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. the out of band of wiki leaks founder julian assange britain subreport shortly to appeal against his extradition to sweden. an israeli ad campaign in the u.s. backfires behind advertently insulting many jewish families across america. who are trying to live from moscow one pm in the russian capital a marina joshie 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 very important i has the latest from new york. the united states france britain could talk are. 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 to get russia

has taken a positive position the draft resolution most cooper who's demands an immediate end to the violence another positive point is the call for the government and the opposition to sit down for two hours really want a political solution to the crisis in syria right brusha has indicated on tuesday that it will veto a draft resolution on syria in which the attacks calls for or imposes any regime change and leaves a rhetorical door open for military intervention similar to what the world saw transpire in libya now 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 poland to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what king needs to it is. you know what prime minister needs to step down this is really 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 with the 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 text 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 marina burden our reporting there from new york now the west has made a habit of using the u.n. to legalize its aims of regime change in other countries so says peace activists jacob hornberger. that's the whole idea of these resolutions that they're can see how tightly they are constructed they will always be construed to do whatever the u.s. government the british government want to do but one thing's for certain this is a problem for the syrian people to resolve not for the u.s. government the british government the united nations this is a problem for the syrian people so obviously that the main thrust of u.s. foreign policy is regime change we've seen that time and time again it begins with sanctions those into embargoes blockades but ultimately the quest is to remove

a recalcitrant dictatorship install a u.s. regime even if it happens to be a dictatorship so this is another classic example of where the u.s. is butting india other people's affairs when it really has no business doing so. coming up later in the program here on our team peter lavelle and his cast and crosstalk debate the hurdles in a way of breaking the deadlock obvious here you know crisis. offer 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

a day goes the outcome of a process as a preliminary condition and so that possibility of negotiations is very unlikely and from my 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. thank you. share your thoughts on the situation in syria so long gone to r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll so so far this hour forty six percent say where and where they russia china veto over a third think seem to want to simply be 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 biasa regime and just one person thinks there will be agreement on the motion taken how to our website to cast your vote and while you are there any check out what else we have for you on line. and force the 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 both grew and failed to get all the details on our dot com. and the pells that could prevent a but find out why some medical experts believe it could also fuel in h.i.v.'s damage. now the u.k. supreme court is expected to consider an appeal by the we can expound or join us sandra gans to extradition to sweden over allegations of sexual assault in august twenty tam the future of the world famous whistle blowers as

a clear is average with questions being raised over sweden's legal system and its ties with the united states has details. the face that launched a thousand leaks julian or sunday's 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 a sound his 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 are some faces it's going to be close to course and leading up to the trial is going to

be held. well the cheap prosecutor asked him to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects of 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 by our 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 disagree as whether it in is an outright country sit in at a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration even in military operations with such campaigns

initiated by nato you haven't done. so in its presence in afghanistan you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on the part of sweden and that it's not a tragedy with some u.s. politicians branding a sand 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 wealthy people agree with for who is a national public polls to indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of wiki leaks 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 killing our son 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 dumbarton r.t. stockholm sweden. still how for you this hour here in our campaign full of controversy. i doubt why series of ads paid for by the israeli government have left millions of american jews feeling insulted and coming up in our business program. today the most anticipated i.p.o. listing in the last decade is expected facebook they plan to sell

a twelve percent stake of up to one hundred billion dollars bob is that oval racing join me in ten minutes time with more details in the business but i. cannot touch like a world trained on the. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. becomes the scene of nothing. the mysterious sons of russia.

welcome back you're watching our teeth now inspectors from the un's nuclear watchdog say juran is committed to resign. all nuclear issues the statement comes after a three day visit by the i.a.e.a. which to iran's called constructive experts have been attempting to verify the peaceful nature of iran's atomic program the west has recently stepped up economic sanctions against the islamic state suspecting it of 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 by sending a third aircraft carrier to the region former cia analyst ray mcgovern says people

have been misled into thinking of iran is a 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 truth of finance ministers both intelligence agency the way they say it is they have not yet decided to know nuclear weapons well that means to me simple english means they're

not worth you know nuclear weapons going to war if. contrived if you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about this is about a nuclear capability. it was about regime change. now china is the world's fifth largest holder of gold and seems to be in the market for more it's believe beijing snapped up around five hundred tons of gold in two thousand and eleven that's double what a bought in twenty tannin analysts say china is looking for investment safe havens do you weakness of the u.s. dollar china has the largest foreign exchange holding off any country and there were about one trillion in u.s. dollars then most of their u.s. dollar for several years now the chinese economy is one thing the government to diversify is holding out for the change china's economy. one

of that they you as. all china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so it is cool to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not u.s. dollar these like gold but of course together with. china we would need to have a say in. the global financial situation is right now. the europeans and the world. and china has reverted to say in global financial matters and i think that you will have to change exposure to lead the u.s. and europe in such diaphragm and so. now some more of these in brief for you this hour pakistani fighter jets have bombed two militant positions along the afghan border the attacks killed thirty one suspected insurgents in the tribal areas of or

exile and karama this comes just one week after soldiers and militants clashed at a mountaintop in caracas killing over sixty people the pakistani military has launched a series of fans it's 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 answer 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 islamised reporters 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 commodious registered vessel was sailing from russia to turkey's port but sank off the town of 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. 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 up emergency shelters the highest death toll 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 the commercials were designed to encourage israeli jews to return to the roots suggesting that america's jewish culture has weakened but as policy reports the ads seem to have done more harm than good. the become and could be the family featured in an advertisement recently

pulled from american t.v. goal israeli married to board an american jewish woman what 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 on says christmas instead of the jewish festival of hunker the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there that means. support cannot lots of points to. missiles and so for them. the search 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 who 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 strongly alienated 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 orthodox 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 west bank more than half a million people now live in settlements television announced it was issuing tenders four thousand 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 air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved r.t.

television. well that brings us up to date here on r.t. time now for a business update with katie. welcome to the business program this hour is all set to be the most hyped i.p.o. when he is facebook is expected to file the paperwork for its public listing in new york as soon as today the social network will reportedly sell a ten percent stake to raise up to ten billion dollars this will be a record for a technology company to discuss the issue i'm joined by about me washing koskie head of market research capital good afternoon thank you is joining us here now this is a lot of money we're talking about heather the first question has to be is facebook worth this much money definitely not we can turn back to the year of two thousand

actually it april well it was a lot of hopeful expectations a bold so-called dot com companies unfortunately most of them ninety percent lost the bolt eighty percent of the market well within the matter of couple of weeks before remember that i'm not saying that facebook is necessarily your by the way facebook is not we'll into the schools all proceeds makes our investment people a little bit cautious the world. your what we know right now is. receiving the world ten million dollars from online a lot of commercial items we don't know all home watch the proceeds from the so called context which is right now the main source of revenue for companies like this and obviously the question whether facebook would be able to convert this huge traffic into a cash flow in the future it's a b.

. if we prefer to have present cash flow now and less talking about future cash flows. i mean you sinai hundred fifty million users that's massive pinetown mean what of reputation eight hundred fifty million users. how do you think that must be less something i mean come on. this is the main appeal of the ceo's like mr zuckerberg so in basically we have lot of people a lot of traffic and he even culturally the. revenue per capita it means that each of us like you and me if you have an accountant face by forced to spend at least. has already spent at least one hundred twenty seven dollars. i haven't spent one hundred twenty seven dollars although i really like this communicated with my friends with overseas friends but i think this little bit of overestimation.

facebook definitely has that much from each customer over excitement then perhaps just i would call this a pure is. still a social a p or rather than a purely investment a pure this is a distinction facebook wants to be more in the spotlight it wants to be more talked about this is the reason it wants to go public. we. investment people are especially in these hard times a more down to earth we've tried to be a more skeptical because the time teaches us to solve for so far we haven't been seeing the huge inflow or real proceeds this is what makes us cautious and makes us believe that facebook is not definitely worth one

hundred billion dollars i can read employee to. i think perhaps it's bad timing when you say at the moment investors are cautious is it a case of bad timing how do you see to conclude the ip going well first of all the bad timing is obviously an issue not a lot of company recently has been able to come out successful a pause and. or do you also of. monster like yahoo a.o.l. as well yes yahoo has been fighting for its weight for several years you turned down their microsoft or for then eventually failed to fire then your replacement. turned back to microsoft with a new offer and there's been going on and on and on right now what makes google for me obviously more lucrative more interesting is that google develops all that networking with social networking and additional vigilance garge of several did so

therefore google already have a substantial capital may basically. goal head of the. i k well we're certainly watching how the i.p.o. goes here on the business r.t. from saying i was indeed a plus think you can cost the head of market research at north capital thank you very much indeed right let's have a look at what's going on in the markets right now a check out those exchange rates first figure is retreating just a notch against it on our own both the european on the u.s. currencies are higher against the russian ruble after seeing some losses in the previous sessions let's get over to you ever see what's going on in that part of the world the foot sea and the tides are both part of this race against the over a percent solved on a diet over one and a quarter of a stand up although greece will certainly be in the limelight as per usual the monitor now as i say throughout the day now here in moscow the markets have bounced

back from their earlier losses they are now both in the. plot the l.c.s. says just swallow it sam trots positive out of my sex is point six percent up let's see what's happening on the my sex energy mages are among the biggest gainers would you call up to one and a half percent is also high at it's net profit rose over forty one percent in the first nine months of dollars jet pipeline at middleby trans that is also gaining the company plans to invest does embed indows interest into start up by twenty eight cents a. see if this hour i'll be back about fifty five minutes join me then in the meantime get on the websites. for its national business.

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