the hotel pool seasons hotel the sultan which homes. many of them from. one of the libyan war front runners in britain looks set to spearhead a diplomatic campaign against syria's president he's already facing heavy international criticism. the argued by wall street kept in dallas texas the latest victim of a nationwide wave of surprise the pictures by police this is the movement gathers itself to mark two months since it began. europe's debt inferno blazes brighter yet the single currency continues to nosedive for a fourth consecutive day as contagion effects one of the euro zone's most stable economies. and later this hour russia's

eighteen years of trying to join the w t o result was over but how will this membership affect russia's energy trade find out in the business bulletin twenty minutes. three pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story syria's president has till saturday to stop a violent crackdown on protesters and allow a monitoring team into the country that's the ultimatum from the arab league which is threatening to tighten the financial news around the regime by slapping down heavy sanctions while the drum beats the louder for international pressure against bashar al assad there are fears it may only make a bad situation worse. the i would be converts and then a senior turkish official openly discusses the possibility of the closing of buffer zones on the syrian side of the border to give sanctuary to refugees another would

sit down richt an industry action blue peter libya tsunami it seems unlikely to get the nod but it is not a demand it is trying to get the. syria which is very very risky for the whole region even in israel syria's archenemy some would rather aside stayed in power but we also have been doing of. israel over of course is not understood as well. go. but the pressure on assad continues to mount which once supported his government says it plans to suspend enjoying to oil exploration and is considering stopping electricity supplies to syria just the latest in a long list of sanctions imposed on the country the sanctions may be a way for the powerful western countries to answer some sort of pressure over syrian government but really the people are the ones who suffer by not being able

to have medicines by not being able to have certain technology is there may be required to save lives one human rights group the syrian observatory. and a libyan style no fly zone but western leaders have realized that unlike in libya they cannot push for a no fly zone at the u.n. security council this time around because of russia's vow to veto it and while the arab league has stopped short of calling for syrian president bashar assad's departure critics say this stance is nothing short of hypocrisy they have no. oil at least they don't have some of them they don't have to show. and. in a given. what's more assad is shown he's willing to conduct reforms his government announced the release of one thousand prisoners after previously agreeing to admit five hundred

arab league appointed observers this is you know a sign is is building is still concerned about what his neighbors think and he still. under some sort of willingness to negotiate but it's not clear. the arab league has the patience to listen and neither do we still needed some decided in long time ago and side needs to go through and we thought the option to do it through the united nations the arab league is the next based option. ten of the. britain is reportedly being urged by an arab ruler to take the lead in the diplomatic drive against syria after its key role in bombing out libya's colonel qadhafi international pressure continues to pile up on president assad who was given until saturday to halt crackdowns on protesters or face more isolation bennett joins us live from london with the latest now ivor so the under arrest in syria has echoes of the libyan experience what role could the u.k. play in the syrian crisis. well britain now we now know has been chosen as team

captain by at least one arab country to leave the leader of libya style contact group and that's along with france as well now their task will be to at the moment coordinate policy between arab nations and the international contingent in the west and at the moment there's no mention of military activity but. they'll be launching a diplomatic offensive at the moment they say to end of violence in syria but that could indeed in with enforcing prison and said to step down now these details have emerged following talks between david cameron and king abdullah of jordan was actually the first arab leader to publicly call for president and sad to step down and that was early this week and now he's thought to actually prefer britain and france rather than the u.s. to lead this international group task of this diplomatic offensive after their success in libya that's what they're calling it now now why why now well. the

situation in syria how that irritant certainly of the last few days with the militarization of the opposition now at the moment this offensive is purely verbal there's no mention of military activity but this is of course how the libya operation began it was all just words to begin with there are already similarities front has withdrawn and ambassador from damascus as i say there is all militarization of the opposition now as well and it wasn't long before in libya certainly those words turned to action. live for us in light of that report. where russia says if there is to be any peaceful resolution of the ongoing violence in syria the international community must address its cause to all sides involved to end the bloodshed. we suggest that in order to put the arab initiative in place all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome develop some serious that could demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition to please stop their violence the ongoing

attacks as government buildings in syria look like a civil war if we support the idea of observers working there as far as i know the syrian leadership said several days ago that it was willing to receive observers from the arab league and guaranteed their presence in any part of the country and in any community so they can see what's going on for themselves. but germany britain and france are pressing for a un resolution condemning syria's human rights violations while the opposition and the regime play a blame game over the rising death toll some experts say the uprising may be rooted outside the country. we know that in most countries especially in the middle east there are special forces operating beyond the lines cia must sad and my five you name it and they can they can create a crowd if you want to put it out way they put across the border to give to the oppositional breakaway groups and they in turn then first of all look at the i

wrote you get people take to the streets a mouse why are they out on the street is because that frustrated with a government in the price of commodities food and petrol and loss of employment loss of housing except they're pretty mad it's at least vulnerable moment when the special forces and secret service operatives in to mingle with the crowd and in some cases become this not just on the rooftop and take out selective innocent victims the people in the crowd and believe that their government is carrying out this action and it becomes a rebellion we always welcome your views on what the future holds for syria and the other stories that we're covering on our t.v. can click on r t dot com and take part in our online poll today we're asking do you think syria may share libya's fate so far the majority thinks nato will intervene and dispose of president assad with or without u.n. backing about a quarter believe that nato wouldn't do so for fear of sparking

a new bloody war in the region the rest about evenly split some say syria is simply too strong assad is too much support others think the u.n. will provide the legal mandate for a nato mission in the country. turned out as some of the day's other top stories at least fifteen people were arrested in dallas texas as police force the occupy wall street protesters out of their can't near city hall it's the latest in a nationwide wave of police raids targeting the movement against corporate greed most abandon their towns peacefully but about fifty states saying they were prepared to face arrest as on earlier occasions the raid came during the night. officers in riot gear and the media are being told to stay away activists say it's a coordinated effort to stifle them before the movement's two month anniversary several camps have now been evicted including the one where it all started in new york's zuccotti park downtown or he's very important to find out if found out the crackdown seems to only strengthen the protesters. in the financial capital of the

world a movement called occupy wall street is born eight short weeks the fight against the us corporate greed and wealth inequality manifests in all fifty states a dynamic american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police force stronger peaceful activists beaten by the times blinded by means and thrown to the ground unarmed activists pitched tents law enforcement flash grenades. but fear and fear. people who are what you think. people like your democratic rights are. so i would. insist that. you but until they go and.

tell. them that the bit bucket of. thousands of occupy activists have been jailed throughout the two month campaign the mass arrest of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge international attention but this image of an eighty four year old former schoolteacher pepper sprayed during a demonstration captures the crackdown activists face brought to a boiling point by economic injustice and a political system failing the majority protest. demonstrated unprecedented resilience. and then u.s. authorities began occupying the occupations one by one even activists under the pretext of how for safety concerns a raid on the headquarters in new york came one day out hundreds of armed officers destroying and displacing the heart of this democratic movement became addicted

idea to the idea that we are than i did i said of americans that you know we need to resist the good points of financial institutions the corporations break it out because of those methods you know that are being spread around the country every time the stories come in and try to make some type of offensive strike in a cowardly way at one am without any warning it shows the public support for this because the numbers in the streets doubled the next day people come out out and determined to carry on what began as an occupation in a park has grown into a national movement fighting for principles from wall street to time square support for the occupy movement has cost the streets uniting tens of thousands of strangers bound by common hardship and frustration two months in there is no denying the grassroots movement has become a brand of the big apple the social marker in america. for nile hartstein new york

. argues lucy cabot of is keeping a close eye on developments surrounding the occupy wall street movement for the latest you can always check out her twitter feed she's posted nice time pictures of zuccotti park but without the tent city that it's become known for over the last two months she's also collected firsthand accounts of the crackdown including that from a retired police captain who says it's making a travesty of democracy. sentiment is echoed by radio host alex jones who thinks the apparent health hazard cited for new directions was a set up from the start in an effort to demonize the idea of protest. i've discovered austin and in detroit as well as new york we've confirmed. yet when they let homeless people out a bit arrested for being drunk in public or sitting on the sidewalk or they're released from prison or homeless shelters or mental institutions they tell them go to austin occupy go to new york occupy it we want to rush you there so for the last

month they've been shinning all the homeless people and mentally ill people and prisoners there so they can then demonize it to say look people are going to the bathroom on the ground when there's a porta potti people are fights are breaking out there's robberies this idea that protesting and demonstrating is criminal or is scummy or filthy is really un-american and anti-democratic across the world. parties alone and cops when kosky spoke with rapper immortal technique who says the whole anti washee movement was motivated by a slow erosion of civil liberties here's a preview of what's coming up in the next hour. the idea of america is to give the moccasins freedom to people but i think that now more than ever it's become about placating it about pacifying them so they don't as put the amount of freedom that they're guaranteed almost like when when they used to go you're right. that happens more and more i mean even if you want to make this entirely about occupy wall

street but even the people that yelled at me today every single occupy wall street that is sitting there holding the law that legal to this still to see this civil rights movement started every single morning there's still see excuses left and right now we want to clean the park so we're going to have the move very well. trained out of the some of the day's other top stories despite the you leadership's united resolve to halt the spread of europe's debt crisis the outlook is failing to impress investors even one of the euro zone's most stable economies the netherlands is beginning to feel firsthand the effects of contagion as artie's daniel bush reports taxpayer apathy. he is quickly changing to anchor. the worst day yet for the euro that's how one bank called news that the netherlands considered the second strongest economy in the single currency to seen its boring course braze by the markets to new highs the dutch prime minister was forced to react on concerns that

that problem spiralling out of control. said he'd like to be able to push countries out of the euro to put out the fire as he called it is raising fears that countries will be forced to leave the euro to stop this crisis spreading. as a first step a maturity of dutch people finds a new poll to stalk the bailouts of greece which many see as the horse of problems i love greece i every year i go to greece it's this is a little bit did i did i think cost quite a lot of money. millions of. euros but until this moment did they don't do anything about it today should help us yeah i really meant by it because if we have the same problems going on with problems this is the man dubbed europe dr doom well many of today's euro skeptics were singing its praises in the ninety's top economist or your club or wrote an open letter to

e.u. leaders warning the single currency would destroy europe and deep down he says those leaders view it with the euro they brought in sort of the horse the throat the trojan horse that isn't really going through on the european project that's the big danger and that. it causes for conflicts for sure ias disagreements. for economic instability taxpayers have paid a price they get very upset about it and we know that that former politicians were aware of this problem but they have pushed this through. an idea of that it is a great ideal one euro one europe but one the euro one europe canales works is because the dutch just don't feel solace there at sea with the other members that are now here for the first i would have to be interested in how the greek pay their taxes i don't want to know how do we. what the pension age of the front fringes

know the greece nor france has a place in the euro a new northern euro only for prudent state but a top dutch willing party official last week experts think just three countries actually deserve to stay in. only germany the netherlands and belgium share the simple. economic costs the movement's currently pays more per person into the e.u. coffers than anyone else but growing numbers will see he said. the neighbors. see in the hague. mariel monti a veteran of the e.u. politics now heads of italy's new government and takes the reins of a debt stricken country but the reaction from investors has been lukewarm at best partially driven by a growing fear about the euro crisis has already spiraled too far to be contained the feeling among many creditors is that the single currency bloc may be headed for another recession this as opinion back you know recent figures showing that you can

the strongest eurozone countries are bordering on stagnation this sort of has been attributed to be used austerity strategy of savage cuts paired with tax hikes which have held back growth one of pain is that there may be too many opposing interests in brussels keeping a credible solution from being adopted. by the economies of the euro zone are failing their growth is non-existent in many cases they're khana means are going backwards they're in a debt spiral and their lack of economic growth is not helping at the core of their problems is the eurozone problems caused by the single currency and there's serious economic difficulties which are just not being cured whilst these countries are mainly within the e.u. single currency the euro the the answer to their problems really is to cut loose the countries that are struggling economically because of the euro bonds being one of them especially but the main focus is of course italy and greece and then those

countries can start to grow again and then we can have economic growth back in europe we can i hope for you at citizens and jobs can be created and the debt can then be dealt with the european union with so many different vested interests isn't acting nearly as fast enough and the solutions are they coming up with actually in the interest of their citizens because the institutions of the e.u. unaccountable to the citizens of those countries. stay with us you're on archy's still to come max kaiser and stacy herbert shine is your zero tolerance approach to financial fraud that was underlined by the recent death penalty headed to a family convicted of cheating investors out of a billion dollars just one of the many themes are the microscope in today's kaiser report coming your way in about ten minutes here's a peek. chinese fund manager sentenced to death after killing investors out of one billion u.s. dollars two brothers and their father were sentenced to death for cheating fifteen thousand investors out of over one point one billion dollars in east china's jang

jang province i think it's a good deterrent i think that you need a deterrent and if the deterrent is execution then i think the chinese are on the subject that's why people are putting their money into chinese banks taking them out of the u.s. banks there's no deterrent for fraud in american banks and then after world war j.p. morgan is a great example so that's why people are moving their money out of u.s. banks into chinese banks because the chinese are going to execute fraudsters that's a good sign. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. ramps up its pacific ambitions washington is set to expire expand its military presence in australia deploying a total of fifteen twenty five hundred troops over the next few years the plans were announced as president barack obama addressed the country's parliament during

a visit on thursday many adults think it's a move to counterbalance china's growing influence in the region. dozens of anti-government protesters stormed kuwait's parliament while hundreds demonstrated outside after holding up proceedings for several hours they peacefully left the building this as authorities question the country's prime minister over allegations of corruption or been repeated claims that government officials illegally transferred money to foreign banks last month kuwait's foreign minister resigned as the scandal emerged. a suicide bomb in pakistan's largest city caracas he has killed four suspected insurgents and one police officer the attackers purportedly blew up their car after being chased by police through the streets the city is not a common target for attacks it's some distance from the known militant strongholds to the northwest. that's how the news looks this hour natasha's up next with the latest business news stay with us.

ruman. it's almost twenty three minutes past three pm here in moscow you're with business r.t. joining the world trade on organizational provide russia with a new forum to resolve trade disputes one of the biggest concerns is the e.u. so-called third energy package it prohibits a gas producer from also owning the transit infrastructure moscow claims this is a month where only add gazprom and officials here are reportedly considering using the w t o to challenge the new rules and joining me now to discuss the issues of each love mission cody head for business development in c.i.s. an artist media thanks a lot for being with us well obviously oil and gas is the biggest industry in russia how does joining the w t o change how will it change the industry and russian's approach to doing business we can spread the question actually into

boards and with so we can see the how it influences the. russian experts russian experts position actually especially on the commodities from natural gas market. to mr market so on the. export market won't see any fundamental changes during russia during w two your because the prices are so on the international market and sold i guess probably will keep on selling in scarce. international oil and gas prices so just we are talking about the change in the tax regime but it's up to the russian government to move it from the backs produce to the profits erik's whatever the import is the currency is the consumer russian gas and oil of course we want to see any now fundamental changes from the let's then talk about the second issue you said that domestic pricing is the other important part of the deal and let's see. if the prices are going to change in russia will consumers here

have to pay more for natural gas when it gets more calls to the she actually i think there is a long talk about the making the russians or mr natural gas prices falling to the expert parenting which means that they should be equal to the prices they're gasper on charges for the export one for so it could be a part of the deal but again it's again up to the russian government actually to see how we can move the c. share actually because it's been postponing for many years and now the another day of this it's a period of two thousand and fourteen prior to the russian russian federation joining w two in two thousand and fifteen so i think it's always up to the efficiency of the industry or the industrial sector because with just paying the highest prices actually with acts of parity russian industry and especially working

with that logic religious view that it will lose the complete intersection. and what about. russia's export to countries like ukraine and belarus will it be able to use the subsidized scheme like it does now or will that have to change what actually in ukraine there is no subsidize skin so ukraine pays the highest price in comparable to the european prices there is a willing for me were there so we can talk about the subsidizing ukrainian industry on the origin side actually it's a different issue because russia belarus kazakhstan are sitting there all of the rules and actually moving towards the customs union which gives another customs and tax regime actually recording companies so i don't think it probably will or belarus will be heard of the actual with hyperion clarifier process but again it's up to the intergovernmental relationship rather than joe. during w two your what

about the idea of russia challenging this thought called third energy package essentially separating production from transportation do you think joining the w killable some somehow allowed russia to challenge that idea i don't see really any direct influence of russian russia joining w. changing some position of european union european commission actually in reverse with the energy package because i think it should be done again only bilateral basis especially if gas from one to move some some businesses away. another pipeline project there are two which are excluded from the priority projects of the european union and they are on the b.'s so that image brackets rules so it could be done with a separate business so that don't think any direct involvement of wu or to influence and real quick one last question you mentioned that industries that energy energy not not not necessarily energy efficient industries might suffer

as a result of russia's entry into the w t o how do you think they might counteract what can they do to stay competitive but just to to increase the in fuel efficiency of the business and plus it's more of the political level rather than economical because by joining w two or russia russian government will have any kind of what you need to fire the corruption and inefficiency excellent economy thank you very much that was mission code the head of business development at argus media. and that's all we have time for anesthetist of business but you can always find a lot more stories on our site archita com slash this see right. in the in a little. above

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