russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a managed to clearly rule out military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus . the salvation of the economy and resolving mideast instability they're the main focus for german chancellor angela merkel who is on a two day visit to china. plus un chief ban ki moon urges both israel and palestine to return to negotiations and warns that israeli settlements are a breach of international law which must be called.

is the russian capital you're watching argue with me we're going to josh welcome to the program russia says it will veto the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria unless the draft is changed while moscow admits progress has been made it's yet to see a text that explicitly rules out military intervention russia is also reluctant to stop selling equipment to damascus saying that would leave syria at the mercy of unrecognized rebel forces armed with weapons smuggled from abroad has more. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons and arms are that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence anything that goes on inside syria when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because

when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there is a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya you know an imperfect world this would have been the following no weapons with the government much opposition point just to get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of armed groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we said. hullo contracts a longstanding relations with syria that they will start supplying even more to the opposition groups they did in libya. there's no sign of a break in deadlock just yet the arab and western backed regime change resolution

calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the centrist. stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for the importance of arab observers to remain working on the ground. that's it you're going to reporting there and the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies are committed to pushing president assad out of power but political analyst benjamin barber says forcing a regime change is

a bad idea that's already plunged other arab countries into turmoil the case of libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather critical of the recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means. fractionalization splintering various groups up against want to try and over time which is not welcome to the west or one for displaced libya a country that is unable to create any kind of. the issues are fighting one another very recently. townsite been a while back that has a. forces and a danger of libya like somalia with lively militias and tribes and so nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown or killed or steps down and no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be as the west is hoping it will be

less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of iran and less supportive of that. no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is would you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on a certainty. now the armed wing of the opposition the free syrian army claims to have tens of thousands of officers fighting to bring down president but leading british journalist matthew hassan suspects the numbers are being exaggerated to provoke foreign intervention watch the full interview in just over twenty minutes time here on r.t. . there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections are going on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of defectors every day every week from assad so we also had to get over in the particles of the spear federation of apologists and say well it's a pretty good to trickle in there exaggerates the arab spring in order to get just because western intervention if you look at the history of western intervention so

far from other terror you always see there's including the the f.s.a. or the ground whether in libya well if you go back to kosovo the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the guns give us the support we'll do the fighting and it just got to stop you had the northern alliance and actually it turns out that these groups tend not to have as much indigenous as they claim and being don't have as much military strength as they claim. now hears from europe's biggest economy and ages are due to meet with germany seeking china's support for the euro zone and on e.u. foreign policy goals in the middle east german chancellor angela merkel is on a two day visit to china she's to hold talks with the chinese president hu jintao and premier wen jiabao to discuss the euro zone's plan to fix its debt crisis she also hopes to try and see china stance on syria and iran. chinese university of hong kong believes that the beijing needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. if you were reasons overtures to

be short. in the euro to try this is but that's not the only reason you is cooperating with the states to say. it is. your member transited wish. the chinese. should know its misuse of this. a surety to increase the oil imports from iran so that's the second agenda but then the only chunk out of germany as to convince china that she should not work well with iran in its change of germans foreign affairs court and china's than is some e.u. support when it's done in the the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and self-command of china by the united states right now and there's three engines of the united states in asia pacific so our china is some balancing acts we've got out of power so e.u.'s one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. but you know all gone

to our web site artie dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of. china so far forty percent think beijing will extend a helping hand to. thank for the visit. markets and a little less to believe that china will move closer to the west on iran minorities say that meeting will end with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution on syria. now what do you think on the issue. so we have for you this hour here in our to you kind of a versus the critics. ask me who's the president. you know i don't know if you know. gaps in the u.s. politicians could be costing american credibility on the international stage. u.n. inspectors say they'll return to iran later this month in the latest attempt to verify the peaceful nature of tehran's nuclear program i. days of talks in the

islamic state this week stressing that iran is committed to resolving the atomic dispute western sanctions against the country have recently been stepped up and it fears tehran is developing atomic weapons despite helpful feedback from the u.n. a group of american lawmakers want washington to boy iran into submission israel's top military official says all possible means should be used to disrupt iran's nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry things that drones are beginning for regime change. there's been almost a consensus not just in the united states in the intelligence community but even in some degree in israel that the arena's have not made the decision to move ahead to build a nuclear weapon obviously there's belief that they are developing expertise that can be used in the future for such a decision if they were to make one so. if iran is sincere about its lack of interest in a nuclear weapon and if the west is willing to show some more. civility in terms of

how they're willing to negotiate on this i think there could be some resolution many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there's been a lot of propaganda in the last against iran but i do think that there is this there is an opportunity here for. for rand to make to achieve some openings but that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see real change in government. and we are news on iran and our web site r t dot com the power of the pet her dollar and author explains his things will profit most from becoming sanctions on the islamic republic and predicts what's likely to fall. it's also online a path to this route reveals links between american and british widespread and threatens to expose the times the full story is available on our website.

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welcome back here with art you know the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades as a campaign for the twenty twelve election heats up candidates mistakes are in the limelight once again but their critics aren't laughing as marina point nine are reports now believe the comments made show nothing more than ignorance and disregard for world affairs. every four years america's top job is up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when i ask me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stands banned i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see why russia from land here in alaska africa was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically

illiterate us candidates have supplied comedians with endless material but all jokes aside some presidential hopefuls vying to lead the world's most powerful armed forces know very little about america's military interventions so you agree with president obama libya or. libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he did it for reasons. no that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies is also a challenge obviously got to stand with our north korean allies in the case of republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers and the common i think that president bush represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world the overarching ignorance

on international affairs has caused american political commentator bill maher to conclude i think anybody could be president in this dumb country ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're gonna be it when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again. and then i'm say sorry go you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target and let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait

a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea are going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the us is watching and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding the basic principles of international law which unequivocally prohibit torture and if i were president i would be willing to use waterboarding i think it was very effective. and the consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s. presidential hopefuls is quite humorous but it can also be considered a national tragedy if most candidates campaigning to be leader of the so-called free world simply don't know enough about the world outside of america's borders. new york. and some world news in brief for you this hour at least seventy four

people have been killed and over one thousand injured in clashes between rival football fans in egypt the violence happening in the city of port sayed after an upset victory by the home team over it didn't stop the fans stormed onto the field after the game and armed with sticks stones and even knives forty seven people have been arrested in connection with the trouble and troops have been deployed to the scene to prevent further clashes officials fear of the death toll could rise further. a bomb has exploded outside a police station in colombia killing seven people and injuring seventy others the blast occurred when a motorcycle packed with explosives blew up outside the stations and fans in the city of tomato officials have blamed the leftist fark rebels for the attack claiming they were targeting the regional police commander the commander was not hurt. deep freeze and have the snow have led to at least eighty deaths across eastern europe forty three people have died in ukraine alone work temperatures have

plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius over a dozen people in the country have fallen victim to hypothermia in the past day alone the words have to be deployed heating shelters across the country for the homeless. now the un has urged israel and palestine to resume negotiations on a peace plan while calling israeli settlement activity illegal israel's policy of construction of palestinian territories a key factor in the stalling of peace talks as well as the reports so far there's no indication that israel is ready to freeze settlement building. this footage is being filmed with nasa on a watch as camera he's the palestinian who's been pushed to the ground by israeli soldier just moments earlier his friend took his camera and started filming. the movie was. really i know i heard it was real. also a little bit of a fairly low showing all over the outcome of those really scenes like those happen

almost weekly here in the hebron hills and across the palestinian territories for years they went unrecorded until an israeli human rights organization distributed cameras to nasser and dozens of other palestinians to capture glimpses of every day reality in an occupied zone the number one reason for. attacks against palestinians on their property is the lack of law enforcement by israeli authorities this sends a clear message to violence settlers they will act with impunity they will not be made to pray to pay a price for their actions but more and more they are being courted book after footage like this has been made public the extremists often strike in the dead of night sitting fire to mosques and painting wars with the words place tag the term as a threat to israeli security forces of the heavy price will have to pay if they try to break down settlements and. the goal is to take control of all the land and expel palestinians the settlers let loose wild animals on the agricultural land so

they destroy the crops we've seen instances where settlers run over palestinians with their cars and shoot at unarmed palestinians it's on the increase. guy batavia is an israeli activist who gave up his day job so he could volunteer full time to teach palestinians about the camera project he says settlers think twice when they see a lens pointed in a direction although it didn't stop him recently from breaking his arm and beating him all over his body at a protest in support of a palestinian farmer whose land have been stolen by a settlement. we were about fifteen activists. came in. and there's. actually. it's one of the people that they were with. on the ground there with their cameras. all the good i like you know not only did israeli police do nothing while bones were broken and one second attempt or tonight for protester but it's

really activists say police beat several of them up what's more for the first time israeli woman activists say they were sick she had rest and assaulted by both male and female israeli extremists but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of nasa and others to feel what's going on and hold the israeli security forces and settlers accountable when the circular see the cameras of course they don't do what they would usually do the cameras haven't stopped have just changed the way the settlers attackers now they do it mostly when it's impossible to throw their checkers from the side before they attack to see if we have cameras with us. the settlers are accused of carrying out violent attacks against random palestinian civilians damaging their property more recently however they're charged with targeting israeli soldiers and police and defacing the homes of left wing israeli activists israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to crack down on jewish extremism in the west bank but with his government supporting settlement expansion

that promise means precious little to those on the receiving end of the violence we are teen television and we are up to date was he was having the world of business here scary. welcome to the business a program global stock markets have had that best start to the year for almost two decades they've risen an average five point eight percent in january helped by size of the. generation growth in the u.s. and improvements in the european debt. results have also mostly been above that. the miners have been the best performing sectors which shares up more than nine percent. so let's have a look at the mall kids and now shall we look at stone soup with oil crude prices all mixed this hour on news that u.s. oil and dead trees rose more than expected last week. fell to nine eleven the.

right now the lights where it is just trading. to negative that just by knowledge of the brant is up zero point three percent. on this have a look at the asian markets in a shallow way they are indeed on the rise following on from the gains in the u.s. off the surveys a signal that global manufacturing improves in january called make is among the main game is on the quay with. over three percent the company's u.s. sells rose nine point three percent. of all consumer electric group show up. fifteen percent on news it is expected i reports the nets a net loss of three point eight billion dollars for the current fiscal year financial is on the rise in hong kong with pay just b c almost has said it. is a less than two hours ahead everything in the russian markets closed in the black on

wednesday with global rally as european officials that moved closer to solving the debt crisis indices added around one and a half a cent with the yes a. four month high looking ahead to the day's trading even aside from i have seen that your whole believes the general mood will continue to be bullish strong movements are likely ahead of the key data later in the session. we're going to get a very important. i'd say the most important piece of marker data these days this is u.s. labor market report. it's it's a general labor every port that's going to come out before u.s. market opens expectations that american economy created hundred fifty thousand new jobs fall into a gain of two hundred thousand back in december a lot of investors will be waiting for that number and we have seen on the sidelines we might see a poison in their rally early in the day tomorrow but i think in the afternoon

there's a good chance that the buyers will call me and if you look at the valuations they're still not very demanding and if you look at the russian market for example it is trading at less than six times earnings and just back in june a trade at about eight a how to nine times earnings so there's been a very significant drop in the valuations in the market and in the indexes and also in the valuations of their of the russian companies. the global banking sector is getting increasingly anxious about its future according to a new survey by consultancy you say it shows concerns about new bank collapses banking nationalize ations have reached the highest level in thirteen years p w c has pope bank a storm almost sixty come to is the debt crisis in the eurozone is considered the biggest risk the survey has also showing that russian banks are less proposed to face the economic dangers than the foreign rivals. so for

now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes ali moore is saying the asian stocks those all numbers as well so stick with us here on alt. old means of protection can be used. in global supremacy.

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