he starts on t.v. dot com. finder against the chips military rulers gains momentum but the arab league meeting in cairo seems more focused on condemning syria and lashing out at the spate of deaths on their own doorstep. in northern cos of us a nato forces broke their promise by trying to remove the border barricades with photos and darts of violence when warning shots and tear gas we used against protesters. plus a landmark lawsuit is filed against the hosting one of america's secret prisons and human rights activist speak up for taken an average of the torture court ended up in guantanamo bay. in russia the market so low in early trade that some

speculation that the european debt crisis will spread more market analysis and business in about twenty minutes. casting from the heart of the russian capital you're watching ulti. a former associate of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly accepted a request from the ruling generals to become prime minister and form a new cabinet comes after the military council apologize for the deaths of more than forty protesters killed in an almost week of fierce clashes was artie's reports the unrest shows no sign of letting up. there's a fine line right now between peaceful protests here in toughness square and attic 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 talk here today friday now there are very real concerns that they 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 wind and clashes over the past week the chant of the protesters is for the army to step down this has not changed in this is why many people here say that the army can announce whatever changes of wishes the basic c'mon is the same and that is that the military needs to go the challenge is also that the people are one this is not entirely true because the reaction here in this way of has been mixed to the army's 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 ask the question how can you make sure is being held against the backdrop of such violence and was kind of just in the seat can you make sure he's had one now that the muslim

brotherhood has all kinds of the reforms announced by the military and urged people to go off next monday and cost their ballots now there's a lot of concern and this continues to grow over the tear gas that the security personnel are using the interruption media is reporting that it is particularly toxic that of course is a burning to the heart the lungs and the never and that is known to dissolve miscarriages there are people who say that they keep thinking of gas canisters and that the sell by date is some five years ago in other words they expired moving five years ago this has resulted in people here pointing this point against humanity another change of motorist in the last few hours is that it has become increasingly difficult for news of foreign journalists to walk arounds tough to square the anger and the suspicion here is growing one of the safest places. the foreigners is next to these makeshift clinics but here 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 and in control now denouncement that come all guns to me will be the next prime minister has been making great with a lot of anger and fear in toughness where overhears is person that people like he served as prime minister in the late ninety's he was to serve under hosni mubarak and as a result he is very much tainted with the mubarak color for the lack of putting it any other way so people here are saying that these kind of announcements by the army while it is a stick in the right direction it is simply too little too late that really what people here are saying is that there was a clear show of double standards and he took a seat particularly from the arab league which met just yesterday here in cairo where all this violence is unfolding and instead of focusing on what is happening right outside the windows the arab league spoke only about the situation in syria and here they have given damascus until midday today to respond to that imposing to send hundreds of arab league observers to the country to assist and monitor how the

government there is dealing with the antigovernment protests and as i say initial word on what is happening here the damascus government has not yet indicated whether they will agree to the protocol they've been forced to sign we have been told by the iraqi foreign minister that they will come to the party but this remains to be seen the economic sanctions that are being invented about include the suspension of all commercial banks the boycotting of 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 but meanwhile france is pushing for humanitarian corridors and in syria the transport routes the garden supplies but there's criticism it could be. pretext for intervention. bombing campaign and it is all things reports people thanks to the libyan intervention and

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 apparently human beings and is very very popular agreement because most of the left and most of the right about that and sarkozy has the 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 succors he needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president in the two thousand and twelve elections it's time president

nicolas sarkozy talks about the syrian crazies and. keepers that you know he's really really. bad situation when when it comes to the polls he's using certain phrases 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 added 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 iran is always happy

to see the end of brutal dictatorships and my own view is that these the ends to these regime should come from the people themselves critics or france's latest move of raise the question of whether any foreign intervention in syria without her and that all other countries have taken a slightly more cautious step the french leadership is keen on putting it down and planting its plug ahead of everyone else french assertion is not entirely welcome by syrians themselves a lot of opponents actually would not welcome. it or even turkish forces invaded the regime and against foreign intervention and fraud against france as sarkozy may get out of a diversion in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it but at least no one can argue about who said it first that's or cilia r.t. brussels. well with some western nations still toasting the results of their intervention in libya many are forgetting that in syria the stakes may be much

higher that's according to professor lawrence davidson in the sticks with west trust university in pennsylvania. well if they're serious about their seats to tat as catastrophic. to essentially invade syria which is what they would have to do. by they from the air. they're going to bring in potentially syrian allies and syrian allies are iran and as a lot 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 whom they might get the assad regime falls. now the intelligence people probably thought this through. and here in the united states for instance politically this is done without any forethought as to what the consequences of war missis. as the world watches the arab spring raids throughout

the middle east there's growing debate over just what protestors on the after. the discussion in today's cross-talk program coming away twenty minutes time but here's a pretty. good way. to live. if they go to the good movie season as it was understood to be releasing these 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. tragical zionist and he's carrying a very very a very successfully i mean what he's saying is utterly despicable about his perception of people which is through a comment like that those muslims there are not muslims there are muslims and christians in and they're fighting for

a better future and the fact that here and others maybe in the west would portray it as some kind of decline and going back to the middle ages only to fret this sense of anxiety about what they're calling. a course of insert saying nato broke an agreement with them and try to tear down one of their roadblocks in the course of the serbia border good latest clashes in the breakaway region despite claims that promised not to take action action. has the details now from because we haven't witnessed the same as on the night of the twenty third the tension remains extremely high in northern kosovo. on that night as the native baquet for try to dismantle the barricades the serbs came out today and parents tear gas was used to 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 up they're being manned and if people here are going to carry on manning them as an act of defiance now what you might see there is barricades 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 below call 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 the ten percent who are serbs are saying that their rights are not being respected they're 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 possibles decided they would impose their customs but all the goods would have to go through their officials the serbian locals here rebelled and said that this is a slippery slope first their goods will be controlled then the police will move in

then the army would move in then you'd have to either go to the main part of serbia or perhaps they'd have to disappear among the local population so this isn't an acceptable outcome to them so we've had this for months 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 ok for p.k. for is supposed to be to mediate or it's in it's going to resolve the situation where the serbs have no choice of make a for party or are they reporting from each of its political analyst knesset says the root of the current standoff there is in it is failure to stick to its peacekeeping mandate. it's not a problem of whether they should be there and not a problem that they are the ones that are the only legitimate well for us that we should act upon such a situation but the problem is that they are exceeding their limits and they are

exceeding their authority and nobody wants to fit all night at some barricade and the like like me nobody has something better to do the problem is the people are really scared there are threats all the time there are incidents from the albanian side there are there are people getting shot there are all sorts of pressures. there's plenty more from course on our web site that's r.t. dot com to make pictures and video want the clashes that also don't like the new weapon of mass destruction it's got sunsets create a virus which could potentially kill off humanity if he turns out. exploring gets in touch russian scientists reestablished contact. and went off the radar. for his unexpected.

that has become more and more to the creation of the group the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. you're not trading the actual physical grain you're trading promises for grain to be delivered a monster six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons moderate like silver or gold that can be negotiated in order to some degree in. place. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future.

with europe's debt crisis now spreading to the key economies of countries like germany and france and use in other areas raising high schools on the block financially this time there's an imminent bankruptcy of confidence in the eaves ability to rein in its its collapsing. giant investment firms already because of a treat for clearing out some of the biggest accounts and while that in itself is a likely to do much damage it could spark a domino effect worst case scenario massive queues of people lining up to withdraw the savings and investment patrick gone he has now is the time for tough decisions right now and 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 our discussions of whether the euro always going to survive in any shape or form this crisis is like a pandemic of 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 there are most important facet right now is the keep that money see and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really feel you see it in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to be sickly take away the goal and through 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 this hour two rival palestinian leaders have embarked on a new spirit of partnership as they agree to compete against each other for presidential elections next year comments from president mahmoud abbas and hamas leader khaled mashal came at

a meeting in cairo but they failed to resolve differences over an interim unity problem and they have a plan to implement at the signing a deal with years of failed previous reconciliation attempts. a. series of three explosions and a lot of open air market in southern iraq have killed nineteen people and injured dozens more to motorbike bombs rocked the city of basra as a third went off when police arrived causing a fatalities some experts say it is an example of the future make haste and u.s. withdraws its troops from the country in december. a nato airstrike targeting taliban militants has reportedly killed seven people including six children in southern afghanistan president hamid karzai has condemned the incident and ordered an investigation almost fifteen hundred civilians out and kill right violence in the country in the first half of the year and the small

baltic states of lithuania they face trial in the hague for torture allegations it's been harboring a secret cia prison that's according to a lawsuit filed by a terrorist suspect who is looked up without charge by the u.s. for almost a decade what is next you know she has more. terror suspect abu zubaida now at guantanamo prisoner has been in washington's hands for almost a decade the a legit 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 there is evidence. from us in there in our government reports also from reports 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 all markets and commissions and waterboarding which is a form of mark browning 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 slip through a neo he claims that in two thousand and five he was held in a secret cia prison in the baltic state police training bears responsibility for its fall in facilitating the operation of the cia program others will pay their request and the european court finds to recognize him as a victim of and forced disappearance secret detention and torture on a train and territory. he also requested the court to 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 could write it to be so we can see planes landing. we have the records of conversations between the premium security officials and between a top politicians b. and b. don't have to argue because if it was the question asked. how many people would pool and most probably cloture moreover 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 law suit mr brodsky police there is simply still very mueller to be accept people who may be tortured with renia twice as bad as it could be but i think the responsible officials from the united states and from. including george w. bush should be brought to international hague tribunal for crimes against humanity

against prisoners it may take months for the 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. the r.t. reporting from vilnius in lithuania coming up our debate show cross talk looks at how the middle east by the arab spring runs its course here business news if you're . that scary a very warm welcome to the business program russia and belarus are to sign

a key energy deal later on friday misc is selling its gas transportation network to moscow in exchange for cuts in the price of gas supplies marches tom barton has the details. president alexander lukashenko 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 the risk currently pays around three hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas from russia and 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 pay the market rate of about four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters so a great cut in the price there will sure is keen on securing its gas supplies to europe there's 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 that to gas problem 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 beltran's gas but for the moment those priorities have been taken a back foot to the need to raise capital for in its economic crisis.

but so have a look at the markets now and we start with commodity is as you can see oil is stuck between gains and losses investors are still concerned about possible supply shortages fran's house proposed european import go on imports from iran after the international atomic energy agency said the country may still be developing a nuclear weapon or whether we could come up with a picture is way one crude prize brand client is trading at one hundred seven dollars a barrel by light sweet is over and that's just ninety six dollars per barrel. and onto equities asia shares a lower tracking overseas losses that softer the euro zone three biggest nations ruled out calling on the european central bank to help tackle sovereign debt crisis energy and financial stocks on long but worth before wasn't hong kong. and russian stock saw flat in early trade let's now have a look at some of the individual moves on the might six. most of the blue chips are

trading in the energy majors and other commodity related stocks are among the main p.s. urals nickel is up more than two and a half percent as well as ross nets financials are also higher spare buying is up around two percent mark rubenstein out i've seen much believes investors should look to medium term stories for an upswing. we are very optimistic on the market short term but we are much more community on the market meter arm so there is a thing of this storm the best. is to look for quality names that's been severely beaten down and there are you know several names like that in the russian market and i want to mention is the number lipinski mythological plan this stock is there all about twenty percent over the past two weeks as a good quality company very transparent it's well liked by investors so we now think it's a good time to start sort of our build and position. and in the name and the range

that we're alike is around sixty four sixty five roubles their share. and finally does a big corozal cheer out later in the day when the quote produces figures for the first nine months over here and lists polled buy into thoughts of suspect russia is not a strong all foreign trip or just forty four percent increase in net profit that's on the back of general robust oil prices and the company's focus on positive cash flow. that's all we have time for knowledge in the last ten fifteen minutes so another business update here on our. culture is that so much definitely a huge visitors are trying to market the new tensions in the ones with doubt many of the hopes that the heart of the egyptian revolution is mubarak's military establishment angling to remain. wealthy british style it's time to.

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