when i turn our t.v. southern europe braces for austerity anger as italy and spain try to push through more savage cuts while the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be understandably. also banking on sanctions that use oil embargo on syria could backfire its energy firms cash in on pumping for another two months their full fueling the very regime it's condemning. plus any business plan your fruits and puts the finishing touches on the north to cry point to start pumping gas to europe i'll have more of that in business in twenty minutes.

this is r t welcome it's no ten pm tuesday evening here in moscow my name is kevin owen and first tens of thousands of angry italians have 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 underlining the political and social tensions in italy wrestles with this massive debts and as one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threatens to destabilize the whole eurozone and spur a new financial crisis the dropping of some key provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy markets into a spin and export rumors of a credit rating downgrade across the only and see efforts to further rescue greece took a hit after athens admitted it both be able to meet its deficit reduction they had lines just spoke to german economic analyst michael rossi told me he believes it's those very deadlines and cuts will be the eurozone. we are really here in and not in

a win win situation also means always cuts that means you have to be in the income of the chorus of the social welfare will be cut down and what you see here is that . promising many many things and this is the problem what we really have and what people in brazil also feel the pressure of the we'd. all be there. fulfilled promises are not worth the paper they're written on what at the end of the day they will see that these means not show any results and make this a creation worth between to the end of the day the whole experiment of the euro will go down with the ins i won't see of germany and things a little better across in spain either which also faces protests after its parliament pressured voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt the senate voted today in fact but unions and rights groups vow to fight it saying that that would best to make the welfare system the most vulnerable and that is

a really good reports next the countries predicament leading son to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time any 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. 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 then marie carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment calm and collected the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack. these apartments should be distributed in such a way that people can afford to pay for them but a lot of times they can't and i'm going to fight to make this type of housing more affordable normal up there 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 financial crisis this is where members of the fifteen m. movement come in. to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing but the 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 court plaintiffs and the police from entering sometimes they succeeded like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with either action process or the security these are subsidized housing to people who are in tough situations financially so i can't understand how they can of the people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. so far fifteen m.

have managed to stop fifty of actions across the country and. for me carmen in her son he would powerless. every victim is this image of what many 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 planet system itself in madrid it in a close call. but 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 right through journalist. believes it's those very markets that are responsible for spain's predicament today the markets are not rational and they are 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 it is a peripheral 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 reason he sets a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth thing spain konami growth he's not very good so that in the long will be a problem for there we don't have a debt problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. you're watching r.t. international from moscow good to have you with a sin a few minutes the fast fading french as turkey relations with israel thanks to a new low r.t. here is that that could impact on palestinians hopes of getting u.n. recognition we put their side of the story coming up and. also for you he is human rights watchdog urges countries have allegedly been hosting secret cia prisons to investigate claims of serious violations. turning to libya now though there rebels are detaining all engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspected them

of being programmed afy snipers to russians were later released along with the ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held out his riffle nationalists in tripoli for us. as we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passports and also by the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libyan oil company here in tripoli engineers and kooks men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels took the libyan capital and have been put into one of the rebels' training center here in the capital after they've been accused of been snipers of coffee we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because it was for some reason the finger of slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to ramani 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 the owners of the russian passports and ukrainian couple birds around twenty other ukrainians us to be held by the rebels here in tripoli. the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water they said that they don't have proper accommodation so they would be better to stink of city. hall 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 if the research deal if the research agreement between the rebel forces and put up his forces in belo worley that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army's vehicles

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 and we are receiving these reports just hours after khadafi is information she has claimed that. colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it any time soon . when we time the syrian regime's accused of having more blood than its hands with government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs that said of the arab league chief to visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syria standoff for the e.u. though sanctions still remain a solution but as day a bushel reports next the slow introduction could be backfiring. william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced this oil burning in syria but bizarrely sanctions were in store for over

a month. but they will kill all human europeans or firms complete their supply line shows. and oil fields developed boy energy giants like french to toll on being touched. the sanctions would start only to tire we go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u. me end up subsidizing the regime they oppose all of the stricken use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if the crime the horrific critics thought why would be used putting profits above three and lloyds. diplomats warn sanctions won't even hit the morgue they hurt ordinary people not the leadership they claim to target and most importantly not europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulder of the syrian people while there are companies out of protective the e.u.

is also hurting itself think exposed as the most because it will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said they would bury any or in the count e.u. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya will take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being productive and you're making the end of next year and it they were an embargo on syrian oil today it was they would be short. with the war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected you wrote me because of one supply before a secured another valuable tool for our team in brussels the council of europe's legal committees to look closer to swiss claims that fourteen european countries allegedly allowed the cia to walk rate secret prisons on their soil the report by politician dick marty says that u.s.

actions in those detention centers violated basic human rights and torture with widely used these chiefly rights commission is already poland lithuania and romania to come clean about their roles and told r.t. the countries need the side if intelligence ties are more important than human rights. there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret in fact 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 involved they have to decide whether they think that the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into human rights violations and break the ice fear of impunity. the hague tribunal has sentenced a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes. he

was convicted of abetting atrocities during the balkan war in the one nine hundred ninety s. including the massacre of seven thousand muslims in srebrenica he's one of many ethnic military officials on trial in the hague the ex president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody balkans political expert michael gast which gives us more perspective on the relevance of that with him there are marco could see it and i know the court said no this is the first conviction for war crimes committed in bosnia and herzegovina if he was an army leader does this give us an indication of how the other high profile trials will conclude i'm thinking of bosnian serb leader radovan care of it and its army chief what's your take on it. well we know how those trials are going to go because the scripts for those trials are being written in advance but i think we need to look actually take a look at the real picture here of what was accused of doing because he was accused fates of crossing. illegally declared borders borders that had been declared by the

private diktats of western governments particularly germany running the e.c. at the time and subsequently by the us of a these these governments declared that yugoslavia board of no longer exist and would be replaced by as he had previously insisted by borders smaller of the secessionists and this was at least spencer yugoslavia's largest people the serbs so in other words he's accused of helping his fellow countrymen who have been divided by artificial illegal borders and would have been left to die had he not done so now we know that for example in may one thousand nine hundred two fourteen babies died in bosnia look in bosnia on the serbian side there because they were deprived of oxygen by these very same borders which the west were telling us should not be crossed so oxygen got reached both babies those babies died were really all serbians response to stand idly by while their fellow countrymen for a war of survival forced on them by the western governments we were looking at this

neared site it does appear doesn't it that the hunt for serbian suspects has been intense whereas the hague for bosnians who are also accused of committing atrocities is not been so intense why is this imbalance. well we know that again the script for who is supposed to be the guilty party has been written although the hague has been very the tribunals this kangaroo court which are which is not a court that would be to insult the kangaroo this jumped up us creation has concentrated on serbs at the expense of the get the crimes of the more the muslims and indeed the croats we know that also there's a larger list of those responsible sitting outside the former yugoslavia was accused of breaking out of sending arms to the serbs outside serbia in the serbian areas in fact we know that at the same time as he was accused of this the

us was sending massive arms supplies to the is a bigger which islamist forces based into slower effort to help them attack the serbs over there so we know that the what those who break the arms embargo the un get a pat on the back if they're from the us where those who send arms to their brothers and sisters get twenty seven years if they're serbian is there anything do you think that can be read into the timing of prince's each conviction today things have moved very rapidly in recent months suddenly such as the capture of reckless matted should. well i think there is an. effort on the part of western governments to persuade the serbian public that in some way they are guilty absolutely for everything that they feel they deserve to be treated worse than the rest of the world that they should be punished that they should be imprisoned that their territory should be carved away from them this is an attempt to psychologically brainwash the serbian people that they deserve what they get and what they get is going to be very proud sadly i don't see too much opposition to

this policy on the part of the serbian government which really has a responsibility which it has not exercised to say that the description of the war has been one sided biased endings but this possible e.u. membership coming to the timing of any of this. well again the idea is don't be angry with us e.u. if we say if we go slow on we're on your membership application even though you've practically given us your territory signed away your sovereign rights over your southern province and so on and so forth so the idea is to persuade the serbs that they deserve to be treated by the youth of the e.u. as a second class applicants and that they're ultimately that the servile deserve to get the second class status they get within the e.u. if they have a joint if it's in the work joining the particular enterprise which we see at the moment is not doing too well itself not a guess it should balkans political expert thanks for joining us on the line from

london tonight pretty sure. go back now to syria our top story tonight to talk a little bit more about the give us more insight on the story there that continues professor edmund ghareeb is a peace expert also global relations scholar at the american university in washington d.c. professor garet thank you for being on our to international now the wants doesn't it it's syrian oil bound to hit where it hurts but it's letting existing supply deals run their course it kind of looks a bit tokenistic doesn't it. absolutely i think a great deal is going to get kind of course on what happens next some of the oil companies western oil companies are all going to come under pressure and they're coming under pressure not to buy oil from syria some of them are continuing to do so and we'll see what happens next that the pressure is going to work and also what will be the position of some of the other players there are today there are other

countries in the world countries such as china such as india brazil many others which are of major economic plans that may have a different perspective than those of the european union and the u.i. so a great deal will depend on what happens next but in any case what happened whatever happens the sanctions are clearly a blunt instrument that does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what may end up happening is that people probably are going to have your price and the regime especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with cuba they are actually experimental is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions that were imposed on any country in history were imposed on iraq and this. did not succeed in bringing the regime down and they are. rocky public which was hurt severely as

a result of the sanctions so this is. issued i think is going to raise a lot of questions especially some of them political some of. course are more prefers a blunt instrument that may be as you say there but these latest steve sanctions are particularly pointed of course coming at a time that oil is more likely to be available now from libya in the near future can you read anything into that. now clearly there is no doubt the libyan oil is going to be a factor here although it's even with the libyan oil it's going to take some time before it's going to go return back to normal earn a little flow i've seen different thing that some people say it will take about a year although there is the beginning of. export will begin sooner than that very soon but the amounts are going to be very significant so i think there is no doubt that maybe this is seen as a way to compensate for the syrian oil although libyan oil of course is

a very different quality and have different customers. so a great deal will depend on how that is going to be. perceived and how it's going to affect the oil market who will these syrian sanctions hurt the most the ray j. all the people of syria think. i think. if we look. we look at what happened when iraq. cuba what happened not. to have sanctions will find out the people of those countries one of the ones who paid the price the people who. go to jeanne did not were not affected as much although it did contribute to. to a certain extent and some instability within the country but the primary victims

primary group that was attracted were of average people although clearly what they are trying to do is to separate the business community from very jean that's what one of the main contentions i think of sanctions and the people behind the sanctions is basically to divide. business community and the middle class from the region prefer sometimes very against this is another quick question i want to get in talking about the regime itself the red cross officials have visited one of one of the country's main prisons in syria following those widespread claims that dozens of demonstrators including women and children were tortured to death very strong accusations that the red cross said its visit was an important step forward is it seven point. i think a great deal is going to depend on the access the syrian government is going to provide to international red cross but clearly this is an important step we have

not seen. this kind of. before we did not see this kind of response from the syrian government before so it's certainly an important step forward nevertheless a great deal will depend on what happens in the next few weeks and are we going to see this. red cross are they going to be able to see prisoners in different parts of syria and different prisons so a great deal will depend on what happens next do you think we'll see if you negotiate between the protest is the opposition and the syrian leadership any time soon they say they want it would you think it might happen any time soon i think we're beginning to see some kind of dialogue already between on the local level on the regional level within syria and i which is supposed to start today but the main opposition groups are not ready to they do not believe that it is likely to go anywhere any kind of negotiations or any kind of dialogue but at the same time

there is a sort of a stalemate and there is a recognition that unless there is a dialogue and there are a number of parties internationally that are pushing in this direction they believe that dialogue is the best way out there is dialogue syria mislike power civil conflict and the which is going to be dangerous for everybody involved professor said with care of police peace expert and the global relations scholar at american university in washington d.c. thanks bill program. before or after it's past ten at night now that's our newsroom so far with me kevin only got sport feel about twenty five minutes this thirty day visit with the latest from the euro twenty twelve qualifiers and a lot more besides of course including all the latest action from the u.s. open but it's business now will catch up we're showing you this here. i know that's right time to delve into the world of business and more on the

opening of the north rim gas pipeline precious prime minister is calling the project a window to europe the twelve hundred kilometer lines is now being filled before pumping begins next month this is our she's met him of course or has disease house . it was displayed as a person only months and years of negotiations testing and construction came down to one place blood here present all mostly set the wheels in motion and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it out over the process of moving the car have to rely on transit countries to get its gas and see europe exports today you are expected to double in the coming decade and north stream both carry words are all paths the border that's not its fair share of controversy is 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 from the majority shareholder all nordstrom has already signed many more would serve supplied the tribes with european countries like relative france and that you hate it when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year the possibility of the big meters of gas not flowed from russia to its customers and here. it is been confirmed not string cotton appears saf of germany will also take part in the some string for shipped the chemical joins along with france's e.t.s. will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas pipeline across the black sea to europe the reshuffle means if any will have its share in the twenty four billion euro project drop to twenty percent. let's have a look at that market celebrant curve has rebounded with the european. marcus despite persisting fears european sovereign debt crisis is fast going to branches three high of this hour at one hundred eleven dollars per barrel while w

t iran's pressurized point north ovid helped the u.s. economy. and u.s. stores saw shot lower one of the losses come off a steep decline in european indices investors also worried about the weakness of beef u.s. economy appears to report to the u.s. service sector is expected to show the fourth straight month of declining growth which comes on the heels of a jobs report friday that was the worst says jim brooks going to attend. european markets finished meets investors took a break from two days of heavy selling fruit so we gained about one percent of the tax last same number of points at the close. for me here the picture in russia of the markets here have made it into positive territory at the close off to the drop earlier on tuesday i need to consult slowly grow from the u.s. and china and sure up stone walls will spark a new global recession of greater rock salt to taste and as. 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 you half a percentage point the events that we've seen yesterday were highly impacted by several announcements seen from the eurozone most notably 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 got its cities performance of the russian markets. but perhaps not the business bulls of more stories you can log onto our web site archie dot com slash business. so.

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