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machine on the dot com. iran says it's been considering cutting oil sales to six contraries but want to do so at the moment because of the cold winter in europe. syria's president has announced a vote on a car new constitution which would effectively end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country amid escalating turmoil. and the rallies 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. . and from all business desk the russian markets close in the black lips and by high prices and for them isaacs and an almost event we'll have more on that and

other stories in our business bulletin in twenty minutes. here with r t why from moscow. where at seven pm good to have you with us on the nice now with our top story this evening iraq has reportedly warned six e.u. countries they might stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions which included embargo on tehran's export the ban was not supposed to come into full effect until the summer but the islamic republic has repeatedly threatened to bring them to an immediate halt jacob greaves now joins us greece one of the countries allegedly subject to this possible caught by tehran jacob so if and when a cut in oil supply is actually happens how would it affect the debt stricken e.u. . well it. is quite fast now of course the latest reports here

what we hear is the iranian foreign ministry has cooled up these bastards of these six nations big concerns and told them that oil cuts will happen but not right away or they will face a ban on exports to their nations but they'll be given some leeway and that's what they termed humanitarian reasons the cold snap has been sweeping across europe that will go down if implemented somewhat those sanctions imposed by the e.u. back in january and due to be implemented in july six nations in question here well those reported to be in the really thick of it when it comes this economic crisis we have the netherlands of france but also portugal italy spain and greece as well there's already been questions raised here because tehran says that he can find other people to buy its exports to the likes of india and china where is this down to being raised as to whether or not the e.u. can review a place that good and quite cheap supply of oil to those who have been so stricken

in recent times it's a question it's actually been raised as well by the lights of the greek parliament they've asked for assurances that there will be a steady stream of or supplying them given their particularly stressful situation at the moment still yet to secure that second round of bailouts but they much need to pay off marches debts even though they've implemented recently austerity measures that prevent very unpopular so concerned really amounting now that some of these sanctions imposed back in july come back to bite those members who actually installed them in the first place. reporting live from athens thanks for that update. meanwhile and tehran has reiterated its readiness to resume nuclear talks with major powers to discuss the country's controversial nuclear program. that's well israel has stepped up its stance against iran with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying tehran's aggression must be stopped but he repeated his claims

that iran was behind recent bombings allegedly targeting israelis in india georgia and thailand israel says there are links between the incidents despite authorities in india and thailand saying there's no such evidence and iran denying any involvement tehran inturn says israel is waging a psychological war that many fear might pave the way for military action well expert on mideast affairs are the risks there's this view saying israel's claim. lacked credibility. 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 you're wrong 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 about a group that which always wages wars and for that reason public opinion is not in his roles for you 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 and on goes 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 a very active amateurs not people who really want to target someone if iran let's see if you assume iran really want to target an official why would a good football. attack ambassadors all right embassy employees in such countries like india or thailand or do ga it just doesn't make sense. well there's more on

iran on our website as washington continues to pressure tehran over its nuclear program the u.s. plans to invade iran from a financial group which would hurt the country's oil sales but it couldn't turn global consequences had started dot com for more details. syria's president bashar assad has ordered a referendum on a new constitution to be held in eleven days according to the country's state run news agency it could put an end to the one party rule of the president's ba'ath party inscribed in the current constitution well changes to the law were a key demand by the opposition at the beginning of the country's eleven month uprising but in the wake of deadly clashes with the army many opposition leaders are now insisting that the president quits the announcement of

a referendum came amid reports of new outbreaks of violence with tanks shelling the fourth largest city of hama and an oil pipeline blown up in the rebellious city of holmes reports of atrocities coming mainly from the rebels there are concerns that one side of the conflict is being largely ignored as many from notion that explains . 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 abad much of holmes blame has since focused on our side forces attacking civilians and shell in residential areas. in a beautiful yard called himself a member of the opposition an intellectual not everyone his stresses 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 and 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 that this title and no one can ban him the danger posed by the armed forces who are 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 g.m. is trying to this 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 a letter last week an f.s.a. free syrian army representative admitted responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming government forces

a 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 word. then they are supportive of 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. 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 more than five thousand employees civilians only but that figure 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 of them i don't see expose them but you would be surprised to know that over two hundred. this is. good the commented 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. well professor mark almond from the international relations department at the university of bill can in 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 to 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 is a launch 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 who 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 proceed. and 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 catarrh and supported by a number of western powers as the times correspondent pepe escobar says unlike libya syria is unlikely to fall under western influence even through force. well this takes in syria saw what's higher compared to libya because this is that directs that that direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the what you know on the other side much more than it was in libya in libya russia and china and even that the other brics 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 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 they've been two wars in the middle east the syrian army it's a smaller country there's a. your population you cannot simply lending beijing is out of the question because the. old days are depleted the repercussions to turkey to jordan to iraq to saudi arabia so you need to rent is to foment civil war and that's is like there's actually what they are doing. but last year pro-democracy protesters in another arab country bahrain 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 harsh as before the only difference was that this time some tactics and the arms the police used were

brought from the west by those supposed to bring democratic change parties ever 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 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 have borrowed or behaving despicably the latest trick is to throw cans of 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 or overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is it's wrong yes 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 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. 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 of. this previously but it's been extended through the. 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. bahrain is not the only example of the west selective approach to dictatorships and pro-democracy protests so the british pakistani military is story and journalist tariq ali his full interview is coming up next hour hearing r.t. here's a bit of what he has to say. when we look at what the west did in relation to the our prize seeing some of the crisis. yemen where killing still go all the former yemeni president is having a medical bill in the united states of america so the double standards that operate make you suspicious of west might. keep people pushing for b. intervention in syria saudi arabia qatar or centrally they would like syrian version of the muslim brotherhood to run the concrete and then the united states will do deals with them as it has done in the past.

in america china's vice president wasn't treated to the warmest of welcomes from u.s. officials vice president joe biden voiced a 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 meant and human rights record but apart from the brief exchanges the day was largely ceremonial as american leaders signs up seating pain man the man why don't we take to the beijing over the next decade artie's christine freeze our 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 wind you don't think. praised and envy for its

ability to do whatever it wants right now china the government can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war we need to have the chinese pretty easy ro 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 after us and 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 in life and love there appears to be a fine line between resentment and respect i want to beat 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 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 for our team.

but paul craig roberts who serves in president reagan's administration says that u.s. desperation to stall time as rapid rise could prove costly. the united states is is responding to chatter in two words what it's trying to reduce is independent access to oil and ran accounts for twenty. percent of jonathan's 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 put 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 the united states says that the south

china sea is an area of national interests to the united states and of 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 that encourage china to build up its military and so the americans sensibly maybe trying to start another arms race. well look now at some other stories making headlines across the world first to a disaster in honduras at least 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 an 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 has outraged afghan officials because 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. the 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 and 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 badly affected. greene is here next with the latest business. thank you and he said hello and welcome to business here and as we've been

reporting iran is denying reports it's got supplied to six european countries earlier iran's state run press t.v. said the country was holding supplies of oil to spain italy france greece portugal and the netherlands this caused oil prices to jump to a six month high let's look at the figures now who are all futures rallied to the best level of five weeks like sweet is currently trading below one hundred and two dollars a barrel and is hovering at one hundred eighteen and one hundred nineteen dollars. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday google is high again. both the european and the u.s. currencies following gains on the russian market. stocks in the u.s. open mixed children between mild gains and losses certainty over greece counted better than expected economic reports from europe and on american manufacturing comcast climbed six percent after the cable provider reported a higher profit. most european markets are trading higher this hour but britain's

footsie slid into negative territory after trading in the black lead while greek politicians assure the country's european partners that they will implement an unpopular round of additional austerity measures. here in ma in russia markets closed in the black lifted by higher prices of oil both the r.t.s. and m i six and the movement now let's check the index move first on my six most of the blue chips were higher all majors that were on the rise supported by stronger crude look oil finishing up under a percentage where banks finished higher as well the company expected said it expects to finalize a deal to buy east european folks back international later and truck maker come march that bucked the trend it stocks fell over three percent after an unexpected thirteen percent jump on tuesday getting from alpha capital wraps up the day let's . pause it to use today it was chinese pledge to hold asses denominated tin

euro so it's ruled the positive for the markets however doesn't solve the greek problem. as far as market concerned with the rising by four percent today his rule is the top story in local market today yes to do is movers like sever stall and. energy transmission companies are more or less flat. the latest short term drops of russian gas supply to europe spurred discussions on how to secure consumers from possible cuts in the future head of export. says that one of the ways. is a key. supply. issue like. there was a. lot

of experience. between two hundred to three hundred million euros in the next five years there was a cute little ones that's our business but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from now.