in the coal campaign is trying to turn around the lives of growing numbers of poverty stricken families. that they're broadcasting live from moscow this is tape. has published a blueprint of what he says is needed to move russia forward from talking poverty and corruption to fostering a more civil society russia's prime minister is trying for a third term as president let's get details now from. how much of a bridge builder is this between the government and the crowds we saw protesting last month angry it how the parliament through the action that she turned out well this is a lot of ways a response to many of the existence of geishas made by the protesters and the opposition leaders during those protests in the month of december and of course the

u.s. which and did talk at length about the fact that a lot of lives would be lucrative from this is a very beautiful slogan allies very little substance and few more and basically the public to be weary of that fact to talk about the painful process the structures ation of the country following the collapse of the soviet union if you talk about the hardships which the country and the people went through over the last decade or so and he did mention. that in the lot of a lot of times such calls for very turbulent for the change so he can over lucian and russia has already gone through several of those the latest one of course the. latest one which we could say occurred after the soviet union and he did it and she did say that afterwards it took a very. lot of time and a lot of pain to get the country out of the crisis in russia. come out of that

crisis really people should be warned and understand the dangers of slogans and the short term political thinking she did not name names but she did say that a lot of times people do mistake look at the promises and and slogans and did not seek the deeper deeper issues they did not question what's going to happen after a sort of an overturn of the current system will happen if that will be the situation what will be the aftermath those were some of the statements that he made which could be as could be pointed out as a response to the recent demonstrations. there and so in general then what problems does russia face right now of course of course that was did point out that there are such things as corruption the fact that ten or eleven percent of the population are still living below poverty line he also talked about russia's versus dependency on natural resources the sort of a sort of us so. it's

a a political or economic drug which the country has grown to depend on he did talk about the fact that we need to get that russia as a country to get away from that dependency those are just some of these shifts which he had mentioned in his article that are with those issues how is suggesting these problems been tackled there was there was of course a lot of talk about the education here to mention the fact that russia has one of the hottest. young young population is one of the highest to tradition number say in the world that it's coming in the top four most educated country with the biggest. the highest number of young graduate with graduates with university degree in the world if you did say that we should look forward in that direction that more high tech jobs should be created that diversification and we stick to the station of the economy should be accomplished again step over taking a step away from that should turn dependency on natural resources looking forward into the information. knowledge of future and of course he also mentioned that. he

basically said that right now russia has come out of the post you start building period and not just the country itself but also the entire world. is basically done and over with that era and i should think. globally in the new direction and of course some of the things that you talked about in this article. very leave it there for an hour in english go live from moscow thank you. well syria's president has granted an amnesty to prisoners who what he says are crimes committed during ten months of deadly antigovernment protests the amnesty also applies to army deserts as well tens of thousands of people have been detained over the past year but as sarah firth reports it's unclear whether it will be enough to stop the continuing conflict. free at last strings of people leave the

syrian prison into the arms of waiting family and friends. kissing loved ones who haven't been seen for many months prisoners delighted i'm relieved to have been given back their freedom here this prison on the outskirts of damascus these are the prisoners they've been selected for at least. you can see the signing on this is being overseen by some of the arab league observers here. this is part of the amnesty by president assad but of course for everyone he's not being released from detention questions being asked about actually why they were detained in the first place. i've been in prison for four months i was accused of weakening national security i didn't protest they brought me here by mistake the honesty is a good step i just hope it includes everyone. i had some weapons i had inherited from my grandfather i was accused of bury legal weapons

might been here for three months when people heard about it they were ecstatic they never thought this could happen. here on the stand now follows calls for. military intervention in syria if the violence doesn't stop when general secretary banking president assad to end the bloodshed at the age of ten a season one man rule in the arab world. some critics however feel these statements were still flaming in a way the highly volatile situation the amnesty shows that syria is trying to find a political solution rather than a security solution and that the country is succeeding in implementing the plan agreed by the arab league. has been described by some opposition groups as being little more than a gesture. demeanor when all political prisoners and everyone arrested since the beginning of crisis have been released then that i. he will have been affected by that and says he doesn't consider at least the start. but for

a united family just a welcome one hundred hopes will be freed over the coming days but outside the prison rules people in the country remain trapped in a situation of escalating violence in which they father seems. certain. enough just. plain dependant journalist to feel in the sense that i'm listing means present at this meeting to foreign pressure despite not being dangerous for balance in the country. it's being received in a kind of mixed way by the syrian syrian people of course these people they were by no means just peaceful protesters according to the syrian government they were in fact. they were people who had set things on fire destroyed many government buildings in these kinds of being their reaction is very much seen as though the

president is being very generous he is releasing more people despite that the situation in some parts of the country is still very extremely tense there are concerns among some sections of the syrian population that's among the many people who are being released there will be some criminal elements who will slip through the net people understand that the president is under a lot of pressure especially international pressure to respond to calls to release these prisoners but the same time there is very much a concern that it could be a dangerous move. ahead this hour looking forward in kazakhstan exit polls show the country's single party poland could open up to newcomers and a huge turnout at polling stations. and back to earth somewhere fragments of the failed russian probe that have been on its way to my mind now finally formed from the much more details up ahead. america's mainstream media is

being accused of playing with fire for playing up the prospect of war between iran and the west it's a sensitive time with the military standoff in the gulf and moving sanctions over iran's nuclear program but it's going to go reports in the state so repeatedly hearing how war is virtually inscrutable. troy two options bomb iran or let iran get the bomb with tension between iran and the west as high as ever a host of hardline speakers on u.s. mainstream media seem to be pushing the audience to believe that war is inevitable the better way to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly although experts say war with iran is far from being inevitable i don't think that we are very get that is to say at the precipice with the media are already preparing the grounds for it some by misinforming the public the new york times wrote that the international atomic energy agency said

iran's nuclear program has a military objective but that's not what the i.a.e.a. reported the watchdog said iran might have the technology to develop a nuclear weapon if it wants to or here's another public misconception due to a lack of feed from ation would be saying to the iranians you to open up those facilities you begin to dismantle them and make them available to the inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes in fact i ease spector's i've already been in the country monitoring iran's nuclear facilities when you american people here information over and over again and sometimes it is often the subtle subtleties you are not providing the context of the i report or not putting in some of the doubts back in two thousand and two two thousand and three about the iraqi w m d programs that kind of slanting of the news does have the effect of altering how the american public use in issues in the us mainstream media have proved to be cheerleaders for war and jeff cohen was a senior producer of

a popular t.v. show before the iraq invasion he says they were under pressure from their bosses to root for because their owners benefited from it it was a constant pressure campaign. to make sure that the pro invasion voice was dominant jeff cohen says not much has changed in u.s. mainstream journalism since the iraq invasion there is no doubt that mainstream media are crucial in this idea of settling this idea that the us is going to be on a per actual war media analysts say since the intervention in libya and us media have been instrumental in making americans get used to the idea that washington will continue to intervene militarily in foreign affairs i worked at newsweek and as goes a.p. and other major u.s. news organizations and the and what i saw especially at a place like newsweek was this idea that the media was actually part of the

establishment that it was what it was it was that the american people were to be guided more than even informed it seems most american media are so used to talking wars that went after a decade of the inconclusive war in afghanistan the white house announced the necessity to negotiate with the taliban you have to have a political solution at some point the message and the words political solution came out as somewhat alien peace talks with the taliban it's come to this tell us more about these proposed peace talks and that may sound a little weird to some of our viewers it seems that warrants a political solution don't belong in the u.s. media can be larry two main reasons one moring and second some very powerful people are behind a kind of trigger happy pro-war journalism too many times in history the media did the bidding of war profiteers we can go back more than a hundred years and look at how the american public was primed for war with spain

over cuba media tycoon william randolph hearst falsely hyped up the story that the spanish sunk on american ships when in fact it's something because of a coal bunker explosion it was then that hearst told his illustrator in havana. you furnish the pictures and i'll furnish the war more than a hundred years on the phrase still sounds relevant but it doesn't have to be that way and some argue political solution although not popular words in the media vocabulary is better than war and death i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . because it stone is only verge of a new political chapter exit polls show that three parties are heading into the lower house so none of the president's group held all the seats on course for huge majority election was brought forward after parliament was dissolved last autumn follows last month's deadly clashes between police and striking oil workers so the boy reports. this elections were never expected to produce any surprises and in

fact they did and the biggest surprise of all was the fact that they were indeed held it was. himself who last fall dissolved the country's parliament point consisted exclusively of his own supporters and called for that snap elections national terms that has been in power and for twenty two years and just last year his security at the now there five year presidential term with more than ninety five percent of the vote now he's nor party also won these elections with an overwhelming majority and retain control over the lower chamber of parliament but this time around it is expected to face some very modest opposition the main reason why i. wanted to have this elections in the first place was he's declared intention to make the country's political system a little bit more representative a little bit more democratic and this time around the elections were held under new

rules guaranteed a second place to party at least two seats in the parliament regardless of whether or not it clears the seven percent and tree holds that advise opponents say that it is just a case not exchange that was important prompted. by his own unease in this over what happened in arab countries and he's attempt to sort of preemptively blind any public discontent over it political system that may and rise in the future all parties agreed that these elections were a test of confidence. especially following december clashes between protesters and police in the west of the country that had seventeen people killed and more than one hundred injured and judging by the very high turnout in the exit poll results. indeed past this that. more news an eye catching video twenty four hours a day dot com here's just some of what's online at the moment israeli agents in disguise the story of how most certain intelligence officers are posing the cia

agents to recruit and train terrorists so it's time to turn on. the post-mortem. if i die application on facebook let's use this one status update the twenty first century twist on the deathbed confession of the details of poti dot com. thousands of british families are feeling the chill stuck below the poverty line and unable to meet soaring energy bills it's having an impact on the next generation who slip through the government next for heating handouts smith reports from london. this is something the single mother of four julie henry can't afford to do very often boiling the kettle for tea hers is one of eight hundred thousand families in the u.k. in fuel poverty struggling to pay for heating and electricity in the last three years she says her bill has doubled and it's

a constant juggling act there are more go to the bill and for food and school uniform than you don't have not into safe so that's the difficult bit of what children have to eat all of them have to eat and their school uniform i have to buy and on top of the. electricity use. i try to god there are so many. is no work in the warm home discount is a government scheme aimed at helping low income families heat their houses adequately in the winter but charity save the children says energy companies aren't contributing enough to the fund meaning only three percent of families are getting the help they need with disastrous social consequences growing up in a cold and. has a really profound impact on children in terms of their physical health in terms of mental health in terms of their general wellbeing in direct effects in terms of educational time and their chances in life energy u.k.

which represents gas and electricity companies in the media refused to give an interview but they did issue this statement following consultation with the government decided who will benefit from core funding under the new home discount scheme and those customers will get an automatic discount of their electricity bill without needing to apply for it save the children says that's not good enough currently only pensioners automatically benefit from the warm home discount scheme and others must deploy which charities say is very complicated the scheme is underfunded and every year energy bills. up and up additionally and crucially poor families often use a pays you go you system for their electricity and gas which works out more expensive than paying monthly a poverty premium in action meanwhile julie sees first hand the other price of

being poor if she can only afford to heat her house for two hours a day her children suffered school they're going to jump out to put on and socks on the silken arsole would go to places to call and then go to bed late and we're covering late and they don't concentrate my twosome was in big trouble or the time to manage detention tired sin is knowledge of the play call my feeble asmer save the children says it will carry on lobbying the government to help poor families need and julie henry and her children will go on fearing that the next energy bill they receive will be the one that drives them into debt laura smith london. more headlines from around the world this hour violence has erupted between groups in the libyan city of. three people around fifty injured. machine guns. pointing began when the local military council the tribe

members to. broker a cease fire to take hold. romania's leaders have called a crisis meeting a violent protest against austerity cuts thousand demonstrators clashed with police and arrest the son. says. although he has proposed health care reforms which are later dropped there's still a deep frustration of public sector wage cuts and widespread corruption. the company in charge of a cruise ship that sank off italy's west coast killing five people says the captain may have made mistakes a spokesperson said the ship sailed too close to the shore and didn't follow safety procedures the captain is in custody and may face manslaughter charges is claimed he abandon the island before all the passengers have been evacuated from the vessel

which he denies fifteen people are still missing and divers continue to search the wreckage for survivors. a homemade bomb struck a religious procession in central park in stone killing eighteen people and leaving dozens wounded the blast went off hundreds of shia muslims filed out of a mosque following a ceremony in. crowds then turned on police who responded with tear gas well it's into rival sunni muslim groups often attack shias a sectarian violence increasing since pakistan joined the u.s. war against insurgents. fragments from russia's failed mars probe agreements have fallen back to worth two months after its launch but it's not clear exactly where marty's peter over has more on the troubled one hundred seventy million dollars mission. it's a merge there appear to be three theories as to where the revenants of phobos

ground eventually hit the earth now most of the probe burnt up in the atmosphere along with any of the toxic fuel it was carrying but around two hundred kilograms it's believed the module made it through the earth's atmosphere now we heard initially from the russian military saying that that landed in the pacific ocean around one thousand two hundred fifty kilometers off the coast of chile we then heard from cosmos the russian space agency who said this well maybe it landed in the atlantic ocean over the other side of the south american continent now we've also heard from a ballistics expert putting forward a third theory which is that the remnants of they say this probe that came back down to earth could have spin spread over such a large area that it could have actually hit both the atlantic and the pacific as well as parts of mainland brazil it was a hugely anticipated mission from the russian space agency it was supposed to go to

the martian moon a focus pick up soil samples bring them back to earth for analysis partially where it gets its name from food was good and basically meaning phobias soil in russian now that information that data that the scientists were craving could potentially they were saying of lead to developments towards a potential martian settlement a human settlement on the moon of course all that data gone now it was a hugely disappointing mission at the probe got into orbit and then pretty much stayed there no matter how much effort was made by ross cosmos as well as the european space agency to try and contact it and get it back on its way eventually crashing back down to earth on sunday evening. two other there in a few minutes we analyze which republican candidate or the chosen to take on barack obama the u.s. presidency but first the business knees and sasha. it's twenty four minutes past eight am here in moscow watching business r.t.

russia and ukraine will come back to the negotiations table on tuesday last week ended with the two sides on the brink of a gas war kiev says it only wants to buy half of the volume specified in the contract by the gal's problem says it cannot agree to the cut the gas giant insists key of could have reduced its water by up to twenty percent but always if it had given a six month's notice last friday the european union joined in saying it's ready to play a part in the talks meanwhile analysts say ukraine's economy will not be able to survive with reduced gas winds. in the longer term. with the to do the expected by the i.m.f. to grow or at least five at least forty percent per year. there's no way grade come just permanently come down it's consumption to those levels i think it's going to to grow together with steel and fertilizer sector and most of the first suggestions

seem to be in the past already because ukraine used its you much more system to build the meters rather than have to for last year it doesn't look like ukraine craze consumption is going to climb for soup to start with think it's quite like the state flat world with. us but because most of the first savings are in the process. and let's get gold at the markets now oil first and it's gaining some experts if you continue tensions with iran as the so-called permanent premium that will be built into the oil price at the moment is that under ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is edging closer to one hundred and eleven dollars. and then on to the equities in asia they're in the red this hour the main drag is a series of s. and p. downgrade so. major european economies including france and austria and still talks in greece tokyo's nikkei is down around one and

a half percent this hour in hong kong the hang seng is shedding bulls through one percent. and here in moscow it's two hours ahead of the opening bell of the russian markets closed in the red on friday the r.t.s. lost almost a percent while the my sex loss just a notch mark seems from or else it believes the russian stocks have a good growth potential. we should have pretty good generally i think you know there is a thorough news coming from europe. that's the distance from the states and some of the new russian probably continue to be mostly. probably play roche will sue for. a lot of people in the new chairman he may be on the way with machine and with a little bit with them patient to get people from the movie solutions coming back from all the. positions so i would say that probably the market will be hard.

there actually stock market lost twenty percent last year in defiance of its longstanding correlation with the oil price which grew by twenty five percent chris we far from troika dialog says this year russia's equity markets will closely monitor the european debt crisis rather than follow the crude. the equity market is moving much more with the global trend rather than the oil price but that's only the case so long as your price remains above and acceptable limits for the budget which is approximately nine thousand dollars in terms of the deficit and below about one twenty five dollars which would then start to affect global growth so it's a background issue when we spend a lot of time talking about it but the reality is that it's much less important than how the stock market performs than what happens in europe how china's growth holds up and what the government actually does in terms of you know trying to improve the investment in the business climate once the new government takes shape in may. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back

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enter this. the mystery of supernatural. shaman or siberia. let's have a look at the headlines now here about what they were put in there as published his plans to fight corruption and poverty as well as create a more civil society russia's prime minister is in launching his push for a third term as president. syria's president assad hardens crimes committed during that ten month uprising against his rule with an amnesty that also extends to army deserted tens of thousands of people have been detained over the past year.