the situation in syria has improved qatar calls for military intervention is now out. of round of sanctions on the syrian regime on monday it's already under a set of heavy penalties but it's the people who are feeling the squeeze so our first reports now from damascus. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to give syria we don't have any tourists we don't have any for most of the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive around the sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime this we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions this woman syria's struggling economy actually they are going to chivas syrian people in

a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed by big business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely outside this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions this that this simply affecting the race is every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now i depended upon these types of diesel generators that are needed because our cars avocado not make daily blow people's lives where the not everyone can afford the back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make a generator is very expensive it costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds as i know it's not cheap and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an export and the cost

of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising prices have pushed many businesses to take their trades and money elsewhere in the business. don't put all the money in the business keep somebody maybe. this is the. market because norm or cash money for money. and treats a recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i hardly. but you are who. stops in two hours of the spike cools the dialogue is being political and

economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the. arab league observers in mission has also made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls for even more observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're generally not killing innocent people one of the go to hide they the sanctions impact is heavily contested this need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation. even worse. they don't ask if syria. the u.s. senate's allies accuse a syrian regime of cracking down on peaceful protesters but the mask is claims it's

fighting a foreign funded insurgency political analyst. says the opposition is receiving weapons from abroad and becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share in the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have used violence we see this as coalition more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition and that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian embassy structure syrian government institutions the police and also innocent civilians are getting killed in syria and so really the violence now is a two way street. we've got more and events in the middle east coming up in the

stands defiant union knows its toughest sanctions get oil imports or iran responds to disputed nuclear program the latest. us when we hear of the door suits comes at the cost of human life rescue services in the u.s. or criticised for the cases where they looked the other way during emergencies. in libya least five people have been killed and twenty others wounded supporters of former leader moammar gadhafi seized control of the town of bani walid after clashes with a group loyal to the new government earlier the national transitional council's leader warned that the country was on the verge of civil war the n.t. seen it's already been struggling with protests stronghold of gaza which forced its second most senior official to resign the demonstrators many of whom helped overthrow the previous regime by the slow pace of reform and

a lack of transparency the hunting of the country's assets patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked says the warring events are not surprising. no i find that very interesting actually because well what i mean the national transitional council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then those kind of helicopter didn't get our feet was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the n t c isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people are saying very least two moments we may get a pro get off the uprising here and the m.t.c. did nothing about it they were warned now bani walid has been taken so it's not surprising and it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and this is reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the

moments there was a lot of self congratulatory talk by cameron sarkozy and the bomber who kept a bit of a distance but was still involved after the fall of gadhafi i think they're going to be very reluctant to admit that what they didn't do was bring about democracy in the country. well russia's a presidential envoy to africa has recently visited libya he says that all sides have to sit down for talks to bring order to the country and avoid civil war and you can watch the full interview next hour here's a preview for you. has the goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion the real sort of and in some areas of libya the civil war is not over and the self there is the whole desert area as an area of the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of new government forces it's zone 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 libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table. turkey has vowed to retaliate after the french senate approved a bill of making it a crime to deny the massacre of armenians by the ottoman empire nine hundred fifteen was genocide and has already suspended military political and economic ties of paris where both houses of the french parlance have passed the bill still has to be signed off by personal a disease you want to go up or oppose this to make the denial of genocide of war crimes recognized by french law punishable by up to here in prison turkey denies the massacre that's considered by many to be the twentieth century's first genocide executive director of the armenian national committee of america and hand says the

measure moved for sanctuary to admit to that constitutes. so many countries around the world russia canada france of course it will be sweden switzerland others recognize this crime so we think it's a step toward mounting pressure increasing pressure on turkey to finally come to terms with their many genocide both truthfully and justly but think of the support for the measure in from across the political spectrum in france as it has in so many countries everywhere around the world that there's been a vote the voters are almost universally going to see this crime recognize that the soul center of the aisle is are corrupt i think there's. an inclination among turkish politicians to play to the lowest common denominator there is a very hardline element of in turkey that abuse this is a matter of national pride there are others who see that turkey made need to pay for its crime and they're fearful of that but it's certainly the lowest common

denominator and they've taken turkish politics hostage and sadly taken american politics hostages while president obama promised as a candidate as a senator to recognize you're going genocide immediately after getting like you were brought up so we hope that this reminds the president was obligation to was on commitments and also reminds her that he needs to do the right thing and the congress should do the same. british students a fate hangs in the balance basics traditions of the u.s. it's due to the controversial agreement between london and washington that allows america to demand anyone behind the justice system on the grounds of reasonable suspicion the nerd result is of a bell reports treaty originally designed to deal with terror suspects now appears to have gone far beyond its initial remit. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s. federal prison richard o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial

extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain but counters copyright infringement in the us for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. carry it impacts gulf states i don't think that you brigid citv shank was seized by u.s. authorities last year this is what you see on the home page now he didn't host any illegal videos itself but posted links to where users could find them u.s. prosecutors claim richard banked two hundred thirty thousand dollars in advertising revenue from the site although he's never been to america they claim his actions had a direct consequence is there to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition for well i've heard all that but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we. know all the

he would there when he's not sure if you were there last time before he said it a good strong argument that all went out the window completely. you know giving up no no we can't give up. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so for extraditions of five to two in america's favor veteran british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party the smaller partner in the governing coalition . what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than not the american to know the moment you think it's like i'm in no doubt that. richard was innocently caught up

in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's wanted for hacking into pentagon files that he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still not enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him he's case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out either bennett's london.

but remember there's always more news on our website r.t. dot com take a look at two of them off beat stories getting attention this hour the case of mistaken identity to find out how a botched russian police operation so officers break up a local fun run thinking it was an unauthorized gay pride parade also online. and how some candidates in south carolina ever see the support of almost a thousand dead voters details and much more on our website party dot com. iran says an oil embargo imposed by the european union is due to fail on monday that delivered on its threat to ban the import of crude from the islamic state in response to its new. the program the latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts but the house for existing deals to run to deny the e.u. buys around eighteen percent of all iranian crude tehran has been told about may be

to defeat returns to talks have its nuclear agenda which the west suspects is about bomb russia has dismissed the new sanctions on iran is counterproductive and on that idea threaten to block a vital oil supply route. in the bucket comes into force the u.s. navy's points to reopen the stranger by force if necessary economist and asia times correspondent i ask about this has done is unlikely to back down. that the five plus one as it's called the five permanent members of the security council plus germany dish should sit down three or actively by the end of this month with iran in this stumble the whole thing is brokered by turkey to start talking again about iranian nuclear program but i wonder if iran has any incentive at the moment any fact the hard line there is interest say exactly that. the sanctions and if they are fully implemented on july first we are going to close down this street of

hormuz as a reaction this is something that they need to see terms of their internal public opinion because they are being pressured all the time by the europeans the americans and europeans any really eighty million iranians are asking themselves what is our government doing to defend that in effect that we have the right to choose to develop a peaceful nuclear program and there is no if it is a anywhere by the by national intelligence estimates in the united states that they are developing a nuclear weapon. well we're always interested in your opinion today were asking about the e.u. ban on iran's oil well up to r.t. dot com to take part in our latest web poll says more than half of you believe it will give china all of iran's oil and cheaper that's no quarter think it will bring europe's economy to a halt nineteen percent say homemade russia the number one also part of the a minority believe it or that iran's nuclear program will go on line to have your say. today marks one year since the deadly bombing of moscow's don't

yet have an airport that is seven people were killed in the blast carried out by a suicide bomber at the international arrivals hall investigators later identified the suicide bombers are twenty rows from brussels republic of english trained by is the most terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year before detained one of the world's most wanted terrorist a moral who claimed responsibility for mass to model the bombing is still on the run tack was followed by an increase in security levels at major transport hubs across the country. firemen standing by houses bird police watching while people drown out a spate of real life incidents in the united states a spot of concern of what kind of society is becoming this guy reports sticking to the rules and fear of litigation appear 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 hadn't i just said the five dollars but 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 things my mother and my mother's my grandmother's my great grandmother's were all there 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 this bad and 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 into service that we offer rate of a 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 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 than like there's no sense of this like shared responsibility for the individuals in that community in california police and firemen watched a 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 if you're 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. show you think 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 our reporting from washington r.t. . well some world news in brief for you this office to italy's west coast the bodies of two women have been recovered from the capsized costa concordia cruise ship when the confirmed death toll to fifteen rescue teams are continuing the search for seventeen people still missing engineers 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 and it's thirteen tanks. to a kenyan presidential candidates will stand trial at the hague on charges of crimes against humanity and then

a monkey for prominent kenyans accused of orchestra. to me that legal parlance put in the country's two thousand and seven election more than twelve hundred people were killed during the country's post-election trances more than a million forced to flee no date has been set. twin car bomb attacks have killed eight people and injured thirty two in iraq the first blast targeted an early morning gathering of workers in a mainly shia area. minutes later a call blew up near a pastry shop in the same district or the hundred sixty people have been killed in similar attacks since the beginning. with god kareena brings us the latest business news. thank you carrie hello and welcome to our business update this hour or so is continuing monday's gains following the e.u.'s decision to adopt and then bargo against iran over its nuclear program all the imports from iran to europe should

stop in july as a response to the sanctions terrorist threatening to quos the strait of hormuz through which twenty percent of the world's or express pass however horror came on to beg from platts believes that the warning and the embargo are more of a negotiation point. the ward being also says that there would be a review in may so there are 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 there will be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from iran will go to a shell oil that was going to asia from the location start west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always switch the oil that's not the

issue the issue is the level of pain. let's look at the numbers now all a slug joining the one hundred dollars a barrel in new york speculation that you have stockpiles again last week countered concern that iran may respond to the war on bongo when blend is close to one hundred eleven dollars per barrel was trading at over ninety nine dollars. and now into equities first asia where shares advance modestly with energy firms higher following the european him are going in or japan's inpex up over three percent in the consumer electronics sec to sony is losing almost three percent on reports about its tie up with the troubled olympos hong kong and several other asian stock markets are closed for the lunar new year holiday here in russia markets are trading lower the r.t.s. is losing over a quarter of a percent in the first minutes of trading while the my xix is shedding half a percent let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my six most of the blue chips are

lower with banking in energy stocks and they requires you to be losing around half a percent down a third of a percent the company plans to invest more than one billion dollars. in the oil rich travesty tell field in siberia chemical group is among the gainers it's reported and almost. five percent increase in production for the year two thousand and eleven michael stein says that the upcoming davos economic forum. in the 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 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 in his state of the nation's address in addition we've got the world economic forum and more than one hundred twenty companies in the united 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 and play 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 metal polish and m.k. . the business is for this hour but does stay with us in the next hour for. this.

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time for the headlines now damascus rejects are of the calls for president assad to step down and form a new government the opposition and he has to say. it extend its observer mission to the country as a ten month long unrest in syria rages on. new violence in libya a green flag flies over bani walid gadhafi don't clash with the interim government forces and spheres grover slide back into civil war. and derided for being one sided the extradition laws between the u.s. and u.k.

designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces fresh calls for a view made british anger it's a one way street american jails. and stacey discussed the upcoming economic forum in davos where the world's rich and powerful actually up to anything useful. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report oh that was the starting i think tomorrow this is the major global swap meet for art dealers of weapons of mass financial destruction and they compare notes on how to destroy it.