from the. rules of who's been put on the halls according to a new report we'll have the details in the business. broadcasting live around the clock this is our t. from moscow research showing three people have reportedly been killed by security forces across syria on wednesday but our side has spoken to supporters in damascus now for the second time in the last twenty four hours reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down he's blaming the ten month long unrest in the country on foreign funded terrorists promising to crush them with extreme prejudice the u.n. says damascus has stepped up its crackdown on protesters but assad claims no order was ever given to fire on. the president's pledge commitment to democratic reform

promising a referendum on a new constitution by march and free elections soon after let's get more on these developments with independent news editor james corbett coming on the program with us here on r.t. good to see you so assad spoke yesterday for the first time now since june and then just again twenty four hours later he's sounding off why so much talk now is it a sign of desperation or possibly just a new tactic. well i'm not sure about desperation so much as something of a necessity for him at this point to make sure that people don't start spreading rumors about him fleeing the country and other such things that we've seen spread to for example about mubarak in egypt last year or about gadhafi in libya these types of rumors start to spread as government becomes more in battle and more and more slandered really in the international media in a lot of ways and i find it interesting that pretty much every single english language report of the in his recent speech in damascus uses and stresses the word

conspiracy that he used the word conspiracy to describe what's happening in syria and against the syrian government right now and it's a it may be a matter of semantics but unfortunately in the english language really conspiracy has become attorney for some reason means paranoid conspiracy fantasy when in fact it's actually a criminal offense that's prosecuted in jurisdictions around the world of each and every single day but it's important to understand that when he speaks of this conspiracy that he's going to strike down and these these foreign terrorists who are invading his country that this is in fact not something that's open to debate it was actually revealed in documents that were leaked from the u.s. state department last april that proved beyond a shadow of doubt that the u.s. state department has pumped in at least six million dollars secretly on covertly into syrian opposition groups since two thousand and six so when he talks about a conspiracy to to overthrow his government i mean it did come out in actual documents last year by as you say the u.s. state of often has been a involved funneling money into this uprising ongoing in syria but to president

assad has denied that there is a crackdown on a peaceful protest and what are we supposed to make of the figures the u.n. is giving more than five thousand civilians killed in the country since do you take that as being truthful are they exaggerated what your stance. will at this point they're not worth the paper they're not written on because there is they have absolutely no basis as far as any of us can tell they've just been handed down from on high. seemingly from the syrian observatory for human rights so-called which is really one of the only organizations that that all of the reporting about syria and the opposition movements and activities that is coming from these days when again into speaking of conspiracy of people conspiring behind closed doors just yesterday i believe. one of the representatives of the syrian observatory for human rights was seen coming out of a meeting a personal meeting with the british foreign ministry so so once again we have people conspiring at high levels of behind the backs of the public and then coming

out with these numbers that come out of nowhere from as far as anyone can tell five thousand this magical number we've been hearing for so long and if some of the recent reports from today and yesterday are any indication i think that number is about to roll over to six thousand again who knows where these numbers are coming from or how they're being verified but that's not the type of thing that people usually ask in the build up for for more like action exactly as we saw in libya last year when numbers were again thrown around without any basis and months later were shown to have had absolutely no basis in fact if it is the if these numbers that are given to the big news networks around the world event to go go ahead with these big stories you know as it was as you mentioned with libya the whole u.n. movement for u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three has a humanitarian mission if i may just move on for a moment here that's just over a week now to go until the arab league observers mission expires in syria do you think its findings are going to have any effect on the course of this crisis and perhaps well the findings that do anything to deter what might be regional agendas

at play so well i think it's interesting to see how the there has been apparently one member of that observer mission who has now defected from the mission and said that the syrian government is lying to the mission and and basically accusing the government of committing the atrocities that the syrian observatory for the observatory for human rights and others have been accusing it of for a long time now and and the a lot of the media in fact. that's the number one headline today when you when you search for syria is that this one observer has has defected and is calling out the regime when there's one hundred sixty five observers in this mission and the others don't seem to have the same grievances that this one does but of course it becomes international news because this is the the agenda so exactly as i said here on our t.v. just a few weeks ago the arab league mission there is pretty much pre-ordained no matter what the mission itself comes out with if there is even one dissenting voice the one dissenting voice will be given all of the the media attention so it's

a question of which way the powers that be have decided this is going to go in unfortunately it looks like it's going to stack up in the in favor of military intervention once again but on a different note the chinese premier wen jiabao. zimbo is going to be in saudi arabia next week meeting with the saudis the u.a.e. and qatar to discuss this situation and the vice foreign minister of china has just come out to say that china expects syria and all of the region's sovereign territorial jurisdiction be. maintained so it's going to be very interesting to see how that plays out you'll see it and i'm going to have all that it's costing us opinion over this as well in a moment i want to talk to you about that as our gearing up its forces as we speak but in that in just a moment we have here that the syrian opposition has rejected assad's latest address that's two speeches to televise speeches in twenty four hours saying that the revolution will continue to signal. do you think the signal excuse me is the

more violence is ahead. i think that's the inevitable conclusion i don't think this is going to stop anytime soon and it's difficult to imagine any kind of conclusion to this in the immediate future especially as the opposition i haven't seen any indication that there is any sort of. way in which this will play out other than the removal of assad so until that happens i'm sure that the violence will continue to escalate hard and have a very brief and here we are. as i mentioned evidence of ago our syria's neighbor took a calling for an intervention it's put its forces on high and it's. used to be that ally of damascus and what happened to the friendship and all we are looking at a build up here of external external influence of possible intervention. i think that's absolutely the case and turkey i think is probably reading the tea leaves at this point and seeing that the winds are definitely not blowing in damascus is favor so it's in their favor and in their interests to be currying the opposition

and on that note we know that that the opposition has been using southeastern key for a number of months now to stage the free syrian army and train opposition activists so so we know that turkey has been deeply involved in this for some time now and and i think certainly whatever relationship it might have once existed between a car and damascus is certainly been severed by this point. the independent news website our code report dot com thank you. i was we were just saying are some of syria's neighbors have their own take on the crisis i mentioned a moment ago turkey it's warned of a looming civil war is troops on standby to intervene or if national now has more from istanbul. with the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis maintained for months he is a growing and violence may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with his close neighbor turkey once a close friend too but now a harsh critic of damascus on. syria's first priority should be to listen to its

people and meet their demands not to denounce others instead of massacring its people we should listen to them. true glitter glue is a harsh critic himself but he's criticizing the turkish government and korea is on the side with the free syrian army and the syrian national council and military and diplomatic forces and overthrowing the regime of bashar al assad it's a port a buffer zone and a humanitarian corridor which some fear could bring turkish troops to syrian soil what does that mean according to international law it means aggression against a country it means war but any intervention would be different from the one in libya since russia and china have made it clear no more no fly zone resolutions into means the role of regional players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger

implications beyond the bilateral context of turkey syria as such the situation in syria must be handled with great care by all powers and fortunately i don't see that. especially the part of our government or hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in ankara it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear breach of syria is killing their own people or not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria for over here it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be an accurate one the technology at changing when you look at the progress or the videos coming from these governorates you can easily see that there is

something going on with the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled and we'll get a false picture of what's really happening but there does. stop researchers from coming to firm conclusions the military operation this is the last option which turkey does not want to see but this is an option it may have declared it doesn't welcome a military solution to the syrian crisis but turkey hasn't ruled it out either plain and if if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and marc fisher lee and cry insists it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already just kilometers from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. still ahead of you this hour on the program scouting for suspects. i think is going to be stereotyping the stereotype that you see me. just for you know well let's just do it by police in britain are under fire for

stopping and searching youths who are suspicious. today marks ten years since the first prisoners were sent to america's most notorious prison in cuba but of kuantan about day after a decade the detention center remains on the wrong side of the law with its harsh interrogation processes use of torture barack obama promised to close it but instead the president has now signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects christine for his hours the story. promises made i've said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that promise is broken it is the administration policy to try to close guantanamo we have certainly run into opposition the problem is he doesn't have a plan to do that or at least what to do with terror suspects they are suspects like moroc or not captured in pakistan in two thousand and one while working for an

ngo that helps young people get off drugs he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years. after i had seen a couple things got the couple a couple of people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his head the until he died. and so the other one who was hanging on saying until he was forced to confess he was a member of al qaeda and he told them time and time again he was not close prison call it was during winter. and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days if they came he called me back. and. going to sign on or every time when i said no he just made like this and. it's stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful that we're democracies is behaving with promoting you know illegal

practices and abusing human rights that undermines the cause of human rights everywhere on the planet it is this hypocrisy that others say leads us enemies to more action not less i think the number one recruiting tool for zawahiri and bin laden before he was killed was one tara and colonel morris davis former prosecutor add one hundred mowbray resigned after being ordered to use information obtained during torture he said he was hopeful things would change under president obama he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them many believe the prospect of closing want. ana mowbray will now be much more difficult thanks to the passage of the national defense authorization act by congress it was signed into law by president obama on december thirty first now within our bill provisions that allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it considers to be a terrorism suspect without charge or trial and with this increased leniency no doubt increased space to hold those prisoners will be needed but the end clearly

you know there's a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think we're stuck with president obama will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law even applying it to american citizens no person and military uniform ever volunteer the rooms are less than to the military for the purpose of taking action against american citizens it's to protect american citizens protecting american citizens the reason given for going ton of obey in the first place but ten years later it is having the opposite effect still the once temporary solution now looking more and more like a permanent fixture in washington christine for sound r t. i know we always interested to know what you think today we're asking when do you believe that guantanamo bay will finally close up please what's your opinion at all. in our

latest world wide poll coming up. this hour fifty five percent of you have responded believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down less than a quarter feel good and i will be shocked when the u.s. can no longer afford to run if something good will happen when washington builds a new prison elsewhere i just think all terrorists will have to be defeated for good. while you're there check out our online news coverage including. an anonymous group famous for fueling protests across the globe is calling for the entire us nation to rise up against a national defense act and protect the american constitution. also one line for you money well spent defense ministry pays one million dollars to create its own computer game to promote patriotism among youngsters.

and it's good to have you with us altie is coming to you live from moscow british police have been accused of crossing the line when it comes to upholding law and order by stopping and searching people they deem in any way suspicious and those who are most often considered to be up to no good by authorities believe there is one reason behind it. and it reports. this is supposed to prevent terrorism police in britain have free rein to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious but what constitutes suspicious is hugely controversial no stopped a young black men and police still can't escape accusations of racism even from inside parliament. police will argue that it's because the people are typically

looking for comfort sick so she's going to make backgrounds that starts to look very much like racial profiling and it's certainly true that these people are often massively disproportionately stopped all the boys at this youth club in north london have been stopped and searched some on several occasions all for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and they say for having the wrong skin color. or stop because they were in the type of car i. was when they stopped us to explain it was. i this topic was big news in recent attacks during the tickets to say that there was this big issue stopping the car. and the reality was the kid. who was in the car i think it was mostly the stereotyping the stereotype that if he made traction which is what a lot of politicking going on with just for you know well it just wasn't jobs and it was the way it was stabbings a frequent in this part of london carte blanche for police to stop and search

whoever they want they can be in public sometimes physical poorly explained and often humiliating to suppress him because in the middle of the streets off on the early embarrassing. they were past their cars because of the bus. i don't know when the law came into force in two thousand and one police didn't even need a reason to stop and search europe finally ruled this illegal early last year forcing concessions from the government since then stop and searches have decreased by ninety percent but the problem still exists in theory there are strict limitations to stop and search the powers can only be used in a specific area fourteen days before he was twenty eight but in practice all that means nothing if the powers can simply be renewed on expiring which is why the whole of london has been a stop and search zone for the last ten years police now don't even need to record the suspect. name any injury they suffer all the outcome of

a search the government says it will reduce paperwork but it leaves it wide open for a peek targeting and physical abuse kyle runs the youth center he too has been stopped repeatedly suspects are entitled to a receipt but few know this and kyle says police are often reluctant to make any record but most often search it's. kind of like crime refused to give you back to sleep i only say i've heard excuses we don't have no we have to go to the station to get it and if i still start to argue the case someone i don't know part of can give me a form in the end of it so what if ing they do target young people police used to have similar powers in the one nine hundred eighty s. but they were scrapped after racial targeting provoked massive riots some saw the august riots as history repeating itself one of the things of course it was a nice thing about the place to. stop and. an instance of

a place certainly in stiff neck and young people and the probably institutionally racist as well. eighty five percent of writers cited anger of police as their reason for violence in a recent study by the guardian newspaper a fact the government can no longer ignore its prompted home secretary theresa may to launch or a view of how stop and search powers they used are when it r.t. london. before we get to daniel with the business news to the. world of it for you some are international headlines first we'll start with the iranian capital tehran that's where one of the country's nuclear scientists has been killed by a car bomb mostafa. that reportedly supervised a department at the iranian enrichment plant their authority is of pointed the finger of blame at israel. and is the fourth scientist to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten almost two years ago another physicist linked to the country's

nuclear program died in a similar explosion. a u.s. a drone attack has killed at least four islamic militants in pakistan the missiles which struck late last night hit an insurgent compound in north waziristan on the afghan border this comes just two months after an american airstrike killed two dozen pakistani troops out into the already tense relationship between washington and islamabad america said the november attack was in error but pakistan rejected the findings saying the strike was deliberate. nigeria's government has warned that the country's national fuel strike could lead to anarchy demonstrations enter the third day nine people have been killed since monday in what has become the longest nationwide strike in nigeria's history that comes after the government ended a popular fuel subsidy leading to an increase in gas and transportation costs throughout the nation unions are valid to keep up the indefinite strike till the subsidy is restored. in the united states occupy wall street protesters have moved

back into new york zuccotti park after the barricades were lifted this comes after civil liberties groups sent letters to the city saying the barriers are broke zoning laws the blockades were put in place after demonstrators were evicted from the area in november the occupy movement has been marred by accusations of police brutality since it began. right now let's get to the business with that. business russia's big sell off of state assets has been postponed according to comments from the country's deputy prime minister. says they won't get a fair price for firms like trans lift. in the current world economic turmoil the privatization will be put off for up to three years according to government sources . newspaper love list of all it from deutsche bank thinks markets will of the move

. but there were certainly hopes in the market there would be significant impetus to privatisation this year but my sense was that certainly there was no strong expectation that a word pro see with aggressive privatizations ahead of the presidential elections and if anything if there were to be a significant pipeline of privatizations coming up you could also have a negative effect of some sort the equity market in terms of the saturation of the supply negatively affecting the price dynamic but currently we clearly see that the market conditions are challenging that the global scene is question and this is something that makes. the sale of strategic assets somewhat more problematic. from western economies has continued to worsen in the new year credit agency fitch has reportedly encouraged the european central bank to step up purchases of

troubled government bonds to prevent the single currency collapsing financial advisor patrick young says throwing more money at the problem just won't help. the european union simply house not acknowledge the extent to which they spend all of the money that's in their piggy bank and more out now they're trying to raise more money and ultimately they look like an alcoholic i mean they're looking for yet another bottle of vodka as they struggle to avoid drawing really a major potential catastrophe that they should be able to get their hands on solving the struggle or even trying to look as if they're serious to solving the struggle. let's see how the old price is doing at the moment both brant. in the red bridge has gone up in the last few seconds the bells between gains and losses throughout the day with investors torn between improved economic news and tensions in iraq do you still have moved into the red in the last hour with food and energy sectors talking form suitable companies are also suffering do you believe or has

most of the two percent off to a brokered downgrade investors are also waiting for the results of a big german border. crossing markets opened up the day in the red and haven't advanced much since field here says they'll go over one percent for the most sixty's point eight percent. and now the biggest movers on the six today we call oil is energy majors but it goes from is retreating from earlier losses the company supplies to europe jump one percent in twenty eleven magnet is also enjoying gains the retailer has reported a forty two percent increase in earnings for last year were the results were lower than the company expected after hers is among the main gainers reports the. law its plans to increase its share in the russian car maker to fifty percent in the first quarter. that saw the business in about fifty five minutes for more financial news here on.

now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over.

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it is five thirty pm here in the russian capital this is a time for your headlines now ten years on america's infamous prison in guantanamo bay is still open with many inmates alleging abuse and torture of debate rages over whether barack obama's new detention to hold people indefinitely without trial the charge will ensure the center remains in place for decades to come. the syrian president claims he's still in control and will soon what he's branded as a.