tonight on r.t. banking on sanctions the e.u. is all embargo on syria could backfire as energy for cashing in on pumping up for another two months fueling the very regime they condemn and. southern europe braces for austerity anger is italy in spain trying to push through more savage cuts while the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be untangled. plus any business plan here boots and puts the finishing touches on the north sea oil pipeline to start pumping gas to europe i'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes.

hello this is our t. will mark until it's no nine pm choose the evening here in moscow my name is kevin owen first the syrian regime is accused of having more blood on its hands with government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs that's ahead of the arab league chief's visit to damascus with a peace plan to try to solve the syria standoff for the e.u. however sanctions are the solution and there's daniel bushell explains the 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 won't start for over a month. but they will kick in all even european world firms complete their supply chain with syria and oil fields developed boy e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from medical point of view because their sanctions would start only in november we go on with reduction of oil

as a result the e.u. me end up subsidizing the regime they oppose the oil industry can use sixty day payments which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a list of crimes the horrific critics thought why the e.u. is putting profits above syria lives. diplomats warned 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 shoulder of the syrian people while their company is out of 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 chaney's authorities have said that they would bring any pecan e.u. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya will take up the slack but they may be disappointed and will not start being productive and you're maybe in

the end of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today. they would be short. with the war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected may be cutting off one supply before a secured another valuable tool for our team in brussels. the u.n. estimates the number of people killed in syria there were over two thousand since the uprising began in march many are putting the blame on the government but analysts in neighboring jordan believe the opposition is a walther in sheep's clothing. but there is two thousand people. sort of the say about these two thousand and maybe they are insurgents or some of them are but remember there is also one thousand soldier killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossibile that he had been killed by. these poll demonstrations definitely of them demonstrations in syria was not peaceful in any sense because

otherwise how could it possible that one thousand army men and policemen have 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. more comfy the manhunt in libya kicks into high gear with a triumphant rebels now accused of being too keen to target alleged loyalists and rounding up innocent foreigners in the process to go to support your own but story also the civil rights watchdog urges countries who have been allegedly hosting secret cia prisons to investigate claims of serious violations. tens of thousands of angry italians of hit the streets nationwide to protest the harsh new austerity package being debated in rome a number of violent scuffles between demonstrators and police have already been

reported underlying the political and social tensions italy wrestles with his massive debts and as one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the euro zone and spur a new financial crisis the dropping of some key provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy some markets into a spin of spot rumors of a credit rating downgrade mean time across the ionian sea efforts to further rescue greece took a hit the russians admitted it won't be able to meet its deficit reduction deadlines let's hear the view that from the euro zone's biggest bankroller germany one called. ross is the economic analyst north of. us on the line of michael good evening plans to bring on r.t. so on the one hand the only way out is through these huge cuts all the other will see the italians clearly outraged at being made to pay for years of fiscal negligence it is a no win situation for berlusconi's beleaguered government right now surely. i mean

we are really here in a no win situation austerity means cuts that means cut. the income of the chorus that the social role for will be cut down. pool means. you have. things on the streets on all this what we see today in italy is rather. lost just to see about whether it's let's issue these latest deep cuts do go through. really save the italian economy or just prolong the inevitable after all only greece shows us that austerity and bailouts and no guarantee at all to survive on. i mean it's always difficult to implement measurements and what we see here is that politicians are promising many many things but the pressure of the street be so big that they cannot fulfill their

promises and this is the problem what we really heard from people in brazil also feel we can make many many. promises we can establish a debt ceiling for example the end of the day. not worth the paper they're written on and this is what we will see also in the future that means we don't really need any debt ceilings and we don't really need any promises anymore because when you look at the for example of other treaties like you said one of the then you have already that ceiling so you have already. treatments. actions and you have already you all saw. the e.c. be things. which are prohibited. for example junk bonds of greece and also others other nations germany's big key to these bailouts needs rescue packages your own country just tomorrow german court's going

to decide on the legality of these bailouts but you know given germany's heavy investment in keeping the euro alive what we've seen so far isn't the result of that going to be a foregone conclusion or do you think we may have some surprises to come tomorrow. i don't think that there will be any surprises tomorrow i think the. constitution. tomorrow in cards who are made a decision which could be interpreted in many many ways i don't think they go directly into a position of what. the politicians here in berlin really want i mean you see there is a political it equally broad cross your. party here not only the city you are also the s.p.d. the greens the left wing they are all in favor of the measurements in order to stabilize the euro but at the end of the day they will see that these needs not

show any result make the situation even worse between to the end of the day the whole experiment of your own with the insolvency of germany and there's a lot of calls for an exit tool for nations unable to meet the membership criteria put it more flesh on the bones of what how's that going to work and what does it tell us a good about the future for greece if they are talking about an exit. i think most of the people don't understand that is not a solution that the weak countries the strong country has to exit if germany for example pulls out of the euro the whole problem would be solved it means that we will have a stronger currency germany can live with it the others then will have a devalue currency this is exactly what they need it means also that the earth will be devalued this is that what they mean and this is what i mean need and saw the

situation is wiser worse or not than strong ones have to call out but the germans have to pull out. of the weak ones then we have to follow through to asian then their currency their new currency will be devaluated and their debts will be appreciated and this is really no solution it's a complicated picture no matter how much you look at it michael gross economic analyst and author thank you for your thoughts on the subject here on our. because things are a little better across in spain either there's also facing protests are for its parliament pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt. is voting today about that but unions and rights groups about a fight it saying that that would decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable so it is a really good reports the countries predicaments leading some to take matters now into their own hand. 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 they needed a car i was fifteen days late with a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still want to lick me 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 common collective the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary garment 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. when you carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's an 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 walen szell crisis this is where members of the fifteen m. movement i mean. according to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing if the vision is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless because you just can't keep them out on the street that they're going to see shouldn't is known as the indignados or outraged they staged protest by homes of those who are be victims hoping to prevent court plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeeded like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with the vixen process in the us a lot of these are subsidized housing to people who are in tough situation financially so i can't understand how the candidate people who cannot afford to buy their own homes that goes so far fifteen m. have ridge to stop fifty vixens across the country. unfortunately for me carmen

interests aren't even powerless this. every addiction is a cement job market 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 parish system itself in madrid. i-t. . coming up with a program a few minutes from now the fast fading friendship as turkey's relations with israel sent to a new low r.t. here is that that could impact palestinians hopes of getting u.n. recognition we've got their side of the story. in libya next rebels are detaining oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspecting them of being programmed a few snipers to russians were later released along with the ukrainian couple after the managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held out his with an option is in tripoli with this story. as 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 interviews and coupes men and women had 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 been snipers of taffy we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because. for some reason the slavic 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 as to been held by the rebels here in tripoli as the source of the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they

didn't have running water they said they don't have proper accommodation so they would be back to sustain serious injuries and. all the latest what we're hearing from bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli where the fighting over it off is lost and main strongholds has been continuing in the last few days is that the rabble forces have reportedly reached a deal with his 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 agreement between the rebel forces and his forces in belly were leaked that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also received 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 gadhafi is information most of the

game has claimed of them buckled colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. mideast analyst rosemary hollis from london city university believes the war in libya could fuel british and french appetites for new interventions as she explains to us in the next hour but it's a taste of what's to come. cameron and sarkozy 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 now have 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.

the council of europe's legal committee is to look closer into swiss claims the fourteen european countries allegedly allowed the cia to what parade secret prisons on this soil the report by politician dick marty says u.s. actions in those detention centers violated basic human rights and torture was widely used the chief human rights commission is ready urged poland lithuania and romania to come clean about their roles and told r.t. the countries need to decide if intelligence tired of more important than human rights there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret instructions from from cia with the support of the way tell us not to give any facts on this so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think that the some of the european governments have been in board they have to decide where they think that the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into human rights violations and break the fear of impunity.

if ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy industry and spain the only transit route for russian gas into europe all that's about to change is prime minister putin explained it during the launch of the nord stream gas pipe. dream and just go over to. the ukraine is no longstanding part of any transit countries always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an ever more civilized free market partnership mostly due to what a crane has been using its status to try and secure discounts for russian gas as well as higher transit fees such disputes lead to interruptions in fuel being pumped to europe back in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine when all stream pipeline travels directly now from russia to europe bypassing ukraine and eliminating the middleman leverage we've got more on how the pipeline will change

with energy mapping our business or that in just a few minutes. israel and turkey's former friendly relations a withering fast turkey suspending all trade military defense ties and the prime minister is threatening more sanctions against israel and a visit to garza anchor has already expelled israeli diplomats over the refusal to apologize for killing nine eight activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid of his poor asli is following the latest developments for us 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 with mamma now that was a turkish missile that took part in the first the 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 savagely 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 a poem of 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 held a press briefing with the top official now bill sha'ath in which he said that there turks had a campaign underway to help the palestinians the successful in a bird 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 is 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 strains 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 seen the same between tel aviv and cairo where relations between israel and egypt are also now at an all time low parties middle east correspondent paula sleep over the latest for you the tension between the two countries may lead to worse incidents than last year's raid on the flotilla ghalia linda destro szell institute of national security studies and television explaining to r.t.

. differently when turkey says that it will start acting more so simply in the eastern mediterranean this might have an effect i don't think the navies the israeli navy in the turkish navy will enter a direct confrontation but there might be mistakes like the flu to low self and this might be even worse than the flu to logan i don't think actually this crisis between his and previous 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 the cause more violence no difference and then it will cause palestinian frustration. well we've more from israel online as well where the panthers are on the prowl forty years on. leave we look for the greatest political issue has become an enemy of its people if you will citizens of the last anger over social injustice is getting louder among israelis and the veteran black panther campaign is a right behind that we've got more than movement at r.t.

dot com along with the one other system needs of calls. a royal visit next to russia the danish wall families arrived here bringing top business people with them and while the brokers seals regal deals the monarchy's planned a busy show jewel of cultural and significant visits their second visit several museums and exhibitions taste some exclusively brewed beer and opened the russian danish business forum queen margaret the second is also looking forward to visiting some petersburg as well where they got as already talked last visited brushwood nine hundred seventy five and says she's keen on seeing all the changes in development since there are queens relative indeed of the russian empress the mother of the last russian monarch nicholas a second. well mark until now in a few minutes r.t.

investigates how our fragile oceans are choking on what we all throw away every day that's coming up shortly then return to business next. hello and a very warm welcome to our business update and more on the opening of the north korean gas pipeline russia's prime minister is calling the project a window trees europe twelve hundred kilometer length is now being built for pumping begins next month business argues that marine corps throughout has the details. it was displayed as a person only months and years some of those series since testing and construction came down to one play blood here in all mostly set up the wheels in motion and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it won't work there are so far have to rely on transit countries to get its gas and the euro

exports today you are expected to double in the coming decade and nordstrom or both kerry and george are all bads the border that's not its fair share of corn for cities with her transit countries accusing russia of mrs nordstrom as a political leader but the government insists on their safeword supplies europe has a plan to rely on the gas from the majority shareholder all sorts of other readings side many more service supply coincides with european countries like relative france and that you hate it when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year it'll be a lot of believe me or so gas will flow from russia so it's all summer's end here. but it's been confirmed part. of germany will also take part in the sell stream pipeline project become a call joined along with france's e.d.f. will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas pipeline across the black sea to hear up there

shuffle means it's less and he will have it in the twenty four billion euro project drop to twenty percent. but so look at the markets french crude has rebounded with the year. mark is just going to the system thing is the european story debt crisis is escalating france is trading higher this hour at one hundred eleven dollars per barrel well w.t. iran's pressurize point gurus over the health of the u.s. economy. hundreds shop lol losses come off the steep declines new european into citizens investors are also worried about their weakness off with the u.s. economy but use the report from the u.s. service sector is expected to show the fourth straight month of declining growth it comes on the heels of a jobs report friday that's mostly wars since september twenty ten. european markets finished makes investors took a break from two days of heavy selling food see one percent of the tax laws the same number of points up the climbs. onto the picture in russia the markets here

have made it into positive territory at the close of play after they dropped earlier on tuesday i mean is concerned slowing growth in the u.s. and china and europe's debt woes will spark a global recession. plus a look at some of the individual show moves in the my six most energy majors bubbles back from monday's losses with liquid off one point four percent meanwhile lies retail m.b. job gains in the news a possible merger with its rival alvarado. nickel shows bros will choose the after one of its main shareholders resolved denied the fifteen percent buyback alpha made by the nickel producer. of the day straight. we have seen a very volatile session for the russian markets very stressful and certainly playing the sentiment from yesterday's massive sell off on the european exchanges the markets started in the green up around one percent and probably we're ending

the day in the negative territory marginally down me half a percentage point the events that we've seen yesterday were highly impressed by several announcements seen from the eurozone most notably the year. the bank chairman saying that the european banking sector could be under pressure and some less strong banks can end up being destroyed on the back of the current crisis which has obviously it better today's performance of the russian markets. and finally the wife of the former mayor of moscow has soldiered billion dollar construction business in about the region that became the richest woman in russia with a three billion dollar fortune during her husband's stewardship of wasco the bank bought five percent of the one point two billion dollar phone while the all the bin bank took the rest. course was fined last year by president of overall lack of trust the former may often claimed his wife business success had nothing to do with running for office because to take. but perhaps not the business boston you can

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