first in. the spirit of the twenty twelve olympic games may now be marred by a sponsorship deal with dow chemical the company many believe owes a moral debt to victims of one of the worst ever industrial disasters in bhopal india ortiz after bennett looked into the toxic legacy that the games are adopting with a controversial new partnership. organizers claim it's the greenest most sustainable a limb pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak one thousand nine hundred four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsibles now owned by dow

chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but is just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about the valuers and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaks from a factory in rural india the subsequent fallout killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india for was ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and as well i can believe that it will open higher and the money's been. fair i got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollar payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but

denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building that water that has been dominated. by factory children are being born with deformities people have more cancers there's growth lead our nation and boy is there is there is god have a problem with their periods all kinds of issues that have. have risen from the ledge and see that has been left behind by this boy in this factory dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising during the games itself but doubt is allowed to splash its logo all over the curtain before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that says it's nothing to do with the protests but it

does mean it's paying seven million pounds for something that won't even show its name but dow will still be able to call itself a sustainable a limb pick partner and organizers say their conscience is clean supposedly thanks to a green line from the ethics watchdog absolutely i do not agree with it it was the question was asked to look at the process and there were discussions within the question and i myself presented a lot of evidence about what happened in the hall and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off that statement dow chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe. i absolutely stand by our procurement process and distance the most sustainable solution to iraq and we are comfortable with that a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but india is

a limpid committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish leaving claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t. london. now look at some other stories from around the world this hour. the leader of a left wing rebel group has been captured in peru being shot in a remote jungle region known for drug trafficking raid in the. hospital and the government saying his arrest signals that the fate of the shining path great thought to kill thousands of people in your country began his battle against the state for twenty years the u.s. previously offered a five million dollars reward for information about the that. pakistan's prime minister yousaf raza gilani has been charged with contempt tough to define a court order to reopen an old corruption case against his political president. to

allege kickbacks given to save lives on a swiss companies and nine hundred ninety s. he was later given immunity from prosecution but that was eventually able to turn out the country's supreme court nominee supporters say the chief justice is either pursuing a personal vendetta working with the pakistani military or want to mount. operations to pump almost two and a half thousand tons of fuel from the stricken costa concordia cruise line begun a month off it capsized it's been repeatedly delayed because of bad weather which will say don't take weeks to know the few on board seventeen people died and fifteen are still missing after the diner run aground on the move and coast of italy the captain was said to be among the first to lead the ship and is now under house arrest. now football coach fabio capello has visited moscow for suppose it talks with a big spending russian side and jeet is the former england manager about to move to

russia's premier league they can find out in our sports news later this hour. for now that's cost saving business desk. hello and welcome to business here on are to start with greece the south where debt problems may have come one step closer to resolution as a country approved even more harsh austerity measures to save the nation from bankruptcy now the historic vote paves the way for the country's european partners only i'm asked to release one hundred thirty billion euros in new rescue loans greece is due to repay a fourteen and a half billion euro bond on march twentieth and leaves the bailout funding in place to avoid a devastating default now other countries are package is expected to get final approval at the euro zone finance ministers meeting this wednesday. time to have a look at the markets now will start with oil crude advance from a three day low after greece's parliament approved us there it's

a measures easing concern that europe's debt crisis will worsen and curb more this is the land lies soon as we can see straight and right now at ninety nine and a half dollars a barrel while the front line there's over one hundred eighteen dollars given on a show markets there are still hating higher following news from greece exporters are among the main gainers and so here with car maker last up over a percent so if you listen to shares generally shrugged off the report that japan's economy contracted by a larger than expected margin in the last quarter of two thousand and eleven and telecoms are on the rise in hong kong with china more operand of one percent. here in russia the markets just opened and they have recovered from friday's losses both the arts yes and m i six are gaining over a percent and market insight from metropole financial corp takes a look ahead to this week's trade. this week is going to be. very important in terms of markers to do so there's

a bunch of markers that just six coming out over the united states and. particular compared to the previous week where there was very little of a marker data here in the market this is a week is going to be very busy and i think the risk arbiter remains high so we will a likely see market moving higher the russian market will. not only from the global markets but also from the commodities market and there we have observed quite a lot of strength over the past several weeks and i don't expect that. to and. then moving on to food retail now which is among the fastest growing businesses in emerging markets here in russia left casias who is the former chief of the biggest retail group x five and now the senior vice president at wal-mart he believes this market offers a more potential than any other. it's very traditional russian approach to compare ourselves with the u.s. i think better to compare the russian market with countries like china or brazil or

mexico and i think we're generally not too far from them sol let's first to beat this country this country and then thinking about our next levels you know the largest russian with all companies to this moment have about three to five percent market share and that if you'll check same figures for some other markets like marcus of western europe or you kate the biggest players usually have twenty thirty percent so. space for rules of companies like x. five money dixie or others the space is enormous so again i am saying that russian market is that probably best in the world market for retail industry. and that's how business likes the sound all but back in about fifty five minutes with more five years here and i'd say in the meantime you can

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our interview with investigative journalist a seven stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria stay with us. today i'm drawn by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on the middle east whose latest piece delves into the discrepancies amongst the casualty figures in the syrian crisis acer thanks for speaking to r.t. now one of the most quoted sources for those casualty figures is the syrian observatory for human rights but you've recently found out information that suggests it can't necessarily always be trusted why is that i think first of all you have to establish who really is this is the syrian observatory for human rights . in our investigation we didn't really uncover any particular reason to doubt the genuine abilities figures. but there is another group led by

this man with a very as figures a slightly higher than the original observatories groups the syrian observatory for human rights led by romeo. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent right and that they were called all deaths whether they're soldiers syrian soldiers loyal to the regime or the defectors or their protesters where as. now as arabs group printed as well but their figures for the number of. military did a much much lower so this seems to be you know a certain agenda there behind it all seems to me basically. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protestors who don't so you've got groups like

the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of a no fly zone which to me seemed ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claimed that i know of. the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that it's bombed people so no fly zone just seems a political. pretext to invade to me. and the original syrian observatory for human rights group is against that that there was split and they said we don't support of his own they said that to me and so on so far so these two these two sides these two groups they both seemed to although they denied direct links to different factions of the opposition they seemed their positions seem to line up why hasn't this internal riff within the syrian opposition been more widely reported do you think it's damaging for all the potentially damaging for the original syrian observatory for human rights if they

get into a slanging match about always to just two sides fighting each other sort of thing and they they would they i mean they they they didn't want to speak about is very to me the original syrian observatory group because of that so that's one factor another factor is just embarrassing for example for the b.b.c. to say well we did probably check this guy and we put him on b.b.c. news channel as a spokesperson for the syrian observatory which has become a really highly quoted source in the news can we still trust that they think there is a good question i mean i think i think it still needs to be looked into more i think it's very difficult this is this is a ration in syria it's very very difficult to get reliable information. because the main reason for that is the fact that the regime has not allowed free access to journalists because it is the only crime was committed which do seem to be.

hopefully not but things do seem to be spiraling towards the scenario of. i think while is what is good that it's journalists are open to the views of activists on the ground which is i mean essentially what was your duty of human rights that's where they get their information from these activists and eyewitnesses on the ground i think it's good for journalists to be open so that at the same time they do need to check them so i think there is a tendency for. the media in this country in america to accept more uncritically the views of activists on the ground in the case of syria and also iran because it they're seen as anti western regimes whereas if it's in the case of things like palestine for example they far far far less regular for them to take the views of activists on the ground how willing has the foreign media would you say been its

consumption of the figures published by the zawi group a lot of the mainstream news channels sort of were taken in by his area and he's appeared on the b.b.c. and he's appeared on zero english and c.n.n. and probably others. as a spokesperson for the observatory although he may have direct friends group says he was never a spokes person for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill that he it plays into the narrative of we need to do something we meaning you know the west or the british government or the american government or whatever we need to intervene we need to do something and it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example period's last month on. australian t.v. and he used the word genocide which of what's happening now i mean. that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's he's

kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to the opposition and that's what people who i've spoken to who are either part of the opposition or sympathetic to the opposition that's why they're kind of they don't like this kind of approach because the crimes of the regime and bad enough without kind of. using words like you know. the syrians are a tree a regional group emphasized to me that they're against the floods and that's part of it doesn't seem to have been picked up by the media in general that although they call their figures a lot they don't quote the fact that well that they said explicitly to me you know i haven't kept sex symbol where we're against no fly zone we don't want to war in this country we want we just want democracy. so again the media seems to be quite selective of the parts that make it. and they did does i suppose the

reality of i like to be on the ground does does play into it into what's going on in the u.s. and to a certain extent but i think there's greater political forces at play here how damaging could a foreign intervention be in syria any outside military intervention in syria would be. worse the kurds. and it could even increase support for the regime in country we saw you see what happens in the case of iran as well as opposition. from. the there is rhetoric from the outside of threats of either bombing from israel or the u.s. all this talk in the media. threats allows the regimes to then say oh well look you have to support us because otherwise you're going to you know you're going to get

bombed and oh well these opposition people they're not genuine opposition they're just agents and so on and so forth so. i think an outside intervention. in terms of whether it's just a so-called no fly zone or any kind of military intervention would very much make things worse. the arab league solution to the syrian crisis is for president a sad to see power to his deputy is that fair i think that's a way of keeping the regime in place and changing the figurehead that seems to be very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down and. essentially to keep everything for and of the parents of kids vice president of the us and the resume regime essentially staying the same is that the what's going on in the region is very much a counter revolution to the wave revolution the sweats the region the whole are all

since. the tunisian uprising was successful in the persian. gulf in every. there's a very powerful counter revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. also by in more indirect way by israel. and the aim of this cancer revolution is by all means to keep regimes in power and if necessary shedding the heads and so you see that happening in egypt where the military rulers were able to preserve themselves spencer and i think these same powers would they are open to that happening in syria keeping the same then we care about democracy proceed they just want more that whatever is best for their interests and if if there would be a moment here before. regime which then had a different figurehead they certainly go for that base winstanley thank you thanks .

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hello and welcome to the world of sport is what's coming up. all changes and jane reports playing for england manager fabio capello could be on the brink of joining the big spending the russian premier league side. battle against seven times you just say champion cornell's a package opens up the new budget and then a championship in moscow. i'm king of the swingers phil mickelson wins the fortieth title of his career as he climbs the pebble beach national in california. but first a footballer and according to sources in russia fabio capello could be about to become the next manager of. the italian resigned from his job as head coach of england last week the sixty five year old arrived in the russian capital on saturday and has been holding talks with the dr strong club with

a decision expected by choose the evening the club will hold a press conference later on monday when an announcement is expected on the future of car ahead cultural thrust of john paul two which had been portrayed to school time with brutal it's a former coach a name neighbors target grozny in the dark for the russian premier league will provide capello with a great challenge if he decides to take the reigns at one of the world's richest football clubs. it was a great experience. to work with these people it's what you learn yourself when you talk about the great experience all you learn a lot you stupid most the city council. has been in the news a lot so much mr capello just resigned and someone you know i didn't expect it that . way before a lot of courage to go before the world cup of the european cup. it's difficult being these don't know themselves where they want to be able to for another word in english.