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pain energy fans when i get cheaper russian gas for more details time in twenty minutes in the business. on air and online twenty four hours a day your watching our table to the program. pushing for stability through dialogue in syria calling for no military action against sovereign states russia's top diplomat also criticize western sanctions against iran as he faced media questions on the issues wasco was busy with in the global arena and twenty seven well arty's peter all of us at the foreign ministry for us now. the situation in syria dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister the washers keeping efforts to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive is until. well that's right so he allowed for all of really reiterating what's been russia's
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stance on the ongoing situation in syria from the beginning saying that well both the governments the assad government and the opposition have to bear responsibility for the violence that is still going on a little eastern nation and that they need to come together and talk to try and find a peaceful solution that they're not going to they shouldn't try and find a solution to violence to the church be through dialogue now what was new. speaking about proposed arab league talks that would take place in cairo between the both governments and the syrian government and opposition saying that should those talks fall through and that summit not happen in cairo that russia was ready to step in and two of the the chance for peace talks to take place here in russia that's a new bit of information it's a revealing few journalists today now the foreign minister went on to say that russia was firmly. opposed to any form of international intervention military
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intervention in syria now this is really because of how russia felt let down over the situation of the kurds in libya russia believing that the international military intervention there far overstepping the the boundaries laid down by the the un mandates there were issues and the military intervention going far beyond what was what was laid down and said that they were allowed to do it in terms of air strikes and other types of action now the foreign minister saying that there is a responsibility of international governments in these situations like we saw in libya like we're seeing in syria not to get involved as that and they are in for their involvement could result in further implications not just for that country but for the wider world. of course leading countries are closely watching the situation in the region the changes that a far from over it's only the beginning we have to understand that if we want
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nations to solve their own issues we mustn't interfere especially militarily we must support dialogue between the conflicting signs we have to explain to the opposition forces that they have to find an agreement not oust the regime this is a way to a wide scale war that will affect not just the regions but countries far beyond. sergey lavrov their outlining russia's position when it comes to international involvement in syria russia firmly opposed to any kind of military intervention there. russia has also been against sanctions on iran's oil exports so what course of action is a foreign minister suggesting in that arena. well a whole new type of scenario is needed with with the west dealing with iran according to said again lover of the foreign minister critical of sanctions imposed on the islamic republic saying it that they don't serve the purpose that they've
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been said that they supposed to do that they sanctions have been put in place apparently to get iran to stop their nuclear development program well the foreign minister saying that they won't do that at all all the sanctions will do is effect the the lives of every day normal a rainy and as well as damage the rayney an economy of saying that perhaps this was the the overall adventure by the people putting the countries putting in place the sanctions that they are perhaps a attempt to stir up unrest an attempt to produce a a revolt by the people in iran saying that those sanctions on oil exports stone to stop iran from developing nuclear power they will only harm the people and the economy. so begad issues today what else is on the agenda. well the anti-missile defense shield in that you eastern europe that was posed by the united
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states was a major diplomatic for henri of two thousand and eleven and questions are being asked of what happened there and what will happen in the future now. russia has said that they want dialogue with the united states would say the united states doesn't want dialogue with them when it comes to the a.m.d. shields this is something secular of still speaking at the moment to journalists and we'll be bringing you more on what he says about anti missile defense in europe when we get it a little later on. thank you peter are there for vats and of course you can still see continuing coverage of that news conference with a live translation doc. now as we've heard russia is against any foreign military intervention in syria that's made qatar's a recent proposal to send troops into damascus and u.s. calls to increase international pressure on president assad to step aside however syria is now saying they let league monitors extend their mission and. mandate
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expires but alas this won't allow any change in the scope of their brief the monitors tasked with ensuring compliance with the peace plan are set to present their findings later this week nevertheless the mission has drawn criticism from inside syria of failing to help stop the violence in the east experts. of states are being steered into the highest court. while the arab league was very clear it has said that the that there was cooperation from the syrian side it also has said that there have been groups however there will be pressure from the west to take an attitude or take a position which is more anti her side so i am not sure if that be the report will reflect truly the far facts on the ground i think that the report will be will be politicized in order to show that there are some victims or others sure that our side for example and the syrian army are still practicing oppression you have to
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remember here that qatar and maybe even turkey is where all their main aim is to be a leading sunni voice in the region the only arab country which has a soyuz maybe to intervene which has a military of a size to intervene is egypt and egypt is procope up with its own internal problems so i think this is mere rhetoric which we're hearing from i don't think will have the support of the horrible nor will it have the support of so in western powers will. well there are one of their closest partners that syria had until and to govern unrest to grip the country was turkey but i turned its back on its one time ally and they were joining a chorus of voices cooperation change in damascus what is more of a national looks back at the two countries relations. handshake kisses embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed turkish prime minister and syria's president where indeed considered friends back in the ninety's the
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neighbors were not doing that well together syria's support of kurdish separatists dro wedged between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide its territory for the u.s. invasion to iraq golden earing turkey syria relations began with free trade agreement the visa regime dropped and several presidential visits the border areas became especially close families living in both sides felt they shared a common home the turkish lira was even accepted at markets in the syrian city of aleppo but the honeymoon didn't last long following libya's revolution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides support in syria's opposition and aligned with the country's harsh enemy the us enduring thought they have. iran. iraq. well because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by his war has also been very very
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critical of turkey has been iran it's kind of connections transformed the event into a kind of regional problem isn't problem and i should say that compared with another country it is the syrian problem that can bring the arab spring to international conflict you cannot expect this to happen in egypt but syria has potential because of this through connections to switch from a zero problem policy with your neighbors to a problem created position you need good reason turkey seems to have one america needs another actor otherwise this gap can be fulfilled by you want maybe by russia so there's a kind of let's say. cohabitation between america and talking so turkey is helping this in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel turkey is profile is becoming more and more influential some of those who doubt the benefit will be equal for both sides to the turkish economy suffers a lot from the sanctions it supported against syria especially as syria is turkey's
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expurgated the world for this reason turkey is endeavoring to establish a new exporting of routes to lebanon through iraq to the gulf states turkey is policy should be more autonomous should not be identical to that of washington or brussels geographically politically and religiously took has always been the crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them to govern calculated the very question of cart before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding a wave. ok put on the crystal the way the quest for the wave of reform and change in the middle east to be seen as the leader of this movement the church believes that assert in the middle and long term turkey has more chance to to get the benefits of the region if it goes forward tough but if if if if he
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doesn't somehow manage to ride this out well there are supposed to be gone for months for us you know and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had created actually is not really terrible any longer we've got to deal with this government here like it or not the rude to no further we may look slippery but no matter how dangerous it's choice may be they seems to be no way back without a u.n. security council resolution it will be vetoed by russia and china believe in style intervention of will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to this region as countries to get them involved this take his own turkey which has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps gone too far or if an optional r.t. turkey. it with r.t. and still ahead occupiers close in on capitol hill and the white house denounced for all the cozy relationship between big business and politics sheens in the u.s.
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. and off the ousting of the tunisian president of year ago a new government valid ally for prosperity one region rich in natural resources the promise hasn't come to fruition investigate why in a few minutes. the world's most popular online encyclopedia has gone on strike the english language version of wikipedia has shut down for twenty four hours partially at a station being debated in the us congress designed to protect copyrighted material critics point out it could also damage internet freedom with less effective journalist tony goes link believes the lower is already obsolete media corporations are still hoping to use it to control public opinion. who are the real pirates who are the big guns here in the in the media world on the internet the answer is the people with the big money who are backed by the banking system wall street etc i mean what we've seen for example in the last few days is even rupert murdoch coming
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out and talking about google as the pirates google piracy this is absolute nonsense of course because all google is simply doing is linking to other sites there is existing law which is perfectly adequate to actually stop people who are doing genuine piracy and also responsible big providers like google and you tube they have perfectly good systems if someone is having their material taken away removed or whatever and just pirate it around the internet as they call it then all you do is you you contact those people you explain that this is your material and they're actually very good at identifying that stuff and taking it down when necessary this whole proposal from the industry is really because the internet is is eating in to their monopoly on what we see and hear and i actually like to see the internet do that more and more in the future because we've got we're getting a bum deal from the mainstream media in the western world what they're doing is they're spinning for stuff far too much and what's happening is that some of the mainstream media newsrooms are becoming chokepoints for the truth the truth simply
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isn't coming out because they've decided what messages they want the public to hear in the western world. where there's more news an eye catching video twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's online you right now read about a russian tanker on a mercy mission to the last town an icebreaker to help throughout the storm is printed in the regions destination that will survive three thousand residents would have made it through the long term plus. they have been captured by around last year but now the u.s. is set to get its top secret surveillance drone back to catch well it's a new toy. boy in times smaller than the original. hundreds of activists from the occupy wall street movement have rallied on capitol hill in washington d.c. decrying corporate influence in america but the event a didn't live up to the hype of organizers who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of people going to church
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again as more. the protesters have shifted their focus from wall street to capitol hill and here they are hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the u.s. capitol building they have a permit to protest on this lawn but we have already seen several people arrested and. protesters say when the interests of big corporations are at stake their voice their interests no longer count and they're angry at the fact that the influence of money is only set to grow in u.s. politics supreme court's decision now allows corporations to funnel as much money as they wanted to candidates and protesters say it's legalized corruption. the cozy relationship between big businesses on lawmakers here ledge to the complete lack of oversight over wall street which brought about the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and not just americans were affected but the whole
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world so people here want money out of politics but it's easier said than done and a lot of people especially outside the movement are very much skeptical about whether the protests can actually change something some say that the tents and the banners you know won't change anything what do you say to that i think the tents in the banners are crucial part of being publicized and being public about it because it's so easy to ignore movement unless it's in your face do you think the movement has any impact i mean it's been there for four months right on the movement has a huge impact in that a lot of things that are not even talked about in the political agenda usually are now being talked about there is in the news on a constant basis talking about income inequality the fact that corporations are running our government have stolen our elections so many times with all the legalized bribery in the campaign finance system and other things that are most legal moving into the night hundreds more you not thousands joined the protest and
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they marched all the way from capitol hill to the white house. here they are hundreds of people standing right outside. the movement has certainly. left. the country. under different. protesters out of their occupied locations where you see more of these one time. one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and continued all the way the white house right here people are here to get their message across a whole lot of young people around but again whether or not these protests will bring any real that. remains very much on clear.
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russia prosecutor general's office has reported almost three thousand violations through the parliament through the action in the senate and initial reports has now been submitted to present me to make that report says complaints were received both during the election campaign and the vote so legal proceedings have been noised against ninety five people. yet it called for an investigation after thousands took to the streets of moscow and other cities are claiming widespread for more elections so the ruling united russia party will win the majority of seats in the state. support. now brief look at some headlines from around the world this hour. the search for the twenty four people still missing off the telly and crews on a disaster has been suspended off the vessel sifted eleven bodies have been recovered from the record so most of the above water sections of the ship already searched italian orthorexic said they will begin a salvage operation soon to avoid
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a potential few leak. european commission has launched a legal challenge against hungary's new constitution saying aspects of it don't conform to any legislation on herion prime minister on his size. forms that threaten the dependence of the media visual system. public outrage in the tens of thousands out in the streets in protest. for tourists have been kidnapped following a gun attack that killed five others in northern ethiopia the group of european holiday makers were attacked by unknown assailants while exploring volcanic sites close to the border with eritrea officials have blamed the incident on terrorist groups that operate in the border. it's been a year since raging protests spurred by high unemployment and corruption brought regime change in tunisia but many economic problems in the country remain
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unresolved especially one region which is rich in natural resources it's still mired in poverty ati's are going to have the story. this is a region where things are run a little differently from the rest of tunisia you know. my father worked in the mine for twenty five years my two brothers worked and died in the mine we live in the mining region our days are arranged by the sound of the home from the mine not by calls to prayer. the gas a-basin is home to tunisia's phosphate mines one of the key exports in the country which ranks fifth in the world for phosphate production yet for the past three years the workers and their families have been involved in a bitter struggle with their employer gaffes of phosphates that we never took anything from the government and the authorities have always forgotten about us this year the gaffes phosphates company or c f g conducted a competition for jobs just like they did in two thousand and eight we hope their
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choices would be based on a different criteria this time but they weren't. shares involvement in support of action for the miners during the authoritarian rule of president ben ali resulted in a prison term. in two thousand and eight we went on strike with the miners and were arrested all those who supported them lawyers teachers professors we were told we were an organized gang who wanted to overthrow the regime. the government has been and gone since then but the problems remained so the strikes continue unemployment in the region is at a staggering fifty five percent and while local residents believe they should be given priority when it comes to filling jobs at the mine the c.g.s. has been employing people from other regions and there are no jobs for those whose parents died or were injured in the mines their families never received any compensation for their loss but i've been protesting here for six months but will stay here for a year two years however long it takes to resolve this problem. there are many
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tunisians hope the ousting of autocratic ben ali will improve situation in the country the reality is rather bleak as well and evolution hasn't solved the economic issues which have been happening for months now the provisional government hasn't even begun looking at ways of better than poverty. for these workers any delay in solving this crisis cost lives a lot of people are killing themselves others are leaving the country and some have died because they were too poor to afford medical help. after the tunisian revolution and the new provisional government has promised a life of prosperity and better employment opportunities for workers in this mining town once passed by but the miners say the situation has only got worse the original location far from the political center of the country means their plight is as unusable to the new government as it was to the old one in those carty tunisia. or katie's out next to her latest business.
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hello there welcome back to the business program a number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas and energy monopoly gas problem has eased gas supply term seeking to keep its market share amid economic troubles in the region artie's dungarpur field joins us live from gas pumps headquarters in moscow hello that daniel now tell us and what what do we know so i saw what's going on. yes it well it's showing you guys from willingness to compromise despite the efforts of some to paint it always in a negative light it is adjusting contracts with e.u. suppliers including g.d.s. first sewers of france also germany's wind gas which will make the price cheaper one source says the price will come down significantly now of course the euro crisis the euro decries just has squeezed demand is cut demand for gas making it
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harder to make a profit for those suppliers the question is will the suppliers pass on the savings to customers they would be happy to raise prices when the price has gone up but not always sometimes pocketing the difference when the price comes down ukraine is this month also tried to unilaterally cut the amount that it takes to the amount of gas it takes from russia with that country's economy really suffering from global economic woes for years goes from european climbers have tried to switch its long term contracts with russian gas to so-called sport rates which are more based on current mortgage prices goes from has always warned be careful what you was for because when prices are relatively low of course that means lower prices on spot rates but the price can suddenly go up and become much higher that it was under those long term contracts. but i thank you don you about salty's done your bushel
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reporting from gas pump had called. in moscow. i came moving on to other news that let's check out those markets see what's going on for you or oil coal i mean for a second day signs of improvement in the u.s. the german economy is bolstered speculation demands may rise advised saudi arabia against replacing iranian supplies if sanctions off and not to so they are up ever so slightly with our european stock markets. as the world bank caught its global growth for costs over southern reports that greece is nearing a debt deal with private creditors by the footsie on the docks all down the stock and here in moscow the markets are recovering from the losses but still fun and the read my sex is now floating around the out water line of the artists is adding a third of a percent. both the russian forces are indeed down just to clarify for you ok check
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out those individual moves than on the mice that russia's top company ross nath is shedding i have a half a percent despite strong all prices banking stocks are also under pressure with the largest lender spared by just a quarter of a percent under that just due producer. is high of the company's sales rose nine point three percent a loss just about overseas benefiting from that news despite upbeat sentiment coming from asia the my sixth is seeing gains or losses at this hour as expect the markets to be moving sideways on wednesday due to reaching local resistance levels . there are pretty close to important reasons something levels. russia included sole remaining. you may have to wait and settle at current levels and i would expect the market to be more or less unchanged or better to change one relative. and that's all for now i'll be
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talk about the headlines now an ati. bought and sold foreign military intervention in syria and is ready to host talks between all sides in the conflict. q. and a in moscow foreign minister lavrov also criticised sanctions on iran saying terror is ready to hold six party talks and its nuclear program. the largest online encyclopedia pedia temporarily shut down protest over proposed u.s. .
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