u.n. resolution stops short of calling for outside intervention but does one president assad to go. should be. the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange. allegations of sexual assault case facing accusations of political. and israel. in the u.s. already feeling alienated by the spiritual home. a

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at. rule received. russia is standing at the u.n. security council on its opposition to any military intervention in syria differences remain among members about 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 interfere in syria's affairs. has details now 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 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 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 this unity council cannot prescribe a radio disappears for the outcome of domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to call them to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what needs to design 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 with russia has taken a positive position in the draft resolution most cooper proves demands an immediate end to the violence and other positive points. 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. reporting right there we can talk more on this now with dr his job director for the center of middle eastern studies now joining us live from beirut thank you for coming on or to today so finding a solution to the crisis in syria seems to have left the u.n. in a state of deadlock how far is the u.n. from coming up with a plan of action and what might it be. yes i think. the. security council will not arrive to have any. decision or resolution against syria like. some other countries the position of russia russia then china was very clear and logical and they're calling

for dialogue because they do believe. and it's sanctions or the military intervention in syria is out of question and also any sanctions against syria will increase the problem. state of resolve the problem i shall call for the. and also russia. proportions to horse you know both sides the government and the opposition. to their log based on the. situation. and democracy and i think within the next two months or three months if the proposition of russia will not succeed and not have dialogue in order to have a peaceful solution for the rise in syria i think syria will be in very difficult situation no one will win and maybe syria will go into

a civil war that's what we do believe eleven or who are watching the situation you know day after day and i think the government one day they call the army to withdraw to the barracks you know this is. reality on the other hand who can guarantee that the and surgeons who are working you know and i guess. infrastructure again governmental institutions and they haven't taken terrorist action who can guarantee that goose sir john a will be at. why you would stay away order will deliver their weapons and this is it as you said if i mean just interrupt you for a moment i do apologize for interrupting you you raise a valid point that russia has made the proposal to be a mediator for both sides the opposition and the assad government to try and come to the table for talks you're saying in lebannon though they for see civil war

escalating in the next few months if i may just for a moment though moscow does say that western states have fallen into the habit of using the un as a tool for regime change is that a fair accusation do you think. yeah talking about the regime you know at the beginning they didn't want the regime to change syria everybody knows that they made the pressure they took adventure and. they took the you know you know attention from advantage from what happened in the arab world they put this pressure on syria syria everybody knows euro two thousand and five after that the syrian regime of ideally syria left about and was within three years under the pressure and some kind of sanction why sarkozy came to syria in two thousand and eight why obama sent this ambassador because syria has several cards strong cards they want syria to play with that account of iraq and lebanon and then palestinian

and how much and of course one was the relation with iran syria did not play with those gusts that not offer anything since two thousand and eight until two thousand and seven and there are a lot of america and the western countries they took advantage from what happened in the arab world and they made that pressure on syria and they did finance and encouraged what so called revolution that syria so far and now i think it's very critical and it's not clear to see if they want assad to go or not but it's difficult it's really difficult to change the regime we know syria the station in syria if they want a civil war in syria and then in iraq and jordan you know with an very very quick period you know i think they have to go ahead and to make

pressure for the military pressure or economic pressure against syria and let me say something the sanctions will not help at all to solve the problem even the economy sanctions because danny. but iraq they need world countries to syria starting from never known to georgia and to iraq they do you know very important. interest economy interest to syria they can not apply and accept even. q one the start of. sanctions against syria they discovered that goes on just became against turkey because they gave between turkey and syria is the only. one and now you say there are several regional implications here certainly regional implications when it comes to the a qana mees with sanctions or certainly with the west looking to get involved as you say i wish we had more time for this i'm afraid we don't talk to the shop job or director for the center for middle eastern studies

live in beirut thank you for joining us on our seats of thank you so. this is artsy now the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court julian assange is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten occasions that he denies the wiki leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and in response to his website publishing top secret u.s. cables on the wars in afghanistan and iraq laura smith now reports from the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supremes court could literally be last chance saloon a full julian our sounds 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 this request for his extra extradition rescind days if he does spell here he can

then take his case the european court of human rights in strasbourg but that is not a given this legal wrangling has been going on for more than a year now i asked those arrived 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 actually 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 month it 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 it under which of course we know that people can 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 ourselves was in store and we are not expecting the outcome of this case to be announced in the next couple of days the plane cool has said that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that would mean anything pertaining to chew and then ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that has always has been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited to 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 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 suis all floridians 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 are some traces it's going to be close to course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. while the chief prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just. so there are so many bizarre aspects to the why in which the the man that 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 son is 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 to whether straight in this country sit in a very clear cut. proximity and collaborations even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have for instance. so its presence in that is that you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on the part of sweden 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 too little. i think we'll see people who agree with for 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 who has 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. now

a quarter past the hour here in moscow coming your way in just a few minutes here on r.t. you throw employs a controversial tactic to lure american based jews back to the motherland but critics say you need to fix the problems that drove them away from. china is that being taken over by gold fever it's believed beijing already the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up around five hundred tonnes of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that is double what it bought in two thousand and ten and now it could be in the market for just a bit more investment manager francis lui believes beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar. china has the largest foreign exchange holding of any country in the world about one trillion u.s. dollars most of their u.s. dollar for several years now the chinese economy is one thing the government to diversify is holding of foreign exchange china's economy is.

that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar based like gold but of course together with. china would need to have a say in. the global financial situation right now. by europeans and the world. and china has reverted to say in global financial matters and i think that you will have to change expression the u.s. and europe in such dire financial straits if you want china to participate fully in the global financial system i think you really need to bring china into d.c.

to organizations. don't forget her we've also got the world covered for you on our website and let's have a look and see what's standing by for you right now on line but at least nato report accuses pakistan's intelligence of assisting and of protecting the afghan taliban find out the details of that revelation and who would upset the most that's at r.t. dot com also online imprisonment and deportation from america just for making a joke on twitter do you read the story of a couple whose tweets saw them treated like terrorists by u.s. authorities. or less i'll get to some other news for you in brief from around the world and gunmen have attacked a paramilitary checkpoint in southwestern pakistan killing eleven soldiers and wounding a dozen the troops returned 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 have been killed and five more injured in senegal's cup at all during an opposition rally police there used to gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling allowing the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term the constitution was revised soon after he was elected in two thousand to 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 a pole position 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 compared to his main rival newt gingrich with thirty two the former massachusetts governor has been the front runner to take on barack obama for most of the campaign with suffered a setback in south carolina last month when claimed

a win. seventy nine people have died and hundreds have been hospitalized across eastern europe after a severe cold and blizzard swept the region the drop in temperature also course power outages and traffic worst hit is ukraine where forty three people most of them homeless died after temperatures hit minus thirty degrees celsius weather forecasters say the deep freeze is expected to last in till friday at least. the united states is home to the second largest jewish community in the world and many american jews field increasingly alienated from their spiritual home in israel thanks in no small part to ad campaigns funded by the israeli government as artie's explains. the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. goal is israeli married to ball with 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 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 honey the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. and support you 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 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 fail to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look to what's going on in 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 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 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 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 nonstick 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 twenty 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. writer shortly here abouts we will get more opinion on how to break the

ongoing deadlock in syria to stay with us for that for now though with the business news with dmitri. banks rory alone welcome to business r.t. 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 and 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 internet firms. the head of market research at capital says this one looks overvalued. this is a valuation probably based on future cash flow. more inclined to talk about president bush will definitely facebook is not delivering this much money right now so. maybe

a self-delusion or might might be deliberate exaggeration of market while you are but facebook is definitely worth much much less than that amount. and a further effort to crack down on corruption president advantage 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 into the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development according to a study by transparency international russian business men among are among the world's greatest bright givers second to chinese. second to the markets quickly and it's all positive in europe as in the u.s. one hundred seventy thousand new jobs in the sector were added in january and the european central bank could help reduce greece's debt by woodturning gains on greek government bonds that region we purchased at this camp here in moscow it's all also positive the r.t.s. up one half percent of one point seven seven to what's moving the my six gasp of

league as problem is high as no profit grows over forty one percent first nine months of last year they predict for your profits will be up twenty five percent oil pipeline operator transnet is also doing well as preferred shares are up point six percent recovery plans in first thirteen billion dollars into infrastructure by twenty twenty and after hours is down reporters washing sales fell twenty one percent in january. and we have more of these markets crude is positive that's of china's manufacturing index unexpectedly rose grew six speculation of the world's second largest consumer is withstanding the european debt crisis and in currencies the year is gaining versus the dollar single currency has strengthened a five. senegal since region is a bit of january cutting the euro's decline to about sense is money directly to the control of the e.c.b. on the first of the. crisis two point zero and the

beginning of the end of the financial world as we know it's this is how sykes a bank sees the future in its latest report but in the course of it takes a look at what's in store for the financial world and twenty two. since the sovereign debt crisis is one of solving see 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 asia 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 taking the right action for a long term solution. to the headlines are next on our c with rory. the .

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