syria's opposition says president assad will follow in cutdown fee's footsteps as the unrest spreads to new york where un security council members seem unlikely to reach consensus. occupy d.c. protesters dig their heels in they wait for a police crackdown after the deadline to leave thank. you your story he's. london security goes logs for the upcoming summer olympics with tens of thousands of troops on the high tech spy drones all that amid fears the spirit of the games will be damaged by the show. and in the business bullets and emerging market currencies have been outperforming both the euro and the dollar is this going to continue find out and about twenty minutes.

very welcome to you this is live from moscow i'm rule receive shy the syrian opposition has threatened that president bashar assad and his family that is what followed the fate of libya's late leader moammar gadhafi saying he's lost his chance of a peaceful exit this comes after the opposition rejected russia's proposal to negotiate with the regime here in moscow. now reports on the concerns that outside players determined to throw fuel on the fire are the ones behind the opposition's reluctance for a compromise. with the sounds of gunfire. in the face tests from the state. and the increasingly loud an e-mail international

opinions britain needs to lead the way in making sure we tighten the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes on on syria can be hard to hear. the syrian case has developed as every side wants to push away the responsibility to another tossing the ball back and forth. in the last few days the situation has become so unstable the finding people willing to talk right now has proven difficult. we've had tanks entering in firing and just where we've had six people who've died we travel to the suburbs where some of the clashes have breaking out to try to get a clearer picture of what had been happening here in the last few days when one of damascus at the moment now we were traveling to a suburb. we thought it was a friday. but we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel at the moment with the situation so volatile it goes to show you really that you simply don't know what's

going on in these areas even the people who are living in these areas don't really have full grasp of the situation at the moment we make it into the suburbs of job or using backwards the opposition that just last week had control of some of these areas have now gone underground so there was a funeral for a resident of who died in the file sharing his funeral people and his relatives were voicing and she regime slogans and called for freedom someone was shot dead during the funeral and we had to go and hide from the security forces. after his had taken to meet some members of the f.s.a. the into the begins and some other members joined as well and this took turns to people they know just being arrested in the changes and the atmosphere starts to feel hostile so. such uncertainty right now it seems mistrust is rife. it seems to. have convinced the free syrian army that coming closer to the capital

would be simpler no this is harmful to the cause of bringing peace to syria. everyone it seems is no waiting to see what if any outcome there will be at the u.n. briefing by the arab league's with having ground to a halt. to hold reconciliation talks is not want to be simply dismissed. many have already done they have do political aims they have two political reasons for. the poor for feeding the conflict in syria i think they don't want they're not interested in due form nor are they interested in democracy or freedom was the government accepted the invitation received mixed reactions from the opposition they size of being taken in the past including first syrian solution to a syrian problem that it's repeatedly failed to communicate now if that unity is the dialogue are running out fast. and with such desperate pleas from many

people here the opposing sides continue to make it clear they don't want to listen the cools the international action it's just going to keep getting louder surface r.t. and i think this meantime constantino from our russian state duma foreign affairs committee starts at the opposition's being told by the west that the regime is doomed to failure and there's no need to negotiate. i believe that we all have had a unique chance to get together by arranging political consultations in moscow this initiative was rejected yesterday by their position and the. reason they they gave was look there are no prospects to speak out of this regime because this regime is out of question they were they they really why because messages coming to syria from abroad from washington from brussels from elsewhere has have always been this regime does not have a future you don't need to talk to them this is the wrong message and by that

message they have undermined prospects for political consultations and more or elsewhere and this is how we will continue to see clashes in syria we will see blood we will see casualties weak teams unfortunately will it will continue to happen not due to the russian position but due to the position there you know that there are very very unfair position taken by the united states and their allies. but russia's foreign minister to get up. to moscow will never approve military intervention in syria the battle is shifting now to the un security council in new york as members took to negotiate a new resolution allegedly backing the arab league's peace plan. as a preview. the united nations security council will hear a report from the arab league today detailing findings from its recent monitoring mission in syria this of course coming as an arab european drafted resolution on

syria is already circulating among council members the draft calls in part for syrian president bashar al assad to transfer powers his powers to his deputy this draft resolution also says the security council could quote adopt further measures if syria does not comply with the terms of the resolution in the meantime russia has said it cannot accept the draft resolution in its current form because it simply ignores moscow's position in addition the russian officials say they would like time to study the arab league's report in detail and not act so swiftly or too swiftly now on monday the russian foreign ministry did invite members from the syrian national council as well as the syrian government to come to moscow to participate in negotiations and to get

a dialogue started our viewers may remember that it was back in october when russia and china did veto a previous u.n. resolution on syria citing that the language that was used in that draft that was of course also written by by european countries open the door for foreign intervention possibly foreign intervention similar to what the world saw it transpire in libya. he is marina portnoy there reporting from new york it's good to have you with us today still to come on the program a bitter sweet victory for the euro that is twenty five e.u. nations agreed to a new treaty making it a sanctionable crime to abuse deficits this comes while the czech republic joins the u.k. in rejecting the much hyped proposal. from the philippines a finds itself in the middle of a how a struggle between two global giants turning the battle of wills to its own

advantage. and to corporate protesters from the occupy wall street movement in washington gearing up for tough police action they passed a deadline set up by local authorities to remove camping equipment from the city's squares but artie's lives while discovered the activists are still remaining loyal to the cause. so we are here at macpherson square where protesters have been occupying the park since october throughout the demonstration about one hundred tents have been pitched here the national park service has repeatedly slapped these notices on tents here macpherson square informing protesters that they can no longer camp out here that means they have to get rid of sleeping bags and any other material which allows them to live here protesters are responding by painting that symbol on the notice which demonstrates the fact that they do not agree with this mandate there are tens can stay about their doors must remain open proving no one

is living in it the notice warns protesters that violate the rule are subject to arrest and it's basically a symbol of opposition. to. you is what everything this moon is opposing right now and so i think the tents are really important part of occupy but police presence was sparse with no reported arrests they stand mostly on the sidelines refusing to answer questions from the media you want but occupiers made their message loud and clear they are not giving up the fight here as you can see protesters have erected a massive shadow over the statue here at macpherson park it's all a demonstration to the anticipated even action by park oh yes this is our tents of dreams we want to be able to sleep here so we can dream of a better world where everyone has access to health care education housing and where the rich and corporations banks no longer have control over political system the federal government and the political leaders in wall street were all tone

deaf they could not hear this so the occupy movement has offered them a hearing aid and they're getting our message loud and clear now the purpose of this was to unite us in this space so if they want to rest one of us the after rest all of us are not about us and washington. liz wahl. and i mean time the mayor of oakland california has called on the nationwide occupy movement to disown the local protestors after the weekend's demonstrations there they were met by a strong police reaction using tear gas flash grenades and hundreds of arrests activist a robot awol from the occupy d.c. action team thinks the protesters fell victim to a militaristic style police force. i think you have to recognize the specifics of the oakland police department they're known as one of the most violent repressive in the country and it's exposed how militarists militarized american police have

become in recent years so you know it's shocking it's horrifying to see what's coming out of oakland but it's hardly surprising knowing what we know and it's worth remembering that the oakland police may be under federal control soon because there have been so many civil rights abuses there if you look at the videos you don't see protesters attacking people you see protesters sticking together in ways that try to shield each other from the police and i think it's important to recognize the distinction that they are i haven't seen anything that looked like violence on behalf of the protestors coming out of oakland i've just seen people being proactive in recognizing that they're going to be facing what's effectively an armed force. corporate movements elsewhere in the world are also facing tough action not only from the police in london they live runs his car through a group of demonstrators the police do nothing to stop them you can find the full story from our london correspondent at our dot com.

it is a nearly quarter past the hour here in moscow america's decision to station its forces in the philippines as part of its new asia strategy is now threatening repercussions the china daily called on beijing to enact economic sanctions against manila after invited in u.s. troops in a reaction to an escalating territorial dispute but it has been a. political research at the institute of southeastern asian studies expects a stronger reaction in the coming weeks. the us has claimed that this is about to maintain the freedom of navigation and this is partly the interest of the us but i think if we look deeper this is not only about to maintain or to defend freedom of navigation this is about to cultural balance the rise of china and when you talk

about the rise of china this is not about economic rise but it's also about the rise of military capability for beijing the issue of the us reengagement we saw east asia we defeated bins and also its intervention in the south china sea issue that is very important for the chinese government the chinese government has perceives. you as part of. preserving national interest so i think we should expect or anticipate some sort of rest from beijing in the next couple weeks perhaps we might see something coming out of beijing in regard to the philippines. you with r t don't hesitate to log on to our website on top is the best place to look for the latest updates comments and videos some of the items are standing by for you right now including whistleblower julian assange will ignore his house arrest in spectacular style when his alter ego appears in springfield alongside homer simpson

a milestone episode of the us cards. and the pentagon's a money management proved to be far from efficient as one hundred million dollars stored in saddam hussein's palace disappears into thin air. now it's ten minutes until the business here in artsy now the latest effort to save the euro underway in brussels now is off to a characteristic start with the leaders of france and britain arguing over which of them has more industry the exchange came as the two often loggerheads looked to downplay disagreements and mutual distrust the incident however was not isolated to poland set to join the eurozone demanded

a greater say in decision making the spanish in turn argued against excessive austerity while everyone pressed the greeks to complete debt talks with its creditors there was one result however with twenty five of the twenty seven e.u. nations agreeing to a german fiscal rule that would limit deficits under a new bailout fund martin cullen an m.e.p. from the u.k. conservative party believes greece is sliding into default while for britain staying out of the eurozone was a victory. i think they will default you know effectively. the loss that's being imposed on the bondholders at the moment many could argue that that's effectively a default anyway what is clear to me is the current debt. is unsustainable but you know i've got a member of the country that is part of the euro zone so euro zone itself enough to work that out the way we can give our opinions but you know we did not join the

euro in the first place we advised against the euro being created. and we pointed out to many pitfalls that there would be along the way it looks like finding out the hard way that you know you can compress seventeen countries economic policies into one currency zone while still operating seventy different economic policies. and you can watch the full version of the interview our next hour here on our. works to finally rein in its less than fiscally responsible members the kaiser report looks at what got them into this whole mess in the first place and their take on the strange and wonderful world of finance that's coming your way in just thirteen. the debt or zombie deader is a noun and indebted consumer who is only able to pay the debt interest each month so here you have the two pillars of society zombie debtors who were never

a. clown bankers never have to pay debt so the zombies and clones yeah wherever there is a zombie debt or you can be sure there's a zombie creditor and there's zombie central banker feeding them all. this is r t now britain is preparing for the greatest show on earth. taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously london's summer olympic preparations are calling on all corners of the nation's defenses because of his ivor bennett reports such measures may not only turn the capital into a siege city which could simply just prove to be ineffective. spectators may know who they're watching at the olympics but they won't know who's watching them surveillance drones like this could be circling the skies of london this summer

police may use the spy cameras in their lympics anti terror tactics it'll leave no hiding place the drones can make out a car's number plate from heights of up to one kilometer privacy campaigners fear is the start of a slippery slope i think it be our salute tragedy for britain the largest part of the olympic legacy was a surveillance legacy where we have stalled the sequence in the name of national security and then when the other bits are over we keep using it person very very serious risk to the privacy that might not be adequately protected the spy in the skies been piloted before in britain by four police forces but never took off after one crashed into a river and the u.k. aviation authority failed to grant the necessary license that's the only legal requirement before this sort of surveillance becomes a reality at the olympics a minor hurdle for what's already britain's biggest peacetime security operation

total cost over one point six billion dollars it is worrying that the security bill has increased so drastically from initial estimates one of the reasons being given for this is so heightened risk of terrorism which seems incredible as an excuse at a time when the original estimates were made around the time of the london bombings when london was considered to be a very high risk so it seems incredible they got the estimates so badly wrong in the first place commandos speeding up the thames is one answer to a myriad of perceived terror threats this time a hijacked passenger boat they'll also be warships anchored on the thames attack helicopters on standby even ground to air missiles ready to launch or vance before you even get to the security on the ground to give you know. idea of the numbers take the olympic stadium capacity eighty thousand ground security at the games is enough to fill sixty percent of that inside the venue will be over twenty three

thousand security guards along with seven and a half thousand military personnel and then outside a further six thousand troops along with twelve thousand police total just shy of fifty thousand the budgets ballooned by a hundred percent because initial estimates were woefully inadequate but that still couldn't stop two fake bombs being sneaked in under the radar at the stadiums dummy runs not exactly great value for money london organizers have tried to play down fees the olympic village will be a siege city but with such a massive security operation the plan the limb pick legacy of international friendship may not be the one that's actually left. i've been it's r t london. all right before we get to natasha with the business now let's check out some other major news stories making headlines around the world this hour over two thousand people have gathered in believe years a main city demanding their government to resume construction of

a controversial new road that are set to go right through an amazon resigned plans to build the highway were canceled last year after it did you this tribe members one hundred two month long march to protest but now other communities are asking president evo morales to continue the project saying it would bring much needed economic development to the region. a senior pro-government militia leader has been killed after a suicide bomber targeted his home in northwestern pakistan rival militants have claimed responsibility for the attack which follows previous clashes between the two groups in which hundreds of people died three others including the man's son in law were also killed in the blast eight more were injured. the head of the bangladeshi opposition and thousands of us supporters of state to rally in the capital calling for early elections and a return to the old voting system and independent caretaker government used to

oversee the process before it was dropped by the country's prime minister shake a senior last year the demonstration comes after previous anti-government rallies turned violent leaving three dead during classes between protesters and security forces. in just a few minutes is the kaiser report but for now the tasha and the business. twenty three minutes past the hour harry you're watching business and our team emerging market currencies are seeing the best start of the year since the turn of the century the russian ruble along with the mexican peso and the brazilian ryall foreign currencies from the major developments sons of medicine one of five rising risk appetite after the e.u. leaders signed up for a stricter budget discipline on monday's meeting however steam jacobson from south so vhong believes the positive mood will not last long. the central banks continue

to print money so much that they're actually running out of paper to printed on if you look at the easy be they have been expanding their balance sheet since july first by thirty eight percent in terms of currency strength and risk appetite has become a game of continuing to for old credit she adds extensively a solvency issue these little bit like pretending that you can treat a patient deal by giving them more fear and they did create a diagnosis of why the patient is sick but of course the patient will improve short term and this is what's going on with the risk appetite and that's what's going on with the currency market. and now let's take a look at the markets stronger oil is pushing the russian currency higher against the dollar the ruble is a lower against the euro though and the dollar's also lower against the european currency as some progress has been made in talks with the greek bond holders and oil is gaining value as traders get the message that greece is closer to the final stage of its talks with bondholders that brings hope that the e.u.

crisis might soon be resolved which in turn increases the risk appetite this hour of this of the chinese trading at more than one hundred dollars a barrel brand as of more than one hundred twelve dollars and now want to equities european indices are upbeat after the e.u. leaders agreed on. and in boosting fiscal integration germany's unemployment data came out just a few hours ago and it pleasantly surprised investors it fell to the lowest levels since the creation of the euro zone this hour both the footsie and the dax are putting on around one percent. and here in moscow the markets are in positive territory the r.t.s. is up more than two percent this hour the my sex is gaining one and a quarter percent. and now on to the biggest movers on the my six banking shares including spare bank are higher energy majors are also all with was navigating around want to have percent and russia's biggest drugstore chain thirty six point

six is among the top gainers from the news that it plans to open a drug discount chain to boost sales. russia's economic expansion is losing steam the g.d.p. rose to four point two percent last year according to a mid january estimate by prime minister vladimir putin the final figures coming out later on tuesday while retail sales grew last year amid wage increases industrial production growth was cut in half to around four percent as the euro crisis type the demand for exports. samsung will open more than one thousand branded corners and russia's top. retail euro set the south korean giant hopes the move will help the goose its market share the company will spend from two to around fifteen thousand dollars and setting up each corner here a set says the number of such branded outlets within its chain could grow to three thousand in the near future last year some saw managed to grow its mobile phone

market share to thirty six percent and russia running close behind its rival nokia . and that's all the latest from just my colleagues at me tom incidental will bring you the update in about fifteen minutes.

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