back to basics the e.u. mulls over fresh economic policy and present the syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism by mr putin goes on life has been to improve russian democracy. when the change in latvia the country's russian minority hopes to win in the coming referendum that could see the native language of the bush league recognized. and in the business will attend the russian market started their trading session quite upbeat but have slipped into bread find out what factors are weighing on the markets in about

twenty minutes. or crossing live from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet it comes after an e.u. back to 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 armed opposition strongholds around the capital seizing vast caches of arms and explosives and on the way rebel fighters in homs also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols the conflicting reports of casualties opposition sources saying that the syrian army is currently shelling homes and there are casualties and yet we verified a report from sarah that contains. the stone ages. each video and

social networking sites have for the past ten months being one of the activists he means is offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syria action is good support how we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify the same many differing numbers and reports getting to the ball some of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. oh they think. there 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 over 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 part of 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 banned the media by the way. we've been filtering you how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you tube and 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 sparse this graphic video appears to show every jeems supporter being hanged with a clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now it's hard to. what

the western allies that the un basing their assertions on which is not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy is all about regime change dissatisfied with the wording of the resolution china v tahj the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the do or a pin for foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures imposed from a poll to try and put an end to the violence again has to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya seems to be backing one side increasingly looking like. the failure of the u.n. resolution some remain optimistic that present can still be forced out u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich these america could train the rebels to

challenge ourselves through political scientist history says the motives are suspect. it's an outrage for somebody to believe and it's an 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 have 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 for after 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 bringing 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 changes stances and if he had done so never and nothing like that would have ever happened. but stay with us in a few minutes we reveal the export of designer revolutions ever since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictate. that's had its hand in uprisings all over the world but an arson guarded by the u.s. that story coming up. in the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming from washington to the very stirring up global concern that victory action against iran will jeopardize the future of the entire region. transparent interactive on the website of prime minister putin sees the future of russia's democracy as the outlines his vision for greater social economic prosperity this from his latest article detailing his actual program nazis discuss details. 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 rally is about millions of internet users in russia who over the past few years have become very active there is stories of blogs and forums videos all 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 it gains say one hundred thousand approval 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 of a 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 the 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

the state positions. they're often purchased by those who had the biggest amount of money that's the biggest influence and they ended up finding themselves in politics and the second problem is image makers who have too much influence over the entire process now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering new political parties which should make way for more competition 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 about fourteen since he announced that he is going to run for president during upcoming vote in march and together they put together

a budget completions money festo. tempers are running high in the run up to the presidential election with a wave of recent protests across russia but political analyst. media awareness it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their position and its slogans and when they felt the hand of the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are poor people and reach people in both radius there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both threads 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. but there you can catch more of that story and many more our website at

r.t. dot com has a look at what's waiting few there right now the russian street artist making his opinions through his bureaus how guerilla tactics in a secret identity but then they've been nicknamed the russian banksy after the british artist. plus what some of us business people into sex dungeons workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy will get the full story and much more authority dot com. turkish and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran at the security conference in madrid in munich i should say they warned that any armed conflict would be disastrous for the region

however kind of hour was mean beirut based political analyst believes that iran's opponents are really 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 sanctions are coming at iran because the suspicion there. no matter what they are 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 there is really coming that

spread at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then 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 also to come on our team the next interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service television the western leaders are attending to demonize around the world to stoke panic and suspicions surrounding the islamic state this is. the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion and in order to mount pressure upon the reunions it's necessary to impress upon the world that public opinion is 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 to. which also brings you back to. in the twentieth century. of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. persians these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that external pressure should be dealt with. that here is witnessing a growing outcries the country's russian line r.t. or anger escalating state level discrimination they're hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language actually recognized. by many as the first step in the long road to a store in their basic political rights what is actually our chefs kaye has the story. this professor from

a lot of you 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. can't accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority who also built it from his independence in one thousand nine to one shoulder to shoulder but now they're being treated like garbage to citizenship for the new jobs here that's why i signed for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of luckiest population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point if you know what 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 yes at the referendum means voting against one of the. 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. to shoot we allow these people to live in our territory after the collapse of the us. 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. 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 voting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions but. some are already scared to go voting their employer told them that should he see a stamp in the passport and they took part in the language referendum then he would

immediately fire down. 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 is an expert 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 is 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 la. now is take a look at some other international headlines and very greek party leaders will

gather again to resume talks on a one hundred thirty believe. that. comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached country's prime minister because they miss seeking support for tough reforms as a condition for the bailout to avoid default greece has to secure the package by march. three story factory building has collapsed in eastern pakistan one person five people had been called out with a hundred others believed to be trapped under the rubble rescue officials say the structure caved in part of a gas explosion the building used to manufacture pharmaceuticals as that caitiff area of. the u.k. queen elizabeth the second is celebrating her diamond jubilee of sixty years on the throne she's in the second the british monarch to have reached a milestone being crowned that native twenty five gun salute is being held in hyde park to mark and celebrations taking place in board

a banquet in june rather u.k. may be celebrating coming up later this hour on cross talk to people of well debates the problem places 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 are publicly available but let's let's look at this issue the last four years ago it was really really soft was 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 those those figures are going to be rules government ok gentlemen i'm going to be one of the reasons why so many gentlemen let me jump in here david i guess is the interloper ok this is look i do use two people should be together look at all of the different that. 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 from revolutions lucic of nothing mr gates. 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 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 that 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 war they were run by the needy which are very openly goes in and says our goal is to more promote democracy a new york times investigation document to 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 of 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 i've in marriage now spends his time advice ing activists abroad ever since i've been travelling to. 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 and which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today are poor 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 wish to depart. this thing has 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 papist mass produced in 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 the ultimate way the american taxpayer i think is 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. and the american people once your bus service is beat you can repeat it over. and over. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see captain of r.t.e. washington. without times of course over to a business desk no attention. twenty four minutes past they are you watching business on r t russia's gazprom has acknowledged reduce gas supplies to european customers over the weekend the firm's deputy head under a cruel goal of knowledge the gal's giant had to cut deliveries to some european countries by as much as ten percent and 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 below the amount of gas specified in their contracts earlier gazprom blamed the ukraine for taking more fuel from the pipes the gaza monopoly now says its restored supplies in the fall but it 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 losers marcus troil the head of a brazil based think tank the center for business the flaw in the scene offers his verdict. but we're in the midst of a transition phase what are the elements in this transition phase that i think will shape the world's own very straight very strong state owned enterprises from brazil russia india china a renewed innovative capacity in the us 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 it will also widen the gap between the nose and the know nots 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' main focus on monday is the talks between greek and european leaders europe is waiting for athens to accept the strict new terms of a bailout deal without a greece is facing a high probability of a default in march and let's see how the markets are reacting now exchange rates first the euro is slightly lower against both the dollar and the russian ruble meanwhile the u.s. currency is gaining to the ruble this hour and now to while it's losing value on

strengthening u.s. dollar and concerns about the european debt crisis which could hinder demand right now light sweet is trading at around ninety seven a poor dollars a barrel while grant is topping one hundred and fourteen dollars and now on to equities asian shares a mixed this hour after hong kong's hang saying it's the into the negative territory on a forecast from the i.m.f. it lowers its estimate of china's growth this year asian equities are growing more are growing across the board for most of the trading session on better than expected u.s. unemployment rates released on friday this hour the nikkei is adding more than one percent the hang seng is down around with water percent. and the russian markets are shedding value declining oil is always a factor that russian equities have a hard time overcoming a bit of good news though global funds focused on russia tracked at around half a billion dollars in one week and that's the highest level since last april. now

the biggest movers on the my sex gazprom is in the red and the news over gas supply cut to europe meanwhile the company's says its current output is up thirty percent compared to last year's average bucking the trend is v t v it's just a notch the sour and precious metal producer paul is gold is among the best performers. now speaking out for those gold. it's pulsing have to games on the banned drop of sliding in the seas and that's after gaining a whopping thirty five percent on friday with the company's capitalization reaching almost nine billion dollars analysts mention a number of factors among them a possible merger of oil is gold and its russian rival for the metal also the company's expected to buyback around four percent of the chairs for minority shareholders. and that's all we have time for in this edition of business i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see it on.

the issues that so much are going to try to go through them or so because they weren't the same search of determination and sovereignty this is what many scots say they want the real estate is an independent scotland would be over.