russia's foreign minister warns that the un security council it will never approval for a military intervention in syria but says moscow never insisted that retaining the current regime was a condition to peace. and the syrian opposition has rejected a chance for talks with the country's president instead of threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody end. plans to expand the u.s. military presence in the asia pacific threaten to backfire on the philippines and some in china. against the island nation offering to station more american troops. at this year's first e.u. summit exposes a deepening divisions within the union despite most members agreeing to

a fiscal restraint that critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. well live from the heart of moscow this is our. syria's opposition has made a chilling a pledge to the country's leader. president bashar al assad and his family will be killed like libyan leader colonel gadhafi saying he's lost the chance for a peaceful exit fierce battles meantime between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital damascus sarah ferguson in the city standing by for us right now. so hello to you there are fears the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble what happened in libya and with its.

uncompromising promise from the opposition it seems to becoming even more closer to reality. yeah i mean certainly you vented a nice face of the conflict here in the country you've got a civil conflict on your hands is just seeming to ramp up all the time i will say little comments like the ones that have been made by one of the senior opposition figures in the syrian national council and not going to help the situation at all he said that the assad with his family would be killed in syria that they would be killed like he does say that they left no room for a peaceful solution now i mean that's going to be a huge blow to the opposition remember the opposition in this country a region he started this movement calling for a peaceful solution but you've seen over the ten months the calls for reform change to calls for the president to step down and now it's very common on the streets that many of these protesters to hear the protesters themselves calling for the president to be hanged they certainly got

a very dangerous situation and you have no clear is that evidence by the what we've seen happening in the past couple of days and over the weekend when you have very serious fighting happening very very close to the center of the capital now the opposition member in the s.n.c. had also said that they were going to be sending money and arms to the free syrian army is one of the extremely dangerous extremely provocative calls what he's essentially saying is that the s.n.c. is now going to be backing an arms movement in the country and funding a civil war within their own country i mean it is absolutely a very very dangerous thing to be saying now we've met a lot of the free syrian army that have been here after the last couple of days conflict many of them have seem to go underground and this is very very diverse it's not known exactly who they are still a lot of the army defectors but you know a lot of the people we've been speaking to within the free syrian army have made it

clear that they're not looking for a peaceful solution here that they die. i want to be pinned as terrorists they say that they're protecting civilians but and a tool we were having with some of the free syrian army yesterday they were telling us about having killed some iranians who they thought had supported the assad regime over the past few days i mean absolutely objective pay is not to find a peaceful resolution and i mean see you've got an incredibly difficult situation here this just being ramped up all the time by statements like that from the s.n.c. and you know it's not very clear whether he actually has the voice of the people that. or not the bottle go over syria is shifting to the u.n. security council now those members that negotiate a new resolution on the conflict what do we expect from that. it's very hard to know exactly what the outcome of that ok what's clear is that there is a sort of push now for this crisis in the country to be internationalized the state

of the admission so to fall flat on its face the gulf states have to is really a major player i clearly there's a very heavy push now for some form of intervention from certain countries i mean you've got all these kids that's killing test that we see every day and to faring with the what everyone would take would happen which is the ability to find a syrian solution to the syrian problem that russia of course has been calling right from the beginning the dialogue between the sides to try to bridge this gap we can hear now from the foreign minister sergey lavrov speaking about some of the criticisms of russia's stance on the situation. on the good we never said retaining bashar al assad in power is a condition for crisis settlement we said something different we sent the decision must be solely syrian only syrians groups the syrians must gather at the negotiating table and hammer out a deal if the demand is for him to go and he doesn't show them what's next in the

air force bombing we've seen that already and the security council will never approve it i guarantee it it's yours. i mean it's very unfortunate recently that what we've seen is that this moderate middle ground as it was as essentially being trampled on you've now got a very very strong side certainly within the country does the sense that right now you're either for or you're against that really you're saying the country become increasingly polarized as i said very very disappointing that statements like this being made because it's just going to seal the said the genuine fear that a lot of people on both sides have about just where this is going to end because this conflict is just getting bloodier and bloody and more and more violence and you know these calls from the opposition to. fuel the conflict in this way just very very damaging i mean it's very easy for the syrian national council to say it's a broad to be inside of here and to call for this type of armed conflict much harder

to come around the discussion table and talk to the side again for the government saying that they found it more effective to roll out tags than to roll out reform so what you're saying at the moment essentially is this sort of despicable political wrangling this having a very very high even cost. with the sons of gunfire and. the face tests from the streets and the increasingly loud and numerous international opinions britain needs to lead the way in making sure we tighten the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes on can be hard to hear the syrian. 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 present

difficulties. we've had tanks entering in firing and just or 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 in one of the damascus at the moment now we were traveling. we thought it was a friday. but we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel there at the moment the situation is 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 the job or using backwards the opposition that just last week had control of some of these areas has now gone underground so there was a funeral for a resident of 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. for the int he begins and some other members joined as well and those took turns to people they know he's just been arrested in the changes and. the atmosphere starts to feel hostile so. such uncertainty right now it seems mistrust is rife. it seems sort of convinced the free syrian army not 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 un's briefing by the arab league's with having ground to a halt. the whole reconciliation talks is not one to be simply dismissed as many have already done they have do political aims they have two political reasons for.

for for feeding the complicated 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 in calling for a syrian solution to a syrian problem that has repeatedly failed to communicate no opportunities to 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 cerf r.t. this meantime a cost cutting cost off from the foreign affairs committee and russia's state duma says the syrian opposition is being told by the west the regime is too and there's no need to negotiate. i believe that the whole 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 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 most 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. we've been asking you for the meantime what you think about the situation in syria and whether peace

is at all still possible you can vote on our web site r.t. dot com get yourself involved in our worldwide poll here of the numbers so far almost half of you believe a peaceful agreement is impossible because the west is determined to control syria a little over a third thing such a possibility exists thanks to russia's determination to avert a libyan style scenario thirteen percent agree outside support for the rebels makes war in ever double and the minority believe the syrian government will defend itself no matter what. this is artsy a u.s. plan to increase its military presence in the philippines is causing uproar china's state run daily said manila should be made to pay for creating tension and in danger in regional security america will also boost its presence in the asia pacific region by putting more of its forces in australia and singapore as a strategy seemingly aimed at constraining beijing's growing power. at the

international level the philippines know that the u.s. is stepping misty return to asia refocusing its military and security deployment in the middle east in asia pacific targeting china iran as the primary security concerns now at the regional level the philippines also see that their recent changes in the regional politics particularly in taiwan where mr martin to your and a call diary station was successful we were elected there means beijing and taipei would have more stable relationship expression in terms of economic integration across the strait in the coming years and if we please note that the us would need a more reliable ally in the asia pacific region so the philippines is reeling to lend its hands to it to the american air i for that kind of particular security

concern the u.s. is having in the asia pacific region i have already not to stairs tremendous pressure from the pm within china asking and urging the chinese government to top up for a top position up towards the philippines however i think the chinese government should be a bit more careful about these internal demand so i think the philippines is all doing that to try to get the best interest from from this china and u.s. relations. he is coming to you live from moscow and still to come deadline in d.c. u.s. occupiers refused to move just by threats of eviction and ever asked. the purpose of this was to unite in this space so if they want to arrest one of us they have to rest all of us with a visible message of opposition and defiance from protesters camped out in two national parks. but that's london prepares to welcome the world and it's

a live picture but to ensure safety you seem to be falling rather short of the gold standard. quarter past the hour here e.u. leaders at the first summit of two thousand and twelve were all smiles with the existing tensions were clear to see there was another war of words between the french president and the u.k. prime minister over whose industry is larger and poland set to join the eurozone demanded a greater say in decision making it was at least one decision made however with twenty five of the twenty seven the e.u. nations agreeing to a german school rule that would limit the size of the nation's spending they also agree to set up a permanent bailout fund for struggling members call not all member of the european parliament says the cracks within the union are only getting wider it's not going to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german the flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it

could be top loose well the tensions between the countries and particularly between the north of europe in 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 spring you know and euro skeptic parties are getting better results than ever before the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy and trying to change things i think you know the very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. has really shown get through to children what it's all about it to. want to listen to the people they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement and this will go into 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 the should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and people to the streets and so you can you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy. later today here in our skies or in story see her but take a swipe at those who orchestrated the entire financial mess are the ones who

started it in the first place. the debt or be 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 never escape and clown bankers who never have to pay dead zombies and clowns yet wherever there is a zombie debt or you can be sure there's a zombie creditor and as zombie central bank are feeding them all. this is artsy occupy protesters have stood up against the earth already is in washington d.c. refusing to remove the campus from two parks despite threats of police action activists there were still preparing to resist with officers standing at the ready

nearby and it's not his liz wahl explains occupiers remain united in their ongoing beliefs. so we are here at macpherson square where protesters have been occupying the park since october they were out 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 movement 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 or what 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 from corporations and 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 arrest one of us yeah after arrest all of us are not us and washington. and don't forget we've also got the world covered for you on our website odyssey dot com a quick look and see what's online for you right now no idea. has vanished just two billion u.s. dollars that's just disappeared into. the whistleblower neighbor julian assange makes it to the small screen in the five hundredth episode of the simpsons i discover when you can catch it on air at our website.

in about five minutes time to it's the business but warships ground to air missiles and drones britain is not gearing up for war rather the london summer olympics the preparations of calling on all corners of the nation's defenses but as bennett reports so many fear the measures will post serious risks to prophesy. 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 a sequence in the name of national security and then when the other bits are over we keep using it 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 and could 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 an id. if 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 fears 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. before us to be three in the business for now they are two world updates some other international news in brief for us overnight air raids by american drones in southern yemen have left around fifteen suspected al-qaeda militants killed the target it was an insurgent base in an area taken from the government following the ousting of former president ali abdullah saleh the embattled leader agreed to step down next month he's now in the u.s. undergoing treatment for injuries suffered during an assassination attempt last june. the u.n. nuclear watchdog a three day visit to iran to monitor the country's nuclear facilities ends on

tuesday despite an offer from tehran to prolong the mission u.s. lawmakers say they intend to impose more sanctions on iran even before the inspectors publish their findings tensions have been running high between the islamic republic and the west amid accusations that iran's nuclear program is not. our more headlines in about five minutes time or that will be after dimitri and the business. thanks ori emerging market currencies are seeing the best start of the year since the turn of the century russian ruble along with the mexican paso and the brazilian reale have outperformed currencies from the major developed nations sentiment is supported by rising risk appetites after e.u. leaders signed up for a strict budget discipline at the bundy summit however stephen jacobson from

a site survey believes the positive mood will not last long. the central banks continue to print money so much that they 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 all the credit she added what is essentially a solvency issue is a little bit like pretending that you can treat a patient who is ill by giving them more fear and create a diagnosis of why the patient is sick but of course a 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. all right let's take a look at those currencies stronger while is pushing the russian currency higher versus both the dollar and the euro thirty two kopeks for the greenback twenty for the euro whereas on the global market we're seeing that the euro is slightly strengthening versus the u.s. dollar. come odysseys now boyle is gaining

value as traders get the message that greece is closer to the final stage of his talks with form holders now that brings hope that the e.u. crisis might soon be resolved which in turn increases risk appetite now this hour what we're seeing is lights we do yet again above one hundred dollars per barrel brant is above one hundred twenty. days now european indices are up the size of the e.u. leaders agreed on monday evening to boost school integration germany's unemployment data came out a few hours ago pleasantly surprised investors from. lowest level since the creation of the euro zone although the same sophistic rose to a record high of the euro zone for the eurozone as a whole now this hour both of them see on the backs of more than point eight percent. here moscow pretty much the same picture as we've seen the previous hours of my six is up by around one percent the r.t.s. by round two would take a look at what's moving the my sex and financial shares including his book buying

gaining energy majors up also up roll snifters up one point two percent this hour russia's biggest drugstore chain thirty six point six is among top gayness that's on news their plans to open a drug discount chain to boost its. the business team will be back around fifty five minutes time with an update on see that.