i. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus and moscow is pushing for stability through dialogue in syria calling for no military action against sovereign states russia's top diplomat also criticized western sanctions against iran as he faced media questions on the issues in moscow and was busy with the global arena in twenty eleven artie's peter oliver is at the foreign ministry and now joins us live for the latest peter this situation in syria dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister russia is keeping out for its to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive isn't it today. well certainly a lover of the russian foreign minister used this opportunity to reiterate russia's

stance on syria now that stance is that russia holds both the syrian government and the syrian opposition 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 so to get a lover of 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 the other situation developed in libya so to love rolph 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. in one. of course leading countries are closely watching the situation in the region the changes they're 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 sides we have to explain to the opposition forces that they have to find an agreement not oust the regime this is

the way to a wide scale war that will affect not just the region but countries far beyond. so gay lover of 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 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 were 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 that all they would do would it was to harm the people and the economy of a run and 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 arms race or cold war but our logic is simple if weapons which moves in sentential risk to our security are deployed near our borders we will answer with appropriate measures that will not allow such risk to us because a poster must talks with our american colleagues we understand that they at least intend to exclusion notion that land european missile shield will have capabilities to threaten russia's nuclear potential there's still time to resolve the issues but oversee is not limitless zelin 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 you wrong and their oil exports what is proposing on that. well what we want what moscow wants to see is a new approach to the rainy and situation to the the relations between iran and the

west saying that well the sanctions they they haven't worked they're not going to do what they were supposed to and that 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 for 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 some in 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 but 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 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 handy how sides are not sure if. the report will reflect truly the four facts on the ground i think that the report will be will be politicized in order to show that there are some victims in order to show that our

side for example and the syrian army are still practicing oppression you have to remember here that qatar and maybe even turkey is world 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 officer has to intervene is egypt and he has poor coupled 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 me how robes are nor would it have the support of so in western powers as will well one of the closest partners that syria had until anti-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 wary of the notion of looks back at the two countries relations. handshake kisses in braces as close friends do in february when this was filmed turkish prime minister

and serious president were indeed considered friends back in the ninety's the 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 us invasion to iraq golden earring 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 turkish which started support in syria as a position and aligned with the country's harsh anomie the us enduring thought they have. iran. about iraq. well because now rockets come out

quite probably in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by hizbollah has also been very critical of turkey has been iran is kind of connections transform 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 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 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 expurgated the world for this reason turkey is endeavoring to establish a new exporting 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 took has always been the crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them doesn't calculate the only question of car 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 turkey believes that it is set in the middle and long term turkey has no chance to to get the

benefits of the region if it goes ok then so were tough. but if it. doesn't somehow manage to ride this out well there are those it's going to be going from one place 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 who like it or not rude to. me looks like no matter how dangerous it's truly smee be they seems to be. without a u.n. security council resolution it'll be vetoed by russia and china and leave a stall intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to these regions 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 you are from moscow still 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 shut 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 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 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 bound alaskan town an ice breaker had to help it through after heavy storms prevented the last shipment from reaching its destination without a 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. is set 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 going to camp 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 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 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 end of 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 they marched all the way from capitol hill to the white house. here they are hundreds of people standing right outside the white house. and. the movement has certainly it paul i mean you see the last of the tents across the country has authority under different pretenses and that is they have a victory to 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 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 were notorious lobbyist jack abramoff who knows exactly how money makes the u.s. political world go round. well i think corruption is legal in washington right now holds a madly every member of congress who's taking a check 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 if i 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 thai and authorities have said they will begin a salvage operation soon to avoid

a potential fuel leak. european commission has launched a legal challenge against hungary's new constitution saying aspects of it do not conform to e.u. legislation and carrying the 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. more tourists have been kidnapped following a gun attack that killed five others in northern ethiopia the group of european holiday makers were attacked by are known as sellouts while exploring volcanic sites close to the border with it richer officials have blamed the incident on terrorist groups that operate in the border zone but 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 contrary remain unresolved especially one region which is rich in natural resources yet still mired

in poverty parties are in a girl who 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 days 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 are phosphates 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 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'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 there are no jobs for those whose parents died or were injured in the mines their families never received any compensation for their loss so i've been protesting here for six months but will stay here for a year to hear however long it takes to resolve this problem. there are many

tunisians hope the ousting of autocratic ben ali will improve the situation the country the reality is rather bleak allah has what evolution has and solve 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 utility 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 is far from liberal their goal center of the country means their plight is as unreasonable to the new government as it was to the old one in the ghost carty tunisia. that wraps up the main news block versus our business is next

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 daniel 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 in two thousand and twelve global economic growth forecasts 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 us central asia well bank says that's because russia is unlikely to be directly impacted by the problems in europe. cricket every situation the record in russia is that quite strong as we see it with however it's true that. also not as exposed as the eastern europe for example in the eurozone crisis when there can be any direct link to the crazies or serene crisis in the euro zone the direct link would be that the eurozone. lack of growth may trigger a slowdown worldwide that main turn affect russia us for the price so for its commodity exports if the eurozone that's a big if. you translate into

a slowdown of the world economy. ok 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 for cars as we were saying over shattering the pause that greece is nearing a debt deal with private creditors by the fuzzy on the down on here moscow the markets are recovering from the loss this is going to call it choppy day of trading here in the russian capital but both the miser's and the arts yes have managed to cool themselves into the block so let's see how that's affecting the individual moves and i'm as you can see it's a block russia's top four companies that create back into the back on the back of those strong prices over the zoologist underspecified because also how to change your fortunes this hour finding itself in the. it was under pressure in the session

and electricity produced in russia is so high the company nine point three percent last year. ok then join me back in fifty five minutes i have more business news. this is claude. nolen sitting on the edge of the past present and. mixing reality that's nothingness.

but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural will reach you. shaimaa know siberia. there with our team on 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 chaotic q. and a in moscow foreign minister lavrov also criticized sanctions on iran thanks to ron is ready to hold six party talks over its nuclear program. in. the largest online encyclopedia wycombe pavia temporarily so.