have risen from the allegedly 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 dow 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 light from the ethics watchdog absolutely i did not agree with that it was the question was asked to look at the process and there were discussions within the question and i lie self 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 told coach. i absolutely stand by our procurement process and distance the most sustainable solution to our rock and we are comfortable with that a boycott from indian athlete 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. well there for more analysis now of our previous story of the. latest pre-election article we're joined now by political analysts perino mercy me to bob it live here in the studio thanks for joining us and this article talks about things like huge increases in wages and pensions for the russian people how could afford this where's the money going to come from or well i would not say that

if you promise us. automatically basically what we see in that article is a mixture of liberal and social democratic solutions. in fact we can repeat some of the things that he's greetings from the right see for example the fact that some students who did very badly on standardized they think it should not be allowed to go to the institutes where they're supposed to become engineers so he proposes to save budget money in that way all the other hand he says that we need to improve the situation of all people and to support families with many children because otherwise russia's population will drop to about one hundred in about forty years. and of course when you mention students there that's interesting because the article says heads of state run board is that universities could decide their own staff salaries how can how can that work in terms of corruption for example would

that be a problem well the problem is that in russia. all universities and institutes we do not feed. international standards so the idea is they're called weak universe this should be shut down and merged with the ones that already have good names in russia and that was an important change that took place under water in russia now it's a social norm that a person has. if after school you didn't go diversity if you didn't get higher education you must be some kind of really poor or. educated person so. the problem is that everyone goes to school but the problem is what qualities that school is going to be so i wouldn't suggest it is to make their quality more geared to the real news over climate and that's a liberal solutions does make all this sound very easy so some people might say why has it all been done before oh well he talks about it he says that basically we

would not to reach their formal level of pensions until the two thousand and ten so he's pretty modest in his assessments or what he has done here he confirms that there bold every. of the russian people still leave on their quarter to neville so he doesn't involve store everything that was done in the last twelve years he just says that the situation was sold bad it's wrong they started to improve it and he acknowledges that if they nourish it continues if things go they go no the population will continue to shrink things that wages pensions education these really touch on people's everyday lives that will that have an impact when it comes to the election and how people vote well i think it will have an impact and my hope is that we're now on the stance that he's electorate right now it's not the reach

you know rich city people he's electorate is the real russian middle class you know people who are living in small towns who have a really hard time adapting to their market economy is so i hold he's economic policy will move a little more to the left you know we had the former finance minister couldn't we had that deafening tilt to the right now if we believe in rights he wants to give the states more to his real electorate which means you know the last of the russian people ok after they get there we shall see thank you very much indeed life here not a thank you. well the business up there with marina. hello and welcome to business here on ars you know we saw the greek debt problems which

may have come one step closer to resolution as the country approved even more harsh austerity measures to save the nation from bankruptcy there is sort of both paves the way for the country's european partners and the i.m.f. 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 needs the bailout funding in place to avoid the devastating default now the country's loan package is expected to get wind of approval at the eurozone finance ministers meetings this wednesday. let's take a look at the markets in europe today just opens and they are higher as investors are more confidence about the greek debt situation both of the sea and the dax are gaining just under one percent it's been on a show markets there are also all following news from greece exporters are among the main gainers and with car maker miles up over percents and tokyo listed shares generally shrugged off for poor the 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 one percent let's look at the picture here and russia where markets have recovered from friday's losses both forces are gaining with the r.t.s. now over two percent in the black and last check on the index movers oh my six this hour gasper is all news its european market share grew by four percentage points to twenty seven percent last year bucking the trend i was told drugmaker form standard which raised earlier gains the company increased revenues by over forty percent to around one and a half billion dollars in two thousand and eleven but that didn't help it keep the percentages higher and gold maker pollers gold is that all news merger talks between the company and another miner polymaths all have collapsed. and let's take a look at currencies the euro is gaining value on the easing fears over the greek

debt crisis and the stronger well it's pushing the ruble higher against both the european and the u.s. currencies let's take a look at the oil prices crude advance from a three day low after greek since parliament's approved austerity measures easing concern that you have is that prices will worsen and curb commodity grab as we've been reporting earlier light sweet and straining at around ninety nine and a half dollars per barrel while the prime blend is over one hundred eighteen dollars. is a concern from a global growth have made many investors turn against the emerging economies and russia is among the apparent beneficiaries of capital flow into the country reached the psychological mark of one a billion dollars in early february and i know this expected to strengthen after the first elections in march and that most russian stocks are currently at the lowest level in three years and that follows last year's price of capital outflow of over eighty four billion dollars. and moving on now to russia's fast growing

food read so market which keeps on lower and foreign investors seven eleven is a one world renowned food chain thoughts of the markets and that's according to media reports the company hasn't officially confirmed the rumors last year the retailer says its policies were brazil and india analysts say that seven eleven will have a hard time if it plans to develop a food chain in russia oh yeah that the most logical move would be to team up with an existing market player. all of the way and from russian market for. at least visible in the markets or driving for leadership position is through a position of some of existing players or just with the corner solution when you don't need your stores patrol saw i think within the next year some other companies

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article. now in r.t.r. interview with investigative journalist a so when stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria stay with us. today i'm joined 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 we 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 observatory's figures. but there is another group led by this man

with a very his figures are slightly higher than the original observatory's groups the syrian observatory for human rights. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent right and that they record all deaths whether they're soldiers syrian soldiers loyal to the regime or the defectors or their protesters where as. now is are it's group printed as well but their figures for the number of. military day are much much lower so this seems to be you know a certain agenda there and 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 political. pretext to invade to me. and the original syrian observatory for human rights group is against that there was a listen they said we don't support a no fly zone they said that to me and so on so forth 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 position seems to line up why hasn't this internal riffel 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 as i read 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 didn't 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 this can we still trust that the 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 i only know . because and 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 a 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 the root 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's 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 in its consumption of the figures published by the azzawi group

a lot of the mainstream news channels 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 rarely have direct lines group says he was never a spokes person for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill but 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 periods 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 are bad enough without kind of. using words like in a. series or three 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 going said to me where we're against a no fly zone we don't want to war in this country we want we just want democracy. so again that the media seems to be quite selective of the parts that they pick. and they did does i suppose the reality of. bloodshed 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 and intervention in syria would be. very much for the worse the kurds. the regional confrontation. and it could even increase support for the regime within the country we saw you see what happened in the case of iran when there was opposition to that from within 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 as 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 there seems to been very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down to. essentially to keep everything apart and they were parents who vice president was and the regime essentially staying the same visit the what's going on in the region is very much a counter revolution to the wave revolution sweats the region the whole are full sense. the tunisian uprising was successful in opposing. open alley.

there's a very powerful counter revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. and also by in a more indirect way by israel. the aim of this cancer revolution is by all means to keep regimes in power and if necessary shedding the head 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 they only care about democracy perceval just want more that whatever is best for their interests here and if if there would be a more manageable. regime which then had a different figurehead they would certainly go for that base winstanley thank you thanks.

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how i walk into the world of sports hey what's coming up. will change it and reports claim former england manager fabio capello who could be on the brink of joining the big spending a russian premier league side. cage range most almost all lads battle against seven times you just say champion cornell's a pad opens the door groan verdict and a championship in moscow. i'm thinking of this one as 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. could be about to become the next manager of. the italian resigned from his job as head coach of england last week it's believed the sixty five year old arrived in the russian capital on saturday and has been holding talks with the club with

a decision expected by choose day evening the future of current coach you're a crusty john will be decided at a meeting on monday at three pm moscow time a lot easier is about paul the latest caught up with ruud gullit a former coach of on jeans me unable to tell it grozny and the dutchman believes capello would be joining a league that's going from strength to strength. 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 can see the most recent house and. senate he's been in the news a lot about times to post this response by going to someone you know i didn't expect that makes their way free for a lot of courage before the the world cup for the european cup. it's difficult being these don't know themselves what they want to be able to for another word in english before there was an english and there was no good so it's like a four.