the un fails to agree on condemning serious crackdown on anti-government downloads . this is the council meets but no decision is made as russia warns essentially that the two more world's attention golden girls are coming up. as the u.s. rushes in with cash in aid for the arab spring it's washington's made ally israel which could feel the impact of radical islamist war on their way into power. an american is a konami grayness coming to a close as the world's top financial body for the china will snatch the lead in just five years.

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie the u.n. has failed to agree on the e.u. proposed statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters russia says the syria situation did not constitute a threat to international peace say the decision could only provoke more violence large easy work it's not solving developments you get the latest from him so you go forward together russia together with china and india have stopped short of condemning the bloodshed in syria so what else was behind their stance. well basically russia china and india say they are concerned about the situation in libya i mean i'm sorry in syria and in libya and we're talking about so you know they are concerned about it since there are reports that over four hundred fifty people have been killed throughout the violent protest in the country but at the

same time moscow says that no matter how bad the situation there is now at the moment it still is not a threat to global security while if the international community wants to intervene in answer to strew ation in syria possibly similar to how it happened with libya this could establish lies security in the entire region plus russia is saying that it's not only the authorities there for using excessive force but the protesters as well and basically called this an invitation to court in a civil war which no one knows how long will last and how man. well with foreign powers in a moment wanting to put pressure on syria how possible is a bad could lead to and now there are no fly zone resolution we're witnessing in libya. well since russia and china have seen to during the u.n.

vote on the no fly zone was over libya thus actually passing this resolution since it was your stance of the the alliances operation in libya has been continuing for over a month russia has been criticizing many times the results of this operation saying that the goals of the no fly zone are to protect civilians and they are still dying every day and god are fees compounds are targeted as well even though he himself was not a target according to this resolution moscow has been saying that the alliance is not complying with its mandate and has been calling along with the secretary general of the united nations has been calling on nato to stay strictly within this a mandate so there's quite a lot of controversy going on around the no fly zone with resolution over libya so judging by the statements made by russia china and india when it comes to syria i

think it's highly unlikely that at the moment he would support some sort of a no fly zone resolution over libya especially since they also say the last time when they were talking about a libya the league of arab nations they supported and actually initially called for this resolution while now they're not making a clear statement when it comes to syria. ok our thanks very much indeed for the something you are scott there. while the u.n. are just an investigation into the violence washington is pushing for sanctions the president of the arab lawyers association says syria can be dealt was like the other arab uprisings. the west both instances like the leaders they go like that and they don't like that said they don't like the regime and both countries however the situation is slightly different luckily the regime

in syria has some supporters within syria. the region and certainly i think the intervention of the west in syria if it's going to go down the same line 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're stopping the killing but if you if we go down the line of following what we've done in libya i fly zone and the rest of the measures and indeed if we begin to resistance within these countries this is literally just planting more trouble in the region resolving the west is gunning for iran and for other 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 could see events by

a lot of washington's control groups with radical islamic lanes are lining up to fill the power vacuums which are emerging as artie's policy reports the ramifications for america's closest middle east i could be huge. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher. here is the egyptian regime and zionist enemy trying to stop us for ages and girls are but we always go to weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they give more than they could give a hopeful before me gyptian president hosni mubarak's men gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through to bring the. whole world. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they're 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 u.s.

claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember guessed a year the eagerness of the united states to topple the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change has ironically most harmed the closest ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of the moccasin there's a 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 ranks 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 you go the way. the muslim brotherhood can fix it so instead of instability in syria we're going to an islamist orgy swapping one dictator for what could be worse if and when radicals

come to tower 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 to israel palestine what if when you throw it israel my face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the president's debility some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any grave threat israel has never been an unsafe place and one of the greats is lies and mother and father of all lives 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 is never been. any combination of arab military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable future but the fighters on the ground aren't giving up hope and they

are minister mourning is that is worse to come. a little more time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy to pay. israelis keeping quiet amid a come into chaos in the middle east and north africa but 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 is our a new test for russian students although it's one they definitely do not want to get a high score on the earth getting stoned or of our colleagues. and the indians with the cast of the new burgeoning generation of middle class they're a nurse with an island spicing up their lives. leading economists predict america's age will and in five years the international monetary fund forecasts that after more than a century as the world's largest economy the u.s.

will be yours or by china as early as twenty sixteen callen ford looks at the sun's definitely rising in the east. when china waits it will shake the world sue said nikolay in two centuries ago. but american politicians and economists they would have a little more time to this news but twenty years ago francis fukuyama declare that economic and political liberalism was the end of history democracy is really all there is now the final and most advanced stage of societal development when i was referring to was really the growth of the kind of universal consensus on the you know the justice justice of the rightness of the principles of liberal democracy that was really remarkable about our world. today the world books 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 two thousand and sixteen that's just five years china is a authoritarian but you know half capitalist country growing like busters they do all these infrastructure projects very fashionably high speed rail airports chemical comparisons other u.s. and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity at the i.m.f. so 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 there for leading to the lowest world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and some economists say twenty six t. is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms trying to pass as 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 and tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s.

and held american development back. you need to. probably be opposed. to the maximum. the average is and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fujiyama theory china is the third of the a refutation of the idea that you were brought. in and says what works for me here is an economy where the state controls not only the banking system. 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 the fastest growing economy and in the history of the world. an economy that has lifted three hundred million chinese out of poverty while 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 would fukuyama revise this theory it's hard to say i still would bet on a system of checks and balances over you know even a good quality authoritarian system keelin for artsy washington d.c. . for some foreign policy watchers it's not as though america doesn't have the money it's the world's biggest military spanner and as analysts other nations are being much cleverer was their cash i'll give you a simple rule in iraq may have you are going to trillion dollars perhaps to. look at the us a coverage except. for your rock absolutely nothing because. most of the globe right would be exploited by russian chinese molitor and japanese go only to. let you. get the contract in iraq right that china knew they were into the money from the government the right against right one to finish the rest in

china and spin to go single plan for good sense you know where to get it going to get at least thirty percent that there's a good the that it took these three do this is good enough that the realm of the fed the room every young girl meant that a medal and. a strong you through some of the news and features we've got online are time dot com. a touchy subject for you last year the queen who claims that opting out of a full body scan at an american airport laughter would have had down that was too close for comfort. a case of the separating fact and fiction as alleged arms smuggler victor who tries to clear his name and he is the ward of war reputation and cast the story at r.t. dot com and watch her eye catching the reports on our you tube channel. children who are barely in their teens could face drugs tast in

a russian schools the country has a severe problem with the number of addicts and most of their habit early but as eager groton of reports drugs counselors worry the focus is pointing the wrong way . this mosque 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 test this when you see a reasonable a lot of parents are saying that compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind their allotted is an unwillingness to face the problem with prevents their children from receiving proper treatment our country has not dealt with this problem compulsory drug testing in education establishment has already been piloted and several russian regional although so far only voluntary schemes put it on the range have been approved countrywide killed and god by an influx of drugs from a bare list then it's estimated there are over three million regular illegal drug

users in russia most of them under twenty five this by protests from human rights groups hearing this statement is a show of young children by association with drugs officials insist they must start at school when. we want to catch people not when they are a group other it's when they're younger and not just try drugs to ascertain whether there might be a potential risk for developing an addiction or. the initiative has raised questions of not just ethics but the effect of illness and this voluntary rehabilitation said to near moscow skepticism about the tests and a bit of 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 my church. more than the last being i am categorically against these tests i remember my own reaction to them test will alienate and provoke things are making him trust those around him even less also some will cheat

less and that will give them a sense of invincibility. psychologists at the center say the proposal actually don't go far enough to leave. this measure will just give us the statistics of who takes drugs not the solution i think going to kick out all those who failed will those students go what are they going to do to treat them. at the moment there are only one hundred sixty state sponsored drug rehabilitation clinics in the whole of russia but one for every million of the population hundreds of new ones will have to be built at addiction specialists trained simply to cope with an upsurge of patients identified by the compulsory drug drug thinking. and well being and the right direction. approved but beyond grabbing measure. program. earlier a. country. i

believe look at some other international stories this hour the severe storms which were hammering the southern united states have now claimed two lives victims say there is catastrophic damage in several towns in alabama where most of the deaths have been dozens of roads are impassable while hundreds of homes are destroyed a state of emergency has been declared in southwest mississippi a three year old girl died when a tree fell on her house she slapped. two main rival palestinian organizations have reached a reconciliation deal with will see hamas and fatah form an interim government and fix an election within a year from us has been in power in gaza while otto spent running the west bank for more than four years but israel's prime minister said the palestinian authority can't have both peace with his country and with hamas which has carried out bombings for several years. security forces have opened fire in

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 president saleh rule within thirty days but protesters one had to go immediately. britain's prince william and kate middleton made a pretty wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their latter ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother prince harry and senior clergy is expected to be the biggest ever told lies wedding with only two billion global viewers the last british royal ceremony on the scale was one william's father married diana thirty years ago. india's economy has seen a considerable boom in recent years and the number of those wishing to cash in on the personality is also on the rise there is a fast emerging middle class appetite for spending is growing with it later reports

from new delhi. puneet 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 of opening a push from my father would have. given us to the point i'm open. but in the past ten years india has experienced enormous change and with it came a new set of hopes for the world's youngest population. the market is huge the opportunity to. target audiences they can spend money tale stars located inside this small one of around six hundred macca malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade and it's driven by. the desire to go. and there's more of money. so combine the desire and ability is going to get a big. 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. the people. that already. says the group is the globalization is there so people are. thinking in a very different manner india's economy is booming twenty five years ago ninety percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day by twenty twenty five forty percent of the population here will be caught by this 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. one point two billion. 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 and that this baby is widening their way because the rich are rich closet gay marriage your book club 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 is able to achieve a global status they always believed was possible its people factor for us i mean earlier western good used to think. it is a burden but now it is even the area lazing that the more the people the more the putting both of them or the mining the more the economic guns power it is difficult for the world to ignore preassure either r t new delhi india just a few minutes a veteran middle east reporter explains why it's the security forces who are calling the shots in syria but first. date.

hello and welcome to our business update this hour and we start with our top story the u.s. federal reserve has cut the country's economic growth forecast for this year chairman ben bernanke he says he expects growth to be around three point two percent compared with a previous forecast of up to three point nine percent his also significantly raised the inflation forecast to up to two point eight percent having previously expected it to be around one half but american interest rates will remain on hold because the fed's reluctant to make any quick moves to cut back. or slow down growth however a weaker greenback may have a negative effect on russia. we call it doesn't build us in parts of the russian economy in what in one sense you have a weaker dollar which is our commodity prices and that increases the amount of revenues but your revenues in russia but that's obviously a good thing on its own but you know when you've got a rowing team prices are among the period of time it creates its own problems in

russia it makes it much more difficult to do a lot of the reforms that are necessary in this country to serve what in the short term it might be positive and the longer it actually has its own problems so that we could all of a stronger world price ideally what russia would like to see it be in a stable or worse over a longer period of time which would allow the economy gradually to diversify away from oil and generates the mysteries which will be able to. generate economic growth out of emotional sustainable period. now go would have extended its run into record territory on the back of a declining dollar grade by the fed's decision to continue to help shore up the u.s. economy gold is currently trading at over one thousand five hundred thirty dollars an ounce silver adds is it around forty eight dollars an ounce and meanwhile hong kong's is launching new trading in gold futures you know how to capture rising best interest macaque now let's take a look at the markets asian stocks are mixed solving a case trading over one half the size of the black exporters of benefiting from an

overnight weakening in the yen to international group climbed one point six percent had come in make annika is up nearly three percent but sony dropped four point eight percent to rank among the major losers hong kong and mainland china lower on concerns that beijing might introduce french fresh tightening measures and control prices especially in the property sector has crossed over to europe where shares opened hot following the fed's decision to continue to stimulate economic growth with low interest rates u.k. sport seize up point one percent germany's dax at a point six percent among the top movers torture bank of three point four percent on the back of strong quarter. here in russia equity markets are up in afternoon trading the r.t.s. is around one point three percent higher while the nice x. is trading point seven percent in the black now let's take a look at some index movers on the my six energy majors are leading the gains on high oil prices gas prices up on news it boosted its net profit by twenty four

percent to thirty five billion dollars last year beating estimates and calling that was a point seven percent after the quarter we called increase in net profit last year banks are also on the rise for bank is carrying around half of the sat now zubair bank the bank plans to sign a legally binding document over its purchase of the investment bank troika dialog by the middle of may in february by the greek to spend a billion dollars to buy all of twenty something deputy chairman has high hopes for promotion we have quite ambitious plans that this project will pay off in the next three years. and show a good dialogue and now in the initial stage of integration we think that by the end of this year troika will become a fully fledged subsidiary of the bank after it gets the necessary permission from regulators in all countries where sperm bank and dialogue are represented and in the next year we'll manage to take

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