it's a journey. to follow berlin archie. and the. growing up ballance in syria problem for the international community to apply pressure on the country with sanctions but with a predictive call for regime change the song feel there are echoes of libya. the members both said the blogs should have a permanent scenes of un security council but critics say this would be always a puzzle says at a time when european countries are feeding the kids also. secret that al qaida has been sending terrorists to russia and is continuing to do so. president advantage says al qaeda agents are among millicent's killed around the

terror operations in russia's north caucuses. and in business there's our recycle take a look at why the euro is losing ground and just one steps are being taken to improve the situation join me for that story morning around twenty minutes time. well can see this is a lie from moscow with me i said that's the crime is down the government protests in syria is intensifying rebel army tanks reportedly shelling residential districts in the largest city of homs all human rights groups believe more than a seven hundred fifty people have been killed since the unrest that we gametes two months ago and what the crimes are international pressure on the country to stop the violence is also growing following a. he introduced the sanctions the u.s.

is reportedly considering calling for regime change. or emmet reports with the libyans which started with similar initiatives are not going on the. rebels clashed 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 who watches it's a regime to sense that tantalizing western leaders there's great excitement in washington. trailing the syrian government. in washington ever since the bush administration the e.u. has put the freeze on assets of thirteen top government military and intelligence

leaders topping the list is this man the syrian president's younger brother he's described as the principal overseer of violence against protesters but no sanctions are being applied to the man calling the shots president assad himself to some asteroids 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 possibility of doing business with bashar who's a western educated. coated 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 stank sions a toothless u.s. and international. immunity is being reduced from an international organization

into a domestic police authority whereby you begin to freeze assets of individuals sometimes the individuals don't actually have assets anywhere but it's a it's a gimmick which is being used in most of the instances and this gives me in part is counterproductive because it just make noises but it does not have any effect and i think it is this credit effective or not europeans have grain 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 or is that pretty difficult situation or situation the world people situation in israel to also have all these connections that syria has with iran you

can even use hezbollah as well. based in your house which would mean very dangerous for. national community with the 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 the battle weary britain is this looks all too familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya which adds to failure and the public has grown at the diplomatic dice against syria can only prompt a similar fate and see the mediterranean gunships sail east lower and it's arty. and pacing sanctions which have proven in a fish and in the past a more about grabbing power in the region than protecting civilians says chandan from the british civilians for peace in libya. 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 at now in this historical moment everyone knows that the uni polar world has finished saying it's a multi-pronged i 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 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 taleban 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 the r.t. still ahead in the program how just is the justice in georgia. in seventy years of the soviet union seventy dollars or jail rather than seven years of circuitries regime good luck hundred lawyers are in prison or. a european court of justice rooting against a v.c. draws attention to how the government is tightening the noose around charges that i'll see investigates class. rage in india as the government releases the guilty but the amounts of gas leak over fifteen years ago it killed me to put into people all the details from massey's our correspondent there in just a few minutes. european m.p.'s have called for

a union to have a permanent seat at the u.n. security council critics on the vienna shit say that the e.u. has enough problems at home to solve without that so let's get the details now from donald partial muscles for us. all the european parliament voted in favor of this me so what's the reaction been. with reactions behind go there was passed with a three hundred ninety nine vote majority of good britain and france. sorry daniel do you carry on we have a few technical issues that are better to carry on. yes saying the britain and france have permanent seats on the un security council but they still think voice of power on the security council and the navy is there's no unity between the european states so there's a question mark how they're going to come to a common decision greece as we're seeing is facing protests over its inability to

deal with its financial crisis of course the european union there was no unity over the invasion of libya and of course there's no agreement on how to deal with the portuguese economy which is on the verge of bankruptcy so there's a question mark first of all over the european union has unity secondly should the european union have a separate voice as well as france and britain that would give three voices with no voices for places like india which has a far greater population places like africa and latin america say it's already over represented that there is a western boyer's on the u.n. security council and now three european powers to european union powers would have the roi to block key world security decisions the vote was put forward boy a spanish member for the european parliament she's saying that there is necessary corporation this time of economic crisis but the trouble is spain is one of the big

without a permanent seat it's understandable why they would want to have one but there is growing concern that european union can't really deal with its problems at home so it shouldn't be lecturing other states around the world on how to work with the world security issues at the moment you know many paths. to us from brussels. well the e.u. wants to steal power annoyingly from foreign countries but from its own members as well critics say later today we speak three years skeptic any keep your claims the union is trying to save the control of financial policy individual governments. for the first loop you might look well if you go behind you want particular risk the point is that there are some hidden measures that might lead to further harmonize off a fiscal policy and tax policy i think the national 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 up in favor of european or for abuse or european institutions. seven indian officials responsible for the worst all nautical disaster in history have been released on bail after a court refused to give them stronger punishments when they were found guilty of a huge gas leak in nineteen eighty-four us plant which resulted in the death of up to twenty thousand people and as our reports from delhi survivors of the disaster feel that justice so husbands are. they actually were convicted back in june almost twenty five years later their jail sentences were only for two years but they were

actually released on bail none of them served a day in jail and their 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 any explanation for why these men should serve longer sentences so far later they felt that this petition was just too too far away from what was the one day 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 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 anywhere from fifteen to twenty five thousand people were dying not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people who were really injured and caused great cygnus by being supposed to these chemicals it's also important to note by the way that the union carbide corporation was an american company a warren anderson the c.e.o. of the company at the time was actually arrested released on bail and left 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 another important thing to note i should say is that you know we look at the fukushima nuclear accident that happened back in japan not so long ago in that in that incident the nuclear plant was built by general electric another american company general electric has actually built several nuclear plants here in india along the coastline and it's something that doesn't really make the indian people a little bit wary that something like bhopal could have happened where hundreds of thousands of indian lives were affected yet there are still so many places here in india whether it's nuclear plants that are also still. run by american companies so they feel that an american official was never held accountable for what they believe was their responsibility the paul paul gas accident back in ninety four

something like bad could happen again and they don't want another disaster like this to occur let's find out how the effects of the boat will tragedy l.-f. still killing indians today log on to all by itself. we found very very high levels of toxins we found high levels of we found high levels of best decided to reach the company had manufactured nine still in the sludge arson correspondence told some experts and survivors a brutal death all around us and also you talk on. the european court of human rights is following georgia fifty miles and. investigation

into the murder of a bunker the government is obliged to pay the compensation to the victim's family even many doubt this will happen in a country that's increasingly branded a police state. that they cannot sure there are reports. a high profile murder and a low profile investigation the case of sounded good leon he became a byword for both in two thousand and six the twenty eight year old banker attended 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 c. four police officers were eventually sentenced to up to eighty years for sandra's murder he was easter was well served by that was in the court are just three hours south of the full sentence of the court the president issued a decree to they're released from. prison so it shows it's also one more to

reduce that. they were just ordinary citizens there where are the protection of the pop operations of georgia gold. and investigation wasn't even launched until hundreds of protesters one time to the streets of b.c. the victim's family looked for help from strauss book 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 and president of georgia and so warm all acted in concert in preventing justice they also ruled that judges government should pay people to two thousand heroes to the murdered man's reality. 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 attitudes enormousness 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 a legal biased court which he himself created 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 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 in twenty ten almost none so defendants walk free sundress families lawyer says no other country in europe has a conviction rate like this and that is a dangerous sign of the country becoming a police state europe's courts have long been concerned about georgia's failure to

make corrupt high ranking officials face justice and using the police as pawns millions of fans to create the image of a georgian policeman living up to the social ideals of serving and protecting its citizens and it's likely you'll struggle to grab a policeman here and most certainly you could count on him to protect you from paris street crime but what the truth criminals are actually in a 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 wouldn't or say eighty percent of people here trast their police it's the government they believe works in the dark but even the death of sandra give me any underlines anything if the judas much trumpeted more than legal system dishes out

a very different justice on its president. inner circle that's in the frame if you didn't catch of r t d.c. georgia. no qaida has longstanding continues to send his agents into russia these were the words of president didn't read it if you underlined that terrorism is a shared international proper role for in a sense that in a mosque a forest and in a so what's the message from the president that even with the some of the know the threats of terrorism is still very much aligned. that is absolutely right and that is one of the reasons why president explains why russia is so interested in everything that's happening in the regions like northern africa and the middle east at a meeting which was dedicated to matters of national security today. we could. choose to eliminate terrorists including the recent want to gauge just. 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. of course the president was talking about terrorists which are being sent to the publics in the northern caucasus like i just uncovered in the old part where russian forces and conducting break of our race is already creating those terrorists and of course you have to remember that with a solid margin been gone the threat of al qaida still looms very large though the mastermind is gone still terrorists are continue to operate all around the world russia is the number one most wanted terrorist dr matas actually still at large and he is responsible for two most recent bombings in russia those of course where the explosions in moscow metro one in last year and their recent terror attack at moscow's domodedovo airport so the whole of the head of the biggest international terror going to station may be gone the rest of those terrorists with numerous

cells all over the world particularly in northern africa are still at large and the threat unfortunately still persists to many things that he couldn't get there reporting from. well whoa russia's a chechen republic may have a painful history of fighting terrorism but says of this war are over and the biggest battles are about to be forced on the football field now some of the world's top soccer stars will head to head with russian politicians and players to mark the playing of the new stadium the largest in southern russia of course there are reports from let out all. the big talking point of the advance is just that he is going to play a game. by presidential envoy to the north caucasus. now according to the organizers of these savan it could include such a football superstar. down franco but easy blueish we go steve mcmanaman and many

others meanwhile the biggest. is the governor who has also been right around the capital grozny the team to appoint the argentinian legend and other stars has not yet been announced but it could include great russian players of years past as well as current russian premier league it's not the first time such kind of event is taking place here in grozny in fact two months ago former brazilian players came to town the visitors one six four so the russian team will be out to do better this time but whatever the results are you still footballing fun is guaranteed. ok a brief look at some other world headlines this hour and in egypt violence is continuing between christians and muslims following a we've had the sectarian clashes with this is day christians were attacked by muslims during a rally the weekends a day of the rising left there some days and a christian church taught in the capital cairo of the events of braised to conserve

a video creasing presence of ultra conservative islamic groups in the country after president mubarak was deposed in february. the palace released from inside one of the reactors at the troubled for the shiva nuclear plant containing highly radioactive spent fuel the video appears to show the fuel rods believed to be largely undamaged like under de vry the country has been trying to minimize radiation leaks since the complex was struck by march and that's about quake and tsunami right although it is business news of the way now with katrina. hello and welcome to the business bulletin for this hour the euro continues to lose ground due to invest a concern for the growing debt issues in europe because he lost 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 get you give me no dorchin from any of cases then i believe the euro is poor fortunes will not last too long. the group that is the made it clear all the consoles are. sold in store for the show all sorts of the government and the potential again prevention restructuring of their these can which the move could show you right now. by the fact that they want to resume top schools into men's what i do or think pieces of the impression factor has to be shows that european governments are usually horrible soul ensures the whole of the hold i would go to use seemed to close in to a social include given the usual model if you were from the british and found in order to support me calling me count on the markets as opposed to really hoping to in two thousand and ten a few times. but have a look at the markets now the footsie is trading in the red this hour over concerns

china starts to cool its overheated economy among the market moves is a broker upgrade from marks and spencer helped the retailer reach the top of the foot see the decks on the other hand it's trading in the black because our almost half a percent and b. shares are down after the banking giant strategic review failed so excited. and here in moscow the markets are mixed this are gains from wall street and ager of asia supporting the market on the one hand concerns over the situation with the euro hampering on the other. hand it's take a look at some individual share moves energy companies are faring better in the market today with gazprom up around one seven percent this hour after browsers also gaining as prime minister putin visits its plant and test drives a new lot of model that allows the producer to your ugly is up around one and a half percent ahead of its upcoming merger with souvenir. crushing car sales were a sixty four percent increase in the first quarter of the year the overall number

of sold vehicles has topped seven hundred and fifty four thousand around a third of that number was made right after. well i see god cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the first eloquent components roll off a new high built russian production line the head of the firm's russian you know outlines its investment blueprint for the country. where now it's investing in next ten years at least a billion dollars into each kilometer from school to become part of the picture and that's nice a hundred million of them believe we'd probably go most likely go to the bench of finance or ships just started licensing process for producing. in russia complete. the product itself and then the swiss her. work cut out the service. pretty soon.

and russia is discovering that hunting for me along comes at a premium and it's looking at ways to fund the tracks multimillion dollar price tag the country's first grown free second is to be built in the southern city of sochi the site will fit much of foot much of the bill but private investors might also get a chance to cast and as dennis but not get explains. i mean so she's a limpid quark and right behind me you can see your road which after the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics will be turned into a formula one track the russian government is planning to spend over one hundred eighty million dollars on it and what will become the country's first 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 the shelf long track the most expensive in the world which was completed in two thousand and four 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 after one circuit is the start of that ambition 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 cut in the contract after twenty twenty. one that's the latest business to the south but remember you can always keep up to date on line outs and to come forward slash business in less than an hour see that.

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