and in the business bulletin russia and ukraine will try and avoid and you gasp one more each side's position and about twenty. below broadcasting live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is out he. has published a blueprint of what he says is needed to move russia forward from tackling poverty and corruption to fostering a more civil society russia's prime minister is trying for a third term as president let's get to all the details now from artie's. for us arena how much of a bridge builder is this do you think between the government and and the crowds we saw protesting last month who were angry at how the parliamentary election actually turned out. well and what they did talk at length i would say about

the slogans promises that were made by the protesters and rather by the leaders of the opposition he did say that behind all these lucrative promises really lies very little substance a lot of the opposition leaders are essentially calling for an abrupt and drastic change to the current system of governing in the country and that is essentially tkinter revolution and as it was it warned that such an event such events have taken place earlier after the collapse of the soviet union which brought to a very steep decline in the country a lot of people very very drastic and very desperate situation and it took a very long time to rebuild the society to rebuild the country's economy and social standing and that is something that should be kept in mind when listening to all the issues the unions voiced by the opposition leaders but now of course. russia while in order to rebuild the country is to bring up the level of people's well being to increase. to provide. more jobs in russia has pulled out of that

crisis of the post u.s. cycle of crisis and of course he did say though that some issues some problems still of course remain on the table. so in general what problems does russia face right now. well of course there is the issue of the very deep corruption there is also a lack of skill responsibility and a lack of civil society it is russia's a very have a dependency on natural resources on oil and gas that is something that russia really needs to tackle as a country in order to diversify its economy and of course there's there's still the issue off poverty in my own population ten from ten to eleven percent of people in russia still live below the poverty line all of these problems should be dealt with of course. and how is that you know putting suggest to these problems you mentioned be tackled. well the corps as we as was mentioned earlier to step

away from the depends are natural resources to develop the high technology industry you said that twenty five million jobs should be created since russia does have a lot of young educated people all of whom should be entering the workforce and all of them should be able to have the jobs that in the fields if they want to work in also the creation of a of a better civil society people should look more into being more responsible and into helping others does so charitable works. is something that also should be done and that is just the internal russian issues of course also he talked at length about russia's role on the global arena russia is the bridge between the east in the west the country which has hundreds of years of relations with both eastern and western countries should be a player and it is a player a global player on the international political arena and he did point the fact that not just russia itself but the rest of the world is now has now entered

a new era the. era which comes after rebuilding. the restructure ization following the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and the role of such organizations organizations as the united nations the g eight and the g twenty also should be kept in mind to be paid attention to and russia of course is going to look into becoming a major player in all of these spheres ok regular scare live from moscow thank you . syria's president has granted an amnesty to prisoners who he says are crimes committed during ten months of deadly antigovernment protests the un the steel also applies to army does it says tens of thousands of people have been detained over the past year back to sarah ferguson now reports it's unclear whether it will be enough to stop the continuing conflict . streams 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 prison is 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 who have been 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 the 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 and was accused of bearing illegal weapons i've been here three months when people heard about the amnesty they were

ecstatic they never thought this could happen. here on the stand calls for. military intervention in syria if the violence doesn't stop when general secretary i urge president assad to end the bloodshed at the age of tennis season one man rule in the arab world. some critics however these statements flaming in already 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. to me when all political prisoners are number one the rest said since the beginning of the crisis have been released on the amnesty will have been. effective but the answer is c. does not consider this the start of dialogue but for a united family just

a welcome one hundred hopes will be freed over the coming days but outside the prison walls people in the country remain trapped in a situation of escalating violence in which they father seems. they serve. the nastiest well independent journalist lucy freeman says the amnesty means president assad is submitting to foreign pressure. 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 wired to they were people who had set things on fire destroyed many government buildings and these kinds of being the 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 factions 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 by the same time there is very much a concern that it could be a dangerous move. ahead this hour the thousands of british children caught in the cold war campaign is trying to turn around the lives of growing numbers of poverty stricken families. and back to worth somewhere fragments of the failed russian prove that should have been on its way to mars more in their own finally pulled from a bit 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

a military standoff in the strait of hormuz sanctions over iran's nuclear program that has got a teacher can report abuse in the state so repeatedly hearing how war is virtually in the. 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 hard line speakers on us 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 yet that is to say at the precipice of 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 information it 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 have already been in the country monitoring iran's nuclear facilities when the american people here information over and over again and sometimes it is often these subtle subtleties you are not providing the context of the report or not putting in some of the doubts back in two thousand to 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 the u.s. mainstream media have proved to be cheerleaders for war 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 u.s. is going to be on a perch actual war media analysts say says the intervention in libya u.s. 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 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 they 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 found 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. . kazakhstan is on the verge of a new political chop to exit polls show that three parties are heading into the lower house until now the president's group held all the seats on the stone course for a huge majority election was brought forward off the parliament was dissolved last autumn and follows last month's deadly clashes between police and striking oil workers was one of the 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 reach a point consisted exclusively of his own supporters and called for that snap elections. has been in power and for twenty two years just last year his security at another five year a 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 on to new rules guaranteed a second place to party at least two seats in the parliament regardless of whether or not it clears this seven percent tree. as opponents say that it is just magic

change that was in part prompted by he's in these in this over what happened in arab countries and he's attempt to sort of preemptively blind any public discontent over it because i sense a political system that may and rise in the future. these elections were test of confidence for himself especially following december clashes between protesters and the 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 passed this. morning catching video twenty four hours a day it don't call has some of what's online at the moment is really in disguise the store. mossad intelligence officers are posing a cia agent to recruit and train uranium terrorists to attack tehran. post mortem poke

a new if i die application on facebook let's use the submit their final status update twenty first century twist on the deathbed confession the details of party dot com. thousands of british families are feeling the chill stuck below the poverty line and unable to meet soaring energy bills and it's having an impact on the next generation who have slipped through the government net heating handouts as laura smith reports from london. this is something that 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 four of them have to eat and their school uniform i have to buy and on top of the. electricity use. i try to call down 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 the 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 tape. 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 all the price of being poor if she can only afford to heat her house for two hours a day her children start school they go jump out to put on 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 two son was in big trouble or the time too many detention tired sin is knowledge of the play call my figure 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. now to some more headlines from around the world this hour violence has erupted between rival minister groups in the libyan city of guy even at least three people dead and around fifty injured they reportedly used machine guns and rockets in the weekend shootouts fighting began when a local military council the mind of the tribe hundred members accused of aiding. interim government's attempts to broker a cease fire and then to take hold. leaders have

called a crisis meeting for a fourth day of violent protests against austerity cuts thousand demonstrators clashed with police arrest some hurling stones and bottles at officers had boiled over because of proposed health care reforms which were later dropped but still deep frustration with public sector wage cuts and what action. the company and she. a cruise ship 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 it's claimed he abandoned the line and before all the passengers had been evacuated from the vessel which he denies fifteen people are still missing and divers are continuing to search the wreckage for survivors. who made bombers struck

a religious procession in central pakistan killing eighteen people leaving dozens wounded the blast went off as hundreds of shia muslims filed out of a mosque ceremony in. crowds then turned on police who responded with tear gas militant rival sunni muslim groups often attack shias with sectarian violence increasing since pakistan joining us instant sentence. fragments from russia's failed mars probe group for going back to earth two months after its launch it's not clear exactly where marty's piece of all of that has more now on the troubled one hundred seventy million dollars mission. it's a merge there appear to be three theories as to where the remnants 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 huge leap and dissipated mission from the russian space agency it was supposed to go to the martian moon a photo of us 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. peter over there a few minutes we'll look at how a change of power in georgia eight years ago impacted on the country's art and culture of our first let's skip latest business news with natasha. it's twenty four minutes past nine am here in moscow you're watching business r.t. russia and ukraine will restart the negotiations on tuesday last week ended with the two sides on the brink of another gal's war kiev says it only wants to buy half

of the volume specified in the contract but gazprom says it cannot agree to the cut the gas giant insists he of could have reduced its order by of to twenty percent but only if it had given a six months notice late 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 reduce gas supplies. in the longer term. with that you do p.t. expected by the i.m.f. to grow or at least five at least four percent per year. there's no way come just permanently comedowns consumption to those levels i think it's going to to grow together with steel and fertilizer sector and most of the first use against seem to be in the past so rude because ukraine used to much more so some to believe meters rather than fifty four last year it doesn't look like ukraine ukraine's consumption

is going to climb for soup to stay with think it's quite likely to stay flat world with. us but because most of the first savings are in the polls. and let's now check out the markets or oil first and it's gaining some experts you continued tensions with iran is the so-called permanent premium that will be built into the oil price at the moment the w g i is that under ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is edging closer to one hundred eleven dollars and now onto equities in asia they're in the red this hour their main drag is a series of s. and p. downgrade of major european economies including france and austria. and sold the debt talks in greece tokyo's nikkei is down around one and a half percent the sourwood the financial sector is the biggest loser and hong kong the hang saying is shedding close to one percent. share in moscow it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell russian markets closed in the rattled friday the

r.t.s. lost almost one percent while the y. six was down just a notch seem to shango from all cvs says despite the apparent pessimism the market has a good growth potential. you should have pretty good generally i think you know there is in their own news coming from europe. but statistics from states and some of the new russian probably continue to do nicely and it's probably play roshan sue for. a lot of people with a new tune on the way with mushrooms and listening to it with them patients who were in the pool where someone from the movie solutions coming back from all the. positions so i would say that's probably the market will be her. first duty free retail market is seeing the first big deal of the year a swiss operator giuffre this russian rival rug star embark on a joint venture on the company will include twenty one stores located moscow's

airports it's hoped center g.'s would help the firm expand analysts say will become the country's biggest do a free operator when its outlets up. and that's all the latest from the business this back in about fifteen minutes.

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the back. let's have a look at the headlines now. but he has published his plans to fight corruption and poverty as well as create a more civil society russia's prime minister is no inching his push for a third term as president. syria's president pardons crimes committed during the ten month uprising against his rule with an amnesty that also extends to . tens of thousands of people have been detained there with the.