i am. europe follows the u.s. in slumping sanctions on syria over the crackdown on anti-government protesters while critics accuse the west of seeking regime change in order to control the region and. the european union may seen in light of the seizure of the un security council all giving it more power as a single brawl it could damage the strength to some member states in the pedants. also georgians have to turn to the international human rights course to get justice for a murder committed by high ranking official is experiencing an inherent floor of the

country's much transit legal system. and. a very warm welcome gee this is ours he like from moscow with me honest it's international pressure is mounting on syria with the government's intensified crackdowns against any opposition conway on the further scrutiny both following in americans that steps your house up fresh sanctions on the country's top officials including an all troubled by. these reports are all 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 baggage but this isn't libya's it's syria and it's following

a road map that made to just one place for its african arab neighbor nato intervention who watches it's a regime dissent that tantalizing western leaders there's a greater washington. aspect of anger trailing the syrian government. the e.u. has put a 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 assad is a convenient ally for the west although that's what was being said about gadhafi in recent years before the sanctions kicked in. member states including. perhaps

it's still possible to do business with russia. western educated. wife as well so they see. the force of opera. in the country the e.u. says 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 takes less u.s. and international community is being reduced from an international organization into a domestic police authority where by you begin to freeze assets of individuals sometimes the individuals. and you will but it's a it's a gimmick which is used in most of the instances and this gimmick in part is counterproductive because it just make noises. and i think it is this credit

effective or not europeans have grown 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 is you know very sensitive environment as there is. if you can situation situation who are peaceful situation with israel you also have all these connections that syria has with iran you can even use has been a lot as well with the palestinian have as we should we very dangerous or full communicate. with them unitary intervention in syria we know and turn it seems to 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 britons this looks all too

familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya were judged to failure and the public face the role of the diplomatic syria can only prompt a similar fate and see the mediterranean gunships sail east nor ever its arty. functions on more of a struggle for the protection of civilians according to come from the group called civilians for peace in the bia. 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 at now in this historical moment everyone knows that the uni polar world has finished entering into another take on our world on the west is panicking about how they can sit back and allow the break nations of the global south just to rise up or for them to just

to go without 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 they were bogged down morally politically economically diplomatically they were completely completely outmaneuvered by the global south and rises the global south and the bric nations in particular and this what happened in the next several years coming as we're well heavy shelling has been reported in syria since your home was the scene of the largest antigovernment protests in recent days human rights groups believe within seven hundred fifty people killed. almost two months ago which seems

that it's now a london based specializing in middle east policy says the syrian regime needs reforms to prevent the bloodshed. 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 of who 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 cells 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 simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so it is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned well in another country lebanon may be a thing of the past if their legacy still remains if you do what documentary about lebanese volunteers who put their lives at risk the country's unexploded nine.

a cluster. and inside the container you have maybe a small bomb and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them there's a huge market right now for battle area clearing because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire local 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 these was. a.

big. rock hard. european and. the weather they want my right to come and grab sense about the u.n. security council as all season reports the new been met with come to make shit from some members who believe that is not going the union it is the sets. 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 both britain and france this is the first step. of their permanent place on the council. and they will move many other countries for example india's billion plus people

less worthy of a voice than it used five hundred million giving the seats as well as from some brits and also of the many parts of the world notably africa and latin america who were on the security council's composition is already boy towards the west this move was proposed by a member of the european parliament from spain one of the biggest. seats where it. claims the current financial difficulties corporation in foreign policy. there's no unity in the european union in politics. we've seen that again just recently over the invasion of libya and the same with the portugal's economy the un general assembly has just voted to give the european union as a single block much greater powers this move to get a permanent place on the u.n. security council is expected to receive much more a position. with the e.u.

wants a moral authority for itself on a level position of power is. already great and expensive large. and with an adult in about twenty minutes. we have to look at the expense of parliament itself and there is a very. very simple example why the european parliament should have two seats one in brought so. and the other will instruct work 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 c. and we give and we can show my perfect example to the people of europe that we are able to save the taxpayers money.

recent controversial court i think is in georgia have the country's legal system under the spotlight with the acquittal rate of less than one percent many iggy's the governments of tightening its grip over tartars but is it true over reports social status and daughter sometimes and nothing to avoid punishment. a high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sandra good leon he became a byword 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 tbilisi four police officers were eventually sentenced topped eighty years sandra's murder even terrible was not served by a but was in doubt the poor are just three hours after the the essentials a court the procedure to issue the decree to they're released from the prison

saw it shows it's also one more to reduce that to a window to just ordinary citizens to say where are the protection of a top official self or a judge and all. but an investigation wasn't even launched until hundreds of protesters want into the streets of d.c. but it seems family looked for help from strasse book and the cause of human rights in april european judges ruled the investigation was bungled. not that high ranking officials are escaping justice and that police cliff sensitive convicts were getting unfair leniency from the president it also ruled that judges government should pay two thousand euros to the murdered man's relatives. general public in georgia had long ago given its verdict on the case but it's a big victory of 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 as regime. but lawyers have been following the case since the start any compensation will be paid under the current leadership of saakashvili the saakashvili regime is based on illegal biased courts which he himself created as a lawyer i can tell you that every acquittal has to be agree with the prosecutor personally all the burst 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 supreme court a staggering ninety nine point six percent of cases resulted in guilty verdicts and twenty ten 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 justice and using the police as pawns 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 its like legal struggle to bribe a policeman here and most certainly you could count on him to protect you from petty street crime but one of the true criminals are actually in a higher office that the police. can the general public truly chaffed. did a commercial show police work is among the most prestigious tantrums parent police posts made of glass so everyone can see what wolf this is do and anticorruption movie tourists see eighty percent of people here trast their police it's the government they believe works in the dark but if the death of somebody if you really are any underlines anything it's the georgists much trumpeted more than

legal system this is all that very different justice when its president saakashvili his inner circle that's in the frame if you did a great show archie the b.b.c. ga we have an abundance of other stories waiting to. dot com including its tripping out high altitude triggers high jinx find out which ally was subjected to some unwanted in-flight entertainment it's. not illegal museums or lions in russia as a living city of sochi find out how the country well the flightless one of the best and much more all at. the once again not in a battle over whether to increase the country's debt ceiling which already sounds

of fourteen trillion dollars but no amount of extra loans or stimulus packages will help america get rid of its financial pains that's according to investment broker and author position. us politicians are going to have to be honest we're out 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't 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 economic decline associated with correct in using balances and unfortunately all they're concerned about is getting reelected that is what the problem that's not the country's problem and so we never get to solutions get platitudes we get quick fixes we get stimulus kick the can down the road sweeper we brought on little rug that's all they care about they want to get to the next election cycle without it blowing up well one of these days it's going to blow up and it won't be a next election cycle and i think that's coming up i think within the next several

years we're going to have to really go on the 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 which works so i think we've got to the point now where there is no more stimulus to work or just overdose. or that's the clones that's now as the mother told stories from around the world the silence of that's when these two inside one of the reactors the trouble for the nuclear plant containing highly radioactive spent fuel video appears to show the fuel rods in the. midst line on the day the country has been trying to minimize radiation since the complex was struck i'm not his massive earthquake and tsunami. twenty five people have been detained in the greek capital all to far right activists health pilots i wasn't

going to princess demonstration which involves several forms of recent her delta force and four year old. has reportedly rolled down to death like an immigrant's and soon say things until after princess is tools for it is through the streets. and vandalizing local buildings. now there seems to be no end to the violence in afghanistan as police report that dozens of taliban fighters attacked a village in the north of the country in crosstalk debate show which will be on in the next hour we discuss american strategy in the war zone and here's a preview. as long as al qaeda is operating in that region as long as the taliban is our operating in that region i think united states has an interest in preventing for a future harm to america and our friends and allies ok to go back to. buy into that . you know it was a dog. for a long time old u.s.

foreign policy. part of the world is not the way it goes albeit on. it in fact made in the pentagon and langley. ok let's start with the latest business news now with. clones a very warm welcome to the business update russia's largest comic after mass has had a strong start to the year car giant almost double sales between january and april compared to the same period last year and now after this starring production of a new model with high profile political support. we are at russia's main car factory off the boss waiting for prime minister vladimir putin who will be the first one to try russia's new car that prime time off the boss promises it's will

be a cure all for cheap secondhand imports it will cost about seven thousand dollars and will be a good compromise between price and quality and prime ministers personal drive fast will be yet another attempt to revive faith into the massive car industry hit it up last year driving through siberia in law that in fact after the failed grew by high but analysts say that was mainly due to massive support to the sector. over the last two years russia spent about six billion dollars to prop up the industry and passed from congress program and subsidized landing have also proven that success and finally base year the russian comet is expected to own get back to pre-crisis levels with half million cost sales. the global cisco is spreading its wings in russia from the components roll off and unit built russian production line the head of the firm's russian unit outlines its investment blueprint for the

country where mounts would be investing the next ten years at least a billion dollars to stick utility gives russia still the biggest part of the picture and at least a hundred million of them believe it will probably go most likely go into find its like ships just started like specific process for producing the smaller the russian the. product itself. in the swiss let's. start with that. for you to see the figures. of the euro continues to lose ground because of investor concern over debt problems in europe the keiser lost four percent of the forks in one week that is currently at below forty rubles that's the lowest level since march getting a divorce in from a face a stem of believes poor fortunes will not last long. well the greed factor is the

main victory over kosovo's or on the. crisis also console for the group potential launch over sort of the greek government and the potential again potential restructuring of the debt these are the switch which means compression you are right now and through there i do so by the fact that i want to diffuse into disclosing to nan's but i don't think this is a pressure effect of history shows that european governments are usually hard to so insurers have already told the whole world to read both news stream so they're closer to a solution to give an additional molecules if you will so from this the british and found to go to the supports me economy and this may come down in the markets as it has already happened in two thousand and ten if you touch. on some of the cult how the markets are faring this fall european stocks and largely unchanged as best as china's inflation figures which signal beijing crossed steps to cool pros however

the most european stocks to stay why come the heels of gainesville. texas are about how concerned and simple chords are triggering action if you shares h.s.b.c. holdings a down point seven percent after revealing cost cutting targets. here in moscow the r.t.s. on the rise of stock the solid gains from wall street and asia are supporting the money markets while price is also gathering pace let's have a look at some of the individual show moves energy company shares top performing basket market one of my six gas from is up around one and a half cents after its c.e.o. giant's exports and they remain near winter levels the pace of increase in caster margins were up exonerates last nickel just continue their winning streak controversial book taking early this morning and gaining one and a half percent in light of the news that expected merger with soothingly. called

russian markets are getting back into gear after the public holidays michael stein from its critics planes why all eyes are on china and the e.u. to the markets all very much we drew external factors with a lot of investors paying attention to c.p.i. p.p.i. retail sales and also industrial production be coming out of china. to what extent recently monetary tightening has slowed down for us in addition we'll see c.p.i. data coming out of the euro zone i'm on the domestic front here in russia first quarter results from may meet with investors focused very much on margins and trying to understand the extent to which the higher payroll taxes are higher transportation expenses have impact margins we also look at whether or not the company has been successful in passing the input price inflation to its customer base. it's time for much. european market stance transatlantic capital swades

trade volumes on russian stock exchanges to record highs there are two years has been a doubling of trade reforms of the all months of this year compared to last that amounts to six trillion dollars all starts around five hundred seventy eight billion dollars industry analysts play down to speculate on creating robots taking a gamble on market jitters but despite record volume still a chart on russia's r.t.s. remains roger a fifth of trading on the master. russia's discovering that testing for one comes at a premium playing countries fast second in the southern city of sochi a strong one hundred eighty million dollars think much of the build private investors get a chance to cut and as time has been. i mean so she's a wimp a quark and right behind me you can feel rude 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 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 step one 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 attempts 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 that ambition but on its own it's still not enough the contract between formula one we are bernie ecclestone and omega the russian company which is also in charge of the building of a limp 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. many fans from sochi travel to watch him 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. arches tennis balls turf watching that so you just know we'll have more for you at last but in our.

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