indeed very high that the country may fall into civil war the most of all and the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as the duffys main stronghold the forces loyal to the full moco know to doff the 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 toughest ruling this far is the local officials have been recruits in least five national transitional council people have been killed we can see for sure was the reason behind these pollens and by nobody but we know that the same day the leave in justice minister announced that the international criminal court to have allegedly agreed to let say for the slum to duffys song to be tried in leave it until even more although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c. itself judge ellis say that the violence and this announcement may be cannot just

hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of been guns he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the balkans around see for their own capital they've said so several checkpoints wrong tripoli following the clashes reports is that but also we can see that's the end to see a warning that the country may fall into civil war with the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to mold them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated against and to see if the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far was little success. reporting right that what. you see is those that

he had won the council that khadafi loyalists could return to attack but that his concerns were ignored journalist patrick hayes says the new government simply is failing. the national transitional council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then the kind of helicopter didn't when gadhafi 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 in terms of pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off. supporters as well warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people are saying very least two months we may get a pro get off the uprising here and the entity 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 really 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. and russia has long been against foreign intervention in other states such as libya later the presidential envoy to africa who's just been to that troubled country tells us here at r.t. that dialogue between opposing factions is truly the only way for. it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my person. you'll see. in some areas of libya of the civil war is not the work of the so here is the whole desert area as an area of the certain it's the no man's land it's all the control of new government forces it's tribes it's own all controlled arms trafficking so i

think that the difficult time for libya will last for the simple period of time if . political elite is not ready to sit at the round table african union summit to my mind my plea very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation. and that full interview with russia as the presidential envoy to africa is coming your way in about an hour and twenty minutes right here on out. gulf nations pulling that arab league observers out of syria even though the mission has been extended there for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the u.n. for most powerful group to put new pressure on damascus to end the ongoing bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuse you of some arab states of joining an

international conspiracy against the country and the place to fear and some serious internal damascus insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos seriously already checked it out. a brokered peace plan for president assad to step down while the e.u. is imposed more sanctions to further. but it's i think sarah for the syrian people who ultimately bear 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 here is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue syria we don't have any tourist we don't have any for most of the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round of sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime as we've been

finding out the cascade of sanctions has swamp syria's struggling economy actually they are punishing the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed by big business with the syrian government the people the power is completely out of this door in the central 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 in fact most businesses in this area now depended upon these type of diesel generators that are needed because our guys have become an almost daily part of people's lives said the 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 the generator 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 export in bulk a 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 trade and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the business keep somebody maybe maybe. this is the. mc in the market because norm or cash money money for. and treat a recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah over the. harbor. but you will be

stops. around one two hours of spy cools the dialogue is being political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the crisis the arab league observers 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 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 go to the the sanctions impact is heavily contested is this need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government that many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. r.t.

damascus syria. and britain is also encouraging the arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria and western states continue to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators where it denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from abroad political analyst asaram research says 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 school nation more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian

infrastructure 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 these very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and not peace and syria. watching are still ahead for you here in the program one sided limits. very disappointed in this school state the principal of the june student extradition to the u.s. charges of breaching copyright it's all down to a british or american treaty that's being. on balance. iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new e.u.

oil embargo acid freeze india is reportedly agreeing to pay iran in gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest that iran's biggest customer china could follow suit. with . 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 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 a peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the use announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran 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 things 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. he creates the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. his parachute of reporting right there will meantime kristoff whole stole a government consultant and a political analyst and germany says that he thinks the e.u. embargo is ultimately doomed to fail this is not in favor of european interests what we are doing there with this stupid and senseless and also wrong embargo and what we clearly see is that this happens upon washington's wishes so we have a few countries greece in the forefront with twenty five percent of its overall oil imports in two thousand and ten coming from iran but it then we have italy with

thirteen spain with ten percent in this regard some of the europeans have problems fulfilling the embargo italy got a total exemption because they are not you know paying cash to iran but iran is paying its debts to eataly by delivering always so that will continue anyway so we do have a lot of european mostly homemade problems now in addition to that we have problems with this oil embargo iran will do quite well even under the embargo and we know that all of the prison faithful customers to iran or you said like russia or china india and many others to continue buying this oil and they will find a way rest assured this is the signal i get from tehran. well terrans now enjoying more support from its trading partners but what consequences could use a ban on iranian oil and that is the question we're asking you right now on our

website if you look on to call me you can take part in our latest world wide pick of the numbers from our web site so far more than the hof if you believe china will buy all of the wrongs oil price a quarter thinks it's europe's economy it's going to suffer eighteen percent say the involved will make russia the number one oil supplier to the e.u. he believes it'll put iran's nuclear program. a vigil has been held at moscow's international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people have been laying flowers and candles for the victims of the tragedy where a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirteen investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of 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 are about to be charged one of the world's most wanted terrorists who claims he was behind the bombing is still . a lot more news when you want it all called me here are some of the items standing by if you that right now the 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 didn't want him anymore. the fear is that this man could do a dog disappearing act behind sharing website mega upload and america extradited but his multiple i.d.'s means he stays in custody. a u.k. student 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 ten years behind bars it's because

of a controversial treaty between the two countries originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects but as artie's i have found out a 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 but counters copyright infringement in the u.s. for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. very very serious. about it i don't know if 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 so i. guess because he was just pro extradition. i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we. deal with there when he's not sure if you were there last time he said made a good strong argument that all went out the window completely clean or giving him no no. 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 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 you are so innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like 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. before we get to dmitri with the business let's do the artsy world update here on r.t. some other international headlines for you this hour a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy across the iraqi capital and the blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country the violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. ten soldiers have reportedly being killed in the 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 now controlled many areas in somalia. another body has been recovered from the capsized cruise ship is released coast bringing the number of confirmed deaths to sixteen over a dozen are still missing more than ten days after the liner run aground salvage crews are prepared to drain the vessels and massive fuel tanks of half a million gallons and hundreds of tons of diesel before it leaks into the sea. for minister has laid into the french parliament clearing what he calls a discriminatory and racist bill that murders freedom of thought the law would see people get up to a year in prison for denying the mass killing of armenians by nearly a century ago i mean yourselves one and a half million votes in the massacre but he claims the number is much less the bill

still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy to become law. or the kaiser report is coming your way shortly that will be dealing with the annual davos economic forum in switzerland first dmitri and the business. welcome to the program you're watching business artsy the ruble headed twenty's wealth high against the dollar on cheap day number of factors we're pushing i include stronger group prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector economists that xander used to feel from the t.v. capital believes the effect is temporary and the kerosene will weaken later in the . so i think that it's a temporary phenomenon that's a first quarter effect and there was help by a stronger current account because of seasonally high experts and this is no imports and. liquidity so we expect there will to

be strong in the first quarter and then to a great deal and we can tell what's there in their second half of the year. stay with macroeconomics unemployment in russia fell at the end of last year the jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to six point one percent in the final month of the year according to a survey by bloomberg analysts are expected the rate to actually grow and be at six point six percent. investment in fixed cap or saw like machinery and building jumped six percent last year last year speaking to the modernization commission president of attributed the rise to the growing economy and state support investors however he said the level of investment was still not enough for a country with the potential that russia had. almost two thirds of gold miners expected price of gold bullion to keep growing this year according to

a survey by price waterhouse coopers the majority of them forecast the peak of two thousand dollars. one of the reasons given is new financial instruments that provide exposure to the gold price currently gold is trading at around sixteen hundred sixty four dollars for choi. brings us nicely to the markets starting with the world's fluctuating above ninety eight dollars about new york speculation that u.s. stockpiles gained last week is weighing against those worries about iran that we've been discussing in a previous bull terms meanwhile brant is below just below one hundred ten dollars per barrel. so you look at the opening picture in the u.s. and the markets there are flat to negative early trading as investors worry that a greece debt deal may fall through pretty much the same picture over in europe for

the same reason as greece and as private creditors continue to negotiate over the terms of a hoped for that swap deal in britain the forces down one percent the dax a one point one percent with commerzbank being one of the biggest losers and siemens is also losing after putting a drop in fiscal first quarter profit. is the closing picture in russia how the arts yes my six ended percent and point seven percent down what we saw is a banking and energy stocks among the main losers lukoil notably down one point eight percent the company is planning to invest more than one billion dollars in its oil rich trips to top field in siberia however chemicals make a cut on the was among the biggest gainers of the day up almost two percent it's reported almost five percent increase in production for the first before the idea of twenty eleven investment strategist at xander wraps up the day. police told me

that they beat yesterday's close by. the red numbers a little bit here the volumes are pretty low and today people have no conviction for the direction of the market. that's all for now business out see will be back next hour with an update i'll see you then join me again.

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christians. stance on teeth don't come. to. this is live from the heart of the russian capital time for you headlines now and fresh rounds of. libya as the loyalists retake one of the foremost strongholds of bani walid supporters of the old regime of clashed in several cities all across the country. with a draw 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 sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the. go to paper black gold with the yellow card. now as the world's economists get together for the annual forum in davos switzerland the summit of the capitalism is way out of balance. take it up next in the kaiser report. the report oh that's.