hello it's eight pm this is r t live from moscow my name is kevin zero in on our top story then moscow's vowing to do everything it can to make sure that the u.n. security council doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria that pledge from russia's top diplomat as he wrapped up a briefing on twenty eleventh's foreign policy peter oliver is at the foreign ministry. 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 set a gale of rubble wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo sergey 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 will 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 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 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 far from over it's only the beginning we have to understand that if we want nations to seoul their 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 regions but countries far beyond look. for 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. peter all of 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 in the games to appease all sides in the conflict while the u.s. is continuing to garner calls to get president assad to go in syria itself now the

warring sides of agreed to a cease fire in a city near the capital but a government crackdown reportedly grinds on 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 ask the u.n. to intervene cutter's already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former allies turned its back on a sad at his reference books and other fallout. can shake kisses embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed to fish prime minister and syria's president where indeed considered france back in the ninety's the neighbors were not doing that well together serious support of kurdish separatists drew wedged between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide its territory for the u.s. invasion to iraq

a golden era in turkey syria relations began with free trade agreement the visa regime dropped and several presidential visits the blues it became especially close families living in both sides felt they shared a common home the turkish lira was even accepted at markets in the syrian city of aleppo but the honeymoon didn't last long following leave is 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 they have antagonized iraq. well because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by his war has 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 turkey so turkey is helping the u.s. in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel talk 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 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 took it's always been the crossing point of decidedly different roles so what's in it for them we think we're going to calculate the only question of time before the syrian government goes and

therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding the wave ok put itself on the crest of the way the question 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 have somehow managed to ride this out. well there are those is going to be on someone's face and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had to clear actually is not really terrible any longer you've got to deal with a couple you like it or not the rude to keystone. mean look slippery imagine 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 believe in style intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers

turns 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. i'll use 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 that won't come easy the six party talks broke down a year ago with the west suspecting around of developing a nuclear bomb a tough e.u. and bargain a rainy you know it was already in the pipeline and to rounds 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 for all these they're cia officer on 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 the u.s. and the e.u. 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. it needs to be exports of the oil to finance its government to finance its social programs so iran would be the big stop for 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 whole move straight over the above go and short of 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 price is. well 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's virtually guarantees that iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict there lots of different opinions on how bad it would be if we did call if 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 was wondering whether iran was buying time you thought it was buying time the crucial question is buying

tongue from 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 the. 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 were who were 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 was 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 full there encyclopedic research but right now you saying this. we can deliberately blacking out is 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 web site far too vulnerable. 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 on us to check every page inch 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 malicious 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 we don't get in the way of it i don't think the people who started that bill's thought of these consequences i don't 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 the wikipedia sites being taken. the internet and that's why we're protesting today. we were punya now 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 by the court if you think it's a cask by greedy entertainment giant final few split between saying it has no overstated a bit of what started as a noble cause and whether it's an honest anti piracy drive big mob by paranoid techies that love that give us your thoughts at r t dot com 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 are almost put in the gap with a few facts of their own just taken with a pinch of salt some by and stripping 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 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 are there to try and beat a deadline now for greece to get vital funds to slash its almost of service and that economists professor van is verified is says that if the deal is approved the banks will be the only one i. think that makes any difference because. the decisions reached. when the goose we default or not will depend ultimately the official sector of the european union the will if they're prepared for our money which is necessary in order to meet its who came in 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 be paid back to the greek state what any money deceives it will be going to one pocket we exit from the other form and it will go back to the banks so that the big state sir good the public sector the five five or six you are not going to see any of it so this whole . set of shenanigans can see yet another. installment in the night scope process to default which in the end this interview 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 attract the thousands that the organizers anticipated artie's going into chick had 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 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 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 saw people here at one 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 has 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 if paul 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 of these one time actions one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill . and fourteen you know all the way toward the white house right here these people are here to get their message across the whole lot of young people around but again whether or not these protests will bring any of that that still remains very much on clear. can there it's less than two months until russians choose their next president in front of lima putin's reiterated his readiness to

talk with the opposition but the premier voiced his confusion over the newly formed league of electors after 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 isn't clear given that they don't show up when by this is the pm the league 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 nicole prokofiev's one of 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. more world news in brief the search for missing people on that capsized italian cruise line is now been suspended because the vessel shifted slightly they were worried of going to deeper water it was to protect the divers they were desperately searching for those twenty four people are still unaccounted for hopes of finding anyone else alive have all but faded now 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 great evacuated. position leader he will run for parliament in april it will mark the nobel peace prize with his return to official politics since the 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 renew 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 efforts right now as north korea rallies to bolster the average of its mostly are no new leader kim jong. israel's launched an air strike on northern gaza or it's killed to one of the matina injure 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. has been calm rather in recent days following an increase in rocket fire attacks in december. but later on we got the sports news that tonight for you all the latest from you number first let's get across the business cretinous here for. hello and welcome to our business balls at this hour 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 the i.m.f. wants its members to add five hundred billion dollars to its reserves and other lenders managing director christine legarde an ounce responder starting 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 threw out. movie lynch you know sure it was response of preparing last year by increasing the reserve fund to fifty seven billion dollars and the national wealth abundant eighty eight billions on the books this is obviously still lower than the pre-crisis levels of two thousand eight. hundred regular spending and create new budget maneuvers for the implementation of anti-crisis measures and we are prepared for the worsening of the crisis but we hope it remains that when she. does have a look at the markets now u.s. stocks rise as investors consider better than anticipated results from goldman sachs group along with the strength in technology sector goldman sachs shares jumped the company reported results of beat wall street's expectations the bank has

also cut its pay and 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 to half percent rise in food into colleges and a two percent gain for hank health. plan here in russia the markets closed in the black in a rather choppy trading day and was expended half a percent yes and a point seven percent in the black let's have a look at some index movers on the mindsets versus top oil company ross they have to present it in the black on stronger or process i washes largest lenders of rare bank has also finished high after coming under pressure early in the session the banks for your profit jumped seventy five percent talking ten billion dollars but

that's under russian accountants got it so and electricity producer on the russia it's higher 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. rally consultancy firm ernst and young says the sales were still a sixty five billion dollars with prices going down the country's inflation however analysts say the big era of intensive growth is over as the programs of state support have come to an end as for this year they expect no woman thirty percent growth in the markets. well that's all for now stay with us for headline news coming up next.

when can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards who is more is enough obviously the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. more 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 off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three if you put it in the

book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be seen up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to the original sit all the papers yes i'll be out there little i used the ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just a stage prop. luke.

sati from moscow a top story moscow reaffirms his push for talks to seoul syria rejecting any military intervention in pledging to ensure the u.n. does more with prize money but says america and some allies calls against the syrian regime with qatar proposing to send in troops. millions a week of p.t. uses a hitting this brick war right that the world's most popular online encyclopedia is only twenty four hours back in protest of american entrepreneurs to the scene.