with government troops allegedly firing of demonstrators in the besieged city of homs all that's ahead of the arab league chief's visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syrian standoff over the e.u. sanctions are the solution but. they're slow introduction could backfire. william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced this oil burning in syria but bizarrely sanctions once thought for over a month. they will kick in only when european world firms complete their supply contracts which. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from magnetic point of view because their sanctions would start. to go on with reduction of oil as a result of 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 syria and lives. diplomats warn sanctions won't even hit the mark they hurt ordinary people not the leadership they claim to target and most importantly not europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulders of the syrian people while their companies out of protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposure as damascus will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said that they would by any account be you 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 their a productive and you're making at the end of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today of course they would be short. with the war against 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. the u.n. estimates the number of people killed in syria to be over two thousand says. the uprising began in march while many are pinning the blame on the government but analysts in neighboring jordan believe be opposition is a wolf in sheep's clothing there's two thousand people. sort of the same but these two solve them maybe they are incisions or some of them are but remember there is also one thousand soldiers killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers are impossible that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstration definitely have been demonstrations in syria was not peaceful in many a sense because otherwise how could also be that one thousand. policemen

have been killed during these five months yes there is the mistrust from both sides we have the current situation and we should sit on the table and negotiate because if you look at the future. and all the way where in spain to meet those being picked out for struggling to survive activists of volunteers band together to fend off a court order to veterans of people suffering the consequences of spain's desperate debt crisis. and the danish royal family business russia for the first time in thirty six years a rich cultural program saw the car set an unprecedented lineup of business brokers to seal deals. now in libya rebels are detaining or engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspected of being pro get off the sniper's well to 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 isn't tripoli. well as far as we

know thirty two people including two owners of the russian prospers and also believe russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libin company here in tripoli engineers and kooks men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels took the. capital and have been put into one of the rebels training center here in the capital after they've been accused of been snipers of khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations but because of additional for some reason. people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully to 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 us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli the scope 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. they would be better to stink of civil see which is why 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 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 if the research an agreement between the rebel forces and gadhafi forces. that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army as they call 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 information to bring him has claimed that the embattled colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. and earlier human rights groups confirm reports of the mass abuse of black people by the rebels in libya or the council of europe's rights commissioner says that many of those captured could be headed 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 past 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 policies. meanwhile the british prime minister wants to look at the claims of the countries secret agents terrorist suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured well it emerged after human rights groups in tripoli found it documents outlining m i six and cia were additional programs but former british intelligence officer adding expects the inquiry 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 my five and 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 probably won't shine a bright light in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends with the intelligence agencies they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in libya food 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. now italy's biggest trade union is vowing that up to a million will march against the harshness thirty packages being debated in rome well italy's teetering over its massive debts and as one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the euro zone and spur a new financial crisis or the removal of several controversial provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy said markets into a spin as rumors of an imminent credit rating downgrade across the sea efforts to further rescue the greek economy took a hit after athens admitted it won't be able to meet deficit reduction dead lights

and they could have to pour i was a member of france's ruling party until two thousand and seven believes the consequences of a currency system cannot work. the problem is that there is no growth norm coleman to need to spend greece friends because the euro zone is not working and after ten years of people realize that. it's not working that greece will be forced to leave europe because the only means for greece economy to recover to sell products outside is to develop it 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 the explosion of the euro zone that all the governments try to impose rescission.

taxes we will have a revolt and revolution of the people. well things are a little better across in spain which also faces protests after its parliament bowed to e.u. pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debts while the senate is voting today but unions of rights groups vowed to fight it saying the death couple decimate the welfare system and her the most vulnerable to city to go to school reports the country's predicament is leading some to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time we got a man 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 maybe that i was fifteen days late with a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still want to direct me even though i paid everything and it was months ago since january 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. these apartments should be distributed in such a way that people can afford to pay for them while there but a lot of times they can't and i'm going to fight to make this type of housing more affordable in. many 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 in the inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless you just can't kick them out on the street. they're going to say she is known as the indignados or the outraged they staged protests by homes

of those who are be effected 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 the action process. 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. unfortunately for me carmen in her son they were powerless. every vixen is a 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 this better system itself in madrid. one of the main purposes of the debt debate in madrid today is to send a message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway

finances but wider and journalists rather believes it's those very markets that are responsible for spain's predicament today the markets are not rational and they are driven usually by fear sometimes by greed and they just think they feel that the spain could be like greece or like ireland or like portugal because the fertile country within the euro so they tend to lump together countries that are very different but they resemble each other because they are part of the periphery and i think that that's the real reason is just a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain konami growth is not very good so that in the long will be a problem for there we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. well israel and turkey's former friendly relations are weathering fast turkey is suspending all trade military and defense ties and the prime minister is threatening more

sanctions against israel as well as a visit to gaza girls already expelled israeli diplomats over the refusal to apologize for killing the eight activists in last year's gaza pull to raid our policy here is following developments in tel aviv. the turkish prime minister added one 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. now that was a turkish missile that took part in the first attempt to break the israeli siege on gaza some one and a half years ago and off israeli soldiers the ship some nine turkish citizens were killed israel has repeatedly refused to apologize for the deaths and in response and korea has the israeli ambassador it has downgraded diplomatic relations between both countries to the level of security secretary and it's also frozen all military cooperation the turkish prime minister used the word savagely when he referred to

the israeli behavior he also accused israel of behaving like a spoilt 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 a un palmer report which said that the israeli blockade on gaza was not illegal with the turkish government saying that it would now lobby that with the international criminal court in the hague we've heard from the turkish foreign minister who held a press briefing with the top official now bill shaath in which he said that the turks had a campaign underway to help the palestinians be successful in made come september the twentieth for a palestinian state now this is no surprise because for several months turkey has indicated that it is supporting the power. the stimulus it is also indicated that it is embarking on a diplomatic campaign to help them in their struggle 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 friends it can have particularly ahead of this u.n. bed which of course israel is 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 more than twenty years and certainly seeing the same between tel aviv and cairo where relations between israel and egypt are also now at an all time low. for the tension between the two countries may cause some incidents even worse than the raid on a flotilla. from the institute for national security studies in tel aviv has been explaining to r.t. . differently when turkey says that it will start acting more decisively in the eastern mediterranean this might have an effect i don't think the two navies the israeli navy and the turkish navy will enter

a direct confrontation but there might be mistakes like the flotilla itself report states clearly that both israel and turkey didn't want 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 israel and navies and this might be even worse than the frontal lobe and i don't think actually this crisis between israel and turkey has a direct effect on what will happen in the. of course the question is what will happen the day after the u.n. recognizes the palestinian state will that cause more violence will that make no difference and then it will cause palestinian frustration will this stop the two sides from going back to the negotiation table these are very important questions we still don't have an answer to. well we've got more from a zero on line where the panthers are again on the prowl forty years on. the country has become an enemy of its people. anger over social injustice is

getting louder among israelis and the veteran the black panther campaigners are right behind them they've got more on the move. along with all their news and analysis. ukraine's losing its key bargaining chip and europe's energy industry 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 gas pipeline. in the. ukraine is a long standing and he transit country is always tempted to use its exclusive status in terms of state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe in relations with.

ukraine has been using its status to try and secure a disk for russian gas as well as higher transit fees all such disputes lead to interruptions if you will be to europe back in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine or the north travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine and eliminating that middle leverage. let's update you on some of the world's other main news right now twenty six kilometer wide the wildfire that's already destroyed five hundred homes is raging through texas the arab states is suffering its worst half a century with fires blazing in several areas found by strong winds from tropical storm lee thousands of people have been evacuated to safety as the flames. consume an area the size of connecticut governor rick perry's postponed his presidential campaigning to tackle the disaster. of the hague tribunal has sentenced a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes betty

situ is convicted of abetting atrocities during the balkan war in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. including the massacre of seven thousand muslims and. is one of many ethnic serb military officials on trial in the hague the ex-president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia has been repeatedly criticized for jailing serbs while giving milder sentences to boston officials. former executives from rupert murdoch's new news international have said his son james knew about the phone hacking which brought down the news of the world top award the media mogul son runs the business and has always denied knowledge of illegal phone interception of the paper was shot in july after it emerged voice mails were hearts of a murdered schoolgirl war veterans and senior politicians dozens of news international employees have been arrested over the scandal while senior police

have quit over collusion. now the danish royal family is on their first official visit in almost forty years now the official part of the trip is focused on trade and energy cooperation but they will also be visiting a number of cultural venues found out. well this is not the first time margaret the second comes through she's already been here over thirty five years ago of course back then russia was a part of the soviet union but in a number of interviews that her majesty gave ahead of this three day visit to russia she said that she's very much looking forward with changes that happened to the country in this past years as her husband has been to petersburg twice during this time and shared his impressions. over the city with her also for her it is a historic visit as well as her majesty is related to the dutch princes. who married russian tsar alexander the third gender through marrying him became

empress muddy field of men who gave birth to the last morn arc over russia because by the second so this visit is going to be full of cultural exchange the queen has already visited pushkin museum of fine arts where she had to take a look at the russian danish a photography exhibition which a visit to st petersburg russian cultural capital is also scheduled during the visit but of course is not just about history and cultural exchange she came with a large delegation of businessmen who will be sealing a number of deals during the three day visit. north stream gas pipeline project is probably the flagship of biological cooperation between russia and denmark unfortunately queen's visit didn't start off as smoothly as it could have because of the dual yog sealed soup door. at the place where it was supposed to be in st

petersburg due to strong winds and difficult weather conditions and up the docking at the wrong place at the guard's place nevertheless hoping the rest of the visit is going to be smooth and fool cultural exchange well it's all the news for now let's get the latest in business from yulia. oh and a very warm welcome time for the business update and more on the opening of the north stream gas pipeline russia's prime minister is calling the project a window to europe the twelve hundred kilometer length is now being filled before pumping begins next month this is archie's motive of course russia has the details . it was a split gas implosion all by months and years of negotiations testing and construction came down to one play blood here it's an old person lease up the wheels in motion

and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it up and hope for the crossover munavvar have to rely on transit countries to get its gas and the euro exports to that you are expected to double in the coming decade and nordstrom mobile carriers have boards are all batts the project has had its fair share of problems for mercy's 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 and supplies to europe as a plan to rely on the gas from the majority shareholder all the words she has already signed many more would serve supplied well in times when european countries like fell into france and the u.k. and when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year the odd billion to the meters of gas will flow from russia to its customers in europe. and it's been

confirmed north stream parts not be as set of germany will also take part in the south stream pipeline for ships the chemical giant along with france's india will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas point across the black sea to europe the reshuffle means each will as any will have its share in the twenty four bit and you're approaching drop to twenty percent. let's have a look at the markets now brunch curd has rebounded with the european markets to split the system failed us european sovereign debt crisis and this disaster lazing branches trading high of the solid just under one hundred and eleven dollars but they're a while doubly triply remains pressured by the war's over helpful think u.s. economy. and european markets have kicked off and also charges for investors are taking a break from two days of heavy selling if it sees good. point six percent and the tax is flat. and here's the picture in russia the markets here are seeing losses indicated shares may fall for that trading day meet concern the slowing growth in

the u.s. and china and europe step walls will spark with the global recession let's all have a look at some of the individual she was on the my six most energy majors bounced back from monday's losses with look we're up half a percent meanwhile appliance retailer video is gaining on the news of a possible merger with its rival alvarado underworlds clinical shares have declined with investors taking profits after new michael's recent rise let's rise was one of its main shareholders a real solid didn't like the fifteen percent buyback offer made by them they could produce. and other news rushing to closure is going to high both its made subsidiaries an i.p.o. in four years time and they say will most likely offer electronic buyer technology and engineering assets straight from corp is going to spend the first feeds on the new investment fund by age of forty assets rushing to closures controls twenty five companies including russian helicopters and titanium giant. response.

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a recap of the main stories we're covering for you today banking on sanctions the ears all embargo on syria could back far as energy firms cash in on pumping for another two months. if you will in the regime it's condemning. southern europe braces for a sturdy anger as spain try to push through more savage cuts while the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be untangling. also turkey suspends all trade and military ties with israel as relations sink to a new low because israel won't apologize for killing nine activists in last year's gaza flotilla rate. and blood in their putin throws the switch on the new undersea gas pipeline to europe curbing ukraine status as an irreplaceable middleman to which it's used to negotiate discounts for its own supplies. and the spotlight looks at whether russian universities have the dough how to work among the word.