the international community to be atrocities being committed against colonel gadhafi stronghold after weeks of government shelling left dozens dead and many more displaced. syrian rebels claim they've taken the country's second city of aleppo a major offensive damascus agreed to a cease fire for the muslim holiday of. plus the u.s. said to be hit by a new wave of potentially painful revelations. being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london hasn't. found it julian. now we hear it's really thing

more than a hundred files relating to the treatment of prisoners in the u.s. detention complex. international. center here in moscow this is. libya's government forces claim they have taken control of the opposition stronghold bani walid but say pockets of resistance still remain that's after a week's deadly assault with reports of dozens of residents in the besieged city being killed by government shelling. as the details. we continue to receive these conflicting reports from our sources on the ground we're hearing about the army is actually withdrawing from the city or though we are hearing of wide scale killings from the government sources they say that the system has fallen when we continue to receive verified video footage as well as reports of wide scale

killings of indiscriminate shelling and also the use of poisonous gas some of the photos and video we've been receiving showed dismembered bodies children who've been killed and some of that footage is coming from bani walid television that has been forecasting these visuals almost non stop there is still a question mark over whether or not chemical weaponry has been used doctors at the scene do report that many of the patients they were treating are suffering from toxic gas inhalation and certainly hearing the same kind of thing from eyewitnesses but again we are receiving unconfirmed reports that many of the shells are being fired with gas inside them as if we cannot independently verify this so far it has been going on now for the better part of three weeks and in that time all communication in and outside the city has been hampered it took us several days to make contact with people inside the besieged city and they told us that these army forces were manning all the entrances and exits to inform and bani walid this

despite the fact that thousands of people have fled to neighboring sites and refugee camps we have managed to make contact with a man in the us he's asked us to hide his identity because he was afraid for his family who are still inside. he tells us that the army is pushing back he also says quite alarmingly that he hasn't heard from his family for several days and he's incredibly fearful as to their fate the militias after. the fighting. from the from the from the city. people control. the militias. there was taken. really old man in his good money. in those uncovered legal. aliens who just a council member people. really big on the first. i think about

seventy. from the militias. to be a big failure. six hundred it from the militias on the wilds of the street of the middle of the city i'm barely touched me ever since the violence started some three weeks ago residents of bani walid have been appealing to the international community for assistance moscow took up the score by drafting a statement that a put forward to the united nations security council earlier this week but that was blocked by the united states prompting a response from moscow saying that a found as odd and strange in that context understand why such a statement had not been approved it's also cause many an international community to accuse both washington and others of double standards you need to remember it wasn't so long ago that russia and china were blamed for voting against resolutions in libya and now the question is being asked why when moscow puts forward for

calling for assistance in body while it is this being stopped by washington. well managed to make contact with my witness in the city she says militias a carrying out mass killings civilians continue to call on the international community to help. these are not governmental forces there are militias and armed gangsters surrounding without any legitimacy the media is prohibited from reporting on what's happening in the city the situation is horrible crimes are committed communications were deliberately cut in order for these gangsters to prevent any person from communicating what's really happening there bulldozing houses they're setting houses on fire stealing everything they find moreover they committed massacres killing as many people as they code people here in bani walid want to return to their homes they say their cities totally destroyed nevertheless they want to go back and live in the wreckage they refused to be driven out of the city secondly they request our humanitarian organizations including the u.n.

to come to bani walid and see the destruction for themselves and see the devastation and need immediate aid we need humanitarian assistance urgently. let's get more reaction on that from journalist and author neil clark who joins us from london well we've just been hearing that witness report yet there's been no international response to the fact that civilians are being killed in bani walid especially from those states that brought the revolution in libya a year ago why do you think that is interesting bill let's think back to fareed twenty alone we couldn't because when the u.k. or us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going on in libya a humanitarian disaster. with killing lots of people there we're going to have a massive massacre in benghazi and because of that we went to war that that was the reason for war and today the situation in libya is much worse we got a humanitarian catastrophe taken place the number of people killed since nato intervened has gone up but by between ten and twenty times we've got massacres going on at the moment and there's silence complete silence here in the u.k.

and in the us what about human rights though that the human rights organization that's normally listened to in that three weeks on. the human rights is actually now raising its voice to what's going on there perhaps a good bit earlier really but why is that then why. i want to can be ignored it tells it all that doesn't belong to me amnesty international be very good only be they've been talking about the number of detention look taken place there and the new regime but of course the western powers are interested they got what they want what they wanted they got rid of gadhafi they got across western government in power now in tripoli they're taking control of the oil industry this privatization western corporations moving in and they don't really give a toss to be honest about what's going on about about the human rights abuses the fact that demonstrations are banned throughout the country it's time to move on to syria of course well let's talk about diplomatic tensions too on tuesday the u.s. blocked russia's diplomatic efforts in the un security council to resolve that conflict peacefully in bani walid why's that. well again russia let's think back to

what was last october when russia and china vetoed the. resolution western powers at the syria would have paid the way for intervention there and russia china would be right in the western media here we have russia coming up with something very constructive of a very great peace a state and we should be supported and of course the u.s. turns it down so i think it shows to everybody now surely the gross a copy of the u.s. and its allies in all of this they use this sort of humanitarian excuses when excuse to or the humanitarian practiced it as an excuse to intervene militarily to topple governments which don't do the bidding of the west and israel they did it in yugoslavia ninety nine they did it in iraq of course they did it in libya last year they're trying to do it again in syria but they won't be doing this in bahrain where there's been massive human rights abuses there won't be doing it against saudi arabia where there is no democracy where human rights are very poor and they will be doing it of course against israel because of course you've got the situation in gaza described as the largest prison camp in the world but i don't think we'll be hearing from hillary clinton or william hague how we got to

intervene against israel what about the suspicions of chemical weapons could have been used on civilians in the beseech city we're getting some pretty clear evidence that perhaps that is the case and if that is true any difference to an international reaction then surely would be stronger wouldn't. you would think so but i don't think so because of course you know any time there is any here that syrian government has got chemical weapons it's front page news it's on all the western news channels because r.t. is about the only channel that's taking up this story about chemical weapons being used at the moment in libya it's not used chemical weapons are only used when it's an owner of the west that may be using them that's what happened it's front page news of course and of course it only have to be usually because the iraqi gov't evokes or the biggest conspiracy theories of all time saddam didn't have he didn't have those weapons and yet it was still front page news journalist author neal clark joining us live there from the u.k. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts just relaxed when they were mentioned in that interview syria and the syrian army has agreed to halt. israel permissions from friday morning until monday the four day truce as part of

a proposed ceasefire between government forces and the rebels for the muslim holiday however the reserving the right to respond to some militant group stated they'd continue fighting despite the government announcement syrian rebels are claiming they've made crucial advances in aleppo and controlling the majority of the city expending an official michael maloof is skeptical this latest ceasefire will be effective. the government is prepared to have a cease fire but it takes two to tango as it as it were and i don't know that the opposition is prepared to. stand down i think they they feel that the government will then take advantage of the cease fire to realign troops and put in artillery so i think that they're going to be reluctant to do that there are terror attacks going on in syria a lot of the opposition is coming from outside forces more radical elements have

joined it so syria is being subject to outside terrorist attacks and it's going to go on and unfortunately the united states is backing this as well as turkey and and i think that the united states really doesn't have a clear policy on towards word. except to get him out but then the question is what you do then what are you going to have after that and if a lot of falls that could begin to raise additional problems and it could cause a major spread and isolate the regime on the one hand i've talked to people in lebanon for example who said that has below will attack even israel if if for aleppo falls simply because of the assistance that the israelis have been giving to the opposition so i would be skeptical that such a cease fire not only could go into effect but that it could even hold this is not the life here mosco wiki leaks could be giving the. us more red faces the whistle

stop for anything classified files on the treatment of prisoners in america's overseas prisons despite julian assange still locked up and it would all embassy that coming your way after a short break. on the march under god these men and women are walking one of the longest the loneliest road in the world they reenacting march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get

there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of alms discovered the living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it is going to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact is now receiving from all over the world to show them what it was like when the story broke the news that it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future. it's a monument to want to czarist russia cruellest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen whilst in residence he lives here there's a study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day. basically we still received hate mail

saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of this history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were not a criminal. and he continues here on r.t. a fresh wave of embarrassment could be about to hit the u.s. as wiki leaks begins releasing over one hundred classified files this thursday this time they're detailing america's detention procedures including those in infamous prison such as quantum a bay and abu ghraib ati's or smith reports. being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london doesn't seem to have stopped us all from working he's been there

for more than four months now in fact quite the opposite in fact whenever i speak to him or to any of his supporters i say what's he doing in there they all say always working all the time and this is the result of his work starting today thursday and over the next month wiki leaks going to release over one hundred classified or restricted files on the rules and procedures that's how goals than the treatment of detainees in u.s. custody over the last ten years these include operating manuals and of course interrogation procedures for camps in iraq and cuba abu ghraib and of course kuantan him obey among the first documents to be released is the foundation document for grand ton of it which was written in two thousand and two and put into force then and we can say that this document is the one that went on to shape the treatment of prisoners in u.s. military camps through the years to abu ghraib and other military detention facilities and the documents talk of all aspects of life access to legal visits

medical treatment access to that as well what possessions the prisoners are allowed to have and also of course they all talk about how prisoners. interrogated violence is prohibited in the documents that have been released in writing bartz the they encourage this kind of exploitation of the fears of prisoners love of their homeland love of comrades love of family and of course intimidation ecuador says that it's all through meeting with britain to discuss his failing health the ecuadorian embassy say that he is losing weight and that he's also suffering problems with his vision he can't go outside so he gets no fresh air and limited daylight particularly now that the winter is coming or you can see it's quite dark outside so those things you know will be taking a toll on his health he ecuador. embassies had previously soon assurances that the hospitalized for example he wouldn't be arrested but the deputy foreign minister of

backtalk told r.t. that the u.k. is unwilling to discuss not only safe passage to ecuador which would essentially honor the terms of the asylum that ecuador has offered him but also even the principle of what they do in a situation in which there was however the british foreign office says that it hasn't had any notification that julia is suffering and is sick and that if it does they will consider that so we have to see how the situation progresses grossmith there in london has threatened return over an alleged deadly israeli airstrike on factory in khartoum tel aviv refused to comment on reports that four of its fighter jets carried out an on a planned providing rockets to gaza well to discuss this policy director for just foreign policy joins me live now. well there is talk of retaliation what kind of response do you expect from sudan. the first thing i expect to dance to you is is

wearing fake it's already doing recording two press reports just reaching out to regional institutions where they've you know urged the security council to condemn the attack i wouldn't expect that immediately but they're talking to the arab league they are presenting their evidence that this was indeed israeli attack of which some evidence has been reported in the press this is the first thing is to establish the israeli responsibility present their evidence for that so there are some eyewitness reports from the area claims of rockets fluently i experienced i think that in that short run the threat of actual military retaliation. this probably rhetorical to get people's attention there and yet response from the diplomat seeking political pressure. to prevent any injury occurred you said you would expect the u.n.

security council to condemn it immediately do you suggest that perhaps it might be prepared to get involved at some stage. yeah i think if the sudanese present i mean it's maybe a long shot because i was the u.s. is a security council but you can imagine the scenario suppose the sudanese present their evidence to the arab league in their forty's and suppose they get the arab league and the african union to take a strong stand so then they're not going to the security council won't go and serve the region once accused. you can imagine the us being under some pressure because this is a flagrant if you know somebody is allegations are true this is a flagrant violation of international law israel today are not more israel can't bomb a factory in sudan in time they want if you look by way of analogy to the colombian attack in ecuador in march two thousand and ecuador in response which was to rally

regional diplomatic a big force and they got a resolution in the hallway as if they forced columbia could back off and say to the group i'm going to camp so you can imagine. where sudan if it's something similar you would rely on success in getting the regional solutions that are in the african union take a struct step sudan's manage to get support from iran it spoken up in knots in the attack saying it could escalate tensions in the region and now hundreds of sudanese protests as they gathered well last night we were reporting that they were shouting death to israel remove israel from the map can to be really afford to make more enemies when we're seeing so much tension and instability in the region. well i need to pair. arguably israel and then already have very bad relations i think what's crucial is what happens in the region there was an initial

response from egypt. indicating concern about the we. know about the reports of an attack if the if the arab countries and their countries took a strong stance there is something that the israeli government would have to take up but once you're ok with their relations and what i want to ask you just briefly unfunny if israel were to be behind this attack attack sudan's long been linked to terrorist cells illegal weapons production doesn't israel have a right to defend itself if it does believe its national security is being threatened by a certain country but everybody has the right to defend themselves within the confines of international law israel and other countries including the united states doesn't have the right to go around bombing other people's countries saying that it's in self defense we don't even know you know the facts are disputed about what was going on in this factory conventional weapons was it something you know

sudanese say was conventional weapons was. intended for hamas in gaza you know it's really the voices are suggesting for did it have nothing to do with gaza at all the you know we don't want to live in a world where one country can unilaterally make these claims doesn't have to provide any evidence and then can carry out military action on that basis there's no basis for that international law israel has a history and says that they should be pursuing diplomatic channels not unilateral military action right now on life in the us thank you very much indeed for joining us here. i'm independent scotland could leave the u.k. exposed and vulnerable as britain could lose a major part of its nuclear deterrent. go it alone and break away from the u.k. found out the latest on london's atomic on our website. at the moment canadian

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there welcome to business the sound of people who regularly fly between london and moscow compared to getting cheaper flights in the future and that's because the world's second biggest budget line easy jet is about to start falling to russian on the u.k.'s aviation regulator has picked the airline i've a virgin atlantic to fly between the two capitals and i'll tease nick or explains all the details. from the spring of two thousand and thirteen to easy jet flights a day will arrive here at moscow dome and yet it has airport from london gatwick it will be the first time that a project carrier is operating a popular international route this is known as the decision to liberalize the skies between russia and the u.k. under a bilateral agreement to have each country can fly between the capitals when current rights holders british airways acquired b.m.i. earlier this year a spot on the u.k.

so much to be rotation of richard branson's virgin airlines that was given to easy jet has promised to charge no more than two hundred dollars per seat for the first three years the russian aviation authority is thinking about opening up the skies here to foreign budget carriers but as things stand it will be a brave operator that comes here there have been two russian attempts to create no frills but both founded last year under huge losses. ok let's check out wall street and will be able to see what is going on as you can see we've got to come just so really all the gains that we have. have actually pretty much of that for a says right now i can tell you that it's telephone and we'll material companies that are leading the losses at the moment that let's check out the european markets and be able to see that pretty much the same has happened the gains that we had

earlier have fizzled out the first see that was pretty much a surprise considering the u.k. . economy emerge from recession in the three months from july to september apparently helped along by the olympic games check outs to make season occurrences liza marbles the euro is dying down one twenty nine fifty eight you can see the ruble finished fact against the euro but managed to do sounds against the u.s. dollar russian markets and they too finished up in red territory today no shares of ross now have lost almost one percent president putin says that b.p. representative ford will increase the russian companies transparency and i believe that's all we've got time for so right now we're going to interview coming up r.t. sat down with french politician vocal anti e.u. advocate francois as illin new took on what troubles face france by staying in the .