he would be soon rich bryson if you zoom from constant pressure. he talks he don't come. and greet your friend got back into the square as a cold a sophomore one million take on going to treat the international community is quiet choosing instead to focus on syria more in just a few moments. serves in northern cause of a saying nato forces broke their promise by trying to remove a border barricade that follows a night of violence when a warning shots and tear gas were used against protesters. and a landmark lawsuit is filed against lithuania for hosting one of america's secret prisons as human rights activists speak out for a man taken an adventure and tortured before ending up in guantanamo bay.

international news in comments twenty four hours a day this is r.t. a former associate of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reported except to the request from ruling generals to become prime minister and form a new cabinet that comes after the military council apologize for the deaths of more than forty protesters killed and almost a week of fierce clashes with. joins us now from more on this border we can still see crowds in tahrir square behind you there what was the reaction to this reported appointment of an interim prime minister among the people there. bracken tell you that there's a funny line right now between peaceful protests here in turkey square and at a chaos it's only in the morning and already tens of thousands of people are

gathering here ahead of a call for one million protesters to come to tough it today friday now there are very real concerns that it could be a bloodbath later today the army is maintaining a heavy security presence most of it is centered around the interior ministry building just a short distance behind me and this has been the scene of wide and clashes over the past week the chants of the protesters is for the army to step down this has not changed and this is what many people here say that the army can announce what it will change as it wishes the basic demand is the same and that is that the military needs to go the challenge is also that the people are running this is not entirely true because the reaction here in the square has been reached to beyond his announcement that it will go ahead with parliamentary elections on monday not most people i've been speaking to say that they plan not to vote in those elections they asked the question how communications being held against the backdrop of such violence and what kind of the just in the sea twenty nations have right now but the

muslim brotherhood has welcomed the reforms and nonce by the military and urged people to go along next monday and cast their ballots now there's a lot of concern in the squinting used to grow over the tear gas that the security personnel are using the egyptian media is reporting that it is particularly toxic that of course is a good link to the heart the lungs and the never and that is known to result in this carriage and there are people who say that they've been picking up gas canisters and that the sell by date is some five years ago in other words they expired more than five years ago this has resulted in people kept telling this quine's against humanity and not a change i've noticed in the last few hours is that it has become increasingly difficult for news of foreign journalists to walk around stuff here square the anger and the suspicion here is growing one of the safe. this place is for foreigners is next to these makeshift clinics the care the doctors get alone not being able to cope with the number of injured are also now having to work as

peacekeepers to keep the crowds back in control now and nonsmokers that come out guns movie will be the next prime minister has been linked with with a lot of anger here in toughness where although he is this person that people like he served as prime minister in the late ninety's he also served under hosni mubarak and as a result he is very much tainted with the mubarak color thought for lack of putting it any other way so people get saying that these kind of announcements by the army while it is a step in the right direction it is simply too little too late so a lot of tension where you are but what's been the international response to this latest wave of unrest or. the international community by and large has not responded particularly loudly there have been caused by some countries for both sides to urge restraint and hoping to be calm but really what people here are saying is that there is a clear show of double standards as you talk to see particularly from the arab

league which made just yesterday here in cairo where all this violence was unfolding and instead of focusing on what was happening quite outside their windows the arab league spoke only about the situation in syria and they have given them ask us until midday today to respond to the proposal to send hundreds of arab league observers to the country to assess and monitor how the government there is dealing with the antigovernment protests and as i say a little word on what is happening here the damascus government has not yet indicated whether they will agree to the protocol though being forced to sign we have been told by the iraqi foreign minister their fate will come to the party but this remains to be seen the economic sanctions that are being bandied about include these suspension all commercial banks be boycotting the central bank these are economic sanctions that will be voted on by the arab league on sunday if indeed damascus is itself uses to allow these foreign observers ok your course there for

now thank you for that. well meanwhile france is pushing for him right tearing corridors and syria to transport routes and other vital supplies but there's a criticism it could be a pretext for intervention. in libya there's also been reports. thanks to the libyan intervention french president nicolas sarkozy bad destroying a first for his country first to call for nato to impose no fly zone over libya. first to officially recognize the opposition as libya's only legitimate government first strike with libya now in the rearview mirror syria appears to be the next stop france is once again the first western nation suggests an international ground intervention in syria calling for a quote secure zone to protect civilians and first to endorse the exiled opposition syrian national council plans is a county where

a human thing is very very powerful very agreement we can do most of the left and most of the hype about that and sarkozy. intervention so it seems to me that these are more even more aggressive than obama would be even though he doesn't have the military strength. and sweeping popularity at home is what sarkozy needs if you have a chance to let the french decide his fate as president in the twenty twelve elections it's time pretty soon nicolas sarkozy talks about the syrian crisis. he's popular a keeper that you know is really really. bad situation when when it comes to the polls he's using craziness as a way to. prove to be seen as provocative the way he was with libya but where the french government deems a success doesn't seem to be too promising for those living in the post gadhafi era violent clashes between rival militia groups have continued adding to the death

toll a new u.n. report says that some seven thousand people are being held in libya detention centers controlled by militias with no access to courts or a functioning judiciary and many are still armed scenario some warn it could be repeated in syria once those regimes are overthrown a pound or a box is opened in other words chaos can be the result while one is always happy to see the end of brutal dictatorships and my own view is that the ends to these regimes should come from the people themselves critics of france's latest move of raise the question of whether any foreign insurrection in syria without bloodshed a lot of countries have taken a slightly more cautious step it seems that the french leadership are putting its foot down and planting its flag out of everyone else french assertion is not entirely welcome by syrians themselves a lot of opponents actually would not welcome. western forces or

even turkish forces. into the regime and against foreign intervention and fraud against france and sarkozy may get out of intervention in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it at least no one can argue about who said it first. r.t. brussels. well some western nations to toasting the results of intervention in libya well for getting there in syria may be much higher that's according to professor lawrence davidson middle east expert at west chester university in the u.s. . well if they're serious about this it's true tat is catastrophic. to essentially invade syria which is what they would have to do. by the from the air. they're going to bring in potentially syrian allies and syrian allies are iran and hezbollah and i don't think this is

a very good idea they haven't thought through at least at the political level they haven't thought through who they might get the assad regime falls. now the intelligence people probably have thought this through. and here in the united states for instance politically this is done without any forethought as to what the consequences of all this is and the world watches the arab spring raids throughout the middle east has great debate elitist what protesters only after that's the theme of the discussion place crosstalk coming your way and i was time that is a pretty. they don't mean that elisa. their way. is. the model completion that. is they don't understand what would move the seas is a dog understand what a girl isn't easy western i think there's a lot of anxiety in this that's reflected by what david is saying as well and i

must congratulate him because he's doing his very best to kind of impersonate the character of an article zionist and he's carrying it off very very very successfully i mean why his saying is utterly despicable about his perception of people which he threw it off as a comment like that those muslims there are not muslims there are muslims and christians enter and they're fighting for a better future and the fact that he and others made in the west would portray it as some kind of decline and going back to the middle ages on a threat to this sense of anxiety about what they're calling barack. serves a nato broken agreement with me try to tear down one of their roadblocks because of the serbian border it prompted latest clashes in the north of the breakaway region despite claims you promised not to take that from the action. as the details

so. we haven't witnessed the same violence as on the night of the twenty third but tension remains extremely high in northern kosovo. on that night as the native by k four try to dismantle the barricades the serbs came out today defense tear gas was used there were injuries as well as we drove around the serbian part of kosovo you notice that it barricades are not being dismantled and in fact some have told us that more are going to be put out they're being manned and if people here are going to carry on mining and as an act of defiance now what you may see there is very case you may say well that's just a pile of rubble but to the people living here they're an extremely important symbol and also they have important practical implications the local minority feel that their rights have been eroded kosovo which is majority old baby and populated has been recognized by many countries in the international community ten percent

who are serbs are saying that their rights are not being respected but are not part of this new so-called state they still say that they're living in serbia and they do not recognize this kosovo so when in july albanian course was decided they would impose their customs that all the goods would have to go through their officials the serbian locals here rebelled ahead of business as a slippery slope first their goods will be controlled then the police will move in then the army would move in then don't have to either go to the main part of serbia or perhaps they'd have to disappear among the local population so this is an unacceptable outcome to them so you had this four month standoff with the barricades of the serbs are saying none of your customs here and with the albanians trying to move in now after a while the initiative was taken away from the albanians and it was taken over by that native back a four ok four is supposed to be the mediator if then it's going to resolve the situation the serbs have no trust of decay for. reporting.

to the current standoff. to stick to its peacekeeping mandate it's not a problem of. not a problem that they are the ones that are the only legitimate well for us and we should act upon such a curation but the problem is that they are exceeding their limits and they are exceeding their authority and nobody wants to sit all night at some barricade like nobody have something better to do the problem is people are really scared there are threats all the time there are incidents from being inside there are there are people getting shot there are all sorts of pressures. plenty more from the consulate on our website r.t. dot com including pictures and video. also online. weapon of mass destruction of. which could potentially. be termed.

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pass on marking. the old. sleep its technology innovation all the least of elements from the round russia we've got those huge earth covered. with europe's debt crisis now spreading to the key economies of countries like germany and france the new scenario is raising hackles among the blocs financial elites this time there is growing concern of an imminent bank run confidence in the e.u. ability to rein in its debts collapsing a number of giant investment funds are already begun to retreat from europe by clearing out some of the biggest accounts while that in itself is unlikely to have much damage or could spark a domino effect with this case scenario of the last of queues of people running up to withdraw their savings best and young believes now is the time for tough

decisions. right no i there is definitely are pople smell of fear in brussels over what's going on when you're in the euro parliament in the coffee shops the huddled corners are discussions about whether the euro really is going to survive in any shape or form this crisis is like a pound demick a financial panic because ultimately you have individuals who are managing pension funds for yourself or myself all over the world and when they wake up in the morning and they've got to go and do something with our money for the next five or ten years ultimately they're their most important facet right now and it's to keep that money safe and as i'm sure you can appreciate nobody really for you see if in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to be sickly take away the ball and threw a lot of other members out of the euro zone club because they view them as not being worthy of being membership or they're going to have to essentially bite their

tongue and they're going to have to come forward and do something with the marketplace and in some way find a solution. well time now for a brief look at some other international headlines two rival palestinian leaders have hailed the new spirit of partnership as they agree to compete against each other in presidential elections next year comments from president. bush came at a meeting in cairo but they failed to resolve differences over an interim unity government which they had planned to implement after starting a deal with many in follows years of failed previous reconciliation attempts. a series of three explosions in a port in the open air market in southern iraq and killed nineteen people and injured dozens more two motorbike bombs rocked the city buzz around the earth went on when police arrived homes in turned some experts see it as an example of the. place for a new restaurant on its troops on

a country where in the same. nato air strike targeting taliban militants has reportedly killed six children injured two others in southern afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai has condemned the incident and ordered to geisha almost fifteen hundred civilians have been killed by violence in the country in the first half of the year the small baltic states of a few a year they face trial in the hague for torture and allegations it's been harboring a secret cia prison that's according to a lawsuit filed by a terror suspect who was locked up without charge by the u.s. for almost a decade or to show skin has none. terror suspect abu zubaydah now at guantanamo a prisoner has been in washington's hands for almost a decade the allegedly al qaeda recruiter has not been charged with anything just yet however he claims that crimes were in fact committed against him during his

interrogation by the cia cleary said indians. from u.s. internal government records also from records of the international committee for the red cross the couple who bear was tortured in the hands of the cia. he was subjected to very cruel treatment for example to mock executions and waterboarding which is a form of mock drowning he seems to have every reason to hold a grudge against washington but from behind bars of the by the file the rather surprising lawsuit against sleep through a neo he claims that in two thousand and five he was held in a secret cia prison in the baltic state in training bears responsibility for its role in facilitating the operation of the cia program but those who bear the request of the european court to find to recognize him as a victim and force disappearance secret detention and torture only plain and

territory. he also requests that the court identify measures which other states to which states in general should adopt to prevent similar violations from occurring in the future a secret cia prison in a small country in central europe that may seem like a conspiracy theory just sun good luck if you would write back to the city with. the claims plan was to have the records of conversations between the three union security officials and the fenian top quality assurance. be you don't have to argue god because it was the question asked. how many people were brought and most probably cloture moreover released when your authorities did not even deny that there were secret cia facilities on their soil for some reason though they are refusing to comment on abuse abiders lawsuit mr pollard ski's believes there are

simply still very. very accept people who maybe torture them if we knew and that is twice as bad as it could be but i think that the responsible officials from the united states and from and from. including george w. bush should be brought to international hate crime unit for crimes against humanity against prisoners it may take months for by this lawsuit to bring any results but even at this early stage it has highly explosive potential say experts as it may trigger actions in other european countries poland macedonia and romania along with lithuania have all been accused of having cia prisons on their territory but it's the first time that their former detainee has decided to file a lawsuit against the country and experts are now speculating what the possible consequences of this case may be let's hear a chance the r.t.

reporting from vilnius in lithuania. with all the business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russia and belarus are to sign a key energy deal late on friday minsk is selling its gas transportation network to moscow in exchange for a cut in the price of gas supplies archies tom barton has. president alexander look at shanghai of belarus is in moscow to talk about business and it's expected one of the headline deals will involve gas and quite a deal it's expected to be russia could cut its price for gas to belarus by half but a risk current li pays around three hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas from russia that price could be cut to as little as one hundred fifty dollars per thousand cubic meters and just put that in context e.u.

customers currently paid a market rate of about four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters so great cuts in the price them well sure is keen on securing its gas supplies to europe is currently three main routes for that one is the nord stream pipeline newly created to germany and that carries a small percentage of the gas at the moment pipelines to carry about twenty percent of the gas to europe but the vast majority still flows through ukraine belarus needs this deal it's an economic trouble with rampant inflation and a trade crisis as well it needs to raise money and it will raise two point five billion dollars from the sale of trans gas the state owned gas transit company it will sell out to the aspirin which will own one hundred percent of that company it will also get cheap gas pegged close to the domestic rate for gas in russia in

return it may in future regret the sale of tranz gas but for the moment those priorities have been taken a back foot to the need to raise capital for its economic crisis. time for a quick check on the markets commodities first oil is stuck between gains and losses investors are still concerned about possible supply shortages france has proposed a european embargo on imports from iran after the international atomic energy agency said the country may still be developing a nuclear weapon oh however weak economic picture is weighing on crude prized brand plant is not trading at one hundred seven dollars a barrel while the. overmind to six dollars. and on to equities asia shares a mostly lower tracking overseas losses that suffer severe as those three biggest nations ruled out only one big european central bank to help tackle sovereign debt

crisis energy and financial stocks are among the worst performers in hong kong but in turkey to some exporters are on the rise helped by and we. will be going to russia here stocks are lower in to trade both m i six on the r.t.s. losing about have sent home our group in style that i've seen believes trading volumes will remain low in the last trading day of the week. as there is a low on friday is going to be slow trading and thursday was a slow day for the russian market and for the markets overall because united states is closed and friday today is their first thanksgiving officially u.s. markets are open for half a day but it's the normally there is very very little activity going on there that of course are have an impact on international markets so slow trading and a likely with a negative for us saw and i think again and. and also there's

a big result you out later in the day when the coral produces figures for the first nine months over here and lists polled by into facts expect russia's largest private wealth from trick or to forty four percent increase in net profits on the back of general broke lost all prices on the company's focus on positive cash flow . so we have time for now you're up to date join me in more than fifteen minutes for another business update.

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