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rallies to mark the anniversary of pro-democracy uprising in bahrain are put down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western hypocrisy of the different votes in the region. one sided reports from syria claiming that only the regime for atrocities are seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict sweeping rebel crimes on the carpet. and sizing up the rivals of u.s. leaders control china's a visiting vice president and a good way to continue paying for two nations by the other hand in a turbulent relationship. plus russia markets kicked off the trading session on a positive note with both the r.t.s. and i myself added around one percent we have all the details and this is.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. the pictures are familiar the regime forces cracking down on protesters but this time they emanate from bahrain just hours ago activists trying to mark the one year anniversary as a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and reports the weapons as well as the tactics may have been imported from the u.k. . tear gas and stun grenades supposedly the work of a reformed police force but one year since the first anti-government protests were crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the crackdown has been planned by one of britain's former top cops john yates used to

be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reforms the police about . behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cancer tear gas into homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death tear gas or use out of doors and i think for any british police officer mr gates is retired to be associated in any way with that is it's wrong yes resigned from scotland yard last year an early fix him of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in bahrain in december as part of the regime's p.r. campaign to clean up its image a campaign pushed hard it seems by yeats himself he recently told the daily telegraph his new charges had a well rehearsed plan for the anniversary of the uprising adding the concept of reasonable reaction to provocation has been reinforced. as for the uprising itself yates said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets

claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean you get thousands and thousands of people protesting demanding their rights and all that vandalism if you seem to forget that there are sixty five or sixty five people actually died from police brutality activists in bahrain insist their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital. they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front or from. previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we're seeing today as nothing acceptable it may

not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off either bennett r.t. london. a middle east expert says the different attitude world powers take to bahrain's uprising is easily explained by how useful the regime is to them. those countries which are regarded as as the west or stooges of the west basically. criticized regularly it's not just the gulf states and bahrain in particular it is also countries like yemen whose brutal dictatorial present prison former president

is currently in the united states receiving medical treatment there were demonstrations in saudi arabia a few days ago which got very little coverage of course so these have no democracy at all it is probably the most undemocratic country in the entire arab world no one talks about this because it's a useful country it has always and it does what the west starts to mention in bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong. and they crushed the uprising. but our economy has also provided us with some insight on the current crisis in syria especially to be with him is on our next hour but before that here's what's coming up in the program. that he wants to out of the economic war on iran decided to protect its national interests continuing to import iranian oil. a blast has ripped through an oil pipeline in the syrian city of

homs where clashes between regime troops and opposition fighters have continued for over a week. seeing pictures of thick smoke hanging over the city activists say the explosion was caused by government strike reports suggest the army has sent hanks' extension areas in the country's fourth largest city. commission hard to verify concerns that some want painted in a bad light on the opposition. since the beginning you know the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of refreshen torture. and killing but with a bad lot of homes blame has since focused on assad forces attacking civilians and shell in residential areas. the beautiful yard calls himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not true aleutian everyone his stress is from

a social democratic group originally from holmes he blames assad for mistakes which allowed bloodshed at the start but he just defies what the regime is doing in his native city now he is the two i am he is trying to. protect civilians i think that in homs there are many gangs you know there is a title and everyone can claim that he belongs with this title and no one can ban him the danger posed by the armed forces was seen in the killing of a french journalist last month and he says when he went to homs he put in his mind that the syrian opposition is very peaceful in the trying to frame them so he he was like a pioneer in the call and he was killed by the some gang attacks on government targets have become increasingly bloody themselves with twenty eight people killed and scores injured or an attack on a military base in

a little last week f.s.a. free syrian army representative admitted responsibility before the organization later denied it claim and government forces claim ridiculed by the regime. insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could say that the government is killing its officials and officers and destroying its own administrative buildings these armed terror groups were created to commit these crimes and they have committed them in the past and will continue to do so if the west and the arab states support them last sunday the arab league vote for full political and financial support for the opposition. to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaida. to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad recent reports suggest iraqi weapons qatari troops and libyan rebels are role in syria on the opposition side this makes for

a volatile and highly dangerous makes. many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create the very militants i won't call them terrorists but very dangerous armed groups but the west has its eyes wide open when it comes to the reported death toll to come of the lone figure of more than five thousand employees civilians only but that's bigger leaves out any mention of pro-government forces killed in the conflict some say the numbers are destroyed to meet a political objectives. our number. six of them six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two hundred. this is. good commented foreign pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian

government and its international supporters say there's been a total failure to talk normally to violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmoil they warned that finding the solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes written off now t. damascus syria. well former national first hand reports and impressions from inside syria just check out her twitter feed her latest tweet she says locals are skeptical about the latest arab league initiative to bring in peacekeepers deeply concerned about militants fighting in the country. but patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked told r.t. that some major players are rejecting peaceful solutions for syria and polarizing an already complex situation. the removal of diplomats from syria. the desire to arm the free syrian army from the west and to basically support them

to give them kind of sectioned off training areas where they can develop an open strong opposition apart from the kind of threat of a sad all suggest that you know the west isn't willing to have you know encourage any kind of dialogue or discourse of tool alternately they want you know they've now polarized the situation they've now said you know. evil we need to get rid of him they use those kind of terms evil you know the. ogre or bogeyman and you know the syrian people are vulnerable victims who need to be protected by the west now i think we saw the same thing with good afi and it's always very striking that you know it was only two years ago that assad was seen as the group's reformer in syria the west were basically queuing up to talk to him. well asia times correspondent pepe escobar says unlike libya syria went forward on the western influence through intervention because it has a stronger position in the region. well dick stakes in syria are so much higher

compared to libya because this is that that iraq it's in fact a direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the wall and on the other side much more david was in libya in libya russia and china and even that the other great apes and germany as well they said ok maybe this is not the red line yes let's give them the benefit of the doubt i mean the french and the brits and the americans the country was destroy syria you cannot do that because first of all they're going to have to fight the real army even if they're not very competent but they are battle hardened there's been two wars in the middle east the syrian army it's a smaller country there's more populated and you cannot simply landings asian is out of the question because the ied would go all over the place the repercussions to turkey to jordan to iraq to saudi arabia so nato strand is to foment civil

war and that's it's like it was as active what they were doing. but china's stance on syria also cropped up on the first day of talks during the chinese vice president's visit to the u.s. speaking pings that american colleagues voiced disappointment with beijing and moscow for vetoing the recent u.n. resolution on syria also level that china was criticism over its trade laws and lack of copyright in force but if the visiting vice president took stoically apart from their brief exchanges the day was largely ceremonial as american leaders sized up cheating paying the man widely tipped to lead beijing in the next decade christine present reports now on a rocky relationship between the two economic giants. he loves me loves me now that age old question is one china at least has every right to ask regarding its relationship with the united states just in the last three years china has been

winding down i. praised and envied for its ability to do whatever it wants right now china the government can disconnect parts of its own are not in the case of war when you don't have to the chinese pretty easy row capital gains tax folks in congress are also going to get a chance to decide later. in the month whether our construction workers should sit around doing nothing while china builds the best railroads the best schools the best airports. in the world but it turns out those chocolate covered compliments seem to come just as frequently as those cold hearted criticisms from human rights to currency devaluation to trade we finally need to confront the issue of trade with china all too often china's been competing in a way that's tilting the playing field and is unfair to us workers and it's not just the president himself those hoping to take his job also tend to flip flop on china these guys around for us and the end of it but instead of looking for ways to

. to work to harness china doesn't want to various they want to see has succeeded thrive so we can buy more chinese products ivan eland senior fellow at the independent institute says the paradox transcends the rhetoric we borrow a lot of money from china too so it's quite a curious thing that we're really borrowing money to pay for defending other countries from china right i mean that's what really doing the mixed messages are reaching the masses as well in a recent gallup poll by fifty two percent to thirty two percent americans were more likely to name china than the united states as the leading economic power in the world today even though it's not however in a separate survey when asked which country represents the greatest danger china came in second only after iran in life and love there appears to be a fine line between resentment and respect i want to be china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business

if you look at china they're in a very different subject they say for their own retirement security they don't have the f.t.c. they don't have the modern welfare state and china's growing it's that growth and the sharing is caring relationship that has bound these countries in this holy union this trade and economic interdependence with china is is really a defining factor and perhaps like most relationships there's nothing simple about the. between the u.s. and china there are disagreements about who gets to lead when how to spend the money and how to raise the children but the fact is this relationship is one that's going to be around for generations to come in washington christine present our team . but paul craig roberts he said at the end president reagan's administration says that u.s. desperation to stall china's rapid rise could prove costly the united states says it is responding to china in two ways one it's trying to reduce china's independent

access to oil around accounts for twenty percent of john's oil so it doesn't make a lot of sense for washington to go to china and say. embargo yourself from iranian oil and let us put our american puppet in office in that country as well so we can prevent your. economic development from catching up to us too quickly and the united states is responding to china also with increased military presence the united states says that the south china sea is an area of national interests to the united states their course it doesn't make any sense it's like china saying the gulf of mexico is an area of national interest to china so i think these types of.

militaristic statements. encourage china to build up its military and so the americans sensibly maybe trying to start another arms race. and you can log onto our website r.t. dot com for the latest news and videos any time you like and here's just some of what's just a click away today hackers deal a devastating blow to the world's second largest stock exchange and take out its web site an online. clue smile at the world have come to another chernobyl style disaster we reveal fresh claims over fire. this. more r.t. dot com. turkey

has no plans to consider alternative or oil suppliers and will continue to import fuel from iran despite the country's nato membership konqueror officials have firmly disapproved of calls for a strike against iran and are reluctant to go along with want iran sees as western economic bullying well jihan news agency chief i meant says anti iran hysteria harms 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 a 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 interests i hope i i see that unfortunately it helps and the tension helps netanyahu and for the world it is the the sponsibility to see this and to push read diplomatic means as far as possible in order to get rid of the possibility that we have another war in the middle east which would be detrimental for for all of us. meanwhile israel won't stop pointing the finger of blame at iran television for says recent explosions in bangkok dentical two previous terror attacks in india

georgia and surrounds past the time that this plane bomb was discovered in the thai capital similar to those used in the earlier bombings tehran denies any links to the incidents try authorities have reportedly charged two iranian suspects who were arrested shortly after the blasts series of explosions hit bangkok on tuesday but nobody was killed because the attacks were carried out as planned. but it is in romania have had to be rescued by emergency services after heavy snowfall trapped inside their own. countries that winter death toll has now reached seventy nine the thirtieth using helicopters unarmed trucks to deliver food and medicine since the end of january hundreds have died of course eastern europe tens of thousands in. record snow levels with moldova and albania also badly affected. water cannons and tear gas having fired ex richie conscripts knowledge and capital

to protesting for recognition this rule veterans regular soldiers who fought in the falklands conflict in one thousand eight hundred ten are entitle to pensions and. demonstrators say they should have the same rights despite being deployed to the audience twenty four people were detained and several injured coming up in ten minutes time on our cross-talk program people of l. looks at the ongoing dispute over the legal status. that its founders found around the falkland islands in the area. under its sovereign control then we know where the oil belongs but the sort of back and forth between origin clearly. and the following continues to dominate. the i guess the only the only colonial that are going to hold. argentina wants a colonize three thousand british subjects on the whole. galaxy you want to david cameron too but it's going to be i know what you want. us to.

three thousand people who live on the falkland islands and they will want to remain british. but marina has had now the latest film of this world. hello and welcome to business here now the bailout for crisis stricken greece once again and question and meeting of finance chiefs to discuss a second multibillion 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 million 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 issue the new bailout cash it would amount to around one hundred thirty billion euros on top of

one hundred ten billion euros grants of two years ago and same with the euro zone china has promised to invest in europe bailout funds and keep some of its reserves in euros that's china might help stabilize the economy of its largest export market and that the global slowdown the morgan stanley capital and that's for asia pacific jumped more than one percent on the news and that was the biggest gain in the month . gas promise close to finalizing its long run in talks on gas supplies to china the head of the firm's export branch hopes to strike a deal in the new future and now the parties are struggling to agree on construction of a new pipeline to pump energy from russia siberia to asia but alexander would lead to believe china will finally come to terms with russia. truly we. just.

should be. open. for it let's take a look at the markets now let's start with the exchange rates the euro is a gaining against the dollar after seeing some losses on choose that and the ruble is higher against both the european and the u.s. currencies following gains on the russian markets now let's move on to the oil crude is rising after european leaders pushed greece for stronger commitments to an austerity package in return for a cycle of bailout as we mentioned and easing concerns over the region's debt crisis which maker of demand for oil higher now light sweet this could be trading at around one hundred and one and a half dollars per barrel is just over one hundred eighteen dollars over the asian

markets are still picking up steam as surprise monetary easing budget plan central bank made the dollar extended surge against the guy and then that weaker japanese currency sent exporters higher carmakers to yoda and honda both adding over three percent and over in hong kong games are led by property stocks are abounding strongly from losses at the start of the week. and here in russia it's now one hour in and the markets are still a positive territory boy they are ts and the my stocks are adding over one percent so let's take a look at the index movers on the my sides you can see that most of the chips are higher the sour inspire bank is no exception it is expected to finalize a deal to buy eastern european international later in the day and oil majors are on the rise supported by stronger crude of course with blue. point seven percent and truck maker come march is extending previous gains after an unexpected thirteen

percent jump on tuesday like social call from what i'll see highlights some of the side person stocks his company favors. the picture would resemble what we saw in the post reeks of the whiskey but the names. no metals blowing smoke the. beef will be full moon girl smallest moon. we also work. with the chimp back in the moon due to the names of them really well in the past two weeks. and. could. name. the other news of mergers and acquisitions in russia jumped twenty two percent in two thousand and eleven comparatively a year before the total value of deals reach seventy six billion dollars with the growth in volumes twice as fast as the global average chemical production was the top sector in terms of the overall it was for energy and financial sectors came in second and third respectively.