latest coming out of talks with president assad in damascus as russia's foreign minister is saying that moscow will continue to mediate talks between the syrian authorities and the opposition so again love rove's visit to the syrian capital comes amid the raging violence within the country as well as an international diplomatic standoff over how the address should be resolved well are you going to school is in damascus and now joins us live on the line you gore what exactly did the foreign minister have to say after his closed door talks with president. oh he said i want to apologize in advance for the connections here because the wind is breaking up we're moving. in the calm voice going back to the airport the minister russia's foreign minister is flying back also but the most important thing that he said is that right on our side and this is the result of their meeting on our side it is the way the for dialogue with the opposition and so it is sitting

vice president. so basically the political will should. hold a dialogue with the opposition another important issue is that in their forty's you are in the green line to allow more monitors from the arab league here inside the country including sending them to you would be most violent serious violence so they could be there all night. which we should there be another forty issues that russian foreign minister has to mention pulling the meeting with the president is that we're going to take is there to meet with the commission which has been working on where you constitution the country is supposed to meet with permission in the near future according to the russian foreign minister. also a nationwide levels are ready to. go will be announced also quite shortly.

over it and it's going to be all of the costs and the including thing about the strong it is that it will not do the. you or you know i know i know you're on your way to the airport now i just want to check if if you want to have anything else you want to add about the situation in the capital have you seen anything heard anything we've been hearing about this ongoing violence of course in the harness there can you tell us anything else. ok seems like we have lost our connection with our correspondent who was in the syrian capital along with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov we now know they are on their way to the airport and well russia and china are facing a barrage of criticism from some western and arab states for their decision to

block the latest u.n. resolution on syria and moscow has already dubbed the reaction hysterical saying the resolution took a biased approach to resolving the syrian civil conflict or to sarah further has been following the diplomatic so down sara clearly the flies are not seeing eye to eye take us through what exactly the disagreements are what each day to have to look much further evidence of just how divisive this conflict has been the most thing happening on the international stage for the past couple of days now when russia and china vetoed the un resolution on syria we saw that sparking fears condemnation from many in the west. the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here. as well as murdering. to get its credibility back internationally with its own people. when you come when you

realize that you see what a mistake. now russia has been very clear in its stance from the very beginning it says in response to some of these criticisms that russia is backing assad's regime they've actually clearly stated that they date back assad they're not friends or allies it is a new tool styles that they're taking at the moment they're trying to find a solution that takes into account the syrian people's you and of course one of the major concerns with this resolution was that it was simply seen to be backing one side and hadn't made mention to the armed groups and the response to that now so i think what we see within the country is it's an in extremely complex situation and it's been very hard to verify exactly what's been going on we do know that there's been a sort of critical lack of this when it comes to it she such as the death toll figures they certainly the u.n. figure that stopped counting at around five thousand really there was little

attention paid to the fact that that sort of number also made reference to the number of people who had been killed from the of the from the pro-government side so i think at the moment with the death toll figures you do have to take into account this is both pro-government and opposition people that are being killed in the country and say this is really being a major focal point is to find a solution that doesn't simply seem to be backing one side in the conflict. don't you sleep with them you could put some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and nor has it anything to encourage and feed on the methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and sends unbalanced signals to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account proposals that

as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an end to attorneys by armed groups and state institutions and neighborhoods but. now the problem is as time goes on of course the violence in the country to seeming to escalate over time i mean that has been fierce criticism about the role that russia and china played in this and certainly the issue really is that you know this has been one of the one of the points along the way that have been seen as a failure before that you have the arab league mission you had countries like saudi arabia and qatar putting out that monetary means that again could have been seen as action that was hampering attempts to find a solution and you know of course there is very very difficult to be objective here and the countries that are sort of pitching other countries against one another and having this sort of dialogue and rhetoric now that seems to be very focused on choosing a site much more important for russia right now is to try to find that each will go

out try to find some kind of credible tentative that doesn't simply push the country further into the conflict situation it's in at the moment. sorry for bring us up to date on the latest standoff diplomatic really wow on the situation in syria thanks for that. well the u.s. has been among the most vocal critics of the verse or chinese double veto at all times correspondent pepe escobar says washington is being very selective and their decisions and pushes for the middle east i would start paraphrasing susan rice i would say that the international community is the real one not made two and six of persian gulf monarchies in the g.c.c. is this just it by the travesty of repeated u.s. vetoes in the d un women ever the topic of israel comes to israel

u.s. can veto any see regarding its roads or can keep the killing of men and women and children palestine but always leave russia and china they cannot block a reason lucian that he poses regina change in syria so what are you going to see from no one is a radicalization and that's already happening so this means. the rebels in syria the free syrian army will keep being armed and weaponized by not only got there in saudi arabia which is already happening for months not but specially by the united states the resolution is not blaming effect on armed insurrection that's what can you imagine if you have a mid-size city in the united states called troll but ending suresh how do you sync the response of the u.s. government would be. well next hour we 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. your use of the thing is after what happened in

libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in the region is extremely volatile countries are divided into two major and minor according to de geopolitical standing how closely or just one state of the other when they rule in regional fields and so on the regime change in a minute country would not lead it was a regional scale to the syria on the other hand it's very important to the result what we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's open. but public anger against spills onto the streets of athens where thousands of anti austerity protesters gathered in front of parliament but leasers tear down to disperse crowds trying to break through a cordon around the parliament building that's as greek trade unions are holding a nationwide general strike in response to fifteen thousand job cuts it's one of

the concessions the greek government has made to appease international creditors but the one to late agreement on that valid terms has still failed to be realized and talks continue this tuesday greece desperately needs the one hundred and thirty billion euros from international creditors to avoid defaulting in march the economist yanis varoufakis believes greek politicians have already given in to the e.u. and the devil is just for show. it is a bottomless pit and the good socially card me even though it's colder and the vast majority of greeks are suffering enormously it can always be damaged more through policies that have absolutely no basis on logic but they have a very sound basis on. the kind of politics which i'm afraid the european union has descended towards what i am afraid is happening at the moment is

a shadow play. women share a we have the clicker the party leaders and the technocrat prime minister is supposedly negotiating very harshly in my estimation i hope i'm wrong but all of the i am this is just a bit tense the decisions are being made the deal is already in place all we have is think political leaders who are trying to find a way of presenting what is a non potable illogical package to the greek people. so you can see those events unfolding live from the greek capital on our website as thousands gather in front of the part of the mint to protest austerity measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed and max keiser and stacy herbert check out the ears record after two decades in the kaiser report coming up later today here's a look at what's in store. their opportunity was last year to have

a coup d'etat and get rid of pop 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 and this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. well former head of britain's m i six spying agency sir mark allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped 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's regime parties ivor bennett explains. abducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government held 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 abdul haq 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 mark allen pulling the strings seventy allegedly writes in one letter sent to get daffy spy chief moose. i congratulate you on the safe arrival of our last a geek mr bauer hard this was the least we could do for you and for libya but papers show the cia seized in bangkok thanks to an m i six tip 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. 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 loving with good daffy had already begun turning him from a despot darling and it wasn't just good death you reap the rewards 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 . 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 allen 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 if t 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 signing off on these sort of acts of complicity that those ministers themselves should face criminal prosecution of georgia civil case against markel and could be just the tip of the iceberg went on behind the scenes between britain and get down to the police have launched a criminal investigation to see just how far up the tree complicity may have gone either bennett party. we just want to check you on our top story this hour the talks between russia's foreign minister and the syrian president in damascus damascus we're joined again on the line by our correspondent is going now has been following the talks in the capital you gore tell us exactly what came out of this mean and what are the foreign minister have to say about the results.

org media. we seem to have lost. a very bad connection there with damascus once again very sorry about that. we're going to move on to some other news this hour even rawn has dismissed fresh u.s. sanctions calling them part of a psychological war on monday brock obama ordered new penalties that involves freezing also it's linked to the iranian 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 displeased and 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. and this is another move by president obama to satisfy. is rivals or to supporters of his campaign it's 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. fish and all in the face of the recent assassination of the rain in scientists really it was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. now after decades of drilling russian scientists in the arctic have discovered a rare piece of nature an ancient lake buried thousands of feet under the ice or to sean thomas toward the frozen continent exactly or year ago and now explains what

this discovery could mean. research base in antarctica it is the coldest place on earth and the deepest drilling location on the continent the main research was to drill the great your eyes as deep as possible to get these tiny bubbles off they are a force preserved for about. four hundred thousand years at 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 is exciting for scientists and promising in terms of finding a new life form here on earth there are some who are through 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

a human being which is from the biological point of view some kind of the harsh conditions that make 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. as minus eighty nine celsius at the end of february beginning of march temperatures begin to drop drop drop from these temperatures the planes can't fly anymore 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. all right just one more time before we wrap up this hour i want to check in on our top story our correspondent you corpuscle now in damascus where foreign minister lavrov has just finished talks with syrian president bashar al gore i hope you can hear me bring us up to date what came out

of and we last to make an all right. well let's take a look at what we have online for you at least this hour you can explore all of the stories we cover in depth including what's happening in syria and we've got much more in store for you there as well at r.t. dot com take a look at how occupy the classroom is coming up a new course set to examine the worldwide protest movement is kicking off in a us university. and toy taboo iran's government banned simpson dolls from the country shops following it all out war with barbie to discover their crimes click on to our t.v. dot com. ok it's twenty three minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other stories from around the world for you the president of the

summit in the sheet has resigned amid a police mutiny following weeks of popular protests the crisis drew to a head when authorities ordered security officers to remove the barriers between government and opposition supporters protesting close to each other the leader had earlier come under fire for arresting the chief of the criminal court accusing him of being loyal to the country's former president she needs to have 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 a ready pulled several survivors of rubble authorities say the factory was built legally it was closed down three times but i'm also believe reopened. the

british authorities are working to deport the radical islamist preacher qatada one slayed old some of them. as in bathwater to hear up it comes a day after a u.k. tribunals ruled 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. i'll be back with the house by and more on our top story at half past the hour but before that let's get the latest business daniels here. into business in a surprising move for the russian stock market v.t. bank may compensate its minority shareholders for losses on their investments from mr validity of putin says the bank will use its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in its own five years ago called pros of d.t.b. shares is roughly poff if it's an issue listing a closed system it's a cost of the whole five billion dollars while investors await the details to be

revealed richard haynesworth from rating agency risk rating says there could be a more efficient way to solve the problem. if the 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 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. the markets now 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 debt crisis continuing to hurt the currency going to oil and

brant is holding above one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel this hour u.s. crude futures reached a six month hoyer monday as the cold weather boosted heating demand. european markets origen lower this hour as greek officials meet to discuss a tough new bailout plan miners are also weighing on the markets off the glencore and extra and else they merge xstrata dropped over two percent on the news. of the altie is in positive territory following earlier losses the my six meanwhile remains lower for a second day and some moves on the my six now on tuesday area area aeroflot is low is passenger traffic rose by a quarter last year it announced it to be bank is also down as investors await details of its recently announced boy back and precious metals producer polis gold is among the main loses this hour is posted strong results but the shares a correcting of the making a forty percent gain in the last few days. russian government may introduce new

measures to support local coal makers bypassing w t o rules the industry ministry has suggested introducing a special fee for imported cars and those assembled in russia the proceeds will be spent on recycling core components surcharge would provide some compensation for the lowering of import duties or used for own cause. that's the business the headlines are next to an arctic.

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there were thirty breaking news this hour the russian foreign minister says syria's leader is committed to ending violence in the country and is ready to negotiate

with all political sides sergey lavrov who's held talks with bashar al assad in damascus also said both countries agree the arab league should continue and expand its mission in syria. in other news the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job because demonstrators have clashed with police to use tear gas to disperse crowds that's one of the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more all sturdy measures to appease e.u. creditors and secure a vital second bailout. and iran slumps slams new u.s. sanctions targeting nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war iraq obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing the brainy and outs and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. but russia's presidential election gets closer we talked to opposition politician it was

a mere call for about last saturday's mass rally that's.