presidential envoy to africa has recently visited libya he said that all sides have to sit down for talks to bring order to the country and avoid civil war you can watch the full interview in about ten minutes but here's a preview. 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 this civil war is not over in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of new governmental forces its own of tribes it's a zone of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if. political elite is not ready to sit at the round table. today marks

one year since the deadly bombing of moscow and yet of an airport twenty seven people were killed in the blast carried out by a suicide bomber at the international arrivals hall investigators later identified the suicide bomber as a twenty year old from russia's republic of english trained by islamist terrorists and this is what seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year fourteen detained one of the world's most wanted terrorists the model who claimed responsibility for vast amount of the bombing is still on the run the attack was followed by an increase in security levels at major transport hubs cross the country. now fireman a standing by houses burn and police watching while people drown a spate of real life incidents in the united states has sparked concern for what kind of society is becoming become a chicken reports sticking to the rules and fear of litigation appeared to be trumping care and compassion. jeanne 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 it out maybe if you had and i decided in five hours but i was 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 showed 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 richard 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 and 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 drowned 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 here 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 this is the works i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. some world news and before the south first to its knees west coast the bodies of two women have been recovered from the capsized costa concordia cruise ship bringing the confirmed death toll to fifteen rescue teams are continuing the search for seventeen people still missing experts are expected to begin pumping fuel from the ship within the next twenty four hours to avoid a potential spill the vessel is holding around one point nine million liters of fuel in its tanks. two kenyan presidential candidates for the stand trial that the hague on charges of crimes against humanity men are among

. more prominent kenyans accused of orchestrating a deadly wave of violence following the country's two thousand and seven election more than twelve hundred people were killed in the country's post-election clashes more than half a million forced to flee their homes no date has been set for the trials. and fifteen people have been killed and three others wounded after a gunman opened fire on several boats in the southern philippines government officials believe the men may have been attacked by rival fish and after they strayed into their fishing grounds the region is a stronghold for is the most rebels of the authorities have ruled out militant involvement. but this is in this next hour with kareena. it's twenty four past ten am here in moscow welcome to business all is continuing monday's gains following the use decision to adopt an embargo against iran over its nuclear program or imports from iran to europe should stop in july as

a response the 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 want to pick from platts believe that the warning and then bar go more of a negotiation point. the ward being also says that there would be a review in me 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 the last thing that europe really wants is a confrontation because that would 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 the 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 oil is fluctuating below one hundred dollars a barrel in new york speculation the u.s. stock gained last week countered concern that iran may respond to that one margaux brant blend is close to one hundred eleven dollars per barrel while trading at over ninety nine dollars per barrel now into equities asia shares advance modestly with energy firms higher following the european embargo of iranian oil exports japan's in packs up two point eight percent in the consumer electronics sectors sony is losing almost three percent of reports about its tie up with the troubled olympus and hong kong and several other asian stock markets are closed for the living new year holiday. russian markets open lower on tuesday the r.t.s. is losing point one percent in the first minutes of trading column isaacs is shedding over a quarter of a percent michael steiner about criticize that the upcoming davos economic forum

a bomb a speech tell us corporate results will keep investors busy all week long. given the improved outlook for the oil price because of the around 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 friends 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 in more than one hundred twenty companies and you know the states are releasing their fourth quarter financial results so we'll be quite a busy week on the external side and then here at home in russia investors and close attention to the 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 metro

police and m.k. . 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 one fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders problem says bank commerce bank hold it up in russia several months ago this is part of the effort to increase capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with european legislation. that's all the business for now but other back in less than one hour the war. if. you.

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well look. it's technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back this is r.t. time for the headlines now damascus rejects the arab league calls for president assad to step down and form a new government the opposition has decided to extend its observer mission to the country as a ten month long unrest in syria rages on. stands defiant imposes its toughest sanctions yet banning the import of crude from iran response to its disputed nuclear program new oil contracts have been ruled out while existing deals

are allowed to run to die which the e.u. is hoping to secure turnitin sources of fuel supply. and derided for being one sided extradition law between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice places fresh calls for review it's been criticized as a one way street to american jails sometimes for fences not even considered crimes 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. you know my deal chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation

culson 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 though 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 of the julian 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 you tends 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 this civil war is not to work 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 it's says zone of tribes it's a zone all of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a 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 of this ababa that 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 know 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 there are ordinary libyan guys and gals 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 in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer khadafi and some people are really happy with that fact because then favor of sharia laws and 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 isn't all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people

talk about necessity of establishing a sharia law for the country and all of these lawmakers world and all over the world so many 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 of. human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to most of the julian in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the i.c.c. you hate to bring the case so this is a nation of law michael duffy to the 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 you leave does not have anything in common with the previous regime now the 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 of the extract oil the russian railroads are ready to give back all the 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 new libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not look at 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 assets 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 than more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability people that many other countries were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with the syrian case we have to play political chess but not american football is that where people want to intervene into. i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is there 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 the observers and by the arab league can play the role as a factor of stability we had 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 said 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 the 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 between the 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 and this along with world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that a civil war can all be

a political solution what do you think finances and arms the free syrian army the 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 assad belongs to a family which is an a lovely family a 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 companies should 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 a says support base at this point well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to all the opposition and to start in the massive war or mace a message 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 of so-called arab spring particularly the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the south of the zone in sub-saharan i recently visited new. america and for these four countries in what is happening in the desert what is happening in this often zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the market price of what market 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 but do you think the fight for don't mean nation over and the african resources could destabilize the region well the it's not the fight it's a kind of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the effort can continue during the ninety's to recognize that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for the real price or sometimes for the price which is on the 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 as all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. well into the for. this month charged by particles that make up the fabric of the universe find what you're looking for in the deep siberian forest prevent a fire with the help of lasers in fibers pull out your tablet of a new gaming religion and let the inventor begin all of that here in novosibirsk technology on day age here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered.

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would. move a little. damascus rejects arab league calls for president assad to step down and form a new government with the opposition he has decided to extend its observer mission to the country as of ten months alone the rest in syria rages on. tehran stands defiant as the e.u. and i use its toughest sanctions yet banning the imports of crude from iran spawns to its disputed nuclear program new oil contracts have been ruled out on existing deals are allowed to run until july which time the e.u. is hoping to secure alternative sources of fuel supply. plus do for being one

sided extradition or between the u.s. and u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces fresh calls for review it's been criticised as a one way street to american jails sometimes for offenses considered crimes in britain. we've got all day to sports teams with. thanks kerry along welcome to sport an artsy come into your life from the russian capital with me ramon calls for a plenty up ahead but first the headlines. big story. becomes the first semifinalist of the spread in open after defeating i'm going to advance golf ball and. unseeded you can see me to my car of a stop sign what are syrian they will yams in straight sets to set up an australian open quarter final against maria sharapova men's champion about djokovic is also

through. and in football transfer news russian international go is to stay put in the english premier league while national team mate jimmy out of been at it is stacking his bags for a return home. but let's get to tennis first though and she's days quarterfinal matches. straight in open because it's through her first semifinal of this tournament after a come from behind six seven six love six two victory over. the third seed will face defending champion kim clijsters in the semi's who eliminated the world number one karyn wozniak he had a little earlier in two sets six three seven six. in the men's drawl for that open champion of federer takes on the world number eleven juan martin del potro and federer won the first set six four and it's four one for him in the second set right now and a little later a world number two.