the top of. the world bank has cut its global economy growth forecast to twenty twelve full details in twenty minutes in the business person. it's three pm in moscow you're watching r t how many say now i with our top story and moscow is pushing for stability through dialogue in syria calling for a no military action against sovereign states russia some diplomat also criticize western sanctions against iran as he faced media questions on the issue of moscow was busy with in the global arena in twenty eleven artie's peter oliver is apa foreign ministry and now joins us live for the latest peter the situation in syria seems to have dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister how is russia involved in africa to bring the peace in perth bring peace i should say to the

troubled country. of used his statements in the questions that he was asked today the answers they give to this question of a good man to be iterated russia's stance when it comes to syria well that stance is that they want the russia blames both the assad government and the opposition for fighting continuing in the country and moscow wants to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there now what was new that was said by sergey lavrov on wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo said should they break down should they not come to fruition then russia was willing to step in to mediate and broker a peace in it both the opposition and the syrian government will welcome to come here to russia. sure to try and sort out their sort out their problems now one

thing that for of was. there was very strong on was reiterating russia's push stance that they will not tolerate any form of international interference international military interference into syria now he pointed a finger towards the united states accusing washington of having led from behind when it came to the crisis that we saw in twenty eleven in libya. saying this so get off of on the russian government did not want to see a similar situation of foreign military intervention happen in syria warning the u.s. not to try this lead from behind tactic as he puts it when it comes to syria saying that international military intervention of that kind can have huge ramifications saying that it can spread beyond the borders and become a major international incident. 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 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 gay lover of the saying that russia supports dialogue and bringing about peace in syria and warns other nations against attending any kind of foreign military intervention russia has also been against sanctions on iran's oil exports what course of accent is the foreign minister suggesting on that. circle of rule of pretty much called the sanctions that were imposed against iran useless for the. use what they were they were intended to if the intent of they were put there to do

which was to convince iran to step away from its nuclear program no said philip rose said that the sanctions aren't going to convince iran to stop developing nuclear technologies what it is that they are going to do what they are doing is damage the a reining in people the man in the street that's going to make their lives much harder and also damaged the iranian economy now we heard similar words from the iranian foreign minister he said that the sanctions that were imposed and backed by the united states were there to to affect the iranian it nuclear program they were there to affect the iranian economy and the economies in europe that we also are staying with iran we also heard sergei lavrov react to the the news from the iranian ambassador here in moscow. that iran would be entering into six party talks on the nuclear question those talks to be held in turkey secular of expressing. delight and cold welcoming those those talks as everybody tries to get around the

table and sort out what is happening with iran sergey lavrov said it's basically time for the west and iran to come up with some fresh ideas about how they're going to deal with each other. peter what else is on the agenda what other pressing is serious work touched upon today. of course we're looking back at twenty eleven this was a very very busy year when it came to two diplomacy with involving russia one of the major points of tension revolved around the proposed american anti-missile defense shield system for eastern europe now towards the end of the year this did see tensions rise between moscow and washington washington refusing to give russia written confirmation about how far the program would go said k. lover of today saying that russia was still willing to talk with the united states to try and come to a solution over the placement of anti-missile defense bases in eastern europe it

did say that should any foreign power place any type of weapon along russia's borders they could hamper russia's nuclear deterrent that russia would not tolerate it. 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 pose a potential risk to our security are deployed near our borders we will answer with appropriate measures that will not allow such risk to us from our talks with our american colleagues we understand that they at least don't exclude their planned european missile shield will have capabilities to threaten russia's nuclear potential there's still time to resolve the issues but obviously is not limitless. so lots up for discussion as surrogate lover of address the press receiving questions on russia's foreign policy and twenty eleven. peter oliver reporting live from the foreign ministry thanks for that. well as we've heard russia is against

any foreign military intervention in syria that's a midcap to ours 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 their stay at the mascot's won't allow any change in the scope of their brief tasked with inserting compliments with a piece of the peace plan the monitors are said to present their findings later this week now or the last the mission has drawn criticism from inside syria for failing to help stop the violence middle east expert on the risk things arab states are being steered into a biased report. 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 and attitude or take

a position which is more so i'm not sure if the report will reflect truly the far facts on the ground but i think that the report will be will be politicized to an order to show that there are some victims in order 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 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 he's in egypt and he has proposed with his own internal problems so i think this is mere rhetoric which we're hearing from cult i don't think would have the support of the whole robes nor would it have the support of so in western powers will. but one of the closest partners that syria had until anti-government under arrest grip the country was turkey but i got it turned its back on its one time ally and neighbor joining the chorus of voices calling for

regime change into mass chaos are days where for now snow looks back at the two countries relations. handshake kisses embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed to prime minister and syria's president where indeed considered friends back in the ninety's the neighbors were not doing that well together series 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 leader 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 anomie the us enduring thought. about iran. iraq. well because now rockets come out quite wrongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by hizbollah has also been very very critical of turkey has been iran has 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 may 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 they haven't calculated the only question of time 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 turkey believes that it is so that in the middle and long term turkey has more chance to to get the benefits of the region if our side goes ok then it's all worked out but if if if if he doesn't go if he somehow managed 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 have declared actually is not really terrible any longer you've got to deal with a couple you like it or not the rude fullerene mean look slippery but no matter how dangerous is 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 will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turn to this region's countries to get them involved this take isn't turkey which

has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps too far written optional r.t. turkey. you're with our to meet live from moscow still ahead occupiers close in on capitol hill and the white house says they denounce what they call a cultural relationship between big business and politicians in the u.s. . and after the ousting of the tunisian president to go a new government found a life of prosperity of one region rich in natural resources that promise hasn't come to fruition we investigate why in a minute. well 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 debated in the u.s. congress designed to protect copyrighted material critics point out that 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 were 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 news rooms 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. we're asking online what this anti-piracy bill might mean to you so far if we look at the numbers the majority thinks a conspiracy to kill the freedom of speech is happening a fifth sees it as a class grab by greedy entertainment giants are just about a tenth considered that overstated brand of what started as a noble cause while the same amount believes it's an honest and piracy drive marred

by paranoid techies go to argue dot com and have your say vote today. 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 organizers hype who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of people going to church to count 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. 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 and 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. banners you know won't change anything what do you say to that i think the tents in the banners are crucial part being publicized and being public about it because it's so easy to ignore movement then once it's in your face do you think the movement has any impact i mean it's been there for four months. 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 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 evolved 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 at

these one time actions one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and from kenya all the way to the white house right here these people are here to get their message across all 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. well take a look now at some headlines from around the world this hour at the search for the twenty four people still missing after the italian cruise liner disaster has been suspended after the vessel shifted 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 italian authorities have said they will begin a salvage operation soon to avoid a potential fuel leak. and israeli air strike on the north of the gaza strip reportedly killing palestinian has taken place gaza security forces say the strike

was targeted at a training camp used by hamas and was followed up by tank fire and israeli spoke for may confirm the attack near the city of beit hanoun but refrain from giving any further information. european commission has launched a legal challenge accounts hungry in the constitution saying aspects of it do not conform to legislation and garion prime minister viktor orban has been criticized for passing reforms that threaten the independence of the media and the bishops to stop the plans cause public outrage brought tens of thousands out onto the streets in protest. it's been a year since raging protests spurred by high unemployment and corruption brought regime change to tunisia but many economic problems in the country remain unsolved especially one region which is rich in natural resources yet still liar in poverty . has the story. this is a region where things are run

a little differently from the rest of tunisia you know when. my father worked in the mines 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. 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 supporting 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 but i've been protesting here for six months but will stay here for a year. 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 sort of the economic

issues which have been happening for months now the provisional government hasn't even begun looking at ways of better than poverty. with 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 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. business is next year an hour or two with katie stay with us.

hello there welcome to the business program this hour 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 and economic troubles in the region artie's down your bushel is that gas from headquarters here in moscow. but showing 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 but the question is will the suppliers pos 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 or the amount of gas it takes from russia with that country's economy really suffering from global economic woes for years goes from european 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. yes and debt problems have made the world bank covers two thousand and twelve global economy growth forecast a tuna healthy sense this means the bank also lowered its outlook on russia however is economy is expected to grow faster than most countries a rate of three and a half percent a share vice president for europe and central asia while bank says that's because

russia is on likely to be directly impacted by problems in europe. cricket every situation the record in russia is that quite strong as we see it 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 over in crisis in the euro zone me directly and would be that the eurozone. lack of growth may trigger a slowdown worldwide that main turn affect russia's for the price so for its commodity exports if the eurozone it's a big if. you translate into a slowdown of the world economy. ok so let's see how the mall kids are dealing with that news right now starting with. the footsie on the sides all brush it off so it seems they are both in the black at this hour the news is over shattering at

reports that greece is nearing a debt deal with private creditors and head in moscow the markets are recovering from the losses is that of all the choppy day here in the russian capital both of my sit down there. managed to get themselves in the line. ok and how the individual shanny's getting on top all company rosneft has slipped back into the red despite those strong old prices prices larger send us bad bank has had a change of fortune and it's now funny itself in. other lectures to produce a. as well the company's sales rose nine point three percent last year. so for the market small business is fifty five minutes time joining the.

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is enough obviously the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out but when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be set up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only means of earning

a living and i have the gall to originals of all the papers i'll be at the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just a stage prop. three thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our t.v. process says no to violence or foreign military intervention in syria it is ready to host talks between all sides in the conflict talk in a q. and a in moscow foreign minister lavrov also criticized sanctions on iran saying ten ron is ready to hold six party talks over its nuclear program. the largest online encyclopedia we could media temporarily some.