the. stories on our t.v. banking on the sanctions the use or the bargain on syria could backfire as other firms cash in on ponting for another two months fueling the regime it's condemning . southern europe braces for a sturdy agger as italy and spain try to push through more savage cuts all the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be on tackling. plus and business rather here boots and puts the finishing touches on the north to pipeline to start pumping gas to europe i'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes .

it's six pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. now to our top story the syrian regime is accused of having more blood of its has the government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs about the head of the arab league chief's a visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syrian standoff over the e.u. however friends are the solution is daniel bushell explains their slow introduction could backfire. william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality of. syria but bizarrely sanctions were in storage for over a month. maybe. even europeans or the french complete their supply line checks which. and oil fields developed boy e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from an ethical point of view

because it sanctions would start only now. we go on with rejection of oil as a result the e.u. me 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 of why the e.u. is putting profits above syria 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 under shoulder of the syrian people while their companies are protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed as the most this 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 the u.s. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya would take up the slack but

they may be disappointed will not start doing their it productive until late in the end of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today it was there would be a short war. with the war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected maybe cutting off one supply before a secured another the new cultural ferrazzi in brussels. and the u.n. estimates the number of people killed in syria to be over two thousand since the uprising began in march well many are pinning the blame on the government but analysts and neighboring jordan believe the opposition is a wolf in sheep's clothing. there's two thousand people there. is sort of the same but if these two solve them maybe they are incisions or some of them are in serious runs but remember there is also one thousand soldiers was killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossibile that they have been killed by. peaceful

demonstrations let me if you've been demonstrations in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could it possible that one thousand army men and policemen had been killed during this five month yes there is the mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on the table and negotiate because there is no other solution. and all the way where in spain to meet those being kicked out for struggling to survive this year is bad together in fact off court order if the actions of people suffering the consequences of spain's desperate debt crisis. and turkey suspends all trade and military ties with israel as a relation to a new low because israel won't apologize for killing nine activists last year's gaza flotilla raid. now in libya rebels are detaining oil engineers and

cooks from former soviet countries suspected them of being pro get off the snipers to russians were later released along with a ukrainian couple after they'd managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held our peace but if it is exactly. because far as we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passports and also the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libyan all company here in tripoli engineers and coupes men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels to the libyan 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 taffy we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations. for some reason the finger of slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully so 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 scope of the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said we don't have running water they said they don't have proper accommodation so they would be better just to give city. all the latest we're hearing from value 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 writing this information is yet to be confirmed but if the research you do if the research agreement between the rebel forces and the duff his forces in bel-air worley that actually would mean

a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army's. have reportedly crossed the frontier border into niger and many believe that gadhafi himself could also be in man and good also. have fled the country we are receiving these reports just hours after information has claimed that. colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. now earlier human rights groups confirm reports of the mass abuse of black people by the rebels in libya and the council of europe's rights commissioner says 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. 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 the international standards when it comes to asylum policies. middle east analysts rosemary hollis from london city university believes that the war in libya could fuel british and french appetites for new interventions and she explains what are seen around twenty minutes time. cameron and cozy took 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 of 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 italy's the biggest trade union is vowing that up to one million will march against the harsh new us dearly package being debated in rome italy steering over its massive debts and. one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the euro zone as a new financial crisis or the removal of several controversial provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy markets into a spin room or sitting in a credit rating downgrade for past year you'll see efforts to further rescue the greek economy took a hit after apple's admitted it won't be able to meet deficit reduction deadlines and it nicholas was a member of france's ruling party until two thousand and seven believes that there are the consequences of a. 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 in greece will be forced to leave europe because the only means for greece economy to recover. for goods outside is to develop it you cannot have the same currency for countries while completely different on the economic scale and i think that we are going to see you in the explosion of the euro zone that all the governments try to impose rescission. taxes we will have a revolt in revolution of the people of things are a little better across in spain which also faces protests after its parliament bow to e.u. pressure and vote it's a member constitution to limit national debts of the senate's voting today but

unions and rights groups about to fight it saying that the death camp would decimate the welfare system and her the most vulnerable as are 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 a gunman had guests over at her house just a day after r.t. 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 wanted vic me even though i paid everything and it was months ago howard out since then marie carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack while their pocket these apartments should be distributed in such a way that people can afford to pay for them but a lot of times they can't and i'm going to fight to make this type of housing more

affordable normal or fair we carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's in employment rates of over twenty percent means many people are simply an eagle 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 vision is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless you just can't keep them out on the street that they're going to see sion is known as the indignados or the outraged they staged protests by homes of those who are being evicted hoping to prevent plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with evolution process. these are subsidized housing for people who are

in tough situations financially so i can understand how the candidate people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. so far fifteen m. have relished to stop fifty vixens across the country and for. carmen in her son we were powerless in every vixen is a cement job and the people gathered here believe they are fighting social injustice but some wonder whether the efforts of this group of people are enough to solve the problems within this parish system itself in madrid. pretty much one of the main purposes of the debate in madrid today is to send the message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway finances but writer and journalist rather believes that it's those very markets that are responsible for spring's predicament today the markets are not rational and they are driven usually by fear sometimes by greed and they just think if they feel that it's spain could

be like greece or. portugal because. country within the euro so 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 recently such a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain konami growth he's not very good so that in the long term will be a problem for there we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. still to come this hour dealing with the crown the day in the family business russia for the first time in thirty six years a rich cultural programs on the cards and i'm president of the line up of business programs to see all deals. turkey's former friendly relations are withering fast turkey is suspending all trade military and defense ties and the

prime minister is threatening more sanctions against israel and a visit to gaza allowed choros already expelled israeli diplomats over the refusal to apologize for killing ninety eight activists in last year's gaza flotilla raids larfleeze paulus leader is following developments in tel aviv. the turkish prime minister everyone 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. now that was a turkish vessel that took part in the first 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 and korea 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

savagery 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 or the un palmer report which said that these radio blockade on gaza was not illegal with the turkish government saying that it would now lobby back 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 sha'ath in which he said that the turks have a campaign underway to help the palestinians be successful in a bid 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 palestinians it has also indicated that it is embarking on a diplomatic campaign to help them in this 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 forensic and have particularly ahead of this u.n. bid which of course israel is against you need to remember. they're to keep 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 seen the same between tel aviv and cairo where relations between israel and egypt are also now at an all time low. or the tension between the two countries may cause some incidents even worse than the raid on the flotilla as gallia linda strauss from the institute for national security studies in television has been explaining to r.t. . definitely when turkey says that it will start acting more decisively in the eastern mediterranean this might have an effect i don't think the navies the israeli navy indication navy will enter

a direct confrontation but there might be mistakes like the flotilla itself for states clearly that both israel and turkey didn't want to happen the way they think that 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 lovin don't think actually this crisis between his interviews has a direct effect on what will happen in the u. and of course the question is what will happen the day after the u.n. recognizes the palestinian state will cause more violence but 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 all we've got more from israel on live where the panthers are again all the prowar forty years. old not only have we not the request of the country has become the enemy of its people everywhere citizens are harassed anger

over a social injustice is getting louder among israelis and the veteran black panther campaigners are right behind them over got more all the movement at r.t. dot com along with all world news and analysis. now ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy industry it's been the only transit route for russian gas into europe but all that's about to change as prime minister quits and explained during the launch of the nord stream gas pipeline. very much the overview. that ukraine is on long. any transit countries are always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe all relations will be. free market partnership let's review. all ukraine

has been using its status to try and secure discounts for russian gas as well as higher transit fees so this views lead to interruptions in fuel being pumped to europe back in two thousand and six sent two thousand and nine with a north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine and eliminating the middleman the leverage of more and how the pipeline will change europe's energy in our business bulletin in a few minutes. but before that here's an update on some of the world's other main news right now that's how the six kilometer wide wild far that's already destroyed five hundred homes is raging through texas the arid states suffering its worst drought in half a century with fires blazing in several areas found by strong words from tropical storm lee well thousands of people have been evacuated to safety as the flames consumer an area the size of connecticut governor rick perry has postponed his presidential campaign able to tackle the disaster. the hague tribunal has

sentenced a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes war crimes. convicted of abetting atrocities during the balkan war in the east including the massacre of seven thousand muslims in every meet so he is one of many ethnic serbs military officials all trial in the hague ex-president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody while the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia has been repeatedly criticized for jailing serbs all giving dollar sentences to boston officials. former executives from news international says james murdoch knew about the phone hacking which brought down the news of the world tabloid the son of media mogul rupert murdoch runs the business and has always denied knowledge of illegal phone interception of the paper was shot in july after it emerged that the voice mails

were half 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. the danish royal family has arrived in russia bringing top business people with them and while the broker sealed regal deals the marquis's planned a busy schedule of cultural and significant visits as a fall you know because of us and finding out. poe's is not good first time when margaret the second comes to moscow she's already been here over thirty five years ago first back then washer 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 to take a look at all the changes that happened to the country in the past years also for her it is a historic visit as well as her majesty is related to the dutch princes that the martyr who married a russian tsar xander the third just gave birth to of the last more like over

russia nikolai the second the queen has already visited pushkin museum of fine arts 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 south and north stream gas pipeline project is probably the flagship of biological cooperation between russia and denmark unfortunately is queen's visit didn't start off as smoothly as it could have because of the royal yard field suit dog at the place where it was supposed to be some petersburg due to strong wind and the difficult weather conditions and upload soaking up the wrong place the guards place nevertheless hoping the rest of the visit is going to be smooth and fool culture change well that's what the news

looks like for now next as a business update if you will ya. thanks to try time to delve into the world of business and more on the opening of the north rim cast pipeline russia's prime minister is calling the project the window to europe but twelve hundred kilometer line is now being filled before pumping begins next month this is our g.'s marina catherine have the details. it was a split house implosion over eight months and years of negotiations testing and construction came down to one the public blood in their boots and all personally some of the wheels in motion and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it up over the russell moon or have to rely on transit countries to get its gas and see europe exports today you are expected to

double it in the coming decade and north stream a world power we have words are all bad it's the border that's not its fair share of going for mercy's with her transit countries accuser russia uses nordstrom's as a political solution but the government insists it's only there to save more supplies and europe has a plan to rely on the gas from the majority shareholder all sorts of other readies side many more would serve some political ties with european countries like the fellow to france and that you hate it when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year the possibility of a commuter's of gas will flow from russia to its customers in europe. and it's been confirmed north stream part not be a south of germany will also take part in the south stream pipeline project the chemical giant along with france's easiest will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas pipeline across the baltic sea to europe the reshuffle means it's

a lose any will have its share in the twenty four billion euro project twenty percent still have a look at the markets brant crude has rebounded with the european markets just published persisting fears sovereign debt crisis is just amazing brand is trading higher the solid one hundred and eleven tell us the peril while doubly travel most pressurised by war is over help us economy. control stocks a shopper low in early trading losses come off a steep decline in european indices investors are also worried about the. weakness of the u.s. economy the chooser report on the u.s. service sector is expected to show the full three month declining growth comes on the heels of a jobs report friday that was the worst since september twenty ten. and european markets are mixed investors are taking a break from two days ahead of selling if you see is any point six percent both the decks is losing the same number of points. here's a picture in russia the russian markets are seeing losses indicating shares may

fall for the third trading day and it concerns the slowing growth in the u.s. and china and europe's debt laws will spark the global recession as some have a look at some of the individual show moves in the its most energy majors but from monday's losses with half a percent meanwhile appliance britell and vito is gaining on the news the possible merger with its rival eldorado and their rules to equal shares have declined with investors taking profits after normally calls recent rise but rises after one of its main shareholders resolved denied the fifty percent buyback off a mate by the nickel producer. and also in the news russian technology it's going to hive off its main subsidiaries in an i.p.o. in four years time analysts say it will most likely also electronic ayatollah's g.e. and engineering assets state from corp is going to spend the proceeds on a new investment fund to buy into foreign assets russian technology is

a false twenty five companies including russian helicopters anti-terrorism giant is something of the smart. ok but for upstart the business stories you can head to our website archie dot com slash business. because. you.

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