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syria announces a referendum on a new constitution to take place the last one two weeks while sporadic fighting across the country shows no sign of abating. rallies to mark the anniversary of approached him ocracy op rising in bahrain are put down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western hypocrisy over different revolts in the region. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders swap almost smiles for china's visiting vice president and leader in waiting as the two nations vie for the upper hand in a turbulent relationship. live

from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's great to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital and twelve noon in damascus syrian state t.v. has announced that a referendum on a new constitution will take place in eleven days that's as reports of new outbreaks of violence continued to pour out of the country with tanks being deployed to the fourth largest city of hama and an oil pipeline blown up in homes well are from the ocean is in syria now joins us live on the line maria the assad regime seems to be keeping its promises it's now announced the date of the referendum eleven days as we've said but at the same time some alarming reports coming on crackdowns from across the country what is happening what do you seeing there on the ground. only thing did today did they told the national referendum or

new constitution the country's new constitution has been allowed to indeed in eleven days it. could be called war in syria and. suddenly the president of syria and the syrian government have already confirmed the new chapter. drafted to end the novel of the ruling party so that they even say that people will die when people called in see you. surely that's the amendment to the constitution we'll allow to make the constitution more troops crimes and more than the conflict actually this is a very cool thing to demand says that initially this was very little because if you have a large but. now will concede place a little bit earlier and the reason behind that may be slightly the situation in the country which is a very very complicated piece of news comes amid. reports that box violence can

throw you away and trade in a different kind of difference if you go across the country just today with live reports from hama. allegedly trying has been deployed around the city from the trying so far as. we've been also receiving reports from homes where they reportedly several explosions over pipeline power and flee. and maybe try again from the mosque to the capital damascus we're receiving reports about the literally searching the residential areas who paid for opposition members because we are right now selling. these echoes through the country and we have got the seas. god are actually we've seen a fiance told to cover no cholera and we are asked to go. a lot of the country is actually already right now all these kind of random actually does require some

ability at least to go to a fundamental part but the people keeping it is that these people are asking for current for all the forms and all trying to go here a.p. right now we think unfairly. that that's. her independently name. may be able to change the situation in trying to pretend it's a complicated in the last leg we want to get to the back of the. pool actually have to say that it's very hard to verify the reports and usually they can't come one from the convention and from along the way they are pretty sure that they're working for human rights and these reports are pretty hard to verify actually has a lot of gold about. how this is called exactly now exactly what's going on in the

country. since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of refreshen torture and killing but with a bad month of homes blame has since focused on assad's forces attacking civilians and shell in residential areas. in a beautiful yard called himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not marry one 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 touring to two 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 b. says when he went to homes 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 while an attack on a military base in aleppo last week an f.s.a. free syrian army representative at the meet its responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming government forces a claim ridiculed by 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 to withstand the arab street support them last sunday the arab league votes still for food political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaeda in muslims to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad recent reports suggest iraqi weapons could tare troops and libyan rebels a 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 in 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 no un 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 that is stored to meet a political objectives. our number. six thousand. six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two poles of it hundreds of. this is. good the common to foreign pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian government and its international supporters say there's been a total failure talk knowledge of violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmoil they warn that find it a solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes written off now t. damascus syria. you can also log on to argue dot com for more on the conflict in syria on our website probably didn't development of the story or trace back to how

it all began we have. exclusive footage our line for you and first hand impressions from the blogs of our correspondents who actually visited the war torn country. well the pictures are familiar regime forces cracking down on protesters but this times they this time they emanate from bahrain activists trying to mark the one year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and fire bennett 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 on since the first anti-government protests will crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the crackdowns been planned by one of britain's former top cops john the eights 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 have borrowed or behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cancer tear gas into the 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 the british police officer mr yates is retired to be associated in any way with it is its role yet resigned from scotland yard last year nearly 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 when you get thousands and thousands of people protesting demanding their rights and you call that vandalism. 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 manama 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 is nothing acceptable it

may not just be british tactics bahrain's using 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. mideast expert eric elise says the different attitudes world powers are taking to bahrain's uprising are easily explained by how useful the regime is to them. those countries which are regarded as as the west still stooges of the west basically not criticise regularly it's not just the gulf states and bahrain in particular it is also countries like yemen whose brutal dictatorial press of the

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 the saudis 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 or has and it does what the west starts to mention in bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong in that principle of and they crushed the uprising. three goalie has also provided us with some insight on the current crisis in syria a special interview with him is on air later this hour but before that here's what else is coming up in the program turkey wants to get out of the economic war on iran and to protect its national interest by continuing to import rainy and oil.

that's coming up for you but first in america it's been a tough first day of talks for china's vice president and leader in waiting she jing paying american colleagues began by voicing disappointment with beijing's economic policies and ended with its stance on syria criticism was also level that china over its copyright and forstmann and human rights record which the visiting vice president took. apart from the brief exchanges the day was largely ceremonial as american leaders find stuff changing the man widely tipped to be beijing over the next decade christine for reports now on the rocky relationship between the two economic giants. he loves me. loves me 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 whined to dine. praised and envied for its ability to do whatever it wants right now in china the

government can disconnect parts of its that are not in the case of war we need to have the chinese p.z. 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 u.s. 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 in and out of it and 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 during 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 such as 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 an 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 and washington christine present our team. well paul craig roberts who served in 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 and ran accounts for twenty percent of jones oil so it doesn't make a lot of sense for washington to go to china and say in the embargo yourself from iranian oil and let us go to an 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 united states says that the south china sea is an area of national interests to the united states and course that 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 may be trying to start another arms race. well european hopes of a last minute chinese financial rescue are fading fast after top e.u. officials visiting china fell to convince the asian giant to commit any of its vast cash reserves to help stabilize europe beijing is especially wary of the situation in greece the cancellation of a meeting with a euro zone finance minister casting more doubt on the prospects for a future bailout our correspondent jacob greaves has more. just how far reaching this crisis in greece and north so viewers are now it in terms of achievement for very list so you had quite a high ranking delegation heading there was headed up by the president of the european commission and president of the european council as well so it was a manual process herman van rompuy both of them despite that high ranking

delegation didn't get any more guarantees apart from good and positive words by chinese counterparts so no financial interactions nothing guaranteed in terms of financial stimulus is really what they want the reason they're in china is because china has the money they need right now three point two trillion dollars reserve currency fund that could help stabilize the markets here understand why the chinese are somewhat wary of this investment because it can all make indicators are only really worsening also that's a food word at the moment which is default greek default and exit from the euro zone what's being talked about increasingly by greek politicians the public but also by those viewers own leaders and that can't be interpreted as anything else but a real slap in the face for the greek government now they have passed another round of very unpopular austerity measures and hope to return their begetting guarantees

today that another much needed bailout that's required to repay their march debt they have been sticking their neck out alone on this issue because it's one that's very unpopular the greek population is alienation which resulted in the clashes with police violence and injuries also disruption to the capital for the protest itself wasn't just restricted to the public we saw in parliament politicians well forty three the ruling coalition choosing to vote no to further their tea measure is this something now that really isn't that popular politicians all the public do get the impression we speak to greeks here in the capsule a growing sense of resentment. how will that be treated the be made to do by the years old by the e.u. we've turned the head of public order here coming out today. and saying that what europe is doing them over the not really acting very responsibly. you can log on to our website anytime you like for the latest news and videos that are dot com here's

some of what's just a click away o'gara is now in the six nations it's called progress the international copyright protection agreement or after sponsored by washington find out why more and more governments are choosing to take a u. turn on web restrictions. and the rebirth of a legend russia's iconic kalashnikov rifle may be given an honorable discharge ask a veteran weapon makes way for a new or model. turkey has no plans to consider alternative oil suppliers and will continue to import fuel from iran and despite the country's nato membership ankara officials have firmly just approved of calls for a strike against tehran and are reluctant to go along with what iran sees as western economic bullying jihan news agency chief of. the dutch i should say says anti iran hysteria arms 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 it is fruition by attacking iran which is more than eighty million population really 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 i see that unfortunately it helps and the tension

helps and for the world it is the the sponsibility to see this and to push real 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 all of us next it's a business update with marina stay with archie. hello and welcome to business here on r t how the later short term drops of russian gas supply to europe spurred this question on how to secure consumers from possible cuts in the future or the head of castro's axe for brunch oleksandr madrid have says one of the ways is so interesting capacities in the region.

it was a. pretty. good . for a few years to. us like a look at the markets now will start with the exchange rates for the euro is again a little bit against the dollar at the scene some losses on tuesday and the ruble is higher against both the european and the u.s. currencies and that's following gains on the russian markets like a look at crude prices they're rising after european leaders pushed greece first stronger commitments to an austerity package and return for a second bailout these are concerns over the regions that crisis which may curb demand for oil prices higher and light sweet crude is trading at over one hundred on one and i have dollars per barrel while bryant is out in just over one hundred eighteen dollars. let's take

a look at the situation in europe the markets there are trading higher following news of profits from key foreigners as well as encouraging comments from china's central bank chief we see that that's adding over one percent this hour let's take a look at what's happening here ambrosch on the markets here also in positive territory although they have slightly minimized earlier gains both the r.t.s. and the my stocks are adding around one percent let's take a look at the in the movers on the my six most of the blue chips are higher and bank of course is no exception but that's because it's expected to finalize a deal to buy east european volkswagen international later in the day majors are also on the rise that supported by stronger crude oil is up point six percent a sour and trough maker come august is still adding six and a half percent on top of a thirty percent jump on shoes day. what i'll see highlights some of the sectors and stocks his company favors. the key in the metal sector or

mitchell common in the euros in the banking sector like. it will soon for so is being called some piece of. story to. develop to. know has been up fifty three percent in the post-war months and we still very much ludes historical horrors. and other news mergers and acquisitions in russia jumped twenty two percent in two thousand and seven compared to the year before and that's all value of deals reach seventy six billion dollars where the growth of ali was twice as fast as the global average chemical production was the top sector in terms of deal volumes while energy and financial sectors came in second and third respectively. let's have as a sox the sound of the back in about fifty five minutes with more in the meantime satyr for the headlines with an isa.