it's sometimes. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is because a report. could syria be the new libya europe and the u.s. consider sanctions in response to a violent and deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. prime minister vladimir putin may hit stop itself with the use of force including flick torn nations saying politicians are not practicing what they preach. also reporting this hour to you protection abomination the french government puts on the streets to protect against terrorism but some members of the public say they feel targeted and spied on. and we focus on the north caucuses to find out why it's become

a hot spot for terrorists using islam it's on young muslims into extremists. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. where it's just past ten pm in the russian capital and the syrian army is sending in more tanks and reinforcements as part of a crackdown against anti-government protesters in the south or more the u.n. is urging an investigation into the government then violence washington is pushing for sanctions some believe the west may be gearing up for yet another intervention . has been finding out. 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 the hope is that european countries would follow suit in addition to this in another 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 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 an 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 it typically against the country but also the possibility of a future intervention and that 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 the syrian regime hezbollah and lebanon on hamas in gaza so if the international community or united nations or united states are going to apply to syria measures other than economic meaning a direct intervention or political demands pressures what they may get in return is a reaction by the iranian regime by 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 witnessing in libya. maybe but missing an operation that's a really big undergo 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

were suggesting that this could lead to the eventual supplying of weapons to the opposition in syria 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 could 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. reporting there with the russian prime minister says he's alarmed by nato as approach towards bombing libya at a news conference following russian swedish talks putin said the coalition is quick to it no matter the cost. actually the official record of it's well known that i used to serve in the keiji be at the time the soviet union was waging war in afghanistan and many of my friends served in afghanistan one of them was the head of the advisory group on the security bodies in herat one day he went on leave and

i asked him listen sasha how's the situation down there and at that time our country had a very patriotic spirit we believe that we're doing a very good thing having this war in afghanistan his reply came back and expectedly you know would up my signature not a single missile or bomb can be fired so what i asked i assess my success and my achievements by the number of orders that i don't sign for me the sound of chocking can you imagine hearing that from a k.g.b. officer at the time i asked him why he said do you know how many peaceful civilians perish because of these missile attacks but no matter what reasons are behind them sometimes i contemplate how easily decisions on using force are me today in international affairs and it leaves me gobsmacked and that happens against the background of all the fuss around the human rights and humanism which the modern civilized world seemingly practices don't you see significant contradiction here

between theory the words and deeds and the practice of international affairs and we should do our utmost to eliminate this imbalance. but the president of the arab lawyers association a looker joins me live from london to talk more about the unrest gripping the middle east region thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. can we first of all talk about the arab league's response to the libyan and now the syrian conflict how effective do you think the league has been so far. well in fact the arab league is coming very clearly as a totally ineffective institution it isn't presenting the governments coming to team up with each other therefore you find the arab league giving conflicting signals they're very happy to leave the issue to the united nations and to the west to deal with but at the end of the day i think the price that is being paid is

going to be very heavy both in terms of the popular civilian population in these countries as well as the interest of the world because i think the world community and especially the western countries under the gaze of the united nations not really working in an ethical or moral way of pretending to be defending human rights when i have the same kind of killing libyans for instance we look at libya and the libyans are being killed both by and nato when you look at syria the threats that are being. launched against syria are not being matched by that. against bahrain where you have the same situation in bahrain or indeed in yemen the u.s. is getting the arab countries especially the gulf states to save this skin. but at the same time. they've decided not to give him an exit policy by saying there is

a regime change they're talking about him losing let's see and it's quite appropriate for the president of france to decide let's the mystery of the leader of libya despite the fact that we can see that he is killing his people but i think there is no. proposal and that's why i think there is a double standard there is a. national interest of the western powers over that of the people. in the region but would you not agree though that they have a moral obligation the whole no fly zone the response what's happening in libya is based on a humanitarian issue people are saying this is a people led revolution in libya as well as in syria if those people want to regime change in those countries and it does can from the roots of those people surely they need help and the western nation has a moral obligation to help them you see we're out here walking on

a rope we are trying to say that we can decide whether to the united nations or indeed western countries we are going to decide for the people who they should have we have a duty to protect the people but we don't have the right to take sides we have there are a variety of means of dealing with issues there is to resort to the use of force and destroying and killing people from the air is the last measure it indicates the failure of politics what i thinks is sort of ask you to use the force you say there are a variety of means to step in and help the libyan government has actually called for russia to support it but there again is not very difficult for a country not to take sides when it gets involved i mean do you think russia could help in some way. certainly i think russia china india and turkey countries who have to play at least the ethical role they have to be to play

the constraint at all and i think russia has already said that what nato and what the western powers italy and france are doing and indeed britain goes way beyond the nine hundred seventy five un resolution that does not authorize countries to use force it is couched in such words that you can interpret it the way you want and this is this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve your national objectives under the pretext that you are actually trying to protect human rights but in fact the libyans are being killed by nato as well. and i can see for the life of me that how can we justify the killing of the libyans by nato when we cannot allow you to kill them i think both of them should cease and there are ways of dealing with it the idea that we intervene and we send now troops britain is sending experts and italy and france are using more force there are more arms going

into libya. this is just feeding a fire with more weapons interest or not i'm already talking about the interest in france britain and italy in libya do they have a similar interest in syria and if so what is it. well it's actually the position of the west in both instances like the leaders they don't like qaddafi and they don't like i said they don't like the regime either and both countries however the situation is slightly different locally that he has no friends anywhere whether in the other countries in libya or outside syria has some friends within the regime in libya and syria has some supporters within syria some supporters within the region and certainly i think the intervention of the west in syria if it's going to go down the same line as it has started in libya i think that would

be very disadvantageous to the west and to the security of the region i think it will be a hindrance rather than a help even though everybody is claiming that they are stopping the killing but if you if we go down the line of following what we've done in libya i know fly zone and the rest of the measures and indeed if we begin to resistance within these countries this is literally just having more trouble in the region rather than resolving it more trouble in the region are you perhaps implying that this unrest could spread to iran that iran could be drawn into this particularly if we see the instability occurring in syria well certainly the region is full of sports and dictators whether they are. kings all of the presidents or republics everybody there is total absence of freedom in the. middle of. the west then really the ultimate goal is to topple the iranian regime. well i think certainly the west

is working toward that one but iran is a completely different exercise i think it would take much more than. quite a lot of attempts for the last two years when we began to talk about the nuclear fire and then we talked about the revolution within libya within iran and all the support that the west has given it just didn't materialize i think certainly the west is. for the other regimes in the region particularly syria and i think the next one is going to be also sudan are booked are very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time thanks for joining us live there in london on r.t. thank. well france is increasing security at home fearing revenge attacks and its campaign in libya soldiers patrolling the streets are become a common sight the government says these measures are necessary to prevent

a potential terrorist attack but as artie's daniel bushell reports many see the policies as the scaremongering tactics of the big brother state. soldiers on the streets with machine gun this is france is the chief here at fifty of europe's most expensive and to tear a program to for its what it called 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 bit frighted 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 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 then 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 forty's canel read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed a bill for police to tap phones with belts getting judges 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 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 as an arab witch hunt by going out in vocals and mini skirts there's also the large cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis v.g. pirouettes estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government and lists tries to hide the amount. is very expensive because the executive can move 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 pierrette vishy was france's first history in the second world war inspired and informed on people and targeted ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own

citizens the new bush or r.t. paris. in the battle against terrorism in the north caucuses it's not just russian special forces on the front line within the muslim community there an ideological battle is raging between moderates and the extremist groups trying to lure young people. on this ripple. a busy day at university in russia's move caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language trying to broaden their horizons so was so filled. until radical islamists took a hold on him. i saw the way his stack 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 by the end of university he had started to take food to militant friends in 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 there dug a stones couple they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke a deadly gun battle in which they all died including running in another of the regions capitals now take its friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud three months ago their leader republican mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists i must have 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 that policeman to be shot dead. jew or when their ideologists seder is 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 they put since the one nine hundred ninety s. more extreme forms of islam fought 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 about. to show with the russian federation our government our constitution all wars of 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 have proliferated the question

nervously asked here now is whether the radicals ideology and methods i want to desperation of growing confidence on bottom party. and a counter terror operation is underway in russia's republic of dagestan security forces encountered a group of armed militants who opened fire on an officer has reportedly been killed two others wounded earlier two militants were killed in the neighboring republic in the region gunman opened fire from their car before being shot by police it's been confirmed they were leaders of a criminal group that extorted money from local business and officials say the money was used to aid militants and extremist groups north caucuses region has been gripped by almost daily violence between the forces and. tunnels what that you want some international news in brief this hour in our world update rival palestinian parties fatah and hamas have agreed to reconciliation according to officials under the agreement a temporary government will be formed and the election date set

a massive pain empowering gaza and fattah has been running the west bank for more than four years and two factions splits when violence erupted after hamas won the palestinian election back in two thousand and six. and afghan air force pilot shot dead eight u.s. troops and a contractor in an airport in kabul the gunman was reportedly suffering from mental illness and really got into a fight with his foreign colleagues or planned the attack after being recruited by the taliban incidence is the deadliest of a number of recent attacks on foreigners by afghan security personnel. the white house has released president barack obama's original birth certificate to prove that he was born in the state of hawaii so-called birth is a claim that obama was actually born in his fall of the native kenya making him ineligible to be president obama did release a less detailed version before he was elected in two thousand and eight but have refused to make public his original one until now. every day

commuters swarming on public transport in russia take serious risks in an attempt to get to their destination shuttle buses are cheap and frequent but in some parts of the country they're involved in up the hall from all road accidents often with lethal consequences dennis kozlowski has been finding out why. a high speed chase and a miracle but no one was killed. for more than ten minutes grab police pursued the speeding shuttle bus which had a drunk driver at the wheel. another shocking example this race between two million buses in central russia that left the teen people injured according to police and some russian cities shuttle vans are in baltimore than have a full group decks that we are in the us is good southern russia and as you can see shuttle bus is 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 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 forty random checks and found twenty seven tribes who were using drugs just one deep 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 iraq miri risk who wants to. wander on way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the hand and make him pull over a little while poor jesus. found a solution to the shovel last problem a trendy high tech one. but this 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 oppressive 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 once. the car. is below r t and i want to see. shortly we'll be talking to the french far right leader who says that being part of the e.u. is putting pressure on france to accept an influx of north african immigrants an interview coming up shortly but first a new tree is next with the latest business. very warm welcome to business artsy russian oil companies ross now expected to present plans for the first exploration projects of the arctic shelf by the first of september the coils already operating off shore and pledges to invest dozens of billions of dollars into shelf exploration in russia and abroad so. it's not another disaster in the ocean it's a take of the our training center for workers developing offshore oil and gas

deposits the complex is built by luke oil who has just signed a deal with rosneft own self exploration out to talk on these and more i'm joined now by they have the like here of. when b.p. planned to sign a deal with ross now after the arctic exploration they pledged to invest the first billion dollars and provide technologists what will be your contribution to the corporation. we have you need for already developing some of the world's largest offshore because it's such as the west. we are financially stable we can take on some of the financial risks we are partners for rosemary. because it's a question of where they are planning to start joint exploration of the shelf deposits and how much i already did to invest. in first or specialists will have to present concrete physical projects by the first of september and the government

should approve it's mostly the arctic projects or in the black sea or in the caspian sea each cycle of geological exploration especially in the arctic is a very three two seven wells in ghana we spent about a billion dollars to drill these kinds of wells i think your minds will be similar here is spatially if you talk about exploration of the arctic you. if the b.p. rosneft deal go through how might it affect your corporation over the last nafta. affect our partnership and rose next partnership with b.p. are very different projects which are not connected to their economically technologically or politically when we're talking about cooperation with rosen left we're not talking about exclusive partnerships cooperation on concrete projects where you believe he may finally resolve this dispute with its russian oil partners

k.b.p.s. says it's ready to sell its stake in the joint venture next to the vaccine bed one of the partners in the consortium which owns fifty percent of g.d.p. so the sale will be possible if they're offered a good price he wants to buy out his russian partners after the british share swap and i think the exploration deal with rosneft. refuse me these twenty seven billion dollar often suggested the price should be forty billion dollars. yes. billion dollars. it's a sixty percent premium to the company's current market risk that's too much i think three billion dollars is more realistic however given the situation in which b.p. is stuck it will probably come to terms with. b.p. has enough money it had around twenty billion dollars on its account as a billion of last year also which we sure they're technically capital is twenty seven percent comfortable level so b.p.

shouldn't have any problems in getting a loan if it decides to keep the peace. and russia's markets ended wednesday's session on the negative notes better g stocks were among the main news astride high oil prices banking stocks were also on the downside take a look at some of the shares on the my six rosneft is down almost two percent at the close in c.b. was down two point. despite posting record high annual profits. and coming up next i'll see the headlines the state of its. own.

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