one pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story in libya a volatile situation show 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 khadafi is remaining supporters defiant loyalists are making a last stand in three key cities sirte bani walid and have been under heavy assault for more than a week with reports. could be hiding out there meanwhile the rest of the country's reeling from months of civil war that's left tens of thousands dead ongoing nato airstrikes have also reportedly killed a number of civilians by mistake but some western leaders are now facing charges at home over the military intervention just a warning you may find some of the images and daniel bushell's report disturbing. fringe explorer minister roland jumo says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued

a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to first libya's deposed leaders and hoity for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin and some states are now claiming the right to kill the against all international law. visa moving frige lawyers to the gives the government because he faces little suits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presidents of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer cools the libyan rule renew vietnam with the us sprayed tens of millions of liters of talks and sold crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages of the fix to this day. so they 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 sitting president sako see the crimes against humanity. first did noid bombing this residence with thirteen civilians including four children then called the place a military coup. this journalist went to see will to really housed books videos by the. toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another. one for a child the grown children were reportedly killed in their home was accused of deliberately we campaign of terror. 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 i was leaders of poised for the first big legal challenge of libya if they stop the casey's coming to court to give or. it will prove once and for all that western

justice really used politicians not the rule of law the new. powers meanwhile in syria at least four people were reportedly killed in crackdowns on anti-government protests sunday the ongoing violence in the country so far left more than twenty five hundred dead in the last few months moscow stepping up efforts to mediate a peaceful solution to the conflict a team of russian lawmakers is on a fact finding mission in the country and say damascus appears to be committed to democratic reform the kremlin also circulating a draft resolution at the un aimed at urging the warring sides toward dialogue the approach rivals approach rivals the u.s. backed draft which targets damascus and urges president assad to step down political analyst michel chossudovsky thinks the russian delegation will have their hands full in syria. any kind of military syria may get lead 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 clarify what is the opposition there's an opposition within the syrian civil society which operates within the confines of the law and which has also dialogue with the government and then there's an insurgency which is funded and supported by outside forces and this is launched the integrated by islamists it's a job as lapis as well as muslim brotherhood and consequently this. is there to destabilize and create a pretext for responsibility to protect nato intervention in syria. stay with us here on our team lots more headed your way this hour including artie's bill a terry on the list questioning the cia director's views on the decade long war one

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza reports. thanks for staying with us here on r t key international financial institutions have confirmed that palestine may now be 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 moves been opposed by israel and the u.s. who claim it would undermine chances to return to peace talks are. more for me. if global politics were a sport. 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 stage it's 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 the united nations resides in the security council and it requires a consensus among the five permanent members and as long as the one by 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 campaigns for un membership and statehood and initiative the us 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 consider 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 palestinian. it's 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 it's aspects of these fights and and deals with them pretty badly to the israeli palestinian problem at the un is mostly theater and this is just one one particularly for a freakish example of it this global gathering attracts the security clouds and maybe a 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. like. many wonder if this super bowl of diplomatic strategy leads to anything more than the event itself marina

point nine artsy new york. some experts argue the thrust of u.s. policy in the middle east towards palestine derives entirely from domestic politics and is especially influenced by views rarely lobby in washington palestinian politician hanada schreier we use one of them and she accuses the us of a park received. at this ironic this that was found that look at the arab spring as a way of vindication towards democracy and freedom and human rights and human dignity and yet when it comes to the palestinians we are decontextualized. this is very selective this actually because i think out occupy it is that 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 that has constantly been examined also because of the heart of the holocaust on that history

and western guilt over what the jews so in a sense this has shaped a certain bubble in which was given and demanded a sense of exceptionalism and then tighten moment and immunity and of course it has acted with impunity so the palestinians were deprived of the protection of the law and was given this exceptional treatment but tickler because it has a powerful lobby also and the u.s. . may have broken on the basis of that i. you can get your full interview with. in the next hours program here on r t. this week he will discuss serbian back proposals to break a deadlock in northern kosovo where pristina recently seized two disputed border crossings a move that sparked outrage among local serbs friday nato led forces helicoptered

in un kosovo customs officials to the previously served controlled frontier in response service blocked all the roads leading to the crossings belgrade's top negotiator called for calm seeking all sides urging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution r.t. sorry for those 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 think government's attempt to take control of two border crossings here in the north the protesters are standing firm at the barricades they erected it is the game of nerves and night the sides willing to back down i don't think anyone in the room can come to these people here in the north and tell them give up simply go home and accept that you are leaving independent counsel they will do it for the time being the protest is.

you don't have to the college to see signs of the underlying tensions here all along the right 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 great distance of the floats will remain in place until a dialogue begins about who man the border pastes and what will happen with the revenue collected from the customs tax control but that's not going to move until a solution is 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 port of pace after closer than prime. minister has that she wanted to trade down and serbia the conflict resulted in the death of the policeman and now neither side want to take action the fear it could once again ignite tension considering the major events are taking place right now considering the concerns of.

population living in. this i would say of removing those barricades from the streets and from the main highways it's not it's not a priority of. security organizations in course for the funding criticisms that they preach then each will position with regards to you lexis said that the monitoring at the customs gate will bring much needed law and order to the north pristina acted within terms of an agreement a claim that belgrade strongly. this is a serious incident in a serious step back along the road to formalisation off our relationship with prishtina the second thing is that once you put a custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the count of arms then you will put. laws and then people who live here will be circled by something that looks like.

there's now talk among the building you bypass the checkpoints the course been authorities refused to leave so the time being the border crossing remains bloke's and there are many obstacles that will need to be overcome on the rates of finding a resolution. there is more news videos and updates on our website r.t. dot com here's what's online for you right now. a single lone pine tree standing where a mighty forest once crew that's become a symbol of hope in japan after the country was ravaged by natural disasters more on that r.t. dot com plus. on our you tube channel amateur video of an air display in the. u.s. in turn tragically wrong when a vintage plane crashes into a crowd in reno. the

official. video. before u.s. commander in afghanistan david petraeus is getting used to his new role as the cia director but our military contributor thinks the official status intelligence chief

means he's defending an outdated strategy of the 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 would look like innocuous slip of tongue and actually turned into a very successful attempt to protect the agency's 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

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 turned out as some other stories making headlines across the globe in yemen security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital sanaa leaving at least twenty six dead tens of thousands of activists had gathered near the state t.v. building and government offices when troops and snipers started shooting the defense ministry said trouble started when protesters threw petrol bombs at police and it blamed the meeting islam as an opposition party for opening fire first if the deadliest crackdown by the regime in recent months. a car bomb exploded near the home of a senior police official in the pakistani city kharaj killing at least eight the

attack targeted the chief of the crime investigation department. who was unharmed most of the victims were members of the local police who were posted to guard his house officials blame the pakistani taliban for the attack. a strong earthquake tallying up six point eight on the richter scale has claimed at least fifty lives along the border of india nepal and tibet among those three people were crushed when a british embassy compound wall collapsed in the nepalese capital kathmandu dozens more were injured jumping from windows during the tremor many roads were blocked in power out across the region the epicenter is believed to be somewhere in the mountainous himalayan region that received the most turbulent shocks. in the former i.m.f. chief have to give it has given his first t.v. interview since charges of attempted to rape against a new york hotel maid were dropped dominic strauss kahn was questioned on a french channel by an interviewer who is a friend of his wife he insisted the hotel encounter it didn't involve violence but

admitted to quote a moral failing on his part he took to the airwaves to apologize to france and said it was something he would regret all his life strauss kahn stepped down as i.m.f. head may after his arrest but the case against him crumbled old doubts in august about his accuser's credibility. finally a little bit of fun in this news block there's ways to deal with the global financial crisis that have caused many disputes around the world but a pair of russian billionaires took that debate to a whole new level to tycoons came to blows at a recording of a talk show for one of russia's main shall i say this is property developer polonsky and to his left is media mogul alexander lebedev who owns two british newspaper business men were going back and forth throughout the program but the situation got out of control when polonsky told levitt of he wanted to punch him in the face whose words apparently planted the idea in the leg of his mind and he was quite mean that it's like. well that's goes off the bus if you get.

over it it's just another. billionaires behaving badly. they just throw money at each other instead well throughout the day here on our t.v. will be heading to russia's chukotka region in the far east it may evoke a sense of remoteness but also captivates people with its unique and pristine nature and stark contours of coastal regions and mountains see a landscape that's changed a little since explorers first stepped foot there in the seventeenth century. in the former way line. where human life is ruled by nature. the distance to the planet is scarcely preserved by the poor. like here in the permafrost. and to those who deal with. storage times are still. full program coming your way in

a few minutes but first the business news with dmitri. thanks matt the ink is 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 they're expecting an avalanche of construction contracts russian pipe produce the t.m. case says it's going to be a boom time for the company. loss of our borders approach 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 if she moves with the readers for the next two to three years. of the lean lining of the 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 droughns for to europe kiev says it might have to close part of its network

ukrainian energy minister unit boyko says the fair price should be slightly above two hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters that ukraine pays for russian gas currently it's paying double the price. it's move to the markets now oil is falling to one week lows on speculation that fuel demand will falter amid signs and we can only growth in europe and the united states versus digesting a four percent drop in fuel use in the world's largest consumer group avoided last week low sweet is down one dollar thirty three cents brant to one hundred eleven and a half dollars about. european stocks tumbling even deeper with financials seeing the biggest drop by spaulding almost four percent in paris the sector lost ground after e.u. talks over escalating debt crisis in greece ended with little progress on saturday commerce bank and bank are losing more than four and a half percent each in frankfurt. subs and russia following in their footsteps in

europe and the nature down nerve or more than two percent on the r.t.s. one point four for them i say also when it comes to the russian currency it's also losing ground slipping more than a percent versus the dollar since the first minutes of trading ever look at the main movers on the my sex energy majors and by the stocks under pressure russia's largest oil company rose next is losing one point three percent country's top bankers burbank years down almost two percent as you can see just the producer iran russia is also in the red despite the company's first half now profit rising fifty eight percent to two hundred thirty million dollars going to international financial stuff that's. the uncertainty persists in the global economy russian investors therefore prefer him to buy into companies which rely mostly on the domestic market for their performance. like the names of the companies dad. derive much of their earnings domestically because we are seeing strong domestic

demand it we're not seeing any slowdown in that even against the backdrop of this volatility the sectors that are mostly exposed to domestic demand and that investors can play our financials our consumers develop transport just give a few names is very bang 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 magni ex-wife we think is unjustly priced at a 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. russians insurance market is seeing its biggest deal since the crisis number three in the market read so is buying a twenty five percent blocking stake in its rival vs k. the deal's expected to be worth around two hundred fifty million dollars the company's aim to create a joint group called resto vs k.

and the save the new company will be the country's second largest insurer. so from the business desk for now but we will be back as usual in around fifty five minutes time to bring you an update the headlines that makes them tick. home. tomorrow for cooling you the latest in science stem cell culture from the ground

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one thirty pm in moscow the headlines as 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. nicolas sarkozy should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international efforts are being stepped up to calm border tension in kosovo where neither locals nor serbs are willing to back down after recent bloodshed is mulling a proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border posts by. statehood showdown at the u.n. 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.