banking on the sanctions the use oil embargo on syria could backfire as energy firms cashing in on one thing for another two months fueling the regime it's come to. southern europe braces for a steady anger at italy and spain try to push through more south of cuts all the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be on tackling. also turkey suspends all trade and military ties with israel as relations into a new low because the israel won't apologize for killing time absolutist last year's gaza flotilla raid.

at four pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. now to our top story the syrian regime is accused of having more blood on its hands the government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs where that's the head of the arab league chief's visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syrian standoff for the e.u. sanctions are the solution but its start is dialogue which will explain their slow introduction back. william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality of. syria but bizarrely sanctions were in store for over. a week you can even europeans or the french complete their supply contracts which. oil fields developed boy energy joints like french to toll being torched. but sanctions would start to. go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u.

me and. subsidizing the regime they oppose big oil industry can use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a crime the horrific critics of why the e.u. is putting profit above syria lives. diplomats warned sanctions won't even hit the mark they hurt all the repeat 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 protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed as the most useful simply shifts a ploy so the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said that they would by 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 productive and you know maybe the end

of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today of course they would be short. the war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected maybe cutting off one supply before a secured another then you bushel for our team in brussels. that the u.n. estimates the number of people killed in syria to be over two thousand since the uprising began in march or many are pinning the blame on the government but analysts in neighboring jordan believe it will opposition is a world with em. there's two thousand people. saying about these maybe they are insurgents some of them out but remember there is also one thousand soldier was killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossibile that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstrations if you zoom in syria was

not peaceful in any of these sense because otherwise how could it also be that one thousand mean men and policemen have been killed during these five months yes this is the mistrust from both lies but we have the current situation and we should sit on the pier been negotiate because there is no other solution. at all the way we are in spain to meet those being kicked out for struggling to survive activists and volunteers band together to found off court order to visions of people suffering the consequences of spain's desperate debt crisis. and why ukraine will be out in the cold as a new undersea gaspipe means it will lose its status as a one stop shop for shipping russian fuel to europe. now in libya rebels are detaining oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspected them of being pro get off the snipers all too russians were later released along with

a ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held but if it is a tripoli with more. first prize we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passport and also by the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libyan oil company here in tripoli engineers and coupes 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 capital after they've been accused of being snipers of khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations. for some reason. people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully 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 passports and ukrainian couple birds around twenty other ukrainians are still being held by the rebels here in tripoli. the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water they don't have proper accommodation. they would be better to stink of city. as you well the latest what we're 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 and to the city without fighting this information is yet to be confirmed but if the research you do if the research agreement between the rebel forces and put up his forces in balad worley that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of that have been army's.

have reportedly crossed the frontier border into niger and many believe that it's after himself also be in monday and could also. have fled the country we are receiving these reports just hours after gadhafi information has claimed it . is in the country and has no plans to leave it any time soon. or earlier human rights groups confirmed reports of the mass abuse of black people by the rebels in libya the council of europe's rights commissioner says that many of those captured could be heading to europe and must be helped by e.u. countries. we could just do our best in order to ensure that those people are well treated some of them of course may well be genuine refugees from other parts of africa who were trying to reach europe via libya and got stuck there and i think it's very important that also european governments deal with refugees from libya

coming from other parts of africa in line with international standards when it comes to asylum and refugee policies now italy's biggest trade union is vowing that up to a million it will march against the harshness thirty package being debated in rome italy steering on the brink over its massive debts and one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the euro zone and spur a new national crisis now the removal of says several controversial provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy some markets into a spin and sparked rumors of an imminent credit rating downgrade across the only and see efforts to further rescue the greek economy took a hit after athens admitted it won't be able to meet deficit reduction let's go to some perspective on this from paris would it make a lot to point me only as a member of france's ruling party until two thousand and seven i thanks very much for joining us on the program first off us thirty protests are nothing new why do

you think there is so much anger now towards cuts that italian premier berlusconi says are required to prevent a collapse i mean we're all learning to make sacrifices to get back on track isn't it. no the problem is that there is no growth norm for him and he need to leave like spain greece friends because the euro zone is not working. after ten years of people realize that. it's not working and governments are asking people. before more privileged. people really doesn't support in more this way of governing ok well what about calls for greece for example to be kicked out or let out of the euro zone well that's something that chancellor angela merkel has flatly rejected should accept or be considered for the blocks well being

a thing i think that greece. leaves the euro zone soon i think i think that greece cannot should thought. of germany it is not the same economy so they want to leave them more or do you think greece will leave by itself or will it be forced out. greece will be forced to leave europe because the only means for the greece economy to recover. outside is to develop it to the euro currency is too expensive for greece to alya. producer of oil producer of tourists they need a currency which is not so why you cannot have the. same currency for greece with that. productivity which is not in from germany it's not the same

country. for euros in europe we give money to greece but greece cannot support this currency ok let's talk about france now it's one of the more premier economies in the euro zone and the latest growth data puts paris on the verge of the national stagnation so is the debt crisis now catching up to these economies that are in a better position. yes but france is not in the greece situation of course we have a strong economy but there is an unemployment which is very high and it is a cent now because the government is saying to french people we have to to you we. impose new taxes but in the same day we are going to give to greece fifteen billion euro of its own people or can a set we ask. the french people to give it to greece.

it's not working you saw the french government is very unpopular and. many many french people are not the majority and minority still now things that we should leave euro zone we should. see only means like italy spain we are in a historic moment the euro zone is exploding and you're having said that your president our president sarkozy is insisting that passes. what do you think about. i think it's. completely stupid i think we can we create europe without europe and it worked when we after the war we reconciliation and peace with germany italy there was no euro we have we had our

own money own currency and it worked because when we had a problem we could develop it and germany revaluate its currency so no we cannot. use like india and like poland like sweden we cannot use a monitoring so it's a known problem and which is the means of. things so you understand that people in europe begins just to understand that you is not working you cannot have the same currency for countries who are completely different on the economic scale and i think that we are going to see you use the explosion of the euro zone in that all the governments try to impose rescission. taxes. we will have a revolt in revolution of the people thank you very much for your insight.

founder of france's big party thank you very much. now things are the better across in spain which also faces protests after its parliament ballot pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt other senators voting today with unions and rights groups vowed to fight it saying the death cap will decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable. of course the country's predicament is leading some to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time really carmen 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 gave me the date every car 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 soured 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 a heart attack or their car 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 and normal are there any 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 crisis this is where members of the fifteen m. movement and them. according to the international human rights convention every person has a right to do some housing if a vision is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless because you just can't keep them out of the street that they're going to

zeeshan is known as the indignados or the outraged these days protest by homes of those who are be victims hoping to prevent scored plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with process was a lot of these are subsidized housing people who are in tough situation financially so i can't understand how they can evict people who can't afford to buy their own homes that goes so far fifteen m. have religion to stop a t.v. actions across the country and. every victim is a human drama 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 this system itself in madrid. r t. o e zero on turkey's former friendly relations are withering fast turkey is suspending all

trade military and defense ties and the prime minister is threatening a more sanctions against israel and a visit to gaza already expelled israeli diplomats over the refusal to apologize for killing nine eight activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid on his policy here is following developments in tel aviv. the turkish prime minister adam has announced that he could be slapping more sanctions on television this follows the release last week of a united nations report into what happened on board the marmara now that was a turkish missile that took part in the first tiller attempt to break the israeli siege on gaza some one and a half years ago and after israeli soldiers stormed the ship some nine turkish citizens were killed israel has repeatedly refused to apologize for the deaths and in response ankara has expelled the israeli ambassador it has downgraded diplomatic relations between both countries to the level of second secretary and it's also frozen all military cooperation the turkish prime minister used the word several

treat when he referred to the israeli behavior he also accused israel of behaving like a spoiled boy in the region and he said that the turks would challenge israeli bullying in the mediterranean by increasing the naval presence there the turkish government has also rejected another finding of their poem a report which said that the israeli blockade on gaza was not illegal with the turkish government saying that it would now lobby that the international criminal court in the hague we've heard from the turkish foreign minister who held a crisp briefing with a top official now bill sha'ath in which he said that the turks had a campaign underway to hold the palestinians the successful in a bird come september twentieth for a palestinian state and now this is no surprise because for several months turkey has indicated that it is supporting the palestinians it is also indicated that it is embarking on

a diplomatic and pain to help them in this struggle we also know for example that the turkish prime minister is now planning a visit meets week to egypt now he has said that he will be upgrading military cooperation between turkey and egypt we are also hearing that a number of bilateral meetings have been arranged no doubt these also. because largely on this fear of economics but certainly this has to be a concern to me as well the official response from the israeli defense minister ministry is that turkey has a lot to lose but most people here really are questioning what israel is going to do because this is a crucial time when israel needs all the strains it can have particularly ahead of this u.n. bid which of course there's always against you need to remember that turkey was israel's closest ally in the region and relationships between israel and turkey are at the lowest they've been in moving twenty years and certainly seen the same between tel aviv and cairo where relations between israel and egypt are also now at

an all time low. let's get reaction now from dr gallagher linda strauss from the institute for national security studies in a television thanks very much for joining us today now israel has lost an important ally in the region do you think turkey has moves are an over reaction or should israel have seen this coming. i think the israeli government took a caution conscious decision when it decided not to apologise. not apologizing had a price not should move the price would be so sorry and. also i think they knew this in advance but once it happens it's still shocking you said that israel was expecting a negative reaction from turkey but did know the extent of it now that it doesn't know the extent of it what is its reaction to the position it's in right now to. use what is trying to keep its restraint. in accordance to go palmer's report and

commendations it did express it to regret on the particular event but it still refuses to apologise. and disrespect of course the apology the reason that you did for paula jones had there were good reasons for that i use rove was afraid that this would cause a president use room. his stance is that located on guys is legal and this stance the guard reaffirmation from the palm report and also the definitive action were as the report says were reckless and disrespect as well as of course as the report says maybe there was an overreaction and basically the fault was those who initiated from the people of those who didn't stop it said that israel has expressed regret but not apologize you're citing the reason that they're afraid it will set a precedent but what is more important though i weigh in this into putting this into perspective weighing one of complete isolation versus one other hand avoiding a president of what you had said is that more important.

course you're right this puts israel in the very difficult situation of this isolation and while there were good reasons not to follow it as of course there were good reasons also to do this action but now that is what has been said not because it has to live with the crisis and one should hope that after these initial very harsh reaction deterrents there will be some calming down whether by the troops themselves or by going outside actors such as the u.s. has great interest. in the recovery of the turkish relations high pressure on the sides to. calm down a bit sorry ok how do you how will turkey's freeze on the military ties impact and israel's security the same will this threaten regional stability. differently when turkey says that it will start acting more decisively in the

eastern med mediterranean this might have an effect i don't think the navies the israeli navy and the turkish navy will enter a direct confrontation but there might be mistakes like the flotilla itself the report states clearly that both israel and turkey didn't want vence to happen the way they did but they did happen because there were mistakes and there were misunderstanding. and if turkey says it will operate more decisively in the eastern mediterranean there might be an accident between israel and navies and this might be even worse than the frontal lobe and ok i just briefly now turkey says its plan in cooperation with the palestinian campaign to seek state but what would such an international recognition mean for israel and the wider region. this is very hard to know what will be the repercussions of this but i don't think actually this is not such a major result of the deterioration in israel in turkish relations because it was anyhow clear that he would support the palestinian statehood and that it would put

all its effort to make other states persuaded to also support this and i think this is only how most states support this with whatever israel does so i don't think actually this crisis between israel and turkey has a direct effect on what will happen in the u. and of course the question is what will happen the day after the un recognizes the palestinian state will the cause more violence will make no difference and then it will cause palestinian frustration will this stop those two sides from going back to the negotiation table these are very important questions we still don't have an answer to rival thank you very much for your thoughts. research fellow at the answer to for national security studies and television thank you. now ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip and europe saturday when destry has been the only transit route for russian gas into europe but all that's about to change as prime minister putin explained during the launch of the nord stream a gas pipeline. and then there's the overview. of ukraine is no longer standing any

transit country is always tempted to use its status as a transit state now ukraine lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an adult civilized free market partnership. color first of gas so last into the pipeline will be used to test the system that's. able eyes to pressure in the network full scale transit should begin by october or the north korean pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine or relying on it as a transit state has been fractures in recent years resulting in a few disputes between russia and ukraine. largely has more on how the pipelines will change europe's on a few map in our business will attend that's next r.t. . very welcome to your business on page russia's prime minister is calling the north korean gas pipeline a window to europe and twelve hundred kilometer length is being filled before

pumping begins this is archie's money the closer i have the details. it was a split gas implosion all by months and years of negotiations testing and construction came down to the on click lot of americans and all personally sucked the wheels in motion and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it home for the possibility of her have to rely on transit countries to get it stassi europe exports today you are at such a double in the coming decade and north stream mobile power we have courts are all back that's the border that's not it's where cheryl cole and some are seized with her transit countries accusing russia of using nordstrom's as a political solution but the government insists it's only there to save more supplies europe has a plan to rely on the gas card the majority shareholder all forces other remedies side many movie terms supplied look inside some of european countries like pellets

in france and that you hate it when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year it'll be hot believe you could meters of gas will flow from russia so it's customers and europe. but it's been confirmed you know what stream part of be a s.s. of germany will also take part in south stream i phone four ships the chemical joint one with france's india will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas pipeline across the black sea to europe and reshuffled means interludes any will have its share in the twenty four billion euro project drop to twenty percent. let's have a look at the markets now branch courage has rebounded with the european markets despise persisting because the european sovereign debt crisis is an escalating brand is trading high of a song at just under one hundred and eleven dollars the barrel while w t i remain pressured by war's over to help will beat us economy. european markets have kicked

off in positive charge for investors are taking a break from two days of heavy selling food safety. gaining point six percent of the sites is flat. and here's the picture in russia the russian markets are seeing losses indicating shares may fall for a third trading take a major concern slowing growth in the u.s. and china and shirts that follows will spark a global recession but some have a look at the moving visual show moves on the minds that so most energy majors bounced back from monday's losses with a look or a lot hotter sounds when while appliance retailer and vito is gaining on the news of a possible merger with its rival alger rado and the roles chemical shares have declined with investors take a profit after non-locals recent rise this rise was so after one of its main shareholders the sell denies the fifteen percent buyback often made by the nickel producer. that's all we have time for now join me for another business of days in less than one hour and get more stories more website archer's dot com slash

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