pleasures and i would print certainly displaying the hotel in touch with the hotel in torture room the picture of a good girl would international feels good to change every green little hatefilled in total. closing in on syria countries threatening to build up pressure to stop the crackdowns against protesters but worries amount that it could bring about a libya style air offensive. playing a fast and loose with liberty influence the government's claim for a campaign of fear by putting armed anti terror patrols on the street so following the speculating action is in the back of. the radical islamists taking root in russia's of north caucuses we look at how extremist rhetoric is winning over young minds. and russia's pm outlines new details of transporting russian gas directly to europe by the north pipeline joining twenty minutes for more of this is

part. of live from moscow this is r.t. gunfire and explosions being reported in a southern syria after the army sent in more time and reinforcements in the crackdown against unseat government protesters meanwhile the un has condemned the violence and is urging an investigation washington is considering imposing sanctions it's raising fears that syria could become the next libya with a no fly zone and foreign asterix as our middle east correspondent paula slip reports. according to human rights groups at least four hundred civilians have been killed in the last month of violence in the country in the last few days and though 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 is a form of punishment for this violent crackdown in the hope is that european countries will follow suit 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 take 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 an investigation into the killings against this backdrop there is 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 in washington entered brussels i guess there are

a lot of concerns about the fact that syria are like libya is part of an alliance and their bias is very wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq's government are part of a syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon on hamas in gaza 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 their return is a reaction by the iranian regime by hamas by hezbollah and others what the consequences if nato and the u.s. step back their operations in syria really fear could be the same consequences in terms of what we witnessing in libya. and maybe 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 be eventually supplying weapons to the opposition in syria in libya we've 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 been drawn with syria so against the pretext of actually coming in and wanting to assist the local population and actually prevent to use this terminology a slaughter the waste could be preparing the ground for foreign intervention in syria. his political reporting it'll be years or so because jets to aid mission in libya saying there was a targeted military action but also use a military contributor so as bombings are harming civilians on both sides rather than helping. 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 over l.e.d.s.

the most important thing that still the ludes the nato strategists and them masters in washington d.c. . they have this prior to him in a tearing bombing as coalition leaves all be doubt leave their participation we've poor b. they're out there predator drone strikes are possibly even with the introduction rather of being gunships the situation is not going to change dramatically and is not going to change the equation in levy and situation for a very simple reason because as any military prog can testify in any stalemate and particularly in lead here the aerial campaign only intensifies the suffering of freebie and people on both sides and steadily degrades and ruins the lead be an economy and its

infrastructure now as coalition forces get deeper and trenched in the libyan campaign for sparing retaliation on home soil that's already security with armed soldiers patrolling the streets now the government says it's to prevent terrorism as artie's and daniel bushnell scope was its fate it is just one step closer to becoming a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is france is busy here at system europe's most expensive and terra 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 other way. it's a bit frightening to guard. the. premier francois feel says troops are required because france bombing libya threatens

a terror attack at home you'll never find soldiers at shops tourist sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but expose through the system doesn't even work in the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real targets is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but somali to the public it's easier to persuade people that they can 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 only protecting us troops or 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 without getting judge's authorization to justify

the invasion of people's privacy says one author because he makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them free thinking that there is an arab with a bomb here. the government recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. face veil some already mocked the band and what they see as an arab witch hunt by going out in vocals and mini skirts there's also the law cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis video pirouettes 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 the executive can move resources from one area to another quite quickly it's very difficult to find an exact figure critics

like michelle cologne have dubbed the video system vishy period when she was france's first in the second world war it spied and informed on people and targeted ethnic minorities the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens don't you bush or r.t. paris. well france and italy according to some probably bring back a border controls to curb the massive spread of immigration from the middle east and north africa many of the refugees who try to make their way into france to be reunited with their relatives the country's far right leader says the increasing number of foreigners are creating a social and cultural rift. and something that will cause they say we're in a democracy but authorities refused to show the real figures on how many immigrants there are there are probably sixty seven million listen fair already plus additional immigration on a massive scale each year based is an organized replacement of our population base

threatens our very survival but we don't have the means to integrate those who are already here there is though it's endless cultural conflicts you can be against immigration fights immigration spans all immigration to 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 hey we're finding it hard to get a better future to our own people as it is. and i know that full interview is coming your way in. just over an hour's time here on c but coming up in just a few minutes why taking the bus can be the highway to help r.t. investigate the perils of public transport in russia plus. the. russians a call to arms as military hardware rumbles through the streets of moscow preparation

for next month's of a victory day commemorations. and we've got a live from moscow now the north caucasus 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 with the region's youths being seduced into extremist ideology. looks at the reasons why and the plans 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 broaden their horizons so was so filled. until radical islamists took a hold on him. i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone but 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 in hiding when seville warned him to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into 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 town from what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants there dagestan's capital they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including ramiele 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 and as such i've 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. 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 refute it so you put 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 was not be made to feel alienated we need. to speak more a bold disallows sure the russian federation our government our constitution 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 thousand nine hundred since then although

widespread fighting has died down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings how can liberate it the question move asli arced here now is where the radicals ideology and methods and wants of desperation or growing confidence. r.t. . 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 within weeks say that dozens of muslims have been radicalized in london's mosques terrorism analyst robin it said griggs says there is no surprise and that the numbers really are now reaching critical levels. the british security terrorism the government didn't do nearly enough to crack down on the very real extremist mosque it was the country called mosque in the late ninety's in the early part of the century that was a mosque was a huge problem so many of the high profile terrorists and islamist militants passed through who were able to train. a very famous terrorist who was able to send people

off through the ranks of afghanistan to train so it really was a huge problem and we have to do is just look at lee came out of conviction has been in u.k. courts and the amount of suicide bombers killed by the plane in the u.k. carried out suicide bombings abroad the numbers are frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist convictions in three nine hundred ninety nine in two thousand and nine and you look in iraq hundred twenty people of past three just in this country alone who've been convicted in british courts 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. now. where you'll find more on all of our stories are plenty else lined up for you as well but let's have a quick look now what is for you a website and sex sells but crime would never pay using new orleans. to policing prostitutes is on the line. and in the battle to save

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video on demand our keys my old cars and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on call. out is coming to you live from moscow now in today's choked cities were encouraged to east traffic and take public transport but in russia that can carry some serious risks shuttle buses are cheap and frequent but in some places they're involved in up to huff of all road accidents often with little consequences at instance but again has been finding out why. the high speed chase and the miracle that no one was killed for more than ten minutes volgograd police pursued the speeding shuttle bus which had a drunk driver at the wheel. and the other shocking example this race between two million buses in central russia that left people teen people injured according to

police in some russian cities shuttle vans are involved in more than half of all road accidents we are in the us these good southern russia and as you can see shuttle buses are very popular here because there's less than a dollar per ride but just like anywhere else in the country this type of transportation is fraught with danger 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 was it this year alone who performed forty random checks and found twenty seven drivers who we using drugs. for just one day he caught up living in moscow parked his car and took a shuttle bus to work he says he almost got killed. for serious while asians in a row very risky ones too ready to go in their own way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the hand and make him. meanwhile authorities in the us east

claim 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 cameras to help us deal with complaints on a case by case basis no matter how impressive these plans are it's still unclear how this big brother approach 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 ski r t want to see school. now what you're doing is past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. let's check out some other headlines now from around the world and six nato soldiers have been killed after an afghan force pilot opened fire on them at a couple airport the shootings happened after an argument broke out the pilot was later shot dead the taliban says it is behind the attack but officials called confirm that insurgents had recently infiltrated afghanistan's military. a revered

hindu spiritual leader has been buried in drawing a crowd of nearly half a million votes including top politicians and celebrities treat. was one of the religions most important figures many people believe that he was a living god what others saw of miracles who supposedly performed is just merely. baba who was eighty five died of a heart attack on sunday. a train those popular with tourists has overturned in a central taiwan after a tree collapse into the tracks at least six people were killed and over sixty injured in the accident several carriages de rails on the narrow line which passes through a mountainous region many of the passengers are believed to be chinese tourists. gyptian a security officials say a pipeline carrying gas to israel and jordan has exploded after an attack last sent flames shooting into the air and forced the pipeline to be shut down it's been

attacked before last month gunmen planted explosives which failed to detonate. but tanks and military hardware have been on the streets of moscow for purely peaceful reasons and around two weeks russia will commemorate the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany sir for joining in my. preparations. oh good. night there was a. take . sixty.

minutes time. and cross. business with. oh welcome to our business update this out thanks for joining me russia's prime minister has outlined new details on the north stream pipeline which will transport gas from russia directly to europe president putin says the first cast liveries five the baltic sea bed will take place in six months time r.t. the coming of a car has more. the construction of the ten billion dollar gas pipeline to be completed in just about two weeks time and in excess of this year the gas pipeline that goes through the bottom of the baltic sea will begin supplying european

consumers with natural gas together with south korean pipeline project it should enable stable gas supplies to europe bypassing certain unreliable transit countries initially it was planned that nord stream will it deliver sixty five billion cubic meters of gas per year to hear it but the recent events in the north africa the middle east of course the japanese nuclear catastrophe and the full wing output of nuclear power in europe russia says it is ready to further increase gas supplies to european consumers as fifty five billion cubic meters for a year is not believe it for the north stream project from his wooden recently thanks denmark for cooperation on this project and has emphasized that the recent events unfolding in north africa and japan once again and that chill gas is the most ecological energy resource that looks like b.p. and finally resolve its dispute with its russian oil partners b.p. says it's ready to sell its stake in the joint venture victor vex oberg one of the

partners in the r. consortium which owns fifty percent of tank a b.p. says a sale would be possible if they're offered a good price or earlier refuse b.p.'s twenty seven billion dollars offer as a gesture the price should be forty billion dollars if you want to buy out its russian partners or block the british from share swap and arctic explorer. deal with it. let's have a look at the markets europe in markets push time boosted by strong earnings results by ericsson and automakers investors are waiting for the federal open market committee and a news conference by pitt chairman ben bernanke eke out a shares are on the rise across europe with no gaining over three percent on better corporate results shares of finish more about maker nokia also jumped three have percent after the company said it will x. four thousand jobs. and russian equities have raised earlier gains plunging in the red baron energy stocks are among the main loses despite all prices we see banking

stocks are also on the downside now let's take a look at some index movers here on the my xix ross nafis losing one point nine percent this hour the t.v. is also down despite posting record high annual profits will have a more on that in a bit later and produce gold is in the red out posting lower than expected results now russia's largest gold producer has boosted its net profit by ninety one percent to three hundred fifty seven million dollars last year but gold's results turned out to lower than analysts expected market watchers hoped for up to four hundred twenty four million dollars on the back of surging to precious metals. russia second biggest lender has posted a record high net profit of two billion dollars last year that's against a two point one billion dollars net loss in two thousand and nine analysts say the result which appeared to be about expectations was supported by business growth and

coming home occasions to mr. bush's top internet investment firm mail dot ru group boosted its net profit by sixty six percent to seventy seven million dollars last year the result was mainly due to. the sale of its assets this is the first time the company has posted results since its side to only london six months ago we. well mail dot ru shareholders revealed plans to place almost seven percent the company's shares on the market. that the russian government is still struggling to curb its budget deficit despite growing all prices as finance minister nick sequence says it would only be possible to close the gap if prices stayed around one hundred twenty dollars a barrel for the two ninety three dollars a barrel russia would face of budget deficit of up to two and a half percent of g.d.p. but analysts warn against basing forecasts on high prices and

prices. see eighty dollars per barrel the government will already be running considerable budget deficits until the end of the kids may be due a few percent of g.d.p. and to cut down the deficit the government will have to basically ban them most of the promises which were given before the elections 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 industry experts on bone chips as the end of the scheme is unlikely to affect the market or its key beneficiary after vos. for sure and there wouldn't be such a significant impact on the downside as happened in germany for example last year when a similar program was discontinued and the major reason is that in russia in contrast to other markets it was introduced very specific conditions you could argue that

this could affect the sales of laughter was in first place however hopefully by the time they will be able to launch their course the ground to be being announced for the last quarter of two thousand and eleven and gradually ramp up production so considering there is a. liquid market positioning i don't think that it will have an overall impact on the overall market develop and also. the latest i have for you in our business. can always. business and find business stories that.

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