the u.n. fails to agree on condemning syria's crackdown on anti-government demos. no decision of the security council is russia one said should lead to even war while it's been called on seeds of thawing don't punish those responsible for civilian deaths all the details 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 islamists were on their way into power and. america's economic rain is coming to a close as the world's top financial body predicts china will snatch the lead in just five years. and gold extends run on the back of weaker dollar weighed by the

fed's decision to continue to shore up the u.s. economy will have more on that and markets performance in our business bulletin in twenty minutes. or so in the am in the russian capital you're watching r t was myriad joshie the un has failed to agree on the e.u. proposed statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters russia says a serious situation did not constitute a threat to international peace saying the decision could only provoke more violence well let's now get the latest from our team work has gone off well your russia has stopped short of condemning the bloodshed in syria what else is behind its position. well russia china india you see their concerns.

according to some reports over four hundred fifty people have been killed throughout the violent protests russia's foreign ministry is calling on. to hold a thorough and transparent investigation to find and punish all those responsible for these deaths but at the same time russia is saying that no matter how bad the situation there is at the moment it does not right global security and actually moscow is warning that if the international community was to intervene into wants happening in syria at the moment all this could destabilize the entire region even more plus there's a lot of uncertainty about what's really going on in the sea since there is speculation that some of the footage of some of the protests may have been fabricated and there's also course that it's not only the authorities who are using excessive force but the cruelty as well and moscow is saying that all of this

really looks like an invitation to take part in a civil war which no one knows how long they last. year who was really young i mean how you view a real threat to regional security can arise from outside interference into syria including attempts to push readymade solutions or taking sides it's already becoming increasingly clear that some of the demonstrations both in syria and other countries openly expressing the hope that the deteriorating situation can force the international community to help things such approaches lead to a never ending cycle of violence this is the type of invitation to civil war i think you. always foreign powers wanting to put pressure on syria how possible is it that it could lead to another no fly zone an aerial attacks where witnessing and leaving. well many analysts are making parallels with the events unfolding in syria and with how it all began in leading and that led to the u.n.

no fly zone resolution its aim was to protect civilians but nino's operation has been going on for over a month and obviously first goal still has not been achieved since every day more civilians are killed also the alliance is attacking god that these compounds russia has been criticizing that saying that that was not ward off the no fly zone resolution and soon some european states and said they want to send trainers to help organize of the rebels and some states including britain are even thinking about supplying the rebels with the arms russia is saying all of that is also not part of the no fly zone resolution in fact there was another one just before that also only via which bans the e.u. supply powerful weapons to either side in of that conflict and so it seems that the alliance got itself stuck into

a war which also no one knows how long may last since according to some grim forecast it can go on for months or even several years so one of the a un security council was a discussing the libya back going to russia and china abstained thus passing be a no fly zone resolution this time judging by the statements coming out of these countries it's highly unlikely they will support a similar resolution when it comes to syria. ok or thanks very much indeed for the sunday to corpus going off 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't be dealt with like yeah other arab uprisings. the west both instances like the leaders they don't like and they don't like said they don't like the regime in both countries however the situation is slightly different. the regime in syria has some supporters within

syria and some support this region and certainly i think the intervention of the west in syria if it's going to go down the same line as it 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 complaining that they're stopping the killing but if you 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 flaring more trouble in the region resolving in the west is 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 support for democracy in the arab states

could see even spiral out of washington's control groups of radical islamic lengths are lining up to fill the power vacuums which are emerging as a disposal your reports the ramifications for america's closest middle east are like could be huge. these kind of lean mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher. the egyptian regime like design is the enemy trying to stop us foreigners and girls are but we always got the weapons we needed to find the zionist enemy. and now they give more than they could give a hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's men gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through doings in. who were. 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 u.s. claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember just a year the eagerness of the united states to topple the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change as i want to meet most harmed closest ally in the region is well the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy 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 he goes away the muslim brotherhood can fix it so instead of incident with you in syria we're going to. have you swapping one to two. what could be worse if and when radicals come to town

where they are likely 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 stability 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 greatest lies and mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is that israel has been in danger of a mileage i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete israel's existence has never been danger from any combination of our military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable future but the fighters on the ground aren't giving up hope and there are minnes

warning 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. israel is keeping quiet amid a coming to 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. well so i have for you this hour here in r.t. a new test for russian students although it's one they definitely did not want to get a high score as they are getting stand for no cards. and the uni is where the cash to flash made the new burgeoning generation of middle class or a nurse with an eye on slicing up their lives. leading heartless predicts america is a jewel and in five years the international monetary fund forecast that after more

than a century as the world's largest economy the u.s. will be user by china as early as twenty six team are to scale in for the songs that only rising in the east. when china wakes it will shake the world. two centuries ago. but american politicians and economists thought 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 what i was referring to was really the growth of a kind of universal consensus on the you know the justice justice or the rightness of the principles of liberal democracy that was really remarkable about 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 two thousand and sixteen that's just five years china is a authoritarian you know half capitalist country growing like gangbusters they do all these big infrastructure projects very fission high speed rail airports chemical comparisons of a 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 us economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion this 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 real more realistic term china will 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 this thought book you need to. be opposing economy grow your economy put. the averages and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fujiyama theory china is definitely a refutation of the idea that you have a broad. sense what works for me here is an economy where the state controls not only the banking system but most of our corporations they control investments which as you know price as much as a percentage of g.d.p. as it is in the united states. and. so for us 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 even the fall of the authoritarian system keelin ford 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 tell r.t. other nations are being much cleverer oh they are cash i'll give you a stark example groom iraq may have murder going to trillion dollars perhaps two trillion. worth of the us that clownfish except for the bruises all over europe absolutely nothing because the only must go because it's like russian chinese molitor and japanese companies only take. this huge chunk of the contract in iraq would be china knew they were in for the government you don't buy

a gas pipeline to finish the rest or try to then it would go boom because sooner then for good sense you know where we get you going to get at least thirty percent are there because the better. for you the difference between the full spectrum from the fed the room every young girl meant that a medal then. good bye to charity. through some of the news and features we've got online at our t.v. dot com a touchy subject for us cutie queen who claims that opting out of a full body scan at american airports left her with a pat down that was too close for comfort. a case of separating fact from fiction as alleged arms smuggler mr bush finds yuri's name and is lord of war reputation that's the story at r.t. dot com and watch our eye catching video reports on our you tube channel.

children who are barely in their teens could face drug stassen russian schools the country has a severe problem with a number of addicts most start their habit early but as eager a garage different ports drugs counselors worry the focus is pointing the wrong way . this moscow student is taking a drug there voluntarily but if 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 week when you said i did a little a lot of parents are saying a compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind their reluctance 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 an educational establishment has already been piloted in several russian regional although so far only voluntary schemes for the under age have been improved country wide field employed by an influx of drugs from a garrulous there it's estimated there are over three million regular illegal drug

users in russia most of them under twenty five despite protests from human rights groups fearing this thing with guys a shot of young children by association with drugs officials insist they must start at school but it would be good we want to catch people not when they are drug addicts when they're younger and 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 effectiveness it is voluntary rehabilitation said that in moscow his skepticism about the tests and if i 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 their watch. more than the osprey i am categorically against these tests i remember my own reaction to them test will billion eight unprovoked things are written him

there was a russian 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. i mean this measure will just give us the statistics of who takes drugs not the solution but we're going to kick out all those who fail will those students go 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 will have to be built an addiction specialist trained simply to cope with up surge of patients identified by the compulsory drug drug. and we will be in the right direction. to prove it beyond a headline grabbing measure of how to coach and program. drug. i'm not the sort of thing. i'm going. to do. you go girl.

i prefer look at some other international stories this hour while severe storms which are hammering the southern united states have now playing eighty two lives victims say there is catastrophic damage in several towns in alabama worth 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 three states and mississippi one man was killed while trying to shelter his daughter when the storms raged through their campsite. the two main rival palestinian organizations have reached a reconciliation deal which will see hamas and fatah form an interim government and fix an election date within a year a mass has been in power in gaza while fatah been running the west bank for more than four years but israel's prime minister's palestinian authority can't have both peace with his country and with a mosque which has carried out bombings for several years. security forces have

opened fire in 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 salih rule was thirty days for the protesters one him to go immediately. britain's prince william. and kate middleton made a pretty 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 viewers the last british royal ceremony on this it was one of william's father married to an author years ago. india's economy has seen a considerable boom in recent years and the number of those wishing to cash it on prosperity is also on the rise there is

a fast of merging middle class his appetite for spending is growing with it are just greater reports from new delhi. tell you all 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 usable if i were to meet up with this woman for that would have. the choice of more. 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. the market is huge huge. audiences big spring money tales bars located inside this small one of around six hundred macca malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade. driven by good design. good the good. and those were of money. so i'm buying but design. is going to. be 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 who. says the group is the globalization is the people. 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 there will be caught by this middle class and with the growing income and you're seeing a new culture of consumerism and brands from around the world are ready to cash in on it and it 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 in that respect it is widening bit like your dog which wasn't working with your. gloves 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 being and is able to achieve a global status they always believed was possible it's. better for us i mean earlier western good used to think population is a burden but now it is even the area lazing that the more the people the more the purchasing power the more the mining the more the economy guns power that is difficult for the world to ignore preassure either r t new delhi india. on just a few minutes we explore a who's. ashes finding america's far right party movement and all that will be

coming to you later after korea now world. leaders business news a little bit three well what we're hearing is that on the back of the declining dollar the price of gold is climbing up that's right and you know hong kong is launching new trading in gold futures in the hope of capturing you know investor interest in that metal will get back to that in a minute but first the u.s. federal reserve has cut the country's economic growth forecast for this year chairman ben bernanke you says he expects growth to be around three point two percent compared with the previous forecast of up to three point nine percent and he has also significantly raise the inflation forecast talk to two point eight percent having previously expected it to be around one and a half but american interest rates will remain on hold because the peds reluctant to make any moves to combat high inflation or slow down growth however we could greenback may have a negative effect on russia. we called it doesn't big it was in part one of the

russian economy in one in one sense you have a weaker dollar which is all commodity prices and that increases the amount of revenues but she wrote in his general should know that's obviously a good thing on its own but you know when you've got a rowing is in oil prices are a very long 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 in my proposal sort of in the longer it actually has its own problems so we can go in a stronger world price ideally what russia would like to see i think a stable door price over a longer period of time which would allow the economy gradually to diversify away from oil and generates industries which will be able to. generate economic growth out of the national system for. now gold has extended its run on the back of his declining dollar weighed by the spreads this isn't to continue to help shore up the u.s. economy gold is trading at over one thousand five hundred thirty dollars an ounce silver is around forty eight dollars an ounce and meanwhile hong kong is launching

new trading in gold futures hoping to capture rising investor interest in that matter now let's take a look at the markets in europe shares are trading higher following the presentation to continue to stimulate economic growth with low interest rates you facebook see is up just the knowledge on germany's dax has added point seven percent this hour among the top movers bank up three point four percent on the back of strong quarter results and russian equity markets have reversed gains but are still trading in the after in in the black and afternoon trading the r.t.s. is wrong one point three percent high watermark six is trading point seven percent in the black now let's take a look at something that's movers on the bars six energy majors are leading the gains on high oil prices gas problem is up on news that boosted and its net profit by twenty percent to thirty five billion dollars last year feeding analyst estimates and pulling metal is up almost eight percent after the for the people in . in that profit last year now banks are also on the rise where bank is gaining

point three percent this hour. now back to sign legal legally binding documents over its purchase of the investment bank troika dialog by the middle of may in february is where bank agreed to spend a billion dollars to buy all of troika dialog something the deputy chairman has high hopes for russell we have quite ambitious plans that this project will pay off in the next three years sperber and short of 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 steward bank after it gets the necessary permission from regulators in all countries where splurging antrel good dialogue are represented and in the next year we'll manage to take the leading position in all investment banking segments respectfully but that's all we have for you this hour but you can always find all stories on our website that contact business. so.

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