russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a managed to clarify or to clearly were allowed military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus. german chancellor angela merkel arise in china hoping to secure support from its what you could not be partner in times of crisis and get the genome board the western policy on iran. plus as the international community calls on israel to stop building homes on occupied lands palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers. the russian market opens up today's trading session in the black following on from games made in the u.s.

europe and asia on the details of big is in the business bullets and in about twenty minutes time. it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching 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 i was as you'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 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 with the government opposition point is could get them from anywhere 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 or acknowledged being supplied with weapons and we will bring hullo contracts and longstanding relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to the position groups just like 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 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 are remain working on the ground as he took in 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 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 anarchy 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 we'll see where the militias are

fighting one another where recently. towns like bottle while he was back in the hands of rogue gadhafi forces and the danger of libya the good looks like some all of that with a lot of the militias and crimes of war so nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown were killed or steps down to 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 ya son suspects the numbers are being exaggerated to provoke foreign intervention watch the full interview in just over an hour's time. 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 syria. yet over in the for the fearful regime the caller just said well it's a pity for their exaggerate their story in order to get the quote western division if you look at the history. of the military you will see there's including the figure for the weather in libya which you go about to kosovo the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the go give us the support and we'll do the fighting and it is you know it's got to stop you have the northern alliance about actually that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim to be as much military strength as they claim. leaders from europe's biggest economy and asians are due to meet was germany seeking china support for the euro zone and on e.u. foreign policy goals in the middle east this will be the fifth visit to china an

important strategic economic partner for germany she is to hold talks with the chinese president hu jintao and premier wen jiabao and try to woo them for investment in the ailing europe also on the agenda marco hopes to try and change china stance on syria and iran professor simon chan of the chinese university of hong kong believes that china needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. i think actually there are fewer reasons of archer first to a lobby china to assist in the euro debt rises but that's not the only reason you know is cooperating with the states to sanction iran and it is the live the german chancellor that wish to. the chinese that it should not make use of this of a surety to increase the oil imports from iran and 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 germans foreign affairs support and china's than is some. support when it's dealing with 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 that's to 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. well 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. so far forty one percent saying the visit will help germany access new markets there to voters believe beijing will extend a helping hand and europe sixteen percent say that china will move closer to that western position on iran and a minority believe the will and with china's support for influence to counsel resolution on syria so had to r.t.d.

dot com to cast your vote. so i had this our candidates versus their critics. with me who is the president of. pakistan said you know i don't know if you know by now why the carolus comments of u.s. politicians could be costing america credibility on the international stage. you had 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 held three 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 that fears 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 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 bleeding 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 there. have not made the decision to move ahead to build a nuclear weapon obviously there's belief that 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 war. 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 iraq at our website the power of all the petrodollar who profits most from economic sanctions on iran and what a bad is likely to follow get the expert opinion firsthand and. also online fighting racism with digital tools to learn how an international happiness group has dealt a blow to american and british white supremacists. plus. the appetite for contemporary art grows as meeting houses and else rising profits from sales being the most lucrative. thing.

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the blunders of u.s. politicians have and spier 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 are laughing as marina for now 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 asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky stan stan 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. ok libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he is from recent. no that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies 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 can become and i think their president 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 country. sort of like at this point now where i think if you're going to 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 it 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's 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 and 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 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 and world news in brief you know and 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 fourteen after an upset victory by the home team over egypt top quark. fans stormed onto the field after the game and armed with sticks stones and even nice 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 for more on this in our sports bulletins for that if you tamp. down over two hundred people have been rescued off the coast of papua new guinea after a passenger ferry sank the boat was carrying. around three hundred fifty people as a travel between the cities of cambridge and live the ship's operator said a lost contact with a vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call the search continues for over one hundred people still missing. 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 supporting in training afghan forces the decade long presence of u.s. troops there has cost 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 happy 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 walk 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 palestinians living in the area say they are 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 it turns policy or has a 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. close one of the worst of it over literally i know that it was me it. was

a little i was really 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 you will not be made to pray to pay a 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 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 was 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 actually. it's one of the people that they were with. on the ground there with

their cameras there. all the cameras not only did israeli police do nothing while bones were broken and one second attempted to knife or protester but he's really activists say police beat several of them up what's more for the first time israeli woman 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 form 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 but 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 now it's time for the business of date with katy state this. marina global stock markets have had their 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 of u.s. and improvements in the european debt problems corporate results have also mostly been a ball the expectations of miners have been the best performing sectors shares up more than nine percent. let's move on to the markets who will get sold over the

exchange rates fast the euro is trading just a notch higher gets it all up stocks are extending a global rally ahead of the u.s. dog days of. the refuge says the european and the u.s. currencies are lower against the russian ruble after seeing some gains in the previous session as moves up oil crude prices are performing much better than earlier on in the session despite the news that gasoline fell to a ten year low although they're still trading near the lowest level in six weeks as you can see the light sweet is just a fraction then positive terrorists on a stick or it's way back out on the brant is now home five percent in the dark as move on to the asian markets and they continue to extend their gains following on from the gains in the u.s. office of a signal that global manufacturing improves in january carmakers are among the main game is on the nikkei with the huge percent over three percent the company's u.s.

sells rose nine point three percent last month meanwhile consumer electronics group shop plummeted fifteen percent on news it's expected to report a record net loss of three point eight billion dollars for the current fiscal year on financials are on the rise in hong kong with h.s.b.c. almost three percent. the russian market is not like the. it all to a good start in the black but now they're not doing surprises you can see them my sex is now just ever so slightly on the l.c.s. is just managing to hold on to those smoke. let's move on to the movies on the my sex financial stocks are among the main gang. is and nearly twenty four percent off its last year's net profit ten the health billion dollars. gaming point seven percent us energy mages are also up with gas from home five percent but. i have seen magic wall believe the general news it will continue to be. strong movements

are likely at the key date late in the session. we're going to get a very important i say the most important. marker data these days this is u.s. labor market report. it's it's a general labor every poor is going to come out before us 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 there is 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 eight or 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 that's according to a new survey by consultancy you say it shows concerns about new bank ops is banking national. has reached the highest level in thirteen years b w c house polled bankers from almost sixty contras the debt crisis in the eurozone is considered the biggest risk the survey has also shown that russian banks are less prepared to face the economic dangers than the foreign arrivals. so for now in the next hour i'll have the european stock markets because they open at short they join me that perhaps.

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