william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced this oil burner on syria but bizarrely sanctions won't start for over a month. but they will kick in all even european oil firms complete their supply contracts which. and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from magnetic will contribute because that sanctions would start. to go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u. may 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 mixed year if a list of crimes the horrific critics also why 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 as damascus will simply shifts a ploy to the competition if you look at syria. already the chinese authorities have said that they would by any count 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 at 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 maybe cutting off one supply before a secured another new bushel for ati in brussels. professor edmund ghareeb international relations expert told us earlier that sanctions that may not

necessarily put the regime on its knees but they will definitely make ordinary people suffer. but in any case what happened whatever happens the sanctions are clearly a. instrument that does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what may end up happening is that the people who probably are going to have the price. especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with. iraqi experiment is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions out imposed on any country in the history want to impose on their all kind despite that. did not succeed in bringing the regime down. 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 economic and some of course.

still to come in the program a fast fading friendship. turkey's relations with israel saying further are key discovers how it could affect palestinian hopes of getting state recognition. and the use of human rights watchdog urges countries who've allegedly been hosting secret cia prisons to investigate claims of serious violations. tens of thousands of angry italians hit the streets nationwide on tuesday to protest a harsh new austerity package being debated in rome a number of violent stuff is between demonstrators and police have a court order underlining the social tensions as italy wrestles with its massive debts no italian will escape having to pay more sales taxes being raised but the government is bowing to some pressure by reviving the plan to impose higher taxes

on the rich and as one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the euro zone. a new financial crisis 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 german economic analyst michael ross believes it's those very deadlines and cuts that will be the euro's i'm doing. only here in the know not in a win win situation also means always cuts that means that you have to be in the income of the chorus but the social welfare will be cut and what you see here 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 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 results that

make the situation even worse but means at the end of the day the whole experiment of the euro will go down with the insolvency of germany. things are a little better across in spain with protesters flooding the capital after its parliament bowed to you pressure and voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt the senate is voting on wednesday but unions and rights groups and vowed to fight it saying that the debt cap would it decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable as artie's political report to the country's predicament is leading some to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time i got a man had guests over at her house just a day after our visit she along with your 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 old and they still want to vex 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 really calm and collected but the pressure of losing a roof over her head caused mary carmen to suffer a heart attack call that 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. 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 it is inevitable they have to make sure these people are not going to go homeless he just can't kick them out on the street that is say they

are 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 the vixen process. you know that these are subsidized housing people who are in tough situations 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 unfortunately for me carmen and her son they were powerless this time every victim is the same 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 better system itself in madrid. r.t. . one of the main purposes of debate in madrid is to send

a message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway finances but writer and journalist miguel on home believes it's those very markets that are responsible for spain's current predicament. but markets are not rational and they are driven 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. 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 that very free and i think that that's the real recently sets a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain economy growth is not very good so that in the long 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 moving on to libya rebels are detaining oil workers from former soviet countries suspecting them of

being the snipers to russians were later released along with a couple or ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held. brings us all the details from tripoli. 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 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 khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because what if for some reason the finger slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully that these 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 syria see. what the latest what we are 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 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 have received in these reports just. information breaking has claimed that the colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. the head of the anti can often campaign america's cia was enlisting the colonel's security forces to question terrorism suspects the deal allowed intelligence agents to circumvent safeguards against torture by transporting supposedly insurgents to libya the allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining cia and m i six rendition programs to bar and war activists standard new york based journalist says u.s. intelligence is not to be trusted. 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 audience is this show gaddafi is being the u.s. ally even though the forces fighting it i have 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 front when in fact they are agents of u.s. imperialism well they should be looked at in the context of the rock that was a temporary one as it turns out where libby essentially 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 does not

guarantee that you'll be able to continue in power the allegation is that al qaida is very heavily nested into m.t.c. 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. in the wake of the documents seized from moammar gadhafi compound the council of europe is meeting on wednesday to look deeper into allegations the cia kept secret prisons on european soil and investigation in two thousand and six a by swiss politician dick marty first uncovered evidence of enhanced interrogation third party town truth chief human rights commissioner thomas marburg spoke to r.t. that countries needed 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 sink the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into your eyes to a elections and break the ice for you know impunity. in the program we'll hear more expert opinion on america's new intelligence chief. gen david petraeus becomes the head of the cia after a major u.s. national security reshuffle. the hague tribunal has sentenced a former yugoslav army general to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes. convicted of abetting atrocities during the balkan war in the one nine hundred ninety s. including the massacre of seven thousand muslims in srebrenica here's one of the

several ethnic serbs military officials on trial in the hague balkans a political expert michael garcia says the west wants serbian to feel guilty for the whole yugoslavia war. well we know how those trials are going to go because the script for those trials will be written in advance but i think we need to look actually take a look at the real picture here of what parish which was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. he legally 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 of a these these governments declared that yugoslavia borders would no longer exist and 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's a former friendly relations are now hitting a level zero turkey is suspending all trade military and defense ties while the prime minister is promising more sanctions against israel. already expelled the israeli ambassador over the refusal to apologize for killing nine hundred activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid archies parsley or is following developments in tel aviv. the turkish prime minister everyone has announced that he could be slapping more sanctions on television this follows the release last week of

a united nations report into what happened on board the. now that was a turkish missile that took part in the first 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 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 the u.n. 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 sha'ath 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 is 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 and 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. reporting for us there and now we have more from israel online where the panthers are again on the prowl for years are. really if we look pretty good for the country has become an enemy of these people who feel it's not even with citizens arrest anger over social injustice is getting louder among israelis and the better and the black panther campaigners are right behind them more on the movement at our two dot com along with all our news and analysis. her. general david petraeus and the man who led america's military in iraq and afghanistan now has the top job at the cia his predecessor leon panetta is now

defense secretary u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen kwiatkowski says patris will serve as washington's p.r. man to hide intelligence community shortcomings. this is a smooth operator who has a great reputation in the media here in the united states so he's popular he's seen as on inside. the congress like something and i think in many ways he is a great agreed cover for what the cia is continuing to do and what it will continue to he has a way of making really bad things look good by his. experience in iraq and afghanistan he has made it look successful even when it's not been successful at all i mean he doesn't stand up to washington he just takes what they give him and kind of wraps it in new wrapping and it sells he's almost like an advertising dream so the cia has

a terribly bad reputation and has done terribly bad things and these two increasingly become involved in military operations military style operations that is you know not constitutional it's not part of what the cia should be doing i expect the trace at the cia will be able to spin that for media consumption as a good cia he will make it look good even though i don't think fundamentally will change anything he'll probably continue it exactly as it has been to go on i think at the d.c. establishment will love what he does at the cia and you know we won't hear much you won't hear negative things like we really should i mean i think he is the perfect imperial cia director. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes time next more insight into what's happening in libya with a leading middle east analyst in arkansas we're just in a. room

. 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 u.n. 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 west and 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 i'm a guy he who was convicted of the lockerbie bombing and the americans wanted. he's now close to death and living in tripoli. 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 see 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 trends. council they've promised that within eighteen months they'll have a new constitution and elections is that possible well the lesson for all. the other revolutions in the region and egypt is that there's good reasons to delay elections if you think you can organize sensible herron and different contrast to 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. 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 the hit. and they positively expect. double standards so on this particular occasion it suits the rebels as well as through nato powers to fudge the truth about who's on the side of right and who's doing all the killing and what the

consequences are. thank you. emissions. critic a should three times for charges free. range means free. three stooges free. old free bonus just loaded video for your media projects a free media and on to our teeth on tom. sanctions but not just yet he was accused of putting oil before civilian lives as it stalls on action against syria's president al assad this is despite the mounting death toll the government forces opened fire on protesters in the city of homs.

anger across italy and spain as brussels forces governments to tighten their belts and cut public spending to save the faltering euro violent scuffles have taken place between demonstrators and police amid mass protests. and as the hunt for gadhafi continues a libyan rebels are targeting innocent foreigners from all rounding up the tunnels a loyalist couples have detained oil workers from the former soviet countries suspecting them of being a pro coffee mercenary. that is a special report on the world's oceans and how they're becoming a dump for plastic waste.