it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live on many sonali with our top story this hour and syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis 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 in syria. is in the capital damascus for us and joins us live on the line you go or the talks between the russian foreign minister and president assad have started we know they're behind closed doors but what can you tell us about possibly they're discussing or anything you might have heard about precise dialogue. but on the stand yes correct the meeting started roughly around an hour ago it is currently being held behind closed doors just we were able to hear the first few minutes of the conversation between

the russian foreign minister and the syrian president and you know the atmosphere is quite common rather friendly even the foreign minister said that russia stands for peace and an ngo meanwhile and here in syria in full view from all the syrian people now the foreign minister is accompanied by the head of the russian foreign intelligence service and they're here to deliver a message from president new community just to president assad now the contents of this message are still. clear there are still yet to be announced this is specifically a need for president assad we do know that the aim of this message is to try to find ways out of the current crisis here in syria of course there is speculation into what exactly me the message contains example or speculation coming out of washington that the united states holds russia may ask for than assad to step down

but we did hear comments from the russian foreign ministry previously on similar matters and it basically. changing foreign governments is not job for the foreign ministry is job is to work with foreign governments now just to sell you a little bit about how the russian delegation was to be here in syria right after the foreign ministers plane landed in syria and as you said he is on why he was heading towards the mosque as it was greeted by several thousand people would be watching flags with syrian brands and with cheney's clients and people were chanting thank you russia and thank you china angry with so many of them that at some point the. conwell even had to stop altogether now all of this is in whitehall so the recent votes at the un security council on the un trapped resolution on

syria put forward by morocco and supported by the way it was you don't buy it russia and china on saturday due to its one sided approach have been. russia stands for both sides to put their weapons down and basically moscow has been painting fire time that this conflict is the responsibility of both sides both the government and the opposition which does have armed elements of all its goals now the foreign minister has been saying i think what i just what matter we get a good answer to sorry to interrupt you and i know there's a delay but i just want to make sure we get to talk to you about what you might have seen on your way from the airport in terms of the situation on the ground. well if you mean in terms of any violence i've been feeling that in fact it was quite a festive atmosphere or it was it really was the thousands of people were standing

there and chanting they looked weak thankful and satisfied by the fact that the resolutions. philosophy by russia and china didn't really see any. military equipment. and just ordinary security through just standing police along the way to a few foreign minister just to provide you know security because there really was scores of people there along the route but everything else seems to be quite normal of course there are there are reports down the situation in the homes currently but i can't really confirm that the speculation about more while i'm there and more. dozens go from than reported shelling by by the government but this is speculation at the moment unfortunately i can't really confirm that but we certainly can see the pictures we're getting in these latest pictures from damascus that thousands of people have in fact filled the streets to meet the russian delegation you purpose

going on live with us on the line from the syrian capital we will be joining you throughout the day thanks for that update. now moscow continues to receive a 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 our teeth are first explain. it's 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 regime as well as a murdering regime there is no way it can get its credibility back internationally or with its own people. 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 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 as a receiving arms and other kinds of encouragement from abroad the west has leveled

heavy criticism that most case continued arms trade with syria saying it's backing the a stand regime has been overlooked however is russia's continued efforts to mediate with all sides of the conflict we speak with the head a serious internal opposition the national coordination council he met with a russian delegation recently we asked how they viewed russia's stance russia said they are not against the will of the syrian people. down 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 these hate and russia's unwillingness to join the economic sanctions most game may have a hard time convincing the west this mutuality of course russia much more careful to sort as i do because often it is i do someday be able to seize it from some cancers i made through cancer doesn't want to for those i was a u.s.

citizen i do from four zero seen it go. from the bar with a levy was no fly zone but not about total bull good as there usually on the be was . but not about would be exceeded it's a shame and as the school to attack continues to play out an increasingly polarized population watching their lives and country bullet to a standstill sanctions a crippling the economy and the increase in violence is raising the death toll daily the g eight political wrangling now seems to be eva shattering the issue of basic human rights for the people living in syria. well for more international perspective on the situation in syria let's now talk to richard head there in the middle of a foreign analyst thanks for being with us on the line via broadband the visit by russia's foreign minister to syria of course the focus of international attention

today and it carries with it expectation that something can be achieved do you believe that and share a bad opinion that this mission can bring some kind of step forward in the crisis. or are part of your. preferred part of. the one. loosen up the problem within the area and be really frank right not to just be to have that criticism because to begin with the problem here was not whether to resolve the problem but what is the best method going to go resolving this problem and they felt that the united nations agreed to go on balance because they did not put the same kind of restrictions on both sides of the picture and they felt that in one way or another there is a solution what the critics or some forget me very very venting what brush that we try to do right now because we feel the onus is on the solve the problem when you

use all kinds of leverage and you know it because on their bashar and the syrian regime to make sure that will be a political spot that we're in building a died of the schoolboy spite of the coin and things that would be political process in three three to look kind of decent hops towards a force in our us but i think we can expect a lot of pressure on the part of russia. for for any kind of reclusive involvement . the u.s. veto has also put the international community and an impasse with some nations desperate to involve themselves how do you think the nato mandate the u.n. mandate i should say will be treated. what's happening right now is that you have a lot of western countries and regional countries both the arab league. and lebanon and i think they're going to. make a decision on. which party they want to support i think the already made

a decision that the party that they have to support. the free syrian army and the syrian national council and what it seems is a left now because they feel that the united nations mechanism has really failed because russia is finally in a kind of any kind of there to be such that would justify anything to feed their intervention and there is the possibility that what we see right now is going out with me sort of bring work me. what's happening both in the govinda we're in you had european countries and nato union lot there really engaging in some sort of intervention in order to solve a humanitarian crisis in their perspective but i think there are lots of earth again. a lot of the think it's because they're generally said when come from syria the good the regime has. a process and i do think things out of these are aware that any kind of military intervention to create a regional crisis i think that maybe the western countries and the prize

a place where mr outside the united nations framework but they cannot be pointing back. russia would be in convincing the syrian regime to stop the security operation and restart the dialogue in a political solution to the problem as soon as possible but there is a possibility in the long run if the right thing becomes more bloody and the people who are deep in the maybe both we heard the goal being in a kind of connectedness of military intervention conducted by nato search and maybe god of the members a senior syrian official has said that assad won't resign under pressure from foreign forces in that context do you think international pressure is escalating the situation. google groups are group groups there and they believe in rocks and side and are feeling the pressure but the only question here is how quickly and we're going to resume who spoke with the group that operates so we've got our we've got the barkeeper coming all of them further violation of the ball broke all i

think they came out in the spirit of things that is why it's all about google but we're going to respect that there's going to be any lose lose on it should be our focus compromised and also comes the sun and there's there should be all disagreement. there is going to be. all the crying. in our yard there's going to be a police because of this it was brought in a. way that the bigger thought ramsey but i think there are some who are brave or but far left that will make all of the. boxes. all right richard hines area an international security and development issues analyst thank you very much for your input. folks coming up to quarter past the hour still to come on our t.v. in a major holes a spot on earth sciences finds the waters of a priest or it lake under the situation of the antarctic which could contain life

forms unchanged for millennia. fifteen thousand more green jobs slashed that's the latest blow from austerity measures adopted by athens to appease its international creditors like pictures here from the center of athens where people have gathered obviously to protest these latest numbers the cuts are especially where any given the country's economy is near free fall meanwhile greece like i said gathering live pictures here from a rally in athens as part of a twenty four hour general strike against the latest form negotiations over a second bailout are also ongoing with the main precondition being further conflict one of the main things upsetting these. people have been on the streets of athens really for over a year now and today again gathering on the streets in this general strike but according to a law professor towards capital dollars even if our friends doesn't get a cast it will have no hope of repaying the interest. to us

now we are living through i hear them. over that are going on measureless the output or the burdens to the poorest to the weakest members of our society and our debt you stayed off beat it used is get inflated so i don't have any hope to these new measures it is the same as if we continue to put money into our dead horse lot of credit goes in to our economy leading the league to need to even more or spare recession this massive but i have right there is a sort of they are pushing to us actually they are nothing but a scheme to give up our public infrastructure infrastructure public property to foreigners at the specially big german enterprises now greece is a kind of experiment for all european union just trying to impose to us or state the measure of the salaries they dismantlement of their protective legislation for the workers that later they are going to try to impose to other people starting

from the people in the counties of the south we do not want this. sacrifice this second pfizer's without any kind of cope. russian scientists in the antarctic have reached a fragment of nature untouched for a ons 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 a unique life forms are to son thomas who toward the frozen confident exactly a year ago explains what this the chief meant could bring. still to 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 as i said was forming by snow as deep as possible to get the sistani bubbles of. air which was preserved for about four hundred thousand years even the snow and to measure carbon

dioxide in 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 subglacial lake itself excited about the possibility of discovering life. the lake was talking heated from the earth. from down. and there's a why is there a some kind of fresh water maybe because of these heat flux from the bottom there could be some more more sophisticated life than bacteria while the drilling project

that leg is exciting for scientists and promising in terms of finding a new life form here on earth there are some who are thought to go and say the project should continue in fact they say it could even be builders to humans there are some wars that we will bring up some microbes that are really harmful to. human being which is from the biological point of view it is some kind of nonsense because these and. but to your i believe in extremely fresh water going to shows they have not ever countered with any. mammals. so they can never interfere with. the harsh conditions that make working in vostok 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 registered as modest

eighteen 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 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 more about how people survive at the end of the world head to our web site r t v dot com we've explored the world southernmost confident far and wide learning how to survive in this unforgiving yet breathtaking environment. occupy wall street heads to the classroom as one u.s. college opens up a port studying by campaign read all about it online at our home. the

former head of britain's m i six spy agency sir mark allen is being sued by two dissident libyans he allegedly helped arrest and deport to gadaffi torturers in two thousand and four for their case against substance after the discovery of letters from alan to the colonel congratulating him on the return of the prisoners parties ira 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 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 the 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 is regime and how he and his officials were torturing 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. i congratulate you on the safe arrival of our last of deek mr hard this was the least we could do for you and for libya the papers show the cia seized bangkok thanks to an m i six tipped off 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. that. are they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of death is raising those sorts of statements that. everyone would know there was an extremely high risk indeed or less certainty 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 desk to darling and it wasn't just good daffy you reap the rewards so mark allen 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 good at 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 macgraw he was part of the same 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 some sort of acts 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 get daffy police have launched a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone either bennett london. let's get the latest now from the world of business with

kareena. hello and welcome to our business thanks for joining me in a surprising move for the russia stock markets bank may compensate its minority shareholders for losses on their investment from a supporter says of 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 plan is estimated to cost up to half a billion dollars while investors await the details to be revealed should hainsworth from rating agency rating says there could be a more efficient way to solve the problem. if a shareholder. is 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. selling out the government doesn't like. minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really suck the management of the t.v. and put new managers who will increase the share price. let's look at the markets now exchange rates for us as strong or as pushing the ruble higher to the dollar and the euro here is also losing value against the dog with the uncertainty about the debt crisis plan. is next on its makes the south u.s. troops. six months high on monday cold weather in europe boosted leading feel like it's currently trading at seven dollars a barrel brant is that sixteen. most european stock markets

edged lower. tuesday investors are focusing on a merger in the resources sector while greek officials struggled to agree on a sturdy measures mining companies awaiting heavily on it in texas also among decliners luxury retailers group is losing three point nine percent and christiane dior is holding full stop. here grocer markets are mixed to seeing some gains early in the afternoon now let's look at some movers album isaac's carrier airport is lowering its passenger traffic growth by a quarter last year to bank of the also down as investors away with details of its recently announced buyback and precious metals produced to produce gold has plunged into red after posting strong gains that's an ongoing rulers of a possible merger with its rival from. the russian government may introduce new measures to support local call makers bypassing w t o rules the industry ministry

has suggested introducing especially a special fee for imported cars and those assembled in russia the proceeds will be spent on recycling call components the surcharge would provide some compensation for the lowering of importing he's on used for cars well that's all business for this all but remember you can always find most always just log on to our website that sati dot com slash business thanks for being with me.

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live from moscow our top stories peace making mission my delegation led by russia's foreign minister is in talks with the syrian leadership at the bloodshed in the country gathers momentum against the backdrop of diplomatic route. sacrifices fifteen thousand more jobs in a bid to appease its international creditors as the. population stages another general strike. the scent of oil gadhafi era documents discovered in libya's implicate britain britain's m i six spy agency in the rendition of this sort of stuff for torture under the dictator cooperation about allegedly involved the u.k. well rewarded. in the world economy again and max and stacey now take a look at how currency wars are heating up around the globe in the kaiser report.