back to basics. pressure economic punishment from president assad syrian regime to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes on life has begun to improve russian democracy. wind of change as the country's russian minority prepares for its first political battle in a long struggle for basic rights. with

well these are much more you know with welcome to the program the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet comes after an e.u. backed resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. meanwhile in syria security forces say they've cleared all but two positions strongholds around the capital seizing past caches of arms and explosives and on the way business and fighters in these have also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols with conflicting reports of casualties fighting has reached a peak in the past week hundreds want to know. each . for the past ten months one of the at. to vist he means

of offering the world glimpses of the violence that's torn three syria actually his goods report how we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. can't verify to say many differing numbers and reports getting to the bottom of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. had a fever they think. they. had as the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seemed to reach fever pitch with activists reporting a massacre in homs that was all over the headlines and watched with horror by people worldwide initially the death toll that night was put over two hundred there could be as many as two hundred just in the last hour or two that was later significantly downgraded strict access policies they have made it difficult for

many foreign networks to get their correspondents into the country to collect evidence at the end of last year i leveled this criticism at the foreign minister's spokesman we've never been in the media by the way. because of the objectivity we've been filtering you how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you to. broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube you have also atrocity committed by the elements it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage of the pro-government can has been pretty spurious this graphic video appears to show a regime supporter being hanged with a clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now it's hard to know what the western allies that the u.n. basing their assertions on was not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy. this is all about regime change dissatisfied with the wording of the

resolution in china v tahj the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believed the do-re pin fifth foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures in place from a poll to try and put an end to the violence again have to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya seems to be backing one side creasing me looking like so who. are not. despite the un resolution to pass summary hopeful that can be forced out using force in covert ways when such u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich believes america could train the rebels to challenge a doctor and other political scientist thinks freedom is an issue. it's

an outrage for somebody to believe and enson insanity that during during the time of a u.n. resolution is being taking down toward syria the syrian government is going to actually crack down on homos this is definitely an act of terrorism done by the by the by the gangs that this already been getting money and weapons from different countries so they can bring down this regime so this isn't an outrage for somebody to actually believe that the government is actually doing so if to their own people from the very beginning it was actually a conspiracy people need to know that syria is the only country left in the middle east that is actually with the resists any resistance movement that it's going on and basically what they need to do and what they're doing with their conspiracy is that actually bring down the regime and. to make president assad not be an

ally to iran and this is why president assad was never asked for any reform he was asked from the beginning to change the stances and if he'd done so and never and nothing like that would have ever happened. stay with us in a few minutes reveal the export of designer revolutions. ever since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their biskupic a. rising of the world god by the us don't you know. the steady drumbeat of war coming from washington and stirring up global concern that that reaction against the role because. transparent interactive on the web savvy prime minister putin sees the future of russia's democracy as the outlines his vision for greater social economic

prosperity. from his latest article. about. this now you go what are the main points of the prime minister's article. good morning and the main idea of this latest article by the prime minister is that civil society in russia has grown and has developed and most importantly has become much more active compared to say ten years ago and according to the prime minister when it comes to the state on its behalf it's currently a lagging behind and people do want to be more active they want to be a more horde of state life and especially off the decision making and discussions especially around new draft laws for example and what each of which is one of the platforms which has to provide society with the opportunity to be a part of this discussion is the internet do important says that all governments

start sites have to be more user friendly so that it would be much more easier for internet users to discuss the draft laws and very important evaluate the effectiveness of this or that civil servants and this when we talk about laws for example this goes bald for laws proposed by the state but also for draft laws which may be proposed by society itself and put into says that it's an idea put forward by some internet users gains at least one hundred thousand signatures online then it has to be reviewed via the parliament as well and like i said evaluating civil servants right there on the spots especially the local governors or the heads of. judges which are appointed by the state. has to

be done as well and if society is not satisfied by the way they work then they have to be changed now also in the sort of the logical points in support of some of the initiatives circled forward earlier by president lee the videos which are. reintroducing the election of local governors and simplifying the rules for a registration for registering new political parties and city prime minister says that one of the key points currently. which drives basically the development of democracy is competition and this competition has to be increased and it has to provide the conditions for the further development of democracy in russia you guys like you important remembers how it was in the ninety's say when many people wanted to become all the guards all now the situation

is that many people want to become civil servants because they see these visions as great opportunities for easy money this has to be changed according to the prime minister and competition is one of the most effective ways in order to improve the situation now another issue which is being. the attention on which is being aimed in this article is corruption and going to poison is talking about plans to increase the wages for civil servants in exchange for their absolute transparency and. this is one of the also key points of this article and this is the fourth all to go which has been published by the prime minister since he announced that he is going to run for president in march according to his press secretary admit that if you scoff these articles on. laying

the foundations for his money fast. ok thank you for that. well putin's article comes after more than two hundred thousand people including his supporters and opponents to the streets across russia to voice their political views that's ahead of the presidential poll next month political analyst meeting babiche says this isn't deeply rooted. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seeing the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their position in that small incident when they felt the hand of the west behind it so it's a small sleeve media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in more threads there are people all kinds of ethnic groups

involved so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequences more and more stupid as if i hope it will continue in that way if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country. but you can catch more of that story and many more on our website r.t. dot com here's a look and what's waiting for you right now the russian leader this is make the. rules. take the secret identity and hand them a nickname. plus what. business people in the sex dungeon you can work with you say it's all down to politics an economy it's very much.

turkish tyree officials slam the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran and the new security conference in munich on that any armed conflict would be disastrous for the region. was named beirut based political analyst believes that iran's opponents are already focused on a confrontation. all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize ing their system they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying the sanction are coming at iran because that's a suspicion they are not no matter what they are justifying or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against iran's

a brand said very clearly they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community at this point and what the american want to disappoint and as i said there's a lot of politics in it specially election. probably there is really coming at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then that would be devastating for them. to catch up at this point and i think before six months we might we might heading into a major confrontation in the burgeoning gulf. and about fifteen minutes time on r.t. interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service who says that even the western leaders are attempting to demonize iran and want to stoke panic and

suspicion surrounding the islamic state is a taste of what's coming up. the leadership believe. that in order to arouse international public opinion and in order to mount pressure upon the radiance it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinions of national public opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word existence will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. arise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and the. apparitions these. pictures these experiences are recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on the run.

latvia is witnessing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices its anger over escalating state level discrimination hoping that an upcoming referendum could see russian fishley become the nation's second language movie is seen by many as a first step on the long way to storing their basic political rights. as the story . this professor from a lot he wants everyone in his country to have equal rights that's why he had no second thoughts when the initiative of a referendum to make russian the country second state language came up. to canada except the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also voted for independence in one thousand nine to one we were shoulder to shoulder back then but now they're being treated like garbage new citizenship for the jobs here. for the. ethnic russians make up a third of lot of the us population the idea of holding this referendum came after

what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point almost twice as many signatures one hundred eighty thousand then they required ten percent of those eligible to vote were collected. radical nationalists initiated their own referendum to close russian schools in latvia they failed but it was a worryin coup that's why we gathered signatures for a language referendum to legally protect ourselves after we did the ruling nationalists when hysterical trying to jeopardize the votes in the minority points to a recent statement by the country's president but yes at the referendum means voting against large media. as collating state level discrimination the nationalist camp denounces all such accusations however they believe their vote carries a threat to the country's sovereignty and are sending a stern warning. we allowed these people to live in our territory after the

collapse of the u.s.s.r. we said you can live here under certain conditions but if they are trying to alter the foundations of our state then we will have to be tougher and make new laws. and some lothians have already started to act this lawyer told us you have numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the voting. those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions. some are already scared to go voting their employer told them that should he see a stamp in the past byrd and they took part in the language referendum then he would immediately fire them. the russian speaking minority in lock there is estimated at three hundred thousand people out of the population of almost two and a quarter million another three hundred twenty thousand ethnic russians are classed as non citizens and are forbidden from voting this ban experts say could prove to be crucial russian may become largely a second state language only if at least seven hundred fifty thousand people vote

for it organizers of the referendum say realistically there will be only half of that the result will be then deemed unconstitutional but may still become a major talking point lot of years russians hope that the referendum will help brussels notice their distress call and have a hard talk with the vote takes place on february eighteenth with a final official results a few days later. ati reporting from in lottery or. some other international headlines in brief greek party leaders will gather again to resume talks in a one hundred thirty billion. that comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached. the u.s. is seeking support for tough reforms as a condition for the bailed out to avoid default greece needs to secure the package by march. former dictator. has been transferred from

prison hospital after reportedly suffered a stroke to say he's stable noriega was sentenced for the murder of political opponents to spend nearly two decades in u.s. prisons for money laundering and drug trafficking that part of the six years that has toppled a u.s. base in the country. in the egypt three people including owners will stand trial counsel illegal funding of governmental organizations human rights watch a school of government the chargers are. washington has threatened to leave its aid to the country. i mean violence as protesters demand currently true rulers live a power to a civilian government. but democracy has become a profitable export for one international group it started off as a student movement in serbia but with the backing of the us became

a worldwide brand revolutions resulting in the governor found out the cost of such mass production ultimately falls on the taxpayer. this is the business of selling a lot of sky high heels barely there clothes revolutionary styles exported from the fashion capitals of the world hello i'm moderately moderate and this is the business of selling well revolution fresh exporting how to lessons and revolution aided by the democracy capital of the world democracies after all aren't born knowing how to run themselves a decade ago merivale launched a serbian students movement that helped oust president slobodan milosevic. the group was called out for resistance and it bore the now familiar symbol of the clenched fist but behind the spontaneity of the uprisings was

a carefully researched strategy guided by the west no boy somalia is a balkans columnist who's been chronicling the events in serbia since one nine hundred ninety nine the or poor movement itself was just a tiny student organization that had got subverted taken over the operatives then expanded it turned it into a branding empire and ended up basically one ing the ground the grassroots level of the revolution thus turning it into an astro turf where they were run by the any deep which are very openly goes in and says our goal is to more promote democracy a new york times investigation documented the extent of u.s. assistance according to journalist roger cohen poor was no ramshackle students group but a well oiled movement backed by several million dollars from the u.s. but the objective is regime change the objective is to install a government that will execute orders the worst thing about all this is that it's undermining a concept that enabled the united states to claim moral leadership in the world in

the first place with milosevic gone ivan marriage now spends his time advice in activists abroad never. since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictators so you come up with these three easy steps so you too can get in on the action and laugh your way to freedom the video was made by students at the school of authentic journalism in mexico for narco news t.v. but ivan has helped develop a video game called a force more powerful which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today outdoors called canvas and with the help of the internet their methods and symbols are exploited the world over from the color revolutions in georgia and ukraine to venezuela and the arab spring uprisings in egypt william engdahl has written for over thirty years about washington secret geopolitics he's convinced the canvas is not acting alone the instigators of those

so-called spontaneous protest was twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth have all been pretty organized and should you assume some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the russian people. this thing has the state department and u.s. intelligence all over it three easy steps and that's all it takes to overthrow your very own government so this revolution become a commodity a product that could be branded populist mass produced an export of all across the globe well just like ivan's video this too of course is a spoof but the game of regime change is quite real and it's unintended consequences can be downright dangerous. to mostly the american taxpayer i think who's getting. the short end of the bargain because there are there are bankrolling people that are going around the world fomenting astroturf

revolutions that are eventually backfiring and they're backfiring all over the place and once the people find out who was behind this their anger turns. to the american government can do better can people once your bus service beat you to get over. an easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see catherine of r.t. washington. up next this is news with the past. twenty five minutes past eight am where you're watching business on our t.v. the current period of profound economic change has some take talking about the new world order but who will be the winners and the losers marco troil they had of brazil based think tank the center for business diplomacy gives us his first but we're in the midst of

a transition phase what are the elements in disposition phase that i think will shape the world. very straight very strong state owned enterprises from brazil russia india china a renewed innovative capacity in the u.s. in knowledge intensive sectors they will create new facebook's new google new microsoft and that is going to be good for parts of the american economy it will also widen the gap between the nose and the know not just the haves and the have nots. and i think we're going to also see a time of sacrifice in europe europe is going to have to have. goals of dynamism being inserted into its economy otherwise it's going to be stalled for a number of years crude is saying some profit taking the following is exact trade in the previous week posting deigns on friday the overall mood remains pretty bullish wall of this my biggest producers like russia the international energy agency says the market could backfire if there ali resumes. oil prices are to be

very very hard just to hard for the consumers and if such become did turn the oil prices is a major risk for the global economic recovery the needle in asia in china from the producers for the good from these dark russia or many of the producers maybe enjoying this part reduce what they should not forget that they need customers we hope to economies if described prices make the economy six customer customers economies sick such as the european economy chinese economy they will need much less energy. and let's now take a look at the markets oil first and it's in the red it's been zigzagging for most of last week as i mentioned right now light sweet is trading at around ninety seven dollars a barrel while brand is topping one hundred and fourteen dollars ten i want to

equities asian shares regaining value and better than expected statistics on the u.s. jobs that came out late friday but we'll see two missing wafts one the european traders start their day there was no progress and the greek debt restructuring talks over the weekend they'll continue on monday this hour the nikkei is adding more than one percent the hang seng is up around us. and it's less than two hours ahead of the opening bell the russian markets closed with gains on friday you seeing the closing figures that's thanks about job data already mentioned both indices at around one and a half percent global funds investing in russia truck had around half a billion dollars a week and that's the highest level since april. and that's the latest from the business desk back in fifteen minutes.

the closer team has been to the hub our of screeching for the country's middle wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after lenin but 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 limits.