thousands gather in cairo's tahrir square for mass protests planned as a final call for military rulers to hand over power as the most violent rallies in egypt since mubarak's fall enter their second week. once those regimes are overthrown a pandora's box is in other words chaos can be the result france's fresh initiative to set up a humanitarian corridor in syria is widely seen as a first step toward military intervention in a country torn apart by violence. preparations in place for a possible escalation of violence in northern kosovo local serbs say nato backed

forces broke earlier grievance i tried to tear down a border barricade a move that led to fierce clashes. four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story cairo's tahrir square once again packed with people gathered for friday prayers with a threat of continued violence lingering in the air recent clashes have seen more than forty people killed since saturday this is live video you're looking at from the scene where agri protesters have called for military authorities to hand over power to a civilian government party's policy or joins us live now from cairo so paul there have been some concessions made by the military rulers including an apology issued on their facebook page the other day but are they doing. enough to call the

protesters anger. but the protesters yesterday don't feel that the military is doing enough to meet their demands as i am talking to the crowd continue to grow so that we're at this moment nowhere near the one million man march that organizers had hoped for but it's still early hours and that is what the time for the past week has much later in the day that people turn out in huge numbers and of minus fifteen has often been violent at night so the situation gets still tense and still very unpredictable i've been looking around for hundreds of people that would subject today lost on friday that these two different opinions different opinions in terms of process they will pan out some of the protesters have been talking to say that they are very fearful that they will be violent tonight and that the whole situation will sustain into tennessee and chaos that on the other hand it just as many protesters have been talking to said that they believe that today will mark the end of this whole phase as they permit fees of protesters who planned on monday to don't vote in the parliamentary elections they feel that the army should be

given a chance that they will call for a group of them children from here who we are hearing are planning a march to pakistan where if indeed these marches who are opposed to the military comes out and they clash with the majority of people here who are not from unity we could see violent clashes the sentiment is also one of anger over the support from human rights is that the hague at being used by the security forces has been banned internationally not the people here needed human rights is to tell them that for the future of confirmation of what people have been believing for the past least for figuring from local officials that at least twenty two people which killed were killed by a five rounds were stuck to the full senate many of them died from a single bullet wound to the front of the head a little same time we're hearing that a lot of the fire that killed these protesters came from above so this just in to suggest that the army in the police are using a monster. so what's been the response so far from external players to this

continued wave of violence. what we've heard from washington they have issued a statement in which they've for eight weeks conference of power by the military to civilian government but other than that big international community has largely been quiet which is in stark contrast to how they've been responding to the crisis and the violence in syria there the arab league has given an ultimatum to damascus in which damascus needs to say that it will agree to send some five hundred observers coming to that country they want to look at how the government is dealing with the anti-government protests damascus has the deadline for right now in fact we might hear here on how they will respond but if indeed they refuse that this observer mission the creative that they'll be step of a whole host of sanctions and because of this attention being focused on the syria no way near the same kind of attention that's been focused on egypt people you know are saying that the whole situation is hypocritical and double standards in terms

of how the international community is eating with these key countries right artie's policy or life for us from the egyptian capital thanks very much for that update. remember we'll continue bringing you all the latest news from egypt meanwhile you can see for yourself anytime you want we have a live camera feed in our connecting directly from central cairo available on our website that's at r t dot com. and that's our here flashback comes up in cross talk later today host hero of elle's guest discussing the new uprising and how the u.s. and other western players are reacting to it take a look. chance and they've had the chance to her what they could have said in the case of this influx that because they have absolutely no kind of consistency they have no real policy and they have not indicted action what they what they're hoping at the moment is somehow that the military would gain control and ensure a more kind of snow a transition in favor of their own interests and looks for that event.

syria now facing punishing sanctions from the arab league as a diplomat from the body says damascus has ignored friday's deadline to accept foreign observers meanwhile for as actively seeking international support for a humanitarian corridor to be set up in the crisis torn country this is also the first time a major power has formally called for foreign intervention in the uprising against president assad but there are questions about paris's go to efforts as artie's tests are silly reports. creepily thanks a deliberate intervention of french president nicolas sarkozy bad destroying a first for his country first call for nato to impose no fly zone over libya. first to officially recognize the opposition as libya's only which it admit government first to strike with libya now in the rearview mirror syria appears to be the next stop france is once again the first western nation since just an

international ground intervention in syria calling for a quote secure zone to protect civilians and first to adores the exiled opposition syrian national council plans of human thing and is very very popular agreement between most of the left and most of the right about that and some husky save your definition 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 to do the loans and sweeping popularity at home is what suckles he needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president between twelve elections it's trying our president nicolas sarkozy talks about the syrian crazies and. the keepers that know he's really really. bad situation when and when it comes to the ports and he's using certain phrases as a way to. to be seen as provocative 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 that who set off the era of 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 no access to courts or a functioning judiciary and many are still armed scenario some warn it could be repeated in syria and once those regimes are overthrown a pound or as box is opened in other words chaos can be the result while one is always happy to see the end of brutal dictatorships my own view is that these are the ends to these regimes and the people themselves critics are france's latest move of raise the question of whether any foreign intervention in syria would outlaw groups as well other companies have taken a slightly more cautious step it seems that the french leadership are putting its for doubt and planting that's why the head of everyone else french assertion is not

entirely welcome by syrians themselves a lot of it. actually would not welcome. what was is or even turkish forces so you can be the regime and against boring you mention a fraud against france it's not because he may get out of the diversion in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it but at least no one can argue about who said it first or cilia r.t. brussels to see. if there's some perspective on what's happening in syria the situation there with dr marcus part of dark hours and hours from britain's politics first online magazine thanks very much for joining us so all of the nato has repeatedly said it's not seeking military intervention in syria paris now saying that humanitarian convoys that it wants to send to the country would need armed protection which seems like it could be a prudent step but do you think that also could be a slippery slope. well i suspect that there are certain nato member countries that

would like to take military action against syria we have to remember that syria is of immense geo strategic importance geographically it's in the heart of our middle east politically it has so many different tentacles in so many different regions into waste in particular lebanon so if the chances there for western governments to come to power then i think certainly nato member states would be interested in bringing that a balance however i don't actually think military action will come about for a number of reasons reasons firstly. you know any conflicts in the middle east has the potential to ignite the whole region into a ball of flames secondly the syrian military it's not like the libyan military the syrian military is one of the most powerful one of the largest in the rain in the region equipped with state of the arts weapons systems so that would pose

a potent threat to nato aircraft firstly another reason i don't think there will be major intervention and it's something that's neglected certainly in the british press is russia's naval base at tartus which has been there since soviet times it was opened in the early one nine hundred seventy s. so innocent of it where say there was a nato air strike on going nato air strike against syria what would happen if a missile was the strike against that russian naval base at tartus palace on a russian service woman was killed so i'm sure you can sort of see what i'm getting that there would be the potential for a face of between nato and russia certainly all good points so the new seems to be though tightening around president assad's neck with mounting pressure from arab as well as western countries do you think we are yet to see another regime. at the moment it seems that the syrian military. is supporting president assad's. it

seems that the generals they are on board to there's no talk of a coup however if that was to change then potentially we could see another arab government another arab leader fall from power but as i said. i don't believe that there will be nato intervention and what i'm getting at is this it was a mater intervention in libya which the n.c.c. to power then it was a nato airstrike that destroyed could effie's command and control centers. his ground forces. they opened the door for the into the forces and all the n.c.c. forces which were completely incompetent when it came to fighting a war all they had to do was walk through the door which they did so in regard to syria i don't believe the military intervention if there isn't military intervention and providing the syrian generals stay on board with president assad's government then i actually had to figure he will prevail. how do you think the west especially france in this case can be so sure that president assad the departure

will improve the situation and not lead to more chaos and bloodshed after all violence has returned to the streets of egypt after the revolution that toppled president mubarak there. and i can't see how the west can be so sure that peace will come to them it's a waste i think once again we're looking at shit so it's its objectives and we've seen this before we saw this going back to the 1980's of the soviet afghan conflicts how the west principally america britain and france they got in support of them which i had they simply to defeats the soviet army but they never asked themselves who they actually involved in themselves with so you know if we fast forward twenty odd years or so to syria i can't see how they can forcibly believe that peace will come to the middle east with president assad fooling i mean if we have a look at some of the people the syrian government is fighting against the migrants are actually on militants they criminal gangs and many of these armed militants

have links to religious extremism so you don't think it's it's a reckless negligence science of the approach that think that the west is taking but also lots of make one other point about france and it's something that's been overlooked briefly please if you're going to move out of it ok if you look at the second half of the twentieth century it was a humiliating time for fronts they were they were kicked out of indochina they were occupied by nazi germany in the second world war had to be liberated by foreign armies. they were kicked out of algeria i think this is an attempt at france to regains some prestige on the international arena all right thanks very much i have to leave it there marcus papadopoulos analyst from britain's politics first magazine thanks very much. thanks very much will stay with us here on r t still to come europe's money continues to dry up as investors take flight. this crisis is like a pandemic a financial panic. borrowing costs go up yet again even more trouble on an already

beleaguered erode we tell you why. and the terror suspect who says he was tortured by u.s. interrogators in europe we hear why this could lay bare the cia's secret prison program. but first tensions run high on syria serbia's border with northern kosovo as neither of the conflicting sides seems prepared to rule out further escalation of violence local serbs say nato forces are to blame for breaking an agreement by trying to remove a barricade blocking the way to one of a number of disputed checkpoints that move prompted violent clashes that left dozens injured on both sides are it easier or gordon it has more lost cost him than costello without the violence but that does not mean that the source of tension has disappeared two nights ago on the twenty third the may do back a fools tried to remove a barricade that has been put up by the ethnic minority here it was going through

stiff resistance to gas was used more than twenty people were injured and the operation by the cake will have to be abandoned. now yesterday we drove around the area and these barricades which have been up here for around four months still are manned by people and people say no they're not going to abandon them and find they're planning to put up even more of them now that untrained eye these road blocks 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 do here we need to go back to july as we know the serbian people here the ethnic serbs are in a minority only constitute about ten percent of the population of kosovo since kosovo has been recognized by several countries they've also lost any kind of legal status they still consider themselves citizens of serbia and they still consider land a part of serbia of course the majority albanian casals did 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 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 saw us as an infringement of their remaining freedoms they're calling this a slippery slope first control because them's perhaps control of the police coming in here and being able to control the territory and finally the remainder of the serbian population at first they've been of 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 back a for the serbs they did not trust pay for they said they came for basically protecting albanian interests and the kind of clash that we saw the night before

when the case was trying to move the barricades for the serbs here that's a clear illustration of where their priorities lie. of course we'll be keeping you updated on developments in northern kosovo archie's eager overrode you just saw in that report there for us at the moment and we're streaming his tweets as there are seventy four says currently no signs of tension easing as local serbs seem set on not letting the roadblocks ago serbian men of all ages taking turns guarding them from nato back pay for troops and follow the feed yourself while they're at parties underscore column on twitter. the euro continues to weaken amid fears that europe's leaders have no viable plan on the table the single currency hit a seven week low friday that situation worsened by growing panic has invaded individual investors and major companies clear out their deposits from european banks in recent months billions of euros have been withdrawn from the accounts and

the ease most troubled countries including italy and spain as the banks struggle to attract new investors some experts say decision makers in brussels at mit it's now make or break time for the eurozone. right knowing there is definitely a pople smell of fear in brussels over what's going on when you're in the euro parliament in the coffee shops the hubble's cloners 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 their their most important facet right now is to keep that money safe and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really theseus in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to basically take away the bull 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 remember to click on our team got column for all the latest news on our web site there you'll find a spy story out a pivotal point iran to the rest what alleged cia agent supposedly snooping into the country's nuclear program was. how's this for a faberge egg to find out why a museum dedicated to the right now the russian jeweler house fork out a million dollars for these breakfast leftovers all of the details served up at our team got caught in. the live could be lifted on further on secret cia prisons across central and

eastern europe a terror suspect who's been held without charges for ten years says he was tortured at a facility in lithuania and he's taking it to court the baltic states already admitted housing secret cia detention centers artie's alexei or a chef he has more from vilnius. terror suspect abu zubaida now add one column 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 there is selling those. from u.s. internal government reports and also from reports of the international committee for the red cross that that was where there was tortured in the hands of the cia. he was subjected to very cruel treatment for example not exactly. what

authority which is a government not drunk. he seems to have every reason to hold a grudge against washington but from behind bars a bite of 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 ukrainian bears responsibility for its role in facilitating the operation of the program and those who pay their request at the european court recognized him as a victim and forced disappearance secret detention and torture only plain and territory a secret cia prison in a small country in central europe that may seem like a conspiracy theory to sun but not just right activists are going to have cia planes landing looking to be have the records of conversations between senior security officials and between him and top politicians bilby don't have to argue

about the prison it was clear the question is how many people were brought and most probably cloture moreover storages did not even deny that there were secret cia facilities on their soil for some reason though they are refusing to comment on the bill's abiders lawsuit mr qualities believes they're simply scared they. accept people who maybe torture them with meaning and that is twice as bad as it could be but i think that the responsible of fishes from united states 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 the biters 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 little. and you 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 portable consequences of this case may be let's see reporting from vilnius in lithuania. returning briefly to our top story again these are live pictures from cairo's tahrir square where thousands are protesting against the military government after friday prayers the threat of continued violence is hanging in the air as more than forty people so far killed in violence since saturday military rulers have appointed a new prime minister and promised presidential elections summer of next year but protesters are demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government stay with us here on r.g.p. we'll bring you more as it develops throughout the day. meanwhile we delve into moscow's archives of the art on guard in a few minutes but first an update on the business news with kareena melican stay

with us. thank you hello welcome to our business up at this hour the presidents of russia and belarus are meeting to give an accepted final approval to a key energy deal between the two countries selling its gas transportation networks nasco in exchange for a cut in the price of gas supplies and artie's dumbarton that gas pumps headquarters in moscow right now hello tom so why did it take the last good minutes to find this compromise. well karuna it seems that the chips are stacked on moscow's side with the game so both sides are considerable. present. are meeting as we speak and the deal to be shy and signed shortly will include a price cut around hard in the price that russia charges for its gas at the moment

plays about three hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas from russia i will be cut to a figure just above one hundred fifty dollars thirty some text european customers countries in europe paid a market rate of about four hundred fifty dollars per thousand cubic meters to quite a big cart russia was keen to secure its supplies of gas to europe in which. gas from the russian gas monopoly will be able to supply the state gas transit company bell trans gas that will help transit to europe and will be added to the north stream pipeline about twenty percent of russia's gas going through. to europe and the majority still going through the ukraine needs this deal it's an economic trouble with rampant inflation and trade problems as well it can raise two and a half billion dollars from the sale of tranz gas and although in the future the

loss of that national assets may be regretted. present look at government has said as the priority raising cash. ok thank you reporting from gas prices headquarters here in moscow thanks very much for now let's go to the markets all is lower as 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 however this is being asked. by the weak economic picture which is going on crude. now to equities european markets are lower and hungry has become the latest in line of either nations to have its credit rating downgraded to junk status meanwhile italy's short term borrowing costs have surged to a new record growth the dax losing around half a percent this hour and here in russia stocks are trading in the red as well both

reality s. and my six are losing nearly one and a half percent let's take a look at some individual samples on the market it's how to ships are mixed nor is the kill is losing two percent while ross they have is point eight percent in the black. squished into the negative territory following earlier games is losing over two percent the south. britain's biggest private all firm has just post thirty nine of results look all needed net profit of nine billion euros a thirty percent increase over last year results are down analysts forecasts which were looking for a forty four percent rise on average. for the country slowed by nearly five percent in the reporting period. russia's fourth largest steelmaker m.k. has agreed to buy australian are in or company flinders mines in a deal worth more than half a billion dollars the price is that any as an eighty percent premium to the firm's market quote but you will allow m.k.

to get a slice of the resource rich pilbara iron ore project in western australia it's part of the company's efforts to become an international miner and benefit from rising consumption in countries like china. well that's all the time we have for an investigation of this report but i'll be back with more after a stunning.