british intelligence. spoil the u. turn the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london six years ago says accusing him of being behind the desk was a mistake r.t. gets the story first time. the u.n. reportedly considers a new draft of a resolution on syria which softens calls for president assad to step down following criticism from russia. i mean reports that are softer resolution on syria is finally being considered at the u.n. security council russian officials in new york do not confirm this so what's the latest find out just ahead in the program. reports egyptian

police fired tear gas at a group of protesters in cairo we're bringing you live pictures here of a rally if it's being held in the wake of the bull bottoms which left over seventy dead the. international news or comment live from moscow this is good to have you with us this hour 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 accusations that then russian president vladimir putin was responsible for his son's death cult live and 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 leads me and co praying in his tiny tellin apartment no electricity no gas no cold water what. 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 eve. 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 patrons like suffix out tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . you could be here just as much three of them we brought. you here to get extremist yogurt or sit there or he's just give me a yell pretty here doris you would be. one vital european and co sent

a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. what image of a dinner if not to me that the meat of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you for 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 betrayers should be short of story what else can i add to this. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we don't know arena 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 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. and the dia you know have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and they're 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 one because they like it when i scold the regime i was a root treasure for them over the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did as well you know living in two thousand and eight was the only thing and call for what russia for sanctuary in italy has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sunni 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 was the only thing and co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom hill has 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 furious 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's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how. talk it that open the door to let the sudden wind inside. do is east only has russia your home learned for tourists i want to go home to russia. through i don't want to stay here. r t the city ghalia eataly. the draft resolution on syria under discussion at the un security council

is reportedly being softened to take into account russian concerns it's likely to have references to president assad stepping down and an arms embargo removed from the text well let's get more now from marty's in a study check and she is in new york so why such a change at the u.n. and the stars here. well bill you know would start to soon to tell whether this change is actually taking place as it turns out there are in fact media reports circulating that allege that a softer resolution on syria is being considered as a result of russia's refusal to back such things as regime change in syria as well as the possibility of a foreign intervention as well as an arms embargo because russia was having a very tough position on not having these elements be part of any resolution being considered at the security council these reports allege that the us and other western countries and the arab league may be ready to withdraw this but it's

important that we have spoken to russian officials at the united nations who do not confirm that any such softening of the western position is actually occurring what they do confirm is that new details and new elements and talks are certainly continuing the goal is still to find some sort of consensus but no breakthrough as of yet and still officially regime change continues to be something that sides just have to work out. no russia wants the funding of the arab league report taking into account the un is there any sort of. no sign of that quite yet either bell basically the key of this arab league report is that the reason russia wants this report to be taken seriously is that they're findings in there that are essential to finding any sort of solution to the syrian conflict and russia says not enough do attention has been paid to this report because facts such as accusations of both sides in the conflict of being guilty of

what's going on is something that the west and the arab league are turning a blind eye on and namely what this report talks about is the observer mission witnessing things such as a bombing of a civilian bus that killed eight people of borrowing of a train that was carrying diesel oil as well as a police boss being blown up and what russia has been saying this entire time is that it's key to realize that it's not just a one sided conflict two sides are involved here and embargo in one side and making it do something and not taking the other side into account is just something that will not solve this crisis. and this tells you thanks very much indeed for the live update there on the developments over syria there in the u.n. in new york thank you dr marcus papadopoulos the editor of politics first magazine says it's not in western interest to listen to the arab league report's findings. western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by wanting to

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 it follows a pro 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 common to it in 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 t.g. chess board 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. well if you live here moscow coming up this for you the whistleblowers final appeal. today enough space now lies with the u.k. supreme court's after he makes his anti extradition appeal before judges he's wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assaults. that's still to come but first police have reportedly fired tear gas at a group of protesters in colorado and be running against the way security services handled the rock at a football match on wednesday which saw more than seventy people killed fans rushed onto the field in the seaside city of port saeed after the home team beat egypt's top clubs setting off clashes and a stampede we're showing you live pictures at the moment all those protests now

taking place in karachi and foreign affairs analyst richard j. had our infix it's an indication of post revolution instability. the violence and so there's a lot of questions also for it's there overall it's been sort of the first victim of that puts the sparkle out on the lawsuit through the forces on the loose in this manner for their written messages so far as sort of the bar. for the police is not good enough in order to avoid the violence from festering on the flop or their agreements with knives we still want since a larger body satirical lot sells more than the articles just a song for both of them is that overall the support of this week for the. war resume in some ways the violence with the number of lives that the limits are justified. in the emergence of laws or the conclusiveness. security mode

of the current. iran's nuclear ambitions and the euro zone's debt struggles the german chancellor's agenda on her trip to china to merkel is calling on beijing the biggest buyer of iranian oil not to buy more after an e.u. and bargain and to use its influence to persuade to run to abandon any possible atomic weapons ambitions u.s. wants to offer reassurance that investing in the euro zone is still a safe bet that iran is crystal forstall believes getting support for germany's economy is the main reason for. our chancellor on a triple begging to if she wants money for europe she once you know the 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 its 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 buying uranium oil or that were 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. more analysis on the chancers visit to china is available right now on our website dot com also there at the moment should you log on find out about the frozen water. pipes inside japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant despite warnings made months ago that exactly this could happen.

phrased as spontaneous protests started on twitter the arab revolutions may actually have taken a decade of expertise to prepare millions of dollars to fund this story along with many others available on our website dot com. 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. is wanted in sweden on and occasions of sexual assault we can expand that denies the accusations and insists the case against him is politically motivated with his outside the supreme court in london. according to the supreme court they will deliver the verdicts in what they're calling a number of weeks so we're not sure whether that means two weeks or whether it means eight weeks but certainly we have now reached the end of this two day hearing in which both sides have put their cases to the panel of seven judges that are sitting on this case in the supreme court and this hasn't been about whether julian

assange committed the sexual assault that it's 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 that has been issues to extradite julian assange it was valid to toll a soldier's team to say that the only people who can issue a european arrest warrant are judges who are impartial and independent whereas 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 have to be that the jury in the cool of today particularly the judges appeared to have a little bit more time for us soldiers teams case that when it came to what the swedish prosecutors are 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 ourselves and she

might have to raise a bit of law after it seems like a bit of a life superseding this is the last chance saloon for julian assange and in this country this of course is the supreme court is the highest court in the land has come up through other courts including race recently turf through the high court he's made it here if he does lose here then there is a chance that he could take this to the european court of human rights in strasbourg and 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's course he's always maintained that the charges are politically motivated he says that it's. connection with his work the wiki leaks which of course released that huge passive previously secret documents which embarrassed governments including the us government and also many international business but his greatest fear of course is that he would be extradited first to sweden and then one since we did this week to find a way to get him to go to america where he would face all sorts of. serious charges

it will be number of weeks before we find out the verdict and then you know possibly on to the european court of human rights possibly. possibly possibly not we'll have to see. smith talking a little earlier from london some more international news for you in brief. pakistan's supreme court has decided to charge the country's prime minister. for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president if convicted you could face six months in jail and lose his office is one demanded the reopening of the case dating back to the late one nine hundred ninety s. but the government has refused insists the president enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office. united states has made the surprise announcement that it will halt combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected us to and 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 is 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 three hundred fifty people has sunk of papua new guinea's north coast rescuers plucked from the sea at least two hundred thirty eight survivors but others are still missing the ship's operator said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call most of the passengers a students and trainee teachers. the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades with the presidential election campaign heating up there's a whole new supply of ammunition but as marina portland reports some believe the comments are displays of ignorance and disregard for world affairs and 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 becky becky becky becky 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. ok libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he did it for reasons. 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 be coming 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 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. 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 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 and if i were president i would be willing to use waterboarding 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. twenty three minutes past the hour here in the russian capital business is next with me with a look at the main news stories for you shortly. warm welcome to business out seen a radical improvement in the business climate will be the urgent task of the next administration if libyan affairs 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 and twenty if to twenty of place and terms of its investment climate business hotkeys money in the culture of ports it sounded like a school records a bright student but more excel bad must try harder not amir peretz and highlighted

once again that russia has a lot of potential but it is failing it says get their results he said most men in studies place the country in the top five in terms of its potential is to get more investment but in reality its investment climate places russia in the one hundred and twenty of position something he called a shameful that he said that russia should become the time to launch a plea in facts and not only when the bumps in the pension lead said that there's be 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 the mrs is set up and all but so many do with their responsible to protect the rights of all entrepreneurs not just foreign investors and we couldn't help but mention the situation that is on rattling around the world and now it's affecting the country

he's complained that excessive government that in the us and europe pose a real threat to the global economy particularly for the major exporters in the emerging markets and europe that by saying that the next ten years would see a transformation of the global economy the same 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 the tb 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 team point six copecks they're currently trading at around seven the head of the tb 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 the round one hundred to one hundred ten thousand minority shareholders will need from fifteen to eighteen billion rubles

bush. and russian markets are up at the close of. the third consecutive session with the r.t.s. my sex profile around one percent let's take a look at some of the moves on the financial stocks in the spotlight while small banks fell slightly be gained 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 of spite while being slightly in the company shed like this 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 close up team has been to the hub bar of. where the country's little wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the

area. named dr len in 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 should be tested to the limits. welcome to the. russian close up on our. little.

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