we bring you our correspondents inside into the five days of summer riots in britain. where twenty four hours a day this is r t i'm carrie johnston libya is currently going through a tough period of post revolutionary development after its infrastructure was badly damaged by the civil war and nato bombings in our countries which first bombed the libyan cities are cashing in on rebuilding them artes oksana boyko reports from tripoli. they may have how to bring down the house but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war the countries that poured oil into the fire and now lining to gas sheen i'm doing the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here in tripoli and it's simply not true in two thousand and ten most

call was number seventeen on the lease to flee this main trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes with get off is a plus sized only the one that spearheaded the campaign against him the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on our jostling for contracts to rebuild some of them to help to destroy you. with everything what they did with. american business style is still a bit of an oddity here but it's already catching our construction firm on our richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract because of his government the war and peter subsequent incarceration threw him off track but now he hopes to make up for it i don't condemn anybody even the people that work for him you don't have a choice here if you don't work for him what do you do die. to reach your companies

also involved in rebuilding iraq and afghanistan after the u.s. led invasion and lead to is familiar turf he even says the country's business potential make shamble all over their post conflict areas there's nothing they don't need here you know if you compare it to like the united states everything they need everything we have you know everything there infrastructure has to be totally redone all the all the facilities you know some of the things we are involved you know is executive with golf courses theme parks these people haven't really had any entertainment all these years so now you can. imagine getting you know a theme park or a little disneyland americans are not the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli they are now packed with businessman scouting for opportunities. even during get out his time turkey was pretty comfortable doing business in libya and was triple his

fourth largest trade partner lost here but maybe now hold even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authority is definitely if you have a strong political relations we try to do some concerts but it's it would facilitate any citizen instrument for the business. is not. the only ones who are still for small wonder it claiming their business interest in libya or russia and china both countries for a vocal in their opposition to the use of force in libya a stance that has already backfired most russian companies who did business in libya prior to the war are still has written to stand personnel back but the ones losing the most i believe themselves in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching admi seem like that growth now seems as having a load as building the country from scratch on

a boy car to see. how the arab league monitoring mission in syria is now heading to the city of hama a focal point of the standoff between protesters and the army reports that on wednesday six people were killed in a fresh. visit comes after observers said they found the situation holmes reassuring but james corbett editor of an independent news website based in japan doubts if the observer mission will bring any results the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its. it's unspent personally i'm not sure what these more ridiculous about the story be the idea that the the autocratic focus of the arab league states are going to presume to pronounce on the democratic meanings of the syrian government to work with the international community is supposed to take what they say with any sort of moral authority clearly these are not people in a position to be lecturing on this but but i think as i say i think the the record

has been pretty much preordained and i would be very surprised to see that today that it concludes anything other than the fact it's that the assad government is to blame for what's going on in syria right now. spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador he said carrying out promised reforms may be too difficult for the assad regime as it's essentially involved in a civil war with extremists the full version is coming up today to the to his a preview. we believe that there has been there have been some extremely troubling reports coming out of excessive use of force by those who are it is but also telling that the everybody must put pressure on. the destructive elements. of the opposition that is destructive elements which may have found their way into syria that their acts are not going to be condoned by the international community this is a this is a key to finding

a peaceful way out of the situation some reforms were announced. some of them pretty far reaching like changing the constitution and getting rid of the political monopoly of one party even on the normal circumstances in any country forms of such magnitude are not easy to implement all that in a situation where. there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters one would see weapons being moved. illegally into syria all that of course becomes a conversation. hostility between washington and tehran is increasing the u.s. saying it won't tolerate any potential close of the strait of hormuz by iran the islamic republic threatened to block oil shipments through the vital waterway if the west adopts sanctions against its petroleum exports a senior iranian commander said it will be easy to implement

a remark made while to iran conducts unprecedented war games in waters near the strait the us also maintains a naval presence in the persian gulf and says its warships will stop the iranians from blocking the passage and iran has reportedly already detected an american aircraft carrier in the vicinity but chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace on the line that stubbornness ascensions. their americans could probably force using their military in the govt to prove force open the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and would threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really challenging the americans sensing the american weakness we know that from british sources that there are plans to attack iran and israel is aiding all america to attack iran over the question of its nuclear program but i think again in a comparison with iraq in two thousand and three iran is in

a much stronger position iranian nationalism should not be should not be underestimated even opponents armitage about roué to support iran given britain and america's history in iran there's a long history of unfortunate british and american intervention in iraq so i think we're witnessing quite a dangerous escalation and it's the sanctions which the west the talk or importance of iran which is responsible for that situation developing i think we should be clear about that is the west who've racked up this situation every step but coming up later in the program a trip of a lifetime the report. russia's oldest pilgrim took a trip to mecca despite being more than a century old. r.t. continues to bring you the main stories of twenty seven through the eyes of our international correspondents it's been a tough year for the u.k. which saw its worst on rest in decades and several cities descended into riots looting and arson grossmith witness the five summer days of chaos.

we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of the seventh of august that had been localized just says on saturday the six but we were tracking the news and we literally couldn't believe what we were hearing we decided that this was a story that we had to go and. we went initially to the retail park and field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of a sudden out of the darkness came a group of around two hundred youths running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark colors with hooded top so and so you couldn't see their faces and

gradually we realized they were smashing everything that they could find. for me as a journalist it was an incredible story we were out on the streets every night wearing what i've come to call my riot gear a black white jackets with everything i need in the pocket so that i can get away quickly if necessary it's an uneasy relationship. these parts of north between the people who was in the police and things it's people say a manifestation of. we really felt two of the nights the whole of london was on fire. you would see you would arrive assist us in the area and you'd be able to see the flames on the smoke rising from two streets away and know that the writers had set fire to a car or broken into a shop and set fire to it or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous

coffin. house. arrest breads to different parts of love and. around london following it as it happens. almost anywhere that you went in the more areas of london there was some form of new say we went round and also those areas to have a look at what was going on and there was streets that were just complete no go areas no certainly for ordinary people but it seemed for the police as well we were talking to the police and it was clear from what they were saying that they had no idea what to do about the situation they just didn't know what to do they were looks of. they eventually settled on me for the bus tonight's was. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away

and it wasn't until the third or fourth night that they really got into game and elements of control. on the second we went to hackney west some of the worst unrest was taking place and it was literally shot down like who was a the police were not really less than anyone three they had surrounded the town center and when you got into the towns and we still people and just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults as well. as darkness just just. the other frightening thing was the effects that it had to own society if you had talked to people two weeks before the riots about whether bringing in the mill millet treat to take control of the streets was a good idea everybody would have said no it's quite

a liberal society when you get down to it but the people i spoke to during the riots. and immediately after genuinely felt that bringing in the army would have been a good idea and that using water cannon on the streets of london and other cities which it would have started to probably about immediately so people became very draconian jaring those times very sort of repressive and they would have supported a government move to bring in the army to sort the problem out. the studies are being done now into why the riots happened and a variety of reasons have been put forward maybe it's to bad relationship with the police in these impoverished areas particularly amongst the black youth who say that they are stopped and searched by the police sometimes multiple times a day for having done nothing some people say that's because the young people in england particularly feel that they have no prospects there's no jobs for them unemployment amongst young people is running at twenty five percent now they've got

no hope for the future. those two things remain true and so therefore i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. but a new report or not a test of the series is coming up tomorrow but if you missed any of them they're all available to watch right now at r.t. dot com. moving on now she's high spirited and fearless despite being more than a century old a woman from russia's north caucasus has fulfilled her lifelong ambition but traveling three thousand kilometers as a pilgrim to join the nazis but in the cauldron of a set out to discover her amazing life journey. this is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world and also considered a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in every muslims lifetime. as the only kello first law that happen strictly at

a certain time in place from the age to the twelfth day of the last month of the islamic calendar. my do not taking part has been a lifelong dream and what a long life it's been. i've done a lot in my life this house where i live now i built myself and i've never asked for anything special only to help me go for the have. her relatives say she was born in nineteen zero one through the repressions of the 1940's when she was almost starving in kazakstan and working in the cotton fields to a hard life back in russia laboring on construction sites in north of she always dreamt of the harsh to america even when in later life she lost her sight she never lost hope. for years she was telling me every day how much she wanted to go i was afraid the trip would be too much for her but i knew how important it was so one day i thought we should just do it. among her relatives and she has four

children and so she grandchildren no one really took it seriously but without even letting on to anyone else her grandson mogami it and his wife started preparing the trip a whole life time in her home village avril one knew about her dream but few believed that she would ask for make it to america when her neighbors found out that she had actually been on the ash the news spread across the area so far and wide. first a few georgian before taking a thirty six hour bus journey to medina there they joined hundreds of thousands of pilgrims all similar tenuously converging on america for the week to perform a series of rigorous rituals a testing time for people in their prime let alone someone who has entered their twelfth decade. with the first she had a difficult life but was always strong both physically and emotionally that's why

maybe she killed with a trip she's an example for me in our family and. now almost everyone here in north caucasus knows about her her strong drive from lack of fear and only made her dream come true but also proved if there is a will there's always a way mind you the question will r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. and remember there's always more news comment analysis on our website r.t. dot com let's check out what's that right now scoring these two teams the elephants having the master passing and shooting of all things all part of a three they're different festival held in the pole check out who won the jumbo game but out into. it. but in russia this ironic award is being handed out for the most inconsistent budget spending when it's like the defense ministry would spend a small fortune on snowflake colorful costumes to cover the details on our website .

the trial of egypt's ousted president resumed on wednesday after a three month break but egyptian journalist osama diablo says hosni mubarak's hearing is an attempt to divert the attention of protesters from their battle against the current leadership. there is definitely a sense among especially among protesters that this trial is a mock trial basically designed to cool down the public opinion one of the reasons the losing popularity is that there is. mainly the muslim brotherhood did leave did leave the square because they now move busy with the elections and the muslim brotherhood strategy now is to bring change through the parliament rather than

through the street. so who really remains in the square now is activists with the moves socialist tendency. who did not do very well in the elections and they see they still perceive the street. the main lobbying. platform. well looking at what else is making headlines around the world now we begin in pyongyang north korea. huge crowds gathered to pay tribute to kim jong il it marks the second day of a memorial for the late the day of mourning for those wednesday's funeral service and by kim jong il son and successor kim jong un thousands of people in tears lined the streets as they said their fun farewell to the been in power since one thousand nine hundred forty four and the death of his from. israel's defense forces have

confirmed preparing for a possible large scale offensive on gaza earlier the country's top general on the operation be swift and painful tensions on the border have been rising at least one palestinian tilled and seven others injured in an israeli airstrike on tuesday they also marked three years since the start of a major israeli offensive on gaza in which more than a thousand palestinians were killed. in nigeria church leaders say that christian communities are losing confidence in the government's ability to protect them christians have described recent assaults as a declaration of war against them and nigeria as a whole and say don't respond appropriately to any future provocation comes just after the militant islamist group boko haram attacked churches on christmas day killing dozens the group wants to impose islamic sharia law across the country which is split between mainly christians in the south in the north.

a series of explosions in myanmar and go after warehouses and nearby homes killing at least twenty people including four firefighters more than one hundred others were injured the blasts occurred as crews battle flames that started inside and tronics warehouse before spreading patients are investigating what sparked the blaze and subsequent explosions. recent u.s. census data suggests that the heart of americans are fictionally poor as the u.s. economy prepares to step into another year of hardship box cars and stacey herbut have been on those they blame for the tough times food program is coming up later today. at the bank j.p. morgan gets congress to change laws on. their knees as a predatory terrorist oh. i would think so hey let's call the white house. and nobody's all of the white house this guy is out golfing.

for a bunch of our top stories in just a few minutes but before that the latest business news with a touch. twenty three minutes past noon here in moscow watching business are cheap as twenty eleven comes to an end to business r.t. looks back at the highs and the lows of the year today we're focusing on the russian stock market but in the course of a looks at how bears came to replace the balls. it's been a roller coaster ride for investors the c.e.o. with markets being bashed by micro and political events like the unrest in the

middle east and the earthquake in japan that's over a debt crisis in europe the u.s. rates in downgrades quantitative easing and bank recapitalization uncertainty regarding u.s. and china growth high volatility and low confidence leading to a flight to safety then we had investors trading in the seas rather than individual stocks and finally trading volumes by historical comparison now let's take a closer look and see how the r.t.s. was affected we can already see some major drops are out the year and this is the investor reaction to standard and poor's downgrade of the u.s. credit rating both the my six and the r.t. has beat the two thousand a record for the biggest one day fall now prices for oil russia's key export also sang soo a five month low and we can see that figure a year in august the low point came on october fourth as

a russian stocks closed more than five percent in the red and there's been little in the way of recovery since trade has been highly volatile domestic issues have also played a part following allegations of fraud in the parliamentary election in the center thousands gathered on the streets to protest the bullets gone certainty call some investors to head for the exit as we can see by the numbers for that period right here now in the end the r.t.s. has lost around twenty percent since the beginning of the year we can see where it started and all the way were down and analysts forecast an even deeper fall in two thousand and twelve but after such a turbulent year any predictions about the next twelve months must be taken with a law. pinch of salt though international issues are likely to continue to dominate sun summons on the home front of the russian economy is expected to consume needs to grow inflation will moderate further and the governments will press ahead with its massive profits as asian program though this may seem like the recipe for

success the truth of the matter is we've already seen how easily russia is dragged down by negative external factors so that's what investors will be looked into. and let's take a look at the markets now oil first gaining for the seventh session on supply concerns light sweet as more than ninety nine have dollars a barrel and brant is that almost one hundred eight dollars and now on to equities in europe they're higher in the first hour of trade banks and telecoms of the main gainers in london all eyes are on a long term italian bond auction this thursday and here in moscow the markets are in the red at noon which is no surprise considering what was happening with global equities overnight the r.t.s. is now losing around one and two thirds of a percent of all the why is six is down three quarters of a percent. and now a quick look at some individual share moves on the mindsets most of the blue chips

are trading in the red this hour as well financials are among the main losers was bearing down more than one and how for sound lower crude is weighing on energy majors lukoil is down a third of a percent gazprom nafta is also in the negative territory the company is planning to increase production by more than four percent next year. it's been a bad year for moscow drivers the capital suffered a lot of traffic jams year round not to mention the tory is mid-summer and we can stand still the city hall says public transport is the solution that has opened ninety five kilometers of bos lanes now plans to introduce contraflow system zone seven highways and build three million. parking spaces in the city the deputy mayor nikolai almost blames that area rating traffic on more than three hundred thousand new cars that hit moscow rowland's on a manual basis at this time of the year though the solution this situation is even worse says people driving from the regions to go near shopping. work with

more than a million calls into moscow from the region every single day and they're not just from the moscow region that coming from all over russia but before the new year holidays the amount of cars increases by no less than forty percent of the world must go is in gridlock at this time of the year five years ago it would be the same now. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes see them.

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