a good good how would international hotels flood the cheap every green little her children in total. series and a world size with threats to ramp up pressure and a violent crackdown against anti-government damages god there is concerned it could lead to maybe a style airstrikes. france is accused of scaremongering with increased and a terrible trawls as a libyan campaign escalates but there is a public anger that liberty's at stake. are radical form of islam creeps into russia's caucasus as we report on how impressionable young people are falling prey to extremist rhetoric. and our top story in business a resolution to beat these disputes it's russell partners may finally be in sight

tinkly says it's ready to sell its stake in the joint venture details coming up in our business bulletin. it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. marina joshua welcome france and aly are urging the u.n. to put pressure on syria to and its violent crackdown on anti-government protestors 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 as our middle east correspondent paula slee are now reports 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 know some five hundred people have been arrested now the chance is considering. introducing new legislation new

sanctions against the regime in damascus is a form of punishment for this violent crackdown and these sanctions would include a travel ban it would include an asset freeze a provision 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 then they do in the united states in addition to this in another example of the increased diplomatic activity and the 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 contains the violence and it does seek the stage for the eventual imposition of sanctions against the country its thirty backs of course the un secretary-general ban ki moon for an investigation into the killings against this backdrop there is more concern being expressed by experts in the international community that not only be increased

diplomatic activity against the country but also the possibility of a future intervention and if this will spark a reaction from arab states in washington and 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. elements in iraq's government are part of a syrian regime hezbollah and lebanon are. so if the international community or united nations or united states are going to apply to syria measures all of an economic meaning a direct intervention or political commanders pressures what they may get in return is a reaction by the iranian regime by hamas by hezbollah and others what the consequences if nato and the u.s. step up their operations in syria many fear could be the same consequences in terms of what we're witnessing. in libya and they have been witnessing an operation

that's already be on the go for several months and many fear that it could continue for months if not years really the situation in libya is a parallel to what we witnessing happening in syria today they were experts who are suggesting that this could lead to the venture supplying of weapons to the opposition in syria much the same as we saw in libya in libya we heard nato and the united states saying that the libyan leader moammar gadhafi is not a target now we're hearing some western powers saying that he is the same parallel being born with syria could pressure so ultimately become a target and sort of be from some of the statements we hearing he could be hearing statements such as we stay in countries need to stop the slaughter is killing his civilians and needs to stop against the pretext of actually coming in and wanting to assist the local population and actually prevent to use this terminology a slaughter waste could be preparing the ground for foreign intervention in syria because they are reporting they're sending its jets to

a nato mission in libya saying they will take part in targeted military action what are his military contributors as bombings are harming civilians on both sides rather than helping them. italy has become the seventh member of the most the leader and club among the nato members who take part in humanitarian bombing twenty four seven overly dhea the most important thing that still eludes their native strategies and them masters in washington d.c. is that despite the humanitarian bombing as coalition we've all be though believe their participation we've poorly though out there predator drone strikes all possibly even be the introduction rather of being gunships the situation is not going to change dramatically and is not going to change the equation in libya and

situation for a very simple reason because as any military can testify in any stalemate and particularly in leave year the aerial campaign only intensifies the suffering of the and people on both sides and steadily degrades in ruins of the levy an economy and its infrastructure as coalition forces get deeper into instead the libyan campaign finances are in retail and on home soil it's already up security with armed soldiers patrolling the streets the government says it's to prevent terrorism but as dana was told it's cover us it's fear it is just one step closer to a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine gun this is france is the chief here at fist of europe's most expensive time to tear a program to for its what it calls the growing terrorist threat 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 if there is a good friday read to go. to the. premier francois feel says 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 the experts say the system doesn't even work and the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee bridge appear as real targets is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that they can be a terrorist it's natural station it's easy very for people in friends 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 only protecting us troops or only the visible part or storage fees can now read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed a bill for police to tap phones without getting judge's 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. the government's recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. face veil some already mocks the band and what they see is an arab witch hunt by going up in veils and mini skirts there's

also the law cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis it's 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 michelle coleman have dubbed the video system vishy pierrette she was france's first history in the second world war it spoiled and informed people and told that it ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens the nubile shortie paris. 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 where any of the refugees have tried and made

their way into france to be reunited with their relatives the country's far right leader says increasing numbers of foreigners are creating a social and cultural rift. so they say we're 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 this is an organized replacement of our population this freshens our very survival we don't have the means to integrate those who are already here there is a lot it's endless cultural conflicts you can be against immigration fights immigration suspends all immigration but not immigrants as individuals i understand immigrants wants a better future here but i honestly say to them you can't find a better future here we're finding it hard. get a better future truck people is there is. a full interview is on air in just over an hour here on our team but coming up in

just a few minutes why taking the bus can be the highway to hell r.t. investigates the perils of public transport in russia plus. the. contrary hardware wrong all through the streets of moscow in preparation for next month's victory day commemorations. the north caucasus is russia's biggest worry when it comes to dealing was a breeding ground for terrorism worryingly recruits are not so hard to come by but the region's youths being seduced into extremist ideology artie's tom barton looks out the reasons why at a clients to stop it. a busy day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language they're trying to prove me right since still was sort of builds but until radical islamists took hold on him.

i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world so they stopped paying attention to this one by the end of university he had started to take food to militant friends and finding when civil war to stop it he left home forever as locals say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable inside was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left. for more chinos it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants terms couple they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke a deadly gun battle in which they all died including ramiele in another of the region's capitals it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud three months ago public's mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim

extremists. and as a chair of had been a vocal critic of both your thirty's and the extremists saying there is corruption in the police as in other spheres of society but it doesn't mean the policeman to be shot dead. jordan 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 are scared of it they will refuse it. but since the one nine hundred ninety s. more extreme forms of islam thought to come from outside russia have been growing influence. university staff are concerned at how impressionable some students have proved to be they say the region's muslim majority must not be made to feel alienated we need. to speak more about islam to show with the russian federation i want government i will consider all wars they.

do not do anything against islam as 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 it it the question of asli arced here now is where the radicals ideology and methods of wants and desperation of growing confidence on bottom. 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 wiki leaks a dozens of muslims have been radicalized in london's mosques terrorism analyst robin simcox says this is no surprise and that the numbers are reaching critical levels. the british security service and the government didn't do nearly enough to crack down on the very real extremist mosque that was the mosque in the late

ninety's and the early part of the century that was a mosque was a huge problem so many of the high profile terrorists and islamic militants. were able to train. a very famous terrorist and was able to send people off to the likes of afghanistan to train so it really was a huge problem and we have to do is just look at the game out of convictions as painting u.k. courts and the announcer of suicide bombers that i did in the u.k. carried out suicide bombings appear on the numbers a frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist convictions between ninety ninety nine and two thousand and nine and you're looking at a real hundred twenty people the past three i 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. argy dot com is where you'll find more

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be official g.o.p. convention your only phone only poll judge from the jews upstream. joel she is on the good. video. the old girl's. omissions speech now in the palm of your. question on the call. and today's choked cities were all encouraged to ease traffic and take public transport by in russia that can carry some serious risks shuttle buses are cheap and frequent but in some places they were involved in up to half of all road accidents often was legal consequences and as the last has been finding out why.

a high speed chase and a miracle that no one was killed. for more than ten minutes police pursued 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 peen people injured according to police in some russian cities shuttle vans are involved in more than half of all road accidents we are in these good southern russia and as you can see shuttle buses very popular here the cost is less than a dollar per ride but just like anywhere else in the country this type of transportation is fraught with danger and most shuttle vans 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 for two random checks and found twenty seven drivers who were using drugs for just one be go to living in moscow

parked his car and took a shuttle bus to work he says he almost got killed. for serious violations in a row very risky ones to reading to read 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. queen that they found the solution to the shuttle bus problem a trendy high tech one. year we are equipping all shuttle buses with satellite tracking equipment and video congress to help us deal with complaints on a case by case basis no matter how own press of these plans are it's still unclear how this big brother approved will affect the situation on the roads but with the rising number of shuttle bus relates deaths and injuries it may be one small step cutting down the carnage there is a lot. to see. some of this hour's other world news now revere and hindu spiritual leader as buried in india drawing a crowd of nearly half

a million including top politicians and celebrities. baba was one of the religions most important figures many people believed he was a living god but others saw the miracles he supposedly performed as merely stunts baba who was eighty five died of a heart attack on sunday. ivory coast a new government has launched an investigation into its alstad president a statement said laurent gbagbo is accused of crimes and fans is but didn't give any details he was arrested by forces loyal to the new president. after five months of post-election conflict babo refused to cede power even though its heart was internationally recognized as the winner. egypt's security official say a pipeline carrying gas to israel and jordan has exploded after an armed attack a blast sand flames shooting into the air and forced pipelines to be shut down it's been attacked before and last month gunman planted explosives which failed to

detonate. severe weather continues to batter central u.s. states leaving dozens of people dad 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 so far killed at least tampico. tanks and military hardware have been on the streets of moscow but for purely peaceful reasons and around two weeks russia will commemorate the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany join the parade preparations. and this. is the way. the president taking part in this is. the focus. on. making that way for a red bull. that i love to close but the sixty fifth anniversary.

of the great patriotic well this. got to be no less spectacular this really should give you an idea of the ship celebration that we have to look forward to like so they got. their. news with kareen stay with us. welcome to our business update this hour b.p. may finally resolve its dispute with its russian oil partners asked hankey says it's ready to sell its stake in the joint venture that's a vessel back one of the partners in the a.a.r.

consortium which owns fifty percent of tanking b.p. says the sale will be possible if they offered a good price they are had earlier refused the peace twenty seven billion dollars offer and suggested the price should be forty billion he wants to buy out its russian partners after a are blocked the british from chest i'll take expiration deal with rosneft. danish shipping and drilling company in norris could join the exploration of russia's fuel rich offshore fields russia's prime minister has invited the company to consider projects in the black sea and the far east as it put in pointed to mark's expertise which could help develop hard to reach but promising fields company already helps russia's largest private oil producer look to drill wells in the caspian sea. the russian government is still struggling to curb its punch a deficit despite growing all prices finance minister ali seclusion says it will only be possible to close the gap if prices stayed around one hundred and twenty

dollars per barrel and fall dip to ninety three dollars per barrel i should place a budget deficit of up to two and a half percent of g.d.p. economy strategists warn against basing forecasts on highly prices. prices so. see eighty dollars but the government through radio gear and you can see that a budget deficits until the end of the gate may be to a few percent of g.d.p. and to curb down the deficit the government will show it to be should go beyond them most of the promises which were given before the election. how the stock markets are doing right now asia shares are mostly high on wednesday helped by wall street's overnight gains japan's nikkei up over percent despite the fact that standard and poor's cut its outlook on japan's sovereign rating to negative from stable tech and electronic stocks are in the lead time and gained over six percent is bad news from the from the reported profit drop was already priced into the

shares o.-p. to memory gains nearly three percent hong kong stocks are also high with property developers among beleaguered had plans. and was an equity markets are gaining in morning trading the r.t.s. is up over half a percent of the nies it is gaining nearly three percent a point three percent energy stocks are among the main gain as that higher oil prices let's look at some individual share moves now in the wind six. percent in the black bear floor is also gaining after it was rated at twenty eight placed on a list of the most valuable airline brands and supposed gold is slightly out despite posting lower than expected results. which was largest co-produces boosted its net profit by ninety one percent to three hundred fifty seven million dollars last year but only scolds results turned out to lower than expected market watchers hoped for up to four hundred twenty four million dollars

on the back of surging to precious metals. russia is seeing a continued rally in mergers and acquisitions the market almost doubled last year and went on to prove in the first quarter of this year growth is still mostly driven by domestic deals but there's been a significant increase of foreign companies taking part china coffee from he p.m.g. russia pinpoints and the reasons. while we see activity in primarily all sectors be safe. i think the most interesting opportunities are or in the consumer market space in the natural resource space the natural resource essentially driven by you know access for raw materials and really a need for capital to invest in russia resources consumer markets driven more by local consolidation the key players in russia as well as strategic interests looking for a foothold in the russian market i think in food retail you're going to see continued consolidation by the local champions but fernand from greece you know i

expect some significant entrance of foreign players after. this cash for clunkers program is wrapping up unless the year's one point two billion dollars were handed out so we place half a million cars industry expert on bunch of the end of the steam is unlikely to affect the market or its key benefits. for sure there wouldn't be such a significant impact on the downside as it happened in germany for example last year when a similar program was discontinued and the major reason is that 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 us in first place however hopefully by the time they will be able to launch their low cost ground to be announced for the last quarter of eleven and gradually ramp up production so considering there is

a good market positioning i don't think that it will have an overall impact on the overall market development and also. and that's not there for the south but don't forget you can always find more stories just log all that site i see dot com lasts that's how much. the.

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