arter the same shady deal to find them well and refuses to comment on the claims against him the m i six hasn't denied complicity in torture with the government saying all actions had its approval a longstanding get out clause but maybe not now the secrets out so we know that ministers in the past resign from the sort of acts of complicity that those ministers themselves should face criminal prosecution in the civil case against markel and could be just the tip of the iceberg of what went on behind the scenes between britain and get daffy the police have launched a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone either bennett r t london. but we also have more revelations on the torture networks on our website r.t. dot com there you can find out about it by the battle of the brothers who died while in custody of the new government that and much more at r.t. dot com.

iraq obama has approved a fresh set of strong sanctions against iran's financial institutions and u.s. has frozen iranian assets and transactions involving the country's central bank. from the school of oriental and african studies says it's all part of pre-election political game. in terms of threats coming from the u.s. special it is distant as science is it is there are central banks i think that they're mostly producer director for the mystic consumption in the united states as we get closer to the presidential elections in the u.s. we see that each side trying to see as being more as being tough. and this is another move by president obama to satisfy either is rivals or the

supporters of his campaign is sad to see that the u.s. is undermining the work that. fantastic work that is doing with iran and iran itself is trying very hard to keep the environment professional in the face of the recent assassination of uranium scientists which really was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. i mean while iran's foreign minister says tehran wants the international community to knowledge the assassinations of its saunters all physicists have been murdered in the capital in the last two years with iran pointing the finger of blame at israel to iran now wants external legal cooperation investigating the cases international relations expert p.j. so scientists in iran and now free to leave their homes. what war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of iranian

scientists this is taking because the un did release a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released a statement condemning the assassination of scientists there's been no word from the atlantic followers condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of their own and according to my sources scientists in iran are now fearful of going outside conducting the every day of business after all one of the scientists was shot sitting in his car we didn't do because his daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become very fine do scientists . u.s. soldier have bradley manning is now waiting a court martial trial on suspicion of possible data to whistleblower wiki leaks has been nominated for a nobel peace prize and icelandic parliamentary group putting forward saying expose corruption and war crimes were caught stokely an activist promoting scores thinks the accused deserves the prize more than barack obama deserve his. bradley manning

is accused of the greatest act of civil disobedience least in my lifetime. and what he is accused of is leaking documents and video. that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets at the why shouldn't he obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraqi war when actually that's not the truth and the iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason they did the last immunity is because of what they saw in the cables and the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s.

government. well they can step is nice news coming up next with korea. hello and welcome to business the south thanks for joining me in a surprising move for the russian stock market bank like compensate its minority shareholders for losses on their investments prime minister putin says that the bank will use its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in its i.p.o. five years ago the current price of e.c.b. shares is roughly half of the initial listing and the bank of the way had its own buyback plan to the government investors are waiting for the details to be revealed and to discuss this i'm joined by richard hayes worst president of rating agency was rating thank you richard for coming to the program today so it looks more of a political decision but is the bank financially ready for such a move i think it's almost entirely

a political decision. normally buy backs. when a company. already got a lot of profits wants to reward shareholders for being for being loyal to the bank by giving back to existing shareholders some of the profits that it has already. received b. is not in a situation where it's very profitable. specially in comparison to some of its peers. it's been pointed out in the market other companies have been making profits and they're. going to the front but the share value is down is the reflection of the investors thinking that is not doing very well so how much can the bank lose financially i mean money money wise when the suggestion was made mr corsten commented. he thought. to fulfill the desire of mr putin it

would cost the bank about half a billion dollars. compared to the total capital of. may not look a very large sum of money half a million after billion dollars is a lot of money in anybody's pocket so it would hurt the bank to have to fulfill this pledge but you just said that bit and we know now that b. to be shares were down for several days do you think that this move could spur like speculative interest in the stocks of each of these stocks well i think the was a bit of a blip that the shares went up on the first announcement then they went down down again so they've come down because the market as a whole has reacted negatively to the suggestion that all sorts of problems with buying back from only one set of shareholders in other words how do you establish parity because according to the law if the t.v.

makes such a suggestion to shareholders he actually has to do it all shareholders. if all shareholders were able to obtain more. from their shares then obviously the value of the shares would go up as people anticipate. what what would be the final price since there isn't any certainty now a full on again so if the next round is a suggestion is confirmed they find a way to do it legally. then there will be a speculative increase in price in the process right but what is this is the state seen as a sort of insurer in this case against those private losses well that would be the implication and that would be the implication for the market there's a whole personally since i'm a liberal economist i believe in market forces where it is

appropriate for market forces. i think that this is not an appropriate use of government funding and of government intervention. government intervention when there is a crisis when the market isn't working properly i think is wholly proper. when the market is not in crisis and we're trying to reestablish equilibrium in the market so that normal market forces can i think the government intervention in this situation is inappropriate because what it will then mean is that in the future if a government backed company such as. any of the other work that's problem for example if somehow their profits were to go below what the market is expecting the government might jump in and that will distort the market as a whole so person i think this is bad for the market but you can't compare it would happen to the united states when the government intervened with those huge banks

it's not just yes but i think that was an appropriate use of. the point is that there was a very severe crisis. of the regulators none of the government had understood and therefore they made this massive intervention also in russia there was massive intervention in the banking system by the government by the central bank a number of banks are supported at the time a number of banks were moved from one set of owners to another sort of and i think it was managed very well in russia. ok unfortunately we don't have much time to discuss this richard hansford president of rating agency was rating thanks very much for coming to the program and joined me and fifteen minutes or more here i'm just starting. thank you.

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let's have a look now at some of the main stories we're covering for you this peacemaking mission delegation led by russia's foreign minister heads to damascus as bloodshed in syria gathers momentum back from diplomats a grassroots. greece of sacrifices fifteen thousand more jobs to appease its international creditors as you'll see there for. population in general strike. us the scent of oil. discovered.

in the distance to take this. operation. contracts. the world is now at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodshed in syria then talk about foreign minister to learn what his country believes should be done to stop the violence is next. our guest today is his excellency. minister for foreign affairs in the kingdom of bahrain is there anything you would like to say to the russian authorities about their position on the syria issue well the situation in syria is both difficult and dangerous not just for syrians but for all arab people everyone who wants to see peace and stability in the region and the initiative put forward by arab nations was clear it was approved by syria the only question remaining is whether it will

be implemented properly and we've sent our servers there and they were in danger unable to fulfill their mission but their reports and do indicate that the situation is extremely dire all of the material served to us by the head of the observers mission i don't what he reported to the arab league and it differs from what we've heard from other observers agree with the syrian authorities that foreign military intervention would not be tolerable that we don't want to see that happen and we do not support calls for it not a single country in our region is calling for a military invasion in syria and the question of a north already change in syria by whatever means is not part of the common core of the nation we have agreed on those issues and we know that's why russia is obstructing the adoption of the resolution of syria in the un security council. if . anything that the situation in syria is declining in part due to the fact that western states have not adopted the unified solid position on syria needed if the

u.n. security council is to adopt a resolution in russia's case the motivation behind stopping the resolution was clear but the west is not a single minded on syria as it was on libya do you think that's true yeah. the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in our region is extremely volatile the region under the jurisdiction of the cooperation council remains fairly calm and safe thank god our countries are doing all they can to keep it that way the policies of other states however are not helping to bring peace or stability to their regions and countries are divided into tears major or minor according to their geopolitical standing how close they are to one state or the other and their world in which. a regime change in a minor country would not lead to big changes on a regional scale and syria on the other hand is very important to the region we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's affairs no.

taking into account the battle cries we hear especially from american and european media do you feel that a full scale war might break out in the region that would harm all gulf states. well obviously having worked in the media for a long time you understand a lot about politics and we've engaged in global politics for a long time to have the cries for battle ever stopped we hear them constantly throughout our lives they come from the west to the east and the north we can simply ignore those calls will work on our own military policy as we've been hearing war drums throughout our entire lives and we've become used to that of it but we must take the situation seriously it involves an atomic bomb which iran has developed because the i.a.e.a. the region is unstable due to interference by and at various forces around geopolitical situation is affected by what happens in iraq iran and afghanistan the peace process is constantly threatened that israel is still threatening as it

always has to strike out against iran and its nuclear program we are concerned by the fact that a neighboring state appears to be working on a nuclear program which could lead to a region wide disaster if an emergency occurred devil we work all day every day to relieve tensions in the region and to reach a mutual understanding that we have to work on that we have to take this situation seriously the war drums you mentioned and not getting quieter and they won't stop in the near future event. could you give us more detail on the discussion about security in the region where. there might there are direct external threats coming from countries who don't want stability and security in our region as well as internal threats coming from within the region our relations with iran are currently threatened we find them and satisfactory there and stable and contradictory which we're not happy about especially as representatives of the cooperation council we are beginning to fear

a deterioration in our relations with iran as well they're threatened by the unstable situation in iraq which developed after the u.s. forces pulled out of the change in iraq is government policies relations between black reign in iraq have always been good historically speaking. but the statements we hear coming from some iraqi politicians and regional governors aren't in line with our tradition i was referring to specific threats to the cooperation council nations there are also certain hidden threats to civility and security in the region that these have to do with but arrange relations with the allies such as the usa the e.u. and russia we'd like to have a clear strategy and clear mutual understanding of problems of regional stability and security with all of our partners we're trying to make our region safe for foreign trade vessels and contribute to global economic growth if we and our allies had a clear cooperative strategy we would have no problems with security and stability in our region we can achieve that by establishing open and transparent relations

with all of our partners and that's what we're aiming for here that. is the gulf countries peaceful nuclear program intended to counter iran's nuclear program or would you have developed it anyway. yes we do have such a program but we're not going to use it to stand against anything else the issue of iran's nuclear program is an international one but we live in this region and when it's discussed with iran the conversation turns political and touches upon many other issues when something concerns a particular region the opinions of those living in that region must be considered they're a big and influential states in this region the cooperation council must take their opinions into account but i'd like to say that we are no less concerned about instability in the region and then with the iranian nuclear program sometimes we can't help but feel that many other issues it's not our biggest concern getting back to the gulf country's nuclear program and i'd say yes but firstly it won't be

built to oppose any other regional nuclear program whether it's in iran or any other country secondly this issue is still being discussed and a specific legislative framework is being worked on with the i.a.e.a. this program will be peaceful and. every stone age just it's required to be and we're working on that with total understanding of our full responsibility. before him tackling the challenges to regional security addressed the issue of strengthening cooperation with russia an important international stabilizing force but we know the position of bahrain on this issue do you think your partners in the cooperation council will listen to these calls and take any specific steps to make cooperation with russia even closer than it is now. i can answer positively not only on behalf of bahrain which cooperates with russia in many areas including go to regional security also corporates with the u.s. . with china japan india and many many other states we also see

a positive response from russia regarding all areas of cooperation and the benefit from it russia has always played a major role in international affairs and russia is a great power and russia should be present in our region a troll is indispensable russia has put forward an initiative on security of the gulf we supported it and confirmed it in a joint of. a doctor during a visit by our king to moscow and signed by him and president medvedev. should have cause for all political forces in the region to develop a single approach to gulf security. the last summit of the cooperation council for arab states of the gulf put forward a proposal to create a commonwealth to help have they taken any steps towards achieving this goal at. the summit itself so a number of steps on transformation of the cooperation council into a commonwealth as proposed by the king of saudi arabia a working group has been formed and the group is to hold a number of meetings to come up with his proposals in me at the annual summit of

the corporation council in riyadh steps are being taken not only as proposals but also in terms of concrete solutions that. are on field if you remember our previous interview we discussed the initiative by the king of bahrain to set up an intern commission on human rights and a special commission to gather evidence of human rights violations has this initiative been approved if so what's been done so far. cannot we've achieved to go in the first is that a commission on gathering evidence of violations has been established the commission is studying the events of the past year and about. it submitted a report to the king which as far as i'm concerned has been broadcast live around the world now another commission is to implement the twenty four proposals listed in the report and that's been set up or one other thing is that a high ranking government of commission has been created to implement the tasks imposed on the go ahead all proposals concerning legislation and the digital system

will be submitted to parliament but the second proposal by america is to create a human rights court in the arab world and that's hugely important of europe has an international court on human rights for america has a court on human rights with its headquarters in costa rica the arab countries don't have such an agency only the arab charter on human rights is in place and we don't have a competent body for anyone to address his or her issues over human rights violations and this proposal has been submitted to the arab league's secretary general yes and will be considered at the assembly in march this year we're watching this process and continue to work on its adoption by the arab world is part of the whole wider world and in no way differs from it and we're not trying to condemn anyone but the point is that our society must move forward and for us that's crucial. but actually khaled bin ahmed al khalifa thank you very much for your time sadly.

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hello there good to have you company and here is a taste of what is coming up for you the next few minutes welcome back down please crazy as far as on his long awaited return to the little horse i just buy the goalless draw at home to spurs. plus injury blows and star midfielder danny could be out for up to six months after damaging his knee in training. and simply the best tennis star novak djokovic has named the lawrie a sportsman to be here while long distance runner fifteen chariot gets the women's gold. but we will start with the english premier league where luis suarez returned to the line up but he could not inspire them to victory over tottenham last night the game ending goal us at am field suarez back after missing a total of nine games one thing is offensive gesture some for them fans and eight

after being found guilty of racially abusing patrice evra but he couldn't break the deadlock afterwards though liverpool coach kenny dalglish said he was glad to have him back thirds will be glad to get harry redknapp back after he missed the gang due to his ongoing court case over tax evasion. to lose its when the boys think he's going to do something. with a way to get him but. we don't think it should ever be nowhere but with the way to go bikes will look forward to working with a no word no obviously he would give the team to organ he was unable to do that he just couldn't quite get his so but you know obviously we knew the side and we knew the way that we was going to play. a different voice given the instructions out to the players but pretty much most the loads were all of the really knows pretty much what's expected from them so there isn't too much of a change but obviously.