through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john is contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we see 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to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off the bennett r t london. power frame is not the only example of the west selective approach to dictatorships and pro-democracy protests says british pakistani military historian and journalist tara kelley it's all interview is coming up on r.t.

in just over ten minutes but here's a bit of what he had to say. when you look at what the west did in relation to the pride sings and the crisis in the yemen where killing still go the former yemeni president is having medical equipment from the united states of america so this double standards that operate make you suspicious of western most. people pushing for intervention in syria saudi arabia. essentially they would like a syrian version of the muslim brotherhood to run the country and then the united states will do deals with them as it has done in the past. in america china as a vice president wasn't treated to the warmest of welcomes from u.s. officials vice president joe biden voiced the whole list of disappointments from

beijing's economic policies to its stance on syria criticism was also level that china over its copyright in force and human rights record part from that brief exchange yesterday was largely ceremonial as american leaders sign stuck paying the man widely tipped to leave beijing over the next decade parties christine says our reports now on the rocky relationship between the two economic times. he loves me lets me know 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 wind. praised and envy for its ability to do whatever it wants right now in china the government can disconnect parts of its internet 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 and it's not just the president himself those hoping to take his job also tend to flip flop these guys are avarice and and. and looking for ways to. to work to harness china doesn't want to various they want to see has succeeded thrive so we could 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 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 a they say for their own retirement security they don't have a 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 one 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 . a look now at some other stories making headlines across the world first to a disaster in honduras two hundred seventy two prisoners have been killed by

a fire which swept through a jail on tuesday night they were either burnt or suffocated to death some inmates managed to escape by breaking through the roof and jumping out of the building and electrical fault is thought to have caused the fire. nato has admitted its recent airstrike in afghanistan killed eight civilians the attack happened a week ago in a village northeast of kabul and is outraged afghan officials it comes in the wake of the latest u.n. report indicating that the number of civilian casualties in the decade long war rose last year compared to twenty ten. villagers in romania have had to be rescued by emergency services after heavy snowfall trapped them inside their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters 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 badly

affected. next screen is here with the latest business stay with us. hello and welcome to our business update this all thanks for joining me as we've been reporting iran is denying reports it's cut supply to six european countries iran state run press t.v. said the country was halting supplies to spain italy from the squeeze portugal out of the netherlands this caused all process to jump to a six month high. prices were already up as worries over supply dominated concern about weak economic growth what sweet is currently trading at over one hundred one dollars about brenda's hovering between one hundred eighteen one hundred nineteen dollars. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday the ruble is high against both european and u.s.

currencies following gains on the russian market. most european markets are trading higher. into positive territory lifted by solid gains for back that's after the governor of china's central bank expressed confidence and europe's recovery. and here in russia a market for also lifted by high prices. are adding over one percent the sour let's check on that index movers on the my six most of the blue chips are higher oil majors are on the rise supported by stronger crude with local point eight percent bank is in the black as it expects to finalize a deal to buy east european folks back home later today bucking the trend as truck make a comma after an unexpected thirty percent jump tuesday. the latest short term drop of russian gas supplies to europe discussions on how to secure consumers from possible cuts in the future they had

a. vague and says that one of the ways is to increase store storage capacity. to choose a key. supplier for extreme situation where. there was a report it was a program. we were experienced. rui was between two hundred to three hundred million euros for a few years to do this you could talk when. the destiny of russia second subsidy gasoline to europe will be decided this autumn the country's gas monopoly gas from so that will confirm a final investment decision on south stream in november the pipeline will deliver gas to europe bypassing transit countries such as ukraine is currently expected to be completed in two thousand and fifteen. moscow consumer store mass car production in the city capitals of forty say they are negotiating with at least fear and

a number of korean carmakers to set up production at the plant of truck makers eal city hall plans to turn the facility which used to produce armored cars for soviet leaders into an innovative production platform. so if you fancy a promotion or a pay raise then you might be better off working for a russian company but if stability and good benefits are more of a priority then a multinational company could be a better choice according to a poll by staffing agency and tell russia the pluses of working for a russian company include more responsibility faster career growth and better pay but the disadvantages include being paid off the books lack of benefits and a weak corporate culture. well that's that's it for this hour but remember you can always find more financial stories on our website that's party dot com slash this.

culture is that so much i can tell if i can go on thirty one of them was all worth trying to take your pick all my ones but i'm melvina britain and argentina again sparring over the legal status and future of these islands is this disputed. any match once lived is bound. to burn for ever more eternal fire is gone think about what possible the future.

do we all wants to see the sun forever. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome as a big issue. to you live from moscow our top stories syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution which would effectively end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country amid escalating turmoil at rallies marking one year. had rallies marking the 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. . iran says it will review its oil exports to six european states in retaliation

against sanctions as international rhetoric is ramped up to further found the flames of friction with the islamic state. laura smith talks to me his expert tariq ali on the turbulent situation in syria and the implications it could have for the entire region. i'm talking to tara kelley 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 being built outside especially in istanbul and by need to try and organize an intervention that i think would be disastrous and enormous bloodshed much much worse than what's happened in libya. so i think there be a disaster i think the best way is for pressure to be put on him from without by countries who are not seen as hostile to syria which include russia and china and others. and the pressure should be kept on 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 un 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 see what is the arab league the arab league is essentially amaury by and organization which is brought to life when the west needs it to it is. bro for the last twenty five years in any positive sense in the region it failed to stop the war in iraq back to war. libya and it's probably being used as a surrogate to try and push through foreign troops and 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 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 who can pressure on most of the me and send 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 our police 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. 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 klan 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 is 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 i mean one of the few sovereign states in the region that they can look after themselves i don't think the fall of 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 more yemeni president is having medical. speak. so this double standards that operate make one who suspicious of west most. people pushing for the intervention in syria after saudi arabia utter essentially they would like

a syrian version of the muslim brotherhood true 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 is done in the past and you say china and russia are in a very strong negotiating position now however. for a minute. the level of 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. family and clan refuse to budge and refuse 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 the end do they want to end up like do they want to end up like lynched by mobs backed by western troops that is

the future that stares them in the face there is no other future 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 train it's perfectly possible british and cutlery 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 reports although they've denied it of fifteen thousand iranian troops going into syria well that i don't know 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 playing 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 uranian 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 qaida 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. team i do that i mean the very weak force at the moment it's used to centrally to frighten the children at home it has very little military strength its leader so i hear e has issued

a statement saying that he is barton pasok and of. crow. is 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 to be outside the family and that is the key thing which we have to understand then which he should understand 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

a moderate or extremist the baton seems to be at the moment of saying that the model a moderate islamist government is the best model for the arab world i disagree very strongly 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 roots of christian democracy socially conservative organizations but perfectly happy to follow the latest economic trends. which dominate west. 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 do that 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 will do the same so that is not a good thing i have 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 sooner or later tara kelley thank you very much thank. wealthy british science.

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are these top stories syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution which would in fact only end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country amid escalating turmoil. at rallies marking one year since the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face get another harsh climb down with police using tactics and weapons from the u.k. . iran stops oil exports to six european states in retaliation to e.u. sanctions as international rhetoric is ramped up to further the flames of friction with the islamic state. up next is the sport with kate.

hello welcome to the latest sports had a second take nice of you. red lines braving the cold injury hit the need to prepare to face benfica in their first ever knockout match in the champions league despite freezing temperatures in some peaches. while the kids league of their own alexis sanchez scores twice as boss alone to put one foot to the quarterfinals with a three one win over by labor in germany. and then on top double olympic champion lennox and by about pics of her good ole bowl victory of the season the london games now just five months away. but first a football and russian champions and each will host ben seek as their first ever knockout match in the champions league this wednesday night in the first leg of that round of sixteen time well temperatures are expected to drop to minus fifteen

degrees celsius ahead of that match and they'll be a late inspection petrofsky stadium well it wasn't much warmer when zinni trained on cheers day and one notable absence he was a star midfielder danny with tony lee givens the russian league leaders will also miss defended the many. although top scorer alexander because of golf is raring to go and thinks home support will be a big advantage. that we have played in such weather already probably more often than our opponents i don't think that's a major advantage for us because we also like it when it's warm we like playing when it's football weather and the current weather isn't exactly that but i think our supported will come they will fill the stadium and it will be something that will help us. well about his fans think it will be looking to explodes on its we contain the portuguese outfit has plenty of qualities such as forward us to cut those so matilda i mop and finish unbeaten at the top of group say that has been cider also currently five points clear.