biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the whole eurozone and spur you financial crisis the dropping of some key provisions such as a temporary tax on the wealthy markets into a spin room is a credit rating downgrade meantime across the ionian sea efforts to further rescue greece took a hit after athens admitted it won't be able to meet its deficit reduction deadlines 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 all ways cuts that means that you have the income of the poorer but the social welfare will be cut down and what you see is the political promise in 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 so big that they cannot fulfill their promises they are not worth the paper they're written on

what at the end of the day they will see that these means will not show any result make the situation even worse that means at the end of the do the whole experiment of the euro will go down with the insolvency of germany and things a little better across in spain either which also faces protests after its parliament bowed to e.u. pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt the senate voted today in fact for unions and rights groups vowed to fight it saying the debt cap would decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable and that is a really good reports next the country's predicament leading son to take matters 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. i was fifteen days late with a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still want to victor

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 she me lou calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack while there are 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. than many 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. according to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing if addiction is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless you just can't kick them out on the street that

they're going to zeeshan 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 succeed like with this woman who kept her house because fifteen m. interfered with either 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 and for. at least for me carmen and her son they were powerless. every vixen is this woman job and the people gathered here believe they are fighting social justice 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 goes. on 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 to a journalist. who 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. they just think they feel that the spain could be like greece or like ireland or like portugal because. contrary 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 sets 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 term will be a problem for there but we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. he watching r t

international from moscow good to have you with us in a few minutes the fast fading friend as turkey's 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've got their side of the story coming up in a few also for you the 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 oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspected them of big duffey 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 at his riffle notion is in tripoli for us. well as far as we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passport and also better 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 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 khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because of additional for some reason the finger of 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 but around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli this group 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 c.b.c.

. while the latest what we're hearing from bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli where the fighting over it off is lost and main stronghold has been continuing in the last few days is that the 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 khadafi is 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 khadafi himself could also be in monday and good also. have fled the country and we are receiving these reports just hours after khadafi information to bring in has claimed that the battle 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 on his hands with government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs that said of the arab league chief visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syria standoff or for the e.u. though sanctions still remain the solution but as dana bushel reports next the slow introduction could be backfiring william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced the oil burner in syria but bizarrely sanctions won't start for over a month. they will kick in only when europeans or firms complete their supply contracts which. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched on tribute because sanctions would start. to go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u.

me end up subsidizing the regime they oppose big oil industry can use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a crime the horrific critics of one of the e.u. is putting profit above syrian lives. diplomats warn 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 shoulders of the syrian people while their companies out of protective the e.u. is also hurting itself think exposed because it will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said that they would bury any pecan e.u. officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya would take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being very productive until maybe the end

of next year and if they were an embargo on syrian oil today of course they would be short. with the wall riggins colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected may be cutting off one supply before a secured another new bushel for our team in brussels. the council of europe's legal committee is to look closer into swiss claims the fourteen european countries allegedly allowed the cia to operate 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 the chief human rights commission is already polling to see wayne here in romania to come clean about their roles and told r.t. that countries need to decide 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 transfer of impunity the hague tribunal is sentenced to a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes per restitch 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 it gives us more perspective on whether mrs coupled with him why there are market good seats

a night now the court said that 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 carriage and its army chief what's your take on it. well we know how those trials are going to go because the script for those trials has been written in advance but i think we need to look actually take a look at the real picture here of what parish church was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. illegally declared borders borders that had been declared by the theists by the 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 borders would no longer exist and would be replaced by as hitler had previously insisted by borders smaller of the secessionists and this was at the expense of yugoslavia's largest people the serbs so in other words he's accused of

helping his fellow countryman who had been divided by artificial illegal borders and would have been left to die had he not done so now we know that for example a main one thousand nine hundred two fourteen babies died in bosnia luka 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 did not reach those babies those babies died 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 weird side it does appear doesn't it that the hunt for serbian suspects has been intense whereas the hague's manhunt 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 but although the hague has been very the tribunals this kangaroo court which are which

is not a court that would it be to insult the kangaroo this jumped up us creation has concentrated on serbs at the expense of the good the crimes of the northern 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 of or 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 u.s. was sending massive arms supplies to the is a bigger which is limited 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 or no such as the capture of reckless manage in serbia 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 a very bad 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 and into this 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 you if we 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 use of the e.u. as a second class applicant and that their ultimate lead that the servile deserve to get a second class status they get within the e.u. if they have a joint if it's indeed worth joining the particular enterprise which we see at the moment is not doing too well itself mark i guess it should balkans political expert thanks for joining us on the line from london tonight's pre-shared. loyalists go back now to syria our top story tonight to talk a bit more about that to 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 r.t. 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 depend of course on what happens next some of the oil companies western oil companies although they have come under pressure and they're coming under pressure not to buy oil from syria some of them are continuing to do so 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 the 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 my end up happening is that the people who probably are going to have the price and the regime especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with cuba they are rocky experiment is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions are imposed on any country in history when imposed on iraq and despite that they did not succeed in bringing the regime down and they have acted. rocky public which there was hurt severely as a result of the sanctions so this is. issue i think is going to raise a lot of questions especially some of them political economic and some of course are more prefers a blunt instrument that may be as you say there but these latest e.u. 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. well clearly there is no doubt that libyan oil is going to be a factor here although it's even with libyan oil it's going to take some time before it's going to go return back to normal and it will flow i've seen different estimates 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 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 to all these syrian sanctions hurt the most the regime all the people of syria think. i think as

a. lot of we look at what happened when. what happened in cuba what happened now there is when it comes to sanctions were find out that the people of those countries rather the ones who paid the heaviest price the people who upper echelons of the regime did not were not affected as much although it did contribute to destabilization to a certain extent and some instability within the country but the primary victims primary group that was a practical of average people although clearly what they are trying to do is to separate the business community from very edgy and that's what one of the main intentions i think of sanctions and the people behind the sanctions is basically to divide. business community and the middle class from the regime professor

tons very against this is not a 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 a turning point. i think a great deal is going to depend on the access the syrian government is going to provide to the 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 won't do it but you think it might happen anytime 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 where they do they do not believe that it is likely to go anywhere any kind of negotiations on the kind of dialogue but at the same time there is 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 and i'm lost there is dialogue syria misliked our civil conflict and the which is going to be dangerous for everybody involved professor place peace expert in the global relations scholar at american university

in washington d.c. thanks bill program. times twenty four now if it is past ten at night now that's our news wrap so far with me kevin only got sport feel about twenty five minutes just to tell you dean is here with the latest from the euro two thousand and 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 those try time to delve into the world of business 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 or begins next month business archies but in the course of a has to do. it was a split gas implosion all by months and years of negotiations testing and construction came down to one play blood here putin all basically set the wheels in

motion and the pipeline is now being filled up with gas to get it ready to start pumping it up for the rochelle munavvar have to rely on transit countries to get its gas and see europe exports so that you are expected to double in the coming decade and nord stream but won't carry as words are all bad the project has not its fair share of coal in summer season with her transit countries accusing russia of using nordstrom's as a political observer but the government insists it's only there to save more and supplies to europe as a plan to rely on gas from the majority shareholder all the board she has already signed many loaded terms supply contracts with european countries right relative france and that you hate it when the second parallel pipeline comes on stream next year it'll be five billion people meters of gas will flow from russia to its customers and europe. and it's been confirmed not stream thought not be excessive

germany will also take part in the substring pipeline for shipped the chemical giant along with france's e.d.f. will each have a fifteen percent stake in the gas pipeline across the sea to europe the reshuffle means each of us and he will have its share in the twenty four billion euro project dropped to twenty percent. let's have a look at the markets now brant curve has rebounded with the european markets despite persisting fears european sovereign debt crisis is going to be branches trading high of this. solid one hundred eleven dollars per barrel while w. pressurized point worth over helped the u.s. economy. and u.s. stocks are shot lower while the losses come off a steep decline in european indices investors also worried about the weakness of the u.s. economy but used to report on the u.s. service sector is expected to shoulder a full straight month of declining growth but comes on the heels of a jobs report friday that was the worst since september twentieth ten. pm

markets finished minutes investors took a break from two days of heavy selling food see gained about one percent of the tax loss to same number of points at the quotes. for me is the picture in russia of the markets here have made it into positive territory at the close off to the drop target on tuesday i need to consult slowly grow from be u.s. and china and europe step towards. a new global recession rather you have greta wrote software to a straight course. we have seen a very volatile session for the russian market very stressful and certainly playing the bad sentiment from yesterday's massive sell off on the european exchanges the market started in the green up around one percent and probably we're ending the day in the negative territory marginally down maybe 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 to end up being destroyed on the back of the current crisis which has obviously after today's performance of the russian markets but perhaps not the business because of more stories you can log on to our website or to dot com slash business .

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on sun should this the oil embargo on syria could backfire because energy firms are cashing in on pumping for over two months fueling the very regime. something europe braces for staring at me and goes it's me in spades trying to push through more savage cuts small the arduous effort to say greece appear to be untangled. live in a potent you under siege gas pipeline perving ukraine status is the replaceable middleman which it's used before to negotiate. let's focus in on libya again now where the rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining gadhafi strongholds without violence more insight into what's happening in libya with a leading middle east analyst in artie's interview next. i'm joined by rosemary hollis the professor of.