mission street now with the palm of your. dog call. back to basics that you most overpressure economic punishment for president also the syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing u.n. resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes online in his bid to improve russian democracy. bus wind of change and launch here as the country's russian minorities hope and win to win an upcoming referendum that could see their native language officially recognized. and russia's gals problem with knowledge is cutting down supplies to europe and explains how it plans

to satisfy increased european demand all that and more in about twenty minutes in the business bulletin. it's three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live from a nice to know way with our top story this hour 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. backed resolution that could pave the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. we're also getting some disturbing footage from the rebel stronghold city of homes which opposition sources say is being shelled and surrounded by the syrian army there are reports of casualties all of this can't yet be verified earlier opposition fighters operating out of homes attacked a number of police patrols an army bases elsewhere in. country's security forces

say they have cleared all but two rebel outposts near the capital seizing vast caches of arms and explosives along the way a report from sara firth contains some images you may find disturbing. video and social networking sites have for the past ten months been one of the activists he means is offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syrian activist groups reports 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. do you think oh god i think they think. you're right they. had is the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seem to reach

fever pitch with activists refusing 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 say there could be as many as two hundred dead 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. up to fifty we've been filtering a bit how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you to 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 trade of the canned has been pretty

spurs this graphic video appears to show a regime. being hanged with the clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now it's hard to know what the western allies that the un and basing their assertions which is 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 vetoed age the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believed the door a pin for foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides as the crisis here in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized with any measures imposed from a poll to try to put an end to the violence again has to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya they seem to be backing one side was increasingly looking like civil war so r.c.

that must be syria. well indecent and near hysteria that's the opinion of foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking about the west's reaction to the un syria resolution veto by russia and china his comments came during a joint appearance with the foreign minister of bahrain as mr lover of prepares to head to damascus tomorrow our correspondent peter all over the latest. well in a statement delivered by surrogate on monday he criticized the hysterical reaction from some quarters to the decision by russia to veto the u.n. resolution now russia came in for criticism from the united states from france and from great britain so clever also critical of the decision by the united nations security council not to allow a three day extension to the vote being taken on a resolution on syria russia wanted to extend it by three day so surrogate lover of could go to damascus on this planned visit now he's going to be taking with him a message from president dmitri medvedev it's believed that message will be asking

for strong democratic changes in syria now russia's stance is always keen to condemn both sides in this situation it's all the ongoing violence in the middle eastern country they aren't taking the side of one of the other saying well the governments have some questions to answer but both sides have to lay down their arms and get around a peace table to discuss this out how they're issues and this is what he had to say in response. to that we could have achieved consensus at the u.n. security council so that we asked them to give us more time with your so that we could discuss the situation following our visit to damascus on february seventh but they chose to push for the vote but it means that they wanted to find someone to blame for what's happening in syria and to distract the public from the actions of armed groups which received weapons under devices from abroad so now the main problem that russia had with the resolution as it was that it vetoed in the

security council was the wording of certain parts of it no they wanted russia wanted the wording to be firmed up so that no way could be interpreted as allowing foreign military intervention the reason for this is well that's what happened in libya something that russia contempo hardly in a situation. as far as russia sees it the u.n. mandate was completely overstepped they don't want to see repeated in syria so they want to make sure that this the wording of any u.n. resolution is strong so that can't happen but stay with us here on r.t. in a few minutes we were veal the export of designer revolutions ever since i've been traveling the world. people hope to get rid of that this could be. a group that's had its hand in uprisings all over the world financing guided by the us that's coming up. and the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming from washington and tel aviv

stirring up global concern that military action against iran will jeopardize the future of the entire region. but first transparent interactive and web savvy that's how prime minister vladimir putin described the future of russia's democracy in the latest article detailing his electoral program he says the country should no longer tolerate a political circus when the needs of the people are being put on the back burner or to say it's going off has the 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 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 influenced 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 to be 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 other initiatives like reintroducing the elections office local governors was initially put forward by the president and supported by the prime minister now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering the 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. civil servants in exchange for their complete transparency and put together a list of all the most corrupted jobs and it's 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 and according to the prime minister. it's time for that to change as well this is the forethought of published since he announced that he is going to run for president during upcoming vote in march and together they put

together a. well tempers are running high in the run up to the presidential election with a wave of recent protests across russia but it allowed us to meet three bogard says they are driven by media awareness. it's mostly just emotional fueled by the media some people were obvious that you would be to seen the same to faces on television maybe to march in the last few months especially some people were terrified the way they saw their position and it's small the incident when they failed to handle the worst 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 readers there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both threads so right now i think it's. positive effect because it sort of wakes up the gold and to the needs of the people. you can catch up on that story

a much more on our website r t v dot com here's a look at what's lined up for you today the russian street artist making his opinions heard through his murals how growing tactics and the secret identity have earned him the nickname the russian bank the after the british artist. but what were some us business people into sex dungeon to meet the workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy get the full story and much more at r.t. dot com. well turkish and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran at the annual security conference in munich they warned that an armed conflict would be disastrous for the region however it could well i was on a beirut based political analyst believes that iran's opponents are already focused

on a confrontation all the inspection by the nuclear agency. that iran is actually weaponize in their. system there are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying the sanction are coming around because the suspicion are there. no matter what they are justifying 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 you have one reach the level of capability of

building the nuclear what 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 well still to come here on our team next hour an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service says tel aviv and western leaders are attempting to demonize iran in order to stoke panic and suspicion surrounding the islamic state of our. leadership believes that in order to arouse the international public opinion 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 will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century the rise of nazi germany the world will too. and of course the holocaust and. persians these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to press upon the world that external pressure should be about to go. latvia is witnessing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices it saying are over escalating state level discrimination and now hoping that upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized the move is viewed by many as the first step on a long road to restoring their basic political rights artie's alexy 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 are you sure the can't accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also voted for independence in one thousand nine to one who shoulder to shoulder back then but now they're being treated like garbage to citizenship for them and no jobs here that's why i stand for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of lafayette's population the idea of holding this referendum came off to what they describe as the discrimination had reached a critical point. nationalists initiated the referendum to close russian schools in latvia they failed but it was a worryin coup that's why we go there 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 love to be as proof of escalating state level discrimination the nationalist can denounce the. all such accusations however they believe their vote carries a threat to the country's sovereignty and are sending a stern warning. was issued we allowed 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're trying to alter the foundations of our state then we'll have to be tougher and make new. fifty two 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 past byrd and they took part in the language referendum then he

would immediately fire them. the russian speaking minority and look to make it a 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 by an expert say could prove to be crucial russian may become law to be 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 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. let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour palestinian president

mahmoud abbas will head to the joint interim government will have a joint inturn government i should say created by opposing political movements fatah and hamas itself that such an arrangement a real. only proposed by the emir of qatar will help speed up the reconciliation process inside palestine the government whose full lineup will be named within two weeks will prepare the country for a parliamentary and presidential election. for me as prime minister has dissolved the government saying he did it in order to preserve social and economic stability in the country this follows weeks of protests over austerity measures introduced in twenty ton in order to secure financial aid from the e.u. and i.m.f. the pm urged the country's politicians to bridge their divisions and vote in a new government as quickly as possible. and the greek government warned of deeper spending causes party leaders gathered in athens to resume talks on a one hundred thirty billion euro e.u.

rescue plan it comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached the prime ministers other countries prime minister lucas papademos is seeking support for tough reforms as a condition for the bailout to avoid default greece needs to secure the package by march. now democracy has become a profitable export for one international group it started off as a student movement in serbia with the backing of the us became a worldwide brand for revolutions arches with the coffin of investigates. 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 ridge 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 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 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 the. 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 advise young 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 two can get in on the action and bluff 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 outpour 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 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 us state department. 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 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 the ultimate for the american taxpayer i think who's getting. the short. the bargain because there are there are bankrolling people that are going around the world for minting 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 you can people sense your bus service you can get it over. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see catherine of r.t. washington. ali back with a recap of our top stories at half past the hour but let's get the latest from the business desk now with natasha.

hello and you're watching business on r t russia's gazprom has acknowledged that it temporarily reduced supplies to european customers at the end of last week the company said it had to cut deliveries by as much as ten percent of saddam boy has the details. the figure that you just mentioned ten percent was was during a meeting between russia's prime minister and gas problems deputy c e o m three crew glaus crew glow sad that there is cuts to european suppliers they've been placed for just a few days and they were caused by an enormous surge in domestic consumption russia as you may know is battling ever very severe cold snap right now with temperatures hovering far below the averages for these time of the year and this is a result the demand for heating fuel has significantly increased now also sad as if now russia is supplying gas to europe in accordance with its contractual

obligations he also sad that some european countries that are also dealing with these unusually cold temperatures have turned to gas from for additional supplies requesting supplies that go above contractual obligations and is still unclear where the gas from will be able to meet this additional demand and on top of that russia's prime minister right here putin who is going into presidential elections last than two months from now already said that satisfying to mask the demand was gas from his number one priority. and busters main focus on monday's the talks between greek party leaders europe is waiting for athens just say if it's ready to accept the strict terms of a new bailout deal with greece is facing a high probability of a default on march and listen i'll see how the markets are reacting the 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 tower and now on to oil and it's losing value and

strengthening u.s. dollar and concerns about european debt crisis which could enter demand right now light sweet as hundred ninety seven dollars a barrel wall brant is below one hundred fourteen dollars. and european shares are shedding value this hour greek problems are the main drag on the indices both the footsie and the dax so losing around a third of a percent each. and the russian markets were in the red earlier in the day on declining oil prices but this hour they managed to bounce back the r.t.s. is flat to positive the my sex is gaining around a quarter percent. and now some individual movers on my segues gazprom is higher after seeing some losses earlier in the day and precious metal producers are on the rise the price of oil in bethel reached an all time high today at the moment it's a bit off those highs dollars gold is one of the best performers this hour is extending last week's gains. and some of the details about ford has called this

posting have to gains more than eleven percent the sour against the backdrop of sliding indices amounts after gaining a whopping thirty five percent on friday but the company's capitalization now reaching almost nine billion dollars analysts mention a couple of reasons among the possible merger of oil is gold and it's made of russian rival oil in the tal which is also gaining as i mentioned and also the company is expected to buy back around four percent of the shares from minority shareholders and that's all the latest from the business that i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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