lavrov 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 were welcome to come here to russia to try and sort out their problems sort out their problems now one thing that sergey lavrov 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 in libya. saying that said the level 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 poses 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 where you of course leading countries are closely watching the situation in the region the changes that are far from over it's only the beginning we have to understand that if we want nations to soul own issues that we mustn't interfere especially militarily that we must support dialogue between the conflicting signs we have to explain to the opposition forces that they have to find an agreement not ousted regime this is a way to a wide scale all those that will affect not just the reaches but countries army all . saying that russia supports dialogue in bringing about peace in syria and warns other nations against attending any kind of foreign military intervention. well the u.n. security council is mulling over russia's latest draft resolution on syria that was put forward this week the kremlin says it's balanced and aims to appease all sides

in the conflict while the u.s. is continuing to garner call to get president also to go in syria itself the warring sides have agreed with ceasefire in a cafe near the capital but the government crackdown reportedly grinds on in the flashpoint city of homs later this week arab league observers will deliver a very verdict on whether the regime of complying with a peace plan it will then decide whether to extend its mission or after we went to intervene kept ours already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former ally has turned its back on gryphon arsenal looks into the fallout. handshake he says embraces his close friends do in february when this was filmed prime minister and syria's president were indeed considered friends like in the ninety's the neighbors were not doing well together serious support of kurdish separatists drew wedged between the two but by two

thousand and three when turkey refused to provide the surgery for the u.s. invasion to iraq golden era in 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 the 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 although we leave israel pollution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides supposin series of positions and aligned with the country and in the us in doing so they have. iran that antagonized iraq. well because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the living is governed by his war he's also been very very critical of turkey to switch from a zero problem policy with your neighbors to a problem create

a new position you need good reason turkey seems to have like america needs another actor otherwise this jap 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 us in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel talkies profile is becoming more and more influential some of those down the benefit will be equal for both sides to the turkish economy suffers a lot from the sanctions and 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's always been the crossing point of decidedly different roles so what's in it for them the people who

calculate that the only 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 question 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 we're tough but if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. well i suppose it's going to go on someone's face you know pull back position but. not really tenable any longer you've got to deal with you like it or not they really need to know the we mean look slippery you mentioned how dangerous. this seems to be. without a u.n. security council resolution it will be vetoed by russia and china and leave

a stall intervention it will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to these regions countries to get them involved take it on turkey which has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps too far. turkey. but is media briefing in moscow foreign minister lavrov also stressed the kremlin is stepping up efforts to prevent war in the persian gulf russia thinks a western attack on iran would be catastrophic for the entire region tehran says it's ready to resume international discussion on its nuclear program but that won't come easy this is party talks broke down a year ago with the one suspect your bond is developing a nuclear bomb a tough bar go on iranian oil is already in the pipeline and tehran's threatening to block a vital fuel transit route if mr actions prove harmful but the u.s.'s will use force to keep it open just over two hours on r.g.p.

and in cross talk debates the effectiveness of sanctions on iran. we had tim geithner going around the world trying to get countries not to import a rainy and oil i mean from a transcript of that's basically an act of war you're going to choke off their economy why should be why should these people be punished. it's punishing the prosecution is between what he cannot make sanctions and military action one is within the realm of. peaceful measures the other is something that could spark a war but this is going to. produce could spark a war in itself. i'll go back to you and go ahead. in fact many make the mistake of implying the sanctions are just peaceful means they're not they are coersion they killed the innocent and for the latest round of sanctions i mean you go back to iraq house

a million children die the future of iraq was destroyed and madeline albright turned around the city was worse it now you apply sanctions because you don't want to expend the military expenses you can also iran and hope to sit back and have no casualties and that the war to us would definitely be depleted so sanctions are imposed hoping the iranian people would get so fed up they would overthrow their own regime and it hasn't worked for the two years so they're trying other ways other means of making this happen. but every day millions of people turn to one website as a one stop shop for their and cyclopedia greece search but right now there's this we could be a is deliberately blacking out english language website it's going to twenty four hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through the u.s. congress if passed they would allow the government to block search engine links to

any website which may contain what's perceived as copyright material well the laws are designed to protect people's work from being shared without permission or payment by an internet campaign or say they would go too far well let's talk more with one man who is in charge of another web site that isn't on strike today rob the managing editor of the bong bong up blogging site thanks for being with us what's your biggest fear over this anti-piracy legislation. the law would have unintended consequences that it could be abused to suppress the innocent web sites like it was better than those from the so you just corrections or technical stuff they create censorship tools right out of the authoritarian playbook so if you wrote a book made a film or composed a song what you want to make sure your work was protected from someone effectively doing it on the internet. of course but the thing is in use of these laws and aggressive litigation from the industry none of it has ever had the slightest

impact on piracy so there's no reason to think the pirates wouldn't be able to find ways around it this time so well but there would still be all these new legal mechanisms ready to be used so what's the benefit for anyone where do you think the middle ground is here in stopping the flood of internet piracy while at the same time keeping the internet founding ideals of being open as they are when one middle ground is that laws could be written in consulting with the technical community instead of rushed through by the media business targeted carefully at specific criminal acts and avoid some of the kind of draconian internet breaking measures that these laws in the united states outline but i mean they say that but the thing is the internet the way it works turns piracy into to a general problem and i don't think that there are any easy answers how much are the anti-piracy moves potentially opening the door to the american government in trying to exert its control over the wider internet i mean after all if i quote

someone in an article could i feel the force of the wall. well there's a problem and it's a problem that's happening in other jurisdictions as well for example london england these are. very aggressive libel laws so people because everything is published everywhere on the internet people will shop for the venue in london or they want to sue someone for libel and the same could be true for copyright infringement when this kind of thing goes through the basic problem is that you respond to have been given control of fundamental parts of the internet like the domain name system and the more us politicians try to interfere with our works the bigger problem it becomes for the rest of the world but there's strong opposition to these bills i mean even the white house says that it isn't behind them what do you think the real chances are of this piracy bill actually becoming a law when one hopes that it's very low charms and it's looking less likely now that the white house has said that it doesn't like the bill and pretty much

everyone has said except. an industry the pharmaceutical industry that they don't want the law to pass that's why we're doing this blackout stuff where a boeing boeing we compete here is to illustrate for everyone what will happen if the rules do pass and the bill sponsors have proved that they are determined to get it passed however they have they care. because the managing editor of the boeing boeing technology and culture website thanks for your input thank you. well your opinion matters to us so we're asking what the anti-piracy bills mean to you at r t dot com so far this is what the numbers are looking like a majority of you believe it's a conspiracy to kill freedom of speech around a quarter think it's a cash grab by greedy entertainment giants the final few are split between seeing it as an overstated what started as a noble cause or whether it's an honest and piracy drive being marred by paranoid

techies give us your thoughts to vote today at r t dot com here's what else you'll find there. where do you turn in a world without twitter p.d. twitter users are almost filling the gap with a few fun facts of their own just make sure you take them with a pinch of salt. also the prize bronze backside iraq demands for the safe return of a chunk of saddam hussein's demolished back to read more of our two dark calm and we've plenty more online video reports for you on our you tube channel. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to rule today. in other news several hundred occupy activists rallied in washington d.c. on tuesday marking the movement's four month anniversary of the protest would stretch from capitol hill to the white house to attract the thousands that

organizers anticipated. and joined the demonstrators. 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 in the long. 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 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 fanning right outside the white house. and the. way. the movement has certainly evolved i mean you see the last of the tents across the. country has authorities under different frequencies and that is 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 from kenya all the way told 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. the

occupy movement can to keep up the momentum as the protest gone but maybe it's time for new tactics next hour former u.s. lobbyist says perhaps they should try their hand at politics. i think we are by wall street movement had behind it some good instincts the problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party movement to which was politically tea party movement had rheumatic impact on the last election and probably will still in this one and i've spoken to the occupy people quite a lot. from the still very get themselves organized politically they're not going to focus on america or street protests or really need people like street person. first of all the destroyed buildings vandalizing the unsanitary things are gone and most americans are repelled by that but what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left for all the right.

well initial programs are voting out russia's parliamentary elections has found around three thousand violations the prosecutor general's office report has been sent to president and says there were both complaints during election and the election campaign i should say and the poll itself ninety five people now face legal proceedings president's major calls for an investigation after thousands rallied in moscow and other cities in december claiming widespread fraud election the united russia party you. win a majority in the state duma with a sharp fall in support. more world news now for you this hour and the search for missing people on the capsized italian cruise liner has been suspended after the vessel shifted slightly it was to protect the divers who were desperately searching for twenty four people still unaccounted for hopes of finding anyone else alive have all but faded eleven bodies have been recovered since the coast of concordia

sank five days ago the captain's under house arrest accused of sailing too close to the shore and abandoning ship before it has been evacuated. israel has launched an air strike on northern gaza killing at least one person and injuring three palestinian security sources say the raid hit a field used by hamas and was accompanied by tank fire tension between the coastal territory and israel have been calm in recent days following in an increase in rocket fire attacks in december. greece is at another standstill with a mass strike underway just as the country's global paymasters pay another visit e.u. european central bank and i.m.f. delegates are there to try and beat a deadline for greece to get vital funds to slash almost unserviceable that but thousands of workers hit the streets to voice how destructive the cars already are even though more may be needed. to tunisia now a region and

a region there rich in natural resources do expect people to be reaping the rewards a year after the revolution to get them out of poverty but the reality is it's very different as when to go loose could discover it. this is a region where things are run a little differently from the rest of tunisia where. 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 gasa phosphates that we never took anything from and the authorities have always forgotten about us this year the gas company c

f g conducted a competition for jobs and just like they did in two thousand and eight we hope their choices will 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 has 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 losses but been protesting here for six months will stay

here for that serious however long it takes to resolve this problem. though many tunisians hope the ousting of autocratic ben ali will improve situation in the country the reality is rather bleak on. as what and evolution has been sort of the economic issues which have been happening for months now the provisional government hasn't even begun looking at ways of men and prominent in. the for these workers and usually in solving this crisis cost lives a lot of people are killing themselves and others are leaving the country and some have done it because they were too poor to afford medical help. after the tunisian revolution in the new provisional government has brought a life off for thirty and better employment opportunities for workers in this mining town wants 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 unreasonable to the new government as it was to the old one it in the coast

guard tunisia. well in a few minutes or in depth report from nigeria a country desperately on the edge of poverty spite of the oil rich delta for a vaccine is here with the business. welcome to our business up to the south thanks for joining when we go straight to our top story this hour eurozone debt problems have made the world bank cut its two thousand and twelve global economy growth forecast to two and a half percent bank also lowered its outlook on russia however its economy is expected to grow faster than most countries and which three and a half percent this year jacob will from morgan stanley outlines the reasons behind russia's out. russia had a very deep downturn in the crisis nearly eight percent fall in in growth in two thousand to no in and a slow recovery and what we saw in the middle of twenty eleven was a strengthening of consumption investment

a full blooded recovery second thing is fiscal policy last year consolidation in russia of four percent over four percent g.d.p. and it becomes actually ran a surplus the new election year which is quite so impressive this year in budget twenty twelve. programs about two percent of g.d.p. fiscal expansion that is increasing public sector wages for the police and military increase in the pensions and the cost of the payroll term that will support consumption of the year and then later in the year i think after the election when the new government is formed and the policy direction is clear i think you'll have a recovery in investment which is still depressed compared to pre-crisis levels. let's have a look at the markets now european stocks pare losses on news that the international monetary fund proposed a one trillion dollar lending program markets are also supported by successful debt sales in germany germany's dax is up half a percent led by a three percent gain for the two percent rise in infinium technologies let's look

at russia now here in moscow the markets are recovering from early losses it's a rather chopping day of trading here in the russian capital however both my six and the r.t.s. are trading in the black this hour let's have a look at some index movers on the my xix russia's top oil company ross nafta has slipped back into the red despite strong oil prices russia's largest lenders burbank that's had a change of fortunes finding its in the black after coming under pressure earlier in the session as last year's net profit almost doubled topic ten billion dollars but that's in russia's accounting standards and electricity produced in russia is higher the company's sales rose nine point three percent last year. and russia saw a new. our sales jumped fifty percent in two thousand and eleven as the market enjoyed a post-crisis rally consultancy for an artist and young says the sales we still the sixty five billion dollars with prices going faster than the country's inflation

however analysts say that the era of intensive growth is over the programs of state support have come to have asked for this year they were expect no more than thirteen percent growth and mark. well that's all for now other back with more threats.

when the uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation. suze more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. were someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when the problems began piling up. interviews are now off limits to all. journalists they were. and public when the attempt to protect property puts you in real danger. we have been deprived of the only nice to living on have gone to the originals with

only painters. legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom. just. to you live from moscow our top stories moscow reaffirms this push for talks to stall syria rejecting any military intervention and pledging to ensure the u.s. doesn't authorize any. america allies mouth calls against the syrian regime which cats are proposing to send in troops. millions on with a preview users are hitting this brick wall right now the world's most popular online encyclopedia is on a twenty four hour shutdown in protest at american anti-piracy plans that are seen as a threat to internet freedom. and occupy activists marked for months of

their movement by taking on the white house and capitol hill thousands were expected to take part but the event failed to draw on the numbers organizers want to. take you to nigeria here on r t a nation the nation rich in oil but where its own people suffer violence terrorism and poverty. but the best is yet to be seen lost in the brush just a few meters away. before. you know. them all. obasanjo the former president of nigeria in march two thousand and one problem is that if i got a manager there was a beaut. research institute to be here to fund this sounds to me and i walk was supposed to commence the following day in much well as was picked.