i'm here in the russian capital two pm into mass chaos in syria could get another chance to settle its crisis politically as russia's foreign minister is holding talks with president bashar al assad in the capital sergei lavrov visit comes amid the raging violence within syria as well as an international diplomatic standoff over how the unrest should be resolved as he's eager to scan all of his following the meeting in the syrian capital. 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 the carrier the atmosphere is very calm and 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 end of the russian's 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 stew. in clear there are still yet to be announced now just to show you a little bit about how the russian delegation was to meet here in syria right after the foreign ministers plane landed in syria and as you said he is on what he was heading towards the moscow as it was greeted by several thousand youthful woods wasn't full and what you're going blends in with chinese flags and people were chanting thank you russia and things you try and agree with so many of them that at some point the convoy even had to pull together all of this is in like all the recent votes at the u.n. security council on the u.n. for a presentation on syria pulled forward by morocco and supported by the way it was viewed by russia and. you know on. one side of

school. workers or. people there what. it was. called but it was their responsibility all to the right the government and the opposition we should. all. go. we will join your group it's going to hopefully live after he does listen to comments from the foreign minister and president bush are that in the meantime let's get more perspective internationally on what's happening in syria joining me is jeremy salt associate pastor of middle eastern historic history and politics and bill kent university in turkey thanks for joining us live on the line from ankara this visit by russia's foreign minister to syria the focus of international attention of course and carrying with that expectation that something can be achieved do you share that belief. i think what the foreign minister will do will

come up with a plan for dialogue between the government and the opposition but of course has done this before and it often has been rejected but what it will do will very firmly throw the ball into the other court because if the syrian government does agreed with dialogue then we would be in the sponsibility of the other side to say whether it will take or not. the un veto also cause an impasse within the international community but some may send same very desperate to get involved where do we go from here you have russia and china pushing diplomacy and other countries pushing very different ways of trying to solve this conflict where do we go part of the problem in syria is that there are many many agendas different agendas there's an american agenda or gender this is saudi agenda. but they all converge on the one point of wanting to remove the syrian government and now from their point of view i think the. course is bringing down the syrian government not

really reform it's about destroying the asset government which would be a kind of a great gain for the west in the middle east from the point of view of russia and china on this question from a regional perspective on the global perspective they seem to go in a red line after libya and after what happened in iraq in two thousand and three they can't allow anything similar to happen in syria and of course what happened in libya with the vote at the u.n. was the warning sign and. the u.n. supported johnson to be used again for the same word some of us down much i personally don't think it's in the interests of the rest in power to. to promote dialogue i think they're anxious for this process to continue i think that they will let go just yet they want to see this government destroyed in the doing all in their power to see that it is. does that mean that you don't think it's possible that there's still a chance another perhaps so version of a u.n.

resolution could possibly be passed in the future that in fact does satisfy both sides. i don't think so i think russia has made it clear i'm of course or is possible russia is making its own calculations according to its interests and china is doing so and so we have to bear in mind the possibility that i would change their mind but if they don't change their mind i don't want a resolution through the end that carries any possibility of intervention well actually there already is intervention a covert intervention that will carry impossible to open intervention carried out by western states or meet the participation of turkey what already has made it very clear that the main problem in fact with this revolution was that it was very one sided and it didn't talk anything about these extremist groups that are provoking violence in the country and that bat was the problem why want western countries sign on to a resolution that would make it more balanced. because they don't want to that's the basic answer that question i mean from the beginning of this crisis the

involvement of groups in what is going on has been completely under north by western governments and by the western media and it's a simple fact i mean there is propaganda on one has to read the media very very carefully and one has to look at the state governments very carefully but i think the consensus view would have to be an honest consensus view is that since the beginning of this movement syria has been tempted by mobs bonce it's very quickly overwhelmed the peaceful protest movement and is fermented from outside and the hope was would be to maintain a situation process in syria to deepen theirs and reach the point where the syrian government would more or less collapse right jeremy assault joining us live on the line from ankara associate professor of middle eastern history and politics thank you very much for your analysis. well later this hour we will hear from the foreign minister of bahrain one of the key arab league members who shares his

thoughts on what should be done to stop the violence in syria. you know. the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in the region music stream be volatile the countries are divided into two major blood according to their geopolitical standing how closely you just want to do what you have been the rule in regional fields and so on regime change in a minute country you would not believe that she was a regional scale to the syria on the other hand is very important to the reason why we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we must have to deal with before we interfere in syria's opener's. of public anger again has spilled onto the streets of athens where thousands of anti are sturdy protesters gathered in front of the part of the mint but this is

tear gas to disperse crowds trying to break through the cordon around the parliament building well that's a great trade unions are holding a nationwide general strike in response to massive new layoffs fifteen thousand job cuts is one of the concessions the greek government has made to appease its international creditors by the long delayed agreement on debt battle out terms has still failed to be realized emma thompson continued this tuesday greece desperately needs the one hundred thirty billion euros from international creditors to avoid defaulting in march let's discuss this further i'm now joined by philip baguettes professor of economics at king juan carlos university in madrid thanks for being with us it's taking the coalition government a long time here to agree on the reforms are they really likely to reject the bailout terms or is fear of the public reaction too painful painful new measures i should say holding them back i mean people now on the streets of athens as we speak

. david probably do the same as they did in the. promise to reform some of them only deliver the little part of the i mean it's it's in the interest politicians only think short term so for the next election. they won't really do harshly forms because they don't want to lose votes and want to maintain livingstone the officially high. rates are holding another nationwide strike in response to the cuts and we already see clashes on the streets of athens as i've said the government seems hugely out of touch with public opinion do you agree with that well it looks to me like the show the unknowns some measures then come the protests that. international creditors and then at the. time you reforms and they want to continue this receiving bailout

money and getting. living through monetary just a new thing that you're all about the greek prime minister reportedly has asked the finance minister to prepare a default report does that mean do you think it's inevitable inevitably i should say at the stage of default is this coming soon. well there certainly certainly. to default. this would mean a huge loss for four european politicians that have been invested very much in the political project over europe. who are on the hook for the. other loads so they can. but i don't think. they want to funny doing it because they want to receive more. but i think they should use that for all right for that bank as professor of economics at king juan

carlos university in madrid joining us on the line from prague this hour thanks for that. well you can see live pictures from the greek capital on our web site as thousands gather in front of the part of the men to protest us territory measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed max kaiser and stacy herbert check out the record after two decades the full program is coming up later here's a look. at their opportunity was last year to have a coup d'etat and get rid of pap and rail and they could have been put in a populist government and they could have saved themselves but they failed to do that so it's finished for them ireland similarly is toast no hope for them whatsoever portugal under the bus spain no italy they have twenty five hundred tons of gold if they can hold onto it they're in good shape but i suspect that the current government will sell that italy's gold deal with the i.m.f.

because they're totally corrupt this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. well the former head of britain's m i six by agency sir mark allen is being sued by a pair of this dissident libya he allegedly how capture and sent for torture under gadhafi in two thousand and four the investigation may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the colonel firstly artie's ivor bennett has more. of ducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government held those are the claims of two former gadhafi detainees who say they were captured by m i six flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul hakim is now libya's military commander along with sami el saadi he was part of the libyan islamic fighting group and they're

suing a former british spy chief for complicity in their torture to me the most damaging aspect is that the 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 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. 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

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 u.k. authorities saying. that they. they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of death and those sorts of statements that. everyone would know that 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 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 . 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 alan had just joined 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 if b m i six hasn't denied complicity in torture but the government saying all actions had its approval a long standing get out clause but maybe not now the secret's out so we know that ministers in the past were sounding off on these 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 police have launched

a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone either bennett party. well there's more of them be and maybe as alleged torture networks highlighted on our website r.t. dot com we have details on the death of libya's former ambassador to france who. died just one day after being detained under the new government that more is waiting for you it r t dot com. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. but after decades of drilling russian scientists in the arctic have uncovered a rare piece of nature and the ancient lake very thousands of feet under the ice arches song thomas toward the frozen continent exactly

a year ago and now explains what this discovery could mean. research base in antarctica it is the coldest place on earth and the deepest a drilling location on the continent the main research was to drill the great your eyes as big as possible to get these tiny bubbles off they are before brazil for about. four hundred thousand years and a certain point researchers made a new discovery lake vostok 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 while the drilling project at legg was 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 dangerous to humans there are some wars that we will bring up so microbes that are really harmful. to human

beings which is from the biological point of view it is some kind of the harsh conditions that make you working in vostok difficult now scientists have a limited window of opportunity to conduct their research for the season. we had one essential service the coldest. that's minus eighty nine celsius the end of february beginning of march temperatures begin to drop drop drop at these temperatures the planes can't fly any of that is 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. but explore all the stories we cover in depth on our website where we've got much more in store for you including occupy the classroom a new course set to examine the worldwide protest movement kicked off and u.s. university. and troy tambo iran's government banned some seven dollars from the

country shall. following an all out war with barbie to discover their crimes quick on tar two dot com. we were on dismissed as fresh u.s. sanctions calling them part of a psychological war on monday bronc obama ordered new penalties that involve freezing assets linked to be a rainy and government and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank to iran claims its economy won't be harmed by the sanctions but some experts say the measures are really in place to meet more domestic objectives in terms of threats coming from the u.s. specially distance is sanctions against iran central bank i think that they're mostly. directed 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 their views of iran and this is another move by president obama to satisfy either is rivals or to supporters of his campaign is sad to see that the u.s. is undermining the work that the fantastic work that the i.a.e.a. is doing with iran and iran itself is trying very hard to keep the environment we have professional in the face of the recent assassination of the rain in scientists which really was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. well brief look now at some other headlines from around the world this hour president. mohamed nasheed has resigned amid a political mutiny following weeks of popular protests the crisis drew to a head when the authorities ordered security officers to remove barriers between

government and opposition supporters protesting close to each other but a leader had earlier come under fire for arresting the chief judge of criminal court accusing him of being loyal to the country's former president nasheed swept to power in two thousand and eight pledging to bring more democracy to the island state. a factory in eastern pakistan has collapsed after gas cylinders exploded in the building rescue workers are struggling to reach dozens of people trapped under the debris a day after the incident the number of dead currently stands at eighteen though there are reports that rescuers have already pulled several survivors from the rubble already say the factory was built legally able to close down three times but unlawfully reopened. british authorities are working to deport the radical islamist preacher who qatada one labeled a slum of bin laden's ambassador to europe it comes a day after a u.k. tribe you know ruled that the cleric should be released on bail after more than six

years in custody last month the european court of human rights blocked his deportation to jordan where he faces terror charges. might be back with a recap of our top stories at half past the hour up next though but to get the latest from danielle at the business desk. it's a business in a surprise move for the russian. shareholders for losses on their investments from mr putin says the boat will use its profits to boy boat shoes from people who pull to me or purefoy of years ago called promise of a t.v. show is roughly wholefood be an issue listing. the players estimated to cost up the whole of billion dollars while investors await the details to be revealed richard haynesworth from rating agency roost rating says they could be a more efficient way to solve these problems. if a 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 that they have been selling out the government doesn't like the effect that's had on minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really sack the management of the tb and put new managers who will increase the share price. at the stock markets no exchange rates for strong oil is pushing the ruble higher to the dollar and the euro the euro's also losing value against the greenback with uncertainty about the crisis continuing to hurt that currency brant is holding above one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel this u.s. crude futures reached a six month hoyer monday as the cold weather boosted heating demand onto europe

which is edging lower this hour as greek officials meet to discuss a tough new bailout plan miners are also weighing on the markets of the glencore xstrata announced their merger to drop over two percent on that news. of the o.t.s. has followed europe into the red in the last hour as investors cash gains from the morning the my six meanwhile remains lower for a second day and some moves on the my six on this tuesday korea aeroflot is low is passenger traffic rose by a quarter last year. is also down as investors await the details of its recently announced boy back precious metals producer police gold has plunged into the red is posted strong results but the shares all correcting after making a forty percent gain in the last few days. russian government introduced new measures to support local coworkers bypassing w t o rules the industry ministry has suggested introducing a special fee for imported calls and those assembled in russia. process will be

spent on recycling co components surcharge would provide some compensation for the lowering of import duties on used for and cause. mobile phone retailers among the sectors that continue to show double digit growth in most of the markets or just second largest cilla says noise as last year's revenues rose by a quarter company c.e.o. dennis lit co ski outlines what gadgets will be driving growth this year the mobile market is usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum my understanding is that about thirty eight million phones maybe thirty nine max were sold in russia this year but sixty four percent of the overall revenue coming from the mobile phone segment is actually coming from smartphone sales and that will increase dramatically was one hundred percent increase in mobile phones there were smartphones in two thousand and eleven he would leave there still significant growth. that's the businesses that will have more in fifteen minutes.

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at four thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from our t.v. a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister is in damascus holding talks with president bashar al assad a lover of visit comes amid raging violence within syria an international diplomatic standoff over how the un grassed should be resolved. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job cuts demonstrators have clashed with police to use tear gas to disperse crowds that's the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease e.u. creditors and secure a vital second bailout. plan iran slams new u.s. sanctions triggering tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war broke obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central

bank. while the world community.