a key oil brute. and in the business bulletin russia's finance minister tells business r t how the country is preparing for possible worsening scenarios in the european debt crisis the details do indeed twenty. nine am in the russian capital euro with r.t.i. marina joshie well the international pressure mounting on syria's president is reading fresh sanctions against the regime russia says it will block any u.n. security council move to authorize military intervention in the country seeing dialogue is the only way out of the ongoing violence the syrian government and the opposition remain in longer hands as time runs out for many in the country r.t. sara first reports. but how do you stop a fraction country from falling apart a country where some cities now resemble

a was where the economy's on its knees and what children being shot dead on the streets. it's a question everybody's desperately trying to find an answer to right now nobody knows what's going to happen some are calling for military intervention others calling for dialogue this it in case is not isolated. and i mention i mention the west and i mentioned the russian don't mention. everybody has its own interests but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov reaffirmed that moscow would not authorize a un resolution involving military intervention it struck a resident chord with the main opposition in the country. who refuse on principle any type of military foreign intervention because it proves the freedom of our country a profit model was he was speaking to the head of the opposition here inside the

country he told us that he had met russia's ambassador to syria just a few days ago and that the opposition are planning to go to moscow next month to continue the dialogue damascus has promised to push through reforms including parliamentary elections later this year to some here that's simply not enough. this could have been done in the past how we were and the killing and the violence because the population and the opposition and the people not to believe anymore in the promises of the regime the protesters had started by calling for reforms and now more than ten months into the unrest and they simply want president assad gone i think you're right. that many in syria right now simply want peace in their country and they hope reforms might be a way to achieve that. the president announced we will have experimental an. under the government and independent opposition if all the parts were included this would

be better for us all having different opinions is much better than having one sided discussion when i asked a few whom only she could see the opposition want to take comment then of course why not they're all syrians are true we all care about our country don't you trust me now they had to lay out them as a country descends deeper into crisis everyone's desperate to find a resolution it's take that the government reforms will go some way to building a bridge between the two sides but they sort of forms have been a long time coming and with so many lives already lost they're going to come at a very high price so what's the best guess. and sarah is also i'm dating what's happening online so to follow her blog at r.t. dot com for her first hand experiences from syria now the former of british ambassador to syria faisal eastwood doesn't hold much optimism about the crisis will be resolved any time soon with no effective opposition to replace president

asad i don't think there is a b. plan syria is sliding into a probably largely sectarian civil war. there is no government in waiting there is this syrian national council which is based outside syria which has a temporary president. but it does not command universal support amongst the dissidents. and its links to those who are actually on the streets while armed or unarmed in syria seems somewhat tenuous at times. now from divided syria to war stricken libya in a few minutes on our t.v. we investigate why countries who were pushing so strongly for regime change in tripoli are now clamoring for business contracts. also. hundreds of russians around the country will be observing the day of the appear as a dive into

a subzero would find out if i would take the plunge brave enough to do it. anger on the streets as raw if in romania as massive protests demanding anti-government cuts higher taxes and corruption at the top demonstrators have been clashing with riot police hurling stones and petrol bombs with their rage mainly focused on the president some sixty people have been injured violent rallies began last week over a highly unpopular health bill which has since been withdrawn artist on board reports from the capital bucharest. night and day they come to scream their defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence i'm in. here for the pain of their mean people the pain of the entire country for twenty two years old

they have done is destroyed the entire country our youth has no future they have no jobs. mostly water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. whether you're young or you're a pensioner you need a pension when you get old they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. or is not just here for herself her son left rumania put it to me to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess could protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to descend down down with the sask who has parents left us with a heritage and we are leaving our children with just debt the problem it's the

younger ones let me too to have a. good life you know mania. and we are not allowed to have peace because of stupidity of high levels of government and parliament. and international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions unlike in greece the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now. being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many and state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation hadn't even profited from it and had to pay for those who had profited. the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's

worse please let's not forget that we're in the eye of the storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too just not good enough say the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we come on as fast as we come by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them off is the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these are. the foundation to build on. this territory what should. the president about to see here and you can see i remain you want to tear it all

down yeah and start again yeah. yeah washington is fully prepared for an armed conflict with iran says the u.s. the fans department the pentagon chief leon panetta says there is still room for dialogue but sufficient military forces are in the persian gulf in case the iran decides to block a vital oil route there now this comes after tehran said it was close the strait of hormuz only if it security and the security of its nuclear facilities is threatened iran is backed by russia which says military action will bring this asterisk results to iran agreed to resume six party talks over to tomic program but there are fears iran is already under attack after the latest murder of one of its nuclear scientists which iran blames on israel former cia officer philip giraldi says a military confrontation and the gulf could lead to a new world war. 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 won't be that easy and i think that it virtually guarantees that iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict but the problem is that iran is 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 the worst case scenario is world war three i'm afraid i think a covert war is being waged by the united states and israel i think in this case the actual killers of these scientists were who were probably in rainy and were recruited by mossad or the cia outside of iran and then sent tended 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. the u.k. has admitted for the first time it was spying on russia six years ago with the help of a fake rock the advisory to the then british pm tony blair told the incident embarrassing generate two thousand and six a report of russian television claimed there was proof british spies used electronic equipment disguised in a fake rock to collect and transmit information britain expressed concern and surprise over the allegations at the time there have been a number of spy scandals between britain and russia the latest saw a russian woman winning her fight in london against extradition after she was accused of being a honeytrap for a british m.p. the. war scarred libya is slowly rebuilding its cities and its economy western companies and entrepreneurs are a buzz at the profit making opportunities the country now presents and asics on a boy who reports it's the same powers to help destroy the regime there are now lining up for

a chance to cash in. they may have how bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war the contras the poor the oil into the fire and now lining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here and simply it's simply not true in two thousand and ten most call was number seventeen on the lease to flee dismaying trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes with get off is a plus sized me the one that spearheaded the campaign against him the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on our jostling for contracts to rebuild believe some of them helped to destroy your. everything good good good. american business style is still

a bit of an oddity here but it's already catching up construction firm on our richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract with get off his government the war and peter subsequent incarceration threw him off track but now he hopes to make up for it i don't condemn anybody even the people that work for him you don't have a choice here if you don't work for him what do you do die. to reach your companies also involved in rebuilding iraq in afghanistan after the u.s. led invasion and libya is familiar turf he even says the country's business potential make shamble all over their post conflict areas there's nothing they don't need here you know if you compare it to like the united states everything they need everything we have you know everything there infrastructure has to be totally redone all the all the facilities you know and some of the things we are involved you know is executive centers with golf courses theme parks these people

haven't really. but all these years so now you can imagine getting you know a theme park or a little disneyland americans are not the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli they are now packed with businessman scouting for opportunities. even during good at this time turkey was pretty comfortable doing business in libya and was triple his fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hope for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authorities definitely few have a strong relations with. someone but it's confesses this is an instrument for the business. is not. the only ones who are still far slower hundred claiming their business interest in libya or russia and china both countries for vocal in their opposition to the use of force in libya

a stance that has already backfired most russian companies who did business in libya prior to the war are still has it into some personnel bag x. parts of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy yet. we're going to lose libya like we lost iraq syria and yemen will follow the sea they can drive russian others out of the market and then take advantage we have to work there we will take measures we're going to enter those markets are waiting for us if interim government see we don't take care it should be will say a few words about russian businesses being driven out then just step aside. but the ones losing the most i believe themselves in two thousand and ten day economy grew by about ten percent reaching abbey thing like that growth now seems as have a load as building the country from scratch on a boy car to be shipped. the new libya is quickly putting its past behind it but

the children of the country's late leader are seeking justice for the death of their father layer talks to the lawyer of colonel gadhafi as daughter about her determination to have his murderer fully investigated. it was not in the brutal fashion. the whole world saw with. prosecutors the international criminal court has an obligation to investigate all aspects of the conflict which was referred to the united nations security council. and that would include also the law on the gadhafi especially since the prosecutor himself has stated that there are grounds to believe that this is a war crime in the present instance we don't believe that for them to be authorities as they stand at present you don't have the will capacity to carry out such this to gratian and that's why we're calling for the investigation to be conducted immediately we shouldn't be sitting here today talking about why is an investigation taking place it should have started

a few days after the murder itself. given this on the very same. watch the full interview was a lawyer to get off his daughter in just over an hour here on our t.v. . the biggest online encyclopedia has resumed work after a twenty four hour a blackout in protest against anti-piracy bills being debated by the u.s. congress the english language would be p.t.s. site says the legislation would damage internet freedom the action has led eight senators who previously supported the bills to withdraw their backing che walsh from that we can media foundation says no government should control the web. we don't think that this kind of legislation we should exist so it shouldn't it should it shouldn't empower the united states government to take these kinds of actions against projects i mean it's a great it's what we call a gray area there's there's a lot of a lot of information hasn't been confirming this this bill is as a currency current state doesn't answer all those questions but certainly i think

after this day we're going to see a global community of internet users who are going to say you know we don't want to meddling with the way that the internet works in the united states so in so much as wiki pedia in a lot of other projects online are based here so should reassure us yes that that legislation does effects internet users around the world and we don't want that to come about but what i can say is that certainly these this legislation affects people outside of the u.s. if it was passed if it was to come forward the ability to share information from one web site to another the ability to for people to collaborate widely from all over the world you know this is going to come down so so what what is what is in fact. open collaboration environment which is it would just change dramatically we certainly don't think any individual government should have the ability to control what everybody in the world sees on the internet. r.t. or com is never down and always has more news for you to check any time you like. and activists are sounding the alarm over and the other plan that they claim is

curbing freedom just on the streets of new york anything you carry will be privy to the tronic eyes as the city's police had proposes to install body scanners throughout the big apple. and a group of ukrainian women go back to basics to air their grievances at the indian embassy in kenya find out what they are demanding an apology for at r.t. dot com. sic a look at some other stories from around the world the captain of the stricken italian cruiser has a bit of making an educational error the cause the vessel to run aground killing at least eleven. is accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning his ship before passengers were evacuated to safety meanwhile italian authorities are implementing a selvedge operation to pump more than two thousand tons of petrol from the vessels fuel tanks and fears of an environmental catastrophe. prime minister of pakistan

has arrived in the country's supreme court to face contempt charges after his failure to reopen a corruption investigation against the president use of residue on long refused to initiate a probe on the grounds the president has immunity from prosecution the court proceedings could result in the disqualification of both political figures forcing early elections within months. suicide blast has killed twelve people and injured dozens more in southern afghanistan a motorcycle bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded market and kajaki district of helmand meanwhile further south an afghan official and he's bodyguards were killed in a remote controlled explosion making him to serve a government worker to be assassinated in the past week. members of the occupy london movement have vowed to continue their protest and lodge an appeal against their addiction on wednesday a court ruled the camp must be removed from in front of st paul's concede. the cord back to local authorities who have been trying to vict the anti-capitalist

activists arguing their right to protest doesn't justify the disruption to the public and local businesses the camp has been in place since october and led to the first closure of the concede role since the second world war. out may be the middle of a freezing winter here in russia but that's not stopping the determent from taking a dip and ignite immersion in water in january the nineteenth is the traditional way to celebrate the ares i-x. holiday of if any but was artie's to balance a brave enough to test the water this. and nine zero the very day the russian or. the way the end of christmas time as well as if we need to quit we need is said to be the day when do you move back time and question believe that by diving into subzero would sound great to be light during that may

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who was it then subzero wasn't freezing had a little bit inside that i've done and. i still can't believe she did it but she did it well now is take a look at what's happening in the world of business natasha's here. it's twenty four minutes past nine am here in moscow you're watching business on r.t.e. the ongoing financial uncertainty in the europe has russia getting ready for possible worsening scenarios of the european debt crisis that's according to the country's finance minister. you know sure it was response of preparing last year by increasing the reserve fund to fifty seven billion dollars and the national wealth fund to eighty eight billion this is obviously still lower than the pre-crisis

levels of two thousand and eight. to prevent a group of spending and create new budget maneuvers for the implementation of anti-crisis measures will in all we are prepared for the worsening of the crisis but we hope it will not happen. and let's now see the markets oil first and gaining for a third day on a crude sentiment about the health of the global economy. is that one hundred want to have dollars a barrel at the moment brant is at one hundred mil level. and now on to equities asia first then this is here jump to a two month high that's after the i.m.f. eased worries about the euro debt crisis by boosting to one trillion dollars the amount of money set aside to deal with two kids nicky's gaining want to work for some of the sour and hong kong property shares among the main gainers that pushed the hang sang more than one percent higher. and the russian markets will start

their trading session in less than one hour both the r.t.s. and the my sex ended choppy trading session on wednesday with an gains. to call from verna capital says the increasing political risk in the run up to the presidential elections of march today on certain. overall markets are going to be depressed by the by the political uncertainty. we invest in our russian the past years got used to being anything but politically unstable and i guess what we've seen over the past few weeks is that this fear of political uncertainty squeaking back into into the people's mind as such i don't really expect the market to do much between now and march or any forseen positive or negative of that sort of europe and as such i guess we're going to spend more the same you know higher or you know little or very little boy. russian energy majors gals pom and i holding have made a second attempt to join their electricity assets aiming to create the country's

biggest power company in december they pulled back their application from the federal antimonopoly service saying the promise of the deal had to be revised due to the regulators criticism now the companies hope to finalize the deal by the end of march. oil company rules petrol became defer struction farm to offer it shares to the public in london this year and sold a thirty five percent stake and raised around two hundred seventy million dollars that values the company at around seven hundred million dollars which is lower than expected to spectral initially scheduled listing for december but it had to postpone it and busters showed very low interest ahead of the new year a company which has oil assets in western siberia will use the money to boost production and to pay off debts. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll see you back here sixty minutes.

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the last spoke. welcome back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories more sanctions in the works for syria as the e.u. amounts of pressure on the regime russia says it will block any u.n. security council move to authorize military intervention in the country scene dialogue is the only way out of the ongoing violence. the angry voice of our manias carries into his second week as protesters demand an answer to piling cuts taxes and deteriorating living standards some sixty.