syria's authorities and the opposition has been accepted by the assad government. as the latest from damascus. well we've seen the situation escalating dramatically over the past couple of days now over the weekend the suburbs were broiled in a heavy clashes between the two sides in fact in damascus people were waking up yesterday to the sounds of gunfire and shelling in those areas very very alarming indeed some of the reports that were coming from those areas and certainly the response from the government to the free syrian army taking control of some of those suburbs has been a strong well we've had reports of tanks going into those areas and the death toll on both sides extremely high as well and of course this comes on the back of the arab league monitoring mission saying that they had hold said that mission for the time being is that the remaining observers that are here in the country they hadn't really seemed to recover from that decision last week of the gulf states to

withdraw their monitors well it's hard to say really exactly what the future of the mission now is there's a little bit of a sense though that it is dead in the war so now what we saw at the end of the month of course as they presented their reports i was interesting is the details of that made note of abuses on both sides that was what had been mentioned and on the back of that it was discussed possibly increasing the numbers on the ground and making the mission stronger as well is that is the housing what we saw was the decision for the goal say to withdraw them all it is now today russia's foreign ministry has said that it has put forward the offer of using moscow as a place to hold a reconciliation talks between the two sides pursuing some sort of resolution to the situation through dialogue again because what we've seen with the arab league decision to go to the u.n. the fears are that there's a real close now international and ferentz the international involvement adding

possibly we could see the conflict get even more violent even more militarized and that's not what i. well once this is he said the last few days had been and escalating situation. well for more developments in syria are now joined by dr a political analyst from jordan well there are conflicting reports from the syrian opposition at the moment some suggesting the opposition has rejected talks involving the government others suggest they are actually thinking about it so do you think they will come to the table and talk eventually. we can talk about the opposition as one block i think that we have many oppositions you know. the internal opposition i'm sure that they would ultimately welcome such a paternity. talks with. the rest of the opposition especially those stationed outside syria i think they would reject. not only day but those who

backed the region as you know. many of the opposition groups outside syria supported by gulf states by turkey or by by western companies i think that this external opposition will even not only reject it but will try to. disturb. this initiative. are you saying that turkey and other western countries are trying to persuade the elements of the opposition to reject those peace talks and if so what's the reason and what's the reasoning well i think they have their own geo political aims the syria in particular. the west. and even turkey i'm sure they have their own ambitions they have their own vision of a future middle east and i think that's pivotal in this respect so i think yeah i

don't think they want peace i don't like russia which is of course we appreciate. because obviously. russia has emerged as a course of peace and understanding but this does not apply to other countries particularly the western countries and to the oil countries and to turkey i think they have geopolitical they have two political reasons for. for feeding the conflict in syria i think they don't want they're not interested in form nor are they interested in democracy or freedom all they're interested in is to disturb the situation to weaken the iranian syrian lebanese alliance i think that's what they're aiming at and i think that what they're aiming at is some sort of a new middle east that suits their purposes you mention russia moscow's position indicating that it is really trying to encourage peace talks also saying it will not support the draft u.n. resolution proposed by the e.u. an arab states which many say implies future foreign intervention who do you think

well judging by what you're saying do you think that russia will be overruled and will not achieve anything over this and will be hard pressured by the west another state. well i don't think so i well i think that this is a good initiative on russia's part but i don't think it will succeed precisely because of this external opposition i've been talking about the internal opposition the opposition i call the. progressive opposition inside syria i'm sure will ultimately. agreed to such an initiative a bold initiative unfortunately the rest of the opposition those who are organizing the the armed gangs i don't think that they will that it is in their interest at the moment to accept such a throw in another observation made by analysts just very briefly the west you're

saying would like to see some sort of regime change there in damascus not wanting peace because not only what's going on syria but also what's going on in iran and that would actually weaken serious support for iran bearing in mind the pressures we're seeing there between the west and iran do you think that's another objective just very briefly. oh yeah yeah well you see the way i look at it. i think that after the military pullout of the american forces from iraq. it seems to me that the americans want to. insert the forces in the area and they want to weaken the link between syria iran and lebanon in particular so what i mean is that it is a message from the americans we are pulling out of iraq but that does not mean that we pulled out. if you think that you can you can actually. move freely in your part of the world where you are mistaken we are still we have many tools to

disrupt your. celebration that's the way i look at it. very interesting here thank you for joining us there live. well still ahead for you on t.v. just over a month before russia's presidential. prime minister. as the presidential candidate for widespread economic reforms. and the occupy movement spills onto the streets of london with police accused of going over the top during a crackdown on protesters first story still to come for you. iran as well to halt oil exports to some e.u. countries for up to fifteen years despite his parliament spending a debate on a complete ban on crude supplies to europe it would be in retaliation to the even posed embargo on iranian oil due to come into full effect the summer russia's foreign minister says tehran threat shows how unilateral sanctions can often

backfire. russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only ineffective but also counterproductive the current situation yet again confirms the old law to every action there is an equal reaction iran's announcement was made in response to be european union's decision to ban the purchasing of iranian oil by even member states. meanwhile iran's nuclear program which the target of e.u. sanctions is being scrutinized by u.n. inspectors to run is offered i.a.e.a. officials the chance to extend the mission and said it was ready to answer any question to prove its atomic ambitions of peaceful but some experts suggest the only report western states want to see is one that justifies a military buildup in the region. made up of inspectors they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states walls is some

kind of well state but you know which there you balance on balance way too early. stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up because of military confrontation we have a massive was of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be satiated israel also going to put weight. naval. naval forces in the. ocean go all of those i what i would describe as by the actual war the issue of nuclear weapons. weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could well be cigarillo iran for its part seems confident it can withstand the building international pressure the country's interior minister believe sanctions will end up hitting the countries who imposed them not to run his

exclusive interview with r.t. is coming up in the next hour he has a preview point. i think. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west student spec the drop in the euro rate and the euro market or this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already and so far they've been unable to find solutions with the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of their own economic problems. e.u. leaders are gathering for their first summit of twenty twelve with a sense of deja vu greece is still the center of discussion the pressure is still on athens to overhaul its economy with the german finance minister warning it won't receive a second financial lifeline if it doesn't correspond to reports now from brussels.

they're supposed to talk more about the fiscal compact they had agreed upon at the last e.u. summit as well as push for the european stability mechanism which is the permanent bailout fund we will put in place now in june instead of july these are the official informal topics but greece is still hanging over their heads especially since there have been war of words between greece and germany with the germans are calling for moving taxing and spending power over to brussels and the german finance minister saying that the europeans are willing to support greece as long as greece actually implements the decisions instead of just talking about it all the greeks had responded to that with a lot of that still to be saying that this is definitely out of the question especially since it's a matter of national sovereignty and one former minister who's now the greek education minister had actually called it quote unquote a product of a sick imagination so you can you can tell that the greeks are definitely upset

with the german suggestion now why did the german suggested this is because of that ongoing talks between the greeks and their creditors it's still dragging it's been stalling for some time now the greeks need to strike a deal with the private sector and their creditors asking the banks for example to write down some of the greek back to take some losses about fifty to sixty percent of losses and this is in order for greece to get the second tranche of its bailout which it needs to pay some debts in march because if they don't they will technically default belgium is on a general strike a lot of walking and cycling today because all the metros down no buses and one of the airports is also closed the unions are protesting against the government cutting their benefits slashing retirement age also raising the retirement age rather so they're complaining that the workers are bearing the brunt and the enterprises are not getting here at. city their will for some insight into the. pool not least a member of the european part of the u.k.

independence party. leaders are looking for ways to boost jobs and restore economic growth well how do you cheve growth. thirty measures which surely hamper growth. well fact is you can't i mean it's as simple as that really what's going on in there at the moment a small committers they're trying to put a lot of pressure on greece and this idea that the germans have that you can almost put a budget commissioner nothing who will oversee their budgets set taxes is quite frankly an affront to the marquis the oldest democracy in the world and if i was in athens of the moment i'd be out on the streets demonstrating as well but greece is crucial to all of this even yesterday prime minister says they were on the edge of bankruptcy surely it's important for everyone to rally behind greece and throw money at the problem in order for the rest of the eurozone to survive if we were good europeans with our greece the fall out of the auto all together book but this is not about economics

a couple of months ago now my party leader met with the council of presidents meeting and said quite clearly to why won't you allow greece to fall out of the or and i think your answer sort of everything she said we know that if greece goes all the countries will go to the fact is that this is a political project it's not a multi-year nomics what would make economic sense is for greece to come out of your of all together go back into the drachma get this economy kick started what about the idea of fiscal control though is is that the right way forward to stop those profit countries over spending and misusing their expenditure and and tax revenue i mean that is surely the way forward isn't that the right route to take. i think it's of an affront to democracy and the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy and trying to change things i think you're on a very slippery slope indeed and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing its teeth showing what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people what they're doing at the moment in the building behind me is they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement and this will go into a primary e.u.

law through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in iowa where there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it will go straight into a huge more and they will get exactly what they want but it is a complete affront to democracy affront to democracy we're seeing democracy happening right at the moment aren't we in brussels under your very nose where we're seeing a general strike happening in protest surely we're going to see more is being promised in the future governments will have to listen to the people when they're. well i'd like to think so and i'd like to see referendums right across europe on this issue particularly in my own country were david cameron is performing a u.-turn today there was a veto the rich or so called veto by him where he said that the e.u. institutions couldn't be used because this isn't a treaty it's an intergovernmental agreement he's now going back on that and this whole intergovernmental agreement will have the use of the institutions and call including the courts of justice including the european commission again this is

typical e.u. where it's all backroom deals that smoke and mirrors and quite frankly it is an affront to the market see because the deals were to be taken back back in the building behind me quite frankly and attend to bypass the people of your are talking about all those backroom deals what about the stress and the tensions we're seeing between union members there greece and germany for example politicians falling out of this that's not exactly helpful is it. it's only going to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then lisbon you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions between the countries particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution where new parties are spreading you know skeptic parties gets better results than ever before paul model thank you very much for your views member of the european parliament from the u.k. independence party in brussels thanks. well after surveying the

damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick activists the city that is rally ended with riot police firing tear gas and flash bombs meanwhile in washington the national park service has given activists until noon today to remove all camping material from to occupy camps the demonstrators have planned a peaceful protest in response sara flounders from the international action center told me a little earlier that she believes the occupy movement continues to attract followers . it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people are losing more and more and that one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining enormous new wealth so that they are very successful in drawing attention to that again and again the media tries to bait this occupy

movement as being violent the violence has come from the police and a broken piece of glass is not the broken heads that the police are inflicting on the occupy movement and that movement is very determined to continue and to find new tactics. accusations of excessive force by police in the us have been well documented since the occupy movement began more than five months ago and there's proof on our web site in washington a seemingly innocent protester is corralled by police and tasered as dozens of fellow occupiers look on this video and many others. you tube dot com slash. police in london have also been accused of excessive force in their efforts to clear out occupy demonstrators protesters stood together last night as officers looked to take over their camps. as more in the london based battle between occupiers and offices. what we've seen in the last twenty four hours is the first

of the occupy movement from a building that they were calling the bank of ideas it was a building that is owned by u.b.s. the bank and it was evicted by a group of anyone who's been. in this country would call them hired thugs basically and what you see on the video that we're showing now is a bailiff essentially driving into a group of protesters watched on by the police basically he allegedly before this incident took place punched a photographer in their face the police apparently did nothing apart from briefly confiscate the keys of the car keys of the bailiffs in question they then gave back his car keys according to the occupy movement and then cleared the way for him to leave the scene so far they've received absolutely no response from the police to this instance at all. look now at some of the major news stories across the globe before we get the latest business use a little later with katie we start in nigeria in the world of. terrorist

organization a suspected of attacking a police station in the northern city of khan a government open foreign through explosives killing two civilians in this all over the weekend the organization distributed leaflets around the city warning residents of more attacks on security services ten days ago carried out multiple blasts in which left almost two hundred dead. in the bangladeshi capital dhaka the head of the opposition and thousands of her supporters staged a demonstration calling for early elections the next poll is not due for two years and other government rallies across the country turned violent with three people killed in clashes between protesters and security forces activists also say over a thousand demonstrators were detained. a car pileup on a florida highway is left ten people dead and a dozen others wounded thirty's are trying to find out what triggered the horrific crash and witnesses say the drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from a fire that may have been started intentionally at least

a dozen cars and six trucks were involved. in the pre-election promises are coming thick and fast in russia less than five weeks before the presidential poll prime minister and presidential hopeful vow to me putin outlined his program to reform the country's economy in his pre-election article and. has more. this article has already been deemed by many analysts is a whole list of liberal reforms proposed by the prime minister on the economy first of all. says he wants to see the role of the state and of state monopoly is reduced for example gazprom which has quite an influence on our russia's business life secondly the fight against corruption especially in the sphere of high level kickbacks during state orders and purchases more attention is needed to be paid there as well now another major problem for the economy of hoarding for the prime minister is a dependency on natural resources which has to be reduced as well and says that

if these issues would be dealt with successfully it should improve the investment climate in the country and increase the economies competitiveness against other international players there's also another point worth mentioning from that article and that is the idea to propose the world's tax which should concern real estate and other a luxury purchase is an issue which has been and is still being discussed in the russian society for quite some time now. well more detailed analysis of that imprisons proposals in our business business bulletin that coming up next with katie stay with us live here in moscow. oh that thank you bill welcome to the business program panel as we've just been hangs out of a piece in has outlined the changes he things need to be made to the russian

economy recognizes the need to diversify away from all materials would you stay control of the business and improve investment climate nashville maisano capital says the panel lacks concrete details and underestimates the value of private capital. there needs to be opposed to government policy as putin said very well in his in his article but the real question question has never been answered in russia is how does this government really. positive government policy how to build roads how does it build schools how does it sponsor industries like that you look at what works in russia at the moment is the private sector you've got great supermarket chains that have opened up you've got a good financial company is that of the really evolved mobile telecom companies yandex you know these are really successful companies that have been developed over the last fifteen years and they're a long way ahead in terms of their efficiency than the government sector. on the prime minister has been taking hounds on approach to business a monday he opens

a new stage of the train call production plant and rushes northwest the billion dollar facility will produce thirteen thousand wagons a year to meet the growing tomatoes for well right now replaces soviet era calls that make up most of the country's rolling stock. and also the markets or fuss tensions with iran all failing to boost the prize is a wrong step to your ministers says crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars a barrel if an e.u. embargo comes into force and law i. was in the red just over a quarter of a percent and the branches managed to edge its way up nearly home five percent into positive territory u.s. stocks are down minutes off. they have remained down for much of their opening day media reports greece would not accept supervision of its budget decision as

a condition for the rays. are losing this sense this. is the next problem they own to the actress's european bourses are fairing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece will be in the spotlight as per usual all the members of the eurozone try to force it to accept outside controls on his budget this hour both of the on the diets all shedding up a set. let's see how the my sales in the l.c.s. got on today they finished today's trading session in the reds are pretty negative . really as far as a horses are concerned the r.t.s. lost over one percent on the my six last point eight percent the see what happens on the my set it's the biggest movers the financials of finished. all down the sentiment from europe russia's top legace bank dropped over two percent. and if you majors do better than the market they gassed promise in his hope of percents so

just to see over as negative day all round and of are you telling me just over one percent despite using their profit rose twenty four percent last year a bit better than they had expected a leg from b. to be tapped to bump up the day's trade for us. the chinese munter authorities again abstain from zero or in reserve requirements that was the expectation and. markets were but this morning plus. there's no understanding of how the greek talks will end and though obviously that's not the end of the story just portugal has been making headlines today as the yields climbed actually climbed for. almost across the board in europe we. see how the current says i guess. lol prices are way in on the ruble it's losing against both the dollar and the gear

and the euro is you're treating against the u.s. car the say. i can go to get those figures updated in fifty five minutes get back with me for that and i'll have more business news as well join me.

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