situation well the proposed measures include better welfare for families with many children and smarter immigration policies including the. russians living abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty but the influence it has ramped up his election campaign in light of mass opposition protests and our political analyst dmitri bother to explain now mainly addresses russia's middle class. and i hope is that we can now understands that he said after it right now it's not of the reach you know reach seeking people he's electorate these are the real russian middle class you know people who are you know believe in small towns who have a really hard time at their market economy seats so i hope he is economic policy will move a little more to it and you know we had

a former finance minister who did we had that definite cure to the right now we believe we have rights he wants to give you the state sports you more too he's real electorate which means you know the masa of the russian people. well you can always read more of our top stories online at r.t. dot com here's a look at what's there for you right now the war of words continues with the u.s. navy says it's ready to end all the rest of the rainy and kamikaze attacks read more about the world war two tactic tehran is talking about on our website. and nothing says i love you like a chronicle roads trying to know more about the creepy crawly of valentine's day gift from birth of some lumber advice and say are sharing with their sweethearts on our team dot com.

after more than two decades via fax and one of the world's worst ever engulfs real disaster still linger in bhopal india now the scandal is fixing itself to london's attempt to stage a green olympic games in summer parties armor but it has more on 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 bhopal gas leak nineteen eighty-four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time they left a toxic legacy still claiming lives become pretty responsible zn our own pride dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but it's just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about barriers and

instead all of us are going to have. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaks from a factory in rural india a subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india. was ten at the time because she inhaled left permanent damage and as well. how it would open her and the money's been. fair i got just one thousand dollars compensation part of four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 war that. factory children are being born with is people have more ground there. boy there's there is god have a problem with their periods or a kind of issue that have had. have risen from allegedly that has been left behind by this boy in this factory dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around with stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising curing the games itself but there is allowed to splash its logo all over that 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 doubt 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 do 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-centered a lot of evidence that happened in. and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off 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 now we're by a distance the most sustainable solution to our rock and we are comfortable with that a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but in the is a limp it committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish and even claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t.

. well look now at some other stories from around the world this hour the islamic militants suspect developing bombs used in the two hundred in the two thousand and two bali attack is on trial when mark potok is the top remaining five specked in the bombings which killed more than two hundred people he was arrested last year in pakistan while trying to meet osama bin laden three other suspects have already been tried and executed. families of the victims of the of merge close to concordia cruise ship are marking one month since the disaster are staging a ceremony at a church near the crash site off the west coast of italy meanwhile operations to pump almost two and a half thousand tons of fuel from the stricken vessel have begun seventeen people died and fifteen are still missing after go byner ran aground captain was said to be among the first to have fled the ship and is now under house arrest. next business here in r t with kareena.

hello and welcome to business here and actually thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest in russia shares since the beginning of the year and setting growth in the us and progress with europe stats and feeling appetite for risk this is help reverse the trends in capital flow last year more than eighty billion dollars fled the country so far this year has been an inflow of one billion dollars so he challenged from the nation's asset managers says the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of attitude towards the russian language the market since the beginning of the year and. then will strengthen by the time to bed the russian equity market has outperformed the markets in the world so to give you a plane full of russians not nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the whereas the us market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the politics and seems to have subsided very much market thinks of

patients now they have put in will come back as president and the one difference which we have relative to this time last year. there expectations for the form one. bike president. let's have a look at the markets alex change rates for us the euro's gaining value on easing fears of the greek debt crisis have struck oil is pushing the ruble higher against both of. us. all has recovered from a three day low concern school that had bad on the way to cut supplies light sweet is trading over one hundred dollars a barrel while brands is one hundred eight dollars. european shares a high after greece's parliament approved the details of the austerity bill banks are no longer making news across europe miners are also high asked to strongly rule helped boost the class of copper and other metals here in russia markets have recovered from friday's falls with mars ics heading for its biggest gain in five

weeks energy majors and the biggest gainers let's check on the convict's movers applies ixus our gas problem is up on the news european market share grew by the percentage points to twenty seven percent last year almost make you bush's biggest mining company in france to the most announced on higher prices for the eco components gold is no word though on the news much of talks between a company rather minor i mean that collapsed. moving on now to russia's fast growing food retail market which. luring foreign investors seven eleven is one world renowned food chain thought to be eyeing up the market according to media reports the company hasn't officially confirmed the rumors last year the retailer said its priorities were brazil and india analysts say that seven eleven will have a hard time if it plans to develop a food chain in russia alone they add that the most logical group would be to team up with an existing market player left us is the former chief of russia's biggest

retail group thanks pov was now the senior vice president at wal-mart leaves just a couple of ways to enter the country's market at the not only the way for and from the russian market for the. but least visible on the market or program for lucent position is vision of some existing players. just with solutions when you don't need those stores little saw i think with him next year some other companies will think about rush market from a way to enter the market. that's all the news this hour. so.

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six thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our team israel blames iran for attacks on israeli diplomats in georgia. an india in which two people are found to have been injured. russia says it regrets the arab league winding down of observers working in syria and stresses the proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces greet a cease fire. fire and protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public

outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another e.u. bailout. now on our t.v. our interview with investigative journalist also when stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria. today i'm drawn by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on live least he's latest piece delves into the discrepancies amongst the casualty figures in the syrian crisis and he said 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 and we didn't really cover any particular reason to doubt the genuine obliterate trees 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 and led program. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent and human rights 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 as arabs who claim to do as well but their figures for the number of. military dead and much much lower so this seems to be you know certain agenda there behind it all seems to me basically. although both sides deny differences 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 seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claimed that i know of the syrian. for all its many crimes there's no claim that it's problems people so new for them just seem the political pretext and very to me . and the original syrian observatory for human rights group is against that there's a risk listen they said we don't support know that i was there and they said that so me and sort of these to 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 for internal reform within the syrian opposition been more widely reported do you think it's

damaging for the potentially damaging for the original syrian observatory for human rights if they get into a slanging match about always just two sides fighting each other sort of thing and they would they i mean they don't want to sneak around there it's i mean 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 properly check this guy and we've put in one b.b.c. news channel as a spokesperson for the syrian observatory which has become a really highly quotes a. source in the news can we still trust that they think there is a good question and i think i think it still needs to be looked into more i think it's very difficult that this this is duration in syria it's very very difficult to get reliable information from anyone. and the main reason for that is the fact that the regime has not allowed free access to journalists because of is

the ongoing crime that is committed wish to seem to be. hopefully not but things do seem to be spiraling towards the scenario of survival i think while it's 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 syrian observatory for human rights that's where they get their information from these activists and i witness is on the ground i think it's good for journalists to be open so they have 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 desire group a lot of the mainstream news channels sort of were taken in by as i read and he's appeared on the b.b.c. news that appeared on al-jazeera english and c.n.n. and probably others. as a spokesperson for the of the. very have direct rounds who says he was never a spokesperson for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill working 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 and we need to do something and it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example periods last month on. a string in t.v. and the news there were genocides which of what's happening now i mean. that

seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to the opposition and that's for people who i've spoken to who are 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 some kind of. using words like genocide. syria observatory a regional group ran for so it's really very tense in the flood zone and that's part of it doesn't seem to be picked up by the media in general that although they call their figures a lot they don't quote the fact that while they said explicitly to me in heaven catherine said somebody that we were against a 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 they pick.

does i suppose the reality of. bloodshed on the ground those does play into it and see what's going on in the u.n. 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 military intervention in syria would be. very much make for worse the kurds the. regional conflagration. and it could even crease support for the regime with them entry we saw you see what happened in the case of a random in the rose opposition. from within the there is rhetoric from outside of threats of the bombing from israel. us with all this talk

in the media. threats allows the regimes to then say oh well look you have to support this because otherwise you're going to you know you're going to get bombed and over these opposition people they're not general opposition they're just agents and so on and so forth so. i think and i'm so intervention. in terms of whether it's just a sort of no fly zone or any kind of military intervention very much make things worse. the arab league solution to the syrian crisis is for the present and sad to see power is that putin is that fair i think that's a way of keeping the regime in place and changing the figurehead seems to be very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down and. as i said keep everything for have a balance of vice president was around and they resume regime essentially staying the same there's a look what's going on in the region is very much

a counter revolution to the wave revolution this rep's the region the whole arab world since. june is you know whereas in the successful in. in any. there's a very powerful counter revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. and also by in 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 dispensable and i think these same powers would they are open so that happening in syria keeping the same they're really care about democracy perceval just want whatever whatever is best for their interests and if if there would be a more manual. regime which then had a different figurehead they said we go for that. thank you thanks.

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top stories israel blames the wrong for attacks on israeli diplomats in georgia in india in which two people are fought to have been injured. marchers says it regrets the arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. firing protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage has collates up to the greek parliament says the new austerity bill to secure another e.u. ballot. up next the latest sports with jimmy trick.

hello they're good to have a company again they sell all the ladies in gold for nothing in the next eleven minutes so so coming out in the cold. all changed other reports claim former england manager fabio capello is on the brink of joining the big plans english premier league side. page break from the summer's allows the seventh time to just the champ to close a part of a no zero budget and then make championships in moscow. in goal mickelson the winds of forty five love history explains the puddle beach national in california. and we'll start with football according to sources in russia fabio capello could be about to become the next manager of anji know which color of the

club's management at place to place an official announcement on the future of coach john expected later it's believed he lets the club by mutual consent but capello reportedly arrived in moscow on saturday and it had been claimed it was due to held talks with the darker side of the sixty five year old has denied those rumors saying is through the holiday parties richard from portland has caught up with former jays terry gross me and the dutchman believes capello could be joining a league that's going from strength to strength. it was a great experience. both to work with there were always people who want to learn yourself when you talk about a great experience or you are a lot. of country. news a lot of times capello should resign and someone you.