position to blame holds and to blame for the ongoing violence in the middle east and country and says that both sides need to put down their weapons and come together for talks to try and hammer out a peaceful solution now sergey lavrov said today that should proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league could take place in cairo should those peace talks break down then russia was prepared to step in and host both the the syrian opposition and the syrian government here in russia to try and broker a peace deal now one thing that russia is firmly against is any form of outside military intervention in syria they feel that they had their fingers burned by the the developed scituate they had a situation developed in libya said to love rolf to wednesday leveling a a finger at the united states accusing them of leading from behind in the libyan conflict and told them not to try and do the same thing in syria so you can level

of saying that when it came to international intervention into situations like syria that it was important that no countries became involved because they could escalate the situation spreading it further then the country that it's contained at the moment and turn it into a real international incident. where you of course leading countries are closely watching the situation in the region that changes there a far from over it's only the beginning we have to understand that if we want 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 region but countries far beyond.

so they're calling for talks to bring about peace in syria and saying that russia was a vehemently opposed to any form of international military involvement here russia has also been against sanctions on iran's oil exports what course of action is the foreign minister suggesting on that. circular of today said that the sanctions that have been imposed upon iran wouldn't do what they're intended to do what they supposed to do which they claim that they will halt the iranian nuclear program he said that these sanctions wouldn't do anything like all they would do would it was to harm the people and the economy of a run in some ways going to echo the words of the iranian foreign minister who said that the sanctions were put in place by the united states not noted to stop the iranian nuclear program but in order to affect the economies of iran and as well as the european union. i don't think there's

any reason to believe we're on the verge of a new cold war but some logic is simpler if weapons which attention to our security . measures will not allow such. talks with our american colleagues we understand at least exclusion of the. missile shield will have capabilities to threaten russia's nuclear potential there's still time to resolve the issues but oversee is not limitless. peter that of course when i was a foreign minister's comments there on missile defense in europe which we heard we know we touched on that as well but take us back again to what i asked you about iran and their oil exports what is proposing on that. well. what moscow wants to see is a new approach to the iranian situation to the the relations between iran and the west saying that well the sanctions they the. haven't worked they're not going to do what they were supposed to and the moscow wants to see new talks between the

west and iran to try and come to an agreement over the iranian nuclear program of course iran says they're developing it but peaceful means. we are hearing that western governments saying that they wanting to develop nuclear weapons now want to see all sides getting around the table and trying to talk the issues out instead of imposing sanctions which as i said. all they do is harm the people of iran and the economy of iran right artist peter all of our reporting live from outside the foreign ministry thanks for that update. well as we've heard russia is against any foreign military intervention in syria that's amid tatters 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 it may let arab league monitors extend their mission in the

country the observers mandate expires this thursday but the mask is one of the how any change in the scope of their brief task with ensuring compliance with a peace plan the monitors are said to present their findings later this week nevertheless the mission has drawn criticism from inside syria for failing to help stop the violence mideast expert and the reason things arab states are being steered into a bias report. while the horrible was very clear 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 and how to shoot or take a position which is more hand to her side so i am not sure if the report will reflect true to the far facts on the ground but i think that the report will be will be politicized in order to show that there are some victims who are going to show that for example and the syrian army are still practicing. oppression you have to remember here that qatar and maybe even turkey is where all their money and i am

used to be leaving so me a voice in the region the only arab country which has a soyuz maybe to intervene which has a military of a size ten fifteen years egypt in egypt is procope out with its own internal problems so i think this is mere rhetoric which we're hearing from don't think would have the support of the horrors of nor would it have the support of sudden western powers as well. but one of the closest partners that syria had until at a government unrest gripped the country was turkey but ankara turned its back on its one time ally and neighbor joining a chorus of voices calling for regime change in damascus artie's rafa no snow looks back at the two countries relations. hand shake he says embrace is close friends do in february when this was filmed to fish prime minister and syria's president were indeed considered friends they can the ninety's the libras

we're not doing that well together series support of kurdish separatists drew wedged between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide its territory for the us invasion to iraq golden earing turkey syria relations began with free trade agreement the visa regime dropped and several presidential visits the blue there is became especially close families living in both sides felt we shared a common home the turkish leader was even accepted at markets in the syrian city of aleppo but the honeymoon didn't last long and although in libya is revolution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides supposin series of positions and aligned with the country's harsh and the us enduring thought. iran that had taken out rock. well because now rockets come out quite probably into port of syria and of course the lebanese government is well it's also been very

critical of turkey has been iran it's kind of connections transformed the event into a kind of regional problem is a 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 a potential because of this through connections to switch from a zero problem policy with your neighbors to a problem create an position you need good reason turkey seems to have one american means 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 turkey so turkey is helping to 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

expurgated the world for this reason turkey is endeavoring to establish a new exporting of routes to lebanon and 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 turkey has always been the crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them the governor calculated the only question of card before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding a wave ok put on the crest of the way the quest for the wave of reform and change in the middle east and to be seen as the leader of this movement a turkey believes that it is set in the middle and long term turkey has no chance to to to get the benefits of the region if our side goes ok then so were tough. but if it. doesn't go for some of the ride this out. there of course is going to be

gone for months you know and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had created actually is not really tenable the longer you've got to deal with a couple you like it or not the rude to. me look slippery the new mantra how dangerous is choice maybe they seems to be new what he without a u.n. security council resolution will do vetoed by russia and china and leave a stall intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to this region's countries to get them involved this take is one turkey which has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps too far. turkey. your authority of wine from moscow still i have occupiers close in on capitol hill and the white house as they denounce what they call a closer relationship between big business and politics. and after the

ousting of the tunisian president a year ago the new government vowed a life of prosperity in one region rich in natural resources that promise hasn't come to. investigate why in a few minutes. the world's most popular online encyclopedia has gone on strike the english language version of wikipedia has sat down for twenty four hours over anti-piracy legislation being to bait it in the u.s. congress designed to protect copyrighted material critics point out it could also damage internet freedom investigative journalist tony gosling believes the law is already obsolete but 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 and 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 the

last few days even rupert murdoch coming 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 pirated 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 isn't coming out because they've decided what messages they want the public to hear in the western world. well we're asking online what this anti-piracy bill means to you can go to argue dot com and have your say by taking part in our latest poll here's a taste of what else you can find online at the moment read about the russian tanker on a mercy mission to an ice found alaskan town an ice breaker had to help it through after heavy storms prevented the last segment from reaching its destination without the fuel supply its thirty five hundred residents one made it through the long haul hundred plus. it may have been captured by iran last year but now the u.s. has said to get its top secret surveillance drone back the catch well it's only a toy eighty times smaller than the original. hundreds of

activists from occupy wall street movement have rallied on capitol hill in washington d.c. decrying corporate influence in america but the event didn't live up to the hype of organizers who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of people and it has 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. 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 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 and 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 they marched all the way from capitol hill to the white house. ok so. here they are hundreds of people standing right outside the white house. and. the movement has certainly if paul i mean you see the last of the tents across the country because authorities under different pretenses and that is they have a victory of the protesters out of their occupied locations but you see more of these one time actions one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and continued all the way to the white house right here these 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 result that that still remains very much on clear. of occupy wall street movement has been protesting against the power of corporations for four months now later are two speaks for notorious lobbyist jack abramoff who knows exactly how money makes the u.s. political world go round. why i think corruption is legal in washington right now holds a madly every member of congress who's taking a check or a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's college or certain. so what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in since i got out of prison is a way to separate money out of politics here and basically to say that if you're a lobbyist or you're somebody who's trying to get something from the government here you may not give a dollar politically of any color because the end of the day political

contributions that pie give you something if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold abroad but it is abroad at the end of the day i. can watch the full interview with former lobbyist jack abramoff in about ten minutes here on r t let's take a look now at some brief world headlines for you this hour the search for twenty four people still missing after the italian cruise liner disaster has been suspended after the vessel sifted raising fears it will sink into deeper water eleven bodies have been recovered from the wreckage so far most of the above water sections of the ship have already been searched a tie in with already is have said they will begin a salvage operation soon to avoid a potential fuel leak. the european commission has launched a legal challenge against hungary's new constitution saying aspects of it do not

conform to e.u. legislation and garion prime minister viktor orban has been criticized for passing reforms that threaten the independence of the media and judicial system plans cost public outrage and brought tens of thousands out onto the streets in protest. or tourists have been kidnapped following a gun attack that killed five others in northern ethiopia the group of european holiday makers were attacked by a known as silence while exploring volcanic sites close to the border with it reaches officials have blamed the incident on terrorist groups that operate in the border zone. it's been a year since raging protests spurred by high unemployment and corruption brought regime change in tunisia but many economic problems on the contrary unresolved especially one region which is rich in natural resources yet still mired in poverty are tasering a glooscap has a story. this is a region where things are run

a little differently from the rest of tunisia. 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 of phosphate company or c. f. g. conducted a competition for jobs just like they did in two thousand and eight we hope their choices would be based on a different criteria this time but they weren't. shares involvement in support 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's been gone since then but the problems remained so the strikes continue unemployment in the region is 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 will stay here for a year to me here is how ever long it takes to resolve this problem. the many tunisians hoped the ousting of autocratic ben ali would improve the situation the country the reality is rather bleak as well 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 and usually 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 region's location far from what their goal center of the country means their plight is as unreasonable to the new government as it was to the old one it is a goal scorer to tunisia. that wraps up the main news block versus our businesses axed with katie.

hello there welcome to the business program a number of european energy firms when i get cheaper russian gas and energy monopoly gas from has eased gas supply seeking to keep its market share amid economic troubles in the region all she's done your bushel is that gas problems headquarters here in moscow for us down you know are you there. no i don't need to show you guys from the 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 sue is a frog's also germany's windass which will make the price cheaper one source says the price will come down significantly now of course the euro crisis the euro dick crisis has squeezed demand is cut demand for gas making it harder to make a profit for those suppliers the question is will the suppliers pass on the savings to customers or 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 or the amount of gas it takes from russia with that country's economy really suffering from global economic woes for years goes from zero putin clause have tried to switch its long term contracts with russian gas to so-called sport rates which are more based on current more keep 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. and he wasn't very much de eurozone debt problems have made the wallbank out its two thousand and twelve global economic growth forecast a two and a half percent this means the bank also lowered its outlook on russia however its

economy is expected to grow faster than most countries are h. three and a half percent a share vice president for europe central asia while bank says that's because russia is unlikely to be directly impacted by the problems in europe. every situation where we were in russia is that quite strong as we see it. however it's true that. also not as exposed as thirty eastern europe for example in the eurozone crisis when there can be any direct link to the crazies are sovereign crisis in the euro zone the direct link would be that the eurozone. grows to trigger a slowdown worldwide that means turn effect russia's for the price so free to exports if the eurozone that's a big if. translates in the slowdown of the world economy.

let's have a look at the markets started with europe is going to be are they all know as the world bank cut its global guard as we were saying before that greece is nearing a debt deal with private creditors by the frenzy on the docks down on here most of the markets are recovering from the loss this is going to all of choppy trading here in the russian capital but both the miser's on the. call themselves into the black. sea how that's affecting the individual moves and i'm as you can see lots of black crosses top four companies that create back into the box on the back of those strong prices it was a zoologist times especially because also had a change of food chains this hour finding itself in the. it was under pressure in the session and elected super tuesday on russia is. nine point three percent. ok then join me back here fifty five minutes of more business news.

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you know siberia. there was artsy live from moscow our top stories russia says no to violence or foreign military intervention in syria and is ready to host talks between all sides in the conflict but he had a q. and a in moscow foreign minister lavrov also criticized sanctions on iran saying terror on is ready to hold six party talks over its nuclear program. the largest online encyclopedia wycombe pavia temporarily sob sob sob in protest over proposed u.s. anti-piracy legislation critics fear the bill could lead to what they call genuine pirates that is major media outlets taking over the web. and occupy

activists have to send it on congress and the white house saying it's not money that makes all the decisions at the top of the event didn't live up to the hype of organizers who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of people. now when it comes to big money in america's politics lobbyist are the people who know exactly how it works next hour to talk to former lobbyist jack abramoff who explains why he thinks washington is corrupted to the core. i. am sitting down with jack abraham off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of ripping off his clients jack abramoff served three and.