tensions are high between islamic supporters and protesters who accuse the movement of siding with the military and betraying the revolution that toppled former president hosni mubarak one year ago. and a young people are missing after a cargo ship capsized off the coast of turkey become a boating registered vessel was sailing from russia to turkey's port but saying call the town of. duck before reaching its destination two crewmembers have been rescued and search teams are continuing to look for those still missing authorities say it's likely the storm caused the ship to tilt to one side and take on water. the sixty people have died in eastern europe after a deep freeze and blizzard swept the region the drop in temperatures has prompted several countries to deploy the army and set up emergency shelters the highest death toll which is in ukraine where thirty people died after temperatures hit minus thirty three weather forecasters say the subzero conditions are expected to last until friday. an ad

campaign in the us paid for by the israeli government has angered many jewish americans throughout the country but commercials were designed to encourage israeli jews to return to their roots suggesting that america's jewish culture has weakened but as policy reports the ads seem to have done more harm than good. to become and could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. the goal is really married to an american jewish woman but it was saying is that my husband shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just kind of ouch . this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and eight across the united states that evoked more than just an ouch from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily on says christmas instead of the jewish festival of hunger the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who

live there to. support the loads of points or. missiles and so for them. shows a toddler calling daddy daddy to his napping is really expected father who finally wakes up only when he son switches to hebrew american jews felt insulted by the suggestion that israeli jewish identity was more pure than american jewish identity i think that that's really what bothered me about the ads as a place of almost fear mongering you know they were almost kind of trying to scare people who are living here israelis are living here the ads were designed to encourage its radius living in the united states to come home but critics complained they smacked of arrogance ignorance and cultural disrespect for america instead of giving positive reasons for expects to return to israel they fail to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look to it's going on israel is developing in the parliament

particular in the field strongly alienated from that and they say to themselves this is not the israel that we are in love with this is not israel that we want to defend american jewry has always been more liberal than israeli society they traditionally voted democrat and often open to a list offer docs practice of judaism then the israeli counterparts for years a rift has been growing between the two much of it based on the aggressive policies of tel aviv towards gaza and the occupation these really palestinian conflict still shows no signs of compromise and consecutive israeli governments have been unable or unwilling to reach agreement with the palestinians. even many american jews feeling more and more alienated from israel does some of what's going on in the israeli public sphere troubled some north american jews troubled them very very greatly i have no question but that's the case since the late one nine hundred sixty s. israel has built hundreds of thousands of homes here in the whispering more than half

a million people now live in settlements television announced it was issuing tenders for thousands more homes to be built across the green line evoking anger and condemnation from the international community. as many as a million one in eight israelis live outside the country in the last five years the number of people who choose to leave the holy land has outpaced those wanting to come and live in israel and although the ads are no longer on the air the reasons that they provoked such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved policy r t tel aviv never has after days and the time now take a look what's happening the world of business. thanks marina hello to you welcome to the business program the chiefs i have not one is from around the decision to impose the bulk i will be to skyrocketing oil prices the organization thinks a fair price for about a brand should be about one hundred dollars david and his global director of oil

that industry researches plants says the war is not so much crude prices will hit one hundred fifty dollars a barrel but that actually fall. most of the people we talk to in the market don't expect oil to get anywhere near hundred fifty anytime soon are in fact the concern is really rather that oil will fall below that saudi arabia which of course has the greatest reserves of oil it can bring to market in the event of a disruption has made constant assurances that it's going to be able to fill any gap left by the iranians even if they attempt to close down the strait of hormuz which looks increasingly unlikely as the weeks go by right now there appears to be plenty of supply available in the event of a disruption and of course there's a lot of stock to hand as well a lot of countries have been busily stockpiling crude oil and they've been well aware of tensions ruptured for the better part of a year now so the market is positioning itself to withstand the supply shock so much so it might be oversupply the short term a lot of watchers are concerned that the price of all my fault rather than rise may

be a case of being a little bit over prepared here for what might come to pass. ok so that's what might happen let's see what is happening now crude is trading near its lowest price in more than a week that's is the mantra fuel is slipping in the u.s. a report by the energy department forecasts to show higher crude supplies i mean pressure on all are also government statements that consumer confidence is falling and business activity is cooling and the world's biggest crew can see in the film like the prices are indeed down as the move on to the exchange rate here is retreating just a notch. against the dollar of both the european and the u.s. currency is off higher against the russian ruble after seeing some losses in previous sessions and let's move on to the. asian stocks are mixed with china's growth under the trade a spotlight after two reports of factory up to two showed different results with official data showing a modest improvement while a private survey by hey just b c will dislike also investors having to do with

digesting both pieces of information that for now may carry is are just not in the hang seng is down maybe half of the sun. i must go to the markets they opened up on the right and that's where they remain yes it is it is in one place while the my sex is a zero point six percent down by the moderation those all throughout the day for you as we want to the my sex financials are among the biggest retreat is this our spag losing almost one percent problem is also with the read is net profit rose over forty one percent in the first nine months of last year and all pipeline not the trial yet is gaining the company because divest thirteen billion dollars into its infrastructure by twenty twenty looking ahead to the coming trading sessions to monday form of could be due says after a strong start to give caution is the better part of valor. we've had a very good rally from rushing back to do so since the previous year so you know i

would be quite cautious bearing that in mind and i would be looking for companies that display a few characteristics. that generate free cash flow that i know have generate generate money. that don't have a lot of don't pay a dividend yields to investors i don't have lots of liquidity and quite safe so for me companies like. to break on through this kind of environment i'll be looking at quite safe stocks like my part of the promise of the victims yes just raise all those defensive courage restriction that's a source of probably part of the survival. you know the new mining giant rio tinto has teamed up with russia's e.s.d. group to explore the country's resources the group is owned by billionaire and exams in yes's who is also a major shareholder in pali mess over on russia's top silver make out the new school exploration venture. e.s.d. has already bought a license for possible deposits in the far east. the winds of change is coming to

the global economy a new report by saxo bank says the crisis will reach a peak the share of a major changes in the structure of the financial system in the opinion of the bank further state intervention only finds diminishing returns with europe unable to solve the debt crisis such as a bank predicts european stock markets will dive twenty five percent the year as i will shows there are growth this year with the global g.d.p. to increase just three percent the author of the report seen jacobsen explains why it's a part in the current situation in my opinion my personally i have fifty percent in cash twenty percent in gold and then i have thirty percent in corporate bonds and that is divided into two currency parts one with fifty percent in dollars and one fifty percent in. terms of whether as a class i like i like bonds because bond in itself is a put on the it could do more good when you see the stock market goes down the bond

goes up the one place in the market where the biggest capital dislocation is in the corporate bond market so in the corporate bond market you can buy yields of ten fifteen percent in currencies like swedish kronor and that's where from the real gains would be this year you should be both be taken care of the currency but you're also certainly be investing because in terms of crisis you have the greatest opportunity. and there you have it cashed gold vault and i'll be back next hour we're going to have the european markets information for joining their fifty five minutes.

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talk about here with r t let's take a look at the top stories diplomatic deadlock russia says no change in syria as moscow slams a proposed u.n. resolution calling on president assad to step down the kremlin's warning against using the world body to impose outside interest on the syrian people. wiki leaks founder julian assange has to appeal to britain's supreme court against his extradition to sweden some just want to for questioning over alleged sex offenses which he denies claiming the allegations against him are politically motivated. and that israeli ad campaign in the u.s.

backfires find a virgin when solving many jewish families across america causing the commercials to be pulled off the air the ads have been criticized for trying to scare israeli jews into returning home. to the top stories now peter lavelle and his cross dog guest discussed syria and what might lie in store arches that is next. blowing welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle syria on the brink as violence escalates in this in battle country the calls for strong sanctions and even a military intervention grow in intensity what is at stake the protection of innocence or regime change that transforms geopolitics of the region.

to cross talk of ends unfolding in syria we have marwa dowdy and princeton she is a departmental lecturer in politics and international ations of the middle east at the university of oxford in washington we have david pollock he is a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and in montreal we cross the maximillian forte he's a professor of anthropology at concordia university in montreal all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but ok first i'm going to go to david david the the white house says that it is inevitable that assad will fall so by saying it does that make it inevitable now i don't think thing it makes it inevitable i think what makes it inevitable is the situation. where the syrian people most of them there are rising up against the regime. i think we've seen in other countries in the region and elsewhere in the world when almost the entire population of the country

rises up against the government sooner or later that government gave it do we know that the the majority of the people are rising up in syria and we know that. yes we do we know that we know. but just looking at the situation in the country. thousands of people all over syria risking their lives to demonstrate week after week month after month against the regime we also know from research being. people who really think. there's a media blackout i think it's still pretty hard to say ma if i can go to you in princeton has the west decided to support a side in this conflict in syria that is rapidly looking like a civil war. well clearly there is an uprising which has continued unabated

since about a year and now we're heading towards the first anniversary of the start of the uprising. there has been a brutal repression on the part of the regime and so far about six thousand civilian casualties killed in this repression so clearly there's a situation that here they are peaceful protesters who have been crushed by the regime security parrott us and that has drawn attention internationally so there's been a sigh taken in the sense that there are human rights violations and i would say it's true that the uprisings have taken you know have continued and a large part of the population is supporting it you also have a part of the population which still doesn't know which side to take because they are afraid of what would come next and this is the part of the population which still needs to be comforted that there will be a peaceful transition to democracy ok and max if i can go to you do you think the syrians still have a chance to negotiate an end to this conflict before there is this push for another

humanitarian intervention and we all know what happened in libya and what is happening in libya today. well i think that's extremely don't fall as a matter of fact because just recently russia offered to host negotiations between all of the different parties and as we know the syrian national council you know one of the main opposition blocs has essentially rejected that offer possibly with some foreign encouragement behind them because one of the stipulations that they made one of the preconditions for the talks was that assad should resign so they wanted an old come of they go she ations the outcome of a process as a preliminary condition and so the possibility of negotiations is very unlikely and from that point of view it's starting to resemble a bit what was happening in libya where the opposition consistently refused to

engage in any sort of peaceful negotiations. so i think that's highly unlikely peter david yes david go if i can go to you i mean we've brought up libya here do you see that you see this turning into a libya like scenario where you know we go down the slippery slope of intervention when they say of what no fly zone means one thing then the reality on the ground in the bombing is another thing. no i don't think this resembles the libyan scenario partly of course because unlike the security council. given the threat of a russian and maybe also the chinese veto will approve any kind of military intervention in syria but i think if one is looking for a peaceful resolution it's very easy to imagine how that could happen and that

would simply be. his ruling clique found asylum in moscow that would resolve the situation very quickly and very but he you think that's going to happen yes i do actually sooner or later i think that would be of great benefit to the syrian people and i think that russia would be able to preserve its interests in syria and in the wider region more effectively by negotiating that kind of outcome marlen by the opposition if i go tomorrow actually i said regime is willing to negotiate with russia even if they're not willing to negotiate with us said ok tomorrow if i go to you why do you think that the the international community to quote the whole international community meaning nato and its allies she did to determine who should leave who should be in power and who should leave power i mean this is turning into a pattern i think i would. right the libyan example is not

a good case study for syria i mean there were there were calls by the transitional council for military intervention and that led to the nato campaign which by the way has created civil war today in libya there are still the spoils of war which are being fought for between the different rebel groups in the case of syria this is not a scenario which is favored by the majority of the syrian population there have been calls for a no fly zone scattered calls but i would say the majority of the population rejects any foreign military intervention with the fear that this would lead to the fragmentation of the country and in fact the start of civil war now we see that the conflict has started to become militarized because the civilian population is defending itself it's being besieged but this is a dangerous path and i would say if there is any transition towards a successful democratization there would have to be a choice that is made by the syrian people themselves and in that case they would

have to claim in fact ownership of this revolution and if there is a piece one way out which means that the assad family relinquishes power peacefully and finds a way out why not that would be in fact the ideal solution but that would mean still that there would not be delaying tactics you know talking about negotiations while repression goes on because the repression still goes on and at the same time trying to maintain itself and power that would have to be a real way out of the conflict but that would have to be decided by the representatives of the syrian people the syrian national council but also all of the opposition movements their local coordination committees and other groups on the ground which are the ones in fact suffering on a daily basis from the repression ok. the west has shown that aside here it's what people called rebels or protesters that are actually and we have desertions in the army i mean why should the outside world be getting involved in what is a civil war i don't care what people want to call it i mean you have part of the

population that is getting better through outside help. yes in all of them that i agree peter very much. that the west has taken a side is that while it's been stated very clearly isn't stated by barack obama himself who who said that assad must leave you know that's a statement of preference for regime change. so there is an ambiguous that the saudi arabia has back to the syrian national council other members of the arab league such as libya have also recognize the syrian national council as the legitimate representative of the syrian people and so there are outside interests that have taken aside the thing to understand is we live in a period of war. humanitarianism as has become the new ideology of imperialist intervention the united nations itself is serving as

a kind of human rights the iter with a very selective attention and concern for particular countries and not for other countries and what distinguishes the selective ety in the concern shown is these are regimes that have been targeted by the united states that's where human rights really counts the united states wants to cast itself as being in a position as being the liberate or of arabs as being the force i will liberate arabs from themselves because they are fundamentally incapable of ruling themselves and so what we haveour is a kind of rehash of colonialists doctrine david what do you think about that. i think it's a very. speedy. search would to me truly quote ridiculous why it's everything you want why should we be sure why

should we take it's ridiculous because it's ridiculous because it has no relationship to reality or to the fur coats whether in egypt or tunisia or anywhere or majority of syrians who are protesting in the streets came yes that's correct that's not a cliche. if i go you mention before we would sleep because nothing to do with my wife and go to you before we go to the break here do the majority of the airports are actually a majority of syrians recognize that the syrian national council is a legitimate body representing themselves how do we know that why do foreign governments recognize it but we don't know if the syrian people do well the syrian national council has gathered sort of a big spectrum of the different opposition movements you have islamist you have secular as you have intellectuals you have kurdish groups so it tried to bring sort of a platform. sort of consensus platform but it is. you know divided and they

don't have a united position this year a national council is seen as the leading opposition force but you have other of physician groups such as the national coordination committees and the two groups differ in their way they would see a way out of the crisis the syrian national council refuses dialogue with the regime because it says it has been here a lot already but it was short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syrian state party. old means of protection can be used. in global supremacy. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the price paid for the entire program that we

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with max cause or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. and you can. welcome back across the computer a little to remind you we're talking about events unfolding in syria. and you can. see. ok david i'd like to go to you in d.c. you know you've been on the program before and you know i'm a cynic so i'm going to give a cynical comment and a quote i am question this has nothing to do with the syrian people this has nothing to do with their rights it has nothing to do with the killing of innocent people eccentric cetera this is all about geopolitical change in the region you take syria down and it's

a boon for israel maybe but certainly for other countries where hezbollah is weakened in the next target the great prize of the mall is iran that's what it's all about isn't it. yeah well that's. a point of view again has no connection with reality but whatever you want to explain explain yourself why you say that you dismiss you and you don't think anyone who are rising up. as i started to say before you interrupted everyone can see that the syrian people are rising up and risking their lives day after day week after week month after month thousands of people all over the country tens of thousands of people so you think there should be a military intervention should there be a military intervention in scorning called stop this you know i'm not calling for i don't think there should be and i don't think there needs to be i think the. force

of the people in syria will the regime sooner rather than later ok we did it. for so many and you want to say it will have to die before that happens ok marwan what do you think about this is nothing to do is cheer for certain in democracy when we were promised that in libya my wife i'm going to you in princeton i mean how much of this is that a geo political play because this is something the saudis are just drooling over they're just so pleased about this and a lot of people in media don't like to talk about this shia sunni sunni sectarian difference here which is playing a very big role in what's going on in syria right now. peter let me just to get back to what was discussed previously before the interruption i mean there are two dimensions to the to the situation in syria now there's on the one hand a very legitimate powerful movement of civilians who are claiming in fact changing the country and access to democracy or to social justice.