ambassador it's like the hotel points pushers and i would print certain discipline in touch with tell me touch of the future and google how would international house . evergreen into the. un fails to agree on condemning syria's crackdown on anti-government. he says the security council is russia one central could lead to even more violence and calls on c.e.o. to find and punish all those responsible for civilian deaths all the details coming up. as the u.s. rushes in with cash and a from the arab spring it's washington's main ally israel which could feel the impact that radical islamists wormed their way into power. america's economic brain is coming to a close as the world's top financial body predicts china will snatch the lead in

just five years. global news and live from moscow city center this is r.t. now the un has failed to agree on the e.u. proposal statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters russia says the syria situation did not constitute a threat to international peace saying the decision could only provoke more violence. has come off as now or following the developments for us. russia china and india do say they are concerned about the violence in syria since according to some reports over four hundred fifty people have been killed throughout the violent protests russia's foreign ministry is calling on adel moscow's to hold a thorough and transparent investigation to find and punish hold 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 still does not threaten global security and actually moscow is warning that if the international community wants to intervene into wants happening in syria at the moment all of this could establish the entire region plus there's a lot of uncertainty about what's really going on in a sea since there is speculation that some of the footage some of the protests may have been fabricated and there's also reports that it's not only the authorities who are using excessive force moscow is saying that all of this really looks like an invitation to court in a civil war but there are new rules but again a real threat to regional security can arise from outside interference into syria including attempts to push ready made solutions and taking sides it's already becoming increasingly clear that some of the demonstrations both in syria and other

countries openly expressed in the foot at the deteriorating situation could force the international community to help them such approaches lead to a never ending cycle of violence this is a type of invitation to civil war nany analyst making parallels with the events unfolding in syria and with how it all began in libya and that led to the are you a no fly zone was aleutian its aim was to protect civilians but nato as 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 and soon some europeans. states have said they want to send trainers to help organize the rebels and some states including britain thinking about supplying the rebels with arms russia is saying all of that is not for the no fly zone resolution in fact there was another one just before that also on libya

which banned the supply of weapons to either side in that conflict and so it seems that the orions got itself into a war which also no one knows how long may last so one of the security council was . back then russia and china abstained. passing the no fly zone resolution this time judging by the statements coming out of these countries it's highly likely they will support a similar when it comes to syria. the u.n. which is an investigation into the violence washington is pushing for sanctions the president of the arab more association says syria can't be dealt with like the other arab uprisings. in the west in both instances like the leaders they don't like laughing and they don't like i said they don't like the regime in both countries however the situation is slightly different you know clearly the regime

in syria has some support as we're seeing here are some supporters region and certainly i think the intervention of the west in syria if it is going to go down the same line as it has started and i think that would be very disadvantageous to the west and to the security of the region i think it would be a heavy rains rather than a help even though everybody is claiming that they are 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 really truly just creating more trouble in the region rather than resolving the west is gunning for iran and gunning for the other regimes in the region in particular syria and i think the next one is going to be also. all america's push

for democracy in the arab states could see events spiral out of washington's control groups with radical islamic links lining up to fill the power vacuums which are emerging as artie's paula reports gratifications for america's closest middle east ally could be huge. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher in these years the egyptian regime like the zionist enemy trying to stop us fighters and girls are and we always got the weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they're getting more than they could ever hopeful before me gyptian president hosni mubarak's men gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through for very good begins in. who worlds will smuggle their arms 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 yesteryear the eagerness of the united states to topple the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change ironically most harm the closest ally in the region is well the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy is the very real possibility of radical islam it could come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its ranks now it's apparently garvan aizen support against syrian president bashar assad but the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some anti-government factions. who but is afraid that if he goes away the muslim brotherhood can take syria so instead of in freedom of view in syria we're going to work. swapping one dictator for what could be worse if and when radicals

come to power they're likely to direct the arms at israel people will be very conscious of the fact that syria is not libya and the fact that if you do decide to intervene in syria you will have knock on effects across the region in iraq and lebanon. there is israel palestine whatever new 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 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 palace own conflict is that israel has been in danger of a violation i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete israel's existence is never ever in danger from 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 there

are minister warning is that is worse to come. and a time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy to pay. israel is keeping quiet amid the current 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. still ahead for you this hour here on our new test russian students over work it's one they definitely do not want to get a high score on as they are getting scanned for narcotics. the indians with the cash to flush the new burgeoning generation of middle class with an eye on spicing up their lives. leading economists predict that america's will and in five years the international monetary fund

forecast that after more than a century is the world's largest economy the u.s. will be usurped by china as early as two thousand and sixteen starting scaling for looks of the sun's definitely rising in the east. when china wakes it will shake the world significantly in two centuries ago. but american politicians and economists they would have a little more time to this news by twenty years ago francis fukuyama declared that economic and political liberalism was the end of history the democracy is really all there is the final and most advanced stage of societal development what i was referring to was really the growth of a sign of universal consensus on the you know the just justice of the rightness of the principles of liberal democracy that was really remarkable about our world. today the world looks 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 busters. do all these big infrastructure projects very fortunately high speed rail airports chemical comparisons other u.s. and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power. 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 in real more realistic terms charitable purposes are 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 because. you need to. improve because you can't. stand. the averages and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama theory china is there for going to be a refutation of the idea that you're a liberal. says what works i mean here is an economy where the state controls and then we have a banking system. most of the word of corporations the control of investments which is you know choice as much as a percentage of g.d.p. as it is in the united states. and. so for us this a 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 bet on a system of checks and balances over a you know even a good quality 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 spender and as i must tell r.t. other nations are being much wiser with their cash i'll give you a stark example through iraq may have cost we were going to trillion dollars perhaps two trillion dollars worth of us a cartridge except for a string of the pieces are all over your rock absolutely nothing because the most part because tracks will be exploited by russian chinese molitor and japanese companies only take some level that you call the contract even iraq will be china

do the winter the many spend government they've built a pride i guess pride flying from western china and spending a single grand for good sense you know where to get it going to get at least thirty percent of their progress the direct so through st you have a difference between the first spectrum from events fed there from the very end is true or meant that if the model. will be chinese. we would argue let's run you through some of the news and other features we've got for you or online at r.t. dot com and a touchy subject for us and beauty queen who claims that opting out of a full body scan at an american airport left her with a down that was too close for comfort in. the case of separating fact and fiction as alleged on smuggle a victim who fights to clear his name and is in a lot of war reputation cuts the story at r.t. dot com and watch our eye catching a video reports of course on our very own you tube channel.

children who are barely in the teens could face drug tests in russian schools the country has a severe problem with a number of tricks and most start their habit at a very early age but it's not easy go to a court of never port's drugs counselors worry that the focus is pointing the wrong way. this moscow student is taking a drug there voluntarily but there are russian president dmitry medvedev has his way hundreds of thousands of students and even school children as young as thirteen will be compulsorily this when you see the usual a lot of parents are saying the compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind their audience 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 education establishment has already been piloted in several russian regional although so far only one treaty is that

underage have been approved countrywide field employed by an influx of drugs from again with it's estimated there are over three million regular illegal drug users in russia most of them under twenty five despite protests and human rights groups fearing this thing with eyes ation of your children by association with drugs officials insist this thing must start at school but it wouldn't we want to catch people not when they are drug addicts one hundred are younger and have just tried 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 and there's voluntary rehabilitation center near moscow his skepticism about the tests and a bit of it 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 never much. more than the osprey i am categorically against these tests i remember my own reaction to them test will

alienate unprovoked fees or making him trust those around him even less also some will cheat and that will give them a sense of invincibility. psychologists at the center say the proposal actually don't hear far enough. i mean this measure will just give us the statistics of who takes drugs not the solution but they're going to kick out all those who fail we will those students go what are they going to do to treat them. good moment there are only one hundred sixty states drug rehabilitation clinics in the brochure about one for every million of the population hundreds of new ones would have to be built or thousands more addiction specialists trained simply to cope with it upsurge of patients identified but it can cause. these initiatives have called the headlines but now the government has to prove that beyond and has a cogent program that will stop people from trying drugs ever earlier age and this

is something that governments both here and abroad have tried and failed to do before either of. the moscow and such are some other headlines from around the world this hour severe storms which are hammering the southern united states and now claim eighty two lives victims they say there's catastrophic damage in several towns in alabama where most of the deaths of being dozens of roads are impassable and we have hundreds of homes destroyed a state of emergency has been declared in three states at this point in mississippi one man was killed while trying to shelter his daughter when a storm raged through the campsite. into maine a 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 hamas has been in power in gaza been 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 was carried out bombings for several years. security forces have opened fire on a huge demonstration in the yemeni capital killing twelve and injuring almost two hundred tear gas and live rounds were fired into the crowd with some of the gunman wearing civilian clothes that comes after a deal was reached and president saleh rule within thirty days by the protesters want him gone 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 some senior clergy it's expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding with over two billion global it was the last british royal ceremony on that scale was when william's father married diana thirty years ago. but india's economy has seen

a considerable boom in recent years and the number of those wishing to cash in on the prosperity is also on the rise as a fast emerging middle class whose spending is growing with it as previous rita reports from new delhi. tejal is living the dream age of twenty eight a former investment banker is now running a restaurant and bar in the heart of south delhi then years ago if i were to take me up with this 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 a came a new set of hopes for the world's youngest population he said market is huge the opportunity there are huge. audiences they can spend money tales bar is located inside this small one of around six hundred magnum malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade and it's driven by a. desire to get that good. and there's

a lot of money. so both combine the desire and ability is what we're going to do. today indians can get just about any international brand from hong kong to the u.s. to the u.k. it's access to this change the mentality of many to remember for ten years the people who are already. number. says the group is the never know the globalization is the. thinking in a very different manner india's economy is booming twenty five years ago ninety percent of the population lived on lot than a dollar a day by twenty twenty five forty percent of the population here will be occupied it's middle class and with a growing income india is 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 a rupee 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 below to your dog which was a second marriage you're. looking for 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 age and is able to achieve a global status they always believed was possible it's a pretty good practice 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 people the more the purchasing power the more the mining the more the economic runs power that is difficult for the world to ignore preassure either r t new delhi india so this was

a business with correct. hello and welcome to our business update this hour thanks for joining me the a special reserve has cut the country's economic growth and raised the inflation forecast for this year but american interest rates will remain on hold because the fed's reluctant to make any quick moves to combat high inflation or slow down growth now for more i'm joined by simon denham from london capital group thanks for joining us simon now how are investors taking the fed's decision not to tighten monetary policy in the near future. of course it's a double edged sword investors are reason to place that money is not going to become more expensive and therefore that gives the attraction of equities a small boost on the other hand mr bernanke he did raise problems for the future

and as we're all aware growth levels are not as high as the u.s. we would wish and for that reason he's not looking to work to raise rates and of course inflation is something of a problem potentially in the future they did say though that they did expect inflation to inflation pressures to moderate so as commodity prices stabilize that these levels so at the moment we're probably looking at a. quiet period for the fed and and with their purchases of. will be looking at further weakness for the dollar. now what's the impact of this thread this is kind of the such as russia from your point of view. generally should be good for. the fed's reasons for not raising rates are. to a certain extent because of the strength elsewhere in the world and the fact that the u.s. needs to need to be in a situation where they can compete so it's an indication that the fed is mindful of

the fact that india and china are the brakes etc are doing very well and the u.s. is not doing very well. at this point in time most of russia's exports were good percentage of russia's exports are of course in commodity products and as the dollar falls commodity prices go up so so a certain extent russia should be going to fishing from weak dollar and a weak weak interest rate in the u.s. just to elaborate a little bit on back you just said that that's had a bad actions that resulted in the further decline of the dollar and the strengthening of the euro as. we see but how can this affect the russian economy that you know relies on commodities on commodities. yes the the price of commodities does have a universe effect to the price of the dollar so as the dollar falls commodities naturally rise because many of them are priced in dollars and on the world stage

they must therefore. even out so against this kind of see such as the euro and sterling and yen and so as the dollar falls the commodities do naturally right they do they do seem to have a multiplier effects and therefore a one or two percent five percent move in the dollar tends to be equated to the seven to ten percent move in the commodities so not basis russia should be doing significantly better on its exports of course there's the all the economic data there is a double edged sword to be the one that's the one kind of that really using creasing at the moment is the euro and much of russia's imports are priced in europe so they lose with one hand and game so in the long run russia should in the long run should benefit from from weakness in the dollar but there might be some pain on the import prices. ok simon denham c.e.o.

of the capital group thank you very much. and also let's take a look at the markets gold has extended its run on the back of a declining dollar weighed by the fed's decision to continue to help shore up the u.s. economy gold is trading at over one thousand five hundred and thirty one dollars an hour so there's around forty eight dollars an ounce meanwhile hong kong is launching new trading in gold futures hoping to capture rising investor interest in the matter. now in europe shares are trading higher following the fed's decision to continue to stimulate economic growth u.k.'s footsie is up just a notch while germany's dax is adding point three percent among the top more with. deutsche bank up over three percent on the back of strong quarter results here in russia equity markets are mixed this hour the r.t.s. is training over half a percent higher while the demise x. has slid into the red now let's take a look at some index movers on the my state's most energy majors are among the main

gainers the sell gas promise up on news it's who said its net profit by twenty four percent to thirty five billion dollars last year beating analyst estimates probably metal is is a point seven percent after it reported a three fold increase in net profit for last year hands burbank is also gaining around point two percent this hour. frats all the latest i have for you join us in about thirty minutes for more updates and a look at the markets. twenty

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