on the call. tiger against egypt's military rulers gains momentum but the arab league meeting in cairo seems more focused on condemning syria than speaking out about the spate of deaths on their own doorstep this is a live video you're looking at tyra's top of your screen. serbs in northern kosovo say nato forces broke their promise by trying to remove a border barricade is a follows a night of violence one warning shots and tear gas were used against protesters. at a landmark lawsuit filed against lithuania for hosting one of the u.s. secret prisons as human rights activists speak up for a man allegedly tortured there before ending up in guantanamo bay. and russian

ballet was on to sign a key energy deal late on friday we'll be bringing you more in business in about twenty minutes. it's three pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story egyptians have packed into cairo's tahrir square the center point for a violent clashes that have killed more than forty people since saturday this comes as a former prime minister in the mubarak regime and recent form a new cabinet after after egypt's ruling military council asked him to lead a national government but as artie's policy reports from cairo is having little impact on public sentiment. but there are already cames of thousands of protesters here in tahrir square when we do expect that in the next hour or so there will be hundreds of thousands as soon as the midday prayers complete people to go out of

the musts and make their way here in need of a call for a million man sit in attack here now there are two focal points we're watching where this would be clear on prime ministry one is the interior ministry building just a short distance behind me there the army and the police have agreed to a seven foot high wall which is why some people care quite in cairo the new president the army is also quite still bears and wire fences and all the roads leading to takio so this could be some kind of violence if it was the scene will be so violent instructions over the past week or so watching a counter demonstration this is why people who support the status quo and if indeed they decide to march while they we can see confrontation now these protests are still standing by they were original demand and that is for the army to stick stance immediately the army's response was that this would be a trail that is quote are the possible for it if they think given and so in line with us in effect that they've appointed

a new prime minister amal i'm sorry who was part of the mubarak era as a mitchell to convince people here that the army is serious about transferring power human rights groups have also been criticizing the interior ministry for having blood on their hands they say the ministry is blatantly lying when it denies reports that it has been using live ammunition we know from all the officials that at least twenty two people were killed from live gunshot wounds many of them with one gunshot to the front of their head there are autopsies and of info performed on a number of them and these atrocities have revealed that the people were shot from above which just suggests the use of army and police snipers the human rights which of course raising concerns over the type of tear gas that these commercial parties are using saying that it is possibly a type. that is back and internationally what we've heard from the white house issued a statement we think will be quick transfer of power over to a civilian government but i do the math the international community has been

largely quiet he added for me and has given to masochists and not it to always to respond to their name that everybody could serve as he came to the masses now when you look at that kind of response ok to the fact that nothing is being said about egypt commodity at a peak will be international community keep saying that this is the fog double standards and proceed it's worth mentioning that the arab league had made this decision while meeting in cairo so while this minus unfolding it chose to turn a blind eye to it and instead focused on the situation in syria and you can keep an eye on all the latest developments in the egyptian capital logline with r.t. this is what's happening right now in fogger square again live video that you're looking at of the scene right now and we're streaming it life twenty four hours a day check out that feed at our dot com. meanwhile france is pushing for humanitarian corridors to be opened in syria to transport medicine and other vital

supplies but there is criticism that it could be the pretext for intervention and an echo of the nato bombing campaign in libya as artie's tests are so your reports completely thanks to the livid intervention of french president nicolas sarkozy bad a string of firsts for his country first to call for a need to impose a 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 secured zone to protect civilians and first to endorse the exiled opposition syrian national council the finances of towns where human thing governs and is very very very thoughtfully. agreement between most of the left and most of the hype about them and sarkozy has to save their friends and 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 of the moon and sweeping popularity at home is what sarkozy needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president and that's what he told elections it's trying pretty damn nicolas sarkozy took some of the syrian crazies. and those really really. bad situation when and when it comes to the polls and he's using certain craziness as a way to. to be seen as proactive the way he was with libya but what 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 pandora's box is opened in other words chaos can be the result while one is always happy to see the end of brittle dictatorships and my own view is that these the ends to these regime should come from the people themselves critics of france's latest move of raise the question of whether any foreign intervention in syria would actually owned the rights that a lot of countries have taken a slightly more cautious step it seems that the french leadership are putting it down and planting its supply ahead of everyone else french assertion is not entirely welcome by syrians themselves a lot of opponents in syria actually would not welcome. what is or even all this is indeed a golden for the regime and against foreign intervention and fraud against france as psychos he may get out of a joint venture in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it but at least no one could argue about who said it first yes or celia r.t.

brussels or some western nation still toasting the results of their intervention in libya there are strong calls for similar involvement in syria but mideast expert professor lawrence davidson warns that the stakes in damascus might be much higher . well if they're serious about this it's true that as catastrophic. to essentially invade syria which is what they would have to do. by the from the air. they're going to bring in a potentially syrian allies and syrian allies. as. 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 yet the assad regime falls. now the intelligence people probably thought this through. here in the united states for instance

politically this is done without any for it but as to what the consequences of what mrs. as the world watches the arab spring arrange for the middle east there's a growing debate over just what the protesters are really after that's the theme of discussion today's cross talk coming your way in about twenty minutes as a preview. they don't mean he believes they were freed a little whisked away what do you mean these two lists please. appreciable. lieschen that is the thought of this is a good move sees as a little understandable to go listen to these voices and i think there's a lot of anxiety in this that's affected by what david is saying as well i must congratulate him because he's doing his very best to kind of impersonate. an article zionist and he's carrying it off very very in 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 as muslims they are not muslims there are muslims and christians

into her head and they're fighting for that their future the fact that he and others in israel and maybe in the west would portray it as some kind of decline i'm going right to the middle ages only to frets this sense of anxiety about. so what they're calling donkey. kosovo's serbs say nato broke an agreement with them in trying to tear down one of their roadblocks near the kosovo serbia border it prompted the latest clashes in the north of the breakaway region and came despite claims the alliance had earlier promise not to take unilateral steps. never ports. last night passed here in northern koslow without violence does not mean that the source of tension has disappeared two nights ago on the twenty third the native back a force tried to remove a barricade that has been put up by the ethnic servin minority here it was made was

stiff resistance tear gas was used more than twenty people were injured and the operation by the capel had to be abandoned now yesterday we drove around the area and these barricades which have been here for around four months still are manned by people and people say no not going to abandon them and planning to put up even more of them now today untrained eye these roadblocks these barricades just seem like piles of rubble amateur fully constructed and nobody would think that would be a cause of such a bitter conflict but in order to understand why they appear we need to go back to july as we know the serbian people here the ethnic serbs are in a minority they only constitute about ten percent of the population of course a while since kosovo has been recognized by several countries they've also lost any kind of legal status they still consider themselves part citizens of serbia and they still consider land a part of serbia of course the majority albanian cos it was not consider their

territories to be independent but so far at least they have been allowed a measure of self-sufficiency a measure of independence and an ability to be in contact freely with the mainland serbs now in july became a threat to this albanian said that they wanted to control the customs control all the goods and all the cars coming into the area now the serbs didn't just see this as a formality they sort of as an infringement of their remaining freedoms they're calling this a slippery slope first the control of the customs and perhaps control of the police coming in here and being able to control the territory and finally the. remained of the serbian population at first they put out these barricades to prevent this happening but then supposedly a compromise solution was found where instead of the albanians being able to take control of customs this control would go to the native baquet for the serbs they did not trust state for the state of the case for is not being independent they say

that the case for basically protecting albanian interests and the kind of clash that we saw the night before the case was trying to reach the very cade's put a service here that's a clear illustration of where day priorities lie or he's eager ordinary reporting from meijer a pizza political analyst nicoletta nassif says the root of the current border standoff allies in nato is failure to stick with the peacekeeping mandate. it's not a problem of whether they should be to erin's not a problem that they are to ones that id only legitimate well for us that we should act upon such situations 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 and then like like we nobody have something better to do the problem is that people are really scared there are threats old time there are incidents from the albanian side they are there people getting shot there are all sorts of pressures. plenty more from kosovo on our website r.t.

dot com including pictures and video from the clashes here's what's also a click away right now a brand new weapon of mass destruction dutch scientists create of virus that could potentially kill the house of humanity check it out at. last middle east spy games heat up as iran announces the arrest of twelve alleged cia operatives said to be tasked with cyber ties and sabotaging the country's nuclear program all the details and more i don't dot com. that has become and is the creation of the of the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world it's created to maximize the profits. you're not trading the actual physical grain you're trading promises

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a report. that. is he's. going to. say. thanks for staying with us here on r t sixteen minutes past the hour and moscow a small baltic state of lithuania may face trial at the hague for torture amid allegations it's been a harboring a secret new cia prison this after a lawsuit filed by a terror suspect who was locked up there without charges by the u.s. for almost a decade artie's alexei our chefs the house. terror suspect abu zubaida now at

guantanamo 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 there is evidence. from us and there are no government reports also from reports of the international committee for the red cross the people 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 market running 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 lithuania 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 role in facilitating the operation of the cia program a little bay they requested the european court to find to recognize him as a victim and force disappearance secret detention and torture on a plane and they're in theory a secret cia prison in a small country in central europe that may seem like a conspiracy theory just sun but not cured right activists with. cia planes landing could be have the records of conversations between senior security officials and between him top politicians being you don't have to argue about the prison it was the question how many people were brought in and most cloture moreover when your authorities do not even deny that there were a secret cia facilities on their soil for some reason though they are refusing to call me. and on

a booze abiders lawsuit mr pilots just believes there is simply scared and they knew where to they accept people who may be tortured. and that is twice as bad as it could be responsible of the shows from united states and m. from including george w. bush should be brought to international hate crime unit for crimes against humanity against prisoners it may take months for those dividers 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 to see reporting from vilnius in lithuania. here now to some other stories making headlines across the globe two main rival palestinian leaders are embarking on a new spirit of partnership after agreeing to compete in next year's presidential race the comments from president mahmoud abbas and hamas leader khaled mashal came at a meeting in cairo but they haven't resolved their differences over an interim unity government that they had planned after signing a deal in may this follows years of failed previous attempts at reconciliation. three explosions in a popular open air market in southern iraq have killed nineteen people and injured dozens more to motorbikes gone to iraq the city of basra then a third went off when police arrived that led to all of the fatalities some experts see it as an example of the future iraq may face after u.s. troops withdraw from the country by the end of december. a nato airstrike that targeted taliban militants has reportedly killed seven people including six

children in southern afghanistan president karzai has condemned the incident and ordered an investigation almost fifteen hundred civilians have been killed by violence in the country in the first half of this year alone and coming across talk goes behind the reasons for egypt's renewed protests and what the people there hope to achieve with more demonstrations first the business what they would you will you stay with us. collins a very warm welcome to the program and our top story this hour 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 artist tom barton is a fast ones headquartered in moscow how to what does it take from moscow minutes to find a compromise. seems that the chips are stacked in russia's favor today the meeting of the deal expected to be signed shortly though will give

a lot of benefits to both sides president alexander lukashenko has come to moscow to try and cut in the gas price it seems that he will do that by as much as hard but it was currently pays about three hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters for gas coming from russia that's expected to be cut to as it was one hundred fifty dollars in context customers for me you pay the market rate of about four hundred fifty dollars per thousand cubic meters so a big cut russia is keen on securing its energy transit routes to europe but it's part of the deal will allow gas from the russian state gas monopoly to buy to buy well trans gas which is the transit company currently. by the russian government it will buy that and it will that will be added to its inventor of routes into europe which include north stream going directly to germany about

twenty percent of its gas going through but the vast majority still going through ukraine belarus needs this deal though it is facing rampant inflation and an economic crisis it's expected to raise two and a half billion dollars from the sale of tranz gas to gas prompt that is cash that is much needed valorous. may regret this a little valuable national assets should get stronger in the future but for the moment alexander looking close government has set the priority as raising cash. from party thank you very much for this indeed it is time to have a quick check on the markets and we start with one of his oil is low investors are still concerned about possible supply shortages france possible post european impact go on imports from iran after the international atomic energy agency said the country may still get involved with a nuclear weapon although this is being offset by you can weaken the picture which is blamed on crude. and onto equities asia shares were lower trucking overseas

losses that softer the euro zone's biggest nations ruled out clearly going to european central bank to help tackle sovereign debt crisis every g and financial stocks were among the poorest performance in hong kong. european markets are also long hungry has become latest in line often if you nations to have its credit rating downgraded to junk status you know how easily short term foreign costs have surged to a new record if it sees point six percent lower and the taxes loosened point eight percent this hour. moving on to russia stocks here outraising of the red both the arch as in the vice it's a losing about two percent this hour let's take look at some of the individual sherm moves on the right so it's it's a sea of red here the world's nickel is losing two percent now it's just probably high and one point three percent in the red p.c.b. has switched into negative territory all entirely against it's losing funds at the two cent the south. we are very optimistic on the market short term but

we are much malcolm used to go on the market mid-term so there is a thing of this storm the best advice is to look for quality names that's been severely beaten dollar and there are you know several names like that in the russian market and. i want to mention is there another lipinski mythological plan this stock is down 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 in the name and the range that we alike is around sixty four sixty five roubles or share. and russia's biggest private old firm has just posted a nine month results look or a major net profit of mine but i'm yours a thirty percent increase over last year the results were down on analysts for

costs which were looking for a forty four percent rise the number well i guess output from the company slowed by nearly five percent in the fortune period. and russia's fourth largest to make a m m k has a great spy australian i own company flinders mines in a deal worth more than half a billion dollars the prize is an eighty percent premium to the firm's market quote if you will allow m.k. to get a slice of the resource rich and all projects in western australia it's one of the company's efforts to become an international miner and benefit from rising completion in countries like china. but if the lawyer a full day of my call a current account will visit bring you more business stories in iran system minutes time so just stay with our.

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