russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a man a two point zero we were wild military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus . german chancellor angela merkel arrives in china hoping to secure support from its strategic partner in times of crisis and get on board the western policy on iraq. watch as the international community calls on israel to stop building homes and offer by the land palestinians who live there or try to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers. global stock markets have had the best stilts of the year for almost two decades joined me in twenty minutes time small figure is.

what you are going to live from the russian capital 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 out of the theater we're going to 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 an arms of 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's a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with the government opposition pointis could get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we say.

contracts a longstanding relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to the position groups they did in libya so 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 central. 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 robb 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 are remain working on the ground and see if

you're going to reporting there now the u.s. as well as a peon an arab allies are committed to pushing president asad out of power but political analyst benjamin barber says forcing 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 uncritical 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 the forces that are welcome to the west one for displaced libya you see a country that is unable to reach any kind of. the issues are fighting one another very recently. towns i've been a while back in patterns of. forces and the danger of libya like somalia

with a lot of the militias in the tribes so nobody i think did what will happen if the saudis overthrown molecules 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 and less supportive of us and that could mean 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. the armed wing of the opposition the free syrian army claims to have tens of thousands of officers fighting to bring down president asad but leading british journalist now the suspects the numbers are being exaggerated to provoke foreign intervention can watch the full interview in just over twenty minutes time here on r.t. actually in fact next hour. 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 the fact that every day every week from all sides so we also had to get over in the park because of the federation of apologists i said well it's a pretty critical of the exaggerated arab spring in order to get the square western intervention if you look at the history of western intervention so from other terror you will see there's an equivalent to the f.s.a. the ground whether in libya which you go about to kosovo the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the guns give us the support and we'll do the fighting and in the style of you have the northern alliance actually turns out that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim to be military strength as they claim. from europe's biggest economy and asia's are due to me to have germany seeking china's support for the euro zone and on foreign policy goals in the middle east this will be angola merkel's visit to china and important strategic economic

partner for germany she's to hold talks with the chinese president hu jintao is clear when jiabao and tried with hu them for investment in the world also on the agenda hopes to try and change china's stance on syria and iran professor. chinese university of hong kong believes that china needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. a few reasons overtures to be sure. but that's not the only reason you is cooperating with the states. to sanction iran and it is the lives of german chancellor that wish to arm the chinese the. knowledge of the use of this of 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 exchange of german's foreign affairs support and china's than is

some e.u. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's and and so 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 of power so e.u.'s one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. you know log on to our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china so far thirty seven percent think beijing will extend a helping hand we can europe over at third of voters think to visit world germany axis new markets and a little less believe that china will move closer to that western position on iran and might already say the meeting will end with chinese support for a u.n. security council resolution on syria so head to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. for you this hour the candidates

versus their critics. the president. you know i don't know you know. why careless comments of u.s. politicians are because america credibility on the international stage. u.n. inspectors say they'll return to iran again later this month in further attempts to verify the peaceful nature up to iran's nuclear program i. three days of talks in 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 to iran is developing atomic weapons despite hopeful feedback from the u.n. a group of american lawmakers want washington to bully iran into submission the top military official in u.s. ally israel also says all possible means should be used to disrupt to iran's nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry things the drums are 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 iranians have not made the decision to build a nuclear weapon obviously this believe 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 flexibility 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. now we have more news on iran on our website r.t. dot com the power of the petrodollar and author explains his saying so he things will profit most promptly comic sanctions on the islamic republic and predict what's likely to follow. also online a hacktivist group reveals links between american and british wide supremacists and threatens to expose the times story at our team dot com. it was shot four times in total. and. syria's a boys are still in the lobby. and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are gone from the law

abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association. basically retired military and police. to shoot. i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know somebody's been . killing what i want to philadelphia on these urban streets. until about a hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher assemblers. seventeen students. and want to share and lost a lot of. the close up team that's been to the hub our of screen. where the country's middle well

starts its way across the ocean. now archie goes to the area. once named dr len is looking to a different character to represent. the local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. where the four by fours are made and can be turned to the limits. welcome to the creature. russia close up on our t.v. . the wonders of us politicians happened speier jokes and parodies for decades has a campaign for the two thousand and twelve election heats up candidates mistakes are in the limelight once again by their critics are laughing as more important are reports some 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 they ask me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky stands 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 where russia from land here in alaska africa was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically illiterate u.s. 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. 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 becoming i think that president putin 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 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 saying sorry go run 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 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 why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivocally prohibit torture and if i were president i would be willing to use water by. i think it was a very. very consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s.

presidential hopefuls is quite humorous but it could 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. r.t. new york let's take a look at some other stories from around the world at least seventy four people have been killed and over one thousand injured in clashes between rival football fans in egypt the violence happened in the city of porridge after an upset victory by a home team top club the fans stormed the field after the game and it armed with sticks stones and even eyes forty seven people have been arrested in connection with the trouble and troops have been deployed to the city to prevent further clashes officials fear the death toll could rise further. passenger a ferry carrying around three hundred fifty people has sunk off the coast of papua

new guinea the boat was travelling between the cities of cambodian law and when it went missing ships operators said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call search and rescue helicopters are heading to the area. american advance secretary leon panetta says the u.s. will seek to end its combat operations in afghanistan next year speaking at a nato summit he said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training afghan forces the decade long presence of u.s. troops there has cost us around six billion dollars a year around seventeen hundred u.s. troops have died since the two thousand and one invasion. and deep freeze and have the snow have led to at least eighty deaths across eastern europe forty three people have died in ukraine alone temperatures have plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius in bosnia a rescue helicopter airlifted emergency food and evacuated dozens from snow blocked

villages weather forecasters say the subzero temperatures are expected to last until friday. now the u.n. is calling on israel to stop building settlements on occupied palestinian territory and go back to peace talks living in the area say they're being terrorized by israeli settlers who want to force them out many are now turning to technology as a means of self-defense or at least the turns has the story. this footage is being filmed with nasa on a watch as camera he's the palestinian who's been pushed to the ground fine israeli soldier just moments earlier his friend took his camera and started filming the. price when the theory was literally i know i heard it was real. i was a little i was a fairly oh no no. no no no no it seems 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 settler 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 the very will not be made to pay 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 something has 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 their 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 had been stolen by a settlement but we were about fifteen activists in. and the settlers in the wouldn't care about the cameras that actually came in it's one of the people that they were with. on the ground there with their cameras they broke all the cameras not only did israeli police do nothing while bones were broken and one second attempt at a knife or protester but israeli activists say police beat several of them up

what's more for the first time israeli woman activists say they were sick she harassed and assaulted by both male and female israeli extremists but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of nasa and others to film what's going on and hold the israeli security forces and settlers accountable that i missed when the settlers see the cameras of course they don't do what they would usually do the cameras haven't stopped or just changed the way the settlers attackers now they do it mostly at night when it's impossible to throw all 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 of facing 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 policy r.t.

tel aviv. that brings us up to date here on r t and the business is next with. marina welcome back to the business program this hour global stock markets have had the best start to the year for almost two decades they've risen an average five point eight percent in january helped by signs of acceleration growth in the u.s. and improvements in the european debt problems corporate results have also mostly been a father expectations and some miners have been the best performing sex's which shares up more than nine percent. so let's see how the market is a doing right now we'll get started with those oil prices could prices are indeed it mixes sour on them now near the lowest level in six weeks out so news that u.s.

stockpiles increase small inexpensive and gasoline filled with ten year. right now you can see the light sweet is just a fraction that in red territory on the brant is just a fraction interposed mr brady both of them badly throughout the south and to the asian markets they are on the wrong i was following on from the games in the u.s. and also off to sort of a signal that global manufacturing improved in job great car makers are among the main game is on the nikkei with over three percent become because of u.s. sellers rose nine point three percent. meanwhile consumer electronics group shop almost fifteen percent the news is expected to report a record net loss of three point eight billion dollars for the courage to smooth it out for now tools on the rise in hong kong with just b c almost the week descends. it's no less than one hour ahead of the opening bell in moscow the russian markets

closed in the fourth quarter wednesday truck in the global rally. as you have been officials moves closer to solving the debt crisis both indices out is around one on the home front with the r.t.s. reaching a four month high looking ahead to the day's trade. something i have seen much of hope at least the general mood will continue to be but less strong movements on likely ahead of the key day so late in the session we're going to get a very important i say the most important piece of marker data these days this is a u.s. labor market report. it's it's a general labor every pore is 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 they have stayed on the sidelines with might see a pause in there ali if we 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 back in june a trade at about a half nine times earnings so there's been a very significant drop in the valuations in the market and in in the indexes and also in the valuations of their of the russian companies the global banking sites is getting increasingly anxious about its future according to a new survey by consultancy you see if there's concerns about new. banking and nationalizations have reached the highest level in thirteen years b w c has polled bank of almost sixty come tryst the debt crisis in the euro zone is considered the biggest risk the survey has also shown that russian banks are less prepared to face the economic danger as the foreign rivals. the business and i'll be back next i'll have the russian market as well i can see join me that fifty five minutes.

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