road coming into brussels. you can see there is an industry on the left and the right, but the infrastructure is really very scary for even for daily cyclists as i am. what we are quite doing and it is also quite important if you were a town, let's say, taking off with the bicycle policy is that we have been very successful in organizing events and in setting upestal programs. of course, my criticism and the parliament was like take care. you have a big responsibility because of the events and because of the educational program, you invite people to take the bicycle on the street on a regular day, you have a big risk because your infrastructure is not yet there. so that was part of the political debate. still, i am willing to defend that policy that organizing events, this is in front of a mayor bank in the heart of brussels where the employees have been invited to come to work not by a car and to have a taste, as it says, of another mobility. it is part of the european car-free day which is organized every yea

here in brussels, it is one day at a time. this is a big day in the unfolding saga. >> there are hurdles yet to come. several other nations must vote. is this a done deal? >> yes, this is not a done deal in the sense that if this was to be rejected, this would be politically a real disaster for the eurozone. the feeling here is now germany, the key player, has done what brussels thinks is the right thing. no other country would want to be the one that helps to create a greater disaster. >> what do they want to see from athens? >> they are trying to convince the greek government that more important than the domestic problems are those affecting the whole of the eurozone. if some have said that you must implement austerity measures at the highest level if we have any hope of getting out of this mass and if you would like to receive a billion dollars of bailout money. they want to see real evidence on the ground of austerity measures. >> thank you. later in this program, i will have more on the facility that would be managing the

there was deep frustration in brussels. it is being spoken about in berlin by president barroso. i think some of this public concern being expressed is designed to put a rocket into the greek government, to make it realize the economics of this problem are more important than domestic politics they may be contending with. >> what is brussels doing? >> not a lot, except keeping quiet. for a year-and-a-half, every meeting of ministers has led to speculation on the market going the wrong way. angela marco has simply said we need more europe. nothing more than that. nothing much going on. there have been four meetings of finance ministers this week. there is a growing feeling it is now ok to talk about the possibility of greek default, that it is not a stupid idea. but there is hope that greece will see the light and impose the austerity measures it has promised. >> all of this is also having an effect on the euro. >> it has definitely been struggling. the euro has lost 9 cents against the dollar in the last two weeks. the dramatic downward slide came to a halt monday. the new tradin

might be preferable to the meeting he skipped in order to go to brussels. he had been summoned to meet with magistrates in naples to answer questions in conjunction with a new prostitution candle -- scandal he is embroiled in. there were rumors that the government is negotiating with china for a significant cash injection. >> we support the measure of eu countries in regard to this debt. we believe the eurozone countries can take joint action to resolve the relevant issues. >> china holds over 10 billion u.s. dollars worth of spanish, portuguese, and greek bonds. now it looks possible that they will invest in italy, although nothing has been confirmed. it is clear that russia needs a lot of cash to weather did debt storm. >> let's take a look at the market numbers. -- it is clear that rome need a lot of cash to weather the debt storm. >> the eurozone euro stoxx 50 ended the session at 2% higher. the dow industrials closed 4/10 of a percent higher. the frankfurt international auto show opened its doors to the media on tuesday. car manufacturers are celebrati

chief wants to give brussels a bigger role in how countries many. daniel bushell is that greece could fail to get its second bailout if it fails to carry out the terms of its first one that's according to the european central bank trish a he said it's absolutely imperative to tighten monitoring of countries in the euro calling for a single european government to impose economic decisions on countries according to tradition more governance within the eurozone is absolutely essential i mean if you talk to you here in brussels they're not sure that the single single government you bureaucrats making decisions for national economies is the right way to go ahead or even that it will save the euro zone anyway with growing numbers of people here fearing the single currency maybe a sinking ship and. i.m.f. and the greek officials are all in a part of the e.u. says greece has failed to cut its deficit you also have countries like finland who are resisting any more bailouts until they really understand what's going to going on in these troubled countries not

. >> in brussels, fears are growing that more is needed an emergency summits and bailouts. they want an economic government for the eu with real power. >> if we do get an economic government, we would need a transfer of sovereignty to brussels. not dramatic, but enough to stop one country from raising taxes while another drops them. >> that means, and fiscal policy on top of a common political agenda, a step toward a united states of europe, as long as the person in charge has the necessary powers. >> a person which is full accountability to the european parliament for all actions taken on the fiscal front, who can take decisions going over certain member states if they do not respect certain obligations. >> perhaps the measure of how serious the situation has become is the number of former european leaders who have been popping up in brussels. they have been throwing their weight behind the notion of more europe to solve europe's problems, not less. they argue that eurobonds, so far rejected by berlin, should be part of a solution. >> eurobonds should be developed. they ne

europe's financial bosses plan on tightening their grip on the rest of the eurozone and give brussels a bigger role. a story still to come this hour but first israel is to allow security forces to shoot palestinian protesters who are preparing to march in support of their bid for statehood at the u.n. later this month tel aviv claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed by settlers in the west bank for self-defense or. across developments. in some quarters there is talk of a intifada that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the first two sicknesses of whom there are some four hundred thousand living in the land that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank operation themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some issy's and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this and we're being told that they have to take to a line around every six women in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians w

announced a new round of sanctions against the regime but as artie's daniel bashar reports from brussels many question whether western concern is for syrian lives or while revenues william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have forced this oil ban on syria but bizarrely sanctions won't stoltz for over a month. they will kick in only when europeans or world firms complete their supply contracts with syria and oil fields developed by e.u. energy giants like french to toll on being touched from at equal point of view because the sanctions would start. to go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u. may end up subsidizing the regime they oppose the oil industry can use sixty day payment which means the e.u. could still be funding. into makes year if a crime the horrific critics also why the e.u. is putting profits above syrian lives. diplomats warn sanctions won't even hit the mark they hurt ordinary people not the leadership they claim to toll gates are most importantly europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulders of the syrian people while their

difficult to see from brussels about what we can see is that until now there was no military occupation or intervention in which the population didn't resist so i think when they leave it's up to the libyan people and it's up to them to decide if they want to follow. need to or if they want to keep on truckin the independent development of their country it's up to them. you know yesterday our group called friends of libya comprising sixty countries met in paris to thrash out levy is future so how do you see nato his role developing in the country post gadhafi. everybody is focusing now on this conference in paris about don't forget the war is still waging in libya. of nato still continue on several cities so we have to see this come from another means of the nato to impose their agenda. foreign minister of the belgium foreign affairs of belgium of or running governments was very clear this morning here in russia on the radio he said we will lift. the blockade of summer. the money but the rest will only be. listed as to what they will only be lifted once the rebel show what we want to se

live from up brussels. ok let's go to technology and walls of the main news right now of the yemeni plane has reportedly found a mosque in the south that was thought to be owned by islamic militants killing at least thirty it follows the killing of seventeen extremists in yemen ears drugs in the region the insurgents were linked to al qaeda and to go over the city of john in april and with the own going on to government demonstrations and political crisis in the country. the much delayed trial of former french president jacques chirac is resuming the judges deciding whether the frail seventy eight year old is well enough to face court he's charged with embezzlement while the mayor of paris sun paying body members the nonexistent jobs a lot of serving eggs leaders the first french president to go on trial since the second world war he faces ten years jail if convicted. sudan's bounders main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the newly independent south sudan police ar

brussels. last ten percent of its savings the swiss franc devaluated ten percent that means that everything will be ten percent more expensive in the future what we saw in switzerland is nothing than a coup a coup of concern to bring of switzerland and a coup means that people and politicians are not being asked if they want it or not if you ask a civilian if he wants to join the euro then he would clearly vote for no but. even more what we saw in switzerland with the central bank was a total unconditional. to brussels and to the euro zone and in the end of the day the euro will be also introduced in switzerland this is my view so all you can really speak about a coup which happened. much more still to come this hour including getting brace for a brain storm. join me and use the now i have a third annual global policy forum. leaders experts and analysts discuss the world's most pressing issues. and with colonel gadhafi now surrounded by the rebels later r.t. looks at how libya might become a br

and bell now face a crucial encounter in brussels next on the seventh of october. moscow. well in the meantime goofy was blown wide open by all media starting for no where in slovakia they treat people the armenians level with the slovak to third place one point to going to any trap attendings island macedonia one one male at home to one boss and under or in the other great match so to confirm with two games left to play russia are on top with seventeen point two ahead of islands the next goal trying dora armenia rise to hurt and will face macedonia next. two places the fourth and next host leaders russia trick made less daunting to take out the cards and then after that surprise to the media. so everything to fight for in group b. but reigning world and european champions spain already through. clinching top spot in group by calling it comprehensive six nil when they were through no six inch times about a negative that there were no bracing and scotland's move to within two points of the second placed czech republic despite missing a penalty in the first half steven naism

inflation but you're an economic analyst michael ross believes it's no more than a capitulation to brussels. every single through three do so in the last ten percent of its savings the swiss franc devaluated ten percent everything would be ten percent more expensive in the future what we thought in the learned is nothing than a coup of the strength of switzerland. means people and politicians are not being asked if they want it or not if you would ask is was so billion if you want to join the euro then he would clearly vote for no but there were only a few even more what we saw in switzerland with the central bank was a thought of unconditional surrender to the viewer to brussels and full year of the on the new year end of the day you all will be introduced and switzerland this is my if you saw you can really speak about which happened. much more still to come this hour including that getting brace for a brain storm. join me and you so now i have a third annual global policy forum. leaders experts and analysts discuss the world's most pressing issues. and with colonel gadhafi now surrounded

all right is daniel bushell live for us from brussels and those details what check back in with you later. turning now to other news we're covering on r t has warned israel that it faces a growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister heads for a visit to egypt recip tape aired over and is expected to cement closer ties with cairo with both countries having recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night a raging mob in egypt in capitals stormed and sacked the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee had expelled israeli diplomats last week over the jewish state's refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine turks during last year's raid on a gaza bound aid flotilla the turkish prime minister says the attack was our policy but his country had chose to refrain from aggression middle east analyst jonathan spyer says the implications of the arab spring make israel's position israel's isolation unavoidable. it's important to remember that there are there a process is under way in the region right now which are in no way which israel could in no way really exert any influe

has grown into a vast and expensive structure but now costs cutting what do you think that brussels could do more fission what could it get rid of i thought about this in class i would even see bluntly the best it would be to abolish the brussels bureaucracy altogether it will be even better if parliaments of the limber states would make laws which would be adopted in all countries afterwards they would be called a common law it would be more democratic and what we have now the politicians in parliament no longer know what they decided on their laws are being prepared in brussels and local politicians are not even capable of seeing them through because you have to have a specific knowledge of european law in order to understand what it all means you have to have an intimate knowledge of you or its jurisdictions and order to know what everything means i don't know of any impeding your me who would have any knowledge of european law and could get as it is that you pass in european like same with me now i know your euro skeptic but if you had to defend the e.u. what would you say that its br

discuss the pros gadhafi era other added benefits to this libyan friendship we'll have a report from brussels home to nato. and women in colombia are taking a road less travelled withholding what their mamas gave them by going on a political sex strike so we get you to withhold sex. is thursday september first seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for his hour and you're watching our team i want to start with a story of an attack on something so american you can always put it in the same category as baseball and apple pie i'm talking about rock n roll and more specifically one of the most well known instruments that has helped create and keep rock n roll live now to mention jazz and country music as well for decades the gibson guitar well apparently federal agents in this country aren't. taking issue with the one hundred year old company last week a gibson guitar factories in memphis and nashville tennessee were raided some of the workers told they could face prison time it was the second raid at the gibson factories in as many years this time agents confiscated would imported from india

ok thank you daniel bushell reporting live from brussels on that he always rates. offices thanks very much for that. now let's look at the markets russian markets regain their post or where they have sat in the park is gaining a quarter of a. let's take a look at some. individual album isaac's right now energy majors are trading in negative territory lower crude. after losing more than one percent meanwhile concerns about european debts awaiting on financials spare bank is losing one point eight percent this hour and among the gainers is now a snake hill gaining seven percent the company jumped the most in three weeks after it started accepting bids for its four billion dollars buyback program. and markets are lower in europe banking stocks pulled back following two days of strong gains that's only new jitters over a solution to europe's debt problems banking group one point six percent while hedge fund manager man group tumbled seventeen percent after reporting the shop all in its assets under management bankers topping the losers list all the ducks dropping four

its methods to remove the former libyan leader correspondent daniel bushell has more for us from brussels russia wants specific action from this meeting for the nato countries to come up with a plan well with which to stop the ongoing bloodshed that is going on in the country of your the issue on the table be unfreezing of with deserve conceding to unfreeze the gadhafi era money owed by libya of rule and there are concerns was as expressed concerns that that money will not get from the right people believe both the libyan people. sells as the money is handed out to the new. really leadership of libya reports have emerged also today of a deal for france to get one third of the entire libyan oil reserves africa's largest. denies this it has raised suspicions but saving civilians isn't a real aim for going into libya russia's representative to libya's morgan off he says the n.c.c. national transitional council will also have to work with other countries not just those who help and. libya won't be able to keep in line with the interest of just the european union or the united states or the st

brussels. and staying with the region's troubles russia and france are calling for more dialogue between the syrian government and its opposition to try and rest well there is also a warning that there should be no repeat of what happened in libya and that's a during a meeting between the french and russian foreign ministers are to follow their talks. well surely there is a number of differences in the approaches an understanding is off some international issues between russia and france but so the two countries do call each other a long term strategic partners and they are on common ground when it comes to a great amount of international and local problems now i'm talking about moscow and paris in full understanding that the situation with they're going to repeat what happened with libya and it's absolutely vital to the opposition in syria has a dialogue with. we're convinced that it's vital today to start talks and this is actually what the syrian leadership calls for it's extremely dangerous

i have been homeless now for a year. >> the card dealer follows the news from brussels and berlin where some politicians discuss the possibility of greek and bankruptcy. the exit from the euro would be a disaster. >> it would only benefit the 10% who already have money in foreign bank accounts. for the rest, the consequences would be incalculable. >> greece's main port reflects the changing times. car imports have dropped drastically. last year, chinese investors to control of 2/3 of the container port. athens might be the greek capital but it is berlin and beijing calling the shots. >> greece is under pressure to cut the size of their public sector and cut the workforce. this means shedding more than 100,000 jobs. athens has been asked to sell off firms and private it is crucial utilities. even the airport could be handed over to private investors. the government will offload some of its majority stakes. sales which many people feel are very contentious. >> waste water flows through this sewage pipe. this is part of one of the largest waste treatment plants in europe. along with most p

i think with this presentation, i hope i have given you a glance of how we in brussels try to enforce the cycling patrol and i don't think i have to tell you that it's of benefit for all of us, for our health, for a better neighborhood and also -- and that's a good thing, and also firms, banks, more and more are happy to put cycling in their mobility program because it's good for their image. if you come to brussels, you will see bicycles, for instance, indicated like this is the group. this is the bank. they really take it as an advertisement and part of their policy to show they are progressive because they have their employees on the bike and i think that will help us very much in the choices we make. so i would like to just thank you for your attention. [applause] . >> thank you very much. unless you have some clarifying questions, we will go on to the next speaker, and i believe is mr. nils jensen. he is a senior traffic planner working with strategies and planning in the traffic department of copenhagen. he is educated as a landscape architect starting his career in the danish c

>> hello, welcome from brussels. in this week's program, we examine how the strauss-kahn affair has more women speaking out about sexual assault. and also this week, the cross-border war over bohemian bark beatles. norway's young politicians fight on after the july massacre. and how tweed is weaving its way back into fashion. the french attitude towards many people elsewhere would call sexual harassment would be a bit different. there's a sense that men will be men. but the dominique strauss-kahn affair is changing attitudes. after charges were dropped in the u.s., the former head of the implets m.s. is facing a new trial in his native france for attempted rape. more and more french women are start together speak out about sexual assault and harassment in a way they haven't done before. >> what better symbol of french seductiveness than the mowl inn rouge. but the playful image of sexuality has recently come under scrutiny. when seduction turns into sexual assault, women have traditionally been under pressure to stay

plus getting the heights world champion i'm not sure about when is the last dive in the meeting in brussels now ready to move world record. face to face of gold mayweather jr and victor all to square up as they make their way to their w.b.c. welterweight title showdown in las vegas saturday night. but first football and in the russian premier league new boys cause no doubt have boosted their chances of finishing in the top eight with a four nil triumph at home with two of those goals coming in stoppage time while at the end of the regular season the top eight teams will progress into the championship round to fight the believe title while the rest will go into the relegation rounds to decide which team to go down to present all went ahead in terms of just the fall off time. on the other end netted soon after the break with an injury to one spot that you were a city under. true distance for no victory they stay night long if they've not schooled in seven games in saturday's other matches he's struggling valda playing no league spot no trick. all over england also not looking for back to back

in belgium's capital, brussels, tin tin is all around. >> translator: i've been a fan of comic books since i was a kid. my father gave me a bunch. i still read tin tin, even today. >> reporter: tin tin's author, georges remi, was born in brussels in 1907. at the age of 21, while editor of a children's newspaper, he started the tin tin stories. he wanted to become an overseas correspondent. and through tin tin, he lived his dream of seeing far-away lands. the memorable first story takes tin tin to the soviet union. the country had become the world's first socialist country. to people in the west, the soviet union laid behind a thick veil. a newspaper assigns tin tin to report on the soviet union. there, he sees what appear to be busy factories. but suspecting something is wrong, he peeks into one. the factory is fake. burning straw makes it look like the plant is in full production. in moscow, the starving citizens line up for bread. later, the author says he had portrayed the soviet union too harshly. at the time, he was describing war issues through tin tin. in 1953, and 1954, tin t

listen ending unrest in the country brussels has banned of the import of oil from syria to europe cutting off the country's major source of income. people pushes for discounted gas supplies from russia backtracking on the two thousand and nine deal that ended the european gas crisis but president to get up says his proposals are not concrete and the current deal cannot be revived you know a lot of. my colleague will be here with a full look at your news in about thirty minutes but now it is time for our special report our crew explores a remote nature reserve in russia's far east.

host a radar for the western shield russia feels that the system could threaten its security but brussels claims it's aimed against so-called rogue states moscow's interest for written guarantees have so far been brushed off by the alliance. and while the u.s. remains a reluctant to to cooperate russia's working to make sure its own nuclear arsenal is in top shape it successfully test fired an upgraded version of its total ballistic missile on saturday with a maximum range of ten thousand kilometers it is capable of evading advanced missile defense systems the mobile weapon is it being modernized to make it even more difficult to detect which military officials say is in direct response to washington's plans for europe. and still to come this hour when the sky turned white with grief. russia marked the painful anniversary of the deaths of over three hundred thirty victims of the terrorist attack on a school seven years ago. ukraine is a struggling to pay its gas bill to moscow but isn't ruling out merging its nationalized energy firm with russia's gas problem to try and lower its costs pr

round of sanctions against syria saying that they will be useless in ending unrest in the country brussels has abandoned the import of oil from syria to europe cutting off the country's major source of income. and ukraine a pushes for discounted gas supplies from russia backtracking on that the two thousand and nine deal that ended in european gas prices but president medvedev says kids of the proposals are not concrete and the current deal cannot be revised unilaterally. up next the kaiser report looks at whether the international monetary fund is more wrecker then a rescuer and also that hughes plans to cut the big banks down to size.

country's announced a new round of sanctions against the regime as arky daniel bushell reports from brussels many are questioning whether western concern is for syrian lives or their oil revenues william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality who feels this will syria but bizarrely sanctions won't stilts for over a month. but they will keep going even europeans or firms complete their supply contracts with syria. and oil fields developed boy e.u. energy giants like french to toll being touched a magnetic will contribute because their sanctions would start only not too tired we go on with reduction of oil as a result the e.u. may end up subsidizing the regime they oppose the oil industry can use sixty day payments which means the e.u. could still be funding. into next year if a crime the horrific critics asked why the e.u. is putting profits above syria lives. diplomats world sanctions won't even hear the mork ordinary people not the leadership they claim to target and most importantly europe's oil companies have to be on the shoulders of the syrian people and the

that it was shell from brussels and medical off. and larry has given us i thought and you can watch it in for next hour here on our c well as discussed developments in libya in a little bit more detail now enjoying the of a new satellite he's an international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament there are those millions of being with us here on r.t. as you were just hearing that intervention in libya has justified on humanitarian grounds but we are now getting these reports that the french government and rebels have agreed a pact which suggests france could land thirty five percent share in libya's oil industry how is president sarkozy going to explain that. i cannot exactly predict what he's going to say but i can make him believe he's going to see the usual stuff about now it's going to be different this deal is going to be for good benefit of the libyan people and so the chances are. when he shows it's going to you as a little contempt of democracy i mean he makes it back to rich traditional government c