to solve the syria standoff for the e.u. however sanctions are still the solution but as double bushell explains next their slow introduction could well backfire. 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 kick in always when european world firms complete their supply chain which. an oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from magnetic point of view because that sanctions would start. to 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 payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a list of crimes the horrific critics also why the e.u. is putting profit above syrian lives. diplomats warned sanctions won't even hit the

mark 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 their companies out of protective the e.u. is also hurting itself in kicks but damascus will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said that they would buy any account 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 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 war against colonel gadhafi taking much longer than the west expected maybe cutting off one supplier before

a secured another new bushel for our team brussels. tonight we've been hearing how history shows that often even the harshest sanctions fail to put regimes down but that it's nearly always the people who suffer the most. 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 pay a price and the regime especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with cuba. experiment is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions ever imposed on any country in history were imposed on iraq and despite that. did not succeed in bringing that regime down. effect. the public which was

hurt severely as a result of the sanctions so this is. i think is going to raise a lot of questions especially some of them political some of. course. you're watching r t international in a few minutes from now the fast fading friendship does turkey's relations with israel sing to a new party here is how that could impact palestinians hopes of getting u.n. recognition with their side of the story also the news human rights watch dog countries have allegedly been hosting secret cia prisons investigate claims of serious violations. next. tens of thousands of angry italians hit the streets nationwide tuesday to protest the harshly with the package being debated in rome a number of violent scuffles between demonstrators and police were uprooted underlined in the social tensions italy wrestles with its massive debts no italian will escape having to pay more all sales taxes being raised the government is to

some pressure but reviving the plan proposed higher taxes on the rich and as one of europe's biggest economies of course its troubles threaten to destabilize the whole eurozone financial crisis meantime continuing trouble too across the rio you see efforts to further rescue greece took a hit up the wrath of the bit it won't be able to meet its deficit reduction deadlines i spoke to german economic analyst michael believes it's those very deadlines and cuts that will be the eurozone. only you're not in a win win situation also means always cuts that means that you have to be in the income of the poor 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 heard from people in brazil also feel the pressure of the wall be so big that they cannot fulfill their promises. to paper they're written on what at the end of the day they

will see that these liens do not show any result make the situation even worse that means at the end of the day the whole. experiment of the euro dollar with insolvency of germany. will cost things a little better across in spain either with protesters flooding the capital after its parliament bowed to e.u. pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt the senate is voting on that on wednesday but you need some rights groups to fight it saying but that cut the decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable was out is one of the reports the country's predicament leading some to take matters into their own. this was the last time i got him and had guests over at her house just a day after our two thousand to visit she along with her fourteen year old son was evicted from the subsidized flat she called home for five years gave me the day that i was fifteen days late with

a payment i paid five hundred twenty four year zero and they still want to fix me even though i paid everything and it was months ago since january carmen has spent most of her time fighting to keep her apartment calm and collected with the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack but. these apartments should be distributed in such a way that people can afford to pay for them while they're back out of times they can't and i'm going to fight to make this type of housing more affordable in. many carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's 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 and twenty eight. according to the international human rights convention every person has a right to decent housing. is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not

going to go homeless on the streets you just can't kick them out on the street or say they're going to say she is known as the indignados. these staged protests by. homes of those who would be addicted to prevent who are depleted and the police for mentoring and sometimes they succeed like with this woman who kept her house because interfered with needed process in the university i think these are subsidized housing people who are in tough situations financially and also in care isn't this how they can educate people who can't afford to buy their own homes than those so far fifteen m. have managed to stop fifty of the actions of past which we unfortunately call my carmen in her son they were paralysed the. every victim is the 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 planet system itself in madrid. one of the main purposes of tuesday's debt debate in madrid was to send a message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway finances but writer and journalist may go and believes it's those very markets that are responsible for spain's current predicament 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 it is separate fertile 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 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. it libya rebels are

detaining oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspected of being pro gadhafi snipers to russians were later released along with the ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but nonetheless more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held tonight. in tripoli for. 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 oil 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 but 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 to this people say that they've been provided with food and water but some of them have been severely beaten and tortured by the rebels the russian embassy has actually managed to release two owners of the russian passport and ukrainian couple birds around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli scriptural sources all 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 serious issues issues in the region 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 deal if the research an agreement between the rebel forces and khadafi is forces. that actually

would mean a breakthrough and that we also receive in the course 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 good also. have fled the country and we have received in these reports just how is off to khadafi information chief moose's breaking has claimed the battle colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it any time soon. reporter than i head of the campaign american cia was in listing the colonel's security forces to question terrorism suspects that deal allowed intelligence agents to circumvent safeguards against torture by transporting supposed insurgents to libya well the allegations surfaced of the human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining cia and m i six rendition programs to get some thoughts on this now from don't do barn

antiwar activist and new york based journalist don't think that was so much going on the program with us tonight are you cynical are used by the emergence of these documents well i'm not surprised that they're being presented you know go back to even the period after the fall of the soviet union this so-called verona documents the u.s. cia is very skilled at this information and it's interesting here because the attempt is to play this in front of arab audiences to show good dopy as being the u.s. ally even though the forces fighting gadhafi of had a coordinated six month bombing attack with nato and the u.s. on their side but this is playing to arab nationalists so that the n.c.c. can be seen as some sort of anti imperialist trying when in fact they are agents of u.s. imperialism well you know i guess as you'd expect the cia's deny these allegations as they always do but if they are true how should they be investigated well they

should be looked at in the context of the rock that was a temporary one as it turns out where libya's sensually tried to get itself off the sanctions that had you know they suffered for a decade or so and to be allowed to trade in the international community the cost was very high. i guess that shows that collaboration with the united states there's not guarantee that you'll be able to continue in power because they turn on you like they did on saddam hussein and if this is true which i have my doubts about like they turned on gadhafi. do you think the rendition program if it indeed existed in any results in fighting al qaeda well it's interesting because the allegation is that al qaida is very heavily nested into n.t.s.c. so if that was the case it would be really ironic that this is the outcome how likely is the future libya now looking to the future going to be party to such behavior again if this did happen could the u.s.

count on it happening again or will they have to find other homes do you think in the future want to take on that well yeah if this group actually ends up being the government of libya they came in at the barrel of the u.s. bombers guns so you know it's going to be hard for me to imagine that they're going to exercise any independence from the united states i would imagine that the cia is very well represented in the n.t. you see already more i don't apparently were activists and journalists things your thoughts on the program tonight thank you. because of europe's legal committee has to look closer to swiss claims that fourteen utopian countries allegedly allowed the cia to operate secret prisons on this soil the report by politician dick marty says u.s. actions in those detention centers violated basic human rights laws by the use the chief human rights commission is already poland lithuania and romania to complain about the royals 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 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. look into human rights violations and break the country or impunity the hague tribunal has sentenced a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes. was convicted of a better cross that is during the bulk of the one nine hundred ninety s. we clued in the massacre of seven thousand muslims in the program that is one of several ethnic military officials on trial in the hague balkans political expert mark of gas it told me the west wants serbians to feel guilty for the whole

yugoslavia war. 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 the look at the real picture here of what parachute was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. illegally declared all the borders that had been declared by the fears by the diktats of western governments particularly germany running the e.c. at the time and subsequently by the us over these these governments declared that yugoslavia on board of no longer exists i would be replaced by borders smaller of the secession so this was at the expense of yugoslavia's largest people but 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 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 incorrect. israel and turkey is a former friendly relations a withering fast turkey's suspending all trade military and defense ties and the prime minister is threatening more sanctions against israel and a visit to gaza and chris already expelled israeli diplomats over the refusal to apologize for killing nine eight activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid artie's mideast correspondent paula slay is following the latest for you in tel aviv. the turkish prime minister added one has announced that he could be slapping more sanctions on television this follows the release last week of a united nations report into what happened on board the money mamma now that was

a turkish missile that took part in the thirst for to attempt to break the israeli siege on gaza some one and a half years ago and off the 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 savagely when he referred to the israeli behavior he also accused israel of behaving like a spoilt boy in the region and he said that the turks would challenge israeli bullying in the mediterranean by increasing the naval presence there the turkish government has also rejected another finding of a un palmer report which said that the israeli blockade on gaza was not illegal with the turkish government saying that it would now lobby that with the international criminal court in the hague we've heard from the turkish foreign

minister who held a press briefing with the top official now bill shaath in which he said that the turks had a campaign underway to help the palestinians be successful in may but 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 their struggle the official response from the israeli defense minister ministry is that turkey has a lot to lose but most people here really are questioning what israel is going to do because this is a crucial time when israel needs all the friends it can have particularly ahead of this u.n. bed which of course israel is against you need to remember. that turkey was israel's closest ally in the region and relationships between israel and turkey are at the lowest they've been in more than twenty years and certainly seen the same between tel aviv and cairo where relations between israel and egypt are also now at

an all time low. there are meetings correspondent stories from the region with more from israel online tonight where the panthers are again on the prowl sixty years on . only if we look at progress for the country has become the enemy of its people. there's anger over social injustice is getting louder among israelis and the veteran black conflict campaigners are right behind them we all know more about that sort r.t. dot com tonight along of course the rest of the news and analysis for you to. just a bit after twenty two minutes past midnight here in moscow thanks for being with us about the recap of our top stories and term and it's time for more insight into

what's happening in libya with a leading middle east analyst in artie's latest interview. i'm joined by rosemary hollis the professor of middle east policy studies at city university in london rosemary thanks for speaking to r.t. so how well has the international community handled the libyan crisis will you make a distinction between the nato members some of whom are extremely proud of what's been achieved so far in libya and the broader international community who are

adjusting to developments in libya and deciding to be on the side of the. future though not every government around the world has yet recognized and accepted the national transitional council as the government so did they do the right thing to begin with i think the un responded to an emergency the arab league made a plea for some sort of intervention to save the citizens of benghazi from massacre . but only over the last several months have we all realized the extent to which britain and france in particular nato in general basically entered the war determined that the anti gadhafi side when there seems to be an assumption that the new government of libya will be automatically pro western the old contracts will just be renewed but is that really going to be the case do you think i'm also sure that. the new libyan government will be pro-west there are three or four signals so

far that they're very firmly nationalist for example they said they're not extraditing any libyan including abdel baset arm of garhi who was convicted of the lockerbie bombing and the americans wanted. he's now close to death and living in tripoli and the national transitional council says that's where he stays the other signals are that they're talking about yes it would be nice to have u.n. help preparing for elections but no we don't want international observers there drawing a line where they think it should be drawn between what's their business and what international help is useful for this is a good thing to do i think it's essential for the survival of the next new libyan government that they be seem to be more libyan than a tool of the west how much potential is there for this to turn into another iraq is it on the right course now of course it's

a cliche to say it but you know the comparisons can only be taken so far with. iraq libya is a very different place and some calculations had to do with the fact that it seemed simpler to intervene in libya it was a small population spread out mostly along the coast with long exposed roads in between the main towns and cities that presented targets that nato aerial intervention looked capable of exploiting to good effect on the ground. how to say. what we hear about. various people from the m i six type sector but certainly special forces s.a.'s and so on operating on the ground. this is very much. a kind of proxy war which must be extremely exciting and exhilarating at some level to be

involved and so it's more likely it seems to me that in that sense the appetite for further interventions will exist as opposed to this is the template for. the triumph of humanitarianism over. warfare what about the national transitional council they've promised that within eighteen months they'll have a new constitution and elections is that possible well the lesson from. the other revolutions in the region and in egypt is that there is good reasons to delay elections if you think you can organize sensible heroin and different contrast with competing political parties if you have more time so it rather depends where people are going to vote as they did in iraq in the initial elections on name recognition or on sectarian loyalty as in this case

possibly in libya on tribal loyalties all. rural urban divide. name recognition rather than choosing between different party platforms but an inclusive assembly to devise and choose and approve a constitution may not be such a bad thing western leaders have stressed to the rebels the need to avoid revenge attacks and the need for tolerance yet they've also said that nato airstrikes will continue for as long as gadhafi is a threat mixed messages well i know from my experience of. conversations with arabs in different parts of the arab world over many years that they never take the statements of the west at face value they always assume it and and they positively expect. double standards so on this particular occasion it suits the rebels as well as through nato powers to fudge the

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