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the drugs haven't been considering cutting all sales to six e.u. countries but it wouldn't do so at the moment because of the cold winter in europe . russia says external players are encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the feeling government and therefore bear large responsibility for the ongoing violence and while president assad has announced a referendum on a new constitution. and that rallies knocking one against the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protests thank you nothing to clamp down with me seizing tactics and weapons from the u.k. .

international news live from moscow this is our she was me here thanks for joining us for us to iran has reportedly warned sixty you countries that might stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions which include an embargoed until iran ski export and iranian official has added to the only reason they're not stopping cruise sales immediately is europe's extremely cold current temperatures jake agrees reports now from greece one of the countries believed to be subject to the oil by tehran. because the latest report said all we hear is the arabian foreign ministry has cooled up these are bastards of the six nations concerned and told them that 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 that's owing to what they termed humanitarian reasons the cold snap has been sweeping across europe

but will no doubt if implemented preempt 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 reporters to be really think of it when it comes this economic crisis we have the netherlands of france also portugal italy spain and greece is well there's already been questions raised here because to run says that he can find other people to buy exports to the likes of india and china where is this down to being raised as to whether or not the e.u. can or do you place that good and quite cheap supply of oil to those who've been so stricken in recent times greece in particular is in a sticky situation right now failing to guarantee another bailout plan even though they push through further popular austerity measures just on sunday and this really raises a bit of a concern of the moment that those imposed sanctions on iran back in general by

e.u. member states could surely come back to bite them. meanwhile tehran has rated very to its rigid retinas to resume nuclear talks with major powers to discuss the country's controversial nuclear program and that's why israel has stepped up pressure on iran with prime minister binyamin netanyahu saying what he described as terror is aggression which has to be stopped and he repeated his claims that iran was behind bomb attacks targeting israelis in india and georgia and blossom time and this week israel says there are links between the incidents despite. around denying any involvement tell us as israel is waging a psychological war that some fear might pave the way for military action and its call analytically sponsoring from the international socialist group explains why israel is at odds. i have to take israel's claim that iran is behind the attacks on its diplomats in georgia and india with a pinch of salt firstly should be said israel has a long

a record of using assassination as the tool i think it may be better of originals the trial runs in response to those that is going to stop its assassination policy and would ask other nations like iran to reciprocate but i don't think israel's going to do that because use assassination so often i think what it is really are trying to do is trying to up the ante and so the americans will do something they aren't capable of taking out around nuclear program they don't have the means to do it at best they could memorize a hit and run and run attack i think actually behind the rhetoric about nuclear weapons the reality is what they are worried about is the increase of increase of iran's influence in the in the region rainier's of constantly said they're not going to me nuclear weapons international atomic energy inspectors have just been tyrannical came by it seems a good visit they're going back to iran they're getting cooperation you wouldn't know this from reports in the western media so i think there is

a ratcheting up in my opinion is the ratcheting up is not by the iranians it is by the israelis and by the americans and i think there is a lot of hypocrisy a boat around you could program find a nuclear energy or indeed nuclear weapons i don't want them but it was ok for a round to have a nuclear program in the one nine hundred seventy s. when britain france and america would curing to sell the shah of iran nuclear technology it was ok then because the shah of iran was one of our guys it's not ok for the nuclear weapons no and islamic republic. and there's much more another kind of pressure iran faces over its nuclear program on our website that they do ask plan to fix around from a financial group which would have the country's oil sales but couldn't have a global consequences so how to offset all of this is.

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov also says that foreign countries are intervening in the syrian crisis and that is bear responsibility for civilian deaths this statement came with reports of violence in the cities of homs and hama some of the fiercest in eleven months of unrest. you can always find a compromise but only through carrying out negotiations this is what some from the opposition refused to do being dissuaded by some external players who brought a huge responsibility for the ongoing violence for the deaths of peaceful civilians . meanwhile and see where president bashar al assad has ordered a referendum on a new constitution to be held in eleven days that could put an end to the one party rule of the presidents by party and trained in the current constitution party is maria finishing reports now from damascus. the date for the people's referendum on

the country's new constitution has been announced on wednesday it is expected to be held on the twenty sixth of february in eleven days the syrian government has been working on a draft for this new constitution for quite a while now and it has sad that the most important thing about this new constitution the most important change is that it implies the end of monopoly of the ruling party in syria the vast party has been in power in the country for the last fifty years actually since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march protestors have been calling for democratic reforms and for amendments to the country's key law in the wake of violence that followed in the show demonstrations peaceful demonstrations many opposition leaders have been only demanding president bashar al assad to go and they will not be satisfied with these particular reform with this particular run through the end of this news it's how has come amidst

numerous reports about violence all across syria we've been hearing reports from the city of hama north of the capital damascus from the opposition activists saying that the tanks of assad's army have been deployed in the city and we have also been receiving reports from another troubled area from the city of the homes where reportedly there have been explosions at the all pipeline activists have been reported four hundred people dead in the last few days since almost all these records have been coming from one source from the opposition there has been a feeling that another part another side of this conflict in syria has been kind of ignored. since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad have been accused of repression torture and killing but with the bodman of homes. blame has since focused on our side forces attacking civilians and

shell in residential areas. the beautiful yard calls himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not everyone his stresses from a social democratic group originally from homes 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 this title and no one can ban him the danger posed by the armed forces was seen in the killing of a french journalist last month and he says when he went to homs he put in his mind that the syrian opposition is very peaceful and the g.m. is trying to frame them so he he was like

a pioneer in the call and he was killed by the some gang attacks on government targets have become increasingly bloody themselves with twenty eight people killed and scores injured or an attack on a military base in a little last week an f.s.a. free syrian army recruits entered to admit its responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming government forces a claim ridiculed by the regime a woman insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could say that the government is killing its officials and officers and destroying its own administrative buildings these armed terror groups were created to commit these crimes and they have committed them in the past and will continue to do so if the west and the arab states support them last sunday the arab league vote still for full political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it. similar call from the leader of al qaeda. to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar

al assad recent reports suggest iraqi weapons qatari 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 one 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 a political objectives. our number so far of six thousand. six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two thousand eight hundred. this is.

good commented foreign pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian government and its international supporters say there's been a total failure talk knowledge of violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmoil they warned that finding the solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes regional now t damascus syria. from center for research on globalization says reforms suggested by the syrian government and welcomed by the opposition because of the box by western powers which want political instability. what is the likelihood of success of that referendum is a country which is characterized by by war terrorist acts this referendum can take place under present conditions that's absolutely

a possibility the people who are fighting the government are not interested in multi-party democracy and they are they are directly as we know they are directly backed by date so the purpose of this direction is to create political instability which will subsequently lead to all to be legitimizing the syrian government destabilizing syria as a nation state we have to understand that syria is. perhaps the only remaining secular state in the arab world as it stands what they don't like about syria is that syria is not a proxy us state still that like with watch it so it's not a big all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance site i was in syria only last year. to

have it is in fact you know it is the cradle of civilization and they are what is happening is an attempt a kind of attempt by big toe and the united states and israel to destabilize this government. pro-democracy protesters in another arab country bahrain assault they've got hold they wanted after being promised reforms including among the pennies but twelve months later accidents trying to man the ban of us fail they have prizing the clamp down on us as harsh as before the only difference was that this time some talks take send downs the police seized were brought from the west by the supposed ring who's supposed to bring to a class of change and he's either but it has all. 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 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 retired to be associated in any way with it is its role 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

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 distinctive over 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 is not. the front or from what the impact was previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning of. mr jong contributing we should see

a positive things of the ground what we're seeing today as nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off the bennett r.t. london. greek political party leaders have sent a written commitments to brussels saying they'll stick to agreed us to oversee measures regardless of the results of general elections and a four but green still needs to convince the year that it will make another cousin return for one hundred as thirty billion euro bailout needed to prevent its defaulting on massive debts next month that the greek parliament approved establishing matters on sunday at

a meeting of euro. finance ministers was counseled as they demanded more sure and says that as massive public opposition to the plans with fear is rising as m.p.'s voted them in in athens a woman threatens to throw herself off a balcony over the consulate was talked out of her suicide bed and auerbach a portfolio strategist and hedge fund manager believes the whole country is on the verge right now. that woman is a perfect metaphor for the greek economy i mean they're there at the cliff and at the cliff face and they're being told to jump to get a little bit more help with the after they've fallen about several hundred feet below and there's no light at the end of the tunnel the constant delays. has led to situations where there has been a degree of contingency planning so that the e.u. can now cope with an outright greek default in a way that say could have done maybe a year and a half ago but i can tell you that if they if they continue with the same policy trajectory going forward then you're going to have the same problems arising in

portugal italy spain the question that's going to rise with all these other indebted countries is why should we have to pay if greece was able to secure a haircut of up to seventy percent that's a problem if they strike a deal and so ultimately it's going to be very counterproductive because if the bond markets will bond market holders will demand a high risk premium to fund these people you need a growth component and that's something that the germans in particular don't seem to understand if you don't have a growth component then you can't grow your way out of this debt problem. now some other stories making headlines around the world. more than three hundred fifty prisoners were killed in a fire which swept through a jail on tuesday night they were either burned suffocated to death some inmates managed to escape by the great and through the roof and jumping from the building present or theory alert suspended prison officials and a profound investigation of the case. is read as tribes have had gaza

targeting what the military claims are signs belonging to terrorist organizations tel aviv says the operation was in retaliation for rockets fired into israel no injuries were reported in either the militant or israel the incidents come as the peace process remains stored over a new jersey settlement construction. rise police have dispersed demonstrators with tear gas and water cannon in the capital of senegal the protests were over current president of the ally of brad running for a start as heard as head of state the constitution allows for only two structures in office but a court ruled he could run again as the limit came into force after his first term had already begun four people have died in clashes with police trying protest since january. to nine point seven percent of serbs in northern kosovo have rejected rules from bush sr in a referendum called by locals have been also russian is great has condemns the

referendum however saying this will complicate a dialogue with the breakaway state last summer it serves in the north settled barricades to defy the kosovo government which has led to clashes with native peacekeepers around forty thousand serbs to live in the region which worked from serbia almost exactly four years ago. next hour he's laura smith talks to middle east expert terry kali on the turbulent situation in syria and the implications it could have for the entire region.

i'm talking to tariq ali 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 is if he'll step. of its own accord i think he has to be pushed out the syrian people who are of course doing their best in the country. what is more dangerous is the pressure of being built outside especially in istanbul and by nato to try and organize an intervention that i think would be disastrous and lead to enormous bloodshed much much worse than what's happened in libya. so i think that be a disaster i think the best way is for pressure to be put on him from without by

a concrete who are not seen as hostile to syria which include russia china and others. and the pressure should be kept on at 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 say what is the arab league the arab league is essentially a morri bond organization which is brought to life when the west needs it too it is played no active role for the last twenty five years in any positive sense in the

region 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 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 on the externally nonviolent pressure that he has to go and i think the chinese and russians are now in a strong position to do this 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 capable of putting

pressure on most of the me and so on hezbollah in lebanon and i think all these forces should now seed. 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 do you see syria as becoming increasingly isolated in the region and 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 to me one of the few sovereign states in the region that they can look after themselves i don't think the fall of us as 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 our pride sings in the crisis in the yemen where killing

still go on and what they're doing in syria it just sort of stands the former yemeni president is having medical treatment from the united states. so this is double standards that operate make one who is suspicious of western motives and you say china and russia are in a very strong negation ating position now however. foreign minister lavrov says visits to syria recently seems to have yielded no results whatsoever well i think that you know if it carries on like this and 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 they end do they want to end up like gadhafi or do they want to end up like saddam hussein lynched by mobs backed by western troops

that is the future that stares them in the face there is no other breach 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 moderate or extremist the pattern seems to be at the moment of saying that the turkish 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 into it's here like it has in egypt and then one has to deal with it i i mean.