diplomatic deadlock russia says no to regime change in syria as moscow slams a proposed u.n. resolution calling on president assad to step down. who want to ban wiki leaks founder julian assange is due out of britain supreme court shortly to appeal against his extradition to sweden. and israeli ad campaign in the u.s. backfires by inadvertently insulting many jewish families across america. what are they coming to you live from moscow i'm reading josh welcome to the program the u.n. security council has agreed it wants to avoid military intervention in syria but

differences remain over the way it had the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies one president assad out of power for its part russia says the u.n. shouldn't be used as a platform for excessive interference in syrian affairs has the latest from new york. the united states france britain could talk are and all those countries supporting this draft resolution said that there would be no military intervention imposed in syria if the draft resolution was adopted but the most important thing to note is that those spearheading the push for this draft resolution are also calling for a ceasefire in syria and also calling for a national dialogue between the government and opposition groups these steps these calls are calls that have been made by russia for the last few months russia has indicated on tuesday that it will veto

a draft resolution on syria in which the attacks calls for imposes any regime change and leaves a rhetorical door open for military intervention similar to what the world saw transpire in libya the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the security council indicating that russia is clearly committed to finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in syria but it is a solution that has to involve the syrian people not a solution that is imposed by outside forces take a listen to what he had to say this unity council cannot prescribe radio recipes for. domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what king needs to design and know what prime minister needs to

step down this is really not the business of the security council moscow has proposed its own draft resolution on syria which calls for both parties participating in the violence to come to the negotiating. negotiating table and take part in a dialogue this is an invitation that russia recently made to representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups earlier this week to try to get them to come to moscow and participate in talks in the coming days the security council will be working to try to come to a consensus on the text of a resolution on syria but if the times remains as it's been presented calling for president bashar al assad to step down and leaving the door open for military intervention this is something that russia firmly will be opposed to. reimport not reporting there from new york western countries are pushing for regime change in

damascus because they failed to break up the alliance between the syrian regime and other key players in the region and that's the view of middle east expert risk. when obama first came into power for example there was a policy of the morning with syria you know and some of america's allies like the french president nicolas sarkozy paid more than one visit to syria the i am then was to decouple syria from the resistance axis and particularly from iran you know by communication by dialogue by incentives when syria made it clear that it would not be decoupled from the resistance axis sort of from the iranian led axis there now we have this new approach of trying to decouple syria by changing its regime and by changing it to his regime in this way so we hope by taking that into consideration i think that the solution to syria will come more as a as a as part of a more broader regional solution for example when the u.s. and iran reach some kind of draw a grand bargain when there was some kind of

a midway an agreement reached between the u.s. and iran if that is possible then i think you'll see a whole all in agreement great regarding syria so when we speak about the syrian file you can speak of it as a separate issue from the ball broader region i think you have to speak about it as an issue related to iran to hezbollah more broader issue. coming up later in the program here on our team gets some crossed out debate hurdles in the way of breaking the deadlock of the syrian crisis. 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. should resign so they wanted on the old come the day goes the

old come of the 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. i can share your thoughts on the situation in syria to log on to r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll this hour forty four percent say it will and will their russia china veto over a third thinks the u.n. is simply being used by the west to further its aims in syria less than a quarter believes it will finish with a continued u.s. effort to overthrow the yasid regime and just to put sand thinks there will be agreement on the motion had to our website i.q. dot com to cast your vote now while you're there check out what else we have for you online. enforcing american laws with russian weapons us police will soon be

using guns provided by the firm that makes kalashnikovs. also the final verdict is out on why russia's martian mission probe job is prone to fail to get all the details on our. and a pill that could prevent a body by now why some medical experts believe it could also fuel at h.i.v. epidemic. they were caesarean court is expected to consider an appeal by the way to be expelled or join a sound against his extradition to sweden over allegations of sexual assault in august two thousand and ten the future of the world famous whistleblower is as

clear as ever with questions being raised over sweden's legal system and its ties with the united states are disembarking has the details. the face that launched a thousand leaks julian a son does exposure of tens of thousands of secret documents has embarrassed governments the world over but the wiki leaks phenomenon is no longer his most pressing concern swedish authorities want to question a songe over allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten prosecutors have been criticized by the sun just supporters and international civil libertarians with allegations of a cumbersome contradictory and slow legal process huge arguments have also broken out over the nature of some of sweden's laws on sexual offenses such as those of some places it's going to be closed. and leading up to the trial is going to be

held. well the chief prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects to the why in which the management is being conducted up till now. from our perspective i just can't see how he would get a fair trial others have gone beyond legal arguments saying that the storm raised plant sons through wiki leaks has made him a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s. authorities enraged at having their secret documents exposed may seek to have a son extradited there to stand trial but surely sweden's famed neutrality would stop such a thing i would take me as whether straight in is an outright country sit in that's a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato

you haven't done it so its presence in that is that you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on a practice written and that is not to try to do with some u.s. politicians branding a son a cyber terrorist and calling for the death penalty it could get a lot worse for the wiki leaks founder the problem is not that we have too much wiki leaks we have too little. i think most people agree with that fact. is a national public polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of. the why do worry is that with or without julian asuncion governments around the world with something to hide will now launch full scale assaults on internet freedom in order to keep their secrets secret but for now the

focus is on the man not his website cheering us on just connections with sweden have raised many questions about what really happened in august two thousand and ten but now with a son just future as uncertain as ever questions are being leveled at sweden's legal system and its relationship with the united states which could prove crucial to the fate of the world's most notorious whistleblower tom watson r.t. stockholm sweden. also have for you this hour here on our team a campaign for a controversy. right now why a series of ads paid for by the israeli government have left millions of american jews feeling insulted.

all the means of protection can be used. when 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 are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another one hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets twenty things becomes the best form of trance.

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iran says it's held three days of constructive talks with inspectors from the un's nuclear watchdog. the i.a.e.a. is attempting to verify the peaceful nature to iran's atomic program the west has recently stepped up a comic sanctions against the islamic state suspecting it developing nuclear weapons washington's intelligence chief has warned of an increasing likelihood that iran could attack america or its allies the u.s. is beefing up its military presence in the persian gulf ice sending a third aircraft carrier to the region former cia analyst ray mcgovern says people have been misled into thinking iran is that clear and present danger. if you look at the polls seventy percent of the american people believe that he run already has a nuclear weapon that's exactly the same percentage of people in two thousand and two who were persuaded by what i call reforming corporate media to believe that saddam hussein was working on nuclear weapons it's bizarre what do the defense

ministers of america and israel say they say the readings working on nuclear weapons know if the marines were working on a nuclear weapon they would have to kick you at spector's he would know that and they don't want that at all they are not working on a nuclear weapon they have not yet decided to do so so the facts or the offense ministers both intelligence agency the way they say it is they have not yet decided to go nuclear weapons will that means to me simple english means they're not worth you know nuclear weapons going to war if. contrived to you you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about this it's about nuclear capability . it was about regime change. and china is the world's fifth largest holder golden seems to be in the market for more it's believed beijing snapped up around

five hundred tons of gold in two thousand and eleven double what a bought in twenty ten analysts says china is looking for investment safe havens to due to the weakness of the us dollar. china has the largest foreign exchange holding off and the country and one tree menu as follows most of their u.s. dollar for several years now the chinese economy is one thing the government to diversify is holding on to china's economy is one of that of the us. all of china has about nine percent economic growth why the us about one point nine percent or so is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings to do something not us all of these like gold but of course together with. china we would need to have a say in. the global fund then show. now.

the europeans and the world. and china has reverted to say in global financial matters and i think that we will have to change exposure. in europe in such dire straits and some world leaders in brief for you this hour a pakistani fighter jets have bombed two militant positions along the afghan border to task thirty one suspected insurgents in the tribal areas of our exile and karama this comes just one week after soldiers and militants clashed at a mountaintop in koran killing over sixty people the pakistani military has launched a series of answers against militants in the tribal regions in the past few years. dozens of people were injured in clashes outside egypt's parliament in cairo where protesters have gathered to demand an end to military rule they were stopped from

reaching the doors of the building by supporters of the muslim brotherhood which holds the majority of seats 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. at least ten people are missing after a cargo ship capsized off the coast of turkey the vessel was sailing from russia to turkey's ports but sank off the town of song gold uk 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 to storm cause the ship to tilt to one side and take on water. at least 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 of emergency shelters the highest

death toll was in ukraine where thirty people died after a temperatures hit minus thirty three weather forecasters say the subzero conditions are expected to last until friday. and that campaign in the u.s. paid for by the israeli government has angered many jewish americans throughout the country the commercials were designed to encourage israeli jews to return to their roots suggesting that america's jewish culture has weakened by this policy or in their reports the ads seem to have done more harm than good. the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. goal israeli married to two baller an american jewish woman it was saying is that my husband shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just ouch. this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and aid across the united states that evoked more than just an outrage from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily answers

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 the. support cannot lots of points or two. 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 is that they came from 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 israelis 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 failed to address why

many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look too going on israel was developing in the parliament particular in the field stream really needed from that and they say to themselves this is not the israel that we fell 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 off the docks 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 the israeli 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 nonstop was issuing tenders for thoughts and war 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 provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved policy r t television. and now it's time to work with happening in the world of business katie is here with the first studio. allay their welcome to the program crisis two point zero and the beginning of the end of the financial world as we know it this is how a new report by saxo bank sees the future the sun has

a. reputation for having some of the industry's top marina cars ever takes a look at what's into store for the financial world in twenty. since the sovereign debt crisis is one of solvency not liquidity and the leaders have failed to address that we can expect to see a systemic collapse and this will involve a liquidity freeze across the board and the sudden drop of at least twenty five percent on europe's i could be markets. the growth outlook for europe is obviously negative so let's move on to a huge or more disappointment there as china is expected to face challenges in rebalancing its economy but better news for us where economic growth is expected to be better than anywhere else. interest rates will go up m. budgets will come down the public sector will have to face the harsh reality of

wage cuts and shrinking overnights. all of the above could be good news for the save haven currencies the us dollar the japanese again the norwegian krohn but a bad year for the euro the swiss franc and the chinese yuan the experts outside the bank believe it's only a matter of time before the perfect financial storm hits and they do offer a one consolation that it may force the authorities into taken the right action for a long term solution. let's move on that city exchange rates our way we're is retreating just a not against the dollar and by the european and the us currencies are against the russian ruble want to sink some losses in previous sessions the european markets are now open for business down as you can see it's looking good the footsie is all part of the ascent and the dies is over a quarter of a percent although greece is still struggling to come to an agreement with its creditors will be monitoring that all throughout the day for you see how they say

it is changing asia now that stocks they had a mixed day largely because investors were dealing with two conflicting reports official data showed a modest. proven in china is that manufacturing while the private survey by hey just be safe we build a slight fall so this resulted in a while for the nikkei it was up slightly and they had a sign was nearly half a percent down says of all the next day that i'm not terrified in moscow the market opens in the eyes of that's when i remain. right now is three quarter percent in the red while the my so is a fun to. take a look of what's going on in the my sex right now financials among the biggest retreat is a south bank losing almost a one percent point eight percent problem is trading in the red but it's american losses at its net profit rose over forty one percent in the first nine months of last year but still in the lead out all pipeline all three trials there is gaining

the company plans to invest thirteen billion dollars into its in distracted by twenty twenty looking ahead to the coming trading sessions on monday from data says also a strong start to the year caution is the better part of valor. in frederick had a good rally for russian backed sources richard so you know i would be. quite cautious bearing that in mind and i would be looking for companies that if you characteristics that generate free cash flows that are going to have generate generate money. that don't have a lot of debt to pay dividends to investors or the have lots of recruits are quite safe say for me companies like kasparov look for a company in this part of environment are looking at quite safe stocks like mozart probably sort of on the figure. just raise all those defensive courage restriction this is sort of surprising in this. bye let's look at the oil prices now crude is

trading near its lowest price in more than a week that was demand for fuel is slipping in the u.s. a report by the energy department forecasts to show high out crude supply adding pressure on also government statements that consumer confidence is falling and business activity is killing in the mouth biggest crude consumer the u.s. of course. the chief that i had have not back warnings from iran that the decision to impose an embargo while the just skyrocketing all prices the organization thinks a fair price for a brand should be about one hundred dollars david the global threat of oil that injury industry research is plant says the worry is not so much crude prices will hit one hundred fifty dollars about but 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 reserve 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 we've been well aware of potential structure 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 over supply of the short term a lot of watchers are concerned that the price of all my fall rather than rise in may be a case of being a little bit overprepared here for what might come to pass. right well as far as today's can sell mobley monitoring those oil prices all day and also the equity market small business fifty five minutes join me them.

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