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very warm welcome from all of us here. russia is standing at the u.n. security council on its opposition to any military intervention in syria differences remain among members over how to deal with the ongoing conflict washington the e.u. and some arab states want president assad to step down but moscow says the u.n. shouldn't be used as a platform to simply interfere with syria's. now reports 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 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 past few months russia has indicated on tuesday that it will veto a draft resolution on syria in which the tax calls for imposes any regime change and leaves a rhetorical door open for military intervention similar to what the world saw transpire in libya this unity council cannot prescribe a radio disappears for. domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to call him to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what king needs to do you

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. russia has taken a positive position the draft resolution must cooper demands an immediate end to the violence another positive point. is the call for the government and the opposition to sit down for talks we all want a political solution to the crisis in syria 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 tax 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 what his main import niver porting right when a peace activist jacob horn bugga says the western states have made a habit of using the u.n. to legalize its aims of regime change in many of the countries. that's the whole idea of these resolutions that they're no matter 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 them time and time again it begins with sanctions it goes into embargoes blockade 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. and the indian ambassador to the u.n. says if the security council continues with its one sided approach to syria a solution will remain a very long way off. as long as the council is in a position to address and recommendation to both sides in a conflict i think you could get agreement but if the council wants to address its recommendation to one side that is the government and is not willing to encourage the opposition to come to the negotiating table then you've got a council recommendation which clearly is not acceptable to some members what we need to do on syria clearly is to realize that the situation there is spiraling out

of control that one rivaling of the situation in syria will have very serious consequences for the other countries in the region and that unlike libya the consequences would be higher i'm not suggesting that what happened in libya is not see this enough of this and what's going to be one of the difficulties that we're having is that the security council expedience in respect of resolutions nine hundred seventy and seventy three on libya. vitiated the atmosphere in terms of the approach to how to deal with the situation in syria. and you can watch the full interview with the indian ambassador to the u.n. in just twenty minutes time right here on our city. the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. now out to the country's supreme court julian

a sign she is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten which she denies the wiki leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and in response to his website publishing secret u.s. cables on wars or on afghanistan and iraq artie's laura smith is at the high court in london for us. the building that you see behind me the supremes court could literally be last chance saloon for julian our sons at least in this country this is a two day hearing which began this morning is expected to carry on until the end of thursday in which he will present his case to the supreme court to try and have that request for his extra extradition rescind days if he does fail here he can then take his case the european court of human rights in stroudsburg but that is not given this legal wranglings been going on for more than a year now a soldier right after this morning looking fairly relaxed it has to be stats that

he stopped on his way into court to shake hands with a couple of his supporters who were here some had been here apparently since five o'clock this morning just showing their support for a thousand that he headed into court but without saying anything to the assembled media which he's taken to doing in the last months he is presenting his case in front of seven judges and they will be looking at a key question which is whether the european arrest warrant that was issued for him by the swedish prosecutor is valid can the swedish prosecutor in fact issue a european arrest warrant and this could in fact call into question the entire system of european arrest warrants that under which of course we know that people could be extradited within europe having little or no evidence presented against them now of course this case is all relating to sexual assault charges that took place in august two thousand and ten while a soldier was in store and we are not expecting the outcome of this case to be announced in the next couple of days as the plane cool has said that it could take

them some weeks to come to a judgment that could mean anything pertaining to two and and ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that's all she's been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited straight from that to america and my to my colleague told boston has been to stop to look at the relationship between sweden. and the united states is 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 swedes or thirty's want to question a songe over allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten prosecutors have been criticized by a son 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 traces it's going to be closed course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. while the chip prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just as so there are so many bizarre aspects to the one which the management has been 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 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 take me as whether straight in is an out of country sit in that's

a very clear cut. proximity and cooperation even. in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have for instance. so it's presence in afghanistan you have a clear cut it brought nato policy on the part of sweden and that it's 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 too little. i think we'll see people agree with. who is a national public polls 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 the sun 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. art is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and just in a few minutes here on the program israel employs controversial tactics to american based jews back to the motherland and put critics who say it needs to fix the problems that drove them away in the first place. also

a new gold fever china races by record breaking amounts of the precious metal exposing the trouble the u.s. dollar finds itself in. the un's nuclear watchdog says it's planning to visit iran again in the near future following a three day trip to the country the i.a.e.a. believes tyrone is committed to progress over its nuclear program however u.s. intelligence officials believe iran is trying to be more open only because it's feeling the bite of new sanctions and despite admitting that the country isn't building a nuclear weapon at the moment they likened iran it to al qaeda saying it could launch terrorist attacks on u.s. soil but former cia analyst ray mcgovern believes people have been misled into thinking that iran poses a danger. if you look at the polls seventy percent of the american people believe that iran 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 the phone in corporate media to believe that saddam hussein was working on a nuclear weapon it's bizarre what did the defense ministers of america and israel say they say all the readings working on a nuclear weapon know if the arrhenius were working on a nuclear weapon they would have to kick out he would inspectors 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 are the truth offense ministers both intelligence agencies and say the way they say it is they have not yet decided to nuclear weapons well that means that the i mean simple english means they're not working on a nuclear weapon going to war if on a contrived synthetic if you have to take five steps back and say what is this

whole about this is about a nuclear capability right now it was about regime change. well i thought forget it where you've also got the world covered for you on our website and here are some of the items are standing by on line if you right now it's. a link to the nato report accuses pakistan's intelligence of assisting and protecting the taliban find out the details of that revelation and who it's upset the most dog also online for you . imprisonment and deportation from america just for making a joke on twitter the story of a couple whose tweets sold and treated like terrorists by u.s. authorities. it's.

and about the business but for now china has been taken over by gold fever it's believed beijing the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up about five hundred tonnes of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that is double what

it. could be in the market for just a bit more investment. to make a distance away from the weakening dollar. china has the largest foreign exchange holding off any country in that world one trillion u.s. dollars most of their u.s. dollar and for several years now chinese see how limited the government to diversify is holding out for the change china's economy is still. that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why do you about one point nine percent is so is good to diversify some of the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar goal but of course together with. china we would need to have a say in the global financial situation right now.

by your peers in the world. right china has reverted to say in global financial matters and i think that we'll have to change exposure lead us in europe to die if. if you want china to participate fully in the global financial system i really need to bring china into d.c. two organizations. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you with us on the program today time for the world of day now some other global headlines for you in brief or start with pakistan where gunmen have attacked a para military checkpoint in the southwest of the country killing eleven soldiers and wounding a dozen the troops did return fire but it's unclear whether the attackers suffered any casualties shortly after pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of militants along the afghan border killing up to thirty one suspected insurgents.

two people who are being killed and five more injured in senegal's capital during an opposition rally. used tear gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling allowing the nation's. leader so it's a run for a third term the constitution was revised soon after he was elected in two thousand and two impose a two term limit for the president argues that since he was already in office when it took effect it should not apply to him. mitt romney is in polls musician to be the republican nominee for president after claiming a landslide victory in the primary election in florida official results show him taking forty six percent of the vote to his rival maine are over that is a newt gingrich with only thirty two the former massachusetts governor has been at the front runner to take on barack obama for most of the campaign but suffered a setback in south carolina last month when gingrich claimed.

over sixty people have died and hundreds of been hospitalized across eastern europe after a severe cold and blizzard swept the region the drop in temperature also caused power outages and blocked traffic worst it was ukraine where forty three people most of them homeless died off the temperatures hit minus thirty three weather forecasters say the subzero conditions are expected to last until friday. the united states is home to the second largest jewish community in the world and many american jews feel increasingly alienated from their spiritual home in israel thanks in no small part to ad campaigns funded by the israeli government. explains . the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. the goal is israeli married to board an american jewish woman but it was saying is

that may have been shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just 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 hunker the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. or american 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 the sun 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 to going on israel what's 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 are. rift has been growing between the two much of it based on the aggressive policies of tel aviv towards gaza and the occupation these radio 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 tell of 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 air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved. r.t. television. or in our time for dimitri.

thanks rory in a further effort to crack down on corruption present a variant has ratified the o.e.c.d. convention against bribing foreign officials in business transactions this is also a key step in russia's access to the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development now to give the details of this move i'm joined in the studio by a business editor nick poole very good to see you so what are we talking about is it going to make a difference this move well what it means is that russian companies will be subject to prosecution in russia if they give bribes abroad. this when we much difference to business is operating in europe in the us is basically there's not much corruption but companies operating in africa of course quite a different problem or other regions with high levels of of corruption and they won't be able to give bribes in order to gain contracts and some entrepreneurs are

complaining that they will be excluded from certain regions if they abide by the rules well this is of course a common practice for the united states for example but i mean why join the o.e.c.d. if it means further restrictions well the o.e.c.d. basically is a talking shop it comes up with the best trade policy if you will and then sort of if you don't even apply the regulations recommendations leads to increased transparency more predictable rule of law and this is all good for the investment climate which is a key mission of the government and the kremlin ministration all right well that looks like a move in the right direction then the poor business that is so thank you so much. move over to the markets some we start with stocks we start with europe where the fourth c. and that actually if we can take a look of course of those figures on the rise that's on reports the european central bank could help reduce greece's debt by returning games on greek government

bonds originally purchased at a discount the footsies up one point four percent the dax more than two here's a picture in moscow also looking positive second day in a row the r.t.s. up point nine percent to my six even more than that one point three percent despite the that's actually all based on the weakening of the rules take a look at the main movers on the my second financials are in the lead with d.t.b. up one point seven percent gas monopoly gazprom is also higher his net profit rose over forty one percent the first nine months of last year and preferred shares of oil pipeline operator transnet also doing well more than one percent the company plans to invest thirteen billion dollars into its infrastructure by twenty twenty. two commodities now trued is again on the rise is still hovering at the same levels we've been seeing a over the past three or four sessions around one hundred dollars per barrel for light sweet china's manufacturing index in the unexpectedly rose boosting speculation that the world's second largest group consumer is withstanding the

european debt crisis and now to exchange rates the euro is gaining versus the greenback the single currency has strengthened five percent versus the dollar since reaching a seventeen month low on jan your first team cutting the euro's decline to about four percent since my view you took control of the can see on the first of november and the russian ruble is lower by around the seven to eight copecks versus both the euro and the dogs. it's all said to be the most hyped i.p.o. in years facebook is expected to file the paperwork for its public listing in new york as soon as today 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 but as with other high profile it's not firms on course the head of market research not capital says this one looks overvalued. this

is a valuation probably based on future cash flow where us we're now more inclined to talk about the present because for definitely facebook is not delivering this much money at all right now so. my be a self-delusion or might my be deliberate exaggeration off of market while you're both so facebook is definitely worth much much less than that amount. all right business as he will be back in fifty five minutes time i'll be here with an update to join me if you can.