we'll continue with efforts to settle the crisis in the middle eastern country i think we're going to report from syria's capital. i'm going to stay in fact for an hour and this is the result of their meeting on our side of the ready for dialogue with the opposition basically a political. dialogue with the opposition or approaches based on a clear and simple goal to stop civilian deaths the region needs peace syria needs peace it is clear that efforts to end the violence need to go along with the start of a meaningful dialogue between all political sides today we've received confirmation from the syrian president of his readiness to participate in that process we will continue to work with various opposition groups but anyone who has more influence on them than russia should also work with another important issue is that in their forty's you are in the green light to allow more monitors from the arab league here

inside the car jean-claude sending them to you will be most violence of violence so they could be. jewish and the other a border issue that russian foreign minister mentioned following the meeting with the president is that we're going to take is to meet with the commission working on a new constitution of the country supposed to meet with commission in the near future according to the russian foreign minister. also a nation like levels are ready to. go to the palace also quite strongly. for them it's going to be a legal process. well let's discuss the outcome of foreign minister love rose visit to damascus with john's receipt joins us now live from london he's an activist and national officer at the stop the work oh alicia. thank you for being with us this

evening tell us what are the broader implications of the foreign minister's talks with president assad as you see it what signal are they sending and to who. well i hope that the principal signal that's been sent in the last few days is that any military intervention in syria is unwelcome impossible and counterproductive my main concern i think the concern of many many people in the united kingdom is that our country in alliance or otherwise with the united states is not drawn into another military escapade in the middle east we saw what happened in libya when whatever the difficulties that the conflict in libya raised whatever the difficulties with the regime in libya western intervention engineer killing thirty thousand people in that country i have all proportion greater than any of the lives lost in the arab in any of the arab revolutions across the region so our principle

hope here is that developments in the last few days have kept the united states the u.k. is the other major powers from interfering militarily in this area i'm sure the russian state as other states have interests in this area are acting to find those interests in this area but i think the fate of the syrian people is best left to them and to them alone president assad has said that he is ready to talk to all political sides is syria and the opposition has signaled that it welcomes russia role as a mediator i think some might say this is somewhat of a breakthrough really so why are some western countries so reluctant to pursue a dialogue i mean why are we seeing more of this news on twitter or facebook that the opposition has essentially agreed to talks. well i hope that's i hope that's true and i hope that the syrian regime. is. is acting in good faith here it has to be said that in the past it hasn't done that so

if it is going to do that on this occasion then that will be that will be good news indeed i think the reason why you are not seeing this trailed more heavily in the western media is because there is a competition for influence in the arab region generally and in syria in particular and the western powers see russia and china as their rivals in this and therefore they are certainly not in the business of widely propagating any news which might shed its rivals in a good light but several european countries and gulf states have recalled their ambassadors to syria today why don't pull out now when when it looks like the talks are just really beginning. well as i say i think there is a what's happened since the russia and china use their veto in the u.n. is that this has become a matter of conflict now between the major powers it's not as it was in libya where all the major powers agreed on a course on

a course of action and that was relatively little friction between them one of the dangerous things about the talk of intervention in syria is it's now producing a conflict not between the major powers and a very small and much weaker country but between the major powers themselves and when that begins to happen then wholly different orders of danger are involved in the situation and that's one of the reasons why military intervention would be a terrible error in this case. there are reports that member states of the arab problem cooperation council are planning to recognize the free syrian army as the syrian people's only legitimate representative is a body that's often been referred to as terrorist and armed gains broken up several different factions if that force does get official recognition what impact would that have on the country. well i think we have to be very very cautious about the initiatives coming out to the gulf states they have been

a critical force for reaction in the region and i hope that this does not mean but they intend to intervene directly in the in the syrian case anymore than is already happening i think that would be a step which would worsen the situation now i just finally from the beginning protesters in syria have been calling for a new democratic laws president also announced today that a new constitution is ready to be put to a public vote do you think the opposition will welcome that move. well i hope that it's true and if it is true it will be a welcome move and i'm sure that the opposition will do that but words and deeds are two different things and we've heard the words before if it is to have any meaning whatsoever this needs to be translated into deeds all right john rees joining us live from london political activist from stop the war coalition thank you for your time but we're going to continue to discuss the implications of the

syrian conflict especially in the region i'm now joined by dr been adaptability a research fellow with the institute of national security studies thank you for being with us what do you think the implications of the u.n. showdown on syria are. well if we're talking about israel in particular it's very early on it's very early to know what the implications are going to be. we can see that in the long term if there were to be a regime change in the assad regime were to fall and where to go that would likely be a good thing for israel it would probably lead to a change to a shift in the balance of power regionally it would be a very strong blow to iran which in turn would empower the more. suited to so-called sunni company would in power at the g.c.c. block this wouldn't be bad for israel this would be a good development however that's not the way that's not the way it's going to play

into shorter in the short there were much more likely to witness prolonged internal violence we don't know yet if it's going to be a civil war but it looks like it's going that way and that only will lead to more instability in the region which is not particularly good for syria's neighbors including israel well let's focus on the short term because a lot of people would say the country is already into civil war a lot of weapons across the country a lot of different factions which always i think we know instability what does that mean for israel. there are many different scenarios the more the more immediate concern that israel might be concerned might be thinking about is the proliferation of areas so low as nest so to speak so the idea of a nod or a regulated area of the border with israel that being the golan is a serious concern because even though you assad regime was one is one of the most

antagonistic to israel build a border with syria as being one of the quite definitely more quiet quieter to lebanon for example so the idea that the golan would be calm and you are of lawlessness and not a new hot spots for proliferation of weapons terrorism and so on to support is very much. for israel more in general if you look at the region and certainly in the stability of your his role then there is a real problem here because we have a potential. dynamite situation in syria which is not again i don't think it's going to be resolved in the short term as you correctly said we are if we're not in a civil war very close to a civil war there are the there is a showdown between the regime which is highly unpopular but it's still cohesive in its course about paratus which use what keeps the regime going meaning the army has not defected and on the other hand you have an opposition which yes is popular yes

it's growing yes is strong but it's not cohesive it doesn't have a unitary leadership and it doesn't have a sanctuary doesn't have a base of a physical base worth to grow which basically leads to the conclusion that things are not going to get resolved anytime soon so that's not good for the region in terms of stability. in that of course is not also good for it certainly a lot of different concerns and sides of the issue when it comes to the syrian conflict and it's spilling over into the region thank you very much dr. a research fellow with the institute of national security. studies. now in other news public anger has again spilled onto the streets of athens where thousands of anti austerity protesters gathered in front of the parliament beliefs used tear gas to disperse crowds trying to break through a cordon around the parliament building that's of 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 long delayed agreement on that ballot terms have still failed to materialize and the talks to news on tuesday greece desperately needs the one hundred thirty billion euro international creditors to avoid defaulting in march when we go to the clearest lecturer at the university of the aegean told r.t. the government remains out of touch with the public. they're only thinking in terms of getting gets a bailout loan but the problem is exactly that we are already two years into this you sort through of increasing debt. bailouts bailouts that leads to more recession extrema cannot be presumed to be more precise social diversity and there's no end in sight i think that it's high time for greece to default on its own terms we cannot society cannot take any more of this with the needs of the still.

of this there and try to fill those reconstruct social stability social causes and the ducks in this country. you can see live feeds from the great capital on our website as thousands gather in front of the part of the men to protest austerity 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 coming up for you in about fifteen minutes. their opportunity was last year. have a good it up 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 now 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 solve italy's galled deal with the i.m.f.

because they're totally corrupt this leaves only germany or at the end of the day. for the former head of britain's m i six spy agency sir mark allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped capture and sent for torture under gadhafi into in two thousand and four the investigation may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the colonel's regime are to his ivory bennett explained. abducted 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 haq is now libya's military commander along with sami el saadi he was part of the libyan islamic fighting group this suing

a former british spy chief for complicity in the torture to me the most damaging aspect is that just how much the british were involved in even just two cases of sending senior people back to libya and then the potential damage was just how much they knew about the nature of gadhafi regime and how he and his officials were tortured prisoners that 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 a geek mr harvey this was the least we could do for you and for libya the papers show the cia seized bell in 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 u.k. authorities saying. that they are. they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of. 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 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 of markel and said to have met moosic you say get out his intelligence chief the alleged occasion

a top secret dinner to celebrate the end of negotiations libya gets a seat at the international table in return for scrapping its weapons program and giving britain a lucrative oil contract one worth fifteen billion pounds went to b.p. in two thousand and four the same company 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 and 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 secrets out so we know that ministers in the past resign over these sort of acts of complicity that and 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 london. well there's more on libya's alleged torture networks highlighted on our website for you that r.t. dot com we have details on the death of libya's former ambassador to. brown's who died just one day after being detained under the new government that and much more is waiting for you at r.t. dot com. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. operations are ok. coming up to twenty minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other headlines from across the globe president mohamed nasheed has resigned amid

a police mutiny following weeks of popular protests the crisis drew to a head when authorities ordered security forces to remove barriers between government and opposition supporters protesting close to each other but the leader had earlier come under fire for blasting the chief judge of the criminal court accused him of being loyal to the country's former president she'd swept to power in two thousand and eight pledging to bring more democracy to the island state. factory in eastern pakistan has collapsed after down loaded 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 all the points that rescuers pulled several survivors from the rubble authorities say the factory was built legally and was closed down three times but unlawfully reopened. the british authorities are working to deport the radical islamist preacher abou qatada one still osama bin laden's ambassador to europe 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. now after decades of drilling russian scientists in antarctica have uncovered a rare natural wonder an ancient lake very thousands of feet under the ice are tucson thomas toward the frozen continent exactly a year ago and now explains what this discovery could mean. vostok 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 which was preserved for about four hundred thousand years at a certain point researchers made a new discovery lake vostok

a 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 thought to go into 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 a biological point of view it is some kind of the harsh conditions make working in vostok difficult now scientists have a limited window of opportunity to conduct their research for the season with the arvin we had mana sent for celsius the coldest water was reached it at minus eighty nine celsius at the end of february beginning of march temperatures begin to drop drop drop at these temperatures the planes can't fly anymore and 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 archie. probably back with the headlines at half past the hour next let's get the latest from the business desk with daniel. book into business and a surprising move for the russian stock market compensates minority shareholders for losses on their investment. prime minister putin says the profits to buy back shares from people who took part in the i.p.o. five years ago called price of d.t.b. shares is currently half of the initial listing the plan is this committed to cost up to half a billion dollars while investors await the details richard haynesworth and rating agency bruce rating says they could be of more efficient way to solve the tv's 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 teen new managers who will increase the share price. on the market first exchange rates the euro's swung into gains against both the ruble and dollar as greece moves closer to agree the new bailout strong oil is keeping the ruble higher to the dollar at the moment while now brant surging further towards one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel u.s. crude futures hit a six month high on monday as the called with

a boosted heating demand. u.s. markets have opened lower traders are continuing to cash profits off the three year highs last week. as washington brought to new regulations designed to stop future economic crises bank of america's no point three percent j.p. morgan half percent. europe has recovered but it remains down as greek officials meet to discuss that new bailout miners are also weighing on the markets off the glencore and extraordinary as their merger it sort of dropped over two percent on the news. russian markets have close. mic's will be able to use recouping early morning loss is the most extraordinary to migrate north for a second day. the movers on the minus six flagship carrier aeroflot is lower traders had already priced in the announcement the passenger growth grew by a quarter last year the best results of any russian airline is also down as investors await details of its recent boy back and precious metals producer policy

gold is extending its losses this hour now down over seventy percent investors are cashing remarkable forty percent gains in the last few days or rumors of a merger with rival poly metal other metal stocks are also fairing badly peter weston explains. we had some morning news out of china it was i.m.f. made a projection that should china there could be a slowdown in china's economy down to about four percent from the current eight plus percent if europe sort of gets worse and that has really hit commodity prices where we see the metals companies in particular being hard hit today that's the latest we'll have more business news in fifty minutes time.

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r t we have breaking news syria's opposition signals it welcomes russia as mediating outbursts and trying to bring them and the government to the negotiating table that's after president also the sword russia's foreign minister appears ready to talk to all political science and promised a new constitution will soon be put to a vote or give up for over he's met with bashar al assad in damascus also said both

countries agreed the arab league should continue and expand its mission in syria. iran slams new u.s. sanctions targeting tehran's nuclear program calling them part of the psychological war brock obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. and the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job cuts demonstrators clashed with police to use tear gas to disperse crowds that's as the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more all the measures to appease creditors and secure a vital second valid. well staying with the world economy max and stacy explore a new kind of offensive looking at how currency wars are heating up around the globe in the kaiser report.