that's our to sara for now reports from damascus. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue in syria we don't have any tourists we don't have any for most of the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive around the sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime says we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions has serious struggling economy actually they are going to shiva syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed by big business with the syrian government with the people the power is completely out of this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions is that this simply affecting the way so

every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now i depended upon these type of diesel generators that are needed because our cars had become an almost daily blow people's lives there not everyone can afford to back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make generators very expensive costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds as i know it's not cheap and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an exports embark a and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and my zing prices have pushed many businesses to take their trades and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the

business keep somebody maybe maybe. this is. a market because norm or cash money money for. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i have. but you will be with the stops. and one. of the spy coups that dialogue has been political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the. the arab league observers in mission has also made little headway say for that and they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls that even more

observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging and much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people then one of the the the sanctions impact is heavily contested this need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. r.t. damascus syria. and still to come for you this hour here on our when fear of lawsuits comes at the cost of human life how rescue services from the u.s. coming under fire after a number of cases where they looked the other way. during life threatening emergencies. for british students fate hangs in the balance as he

faces extradition to the united states it's a controversial agreement between london and washington that allows america to demand anyone to be handed over to his justice system or on the grounds of reasonable suspicion alone and authorities i have a bennett report so treaty originally designed to deal with terror suspects and now appears to have gone far beyond its initial limit. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s. federal prison richard o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain that counters copyright infringement in the u.s. for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. perry's going to impact the gulf states i don't think that you brigid site t.v.

shack was seized by u.s. authorities last year this is what you see on the home page now he didn't host any illegal videos itself but posted links to where users could find them u.s. prosecutors claim richard banked two hundred thirty thousand dollars in advertising revenue from the site although he's never been to america they claim his actions had a direct consequence is there to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition for well i've heard all that but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we put in. there and all but he would there when he's i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said with a good strong argument that all went out the window completely. you know giving him no no we can't get up. to. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring

international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so for extraditions of five to two in america's favor veteran british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party the smaller partner in the governing coalition . what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than that of an american to and at the moment you think it's in bonds record i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds richard was innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon is case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's wanted for hacking into pentagon files that he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing

it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still not enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him his case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out either bennett artsy london. i thought he was coming to life in the heart of moscow and the fighting has broken out in libya between supporters of former leader moammar gadhafi and forces loyal to the new government the head of the national transitional council has warned that the country is on the verge of returning to a state of civil war let's get more details on this now from our teaser. standing by live maria good to see you so it's it might seem to some that libya is reverting

to parts of what we saw last year to the mid to late months of two thousand and eleven with the tribal factions here loyalists going against opposition how serious is this talk of civil war. rory this is very serious in the last few days the situation in libya has been very tense and very dangerous actually indeed with the anti m.t.c. national transitional council even interim government protests and clashes between the pro-government projects and food is still loyal to the ousted leader and more money could afy taken place and different places throughout the year on monday we did receive reports that. the loyalists actually managed to take control over the city of bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli once known as the duffys main stronghold and did also manage to raise green flag at one of the gates of the town green flag symbol of. duffy's room and local officials have been

reporting about at least five people and to see people killed in. these fallen so we can see this is very simple the bani walid as i decide as always been considered put up his main stronghold and since the beginning of the odd crossing people from this particular area from bani walid have been volunteers to the fight for could offer to dogs for the former colonel through all everywhere throughout leave and once it was said to be the song called for. duffey son safe his mom so it's very simple it's at the ballance erupted at this level at this serious level in this particular area and they didn't come as a surprise coming can say for sure what was the reason for this fall and the reason behind these tensions but. we just know that the same day early

on monday the libby is justice minister has come to me announcing that the international criminal court. agreed to try to say for this one could off the sun in leaving until even more actually later today later on monday. i see you see the spokes person did night this information has been has never been confirmed actually they was an announcement from minister of justice of leave and later we saw this violence erupt maybe these two things could be connected later on monday we also were receiving reports about violence around tripoli and following that the anti see. checkpoints around the capital just. for security reasons and also three and to see people who were reputed to be killed in the city open ghazi in the eastern part of

lead there in gaza city which is known to be the stronghold of the rebels since the beginning of the uprising last february. so you talk about the renewed aggression here the people are angry and to see for a slow start to perform certain levels of corruption you mentioned the end to see how suppositions and checkpoints in and around benghazi or any other courses of action the national transitional council has been undertaking to avert the violence . yes you. absolutely right we can see that angriness among the liberal population is rising over how and t.c. is. is you know control and is governing leave it and we know that we know it from the local officials and then the ballance erupted in bani walid local officials. and to see to send army to send troops to help

them fight against gadhafi loyalists but the army has never been sent there so we can understand that and to cease trying to calm down and is actually being maybe afraid of. the violence escalates and we also know that following the demonstrations in benghazi when crowds of students have been protesting against and to see have been angry about as you said slow pace of reforms and lack of transparency one of the. high profile members of anti c. resigned actually and this resignation was accepted by the chief of anti so so we can see that and to see is trying to. take control of this situation but with actually little success so far. some reflection of it with the latest on libya

thank you. well there is a more trouble ahead for libya and only dialogue can stop the country plunging back into civil war but is this segment from russia's a presidential envoy to africa who has just been in a trip to libya he gives us his insight he will be doing so later in the program but for now a quick taste of what's up ahead. it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal between the real civil and in some areas of libya of the civil war is not over so the so there is the who deserved area as an area of the sort of it's the no man's land it's out of control of new government forces it's his own of tribes it's a zone of uncontrolled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for where the some of the if libyan political elite

is not ready to sit at the round table. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow the e.u. has delivered on its threat to ban the import of crude oil from iran in response to its nuclear program the latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts while allowing for existing deals to run into july but iran is apparently finding ways to keep the business pumping reports say iran will keep supplying one of its biggest customers in india but it will get payment in gold instead of dollars that is pretty sure to reports from new delhi. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran

to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by july first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union and washington is trying to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with iran using domestic currencies instead of u.s. dollars obviously the point of the e.u. oil embargo would be to bring iran back to the negotiations table over its nuclear program obviously iran has consistently maintained that this is a peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing

nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran and iran has said that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually worth twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through in the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that i think sions are obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and it's actually going to be counterproductive another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold and decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. that is pretty shrewd reporting right there where we are always interested here at r.t. about your opinion today we are asking you about the e.u. ban on iran's oil if you just log on to our dot com you can take part in our latest poll and here's how the numbers of stacking out right now about just over half of

you believe it will give china all of iran's oil at the same time being cheaper less than a quarter things that will bring europe's economy to a halt around nineteen percent say it will make a rush or the number one oil supplier to the e.u. and as you can see a minority believe it will hamper iran's nuclear program i do go online to our dot com have your say on this international worldwide life paul. today marks one year since the deadly bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport thirty seven were killed in the blast carried out by a suicide bomber at the international arrivals hall investigators later identified the suicide bomber as a twenty year old from russia's republic of chechnya a train by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four have been detained but one of the world's most wanted terrorists dokoupil model who claimed

responsibility for mastermind of the bombing is still on the run. firemen standing by while houses burn down and police watching while people go down a spate of incidents in the united states has sparked concern over what kind of society it's becoming as artie's gynae can reports sticking to the rules and fear of litigation appear to be trumping care and compassion. jeanne chronics house burned down to ashes as firefighters stood by and just watched they refused to save mr chronics home because he hadn't paid a seventy five dollars fire fee that the county requires i thought they'd come out and put it out maybe if you hadn't but i do said the five dollars but as the house went up in flames the cryonics were begging the firefighters to make an exception saying they were ready to pay whatever it took to put out the blaze but they were told it was too late things my mother and my mothers my grandmothers my great

grandmother's were all there in the house same happened to be keep bell from tennessee firefighters stood by and idly watched her trailer home burn because she hadn't paid the seventy five dollars fee now once they were in practice that. they felt they were all safe. in the us foreign policy varies from state to state from county to county in south fulton tennessee if you don't pay you're out of luck anybody that's not inside the city limits the interest harvest that we offer. down behind numerous similar incidents lies a problem rigid local rules versus the responsibility of the government to help its citizens when they're in trouble or rather versus basic human compassion we're really poor in terms of humanity i mean when it's seventy five dollars that is the more important thing and i get in a situation like this it just shows you that we've become far too concerned about about every single dollar you know and also that it just shows it's really kind of

it's an all about me you know we just don't live in the community anymore than like there's no sense of this like shared responsibility for the individuals in that community in california police and firemen watch the man drown saying they didn't have proper certifications for water rescue which would leave them open to possible lawsuits if they attempted to save him city officials blamed the incident on budget cuts so as the more. then an hour long tragedy unfolded authorities stood there and did nothing this is the part where rules and regulations defy logic that was the end result of body washing up to the shore. so you think it's horrible how can we allow that to happen in the us is a very litigious society we have more lawyers per capita per capita than any other country in the world and so you know when you have to worry when you're a rescuer and you have to worry about a lawsuit and you cannot rescue a person as a result i mean that's that's really

a problem if the firefighters had rescued the man even saved his life but somehow maybe broke a rib or hurt him in some other way you know they stand to be sued in court and that's just the way our system works even after the serve brought raymond zack's body closer to the shore firefighters refused to get in the water and retrieve the corpse so they waited until a passer by volunteered to do the job the logic you don't get anything unless you pay makes sense to a lot of americans but when you have money and rules on one side of the scale and humanity the human urge to help on the other and money wins this is when one gets the says that something is wrong with the way this is the works i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. our before we have kareena with the business let's do the rocks he will talk to it for you some other international headlines in brief for your twin car bomb attacks have killed eight and injured thirty two in iraq the first blast targeted an early morning gathering of workers in

a mainly shia area fact that minutes later a car bomb blew up near a pastry shop in the same district at least one hundred seventy people have been killed in similar attacks since the beginning of this year. turkey has vowed to retaliate after the french senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny the massacre of all medians by the ottoman empire. in one thousand fifteen was genocide both houses of the french parliament have passed the bill which still has to be signed off by a president sarkozy in order to become law the proposal is said to make the denial of genocide and war crimes recognized by french law punishable by up to a year in prison how many years says that one and a half million were killed in the massacre so he says the figure was much lower and rejects the term genocide. to kenya presidential candidates will stand trial at the hague on crimes against humanity the men are bound for prominent kenyans

accused of orchestrating a deadly wave of violence following the country's two thousand and seven election more than twelve hundred were killed during the country's post-election clashes with more than a half a million force from their homes and no date at this point has been set for the trials. all right as i said a type of kareena now with the hourly r.t. business update. thanks very as twenty five past two pm here in moscow welcome to business the rally in oil prices has paused traders await the next move for the escalating dispute between iran and the west tehran has responded to the e.u.'s decision to impose an oil embargo by threatening to close the straits of hormuz twenty percent of the world's crude supply passes through it however hot here month the peg from plants believes that the warning and the embargo should or should be seen as bargaining points the ward being also says that there would be

a review in me so there almost means that i am ready to do something in july but i can change my mind in me i don't think anybody wants these things to happen because europe right now is very weak. financially economically the last thing that europe really wants is a conflagration because there will be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from your will go to. oriel that was going to locations start with africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always replace the oil that's not the issue the issue is the level of. all this flux getting above ninety nine dollars a barrel in new york a speculation the u.s. stock piles again last week is weighing against those worries about iran. learned it is trading at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel european stock markets

declined on tuesday as greece and its private creditors continue to negotiate over the terms of a hope for debt swap deal barclays is losing one point eight percent pushing the foot sea point seven percent down the german dax is shedding over one percent led by a three percent loss for heavyweight xena's which reported a drop in fiscal first quarter profits here in russia markets are trading lower in the afternoon the r.t.s. is losing just under half a percent to my xix the sharing point six percent let's take a look at some individual channels on them isaacs most of the blue chips are lower with banking and energy stocks the main decliners beating me is losing a third of a percent look oil is down one and a half percent companies planning to invest more than one billion dollars in oil rich crabs to top field in siberia and chemical group is a bucking the trend it's getting point two percent this hour it's reported an almost five percent increase in production for the year two thousand and eleven.

the financial woes of european banks are affecting their business abroad one of germany's biggest lender scholars is leaving the russian market it's selling a fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders problem says bank the sale as part of the effort to increase its capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with the new european legislation. and that's all business is for now join me in less than one hour.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more new g.m. owns. our core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm disappointed just appalled but that's allowed to go on in america. getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for the music they come aboard to experiment you could be used as guinea. pigs oh no we have more questions than we have answers to cards. like.

the. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow time for your headlines new violence in libya gadhafi loyalists clash with the interim government forces in several cities across the country as fears grow of a slide back into civil war the fighting follows weeks of protests with libya's new leaders struggling to unify the country. six gulf state members of the arab league are to withdraw their observers from syria the news comes

a day after damascus rejected the league's calls from for president assad to step aside and form a new unity government with the opposition. plus it derided for being one sided the extradition law between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces fresh calls for review and british anger it's a one way street to american jails. now here on r t an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and some possible solutions sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy to africa that of mikhail about to go off you're watching art. you know my dear old chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russians.