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 to try and sort out their problems sort out their problems but one thing that sergey lavrov was. there was very strong on was reiterating russia's pushtuns that they will not tolerate any form of international interference international military interference into syria very 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 and 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 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. 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 . well the u.n. security council is mulling over russia's latest draft resolution on syria that was put forward this week the kremlin serves balance and aims to appease all sides in the conflict while the u.s. is continuing to garner calls to get president to go in syria itself the warring

sides have agreed to a ceasefire in a city near the capital but a government crackdown reportedly grinds on in the flashpoint city of homs later this week arab league observers will deliver their verdict on whether the regime is complying with its plan it will then decide whether to extend its mission why after are being kept hours already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former ally has turned its back on us up for a half a notion of books into the fallout. 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 drew wedged between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide

syria's three for the us 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 on 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 serious opposition and aligned with the country's harsh anime the us enduring thought they have. a raw. red tape about iraq. well because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government. has also been very very critical of turkey 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 american talking so turkey is helping do 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 took has always been the crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them the govern calculated 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 of 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 there are those is going to be gone someone's face you know and they'll have to pull back position but. he's not really tenable the longer you've got to deal with a couple you like it or not the rude to. me look slippery that you mention how dangerous is choice maybe they seems to be knew what he without a u.n. security council resolution will do vetoed by russia and china believe this tall

intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to these regions 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. r.t. turkey. well that his media briefing in moscow foreign minister about rove 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 the six party talks broke down a year ago with the west suspecting iran is developing a nuclear bomb a tough go on iranian oil is already in the pipeline and iran's threatening to block a vital fuel transit route if restrictions fall but the u.s.'s it'll use force to keep it open just over an hour's time peter the valves cross-talk debates the

effectiveness of sanctions. 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 probably a computer simulation is between economic sanctions and military action one is who within the realm of. peaceful measures the other is something that could spark a war but there's. she just did spark a warning to. go to go back to irving go ahead. and fire too many make the mistake of implying the sanctions are just peaceful means they're not they are coersion they kill 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. by turned around the city

was worse now you apply sanctions because you don't want to expend the military expenses you can also iran to sit back and have no casualties 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. every day millions of people turn to one website as a one stop shop for their encyclopedia research but right now they're seeing this. week of media is deliberately blacking out it's english language website it's joined a twenty four hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through 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 being shared without permission or payment by internet campaigners say they would go way too far but let's talk more with john tate chief executive of we can media u.k. which is the umbrella foundation of course in charge of wikipedia mr davies the highest profile website shut down what do you think you'll achieve is one day enough. well i think what we've achieved already is getting the debate going we've been talking about this for weeks and weeks and weeks in america in congress trying to get people to understand that this may have some good intentions in the bill but the actual effects of it will be to crush sites like wikipedia and so the fact that in the end a community we decided to take the english version down for a day has meant that people are listening to us at last and talking and already in america we're beginning to see people say well hang on this is probably not the right way to go about fighting piracy because look at what it's going to do to

sites like wikipedia so we're not happy we've done it but we think that it's a very important thing to do just to make sure that people realize the threat to the liberty of freedom of speech and information that these two bills in american congress pose what specifically is your fear over anti-piracy legislation i mean if someone stealing and distributing someone else's work surely there should be action to stop that. you know we're really hard on copyright we make sure as far as we can that the millions of pages we produce do not contain material that's copyright. but this bill would mean that it would just take one person to accidentally or maliciously put a link to this sort of pirate site to us for the people who own the copyright to have the right to bring our whole site down at the moment if somebody draws our attention to something that's illegal we'll take it down straightaway but the onus

would then be to check every page is legitimate doesn't have a copyright link and that's impossible our pages are written by hundreds of thousands of volunteers every day edits every minute every second of the day there's no way we could check them out so our site and sites like ours would be completely vulnerable to malicious attacks malicious postings of material that was copyright so although we don't we can sympathize with the people who are protecting the material they've produced this bill is goes so far it's just it's mad it's a sledgehammer to crack a very small not we don't want to get in the way of it because i don't want to argue that because often some of the articles on wikipedia are obviously not original writing and they can come from other people's website that your site essentially is part of the problem. no we were very insistent that people don't

just paste out of other websites that the material is originally written that's one of the founding bases that we work on so we check quite carefully with all sorts of technical things as well to make sure people aren't just pasting from other web sites but the risk here through sopa and pipa these bills is that just even making a reference to a pirate website would mean that the whole of our website would be in jeopardy so i don't think the people who started the bills thought of these consequences that it really think they understand the way the internet works so it's one of those an intended consequences that could lead to what is just an extraordinarily important part of our culture that we could pedia sites being taken off the internet and that's why we're protesting today i mean the internet has so far supposedly been free of control on like traditional press and media do you think there's a bigger agenda behind these bills for the u.s.

government to get more power over what's said on the web. i think that's probably too far a conspiracy theory and i would take issue that we're in control we have massive controls editorial control to make sure that what we produce is balanced is free of prejudice is is accurate and if we get it wrong we change it and other internet providers are the same so there are controls there and so far the controls work quite well. if somebody spot something that's wrong or illegal we will change it another website uses of the same. but there is a risk that if a government not necessarily the american government didn't like something. or objected to the freedom that we could pedia has to inform their population they could use laws like this and we you know it could happen in other countries to bring down a whole website we think it's far too important to risk and that's why we've taken

the website down today just for a day to make our point what is awash with pirate material how do you stop the stealing while at the same time keeping the web free. i think your question is i couldn't quite hear you was the how would we stop piracy well i think there are barriers to stop piracy but. we're interested to see what people come up with but it's not our mission our mission is a freedom of information to actually make sure that free unbiased accurate information is out there greater minds than ours need to look at these problems need to follow the money work out who is making money out of it because we're a charity we're not a business the pirates who are making money need to be chased and they need to be tracked down unfortunately we're getting in the way of this bill which means that the real targets will probably continue to do the illegal stuff they do already while hitting people like us who got in the way. john davies chief executive of

wicked media u.k. thanks very much rolling with us our. well your opinion matters to us and we're asking what the n.c. piracy bills mean to us r t v dot com so far if we take a look at the numbers the majority of you believe it's a conspiracy to kill freedom of speech around a quarter think it's a cask grab by greedy entertainment giants the final few are split between seeing it as an overstated bid of what started as a noble cause and whether it's an honest and piracy drive being marred by paranoid techies give us your thoughts at our t dot com here's what else is online for you today. where would you turn in a world without would get p.t.o. well twitter users are almost filling the gap with a few fun facts of their own that make sure you take them with a pinch of salt. with the prize bronze backside iran demands of the safe return of a chunk of saddam hussein's demolished that's two you can read more at are two dot

com and we've plenty more video reports for you on our you tube channel. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. joint operations throughout the day. several hundred occupy activists rallied in washington d.c. on tuesday marking the movement's four month anniversary but the protest which stretched from capitol hill to the white house failed to attract the thousands that organizers anticipated can join 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

the. 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 cooperations 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 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.

the movement has certainly it paul i mean you see last of the chants across the country it was already under different that is they have a victim protesters out of their occupied locations but you see more of these one time actually one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and continued 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. that the initial probe into voting at russia's parliamentary elections has found around three thousand violations the prosecutor general's report has been sent to president and says there were complaints both during the election campaign and the post itself ninety five people are now facing legal proceedings president medvedev

called for an investigation after thousands rallied in moscow and other cities in december claiming widespread fraud elections saw the ruling united russia party win a majority in the state duma but with a sharp fall. look at some more news in brief this hour for you from around the world 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 are desperately searching for the twenty four people who are still unaccounted for hopes of finding anyone else alive have all but faded eleven bodies have been recovered since the coast the concorde just sank five days ago the captain's under house arrest accused of selling too close to shore and abedin. ship before it had been evacuated. israel has launched an air strike on northern gaza killing two people one of them a teenager 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 creased in rocket fire attacks in december. and greece is that 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 its almost unserviceable debt by thousands of workers hit the streets to voice how destructive the cuts already are even though more may be needed. is here next with the latest business. thank you any say hello and welcome to the business bulletin of the eurozone debt problems have made the world bank cut its two thousand and twelve global economy growth forecast to two and

a half percent the bank also lowered its outlook on russia however its economy is expected to grow faster than most countries and reach three and a half percent this year jacob bell from morgan stanley outlines the reason behind russia's out. russia had a very deep downturn in the crisis nearly eight percent fall in in growth put in two thousand and nine and a slow recovery and what we saw that in the middle of twenty eleven was a strengthening of consumption investment a full blooded recovery second thing is fiscal policy last year it was fiscal consolidation in russia of four percent over four percent of g.d.p. and the thick of it actually ran a surplus in an election year which is quite impressive this year in budget twenty twelve they've programmed about two percent of g.d.p. fiscal expansion that is increase in public sector wages for the police the military increase in military pensions and a cut in the payroll tax that will support consumption particular at the start 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. and the international monetary fund proposes to more than double its lending capacity in order to save the global financial system from the worsening european debt crisis bloomberg agency says that the i.m.f. wants its members to five hundred billion dollars its to its reserves earlier the lenders managing director christine lagarde announced the fund is studying options to increase its war chest bloomberg cites a group of twenty officials say the i.m.f. is encouraging countries like china brazil and russia to become the top contributors. tom to look at the markets now for us to europe where stocks pay losses on news that the international monetary fund propose a new 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 hankel and two percent rise in fenian technologies here in

moscow the markets are recovering from earlier losses about the chopping day of trade here in the russian capital however both six and the ts are trading in the block let's have a look at some index movements on them isaac's russia's top oil company ross nafta has slipped back into the red despite struggle prices russia's largest lenders bank has had a change of fortunes finding its in the black after coming under pressure early in the session and its last year's net profit almost doubled topping ten billion dollars in russian accounting standards and electricity producing eon russia is high on the company's sales rose three percent last year. a number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas energy monopoly gazprom has eased gas supply terms seeking to keep its market share and economic troubles in the region

bushel as that gas pumps headquarters moscow. they've shown us 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 sewers of france also germany's wind gas which will make the price cheaper one source says the price will come down significantly now of course the euro crisis the euro debt crisis has squeezed him on this 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 they would be unhappy 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 paying close have tried to switch its long

term contracts with russian gas to so-called sport raise 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 raise but the price can suddenly go up and become much higher than it was under those long term contracts. well that sell for the salvage i'll forget you can always find it more stories just log on to our website at r.t. dot com slash business.

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no one can live without it's in one of the largest blood banks in the world. blood of night you're. on our team. here at hartsfield live from the russian capital our top story in moscow reaffirms its push for talks thought syria rejecting any military intervention and pledging to a source the u.s. doesn't authorize any of this is america and some allies mount calls against the syrian regime with caps are proposing to send in troops. millions of wicked media users are heading this brick wall right now the world's most popular online encyclopedia is on a twenty four hour shutdown and protests that american anti-piracy plans that are seen as

a threat to internet freedom. and occupy anti greed activists mark for months and their movement by taking on the white house and capitol hill thousands were expected to take part but the event failed to draw in the numbers that organizers anticipated. but when it comes to big money in america's politics the lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works jack a broom often used to be won and he now tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core. i'm sitting down with jack 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 a half years in prison.