national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them caffeine and a butt load of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who saved for local killed their son and police say dozens of students have been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains uncompromised with more and more americans looking for their legal high. r.t. new york. they can always find more news online just log on to our west com here's what's waiting for you there today the catch of the day excited fisherman and a pakistani poor boy an enormous twelve meter whale shark out of the water and watch the video on our website our team dot com. the painful aftershocks of the war

heavily armed fighters carry out of what he had tapped at a refugee camp on the outskirts of tripoli. online. now take a look at some other stories from around the world the crucial meeting between the prime minister and dead inspectors on averting the country's bankruptcy has and it was no result lucas papademos failed to secure the support of his coalition for a raft of new austerity measures there reportedly could not agree on cuts in pensions eurozone finance ministers are to discuss to be allowed on thursday and the greek political leaders were expected to agree a deal prior to that meeting. supporters off former president mohamed machine have taken to the streets to demand he be read. stated and straighter sees several

police stations in the capital mali for protest there is how that arrested ousting came to police mutiny and popular protest over his controversial decision to arrest a top jobs he claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return to office. a subway train in chile has derailed and crashed into an apartment building in the capital of santiago the train was not carrying passengers at the time by it was undergoing a test following recent repairs driver escaped with minor cuts and bruises although at least six cars were damaged including one which was crushed beneath the train. at least eight people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the somali capital mogadishu these lamas militant group al shabaab claimed responsibility saying it targeted a restaurant frequented by members of parliament at least two politicians were injured in the blast african union troops have largely pushed

a book out of the capital but suicide bombings continue. now it's time for our russia close of series where we're heading to central russia to discover and neither are little known region of this vast country. where heading to the birthplace of lenin but now the region is making its name making passenger planes and teaching the pilots of tomorrow. tells us about a place with sky high ambitions. it was in the late seventy's that the industrial aviation complex was created obvious starr is one of the largest manufacturers of passenger planes as well as re modernizing existing cargo planes that travel worldwide their islam plane is one of the largest operating cargo aircraft originally designed for the russian military but when the soviet union fell

a demand did too obvious star has been renovating existing response and are now planning a major comeback. a new construction line will launch which will cover the production and the modernization of unique airplanes in the world that are popular such as the roost on. the good news but airlines have used their wrist line freighters to assist in un and red cross relief projects but they'll haul satellites yachts and even the sukhoi superjet two can imagine the two thousand kilos of pressure those this brought that brought it from africa. from the europe for a. special celebration with ali also transported one hundred thousand kilos of beaujolais wine from france to japan he says without ever breaking a single bottle but in order to fly these massive planes pilots undergo constant training to go for examination the for special as a nation it's average in the mix metal is in. its systems and so on

many little boys dream of becoming pilots but the path to get there isn't always an easy one here the only out of six civil aviation school it's the only place in russia where one can get a higher education with courses offered in academics meteorology and over one hundred fifty hours of flight time. they train in these models which gives them the complete feeding of what it's like to see in a real aircraft to a flight. and it's true the images on the screen. and vibrations of the simulator made even me feel like i could be a pilot if you were going to have to be responsible for all soon you have to keep under control so to force your to into another. war and don't forget the bird saved to save to save yes i'm joined today by all the director of corporate communications of the united aircraft corporation thank you for being with us olga

since obvious star has been in existence since one thousand nine hundred eighty how do you evaluate the development of the corporation today we are working together with. the new strategy to two thousand and eleven the new strategy comprises the development of two majors segments in the russian outer space industry its military aviation its commercial aviation and its transport of aviation but what are the major perspectives the goals of their star in oregon of sky and russia throughout the now we are working over the realization of the program of building aircraft and . planing to get first orders for the aircraft. thank you very much you can join us a from aviation to automobiles where with close up takes you on the second part of our series where we discover the was jeeps and join the people who meet them and even take us on a wild ride bracing them karen on the screen. while we are up to

date here on our team member that there is more on our website are a little later this hour we address the question is it really possible to bring peace and stability to syria and avoid a full civil war before that as business news with kareena. i welcome to visit the south thanks for joining me on to printers will get a chance to tell prime minister putin what they're hoping for the next administration that's later in the day innovation and high technology have been top priority for this government for specialists agree that russia has potential but words need to be put into action. right know in russia the same as in berlin germany everyone is looking for this engine of job or a huge event in the basement and the will is there what do we have done to sell it

come by leave people in thirty forty years you could do here in three four years the most important thing is the culture that entrepreneurship and start up business good then. school of the different foundations that fund the company we need more of them there is a lot of wealth in russia here more than we have to curry a sort of it atmosphere and the education that the well could be you anything could be a startup world let me. take a look at the markets now all for us crude prices are heading up after u.s. stockpiles increased less than forecast conference concern that europe's debt crisis will worsen features a little changed up and dancing for a second day on wednesday like sweetest ratings like the below ninety nine dollars a barrel while brant over one hundred seventy dollars a barrel markets in asia are in the red all week local data uncertainty over

ongoing greek bailout talks is also weighing on the indexes to panic you fell for three months high to below nine thousand points industrial firms are among the main or treaters in tokyo and that's after all machinery orders fell over seven percent summer reading previous expectations most hong kong listed shares are also lower with a head sank dropping toughest. and is less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets finished wednesday's trading session with modest gains stronger for support of the stocks looking at trends on the market leader for higher profit for the dialog says that investors are sitting on cash waiting for signals to buy. if we see strong numbers good dollars positive numbers from china on inflation i think that's will help to break these resistance levels and that is russia and so the market can continue to go up last week we saw kind of decent

inflows into russia the decatur fancy and general emerging market funds so i think that many investors are sitting on cash and waiting for my current kind of stronger signals that this rally will continue. well that's all the business back in about twenty five minutes with more more financial.

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markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . welcome back to watching r.t. here's a look at the top stories the violence in syria escalates but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as opposition forces offer contradicting claims over just how many people are dying the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission to syria as government forces they are pounding the city of homs. the e.u. gets the shakes over its own embargo on a rainy an oil as officials express concerned europe could stand up to being the

loser of the ban on porting crude from the islamic state comes into force in july was consumers racing to find el turn if. pakistan's foreign minister has told r.t. that america's drone strikes are pushing new recruits into the arms of the region's militant groups and your report claims to have uncovered scores of civilian deaths and u.s. led attacks. up next as our interview shows spotlight stay with us. hello again and welcome to the interview show on our team. my guest is.

the political crisis in syria is getting really dramatic national media reports thousands dead in the long run and the temperature is rising as the international community can find a compromise on how to deal with damascus after russia and china vetoed the u.n. resolution on syria russia's foreign minister went to damascus to talk to the syrian leader shortly after having a shot. to negotiate now many say the russian mediation may be the last chance to settle the conflict diplomatic so is it really possible to bring back peace and stability to syria and a large scale military conflict. middle east report contributing to that by. the un security council is debating two rival resolutions on syria the one vetoed by russia and china was proposed by the arab league the western powers. which calls

for the syrian president to step down and proposes something canonic sanctions including an arms embargo the russian version of visions ending the violence through negotiations only over the west has a whole. succeeded times both sides and the opposition agreed to get around the table. oh mr rabbani a welcome to the show thank you very much for coming for being with us and my first question is about the mediation moscow has become a mediator in the talks between the syrian opposition namely the syrian national council and president do you think this can be concerted and the step towards a peaceful solution of the conflict were only. like. a military solution well i certainly hope it will succeed because as you indicated yourself this may

well be one of the very final opportunities to prevent an even bigger catastrophe and in syria i think there are basically two questions one is the question of transition and the other one is what happens after that transition the basic problem in syria is that you have a. regime that is on prepared to negotiate about substantive issues. but which retain sufficient popular support and firepower to hang on for a very long time conceivably or at least to make. any transition very bloody and try to straw fick and you have an opposition that has basically put its eggs in the foreign basket and sought to get foreign powers to effect regime change on its behalf i think the russian and chinese veto on the united nations averted

a scenario in which regime change in syria would be produced by external forces and . after coming back from damascus the russian foreign minister a lot of announced that bash our last hour has has agreed on a referendum on a new constitution what does it mean anything does it mean that that syria is now headed in that. i mean for new times for more democratic no you know i think you know a referendum on a constitution or missed. a promised one at that at this stage i think is much too little much too late i think what is needed is genuine and serious dialogue about a negotiated transition i think the opposition has to accept to negotiate with the government but at the same time i think the syrian regime has to be compelled to negotiate about substantive issues and i very much hope that one

outcome of the russian mission to damascus was to persuade. you that it is now time for real negotiations about about real issues well this is another thing that allegedly said to the russian mediators that he is ready for dialogue but what is syrian opposition what are those people with whom he should he should start a dialogue i mean i mean if we talk about if you talk about the s.n.c. their leadership is the broad there then there are a couple of opposition groups inside the country so so some multi multi faced sort of the opposite number so so so is there anybody there to talk to because for me that's put in their will but it looks to diverse and to to do numerous i mean it is it is a divided and diverse and even fragmented opposition but nevertheless i think if.

there are clear signals that damascus is prepared to negotiate not just negotiate for the sake of negotiations but negotiate in the context of a of a genuine and fundamental transformation of the syrian political system i think first of all you already have some forces in the syrian opposition that from the very. beginning have rejected the prospect of foreign intervention and have stated that they would be prepared to negotiate with the regime if the regime demonstrated that it is serious and at the same time i think once you were to get this context you will find that the syrian opposition will have to unify around the subject in order to really think it's impossible of for somebody as foreign for the arabs as their version of the chinese to many in such a situation where when where when such diverse opposition is

facing if you feel i think it is i mean the problem with the syrian situation is that there are very few potentially credible mediators luft if you have the western powers that have basically abandoned the prospect of a negotiated transition because they have chosen i think quite clearly for regime change by armed force if necessary the armed force of the syrians who the i'm sorry for interrupting but they have abandoned because the west considers the being impossible you think still possible not only do i think it is still possible i think it is i mean it may it may well feel the problem is that if we don't try it's going to become. a much more catastrophic situation than it already years and let's recognize the current situation is already genuinely catastrophic the problem again is that you have. an opposition that appears broadly based enough and resilient

enough to continue this uprising for a very long time to come while you also have a regime that has sufficient popular support and firepower to remain in power for a very long time in other words unless there is a negotiated solution this conflict could go on for a very long time and i think the method of the transition will also play an important. role in determining what comes after the transition in other words. will the eventual overthrow of regime produce an even more violent domestic and potentially regional conflict or will it lead to constitutional changes of a more peaceful character while the purse here in moscow. russian the marsh security council as as a diplomatic victory as as as a as a wise move but the u.s. secretary of state called to veto the resolution in syria

a travesty why do you think i think she said well i have to say it's an exceptionally ironic to hear no less. the american top diplomat announcing a veto at the security council as you know the u.s. has developed some something of a specialisation in blocking security council resolutions that seek to to promote human rights in the middle east specifically palestinian human rights so i mean i take this with a very enormous grain of salt and i think that basically american position is that you know vetoes in the security council are only intended to support israel or not for any other purpose ok well one of the republican presidential hopefuls in america senator newt gingrich uses the amateur and said read through in this public speeches he says the u.s. could secretly ship weapons to the syrian opposition or build

a coalition to get rid of unless it what do you take of that i think it's quite likely that that in fact is a policy that is a ready being formulated and perhaps this isn't a republican policy you know it's already been beamed and not only by their states there is also been reports that qatar with the support or at least the blessing of saudi arabia. is already seeking to arm the. armed syrian opposition in turkey i think with the defeat of the security council and also you know the sort of loss of appetite in the united states and the west more generally for another large scale or mode we've talked about the the the fractured in the multi faced opposition in syria to who are they going to ship shape their weapon to do everyone well you know as gingrich put it it would consist of two parts one is covertly arming the opposition and another one of trying to get this armed

opposition more unified so i mean they can already find people to arm you know if they can succeed in unifying these forces in making them a more coherent fighting force i think it's quite likely they will go for it particularly because there doesn't seem to be much appetite in the west for the kind of large scale military intervention we've seen for example in iraq or more recently in libya what will you spend lots of time in in europe do you have a feeling that the west is getting ready to run the libyans and we know i know my my the indications i've seen is is that there is very little appetite for this you know if you compare syria to libya. gadhafi was isolated he had enemies everywhere and very few friends and certainly no alliances and in the past few years he was more or less becoming once again an ally of the west the syrian

situation is quite different the syrian regime has a mutual defense pact for example with iran. and with. russia for example seems invested at least for the time being in the survival of the syrian regime so there are all kinds of regional and international complications in syria that simply did not exist in libya plus that libya. turned out to be a lot more difficult than it was anticipated at the outset says the movie the rabbi in the middle east poured into getting at spotlight will be back shortly after brant celek stay with them.

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with mike's cancer are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that today we're talking to movie and i by any middle east group we're contributing editor which is where the situation in syria and around syria well if i said finally quits. which is a possibility of course who do you think will pick up the pound the s.n.c. is most likely to become the the the ruling party the country it will just say well first i don't think he will voluntarily quit and second of all it depends very much on how he eventually relinquished his power and you know some people have spoken of the prospect for example of

a military coup perhaps coming from within and let's say the alawite security elite who will feel that if they can move him aside it will be much easier to negotiate a transition that preserves their core interests there is a possibility of at some point you know a sudden popular uprising in key cities such as damascus and aleppo which we haven't really seen yet there is a possibility of prolonged conflict and and civil war and ultimately what i think would be most beneficial to syria although looking into. creasing we unlikely is a negotiated transition away from this you know dictatorial one party rule and i think you know we have to admit this this this is not only in a dictatorial regime but has behaved with exceptional ruthlessness pitiless in fact against it against its own people and least in my view has lost any claim to

legitimacy that it made previously people in the west the politicians or the political class do you think they really prefer. that caused by the arab spring well neither this is not just to a person regimes like us it's pretty well the the answer has generally been no if you look at the at the choices they've made they prefer a stable autocratic you know security oriented regime such as we've seen in robotics egypt and i used in egypt and so on i think when wrong well what went wrong is rice is what went wrong from the west point of view was the people in the arab world basically said enough is enough and they rose up and overthrew their leaders and i think these things happened without any planning by the west against the will of the west you know politics sometimes work that way that many people stake.