the international community comes to a dead end unable to agree on how to stop syria's bloody crackdown on the anti-government protest. washington's a support for opposition movements in the middle east and north africa could be backfiring on its biggest ally israel fears it's actually boosting the radical islamists. and with millions of addicts in russia drug tests could become a compulsory in schools and a long time drug users will face criminal. business school is in a rush it is suspending the export of oil products in a big to try and steal the fuel shortages we're experiencing right now join me for

that story and more and around twenty minutes time. live from the heart of moscow this is our take russia blocks and u.n. plans to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on protesters saying there are no grounds for international interference u.s. and european nations are called for stronger measures to mask its rejects appeals to end the violence syria's leader faces international criticism for using troops and tanks to put down our risings about five hundred people are thought of being killed as a result washington has threatened unilateral sanctions in response however moscow believes that foreign interference and do more harm than we could.

in our view outside interference in syria could be a real threat to regional security that includes attempts to push really made solutions or take sides it's becoming increasingly clear that some of the protesters in syria and elsewhere i'm hoping that in this coalition of events will force the international community to step in and take their side with such an approach provokes a never ending cycle of violence that is virtually an invitation to civil war. while political analyst. says that many in the international community are cautious about what to do about syria campaigning in libya is a stalemate well i think in the situation with syria the choose between bad and worse and indeed syria is located is a much more sensitive region than all of the security. like to see. and secondly the international community here the nato.

clearly straight with the alteration going on in libya and their dog ration is already causing some international concern and objections so that's why i guess there is no clear willingness on the part of even the most enthusiastic nations to intervene in syrian conflict. alarming inspired uprising sweeping the arab world is alarming the region's only non muslim power israel washington's behind the scenes efforts to support democracy in the region may actually be fueling a rise in extremist and he was ready to movements parties forcefully and i see reports from time of. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher. is the egyptian regime like the zionist enemy trying

to stop us for ages and girls are but 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 main guy on the borders couldn't be easier to get through to bring the big wins in the. whole world who smuggled 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 us 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 and i want to meet most harm the closest ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy it'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 apparently garvan eyes in support against syrian president bashar assad with 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 take syria so instead of in freedom with you in syria we're going to islamist you swapping one dictator for what could be worse if and when radicals come to power their nightly 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 in lebanon. israel palestine what every new through it is on my 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

a long place one of the greatest allies the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is that israel has been in danger of annihilation by detail in the three volumes of red book it is a complete israel's existence as never been danger in 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 minnes 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. israel is keeping quiet amid the current chaos in the middle east and north africa put 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

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nineteen forty five dollars r.t. dot com. you with us here live from moscow it's now a nearly ten minutes past the hour regular users of drugs in russia seen face criminal action under a new proposed law the measures are being considered to deal with an epidemic which has seen the number of estimated addicks reach three million children and russia could also face drug tests in schools to prevent them becoming uses at a young age but as eager to reports drug counselors why the focus is in the wrong place. this one 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 tested when you see all these little a lot of parents are saying that compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think

what's behind their lot in 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 pilot in several russian regional although so far only one treats he has put it on the rage had been improved country wide field and broadway an influx of drugs to a garrulous there it's estimated there are over three million regular illegal drug users in russia most of them under twenty five this vibrator some human rights groups fearing disfigured has ation of young children by association with drugs officials insist this thing must start at school when. we want to catch people not when they are drug addicts but when they're younger and not just try drugs to ascertain whether there might be a potential risk for developing an addiction. their niche that has raised questions of not just ethics but the effectiveness of this warranty rehabilitation center near moscow skepticism about the tests everything that 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 next march. more the us i am categorically against these terrorists i remember my own reaction to the test will alienate provoke the user making him. even less also some will cheat and that's working of them a sense of invincibility. psychologists at the center say the proposal actually don't go far enough. this measure will just give us the statistics of who takes drugs not the solution are they going to kick out all those who fail we will those students go what are they going to do to treat them. at the moment their only one hundred sixty state sponsored drug rehabilitation clinics in the whole of russia one for every million of the population hundreds of new ones will have to be built

and thousands more addiction specialists trained simply to cope with an upsurge of patients identified by the compulsory drug these initiatives have caught the headlines but now the government has to prove that beyond that it has a cogent program that will stop people from trying drugs at an earlier age and this is something that governments both here and abroad have tried and failed to do before. the moscow. time to check out some other international headlines from around the world this hour there are reports of a massive motion in iraq are the least fourteen people reported dead twenty injured the blast occurred at a cafe in america in the main square which is a tourist hot spot because of the blast is being investigated and it's probably unrelated to terrorism but according to the local media rescue workers are still pulling casualties from the rubble. the number killed by storms sweeping across the southern states of the u.s. has now risen to one hundred ninety three that's the stuff that got major several

towns and alabama where most of the victims were dozens of roads are impassable hundreds of homes destroyed power lines are down in a state of emergency has been declared in alabama arkansas and tennessee the number of dead could rise with more victims are thought to be trapped under rubble. at least five people were killed and over a dozen injured in the pakistani city of karachi a roadside bomb hit a bus carrying maybe personnel it's the third such attack in the last few days with two maybe buses targeted on tuesday it wasn't immediately clear who was behind the latest the type but the taliban claimed the two earlier ones security experts say the navy is seen as a soft target with less effective protection and this could be part of a new militant strategy. over just a day to go and details of friday's royal wedding at westminster abbey have been published the order of service reveals kate middleton it will about two love

comfort and keep but not obey prince william william and his future wife had a fine or three wedding rehearsal at westminster abbey private ceremony is expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding over two billion a global futures. spending power of a huge indian population is literally shifting the center of global influence the emerging middle class formed by an economic boom has developed an appetite for the finer things in life and that's opened the door for a wave of entrepreneurs previous reading reports. 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 is of if i were to think of opening up of this room the father would have to. find us on the phone some of. them. 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 is a market is huge the opportunity to a huge. audiences they can spend money tales bars located inside this small one of around six hundred meg of malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade . desire to get a good brand and those were of money. so both combined a 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. ten years of people taking a little bit. number. says the group is the globalization is the people not thinking in a very different manner india's economy is booming twenty five years ago ninety

percent of the population lived on what kind of dollar a day by twenty twenty five forty percent of the population here will be caught the fight is the middle class and with the 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 three point one million. and so even if everybody springs 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 they have it all very rich was a good marriage you're. getting for it 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 be and is able to achieve

a global status they always believed was possible its people back there for us i mean earlier western countries used to think of population as 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 they ignore my guns power that is difficult for the world to ignore preassure either party new delhi india. you have to answer your call for more stories. and we've got a lot of information for you that online twenty four hours a day is a taste of what you'll find there right now i don't see dot com i can't control the universe or that's what a reclusive russian mathematician who rejected a one the million dollar award believes the media shy genius he would have had a month finally gave an interview to the details on r.t. dot com. and some wonderful news for all fans of the soviet movie it's russia's largest a cinema studio film has launched its own you tube channel you can now watch all of

its films with english subtitles. plus the center of moscow is a full of tanks and other military machines but no need to worry it's all in advance of the big three day parade check out the footage of the preparations for the main event in red square on may the ninth there's a lot on some parts into our car. now the international monetary fund for costs china's economy will support the united states within five years there will be an historic shift pending an era of american financial dominance he scared when ford reports. when china wakes it will shake the world so sydney pulliam two centuries ago. but american politicians and economists thought they would have

a little more time to this news but him 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 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 you know half capitalist country growing like busters. do all these big infrastructure projects very frequently heart of speed rail airports

chemical comparison to other u.s. and chinese economy years 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 sixteen is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms china 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 and tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. probably because you can't color it to the maximum. and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama spirity china is definitely

a refutation of the idea that. says what works i mean here is an economy where the state controls and then all of a banking system but most of our corporations they control investment 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 is 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 will bet on a system of checks and balances over you know even a part of the authoritarian system keelin ford artsy washington d.c. in. a little bit later on i see i will be exploring russia as a so-called silicon valley project that's less than ten minutes time. but becoming

up your way after the business update with katrina. alone and a very warm welcome to the business bulletin russia is suspending the export of petrochemicals in order to tackle the fuel shortages on the domestic market several regions have suffered from a lack of petrol in recent days alexander knows ever of from gazprom bank explains what is happening in the market right now. the problem is actually that the government has applied a new tax regime for export of. oil products so probably now for some oil companies it is more profitable to export these natural and these will outside russia russia rather than the sell it to domestic retail stations also in force for at least year expertise the crude oil was provided to very attractive the bags for the crude to

export so basically all companies also prefer to export crude rather than refining their russian so together with some minor regional e g six problems it turns into some regional deficits or fuel in some russian regions. the russian government is to ease the tax burden for petrochemical produces and notice the ensure a base of domestic fuel supply that's off the claims that the current prices don't cover produces costs the head of russian oil minded lukoil had warned the fuel prices could rise by up to seven percent. if you would that we are preparing for a possible fuel supply disruptions this summer of course will provide us now we are already saving fuel to supply our customers at peak time during the whole day period but the current price on the russian market does not reflect the company's spending on petrol and diesel production and their delivery to customers all the tariffs for natural monopolies are engaged that's why we believe that prices may

grow but not significantly we have a number of restricted factors a place we are discussing the issue with the government five seven percent could be a deterrent of course if the government believe to be excise tax which it had introduced on the first of january. goal has expanded its run on the back of a declining dollar right by the states decision to continue to help shore up the u.s. economy that is trading at over one thousand five hundred thirty dollars an ounce so far is around forty eight dollars an ounce meanwhile hong kong is launching the trading in gold thief is hoping to catch a rising investor interest in the mess so. in europe the markets are mixed the footsie really has reversed earlier gains and is now trading at point one five percent down while the dax is up almost twenty five that is since among the top moody's door to bank is up three point four percent on the back and strong quarterly results. russian equity markets are trading in the red this hour yeah

c.s. is down point one two percent and m i six down point five of the same. the second look at some index moves on the my six most energy majors majors are trading in the red this hour with gazprom down a start down to almost zero point seven percent and the tb is down two point three percent with pauline metal up just bucking the trend there almost one percent. as it has sorry as i say it is said two and a half percent this hour just under. the u.s. federal reserve has cut the country's economic growth and raise the inflation forecast. for this year but american interest rates will remain on hold because the fed's reluctance to make any quick moves to combat higher inflation all slow down growth the fed statements have pushed the dollar down to a three year low against major currencies simon denham from london capital group believes this could have a mixed impact on the russian economy as the dollar falls come on to naturally rise

they do they do seem to have a multiplier effect for a one or two percent five percent move in the dollar tends to be that it created to a seven to ten percent move into commodities so on that basis russia should be doing right significantly better on its back sports of course there's the three four economic data there is a double edged sword for the p. three the one currency that really is increasing at the moment is the euro and much of russia's imports are priced in yours so they lose with one hand and gain with the other so in the long run russia should ensure a minority should benefit from the weakness in the dollar but there might be some pain on me. import prices. russia's largest diversified financial corp systemin is eyeing china and india to develop its high tech business the company plans to set up joint ventures together with chinese partners including leading telecom facilities produces. china itself is a is it is a very it is

a very large market so one sort of in a sort of them to explore opportunities and then potentially build on them well looking at number of fight the french or so much has to do with the goal of bringing microchips and i mean goldman microchips for the one else never kitchen system and also producing we have a ninety and not a mere microchip project who have that executing now together the last month again we're looking for some of the chinese partners who are busy could build a joint venture in the design and produce microchips were frankly more present in india i would already exist in business but indian tran are clearly too proud to market suffer. well that's the latest business is this out what have not for you and just under announced time.

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