moving from phones to pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. rushing refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a managed to clearly relock military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus. german chancellor angela merkel arrives in china hoping to secure support from a strategic economic partner in times of crisis and to get beijing on board the western policy on iraq. plus as the international community calls in israel to stop building homes on offer by land palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie 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 to see a trick it 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 and when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations its 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 in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons would be 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 armed groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we will bring hullo contracts a long standing relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to a position groups just they did in libya so there's no sign of a break and 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 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 as the teacher can reporting there from new york now 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 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 the recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means. fractionalization splintering various groups up against one another and the triumph over time of forces that are no more welcome to the west than the one for the displaced in libya we see a country that is unable to create any kind of see where the militias are fighting one another where we simply see towns like bottle while he was back in the hands of gadhafi forces and the danger of libya like somalia with live on militias and tribes before so nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown 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 support of abbas and that could be the case 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 but leading british journalist maddy hassan suspects the numbers are being exaggerated to provoke foreign intervention watch the full interview in just over twenty minutes. there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections are going to go on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of the fact that every day every week from syria. yet all those in the part of the suicide rate you're the psychologist to say well it's a pretty critical of their exaggerate the arab spring in order to get the so-called

western division if you look at the history of it so the military you always see there's including the fear for 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 it has got to stop you have the northern alone so that actually it turns out that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim to be don't have as much military strength as they claim. leaders from europe's biggest economy in asia's 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 this will be anglo merkel's fifth visit to china an important strategic economic partner for germany she's to hold talks with the chinese president hu jintao and premier wen jiabao and try to woo them for investment in the ailing euro. also on the agenda merkel hopes to try and change china stands on syria and iran professor simon channel chinese university of hong

kong believes that china needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. i think actually there are fewer reasons of archery first is to a lot of the china. in the us dept rises but that's not the only reason you know is cooperating with the states to sanction iran and it is the live german chancellor that wish to arm the chinese that it should not make use of this of a surety to increase the oil imports from here and so that's the second agenda but then the only chunk out of germany as to converse china. should not work well with iran in its change of germans foreign affairs support and china's need is some. support when it's done in the united states and there's a sense in china that there's and and so commands of china by the united states right now and doesn't really engines of the united states in asia pacific so our

shannon is some balancing at. this one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. you can log onto our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china stick a look at the side vote at the moment well so far as you can see on the chart forty two percent think the visit will help germany access new markets almost a third of voters believe will extend a helping hand to weekend europe fifteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran and a minority believe the meeting will and with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution here so you can let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website our team dot com and still ahead this hour here in our team candidates versus their critics. maybe the president. say you know i don't know you know find out why the carrolls comments of u.s.

politicians could be costing american 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 of tehran's nuclear program i held three days of talks in this law mixtape this week stressing that iran is committed to resolving the atomic dispute western sanctions against the country have recently been stepped up and it appears to ron is developing atomic weapons despite hopeful feedback from the u.s. a group of american lawmakers want washington to bully iran into submission the top military official in the u.s. ally israel also says all possible means should be used to disrupt iran's nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry things the drums are beating 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 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 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 west 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 have more news on iran at our website dot com the power of the petro dollars who profits most from the economic sanctions on iran and

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the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades as the campaign for the twenty twelve election heats up candidates mistakes are in the limelight once again but their critics are laughing as more in a fortnight of 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 i ask me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stands for 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 to greet president obama. ok libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be

a struggle i do not agree with the way he is for reasons. you know that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies is also a challenge obviously not a fan with our north korean allies in the case of republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers can be 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 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 in 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 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 if i were president i would be willing to use waterboarding i think it was 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 now is equal to 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 violence happened in the city of port say after an upset victory by the home team over the top club awfully fans stormed into the field after the game and armed with sticks stones and even knight forty seven people have been arrested in connection with the trouble and troops have been deployed to the city to prevent further clashes fishel fear of the death toll could rise further but more on this in our sports bulletin so stay with us for that. meantime

a passenger ferry carrying around three hundred fifty people has sunk off the coast of papua new guinea the boat was traveling between the cities of canberra and why when it went missing the ship's operator said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after a sent a distress call search and rescue helicopters are heading to the area. american fans secretary leon panetta says the u.s. will seek to and its combat operations in afghanistan next year speaking at a nato summit he said the country wants to switch to a role of forty and training afghan forces the decade long presence of u.s. troops there has cost the us around six billion dollars a year seven hundred u.s. troops and tens of thousands of civilians have died since the two thousand and one invasion. deep freeze unhappy snow have led to at least eighty deaths across eastern europe forty three people have died in ukraine alone were temperatures have plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius in bosnia rescue helicopter airlifted emergency food and evacuated dozens from snow blocked villages weather forecasters

say the subzero temperatures are expected to last until friday the u.n. is calling on israel to stop building settlements on occupied palestinian territory and go back to peace talks that was genius living in the area saying they were 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 falsely or has the story. this footage is being filmed with nasa are no watchers 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. present all of. the video for literally you know i heard about that israel. was no no no no. no no no. no no no no no 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 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 their fair price for their actions but more and more they are being called to 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 placed 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 out of 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 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 attempted to knife a protester but israeli activists say police beat several of them up what's more

for the first time israeli women activists say there were sixty 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 they've just changed the way the settlers attackers now they do it mostly at night when it's impossible to throw all the 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 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 is up to date here on r.t. and business is next with katie. welcome 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 of five point eight percent in january helped by signs of accelerating growth in the u.s. and improvements in the european debt problems corporate results have also mostly been above expectations banks of minus have been the best performing sectors which shares up more than nine percent ok let's see how the oil market is doing right now ok we're going to start with oil as you can see. pretty fucked is that pretty flat group rises all next on news that u.s. stockpiles increased more than expected and gasoline it fell to

a ten year as you can see lights we just a notch in the red on the brant is a notch in positive territory will be updating those details all day for you here in business update asian markets are on the rise following on from gains in the u.s. off to survey signals but global manufacturing improved in january commentators are among the main gainers on the nikkei with honda up over three percent the company's u.s. sales rose nine point three percent last month meanwhile consumer electronics shop poll omitted fifteen percent news it's expected to report a record net loss of three point eight billion dollars for the current fiscal year our financials are on the rise in hong kong with page s.b.c. up almost three percent. on the russian markets they are now open for business and as you can see they are indeed in the black and that's following on from the gains made yesterday both the yes and the mindsets are adding

half a percent in the first minutes of trading group inside from i have seen. paul believes the general mood will continue to be but i spot strong movements like plate ahead of the key data later in the session. we're going to get a very important i 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 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 just 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 the indexes and also in the valuations of the of the russian companies the global banking sector is getting increasingly anxious about its future according to a new survey by consultants who paid up you say it shows concerns about new bank collapses banking nationalizations have reached the highest level in thirteen years p.w. c. has poles buying goods from almost sixty countries the debt crisis in the eurozone is considered the biggest risk the survey has also shown that russian banks salles because to face the economic dangerous than the foreign or rivals. i can be back here fifty five minutes i'm all.

old means of protection can be used. when global supremacy is at stake. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the price paid for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred and fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets

went on things becomes the best form of defense. it was shot four times and all their ways are the. story of the boys are still in my body. and people should be allowed to defend themselves where they are gone from against the wall by the decent people are not a national rifle association was. basically retired. military police love to shoot holes and 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 that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know somebody's been shot ok but to live with one of the philadelphia phillies over

streets. in jail without a gun hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher as it was. seventeen students. and one of seven or still. will go to the. science technology innovation hall the lines developments from around russia we've got the future covered. which brightened if it wants.