i'll see tonight at the blog should have a permanent seat at the un security council but critics say the union has enough problems solved parco without getting more involved in international issues. growing violence in syria from scenes of national community to apply pressure on the country with sanctions but with a predicted call for regime change some feel there are echoes of libya now plus. it's no secret that al qaida has been sending terrorists to russia and is continuing to do so president but of says al qaeda or agents are often among the militants killed in anti terror correlations in russia's north caucasus.

this is r.t. from moscow it's eight pm wednesday night here now kevin now in our top story european m.p.'s have called for the union to have a permanent seat at the u.n. security council critics of the initiative say that the e.u. rarely speaks with one voice and is good enough problems at home to solve without this he's going to bushels got the latest from brussels. there's been a furious reaction across the world and in brussels itself what rights does the european union have to lecture the world on war issues when it can't come to any agreements back at home when it calls for tells its problems in the e.u. say experts there was no unity over the invasion of libya among the e.u. member states we're currently seeing the royals increase over the government's

handling of the country there and several states don't want to help rescue fellow members they portugal's filled economy there's also the question do you taxpayers want to bailouts and pay for this extra cost at a time of financial crisis the move would leave the. member states with three out of the six permanent positions on the council now several large poles of the world from asia to africa and latin america have no voice whatsoever they already accuse the west of being overrepresented on the organization and even e.u. members themselves are up in arms france and britain say it will dilute their sovereignty one british m.p. says he will fight the decision here and same station your poll agreed to open an office in the libyan rebel stronghold of being goals the which would quote

facilitate assistance to the rebels prompting i can. see the european union is going for beyond its powers in interfering in the work of other countries and far beyond its remit accorded to it by the un. so you are bush aware the wants to steal power not only from foreign countries but from its own members as well critics say next hour indeed we speak to a euro skeptic m.e.p. who claims the union is trying to take over control of financial policy from individual governments. for the first group but if you go behind the one particular risk the point is that there are some hidden measures that might lead to further harmonized initial offer of fiscal policy and tax policy i think the national governments definitely should have full control over the tax policy over the fiscal policy which means social systems pension systems health

care systems be things should not be given up in favor of european or three or european institutions. a crackdown on anti-government protests in syria is intensifying with army tanks reportedly shelling residential districts in the third largest city of homs human rights groups believe more than seven hundred fifty people have been killed since the unrest began almost two months ago and with the crackdown international pressure on the country to stop the violence is also growing following recent interviews do you sanctions the u.s. is reportedly considering calling for regime change result is lauren little porth parallels with the libyan scenario which started with similar initiatives i'm not going on notice right now. rebels clash with security forces hundreds die and the west calls for the bloodshed to stop thanks in slaps down and

arms sales him. but this isn't libya's spring it's syria and it's following a road map that lead to just one place where it's african arab neighbor nato intervention who watches it's a regime dissent that tantalizing western leaders there's greater. washington. aspect of anger trailing the syrian government has been on the front burner in washington ever since 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 acid is a convenient ally for the west although that's what was being said about the tapi in recent years before the sanctions kicked in. member states including. perhaps.

still a possibility of. western educated has a. wife as well so they see. the force of opera. in the country the e.u. says that 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 who's savvy would keep assets in their own names so sanctions toothless the un and the international community is being reduced from an international organization into a domestic police authority whereby you begin to freeze assets of individuals sometimes the individuals. anywhere but it's a gimmick which has been used in most of the instances and this. is cancer.

just make noises but any of them i think it is. effective or not europeans have grown 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 you know very sensitive environments as there is of course the very difficult situation for situation situation in israel you also have all these elections that syria has with iran you can even use has as well as the british thing it has which would mean very dangerous for the so-called international 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 so but a weary britons this looks all too familiar it's more than six weeks since sanctions on libya which are still failure and the public has grown at the diplomatic dice against syria can only produce a similar fate and see the mediterranean gunships sail east lower and its arty down to. get more of a handle on the situation in the region we're joined live from london was. trev institute of islamic political thought most of the to me thank you for being on r.t. these two went for it round of sanctions against syria just know but after the u.s. imposed. reports maybe that the u.s. is considering calling for president assad to go is getting closer to the situation we're seeing playing out in libya do you think. respective of whether one trusts or questions the motives and intentions of international actors i

think we've seen the model in libya for intervention has only complicated things. intervention has not held settle the problem in libya and i don't think it will help settle the problem in syria and we've seen sanctions there's a history of adopting sanctions in various places including iraq for many many years and only the ordinary people suffered throughout the time the sanctions were imposed. so where is this going to go in syria do you think over the foreign policy chief catherine ashton and the unions to open an office in benghazi many going to call that a step too far tonight isn't it just adding fuel to the flames. i think it is i think it's not helping in any way were in syria it is different from the needy and scenario it is of course possible that we'll get there sometime but so long as

the opponents of the region are not lured into using force into use into carrying arms then hopefully we will not end up with another leader because in libya it started becoming catastrophic when revolution turned into an armed conflict let's move on to the broader picture the revolutions that and across the region were held by the west is changes for the best. egypt's now been shaken by sectarian clashes choosing is witnessing a new wave of anti-government protests these so-called democratic revolutions made life in these countries any better. well they are revolutions but democracy is not yet there these are visions are facing challenges there are counter-revolutionaries there are remnants of the defunct three jeems who don't like to see themselves lose all the privileges they enjoyed exclusively for many

years and i think the people of the revolution the youth in particular are aware and it's important that they remain vigilant and aware of these challenges a lot of fights being put in the youth areas need all the best people to see this country's future is through well the youth ignited the they started it but they are not alone now all sorts of people from all sectors of society are with them but it's the youth who are able to mobilize once more and take to the streets and go to tahrir square and the other squares in the various towns and cities whether in egypt or in tunisia and so long as they don't lose the energy then we can be assured that the revolution is heading you know that they're taught i guess there is a dangerous new to the youth from i also want to follow the most emotional agenda maybe is there a danger that we could see radicals coming into power. well it depends on what you

mean by radicals because that's a very controversial. people who don't like certain other people they might call them radicals or extremists i think democracy is the best formula for both egypt and tunisia the best formula for any arab country looking for freedom from despotism and we should respect the right of the people to choose once they've made a choice their choice should be acknowledged as legitimate i think for many very good to your views on the program director of institute of islamic political thought as you are joining us now along from london thank you. well another middle east country lebanon war maybe you think of the past but instead the legacy still remains and just over an hour's time tonight we've got a special program for you about the lebanese volunteers who put their lives on the line tackling the country's unexploded mines. a cluster.

inside the container you have made it all fall. and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds 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. but you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk 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 they go out there to clear areas of these weapons.

programs and surely tonight how qaeda has long sense and continues to send its agents here into russia and they were the words of president to be true inventive on the line that terrorism is a shared international problem i'll teach you in english the reports from moscow president it explains why russia is so interested in everything that's happening in the regions like northern africa and the middle east and the meeting which was dedicated to matters of national security today. operations to eliminate terrorists including the recent want to get to somebody directly links 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 he watched the course of president of us talking about south terrorist which are being sent to the province in northern called says like the other side. parts of the world where russian forces and how conducting great the operation is already keeping those terrorists and of course you have to

remember that with the song is not in been gone to threat of al qaeda still looms very large though that mastermind is gone still terrorists are continuing to great all around the world russia is our number one most wanted terrorist the top remodify is actually still at large and he is responsible for two most recent bombings in russia those of course were the explosions in moscow metro in last year and their recent terror attack at moscow's down the dead of night the airport so so that the head of the biggest international terrorism is a sneak on 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 russia's chechen republic of a painful history of fighting terrorism but the worst fears of the woman be over as the biggest battles are fought on the football field no more coming up in just a few minutes time on the program. next though the u.s.

department of state wants to allocate ninety million u.s. dollars to fight internet censorship in countries whose regime america deems authoritarian primarily in iran and china the money will go to develop new technology that will help convey to people materials their authorities discuss the should wish to enjoy novi brian draw a laser document through streets on the line live from new york tonight thanks but i'm not so you are getting from moscow almost twenty million dollars not a small sum as it considering the current dire economic situation in the us a huge national debt this is to basically going to go to internet users in china what is america get from it. as usual this is a tool of american foreign policy it's an instrument to try and cause trouble for potential rivals competitors and one might look at this a bit hypocritical although it's just part of normal practice that many countries. engage and you don't see the united states providing those funds could very

censorship in saudi arabia or her reign were respecters stand or a lot of countries around the world that severely censor the access of their population to the internet but here in the united states. we have trade as a potential rival certainly iran is on the on the in the crosshairs of the united states try to previous through the uprisings in egypt the regime for years censored the internet you can see them allocating funds to break the censorship of the egyptian government so i think you just have to look at this as just another instrument of the foreign policy objectives of the united states there are some other contradictions so whatever if you look at it at the time that mubarak tried to shut down the internet there was a whole congress there would have given the president of the united states the power to throw the switch and shut off the internet and in i would say call in case

of an emergency. another example that might seem somewhat hypocritical in the relationship to the money being allocated to break censorship in china and iran for example is the treatment of wiki leaks founder julian assange right as executives going to say that's that's one of the biggest irony is a lot said i didn't if you ask me and so for the sake of freedom of speech at the same time washington is targeting julian assange hundred wiki leaks exactly and look at the treatment that they've done to gravel manning you know are there to sensually torturing the german man who has not been convicted of anything but i can still being held in solitary confinement they moved from one person to another. for providing information that is very necessary for people to have the order to have what they would consider to be a democratic so i think this is a go and then there's you can go very well i think if you look at where. happening in the negotiations inside. the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers

which governs the internet and assigns the. three letter digits at the beginning of each website there is a tremendous battle going on led by the united states congress. to be able to have greater control over when they can shut down websites and which of states can be shut down by the us or by other governments who will object to the political content of the website to mention that there is also a great deal of effort being made it's an issue to. guard the copyright of corporations but in many cases that were a very negative effect the nonprofit abramoff looking could serve but that's not let's just focus back in on this potential move we're talking about now though tonight so far it's just an initiative what are the chances it will actually be approved by congress do you think well that's a hard that's a hard question these days because. the u.s.

congress is a bit of a wild west operation right now you've got these very right wing doris vernon and you've got here sort of standard peace talks. but i think there's probably a good chance that it will go through i mean not that it will have a significant impact on china or around for that matter right now but it's just another for the air or in the in the corner of the they can they use to harass and scream all right well thanks for being on the program brian drolet documentary producer on the line from new york tonight. some news in brief around the world in a round authorities have postponed the long awaited trial of three americans who were detained in two thousand and nine and taken into custody on the iran iraq border charged with espionage two of the u.s. citizens have been held in prison while the third was released. million dollars bail. they deny all allegations claimed they were hiking in the area at the time the f.b.i. was charges could bring him

a ten year jail sentence. if poland firefighters dampen down now at the enormous blaze gutted a textile where it's just was all schools of trucks and firefighters are still working at the site toxic smoke coming from the building forced evacuation of people living nearby no casualties reported because of the blaze and no. it's not likely battle at the pitch football legend diego maradona or against the chechen president graham some good beer of it said to draw thousands to the republic's capital grozny some of the world's top soccer stars will go head to head with russian politicians and footballers to mark the opening of a new stadium there the largest in southern russia that is within a culture of reports next from cross. peace terry money else the opening is underway here in the capital city oh but chechen republic crossed me and you can see behind my back at the amount of people that really shows how important this event is for the one who have gathered here and as we know these are not all the

people that came from the city but also many people came from neighboring villages and republics now the question is who's going to play against the russian team and how organized to resolve this is on say it's may include some of the superstars i just didn't go by sun to speak will steve mcmanaman but the biggest stars that's what it is of course the formal world cup winning captaincy of the one that was also being invited boy keep the rock and the chechen capital grozny the g.m. up to a foolish argentina legend and other stars has not yet been announced but it's amazing kids are talking stars of the russian couple of years past and also possible the current leader of russia him differently now is not the first time such kind of was taking place during prostate and two months. and former football player said he.

didn't want the. last. batter but whatever the result a feast of good gold is guaranteed that there's nothing wrong with the sport and probably would have some think she's got all the details about the game in grozny plays in best you can watch the latest auction coming up as well as saving business from moscow next. and i want a very warm welcome to our fees business update the euro continues to lose ground jews are investing concerns at a growing debt issues in europe their currency lost four percent on the forex and van wijk and is currently below forty rubles that's the lowest level since march this year though you're getting a dog from a of cases they're not believes that the euros pull fortunes will not last long. oh the greek that is the way all the posters are on the. cross it's also been so all

for the potential all the soap opera greek government and the potential again potential restructuring of the debt these are the issues which some you can show you right. there by the fact that the fifty's into schools into the man's what i do or think he says are some of the incurable pressure in fact history shows that european governments are usually hard to solve these insurers hold the hold the hold to grab hold of news seemed so they're closer to the solution to give an additional models if you will so from the british and all the notable support we are calling it and this may come down in the markets as a kind of really hope will be in two thousand turn a few times. now let's take a look at the markets u.s. stocks like continuing their decline this hour with the dow jones at almost four percent down and the nasdaq is obviously following suit and almost eighty percent shares an about disney company have slumped by around six percent that's our

pronounced a one percent fall in profits as a result of the japanese earthquake which caused him to disney's revenue. following the trend of the u.s. markets the european markets also trading in the red this hour with a forty over half a percent down the dax just plant this hour i'll just be shares are down after the banking giant strategic review failed to excise investors up on the positive market market moves a broker upgrade from marks and spencer helped the retailer reach the top of the footsie. and here in moscow the markets closed down after earlier gains with the mice exciting almost one and a half percent due to falling largely due to falling commodity prices. now let's take a look at how some individual shares their own closing today ali metal lost more than three percent amid lower precious metal prices bucking the trend though fertilizer producer iraq only gained around point seven percent ahead of its upcoming. with you in it and after that is also

a rose by almost three percent off the prime minister visited its plot to test drive a new lot of economic data coming from china like you say to not surprise investors as mark rubenstein and i have seen michel explains. the reaction in the markets is . have been. i'd say muted because again the numbers were close to what has been expected. and terms of that in russian market has been sort of going over really no it's this isn't profit taking and so we like today is likely to be a fly a day at the. sort of gamers and there's a couple names of course to point out was not meet and in blue chips is pretty much where the market banks are a bit better today than the market and again this is i think. what we're going to be seeing in the i think in the near future some money flowing

out of commodities sectors into consumer into sectors cyclicals and certainly banks because banks are basically the best play the best way to play consumer recovering russian. global and meanwhile russian costs are also i think people to stand increase in the first quarter of the year the overall number of vehicles sold as top seven hundred fifty four thousand around a third of that number was made by afghans. globality john cisco is spreading its wings in russia as the first alec conic components roll off when you need build russian production line the head of the fans russian unit outlines its investment in print for the country. right now certainly investing period of the next ten years at least a billion dollars into the strategic element of russia still called being a part of that's all the picture and at least a hundred million of them billions will probably go most likely go into venture financing like ships just started licensed in the manufacturing process where we're

producing the forest products in russia and the product itself and in the software. working on top of the product or service fired by. creationists the russian federation. and that's all the business news we have for this out but remember you can always keep up to date online and i don't think i'll come forward slash business we'll have more if you just wonder now it's time.

for some this is just a parliament building in britain. but then sixty six years ago it was the final target. and the last major offensive for the red army. its capture became the symbol of the force of the fascists in town. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of the berlin arctic.