the ground that have fallen in the last few days the most it's really hard to determine what's really going on on the ground there because of safety issues to reach the place and confirm. definite numbers of people. according to that's what according to activists saying that the syrian military has basically. bombed some parts of the city government completely refuted any type of involvement that they have actually. they blame it on the terrorists that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties the government also has issued many statements today that the security forces were able to kill

tens of terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground russia's prime minister vladimir putin has cautioned against forceful intervention in the syrian conflict and warned there was a risk of behaving like a bull in a china shop moscow also calls on world powers to use that political clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their arms and engage in talks or to selena cusco has more from moscow. in light of the ongoing to put a grand about the situation in syria russian prime minister the said that syrians must be allowed to sell the situation in their country on the their own question prime minister speaking during a meeting with the religious leaders have a warrant against any possible foreign to military involvement in the country saying that such a scenario would be akin to a proverbial ball in the china shop

a russian prime minister has also reminded all of the situation in libya where the nato led invasion the situation continues to remain quite unstable and violent russia is calling on international pressure on all parties involved in the syrian conflict in order to resolve the situation diplomatically where is western powers such as the u.k. the united states and france one president asked him to step down they want him out of the picture fascistic in practical steps in the trying to solve the situation in syria now on tuesday russian foreign minister says it's. part of the russian delegation to damascus met with the syrian president bashar last coming out of those talks with russia's foreign minister said that the syrian president is ready to send down for a dialogue with the opposition senior member of the opposition syrian national council welcomed russia's role as

a mediator and the peace process even commenting on his visit to damascus on wednesday. courage all other members of the international community to put more pressure on all sides involved in the syrian conflict in order to bring peace to the country. we have suggested that certain parties capable of influencing the opposition groups especially those based outside syria will try to convince those groups to begin negotiations parties with influence on damascus have been trying to convince. the authorities to do the same as i have mentioned the syrian authorities confirm they are ready to begin negotiations without putting forward any conditions but instead of putting pressure on the opposition most of the world community seems to be pulling out its envoys from syria around italy and spain are among the latest countries to have recalled their ambassadors to syria and to the acid rhetoric is also continuing to come from the united states where the where the

white house is. that the syrian president's days are numbered and at the same time the pentagon has said that they are looking at ways to support the rebels fighting against the regime of president asad although not militarily for now they say. well let's not talk to real bassoon he's a strategic affairs expert joining me live there in beirut we know the members of the syrian opposition were reluctant to engage in dialogue but some analysts we've talked to today say that russia and china have now created better conditions for the opposition to agree to negotiations would you agree with that. i don't think these conditions exist yet they may appear within within a week or two weeks however i have heard the answer of the opposition to the call of the russian prime minister of foreign affairs which is a negative answer and i don't see the conditions today for

a dialogue the law should intervene of course but i don't see that these conditions are yet place why not however or how will those conditions improve and while we seeing any positive response from the opposition saying that they could engage in some sort of why isn't that happening right now. i think that neither side could afford. huge amount of casualties and i believe that if we are heading towards more violence during the coming two weeks i think that both sides have interest in finding out. that would spare the country dramatic consequences and i think that wisdom. some extent of wisdom is still there and your minister of foreign affairs mr la roche said maybe there are also some external parties that may influence either

side to bring everybody around the table and dialogue however i don't think that we are there is today well it's interesting we're just hearing that moscow has today urged its western partners against taking what it calls hasty one sided action there in syria. does this imply that foreign intervention really could be on the cards now and that's something that russia is concerned about right now. if you talk about military foreign intervention i don't think that this is going to happen . at least not now and not soon and when we are saying about not happening soon on mean not weeks but months and if the violence continues as it is now developing every day from both sides i believe that the country will further apart into a difficult situation where dialogue would be even more and more difficult to

establish i really believe that there are some needs now for every party that has kind of influence inside the country to exert positively that influence in sort of the party negotiate a solution and the solution it seems is not that difficult to find it's almost already found however it is the the will and the intention to negotiate that apparently obviously is not there iran is serious closest ally in the region and certainly doesn't want assad to fall you said there's no immediate possibility of some form of military intervention but it could perhaps happen in the future could that be the point when iran could get involved and we see a wider problem. i don't think that iran could be involved or even launched to be involved in any military action inside syria i don't think that this

is the will of iran and it's not the interest of iran now iran is supporting the syrian regime and this is absolutely clear and iran expressed why they supported the regime however this doesn't mean that they would engage into a military action inside the syrian territory i don't think so i really think that the major issue today is what is going to happen within the coming days and weeks and if there is no dialogue as soon as possible i am afraid that we are going to towards more casualties and this will completely change even even the problematic of having a dialogue in the future really interesting here your perspective on this thank you very much for joining us live. thank you well there's plenty more to be found on our top story syria on our website at r.t. dot com including an exclusive interview with russia's ambassador to the u.n. batali chicken which you can watch in full there on the web site also.

we're asking for your thoughts on the outcome of russia's efforts to unravel the complex situation there in syria and online poll you can log on to r.t. dot com to have your say because to hear from me. outraged britain after the european court of human rights blocked the deportation of abu qatada dubbed as i'm up in love and right in europe it's the latest in a string of questionable judgments the overall domestic decisions as also explains patience with the e.u. is running thin. still for inland with its queen its own currency and its parliament was made by someone else this building. house is what we in the u.k. call list supremum court but in practice it supremes in name only despite

being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going to home you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in strasburg could overrule any may take. the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's been derailed and it was never never anticipated of the second world war after the holocaust off the terrors perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim. delays in control of a sea have dogged the european court in stroudsburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided the judgments are written bizarre in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the rights to vote petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing

his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill it would probably mean again the vote to anyone who is in prison aside it could also cost of the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments under the european convention of human rights was about two point one billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight billion in a susi dated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate preacher abu qatada dubbed bin ladin's the right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan where he's now g. to be released on to the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and

publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is and stands for and yet we can't get rid of him because of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each country so far so fair examples none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country that's worked for many many years for the seat or the mother why do we need brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights all together are demanding reforms to stop strides making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court process to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice

system in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weak human rights protections entirely vulnerable. r.t. . egypt says it won't change its stance in the latest round with the us even against threats to withdraw military aid nineteen americans are among forty three n.g.o.s activists banned from leaving egypt and accused of illegally using foreign funds to fuel unrest in the country washington has already called the scandal a slap in the face and threaten to stop one point three billion dollars of support given to egypt. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many of which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak that eventually

brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership lehmann scaff for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that according people they are working on those and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much dangerous for the radicals this is special led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for inge all

. subdivisions against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't. think. so this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there is a big week to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over. the end of the continued on flowing that the provide that support also continue. to washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to stop the laws the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets

protesting against car share the council's concerns are being genomes motives the usa has had a hand in tips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story chase cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silane dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last celebrate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there this it didn't kill us all the armed forces are called now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. in cairo. remember we always have more stories news and comment on our website r.t.

dot com online all the time and there right now for you. anonymous great oakland city officials and publishes their personal data online in retaliation for what it calls the violent crackdown on protests. in the cold snap ukraine enjoys its harshest winter in recent. three with over one hundred people dead because of drastically subzero temperatures a correspondent account from freezing kiev is online for you right now at r.t. dot com. u.k. government may consider the development of chemical weapons for domestic law enforcement that's according to the national academy of sciences a group of experts has asked u.k. officials to clarify their intentions for these substances and the gases being

discussed were banned from military use nearly twenty years ago wolf more on this i'm not joined by mark berg felt he's from the education network in the britain so the chemical agents being discussed have been banned from use in warfare as i just mentioned why would the u.k. government imagine them to be suitable for domestic use what we have seen over the last one and a half years is mass resistance taking it to the streets with the students movement at first with the continued strike movement and trade union movement coming through the streets as well as the riots in august and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets and that's it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k. is trying is starting to use the same measures as countries as mubarak has done in egypt or even the greek government has done to its very own citizens over the general strike but just how dangerous are these chemicals supposed to be what

a fact could they have on. in compasses the nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of that tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gases being used against protesters against larger crowds is there evidence of that people have actually died as a result of that well in the in the general strike in greece what we have seen is that one of the communist trade unionists who was on the streets for several hours on that day actually had a long asphyxiation due to the chemicals being used on creek street so it wouldn't surprise me if similar cases were if if chemical if these chemicals are being used

on british streets that similar a curious as what happened how should the police then keep control you said a little earlier that the police have lost control in the past and we're seeing more and more protests and demonstrations isn't some use of some sort of gas saw or a way of stopping protests or. apprehending people justified under those circumstances after all in britain a little earlier last year we saw serious damage a lot of violence and it had to be controlled somehow didn't it. we need to ask ourselves the question of why the police has ultimately lost control of the street the conditions for the mouse revolt and for the strike movement as well as students movement aren't due to some criminal energies of the of youth but ultimately are the are the product of harsh austerity measures whether it is here in britain ireland in greece and thus we need to say as citizens that the curtailing of our civil liberties and the curtailing of the right to protest in this country should

should be ultimately condemned but we need to say is that the police have overextended the use of force on previous demonstrations so far they have curtailed the right to protest by threatening students to use rubber bullets and water cannons and the latest announcement actually makes very clear the intentions of the police to further curtail our right to protest so i don't believe we need to be talking about the side of protestors but rather of the side of what the police is a aiming to do do you think the police really can achieve those intentions human rights groups who were wary of this also there are legal aspects about this is well do you think really that these chemicals will be used legally after all the main news story here is that the government may sanction these nerve agent gases but is it really likely to happen. yeah i have never implied that it is. likely to happen at this point in time what i'm referring to is the study released yesterday and the article in the independent which clearly states that the military as well

is starting to develop those kinds of those kinds of chemicals and we know that these are being used on the greek protesters as well as egypt protesters as we speak and so what i'm trying to trying to convey is the very fact that we will need to we will need to make sure that the military doesn't use its money and that the british state doesn't use its money on developing further chemical weapons but rather invest it into education interested in your point of view mark thanks very much indeed for sharing your points and not the your field there from the u.k. well i'll be back with a recap of our top stories very shortly in the meantime we have the latest business with katie. thanks phil hello welcome to the business program the south wall to announce scientists futurists have been as are in moscow discussing the russian economy and

its prospects of the coming of global financial hub most of them believe russia has the results is to succeed as marina calls her via reports not without were full. the auditorium was jam packed with business owners and exports hungry to get an outside view on russia's investment climate a walk can be done to improve it all the foreign specialists agreed on the one thing and that is that russia has a lot of potential but the problem is how to realize it more investors are eyeing the merging economies like russia right now because they're seen as the best place to support cash given the economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. at the moment russia locks the global competitive edge and many of the russian experts here today said that the country has many internal problems which need to be fixed and some believe the government should join forces with the business elite to make the changes required that believe that it's important to convince local businessmen to invest in russia rather than abroad and keep specialists in the

country as well as create an atmosphere where on supreme yours are appreciated another one of the main points they will see in the vacation russian state companies have significantly increased investments rewards that's the foreign specialists here say that russia has all the potential to produce the next generation of bonds or for the worse and become the next silicon valley but it needs to act fast and start implements in the changes required now. thank you marina let's have a look at the markets now is change rates for the year is high against both the dollar and the ruble investors are keeping an eye on the great debt talks. seven in five months against the dollar on the back of strong oil prices. u.s. markets got off in the black but it's been a day of traders those greek negotiations are also weighing on investor sentiment across the pond as you can see the dow jones is just

a fraction in the red on the nasdaq is a fraction in the black. european markets finished the day's trading down there's been reports that german charles that government is getting ready to hold a parliament vote on a bad package for grace as soon as this week while greek political leaders struggle for consensus on terms of the aid as you can see both to see. are indeed down. the russian markets closed in positive territory so it's a different story here moscow the my six spanish a third of percent up yes was point six percent up so let's see how the individual news got on managed to gain almost two percent finished higher supported by strong crude bucking the trend food retailer seven continents the company made an offer to buy back shares at a discount to the market price. from troika dialog says investors are on

high alert had a release of chinese inflation figures as. investors are expecting. important news from china which will be released these nights this is p.p.i. and supre number you for we see inflation is slowing down. that's will create a very good sentiment many will be with will be seeing through the central bank of china. lending rules and we can see more liquidity from. and that's all the business of for to day the business he will be back tomorrow in the meantime get on the website is r.t. to slash business.

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