caucasus region thirty militants or affiliated with the caucasus emirate terrorist organization were linked to the attack seventeen of them were killed in special operations last year and four have been detained but russia's most wanted terrorist . who claimed responsibility for the bombing in eastern run it followed an increase in security levels at all transportation hubs across the country. well some world news in brief for you this hour with our first two were to these west coast bodies of two women have been recovered from the top science of costa concordia cruise ship bringing the confirmed death toll to rescue teams are continuing this search for seventeen people still missing experts are expected to begin pumping fuel from the ship within the next twenty four hours to avoid potential spill the vessel is holding around one point nine million liters of fuel. tanks.

two kenyan presidential candidates will stand trial hate charges of crimes against humanity than are among four prominent kenyans accused of orchestrating a deadly wave of violence for in the country's two thousand and seven election more than twelve hundred people were killed during the country's post-election clashes. in and. no date has been set trends. and fifteen people have been killed and three others wounded after a gunman opened fire on several boats in southern philippines military officials believe the men may have been attacked by rival fishermen after they strayed into their fishing grounds region is a stronghold for is the most rebels north orit's is ruled out militant involvement . firemen are standing by while houses burn and police watching while people drown a spate of real life incidents the us has sparked a concern of what kind of society is becoming it's going to church again reports

sticking to the rules and they are of the to geisha appeared to be triumphing care and compassion. jean chronics house burned down to ashes as firefighters stood by and just watched they refused to save mr chronics home because he hadn't paid a seventy five dollars fire fee that the county requires i thought they'd come out and put. him if he hadn't but i do said the five dollars but thrown as the house went up in flames the cryonics were begging the firefighters to make an exception saying they were ready to pay whatever it took to put out the blaze but they were told it was too late thanks my mother for my mother's my grandmother's my great grandmother's well we're in the house same happened to vicki belle from tennessee firefighters stood by and idly watched her trailer home burn because she too hadn't paid the seventy five dollars fee no one said they were in fact dispatched that they felt they were all safe. in the us foreign policy varies from state to state

from county to county in south fulton tennessee if you don't pay you're out of luck anybody that's not inside the city limits of self interest service that we offer it about except it will go down behind numerous similar incidents lies a problem rigid local rules versus the responsibility of the government to help its citizens when they're in trouble or rather versus basic human compassion we're really poor in terms of humanity i mean when it's seventy five dollars that is the more important thing and i get in a situation like this it just shows you that we've become far too concerned about about every single dollar you know and also that it just shows it's really kind of it's an all about me you know we just don't live in the community anymore this is like there's no sense of this like shared responsibility for the individuals in that community in california police and firemen watch the man drown saying they didn't have proper certifications for water rescue which would leave them open to

possible lawsuits if they attempted to save him city officials blamed the incident on budget cuts so as the more. then an hour long tragedy unfolded authorities stood there and did nothing this is the part where rules and regulations defy logic that was the end result of body washing up to the shore. so you think about it it's horrible how can we allow that to happen in the us is a very litigious society we have more lawyers per capita per capita than any other country and i think the world and so you know when you have to worry when you're a rescuer and you have to worry about a lawsuit and you cannot rescue a person as a result i mean that's that's really a problem if the firefighters had rescued the man even saved his life but somehow maybe broke a rib or hurt him in some other way you know they stand to be sued in court and that's just the way our system works even after the serve brought raymond zack's body closer to the shore firefighters refused to get in the water and retrieve the

corpse so they waited until a passer by volunteered to do the job the logic you don't get anything unless you pay makes sense to a lot of americans but when you have money and rules on one side of the scale and humanity the human urge to help on the other and money wins this is when one gets the says that something is wrong with the way the system works i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. on the back of the recap of the main stories told about first the business news coming. hello and welcome to business here in our thanks for joining me this. morning or is continuing monday's gains following the decision to adopt against iran over its nuclear program imports from iran to europe should stop as of july as a response to the sanctions tehran is threatening to close the strait of hormuz

through which twenty percent of the world's oil exports pass however jorge i want to pick from platts believes the warning alomar go i'm more of a negotiation point the wording also says that they'll be a review in may so they're almost means that i am ready to do something in july but i can change my mind in may i don't think anybody wants these things to happen because europe right now is very weak financially economically and the last thing that europe really wants is a confrontation because that will be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from iran will go to asia and oil that was going to asia from other locations like west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always replace the oil that's not the issue the issue is the level of pain. let's look at the numbers now or the seeing gains this hour private

land is close to one hundred eleven dollars. is trading at over ninety nine dollars . now into equities and shares are on the rise energy stocks are following your own iranian oil exports so is losing almost three percent on reports about the tie up with the troubled olympos on the hang seng has closed for public holidays and two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the r.t.s. in the mines extended monday's trading session on a positive note with the r.t.s. one of a half percent michael stipe from a criticism of the upcoming economic forum speech after u.s. corporate results will keep investors busy all week long. given the improved outlook for the oil price because of the iran news that we saw yesterday and given the very low valuations for russia generally and the fact that many of our clients

continue to see fund flows into the russian dedicated funds we think that the market will gradually melt higher and that's it investors will pay attention to global events and this week there are a lot of them investors will look at the f one c. meeting coming up president barack obama's speech his state of the nation's address in addition we've got the world economic forum and more than one hundred twenty companies and you know the states are releasing their fourth quarter financial results so will be quite a busy week on the external side and then here at home in russia investors unpick close attention to macro data most notably the unemployment report in russia for december in addition to industrial production figures on the corporate side will also see operating updates from metals and mining companies including natural. the financial woes of european banks are affecting their business abroad one of germany's biggest lenders commerzbank is leaving the russian market it's selling a fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local and there's. bag

commerzbank halted operations in russia several months ago the sale as part of an effort to increase capital by five billion euros in order to comply with you legislation. ok that's our update for this hour but forget you can always find more financial stories just log on to our website.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor props we do not want anymore a new deal molds. our core system is just so there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on in america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment to be used as guinea pig. oh now we have more questions than we have had three guards. like.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. led mission and free accreditation free cones for chargers free arrangements free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media oh don tarty dot com. please. more news today violence is once again fled

uplands these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all today please come up. time for main headlines now damascus rejects the arab league calls for president assad to step down and form a new government with the opposition and leagues decided to extend its observer mission to the country as a ten month long unrest in syria rages on. terror on stands defiant as the even poses its toughest sanctions yet banning the import of crude from iran responds to its disputed nuclear program the oil contracts have been

ruled out system deals are now to run to die at which time the e.u. is looking to secure alternative sources of fuel supplies. just derided for being one sided extradition or between the u.s. and katie's idea helped bring terror suspects to justice faces fresh calls for review it's been criticised doesn't one way street american jails sometimes for offenses nor even considered crimes in britain. now an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and some possible solutions. speaks to russia's main envoy to africa.

chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation calls and also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we'll start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis you as an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lock receive failed in the country last time i have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the most awful drill even with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day and tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle the mob get together how to we see it live get back to it has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in

a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was a real civil war and in some areas of libya of this civil war is not the words in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces its own of tribes it's a zone all of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which russia was. using last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disability that's the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other

libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because the ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with five star hotels because you know and all that stuff but some people are thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk

about necessity of establishing a sharia law for the country and all these lawmakers world and all over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably say today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son safe islam will actually get a fair trial a lot will depend on that that would show the new face of libya actually i think that he will be in the government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the values. human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to most of the julio in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiative of i.c.c. in the hague to bring the case of us as a nation of moammar gadhafi to international criminal court actually his response

was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the international community that and you libya does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that and some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like i guess probably of his working together with any a jeep to extract oil the russian railroads are ready to get back other russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that you libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top news for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject

to the. arab spring and at this point how big is assad's support base because we don't hear much about that syria is different because syria is a cornerstone for political settlement in the middle east and the geo strategic role of syria is sorry to say that and but don't want to insult anybody but it's more important the more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability for them many other countries that were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syria in case we have to play political chess but not american football is that where people want intervening to. i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is strategically speaking it's a wise idea i think that what syria needs today it needs more political efforts it needs political dialogue and that's why i heard with the regret that president

bashar assad said that he is not in favor of continuing the mission of observers sent by the arab league he got pretty upset when russia seriously think that observers sent by the arab league can play the role as a factor of stability when russia also offered several times that russia can be a docking mechanism between the government and the opposition unfortunately all our proposals are being rejected for the time being can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as i sat ship step down isn't their role really to mediate rather than i demand anything like that but i think that their role is to mediate that's what the secretary general is saying and that's what he's proposing no to mediate to build bridges and we russia strongly believe that regional organizations should play a more important role in today's international politics what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not a syrian regime we are protecting syria as the country we are protecting syria as

a nation we want to help syrian people and syria as a country so you bring up a very important point because at this point if you look at it from the outside it does look like a full fledged war that's been going on for a while do you think a regime change in syria in order to protect the syrian people it's reasonable i seriously think that today the syrian political elite has to understand that the civil war will not lead to any political solution it will produce more blood from both sides it will produce more hatred and it will make national. conciliation more and more difficult i think that i was syrian friends from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq you scenario should look at the libyan example should look at other sad examples spender's along with world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that a civil war cannot be

a political solution what do you think finances and arms the free syrian army of syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least for syrian opposition delegations were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finances coming from different sunni states different companies individuals what we see in syria today and i really regret to see that we see more and more of a conflict security and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar belongs to us a family which is an ally we family the shia family the majority of the population in syria soon is and unfortunately that is one of the biggest problems of the middle east today we see more and more competition between the shia and the sunni in some cases it is represented by the competition between iran and turkey but in some cases it is represented by the competition between different political and

really shows a religious circles within one state how big cases support base at this point well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to arm all the opposition and to start massive war or mason mess of invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from sub-saharan africa are the vibes of the arab spring felt there in the region at all one of the most concerning. results so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the south of the zone in sub-saharan is own i recently visited. and morocco and for these four countries and what is happening in the desert where this happening in and the soccer the zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the market of what market is today saw get the chinese made man pad that was

and along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs it's for nothing and i think it's a real problem it's a real problem because uncontrolled trafficking may end up somewhere in the south of africa or somewhere in the south of europe do you think the fight for don't mean nation over at the african resources could destabilize the region well the it's not the fight it's an out of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the african continent during the ninety's to recognize that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for their real price or sometimes for the price which is under the market and today we see competition between many countries in the african continent it's not chinese domination like it was in the ninety's we see turkey was iran we see russia we see western countries

we see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economy is there and all the new economy is all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. the e. to to shoot to the beasts want to.

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you. damascus rejects are of the calls for president assad to step down and form a new government the opposition the league has decided to extend its observer mission to the country as a ten month long on rest in syria rages on. iran stands defiant terms that even poses its toughest sanctions yet banning the import of crude from iran response to its disputed nuclear program new oil contracts have been ruled out but existing deals are allowed to run to die at which time the e.u. is hoping to secure in turn its of sources of fuel supply. plus derided for being

one sided the extradition or between the u.s. and u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice basis calls for review it's been criticized one way streets to american jails sometimes for offenses considered crimes in britain. now it's a way to remand it with today's sports news. a welcome just for an artsy come and see a live from moscow with me we're on call for a leg up ahead but first the headlines. victoria azarenka billers becomes the first seven finalist at this credit open after defeating i mean scored bon scott of poland. on c.d.'s and even my car of us by time warner so we know williams in straight says to set up

a straight in open quarter final against maria sharapova men's champion about djokovic is a little fruit. and in football transfer news russian international i'm on public go is to stay put in the english premier league while national team mates to me are to be latino it's backing these banks for a return home. let's get to his first though and choose this quarter final matches at the spread in open victoria azarenka is through to her first semifinal all this tournaments after a come from behind six seven six six two victory over poland's agony and rub on scum the third seed only the winner of the other issues a quarter point onward defending champion came choli cers is in now on court against world number one carolyn bugs me i keep following itself when over twenty eleven finalists in the not so eight time grand slam champion clijsters has won the first set six three and it's fine for kim in the second. in the men's role four time was truly an open champion in a row ship federer.