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syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution which would effectively end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country that made escalating turmoil. a rally is marking one year since the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh clampdown with police using tactics and weapons from the u.k. . but ramping up the rhetoric israel's prime minister calls for a stop to what he calls a rainy and aggression spite a lack of evidence linking tehran to the recent bombings in india georgia and thailand.

left from our studios in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he's. now it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in damascus and syria's president bashar al assad has ordered a referendum on a new constitution to be held in eleven days that's according to the country's state run news agency but it could put an end to the one party rule of the president's baath party and shrines in the country in the current constitution the announcement came to mid reported violence in the cities of homes and home on some of the fiercest in the months long on rest are serious a notion of reports from syria today called a national referendum on the country's new constitution has been announced in every day that are expected to be how the. syrian government and probably confirms a document that had been drafted to end the monopoly of the ruling party people who govern people according to the. initial i was should build full marks to brendan

but we can see he is going to earn more diffuse come to make records about ballance competing all across the country and today he has been receiving reports from hamas north of the top so the mosques about the tanks being deployed that come home about problems whose real pipeline bad parent. may fly banned from the capital damascus but the military searching the residential areas looking for position members these reports are very hard to verify usually they are coming from one source from the syrian opposition we got these about while traveling. not far from the. dome there in malta and we've been talking to. when the news appeared the government also. fully. intend to. moan moan moan and the news is

a good but again this is very complicated to get the truth to get exactly what is going on on the ground and here is my report. since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of repression torture and killing but with a bad month 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 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 who i am he is trying to to 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 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 on an attack on a military base in aleppo last week an f.s.a. free syrian army representative at the mit its responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming the government forces a claim ridiculed by the regime. insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could see 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 their abstain support them last sunday the arab league vote still for full political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaeda and muslims to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar. 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 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

the 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 are destroyed to meet political objectives. our number so for six thousand. dollars a 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 to talk normally to violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present tomo they warned that finding the solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes regional now t. damascus syria. well president marc armand from the international relations department

at the university of bill can and turkey says the announcement of a referendum on the new constitution poses a major challenge for the syrian opposition. whereas a year ago the opposition as it began was demanding political reforms now the chief spokesman for the syrian opposition abroad and as far as we can tell the various rebel armed groups say nothing short of the fall of assad even his execution is acceptable so it's a challenge see how the syrian government will be able to stage are afraid of that will have legitimacy in the eyes the opposition on the other hand for the opposition if there's a large turnout of voters that could well be damaging to the claim to really represent the syrian people obviously in many ways a democratic election is the ideal solution to political conflicts but now. both sides have people in fear the consequences of losing and the opposition itself can't really risk. losing face by now backing down and taking part in

a way to process. the u.n. general assembly will vote on thursday on a new syrian resolution condemning the government for violence in the country the document was drawn up by saudi arabia and catherine is supported by a number of western powers times correspondent pepe escobar says unlike libya syria is unlikely to fall under western influence even through forcefulness arce well this takes in syria so much higher compared to libya because this is a direct effect a direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the one you know on the other side much more than it was in libya in libya russia and china and even to the other brics and germany as well they said ok maybe this is not the red line yet 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 population you cannot simply landing invasion is out of the question because the it will 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 is like it was as active what they were doing. well don't forget there is much more news and analysis on the syrian conflict on our website r t v dot com you can follow the latest developments or trace back to how it all began our correspondence have uploaded plenty of videos and firsthand impressions from inside the heart of the troubled country. now last year pro-democracy protesters in another arab country bahrain thought they got what they wanted after being promised reforms including those of the police but twelve months

later activists trying to mark the anniversary of the uprising found the clampdown was as harsh as before the only difference was this time some tactics and arms the police use were brought from the west by those supposed to bring democratic change archies ivor bennett has more. 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 ates 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 homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death to just sort of use out of doors and i think for the british police officer

overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is it's his role yet resigned from scotland yard last year an early victim 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 and we lose thousands and thousands of people protesting demanding their rights and all that vandalism. he seemed to forget sixty five or sixty five people actually died of brain 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 the impact as previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning of. mr john is contributing we should see a positive things of the ground what we are seeing today as 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. but bahrain is not the only example of the west so active approach to dictatorships and pro-democracy protests those british pakistani military historian journalist tara kelley it's all interview is coming up on r.t. later this hour but here's a bit of what he had to say. when you look at what the west did in relation to we are praising. some big crisis in the yemen where killing still go war the former yemeni president just having made the. right states. so the double standards that operate make. people pushing for be intervention in syria saudi arabia have got to. be they would like. some of the muslim brotherhood to run but concrete then the

united states will do deals with them as it has done in the past. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has stepped up his anti ron brader were exciting tehran's aggression must be stopped but he repeated his claims that iran was behind recent bombings targeting israelis in several countries allegations fueling concerns of military confrontation on monday netanyahu was quick to accuse iran of attacks on its diplomatic staff in the capitals of india and georgia four people were injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi while in tbilisi the device was diffused before it went off the next day two people apparently with iranian passports were arrested in bangkok after a number of blasts injured four people there israel says there are links between all the incidents despite authorities in india and thailand saying there's no such evidence and iran denying any involvement in the bombings well to discuss further

implications of these events i'm now joined live from beirut by all the risk expert on middle east affairs thank you for being with us today i in light of netanyahu his latest statement that iranian aggression must be halted what action should we expect from israel. well many people have speculated the recently that israel might go ahead for a unilateral attack that is a fear which has been expressed time and again now i'm quite convinced that the u.s. and israel have a difference in their point of view that has become clear especially when you look at the contradicting statements and even american officials are very clear that there is a disagreement with israel america wants to give diplomacy a chance while the israelis are very intent on a strike now with respect to these latest incidents about bombings occurring in in the georgia and thailand when you hear the rhetoric which is being said the language being used by israeli officials for example they say iran poses

a threat to the world it poses a threat to the region i think what they're trying to do is prepare the public opinion or gain public opinion support for such a strike the reason being that for the time being there is a kind of a world public opinion which is against israel and views of israel as a hostile hostile state which is that aggressive which always wages wars and for that reason public opinion is not in his roles for you about so by taking advantage of these events whoever might be behind them what is what is trying to do is trying to get out again the public opinion support which has swayed away from israel so much over the past few years especially when you look at the wars which waged on lebanon on and on goes on so it's an attempt to gain the public sympathy however i don't think that this will succeed because it's very clear that iran cannot be behind such an attack such an attack or what we saw is an act of amateurs not people who really want to target someone and if iran let's say as you assume iran really wanted to target an official why would it go for bombings in india or attack

ambassadors at all or embassy employees in such countries like india or thailand or do ga it just doesn't make sense what that's a do you think that israel could act alone we've heard turkey speaking out against it reports about the u.s. could israel go out on its own and take action against iran. unfortunately the u.s. the possibility does exist that israel could go ahead and launch an attack against iran however i think that is a slim possibility the reason being is well runs the risk not only of iranian retaliation and how iran's allies could come to help likewise by law for example here in lebanon and that's not the only risk the other risk is that there is an increasing argument in america itself that israel is turning into a strategic liability for the u.s. not into a strategic strategic asset now if israel goes ahead and those bomb iran and if and that will lead to very negative repercussions including the economic repercussions

when it comes to oil that argument about israel being a strategic liability for doris's of america will increase more and more and that will lead to huge public opinion outpost inside america itself against israel don't forget that we are witnessing protests in america over the economic situation the occupy wall street movement which has even touched upon foreign aid and called for foreign hate to stop and you know that israel comes on top of the list when it comes to u.s. foreign aid so there are huge risks for his role which do involve its alliance with the u.s. or for that reason yes there is a possibility that israel might act unilaterally however that possibility remains very slim we're just getting some news in if we focus it on the economy at all that iranian state t.v. is saying that it has cut in fact or oil exports to six european countries in response to e.u. sanctions first of all how serious do you think that is is a real possibility and second of all what are the implications of that. yes i think that here iran is trying to send

a message that it cannot be you cannot deal with iran in such oyo iran has its own weapons while the west for example believes that it has weapons and ammunition represented by sanctions iran is also an important country which can also respond in the appropriate manner i think is also a warning. that if military action is taken if military action is taken this would have only be small comparing to how iran could react in that case i think it's a small warning that if you. take action now economic action against us this is what we can do imagine what action we could take if you go ahead and use the military card against us so i think it's a warning to the west to keep israel also tied there on it and to prevent his role from going ahead with the unilateral unilateral military attack trying to throw the west you'd better keep israel intact otherwise you might be witnessing the very difficult period in the in the future in case of military attack is what is launched all right on a risk expert on the middle east affairs talking to us live from beirut this hour

thank you for your input. but promises of support that's all that high ranking e.u. politicians can get from china during their visit to beijing the asian giant stop short of outlining concrete steps in certainty comes as greece again failed to meet conditions set up by the e.u. which led to the cancellation of a key meeting between euro zone finance ministers jacob graves reports from athens is showing just how far reaching this crisis in greece and also the euro zone now it in terms of achievement feels very least so you had quite a high ranking delegation heading there it was headed up by the president of the european commission the president of the european council as well as a manual but also. both of them despite that high ranking delegation didn't get any more guarantees apart from good imposed of was a chinese counterpart so know by now. sure interaction the thing 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 to food at the moment which is default greek default and exit from the euro zone which being talked about increasingly by greek politicians the public also boy those viewers old leaders and that can 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 o.t. measure is this something now that really isn't that popular politicians all the public do you get the impression we speak to greeks here in the capsule a growing sense of resentment of how they're being treated what they're be made to do by the euro zone by the e.u. and i.m.f. we've heard the head of public order here coming out today m.p. and saying that what europe is doing them over they're not really acting very responsibly. well over on our web site r t dot com we're asking what's ahead for the eurozone not much optimism from voters so far we take a look half of you think euro is doomed to failure thirty seven percent say greece will spark a chain reaction of default about it can't think germany will save the crippled

euro zone and the minorities see austerity measures as a way out what europe or counts jumped the line log on to r.t. dot com and vote. look now at some other stories making headlines around the world china's vice president has spent a day visiting top officials in the u.s. but did not seem to warmest of welcomes american vice president joe biden voiced a whole list of disappointments from beijing's economic policies to its stance on syria criticism was also leveled at china over its copyright in force when and human rights record apart from the brief exchanges the day was largely ceremonial as american leaders sized up xi jinping the man widely tipped to lead beijing over the next decade. nato has admitted its recent airstrike in afghanistan killed eight civilians the attack happened a week ago in the village north in a village northeast of kabul and has outraged afghan officials become in the wake of the latest un report indicating that the number of civilian casualties in the

decade long war rose last year compared to twenty attacks. and villagers in romania have had to be rescued by emergency services after heavy snowfall chop them inside their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine which authorities are using helicopters with authorities using helicopters i should say an army trucks to deliver food and medicine since the end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels with moldova and albania also about the affected. let's get the latest now from korea not at the business desk. it's twenty four past four pm here in moscow welcome to business with me korean american it's good to have you with me the latest short term drops of russian gas supplies to europe spurred discussions on how to secure consumers from possible

cuts in the future ahead of gas bombs expert branch alexander made video says one of the ways is to increase storage capacities in the region. to choose a key. supply for extreme situations like. those as well repros a program to. experience . between two hundred to three hundred million euros for a few years two to visit kyoto with. the destiny of russia second subsidy gas linked to europe will be decided this autumn the country's gas monopoly gas problem says it will confirm a final investment decision on south stream in the vendor the pipeline will deliver gas to europe bypassing transit countries such as ukraine and is currently expected to be completed in two thousand and fifteen. looking at the markets now a first in the last few minutes iran and also it was cutting export to six european

countries and their response to the e.u. threat to use threat to pose an embargo against iranian oil imports good prices were already up on the day as worries over supply dominated concern about we can on the grow lights where it is currently trading at over one hundred one and a half dollars per brant one hundred and eighteen dollars about. now the euro's gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday the ruble is high against both the european and u.s. currencies following gains on the russian market. well most european stock markets advance on well received. earnings from heineken and b.n.p. power markets are also positive due to a pledge from china that it will help the eurozone tackle its debt problems the fourth c. is a quarter of a percent in the dax is gaining over one percent this hour here in russia the markets are also in positive territory minimizing adding

a percent plus check on the index movers on the rise x. most of the blue chips are high at this hour and bank is no exception it is expected to finalize a deal to buy folks bank international later in the day all majors are on the rise supported by stronger crude oil oh most a percent and bucking the trend is truck maker kamaz that's up to unexpected thirteen percent jump on tuesday today it's losing one percent. moscow could soon restore mass production in the city the capital's authorities say they are negotiating with. and a number of korean carmakers to set up production at the plant of. city hall plans to turn the facility which used to produce armored cars for soviet leaders into an innovative production. well and last but not least if you found.