turkey has no plans to consider alternative oil suppliers will continue to import fuel from iran and despite the country's nato membership officials have disapproved of calls for a strike against iran reluctant to go along with what iran sees as western economic bullying three hundred news agency chief. says iran his styria homs the entire region it will be a very important headache for turkey because turkey is part of nato and because of that turkey has certain responsibilities but iran is very important neighbor that two countries iran and turkey did not have war for centuries it's

very difficult to get a settlement get a solution by attacking iran which is more than eighty million population big country but as far as i know the current israeli government are not helping to find. a. peaceful. diplomatic solution to the crisis. in terms of the internal political interest i hope i see that unfortunately it helps and the tension helps and for the world it is the sponsibility to be seen and to push really diplomatic means as far as possible in order to get rid of the possibility that we have another who are in the middle east which would be detrimental for all of us. well meantime american warships continue to cruise iran's backyard the

aircraft carrier abraham lincoln sailed through the center for moos just weeks after tehran one wouldn't tolerate a u.s. naval force returning raney an errant naval forces shot of the maneuver the incidents were reported to iran or threaten to close the strait use for a third of the world's sea oil trade response to ongoing western sanctions targeting the right nuclear program. in romania have had to be rescued by emergency services after heavy snowfall trapped inside their own homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine counties using helicopters not only trucks to deliver food and medicine but since the end of january hundreds of died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels they've been on a plane or so badly affected. what a kind of tear gas it takes that you call scripts to me and chemical testing

missions that's really veterans regular soldiers who go to the. doctor and talk about pensions and health care demonstrators say should have the same rights that are being deployed to the audience who were detained and several injured coming up next hour on cross talk people develop dispute. the status. of those founders found around the falkland islands in the area. under its sovereign control then we know where the oil belongs but this sort of back and forth between large including britain and the following list continues to dominate . the only the only colonial going into this whole debate is the fact that argentina want to colonize three thousand british subjects on the hawkeye and i think that's a bit simplistic alex do you want to record i heard david cameron too but oh no

it's something i know what you want us let us. ask the three thousand people who live on the falkland islands and they will want to remain british. latest from the business world. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. we start this hour with the bailout for crisis stricken greece which is once again in question and meeting of the finance sheaves to discuss a second also a billion bailout has been called off and that's after athens failed to provide critical details about planned spending cuts these include an austerity plan to save an extra three hundred twenty five billion euros something that inflamed greece with violent protests over the weekend if the greek cabinet figures out where to squeeze money from brussels would then be able to. cash it would amount to

around one hundred thirty billion euros on top of one hundred ten billion euros granted two years ago. kasparov was close to finalizing its long run in talks on gas supplies to china the head of the firm's export brunch alexandre madrid of hopes to strike a deal in the near future and the parties are struggling to agree on construction of a new pipelines pump energy from russia siberia asia i like some of them a bit of believes china will finally come to terms with russia but surely we. just need to feel. one perimeter which will. usually be construction projects and projects changes so it could make the job in china. i was assured of the arguments will be taken into account but we believe the very real correction was that those politician because of the changes price should be the same level of european support. all right let's take

a look at the markets and i will start with oil crude is rising still after european leaders pushed greece for stronger commitments to an austerity package in return for a second bailout easing concerns over the region's debt crisis which maker of demand for oil sent the higher light sweet it's going to be trading at over one hundred dollars per barrel while the brant blend it's just over one hundred eighteen dollars let's move on to asia where markets are still picking up steam as surprise monetary easing by japan central bank made the dollar extended surge against the gun and the weaker japanese currency sent exporters higher with carmakers to yodel and holland both adding over three percent and over in hong kong gains are led by property stocks rebounding strongly from losses at the start of the week. both here in russia markets just opened and they are in positive territory both the r.t.s. and the my six are out in over a one percent at the moment on she's day the markets finished mixed with the r.t.s.

in the red and m i six points and upwards. and same with the markets it has been enjoying the rapid growth since the beginning of the year and looks interesting go from the highlights some of the sectors and stocks his company favors. we resemble what we saw in the post two weeks. before or will be for more girls. and we also. really of all in the. world. and in other mergers and acquisitions are russia jumped twenty two thousand and twelve and that's compared to the year before that's all the value of deals reach seventy six billion dollars while the growth in volume. as the global average

chemical production was the top sector in terms of deal volume energy and financial sectors came in second and third place respectively. and that's how business works this hour back in about thirty five minutes from now with more financial news but in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with carrie.

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could just. saw on its own. cultures of resistance on marching. on. more news today violence is once again flared up the families are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all today.

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let's have a look at the headlines now rallies to mark the anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain a put down of tactics and weapons from the u.k. talking claims of western governments hypocrisy of different votes in the region. sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders could china's visiting vice president and leader in waiting she jinping as the two nations buy for the upper hand but turbulent relationship. and one sided reports from syria blaming only the regime for atrocities are seen by some as an

attempt to hide the truth of the conflict sweeping rebel crimes that. were next to laura smith talks to middle east experts tariq ali on the turbulent situation in syria and the implications it could have for the entire region. i'm talking to terry allie who's a historian and author and writes mainly on subjects to do with the middle east of course we're talking about events in syria tariq ali thanks very much for talking to us now president assad seems to be clinging on to power in syria do you think there's any chance of him stepping down in the near future well it looks unlikely as if he'll step. of his own accord i think he has to be pushed out the syrian people are of course doing their best in the country what is more dangerous is the

pressure of being built outside especially in istanbul and by need to try and organize an intervention that i think would be disastrous and lead to enormous bloodshed much much worse than what's happened in libya. so i think that be a disaster i think the best way is for pressure to be put on him from without by a countries who are not seen as hostile to syria which include russia china and others. and the pressure should be kept on at home and he should be told in blunt terms that he has to go where his father shed a lot of blood in syria he is now doing the same and that this family's on acceptable in syria needs a nonsectarian national government to prepare a new constitution the arab league's reportedly calling for a joint arab league u.n. so-called peacekeeping force to be sent into syria president assad has already rejected the idea do you think it's a good idea i don't think it's

a good idea to send any so-called peacekeeping forces i mean first we have to say what is the arab league the arab league is essentially amaury by and organization which is brought to life when the west needs it too it is played no active role for the last twenty five years in any positive sense in the region it failed to stop the war in iraq it backed the war. libya and it's probably being used as a surrogate to try and push through foreign troops an intervention in syria which i'm totally opposed to i think that is the one thing syria does not need is foreign armies we've seen what's happened in iraq and we've seen what's happened in libya but surely the involvement of the arab league which is kind of a local regional group is better than the involvement of the un or nato as exterior organizations well it's fine having observers from them if they do their reporting

accurately but foreign troops i mean you know who will be the foreign troops there the arab league said saudis said cut through these these sort of big vote crews of democracy in the region i mean that's utterly ridiculous it doesn't make sense at all i think the pressure has to be kept up on the externally nonviolent pressure that he has to go and i think the chinese and russians are now. in a strong position to be saying we've effectively prevented any foreign intervention in syria but you have to go. and push through. a national government the other people of course who are people getting pressure on most of the iranians and hezbollah in lebanon and i think all these forces should now see that it is impossible for syria to be governed by this family and this sectarian clique that has ruled it and the sooner they go the better for syria in

terms of external forces well the arab league's decided to halt all economic and diplomatic contact with the syrian government will that have any practical effect do you think probably not because the. other countries are not going to do that the reunions are not going to do that they are a strong creating partner and lebanon i don't think is going to get involved in that on that level so it's not going to have a huge impact i think the only language. the clan and the military around him will understand is very firm language from china and russia i think they are now in a strong position to push through change without violent action do you see syria as becoming increasingly isolated in the region and what effect will that have on iran in turn do you think well i think they are becoming isolated i think the iranians

are such an independent state to me one of the few sovereign states in the region that they can look after themselves i don't think the fall of us as such will affect iran because it will be in the interests of the syrian government if it is a democratic and representative government to maintain good relations with all these countries i mean you know i i have to say that when you look at what the west did in relation to the uprisings in the crisis in the yemen where killing still go on and what they're doing in syria it just sort of stand for the former yemeni president is having medical. speak. so this double standards that operate make one who is suspicious of western motives people pushing for the intervention in syria after saudi arabia gotter essentially they would

like a syrian version of the muslim brotherhood to do to run the country that is the new plot for the arab region and then the united states will do deals with them as it has done in the past and you say china and russia are in a very strong negotiating position now however. foreign minister lavrov says visits to syria recently seems to have yielded no results whatsoever well i think that you know if it carries on like this that the. for. amalie and clam refused to budge and refused to relinquish their stranglehold on the country sooner or later something disastrous will happen possibly including some form of foreign intervention and then where will they or do they want to end up like about do they want to end up like saddam hussein lynched by mobs backed by western troops that is the future that stares them in the face there is no other approach let's talk about the sheer complexity of the various forces that seem to be at large in syria at the

moment we heard reports that british and cattery forces are operating undercover in syria do you think that could be trained it's perfectly possible british and catherine forces were operating under cover in libya long before it became public now we know this is what they were doing intervening in these conflicts to bend them in their own direction so i have no evidence for this but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were behaving like this and what about the iranians we've also heard that report although they've denied it of fifteen thousand iranian troops going into syria well that i don't know i mean i would have thought that given the pressures on iran the moment from the west with the european union imposing sanctions the americans rocket grappling the israelis threatening to bomb it it could be ordered to put it mildly if they started sending troops out of the country

but we have no real evidence of either the british and the countries or the uranium i'm saying one is possible the other may be possible both are equally foolish we've now seen violence spread from homs to a second city aleppo and the us say that al-qaeda is involved in that if syria is substantially infiltrated by terrorists what do you think will happen will it give the west essentially an excuse to put up some sort of military operation in the country or on the other hand will they let the terrorists do the dirty work of overthrowing president us out themselves. they might do that i mean he is a very weak force at the moment it's used essentially to frighten the children that it has very little military strength its leader this is why he really has issued a statement saying that he is part and parcel of the struggle to overthrow.

fighting alongside some group or the other but they have very little actual strength and i don't think one should take. all exaggerated ideas of the threat it poses to seriously i mean the fact is the overwhelming majority of people in syria of want the outside the family out and that is the key thing which we have to understand in which he should august. a lot of commentators have been saying about the arab spring in general that the violence and uncertainty in the aftermath will enable the muslim brotherhood as the only organization that is organized enough to take advantage of it to essentially step into the fray are you worried that that will happen in syria well i don't support them politically and i don't think it will be in the interests of syria to have an islamist government you know moderate or extremist the baton seems to be at the moment of saying that the

turkish model a moderate islamist government is the best model for the arab world i disagree very strongly but that i don't think it's a good model for turkey either by the way. but the fact is if it's the only power in the land it will and there are elections that will come to power like it has in tunis here like it has in egypt and then one has to deal with it i mean i regard these groups as the slum equivalents of christian democracies socially conservative organizations but perfectly happy to follow the latest economic trends. which dominate the west and do deals with the united states they've done them before the turks are part and parcel of that the strong member of nato and these countries will probably follow suit whether this is what people really like them is a different question altogether but you make the muslim brotherhood sound fairly benign really do you think that christian minorities and other minorities have

something to fear from that well i mean there is always within moderate islamist parties a current which feeling that they can't really offer people what they want which is a decent standard of living which is a social safety net to work then divert attention by targeting minorities the brotherhood has done it in relation to the copts in egypt and it's not impossible but they're sort of peers in syria. i will do the same so that is not a good thing i told but you know we have to wait and see if this is what the majority of the people want then unfortunately it will happen so nor late. thank you very much thank. wealthy british style sun it's time to supply the.

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rallies to mark the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain put down the tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims that western governments hypocrisy over different revolts in the region. one sided reports from syria naming only the regime for atrocities seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict by sweeping crimes under the carpet. and sizing up new arrivals u.s. leaders could jolt china's a visiting vice president and leader waiting she can paint the two nations cry for the upper hand type relationship. and she brings us the latest sports news now.

hello there thanks for watching the sports and these are the headlines it's not over yet rubin boss but dave remains defiant despite his team's europa league loss to him p.r. cost in moscow. while barcelona put one foot in the quarter finals of the champions league with a three one win over by laver couzin in germany. and for mark sort he gets praise from a limb pick chiefs and competitors for test events for the twenty fourteen winter games gathered pace. but first the football and rubin manager kabamba day of believes his side can still progress in the europa league despite their surprise one nil loss to him p.r. cost this the first leg of their last thirty two clash the game was played on these artificial picture moscow's because of the freezing weather but it was the great

champions who took the lead through david forster with eighteen minutes left rubin then had a great chance to get level after limpy of course keeper by lars mcgeary was sent off for a far longer than his kind i didn't but substitute keeper roy carroll came on to save the resulting penalty from nacho afterwards rubi manager kabamba day of said his side had played well and promised his team would take the game to the greeks in the second leg next week while in the other europa league tie last night past his finest sporting braga loss to know the turkish side with us in the champions league leon got a hard for win over polwhele alexander like as their tea with the third with the win in the first leg of this last sixteen clash and defending champions barcelona went a long way to reaching the quarter as of the three one win over by laver couzin in germany alexey sanchez with a break for the spaniards his manager happy with the result. of the previous but i think by a little coups and did not allow.