let. me. looking to break the syrian stalemate a u.n. resolution stops short of calling for outside intervention but does one president assad to go for the meantime insists that should be no foreign interference. the live pictures for you right here from the u.k.'s high court which considering the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange. on allegations of sexual assault cases facing accusations of political motivation again those are live pictures right here. at israel's. base in the u.s.

already feeling alienated by their spiritual home. in the u.s. russia is no exception with the r.t.s. my six ending ones they said one more on this in twenty minutes in business of. global news twenty four seven this is ot see live from moscow with me rule received . well the russian capital is standing on its opposition to any military intervention in syria saying it will vote against a u.n. resolution that will aggravate the conflict in the country differences remain among members of a how to deal with the crisis western states one president assad to step down but moscow says the u.n. should not be used as a platform to interfere in syria's affair us 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 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 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 is difficult to stop then you will start dealing with 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 with the russian has taken a positive position in the draft resolution most cooper 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 time for mainz 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 while i talk to him director of the center for middle east studies says that if syria and the un don't choose dialogue as a means to resolve the conflict the country will eventually fall into civil war the position of russia russia then china was very clear and and logic because they do believe and these sanctions or military intervention against syria is out of

question and also will increase the problem state of to solve the problem and i shut god for a day i logged a horse both sides the government and the opposition to their dog based on the. situation and and democracy and i think within the next two months or three months if the proposition of russia will not succeed and that will not have their log in order to hug it peaceful solution for. syria i think syria will be in very difficult situation no one will know when and may be syria will go into a civil war. well coming up the little bit later for you here on r t it's going to be paid lavelle and his cross told guests are debating how to break the ongoing deadlock of violence in syria. 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 encourage went behind them because one of the stipulations that they made one of the preconditions for the talks was that assad should resign so they wanted an old come of the gaucherie the outcome of a process as a preliminary condition and so that possibility of negotiations is very unlikely and from our 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. and you can watch the crosstalk debate in full that's coming your way in just about

twenty minutes time right here on our team. 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 allegations which 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 wars in iraq and afghanistan laura smith has more from the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supreme court could literally be last chance saloon a full 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 to his extracts tradition rescind it is if he does fail here he can then take his case the european court of human rights in strasburg but that is not

a case that this legal wranglings been going on for more than a year now ourselves 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 but 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 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 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 the plane cool has said that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that would mean anything between the two and and ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that assad has 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 tom boston has been to stop came to look at the relationship between sweden. and the united states 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

a sound to 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 closed 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 as so there are so many bizarre aspects to the one which the matter 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 branson's 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 peace and 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 haven't done. so its presence in that is that you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on a practice we didn't 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 wealthy people agree with for

who is a national public polls to indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of. the why do worry is that with or without julian assange governments around the world has something to hide will now launch a full scale assault 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 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. he is coming here live from the heart of moscow it's good to have you with us today and in just a few minutes here on the program israel employs

a controversial tactics to lure american based jews back to the motherland but critics say it needs to fix the problems that drove them away from. the world. science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. it was shot four times in total. three of the boards are still. should be allowed to the. guns and the. people are now. basically. you

know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what you hear is going to. that's all the training really. raise your hand in. the street. hopefully we will never use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared. for the. seventeen students. who are still. there watching all the live from moscow in about ten minutes time it's the business but for now china is being taken over by gold fever it's believed the 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 brought in two thousand and ten and it could be in the market but just so mole investment manager francis luna 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 them in u.s. dollars and for several years now chinese see how limits wanting the government to diversify is holding a foreign exchange china's economy is about one third of that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so it is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar basis like gold but of course together with that china would need to have

a say in. the global financial situation right now. based on minute 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. time now for the world update here on are to some other international headlines for you brief we'll start with pakistan that's where government have a type of power a 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 have been killed and five more injured in senegal's capital during an opposition rally police used tear gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling that allows the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term the constitution was revived 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. rival militia groups have reportedly been involved in a gun battle in the center of libya's capital tripoli witnesses report heavy and light weapons exchanging fire in the city the road along the coast has been blocked and smoke was seen at rising from the scene of the fighting. seventy nine people have died and hundreds have been hospitalized across eastern europe after severe

cold and blizzard swept the region the drop in temperature also caused power outages on the blog traffic at the worst hit was ukraine where forty three people most of them homeless died after temperatures hit minus thirty degrees celsius weather forecasters say the deep freeze is here to stay until friday. in a moment is the business but for now 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 paula explains. the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. goal is israeli marry to board an american jewish woman it was saying is that my husband shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just. this is one

of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and eight across the united states that evoked more than just an hour from american jews one who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily answers 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. or move support cannot lots of points or two. missiles and so for them. this 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 its radius living in the united states to come home but critics complained they smacked of arrogance ignorance and cultural disrespect for america instead of giving positive reasons for expects to return to israel they fail to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look too going on israel what's developing in the parliament particular in the field is truly 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 off the docks practice of judaism than 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 leaving 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 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 the air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved. r.t. television. and i forget how we've also got the world covered for you want our website to hear some of the items that are called presidential. says

a runoff in the upcoming election is possible but believes it could be stabilized the nation's political situation how is preparing for the poll and. also online for you in person. just for making a joke twitter the story of a couple whose tweets saw them treated like terrorists by u.s. authorities. he.

the official. from the. video. and. the palm of your. crosstalk asks. what should be done to bring stability to syria after the business update in a recap of the headlines in just a. welcome to business r.t. it's all set 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 say 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 limiters and the head of market research at north capital says this one looks over that this is a valuation probably based on future cash world where as we're now more inclined to talk about president bush war definitely facebook is not delivering this much money right now so. maybe a self-delusion or might may be deliberate exaggeration of of market while you're both facebook is definitely worth much much less than that amount. in a further effort to crack down on corruption president bet it has ratified the o.e.c.d. convention against bribing foreign officials in businesses overseas 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 the world's

greatest bribe gears second only to. crisis two point zero and the beginning of the end of the financial world as we know it's this is how saxo bank sees the future in its latest report r.t. takes a look at what's in 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 a sudden drop of at least twenty five percent on europe's acquitted markets. the growth outlook for europe is obviously negative so let's move on to a good more disappointment there as china is expected to face challenges in rebalancing its economy but better news for the us where economic growth is expected to be better than anywhere else. interest rates will go off and 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. bio's take a look at the markets in the u.s. stocks are up as a.d.p. reports one hundred seventy thousand new jobs were added in january marking the twenty fourth consecutive month of gains. in europe it's all looking also positive with one point three percent of blacks two percent that's what reports european central bank could help reduce greece's debt by returning gains on the greek

government forms it originally purchased with a discount. this is the closing picture in russia where the r.t.s. going around one point four percent of my six one point seven percent another bullish session in may move as we see gas promise up one percent net profit roi using over forty one percent the first nine months of. last year to predict the full year profits will be up twenty five percent oil pipeline operates a trance never preferred shares are also doing well the company plans to invest thirteen billion dollars into its infrastructure by twenty twenty. two percent on the reports its russian sales fell twenty one percent in january. second to crude now it's up but it's losing in steam. just thirty seven cents whereas brant is doing one hundred twelve and a half dollars per barrel. and now let's take a look at currencies the euro is gaining against the dollar the single currency has

strengthened a five percent against the greenback since reaching a seventeen month low on jenufa teens cutting the euro's decline to about four percent since mario draghi took control of the e.c.b. on the first of november the russian ruble is at the end of the session on the mice a losing. five and seventeen versus the two main currencies. plans to create the world's largest stock exchange have been blocked by the european commissioner says a proposed nine billion dollars tire between. new york stock exchange would be anti competitive. says the decision is a quote black day for europe. that's all for now the headlines are next on.