ousted from power the country's interim leaders are struggling to form a cohesive cabinet while their forces remain locked in battle with gadhafi as remaining supporters defiant loyalists are making a last stand in three key cities bani walid and have been under heavy assault for more than a week with reports khadafi and his sons could be hiding out there meanwhile the rest of libya is a 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 but some western leaders may be facing charges at home over the military intervention just a warning you may find some of the images and daniel bushell's report disturbing. for ejects foreign minister says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but will have to first libya's deposed leaders and hoyt dig for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin some states

are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving french lawyers to turn against the government because he faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew 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 for crimes against humanity. first denied bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four

children died then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman had toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack. wife or child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. their bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chickadee it will prove once and for all that western justice really use run by politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris meanwhile in syria least four people were reportedly killed and cracked hours

at anti-government protests sunday the ongoing violence in the country has left more than two. twenty five hundred dead in the last few months moscow stepping up its pay in 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 and problems also circulating a draft resolution at the un aimed at urging the warring sides toward dialogue he approaches rivaling a u.s. backed draft that targets damascus and or just president assad to step down political analyst michel chossudovsky says the russian delegation will have its hands full in syria. any kind of military intervention in syria immediately leads to a scenario escalation and this is something which hopefully will be addressed by the russian delegation in its discussions with the syrian authorities well first of all we must. look is the opposition there's an opposition within the syrian

civil society which rates within the confines of the law and which has also done a lot with the go movement and then there is an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces. this is launched the integrated its limits it's the job. as well as both the brotherhood. and consequently this see is there to destabilize and create a pretext full responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria stay with us here on archie lots more headed your way this hour including this party's military analyst questions the cia director's views on the decade long war with al qaida. plus a chat show turns into a brawl when two russian tycoon spell to find common ground on the subject of a global financial crisis.

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a report on our. thanks for staying with us here on r t kia national 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 at the general assembly later this week the move has been strongly opposed by israel and the u.s. claiming it would undermine chances of a return to peace talks or has more. if global politics worse support. the united nations would be the grand arena. and september would be opening season nearly two hundred of the world's most powerful and 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 states nearly ten thousand delegates in

two thousand journalists are in town for the general assembly debate but in reality five countries are the ones who. really matters russia china france the us and britain the permanent security council members with veto power the real power in the united nations resides in the security council and it requires a consensus among the five permanent members and as long as the one and one or one or more of the permanent members won't 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 statehood an 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 an 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 bid warning of additional collateral

damage one of the things that i that i hope the palestinian leadership is considering 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 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 international disputes it's a very dysfunctional situation and actually the un really isn't the one isn't really the venue even for this the un only gets the sort of hype aspects of these fights and 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. ample 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. 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 anywhere you n.z. a gathering although. i like. many wonder if this super bowl of diplomatic strategy leads to anything more than the event itself marina point not art scene in new york. 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

hanada sure are we accuses the us of apocalypse. it is ironic this that would stand that look at that ups plane as a way of vindication towards democracy and freedom and human rights and human dignity and yet when it comes to the palestinians we have decontextualized. this is very selective precisely because i think out occupy it is it. is a domestic issue in the us and has enormous influence on the. fates of many politicians so it is not treated like any other country is a has constantly been exempt also because of the part of the holocaust that is. western guilt over what the jews so in a sense this has saved. and which was given.

a sense of exceptionalism and then tighten immunity and of course it has acted with impunity so that. then humans were deprived of the protection of the law was given this exception and but they can only because it has a powerful lobby and the u.s. carriers are broken on the basis of that. full interview with ana shari coming up in around ten minutes. this week the e.u. will discuss the serbian back proposals to break a deadlock in northern kosovo where pristina recently seized two disputed border crossings the move sparked outrage among local serbs on friday nato led forces helicoptered in kosovo customs officials to the previously served controlled frontier in response serbs 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 sorry for more. as stand kosovo

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 thing government's attempts to take control of t. border crossings here in the north the protesters the standing firm at the barricades they erect it is the game of nerves and night this side willing to back down i don't think anyone in the world can come to these people here in the north and tell them to give up simply go home and accept that you leave an independent course or they will not do it for the time being the protest is. you don't have to look at college to see signs of the underlying tensions here all along the right here in the north you come across these makeshift roadblocks servian people using gravel rocks bits of wood whatever they can get their hands on really to disrupt the flow of traffic in this area protest is about the blokes who remain in place

until a dialogue begins about home. the border posts and what will happen with the revenue collected from the customs tax control not going to move until the solutions reached for both sides of 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 has but she ordered a trade balance serbia the conflict resulted in the death of the policemen and now neither side want to take action for fear it could once again ignite tension considering the major events are taking place right now considering the concerns of the. population living in. this i would say of removing those barricades from from the streets and from the main highways it's not for the. security organizations in course for the funding criticisms that they preached on each will

position with regards to cause if you like says said that the monitoring at the customs gate will bring much needed law and order to the north pristina says they acted within terms of an agreement a claim that belgrade strongly. this is a serious incident in a serious step back. a long road to formalisation off our relationship with british the second thing is that once you put them off then you will put a flag then you will put a court of arms then you will put. laws and then people who live here will be recalled by something that looks like. there's now talk among serbians of building you raise by past checkpoints if the cause than authorities refused to leave the time being the border crossing remains blocks and there are many obstacles that will need to be overcome on the rates of finding a resolution sarah first. we have more news p.t.o.'s and updates at our

website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away. a symbol of hope after the country was ravaged by natural disaster find out more. 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. is he.

the official. video. former u.s. commander in afghanistan david petraeus is getting accustomed to his new role as the cia director military contributor though thinks the official stance has intelligence chief means he may be defending an outdated strategy of his organization instead of trying to reform. during the joint session of the senate of the house intelligence committee did it get to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven attack on the united states that general david petraeus the newly minted cia

director and general jim clapper the director of national intelligence presented their views general petraeus from the outset emphasized that he was presenting the agency view on the terrorist threat but it would look like innocuous slip of tone and actually turned into a very successful attempt to protect the agency view regarding the cia role these. and its affiliates activities all around the world there was a high expectation of the general betray us would challenge conventional visit him and calcified theories and minds at langley instead as the speaker of the agency he promulgated yet again ten years old views of the agency and the threats and challenges the intelligence community is facing in

the united states to and out of some other stories making headlines across the globe in yemen security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital leaving at least twenty six dead tens of thousands of activists had gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops along with rooftop snipers started shooting the defense ministry said the trouble started when protesters threw petrol bombs at horses and it blamed the leading us alarmist opposition party for opening fire hirst it's the deadliest crackdown by the regime in recent months. a car bomb has exploded in the house or near the house of a senior police official in the pakistani city of karachi killing at least eight you. attack targeted the chief of the crime investigation department who was unharmed most of the victims were members of the local police force who were posted to guard his residence officials blame the pakistani taliban for 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 were 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. the former i.m.f. chief has given his curiously he interview since charges of attempting to rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped 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 he took to the airwaves to apologize to the french people and said it was something he will regret all his life strauss kahn stepped

down as 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 and it was 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 the two 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 surrogate polonsky and on his left is media mogul alexander lebedev who owns two british newspapers the businessmen were arguing throughout the show that the situation got out of control after polonsky told lebanon if he wanted to punch him in the face it was words planted apparently an idea in the levity of his mind and here's what happened next. throughout the day here on our 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 mountains there's a landscape that's changed a little since the first explorers set foot in the area in the seventeenth century . in the former way line. where human life is ruled by nature. the distance of planet earth is scarcely preserved by the clear. lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and to those who deal with them restored times are still the. full program on the true coker region coming your way in the next hour here on our t.v. on a few minutes a key palestinian politician tells us why international recognition means more than just acceptance but first dimitris up next with the business report.

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 here is to look at the stage of technical design so it's difficult to give any details but of course we are engaged in the project under getting prepared for it so to move providers with orders for the next 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 to transfer to europe kiev says it might have to close part of its network ukrainian energy minister uni boy because as the fair price should be slightly above two hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters the 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 light sweet is down more than a dollar brant is a two hundred eleven the whole. european stocks are tumbling with financial seeing the biggest drop bars fall in the seven and a half percent in paris the sector lost ground after the e.u. talks over as crisis in greece ended with little progress on saturday commerzbank and boy should beg to 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 sex basically. the other energy companies are losing on lower oil prices is 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 the nano technology company is fully owned by the state and currently its shares are valued at less than a quarter of a billion dollars responder's board will issue shares in return for the cash injection of capital to seize the company's value eight fold it hasn't said what is going to do with the new money. as the uncertainty persists in the global economy russia's investors prefer to buy into companies which rely mostly on the domestic market for their performance we like the names of the companies dad. derive much of

the earnings domestically because we are seeing strong domestic demand if we're not seeing any slowdown in that even against the backdrop of this volatility the sectors that are mostly exposed to domestic demand that investors can play our financials our consumers develop transport just give a few names is burbank differently particularly burbank said last week it is going to increase the dividend payout ratio from twelve percent to fifteen percent x. five this is the largest russian retailer along with my going to expire we think 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 in the stock so we're like. a business see we'll continue with this story rushes insurance market and seeing its biggest deal since the crisis number three in the market read so i was buying a twenty five percent blocking stake in its rival vs cake there was expected to be worth around two hundred fifty million dollars the company aimed to create

a joint group name to wrestle vs k. and the save the new company will be the country's second largest insurer. that's all from this edition of business us he will be back in fifty minutes time with an update on that.

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fact in the twenty first century smarter it's going to be better general motors simply became too large for their own good and so many brands that they couldn't even keep up with they just basically became a dinosaur. it's .

twelve thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines as colonel 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 lawyers claim nicolas sarkozy should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international efforts are being stepped up to border tension in kosovo where either locals nor serbs are willing to back down after recent bloodshed the e.u. is mulling a proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border posts. and a statehood showdown at the un as the general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions preparing to crack the surface the u.s. and israel remain opposed to giving the palestinians.