of brutality of force this oil burning in syria but bizarrely sanctions were in store for over a month. but they will kick in already when europeans or firms complete their supply contracts with syria and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from magnetic or point of view because that sanctions would start only november 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 next year if a list of crimes the horrific critics also why the e.u. is putting profit above syria and lives. diplomats warn 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

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 buy any they can be you officials hope new stocks of the black gold from libya would take up the slack but they may be disappointed will not start being there a 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 maybe cutting off one supply before a secured another new bushel for our team in brussels. and professor edmund ghareeb international relations expert told us earlier that sanctions may not necessarily put the regime on its knees but they will definitely make ordinary people suffer.

in any case what top whatever happens the sanctions are clearly a. instrument that does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what my end up happening is that the people probably are going to pay a price. especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with. rocky experiment is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions out imposed on any country in history want to impose on their all come 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. as turkey's relationship with israel sinks further r t discovers how it could affect palestinian hopes of getting state recognition. and the e.u. using human rights watchdog urges countries who allegedly been hosting secret cia prisons to investigate claims of serious violations. tens of thousands of angry a tele and hit the streets nationwide on tuesday to protest a harsh new austerity package being debated in rome a number of violent scuffles between demonstrators and police have been reported underlining that the social tension as italy wrestles with its massive debts no italian will escape having to pay more sales tax is that being raised by the government is bowing to some pressure biber vibing the plan to impose higher taxes on the bridge and as one of europe's biggest economies its troubles threaten to destabilize the eurozone and spur

a new financial. crisis across the sea efforts to further west. took place after athens admitted it won't be able to meet its deficit reduction deadlines but journalist whoa joe weisenthal excuse me these economic woes the eurozone are doing . the euro does not work it's not a current it's not a temporary crisis there is a temporary crisis but it is not just that it doesn't make sense every country in the euro would now have been better off never having joined in the first place and everyone is getting hurt by this makes no sense for these countries with such disparate economies to have one currency and one you know one central bank the block has to be much more cohesive in terms of the types of economies that are left in that to basically get rid of you know maybe spain and portugal and italy. but the problem there is that there was huge economic cost to leaving the euro if

a country were to decide to it's just not clear how any country greece would do it they had to g.d.p. would be enormous so there is no good option really. things are a little better across in spain with protesters are flooding the capitol after its parliament to pressure voted to amend the constitution to limit national debt the senate voting on wednesday but unions and rights groups to fight it saying the cap would decimate the welfare system and hurt the most vulnerable as artie's reports the country's predicament is leading some to take matters into their own hands. this was the last time i got him and had guests over at her house just a day after our team 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 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 but 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. when you carmen's case is not unique in spain the country's in 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. 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. 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 captures house because fifteen interfered with the diction process and so to say that these are subsidized housing to people who are in tough situations financially so i can't understand how they can evict people who can't afford to buy their own homes that goes 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 one job and the people who 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 better system itself in madrid. party. one of the main purposes of tuesday's

debt debate in madrid is to send a message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway finances but writer and a journalist miguel. 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 and they just think they feel that the spain could be like greece or like ireland or like portugal because. 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 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 konami growth is not very good so that in the long will be a problem for there we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true in libya rebels are

detaining oil workers from former soviet countries suspecting them of being broken off the snipers to russians were later released along with a ukrainian couple after they managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held artie's marouf notion of 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 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 khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because of additional for some reason the thing that 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 passports and ukrainian couple but around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli the scope 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 so 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 his last 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 the 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 gadhafi himself could also be a man there and good also. have fled the country we have received in this report is just. information breaking has claimed that the colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it anytime soon. the head of the anti kadafi 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 suppose of insurgents to libya the allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining cia and m i six rendition programs john de bar an anti-war activist and a new york based journalist says u.s. intelligence is not to be trusted. 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 gaddafi 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 pride 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 libya 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 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. human rights commissioner for the council of europe urged countries that have hosted secret cia prisons to come clean thomas hamas said there were at least seven countries among which are poland romania and lithuania that have participated in the rendition program the cia has admitted to the allegations but denied violating the law commissioner's statement comes amid reports of documents being seized from khadafi compound in tripoli because he got. out of the membership machine in two thousand and seven a swiss politician dick marty was the first to uncover evidence of enhanced interrogation in third party countries but no further action was taken speaking to

our two year earlier thomas homer berg saying. 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 cooperation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into human rights violations and break the fear of impunity. later 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.

perry she was convicted of abetting atrocities during the balkan war in the one nine hundred ninety s. including the massacre of seven thousand muslims in chevron he was one of several ethnic serbs military officials on trial in the hague balkans political expert michael garcia says the west wants to feel guilty for the whole yugoslavia war. 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 was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. illegally declared all the borders that had been declared by the spirits 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 and 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 former friendly relations are now hitting level zero turkey is suspending all trade military and defense ties while the prime minister is promising more sanctions against israel has already expelled the israeli ambassador over the refusal to apologize for

killing nine eight activists in last year's gaza flotilla raid artie's is following the 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. 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 israeli soldiers through and the ship some nine turkish citizens were killed israel has repeatedly refused to apologize for the deaths and in response has its elvis lady a massacre it has downgraded diplomatic relations between both countries to the level of security secretary and it's also frozen all military cooperation the took its prime minister used the word savagely when he referred to the israeli behavior he also accused israel of behaving like a spoiled boy in the region and he said that the turks would challenge israeli

bullying in the mediterranean by increasing the naval presence there the turkish government has also rejected another finding of a un palmer report which said that these raids 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 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 it 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 forty's possibly reporting for us there from tel aviv and we've got more from israel online where the panthers are again on the prowl forty years on. is it really if we look pretty good still but the country has become an enemy of its people go even now even with. anger over social injustice is getting louder among israelis and of the better and black panther temp a nose are right behind the more on the movement that are to dot com along with all of our other news and analysis. general david petraeus the man who led america's military in iraq and afghanistan now has the top job at the cia his

a predecessor leon panetta is now defense secretary u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen kwiatkowski says betray us 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 honest. the congress like something and i think in many ways he is a great agree 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 sleeps 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 petraeus 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 he'll 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 the recap of our top stories in about ten minutes time but next more insight into what's happening in a libya with a leading a middle east analyst in our latest interview. i'm

joined by rosemary hall is 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 not so 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 or mcgahee who was convicted of the lockerbie bombing and the americans want him. he's now close to death and they . being 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 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 that 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 in 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. war for. 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 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 heroine 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 oaths 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 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

truth about who's on the side of right and who's doing all the killing and what the consequences are. thank you. and bring you the top news headlines from around the world. headlines right now.

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