back to basics the e.u. fresh economic punishment for president assad syrian regime the ferry to push through a polarizing u.n. resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes online to improve russian democracy. gusts of wind of change in latvia as the country's russian minority hopes to win an upcoming referendum could see their native language officially recognized.

you watching at a very warm welcome to the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet comes with a vision 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 opposition strongholds around the capital seizing vast caches of arms explosives only by opposition fighters in homs have also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols and conflicting reports of casualties writing has reached peak in the past few days with hundreds of court upheld a report from sarah firth contains some disturbing images. each and social networking sites for the fun and months in one of the activists he means is offering the world glimpses of divine a tool free syrian activists lives of poor. so we got the brick through and we've

just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify to say many differing numbers and reports getting to the person of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. had a fever they think it. was a. head of 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 of the headlines and watched with horror by people worldwide initially the death toll that night was put over two hundred you see 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

spokesman we've never been in the media by the way. because. 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 moment it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage is the phrase of the can has been pretty sparse this graphic video appears to show every jeems supporter being hanged i quickly clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now it was hard to know what the western allies that they were and 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 especially in china vetoed the latest. many felt it contained the case of libya russia and china

believe the do right thing for foreign military intervention as the conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized with any measures imposed from a poll to try to put an end to the violence the going to have to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya seems to be backing. me looking like. this part the failure of the u.n. resolution some remain optimistic that present our side can still be forced out u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich america could train the rebels to challenge ourselves rule political scientist says the most who's also suspect. it's in the outrage for somebody to believe and in cincinnati 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 have been getting money and weapons from different countries so they can bring down this regime so this is an outrage for somebody to actually believe that the government is actually doing so for their own people what's happening in syria and what happened elsewhere in libya is basically to bring it down and be what they need to do and what they're doing 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 another and nothing like that would have ever happened but stay with us as we few minutes reveal the exports of design and revolutions ever since i've been traveling the

world teaching people how to get rid of their pesky big this group that's had its hand and uprisings all over the world financed and guided by the us a story coming out. of the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming to washington to the very stirring up global concern that military action against iran will jeopardize the future of the entire region. transparent interactive and the web sorry that's hard previous to that putin sees the future of russia's democracy as he outlines his vision for greater social economic prosperity for his latest article detailing his electoral program will set its course lie to alter ego risk and offer to go work to the prime minister proposes in order to improve democracy in russia. well the main idea of the sort of go is that civil society in russia has grown and developed and become much more active most importantly compared to say ten years ago and what

comes to the state well it's a lagging behind at the moment people do want to be more active and have more influence on the political life and one of the mechanisms providing them with these opportunities is the internet and this is not only about the tens of thousands of people who now take to the streets for this or that rallies about millions of internet users in russia who over the past few years have been very active there is scores of blogs and forums videos of internet wars between political movements and all of them are going on on the web and the prime minister wants to see the role of the internet is influence increase more user friendly government websites to provide proper bases for public discussion and not only on initiatives put forward by the state any person any internet user has to be able to put forward their own draft law and if they gain say one hundred thousand signatures from other users it

has to be reviewed by the parliament the internet also gives another opportunity to evaluate civil servants for example if locals or district of any city are not satisfied with the way the head of the local police department works or a judge or even a principal of a local school they have been able to voice their concerns on the web be heard by the authorities so that the civil servants can be substituted but let's move the web aside for a bit and focus on all the initiatives like reintroducing the elections of local governors was initially put forward by the president supported by the prime minister but if we look at it it is connected with several problems which were revealed back in the ninety's and in early two thousand and one the system of elections was still local elections were still in force one of the problem is that often. these positions the stake positions were often purchased by those who had the biggest amount of money thus the biggest influence and they ended up finding themselves in politics and the second problem is image makers who had and according

to the prime minister still have too much influence over the entire process that's why it's important for the center and society using the internet to have control over the process that should create a stable and balanced system now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering new political parties which should make way for more competition but now this brings us to another problem of corruption and the prime minister is proposing to increase the salaries of civil servants in exchange for their complete transparency and put together a list of the most corrupt jobs and if in the ninety's many people wanted to become all the guards now there a need for civil servants because these positions are often viewed as possibilities to make easy money quick and according to the prime minister. it's time for that to change as well and this is the forethought to go published by you know put in since he announced that he's going to run for president during vote in march and together

they put together voting for. ok thank you for that update. well with their presidential elections approaching russians have become clear in their opinions with hundreds of thousands gathering to defend their political piece of political analyst says the protests driven by media. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television maybe to march in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their position and it's more than seven when they failed to handle the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both radius there are people of all kinds of ethnic groups in both threads so right now i think it's

fair and mostly a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequence is more and more still positive 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 i can catch more on that story many more on our website r.t. dot com and here's a look at what's waiting for you right now the russian street artists making his opinions through his rurals guerilla tactics on the secret identity of enemy nickname the russian landscape the british artist. plus one in the sunday u.s. business people the sex dungeons meet the workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy and the full story and much more party dot com.

turkish qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran and your security conference in munich it will mean that any armed conflict will be disastrous for the region however. 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 in 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 suspicions are there nor no matter what they are in just a fine or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered

against you ran a round 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 the israeli coming desperate at this point because they think if iran reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then that would be is 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. well in about fifteen minutes out here in t.v. with the former head of israel's intelligence service he says television and western leaders are attending to demonize iran north to stoke panic and suspicion surrounding the islamic state is

a taste of what's coming up. the loser believes that in order to arouse the international public opinion in order to mount pressure upon the reunion it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinion as a 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. which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these persians these. pictures these experiences are recalled in order to press upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on iraq. that fear is witnessing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices its anger of escalating

state level discrimination and i'm hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized. by many as the first step to storing their basic political rights parties has a story. this professor from a lot of 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 out. of the cannon to accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also built it from his independence in one thousand nine to one shoulder to shoulder back then and now they're being treated like garbage citizenship for their jobs here that's why i signed for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of lafayette's population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached

a critical point if 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 blood to be. as collating state level discrimination the nationalist 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 had numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the bolting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions but. some are already scared to go voting their employer. should he see a stamp in the passport and be to pardon the language random then he would immediately fire. the russian speaking minority and lot 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 final official results a few days later let's see russia r.t. reporting from in la to. speculate at some other international headlines in brief greek party leaders will gather again to resume talks in a one hundred thirty. rescue comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached the country's prime minister lucas papademos seeking support for tough reforms as a condition for the bailout to avoid default greece needs to secure the package by march. in egypt forty three people including foreigners will stand trial before the military telcel in equal funding of nongovernmental organizations and the rights watch called on the government to drop the charges

washington has threatened to review its aid to the country comes. as protesters demand the current. power to civilian government. in the u.k. queen elizabeth the second is celebrating her diamond jubilee sixty years on the throne. so in the second the british monarch to have reached a milestone of being crowned that you can put a five gun salute is being held in hyde park to mark the event the main celebrations taking place over a bank holiday in june a mother u.k. may be celebrating coming up next on cross talk artie's people of velvet but it's the problem faces of the issue of scottish independence. well look at the figures and i'm sure i'm sure the viewers will be able to judge the figures from themselves they're publicly available but let's let's look at this issue the last five years ago it was really really supports the u.k. only once in the last five years american. groups noticed a lot to be lower in scotland and the u.k. average but those those figures are going to be rules government ok gentlemen i'm

going to be one of the reasons why gentlemen let me jump in here david i guess is going to see into a little bit here ok this is look like these two people should be together look at all the different that. democracy has become a profitable export for what international group and started off as a student movement in serbia with the backing of the us became a worldwide brand revolutions that artie's kavanagh found out the cost of such mass production automation 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 eve on my research and this is the business of selling well revolution is 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 mare of edge launched the 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 it 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 needy which 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 ing activists abroad ever. 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 in which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass

protests and overthrowing dictators today outdoor is 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 that 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 rich the 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 popish to mass produce an export out 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 in the u.k. would be good. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see catherine of our t. washington. recap our main stories for you right off the business update with us.

almost twenty five minutes past ten am you're watching business on r.t.e. russia's gal's problem has acknowledged reduced gas supplies to european customers over the weekend the firm's deputy head under a kugel over acknowledge the gal's giant had to cut deliveries to some european countries by as much as ten percent this is against the backdrop of unusually cold weather in europe it boosted fuel demand in some countries to the highest level in years austria poland and six others claimed last week they were getting bull low the amount of gas specified in their contracts earlier gazprom blamed ukraine for taking more fuel from the pipes the gal's monopoly now says it's restored supplies in the fall but it's still struggling to meet the increased european demand the current period of profound economic change has some talking about the new world order who will be the winners and the losers marcos troil the head of

a brazil based think tank the center for business diplomacy offers his verdict. but we're in the midst of a transition phase what are the elements in disposition phase that i think will shape the world oh very straight very strong state owned enterprises from brazil russia india china a renewed innovative capacity in the west in knowledge intensive sectors they will create new facebook's new google's new microsoft and that is going to be good for parts of the american economy but it will also why then 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 airfares going to have to have. those of dynamism being inserted into its economy otherwise it's going to be stalled for a number of years. investors awaiting for yet another round of talks between the

greek leaders do on monday that's after they failed to agree on the new reforms which are crucial for the country to get the bail out greece desperately needs to head off default in march and let's take a look at how the markets are reacting all first and it's in the red on strengthening u.s. dollar and the concerns about the european debt crisis which could hinder the demand or oil has been zigzagging for most of last week right now light sweet this trading at around ninety seven or dollars a barrel while brant is that almost one hundred and fourteen dollars. and let's check out the equities asian shares again in value and better than expected statistics on the u.s. job market it came out late on friday but we'll see if that optimism last when the european traders start their day this hour the nikkei is adding more than one percent the hang seng is up around a house percent. and the russian markets started monday's trading session with

gains but that slipped into red within the first twenty minutes of trade declining oil is always a factor of oppression equities have a hard time overcoming both the r.t.s. and the my stocks are flat to negative at this point and a bit of good news global funds focused on russia tracked at around half a billion dollars in one week and that's the highest level since last april. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes .

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