this is our view coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program and with international pressure mounting on syria's president the e.u. 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 as the only way out of the ongoing violence the syrian government and the opposition remain at loggerheads as time runs out for manny in the country r.t. sara for a three four pts. but how do you stop the fractured country from falling apart a country where some cities now resemble a was a where the economy's on its knees and where children are being shot dead on the streets. it's a question everybody's desperately trying to find an answer to you right now nobody

knows what's going to happen some are calling for military intervention others calling for dialogue this sit in case is not isolated of turkey. and i mention that mention of the west and i mentioned the russian don't mention. anybody has own interests when 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 most again 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 with 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 would hear that god 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 a saw having different opinions is much better than having a one sided discussion tonight after a few. moments you can see the opposition want to take comment then of course we're not we're all syrians are true we all care about our country. as

a country descends deeper into quite everyone's desperate to find a resolution it's fake that the government reforms will go some way to building a bridge between the tea sites but these were forms have been a long time coming with so many lives already lost they're going to come at a very high price sir nazi the best guess and fair is also updating what's happening online or follow her blog at r.t. dot com for her first hand experiences from syria. now the former british ambassador to syria faisal eastwood doesn't hold much optimism that the crisis will be resolved anytime soon with no effective opposition to replace president assad 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 whether armed or unarmed in syria seems somewhat tenuous at times. 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 a business contract in the country also. hundreds of russians around the country will be observing the day of the pippen meet as a diving duo subzero would find out if i will take the plunge if i'm brave enough to do it. anger on the streets is rife in romania as massive protests demand an end

to government cuts higher taxes and corruption at the top demonstrators have been clashing with riot police hurling stones and petrol bombs with the arrange 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 it was drawn and reports from the capital bucharest. night and day they come to scream their defiance fighting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence i'm in. here for the pain of the remaining 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 boring the money because they don't have it had a war is not just here for herself her son left to remain here but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped under direct and most of their anger at the president try and assess could protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to take descent down down with the sask who has parents left us with a heritage and we're leaving our children with just debt the problem it's the young ones that need 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 remain 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 in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their situation there and even profited from it had to play for those who had proof or did you know 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 said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more to 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 fast as we can by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets here these days here. are the foundation to build on like you know much. more stereotypic much of the spirit of the president about to head here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down and start again. washington is fully prepared for an armed conflict with iran says the u.s. defense department the pentagon chief leon panetta says there is still room for dialogue but sufficient military forces are in the persian gulf in case tehran

decides to block a vital oil road there this comes after at around ten it would close the strait of her most only if sick if its security and the security of its nuclear facilities is threatened iran is backed by russia which says military action would bring disastrous results tehran agree to resume six party talks on. word to tonic program but there are fears that iran is already under attack after the latest murder of one of its nuclear scientists which tehran blames on israel former cia officer philip giraldi says a military confrontation in 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 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 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 pillars of the scientists were who were probably a rainy that were recruited by mossad or the cia outside of iran and then sent in to 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 advisor to vend british pm tony blair told the incident and they're saying in january two thousand and six they reported on russian television claim there was

proof british spies used electronic equipment disguised in a fake rock to collect and transmit information written expressed concern and surprise over the allegations at the time and there have been a number of spy scandals between britain and russia the latest saw a russian woman winning her fight against extradition. after she was accused of being a honeytrap for a british m.p. . war scarred libya is slow we rebuilding its cities and its economy western companies and entrepreneurs are abuzz the profit making opportunities the country now presents and as excited boy the reports it's the same powers that helped destroy the regime that are now lining up for a chance to cash in. they may have how to bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war the contras that poured the oil into the fire and now mining to cash in

undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here in tripoli and it's simply not true in two thousand and ten most call was number seventeen on the least of leave this main 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 only the one that spearheaded the campaign against him the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on their own jostling for contracts to rebuild believe here some of them help to destroy you doing. everything right they did a 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 and 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 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 have been through. we had an entertainment all these years so now you can imagine 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 tripoli's fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hope for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authorities differently if you have a strong relations we can see it somewhat but that's it would facilitate and remember for the business. is not the. only ones who are still forced little wonder it 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 personnel back x. periods of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy. we're going

to lose 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 we are waiting for us if interim government see we don't take care it should be will see a few words about russian businesses being driven out then just step aside. but they once losing the most i believe themselves in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching abbey thing like that growth now seems as heavy load as building the country from scratch on a boy car to see. how the new libya is quickly putting its past behind it but the children of the countries lately here are seeking justice for the death of their father later archie talks to the lawyer of colonel gadhafi is daughter about her and terminations to have his murder fully investigated. father was murdered

murdered in the brutal fashion. the whole world story. 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 those so that 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 to begin with origins as they stand at present you don't have the will the capacity to carry out such as 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. even this on the very same day. and watch the full interview with a lawyer to get out his daughter in about ten minutes time here on our team. now

the biggest online encyclopedia has resumed work after a twenty four hour blackout in protest against and piracy bills being debated by the u.s. congress the english language would get pedia site says the legislation would damage internet freedom the action has led eight senators who previously supported the bills to withdraw their backing jay walsh from there we can media foundation says no government should control the web. we don't think that this kind of legislation should exist so it shouldn't it shouldn't empower the united states government to take these kinds of actions against projects i mean it's a grid 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 as occurred in scream state doesn't answer 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 should reassure us yes that legislation does effect 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. it was just it was to come forward the ability to share information from the web site to another the ability to for people to collaborate widely from all over the world you know this is going to come you know 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 the government should have the ability to control what everybody in the world sees on the internet. guess what r.t. dot com is never down and always has more news for you to check any time you like and activists are sounding an alarm over another plan that they claim is curbing freedom this time on the streets of new york and i think you carrie will be privy to electronic eyes the city's police had proposes to install body scanners

throughout the big apple. and the growth of ukrainian women go back to basics to air their grievances at the indian embassy in can find out what they are demanding an apology for at r.t. dot com. alice take a look at some other stories from around the globe the captain of a stricken italian cruiser has admitted making an educational error of the cause the vessel to run aground killing at least eleven. is accused of mall. both manslaughter and abandoning his ship before passengers were evacuated to safety meanwhile italian authorities are implementing a salvage operation to pump more than two thousand tons of petrol from the vessel's fuel tanks and it fears of an environmental catastrophe. the prime minister of pakistan appeared in the country's supreme court today to face contempt charges after his failure to reopen a corruption investigation against the president is so. 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. a suicide blast has killed twelve people and injured dozens more in southern afghanistan a motorcycle bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded market and the kajaki district of helmand meanwhile further south an afghan official and his bodyguards were killed in a remote controlled explosion making him the third 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 vacation on wednesday accord ruled the camp must be removed from in front of st paul's cathedral the core back to local authorities who have been trying to victor the end say capitalist activists argue 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 cathedral since the second world war. maybe the middle of a freezing winter here in russia but that's not stopping the determined from taking a dip and midnight immersion in water in january the nineteenth is the traditional way to celebrate the orthodox holiday of the but was r.t.s. to bang would say brave enough to test the waters. the ninety. day the russian. way the end of christmas time as well as if we need to could we need is said to be the day when jesus was baptized and doesn't believe that by diving into subzero woods on day to be light during the day that may need to come to us through the woods which then turns into a whole you would say and planned to be good and bad they saying god when you

were the romans do you thought i'd see you finding a way to dart. myself like you do would not and never. look back at all. but most of the time. but.

then subzero wasn't they have never been to that i've done and. experience of a lifetime there for our correspondent and then bring us up to date for now let's see what's happening in the world of business with natasha. it's twenty minutes past and i am here and you're watching business on r.t. the ongoing financial uncertainty in europe has russia getting ready for possible worsening scenarios in the european debt crisis that's according to the country's finance minister on top so one of. the movie because we started preparing last year by increasing our 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 growth of spending and

create new budget maneuvers for the implementation of anti-crisis measures we are prepared for the worsening of the crisis but we hope it will not happen. unless the markets oil first standards gaining for a third day on the crude sentiment about helping the global economy but obviously i as a one hundred one of the house dollars a barrel ranters at one hundred and one hundred more than that it's. now on to equities asia first day and this is here to at one time the top of the i.m.f. eased worries about these your debt prices by boosting to one trillion dollars the amount of money set aside to deal with the issue tokyo's nikkei is gaining more than one percent this hour and hong kong property shares are among the main gainers that pushed the hang seng to more than one and a poor percent higher. and of the russian markets also start of the trading session higher both the r.t.s. and the my six are gaining around house percent and we tokuko from there now

campbell says high oil prices support the markets so investors should look at medium term opportunities. the overall market is looking pretty well supported by how well purses so what the casual investors should think about is that use this time. it's a good opportunity to build a portfolio to build the names that are really attractive to take a bit of a longer term you're beyond the next eight to twelve weeks and if history is of any guidance then russia usually closes the gap to the world price of oil prices up to form since since august september the gap is what into what thirty percent so if they start over somewhere a lot of close i think this year could be a good indication and hopefully it's going to get a closing up of all that's going to that is going to go down. russian energy majors gazprom and i holding have made a second attempt to join their electricity assets aiming to create the country's

biggest power company in december and they pulled back their application from the federal antimonopoly service saying the program winners of the deal had to be revised due to regulators criticism now the companies hope to finalize the deal by the end of more. oil company petrol became the first russian firm to offer its shares to the public in london this year it sold a thirty five percent stake and raised around two hundred fifty million dollars that values the company at around seven hundred million dollars which has a lower than expected bruce petro initially scheduled the listing for december but then had to postpone as potential investors showed a low interest ahead of the new year the company were charles oil assets and west german say bierria will use the money to boost production and to pay off debts. and that's all the latest on the business the chicken always find a lot more of our. business.

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welcome back here with our look at the top stories more sanctions in a war for syria as the e.u. mounts pressure on the regime and 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 and the angry voice of remains carries into a second week as protesters the man an answer to piling cuts caps and deteriorating living standards some sixty people.