i'm standing with four by this road user shaper europe and the china let's move now to vice president paying his visit to the u.s. he's there now u.s. and china on a fast track to becoming the world's superpower this is curtailing washington's dominance over the asia pacific might this be behind the u.s. decision to strengthen its military in the region. yes i think that mr she's we say to us ice of are important because she's a key member of. the man who will be needed hey we'll replace the president next our president and the party chief of china so he's understand the. perspective of. the u.s. relationship is a very it were important for the future the relevance of outside the u.s. or british into right now many people are talking about increasing presence offer us an asian every year is to contain the rising off with china and out of hand

contrie is a much more mutual dependence in almost every year supposed to be in trade investment and. areas so i think we. message to us neither of us people which are. a corporation and i understand first are a corporation particular we must intense by a natural strategic mutual trust between try and on the u.s. so we chase ever a key factor for promoting. the first or a corporation to turn to come trace or write down the certainly into some nice understanding in terms of also teach us. and the also about the rising palmer china so i think we start she will have a very intensive discussions always also with us of president obama and also for us

uk a members often either shape to how to show. promotes their relationship to k. countries course the word. deputy director of the center for international monetary research and ram university thank you very much for being with us live from. beijing this hour thank you. well as international pressure on iran mounts russia's military has assessed the probability of a western strike against the islamic republic as being high concerns of pending military action grew after israel blamed tehran for two bomb attacks on its diplomatic staff on monday peter all over is following developments. the chief of staff of the russian armed forces said on tuesday that he thinks a plan for a western attack on iran could be in place by the summer of this year and he's basing that statement on the fact that since the arab spring started

a year ago russia has been monitoring the area of the wider middle east very closely enough to looking at the findings from that monitoring this is what he's come up with now and this comes just a day after two israeli diplomats were targeted with car bombs in the capitals of georgia and india now the bomb in georgia was able to be defused however in india that car bomb exploded very very close to the residence of the prime minister of india and injured several people now israel was very very quick to point the finger of blame for those attacks at tehran despite terror experts looking at the findings and coming up with saying all those pretty much no evidence that it was behind those attacks this is all really part of the ongoing blame game between tel of the terror and the iranians claim that the israelis have been behind a two year campaign of assassinations on their nuclear scientists well on tuesday

in bangkok what we've seen is a rainy unmanned taken into custody by police after an explosion two explosions in bangkok injured several people there now israeli media very very quick to point the finger of terror towards that iranian man who is being detained there so this is all part of as i say a blame game that's ongoing between tel of eve and terror on the waiter we hear about the pitfalls of the u.s. approach to dealing with iran from brian bakker a member of the answer antiwar coalition here's a taste of that interview coming up next hour. the u.s. says they're not carrying out regime change but in fact everyone who's watching knows that is the u.s. policy to create pressure on iran carry out overt operate covert operations economic sanctions and now these new sanctions are not really even a like the old saying is they are saying to the rest of the world if you dare do

business with iran central bank if you buy iranian oil which constitutes half of iran's g.n.p. if you have any business with iran whatsoever you will not have access to american banks to american corporations to the american market this is in fact a blockade. but taking a look now at some other news from around the world a radical muslim cleric with alleged links to al qaida and said to be bin laden's right hand man has been released from prison on bail in the u.k. extremist preacher abu qatada has been locked up for sixty years but last week the tribunals world he should be free but his officials say he poses a threat to the country's security but attempts to deport him back to jordan to face terrorism charges have been blocked by the european court of human rights. the body of the late pop star whitney houston has arrived in her home state of new

jersey you have a moral service catchable for they are this week dozens of fans gathered outside the funeral home hoping to catch a glimpse of her casket it's still unclear what costumes since death though some have speculated drowning or a drug overdose she was forty eight years old. now it's the latest from the world of business with kareena with our two. welcome to business the sol thanks for joining me our also the world's largest diamond miner by i'll put myself fourteen percent stake in an i.p.o. the flotation of the state owned company may take place in the second half of this year you evolve from no one's bank says that the stock will be a unique opportunity to invest directly into the diamond business. from the company is in no hurry to attract money from the market but probably the i.p.o. for also is a question of. trade and in russia overall the size of the is going to be about

one billion dollars it will give older also flawed comparable to other russian metals and mining stocks are usually after a public offering company instead of becoming more transparent more would say friendly to the public overall and to investors. well in terms of business and business development something that will change. let's take a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro is trading lower against both the dollar and the ruble that's after being down in the early asian trading due to waiting downgrades by moody's the move by the way agency also weighs on the ruble which is seeing moderate losses against the us currency oil's next prices are up hovering around a one month high that's after the austerity plan approval by the greek parliament and tighten sanctions on iran futures climbed over two percent after companies in

control of more than one hundred tankers said it would stop loading cargo from iran . european stock markets are mostly higher this hour after a gouge of german investor confidence unexpectedly posted its first positive reading since may that spurred investors to take on more risk however a rating agency moody's knocked two notches off spain's sovereign debt rating it cut its outlooks on the u.k. and france to negative. and here in russia markets are in positive territory with. half a percent let's check all the index movers on them isaac's. nearly one percent of the company plans to invest twenty nine billion dollars in fuel development in the caspian sea by two thousand and twenty five bank reversed early losses it is now adding over one percent they make a come out of among the main gainers the rumors it has made a deal with. russian crops where mother nature is once again playing tricks

just a year after a severe drought the country's plantings are facing a cold test business analyst daniel bushell has more. up the home of some rotten crops may have been damaged by the extreme cold weather say worried farmers italy germany france and poland are also risk from sustained low temperatures which have hit minus thirty three in some polls that's expected to skyrocket prices for things like wine and bread wheat futures have been thawing of the ukraine and russian government warned they may limits exports to guarantee the mystics supply both countries are usually big exporters of grain global we prices jumped eleven percent in the second half of january alone we were russia's top port never received because the suspended load at its grain terminal several times after the black sea froze over for the first time in thirty years a drought from july to november last year had already weakened crops ahead of russia's than one company says fifty percent of the country's great crop could be

damaged by heavy winds and the worst weather in a quarter of a century first tests in russia itself show one in three great finds have already been lost. well that's all for this hour but don't forget you can always find more business stories on our website r.t. dot com slash fests.

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at five thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our t.v. the un general assembly prepares to vote on an arab resolution putting blame for violence in syria solely on the government now opposition claims hundreds have been killed in recent days during an intensified assault on the city of homes while the authorities and says they're finding armed terrorists operating in the city. a fresh wave of downgrade sweeps across the struggling euro zone a six nations get their debt rating to cut by moody's all this while greece faces further ballot

hurdles from the e.u. despite its latest harsh austerity plan that calls public outrage and mouse triumphs. and russia's military predicts the west might decide on a strike against iran before the summer and here rainy and rhetoric in the world intensified after israel accused the o. flomax state of being behind monday's attacks on diplomatic personnel. up next artie's interview show spotlight today al gore nov in his guest focus on the report on human rights abuses around the world issued by the russian foreign ministry. hello again a welcome to spotlight show on our t.v. i'll be in our voting today my guest in the studio is constantin. the russian

foreign ministry spurstow of a report on injustice and other countries has called this third and slammed the western and particularly american fumin rights record during some fierce criticism mainly critics say the report is biased and just another round of the russian american battle yet the foreign ministry plans to publish such reports every year just like the us department failed us so can the russians human rights watch out for it really becomes common practice and all of these kind of reports reliable source of information war and mere diplomatic trip we're asking the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights democracy and the rule of law becomes. the world's most well known governmental human rights report is the us department of state it covers the record of the most united nations members example us and usually criticizes many governments for injustice and violations the first country

to respond to the american criticism was china which has been reporting on human rights us since nine hundred ninety eight the russian report focuses on the us today mentioning the guantanamo bay prison and violation of the rights of american muslims it also covers the european union nato members and georgia. i want to thank you very much for being with us hello thanks well first of all. the question about current position about. the job you're here keeping the position of the spur of a special envoy within the foreign ministry was established just this year or so or pleasure last year last year had only been here a couple of months ago right so whose decision was it why was it decided in the kremlin in the foreign ministry or. well the position has been established as you

put it last year it was. more than a couple of months it was established last april actually and this almost a year time flies and the decision has been taken by the russian leadership obviously and of course. by the leadership of the foreign minister mr lavrov and the idea was kind of. multi fall to profile even more our country russia in the field of human rights democracy and rule of law and those are very much interconnected in the interlinked elements obviously and spheres. to provide for additional opportunities for dialogue with our partners and when i say partners i mean the equate the broad spectrum of those . country is. international going as asians and institutions non-governmental institutions. and also of course to mourn it are the first and foremost they will see to monitor the situation in the field of human rights democracy the rule of law

. broad it means in the world. the underlying idea is their. human rights are universal this is the general recognition and the common recognition is a trained in the universal declaration and the many other documents in common and so on on human rights it means that human race are for everybody. all people have the right to enjoy his liberty to enjoy human race on the on the other hand all states have to. implement certain certain standards what a. why your day to day activities i mean other than writing this annual report will we be hearing from you some comments world events concerning human rights and well i believe they're. already hearing it's not my first name on the russia today and it's great to be back and i have already had an opportunity to provide some of my assessments on russia today and they set me on spotlight they would absolutely and

hopefully the first but not last time but yes i've been commenting on different issues and situations in the humanitarian and human red fields on a regular basis sometimes on a daily basis but on a regular basis and we. putting some of the. commons on the ministers websites or they're easy to access and. also obviously dissipating in there in the drafting. of the reactions by the foreign ministry to do on the different issues which are within my my my scope. you mentioned reports the report to hopefully to become annual. but it doesn't mean that they will wait for another

year or two to. share some of our assessments and i'm sorry asians on how the human race situation develops in the world and we have different channels have been in there and this is my part of my job description i've been in and i am in the regular church with the russian and then foreign journalists and. with a definitely. with our media. journalists who riot and journalists who are now on t.v. definitely are a different channel so we. think that it is absolutely important to monitor how the situation develops because quite a number of issues in the field of human rights in the field of human rights are common issues. i would say even ubiquitous sometimes and not a single country in the world today is immune to all those issues let's mention

some of them for instance racism racial discrimination. discrimination of ethnic minorities. in a broad sense so it provides a great opportunity for cooperation well let's take a look at the history of international human rights reports here's a story from spotlight again. one of the first ever reports and human rights was produced fifty years ago by amnesty international the named in sixty's so thank you one commission on human rights becoming active in condemning human violations which were also documented in an annual report ten years later another international organization joined in it was human rights watch despite so many international bodies doing the job the u.s. state department decided on the issue in its own human rights. in the end in seventy six and your document often contains scathing and now it says on abuses

originally in the u.s.s.r. and later russia another country highly criticized in the us state department report china decided to strike back and came up with its own account of human rights violations in one to ninety eight russia has always alleged the u.s. state department report was biased and question the right of any nation to bear. however december two thousand and eleven so russia's foreign ministry issued its own report on human rights. well the us department of state the united states was criticized criticized by the soviet union by rochelle a later for these reports of this kind we said i remember that america's positioning itself as a judge for other country for their situation human rights so why did russia decide

to follow this example well first of all. i'm working in the in the foreign ministry of the russian federation and definitely as our minister sergey lavrov actually put it yesterday during his press conference on the. year two thousand and eleven. our foreign policy is not an ideological foreign policy and it is. very much preventing one and. that's why when we criticize we do not criticize out of a radiological. for a logical reasons we have we do. observe and monitor how the situation stands in the united states and some other countries we do. i would lie on certain issues which they have and they do have certain certain problems. we it's very important we be using ourselves not just on some

conjectures we're be using l. cells on the assessments given by. pretty much authority if international is admitted of but russia as we remember it the foreign ministry for one has reacted pretty angrily every time we were sharply criticized in reports of this kind especially in the united states report for the situation in brighton russia we did give them and their angry reaction so what kind of reaction do you expect it to your report which is also pretty critical. of the wall. you mentioned. and your reaction well we do react in a negative sense sometimes maybe you can say angrily when criticism of our foreign policy when criticism or while we're practices and situation in russia or in the field of human rights is a biased one. it is a strange one and unfortunately in the in the state department's reports.

quite a number of. assessments and conclusions are falling into this category and that's why we have to react but we do not to react angrily to any criticism which is a constructive one because the issues do exist in our country the problems do exist and we are we are now leadership is absolutely right to do it need it but efforts are being done and when the do to take a leadership is when efforts are not when efforts are underestimated then definitely we have we have to point to point to it and the reaction to our report. let's. maybe distinguish between two sorts of reactions or reactions one is official reaction and we have heard official reaction for. department of state which you mentioned from the united states from finland from some other

countries and i must say that there was a reaction was there as official it would have been pretty much. i can see the way constructive or maybe reserved they were not different than negative. although i would expect some of those countries which have been mentioned in our report maybe not to be governments not to be very much happy with some. provisions of the report well you talking about the official initial reaction we'll talk about the unofficial reaction to your boilerplate in the minutes after we take a break just a reminder that. there are gaff. i

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saying. if. it is easy to. see. me. welcome back to spotlight and al green of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is constantin they'll go off russian

foreign ministry special envoy for human rights democracy and the rule of law this dog of you just told us about the official reaction to your human rights report which you call constructive what was the other invasion in general what is the unofficial reaction what kinds of unofficial reactions have you got of what the angry well as usual reaction is there we're seeing that the reactions for instance in some media years there has been critical reaction to. the reports it depends upon. upon the media and on the newspaper and by the way in some newspapers reaction once again was quiet. acceptable and even quite positive in some other years they have been criticisms well look well are you to judge yourself on this including this rings a bell and with those rings the bell rings it is the eve proves the point that we felt he had the target because the idea behind the report was to once again it was

it is based on objective sources and objective information from international human rights organizations human rights council the u.n. and so on and so forth but they do you want to point out to underline the existence of problems even in those countries which count themselves as the developed democracies you know what sources of information do you use when you prepare your report. i would say why the variety of i mentioned some of them for instance. assessments and conclusions from the universal periodic review of the un human rights council. also the assessments given by such i was well known among governmental organizations as for instance amnesty international or humorous what you or someone here also we also used definitely some of the.