live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and isa now it's two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus and syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis and just as it hosts a russian delegation that's in light of a widely documented stand off at the u.n. security council and swelling violence within syria are two groups going always in the capital damascus and now joins us live on the line you gore the delegation of course as we know headed by foreign minister lavrov has arrived you are there how is their visit being received. well anything hans we have just arrived in fact less than an hour ago the foreign ministers plane landed here in syria we've just arrived to the president's policy. before

along with the foreign minister of course and the head of the foreign intelligence service of course and the we do television was needed was really impressive we were going in a column in a convoy from the airport to damascus senate some point will be read by well i have to say it was more than a hundred people it was a few thousand people who sort of lined up along the road hearing russian and syrian flags and chanting thank you russia thank you china and co. will assad jazz goldens as well there were so many of them at some point the town where i actually had to stop. now we finally made it to president hollande and the foreign minister said you know a little friend we had of the foreign intelligence service for our pool are delivering a message from president uribe music just to president assad now the contents of

this message through on your own in fact this is the meeting itself is now being held behind closed doors we just saw just about three or four minutes ago i was in the room with them the meeting started just with some award protocol and greeting words words from both sides can't really tell you what's going on in there right now that i can tell you exactly it was dismasted stand from the russian president to the syrian president although there is a lot of speculation for example united states came out saying that this message may include a goal for president assad to step down although we. we have heard comments before from russian foreign ministry on this issue saying that moscow does not have the habit of calling other governments to step down in fact the only

kind of official information that we know about this message is that it's aimed at finding ways out of the current crisis happening here in syria all this is happening after russia and china you told the u.n. draft resolution on syria initially put forward by moco backed by most western nations and it did not exclude the possibility of war nearly three inches anshan similar to how the event happens in in with the so russia which has been standing since basically the beginning of this conflict here in syria are you saying that no matter what happens it will not allow. the how things happened with would be a happen again so it will continue watching all the resolution fifty had. the

similar similar context allowing foreign intervention. foreign minister lavrov i was saying before that moscow was asking the u.n. security council to wait a little bit to give just a few days of time so that to be a level of could come here to moscow says deliver this message g.d.e.'s syrian president and while that did not happen the gold ended up. being being conducted on saturday so russia and china did you notice. and well the foreign ministry in moscow says that. if you create the u.n. security council just washed. and far for you that means that for you perhaps you know some of the gold could have been different if you waited just. you a few more days so we're going to see how this meeting is going to be you know that and of course we'll be waiting for talcum all right you go we know you've just

arrived we'll let you go hopefully you'll have a little more details for us when we speak to you later today about more specifically the situation on the ground there and of course what is happening in those talks between sergey lavrov his delegation and the syrian authorities thanks for that update about moscow continues to receive harsh remarks over its move to veto a draft resolution on syria struggling to convince the west of its impartiality critics however say it's not russia's approach which should be brought into question r.t. sarra first explains. devices on every level the syrian crisis is space 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 i 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 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 and make his u.n. envoy described the decision to shameful and the keys to countries of attempting to sell out the syrian people and of shielding a tyrant the right from the very beginning and russia has been very clear on its stance of the crisis 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 are 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 at moscow's continued arms trade with syria saying it's backing the stand regime was being 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 coordinator council he met with a russian delegation recently we asked how they viewed russia's stance russia said they're not against the will of the syrian people that they stand with the syrian people and the legitimate demands we ask that they 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 these 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 but i do from libya will could see is

a perverse one country as a nato country doesn't want to for the result was a use. for zero or a cynical process. libya was norful i thought but not about total border as there usually on the be was. but not about syrians. and as the political to attack continues to play out an increasingly polarized population and watching their lives and country brought to a standstill sanctions a crippling the economy and the increase in violence is raising the debt. daily political wrangling now seems to be eva shattering the issue of basic human rights for the people living in syria. but one of russia's main concerns in syria was the prevention of military action similar to that thing in libya but now the resolution had been blocked the only way for

western nations to intervene is to go beyond the un mandate which is unlikely that the belief of professor simon chan from the chinese university of hong kong to chinese her son's of being true trying because they hope and authorize nato for using force and you get what. you unburned as has been you was. to move the to be in the opposition more be so are the chinese citizens of truman's time which means it's unlikely for them to balls for a nuclear inductors similar to the situation of. only military action was is likely it must be gone beyond you which means to do so would have to buy cars to you a platform. in the moon which i don't think is possible and probably. well still to come on the program western after mommy warfare iran tehran finds itself unable to carry out financial transactions and rock obama decides to freeze

the account i mean bronstein told bank. and ancient nature in the coldest spot on earth russian scientists find the water out of a proof story the way to the place or above our weight which contains life forms unchanged for millennia. fifteen thousand more green jobs flashed the latest blow from austerity measures adopted by athens to appease its international creditors the cuts are especially worrying given that the greek economy is near freefall the country's hope now rests with a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout package because nations between bankers and the government are ongoing with the main precondition being for their austerity measures and according to a lot faster and short dollars athens doesn't get the cash it will even have no hope of repaying the interest to us and we are living through i hear them.

over there are going to measure the output or the burden to the poorest to the weakest members of our society and out of that you stayed used is get them inflated so i don't cover in the. same us if we continue to put money. in to our economy leave them in the lead they need even more. of this most of the sort of they are pushing to us actually nothing but their scheme to give up our public infrastructure the infrastructure of the property to foreigners at the specially big german of their prizes. for experiment photo european union just trying to impose to us to measure the salaries that this might have meant for their protective legislation for the workers that they're going to try to impose through other people starting from the people in the calendar so this so we do not want the . second five second five years without any kind of corporate. well germany and

france have also called for more say over greece's finances including future battle outs it follows an attempt by berlin to assume control over the country's budget a move rejected by the debt ridden nation and that's one of the themes featured in today's kaiser report coming up next hour. what they're not taking into consideration is that all of this debt is off the balance sheet and all the income is used immediately to pay off to its bank and near and germany so germany has effectively to seize control of grace they've seized control of portugal they will soon 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. or

russian scientists in the antarctic have reached a fragment of nature untouched for a on's under glacier ice after thousands of years of work they drilled through to the waters of an ancient lake where they now hope to discover unique why forms are to some thomas who toward the frozen continent exactly a year ago explains what this could bring. vostok research base in antarctica it is the coldest place on earth and the site of an international project studying climate change the deepest drilling location on the continent the main research was to drill the great your eyes i mean the eyes that was forming by snow as deep as possible to get the sistani bubbles of. air which was preserved for about four hundred thousand years in the snow and to measure carbon dioxide and in it at a certain point researchers made a new discovery lake vostok once they. dug into the lake

ice which was formed not by snow but which was formed by water freezing. with the international project lots of lost its meaning because you can never get any more climate change information so the project was suspended for four years now with team of russian scientists have drilled more than two miles into the ice and have reached the surface of the sub lake itself excited about the possibility of discovering life. lake was told he did from the. terrorists. and was that is why is there are some kind of fresh water maybe because of these heat flux from the water there could be some more more sophisticated life than bacteria while the drilling project that leg was about is exciting for scientists and promising in terms of finding

a new life form here on earth there are some who are skeptical and say the project should continue in fact they say it could even be builders to humans there were some words that we will bring up so microbes that are really harmful. to human being which is from the biological point of view it is some kind of nonsense because these are i believe in extremely fresh water going to shows they have not ever counted we. mammals may be so they can never interfere with. the harsh conditions that make working in the most difficult now scientists have a limited window of opportunity to conduct their research for the season. i remember we had mana sent four celsius the coldest one was rich as minus eighty nine celsius at the end of february beginning of march the temperatures begin to drop drop drop and at these temperatures the planes can't fly anymore and that's it

. now that the drilling task is complete the race is on to find the new discovery of ancient life on our planet in antarctica sean thomas r t. well to find out about how people survive at the end of the world head to our web site r t v dot com we have for the world southernmost a continent far and wide learning how to survive in this unforgiving breathtaking environment. and occupy wall street head to the classroom as one u.s. . opens up of course studying by campaign read all about it online at our feet dot com. barack obama has approved

a fresh set of strong sanctions against iran for financial institutions the u.s. has frozen iranian assets and transactions involving the country's central bank sure and from the school of oriental and african studies it's all part of a pre-election political game in terms of threats coming from the u.s. specially distressed and sanctions against iran central bank i think that they're mostly produce or direct 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 to iran and this is another move by president obama to satisfy either is rivals or just supporters of his campaign is sad to see that the u.s. is undermining the. fantastic work that the i.a.e.a. is doing with iran and iran itself is trying very hard to keep the environment. in

the face of the recent assassination of iranian scientists which really was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. m i six spy agency mark allen is being third by two different libya he allegedly helped the rats and deport to gadhafi torture in two thousand and four their case against those after the discovery of letter through allen to the colonel can graduating him on the return of the prisoner artist ivor bennett has 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 flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul hakim bell who 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 just 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 his regime and how he and his officials were torturing prisoners that were 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 deficits by chief moose. i congratulate you on the safe arrival of our loss of deep 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 tape of al 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. they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of. those sorts of statements that. everyone will know that there was an extremely high risk. that these individuals will be tortured but by that point the british government's love in with good daffy had already begun turning him from desperate to darling and it wasn't just good daffy you reap the rewards mark allen was britain's negotiator in what was a two way deal it was in this exclusive london clubs to mark owen said to have met to move 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 same shady deal to find them well and refuses to comment on the claims against him an m i six hasn't denied complicity in torture with the government saying all actions had its approval a long standing get out clause but maybe not now the secrets out so we know that ministers in the. sort of parts of complicity that those ministers themselves should face criminal prosecution would be a 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 police have launched a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone

either bennett london. but we also have more revelations on libya's torture networks on our website r.t. dot com very find out about the life of the vs former ambassador brown but i'd. all in the custody of the new government that and much more available for you at r.t. dot com. while an on a lighter note keep your eyes on the road at all times a quiet night. interrupted by that blinding explosion you see of light the grandiose this play was however just a circus overload at an electrical substation no one was hurt although the drivers involved probably won't forget that particular commute to work for some time well the latest action from the english football premier league is coming up in our two sports in about twenty five minutes let's cross to our business desk and get the latest from kareena.

thank you he said hello and welcome to business here and in a surprising move for the russian stock market bank compensate minority shareholders for losses on their investments by mr putin said 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 the shares is 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. rating agencies with rating says there would be there could be more efficient way efficient way to solve the problem. if the shareholder. he's unhappy with the performance of the manager of his company you fire the manager of the company and bring in new ones the share price has gone down the shareholders do

not like what's happening and therefore the. government doesn't like. minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really suck the management of tb and put new managers who will increase the share price. 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 euro as risk appetite is weaker certainty about the eurozone crisis the euro itself losing value of the dollar now it's makes our u.s. crude futures reach a six month monday as cold weather in europe both are heating fields and light sweet is currently trading at almost ninety seven dollars a barrel while brant land is about one hundred sixty dollars. here's europe where

the stock market. lower led by miners investors are focusing on the merger in the resources sector while greek officials struggle to agree on a stereo measures. losing nearly a quarter of a percent while the tax is nearly half a percent in the red core international an extra said they have agreed to an all share merger of equals here in russia markets are mixed after seeing some gains early in the afternoon the chance is up just a half a percent on my xox down point two percent and some movers on the carrier air flow is just a notch lower actually half a percent lower its passenger traffic grows by a quarter of last year bt bank is also losing ground as investors await the details of its recently announced by. precious metals producing dollars gold has plunged into the red after posting strong gains that's ongoing rumors of a possible merger with its rival falling metal. the russian government may

introduce new measures to support local carmakers by passing rules the industry ministry has suggested introducing a special fee imported foreign cars of those assembled in russia the proceeds will be spent on the recycling of components the. the surcharge should provide some come compensation for the lowering of import duties on the used foreign cars. and mobile phone retailers among the sectors that continued to show double digit growth numbers and most of the markets russia second largest. says last year revenues rose by a quarter of the company's c.e.o. dany slipped coastie outlines what gadgets will be driving growth this year. well more can see usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum minder standing as they're about thirty eight million foals maybe thirty nine max were sold in russia this year but

sixty four percent of the overall revenue coming from 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 and we believe there are still significant growth. well that's are up that for this album stay with us for headline news coming up right after this.

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from the round brush up we've dumped a few jerks covered. the end. of our table. from moscow where it's two thirty pm the headlines peacemaking mission a delegation led by russia's foreign minister hauser rhymes in damascus as the bloodshed in syria gathers momentum against a backdrop of diplomatic routes. greece sacrifice and fifteen thousand more jobs in a bid to ripley's its international creditors as the sturdy rabbits population stages another general strike. from the center boiled down to the air of documents discovered in libya implicate britain's m i six spy agency in the rendition of dissidents to suffer torture under the dictator cooperation that allegedly saw the

u.k. rewarded.