europe follows the u.s. instructing sanctions on syria with a crackdown on anti-government protesters but some analysts will be there off to a regime change to get more of a grip on the region. from the european union may soon and i mean see type of u.n. security council giving it more power as a single block some member states fear the move of the raise their independence. also the georgians have to turn to the international human rights school to get justice for murder committed by riot ranking officials expressing an inherent flaw in the countries that must strengthen the legal system.

with live news twenty four hours a day this is out. international pressure is mounting on syria and the governments intensified crackdowns against any opposition coming under further scrutiny following in america's footsteps europe has slapped fresh sanctions on the country's top officials including an arms embargo and travel ban. or edit reports there are concerns it has very little to do with the promotion of peace. rebels clash with security forces hundreds die and the west calls for the bloodshed to stop sanctions slapped down and arms sales in ball case but this isn't libya's spring it's syria and it's following a road map that made just one place for its african arab neighbor nato intervention

who watches it's a regime dissent tantalizing western leaders there's great excitement in washington prospect of anger trailing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington or since the bush administration the e.u. has put the freeze on assets of thirteen top government military and intelligence leaders topping the list is this man the syrian president's younger brother he's described as the principal overseer of violence against protesters but no sanctions are being applied to the man calling the shots the president himself. asked sides is a convenient ally for the west although that's what was being said about the staffy in recent years before the sanctions kicked in. member states including germany. think it's still a possibility in business but bashar whose western educated. wife as

well so they say perhaps he might be the force of. the country the e.u. says ask that could be censored if p. fails to stop the brutal crushing of opposition but he needn't worry the arab lawyers association says no one his staff would keep assets in their own names so sanctions toothless the u.s. and international community is being reduced from an international organization into a domestic police authority well by helping him to freeze assets of individuals sometimes the individuals don't. anywhere but it's a it's a gimmick which is being used in most of the instances and this gimmick time is counterproductive because it just make noises. any effect and i think it is described effective or not europeans of great have a million with imposing sanctions but the bit that was relatively easy to apply to

libya which had only been suffering isolation even among arab states but syria has framed the west might be reluctant to provoke not only syria you know very sensitive environments as there is of course if you go situation situation situation in israel you also have all these connections that syria has been. going to need and has been as well with the british didn't have as we should meet me here you lose your. whole community because we the military intervention in syria we no longer term. president bashar assad's regime the u.k. led the charge in pushing for a quicker response to the syrian crackdown and british foreign secretary william hague said he welcomes the sanctions but so battle weary looks all too familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya which adds to failure and the

public role of the diplomatic dice against syria can only prompt just similar fates and see the mediterranean gunships sail east. but the sanctions are more about the struggle for world dominance in the protection of civilians according to some. called british civilians for peace. the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime like with hizbollah and the palestinian resistance to disappear yesterday now achieving that is a whole different kettle of fish i think where the west is now in this historical moment everyone knows that the uni polar world has finished singing for ninety polar world on the west is panicking about that they can't sit back and allow the bric nations of the global south just to rise up or for them to just go without go without a fight so now is really the historic opportunity for western hegemony to try to

pull back a little bit of world domination that they've lost in the last decade but frankly even if they did go into syria which i don't think they will i think the syrian regime will hold tight but even if they did i mean what's happened the last decade iraq and afghanistan yes they got rid of saddam hussein yes they got rid of the taliban but what is the net result the net result was they were bogged down morally politically economically diplomatically they were completely completely outmaneuvered by the global south and rise of the global south and the bric nations in particular and this will happen in the next several years coming as well. but still to come the recession rolls over the middle class is us is asleep you know this actual process is a haunted by escalating prophecy you want you can use this. and some believe efforts to contain it radiation leaks. some greens get it with a reactive building to collapse. european m.p.'s

will vote on wednesday of whether they want their own plan and representative of the u.n. security council so it seems that you'll be sure reports and move has been met with condemnation from some members of the un it's a step too far. there's been a horrified response around the world and here in brussels the idea of giving the european union a permanent seat on the un security council would allow the e.u. to look at the world security decisions and france this is the first step to was stripped of their permanent place only one british m.p. here says this with britain sovereignty and they will move many other countries for example or india's. less worthy of a voice than it used to five hundred million. seats as well as from some parts and also. from many parts of the world notably africa and latin america who are on the

security council's composition is already poised. this move was proposed by a member of the european parliament from spain one of the biggest. states. in foreign policy. in the european union all finalists just recently over the invasion of libya and the same. holds for the economy the un general assembly has just voted to give the european union as a single much greater powers but this move to get a place on the u.n. security council is expected to receive a much more a position. he wants more authority for itself on an international level but opposition voices think the powers of the unions are only bodies already too great

expenses too large forty tackles your skepticism and then he later this hour. we have to look at the expenses of the european parliament itself and there is a very good example a very simple example of why the european parliament should have two seats one in brussels and the other one in strasbourg it costs additional almost three hundred million euros per year if you have to move once in a six week from brussels to strasburg so let's have only one seat and we can give and we can show by perfect example to the people of europe that we are able to save the taxpayers money. recent controversial court decisions in georgia the country's legal system under the spotlight the acquittal rate of less than one percent and he accused the government of tightening its judges as a country which over reports social status in georgia sometimes enough to avoid

punishment. a high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sounded good leon he became a byword for both in two thousand and six the twenty eight year old banker attended the birthday party of one of georgia's top police officials but he fall into all of us with one of the guests the next morning his booty with multiple injuries was found on the outskirts of really see four police officers were eventually sentenced to up to eighty years for sandra's murder you resist there was not survive there were those in the outer core of the story are starters the centers of the court the president issued decree and their release from. prison so it shows it's also one more to reduce that. they were just ordinary citizens there where are the protection of a top official so for georgia. an investigation wasn't even

launched until hundreds of protesters went into the streets of d.c. but he comes family looked for help from strasse bullock and the cause of human rights in april european judges ruled the investigation was bungled that high ranking officials are escaping justice and that politically sensitive convicts were getting unfair leniency from the president it also ruled that judges government should pay t thousand euros to the murdered man's reality to do e.g. the general public until he had long ago given its verdict or caged but it's a big victory to the european court of knowledge is it now on a political level it means the attitude in a sin georgia is changing and europe is not ready to forgive such abuses by such a regime. but lawyers have been pulling the case since the start any compensation will be paid under the current leadership regimes are pressuring me saakashvili

regime is based on illegal biased courts. himself great that as a lawyer i can tell you that every acquittal has to be agree with the prosecutor personally all the best was already behind bars and seventy years of the soviet union seventy laws were jailed and seven years of circus treaties regime hundred lawyers are in prison according to figures published by georgia's supreme court a staggering ninety nine point six percent of cases resulted in guilty verdicts and twenty term almost none so defendants walk free sandra's family's lawyer says no other country in europe has a conviction rate like this and that is a dangerous sign of the country becoming a police state europe's courts have long been concerned about georgia's failure to make corrupt high ranking officials face justice and using the police as pools and millions of fans to create the image of a georgian policeman living up to the social ideals of serving and protecting its

citizens and it's likely you'll struggle to bribe a policeman here i most certainly you could count on him to protect you from quite a street crime but one of the true criminals are actually in a hierarchy that the police who can the general public have to hit shaft. daily commercials show police work as among the most prestigious san transparent police posts made of glass so everyone can see what this is do and anticorruption would it or say eighty percent of people here trast their police is the government they believe works in the dark but if it's out of some to give really any underlines anything if the judge is so much trumpeted more than legal system dishes out a very different justice when its president saakashvili his inner circle that's in the frame if it is a question of r.t. but d.c. ga. we have some other stories waiting for you on our website. how

about this for a close shave right about how one siberian pilot the moon is fearless russian face is up. high altitude triggers high jinks checkout at delta airlines alternative in-flight entertainment that's a much more exalted our. u.s. government has gone out of its way to prove it's finally managed to stabilize unemployment rate but there's little to celebrate with some regions still suffering vast numbers of people out of work in the sultan's when i'm going in there explains with bank foreclosures still a little record highs the middle class is finding itself squeezed out. sunny

southern california long a favorite destination for those pursuing stardom and well throughout the years families have libbie american dream of comfort and increasing prosperity but these days many of those very family are caught up in a nightmare of escalating poverty get konami crisis has touched the before untouchable middle class taisha maybury is trying to raise her daughters but she struggles to keep a place to live the mayberry's are typical of the growing trend of families that's life from middle class to poverty and homelessness as i had the best of everything that's why my stamp either he was participating he was right and i was right and so we didn't have the kid on a county medicare and you know here. we had the best we were working that was then and this is now made very receives food stamps it relies on the

nonprofit program beyond shelter so that she and her children have a bed to sleep it just security is gone the unemployment rate is stuck in the double digits around the los angeles area with you opportunities for well paying jobs more americans are seeing their wealth disappear this is the middle class neighborhood where taisha mayberry and her two daughters used to live before she lost her job it's only a few blocks away from the ocean and in the shadows of the scenic downtown long beach skyline it took only a few months to go from a life of relative comfort to a life of insecurity where she had no idea where her family would sleep at night los angeles is not talking region in america for homelessness where more than forty thousand people have no place to sleep on a nightly basis out of work some balance and i'm here to this friend's house and our friend's house you know what i mean different cities just to try to find work doing the calls live come to. for years working as

a floor installer now he's unemployed he cannot be read because relies on the kindness of loved ones and food stamps social programs to help stressed families hang on are about to be lost to political gains as lawmakers in washington wrestle with future budget cuts while battling to save tax cuts for the richest this big fears could push many already desperate families over the edge if they could. honestly i think that the jails would cry because people were getting this i don't want to swarm i don't want to steal you know i don't want to go out there and still for food but push came to shove and i couldn't write what else am i supposed to do what am i going to do is a question made very ask yourself daily ever since she joined the army of the newly poor and struggling to raise her children hoping for a hollywood ending to her story. every day and praying.

in los angeles something that you know our t. . china and the u.s. have concluded high profile talks intended to increase economic cooperation and to smooth out the often terrible relationship between the two states there is also a somewhat. side strain in political ject in any firm commitments according to. russia's talks alone won't. rest with us out of its economic slump. we are the largest debtor nation in the world is getting higher and higher and the rest of the world historians say wait a minute guys we're not going to continue to finance is we're not going to continue to play ball other countries are now looking for replacements for the u.s. dollar there's a lot of movement not just in china but all over the world because everybody knows that the u.s. dollar is now a terribly flawed currency the united states is trying to drag down the value of its currency no country in history does have

a policy of that basing its own currency has done very well in the long term even the medium term it sometimes works in the short term that you can revive your economy by devaluing your own money but that's not a good policy i would expect to see more crises in the in the currency market may be as soon as this fall or certainly by the fall of two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen and you're going to see serious turmoil in the in the currency markets which is going to force the world bank and forced america to do something about it it's not going to be a lot of fun it's going to be terrible for all of us when you have this turmoil but that's the way it's going to wind up because nobody's doing taking any serious action except talking about it. let's take a look now at some other top stories from around the world pretty far for people who take a leak capital water rights activists held a balance until you can turn towards a demonstration which both are hundreds occurred after forty four year old greek

and i was reportedly groped and stuck to their immigrants and teams like police intervened on the protesters chased foreigners through the streets rather nicely only. for more than thirty five trucks and one hundred five prices for the truck in the blazing textile warehouse and that's where it's so. lisa bloom you can smoke them thing of them is toxic with them it's a little less than the governor. there are no casualties and it's not yet know how far breckenridge. japan has released footage from inside one of the reactors the trouble for pushing them into the plans containing highly radioactive spent fuel if you appears to share the fuel rods under that which i believe to be damaged apparently has been charged and minimized radiation leaks since the context was struck but not since massive earthquake and tsunami

meanwhile concerns were triggered by web cam images sharing networks in them before leaving and could soon collapse in search of dr robert jacobs says that the tribal structure falls at the site would be possible. this began as speculation among those of us watching the incident because on the web. in which you can watch and you can look at the four reactors it began to be obvious that building number four was leading to the right a little bit from the visual field of the webcam. and it is now just tonight actually in a release of information from the japanese government they have confirmed that there has been work started yesterday to shore up the structure of the building and specifically the upper floor now in this reactor you have the spent fuel pool there is a much larger spent fuel pool it has fuel rods from three to four reactors in there in this part of the building is beginning to lean and because of the explosion of

reactor three there is some questions about the structural integrity of the building of reactor four and if that were to collapse you would have all of the fuel in that spent fuel pool just scattered about on the ground and outside of increasing very very high level of contamination you would also have radiation rise to levels that would make it very problematic for workers to continue to work on the site at all. holland a very well welcome to the business update russia's discovering that testing for along comes that's a cranium price laying the conference at which well in the southern city of sochi well accelerates around one hundred eighteen minutes or less the state will float much of the bill provident us just may also get a chance to. i mean so she's a wimp right behind me you can feel your road which after the two thousand and

fourteen winter olympics will be turned into a formula one track the russian government is planning to spend over one hundred eighty million dollars on it and what will become the country's first after one circuit that's a half the sum but it still comes in cheaper than the two hundred forty million dollars invested by china on the south long track the most expensive in the world which was completed in two thousand and four and still unclear how much of the money will be provided by private investors russian companies such as lukoil megaphone and russian technologies earlier said they are ready to help with financing the project is part of the government's attempt to embrace the legacy of the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics and make use of much of the infrastructure already here analysts say the f one circuit is the start of the vision but it's still not enough the contract between formula one owner bernie ecclestone and omega the russian company which is also in charge of the building of olympic infrastructure was signed last year it's

a seven year deal with the possibility of prolonging the contract after twenty twenty bringing formal i want to sochi things to be a timely project amid the growing popularity of f one in the country especially with the rise of russian f one driver of the. many fans from sochi travelled to watching the race around the world including the recent race in istanbul so people here like thousands of others will definitely want to see the race at home right here in sochi in just three years time. has been its current coaching on the global i.t. giant cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the components roll off the newly built russian production line ahead of the firm's russian unit outlines its investment blueprint for the country. right now we'll certainly be investing more in the next ten years at least a billion dollars into the strategic development of russia school could be a part of that picture and at least

a hundred million of them really and we'd probably go most likely go into the venture finance or like mission chips we just started out life so swum a venture process where we're producing the first product in russia completely. the product itself. and the software that is working on top of the water which certified by the properties in the russian literature. let's take a look at how the stock market has off the forming asian shares are trading in flux the solid japan's nikkei is adding the three quarters of a percent following the gains all google streets if we can get in is supporting exporters callen is gaining around a quarter of a cent while honda is up more than two percent in hong kong resul stocks are on the rise following arliss life gains in oil price. and here in russia the markets closed slightly in the red after we gaining from below losses on the buckle for

prices just beginning to rise again. russian markets are getting back into gear off to the public holidays and michael stein from of crete explains why all eyes are on china and the e.u. . today the markets will very much me droom by external factors with a lot of investors paying attention to the c.p.i. p.p.i. retail sales and also industrial production data coming out of china to assess to what extent recent monetary tightening has slowed down growth in addition we'll see c.p.i. data coming out of the euro zone i'm on the domestic front here in russia it will be the first quarter results from make meet with investors focused very much on margins and trying to understand the extent to which the higher pay will taxes higher transportation expenses have impact margins and also look at whether or not the company has been successful in passing one price inflation to its customer base . that's the latest from now we'll have more for you in less than an hour.

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