still going to dream which will be uncool so if you kill some time or a grand pacific cotto blanco remembering who told me listen to the phone call that the radio. has colonel gadhafi is remaining troops hold out against government forces and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the war. statehood showdown at the un is the general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions preparing to crack the surface. and international efforts are being stepped up to calm border tension in kosovo where neither locals nor serbs seem willing to back down after recent bloodshed.

it's noon in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story in libya where a volatile situation shows no sign of abating a month after colonel gadhafi was ousted from power the country's interim leaders are struggling to form a cohesive cabinet while their forces remain locked in battle with gadhafi is remaining supporters defiant loyalists are making a last stand in three key cities syria's bani walid unsolved have been under heavy assault for more than a week with reports gadhafi and his sons could be hiding out there meanwhile the rest of libya is reeling from months of civil war that's left tens of thousands of dead ongoing nato airstrikes have also reportedly killed a number of civilians by accident and some western leaders may be facing charges at home over the military intervention just a warning you may find some of the images and then your bushels report disturbing. frige explorer minister says he's ready to defend defeat in the international.

middle court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to find the comal first libya's to pose leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bill maher and some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving fridge lawyers to turn against the government because the faces lawsuits over the death of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war a new vietnam where the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. they're using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the

fighting that's why we're seeing president sarkozy the crimes against humanity. first denied this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died he then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed. videos. had toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack how these wife or child or grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately wage a campaign of terror on their warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly needa ones and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders are poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all to. it will prove once and for.

politicians not the rule of law. meanwhile in syria at least four people were reportedly killed in crackdowns on anti-government protests sunday the ongoing violence in the country has left more than twenty five hundred dead in the last few months moscow stepping up its pay its efforts to mediate a peaceful solution to the conflict a team of russian lawmakers are currently on a fact finding mission in syria and they say damascus appears to be committed to democratic reform problems also circulating a draft resolution at the un aimed at herding the warring sides toward dialogue he approaches rivaling a u.s. backed draft that targets damascus energis president assad to step down political analyst michel chossudovsky says the russian delegation or have its hands full in syria. any kind of military intervention in syria would immediately lead to a scenario of escalation and this is something which hopefully will be addressed

by the russian delegation it's the scotians with the syrian authorities well first of all you must clarify what is the opposition this is not position within the syrian civil society which rates within the confines of the law and which has also gone along with the kill them and then there is an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. this is largely integrated point is that it's just this this. rather for. and consequently this. is there to destabilize and create a pretext all responsibility to protect of ancient. syria stay with us here on r.g.p. lots more headed your way this hour including this hour he's military analyst question. the cia director's views on the decade long war with al qaeda. plus

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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines you need to cross a report. thanks for staying with us here on our team here rational financial institutions have confirmed that palestine is now economically strong enough to stand alone as an independent state this as president abbas prepares to bid for full u.n. membership by the general assembly later this week what has been strongly opposed by israel and the us claimed he would undermine chances of a return to peace talks or to port niehaus or. if global politics were. the united nations it would be the grand arena. and september would be opening season nearly two hundred of the world's most power. or not so powerful players

descend on new york city gathering in one room for a week's worth of speeches and a chance to grandstand on the international stage nearly ten thousand delegates and two thousand journalists are in town for the general assembly debate but in reality five countries are the ones who really matter russia china france the us and britain the permanent security council members with veto power the real power in united nations resides in the security council and it requires a consensus among the five permanent members and as long as the want one or one or more of the permanent members will go along with something the un's ability to act is limited no resolutions can succeed if opposed by any of the big five case in point the current palestinian campaign for un membership and state hood and initiative the u.s. publicly supported last year when we come back here next year we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the united nations independent sovereign state of palestine living

in peace with israel but this year it's the opposite with washington saying it will veto the palestinian un membership good warning of additional collateral damage one of the things that i that i hope the palestinian leadership is considered considering is the day after what will happen when after whatever. show we have in the united nations is done. what will change in the real world for the palestinian people. the answer is nothing that sadly ironically the majority of the general assembly supports palestinian un membership the assembly alone with two thirds majority can award nonmember observer status to the palestinians like the vatican enjoys and doesn't need security council approval to do so so no one can veto this decision some believe however the un is the wrong forum for resolving major internet. disputes it's a very dysfunctional situation and actually the u.n.

really isn't that one isn't really the venue even for this the un only gets the sort of hype aspects of these fights and deals with them pretty badly to the israeli palestinian problem at the u.n. is mostly theater and this is just one one particularly for a freakish example of it this global gathering attracts the security crowds and media madness of a sports championship but when it comes to practical outcomes scoring more than a symbolic victory could be unlikely even if there is a permanent member or two or three who believe that the. palestine should not be a member of the un. they want it on record but the vast majority of the people the world do believe that it's time the other one of you mc a gathering all the. like. wonder if his super bowl of diplomatic strategy leads to anything more than the upright itself marina

artsy or. some experts argue the thrust of u.s. policy in the middle east towards palestine derives from domestic politics and is influenced by the powerful israeli lobby in washington palestinian politician. that he was is the us out of pocket. it is ironic this is. a look at the arab spring as a way of vindication. democracy and freedom and human rights and human dignity and yet when it comes to the palestinians we are decontextualized we have removed this is very selective this actually because i think out occupy it is. a domestic issue in the us and has enormous influence on the. great many politicians so it's not like any other country is a has been exam also because the heart of the holocaust are on the history of

western guilt over what they produce so in a sense this has saved so in which was given my. sense of exceptionalism and entitlement and unity and of course it has acted with impunity so that palestinians were deprived of the protection of the law was given this exception and particularly because it has a powerful lobby also and the us. broken on the basis of that. full interview with on a shroud coming up in around ten minutes. and this week the e.u. will discuss the serbian back proposals to break a deadlock in northern kosovo where prishtina recently seized two disputed border crossings that move sparked outrage among local serbs on friday nato led forces helicoptered in kosovo customs officials to the previously served controlled for

a year in response service blocked all the roads leading to the crossings belgrade's top negotiator called for calm of urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution artie's sour for more. as a stand of course of the thirty's with e.u. and nato forces on one side ethnic serbian protesters on the other before us this is our land territory it's refusing to accept the cause think government's attempts to take control of two border crossings here in the north the protesters are standing firm at the barricades they erected is the game of nerves and neither side willing to back down i don't think that anyone in the world can come to these people here in the north and tell them give up simply go home and accept that you are living in the them cos you will not do it for the time being the protesters seem calm you don't have to look hard to see signs of the underlying tensions here

or along the roads here in the north you come across these makeshift roadblocks serbian people using gravel rocks bits of wood whatever they can get their hands on really to disrupt the flow of traffic in this area protestors about the blocks will remain in place until a dialogue begins about who will man the border posts and what will happen with the revenue collected from the customs tax control we're not going to move until a solutions reached for both sides the situation right now is unacceptable back in july violence erupted when the authorities tried to take control of the border posts after closer than prime minister had that she wanted to trade balance serbia the conflict resulted in the death of the policeman and now neither side wants to take action for fear it could once again ignite tension. and sort of pick in place for. considering consoles.

i would say of removing those barricades from from the streets and from the main highway as it's not for the small that's not a priority of. course for the pending criticisms that they breached. your position with regards to cause if you like says that the monitoring it because the skate bring much needed law and order that the north pristina says it acted with in terms of an agreement a claim that belgrade strongly. this is a serious incident in a serious step back in a long road to formalisation or for relationship with krishna the second thing is that once you put a custom officers down you will put a flag then you will put the court of arms then you will put your so-called kosovo laws and then people who live here will be circled by you something that looks like . the c.p.u. chemical except there's no talk among serbians of building you're a bypass the checkpoint if the course been authorities refused to leave the time

being the border crossing remains bloke's and there are many old sickles that will need to be eva come on the race of finding a resolution sarah first say because they have more news p.t.o.'s and updates at our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. a lone pine tree standing where are you forest once a group has become a symbol of hope in japan after the country was ravaged by natural disaster i doubt more at r.t. that. was amateur video of an air display turned tragic in the u.s. when a vintage plane crashed into a crowd in reno that footage can be found on our you tube channel. is the.

view of the. the official. i pod touch from the. video. or a sense for you now in the palm of your. on the. former u.s. commander in afghanistan david petraeus is getting accustomed to his new role as the cia director marty's military contributor though thinks the official stance size intelligence chief means he may be defending an outdated strategy of his organization and sort of trying to reform it. during the joint session of the

senate and the house intelligence committee did it to the tenth anniversary both lane eleven attack on the united states general david petraeus the newly minted cia director and general jim clapper the director of national intelligence present a very views general petraeus from the outset emphasized that he was presenting the agency view on the terrorist threat but would look like innocuous leap of turn actually turned into and very successful attempt to protect the agency view regarding the cia role. and its affiliates activities all around the world there was a high expectation that general petraeus who challenge conventional visit and calcified theories and minds at play really instead as the speaker of the agency

he promulgated yet again the ten years old views of the agency and the threats and challenges there the intelligence community is facing in the united states turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe in yemen security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters and it happened weaving at least twenty six day tens of thousands of activists had gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops on the rooftop snipers started shooting the defense ministry said the trouble started when protesters threw petrol bombs at forces and it blamed the leading a lot of the opposition party for opening fire hirst it's the deadliest crackdown by the regime in recent months. but harbhajan has exploded in the house or near the house of a senior police official in the pakistani city of karachi killing at least eight in

. attack targeted the chief of the crime investigation department he was unharmed and most of the victims were members of the local police force who were posted to guard his residence officials blame the pakistani taliban or the attack. a strong earthquake tallying six point eight on the richter scale has claimed at least fifty lives in the border between india and nepal among those killed were three who were crushed when a british embassy compound wall collapsed in the nepalese capital katmandu dozens more were injured jumping from windows during the tremor many roads were blocked and power was cut off across the region the epicenter is thought to be somewhere in the hill himalayan state of sixteen which received most of the turbulent shots. of the former i.m.f. chief has given his courtesy interview since charges of attempting to rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped dominic strauss kahn was questioned on a french child by an interviewer who was a friend of his wife he insisted the hotel encounter didn't involve violence but

admitted to quote a moral failing on his part and took to the airwaves to apologize to the french people and said it was something he were gret all of his life throws concept down his i.m.f. head in may after he was arrested but the case against him collapsed in august over doubts about his accuser's credibility. a little bit of fun a lose ways to deal with the global financial crisis that have caused many disputes around the world but a couple of russian billionaires took that debate to a whole new level and to tycoons actually came to blows at a recording of a talk show for one of russia's main channels and this is a property developer sergei polonsky on his left is media mogul alexander lebedev who owns two british newspapers businessmen were arguing throughout the show that the situation got out of control after polonsky told lebron if he wanted to punch him in the face it was words planted apparently an idea in a letter to his mind and here's what happened next.

throughout the day here on r t will be heading to russia's chukotka region in the far east it may evoke a sense of remoteness it also captivates people with its unique pristine nature coupled with stark contours of coastal regions and now there's a landscape that's changed a little since the first explorers set foot in the area in the seventeenth century but in the far away land. where human life is ruled by nature. the business of planet earth is curiously preserved by the clear. lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and to those who deal with them freeze story times are still not sure. about thought program monitor kolker region coming your way in the next hour here on our team for the few minutes

a key palestinian politician tells us why international recognition means more than just acceptance first dimitris up next with the business record. button welcome to the program the inks barely dry on the deal that puts the seal in the south stream gas pipeline and already russian companies are rubbing their hands with glee and expecting an avalanche of construction contracts and russian pipe producers d.m.k. says it's going to be a boom time for the company. the approach is to look at history if you technical design so it's difficult to give any details because of course we were engaged in the project under getting prepared for it so as we were two to three years. the signing of the south stream pipeline deal spells bad news for ukraine when completed russian gas supplies to europe will bypass ukraine and reduce its ability to leverage discounts and with the possibility of no gas or transfer to europe here

says that night have to close part of its network ukrainian energy minister u.t. boy there's a fair price should be slightly about two hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters and ukraine is paying almost double the price. move to the markets now will fall into a one week low on speculation that fuel demand will falter amid signs of a weak economic growth in europe and the u.s. investors are digesting a four percent drop in fuel use in the world's largest consumer of crude which was reported last week rice wheat is down more than a dollar brant is that one hundred eleven the high. european stocks are tumbling with financial seeing the biggest drop buys fall in the seven and a half percent in paris the sector lost ground after the e.u. talks over escalating the crisis in greece ended with little progress on saturday commerzbank and voice your bag are losing more than five percent each in frankfurt

. stocks and russia also taking after asia in europe with most blue chips dropping around one percent financial stocks also beings on the biggest loser let's take a look at what's going on on the my sax basically. the other energy companies are losing on lower oil prices down one half percent and the companies the country's top lenders b.c.b.s. burbank are both dropping around one and a half percent due to global turmoil in financial stocks. the russian government has agreed to pump one and a half billion dollars into ross nano an ounce acknowledging company is fully owned by the state i'm currently its shares are valued at less than a quarter of a billion dollars or standards board will issue shares in return for the cash injection of capital who sees the company's value increase aid fall that hasn't said what is going to do with the money. as uncertainty persists in the global

economy russia's investors prefer to buy into companies which rely mostly on the domestic market and what. we like are the names of the companies dad. derive much of their earnings domestically because we are seeing strong domestic demand if we're not seeing any slowdown in that even against the backdrop of this relativity the sectors that mostly exposed to domestic demand can play our financials our consumers develop transport just give a few names is very bank there for all the particular banks so loss rate is going crees the dividend payout ratio from troll percent to fifteen percent x. five this is the largest russian retailer along with my need expired with ink is a unjustly priced at a big discount to mug need we think a strong growth opportunities in the business of the company and also in the industry so we're like x five. business see we'll continue

with this story russia's insurance market is seeing its biggest deal since the crisis number three in the market resit was buying and twenty five percent blocking stake in its rival b s k there was expected to be worth around two hundred fifty million dollars the company's aim to create a joint a group named reza of years kay and the same new company will be the country's second largest insurer. that's all from this edition of the insults he will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update on think about.

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