british intelligence. spies saw the u. turn the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london six years ago says accusing vladimir putin of big behind the desk was a mistake party gets the story first time. the un considers a new draft of a resolution on syria which no longer calls on president assad to step down following criticism from russia. and the german leader takes. to convince china not to write off the e.u. and get beijing support for the oil embargo against iran.

business out sea russia's government says it's ready to buy back shares from minority shareholders of russia's second largest bank more on this and to its. international news in comment live from moscow this is. another expected change of heart the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london in two thousand and six has backtracked on accusations that the russian president vladimir putin was responsible for his son's death and then coach said his claims were driven by hatred saying he had no idea his son alexander worked for british intelligence. went to meet him. but is. this is how we found like that lead me

and co praying in his tiny tellin apartment no electricity no gas no porch water what if it was 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 day we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like self ixil tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we broke. yet you get extremist young dorsett there and he's given you're pretty here doris you would be. one by three thousand and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the

same but instead. we're going to a dinner. the meat of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you know the hatred i had for you even only i had known my son worked for british intelligence i would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent the choice should be short of story what else can i answer the only with. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his son's we doe marina bin and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for m i six further details followed when a newspaper launched its own investigation alexander litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered it is understood that sir john scarlett now head of m i six and was based in moscow was involved in recruiting him to the secret intelligence service. at first by turnitin

and co like many others claimed his son had been poisoned with polonium to tan 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 kissing the russian government today by their at me it's he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the idiot you know have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their suspect and a little boy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me viger 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. why is that because they like it when i scold the regime i was a root treasure for them of the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about me because i did. live in two thousand and eight but that in between young call flat russia for sanctuary needs healing is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal it offered to new 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 lithuanian co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he owes a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary but surely the namco sold everything he had in russia to come to eataly he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse after the

seventy three year old had buried his wife but are now fierce her casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a barrel plot and it's been months since the electricity was shut off to his flat he was lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to your this is how i will my son of a book because i believe in the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia through my home learned from tourists i want to go home to russia. the crew through i do want to stay here. in the church over r t the synagogue eataly and russian businessmen only look avoid the man accused by the u.k. of killing litvinenko says the spies father dealt

a blow to british special services. you know. those comments by live in new york his father reflect what i've been saying for more than five years that all the accusations from prison wouldn't stand up in court and it proves british special services have completely failed in their attempts to discredit russia they have just embarrassed themselves but public opinion about russia in the u.k. will only change if a court makes some kind of decision but i honestly doubt the impartiality of british courts. the draft resolution on syria under this question at the u.n. security council is reportedly being softened to take into account russian concerns it's likely to have references to president a sad stepping down and an arms embargo removed from the text let's get more now from this development from marty's marina portnoy she is in new york marina why such a change in the u.n. if indeed this report is true. but how well bill if indeed this these reports

coming out are true i it clearly indicates that western countries are yielding to the demands of russia china many other members of the security council that have said the council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in syria or any other country throughout the world that the street security council should work in facilitating a dialogue and coming up to peaceful solutions and as you mentioned there are several reports coming out that this new draft resolution on syria does drop the call for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside and hand over his powers to his deputy that is something that the arab league with the support of the u.s. and western countries wanted in addition this new draft according to reports also removes the reference of stopping the flow of arms to syria this was also a big concern for russia and other countries because there are there are opposition

groups in syria that are also armed and if there was. a stop an arms embargo put on syria nobody knew how it would be implemented western countries are still at the united nations along with russia china all members of the security council right now hammering out the details of this new draft now it's still not clear whether russia would support this new draft officials tell r.t. that nothing has been confirmed for sure on this draft negotiations at the u.n. and are continuing as i mentioned but as the debate on the draft resolution on syria continues moscow is reminding all security of member security council members to take into account the recent report prepared by the arab league observers because this report doesn't acknowledge the existence of arms groups in syria involved in the killings of civilians and government forces this is an issue that many men. as the security council were reluctant reluctantly razer did not break

rather when there was an open debate held a few days of go and this is a circumstance in the report that needs to be underscored and taken to into consideration according to russia and one with many other members of the council so clearly this is a new development we are going to be following it because there are discussions and ongoing negotiations at the united nations about this draft resolution on syria that's not ending anytime soon so as new information becomes available we will of course update our viewers just briefly of course they are concerned that the arab league report as you say should be brought into account is there a chance that it will be listened to now and in fact what impact consequences would that have well who the arab league report from the very get go should have been listened to and it was cited it was addressed by the two representatives of the arab league but they brought up certain facts of the report while addressing the

security council on tuesday but didn't bring up other facts one that i just mentioned the fact that opposition groups are armed in syria and according to the report they have been involved in the killings of civilians and government officials what this indicates is that two parties in syria are responsible for the violence it's not just one sided and this is this is what russia has been saying all along the united nations should not be taking sides in a conflict that's happening in a sovereign country the united nations should be trying to facilitate a peaceful dialogue a peaceful approach to ending the problem and not just take a side so if this were this report needs to be underscored highlighted in red there really and what this would indicate what i think this means is that the western countries can't rush to demand the president of syria just step down if you see that other members of syria other. citizens are also responsible for the violence

this is a very complicated issue and not to play just can't be decided upon one day two days and we see it's been going on for eleven months but there needs to be outward to russia very fair and the correct approach in syria they don't want to be have syria be of repeat of what happened in libya look at libya now thanks very much indeed for that update live there from new york well for more on the developments concerning syria we cannot talk to michelle he's director at the center for research on globalization joining us from montreal well as we are hearing now there are media reports that suggest that diplomats in the u.n. have dropped calls for the syrian president to step down many thought that russia's stance would indeed isolate moscow but do you think now that russia's concerns are actually being listened to now well who. are leading the observer mission. should change the position which russia takes in this in this debates

but stating to the draft resolution. it's the tories to say the least that the arab league is not living up to the results all of this mission reports and the misreport is very clear it says there is an all of entity and this. is committee crimes against civilians all beings terrorist acts and consequently the issue is who is behind this. they talk about the syrian free army they talk about on opposition groups and they provide evidence to the effect that this is an insurrection it is so it is not the peaceful protests big knowledge that there is a peaceful protest but they say that in those circumstances the mission

was witness to that and they said that there was no crackdown by government forces of peaceful protests but said michelle this is a very very significant report as you say what are the consequences of it now being listened to within you and you said that it will alter russian stats and of course the u.n. as a whole the u.n. security council stands in what way now just explain briefly well it this this report was leaked we published it yesterday. the all of the missions of the vote the permanent the no but wouldn't members have this report they can read it the russian delegation you when the president the president can read it what they should do is through well that draft resolution and have another one which which actually focuses all the foreign forces including turkey israel saudi arabia which all. supports in an insurgency in a sovereign country daily syria. the report is the extremely explicit it also

points to the fact that there's been a lot of meat of the solution. and it is not particularly pro-government it cracks all of the gulf. but it also acknowledges what what is known and documented by the independent media but not i by the goldmans as well as the mainstream media that's all i'm getting insurgencies it's a great advice a lot of cars pretty good organization which are killing people in syria and the question is always behind them ok let me just go to the right let me quickly ask you about the significance of this development in the us. the idea that they going to lose the call for a sad to step down and also take out any reference to stopping an arms flow going into syria what then should a new resolution consistent. well i personally i think the resolution should be

scrapped. and this this report should be public it should be taken very seriously countries like india. portugal pakistan. which are members of. the security council no government should investigate the matter. the arab league in fact should live by the report which is itself a commission it just so happens that these this observer mission that is made up of people who are not necessarily politically independent observers they're saying the truth and they're saying the truth and ultimately the two should prevail for this resolution should be thrown out and russia should take stalls not that nobody should say we are not going along with this process ok i know it is enough michel chossudovsky thank you very much indeed for your thoughts director of the center

for research on globalization live in montreal concerning the latest developments in the u.n. over syria other news now here on our t.v. the world's top whistleblower has made his appeal to the u.k. supreme court and now it's up to the judges to decide his fate gina saunders wanted in sweden on the negations of sexual assault we can expand it denies the accusations and sister case against him is politically motivated ortiz or smith is outside the supreme court. and laura both sides of put their case before court can we expect a decision soon what's the time scale of all of this. for the time scale is according to the supreme court they will deliver that takes in what they're calling and number of weeks so we're not sure whether that means two weeks of whether it means eight weeks but certainly we have now reached the end of this day haring and which based sites as you say have their cases to the panel of seven judges. that's

assisting in this case in the supreme court and this hasn't been about whether julian assange committed the sexual assault that is the sexual assault that is alleged that he committed by the swedish prosecutor this is being about the nitty gritty of how the legal system works as far as it pertains to the european arrest warrant and whether in fact the weren't there has been issues to extradite julian assange was valid just told our soldiers team say that the only people who can issue a european arrest warrant are judges who are impartial and independent where is this warrant was issued by the swedish prosecutor who is party to this case on the other hand the swedish prosecutor's team have been arguing that the european arrest warrant which the u.k. has of course signed up to can be issued by both judges and prosecutors it has to be that the jury in the cool of today particularly the judges appeared to have a little bit more time for our soldiers teams case that when it came to what the swedish prosecution was saying they questioned a bit more they got

a bit more and see and they were seem to have a little bit less patience for it where is diana raise between us and she managed to raise a bit of laughter it seems like a bit of a lawyer proceeding but it will have to see how it pans out when the verdict comes down when if the court decides against assange has any other way that he can actually fight his case or is this his real last chance. well this as i've been saying this is the last chance saloon for julian assange in this country this of course is the supreme court is the highest court in the land he's come up through other courts including race recently through the high court he's made it here if he wins here hill be set free everything you know all be forgotten kind of thing but if he does lose here and there is a chance that he could take this to the european court of human rights in strasbourg that's by no means a given but i mean he's always said that he would do that if he did lose in this country so we'll have to see what he decides to do of course he's always maintained that the charges are politically motivated. he will probably see that the european

court of human rights is the place where he should be he says that it's in connection with his work the wiki leaks of course released that huge cache of previously secret documents which embarrassed governments including the us government and also many international business days but his greatest fear of course is that he would be extradited first to sweden and then once in sweden this week to find a way to get him to go to america where he would face all sorts of. serious charges like treason and there are lots of people in the us who don't think he's he's a nice character asked all but it will be a number of weeks as i say before we find out the verdict and then you know possibly on to the european court of human rights possibly you know possibly possibly not we'll have to see those with thanks very much indeed for that live update there in london iran's nuclear ambitions on the euro zone's debt struggles top the german chancellor as agenda on her trip to china and the merkel is calling

on beijing the biggest part of the rain or not to buy more. in fargo and to use its influence to persuade to run to abandon any possible atomic weapons ambitions she also wants to offer reassurance that investing in the eurozone is still a safe bet and if you don't and it's crystal hall still believes getting support for germany's economy is the main reason for the trip. our chancellor is on a triple begging she wants money for europe she wants you know the support from beijing for the new u.n. resolution which beijing is not going to give and she also wants beijing to cut off its own oil supply which beijing is wisely 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 rain in oil so i don't think she has any chance of you know talking china out of by. iranian oil that were not

happen again i would say she will not put any much focus on it she will she will say that and 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 a lot be very much for chinese investment into europe because she knows in our heart of hearts that this is truly a bad investment. well more analysis on the chances visit china is available on our website don't call me the so online at the moment frozen water bursts inside japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant despite warnings made months ago that exactly this could happen. praised a spontaneous protest that started on twitter the arab revolution this may actually have taken a decade and expertise to prepare and millions of dollars to fund the story along with many others available on the web site www dot com. police have reportedly

fired tear gas at a group of protesters in cairo and we bring you live pictures from the egyptian capital at the moment people gathering that the interior ministry they've been running against the way security services handled right at a football match on wednesday which saw more than seventy fans rushed onto the field in the seaside city of port saeed after the home team beat egypt's top club setting off clashes and a stampede foreign affairs analyst richard j. daryn thinks it's an indication of post revolution instability. the violence. was also. there overall it's uncertain the first critical of. the sparkler. forces and recruits who were there written that it's. not. worth the violence from them or. not it's.

a larger body. cells more than. obvious that. we thought we would. resume in some ways the violence or the. emergence of laws or the. security mode really were current. twenty four and nearly half minutes past the hour here in the russian capital dimitris next with the business he's. warm welcome to business our team a radical improvement in the business climate will be the urgent task of the next administration if and wins the presidency in march speaking at the troika dialog forum in moscow the prime minister said the country needs to jump from one hundred twenty of twenty of place and terms of its investment climate business r.t.

as many in the course reports. it sounded like a school records a bright student but marks a bad must try harder not amir peretz and highlighted once again that russia has a lot of potential but it's failing to get the results he said most attendance studies place the country in the top five in terms of its potential to suggest more investment but in reality it's investment climate but this is russia to join the different went to a position something he called a shameful that he said that russia should become the psychologically of the facts and not only when the comes to the pension he said others see a different culture over business consumption and investment and 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 promises is setting up and puts men who would be responsible to protect the rights of all on superman or it's 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 that in the us and europe poses a real threat to the global economy particularly for the major export hers in the emerging markets and europe that by 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. from 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 now the list price for the shares was first seen point six copecks they're currently trading at around seven the head of d.t.b. estimates the cost of the buyback. there are around one hundred fifteen thousand minority shareholders in the t.v.

bank in order to believe that shares of around one hundred to one hundred ten thousand minority shareholders will need some fifteen to eighteen billion rubles bush. and russian markets are up at the close of. the third consecutive session of games with the r.t.s. my sex profile around one fifty five percent let's take a look at some of the movers on the my six financial stocks in the spotlight wells burbank fell slightly be gained under one point three percent one point two to be exact after prime minister putin said the buy back from minority shareholders is possible new coil was up at the close despite well being slightly lower as the company shed light is preparing for a listing in hong kong. and in other news the world's largest publicly traded commodity supplier glencore is in merger talks with another mining giant xstrata listed in london glencore already holds thirty four percent of xstrata which is valued at thirty five billion dollars if the tie up goes smoothly the combined

company will have a capitalization of about eighteen billion dollars and would be the third largest mining company in the world. that's all from the business team for now but the headlines are next to stay with us. the closest team has been to the hub. where the country's mineral wealth starts its

way across the ocean. now r t goes to the area. looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. and for the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the streets of. russia close up on r t. z a story. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.