the u.n. sails through bree on condemning syria's crackdown on demonstrators as russia says the move could worsen the violence we look at how radicals are hijacking the u.s. or the arab spring could backfire on washington's made ally israel. the world's leading financial body predicts america's reign on the economic throne will be over in just five years one child will grab the crown. and india's new breed of middle class money rapidly rising generation of spenders for finding business is booming.

a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching our welcome to the program the un has failed to agree on an e.u. riposte statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters russia says events in syria did not constitute a threat to international peace saying the decision can only provoke more violence meanwhile the syrian army has deployed more tanks and reinforcements in the south more than four hundred fifty people have been killed since the protests began over months ago and while the u.n. is urging an investigation into the violence washington is pushing for sanctions middle east experts say syria can be dealt was like the other arab uprisings. the west in both instances like the leaders they don't like me and they don't like i

said they don't like the regime in both countries however the situation is slightly different locally the regime in syria some supporters will use syria some supporters 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 would be a hindrance rather than a help even though everybody is claiming that they're stopping the killing but if you if we go down the line of following what we've done in libya. and in the rest of the measures and indeed if we begin to resistance within the scope trees this is going to truly just planting more trouble in the region rather than resolving in the west is for iran and for the regimes and the region in

particular syria and i think the next one is going to be also. america's push for democracy in the arab states gets even spiral out of washington's control groups with radical islamic lane sarah lining up to fail to power vacuums which are emerging as policy reports the ramifications for america's closest middle east ally . these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher yanni at least use the egyptian regime like a zionist enemy trying to stop us foreigners and girls are but we always got the weapons we needed to fight presented an enemy. and now they give more to make it a hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's name gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through the greens. who will. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on

a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the us claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember years to year the eagerness of the united states to topple the former president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change as i want to meet most hondas closest ally in the region israel the us says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy there very real possibility that radical islamic could come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its friends now it's apparently governance and support against syrian president bashar assad but the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some anti-government factions what is afraid that if he goes away. the muslim brotherhood can think seal so instead of instability and in syria we're going to

islamist orgy talking one dictator for what could be worse if and when medicals come to power their nightly to direct the arms at israel it will be very conscious of the fact that syria is not libya and the fact that if you do the sides intervene in syria you will have knock on effects across the region in iraq in lebanon through israel palestine but even you through it israel might face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the present instability some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any great threat israel has never been an unsafe place and one of the greatest lies the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is that israel has been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete israel's existence has never been danger from any combination of arab military force and that is unlikely to change in any

foreseeable future the functions on the ground aren't giving up hope and there are minister mourning is that is worse to come. and live on the time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy to play israelis keeping quiet or maybe come into chaos in the middle east and north africa behind closed doors they'll be plenty of disquiet here about how much america's desire to make new friends in the arab world is fueling serious instability policy r.t. television. so i have for you this hour here in our team the indians were to cast a flash meet the new burgeoning generation of middle class earths where i am spicing up their lives. at a new task for russian students although it's one they do not want to get a high score as the years for narcotics. being economists predict america's age will and then five years the international monetary fund forecast

that after more than a century as the world's largest economy the u.s. will be used by china as early as twenty sixteen for it looks at the sun's only rising in the east. when china wakes it will shake the world. in two centuries ago. put american politicians in economists they would have a little more time to this news by twenty years ago francis fukuyama declare that economic and political liberalism was the end of history the democracy is really all there is now the final and most advanced stage of societal development what i was referring to was really the growth of a kind of universal consensus on the you know the just as justice of the rightness of the principles of liberal democracy that was really remarkable. our world. today the world but much different just ten years ago the u.s.

economy was three times the size of china but new data released by the international monetary fund shows the chinese overtaking the u.s. by twenty sixteen that's just five years china is the authoritarian but you know half capitalist country growing like busters. do all these big infrastructure projects very fashionably high speed rail airports typical comparison to other u.s. and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity the i.m.f. says that the chinese economy will grow seven point eight trillion dollars over the next five years the u.s. economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion with leading to the lowest world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and semi-colon m a say twenty six he is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms and it passes a little bit sooner than that but that's only five years and i think this is huge implications and that it's those new liberal policies such as deregulation in tax

breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. when. probably posed. to the maximum extent. the average is and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama spirity china is definitely a refutation of the idea that you were brought economics has world works i mean here is an economy where the state controls not only the banking system but most of our corporations the control investments which is you know twice as much as a percentage of g.d.p. as it is in the united states. and. so for us this is a growing economy and in the history of the world. an economy that has lifted three hundred million chinese out of poverty well the number of americans living in poverty increased from thirty one point one million to forty three point six

million in just the last ten years so it would fukuyama revise this theory it's hard to say i still will bet on a system of checks and balances over you know you going to get all of your for trade system keelin for artsy washington d.c. or some foreign policy watcher it's not as though america doesn't have the money it's the world's biggest military spanner and as analysts tell our t. other nations are being much cleverer with their cash. but i'll give you a scared example. in iraq may have her going to trillion dollars perhaps two trillion dollars worth of the us accomplish except. this early over you rock absolutely nothing because. most of the current facts it's very good like russian chinese molitor and japanese companies only take this that you show called the contract in iraq to china if you do into the government. right i

guessed right why the companies don't western china and we're going to go sooner or pensacola sent you know where to get you going to get at least thirty percent ok of the gas the very act so these moves to you are the difference between the first spectrum from the fed the room area and the agreement that the medal. good bye to chinese it's not just china that's accelerating towards economic supremacy india is seeing the growth of a new middle class his appetite for spending is growing where there are these pressure to reports from new delhi who need tejal is living the dream age of twenty eight the former investment banker is now running a restaurant and bar in the heart of south delhi then years ago if i were to take before coming up with this for my father would have given me a good. finance to do this to find some opportunity and less than my own can.

but in the past ten years india has experienced enormous change and with a came a new set of hopes for the world's youngest population. market is huge the opportunity of huge i mean audiences big and spend money tales bar is located inside this small one of around six hundred macca malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade groups driven by the desire to get a good brand and there's a lot of money. so what combine her desire and. he's going to give a big. today indians can get just about any international brand from hong kong to the u.s. to the u.k. it's access that is change the mentality of many to be for ten years the people taking. the number. says the group is the globalization is the. thinking in

a very different manner india on to me is booming twenty five years ago ninety percent of the population live on what than a dollar a day like one hundred twenty five forty percent of the population there will be caught the fight is middle class and with a growing income india's being a new culture of consumerism and brands from around the world are ready to cash in on it india is a huge country. and so even if everybody spends so it's a huge sum but despite the success most indians are aware that the country still has a long way to go and while things are moving in a new direction and there is a large portion of the population who is at risk of being left behind in that respect is widening the. rich classes getting rid your. class is getting poorer but largely middle class indians and especially the young working demographic try to focus on the positive and watch with pride as their country

comes of b. and it's able to achieve a global status they always believed it was possible it's good practice for us i mean earlier western good used to think it. is a burden but now it is even the area the more the people the more the purchasing power the more the mining the mood economic times power it is difficult for the world to ignore preassure either r t new delhi india. now let's take a look at some other stories. we have for you a line on line of our call. for a touchy subject for us beauty queen who claims that opting out of a full body scanner at an american air board last girl was a pat down that was too close for comfort. at ace of separating facts and section as alleged arms smuggler victor borge fights to clear his name and news the lord of war reputation has a story artsy dot com and watch all our vast media is on our you tube channel.

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a major we shall call the top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus is expected to take over the cia the current intelligence chief will replace robert gates as defense secretary or to contributor wayne madsen says president obama is making it what shares his long term military vision. one of the people being replaces are a u.s. ambassador to afghanistan former general karl eikenberry who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy secretary defense gates has been somewhat reluctant to commit u.s. ground forces or even u.s. special forces personnel on a limited basis in the libyan conflict so what we're seeing now is obama warning to put leon panetta who is basically

a former democratic congressman he was chief of staff to president clinton he's basically a democratic party hack although he has had had served his term at the cia as a director and the other issue of course is making general david petraeus the director of the cia replacing mr panetta and we all know that petraeus the author of the guy who came up with this whole surge in iraq in afghanistan is somebody that the neoconservatives certainly like the even we're talking about running in for president on the republican. ticket what this is showing is that there is a trend to militarize the central intelligence agency which is after all and has always been run by civilians it's been pointed out that leon panetta is actually the first democratic secretary of defense since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven there may not be as much independence in reluctance issuing forth from the

pentagon when obama wants to place the u.s. and yet additional wars in in libya potentially in syria and continuing this covert war in pakistan and possibly even yemen we could see u.s. troops. i imagine their children who are barely in their teens could face drug tests in russian schools the country has a severe problem with a number of addicts and most start their habit early but as you arrive and reports drugs counselors worry the focus is pointing the wrong way. this mosque a student is taking a drug there voluntarily but there for russian president dmitry medvedev has his way hundreds of thousands of students and even school children as young as thirteen will be compulsorily their third week when you said i'd usually pull a lot of parents are saying a compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind there a lot in is an unwillingness to face the problem which prevents their children from

receiving proper treatment our country has not dealt with this problem with compulsory drug testing in educational establishments has already been pirated in several russian retail although so far only voluntary schemes that are under age have been approved countrywide field employed by an influx of drugs from a garrulous there it says to me that there are over three million regular illegal drug users in russia most of them under twenty five this by predators and human rights groups fearing this thing with eyes ation of young children by association with drugs officials insist there's a must start at school but it would we want to catch people not when they are drug addicts on their younger and not just try drugs to ascertain with who might be a potential risk for developing an addiction. the initiative has raised questions of not just ethics but effectiveness it is voluntary rehabilitation said that in moscow there's skepticism about the tests and even if they did i don't think it would have changed anything for me when i was in school i wanted to take drugs at

the time so we just did towards the end of school i wasn't even hiding my drug use that much. more than the us supreme i am categorically against these tests i remember my own reaction to the test will alienate and provoke the news are making him. even less so also some will cheat and that will give them a sense of invincibility a. psychologist at the center say the proposal actually don't go far enough that. this measure will just give us the statistics of extremists not the solution but we're going to kick out all those who fail we will those students what are they going to do to treat them. at the moment there are only one hundred sixty state sponsored program deliberation clinics and. about one for every million of the population hundreds of new ones would have to be built an addiction specialist trained simply to cope with upsurge of patients identified by the compulsory drug

drug. and. the right direction but the. headline grabbing measure of code and program. people. come from. something called at some other stories from around the world and the two main rival palestinian organizations have reached a reconciliation deal which will see hamas and fatah form an interim government and six an election day whether here a mass has been in power in gaza or been running the west bank more than four years but israel's prime minister has said the palestinian authority can't have both peace with his country. which has carried out bombings for several years. security forces have opened fire on a huge demonstration in the yemeni capital killing twelve people and injuring

almost two hundred tear gas and live rounds were fired into the crowd with some of the gunman wearing civilian clothes it comes after a deal was reached and president solace rule within thirty days of the protesters one him to go immediately. more people have died in severe storms with her hammering the southern united states at least fifty eight were killed in the natives in alabama bringing the number of gas in the region to over seventy thousand the roads are impassable while hundreds of homes are destroyed and a state of emergency has been declared the mayor of one town says entire districts are in ruins and it's structurally decimated. britain's prince william and kate middleton made a three wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their lavish ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother prince harry and senior clergy it's expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding with over two billion global viewers the last british world ceremony on the

scale it was when william spotter married diana thirty years ago. there is a day here in r.t. and business news is next with carrie. our welcome to business here in our t.v. thanks for joining me russia's north stream pipeline will stop pumping gas to europe and six months time promises it was and says russia is ready to capacity to meet rising to the following recent worries over nuclear energy safety and oil supplies from the turbulent nations to his buddies so from bank of last the key thing for russia is to win consumers. it's worse that you're the only thing the streams capacity may be increased by twenty five to thirty billion cubic meters of gas just from hasn't officers for that but the situation in the european market is currently difficult for gas probably because of significant supplies from can't talk besides there are significant risks in the long term concerning the launch of

gas supplies from america on the other hand germany is expected to increase gas consumption by fifteen billion cubic meters as it will reduce the consumption of nuclear energy following the disaster in japan so everything will hang on how hard gas problem tries to we consumers in europe and so on long term contracts faster collecting how the markets are performing japanese shares are on the rise with some exporters benefiting from overnight weakening in the yen the growth comes despite data showing the country's industrial production fell by a record fifteen point three percent in march and to the earthquake and tsunami hong kong and mainland chinese shares are on the rise as well following those gains on wall street. and russian stock markets will open in two hours time they finished reds day's trading session in the red with a nice mix down one point two percent energy stocks were among the main losers despite. banking stocks are also up the downside.

here's federal reserve has likely cut the country's economic growth forecast for this year and american rates will remain on hold and the fed won't make any quick moves to combat higher inflation or slower growth in session coffee explains how this could affect. the russian markets and russia. since midnight didn't say march to the u.s. more could open to in positive territory it creates a general binning in werman for russia but again i turn to feeling the rumors some some small. profit taking first correction in the market. people are reluctant people won't open positions during the course coming when we can't enforce comic or do some research. russia's largest lenders bad bank plans to sign legally binding documents over its purchase of the investment bank crocodile all the middle of may it was agreed in february that their bank would spend

a billion dollars to buy or truck a dialogue something the deputy chairman has high hopes. for the. we have quite ambitious plans that this project will pay off in the next three years sperm bank and troika dialog i'm now in the initial stage of integration we think that by the end of this year it will become a fully fledged subsidiary of stupid bank after we get the necessary permission from regulators in all countries with burbank and good dialogue all represented and in the next year we'll manage to take the leading position in all investment banking segments which would reduce the lots of. layers finale bring in more or less than what.

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