free. three stooges free. and free volunteer to be your for your media project and free media r.t. dogs on. europe follows the u.s. in slapping sanctions on syria over the crackdown on anti-government protesters some analysts believe they're after regime change to get more of a grip on the region. european union may soon lend a seat at the u.n. security council while giving it more power as a symbol some member states did the group will raise their independence. also georgians have to turn to the international human rights court to get justice for a murder committed by high ranking officials exposing an inherent flaw in the country's much trumpeted legal system. and the russian markets open high on wednesday

a rising oil price is pushing energy company shares higher but russia coming after us shares are continuing their winning streak the shares are up three percent per second straight session more in business in twenty minutes. costing live from moscow twenty four hours a day you're watching on t.v. . international pressure is mounting on syria 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 emmett's 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 embargoes but this isn't libya's spring it's syria and it's calling a road map that led to just one place for its african arab neighbor nato intervention watches it's a regime to sense that tantalizing western leaders there's great excitement in washington. over training the syrian government. in washington or. 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 president assad himself to some acid is a convenient ally for the west although that's what was being said about gadhafi in

recent years before the sanctions kicked in from member states including. perhaps. the stall or possible to do business with prashar who's western educated. person educated wife as well so we'll see perhaps he might be the force of opera. in the country the e.u. says could be censored if he fails to stop the brutal crushing of opposition but he needn't worry the arab lawyers association says no one who stabbed the would keep assets in their own names so sanctions are toothless the u.s. and international community is being reduced from an international organization. at the must think elise authority where by you begin to freeze assets of individuals so goes the individuals. and you will but it's a it's a gimmick which is used in most of the instances and this gimmick fun is

counterproductive because it just make noises. and i think it is. effective or not europeans have grain camillia with imposing sanctions but that was relatively easy to apply to libya which had long been suffering isolation even among arab states but syria has friends the west might be reluctant to provoke not only syria you know very sensitive environment as there is course a very difficult situation or situation. in israel you also have all these elections that syria has iran you can even use has as well. as we treat me very dangerous for local national community because we have a military intervention in syria we know. president bashar assad's regime in 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 to battle weary britons this looks all too familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya would judge to failure and the public role in the diplomatic dicey against syria can only prompt a similar fate and see the mediterranean gunships sail east and its r.t. . you sanctions more about the struggle for world dominance in the protection of civilians. group called the billions for peace and libya. the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime and 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 world has finished entering into

a multi-polar world and 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 germany 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 there bogged down morally politically economically diplomatically there were completely completely outmaneuvered by the global south and rise of the global south and the britain nations in particular and this what happened in the next several years are coming as well. but still to come the recession rolls over the middle classes. i don't know i want to go out there and still for food but everything came the sherman like

the right what else am i supposed to do in the u.s. those see you into the financial crisis the haunted by escalating over to point even the homelessness. european m.p.'s will vote on wednesday whether they want to have it representative the u.n. security council so it seems that you are pushing reports and move has been met with condemnation from some members of the union even 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 block key world security decisions both britain and france here this is the first step two were stripped of their permanent place on the council one british m.p. here says this. and they will fight the move many other countries for example are

india's billion plus people less worthy of a voice than the e.u.'s five hundred million giving the e.u. a seat as well as from some britain also of the many parts of the world notably africa and latin america who warn the security council's composition is already boyer's towards the west this move was proposed by a member of the european parliament from spain one of the biggest euro states without a permanent seat will remain. claim to the current financial difficulties a corporation in foreign policy is there's no unity in the european union in politics all finance we've seen that again just recently over the invasion of libya and the same. portugal's economy of the un general assembly has just voted to give the european union as a single block much greater powers this move to get a place on the u.n. security council is expected to receive much more

a position. they want some more authority for itself at international level but opposition voices think the powers of the unions would imply this already too great expense is too large. your skepticism. here to look at the expense of the european parliament itself and there is one very . very simple example why the european parliament should have two seats one in brussels and the other will instruct work in. costs additional almost three hundred million of your olds 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 a perfect example to the people of europe that we are able to save the taxpayers money. recent controversial court decisions in georgia have brought the country's legal system

under the spotlight with the acquittal rate of less than one percent many accuse the government of tightening its grip over judges as it has been approach over reports social status in georgia is sometimes enough to avoid punishment. but high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sounded good reality became a buy worst for both in two thousand and six the twenty eight year old banker attended a birthday party for one of georgia's top police officials where he fell into an argument with one of the guests the next morning his body with multiple injuries was found on the outskirts of the police see four police officers were eventually sentenced to up to eighty years for sandra's mada the resistor was not survived but those in the outer core of the story are starting with the same gisele's accord the president issued decree. their release from. prison so it

shows it's also one more to reduce that. they were just ordinary citizens is that where are the protection of the top official for don't involve. an investigation wasn't even launched until hundreds of protesters once into the streets of d.c. the victim's family looked for help from strasbourg and the cause of human rights in april european judges ruled the investigation was bungled that high ranking officials are escaping justice and that police close sensitive convicts were getting unfair leniency from the president it also ruled that judges government should pay eighty thousand euros to the moderate man's reality it's. the general public in georgia had long ago given its verdict on the case but it's a big victory to the european court of knowledge is it now on a political level it means the attitude to lawlessness in georgia is changing and

europe is not ready to forgive such abuses by saakashvili his regime. but lawyers have been following the case since the start doubt any compensation will be paid under the current leadership position saakashvili the saakashvili regime is based on illegal bust courts which he himself grated as a lawyer i can tell you that every acquittal has to be agreed 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 ordered a 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 ten almost none so defendants walk free sundress family's lawyer says no other country in europe has a conviction rate like this and it is a dangerous sign of a 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 spawns millions of fans to create the image of a georgian policeman leading up to the social ideals of serving and protecting its citizens and it's likely you'll struggle to grab a policeman here and most certainly you could count on him to protect you from what is street crime but one of the true criminals are actually in the hierophant that the police who can the general public have truly chaffed. daily commercials show police work as among the most prestigious and transparent police posts made of glass so everyone can see what officers do and anticorruption want it or say eighty percent of people here traffic their police it's the government they believe works in the dark but if the death of sandra good really any underlines anything if the judges much trumpeted more than legal system dishes out

a very different justice when it's president. inner circle that's in the frame it in the patch of our teeth the b.b.c. ga. but we have an abundance of other stories are waiting for you on our website at r.t. dot com that's gripping at high altitude triggers high jinks which then i was subjected to some one wanted an in-flight entertainment. and an illegal new zealander lands in southern russia on that country and welcome the flatness wonder of. russian militants who don't call. the u.s. government has gone out of its way to prove its funny managed to stabilize unemployment rate. the celebrate with some regions still suffering vast numbers of people out of

work. from one galindo explains with bank foreclosures still at record highs the middle class is one with self squeezed out. sunny southern california long fever destination for those pursuing stardom and well throughout the years families have lived the american dream of comfort and increasing prosperity but these days many of those very families are caught up in a nightmare of escalating poverty the economic crisis has touched them 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 slide from middle class to poverty and homelessness i thought i had the best of everything that that's why my sound by the way he was participating when he was working and i was working so we didn't have to the can i make our. medicare.

prescription we had the best chance we were working that was then and this is now me barry receives food stamps and relies on the nonprofit program beyond shelter so that she and her children have a bed to sleep in job security is gone the unemployment rate is stuck in the double digits around the los angeles area with few opportunities for well paying jobs more americans are seeing their wealth disappear this is the middle class neighborhood where taisha mayberry entered 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 for a life of insecurity where she had no idea where her family would sleep at night los angeles is the talk region in america for homelessness where more than forty

thousand people have no place to sleep on a nightly basis i'm out of work so on balance and i'm here this friend's house to their friends house not i'm in different cities just to try to find work doing nichols lived come to. for years working as a floor installer now he's an employed it cannot be read nichols 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 games as lawmakers in washington wrestle with future budget cuts while battling to save tax cuts for the richest this because fears could push many already desperate families over the edge if they. are not free i think. the jails would cry for love because people who are very good in this they don't want to see one as we don't want to steal no i don't i want to go out there and still for food but never came the sherman like what else am i supposed to do where am i going to do is

a question mayberry 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 a little every day is playing. in los angeles family no party. for us political parties are once again locked in an awful weather to increase the country's debt ceiling which already stands at fourteen trillion dollars and no amount of extra loans or stimulus packages will help america get rid of its financial pains that's according. us politicians are going to have to be honest when they're out of lector and say we can't keep these promises we can't make this job security payments we can't make the medicare payments we don't have the money we're broke and we can extract it from the younger generations because they all leave the country so they're going to have to have an honest discussion and there is going to be a big you know economic decline associated with correcting these imbalances and

unfortunately all they're concerned about is getting reelected that is what probably mess up the country's problems and so we never get to solutions get platitudes we get with fixes we get stimulus kick the can down the road sweeping the problem go to the rug that's all they care about they want to get through the next election cycle without it blowing up one of these days it's going to blow up and it won't be a next election cycle i hope and i think that's coming up i think within the next several years we're going to have to really go on a crisis that we didn't have in two thousand and eight that we didn't have in two thousand and two but the problem is every time the government stimulates the economy to create an artificial move to postpone the pain they make the inevitable bust that much worse so i think we've got to the point now where there is no more stimulus to work there's just overdose. well that's take a look at some other top stories around the world this hour. has released footage from inside one of the reactors at the trouble for the sheema nuclear plant it's

a highly radioactive spent fuel video appears to show the fuel rods believed to be damaged lying under debris because there has been trying to minimize radiation leaks since the complex was struck a massive earthquake and tsunami which. pretty far people have been detained in the greek capital all to fall right activists held a valentine to protest demonstration which involves several hundred youths but after a forty four year old weak man was reportedly robbed and stabbed to death undergrads tuesday the sense of being there for protesters chased foreigners through the streets and underlies their buildings. fresh clashes have taken place between muslims and christians and the second largest city on. the father's violence in the capital cairo. left twelve people dead and sort used to long term arrested the rest often and so was the rooms torched churches pollute reports that

it was to point to islam. after killing osama bin laden the u.s. shouldn't rush to exit afghanistan that's the view of senate foreign relations committee chairman john kerry people of elle's cross-talk debate show in about ten minutes from now we discuss american strategy in the war torn country is a pretty. long as al qaeda is operating in that region as long as the taliban is operating in that region i think the united states has an interest in preventing future harm to america and our friends and allies ok to go back to you buy into that. no it was. my you. know for a long time well u.s. foreign policy was. too loose part of the world is not the way it goes all the mood on capitol hill. in the pentagon and langley.

you know what is the last thing is you know. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update the euro continues to lose ground because of investor concern over the debt problems in greece ireland and portugal the currency lost four percent on the forests in one week and is currently out of the lot for two roubles that's the lowest level since march you can you know the ocean from eight cases to most of us weekly euro will not have a significant impact on russian inflation a problem with our inflation is foodstuff inflation and many many many other cultural of course we should we go up in price like cotton for example which may affect the styles and clothes and a lot of stuff and these inflation does not come from european economies actually yes we do import some food stuff from europe but not that much in order to help our

economy decrease our inflation inflation is more skin problem of emerging markets not on the russian about china india brazil with those. staying with saving money russians tend to spend more and save less they also prefer to keep any savings in foreign currencies despite the strengthening robel and used by the center of macroeconomic analysis us personal deposits were just two percent in the thoughts quarter twenty eleven compared to over four percent in the same period last year and that say the slowdown in the core of the calls this is driven by positive economic expectations and rising consumption another reason is relatively low deposit interest rates whether foreign currencies are all those are still gaining pace they grew seven percent and russia since the beginning of the year. the global giants cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the first electronic components roll off

a newly built russian production line the head of the russian unit outlined its investment blueprint for the country. when i would certainly be investing for the next ten years at least a billion dollars into the strategic development of russia school that would be the heart of that's the truth and at least one hundred million of them really will probably go most likely going for the venture financing like you should it's just started the license let's research what we're producing the first four are in russia complete. the product itself. in the swiss let's. start with some of. the pizza hut interests. but take a look at how the stock market's up the forming asian markets were mixed on tuesday japan's nikkei added just on to help the sons all of the gains on wall street would be unsupported exporters seeing hong kong resul stocks rise on

a list like gains in the price of oil one sign is losing ten four percent this hour and here in moscow both are chasin the myself edging high. but from the bark of poles to results from the street and asia and as the current prize is covered pace i want to be clear this my six the country's largest car maker after gaining almost three percent that's ahead of prime minister putin visiting a plunge in solving russia to test drive the new morning after those large are of the stocks take off over news if you trade with boeing to buy eight brand new passenger jets the catalog price but it's less promising for the mobile operator m.t.s. who decides the side. i live russia's discovering that hosting formula one comes at a premium laying the country's first circuit which will be in the southern city of sochi well cost around one hundred eighty million dollars the state will foot much

of the bill but progress investors may also get the chance to cut in as donors bullets he explains. i mean so she's a quark and right behind me you can see a route 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 circuit that's a half the sum but it still comes in cheaper than the two hundred forty million dollars invested by china on itself long track the most expensive in the world which was completed in two thousand and four it's still not clear 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 fulci winter olympics and make use of much of the infrastructure already here analysts say the af one circuit is the start of that

ambition 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 formula want to sochi seems to be a time we project amid the growing popularity of f one in the country especially with the rise of russian f one driver that. many fans from fourteen travelled to watch in races around the world including the recent race in istanbul so people here like thousands of others that will definitely want to see the race at home right here in sochi in just three years time. artist as well as her pushing for the russian city of sochi more market analysis in one else tying.

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