well 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 kimba and live 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 the fan 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 and have the 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 on a watch as camera he's the palestinian who's been pushed to the ground by an israeli soldier just moments earlier his friend took his camera and started filming the. president of the world. really i know that it was me it. was no no no no. no no 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 and their property is the lack of law enforcement by israeli authorities this sends a clear message to violence settlers they will act with impunity that will not be made to pay their fair price for their actions but more and more they're 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 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 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 sutlers 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. all the cameras not only did israeli police do nothing while bones

were broken and one second attempted to knife or 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 when the certainly 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 film 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 is up today 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 miners have been the best performing sectors which shows up more than nine percent ok let's see how the oil market is a doing right now ok we're going to start with oil as you can see. prefab is a 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. 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 on 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 carmakers are among the main gainers on the nikkei with honda up over three percent the company's u.s. 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 my group inside from i have seen metropole believes the general mood will continue to be bullish but strong movements are like late 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 china has 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 consultants who paid up to say it shows concerns about new bank collapses banking nationalizations have reached the highest level in thirteen years p w c has polled 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 are less proposed to face the economic dangerous than the foreign or rivals. i care that so often i'll be back here fifty five minutes i'm all nice and no business. business author.

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much brighter if you knew me by phone from phones to the persian. nice friends don't on t.v. don't come. back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories 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 moscow is against regime change and wants the blame for the bloodshed in syria equally on the government and the armed opposition. german chancellor angela merkel is in china calling on the country to help the financially crippled eview by investing in the euro and pushing for a change of heart by they seem to words the recent iran sanctions. plus as the

international community calls on israel to stop building homes on occupied land palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism hands of israeli settlers israel's promise to clamp down on the perpetrators but the continued support for settlement construction is sending a mixed signal. to headlines next we talk to the senior editor of new statesman magazine maggie assan who tells r.t. that finding a solution to the crisis in syria won't be easy at will be legitimate without a u.n. resolution. today i'm talking to mehdi has the he's the senior political editor for the new statesman magazine where the me talking about the violence that's going on in syria at the moment and also the developing situation in iran that he has and thank you very much for talking to me today now we've seen observers being sent into syria who seem to have done nothing to stop the violence in fact the death toll has risen

from twenty to thirty people that day how good do you think the observers are implementing them on days i think they're very good given to her or one of the leaders of the mission where originally went in was a sudanese general who's been accused of carrying out war crimes and ethnic cleansing a doll for which slightly hobbled both the legitimacy of the mission and the trust of a lot of syrian opposition groups and in the arab league mission since then the saudi arabians have complained about the mission they've pulled out their observers are pulling out there a bus about the arab league has really been all over the place from syria on the one hand it's condemned syria was praised for the first time condemning a fellow arab nation and putting the resolution in a few months ago since it's a mission has been criticized for among other things the personnel it's deployed and its inability to stop the violence i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow him a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people what have they got on it and what about sanctions the u.k. recently proposed tougher sanctions on syria things like travel bans asset freezes

what effect if any do you think that have it depends how targeted the sanctions are more on the fence over sanctions given the experience we have with iraq for over a decade of sanctions which cause more suffering to the people than to the saddam regime i support sanctions targeted against regime members targeted against people who are indicted for human rights violations or war crimes fine if they squeeze the country from the people who've done but it will not i think that's a mistake i think we have to think much more creatively about syria i'm not one of those who support military action in syria isn't libya it won't be easy. would be legitimate without a u.n. resolution and more and more innocent people will die than will have already died but that doesn't mean you just turn a blind eye to the violence that's going on more than five thousand people have died according to the un's own figures and our side is a man who clearly is not backing down you look at some of his interviews you know he's not as bonkers as colonel gadhafi but he says some pretty crazy things about how it's nothing to do with me not my orders these are all armed rebels everyone who's dying and let's talk about the opposition for a little bit there appear to be three some distinct blocks that the three syrian

army has a kind of external opposition that's being fought in the streets do you think they'll be able to form any kind of let's one of the objections a lot of people are having against any kind of external military action which is where is the legitimacy in libya you had a opposition movement which despite being consisting of different groups secular religious etc indigenous those outside the country they did for a you noted opposition for the purposes of getting rid of gadhafi and they controlled territory it's what prompted the intervention to begin with in syria they don't control any territory they don't control any cities or towns and there is this division between the external opposition figures like the leader of the syrian national council is based in paris and those who are on the on the streets who have said again and again to western reporters to human rights groups that we don't want military intervention we are opposed to both syrian president were opposed to the assad regime and were opposed to western intervention we saw what happened in iraq and the syrians what's interesting about the syrians is that they

saw up close and personal the effects of western intervention in iraq because hundreds of thousands of iraqi refugees fled into syria they know the consequences of a kind of ill ill timed ill thought out heavy handed western intervention which just exacerbates the violence and the free syrian army as far as you can see what are they fighting for does it look like genuine democracy there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections there are going on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of defectors every day every week from syrian armed forces and yet others independent observers not just the assad regime but its apologists said well. actually it's a trickle and they're exaggerating their own strength in order to again justify a western intervention if you look at the history of western interventions so-called humanitarian interventions you always see there's an equivalent to the f.s.a. on the ground whether in libya or if you go back to kosovo in the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the guns give us the support and we'll do the fighting and then in afghanistan you have the northern alliance and actually it turns out that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim and

be not to have as much military strength as they claim and the free syrian army is accused of killing people itself isn't it do we have any idea of sort of the number of casualties well again without wanting to overdo the comparative delivery in syria one of the things you see when you do support rebel groups sometimes unsavory groups you know my enemy's enemy is my friend you support people who are perhaps not the greatest defenders or advocates of human rights themselves in afghanistan we supported all sorts of unsavory warlords and still do in libya the opposition groups and the national transition council there libya was accused by human rights watch during the conflict of carrying out all sorts of killings and abuses of prisoners which still haven't been resolved to properly accounted for do we then want to look into a syrian conflict where again we are ignorant of what's going on on the ground we're not experts on who these people are what these groups are for and the f.s.a. of course if you consist of defecting soldiers from an army that's carried out human rights abuses then a lot of those defectors will be part of those human rights abuses that's just a horrible reality of the world we live in and in terms of the actual people do you see any link between the libyan islamists and stays on the ground in syria well

there's been reports about as you know as with all these conflicts you know very gray and there murky that libya does live as groups fighting in libya finished fighting in libya have transferred over to help some of the syrian opposition groups and do you see an extempore move towards intervention since the new year my position is changing and i can imagine a scenario where we are where nato is asked or the british government american governors are asked to enforce a no fly zone to enforce some kind of safety corridor or look which which would be would be ostensible they were protecting human rights all were. good but would push us into all sorts of areas of the middle east we don't want to be involved in because syria for example is a much bigger player in the israel arab conflict it's a much bigger country and tougher to overcome and beat militarily if it took us that long to beat libya how long did it take to beat syria how far do you think syria is already essentially a battlefield between iran and the west the israelis have been clear for many years that if you can pull syria out of iraq all but you will weaken iran which they

consider to be the number one enemy the number one menace in the neighborhood the number one threat to israel's strategic interests so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they've tried for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel mel that would definitely weaken iran and all roads in the middle east right now or do seem to lead back to tehran and saudi arabia's relationship with iran is increasingly hostile and it says iran is supporting create this protesting shiite minority how do you think that saudi arabia's own position is brazenly one sided brazenly self-serving and hypocritical here you have saudi arabia having pulled its ambassador out of damascus having complained about the arab league on the ground of its human rights observations what first of all the saudi arabians have their own human rights abuses to deal with at home their own oppressive regime but even if you take the arab spring the saudis are throwing their weight behind the syrian opposition to us and yet have done their utmost best to stop the arab spring to stop the revolts and all of the

other countries in egypt in bahrain where saudi troops went into better are still in very suppressing protests in bahrain and in syria they're supporting the opposition if that's not one sided as i don't know what is and that shows you the saudi arabia's own interest of nothing to do with human rights or democracy of course and how could so to really be interested in such issues it's about trying to deal with iran that we know from wiki leaks that the saudi king told the american government cut the head of the snake a deal with the snake that is iran in his view and iran has been threatening recently to block the strait of hormuz which of course we know is the main export gulf oil. what do you think the political consequences of that could be deeply and genuinely worried about what will happen if the iranian chop the strait of hormuz as they promised i think you'll have a situation where we start sleepwalking into war on both sides where there are extremists on both sides who want a conflict who would love a conflict because it would serve their purposes in the west there are people who want to take out iran both for america's national interest so-called and of course for the israelis and in iran there are hardliners who see the islamic revolution

failing receive the green movement popular who are seeing lots of people protesting of the region and see a foreign war seeing who see the idea of being under attack as a way of uniting the country so they're hardliners on both sides and i think the people in the middle have to be careful that we don't allow the hardliners to kind of allow us to sleepwalk into war where they shut the straits of hormuz and the americans who i suspect don't want to go to war not an election year of force to come in in order to secure the oil and to protect the israelis if israel were to attack iran as well which is the sixty four thousand dollar question you mentioned that this year is of course an election year in the u.s. do you think that the u.s. is likely to wait until the election is over when in doing so it could get israel by not acting sooner well that's the interesting question i think of their own free will i don't think they do want to go to war think obama is running on a campaign of trying to energize his base saying we're the guys who ended iraq we're the guys we're going to bring troops home from afghanistan with the guys who took a backseat in libya didn't put boots on the ground the idea that you would then kick off a conflict with iran and as one american general put it you know if you loved iraq

if you liked a rock in afghanistan you love iraq i mean it would be a major conflict and i think if you listen to for example defense secretary panetta saying recently that actually an attack on iran would have unintended consequences would be a backlash against american troops in the region clearly he's not keen on it and yet if the israelis were to strike iran and iran were to strike back then the americans would be drawn in whether they like it or not because they can't abandon israel because of an israel for strategic purposes they certainly can about israel an election we're in very shaky economic times globally at them. but what they were talking about is what the economic consequences of a war with iran would be in an age where we are facing a double dip recession possibly another great depression where oil prices are already so high we could see an attack on iran pushing oil prices above hundred fifty dollars a barrel some analysts say even a record high of about two hundred dollars a barrel which really would tick the entire world economy not just ours but the asians the chinese back into

a major major recession major. and i think people are kind of turned a blind eye to this and only recently with the rate of threatening to block the strait of hormuz we're think a third of the world's seaboard oil passes through have people started to go away to the what the hell is going to happen to all prices and i think that's a factor the american government's raising as well perhaps less so than the israeli government's reasoning i think has been very much thank you. wealthy british style some time to explain the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or

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russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's managed to clearly rule out military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus goes against regime change and once the blame for the bloodshed in syria placed equally on the government and the armed opposition. german chancellor angela merkel is in china calling on the country to help the financially crippled e.u. by investing in the euro and pushing for beijing to get on board the western policy on iran. wants as the international community calls on israel to stop building homes on occupied land the palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers israel promised to clamp down on

the perpetrators but the continued support for settlement construction is sending mixed signals. as they haven't here in our teats for sex with paul. hello welcome to the world of sport here's what's coming up. tragedy in egypt more than seventy founds it killed following a pitch invasion during a top flight match. at pride maria sharapova trains in moscow ahead of a rare thing for russia. gunning for gold all teammates one of russia's big medal hopes for the sochi winter games. but first a top flight football match in egypt has ended in tragedy with more than seventy five pounds losing their lives violence flared up in the game between. when

supporters some apparently armed with knives ran on to the pitch the visiting team al-ali were chased into the changing room there were kicked and punched as they fled officials say the death toll could yet rise with more than two hundred injured in violence at football matches in egypt is on the increase since political unrest swept across the country more than a year ago egypt's deputy health minister has described it as the biggest disaster in the country's footballing history. well over in england newcastle have moved up to fifth in the premier league got softer to know when a flag on wednesday also have dropped down to seven thought that they could only manage a goal is draw a relegation threatened bolton full of new russian signing pavel pogrebnyak was unavailable as they drew one one at home to west brom aston villa full back from to kneel down to take a point at home to q.p.r. on knowledges six game unbeaten run came to an end with a three no defeat at sunderland. in spain at semifinal time in the cockpit del ray barcelona hold the upper hand to go in.