growing violence in syria a problem for the international community to apply pressure on the country with this part of the project you've called the regime change stomp bill the rest echoes of libya's. new unity in the union the e.u. members are all saying whether the long should have a seat at the u.n. security council with some seeing it as a threat to their sovereignty. for the big bear that says al qaeda sends a steady stream of agents to russia and says they're often found among militants killed in anti terror operations. the european cause decision to find

a georgia. trial exposes a role with the country's if not trump legal system but many south of the world make much difference on the current leadership. very warm welcome to you this is a line from moscow the crackdown on anti-government protests in syria is intensifying with army tanks reportedly shelling residential districts in the third largest city of homs where human rights groups believe more than that seven hundred fifty people have been killed since the rest began almost two months ago and with the crackdown international pressure of the country to stop the violence is a little so growing following the recently introduced e.u. sanctions the u.s. is reportedly considering calling for regime change in stasis more emmet reports

parallels with the libyan scenario which started with similar initiatives what's going on there just. rebels clash with security forces hundreds die and the west calls for the bloodshed to stop sanctions slapped down and arms sales embargoed but this isn't libya's spring it's syria and it's following a road map that lead 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. speculator trailing the syrian government has been on the front burner and washington risks 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 president assad himself to some asset is a convenient ally for the west although that's what was being said about gadaffi in recent years before the sanctions kicked in. member states including. perhaps it's still possible to do business with bashar who is western educated. person educated wife as well so they 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's savvy would keep assets in their own names so thanks and toothless the u.s. and international community is being reduced from an international organization into a domestic release authority whereby you begin to freeze assets of individuals so

those the individuals don't actually. anywhere but it's a gimmick which is being used in most of the instances and this. is counterproductive because it just make noises but it does not have any effect and i think it does describe it effective or not europeans of growing familiar 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 of course in pretty difficult situation the war situation the war of usual situation with israel you also have all these connections that syria has with iran you believe and hezbollah as well we just didn't have mass which we mean it is

very dangerous for so-called international community to come up with a military intervention in syria we turn it seems to president bashar assad's regime the u.k. lead 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 face the role of the diplomatic dice against syria can only prompt a similar fate and see the mediterranean gunships sail east. london. imposing sanctions which prevent inefficient in the past a more about grabbing power in the region and protecting civilians says towns and the need. for peace in the. 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 and saying it's a multi-polar world and the west is panicking about how they can sit back and now break 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 had 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 will happen in the next several years coming as well. you know with still ahead in the program how old is the justice in georgia. in seventy years of the soviet union seventy laws were jailed and seven years of service treaties or three hundred lawyers or imprisoned model of a european a quarter of justice ruling against a big sea draws attention to how the government is tightening the noose around judges there to your best eight months. now rage in india as the government releases those guilty of a mouse down street over fifteen years ago that killed nearly twenty thousand people our correspondent will join us live for more of the story in just a few minutes time. european m.p.'s are deciding on whether the union should represent a permanent seat at the u.n. security council but it's done no pushing reports the initiatives cause an outcry

among many nations. there's been a horrified response around the world and here in brussels to the idea of giving the european union a permanent seat on the un security council it would allow the e.u. to look at the world security decisions both britain and france for this is the first step to were stripped of their permanent place on the council one british m.p. here says this is britain sovereignty 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 france and britain also rub salt into the wounds for many parts of the world notably africa and latin america who warn the security council's composition is already poised towards the west but 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. a claim to current financial difficulties corporation in foreign policy where the snag is there's no unity in the european union in politics or finance we've seen that again just recently over the invasion of libya and the same on whether to rescue portugal's economy the u.n. general assembly has just voted to give the european union as a single block much greater powers but this move to get a permanent place on the u.n. security council is expected to receive much more opposition. wants to steal power not only from the foreign countries from its own members as well critics say. to any claims it's time to take a look and try to find out from individual. for the first look. what is behind that. risky point is that there are

some measures that might lead to for. for fiscal policy context policy i think that governments definitely should have full control over their tax policy over their fiscal policy which means social systems pension systems health care systems these things should not be given out in favor of european or through european institutions. now seven indian officials responsible for the worst technological disaster in history have been released on bail after a court refused to give stronger punishments well they were found guilty of a huge gas leak in one thousand nine hundred u.s. plant which resulted in the deaths of up to twenty pounds and people of the disaster in bhopal say that more than a quarter of a century later just. joins us live now from new delhi more on this prayer

was during people that the most. that's right always worthwhile there's a lot of outrage here in india today as you mentioned the indian supremes. trial bureau of investigation investigations petition for harsher sentences for the seven indian managers of union carbide corporation that were actually convicted of death by negligence in the boat all in bhopal and industrial accidents. as you mentioned just this hasn't been served many people feel here they actually were convicted back in june almost twenty five years later sentences were only for two years but they were actually released on bail none of them served a day in jail and they're fine they were only sentenced to a two thousand dollars fine and today the supreme court said that the central bureau of investigation didn't present them and you have split edition for why

these men should serve longer sentences so far later they felt that this petition was just too too far away from what the when the event actually happened and i think it's important to remember how big of a deal this is in india this is the worst industrial accident in the entire a world three thousand five hundred people the indian government has died as a result of that gas leak and in the years following that accident and where from fifteen to twenty five thousand people were died not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people who were really injured and caused great think this by being supposed to these chemicals it's also important to note by the way that the union carbide corporation was an american company all were in andersen the c.e.o. of the company at the time was actually arrested released on bail and went back to the united states he never came back to india to stand trial at all for any of this incident so many people here in india feel that he literally got away with murder he said that his company was not under indian jurisdiction and to this day no

american official has ever stood trial for this union carbide company did agree to give four hundred seventy million dollars in a settlement back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and that actually amounted. only about two thousand dollars for every family who lost a loved one in this tragedy alice. case you already mentioned some of the connections to us. and the do we think be held responsible. that's something that's yet to be determined as of right now it looks like weren't anderson too many people got away with murder and they really feel that there was enough evidence to prove that his company really did drop the ball when it came to this gas leak the indian government has actually asked for more money from union carbide corp they're asking for one point one billion dollars to

almost doubling that four hundred seventy seventy million dollars settlement that was agreed to back in one thousand nine hundred nine but this raises a lot of questions here alison i mean we look to the fukushima nuclear accident that just happened in japan where again an american company general electric was actually the owner of that nuclear plant and they're actually planning on building several nuclear plants here in india so this is really a sore subject for many indians they feel distrustful when an american. when unfortunately we've just lost all correspondent who's reporting. from new delhi. well to find sounds that how will the anthropic solve the tragedy the prius is talking about is still a killing indians that today do log on to our web site and it's not part of the found very very high levels of toxins we've found high levels of most purely we've found high levels of pesticides reach the company had manufactured lying still in

the sludge. arson correspondence talked to experts and survivors and go cold do you check it all out assault into. the. our guide to has long sons of continues to send its agents into russia things that were the words of presidents and said if you want to not mind that terrorism is a shared international problem or for more than a sense cross live to ask anyone occlusion is a mosque a rough area so what's the message from the president that's even a with a song of bin laden dead the threat of terrorism is still very much alive because that is absolutely right out the so the president spoke. recently because of matters of international and national security needs when why it's actually so

interested in issues that are happening outside i was borders and particular in northern africa and in pakistan this is what he had to say. to eliminate terrorists including the recent want to get. a direct link to the security level with little country it's no secret that al qaida has been sending terrorists to russia and is continuing to do so. and of course even though like you said osama bin laden is this thread of terror it is in norway is in no way ending unfortunately russia's most wanted terrorist or one of is still at large and he is the man who is responsible for two most prominent so recent bombings one of the occurred in moscow metro out of syria and of course the bombing of the double header airport that occurred in january of this year the man who is responsible for all of these tragedies is still at large and al qaida of course though it may have lost its leader is always seizing its operations you have to remember that it has

numerous cells all over the world particularly in the middle east and in northern africa so the situation there has to be monitored and of course it is a primary concern to russia and russians and the russian president did say that although the figurehead the top mast from outside is done by the terrorist threat still remains. fallacies that i can assure their reporting for us from central moscow. and there will since the example of been a growing number of voices in america and warning against a rapid withdrawal from afghanistan and later is a guess and cross talk of killing all of america's most wanted terrorists could mean a longer stay in afghanistan. as long as al-qaeda is operating in that region and 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. you know what it was really gold why you perception is looking for a long time no. the way. you do in fact made in the pentagon at langley. i had our brief look at some of the world headlines this hour and greek police have reportedly used tear gas against austerity praise houses around things of the offices were touched with stones the clashes come as the current she was brought to a grinding halt by a series of mass strikes the individual action was taken against sweeping cuts of johnson's services none other government to meet the terms of an new and i.m.f. bailout portugal and ireland also in the same boat predictions space joining them see. that egypt where violence is continuing its going christians and muslims

following a weekend to six haram clashes with this is a christians were touched by muslims during a rally the weekend's deadly rising left. christian church talks of the temple we write the events and raised concerns over the increasing presence of ultra conservative islamic groups in the country after president of barrack was to paint in february. now the european court of human rights is fine just fifty thousand hereis resignation to the murder of a banker the government is obliged to pay the compensation to the victim's family but many doubt his brother will happen and a country that's increasingly branded a police state. trooper has more. a high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sound a good reality 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 billy see four police officers were eventually sentenced to up to eighty years casandra a resistor was well served by. doctors who are out just three hours after the centers of the court the president issued decree the their release from. prison so it shows it's also run more readers that. they were just ordinary citizens to say where are the protection of for top officials all for georgia and all. but an investigation wasn't even launched until hundreds of protesters want into the streets of b.c. but it seems family looked for help from strasbourg and the cause of human rights

in april european judges ruled the investigation was bungled the ministry of the interior the prosecutor's office the prisons department the president of georgia and so on all acted in concert in preventing justice it also ruled that georgia's government should pay t.v. thousand euros to the murdered man's relatives to the general public in georgia had long ago given its verdict on the case but it's a big victory that the european court of knowledge is it now on a political level it means the attitude to no listeners 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 there's of saakashvili the saakashvili regime is based on illegal biased court which he himself created 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 a circus really is 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 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 poor. millions that spans 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 bribe a policeman here and must stop you you could count on him to protect you from what

is street crime but what the truth criminals are actually in the hierarchies 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 money tourists say eighty percent of people here trast their police it's the government they believe works in the dark but if the death of sandra give any 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 it in the church of r.t.e. the b.b.c. georgia. revenues is our here on our z. don't go away though we've got a business update on the way with katrina. thanks

alex hello and welcome to the business bulletin for this hour the euro continues to lose ground juice and investing concerns that the growing debt issues in europe because the last four percent on the forex in one week and is currently below forty rubles that's the lowest level since march this year you know you though you've jenny now to from a of places them i believe the euros paul fortunes will not last too long. well the group that has been made a trip all the consoles are on the. courses so it's all been so all for the group potential all sorts of progress government the potential of being potential restructuring of the debt these are the issues which need compressional you write them out there by the fact that he's into his clothes into a man's but i do or three pieces of income pressure in fact history shows that european governments are usually in a hurry to solve this insurance i have already heard the whole dreadful lot of us seemed to close in to the solution to give an additional model if you will so from

the stability action found in order to support we are calling it and this may calm down the markets as it has a really hope i'm doing two thousand turn a few times. now let's have a look at the markets europe is trading in the black but investors and keeping a close eye on china's monetary tightening reducing the cooling you want to make among the market move this broker upgrade from marks and spencer shares helped the retailer reach the top of the footsie and just be shares are down after the banking giant strategic review failed to excite investors. here in moscow both the r.t.s. and the my sense are out gains from wall street and asia are supporting the markets while a crude price is also gathering pace. now is a look at some individual share moves energy companies are faring better in the market today with rosneft of one percent after values is also gaining as prime minister putin visits its plant to see the unveiling of its latest car fertiliser

producer is going around two percent ahead of its upcoming merger with silver in its. global i t giant cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the first try components roll off a newly built russian production line the head of the firm's russian unit outlined its investment blueprint for the country. well now it's an investment of the next ten years at least a billion dollars into the future elements of russia still would be part of that picture and that's the stuff hundred million of them billions will probably go most likely go to church financing like ships just started licensing process or consider the first car in russia complete. the product itself. in the swap see what comes up with the survey. released such. and russia's discovering that hosting formula one comes at

a premium and as always and is looking at rice to fund the tracks multi-million dollar price tag the country's first grand prix circuit has to be built in the southern city of sochi the site will foot much much of the bill but private investors might also get a chance to cast in as dense but not ski explains. 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 half one circuit that's a half the song but it still comes in cheaper than the two hundred forty million dollars invested by china on its a long track the most expensive in the world which was completed in two thousand for the project this 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 af 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 olympic infrastructure was signed last year it's a seven year deal with the possibility of prolonging the contract after twenty twenty. five something to look forward to for we formula one fans that's the latest business for the sound but have no if you listen to now see some.

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