but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus and international pressure mounting on syria's president the e.u. is now ready for fresh sanctions against the regime russia says it will block any u.n. security council move to authorize military intervention in the country saying dialogue is the only way out of ongoing violence the syrian government and the opposition remain at loggerheads as time runs out for many in the country are to sour further reports. 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 what 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 a calling for dialogue this sit in case is not isolated you have to. mention that mention the west and i mentioned the russian dimension. everybody has its own interests but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov re-offend that most k. would not authorize a u.n. resolution involving military intervention it struck a resident chord with the main opposition in the country. we refuse on principle any type of military foreign intervention because it threatens the freedom of our country often model damascus has promised to push through reforms including parliamentary elections later this year to some head that's simply not enough.

this could have been done in the past but the killing in the violence pushed the population and the opposition and the people not to believe anymore in the promises of the regime. protestors had started by calling for reforms and now more than ten months into the unrest and they simply want president assad gone i said you are here thank god that many in syria right now simply want peace in their country and they hate reforms might be a way to achieve that. the president announced we will have an expanded government and independent opposition all the parts were included this would be better for us all having different opinions is much better than having one sided discussion of a few new moon. 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 crisis everyone's desperate to find

a resolution it's fake that the government reforms will go some way to building a bridge between the two sides but these are forms have been a long time coming and with so many lives already lost they're going to have come at a very high price so. the best guess. is also updating what's happening online you can follow her blog or to dot com for her first hand experiences from syria now the former british ambassador to syria basil eastward doesn't hold much optimism about the crisis will be resolved anytime soon with no effective opposition to replace president. 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 well armed or unarmed in syria seems somewhat tenuous at times. well from divided syria to war stricken libya in a few minutes on our t.v. we investigate why countries who are pushing so strongly for it seem to change in tripoli are now clamoring for business contracts country also. hundreds of russians are on the front you'll be old serving the day of the pissing me as if the diving duo sub-zero would find out if i would take the line people i'm brave enough to do it. first washington is fully prepared for an armed conflict with iran says the u.s. defense department the pentagon chief leon panetta says there's still room for

dialogue but sufficient military forces are in the persian gulf in case tehran to signs to block a vital oil route there this comes after iran said it would close the strait of hormuz only if the country's security and the security of its nuclear facilities is threatened tehran is backed by russia so which says military action would bring disastrous results iran agreed to resume six party talks over a tomic program but there are fears the country is already under attack 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 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 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 the president has a major war the worst case scenario. it was 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 the scientist were who were probably a rainy and that were recruited by. or the cia outside of iran and then she intended 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 it probably was intelligence that was shared with. the u.k. has admitted for the first time that it was using a fake rocks to help spy on the process six years ago the chief of staff to then

british pm tony blair has revealed in an interview that it was highly embarrassing when the secret was exposed in two thousand and six in the january of that year a report on russian television claimed british spies hit electronic equipment inside a fake rock then used palm computers to transmit and receive information at the time russian security service described it as an absolutely new spy technology but tony blair laughed off the accusations while the u.k. foreign office tonight the claims that it was you are. more scared libya is slowly rebuilding its cities and economy western companies and entrepreneurs though are abuzz at the profit making opportunities the country now presents and is next on the book are 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 bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of

civil war become trees 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 in tripoli but 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 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 via some of them help to destroy you know. everything is right good good good. american business style is still a bit of an oddity here but it's already catching up construction firm owner 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 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 and they're 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 with. someone but that it would facilitate and this is an instrument for the business. is not the point that the only ones who are so far slow wonder it claiming their business interests 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 are

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 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 boycott r t. well the new libya is quickly putting its past behind. but the children of the country's late leader are seeking justice for the death of their father later are to talk to the boyer of colonel gadhafi as daughter about her determination to have his murder fully investigated. the father was murdered in

a brutal fashion. the whole world saw with. prosecutor the international criminal court has an obligation to investigate all aspects of the conflict which was referred to him by the united nations security council. and that would include also the local law on the gadhafi especially since the prosecutor himself his stated that there are grounds to believe that this is a war crime in the present instance we don't have to be with parties as they stand at present the 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. given this on the very same day. you can watch the full interview with the lawyer of gadhafi to daughter in about

fifteen minutes here on r.t. . and the biggest online encyclopedia has resumed work after a twenty four hour blackout in protest against anti-piracy bills being to baited by the u.s. congress the english language rekha behavior site says the legislation would damage internet freedom the action has led eight senators who previously supported the bills to withdraw their backing jay waltz from the wikimedia 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 great it's what we call a gray area there's there's a lot of a lot of information hasn't been confirmed in this this bill. as a currency current state doesn't answer all of 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 we compete in a lot of other projects online are based here are servers here of us yes that legislation does affect 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 passed 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 out so so what what is what is in fact. an open collaboration environment which is which has changed dramatically we certainly don't think any individual government should have the ability to control what everybody in the world sees on the internet. dot com is never down and always has more news for you to check any time you like activists are sounding the alarm over another plan that they claim is curbing freedom you can check out our t. dot com this time on the streets of new york anything you carry will be pretty

coming out with these police had to install body scanners throughout the big gamble . also online a group of we pray and women go back to basics to air their grievances of the indian embassy and here have by now what they're demanding an apology for it's all for you our. anger on the streets is rife in romania as massive protests demand an end to government costs 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 is this is since been withdrawn barton reports from the capital bucharest. night and they come to scream defiance by a single stare at sea and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled

over into anger even violence. i've come 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. motor 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 . or is not. just hear herself her son left her maid 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 dissent screwed down down with disaster as the parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children just didn't the problem it's the younger ones that need to to have a. good life you know mania. and we are not allowed to have peace because of stupidity of high levels of government that 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 in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this

situation that they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had provided the the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst doings let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too it's not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better from what every day discouraged inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania the door judy is to shorten the period as much as we can fast as we can. elections with many though accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets.

stirrer to. the president about to be here and you. want to tear it all down and start again. twenty minutes past the hour a look now what else is making headlines across the globe a suicide bomb blast has love six civilians dead in kandahar in southern afghanistan according to local officials the attacker detonated his explosives but trying to get through the gate of an airfield used by u.s. and coalition forces it's the second suicide bombing in the troubled south of the country in as many days. rescue efforts have been resumed at the shipwrecked cruise liner despite dwindling hopes for the twenty four people still missing search operations had been suspended when bad weather caused the vessel to shift leading to fears it might slide into deeper water eleven bodies have been

recovered so far from the wreckage meanwhile italian authorities have initiated a salvage operation to drain more than two thousand tons of fuel from the ship to prevent a possible 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. ross of july in the air a long long refused to initiate the probe on the ground the president immunity from prosecution the court proceedings could result in the just qualification of both political figures forcing early elections within months. members of the occupy london movement have vowed to continue their protests and lost an appeal against their eviction on wednesday a court ruled the camp must be removed from in front of st paul's cathedral the court backed local authorities who have been trying to evict the anticapitalist 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 closures of the cathedral since the second world war. now it may be the middle of a freezing winter here in russia but that's not stopping the determined from taking a dip that's right i'm in my immersion in the water on january the nineteenth is the traditional way to celebrate the orthodox holiday of the epiphany but it was being met say that was brave enough to test the waters for us. every day the russians. and of course this time. did we need is said to be the day when jesus was baptized and wesson believe that by diving into the subzero would come they to be cleansed during that may need to come to us in the water which then turns into a whole you would man the plank to be good and bad they thank god when in rome

where the romans do all right soon finding a way to dart. myself like you do would not and never. look back at all. of. us but. most of the time. but.

then subzero wasn't pleasing has never been so that i've done and. let. her brave soul bear that news the bullets in both our here in our tear up next natasha's here with a wink just different. twenty four minutes past two pm moscow time you're watching business on r.t.e. despite record outflows in two thousand and eleven most experts see no threat over ruble devaluation for the past three days the will has been appreciating the dollar but money market rates rising the most of the month that's the russian companies convert overseas earnings into local currency to pay taxes for ben cardin and from troika dialog says russia is in a very good position right now. but you know what's wrong clothing to do.

with when you're in belgium it all year we are normally a bit. because we were a big economy would be because you were demand internally with the river structure but it's a very bright stable of agree. with your position or still better you can explain better to people in other parts of the world. we would have trouble with the. russian banks report a record high profits for twenty levon despite the economic uncertainty the central bank says the total profits reached twenty seven billion dollars held by strong growth in one day the central bank expect a lower profits this year around twenty two billion dollars. and let's now check out the markets well first then it's getting for a third day on unproved sentiment about the health of the global economy but w t eyes at around one hundred one and a half dollars a barrel brant is topping one hundred thousand eleven dollars. and now want to

equities european stocks are mixed this hour that's after being quite upbeat earlier in the day following the i.m.f. decision to boost to one trillion dollars the amount of money it set aside for fighting the euro debt crisis and london the footsie is putting on the launch germany's dax is want to negative. and that's another choppy trading day for the russian markets. but they're managing to stay in the positive territory the sour the r.t.l. says a quarter of the time i or all the my sex is a temple besides. and i was took up the biggest movers on the my six financials are on the rise this hour with profits biggest numbers bear bank gaining percent oil major g.n.p. b.p. is blocked this week the company begins drilling its first offshore project in vietnam and electricity producer t.g. k nine is among the main gainers on the news that its companies merging its energy assets with gazprom. and now speaking about energy majors gal's palm

and i s holding have made a second attempt to join the 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 parameters of the deal had to be revised due to the regulators criticism now the company's hope to finalize the deal by the end of march. for car market grew whopping forty percent last year that's according to price waterhouse coopers russia is the fastest grower among the auto producing countries including the united states and china however as the only route from p.w. c. points out it's all a matter of perspective. the growth which was spectacular forty percent was largely because of the fall in the market the previous is was so spectacular as well so what's really happened is the market has begun to recover almost to pre-crisis level so that forty percent growth needs to be understood in the context of what

was before secondly though it's very interesting point this is psychological front to the russian market reacts extremely to what's happening around the world when when things are going good they react well and when things are going bad they're very cautious and that's one hundred the last crisis the other markets fell by fifteen twenty percent the russian market fell fifty percent because people stopped buying not because it enough the money they just stopped buying and now we're seeing that as people got money they're spending more of it so we have this kind of volatility so it's a good cheer put you need to understand those two things. and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back with an update about fifteen minutes .

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