on our teacher night france tell syria's president his time is up and six more pressure on the violence play country as that rush of calls for a more balanced approach. because we want to repeat the mistakes of the european union integration of the e.u. to the shots in the dark to some extent our situation is different eurasia is economies of scale as russia belarus and kazakstan move towards creating a new prey blog to protect the region from economic turmoil. and there are new signs of rupture within the e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany which wants countries to surrender more control of their own financial and political decisions.

welcome this is r.t. it's nine pm friday night my name is kevin zero in the top story this for you france's foreign minister has told syria it's too late to implement long promised reforms and says tougher sanctions are now needed syria earlier agreed in principle to let international observers enter the country apparently to comply with an arab league ultimatum for the regime to stop the violence by saturday how to test for a similar reports now from brussels about the growing pressure from europe. tough words coming from the from he had met his counterpart in a turkey and they both agree that syria needs tougher and stronger sanctions again you were mentioning earlier these sanctions are saying they're saying it's too late to implement any reforms at this point and this is coming on the back of the three

day deadline of the arab league had given to syria to basically end the bloodshed now aside from this there's also been movement and the united nations countries and germany u.k. and france have been pushing for a resolution to human rights violations are calling in syria now as we know they have tried to do this in the past and that china and russia have vetoed it but this time this draft long will be at the human rights committee all of this happening all of this movement coming on the back of strong words together coming from leaders has to be noted that of course russia has said it many times in the past that it's taking a very very careful approach prime minister putin had met his account french counterpart france what you want and their prime minister putin had said that russia again is very careful in this scenario and also that the conflict that they're seeing in syria is certainly not one sided and by imposing more sanctions and calling for tougher restrictions on syria it seems like you're taking one side and also our foreign minister sergei lavrov again said they do not want to see this

dramatization of the syrian story to be used as a basis for any form of military intervention essentially russia is saying is that they don't want to see a repeat of the media scenario and for now they're seeing that there are signs that are leading to this my colleague ivan bennett's has tried to look at closer at peace signs leading to that saying the libyan scenario. through its pivotal role in the overthrew geoffrey britain's become the new growing when there's trouble in the middle east prime minister david cameron's hand picked his team captive for another country. group aimed at forcing president bashar al assad out to begin with it will be a diplomatic offensive that russia appease it's an overreaction that could pave the way for military intervention. we suggested in. place of all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome develop

a system seriously if you demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition if you stop the violence the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria look like a civil war. at the moment there's no mention of military action from britain their offensive is purely verbal for now but that's exactly how the libyan intervention began and the timing is very similar to the opposition in syria is now militarized making it much easier to support and adds more weight to any international threats . and raising. the profile. and learn the lessons of thousands. of the no. nato or any other intervention any other military intervention will have even more serious consequences because of the region north. of israel the u.k. has apparently been handed its leading role by king abdullah of jordan so far the

only arab leader to publicly call for and sad to quit but the patience of series of other neighbors and crucial regional brokers' is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership and given presents a sad until saturday to end the violence with britain already primed this could be the last ditch attempt at conventional diplomacy they're in a position now where they have to take some action in effect they've extended the different regions like strike yesterday from syria three days out so perhaps they're trying to offers us out as much as possible but so it's kind of an opportunity for having sort of taken action. congress for the very heart of this would have to have to make good on the promise a trick of the white stuff for free got them on the credibility and free syrian army has been the main driving force behind the growing opposition movement most to defectors from the army launching their latest attack on a security base russia and china are still appealing for dialogue and they're going

to end what they call two way pilots they're desperate to avoid another libya style intervention but that chance may be fading but the wheels are already in motion for a coordinated attack it's verbal for now but when it came to libya wasn't long before the words were backed up by weapons and bombs are bennett r t. and like syria egypt calls for a leader to go board results when hosni mubarak stepped down last february but more than six months later the people who hailed the revolution and returned to tahrir square calling for new changes to do about that this friday's mass rally in cairo we've got more details on our website where we also reveal what drove people back to the capital streets and why you're there r.t. dot com explain to why the muslim brotherhood is at the forefront of the nation's political transformation we tell you what to expect from egypt have coming election . while debts drag down europe's economies russia and some of its post soviet

partners are taking steps to try to balance out the financial climate in the broader region the eurasian economic union is set to create a warm environment for trade and investment for the continent. has more from moscow . this is a huge tutorial russia and kazakhstan combined put together a total area of around twenty million square kilometers and over the past twenty years or so it wasn't exactly used to its full potential sure there was the soviet union before but one of his main problems was that it was based on ideology which was one of the mean reasons behind its collapse in the end while the main idea of the region union is that it's based on capitalism while some me see that the european union is also based on capitalist values that it's not exactly going through its easiest times right now but according to the president it's need to be the video it's using the experience of the u.s.s.r. and the knowledge about the mistakes made by the e.u. which could potentially make the u. regime union much more powerful. bluewater is because we will repeat the

mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious of what we're doing much understand who we are integrating with what you know three countries sharing a common history and today we are filming a common economy that is why we start not on different levels but from similar position it's the european union to be sure not dollars which stands for our situation is different it's not sure we'll be able to create it's knowledge and stable knowledge usage and money was so use this union is being beast on the foundation of the customs union between russia kazakhstan and belarus all just three states but its future vision is much bigger just picture a confirmation of state stretching possibly from the balkans and all the way to the pacific a huge bridge between europe and asia perhaps it's too soon to talk about that at the moment since russia belarus and kazakhstan just put together a committee which will be working to develop this idea further but just to give you

an understanding of how effective it could be this within the framework of a customs union russia goes in kazakhstan managed to increase their total treat turnover in just half a year by forty two. percent so just think all the possibilities. now without a dot com where very keen to know what the eurasian union means to you so far this is what it's telling us most of you think it's a new way for bureaucrats to embezzle state funds neck and neck in fact between the views who then go over the head to hear what it is that all twenty four percent and those who consider it's a better version of the european union while the minority of you should see on that pie chart there believe it simply a nation of the usa what are your thoughts about it r t got called the place for this most. political economy professor alexander lipman says the eurasian union will boost competition and help discipline the finances of member states. well for one thing which is going to happen is an intensified competition between companies

we observe it already now and we see that it's clearly benefits there if you increase the efficiency of the russian companies as well as the companies of other countries another benefit which is clearly to be taken into account is the restoration of the existing economic ties and the creation of the new russian companies have been very actively exploring the pro soviet space and the last decade also in qatar standing have been present quite actively so the eurasian economic union is likely to give a boost here supporting this development and in some sense it will create competition between governments what's also good today many russian companies at least claim to be considering migration to kazakhstan which has lower tax rates so it will discipline russian government itself as well and you are more on the story got more analysis of the eurasian union or business bulletin coming up a little bit later. experts tell business see that russia kazakhstan and belarus

will be boosting the economic integration to the extent that there will be a coordination of budget capital and monetary policies but the free countries are very unlikely to be heading towards a single currency and more details coming up later in the program. hundreds of arrests and multiple injuries are the result of massive rallies held across the us by the occupy movement protesters some of the thousand strong demonstrations were met by a strong police response from officers accused of brutality against mostly peaceful activists of the focal point of the clashes once again new york where the movement against corporate greed started two months ago but is losing catholic church joins us now live lucy hi there. no matter how you look at it a very eventful twenty four hours for very many american protesters was met tell us a little bit more about what you saw on told on the streets sure. there's actually . a fair. it's here in new york the place of the occupy wall street it started

right here where i'm at right now in zuccotti park and we saw it look after it was morning actually protesters had our surrounded all of the entry points and hears these stock exchange trying to shut down things. not violent tactics like sit down for example on the route linking arms and of course regardless of that part of the crackers very few provocations not that extreme an extremely happy kind of response all posters iraqi people because what is the proximate conduct karajan up against protesters you said was dropped on right here in america the sanctions still. get back there i mean we saw our students our part of our society having all passages that were tens of thousands of people that we spoke with where your house where i gather right near city hall risking either students or they had successfully marched across the bridge by that evening even just hours after the

pilot was we saw posters of some of the protesters returned by the police saying one of the biggest points here is that we did not see any protesters provoking these actions and so it was really disappointing for most people that i spoke to that if these departments are chosen to have such a violent reaction which also happened several church lists were arrested right to time myself not sure it's out with the piece that's on the shoulder of families that preemptive strikes get these problems are just quite streaming here in united states these new so you know so what about what's going on what was put in bed with these activists for the last two two months to get on the ground going forward going through we've been talking to so many of them what are they saying about the way the police is this in the house response that we've seen we've seen the pictures we hear what you say pose that effect to the i could response with a few killed there. you know must be nice but you actually feel that these days

it's our to meet them at work in sherman to go out there. were parts missing me on their am very interesting because they support me all stems from frustrations even like corporate money all of the kids here in congress will not accept the help their service here isn't worth the cost actually it's the more of these silent struck nonstick based on the current tax system it's not something any of. us. to stand up to. any concept of us let's just take a moment just to see issues so i might say i'm. trying to do much lower x. . factor's counts only six make or five hundred pounds for straightening health care right now there are people in part axes expressions of interesting tactics like for example old hunger strikes standing still very just now not. just mine under the phrase to get their message heard even if the

authorities here are going to part use a custom or thank you so much for bringing us up to date to live there for me. thank you as we've heard from lucy the occupy protests the right to vote just new york with the america's other major cities as well to correspondents or coast to coast so the latest of those reviews head to a web site up so you don't call him. a hundred different pretenses authorities are taking protesters out of their occupied locations no public areas there are several people by just with civil disobedience to see protests just ready to get arrested in support of because. our reporters in philadelphia in los angeles in washington d.c. are uploading the latest footage and called menzel of developments from within those protests check out to see for yourself. earlier the station spoke to

philly put a mess scene a correspondent for the independent media routes news organization who believes police of purposefully going beyond the call of duty had to nip the protests in the bud this is what he says really we're seeing here is the attempt to really crush the occupier rothery movement really very busy trying to hit the protesters with a shark and are. trying to deal with it backfired and so now they're trying to find a concrete. i think that in the united states will govern you to. secure a few of the profits of really learned a lesson for nonviolent direct action and it's really very effective and one of often shut down it's really sent a message through the political establishment that you know people really seem to the two parties bigger and they're really fed up with it and they're just not going to stand for it anymore so that's what we're seeing. the occupy wall street

protesters go online to find out what's happening in their city but many begin to suspect social media could be their enemy. you know our web site to investigate claims of twitter censorship after the events concerning recent leads will tell if he failed to appear among the most popular topics why is that we try and delve into it log onto r.t. dot com to find out if twitter has become a corporate weapon. it may both be pressing for action to resolve the e.u. debt crisis but their approaches are worlds apart the german and the british leaders have been meeting in berlin the threshold of a possible solution for reports on the outcome. nothing less than we expected i mean these are two professional politicians after all they are unlikely to sling mud at each other in front of the world's press they really seem to make nice with each other this morning they said that they do have differences but the difference is that can be overcome and of course they're dealing with what is a economic and fiscal union essentially on the brink of collapse no mo cool

solution to all that is basically no more europe she says there should be more integration they should be more national governments on the you can do the heel of brussels much like it's in the east now it is incumbent solution to that is going on in europe at the moment it's less integration he says he said of talks of a union which has flexibility which is really the complete opposite to bills approach in germany and luxembourg now today and she is using the u.k. of selfishness and shortsightedness they're saying that they want to be patient bailouts the countries that are suffering more and they say the u.k. is quick to criticize but very slow to actually step in and help also heavily indebted countries like britain who are doing markedly worse than countries like germany should just keep their mouth shut they shouldn't offer advice about how to handle this year of crisis so there are various disagreements disagreements are

going to go to the euro some european central bank should it be a lender of last resort or not also disagreements about a tax on financial transactions merkel once it's cameron doesn't so basic differences in approach there are. of course you carry correspondent. greece's new government still box fresh but they've already enjoyed unfriendly world comes from thousands of protesters both prime ministers are committed to extremely unpopular solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes resulting sort of first reports next unrestrained austerity may carry an even heavier price for future generations. students flock to the streets across italy greece their cause of protests ringing loud and clear opposing what they call the bank is government and the economic situation the straightening their teachings i'm young and this is the problem and. with people close in age with me. they feel alone the

students have a lot to be unhappy about the dire economic situation has seen youth unemployment hit crippling levels in the struggling economy and despite recent political labels in greece and italy the public and the markets remain unconvinced that a viable solution has now been found here they need a struggling to get a handle on the crisis we come back to school we come here to the university of the carter center the youngest brightest economic minds in the country find out what they think should be done. about. it is not. a little bottle of water. with the growth producing growth elites stagnating economies as people of the major

challenges in an a.t.v. you imposed a. technocrat government is now firmly in place mary monti and lucas papademos prone to naively well set with their experience to face the tough challenges ahead sixty eight and sixty four respectively spring chickens with an aging clinical class around then in seemingly little room for the younger generation to have their say we have to think of the future if we want to think of the future we have to. includes young people and major criticism since the beginning of this crisis has been the inability of hear anything leaders to react quickly to the shifting economic circumstances and to adapt your reasons he could well now rest.

breaking a new approach south there are three. i spoke to tom gallagher usenet emeritus professor of politics of bradford university he told me the power brokers are simply forgotten what democracy looks like. is being pushed out of the picture. power brokers. are not interested in you feeling you want to the people whose views are. regarded necessary to have a very popular. for you will get a very harsh austerity measures it seems will be enforced for many years to come. through seem to be very sort of self-confident. people. who accept these measures with. democratic approval i think the power brokers in berlin and france are very parochial or not all people are really forgotten how democracy

works. the world in brief the u.n. nuclear watchdog has got to the resolution voicing increasing concern over iran's atomic program the wording is seen as a compromise between the u.s. its allies and russia the west wanted a deadline for to run to cooperate with international inspectors while russia and china hope to avoid any direct action last week the i said there was evidence to suggest the round was trying to develop nuclear weapons the asians expected to update its findings in march. here on mars main opposition party led by an san suu kyi is registering for future elections the national league for democracy says it will reenter the political arena following recent government reforms they want to overwhelming victory in the minds of ninety general election but the ruling junta refused to one of the results the military regime kept city under house arrest for a total of fifty years from the freedom to last year's election. straightness mountain in the japanese coast eight months after that massive tsunami flattened

the region residents living in rows of temporary houses voiced concerns with authorities were moving quickly enough if we construction plans this aerial view showed that it's gone now but showed little sign of rebuilding in the coastal communities progress to this point has been the removal of rubble and debris in less than ten minutes we traveled to a former soviet republic that's now an e.u. member see a lot of views changed in the twenty years since the breakup of the u.s.s.r. but first all those business news with dimitri. bankstown alone welcome to the program as we've been reporting free former serve you countries have agreed to create a you raise an economic union russian president dmitry medvedev and his counterparts from kazakhstan and belarus have agreed on for inspiration crystal from troika dialog explains how the new economic bloc differs from the current customs union between countries. the existing custom unit coming into place next

year will simply remove. restrictions and difficulties of trading across borders between the three countries that would be easier to. train to cross between each of the three countries in the western junior what's now being talked about is closer economic policy integration so the three countries would pursue similar policy objectives which in terms of you know budget policies currency management policies capital policies this world. cup monetary and policy budget policy objectives that's really what we're talking about we're not yet talking about for example the ultimate step which is monetary integration that's that's really not in the agenda at this point and i think a lot of the you have to be a complete reassessment of what mother from integration means or how it can be done especially in the light of what's happening in the euro zone right now. to move to the markets a whale has reversed into losses on concerns about global demand and yours and just

like the light sweet is now down more than three dollars per barrel brant is that hundred seven dollars sixty it's. still a mixed feeling in the us where the markets are hesitating on where to go the dow is up by just the not and this is some of the all important deals and spray tech stocks are still a drag on now is that you found forty six percent. is the closing picture in europe where both the footsie at the dax ended the day in the red franco germans but increased concern of the region's leaders will not be able to agree on how to contain the debt crisis. is uncertainty is also weighing on russian markets with the r t s m i six and the weak guess again on a magazine you know most futures in trading in negative territory. putting pressure on energy use that may just loop world is not an exception the companies. it's going to mostly pay attention to your investment into new projects in order to

increase production starting from next year let somebody in for measurable wraps up today's. weeks start it's from the preview. market and we haven't seen any significant movements before some news he will get a discount to resign nations given perfect significance for the market and probably the only driver which was taken when markets as a significance was the announcement from bank of england but their expectation of the european economy is at war so we have seen a lot of the crying in all the markets including the u.s. and international markets including russia and this is probably the only significant driver we've seen for of the week and. we're not sure that anything else then the fundamental changes in the actions of the european authorities can change the mood of the markets of the course of russia's second largest oil producer lukoil plans to travel its gas output in the next decade lukoil says gas

production investment a little now twelve billion dollars over this period the company's vice president clearly for doing told business be looking for gas pretty much all over the world but if i can do it you know really got into next decade we plan to boost our gas production to seventy billion cubic meters a muley we have huge projects and russia such as you mark in the north and caspian sea deposits in the south we are already developing a huge gas build in respect to stan but now we're starting new projects in saudi arabia so we're trying to work with gas globally. so for now the headlines are next we have a calendar stay with us. if . you.

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