mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report. warning shots fired from machine guns and rifles in beirut as a supposedly peaceful protest against the syrian leader sours with opposition and al-qaeda flags seen waving among the crowd. a deadly blast rocks damascus as the u.n. peace envoy meets syria's president to try and broker a truce in the war torn country illegally dozens killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militias a year after the western backed revolt libya we talk with a man whose families are trapped in the besieged city.

three i'm in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the last week here on our t.v. in lebanon mass protests in the capital descended into riots with the army firing tear gas to control hundreds of angry protesters they tried to storm the government headquarters in beirut after the funerals of those killed in friday's deadly car bombing. has more. it started off as a potentially a peaceful if rather more during the funeral. of the police official who was killed on friday in the bomb blasts that went off and in the 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 off the syrian opposition and also. once they got there they started throwing rocks and of course they were met with very heavy police presence who in turn started firing

tear gas and also fired several rounds of live shots into the air is believed that several people were heard but not by the gunshots just as that followed the protests which are going on for essentially the third day now or again kerry. we were are in the christian quarter of that road on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief. who is known for his active anti serious stance and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's syria that was behind terror act in the route 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 the situation being to itself has subsided but there was heavy gunfire when you then the town of tripoli as well as on the outskirts of beirut's earlier today of course spoken to what

a situation in lebanon and we'll bring you the latest a growing number of lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria friday's deadly blast irrational relations a professor mark on those says the assad regime would be the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of her career in two thousand and five that played very heavily in syria whoever did it to. me seems unlikely assad's government directly would want to be in baltimore because it's all too easy to point the finger at them they are seen demonized in the west maybe outside use it to the world which are on the other hand perhaps there are cynical people who thought this would be a very good way of getting outside forces almost and maybe they don't decide to or . lebanese security chief was expendable that could happen we don't know the could be an entirely internal lebanese wiesner so you don't have political business true

national rivalries too and so i think to lead to a moment in this huge pressure to do it is and. meanwhile in syria a car explosion hit damascus sunday killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in a busy neighborhood no one's edited to the blast which is the latest in a series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the last few months previously rebels and al qaeda linked groups said they were behind such attacks the latest blast comes as the international peace envoy met syria's president to try brokering a temporary ceasefire in the conflict we had a tour in chief of the syria term you media channel in the log thinks the blast is aimed at the railing the peace efforts that they are trying to destroy what they are bringing me is trying to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about. any success that they brahimi may have it all depends on the will of the

countries backing it up the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives money weapons and means of communication this means they can control you and these countries can have that i will cease fire in forty eight hours or even less. if they are if they have that will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want and what's what's going to happen at the moment is the longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we se as hope will not happen it's been a new spate of violence in the deadly siege in bani walid in libya former stronghold of x. libyan leader moammar gadhafi the libyan army and the loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing those inside of kidnappings arche spoke one man whose family is currently in by while he he asked first to feel his identity while he explain what's going on because he said he's scared for his life just a warning some of the video we're about to show you if you have seven. i have of

course from my family in they told me that the situation there right there is really hard of all there is a heart of all all kind of. everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen down even the venue and hospital we don't have a lot of medicine right now the hoss the hospital keep in the in the people outside from the hospital the week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but what are the clothes and the roads that it is the food in the few all. been away from the three sides they used to house that the brackets and the guys with pens and actually found even the guards mask is that everybody. really clearly that at the civilians there with the guards. the man who will lead siege has resonated into libya's capital where hundreds gathered to protest the deadly bombings and they've reportedly broken into the area around the parliament venting their fury over the attacks that have left dozens

dead and hundreds injured in the past few days i'll be only as a few we editor of the pan-african news wire says those who attacked the revolution in libya who share responsibility for the turmoil. obviously the government is behind this siege of bani walid it's clearly a violation of international law of human rights norms while they targeting this town of one hundred thousand people this is totally unjustified and i think the state department should really be called out for it not to debate this siege on body wildly because they in fact it was that of backing the general national congress government as a pro u.s. regime the reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime changed to seize of 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 there was absolutely no justification whatsoever

for the war that was waged against libya last year as reported separate is eland 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 and challenge for the beleaguered government which is also facing separatism calls in catalonia economics blogger gonzalo euro thinks the debt crisis is the main reason behind the desire to go it alone. 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 blinders that the minorities will have that they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer equal b. and this is the case in spain everybody suffering under the sea and stuff alone but each independent region each of you just honest region feels a day in particular are being made to suffer its impact the entire country be huge

unemployment issue in spain 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 a generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so much political gains for the independents because. there's a similar push against cuts in britain where around one hundred thousand turned out in london to protest against austerity scuffles are up immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and tried to squirm shops so today's rally in london was organized by trade unions and attract people people from across the country prime minister cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy. many people have turned out that that is against the cuts that they say have flatlined the economy

now there are people from all walks of life has lied about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feed the whole like about cut the front like that this is among the people the 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. you can see kids getting worse my son's a steven he's paying nine grand even fees. i work in the country sector and legal aid is being count so we won't be three hundred people and i won't be able to get the same help from michael next year they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich i'm a bit unfair in the people who are it now because it's not just based in this arena thanks to the all star team concept europe light of the euro crisis rumbles on we see disparity i get taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year i say to people simply saying that they've had enough here in london as the fat thousand that they've come out here so much against. the rally

and burden echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry crowds gathering in spain in greece tens of thousands of greeks descended on this question with this is a nationwide strike got underway in madrid parents teachers and students marched to condemn him in a government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action but their hands on the purse strings are moving further from nationwide national park but in the new leaders are going to set up more power to brussels with a deal that could bring centralized banking supervision researcher jerome roos 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 years something about this crisis they usually mean the exact opposite. end of the phrase inside probably needs to be resistant into the pressure that agrees by next year when the contract economy in fact explained that unemployment

stands at twenty five percent but you know the regions in spain which are demanding secession you have actually seen you fascist forces on the rise in greece. a move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty so i think really what's happening here is that the press is actually spinning out of the flow things are getting a lot worse and the summit completely has to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the debt the embrace which. still to come in the program stun grenades a light up the streets of coates' city with police also firing tear gas at protesters. take to the streets of the capital displeased with changes to voting laws plus. russians have been lying to be the world's largest oil producer b.p. plans to get rid of its troubled part in the joint russian venture and more after a short break.

it's perched atop a jaw and under view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a chance a bear in railway but the a spiritual center. seems like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worship as implicity will to commemorate the baptismal jesus. in the fifteen eighty s. the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon

enough it became an economic hub siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the ball location head of the says for the russians the russian crowds who had a revolt against azhar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists will stand there and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they lead a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had those of

a skate but within the year the saw of his family would be dead. was the strangest attempt of a true take on. the u.s. president trying to overthrow a foreign country's government but his strategic games. under american recognized its defeat. steve cuba to cope with its victory all don't talk the. talk. i leave you q where you go but the rajab either live in the cuban missile crisis games and.

from phones to. t.v. don't come. thanks for staying with us here on r t sixteen minutes past the hour now in kuwait several people have been injured as riot police beat protesters demonstrating against a change of election law police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds gathering to vent anger with the government. for what they say is a constitutional cuckoo who ain't seen a regular democratic reform protest for more than a year eric draitser from stop in period liz and dot com thinks the wave of unrest hasn't gotten enough international attention because it's in the u.s. interest to keep the monarchy in power plant 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 rain 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. get lists. the cia wants to expand its fleet of drones and try to tap the white

house to green light the move earlier this week will let the pentagon potentially increase its operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came shortly after new troubling statistics emerge that attacks officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said that of more than two thousand people killed by u.s. drone strikes eighty percent were civilians. from pakistan's post political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militants with some of its tactics. this is a major blow to diplomacy and 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 buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very very successful lives in the military in flushing out a terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see

a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists 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 a bunch of the soldiers and bugs and civilians it emerges this week that new company you could take the title of being the world's biggest listed or oil producer that could be a russian giant ross nafta after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake in the joint venture in russia t.i.n.k. b.p. in return b.p. gets fifteen percent of rosneft and about seventeen billion dollars cash the state owned oil major actually wants to get its hands on all of t.n.t. and it's barely holding talks with its other shareholders if side the overall deal is set to become the second biggest oil agreement ever. a new top dog in the global oil game is bound to have some ramifications across the industry r.t.u. dotcoms business section outlines what they could be. there's all to play

in for monday's final and crucial debate between the main u.s. presidential candidate says polls put barack obama and mitt romney running neck and neck and while they were trying to sound bites on nationwide t.v. the other contenders say they are being sidelined green party presidential nominee joel stein and her running mate were arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stein blames the system for locking up nearly a third of the country's population at the upcoming election green party's campaign manager ben mann skee thinks the two party system is outdated and. corporate influence. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very

difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era and which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges jill stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . voters keep their options open and the other candidates get through the mainstream media blackout in their own televised debate we have one here on r t america and we're also keeping a close eye on the election on our web site r t v dot com. will there be who are on the right. or is missing the most sensitive. story selection. to be true the second one are. turning out to

some other global headlines here israel's prime minister has announced construction in east jerusalem will go on despite palestinian claims the proposed area is part of their capital city and the palestinian leader and the european union have criticized the new building plan describing netanyahu is actions as destructive to the peace plan for the region both sides have been embroiled in a turf war over ownership of the city since one thousand nine hundred seventy. three people killed four wounded after a gunman opened fire near all mall in the u.s. state of wisconsin the shooter forty five year old radcliffe houghton was found dead of self-inflicted wounds after a six hour manhunt at the lock down shopping center the attack was the second mass shooting in wisconsin this year. up next a look at the new gold rush going on in colombia that after the break.

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to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. as. most of the mines in segovia have passed into the hands of citizens who established small companies and of exploited them for many years now. at the. one hundred thirty workers bring the or to the surface like ants carrying it on their backs from a depth of three hundred metres. try

not to make it too heavy so you can walk. it depends. there are times you make two and a half to three million twelve hundred euros if the mine is rich you can even make four or five million.

give me a middle here the gold miner works hard for fifteen days to one month. and then he goes out and in one week spends it all on drink on women and passions be everything he made in a month. the good news. is to look good with you ok. that is why in a place so rich there is such great poverty. often the mines are a stone's throw away from homes the residents dig wherever they think they can get lucky.

up on. this one hundred ten meters about forty five degrees. for the time being we haven't reached the vein we're getting closer to us by then production will be twenty grams a load. they were rich it will have a good yield. we can provide for our families as well as for many people here in our neighborhood. but we know in which places there are gold plains. we go there and it worked i'm going to on title in the lead which isn't out there now. belongs to the multinationals.

the legal minds sprout up everywhere each week. the citizens who have succumbed to gold rush fever quickly try to exploit the high priced. air no one has titles to the land. the entire region belongs to grand colombia gold that recently bought from tino gold mines which went bankrupt. all the large mines of the area and the processing facilities were sold by the government to the canadian multinational for just two hundred million dollars. you know with frontino gold mines here and sit go via has proven gold reserves of over nine hundred thousand ounces. supply nine hundred thousand ounces by today's price of gold at the let's say at one thousand five hundred dollars to me going to that would be an astronomical amount you know because i can't get this.