hey hey hey. moscow promises to pass deals and not stop selling arms to syria saying weapons will still reach opposition groups from abroad despite. the german leader takes. to the east as she tries to convince china not to write off the e.u. while also urging beijing support for the oil embargo against iran. and a u. turn in the spy saga the father of the former. poisoned in london six years ago says he was mistaken when he accused of being responsible for his son's death. the first story. in business the russian market. on

a positive note making it to the third consecutive. main market move along. just after seven pm in moscow you're watching with me show you it's good to have you with us russia's defense ministry has reiterated moscow is committed to agreements made with the international partners and will continue selling arms to syria russia is against the weapons and saying it would not prevent the arming of opposition groups from abroad although progress has been made at the u.n. syria resolution moscow is adamant it will block any draft which doesn't rule out military intervention moscow was also with the arab league observers a recent report which says both sides in the conflict to be taken into account when the un

debates syria dr marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine says it's not in western interest to list. for the report's findings. western interest in the conflict in syria is unguided by wanton soup advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world but it follows a pro who western foreign policy the reason why western governments are we can all in the findings of the report is because it doesn't fit into their agenda syria is a huge player in the in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for

a more accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to parallel should to happen. that would give a washington almost food dominance politically in the middle weights and it's what i would describe as a jewish chess cooled so it's not within the interests of western powers principally america to take into account what has been actually said in the in the reports of the arab league. syria is also one of the german chancellor's agenda during her trip to china as i called tries to persuade beijing to support the new resolution at the un merkel is also calling on beijing the biggest buyer of iranian oil not to buy any more after an e.u. embargo and on top of all of that you also wants to offer a reassurance that the eurozone is still safe for investors political analyst christophe horsetail believes getting support for germany's economy is the main reason for the. chancellor on the trip of begging to if she wants money for europe

she wants you know a support from beijing for the new un resolution which beijing is not going to give and she also wants beijing to cut off its own oil supply which beijing is widely not going to do and of course beijing has also to take into consideration that india competition in the region is standing straight with iran and buying ever more iranian oil so i don't think she has any chance of you know talking china out after buying uranium oil that will not happen again i would say she will not put any much focus on it she will she will say that she will look to the ceiling and then she was smile and say let's talk business now her main focus in this trip is german economy and she's wise to do that she will even not you know lobby very much for chinese investment into europe because she knows in our heart of hearts

that this is truly a bad investment. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you with us today still to come on the program the whistle blower's final appeal. if you don't speak you know we know judges like extradition to sweden on the cases of sexual assault well coming up for me in london in just a made. for a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and find out why the comments over u.s. politicians could be costing america's credibility on the international stage. egypt is mourning the victims of violence following a football game which saw more than seventy people killed in post match fighting rushed onto the pitch in the seaside city of port to the home team beat egypt's top club setting off clashes and a stampede protests in cairo now over the police handling of the trouble foreign

affairs analyst richard j. had area and i think this is an indication of post revolution instability. the violence is this. is also the sense of for it's the overall security concern there's the first particularly. the sparkle out on the security forces and the police with this many of their witnesses so far as sort of the guard . the police in order to avoid the violence from yesterday and the fact that there were. nights we've been. along the border security lots more of the. war resume in some ways the violence with the lies the. position of emergency laws or the come to the sort of. security mode really will current.

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court in london. we're not expecting to hear just station today we have heard already from documents released by the supreme court that although this is day two of the two day hearing begins to be reserving judgment for what they term a number of weeks which stars like that could mean between two and eight weeks so we will have to wait to find out the birthday this is day two as i say into the nostalgia right this morning about how the full proceedings started again looking fairly relaxed just seated yesterday saying hello to a few his supporters standing behind me to have braved the edge days subzero temperatures and on to turn out to show him that they are still. rooting for him yet today we heard his legal team giving their side of the story this case here at the supreme court is no simple out whether or not associates guilty of the allegations that have been made against him it's about the nuts and bolts of the legal system and specifically about whether the european arrest warrant under which

his extradition has been requested is valid the his team say that the swedish prosecutor who issued the warrant doesn't have the all thirty started out because it's party to the case and therefore it's not independent and impartial to the case against a bundle fundamental with the rule of law but today the swedish prosecutors legal team will be arguing that that doesn't matter and that in fact the a shingle thirty doesn't have to be independent and impartial if we are hearing from inside the court that the argument of the swedish prosecutor's team is coming under scrutiny an associate teams argument did the judges a much more questioning of it seemingly less impressed by it that this is the final avenue for him here in england this is the highest court in the land that we're in now he could then take his case the european court of human rights but that's by no means guaranteed however that the backlog in charge. to eight years

he could be hanging around in this in a bizarre. if he doesn't win here the cool stuff goes in greatest fear is he would be an extra scientists from here to sweden where they could speak literally wouldn't touch the ground in the sweet then head to the streets of america which of course has a vested interest in this he's always said that these allegations are not to be with mickey where he he released a huge number of very embarrassing files for the us government and other governments around the world and international businesses will have to wait and see what he does and how how he's going to pass the time and indeed he does decide to continue with this fight. with reporting from london well the blunders all of us politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades with the u.s. presidential election campaign heating up there's a whole new supply of munitions but as are his more important i reports some believe the comments are displays of ignorance and disregard for world affairs and

should be no laughing matter. every four years america's top job is up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when i ask me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stands banned i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see the 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. libya.

forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he is the father raised. you know 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 can become and i think the 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 ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're going to 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 say sorry go you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target and let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea 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 effective. and i think 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. all right so let's get to the aussie world update for you some international news and bring you this i will start with pakistan where the supreme court has decided to charge the country's prime minister with contempt for its failure to reopen an old corruption case against the prison if convicted it yourself out of the could face six months in jail and lose his office the court has long demanded a reopening of the case dating back to the late ninety's but the government has

refused it insists the president enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office. the united states has made the surprise announcement that it will halt combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected u.s. defense secretary leon panetta said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training local forces before the end of next year afghan officials claim the decision has to ruin the whole transition plan and force preparations to be rushed through one thousand seven hundred american troops and tens of thousands of civilians have died since the two thousand and one invasion. a ferry carrying a three hundred fifty people has sunk of papua new guinea's north coast rescuers plucked from the sea at least two hundred nineteen survivors but others remain missing the ship's operator said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call and most of the passengers are students and trainee teachers.

seven people have been killed and seventy one wounded after a blast near a police station in southwest colombia a motorcycle packed with explosives blew up just outside the entrance in the city of tomorrow officials have blamed a leftist fark rebels for the attack claiming they were targeting the regional police commander he was not hurt in that explosion. he watching r.t. live from moscow in an unexpected change of heart the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london in two thousand and six has backtracked on his accusations that the then russian president vladimir putin was responsible for his son's death walter litvinenko described his claims as lies driven by hatred saying he didn't know that his son alexander worked for british intelligence because their interests over went to meet him. but you. and me we moved to tears. this is how we found michael and co praying in his tiny telling apartment no

electricity no gas no hot water. if it wasn't for the help of various people i would have died from hunger or frozen to death the last time i took a bath was on christmas. we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patronize makes elphick south tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we broke. yet extremist yo dorsett there and he's just give me a yes but here doris you would be. one vitality namco sent

a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead wouldn't it wouldn't let me have an image of it if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander that i said and wrote about you for all the hatred i had for you if only i had known my son worked for british intelligence i would not talk about his death he could have easily been shot as a double agent betrayers should be shot what else can i add to this. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina bin and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for and why six further details followed when a newspaper launched its own investigation i was on the live in yonkers who's receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered it's understood the scarlets now the head of m i six and ones based in moscow was involved in recruiting him to the secret intelligence service. at first by turnitin

and cole like many others claimed his son had been poisoned with polonium two ten on putin's order the former f.s.b. officer and fierce critic of the kremlin alexander litvinenko spent twenty three days in a london clinic slowly dying from a toxic substance possibly consumed through a cup of tea even before police in london started questioning suspects the victim's father was actively kucing the russian government today by their admits he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. or not it is enough to take polonium to london sprinklers over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their suspect they lugovoy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me. vikrant now believes his son fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his

words to be heard but the media outside russia which once beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply to his requests. and why. because they like it when i scold the regime i was a real treasure for the movie well there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about putin as i did. in two thousand and eight but that i'm getting young call flat russia for sanctuary needs something is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sydney got it all for didn't you anonymous life the man claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today by the living in co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom hills a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary. and like thirty thousand young girls sold everything he had in russia to come to italy he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse when the

seventy three year old had buried his wife bunter now fears her casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the coast of a burial plot and it's been months since the electricity was shot up to his flags he's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to you this is how i war myself of the world book i open this door to that the southern wind inside. there is east and there is russia oh my homeland your peripheral throat and i want to go home to russia. i don't want to stay here. in the great show of a r t city guy eataly. time out of the business news with dmitri.

i don't welcome to the program a radical improvements in the business climates will be the urgent task of the next administration if letting a person wins the presidency and much speaking in the troika dialog forum in moscow the prime minister says the country needs to jump from one hundred and twenty of to twenty of place in terms of its investment climate business all these money in the cost reports it sounded like a school reports a private student body marks a bad must try harder not to me it was in the pilot said once again that russia has a lot of potential but it is failing it soon get their results he said most of the planning studies place the country in the top five in terms of its let's see get more investment but in reality its investment climate polices russia in the budget and twentieth position something he called a shameful that he said that russia should become the time to launch

a korean fads and not only when the pumps in the pension lease set others see a different culture over business consumption and that's what we as an example you mentioned creating an energy revolution which would be followed by a drop in oil prices and other hydrocarbons and one of the other changes to this is set up and all but some men do with their responsible to protect their eyes of all entrepreneurs not just foreign investors and he couldn't help but mention the situation that is all rattling around the world and how it's affecting the country he's complained that excessive government debt in the u.s. and europe poses a real threat to the global economy particularly for the major exporters in the emerging markets and here i've got my saying that the next ten years would see a transformation of the global economy and would see the emergence of new financial centers and goes up to a mistake that russia would be part of those. the russian government is ready to buy back shares in the country's second largest bank d.t.b.

for minority shareholders who purchased the stock during an i.p.o. in two thousand and seven the government adds that it will do its best to ensure investors do not make a loss the list price for the shares was thirteen point six copecks they're currently trading at around seven the head of d.t.b. estimates the cost of the buy. there are around one hundred fifteen thousand minority shareholders in bt bank in order to pull back shares of around one hundred two hundred ten pounds and minority shareholders will need to fifteen to eighteen billion rubles. rise like a look at the markets this hour in the u.s. stocks opened flat to positive after the u.s. labor department reported weekly unemployment applications for them by twelve thousand. over in europe indices also turned positive after news from the united states and also the greek government still trying to come to a deal with their creditors who are putting pressure on the e.c.b.

to join the bond swap. in a rush the markets ended of flat to positive third consecutive session of. main movers on the my six of course include the bank which slipped into the red of the gaining a lot over the past couple of sessions and d.t.b. obviously was gaining three percent at one point ended the day one point two percent up after prime minister putin said a buy back from minority shareholders is possible and energy majors are also in the black with gazprom gaining one percent. to exchange rates now the euro is continuing its recovery versus the dollar now losing by just a north european union official says the block has asked the euro zone to help provide an extra fifteen billion euros for debt ridden greece whereas the ruble has strengthened versus both cards. and other news the world's largest publicly traded commodity supplied land poison merger talks with another mining giant xstrata both

are listed in london glencore ready holds thirty four percent of extras which is valued at first the five billion dollars if the tie up goes smoothly the combined company will have a capital ration of about eighty billion dollars and would be the first largest mining company and. their problems in the e.u. have spurred concerns over financial stability in a number of other economies including russia has around half of the country's turnover depends on yours and states but the head of russia's biggest lenders burbank believes better times are around the corner. we see that europe is already in recession and it has an impact on russia we see that we currently have relatively low growth rates but if you are pm problems don't significantly worsen i would avoid saying that it would have any serious negative effect on russia we would like to have some modest growth which is a good sign in such a difficult time. are not so from the business team for now we will be back next hour in around fifty five minutes time with and i'll see that.

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