believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran iran has said that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually where twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through and the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that sanctions are an obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that it's actually going to be counterproductive and another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold and decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency it. that is pretty shrewd reporting right there what i we are always interested here at r.t. about your opinion today we are asking you about the e.u. ban on iran's oil if you just log on to our talk come you can take part in our

latest poll and here's how the numbers of stacking out right now about just over half of you believe it will give china all of iran's oil at the same time being cheaper less than a quarter things that will bring europe's economy to a hold around nineteen percent say it will make a rush or the number one oil supplier to the e.u. and as you can see a minority believe it will hamper iran's nuclear program i do go online to our dot com have your say on this international worldwide life paul. today marks one year since the deadly bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport thirty seven 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 chechnya a train by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four have been detained but one of the world's most wanted terrorists doc who claimed

responsibility for masterminding the bombing is still on the run. firemen standing by while houses burn down and police watching while people go down a spate of incidents in the united states has sparked concern over what kind of society it's becoming as artie's guy nature can 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 cranks 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 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 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 now once they were in practice 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's not inside the city limits of self interest service that we offer. 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

a 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 farm and 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 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. 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 in 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 reporting from washington are to. start before we have kareena with a business let's do the rocks he will to pay for you some other international headlines in brief for your twin car bomb attacks have killed eight and injured thirty two in iraq the first blast targeted an early morning gathering of workers

in a mainly shia area fact that minutes later a car bomb blew up near a pastry shop in the same district at least one hundred seventy people have been killed in similar attacks since the beginning of this year. turkey has vowed to retaliate after the french senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny the massacre of all medians by the ottoman empire. in one thousand fifteen was genocide both houses of the french parliament have passed the bill which still has to be signed off by a president sarkozy in order to become law the proposal to make the denial of genocide and war crimes recognized by french law punishable by up to a year in prison how many years says that one and a half million were killed in the massacre so he says the figure was much lower and rejects the term genocide. to kenya presidential candidates will stand trial at the hague on crimes against humanity the men are among four prominent kenyans

accused of orchestrating a deadly wave of violence following the country's two thousand and seven election more than twelve hundred were killed during the country's post-election clashes with more than a half a million forced from their homes and the date at this point has been set for the trials all right as i said time for corrina now with the hourly r.t. business update. thanks. to pm here in alaska welcome to business the rally in oil prices has paused traders await the next move in the escalating dispute between iran and the west tehran has responded to the e.u.'s decision to impose an oil embargo by threatening to close the straits of hormuz twenty percent of the world's crude supply passes through it however hot here month to peg from plants believes that the warning and the embargo should or should be seen as bargaining points. the ward being also says

that there would be a review in me so there are almost means that i am ready to do something in july but i can change my mind in me 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. oriel that was going to promote locational start 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. oil is fluctuating above ninety nine dollars a barrel in new york a speculation the u.s. stockpiles again last week is weighing against those worries about iran. learned is trading at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel european stock markets declined

on tuesday as greece and its private creditors continue to negotiate over the terms of a hope for debt swap deal barclays is losing one point eight percent pushing the foot sea point seven percent down the german dax is shedding over one percent led by a three percent loss for heavyweight xena's which reported a drop in fiscal first quarter profit here in russia markets are trading lower in the afternoon the r.t.s. is losing just under half a percent to my xix the sharing point six percent let's take a look at some individual channels on my six most of the blue chips are lower with banking and energy stocks the main decliners beating me is losing a third of a percent look oil is down one and a half percent companies planning to invest more than one billion dollars in oil rich krebs field in siberia and chemical group is a bucking the trend it's getting point two percent this hour it's reported an almost five percent increase in production for the year two thousand and eleven.

the financial woes of european banks are affecting their business abroad one of germany's biggest lenders is leaving the russian market it's selling a fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders problem says bank the sale as part of the effort to increase its capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with the new european legislation. and that's all the business here is follow me in less than one hour.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more new g.m.o. foods. 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're 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. pigs all now we have

more questions than we have answers to guards. like. the. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our moscow time for you headlines new violence in libya gadhafi loyalists clash with the interim government forces in several cities across the country as fears grow of a slide back into civil war the fighting follows weeks of protests with libya's new leaders struggling to unify the country. six gulf state members of the arab league are to withdraw their observers from syria the news comes

a day after damascus rejected the league's calls from for president assad to step aside and form a new unity government with the opposition. plus it to ride it out for being one sided the extradition law between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces a fresh calls for a view of a british anger it's a one way street to american jails. now here on r t an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and some possible solutions sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy to africa that of mikhail i want to get off you watching arts. you know how much chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation

calls an 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 us an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lacasse 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 the mob get together 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 the word 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 fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if need be and political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which russia was. 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 in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer to duffy 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 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 sharia law all over 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. julian in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of the i.c.c. in the hague to bring the case of a system 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 you leave 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 you guys probably have his working together with any a jeep for extracting 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 ok let's talk about syria now that's been top place 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 i don't want to insult anybody but it's more important than more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability of 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 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 of the factor of stability within russia also offered several times that the 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 need 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 our 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 law make 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 that free syrian army the syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least for syrian opposition to the geishas were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finances coming from different sunni states different kompany as 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 the 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 is

a 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 of the so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the socket a zone in sub-saharan zone i recently visited. me and morocco and for these four countries and what is happening in the desert where this happening and in the soccer the zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the markets i said what market today saw that the chinese made manpad that

which is an a lot 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 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 african continent during the ninety's recognized that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for their real prize or sometimes for the prize 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 will 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. wealthy british style stock. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. mission free accreditation free

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if blinds motion would be soon which brightened if you knew about sums from funds to impressions. moves from stock totty dot com. the headlines on r.t. new violence in libya gadhafi loyalists clashed with interim government forces in several cities across the country as fears grow of a slide back into civil war the fighting a follows weeks of protests with libya's new leaders struggling to unify the country. six gulf state members of the arab league are to withdraw their observers from syria the news comes a day after damascus rejected the league's calls for president assad to step aside and form a new unity government with the opposition. plus a derived data for being

a one sided the extradition laws between the u.s. and the u.k. by designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces fresh calls for review and british anger it's a one way street to american jails. are a time now for kate and the latest action from the world of sports including the very latest tennis news. hello welcome to the sports news on a big day of quarter finals at the australian open and here the headlines top out reigning champion kim clijsters beat outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals this trailer. while fed express roger federer cruises into the semifinals with i mean seriously it said victory of a pilot martin del potro i will face either rafael nadal all thomas burdick. and russian star movers remarkably chain co will stay on top and while the neon beauty

that been off the set to return home with a week to go in the english transfer window. but first a tennis and reigning champion kim clijsters has beaten at going world number one caroline wozniacki to reach semifinals on the australian open the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the day in to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures and which shows wozniacki will lose her number one ranking after sixty seven weeks at the top. was i was happy with that i was playing to try to be a little bit more dominant again. she stepped up and started serving better in the second so. so i knew that you know i mean we've both had a really good day and the norm for stirrers we really went for our shots and good serving and good returning. wood so i started laughing every time because the media as you sometimes like finishing my career and i only have one year lost and you know time is running out but.