series in the world sides with threats to ramp up pressure to and of violent crackdowns against anti-government but there's concern it could lead to levy a style airstrikes. france is accused of scaremongering was in freeze anti terror trials after arab refugees fleeing north africa there is a public anger at the liberties of state. had a radical form of islam creeps into russia's caucasus as we report on how impressionable young people are falling prey to extremist rhetoric.

is eighty on the russian capital you're watching r t with me rima joshua welcome to the program france and italy are urging the u.n. to put pressure on syria to and its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters washington is also considering imposing sanctions it's raising fears that syria could be the next libya where the unrest results in imposing a no fly zone and foreign airstrikes well it's not cross to our middle east correspondent paul is clear stop more poso which direction is syria having. well according to human rights groups at least four hundred civilians have been killed in the last month of violence in the country and in the last few days alone since the lifting of the emergency law some five hundred people have been arrested now the white house is considering introducing new legislation new sanctions

against the regime in damascus as a form of punishment for this violent crackdown and these sanctions would include a travel ban it would include an asset freeze or prohibition against doing business in the united states and the hope is that european countries would follow suit as it is members of president bashar assad and members of that regime have more assets in europe than they do in the united states in addition to this in a nother example of the increased diplomatic activity and a call for sanctions against syria we are seeing in the u.n. security council debate over a draft statement that calls for restraint and also condemns the violence now that statement was introduced on monday it was introduced by four european members that include bush and france germany and portugal and it does see the stage for the eventual imposition of sanctions against the country it's thirty backs of course by the un secretary-general ban ki moon for any investigation into the killings

against this backdrop there is more and more concern being expressed by experts in the international community that not only the increased diplomatic activity against the country but also the possibility of a future intervention and that this will spark a reaction from arab states let's take a listen. look in washington and in brussels i guess there are a lot of concerns about the fact that syria are like libya is part of an alliance and that alliance is very wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq's government are part of a syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza show it. international community all united nations all united states are going to apply to syria measures other than economic meaning a direct. intervention or palooka called tremendous pressures what they may get their return is a reaction by the iranian regime by by his body and others. now

more and more the international community is looking towards the turkish capital as a possible intermediary between syria and the international community but it's certainly up here whether or not some kind of showdown can be averted. so paul what could be the consequences if nato and the u.s. step up their presence in the arab world. well what we're hearing from experts in the international community is that the americans and the europeans might be considering any eventual parallel scenario to what we've seen happening in libya and that is the possible supplying of weapons to the opposition in their country we are already hearing statements from western countries saying things like they need to stop the slaughter and the pretext might be that president bashar assad needs to be stopped from killing his own people

there are alarming parallels between syria and libya what we're hearing are the same arguments that we heard in the run up to the military operation in libya what we're also hearing is that the nato coalition in libya is facing many many problems and thought it would be quite easy to go in and to implement some kind of regime change it's now been embroiled in a situation in that country for weeks and months and many say that this is a stalemate that could carry on possibly even years there's also been a different kind of speech coming out regarding the situation in libya at first the coalition powers said that gadhafi to live in leader was not a target we're now hearing that he is a target and this is why more and more concerns are being raised by the international community number one of double standards and number two that the see might be painted for the same kind of eventually showdown that we saw in libya happening in syria all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us the. nato insists that the libyan government command center is

a legitimate target and i wasn't trying to kill colonel gadhafi when the dead were to contributor or to a veteran says the coalition forces are sitting regime change under any humanitarian guy. countries involved in the intervention in libya interpret the un security council resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three in any way they want saying it's protection of civilians they're helping the rebels and they're hitting the death of compounds it's obvious that this mission is no longer humanitarian supported one party to conflict begins there are there cannot be called human tarion. now the countries who are involved in this intervention by a party to a conflict a belligerent party it's easy to see why nato warns it will change in libya when the new regime is established the new leadership out of gratitude for the countries will save them from. would want to sign

a new oil agreements and also will allow a nato to set up its military base on the territory of libya these are the double standards of this intervention and i don't understand why have an international law if everybody can interpret it any way they want france and italy are calling to temporarily bring bad border controls to curb the massive spread of immigration from the middle east and north africa france has already its security you are armed soldiers patrolling the streets the government says it's to prevent terrorism but as daniel bushell discovers it's fear it is just one step closer to a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is cross is the jeep here at system your most expensive anti terror program to fight what it calls the growing terrorist threats the government claims troops make the public feel safer but that's not what people think they look

a little bit dangerous they can. use the force and the other way it is a bit frightening to guard the. premier francois feels his troops are required because france bombing libya threatens a terror attack at home you'll now find soldiers at shops tourist sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but expose say the system doesn't even work and the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real target is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that they could be a terrorist just metro station it's easy very for people in france to believe well then they have a right to listen to my phone calls which they do they do do it they have a right to monitor my emails and facebook because they're really protecting us

troops are only the visible part or thirty's can now read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed a bill for police to touch phones with belts getting judges authorization to justify the invasion of people's privacy says one author so because he makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is an arab with a bomb here down down. the government recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim full. face veil some already mocks the band and what they see is an arab witch hunt by going else in vocals and mini skirts there's also the law cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis. estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create

a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government analysts say tries to hide the amount. is very expensive because an executive can move resources from one area to another quite quickly it's very difficult to find an exact figure critics like michel of the v.g. system vishy pirouettes vichy was france's first in the second world war it's spoiled and did for people and targeted as minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens the new bushel of team paris. many of the north african refugees have gained access to europe have tried to make their way into france to be reunited with their relatives francis far right leader says the increasing numbers of foreigners are creating a social and cultural rift. and some of the cars they say were in

a democracy but authorities refused to show the real figures on how many immigrants there are there are probably six to seven million muslims here already plus additional immigration on a massive scale each year based is an organized replacement of our population is freshens our very survival we don't have the means to integrate those who are already here there is little it's endless cultural conflicts you can be against immigration fights immigration suspends all immigration but not hate immigrants as individuals i understand immigrants wants a better future hey i honestly say to them you can't find a better future here we're finding it hard to give a better future to our own people as it is. that interview in full and just twenty minutes time here on our team also i had on a program why taking a bus can be the highway to hell are to investigate the perils of public transport in russia. plus russia's call to arms as soldiers started

beating the drum in moscow in preparation for next month's victories a commemorations. the north caucuses is russia's biggest worry when it comes to dealing with a breeding ground for terrorism worryingly recruits are not so hard to come by was the region's youths being seduced into extremist ideology artie's town barton looks at the reasons why and the plans to stop it. but busy day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language they're trying to broaden their horizons so was surveilled ramiele until radical islamists took a hold on him. through i saw the way his stature changed he became alienated from everyone the brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world so they stopped paying attention to this one but the end of university he had started to

take food to militant friends and hiding when civil wars him to stop it he left home forever as locals say he had gone to the forest. i already felt something inevitable and sad was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home from what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants their data systems company they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke a deadly gun battle in which they all dined including running in another of the regions capitals now take it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud three months ago the leader of the republican mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists. i must have had read a vocal critic of both the authorities and the extremists saying there is corruption in the police as in other spheres of society but it doesn't mean

policeman are to be shot dead. when their ideologists say they are there to make people scared of islam i can't agree islam is not a thing to be afraid of the only way to promote islam is to make people see the beauty of it if they're scared of it they will refuse it so simply put since the nineteen nineties more extreme forms of islam for to come from outside russia have been a growing influence. university staff are concerned at how impressionable some students have proved to be they say the region's muslim majority was not be made to feel alienated we need. to speak more about this law to show the russian federation our government our constitution all wars of a. anything against islam has itself radical islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one nine hundred ninety nine since then although widespread fighting has died down

the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings are political raising the question move astray os here now is where the radicals ideology and methods of desperation or growing confidence told us about. the people of britain might also be asking how to stop the spread of extremism after the u.k. was labeled as a central hub for terrorism classified u.s. documents seen by we can only say dozens of muslims have been radicalized in london's mosques terrorism alice robin simcox says this is no surprise and that the numbers are reaching critical adults. history of the british security service and the government didn't do nearly enough to crack down on the very real extremist a mosque that was defended called mosque in the late ninety's in the early part of the century you know it was a pretty huge problem so many of the high profile terrorists and islamic militants past thirty were able to train out of harms that are very famous terrorist was able

to send people off so you know like stuff can't stand the train so it really was a huge problem and we have to do is just look at the game out of convictions there's painting u.k. courts and the amount of suicide bombers that if i look in the u.k. carried out suicide bombings abroad the numbers of frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist connections between ninety ninety nine and two thousand and nine and you're looking at iraq hundred twenty people out of class three just in this country alone who have been convicted in british courts and we always stress that it's a very very small minority but of course only takes a very small minority to create a huge problem and that is what we have in the u.k. and i think generally across western europe. r.t.o. com is where you'll find more on all our stories plenty else lined up on you tube let's take a quick look. a quarter of a century after mankind's worst nuclear accident our team brings you moving and

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be official we can join a phone call judge from the. lunch all she is on the go. below. she's among the old girls. on the streets now in the palm of your. machine on the job com. in today's choked cities were all encouraged to ease traffic and take transport but in russia that can carry some serious risks shuttle buses are cheap and frequent but in some places they are involved in up to half of all road accidents often with lethal consequences and it has been finding out why. high speed chase and the miracle but no one was killed for more than ten minutes police pursuit the speeding shuttle bus which had a drunk driver at the wheel. another shocking example this race between two

media buses in central russia that left the teen people injured according to police in some cities shuttle burns or in baltimore than helpful for rude accidents we are in these good southern russia and as you can see shuttle bus is very popular here the cost there's less than a dollar per ride but just like everywhere else in the country this type of transportation is fraught with danger moves chortle burns belong to private companies where drivers are often overworked and underpaid some of them try to get behind the wheel drunk or worse. this year alone forty random checks and found twenty seven drivers who were using drugs. just one deep quarter living in moscow parked his car and took a shuttle bus to work he says he almost got killed. for serious violations in iraq very risky ones too running through a red light going the wrong way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the

hand and make him pull over and meanwhile authorities in the r.c.c. found the solution to the shuttle bus problem a trendy high tech one. but would you say this year we are equipping all shuttle buses with satellite tracking equipment and video cameras will help us deal with complaints on a case by case basis no matter home press of these plans are it's still unclear how business big brother approach will look back the situation on the roads but with the rising number of shuttle bus relates deaths and injuries it may be once worse than cutting down the carnage there's a lot still not to see. let's now take a look at some of the stories from around the world india's political leaders joined thousands of mourners to pay their last respects to a hindu spiritual guru who died on sunday. who was eighty five was one of the religion's most important figures many people believe he is

a top living god but others saw the miracles he supposedly performed as merely stunts he died of a heart attack and will be buried later on wednesday. i rico snoo government has launched an investigation through its allies to president the statement said live on the boat is accused of crimes and fans is but didn't give any details he was arrested by forces loyal to the new president al assad after five months of post-election conflict about bo refused to cede power even though it was internationally recognized as the winner. egyptian security officials say a pipeline carrying gas to israel and jordan has exploded after an armed attack a blast reportedly sent flames shooting into the air and force the pipeline to be shut down it's been a taboo for last month a gunman planted explosives which failed to detonate. severe weather continues to batter central u.s. states leaving dozens of people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed tornadoes

heavy rains and massive flooding are passing from texas to kentucky arkansas is bracing for another bout of storms which have so far killed at least ten people. tanks and military hardware have been on a streets of moscow but for purely peaceful reasons in around two weeks russia will commemorate the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany sarah for joining the parade preparations. under way. and this is. the. way. that i love the sixty fifth anniversary of the great patriotic war this great.

spectacular that's really give you an idea of the shift celebrations we have both today so. that brings us up to date here on r t n business news is next with. welcome to business here nazi thanks for joining me this hour a resolution to b.p.'s dispute with its russian all partners may finally be insight as to says it's ready to sell its stake in the joint venture which of axel burke one of the partners in a our consortium which owns fifty percent of tank a.d.p. says the sale will be possible if they're offered a good price they are had earlier with used a piece twenty seven billion dollars offer as suggested the price should be forty billion he wants to buy out its russian partners after a blog but british firm share swap and arctic exploration deal with russia. danish shipping and drilling company most could join the exploration of russia's

fuel rich offshore fields which is prime minister has invited the company to consider projects in the black sea and the far east but if we can point it to merrick's expertise which could help develop hard to reach promising offshore fields the company already helps russia's largest private or producer lukoil to drill wells in the caspian sea despite growing oil prices the russian government is still struggling to curb its budget deficit has been a strong secret in say the deficit free budget will only be possible next year if the price of oil stays at around one hundred twenty dollars per barrel and industry calculates all dipped to ninety three dollars a barrel russia would place a budget deficit of two to two and a half percent of g.d.p. but economic strategy has warned against base basing forecasts on high oil prices. prices. see

a to do list but. you get around you can see the budget deficits until the end of the gate maybe a few a few percent of g.d.p. and to cut down the deficit the government will. be here. most of the promises which were given before the elections. are cyclical how the markets are performing isn't shows again this hour with japan's nikkei almost one percent in the black that's despite stunning enforced cutting outs itself look like a country sovereign rating from stable to negative to reflect the potential for a downgrade the fiscal situation exceeds hong kong stocks are also on the rise with properties about it was among the needed. here in russia stock markets started trading in about two hours' time they closed mixed on tuesday with my six zero point two percent in the red. looking ahead to the trading session portfolio manager alexander outlines the main concerns for that's.

too much of themes can do you the first one needs it from seed meeting season for a bold seventy four forty percent of the conference reporting for us for the first quarter rather than mr nice but it seems to me you've got some kind of earnings not many police but earnings per peroration for the investors from unique use taking place and that's why a positive reaction he's pretty much we will see you call the c. commission with a european that will develop it seems to me that all the markets right now. some of the foreign exchange markets most of you don't want to hear right and everything these dependent dependent on for. pearse's large co-producers boosted its net profit by ninety one percent to three hundred fifty seven million dollars last year but bonus calls results appear to be lower than expected and as expected market

watchers forecast it to be up to four hundred twenty four million dollars as a surging demand for snap. russia is seeing a continued rally in mergers and acquisitions the market almost doubled last year and why don't improve in the first quarter of this year growth is still mostly driven by domestic deals but there's been a significant increase in the share of foreign companies taking part so mccarthy from k p m g russia pinpoints the main reasons why we see activity in primarily all sectors be safe the real estate i think the most interesting opportunities are in the consumer market space and the natural resource space natural resource essentially driven by you know i sister raw materials and really a need for capital to invest russian resources consumer markets driven more by local consolidation the key players in russia as well as strategic interest in looking for a foothold in inside the russian market i think in food retail you're going to see

continued consolidation by the local champions but for non-food retail you know expects some significant entrants of foreign players to the market. and russia's cash for clunkers program is wrapping up in less than two years one point two billion dollars were handed out to replace half a million cars car industry expert yvonne bourne chip says the end of the scheme is unlikely to affect the market or it's keeping the fishery afterthoughts. for sure there wouldn't be such a significant impact on the downside as it happened in germany for example last year when the similar program was discontinued and the major reason is that in russia in contrast to other markets it was introduced a very specific condition so you could argue that this could affect the sales of off the bus in first place however hopefully by the time they will be able to launch their local school. for the last quarter of

a. and gradually ramp up production so considering there is good in antiquity market positioning i don't think that people have an overall impact on the overall market developing and also. that's it for this hour there's always more stories on our website dot com. that's from.