the gases be between russia and the ukraine continues to build more details for you in twenty minutes time in the business buzz that. this is our day coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing. moscow says western nations want to change a un resolution as proposed in order to push syria towards a regime change russia wanted the security council to urge both the government and opposition to lay down the arms or does it work is going up has more reaction from moscow the amendments proposed to the russian draft resolution on syria at the u.n. security council are aimed at toppling president assad's regime while moscow has a different approach to the situation is calling for both sides of the conflict in syria to put their weapons down and negotiate and it's to address

a solution rules out any possible military intervention in all this supporting to the russian foreign ministry which says that despite the differences in approaches it's still ready for dialogue on this matter with the western reporters but stresses that the libyan scenario can not be repeated in syria meanwhile the secretary of russia's security council has said there's reasons to believe that operation is already being prepared by some western states including possibly some countries in the persian gulf and possibly even syria's former ally turkey the secretary of the security council has also said that he sees the reasons behind the international tensions around syria don't lie within the human rights situation in the country and issues around the syrian opposition but are dealing directly linked with president assad unwilling to cut relations with iran the tensions around which are continuing to rise as well your picking off reporting there and

the west lays the blame for the bloodshed in syria squarely where the government but as our sara for a found out the changing society there suggests the problem is much deeper. nana nag me son to man was an activist he say sure networking sites such as facebook to call for peace in syria he'd phoned his family to tell them to watch him during an interview on lake very famous but i saw him on to the and he looked well but it was to be one of the last times the family saw him alive and soon after that he was kidnapped he left home and never returned we found his body in the morning and his face was mutilated it's too painful for me to remember that moment it remains unclear who killed him and his family thinks it may have been militants he thought he was working for the security forces after seeing him speak on television but in reality he'd worked at a sugar mill and was training to become

a computer specialist like so many of the young educated people in syria right now he feels the need to be involved in the changing reality in his country syria in fact has one of the youngest populations in the arab world is schools like this in a generation studying the fact an increasing number of arabs have become better educated and better informed them that parents or grandparents were that they're not any more aware that the school writes the more able to demand them as well. many young opposition supporters have taken their campaign online relying heavily on social media like facebook and twitter that have helped topple regimes like these in egypt and libya people's literacy and also media literacy has been enormously harms to recent decades by both education technology called trained but i think we should remember this can cut both ways opposition sides can try to get out their message and can mobilize people but also even supporters of government so much less dependent on a single new station or single state newspaper between

a regime under pressure and an increasingly militarized opposition many syrians have been left trapped in the middle so out of british museum as i have only. one question what did they kill my son for my son was a politician or a public figure various movements national and local exist in this country i don't understand when my son was killed and speaking before a crowd many of whom were young supporters president assad this week once again repeated his promises of reform that was met with skepticism from the opposition meanwhile on all sides of this conflict young politically motivated syrians remain committed to fighting for the political future of their country despite the fact that so many like them and that fight could end up costing them their lives surf r.t. . later on our team of al and he has crossed our gas discussed influence is out work

in syria from the arab league monitors to the protesters themselves and here's a preview. if you have consistence policies towards syria and i think they took this side of their civilians inside syria and they have clearly i mean sorry if i could interrupt here i mean these are i don't understand when we use the term protesters civilians i mean a lot of these people are armed and they're no longer civilians or protesters they're come back east now and this is turned into a civil war and some western powers are supporting certain elements within syria taking a side in the civil war would you agree or disagree with that. syria's helps to join the e.u. are one step closer to realisation lawmakers have called on the european council to grant belgrade along and to subpoena candidate status at a session in march but it's kosovo that remains the main obstacle to accession and

local serbs living in the disputed region say concessions for membership aren't helping them. now reports. the checkpoint in northern kosovo may not look like an obvious triumph of peace but here is the same spot just two weeks ago since the summer you backed kosovo albanians who tried to take control of the border between serbia and kosovo the serb minority erected barricades in response they don't recognize course of independence so in the old billion dominated province is still part of serbia now both sides are for a new agreed that the border will be jointly policed. very cold belonging to anyone can now freely pass through this checkpoint when you're trumpeting this as a happy resolution that a standoff and while life here has become easier a lot of serbs are saying that once again they've given up too much for the compromise and have received no rasho answers about their long term future belgrade

tried to talk serbs in kosovo down from the barricades so it was to join the e.u. which made a peaceful solution to the border issue a precondition but despite progress on the border belgrade's application for candidate status has been stalled in the latest round of talks with brussels some countries which did recognize kosovo and they feel that serbia is a week in just before they are getting the kind of a status because why they are squeezing serbia exacta trying to achieve something more than than usual we are asking the candidates. just meters from the e.u. soldiers in the asked serbian militia many here have been engaged in conflict with albanians since nine hundred ninety nine when an ethnic war divided the territory into they have been coming to this roadblock since july and say they will carry on despite a border deal. why should we be happy to see you soldiers give us permission to use this road we never used to need permission to use it at all we do not trust the

e.u. or albanians wanted it when our relatives and friends have been injured in this conflict for the past twelve years. those who gain the most from the border compromise are ordinary serbs blocked roads prevented many children from coming to school and their parents from buying even basic foodstuffs but normality is some distance away . so. there are constant warning sirens during the lessons these children are not growing up normally their lives are defined by the conflict and this is true not just for children but for all serbs have been living in kosovo for twelve years while opening the roads is a step forward the serb state as an independent kosovo they do not consider their own and that does not appear to want them remains as uncertain as ever you go there are no party. so i had for you this hour here in r.t. the consequences of america's finest for pharmaceuticals if a patient comes in with

a needy injury and says. oh are you depressed hey write prescriptions. they're given out like a minutes we will gather hidden health risks from being crazy views of anti-psychotics in the u.s. . the u.s. is said to have directly warned iran supreme leader ayatollah harmony that it will respond if iran blocks a key oil transit route in the persian gulf the escalating verbal conflict between washington and iran has also been made worse by the assassination of an iranian nuclear scientist on wednesday talks between the u.n. nuclear watchdog and iran over its nuclear program have been scheduled for two weeks time but lindsey german from the stop the war coalition says iran's atomic ambitions aren't the only reason for the build up of pressure. if you look at the recent report from the atomic energy authority it said quite categorically there is not evidence of iran developing nuclear weapons it seems to me that the.

things in america in britain and elsewhere are ignoring this report mayor definitely stepping up the pressure the assassination of the latent scientist who the nuclear scientists who worked in the science will be seeing quite rightly as a provocation that will be seen as the work of the israelis but by the americans and the troop movements the ships in the gulf all of this points to more more pressure . robert naiman policy director of u.s. based ngo just foreign policy says the iranian threat is being overblown by american politicians with even the highest official silenced if they dare question it. defense secretary. went on the our defense or was a face the nation on sunday and he say what are you trying to build to develop a nuclear weapon. and the very next night p.b.s.

news hour and you know they have steam. and they used to try and argue the opposite because fairness next year already noted we didn't alert p.b.s. on this and received any response to this part of the pattern in the u.s. media that's certainly part of a pattern in the presidential campaign with republican presidential candidates if you need to remember we're always came to know what you think about our stories and your opinion is welcome in our web site vote where we're asking what's next for iran almost half of what was believed the u.s. will push iran towards all out of military conflict about a third are convinced america will strike first the rest are almost evenly split between whether iran will claim to have nuclear capabilities to urge the west or will protect itself by setting up and tell us why they are no longer dot com cast your vote. the pentagon says it's identified a unit seen on

a video which appears to show u.s. marines urinating on the corpses of taliban fighters it's just the latest scandal involving the u.s. military got a stand a war veteran jake deliberateness has the video coupled with previous abuses committed by the u.s. military is very good news for terrorist recruiters. just to remind people of a few incidents that occurred a while back there was the the burning of the koran that happened with. terry jones as then there was the abu ghraib incident and before then there was the decision to invade iraq that had nothing to do with nine eleven so all of these these situations pile on and they add up and what happens is al qaeda and other terrorist organizations and then using this video and they put it in their recruiting videos end up on you tube and across the jihad of web channels and they end up reading anti-american sentiment this is the hugest recruitment for al qaida that we can do

that anybody can do nobody in the united states military is trained to pee on dead people this is the behavior of ill disciplined soldiers under my opinion are probably also suffering from a severe amount of p.t.s.d. from a long ended war and what happens when you suffer from the t.s.p. you and the dehumanizing other human beings in the in the battlefield and is unfathomable how pathetic this is become because the war hasn't been brought to an end like obama said he was going to do and what we're seeing abu ghraib happened twice now in afghanistan. while you can explore all our stories and out on line at r.t. dot com and there is much more lined up on our website so don't try this at home thrill seekers travel from moscow to st it is burke on the roof of russia's fastest train see more of that nerve jangling video on our website. and here's another roof surfer this snowboarding crow was caught enjoying the pleasures of the ski season

as you can see and he didn't need a lift pass to check out this beautiful pool at our dog. is. they on a state has a passion for pills americans reportedly consume sixty percent of the world's drugs used to control mental behavior as our board now explained pharmaceutical firms plan to keep cashing in even if it cost people their health. america is regarded as a country with a ravenous appetite for consumption today

a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the us into a nation of hill poppers bipolar depression doesn't have to consume you here's me and here's my depression you know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious according to the u.s. government anti-depressant use among americans has increased nearly four hundred percent in the past two decades published reports find that one in five adults take at least one drug for mental health disorders with over fourteen billion dollars in annual sales anti-psychotics remain america's top selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs this is a medical journal dr harriet fraud believes big pharma has manufactured a climate of insanity by manipulating and even creating illness for capital gains the advertising strategy is to have

a big diagnoses and then find wiggle room so that they apply to everybody prescription nexium the u.s. is the only western country that allows direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs this ad for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder warns that untreated patients will likely end up divorced and this commercial for so long in new york on this is to make you happier but side effects may include dry mouth insomnia sexual side effects diarrhea nausea and sleepiness critics also say big pharma uses its financial muscle to ply doctors with gives cash kickbacks and research funding in exchange for endorsing or purse cry being the latest and most lucrative drugs what you have is a whole network of doctors who are hustling these drugs if a patient comes in with a knee injury and says i'm so sad oh are you depressed hey write

a prescription. they're given out like m. and m's last year per script and drug abuse became the number one cause of accidental death with more than thirty thousand americans overdosing can consume you sarah quell a bipolar medication generated four point four billion dollars in sales last year listing all its side effects requires forty nine seconds of air time like sugar has been reported mr pollack saw and medicines like it and in extreme cases can lead to come down the number of children consuming anti-psychotic medication doubled in the past decade millions of american adolescents are taking drugs like adderall doled out by doctors to treat hyperactivity only drugs are very very similar to illicit room legal drugs is a very dangerous now one is a little safer but you're just not sure i mean they're being forced on me. but doctors you know who are telling parents this is the best thing for them when often it's not and so you get

a lot of angry resentful just growing up in america here that's already happening because pfizer america's most profitable pharmaceutical company makes anti-depressants not only for people but also for adam and in two thousand i the pharma giant paid two point three million dollars to settle civil and criminal allegations over illegally marketing one of its drugs it was the largest health care fraud settlement in the middle line to ever been paid by a u.s. drug company that being said the money reportedly amounted to less than three weeks more of a prize or drug sales the money is so huge that the fines are immaterial and they're not thinking about the social effects of what they're doing or thinking about the profits they accrue the pharmaceutical industry remains the most profitable business in the u.s. more success and financial gain for the companies will always remain possible as long as more americans are encouraged to take drugs in a fortnight r.t.

new york. got a brief look now at some other stories from around the world we start in nigeria work workers issue an ultimatum to the government and threaten to hold or oil and gas production on sunday over a decision to eliminate fuel subsidies which doubled prices in a day a nationwide strike has angered its fifth day and talks between unions and the president have made no breakthrough the tension comes amid a wave of sectarian violence started by attacks on christians which have left over eighty people dead since christmas. haiti marks two years since a devastating earthquake killed around three hundred thousand people nationwide religious services have been held with people all over the country gathering in makeshift churches to pay tribute to those who died in the disaster displaced one million and a half people with most of them still living in temporary camps. apple decision to

delay the launch of the i phone four s. at its flagship store in beijing caused customers to tap the shop across have been camped outside in freezing temperatures all night and started throwing eggs at the store after the announcement would not open at seven am as planned it's thought staff were concerned about the number of people queuing and police were forced to cordon off the area at its second store apple's new phone sold out in less than an hour. well i'll be back with a mind of our top stories in just a few moments before that it will take a look at what's happening in business katie's here. thank you for joining me the gas dispute between russia and ukraine it continues to build russian gas monopoly gazprom says kiev could only have reduced the gas it bought by twenty percent and then only if it a great haul for a year in advance ukraine signed a contract to receive fifty two billion cubic meters of gas from russia but made

the surprise announcement that it would only take slightly more than half of that shit the country's leadership says it's struggling economy can't afford to pay the full amount but gas pharmacist's a deal must be met on the take or pay bases ukraine's energy minister is expected to report to the parliament about the russian gas talks later friday. russia and iran decision to swap the us dollar in favor of the ruble arielle for bilateral trade is following a global trend recently both china and japan said they would switch their local currencies to boost ties you've gotten from a s.k. system a emerging market will only benefit from such moves. because rich used to be the strongest far beyond their competitors in the world when you were a dollar a pound of sterling to use restraint doesn't matter so now they all have their obvious we can this business and most of the national government is national money

to restore it just they are not interested in the stability of colleges right now and maybe we'd like to see their cultures weaker than they are no intention makes them uncomfortable for bilateral trade relations of those countries which do not have. other cards this is their national currency the others are the third world that treat them all before the countries of the third world the moment forced. into their own promises and during the relations because it's more comfortable it's more predictable and this makes contracts. better to understand and easier to fulfill. let's see what's happening in the markets let's start with oil prices are according to an official of the european union on imports of iranian oil is now expected to be delayed and that's going to be delayed for six months and that country is such as greece and spain find that if supplies on the european stocks are on the rise

as italy prepares to sell even more after successful auction this way debt ridden the country magistrates' twelve billion euros on thursday selling treasury bills the news that the e.u. will keep the benchmark interest rate at one percent is also encouraging investors this friday. other us markets are in the red after. it's a positive i haven't really progressed much. now our thoughts and that's. ok let's move on to those individual days that got us from is so lightly middle of disputes over gas supply. all major licorice point six percent in the red on telephony provide us telecom is thought to negative ads aside the company is reportedly. minus seventy five percent stake in o. me an operator and see for twenty two and a half million dollars the rest came from i've seen also as investors close attention to the latest news likely to influence market movements. the more general

condition would be to pay attention to the shares which react strongly usually. to the news current leading news flow is quite positive those shares will be probably the biggest gainers of those for example you can see all names which are usually the most reaction from this kind of things you can sell financials was what was one of the first proxies on global growth and then also you should definitely track the story about u.s. and iran and see how the oil price action is what's going on on that side two thousand and eleven left many traders playing a day to day trading getting to europe's sovereign debt mess doesn't it russian cost even no capsule says it global markets will be hoping the e.u. commision over its problems in order to boost market has stalled of longer term investments once we see the end of the european drama for the

stock markets for all of the global markets it will be much easier they will know the rules of the game and that's where the real before the investment starts people are very much hungry for make him a long term or at least medium term bets with the current market does not allow for the managers to make medium term bets they need to work on a daily basis and this is a very unpleasant experience everyone is very much interested to see this unfortunate picture of the global markets. and that's all business for now stay put the headlines are up next here and i'll take.

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living i have the gall to originals with all the papers. then legalized the ownership rights on the basis of cause. becomes just a stage prop. mine . would be soon which brightened. someone from phones to print some. news from stunts on t.v. don't come. wealthy british style. that's not on the telephone.

market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. maggie watching r.t. here's a look at the top stories russia says western proposals for changes to a u.n. draft resolution put forward by moscow are aimed at regime change in syria brushes against outside interference in syria and call them both sides to end violence. solving a border dispute with possible brings a serbia closer to long desired a new membership one of the candidates that is likely to be granted to belgrade in march but the local serbs living near a troubled checkpoint say they remit is not helping to make their lives.