atika duffy taken place in different towns all across the bit risks are indeed very high that the country may fall into civil war most of all and the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as duffy's main stronghold forces loyal to the full mcconnell khadafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolizing khadafi the facilities far as the local officials happen reports in least five national transitional council people have been killed we can say for sure what was the reason behind this violence and of all the what we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court i had allegedly agreed to let say for the song for duffy's son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in law

although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c. itself judge ellis say that the violence and this announcement may be connected just hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of been goes he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the balkans raw and people there on the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes report says that but also we can see that then to see a warning that the country may fall into civil war with the situation very dangerous trying to calm down for taxes and trying to take control over the tensions and not to mold them to escalate further. which seems that pulling. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated against and c.c.t.v. and to see this trial is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little so. this. is marouf national reporting right there while

a former member of the n t c says that he had warned the council that could ask the loyalists could return to attack but that is concerns were ignored journalist patrick case says the new government ultimately is failing in its job. the national transitional council itself was very much something that was orange chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then they were kind of helicopter didn't get their feet was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the n t c isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign it's also seeing off the. supporters as well there were warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people were saying very least two months we may get a pro get off the uprising here and the m.t.c. did nothing about it so it's not surprising and it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and it's reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the moment there was

a lot of congratulates three talk by cameron sarkozy and the bomber who kept a bit of a distance but was still involved after the fall of gadhafi i think they're going to be very reluctant to admit that what they didn't do was bring about democracy in the country they just basically puts the struggle of the libyan people on hold while they were getting rid of gadhafi. russia has long been against foreign interventions into other states such as libya later the presidential envoy to africa who's just being it to the troubled country tells us here at r.t. that dialogue between opposing factions is the only true way for. it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my person the people of the old city and in some areas of libya of the civil war is not over and the so there is the whole desert area as an area of the sort of mixed and no man's land it's out of control

of new government forces it's zone of tribes it's zone of uncontrolled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if libya. political elites is not ready to sit at the round table african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that round table in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation. full interview with russia's a presidential envoy to africa is coming your way in just over an hour's time here on out say. the gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers out from syria even though their mission has been extended for another month but saudi dominated the gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group to put new

pressure on damascus to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accusers some arab states of joining an international conspiracy against the country and a blatant interference in serious internal plans for massacres insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos syria has already rejected an arab or brokered peace plan for president assad to step down while the e.u. some post fresh sanctions to further squeeze the regime but its author uses sarah furthur of course it's the syrian people who ultimately end up bearing the brunt. 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 is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions conceded against syria we don't have any tourists we don't have any for nurse the e.u. has known pace it's eleven consecutive round the sanctions this time putting

a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the essential. is we've been finding out the cascaded sanctions this woman syria's struggling economy actually they're not going to see the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed that they're business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely outside 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 law every day syrian people if i may. business is in this area now dependent upon these drugs these are generated by the media because our guys have begun an almost daily blow people's lives. not everyone can afford the back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make

a generator is very expensive it 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 in by ok and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising 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 outside maybe. this is the. market because norm or cash money money for. and true to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah.

i have. but you will be stops in two hours of spy cools it's been political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the. the arab league observers initially has also made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls for 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 a 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. damascus syria. and britain is calling on the arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria western states continue to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators which it denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from a broader political analyst. so the opposition is becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share in the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have used violence we see this as more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to the opposition that's

becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian him to structure syrian government institutions the police so really right now we're seeing i think many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon in turkey to create the very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and not peace in syria. and meantime russia insists its shipments to syria illegal it's amid reports suggesting moscow will supply new combat training jets and follows a shipload of military cargo which came on a question from other countries for a minute or so to get off that shipment checked all the boxes under international law. we believe we don't have to explain or justify ourselves as we're not

breaking any international agreements or any u.n. security council resolutions the only only terms we sell to syria are those not prohibited by international law certainly sanctions that have been adopted unilaterally and imposed by the u.s. you and some european countries cannot be viewed as legitimate for russia's actions generally unilateral sanctions always undermine the collective with regards to iran and syria or any other situations. this is r t live from moscow and still ahead for you in the one sided limits. very disappointing in fact discuss did not know the banks and for that you are u.k. student faces extradition to the u.s. on charges of breaching copyright it's all down to a british or american treaty that's being slammed as unbalanced. iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new oil embargo and

a freeze on his bank assets announced by the e.u. india has reportedly agreed to pay iran in gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could also follow suit. now 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 the 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 chalabi 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 the 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 supplies 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 think

sions are obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that 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. decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency all these pretty shrewd are reporting that well india's been quick to take advantage of but what other consequences could be used on iranian oil how is the question we're asking you on our website right now log on to r.t. dot com you can take in our latest online poll this bring up the numbers here so far more than one half of you believe china will buy all of iran's oil at a much cheaper price less than a quarter think it's europe's economy that's going to suffer eighteen percent say the involved it will make russia the number one oil supplier to the e.u. and the minority believes it all how iran's nuclear program do go online to see dot

com and have your say. a vigil is being held at moscow's international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people are bringing flowers and lighting candles for the victims of the tragedy a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirty seven people investigators i didn't identify the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of being trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four others have been detained and investigators are about to charge them but one of the world's most wanted terrorists who claimed responsibility for the bombing is still on the run. well more news whenever you want it at r.t. dot com here are some of the items are standing by for you there right now of a trial date is set for an american woman who put her adopted russian son on a plane to moscow with just

a note saying she just didn't want him anymore. and the fear is that this man could do a dot com disappearing act but he's behind a file sharing website a mega upload of america wants him extradited because multiple i.d.'s mean he stays in custody. faces extradition to the u.s. for setting up a web site giving people free access to movies online it's not a crime in britain but in america he could get up to ten years in prison it's because of a controversial treaty between the two countries originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects but as artie's iowa bennett found out the deal is putting many british citizens in an extremely vulnerable position. 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 count as copyright infringement in the us for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. very telling. you about the gulf states i don't think with rigid 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 banks 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. he even treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition for a while after it all about but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we put in. i know all there you were there when he's not sure if

you were there last time before when he said it a good strong argument that all went out the window completely. you know giving him no no we can't make up. for. 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 far extraditions of five to two in america's favor better and 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 impounds flanker i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds richard dryers are 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 as 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 chain. the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court with their options are rapidly running out onto bennett's london.

and before we get to dmitri with the business and now it's time for the r.t. world update let's start with iraq it's where a wave of car bombs killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy or all across the iraqi capital the blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country where violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common one and two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. ten soldiers have reportedly been killed in southwestern somalia after a suicide bomber detonated a lorry full of explosives outside a government building the base is used by ethiopian troops who entered somalia last month to help the country battle an al qaeda linked militant group insurgents that now control many areas in somalia. turkey has slammed france for passing an armenian genocide bill after it cleared both houses of the french parliament

under the new law people who deny the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly a century ago would face up to a year in prison armenia says one and a half million were killed in the massacre but turkey claims the number is much less and the bill still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy before it becomes law. japans kept no records of his nuclear crisis response the energy minister admits that no details from top level meetings were taken by the body set up to manage the fukushima tragedy clue to discussions about evacuating people living near the plant there's already been a wave of criticism over the way the government handled the disaster. and in just a few minutes here on r t a rather unique forecast for the future of the world's economy that will be a write off for the business with dmitri. welcome to business r.t.

good to have your company the rally in oil prices has paused traders awaiting the next move in the escalating dispute between iran and the west tehran has responded to the ease decision to impose an oil embargo by threatening to close the strait of hormuz twenty percent of the world's scrooge supply passes for it however holding him on to pick from plants energy agency believes the warning and the embargo should be seen as bargaining points. the ward being also says that there will 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 may i don't think anybody wants these things to happen because europe right now is very weak. financially economically and the last thing that europe really wants is a confrontation because that would be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from iran will go to a shell oil that was going to asia from oil look

a shows like west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always one place the oil that's not the issue the issue is the level of pain ship. to some stuff. and russia fell at the end of last year the jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to six point one percent in that december according to a survey by bloomberg analysts had expected the rate to be significantly higher rising to six point six percent. close to the markets now we start with europe and the stocks are down as in greece and as private creditors continue to negotiate over the terms the terms of the hoped for debts one deal and the brits in the forty's down one point nine percent by miners and banks now for more its banking group among the biggest losers germany's dax is down one point two percent it's led by thomas frank luntz down around four percent and there's also

a big loss for siemens but to pay off the fiscal first quarter profit. the russian markets still improving some water after the statistics on unemployment payment person expected the r.t. is down point six percent of its point three percent. bank and ending stocks are among the main decliners when tb is still down half a percent lou poor shedding one half percent the company is planning to invest more than one billion dollars in the spoiled rich tribes to paul field in siberia and the chemicals producer i call this bucking the trend it's up one point two percent after reporting almost five percent increase in production for the year twenty eleven michael stein from a clue to. says the upcoming davos economic forum obama's speech and the u.s. corporate results were all the keeping investors busy. given the improved outlook for the oil price because of the iran news that we saw yesterday and given

the very low valuations for russia generally and the fact that many of our clients continue to see fund flows into the russian dedicated funds we think that the market will gradually melt higher and that's it investors will pay attention to global events and this week there are a lot of them investors will look at the f one c. meeting coming up president barack obama's speech his state of the nation's address in addition we've got the world economic forum and more than one hundred twenty companies in the united states are releasing their fourth quarter financial results so we'll be quite a busy week on the external side and then here at home in russia investors and play close attention from macro data most notably the unemployment report in russia for december in addition to industrial production figures on the corporate side will also see operating updates from metals and mining companies including natural polish and m.k. . financial woes european banks are affecting their business abroad one of germany's biggest lenders commerzbank could be leading the russian market it's

selling a fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders promised as bank the sale as part of an effort to increase its capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with the european legislation. coming up next on out see the headlines with rory i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with an update of latest business. if. you.

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. now five thirty pm here in the russian capital city headlines. in libya as khadafi loyalists retake their former stronghold of bani walid at least five people were killed with clashes between supporters of the old regime several cities across the country. gulf states to withdraw or observers from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to

go meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to iran's oil despite the. sets of paper black gold with. reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit. now here or not see it so one of europe's leading economists are raising the what he thinks we can expect from the upcoming world economic forum in davos that's in the spotlight right now.