two pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. now the head of the arab league is due to visit syria on wednesday in a bid to persuade the country's leader to end the six month long crackdown on the uprising there well it comes after countries announced a new round of sanctions against the regime but as our teasdale bushel reports many are questioning 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 burning in syria but bizarrely sanctions won't start for over a month. they will kick in only when europeans or all firms complete their supply contracts which. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched want to go because sanctions will 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 chinese 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 libya will not start being productive. until maybe the end

of next year and if they were. they would be short. with the war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected because you know one supply before a secured another don't you bushel for all to see in brussels. dr tawfik some are from philadelphia university in jordan says that although all blame is being pinned on the syrian government the opposition has also been responsible for a great deal of the violence there's two thousand people. sort of they say but these through some of them maybe they are insurgents or some of them are but remember there is also one thousand soldiers killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossible that they are being killed by by peaceful demonstration that if you have them do three options in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could the possibility that one thousand army men and policemen have

been killed during this five month yes there is the mistrust from both size but we have the current situation and we should sit on the table and negotiate because there is no other solution. to libya now where rebels have captured a crew of oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries as they suspected them of being a pro get off the snipers two russians have been released along with a ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy however about twenty ukrainians are still being held but if a national has more from tripoli. well as far as we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passport and also better russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libin all company here in tripoli engineers and kooks men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels took the libyan capital and have been put into one of the rebels' training center here in. the capitol after they've been accused of been snipers of

khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because. for some reason the finger of slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully did this people say that they've been provided with food and water but some of them have been severely beaten and tortured by the rebels the russian embassy has actually managed to release two owners of the russian passport and ukrainian couple but around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli this group of 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. what the latest what we are hearing from bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli where the fighting over it off is lost and main stronghold has been

continuing in the last few days is that the rebel 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 deal if the research an agreement between the rebel forces and khadafi is forces. that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army is very cold 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 is information to bring in has claimed that the battle colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it anytime soon. meanwhile british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into quite intelligent sage's extradited. terror 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 rendition programs a former british intelligence officer adding russian expects that the poor will 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 that 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 an m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that peter gibson himself is heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role so he's been cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt if he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he would probably want to 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. well the war in libya could fuel british and french appetites for a new interventions according to rosemary hollis professor of middle east policy studies at city university in london where the full interview is coming your way in just twenty minutes time but 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 hope 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.

now spain is bracing itself for mass protests as it senate meets ahead of wednesday's vote on a hotly contested change to the constitution well that would cap the budget deficit in a bid to fend off the debt crisis and golf in europe all the unions say fixing a deficit limit means sacrificing social welfare for the sake of the markets and is obviously the glue school reports with rising repossessions and unemployment many people are taking 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 really calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer 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. 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 it 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 to say 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 the vixen process. and these are subsidized housing for 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. carmen and her son. every victim is a human and the people gathered here believe they are fighting social injustice but some wonder whether the efforts of this people are enough to solve the problems with a better system itself in madrid. meanwhile the incoming european central bank

head says the euro zone should be more financially integrated this follows outgoing . call for a creation of a centralized financial government for europe the financial writer peterbilt tells r t the euro zone system is so flawed increasing bureaucratic institutions will 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 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 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 true of germany the most pro european in all three 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 all in an hour's time max kaiser and stacy herbert discuss the behavior of banks and the ongoing debt crisis and here's a quick look at what's to come. 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 our sort of 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.

the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for a fifteen year. one million year old war it was promised for his camp. political smurf of the west. for many years in. general the serbian. parliament. monarchy.

welcome back you're watching r t live from moscow well to ease your 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 panthers movement who staged similar protests in the one nine hundred seventy s. joined the crowds and as a reports he says he's frustrated that forty years on the state of israel has become the 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 previous generation either by the use of passes we rose up to protest against the lack of justice soon as the year of 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 panthers game with a raid. we came. back. 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 but. 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 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 for in three weeks the committee he set up needs to address how to fix the country's mounting social problems though actually. not only have we not progressed but the country has become an enemy of its people everywhere citizens are harassed there are police but now it's not only the lower class who suffer. the middle class is well. and so forty years on the ideas and dreams of these men. but so too are the challenges they face internal leadership divisions regional evil and the new mean threat of an israeli palestinian showdown could at any time take center stage or. to resign them. 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 march in support of their bid in order to protect west bank settlers and we've got reaction to that on our web site r.t. dot com. this includes another one to be a good to most of the cases the palestinians baby adopted is opinion from a peace activist who says that tough response by well over the escalating tension between the israelis and the palestinians but also a background of a long running conflict ahead of the story vote all that and much more at our t.v. dot com.

now a brief look at some other international headlines this hour the hague war crimes tribunal has sent of former yugoslavian army chief. to twenty seven years in a prison he's guilty of crimes against humanity during the balkan wars of the nine hundred ninety s. including the siege of boston and capital sarajevo and the massacre of muslims. that is if he is one of many ethnic serbs fugitive military officials on trial in the hague with former president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic having died in custody while the international criminal tribunal for former yugoslavia has been criticized for convicting serbs. and give a lot of their sentences to former boss and military officials. australian police are to go shaded with a man holding a child hostage outside a court in a sydney the surrounding area is sealed off and witnesses say the suspect claimed he was carrying a bomb in a backpack well according to some reports the captain may be the man's eleven year

old daughter. scuffles broke out between protesters and police outside a courthouse in the car where the trial of former president hosni mubarak regime and hundreds of demonstrators attempted to break through the main gates and gave access for senior police officers testified against mubarak at the hearing which was held behind closed doors with the ex leader is charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the february op rising that top ten. well there's plenty more on our top stories at our dot com also lined up on the web site right now not exactly criminal behavior however a lawsuit out of chicago alleges six year old school kids were handcuffed simply for talking in class and log on to our to dot com to find out more plus. a bid for the give us book of records a moscow celebrates its birthday with a spectacular for the live show with up to eight hundred thousand people getting

the chance to travel to the stars just a couple of minutes. down the official. from the. video on demand. now in the palm of your. home that's today for this hour it's time now for a business update with dmitri. thanks to a loan welcome to business r.t. and it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it starts filling the new nine billion euro undersea pipeline to europe gas deliveries through the first part of the nord stream projects to begin in two months when completed next year the twin pipeline

will provide fifty five billion cubic meters of gas to european consumers annually this is about half the amount of gas currently being exported through ukraine to europe officials at the opening ceremony have hinted there might be a third pipe laid should relations with transit country ukraine not improve speaking of which the gas is pete disputes between 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 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 now is trying to renegotiate how it's going to actually have any kind of success we've got. is an open question for me so you get the

markets now light sweet is under pressure on worries that slowing growth in the united states china could demand meanwhile brant is up almost one dollar that over one hundred eleven dollars a barrel. precious metals ever raised gains and moved into the red gold is losing just not silver one percent this is as investors are coming back into stocks and european markets are indeed in positive territory investors are taking a break from two days of heavy selling hotel and restaurant operator whitbread is up more than seven percent of the company reported a thirteen percent increase in second quarter sales. and this is the picture in russia and my sex and the r.t.s. initially dropped within half a percent in the first minutes of trading but now they are gaining around half a percent if we look at the individual share movers on the my six most energy majors are bouncing back from monday's losses lukoil their gaining point eight

percent meanwhile appliance retailer in video is gaining on news of a possible merger with its rival eldorado nor cynical is also on the rise that's after one of its main shareholders move south declines the fifteen percent buyback of made by the nickel producer. from gas from banks says russian market is cheap and could provide interesting opportunities. to look for new companies which are all this or you think will be less vulnerable in this market environment probably because it was more which are more oriented to the wars in the midst of domestic more. it. exposed to if you are. you know all fluctuations because with all of this you can not really a predict. hundred percent of the ruble global currency performance or nearest three 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 sure will be able to

a local currency which is the will yield. of the good business a good job. in other new russian technologies it's going to hive off its main subsidiaries in an i.p.o. in four years time analysts say will most likely offer electronic biotechnology and engineering assets as they run corp is going to spend the proceeds on a new investment fund to buy into foreign assets russian technologies controls twenty five companies including russian helicopters and titanium giant. the turnover on the russian stock market last month was a record for all guest equity sales the ten largest brokers on the my sex organs 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 into the market after the heavy sell off that month. and rushes seen its first

monthly fall in prices 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 the unexpected result was due to a good harvest and slower economic growth russian prime minister vladimir putin says he expects consumer prices to grow eight percent all the normal this year and the headlines are next with do stay with r.t. .

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video on demand on t.v.'s my old costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today r t the head of the arab league

heads to syria to demand an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters there well this follows the e.u. announcing a new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on the oil imports serves the interests of european companies rather than those of the syrian people. speight prepares for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on topic the budget deficit a move that many fear will lead to social cuts meanwhile the european central bad calls for greater financial integration within the e.u. or so as the only solution to the crisis. and the party here are some values again socially just as he israel forty years ago during the recent protests against the same issue members of the black panthers movement say they are frustrated that the problems in israel have only gotten worse. well turning our attention to libya now where rebels have reportedly reached a deal to ensure one of the remaining stronger.