i thought they'd come out and put it out maybe if you hadn't but i do said if i lower but i was thrown as the house went up in flames the critics 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 mothers my grandmothers 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 this fact that they so 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 is not inside the city limits of self interest service that we offer to the excepted or 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 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 than 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 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 and 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 shut down reporting from washington our team. well some world news in brief for you this hour twin car bomb attacks have killed eight people and injured thirty two in iraq the first blast targeted an early morning gathering workers in a nice shia area of baghdad minutes later a car blew up their pastry shop in the same district but it's one hundred seventy people have been killed in similar attacks since the beginning of the year. turkey has vowed to retaliate after the french senate approved all ills making it a crime i didn't know that a massacre of armenians by the ottoman empire nine hundred fifteen was genocide both houses of the french parliament of pass the bill which still has to be signed off by presence and would become law proposal to make the denial of genocide war crimes recognized by french law punishable by up to a year in prison. says one of the half

a million people who were killed in the massacre turkey says this figure is much lower and he checks the turn genocide. the bodies of two women have been recovered from the cruise ship which capsized off italy's west coast bringing 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 potential spill the vessel is holding around one point nine million liters of fuel it's thirty six. and two kenyan presidential candidates will stand trial hake charges of crimes against humanity and men are among four prominent kenyans accused of orchestrating a deadly wave of violence for in the country's two thousand and seven election for them twelve hundred people were killed during the country's post-election clashes more than half a million forced to flee their homes no date has been set for the trial.

but kareena updates us now on the latest business news. hello and welcome to our latest business update this hour or continue monday's gains following eve's decision to adopt an embargo against iran over its nuclear program all imports from iran to europe should stop as of july as a response to the sanctions terus threatening to close the strait of hormuz through which twenty percent of the world's oil exports pass however hard i want to pick from plants believe that warning and the embargo are more of a negotiation point the ward being 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 the last thing your

briley 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 an oil that was going to asia from the location of 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. but look at the numbers now all of us fluctuating below one hundred dollars a barrel a new yorker speculation that u.s. stockpiles gained last week count of concern that iran may respond to the. planet is close to one hundred eleven dollars about. thirty had over ninety nine dollars per barrel. now asian shares advance modestly with energy prices higher following that european market iranian oil japan's impacts up two point eight percent in the consumer electronics sector sony's losing almost three percent on reports about

it's time for the probable alone post hong kong and several other asian stock markets are closed for the new year holiday. here in russia and russia markets are trading lower in the afternoon the r.t.s. is losing point one percent shedding nearly point four percent let's take a look at some individual share most of the most of the blue chips are lower with banking and energy stocks the main decliners to be losing around. the company plans to invest more than one billion dollars in oil which fred fielding siberia and chemical group. is bucking the trend again it's reported almost five percent increase in production for the year two thousand and eleven michael stein from an upcoming economic forum speech and the u.s. corporate results could investors busy all week long. given the improved outlook for the oil price because of your rand 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 in the united 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 pick close attention from 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 police and m. k. . financial woes of most european banks are affecting their business abroad one of germany's biggest lenders is leaving the russian market it's selling

a forty percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders problem as bank. called it operations in russia several months ago the sale was part of the effort to increase capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with a new european legislation. well that's all for now stay with us for headline news with kerry coming up next.

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which brightened if you knew about sun moon from planets to parachute it's. nice for you start on t.v. dot com. it's past the hour here in moscow the headlines now the e.u. imposes more sanctions on syria as damascus rejects arab league calls for president assad to step down mounting international pressure sinner's in most of it the syrian people are feeling the squeeze. new violence in libya gadhafi loyalists clash with interim government forces in the town of bani walid as fears grow a slide back into civil war the fighting follows weeks of protests of libya's new

leaders struggling to unify the country. plus derided for being one sided the extradition or between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects and justice faces fresh calls for a view with british anger it's a one way street to american jails. that in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and some possible solutions. speaks to russia's main envoy to africa because of. chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation cults and also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me

here so we start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis here as an expert at 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 in 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 do not get together how to we see it live get back to know 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 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 zone 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 at 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 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 right 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 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 a libya as a mediterranean resort with a 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 the sharia law of the country and all of these lawmakers world and all over the world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably see 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. the djalili in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the i.c.c. hague 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 the uli b.-a 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 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 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 geo strategic role for the international stability people that many other countries 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 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 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 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 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 between the hatred and it will make national. you can solution 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 islamic world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that the civil war can all be a political solution what do you think finances and arms that 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 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

a says 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 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 with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the south in the zone in sub-saharan i recently visited new. america and for these countries and what is happening in the desert what is happening in and isaf in the zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what's happened in libya on the mind the market place of what markets today saw get the chinese made manpad which is an along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs

it's for nothing and i think it's 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 at the african research this could just have a lasting region while 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 the real price or sometimes for the price which is on 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 the iran that we see russia we see western countries will see brazil we see other players india

malaysia i mean all the new economy is there and all the new economies all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. and discover it. lend lease. communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you the. least.

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the e.u. imposes more sanctions on syria damascus rejects arab league calls for president assad to step down but i think international pressure has seen the regime person the syrian people are feeling the squeeze. new bonnets in libya gadhafi loyalists clash with the interim government forces in the town of bani walid as fears grow over slide back into civil war and fighting follows weeks of protests maybe as new leaders struggling to unify the country. and to ride it to being one sided thanks traditional between the u.s. and the u.k.

designed to help bring terror suspects justice faces fresh call supportive you need to position anger it's a one way street to american jails. i'll bring you more news in about fifteen minutes time for that remark on that will update you on the latest action from the world sport. hello welcome to sport an artsy come into your life from the russian capital with me will mom call for a pledge up ahead but first the headlines. victoria azarenka bellew's becomes the first semifinalist said just throw it open after exhibiting i mean sure advance golf poland. unseeded you consider them a carlos dons a five time winner so we know williams in straight sets to set up on a spread in open quarter final against maria sharapova the men's champion the ball djokovic she is also for. and in football transfer use russian international room

on public schenkel is to stay put in the english premier league while national team a dinny out of this packing his bags for a return home. let's get sued senna's first though and choose they scored a final match as the australian open defending champion kim clijsters remains in the title chase following her victory over world number one carolyn wozniak e now clijsters kept her title deeds on track with a victory in straight sets six three seven six and awaiting her in the semifinal is third seed victoria azarenka who came back from behind six seven six love six two supposed to victory over poland. in the men's droll fourth time a strong and open champion rachet better as stormed into the semifinals after a match with world number eleven juan martin del potro federer won in straight sets six four six three six two and a little later world number two rockville not.