syrian government will welcome to come here to russia to try and sort out their problems 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 it led from behind when it came to the crisis that we saw in twenty eleven in libya. saying this level of on the russian government did not want to see a similar situation of foreign military intervention happening 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 and 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 seoul 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 all those that will affect not just the regions 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. they are all over the un security council mulling over russia's latest draft resolution on syria that was put forward this week the kremlin says it's balanced in the dame's to appease all sides in the conflict while the u.s. is continuing to gonna call to get president assad to go in syria itself now the warring sides agreed to a cease fire in a city you never can. little but

a government crackdown reportedly grimes all of the flashpoint city of homs later this week arab league observers will deliver their verdict on whether the regime is complying with a peace plan it will then decide if it should extend its mission or after u.n. to intervene cutters already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former allies turned its back on a sad at his reference looks into the fallout. can shake kisses embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed turkish prime minister and syria's president were 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 its territory 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 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 and following libya's revolution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides support in syria's positions and aligned with the country's harsh enemy the us enduring thought they have. iran. iraq. well because now iraq is come up 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 cretin position you need good reason turkey seems to have one american means another actor otherwise this gap can be fulfilled by you want maybe by russia so there's a kind of let's say. cohabitation between america and talking so turkey is helping

this in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel talk is profile is becoming more and more influential some of those down to 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 is endeavoring to establish a new exporting approach 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 to radically politically and religiously to he's always been the crossing point of decidedly different roles so what's in it for them we think we can calculate that 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. put itself on the crest of the way the quest for the wave of reform and

change in the middle east and to be seen as the leader of this movement a turkey believes that it is set in the middle and long term turkey has more 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 it's going to be on someone's face you know and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had to clear actually is not really tenable any longer we've got to deal with you like it or not the route to keystone. mean look slippery no matter how dangerous it's choice maybe he seems to be. without a u.n. security council resolution it will be vetoed by russia and china and leave in style intervention of all definitely failed in syria change in tactics the western powers turn 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. reaching optional r.t. turkey. at least media briefing in moscow foreign minister lavrov also stressed the kremlin stepping up efforts to prevent war in the persian gulf russia thinks a western attack on iran would be catastrophic for the entire region rose says it's ready to resume international discussion about its nuclear program but easy the six party talks broke down a year ago with the west suspecting iran of developing a nuclear bomb a tough e.u. and bar going to rein you know is already in the pipeline and to run is threatening to block a vital fuel transit route if restrictions prove prove harmful but the u.s. says it will use force to keep it open let's go live now to washington flip through all these there cia officer of the current executive director of the council for the national interest philip very good to see you. first off around signaling a willingness to talk over its nuclear programs and say that for a while now is this desperation or is to round trying to buy more time what's your

thoughts about that. well i rather suspect that in this case it's iran trying to buy more time i don't i don't i think iran understands that essentially it's a nonstarter to make these kinds of proposals the the western powers basically have gone into the negotiations in so far as there are negotiations with a preconception that iran is engaged in a secret program to develop a nuclear weapon and with that with that pretty preconception obviously iran has nowhere to go so i think it's it's basically a question of buying time for the u.s. and the you advocating an embargo on iranian oil is just mentioned but they consume again they barely any of it themselves is a small percentage so which countries will feel the squeeze if the ban comes into force well obviously iran will feel the squeeze more strongly assuming that it is possible to enforce the. what is being proposed and that of course is by no means

clear oil is a fungible kind of commodity and it could be sold anywhere ron it needs to be exports of the oil to finance its government to finance its social programs so iran would be the big suffer and that's the intention obviously to make iran suffer so that iran will will do something that is more transparent in regards to its nuclear program and if iran did carry out that threat to block off the vital a whole new strain of the above go and children are going to europe even if it's not using a lot of in seoul it is using a lot of oil that comes through that area that's the whole point from other gulf states also going to do the wall prices. well if if iran even makes an attempt to block the straits of hormuz oil prices will probably double or treble this saying is that the real danger here is that it could produce a shooting war if the united states does follow through on its resolve to keep the straits open which will be that easy and i think that it virtually guarantees that

iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict there are also different opinions on how bad it would be if we did kickoff we've been hearing lots and lots of experts over the last month or so what do you think would happen as we head into two thousand and twelve if this did get out of hand what's the worst case scenario well the worst case scenario is world war three i'm afraid the problem is that iran is surrounded by a number of countries that are essentially hostile to it and some of them are nuclear armed and this is a perfect cauldron for for starting something with a very minor relatively minor incident that escalates and escalates and escalates and once a president has a major war i started this interview by saying you know this and wondering whether iran was buying time you thought it was buying time the crucial question is buying time for walt. well you know i think that in the world of politics that things tend to shift and and certainly the resolve of the european powers to push on this arena

a nuclear issue is higher now but if there is a genuine threat to possibly raise oil prices through closing the straits of hormuz then the europeans who get quite a lot of this oil would begin to reconsider what they're doing so i think iran is basically saying that you know things can change and while there's a high level of belligerency right now if we buy time possibly that will change. i know you've been following this story really closely what what are your thoughts about the killing of a scientist in iran it's just the latest killing to iran is of course blaming israel and the u.s. do you think it was being waged there but on the scene oh yes absolutely i think a covert war is being waged by the united states and israel i think in this case the actual pillars of the scientist where we're probably iranians that were recruited by mossad or the cia outside of iran and then sent in to do the work

and i believe that the intelligence used to locate this man and to target him probably came from the united states and probably was intelligence that we shared with israel for the general the things that was so much made on the program joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. every day millions of us to one website as a one stop shop for their encyclopedic research but right now you saying this. we could create a deliberately blocking our lives english language website it's joined a twenty four hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through u.s. congress right now if passed they'd allow the government to block search engine links to any website which may contain was perceived as copyright material the laws designed to protect people's work from being shared without permission or payment but internet campaigners say they go way too far the foundation behind wiki pedia

says the laws would make information website far too. 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 ours 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 on us to check every page which 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 that so our sites and sites like ours would be completely vulnerable to malicious attacks militia's postings of material that

was copyright so although we don't we can sympathize with the people who are protecting the material that produced this bill is goes so far it's just it's not it's a sledgehammer to crack a very small not and we don't want to get in the way of it i don't think the people who started that bill's 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 extraordinary important part of our culture at the wikipedia sites being taken. the internet and that's why we're protesting today . where your opinion as always matters very much to us this is the story we're talking about today we want your thoughts on the anti-piracy bills what does it mean to you party dot com is the place to tell us so far the majority of using see the market sixty six percent big figure if you believe it's a conspiracy to kill freedom of speech but of course if you think it's a cask run by greedy entertainment giant spinal fusion split between saying it is

noble stated it of what started as a noble cause whether it's an honest anti piracy drive big mob by paranoid techies that love that give us your thoughts that are calm and here's what else we got online for you today as well where you turn in a world without we're kapadia than twenty users or almost four in the gap with a few facts of her own just taken with a pinch of salt for some buy and scripting to make a statement while members of this controversial ukrainian women's group are displaying their anger at india over sex trafficking yes they're at it again. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. greece is at another standstill with a mass strike underway just as the country's global paymasters pay another visit

thousands of workers hit the streets to voice how destructive the cuts are even though much more of it may be needed e.u. european central bank and i.m.f. delegates of their to try and beat a deadline now for greece to get vital funds to slash its almost of services that economists professor vanished survive a fuck is says that if the deal is approved the banks will be the only one i. think that makes a difference because. the decisions to reach them. but will the goose we default or not will depend ultimately on the official sector of the european union the will if they're prepared to fork out money which is necessary in order to meet its repayment off their late last the latest the bond issue which is maturing in march whatever money greece will receive from now on from today hundreds it will be used in order to repaid the banks so the greek state

whatever money deceives it will go into one pocket will exit from the other point and it will go back to the banks so that the big state sector the public sector the five private sector are not going to see a penny of it so this is called. a set of shenanigans and since yet the now the stallman in the night little process to default which in the end is inevitable several hundred occupy activists rallied in washington d.c. on tuesday marking the movement's four month anniversary but the protests which stretch from capitol hill to the white house failed to track the thousands that the organizers anticipated artie's going a teacher can join the demonstrate it. 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 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 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 movement has certainly if paul i mean you see the last of the tents across the country already under different that is they have protesters out of their occupied locations but you see more of these onetime actions one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and 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. it's less than two months until russians choose their next president in front of libya putin's reiterated his readiness to talk with the opposition but the premier voiced his confusion over the newly formed league of electors off to those in charge of the independent body failed to show up for

a meeting with putin says they claim about the power elites not listening is on play it given that they show up with a budget in the two pm that he was formed by celebrities and social activists who want to monitor the presidential vote six candidates of request to run against putin a couple of which don't belong to a party including. russia's richest people the election commission now is ten days to review the applications and draw a final shortlist before the nation votes on march the fourth. while world news in brief the search for missing people on that capsized italian cruise line has now been suspended because the vessel shifted slightly they were worried of going to deeper it was to protect the divers who are desperately searching for those twenty four people who are still unaccounted for hopes of finding anyone else. five have all but faded no sadly eleven bodies have been recovered since the costa concordia sank five days ago the captain is under house arrest accused of sailing too close to the shore and abandoning ship before the beta factory. position leader

he will run for parliament in april it'll mark the nobel peace prize with his return to officially politics it's a release for years of house arrest in twenty ten but with only forty eight seats up for grabs the elections unlikely to change the political landscape in the military dominated country. the u.s. is the party is open for north korea to return to talks about its nuclear program along with south korea and japan the three countries renewed their commitment to a two thousand and five deal calling on the country to end its nuclear project in exchange for aid it's part of a rush to world diplomatic effort efforts right now as north korea rallies to bolster the image of its mostly are no new leader kim jong. israel's launched an air strike on northern gaza or it's killed two 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 in israel has claimed has been calm rather in recent days following an increase in rocket fire attacks in december. just bit later on we got the sports news that night for you all the latest from you know but first let's get across the business community. hello and welcome to our business balls and the sol the international monetary fund proposed to more than double its lending capacity in order to save the global financial system from the worsening european debt crisis bloomberg agency says the i.m.f. wants its members to add five hundred billion dollars to its reserves and other lenders managing director christine legarde and else the fund is studying options to increase its war chest bloomberg cites a group of twenty officials saying the i.m.f. is encouraging countries like china brazil and russia to become the top contributors. when the ongoing turbulence on financial markets in europe russia is

preparing for possible worsening scenarios of the european debt crisis that's according to the country's finance minister. movement you know sure response of preparing last year by increasing no reserve fund to fifty seven billion dollars and the national wealth of funds to eighty eight billions on the books this is obviously still lower than the pre-crisis levels of two thousand and eight on policies to prevent regular spending and create new budget maneuvers for the implementation of anti-crisis measures we'll prepared for the worsening of the crisis but we hope it will most damage. let's have a look at the markets now u.s. stocks rise as investors consider better than an anticipated results from goldman sachs group along with the strength in the technology sector goldman sachs shares jumped up the company reported results of beat wall street's expectations the bank has also cut its pay in bonus payments to in two thousand and eleven to twelve point two billion dollars bank of new york mellon corp she has slid after its

earnings fell twenty six percent most european stocks are high 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 over a quarter of a percent led by a two and a half percent rise in fitting into colleges and a two percent gain for hank health. and here in russia the markets closed in the black in a rather choppy trading day the maas expended half a percent the odds he has and a point seven percent in the black let's have a look at some index movers album isaac's russia's top oil company ross knapp has ended in the black on stronger or process and washes largest lenders of bad bank has also finished high after coming under pressure early in the session the banks for your profit john seventy five percent topping ten billion dollars that's under russian accounting standards and electricity producer on the rush as high as the company's sales rose nine point three percent last year. the russians

saw a new car sales jumped thirty percent in two thousand and eleven as the market enjoyed a post quite. says valley consultancy firm ernst and young says the sales waste over sixty five billion dollars with prices growing faster than the country's inflation choir analysts say the big era of intensive growth is over as the programs that state support have come to an end as for this year they expect no one a thirty percent call in the markets. well that's all for now stay with us for headline news coming up next.

when we can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards suze moore's you know fog. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but if you go that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beason up and humiliated in public and one of the

attempt to protect property puts life in real danger in fact we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to the original super only papers. the little i used the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. this

is from moscow a top story. the push for the soul syria rejecting any military intervention in pledging to ensure the u.n. doesn't the rights many. america and some allies calls against the syrian regime with proposing to send in troops. millions of p.d. uses a hitting this brick wall right that the world's most popular online encyclopedia is over twenty four hours in protest of american. seen as a threat to internet freedom. and occupy greed activists mark for. taking on the white house and capitol hill thousands are expected to take part but

at the end of the day in the event not so many turned up as the organizers want their all top stories more online. my when it comes to big money at america's politics lobbyists of the people who know exactly how it works jack abramoff used to be one he now tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core. i. i. i'm sitting down with jack abrams 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 guilty of conspiracy fraud and tax evasion mr abrams thank you very much for coming.