companies exporters also the main losers on the nikkei is down more than seven percent that's after a report that it may buy another twenty percent of westinghouse electric in hong kong c. and c. dropped two percent on news of a halt and one of its key fields. is the opening picture in russia and it is mixed m i six initially also dropped within half a percent the first minutes but now it's gaining slightly look at some of the main stocks what i'm seeing right now is new calls up point ten percent financials however are hurt with bt beards burbank down around half a percent gazprom down. three percent and one of the biggest gainers this is telecom it's a point five percent. and they've done from gas from bank says the mood on the
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market is pessimistic as investors suggest a more bearish scenario for russia's economy. is no direction but people are going to do more of this the midst of that optimistic i don't recall remark of the current market multiples of britain russia just a much more bearish scenario for recalling with than we currently is. probably call for just quiet what more suits all socially all this stronger than currently it is so all in all if nothing. happens in the next three or couple weeks i would not be surprised if the russian market will sort of while but before they're out here with us we will turn over on the russian stock market last month was a record for august ninety eighth ales that the ten largest brokers on m i six m. has doubled the usual value to more than seventy eight billion dollars brokers say they are benefiting from an increasing number of clients who are rushing to buy
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into the market after the heavy sell off seen in august. and russia is seen as first monthly deflation 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 be an expected result was due to a good harvest and slow economic growth on monday russia's prime minister vladimir putin said he expects consumer prices to grow eight percent all in all this year. that concludes this edition of the business news on r.t. we will be back in around fifteen minutes time with more our website is our to look forward slash business matters next with headlines you stay with us. the.
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