and in business bank my compensate it's minority shareholders for losses on learn vest month by using the bank's own profits join me for the details twenty minutes. costing live from moscow you're watching r t m kerry johnston syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis as it hosts a russian delegation later on tuesday that's amid widespread international outcry caused by clashes at the u.n. security council and swelling violence within syria ati's an italian overcover has the details. the main goal of russia's delegation in syria today is to stop the violence that's coming from both sides of the conflict to have them sit down and the negotiation table and talk now russian delegation to syria today is

headed by the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov and together with foreign intelligence chiefs because of fraud calls they bear a message from russians residents of president assad's message that's calling on for siller syria's democratic changes in the country and while the speculations have it that those changes may include a change of regime sergei lavrov suggested that asking presidents of certain countries to step down is not a russian profession now this comes after russia vetoed for the second time u.n. security council's resolution on syria previously russia had asked the u.n. security council not to wash with such decisions and give russian delegation a chance to visit damascus one more time to talk to president assad once more before voting on the resolution however that request was ignored which russia found quite disrespectful meanwhile the u.s. has shut down its embassy in syria and is seeking further regional and national sanctions. on syria as well as the u.k.

britain has recruited its ambassador from syria for consultations and it looks like new resolutions are just around the corner. struggling to convince the west. critics however russia's approach which brought into question want to surf experience. divisive on every level the syrian crisis has split opinion from the streets to the international stage the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here this is a doomed. as well as a murdering regime there is no way it can get its credibility back internationally or with its own people and when you come when you realize that and you see what

a mistake russia is making by backing this regime so many in the west russia's decision along with china to veto the un resolution on syria is difficult to understand america's u.n. envoy described the decision to show you full and accuse the countries of attempting to sell out the syrian people and the shielding a tyrant the right from the very beginning and russia has been very clear on its stance of the quite this in syria and in its continued calls for dialogue. alongside calls for the government to withdraw its troops from cities we wanted to demand that the armed groups also leave the cities and stop the ongoing attempts to take over residential areas suggestions were vehemently rejected by the co-sponsors of the text it looks like these co-sponsors i'm more interested in simply finding somebody to blame drawing attention away from the armed groups that are receiving arms and other kinds of encouragement from abroad the west has leveled heavy criticism that moscow's continued arms trade with syria saying it's backing the

assad regime has been overlooked however is russia's continued efforts to mediate with all sides of the conflict we speak with the head to syria's internal opposition the national coordination council he'd met with a russian delegation recently we asked how they viewed russia's stance russia said they're not against the world of the syrian people that they stand. with the syrian people and the legitimate demands we asked to do support the syrian people and do whatever will protect them from violence and killing otherwise their position should be considered a sttng with the regime with the say and russia's unwillingness to join the economic sanctions most game may have a hard time convincing the west of its neutrality of course russia much more careful towards all sort of because after that it was from libya will could see is are some countries the nato countries doesn't want to for the result was a use that as i do from four zero

a cynical process. libya was nor for absorb but not about total board as there usually on libya was pickton see videos but not about syrians. and as the political tit for tat continues to play out an increasingly polarized population watching their lives and country brought to a standstill sanctions a crippling the economy and the increase in violence is raising the death toll daily the geopolitical wrangling now seems to be overshadowing the issue of basic human rights for the people living in syria. a lot of russia's main concerns in syria was the prevention of military action similar to that seen libya but now that the resolution has been blocked the only way for western nations to intervene is to go beyond the un mandate which some likely before. chinese university of hong kong.

the chinese have a sense of being true because of an authorized forms and. do you know and it has been your digital to be in the opposition so are the chinese citizens or bugging the trimmers time i would use is unlikely to learn two balls and if there inductance are similar to the situation of. only military action was is likely it must be gone beyond you through which means you have to do it by a cost to you platform. in the moon which i don't think is possible and probably. you in the us are seeking to hit syria with further economic sanctions but patrick hayes a political analyst for the online magazine spiked says the sanctions will only harm the people not the president. well i think in many ways it's going to exacerbate if it does mean that dialogue gets off gets taken off the table it does

mean that the west will try and intervene in other ways you know as we've seen the last few months affectively the arab league to kind of step in and to monitor and effectively become the lackeys of western interests to a certain extent so it's i think the more that the west kind of remove itself from syria the more pressure and we're hearing with e.u. now sanctions as well the more actually i think the syrian people will suffer as a result for any western intervention you will have you know the syrian people effectively having their democratic initiative taken from their hands and effectively you know you have western countries trying to give them democracy instead which historically has been proven not to be the case but also sanctions aren't going to really affect president are sad and the kind of cronies in charge sanctions will have a direct impact upon the syrian people. well still to come on the program soldier of good fortune u.s.

can't it be in the running for the nobel peace prize eventually coming war crimes by. wiki leaks some accusation it seems a lifetime in jail. plus western economic warfare against iran tehran finds itself an able to carry out financial transactions barack obama decides to freeze the accounts of iran's central bank. fifteen thousand more greek jobs slashed is the latest from austerity measures adopted by athens to appease its international creditors but the cuts are especially worrying given that the greek economy is weak for countries hopes now rest with a second one hundred billion euro bailout package again stations between bankers in the government are ongoing the main precondition being for the austerity measures. brought us even if athens does get the cash it will help them cope with repaying

just. two years now we are living through i hear all of the measures or there are going on measures that they are put all the burden to the poorest the weakest members of our society and our debt you stayed off be reduced is get inflated so i don't have any call to these new measures it is the same as if we continue to put money into our their thirst a lot of credit goes in to our economy lead in the lead they need even more austere recession this massive privatization we are pushing to ask actually they are nothing but a scheme to give up our public infrastructure infrastructure out public property to foreigners especially big german enterprises school now greece is a kind of experiment for all european union just trying to impose to us to measure the salaries they dismantlement of their protective legislation for the world. the belief that we are going. to other people start to live people because they're

still there so we do not want. second pfizer's without going to. well germany and france have also called for more say over greece's finances including future bailouts it follows an attempt by building to assume control of the country's budget rejected by the debt ridden nation and that's one of the themes featured in today's kinds of reports coming up at thirty g.m.t. . what they're not taking into consideration is that all of this debt is off the balance sheet and all the end. immediately to bank and near and germany so germany has effectively seize control of greece they've seized control of portugal they also be totally in control of spain and they're totally in control of the euro zone it's all legal remember they put all that bad debt off the balance sheet you don't have interest rate risk you have political risk in the countries that are not germany germany doesn't have a political risk because they are europe. the

former head of britain's m i six by agencies and he's being sued by two dissident libyans eventually hope to rest and to point to conduct in two thousand and four their case again substance after the discovery of letters from out into the kernel congratulating him on the return of the prisoners well geez i'm going to have the story. abducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government help those are the claims of two former gadaffi detainees who say they were captured by m i six and flown to libya in two thousand and four abdulhakim bell is now libya's military commander along with sami el saadi he was part of the libyan islamic fighting group they're suing a former british spy chief for complicity in their torture to me the most damaging

aspect is that it is how much the british were involved in even just two cases of sending senior people back to libya and then the potential damages how much they knew about the nature of gadhafi is regime and how he and his officials were tortured prisoners and that should have been obvious documents found in tripoli by human rights watch seemingly expose britain's key role in the libyans rendition within m i six counterterrorism chief says mark allen pulling the strings he allegedly writes in one letter sent to get daffy spy chief moose's. i congratulate you on the sofa arrival of our last a geek mr hard this was the least we could do for you and for libya. the papers show the cia seized in bangkok thanks to an m i six tipoff saadi was supposedly snatched by the m i six in hong kong both men were sent straight to

libya and the notorious abu salim prison where they say they were tortured there are statements from calle thirteen saying. that they. are they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of the death of his regime those sorts of statements that western essence i mean everyone would have known that there was an extremely high risk indeed almost certainty that these individuals will and would be tortured but by that point the british government's love in with good daffy had already begun turning him from desk to darling and it wasn't just good daffy you reap the rewards it's a mark alan was britain's negotiator in what was a two way deal it was in this exclusive london clubs of marco and said to have met moosic you say get out his intelligence chief the alleged occasion a top secret dinner to celebrate the end of negotiations libya gets a seat at the international table in return for scrapping its weapons program and

giving britain a lucrative oil contract one worth fifteen billion pounds went to b.p. in two thousand and four the same company allan had just joined there even allegations the controversial release of lockerbie bomber mcgraw he was part of the saying shady deal to find them well and refuses to comment on the claims against him 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 were signing off on these sort of arcs of complicity that those ministers themselves should face criminal prosecution the civil case against mark allen could be just the tip of the iceberg. of what went on behind the scenes between britain and. police have launched a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone.

more revelations on the torture website. about the demise of libya's ambassador to. the custody of the new government. these are the images. from the streets of canada. has approved strong sanctions against iran's financial institutions. transactions involving the country's central bank. from the school of oriental and african studies it's all. political game. in terms of threats coming from the

u.s. specially this distance is sanctions against iran central bank i think that they're mostly producer director for domestic 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 service of iran 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. 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 really it was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. i mean well iran's foreign minister says tehran wants the international community to acknowledge the assassinations of its scientists for this is cysts have been murdered in the car in

the last two years but iran pointing the finger of blame at israel to know once external legal corporation investigating the cases international relations expert. scientists in iran now to leave their homes. what war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of you know any and scientists this is striking because the un did release a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released a statement condemning the assassination of those scientists days be no word from the atlantic follows condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of tehran and according to my sources scientists in iran are now fearful of going outside conducting the every day of business after one of the scientists was shot sitting in his we didn't do because his daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become very following you

scientists. like pointy tails on that story and more on our website r.t. dot com as we could tell what else is waiting the business are left empty handed after almost two million dollars jewelry was stolen from the russian airport. and occupy wall street heads to the classroom as one of us college opens up a course of study in recounting your own life to the. u.s. soldier bradley manning who is now awaiting a court martial trial on suspicion of passing data to whistle though wiki leaks has been nominated for the nobel peace prize west london parliamentary group putting forward saying expose corruption crimes carcass stokely and activist preventing

scores thinks the accused deserves the prize more than barack obama deserved his. bradley manning is accused of the greatest act of civil disobedience least in my lifetime. and what he is accused of is. has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies an uprising all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets the why should obama 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 the iraqi government did not want to have. legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first the reason. they didn't last immunity is because of what

they saw in the cables and the video showing civilian deaths were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s. government. take a look at to some of the international headlines in the. manias opposition said it will not support the president's nominee for prime minister. next intelligence he was asked he says that he had resigned in the wake of weeks of time to austerity protests be unpopular economic measures were introduced in twenty ten to secure financial aid from the. theme of these presidents one hundred machine has reportedly resigned after weeks of public protests on his controversial decision to arrest to see a judge. and all of this will fall to crack down on the other arrest that resulted in them exchanging some of the hundreds of officers joined in the protests

reluctant to stop protecting conspirators resulting in three people injured. again to the u.s. has canceled this. news of meeting the senators is one from the current point really bringing something to the country. and others to try to three engineering members including nineteen americans and then using foreign ministers of the recent . group comes amid growing demands because. i'm going to simply didn't. exist business news is coming up next with korea. so i welcome to business here r.t. thanks for joining me as surprising move for the russian stock markets the bank might compensate it's minority shareholders for losses on their investment 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 d.t.b. shares roughly half of the initial listing the bank estimates that the plan will cost up to half a billion dollars while investors are waiting for the details to be revealed and haynesworth waiting waiting says that the decision is based firmly on politics. normally. when a company has. already caught a lot of profits wants to reward shareholders for being for being loyal to the client by giving back to existing shareholders some of the profits that already. received he is not in a situation where it's very profitable for bank to fulfill the pledge i think intervention in this situation is inappropriate because what it will then mean is

that going to future government but companies such as if somehow their profits were to go below what the market is expecting. well the government might jump in and that will distort the market as a whole. let's have a look at the markets now exchange rates first strong oil is pushing the ruble higher to the dollar however it's lower to the risk appetite is weakening due to uncertainty about the eurozone crisis the euro is losing value against the dollar now it's flat so negative this hour u.s. crude futures reached a six months high on monday as cold weather in europe boosted heating fuel to mount lights where it is currently trading at almost ninety seven dollars a barrel while brant is slightly below one hundred and sixteen dollars per barrel most european stock markets edged lower led by miners investors are focusing on a merger in the resources sector while greek officials struggle to agree on

a sturdy measures the footsies losing a quarter of a percent less than a quarter of the sun while the dax fell five percent glencore international an extraordinary said they have agreed to an all share merger of equals now the russian markets are mixed this hour have to seen some games early in the afternoon as an example of a percent while the miser is slightly down and here are some movers on allies six carrier air floats is just a lot slower it's passenger traffic grows by a quarter last year the bank is also down as investors await the details of its recently announced buyback and precious metals produce of gold has plunged into the red after posting strong gains that way rumors of a possible merger with its rival party met the cold weather sweeping across europe has revealed a weakness in its gas supply pushing spot prices to the highest since two thousand and six however according to custom stepper the c.e.o.

has no surplus gas in the system and in effect the spot market is an illusion skulk of energy analyst explains why that's the case. the question above the sports markets is very. let's remember this tory two or three years ago when. crisis happened. consumption drove down but according to do long term quantrill so european companies had to buy the same amount of gas which were contrived in order not to pay penalties but they really consumed less than they buy and they try to sold this. market in order to earn something instead of pay penalties this created billick read it today. helped to develop the sport markets but today we have another situation we have a dissertation windham on. the supply and that's why we have.

guests of the sport trading cops. the russian energy market could soon see a new state own player emerge daily newspaper says that the government plans to set up an oil and gas service holding venture is planned to consolidate state resources on capacities of the country's oil major role snatched all the energy assets you have to gus the firm is expected to approve state competitiveness in the country's service market which is forty percent owned by foreign companies and mobile phone retailers among the sectors that continue to show double digit growth numbers in most of the markets which is second largest solar city as his noise says it's last year's revenues rose by a quarter the company c o d n a slew of course key outlines what gadgets will be driving the growth this year. mobile markets usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum minor staining is there about thirty eight million dollars maybe thirty nine

minutes or so in russia this year both sixty four percent of the overall revenues coming from a mobile phone segment is actually coming from smartphone sales and that will increase dramatically was a hundred percent increase in mobile phones there were smartphones in two thousand and eleven he would leave there still significant to grow. our business is for this but i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with some more financial news here.

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welcome back let's have a look now at the main stories we're covering for you this peacemaking mission a delegation led by russia's foreign minister has a rotten damascus and bloodshed in syria gathers momentum against a backdrop of connected grass roots. greece of sacrifices fifteen thousand more jobs in a bid to appease its international creditors. the refugee populations thank you spend general strike. the center boil gadhafi era documents discovered in libya britain's six spy agency.