machine gun a rifle warning shots are fired in beirut as a supposedly peaceful protest against the syrian leader turned sour with opposition and al-qaeda flags seen in the crowds. a deadly blast rocks damascus as the u.n. peace envoy meets the syrian president to try and broker a truce in the conflict torn country. and dozens are killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militias a year after the western backed libyan revolt which went to a man whose family is trapped in the city and we also have live reaction to the latest developments there.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest news this is the weekly on our team mass protests in the lebanese capital have descended into riots with the army firing tear gas to control hundreds of angry demonstrators they tried to storm the government headquarters in beirut after the funerals of those killed in friday's car bombing parties are they going to go is in the region following the developments. started off as a potentially a peaceful if rather more in problem march out during the funeral. of the police official who was killed on friday in a bar glass that went off and in a capsule. then several hundreds of those people branched out and went on to storm the office of the prime minister they were the ones who had flags up the free syrian army or rather are the syrian opposition and also all kind of once they got

there they started throwing rocks and of course they were met with very heavy police presence when trying started firing tear gas and also fired several rounds of live shots into the air is believed that their own people were heard but not by the gunshots just skirmishes that followed the protests which are going on for essentially a third day now began after the. who are in the christian quarter of the road on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chiefs with someone who is known for his act and serious stance and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's the syria that was the hind here act in the roots on friday they were the ones who began the protests which started on friday evening which continues to saturday that called for a day of rage on sunday we do know that there are situations being to tell it has subsided but there was heavy gunfire when you then the child of tripoli as well as

on the outskirts of beirut earlier today of course spoken to. the situation in lebanon and we'll bring you the latest. a growing number of lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria for friday's deadly blast but international relations professor mark elma does particularly here or not he says that the assad regime is the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of herrera in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it. seems unlikely that assad's government directly would want to be involved in this because it's all too easy to point the finger at them they are seen demonized in the west maybe outside forces usage of the word attack on the other hand perhaps there are cynical people who thought this would be a very good way of getting outside forces on my side and maybe they then decided that poor old. lebanese security chief was expendable that could have happened we

don't know the could be an entirely internal lebanese reason rule so so if you are not a political religious rivalries but business trip matter rivalries too and so i think to leap to conclusions the moment although it's very tempting in this huge pressure to do it is rubber angels. in syria itself a car explosion hit damascus on sunday killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in the busy district no one is admitted the blast which is the latest in the series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the past few months previously rebels and al-qaeda linked groups said they were behind such attacks the latest blast came as the international peace envoy met the syrian president to try and broker a temporary cease fire in the civil conflict is the editor in chief of the syria tribune media channel and glug believes the blast is aimed at derailing any peace efforts in syria. they are trying to destroy what they were bringing is trying to

do obviously there are countries that are not happy about. any success that any brahimi may have it all depends on the will of the countries backing the rebels the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives your money weapons and means of communication this means they can control you and these countries can have that of all she's fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have there will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want or what what can happen at the moment is a longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we're serious hope will not happen there's been a new spirit of violence in the deadly siege of the town of bani walid in libya a traditional stronghold of x. libyan leader moammar gadhafi the libyan army and the loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing those inside of kidnappings parties has been speaking to one man whose family is currently in bani walid and he asked us to shield his

identity while he explained what's happening there because he tells us he's scared for his life find some of the video content we're about to show you disturbing. i have a call from my family in there told me that the situation there right there is really hard of all there is a heart of all kind of weapon everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen down even the bani walid has with we don't have a lot of medicine right now the house the hospital keep in the in the people outside from the hospital three week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but nobody the clothes and the roles that it is the food industry all there are one and been a while and from the three sides they used the house that. rockets and the guys weapons and actually found even the reports of the hospital clearly that the civilians there the guards. protesters in the libyan capital of reportedly broken

into the area around the country's parliament venting their fury over the deadly attacks in bani walid what discuss the continued turmoil in libya i'm now joined live by as a kiwi he's editor of the pan african news. joining me live from the usa now that bani walid sieges resonated in the libyan capital as we reporting today protesters demanding an end to the violence how should the government react. well obviously the government is behind this siege of body well lead it's clearly a violation of international law of human rights norms why are they targeting at this time body why lead what have they done in order to justify such treatment by this rebel militia that is now surrounding the body while lead although the general national congress claims to be a legitimate of the what in libya they still have not been able to establish day

for solid a coherent our government a political system or even a military apparatus inside that what african state this raises a lot of questions first of all the killing of ambassador christopher stevens last month has been conveniently blamed on al qaida and the ansari al should we have a militia they are nowhere in the vicinity of bani walid so therefore why is but why lead being targeted is it being targeted because this is the first anniversary of the martyrdom of colonel moammar gadhafi who was slaughtered in sirte with the assistance of the united states and nato also the whole question about the status of muso even rahim who was the spokes person for the gym of the former government in libya there's been reports that he has been captured but then these reports have been denied both by people who are officials of the gnc as well as opposed to on

facebook or and yesterday there of course there's been reports that gadhafi is youngest son camas khadafi has been captured and possibly killed as well so where is the state department where are the international human rights forces in regard to this blatant violation of the sovereignty and the will big of the people in this area when you question question the justification all of this c.j. in your earlier comments were it gadhafi is baskin spin and. fact loyalists still holding out it does make you wanted this level of support justify his removal in the first place. of course it was clearly a violation of international law and international norms there was no evidence that the general population of libya was under any threat only the reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime change to seize and privatized the oil industry in that country and also to seize the foreign assets of

the libyan government which was in excess of some one hundred sixty billion dollars that was absolutely no justification whatsoever for the war that was waged against libya last year as reported that some ninety six hundred airstrikes was carried out against libya anywhere between fifty thousand or one hundred thousand people were reportedly killed two million people were displaced it is in fact destabilize not only libya but also other countries in the area including mali so i think this is a continuation of that same destabilization process why are they targeting this town of one hundred thousand people what in fact the real culprit which they claim is the al-qaeda affiliates who are in fact they claim are responsible for the murder of the u.s. ambassador on september eleventh of last year so i think this is totally unjustified and i think the state department should really be called out for not condemning this siege on buddy wiley because they in fact i was backing the general

national congress government as a pro u.s. regime and the u.s. of course also is that now responsibility for the u.s. and its allies to help this regime change in the first place to return now and intervene and help the country move toward stability where they've always been there since the murder of ambassador stevens they claim they have sent the men. into libya they're saying they have warships off the coast of libya they're saying also that they have deployed a predator and reaper drones over libya i do not think that the united states can bring any type of stability to libya based upon the history of what has happened over the last year to have their intervention has only brought about instability death and destruction and we're seeing a new chapter unfolding right now with this siege against me well lead us just very briefly a new chapter that we see in iraq and afghanistan are we looking at another situation

like that just briefly of course everywhere the u.s. has gone over the last decade it has brought about nothing but destabilization massive debts and of course the displacement of millions upon millions of people there is no rational explanation there is no rational way out of this situation as far as the u.s. is concerned everywhere they go they breed destabilization to get instability as he added to pan african news watch joining me live in the u.s. thanks for you comments well coming up in the program this hour here on t.v. a stun grenades like the streets of kuwait city with police also firing tear gas at protesters and the citizens took to the streets of the capital displeased with changes to voting laws plus it's. taken to be leaders to move towards a banking union to spark an outburst of anger across europe all that and more it's the weekly like here on r.t. .

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enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need to. watch on t.v. any time. the news continues here on r.t. live in moscow the cia wants to expand its fleet of drones and try to tap the white house to green light the move earlier this week it would not the pentagon potentially increase its lethal operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came shortly after new troubling statistic simmers time attacks that officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said that of more than two thousand people killed by american drones eighty percent were civilians a sheet from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington's only creating more minutes since with its tactics. this is

a major blow to us so diplomacy in position in pakistan in this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped pakistan control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful parts of the military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide that in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that into. area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorist it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into pakistan resulting in killing of bikes and soldiers and bikes and civilians the separate is elan e.u. states could get another boost in spain which is holding regional elections pro independence parties are widely expected to win in the basque region a challenge for the beleaguered government which also faces separatism calls in

catalonia economics blogger gonzalo lira i spoke to him in another the here on r.t. he says the debt crisis is the main reason behind the desire to break away with economic problems and economic discontent you have the urge to split away from the majority because you feel that the majority as a minority you feel that the majority is not cognizant of your problems is not helping you to overcome and it's a certain kind of blind yourself that minorities will out that they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer equal and this is the case in spain everybody is suffering under the sea and the boss stuff alone by them each independent region each of each autonomous region deals a day in particular are being made to suffer on its impact the entire country to be a huge unemployment issue in spain the fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent adult unemployment and the problem of these fire a. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going to require drastic cuts. and just generalized

economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so much political gains for the independents who are. there's a similar push against cuts in britain where around one hundred thousand people turned out in london to protest against a sturdy scuffles erupted immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and tried to storm fops saturday's run in london was organized by trade unions and attracted people from across the country mr david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy forty seven first was among the. many people that turned out that message is against the cuts they say have flatlined the economy now there are people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feed the room worried about cuts the frontline services and among some people he seems many many families all across the age range

feel that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. who can say can't get worse my son to stephen is paying the uncrowned here in fees i work in the tree sector and legal aid is being count so we work with three hundred people and i won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect the rich they protect the interests of the rich i'm a bit of fear in the people who are it now because it's not just person that's been affected the start because they've had a europe wide effect of the euro crisis rumbles on we see disparity i guess taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people simply saying that they've had enough here in london as we said thousand the come out here to march against the austerity. rally in britain echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry crowds gathering in spain and greece tens of thousands of greeks descended on athens as a nationwide strike but on the way clashing with police in madrid parents teachers

and students marched to condemn imminent government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action at the hands on the purse strings are moving further away from national capitals with e.u. leaders agreeing to give even more powers to brussels with a deal that would bring centralized banking supervision the research of jerome roux says no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause. there's one thing that we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the u.s. says something about this grace is they usually mean the exact opposite when france are only seeing the end of the craziness inside probably means that it's in greece is that when into depression that greece phone next to one of the contract to the economy of the contract is roughly twenty percent unemployment stands at twenty five percent the different regions and speed which are demanding secession actually can you fascist forces on the rise in the city it will be a move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty for the region what's

happening is that it spreads these actions bailing out of these little things are getting a lot worse and the stomach completely has to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the deadly embrace between world financial sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are completely or and. in kuwait several people have been injured as riot police beat protesters demonstrating against a change of electoral law police use tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds angry with the government for what they say is a constitutional coupe kuwait seen regular democratic reform protest for more than a year i spoke a little earlier here on r.t. to eric draitser he's from stop imperialism dot com and he says however the wave of unrest has not received enough international attention because it's in the u.s. is strategic interests to keep the monarchy in power. well kuwait has long been a client state of the united states and more and more kuwait plays a. central role in the g.c.c.

the gulf cooperation council kuwait it's been used as a weapon by the us a foothold in the region along the persian gulf and kuwait continues to fill that role it's a country that we don't hear so much about in the headlines but it is very much part and parcel of us a gemini in the middle east the the western media which is controlled by the same interests which control wall street the western media it's not in their interest to tell the story of bahrain or kuwait in bahrain the united states has military interests as well as political and propaganda interests bahrain is a client of the saudis which is in turn a client of the united states kuwait similarly is also a client state and for that reason you don't hear about rampant human rights abuses you don't hear about the attack on working people the way you do in places like libya or syria which were long since on the u.s. hit list it emerged this week that a new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed oil producer

and it could be russian john are all sniffed off to britain's b.p. move toward selling its fifty percent stake oh its joint venture in russia and the b.p. in return b.p. gets fifty percent of the run seventeen billion dollars in cash if they had all made to actually wants to get its hands on all of you can be as a party holding talks with its other shareholders if signed never all day it is set to become the second biggest oil agreement ever. in a new top dog and global oil is bound to have some ramifications across the industry and comes business section outlines what they could be check it out on the website well coming up this hour here in r.t. we take a look at a new gold rush occurring in colombia that's after the break. will there be war on iraq. friends for this missile defense offensive.

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