on the. video. streets with the palm of your. comb. europe follows the u.s. in stopping sanctions on syria over a crackdown on anti-government protesters critics accuse the west of seeking regime change and want to control the region. you're in you may see the seat of the u.n. security council while giving it more power as a single block it could damage the strength of some member states independence. also georgians have to turn to the international human rights school to get justice for a murder committed by ranking officials exposing an inherent flaw in the country's trumpeted pretty consistent. brushes tend just spend more and save less they also

are preferred to keep any savings the current course is despite this world for business in twenty minutes. and it's one pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. welcome to the program the top stories are international pressure is mounting on syria and the government's intensified crackdowns against any opposition coming on the further scrutiny following in the americas footsteps europe has slapped fresh sanctions on the country's top officials including an arms embargo travel ban. or enter ports 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 it made to just one place for its african arab neighbor nato intervention watches it's a regime dissent tantalizing western leaders there's great excitement in washington . trailing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington or just. 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. the states including. perhaps

it's still possible to do business. western educated. wife as well so they say perhaps he might be the force of opera moderation in the country the e.u. says that 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 his savvy would keep assets in their own names so sanctions are toothless the u.s. and international community has been reduced from an international organization. police authority and well by you begin to freeze assets of individuals sometimes the individuals. and you will. but it's a it's a gimmick which is being used in most of the instances and this gimmick in part is counterproductive because it just makes noises. and i think it is.

effective or not europeans of grain camillia with imposing sanctions but that was relatively easy to apply to libya which is suffering isolation even among arab states but syria has the west might be reluctant to provoke not only syria you know very sensitive environment as there is of course the difficult situation but war situation. in israel you also have all these connections that syria has iran you can even use as well. as we should mean. the interest for full national community to come with a military intervention in syria we know. 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. this looks all too familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya were judged 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 lower and it. more about the struggle for world dominance than the protection of civilians. from the group called civilians. the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime like with hizbollah and the palestinian resistance to disappear yesterday now it's even 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 break nations of the global south just to rise up and 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 off the 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 or what 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 booked 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 that's what happened in the next several years are coming as well. heavy shelling has been reported in syria's essential city of homs the scene of the largest anti-government protests in recent days james denson a london based in this rationalizing in the middle east politics says the syrian regime needs reforms to prevent further bloodshed. the europeans the americans are

offering president assad one last chance to see if the dictator can dictate so i believe that the syrian regime really has to have a sign a clue from within from whether you call them reformers or what else to try and prevent essentially great a bloodbath happening in cities that are arrested because it seems that the deaths themselves are creating a momentum and it's that momentum that the regime is found impossible to stall it's offered a variety of carrots including most famously getting rid of the emergency law but it appears now it's simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so that is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. over the last war in lebanon finished almost five years ago it's a deadly legacy remains and we saw a documentary about the lebanese volunteers who put their lives at risk tackling the country's unexploded mines that's in just about twenty minutes time. a cluster . and inside the container you have

a small ball and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them there's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically run up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire locals train the locals how to do the clearance they'll let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of. a. big. rock.

in the n.p.'s who votes on wednesday over whether they want that i meant representatives of the u.n. security council. resolution reports the move has been met with condemnation from some it was believed that the only step to follow. 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. . the world security decisions both britain and france here this is the first step we were stripped of their permanent place on the council one british m.p. here says this britain sovereignty and they will fight the move many of the countries are more for example or. less worthy of a voice and five hundred million. seats as well as france and britain and also

influence from many parts of the world notably africa and latin america in the security council composition is already boy. this move was proposed by a member of the european parliament from spain one of the biggest euro states without a permanent seat. in the foreign policy and i guess there's no you know in the european union in politics all. over the invasion of libya and the same. holds for the economy the u.n. general assembly has just voted to give the european union as a single much greater powers but this move to get a permanent place on the u.n. security council is expected to receive a much more a position for the e.u. seeking more authority for itself on the international level and opposition voices i think the powers of humans living bodies are already true greats of expenses to

large. skepticism i think any. we have to look at the expenses of the european parliament itself and there is a very. very simple example why the european parliament should have two seats one in brussels and the other one it's. 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 by practical 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 of the acquittal rate of less than one percent and he accused the government of tightening its grip over judges catherine approach over reports

social status in georgia sometimes enough to avoid punishment. a high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sandra give leon he became a byword for poor in two thousand and six the twenty eight year old banker attended a furtive 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 release c. four police officers were eventually sentence topped eighty years for sandra's murder you resist her was what survived. after two or three are starters the whole sentence of the court the president issued decree. very least from. the prison so it shows it's also one more readers. they were just ordinary citizens to say where are the protection of the top officials of georgia but.

an investigation wasn't even launched until hundreds of protesters went on to the streets of d.c. the victim's 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 police close sensitive convicts were getting unfair leniency from the president it also ruled that georgia's government should pay two thousand euros to the murdered man's reality. do e.g. the general public and julia 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 us and shoot 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 vision saakashvili the saakashvili regime

is based on illegal biased courts which he 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 before i was in seventy years of the soviet union some of yours with jail 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 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 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 pawns and millions of fans to grade the image of a georgian police not living up to the social ideals of serving and protecting its

citizens and its like legal shargel to bribe a policeman here and most certainly you could count on him to protect you from paris street crime but what it should criminals are actually in a hierarchies that the police who can the general public have to hit shaft. daily commercial show police work as among the most prestigious sanctions parent police posts made of glass so everyone can see what this is do and anticorruption want to tour say eighty percent of people here trast their families is the government they believe works in the dark but if it's out of something or good reality underlines anything if they do just 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 the pressure of our team the b.b.c. george year we have an abundance of other stories of our website just

a click away at at. stripping. high altitude triggers high jinks and the three journalists are objecting to some unwanted in-flight entertainment. and any legal news even that is in russia is in existence on she thought her other country welcomed the flocculus wonder this march fourth r t the. us political parties are once again locked in a battle over whether to increase the country's debt ceiling which already stands at fourteen trillion dollars but the amount of extra lens of stimulus packages will help america get out of its financial means that's according to investment broker and author peter schiff. us politicians are going to have to be honest with their

own lector and say we can't keep these promises we can't make just as security payments we can't make medicare payments we don't have the money we're broke and we can't extract it from the younger generations because they all need the contrie 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 that's not a concrete problem and so we never get to solutions get parted to do we get the fixes we get stimulus kick the can down the road sweet this week the problem of the rug that's all they care about they want to get through the next election cycle without it blowing up or one of these days it's going to blow up and it won't be a next election. and i think it's coming i think within the next several years we're going to have a real economic crisis that we didn't have in two thousand and eight that we didn't have a two thousand and two but the problem is every time the government stimulates the economy to create an artificial boom 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 let's take a look now at some of the international stories. footage from inside one of the reactors. containing highly radioactive spent fuel pools to show the fuel rods. damaged the. country has been trying to minimize radiation leaks. by much quake and tsunami. five people have been detained in greek capital after a far right activists health plan and then see if you can test the demonstration which involves several hundred youths ok after a forty four year old greek man was reportedly go been stabbed to death by immigrants on tuesday police intervened after protesters chased foreigners through the streets and vandalized local buildings. since they went to the violence in

afghanistan as police report that dozens of taliban fighters attacked a village in the north of the country in the dense cross-talk debate show. we discussed america's strategy in the war torn region as a preview for you. as long as al qaeda is operating in that region as long as the taliban is operating in that region i think united states has an interest in preventing future harm to america and our friends and allies ok to go back to do you buy into that. no one ever told why you perception is that for a long time well you have foreign policy. to this part of the world. the way it goes. it in fact made in the pentagon and langley.

for the latest in the world of business has you. that's right time for your business update to welcome the euro continues to lose ground because of investor concern over the debt problems in europe across last four percent on the forex and one we count is currently at below forty rubles that's the lowest level since march given torsion from a few sistema believes the euro's poor fortunes will not last long. over greek factory is the main tree over consoles around the crisis and sold and sold for the potential answer with government and the potential again potential construction of that these are lesions which some you can pressure on you right now and there i did so by the fact that i want to get reason to disclose them to him and what i can or think he says or see in terms of pressure in fact he's to me shows that european governments are usually hard to solve these issues one hundred how the hell would

read over and use the same get their clothes into solution given the amount of the eurozone from the british and found in order to support to beat economy and this may come down on the markets as a kind of already high probability in two thousand and ten a few times. the global i t join cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the fast electronic components roll off a newly built russian production line they had all the russian unit outlines its investment blueprint for the country. when i will certainly be investing one third of the next ten years at least a billion dollars into the strategic development of russia school toward being a part of that overall picture and at least a hundred million of them really and will probably go most likely go into the venture finance or like mission trips we just started out license to make actual process work we're producing the first product in russia completely sold for the

product itself and in the show us where he is working on top of the water which is certified by the appropriate says the russian federation. fans a quick look at the markets european stocks a largely unchanged thousand vestas poor over china's inflation because which signal beijing may take the steps to cool down and how weather most european stocks are staying in the drive home the hills of face to rule street overnight the taxes are home to some some corporate on dates are triggering action and if you shall say chose b. c. holdings of down point seven percent after revealing cost accounting for get some shares of a losing just under three percent off to a trading update the footsie is flat. and here in moscow both are just in the my six. mixed gains from wall street and asia are supporting the markets while the current price is also gathering pace. on the big movers on the minus six the

country's largest car maker after the us is gaining one healthy son outside of prime minister merck pushing visiting up close and insolvent russia says dr any mortal of top bus lauda air force trucks takeoff the news is agreed with boeing twenty eight brand new passenger jets the whole of the casual price but it's less promising for mobile operator m.t.s. which is setting up a full percent this hour. russian market so getting back into gear after the public holidays are michael stipe from critics planes why all eyes are on china and the e.u. to be very much we drew by external factors with a lot of investors paying attention to c.p.i. p.p.i. retail sales in also industrial production data coming out of china. to what extent recent monetary tightening has slowed down growth in addition we'll see simply idea

coming out of the euro zone on the domestic front here in russia first quarter results from a meet with investors focused very much on margins and trying to understand the extent to which the higher taxes transportation expenses have impact margins and also look at whether or not the company has been successful in passing on information to its customer base. nor remark at cern transatlantic capital sways sense trade volumes on russian stock exchanges to record highs the r.t.s. has seen a doubling of prating volumes in the past four months of this year compared to last miles to sixteen trillion rubles that's around five hundred seventy billion dollars industry analysts explained the boost by speculators sound trading robots taking a gamble on market jitters but despite record volumes daily turnover on russia's r.t.s. remains around the third of trading on the nasdaq. and finally russia is discovering that hosting for the one comes at

a premium playing the country's first circuit which will be in the southern city of sochi will cost around one hundred eighty million dollars the state will foot much of the bill but private investors may also get the chance to cut in stone as bullets gets planes. i mean so she's a limpid park and 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 more 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 itself long track the most expensive in the world which was completed in two thousand and four and 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 attempts 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 f one circuit is the start of the mission but on its own 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 timely project amid the growing popularity of f one in the country especially with the rise of russian f one driver the. many fans from sochi travelled to watch 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 are cheesed and is the last her fortune from sochi and that's the latest from now we'll have more for you in less than an hour.

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