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 this comes after countries announced a new round of sanctions against the regime but as r.t. daniel bushell reports many question whether western concern is for a syrian lives or their own oil revenues william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have full on syria but bizarrely sanctions were still its fruit for a month. they will kick in only when european oil firms complete their supply contracts with syria. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from an ethical point of view because the sanctions would start only november 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

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 a 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 bury any account 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 very productive and you know maybe at 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 our team in brussels. dr tawfik sham our 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 there's two thousand people dead or so they saw they say but in these two thousand and maybe they are incisions some of them out of syrians but they are members there is also one thousand soldiers was. will be in syria so these one thousand soldiers are impossible that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstration definitely have them goons the patients in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could be possible that one thousand odd mean men and policemen have been killed during these five months yes there is the mistrust from both lies but we have the current situation and we should sit on the

table and negotiate 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 off the snipers two russians have been released along with the ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but about twenty ukrainians are still being held or he's wary of an ocean and joins us live from tripoli now with more hello maria so tell us more about how this story unfolded. well as far as we know thirty two people including two russian passports also by the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian the been all company here in tripoli man and we mean internees and coupes as you've just sad have been arrested shortly after the rebels took to the bin capital earlier these all go. all in different times and all in different places as if the rebels have

been specifically searching for these people targeting them we have been able to speak to some of them and they say that they haven't been given any explanation they haven't been charged officially either and they say that the rebels have repeatedly accused them of being snipers of khadafi and following these unsupported claims they've just threw them throwing them to one of the training center is here in tripoli of course the detainees deny all delegations here's what they say. some additional for some reason slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with we came here to earn money peacefully. and. there's 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 actually but they think that the rebels try to. do you know try try to they wanted these people to acknowledge they kill t. and to meet the sniper is fun 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 are the ukrainians are still being held by the rebels. and. the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water they said that they don't have proper accommodation so they would be better to stink of civil see. even those who have been released by the russian embassy actually right now are not allowed to leave the country and they

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 incident with the twenty serbian people involved. again the rebels have accused them of been snipers of gadhafi and they 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 could off is last and main stronghold has been continuing in the last few days is that the rabble forces have reportedly reached a deal with the conductor's loyalists on the ground to and to the city without fighting this information is yet to be confirmed but if the research you do the research an agreement between the rebel forces and gadhafi forces in belo will lead

that actually would mean a breakthrough this battle is very important in terms of ending a six month long conflict here in leaving this area is strategically very important people populating this area tribes from this area have played a prominent role in the current uprising in libya they've all the time since the beginning of this conflict in february been supporting khadafi they've been dying for gadhafi in fighting against rebel rebels everywhere in libya and gadhafi has provided them with the best munition the best weaponry and he's also relied a lot on these area so definitely taken control over these areas officially mean the end of conduct his regime meanwhile. we are receiving reports from these areas that most of kid off his forces have already fled the city and we also received reports that scores of the libyan army is 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 khadafi information to bring in has claimed that the embattled colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon already use maria for notion of life 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 terror 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 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 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 he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he would probably want shine a bright light in the dark corner 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. in the war in libya could fuel british and

french appetites for a new interventions according to professor rosemary hollis we teachers middle east policy studies at city university london full interview coming your way later this hour here's a preview. cameraman tacos 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 presidents are 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. spain is very sing itself for a mass protests as it said it meets ahead of wednesday's 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 in golfing europe union say fixing the deficit limit means sacrificing social welfare for the sake of the markets and as our 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 team 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 affect 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 really calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head a car meant to suffer a heart attack call that 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. but it 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 it is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless because you just can't kick them out on the street that they're going to zeeshan 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 cannot afford to buy their own homes. so far fifteen m. have managed to stop fifty vixens across the country and for. gently 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 head of the european central bank says the eurozone should be more financially integrated is follows outgoing chief john shays call for the creation of a centralized financial government for europe but a financial writer peter build 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 getting 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 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 of 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 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 economics foundation they said that 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 their 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 a prominent member of the israeli black panther movement who staged similar protests in the seventy's has joined the crowds as are his policy reports he says

he's frustrated frustrated that forty years on the state of israel may have become the enemy of its own people. the social protests in israel no winding down and in much need of a dose of inspiration stirring the crowds a man whose ideas inspired previous generation to five years have passed since we rose up to protest against the lack of justice. and for the next generation to rise up and now forty years later a good vision is be realized. it was nine hundred seventy one eighty youngsters from one of jerusalem as 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 the name from the african american black panthers and they call. for social justice the panthers game with the rage 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. they're not nice boys. 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're right and you don't use violence or say you can get whatever you're fighting for and although the tensile slowly coming down prime minister netanyahu still has a lot on to 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 progressed but the country has become an enemy of its people everywhere citizens are harassed their

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 main because if but soon to the challenges they face intent on leadership divisions regional and evil and the naming threat of these weighty palestinian showdown could at any time take center stage. and 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 march in support of the bid in order to protect west bank settlers we've got reaction to that on our web site r t v dot com. this it was another one to be abducted most of the cases the british they'd be attacked the way 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 background on the long running conflict ahead of the historic vote and much more political way at r.t. dot com. 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 the man's eleven 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 at today's hearing that was

held behind closed doors a former leader is 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 our t. dot com here's what's lined up on our website right now is not exactly criminal behavior but a lawsuit from chicago alleges six year old school kids were handcuffed something for talking out in class. for more plus. the paid for the guinness book of records moscow celebrates its birthday with a spectacular four d. 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. pulled from the. video. feeds now in the palm of your. community is next with business stay with us here on r.t. . thanks matt it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it starts filling new under seige pipeline to europe gas deliveries through the first part of the nord stream project are due to begin in two months the twelve hundred kilometer by blind is planned to provide fifty five billion cubic meters of gas european consumers annually and that

is about half the amount of gas currently being exported through ukraine to europe when completed next year will become the longest undersea pipeline in the world he while the gas dispute between moscow and kiev has more twists and turns than a viper and if that wasn't enough for ukraine as 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 the budget deficit so dreamy go seriously with guys from is 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 so how it's going to actually have any kind of success with gazprom is an open question for me. so you're 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 curb demand

although was declining three dollars is declining one dollar seventy five cents this hour brand new while 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 cake closed of course earlier than the hang seng could react to a positive opening in europe but the european debt woes all that both about the health of the u.s. economy is still pushing down banks in japan and energy companies exporters were hurt most in tokyo to shiva 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 a rush looking positive too with the my six initially also dropped within half a percent in 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 that video appliance retailer is gaining on news of a possible merger with its rival. rado and nicole is also on the rise up one percent that's up to one of the main shareholders roussel didn't i the fifteen percent buy back made the nickel and they have done it from gas from bag says the russian market is cheap and promise of profits for those choosing the right stocks have to look for the companies which are less or you think will be less vulnerable in this market environment probably the most was more which are more oriented towards domestic the rest of market and less exposed to if you are holding the

shale you know or fluctuations because with all of this you can not really a predict. where hundred percent of the ruble global currency performance or nearest to 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 we'll never be able to a local currency which we don't yield and we always give the good business a good coach pile. 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 off electronic biotechnology and engineering as it is they run corp is going to spend the proceeds on a new investment bond to buy into foreign assets russian technologies controls twenty five companies including russian helicopters and the s.m.p. of it's my. turn over on the russian stock market last month was a record for best sales at 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 just. russia has seen its first monthly fall in prices in six years consumer prices fell zero point two percent all this knowing inflation for the first eight months to four point seven percent and. say the unexpected result was due to a good harvest and slow economic growth russian prime minister vladimir putin says he expects consumer prices to grow eight percent coolant this year. and we're back in around fifty minutes time with an update i'll see that.

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headlines the head of the arab league goes to syria to demand an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters there this follows the e.u. announcing new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on oil imports serves the interests of european companies rather than those of the syrian people. spain prepares for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on capping the budget deficit a move many fear will lead to social cuts meanwhile the european central bank calls for greater financial integration within the eurozone as the only solution to the crisis. and the pioneers of rallies against social injustice in israel some forty years ago join recent protests against the same issue members of the black panthers movement say they are frustrated by the problems in israel that have only gotten worse. turning our attention to libya where rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining strongholds of colonel gadhafi government without fighting more insight.