the u.n. human rights council meets to force through a security council resolution on syria and this comes after a report earlier this week claimed four thousand people have been killed since march well there are doubts over the objectivity of the report based on a just if you save two hundred witnesses more on that coming up in a few moments. germany says there are no rapid solutions to the ongoing e.u. debt crisis sun it could take years to overhaul the eurozone the single currency. twenty thousand people marched through manhattan angry at

a lack of jobs and low wages echoing the mood of the recent occupy wall street movement. it is now a six pm on friday here in moscow you're watching on t.v. with me rory sushant russia says that a united nations report on syria is not objective or based on reality and the international community is receiving biased accounts of events in the country now the human rights council called an emergency session in light of the findings scolding for urgent action to protect civilians in syria and condemnation of alleged crimes against humanity silly reports. the doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this is unilateral prejudicial and biased reports about

events at the un human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witnesses and doesn't reflect the situation on the ground it has to be said though that almost all of the countries if not all have expressed concerns about what's going on in syria the question here that he is raised is on the process of gathering that evidence to condemn syria specially when calling for a tougher resolution on the country again if we remember this is the third meeting a special meeting held on the situation in syria and this is also right after the fresh sanctions from the e.u. just slapped on thursday on certain individuals and organizations as well as in addition to arab league sanctions which were the toughest imposed on an arab state an arab nation and russia through all of this again maintain that sanctions they are against all of those and would rather see the two sides in the country sitting down and still talking to the u.n. has called the situation on the ground a civil war saying that about more more than four thousand syrians have already

been killed so it's not so what the doubts expressed is not so much to say that this is not happening it's so much questioning the legal process a process of gathering evidence in order to support tougher resolution on a country because in effect this is calling the international community to come up with a strong move short of a humanitarian war as we had seen in libya so once again the questions be race now on syria reminds us of the questions that have been raised before that humanitarian war was launched in libya there is no evidence to justify the humanitarian war in libya that's the conclusion of filmmaker and independent journalist. beginning of this story we got somebody and we chose. united nations human rights council and. allegation of never been verified or check and zeus had been you was also as my tell you all four zero i.c.c. case against me be. on march seventeenth

a un security council resolution one nine hundred seventy three was passed imposing a no fly zone over libya. accusations were that gadhafi bombed his own people from air and land use foreign mercenaries ordered the use of rape as a weapon and killed by the thousands i can prove that there was no bombing all i know is that there is no evidence of warming and so i can tell you as a man who went to the united nations human rights council the reason seem angry or seamen which again was the former secretary general of the libyan league for human rights now the libyan ambassador to burn in switzerland on february twenty five he went to the un human rights council to present his organization's allegations of crimes against gadhafi is government in that session a decision was taken to freeze libya's membership in the council he underlined the number of deaths six thousand including three thousand in tripoli alone when julia

asked which she gear how these claims can be verified he pointed to the former rebels now libya's government as his source here where they got that information from the libyan prime minister that mr mahmood of the warfalla tribe was on the other side of the national transitional council was the one who gave me these numbers. yet there are still those who defend the libyan intervention like this former french intelligence officer it is very likely that some crimes attributed to their feet in this conflict were farce or exaggerated but we add or do we go out of khadafi for us in the car that he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis a compliment and his request for arrest warrants for moammar gadhafi saif al islam . and get off this intelligence chief was granted i went through the pages of the arrest warrant application most of which were redacted but among the pages soaked

into the public were use of articles to support the case one of which was which against every twenty fifth speech the one place and information bush should get himself said he got the empty seat but those who raised questions risked being accused of taking the side of a man seen as a brutal dictator already labeled by some world powers as the bad guy. international law even cheerleaders of the intervention admit tends to be sacrificed. then you are certainly right but they would have to do something which is not but if you're going to i don't believe so much in international law is just a tool used in one and. for political purposes regardless point is simply this with such legal systems in place any claims first and foremost should be farly investigated a point he hopes will be heard before the next humanitarian war is waged does are still the r r t brussels. he is coming here live from moscow and are holding their

breath egyptians are not waiting for the results of the country's historic parliamentary election the muslim brotherhood has already claimed victory and demanded that the new parliament form a government is something the military rulers say they will not allow thousands of people remain skeptical over the ballot calling for the army to step down paula is now gauging the mood on the streets of cairo. this was the first of three rounds of voting for the lower house of parliament nine out of twenty seven provinces have voted including cairo and alexandria the remaining provinces voted the rest of this month in january and then they will be voting for the upper house of parliament this entire election process will be over before march the muslim brotherhood is showing the largest support base at this stage and this is not unexpected it is the largest the oldest and the most well organized political group in here in egypt despite the fact that it was once banned according to the brotherhood's own exit polls its freedom and justice party is expected to walk away with some fifty

percent of votes this will be followed by the salafi are newer which looks thick to get some twenty percent of the election ballots now there has been some concern particularly among securus that the muslim brotherhood might form an alliance with eastern office garner and the brotherhood has denied this we knew it is a much more conservative party it has a much stricter interpretation of islam and there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in turkey where it has been a tribute to the heroes of one hundred streets this is the street where forty three people were killed and more than a thousand people were injured in recent clashes between the army the police and protesters now there are twenty three political groupings who are behind today's demonstration and talking to protesters who will be out there in tahrir square they say that the large turnout at the polls is simply an illusion people heard that the situation will improve there for as long as the military remains in power and

nothing in egypt will change until the rallying point among the demonstrators or tell here has not changed and that is that the military needs to step down immediately over the past few weeks we've seen some of the worst clashes in recent months so will be interesting to gauge the kind of anger and the kind of response coming out from the square when these elections that many here believe should not have happened when those results are announced. that is policy reporting right there well there's also anger on the streets of new york as we report later it's all over claims of glaring inequality. i work hard every day that we don't even have two nickels to rub together to mine jobs and opportunities drives a fresh wave of protests in new york this is a wealthy few paid thirty five thousand dollars each to attend an obama reelection fundraiser. ten minutes past the hour here now the person essentially in charge of

europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the euro zone's debt crisis and finding a solution will take years german chancellor angela merkel said the region needs a new financial union with stronger controls and debt regulations are going to skin off reports on this. the german chancellor continued pressing on the policy currently being put forward by germany and france which are the keep wears off your was own and the idea is to create a fiscal union which would include all seventeen members of the eurozone and perhaps all members of the eurozone and perhaps all members of the european union as well it would create more centralization of power more control over states dodgers and more importantly over their debts and de facto the introduction of such a fiscal union it would also mean like the revisal of the european union france and germany are also calling for the introduction of tougher sanctions against those countries which can't be there bills under merkel trusts that germany will not

support the idea of euro bonds well all seventeen members of the eurozone would share the responsibility for these loans germany has already allocated billions of euros to support the weaker members of the eurozone at the same time another key players of the e.u. great britain also wants to take part in the every formation process this all comes as some of the key players of the e.u. are set to meet in brussels next week of course they would include germany and france and we're expecting that they're going to continue putting forward this policy of creating the fiscal union revising the european union treaty meanwhile tens of thousands of protesters there marched in brussels against the e.u. austerity measures these protests were organized by the three major unions and it just really shows the levels of tensions among the ordinary people ordinary europeans as the big players in politics are trying to resolve the current

situation not easy going to sort of reporting from frankfurt ok let's now talk to young enough from the european school of management and technology thank you for coming on the program today chancellor merkel is saying that a solution to the debt crisis will take years tell us does the eurozone have years . that's a good question and i think. i'm going back to its right to point out that there are no easy fixes for the for the current crisis and i think she's right to resist the call for the year of one so i think this is. seems to be an easy way but actually it has a lot of dangerous and the ways she likes to steer europe out of the crisis is by focusing on. getting the problems of the euro zone structure fixed and that basically means to address the issue of fiscal unity and making sure that national governments basically stick

to the same rules within the euro zone and that is something that requires a lengthy political process and that's what she pointed out she didn't want out of fiscal unity put on the heels of what merkel said tighter controls over budget creating a fiscal union where brussels will be imposing penalties on members that break the rules would it take individual nations completely losing their sovereignty to brussels dodgy save the euro two things. well that's the point that the european nations have to face either they'd like to have the european currency and by definition requires in the end a fiscal union and that requires transfer of national sovereignty if that is something that is too far for for some countries than i think it will to opt out of the euro structure i think that's what we now see is basically it's coming

to the surface the problems of the creation of the euro as a currency that this kind of integration was thought of that the you were should basically start the political integration and i think it should have been rather designed the other way around and now they try to fix it and actually some countries have to face tough decisions on as many as many do say that the initial plan for the eurozone the integration of the e.u. neighborhood was at first a good hope and a good idea plans are set in place but the question is that now everyone's asking is the euro actually worth saving. yeah that's that's the point i think we have seen that the euro actually can have some very good effects in terms of creating level playing fields for four companies competing across europe so they are certainly big economic advantages for having a single european currency but if you do not align the. economies within

europe then you are faced with some very difficult situation and this is what we are seeing right now and as i said the there is no easy way out in creating maybe euro bonds or giving unlimited power to the european central banks as sometimes as pointed out all this would not solve the underlying problem which is. sovereign countries not applying the same rules and i think that is something that has to be addressed but you mentioned you mentioned the issue sort of drops you all over aligning the economies in europe but one might say it's important to outline other mentalities the attitudes of the leaders in europe president sarkozy meeting british prime minister david cameron in paris previously we've seen disagreements between merkel sarkozy and cameron about a solution to the crisis at this point is there any consensus on the cards at this time. well i think that's one of the good aspects of

a crisis that crisis forces you to face some very difficult decisions and in the past europe always shied away from taking a. really severe action if not crisis now that we have a big surprise is at hand with the euro currency i think that's the time to act politically in ways that have been unthinkable so far and as you point out we have very strong personalities within europe but at the end of comes down to where you are supposed to had and if we would like to have a single european currency and the single european union that requires that we have only one had for this kind of. structure in the future and that requires some persons to step behind others and i think that as you point out it's not easy but that's what is required from the european school of management and technology live in berlin thank you. for watching r.t.

now one person has been killed some seventy injured after a taliban suicide bomber targeted a nato military base in afghanistan the attack occurred just south of the capital kabul a suicide bomber is said to have used a truck packed with explosives it's caused yet more concern over just how stable the country is ours for and combat troops start their withdrawal the head of a two thousand and fourteen deadline although a substantial presence is expected to remain to train the locals talk to charlie from the gentile school of international affairs in new delhi thinks that by staying in the region they just push through their own calls. it's unfortunate you started to reality that long after the immediate security needs and the rat race on the tour for us forces is over they stay on they will be says and then they hunker down and that is you know typically the way united states has viewed the curity through the lenses of its military bases which continue to be over seven hundred number so although there is an argument that president obama and his team are now

moving towards you know an aerial based security policy where they will have only counterterrorism we know through braun's and through helicopters and that they don't really want people on the ground occupying countries for a long time the reality is that the pentagon is pushing for the same strategy where they hunker down and stay there for as long as they can so this is going to mean that even after twenty fourteen it will become a justification for the united states to stay on for much longer this is a recipe for more and more instability more and more suicide attacks more and more terror attacks and more and more casualties just approaching the twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow bear in mind that artie dot com is always online for you with a lot more stories and eye catching videos here are some of the items you'll find there right now. the questions they were asking. absolutely. and that's when i actually got scared a russian woman who earned her right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongfully accused of espionage talks about her year long battle

against the british security services. but as london hunts for foreign spooks there seems to be a lack of agency in its own ranks as intelligence services seek to recruit he says through a code breaking game on the internet. a vast new protest wafer swept through new york some twenty thousand people marched demanding better jobs and economic opportunities the demonstration was organized by labor unions but the rhetoric borrowed liberally from the occupy movement which has been protesting in the us for the past several months. the voices of discontent. this event has been organized by the new york city labor council that is an umbrella for more than three hundred unions and the reason these people say they're out on the street is that they are frustrated and fed up with the i think anomic disparity between the rich and poor they see with more than fourteen million on their against unemployed at the moment the one percent the richest one percent in america has

tripled its wealth in the past thirty years and what this shows is that the eyes sentiments that have that by the occupy wall street movement for over the past two months are now being forced by labor unions at a larger scale did see labor unions join occupy wall street a month or so ago but that turnout was not as large as this one the people taking part in this beds are walking around with signs that say we are the ninety nine percent we are the backbone and the working class of the united states that is being ignored for you people in this country and as you can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making making decisions now it will be little we have. people who don't come out. and make sure that we're so heard the. word caught every day. in that we don't even have to make nice to rub together.

looks like you're not the only one that there's thousands of people walking the streets and i tell you work hard every day get up four thirty every morning. to dig . construction might get to school. better that's what it is people finally said all the irony here is that on wednesday the u.s. president probably was in new york city for three fundraisers for his reelection campaign one of those fundraisers more than thirty five thousand dollars per ticket to a tight was so many here say that. that shows we are different between the elected if we see. what is being. we are the constituents and they say things are not change the crowd that you see out here almost supply by an enormous amount in the coming months reporting from new york. are before us to meet

with the business now to get the world up to help for you here and see the u.s. senate has approved a list of harsh sanctions against the iranian central bank and oil industry with a view to stifling the country's alleged nuclear weapons program the sanctions will effectively banned foreign companies from doing business with the iranian central bank the e.u. also imposed fresh sanctions yesterday and agreed on a coordinated withdrawal of u.s. ambassadors from the arab nation given iran's position as a primary oil exporter many worry the sanctions could backfire on western economies . in the yemeni city of tire its officials say at least twelve people have been killed in violent clashes between forces loyal to the president dissident tribesmen . erupted early thursday morning loyalist troops stormed the tribesmen stronghold in the city center the opposition want an end to president saleh thirty three year reign clashes have killed hundreds in the country since the un backed how

a transfer deal was signed by the president failed to halt the violence. the mexican military has reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunications network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation uncovered thousands of what it's called devices that gangs used to communicate and monitor ability movements this comes after six men were found gunned down in monterey on wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the rise in northern mexico and has expressed a method to have killed forty thousand people in the last few years. to china now where hundreds of describable workers gathered outside a shanghai factory in protest at mash former workers from asian electronics giant international have been demonstrating for three days accusing the company of violating workers' rights hundreds of employees were let go after a decision to relocate manufacturing spate of labor unrest comes as chinese

manufacturers struggle with rising prices and a slump in exports. or in just a few minutes here on our c takes you on a tour of the newly renovated legendary bolshoi theater first though the business with dmitri. lone welcome to business r.t. russia goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season will then be concluded with the presidential vote in early march the week states of the global economy is having an oblique effect on the campaign analysts say unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending ahead of the voting. i think it reflects that the economy's growing quite strongly on its own it reflects concern about the global environment and a desire for more prudent policy but i think it also means that. we're starting out

in a slightly stronger position. than other war is the second thing to say is that we are going to see some increases in spending and cuts and tax at the beginning of next year we're going to see big increase in police pay pick increase in military pay and a big heart and social contribution tax so there is already increase in spending programmed into the budget twenty twelve regardless of the result of the election. to the markets and commodities were oil is heading for its first weekly gain in three clashes between iran and west have sparked speculation that supply from the islamic republic may be at risk in while russian oil production slipped one percent in the number from october for failing to climb for the first nine first time in five months european markets are higher this hour investors are more optimistic of german chancellor angela merkel made the point that officials are ready to tackle the euro zone's debt crisis banks and resource stocks on the rise.

seven point six and five percent. respectively also supporting the market's latest jobs data in the u.s. this is showing that economy added one hundred twenty thousand jobs in the unemployment rate fell to eight point six percent and that's the lowest level in two years here in russia the markets are another twenty minutes to go they're up half a percent on the high oil prices secular was moving the my six notably energy shares are higher ross nafta zob point nine percent this hour financials are also feeling well with back up two point six percent. carmaker after valdez low of five percent down after reporting sales of thirty. percent for the first and eleven months of this year. siemens will launch a new gas turbine manufacturing venture together with its russian partner power machine the german industrial giant will hold two thirds of the venture with

a total investment of around two hundred seventy five million years the new company will be mostly targeting the c.i.s. market with siemens expects a two percent annual growth for power generation of the next decade production plant will be located near st petersburg it will have on site research and development the senseis despite ongoing fears of another financial crisis the head of siemens energy unit says the company is well equipped to a stand that in depth. of a very high capital. and lower side their global acting so europe is only one market for us so there's no change in our outlook the point is that markets for sure are going well for that if you have one big market like europe not developing as it did the last two years but we have seen strong growth last two years so we sometimes have to be as well a little humble and accept that markets are running a little flat there's no change there's a real plan behind we have now the biggest turbines we will have later on the year

our opening environment on the transformer base really expand this activity as we have our jobs so this is on track and will it execute it as we normally do it right that's it for now from the business desk we will be back next hour with an update meanwhile rory is next with the headlines to stay with.

as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for dimiss eats party leader vladimir putin he swapped seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight and may do so again in twenty twelve after madrid proposed putin for the presidency current campaign slogan the future is dos priorities modernization tackling inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs criticized as a monolith that's too slow to react to social change the world for being home to the tons of blood in your putin and dmitri medvedev wanted russia election two thousand eleven on r.t. . if he hears. you.