well that's that's the horrific critics one of the puts it so if it's a bowl of cereal lloyd's. you 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 as it said it needs to discuss capping the budget deficit ahead of wednesday's crucial vote a move many fear may lead to huge social cuts. the pattern just consent pioneers of israel's rallies against social injustice forty years ago during the recent protests on the same topic but said the problems have only gotten worse and as ukraine attempts to renegotiate gas prices with moscow russia is about to start filling the no one seat on the seat the north to see pipeline which will eventually

bypass the transit countries and the liver gas directly to european consumers more on that when. it's noon in moscow mattress so good 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 the six month long crackdown on the uprising there is comes after countries announced a new round of sanctions against the regime but as our he's daniel bushell reports many question whether western concern is for syria lives or their own oil revenues . william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced this oil burner on syria but bizarrely sanctions once thought for over a month. they will kick in only when europeans or all firms complete their supply

of going choked with syria and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from many contribute because their sanctions would start only 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 next year if crimes the horrific critics thought why the e.u. is putting profits above syria lives. diplomats want the same sions won't even hear the more 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 are protected the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed as the merciful simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities

have said that it would by any account e.u. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya will take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being productive and your made in the end of next year and it they were an embargo on syrian oil of course but they would be short. with the wall riggins colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected me because one supply before a secured another the new cultural ferrazzi in brussels. the traffic shown are from philadelphia university in jordan says that although the blame is being pinned on the syrian government the opposition has also been responsible for a good deal of violence. but there is two thousand people. some of the say by these maybe the out of incisions some of them out but remember there is also one

thousand soldier was killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossibile that they had been killed by. peaceful demonstration if you can. see it was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could also be that one thousand mean men and policemen have been killed during these five months yes that is the mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on it they have been and you go she it because there is no other solution. turning now to libya where rebels have captured a crew of oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries as they suspected of being procured aki snipers to russians have been released along with ukrainian total after they managed to contact the russian embassy but about twenty ukrainians are still being held or he's worried if an ocean and joins us live from tripoli with more alone maria so tell us more about how this story unfolded. well as far

as we know thirty two people including two of the russian passports also by the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian all company here in tripoli men and women engineers and kooks as you just. have been arrested shortly after the rebels took the libyan capital early. august all in different times and all in different places as if the gravels have been specifically searching for these people targeting them we have been able to speak to some of them and they say they haven't been given any explanation they haven't been charged officially either they say that the rebels have repeatedly accused of being snipers of gadhafi and following these unsupported claims they just threw them thrown down to one of the training center is here in tripoli of course the detainees deny all the allegations here's what they say. for some reason slavic

people are snipers we have nothing to do with out we came here to ramani peacefully to tell you. this people who have told us that they've been provided with water and some food in the rebels' training center here in tripoli but some of them have been severely beaten and tortured by the rebels they say there is no reason for that actionable they think the rabble stright to. to you know try to try to they wanted these people to acknowledge they killed t. and to meet the sniper is one thing they didn't do because they repeatedly claiming that they are not snipers and have nothing to do with khadafi regime the russian embassy has managed to release two russian citizens and the ukrainian capital meanwhile. around twenty other ukrainians are still being held by the rebels.

the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water . they don't have proper accommodation so they said they would be better to give see the sea. even those who have been released by the russian embassy actually right now are not allowed to leave the country and the don't even have paper is necessary to cross the border. that's actually not the first. such story we've been hearing recently about similar incidents with the twenty serbian people involved. again the rebels have accused them of being snipers of gadhafi and then detained them but after that they've been transferred to a ton not far from the capital tripoli and since then we haven't heard anything about these people back to you and maria what about the situation in general there in libya what are the latest developments. well the latest what we're hearing from

bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli where the fighting over half is lost and main strongholds has been continuing in the last few days the rabble forces have reportedly reached a deal with the conductor's loyalists on the ground and to the city without fighting this information is yet to be confirmed if the research you do if the research agreement between the rebel forces and khadafi is forces in bennett worley that actually would mean a breakthrough this battle is very important in terms of ending a six month long conflict here in leaving this aires strategically very important people populate in this area tribes from this area have played a prominent role in the current uprising in libya and they've all the time since the beginning of this conflict in february been supporting gadhafi they've been dying for khadafy in fighting against rebel rebels everywhere in libya and gadhafi

has provided them with the best munition the past weaponry and he's also relied a lot on this area so definitely taken control over the syria would officially mean the end of conduct his regime meanwhile. we are receiving reports from these areas that most of conduct these forces have already fled the city and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army's vehicles have reportedly. crossed the frontier border into niger and many believe that gadhafi himself could also be in monday and could also have fled the country we are receiving these reports just hours after cut off is information to most of the game has claimed the battle colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. so use worry if you notions are right for us there in tripoli thanks for that report. meanwhile british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry

into claims u.k. intelligence agents extradited terrorist suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia rendition programs but former british intelligence officer any mashad expects the probe to be swept under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been credibly disingenuous under the u.k. law and inquiries act two thousand and five any inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by somebody gets them 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 toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that subpoena keeps to himself he's heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role so he's in cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt if he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he

would probably want china bright lights in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends 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 comes into power in libya will trust whatever and my six or the british government now says. the war in libya could fuel british and french retirees for a new winter branches according to professor rosemary hollis we teachers middle east policy studies at city university of london full interview coming your way later this hour here's a preview. cameron of how cozy took a massive gamble that they could pull something off in libya. that would contrast with the bizarre sort of with 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 level to be

involved so the appetite for further interventions will exist. spain is very strong itself or a mass protests as it said it needs ahead of wednesday's vote on a hotly contested change the country is constitution. one that would cap the budget deficit in a bid to fend off the debt crisis that's engulfing europe union say fixing the deficit limit means sacrificing social welfare for the sake of the markets and as our he's really delusional reports with rising unemployed repossessions and unemployment many people are taking matters into their own hands. this was the last time mary carmen had 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

a victory even though i paid everything and it was months ago howard out since then marie carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment calm and collected the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack quote if 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 normal out there when 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. to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing addiction 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 zeeshan is known as the indignados or outraged they staged protests by homes of those who are be dictated to prevent scored points of state and the police from entering sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with the the action process in the us a lot of these are subsidized housing to people who are in tough situation financially so i can't understand how the candidate people who cannot afford to buy the room homes couples so far fifteen m. have religion to stop fifty vixens across the country and for. for me carmen and her son he were powerless this day 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. meanwhile the incoming head of the european central

bank says the eurozone should be more financially integrated is follows outgoing chief john carr for the creation of a centralized financial dire head for europe but if i actually write or peterbilt tells r.t. the eurozone system is so flawed that increasing bureaucratic institutions may do little to save 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 the one to europe to collapse there is a growing feeling both within parliaments and also amongst the people who elect parliaments and that's certainly true of germany the most 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 falsely designed right from the beginning biggest question of the parliaments are going to be put in to each other over the next coming months. coming up later max keiser and stacy herbert discuss the behavior of banks in the ongoing debt crisis here's a sneak peak. union members and activist groups are demanding harsher punishments against the bankers because according to report this year by the new economic 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 postcard scam it's an insurance scam it's arson scam and they get paid out on credit default swaps are 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 terrorists get paid per acts of terrorism and vandalism.

turning now to israel where mass protests against a perceived lack of social justice have been inspired by a voice from the past problem member of the israeli black panther movement who staged similar protests in the seventies i was joining the crowds as r.t. is part of the reporting says he's frustrated and frustrated that forty years on the state of israel may have become the enemy of its own people. this is actual 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 i think the years have passed since the protest against the lack of justice. the year. for the next generation to rise up and now forty years later my business being realized. it was

nine hundred seventy one eighty youngsters from one of jerusalem's poorest neighborhoods banded together and changed the course of israeli 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. really all the war 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 boards but. one of my proudest moments was when gold was assured that we were powerful and had achieved something it showed us we were on the right path. 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 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 the other tensile slowly coming down prime minister mr. still has a lot on so for in three weeks the committee he set up needs to trace 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. police and 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 ever but so too are the challenges they face internal leadership divisions regional and evil and the naming threat of an israeli palestinian showdown could at any time take center stage police who are keen to resign him. out of a un vote on palestinian statehood later this month israel says it will allow

security forces to shoot at palestinian protesters if they march in support of the bed in order to protect west bank settlers we've got reaction to that on our web site r.t. dot com. this issue is another one to be attacked in most of the cases the palestinians they'd be attacked right the settlers as opinion from one peace activist who says a tough response by israel will only escalate tension between israelis and palestinians and also a background of a long running conflict ahead of the historic vote and much more put away at our to you doctor. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe australian police are negotiating with a man holding a child hostage outside

a court in sydney police have sealed off the area witnesses say the suspect claimed he was carrying a bomb in his backpack according to some reports the captive maybe demands a loving year old daughter. scuffles were broken out between protesters and police outside a cairo courthouse where the trial of former president hosni mubarak resume hundreds of demonstrators attempted to break through the main gates and gain access for senior police officers testified against mubarak it's a day's hearing that was held behind closed doors who are 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 he earned his reputation as a key player in the u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan despite some controversy surrounding the conflict his career soared leading him to the chair of the cia director after almost four decades in the military. and there's plenty more stories a click away at r.t.

dot com here's what's lined up on our website right now. not exactly criminal behavior but a lawsuit from chicago alleges six year old school kids were handcuffed something for talking out in class to r.t. dot com for more plus. a bid for the guinness book of records moscow celebrates his birthday with a spectacular forty would light show with up to eight hundred thousand people getting a chance to travel from sea to stars in just a few minutes. the official. called from the. video. on the. nature is next with business stay with us here on r.t.

. thanks map it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it starts filling new undersea pipeline to europe get the liveries through the first parts of the north stream project due to begin in two months but twelve hundred kilometers of pipeline is planned to provide fifty five billion cubic meters of gas european consumers annually and that is about the amount of gas currently being exported through ukraine to europe i'm completed next year will become the longest on the same pipeline in the world. gas as people tween moscow and kiev has 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. it has very few means of closing that budget deficit so really very seriously with gazprom is is one way of doing that it is not

in a position of strength ukraine is it has signed a contract for several years of a certain price for gas and now is trying to renegotiate buyouts to how it's going to actually have any kind of success with gazprom is an open question for me. so you are going to markets now so i would commodities like wheat is under pressure and worries that slowing growth in the united states and china would hurt demand although was declining three dollars is declining one dollar seventy five cents this hour brand new oil is up almost at the. precious metals have a raised gains and moved into the red gold is losing one percent silver one point one percent this is as investors are coming back into stocks take a look at what's happening in the stock markets in asia than a cage closed of course earlier then the hang seng could react to a positive opening in europe but the european debt woes all the the health of the u.s. economy is still pushing down banks in japan and energy companies exporters were

hurt most in the shiba down five percent after a report made by another twenty percent of westinghouse electric but after the opening in europe the hang saying managed to recover and it's very positive looking in london and in frankfurt right now investors are taking a break from two days of heavy selling hotel and restaurant operator bread is up six percent after the company reported a thirty percent rise in second quarter sales is the picture in russia looking positive to the my six initially also dropped within half a percent the first minutes but now it's gaining one point one percent if we look at the breakdown of the main movers most energy shares are bouncing back from monday's losses lukoil is up one point three percent and the video appliance retailer this is gaining on news of a possible merger with its rival. rado and nickel is also on the rise up one percent that's after one of the main shareholders resell did not the fifty percent

buy back or for made on a nickel and then i've done it from gazprom bag says the russian market is cheap and promise of profits for those choosing the right stuff. for the companies which are all this or you think will be less vulnerable in this market environment probably look at the grammys was more which are more oriented to the words domestic domestic market don't work unless exposed or if you are holding the sheesh you know because with all of this you cannot really a predict. a hundred percent of the ruble global currency in performance or less so year so that's why i think it's better to have exposure to the companies which gives you some hedge against the but i'm sure will that will be able to a local currency which you know healed well with you the good business a good question will. another news russian technology says it's going to hive off its main subsidiaries in an i.p.o.

in four years time and the say it will most likely offer so i buy a technology and engineering assets the state run corporation is going to spend the proceeds on a new investment bond to buy into foreign assets russians acknowledges controls twenty five companies including russian helicopters and to take the s.m.p. of its my. turn over on the russian stock market last month was a record for august and the sales of the ten largest brokers on them i say it's almost double 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 the sell off in august. rush is seen as first monthly fall in prices in six years consumer prices fell point two percent all this knowing inflation for the first eight months or so for points and. the save the unexpected results was due to a good harvest and slow economic growth russian prime minister vladimir putin says

he expects consumer prices to grow eight percent for women this year. and we're back around fifteen minutes time when i think you'll see that. the be. the be.

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