moscow has accused forces outside syria of encouraging rebel groups to continue fighting and stay out of peace talks head of the un general assembly vote on a resolution end of the assad regime. surrenders to the last of it used. to be kept in limbo and presented with board terms that will stir to leave the greek hospital struggling but the military unscathed. iran's display of nuclear progress more talks are dismissed by america and israel as bluster a response to severe economic sanctions. live

from moscow twenty four hours a day this is. activists in syria have accused regime forces of stepping up attacks on rebel held city meanwhile the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution does not appear to have helped stem the violence the vote which will take place at the end of february is aimed at significantly curbing the power of the ruling baath party and from russia is in damascus for r.t. . but they did 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 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 gulf 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 this particular reform with this particular referendum and 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've also been receiving reports from another troubled area from the city of the homes where. reportedly there have been explosions at the oil pipeline since almost all these british

culture 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. well a new draft resolution on syria to pressure the ruling regime will be put to a vote at the un general assembly later on thursday but warned it won't back the document unless it's suggested him take into consideration he wants both sides of the conduit to health equally responsible and calls on all opposition groups and rebel militia but again they didn't miss delicates at the un well russia's foreign minister in the role of foreign countries are intervening part of the blame lies with them. you can always find a compromise but only through carrying out negotiations this is what some from the opposition refused to do dissuaded by some external players who barely huge responsibility for the ongoing violence for the deaths of peaceful civilians.

the white house has criticised the syrian government's promise to hold a referendum describing it as not about and accusing a regime of making a mockery of the unrest that's made a swelling chorus within the u.s. calling on washington to supply assad fighters with weapons he's got the chicken reports that he believes that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of insurgents in syria we should start getting all options including arming the opposition i give them training i give them communications equipment and then automatically i give them weapons. experts say arming the fighting groups among the opposition is a sure way to drag the country into a protracted civil war it will also further marginalize those in the opposition who have advocated nonviolence or would be asked political strategies that the more.

plied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition the more that happens the less likely it is that will be a negotiated solution leading to a cease to be civil settlement there encouraged i think very much by the united states the civil war in lebanon went on for fifteen years absolutely appalling bloodshed and you could easily see that that could happen in syria like the u.s. all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under president assad syria has been a secular state some analysts argue they're one of the reasons why al-qaeda supports the violent uprising in syria is that in a less secular more islam is the environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government holds that you'll be looking forward to just a very long period of complete disintegration and they will be able to attract more and more fanatical recruits look at the civil war in iraq in two thousand and six

and seven it was absolutely appalling the calls to arm fighting groups in. serious sound even more all army given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example it was of placing itself in alliance with the mujahideen including osama bin laden and these people who now of course it is lately been deploring as fanatical fanatical enemies of the united states so these these alliances a totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of principle in. but despite the hocks outcry the obama administration is taking a more cautious stance with regards to syria we don't think more arms into syria is the right answer some analysts say arming the very much fractured syrian opposition would contribute to its for the radicalization and would make a political solution virtually impossible a number say washington might support arm supplies indirectly through its arab allies as if now the administration denies having such plans but will that position

hold i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. . but michele across those key from the center for research and globalization says foreign intelligence operatives on the ground are helping to stir up political chaos in syria. i certainly know it's the fact that the government. that's it's big but to solve it by the constitution did introduce multi multi party system but the people who well why didn't the government know multi-party democracy and deal directly as we know they are directly backed by date so. operatives which are present. collaborating with the rebels the free syrian army is not something which is representative of the opposition the purpose of this direction is to create political instability which will subsequently

lead. to. the syrian government destabilize syria as a nation state what they don't like about syria is that syria is a proxy us state still that like with washington it's not a big all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance. while that's one possible outcome of a revolution in syria we take a look at libya it's pre-pay one yet since the start of its revolution its economy a shambles the rebels fighting each other thousands of former gadhafi supporters reportedly tortured in prisons. overseas demond indian summer gets drunk pulls this recession leaves hope to parents struggling to pay the u.s. price tag. greece has fulfilled the last few

preconditions needed to secure a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but that's a cash injection may yet prove to be in the use of greece push through final cuts on wednesday to a written promise to stick by austerity off connections that still not enough for the e.u. . which now wants to accept that she wanted to make sure it's for them in terms of the bailout greece has already struggled to meet the terms that you know what to me is broke and response from some quarters british any pain i know for raj says it's all part of an effort to bring athens to heel. what the e.u. is now doing it's trying to influence the outcome of the greek general election not satisfied with getting rid of the last democratically elected prime minister and putting in a puppet in the forwards to papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties or less you vote for parties that are happy to be subjugated do you control we will not give you the rest of the money

and you will go bankrupt i suspect that despite the dissatisfaction that is felt by many german politicians i think the german parliament just as the greek parliament did last sunday will continue to toe the line and continue to say that buy it out so the answer as far as i'm concerned it's rather like saving the cancer and not saving the patients. well the human cost of austerity in greece is being felt like never before cuts in spending slashes workers short of cash hospital sort of medicine many ill greeks out of work. greece reports not so the military with nato chief and his rasmussen's visit to greece highlighting a sector immune to austerity. for many athens has been a battleground in recent years fighting against unpopular stared sunday's events to show there is little hope for a cease fire one shot being fired by those discontent is a discrepancy in spending when it comes to the military something serving m.p.'s

from a defensive on relations or turkey remain for some as ever present a threat as a current debt crisis or our nato partners don't seem very keen to help us not to need to spend so much i mean think about it really have been through we are being threatened from a member of the lives that we belong to the alliance doesn't do anything. really so we have to spend huge amounts of money but there's the nato chief arise in athens the talks other things may be on the table among them weapons but you're meant to believe i mean there is a kind of negotiation if i may say sure between major partners germany france. if we should really be ignoring you procurement of course that major part will be to france and germany france. major retailers such potential buys include a contract for greece to purchase

a number of french frigates still under review the last talks remain afloat another threat looms it be may nice but what we've been advised to do is to sell copies of medicine relations of patients are being forced to put their hand in their pockets put treatment this problem persists in other hospitals i want to do. the trees account comes in the back of carts slash medical staff they lead to a desperate shortage of equipment including affordable prescription drugs is a problem only likely to worsen as a jobless increase and fewer people way to afford private health care this is the very human face the term austerity measure an increasing number of people call upon the treatment need in the current health care system and desperation to turn to aid agencies like this regime nova care into athens immigrant population the midday queue at this center shows just how sought after treatment is first of all who see

more and more people coming to us that are those that we might see up to three hundred people and the numbers of the greeks are increasing in the past that we have nor many greeks but clearly we see more than twenty percent greeks coming this cleaning though present many greeks remain too ashamed of the situation to be filmed those wanting to be heard paint a grim picture of. greece cannot recover from what's going on right now if you ask me greece is finished. it's a situation that has a country verging on implosion all during a time of peace not war but was the nation remains sick cuts have a real damaging impact on the people's well being is an illness that could spread as fresh measures may reduce spending on outpatient drugs by one billion euros putting greeks health at risk despite the sizable military defenses protecting them

to greece r.t. since. it's been their secret that from the onset of the euro crisis germany has spearheaded the e.u.'s austerity drive the original argument was that cuts were necessary and the pain consequences well next hour here on our team express a different. well actually well thanks shall bull cording to. this article he was actually quoted caught on tape anyway talking to a portuguese finance minister in which he said to the portuguese minister don't worry we're not going to do this to you this our treatment of greece's in order to appease our population at home right exactly this is amazing it's coming through now that the policy makers in germany that are applying this scorched earth policy to greece are doing so to appease their local constituents who want blood for some reason they're just bloodthirsty which then brings up all kinds of other questions about is this the germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i wanted to it's just the imperial genie out of the bottle once again.

israel wants washington to batter rather tougher sanctions before its nuclear program reaches what it described as a point of no return it came in response to tehran's demonstration that its atomic project is progressing iran says it's willing to restart nuclear talks with world powers but only after announcing it cannot domestically produced nuclear fuel rods and stick to the centrifuges to enrich uranium it was met with skepticism by the u.s. state department to silence the claims and hype pace of western economic pressure escalating situation around iran some worried about a military outcome but jamal abdi from the national iranian american council believes a military strike wouldn't wipe out its nuclear capabilities. the real problem here is that there is this escalation towards this military action it's not going to

actually take out the nuclear capabilities of iran if israel bombs iran it sets the program back a couple years and then they have to go in and bomb again and then they have to go in and bomb again and you just have this cycle really the end of the day this and it in full scale occupation total war there's no clean strike that happens this is if this happens it's the beginning of a long confrontation that really it's going to make you rock in afghanistan look like a cake walk and it's going to plunge the u.s. into a very long term military engagement. well more on the israeli iran standoff for you when we talk to joe selenski the founder of the trends research institute has a preview of what he has to say the full interview coming up in about fifteen minutes time. if the united states israel or nato attacks iran nuclear facilities. it will be as i said before the beginning of world war three syria may be the

other if you will because whose serious topics. are wrong. and as we have seen from reports that came out with really. the united states and the west has been very instrumental in getting the syrian government even before the latest uprisings have begun. but amnesty international has accused libya's national transitional council of failing to stop human rights abuses says counted thousands of supporters are being held without charge and tortured by former rebels since september it's reported at least twelve prisoners have been killed as a result of torture the report comes as the. first anniversary of the start of its . celebrations see is struggling to get the situation under control groups of

former rebels around vying for power to disarm a civilian population failed the countries. where root based political scientists know the history predicts years of turmoil in the here. gadhafi was only a puppet in the hands of the western countries he was buying his or his stance he was buying everybody out so cozy berlusconi and all of the other western leaders his time got expired and this is why they got rid of him because he was paying enough but not good enough we all know about what's happening the recession in europe and what's happening towards the oil and the gas so what they want is the ad to get to get control of everything in libya i see a very grim future in libya i see a civil war in libya i see. it's never going to have a good stable. environment there and this is exactly what the western one wants to

happen because they want to get control of all the oil all the natural resources there right our website r.t. dot com you can find out how the shock waves of the arab spring are still being felt and your own sense of deja vu in range of protesters who took to the streets calling for democracy reforms but confronted with the harsh this crackdown. but also online vandals with taste about the security measures are needed to protect the rest of the machines which offer a red copy of the touch of a button. the double hit of infertility and recession is forcing some hope for parents to get

creative in the u.s. it costs as much as one hundred thousand dollars to use a surrogate mother to start a family get on a plane to india and it could be much cheaper than that one couple who did just that. eric and susan forward and all came to india from texas two weeks ago india is a bit of a challenge for someone who used to traveling in the states and in europe. but you figure out your way around the world and they're not here to see elephants and by being coles they also came to meet peter for the first time their new baby boy it was the easiest pregnancy i mean. although peter is genetically therapy susan didn't actually give birth to him. and indeed sarah get who they never met did around ten years ago we decided we would try to have a child and didn't happen naturally we pretty much given up hope and we spent a bunch of money. and that's where we realised indian surrogacy was actually

something that was reasonable surrogacy is the latest trend in the outsourcing relationship between the west in india since the recession began doctors here say they've seen a demand for their services quadruple and most of that interest is coming from abroad that's because the price tag of serapis e is a quarter of what it costs in the united states eric and susan found this deli fertility clinic online while they were at home in the us they paid the clinic twenty five thousand dollars which covered everything from the sarah get to the lab work in the united states they would have spent four times that much for sarah got herself received anywhere from six to eight thousand dollars for the job an amount of money that is hard to say no to for many of these women who are poor and on educated. people here is a huge amount of money much more than they could possibly make in the whole year after no one child and husband left her serious and seemed the best way to support

her two kids and mother good. at the end of the day they do would they want and i get the much needed money. but it's this sense of desperation that critics fear would make these women vulnerable because we've been a pool because they are. for you know because they have the challenge said and just said. why would they have to sell do it of and here are people who are exploiting it for eric and susan however the issue isn't so black and white they're happy that their indian surrogate gave them a shot at completing their family you know she didn't seem all upset she seemed like she did something really nice in this far as i'm concerned she did. ending their ten year journey to have a baby in a place they never expected priya sridhar r.t. new delhi india. look at some other stories making headlines around the world almost one hundred percent of voters in northern coast of get to the roof in the

course of our capital pristina organized referendum in serbia were against the vote setting it would complicate the descriptions of the breakaway state around forty thousand serbs to impose a victory route from serbia almost four years ago. thousands of gathered in the north korean capital to commemorate what would have been the seventieth birthday of don't need it. the crowds have been making their way to the city's main square to the flowers next to his portraits the former head of state who died of a heart attack two months ago has been succeeded by his son kim jong un. last night's gold rush in some petersburg left both sides dream of qualifications the quarterfinals of the champions league more on yesterday's indeed to benfica showdown in sport about twenty five minutes time first business update katie.

hello welcome to business this. the united states is looking to tell its roles financial life blocked by removing it from the wall financial clearing system known as swift it will ratchet up pressure on to iran as the country's leadership reveals new progress on its nuclear program but as daniel bush will pull it's america's action it could end up backfiring on its people. this is a bid to kill iran's economy washington's move to tehran from the swift world transaction system would choke its ability to trade internationally swift interbank payments orders the worlds of business there on the world of business they used by practically every company and state in the world to exchange financial info the legality of america's move is hardly question its unprecedented political interference in a network which has always said such issues should be handled on a national level what is clear is barack obama's frustration the sanctions on work in iran hasn't backed down in the nuclear dispute in fact it's no one else to

enrich fuel production new tensions mean more misery for u.s. consumers brant his six month high as last night over one hundred nineteen dollars a barrel cutting iran out of swift will again hit not just the energy price but the recovery of the world's economy b.p. is entering a new deal with russia the british will work with skulk of all high tech help to improve the efficiency of crude oil refining in ultimate comes just days after british lawmakers call the west minister to issue a warning against doing business with russia over the head of b.p. in russia david potatoes mrs such concerns saying his company is in russia for the long term. i'm not a politician i'm in business representing b.p. and i would say b.p. set a very successful business investment over twenty years inside of russia we have to be in russia for many decades to come we have a successful business and we have the support of the russian government and the

u.k. government. let's have a look at oil then prices are in the red this hour despite reports around halted shipments to europe in retaliation for planted by later this year as you can see the light sweet is trading over one hundred one dollars per barrel brant is over one hundred eighteen dollars per barrel and asian markets are still in the red softer decision on the second bailout for greece it was postponed although some japanese shares are getting support from a relatively weak yen is down i'm afraid naked nikkei is point three percent down hang seng is point seven percent down this hour on the russian markets they are now open and they too are down as you can see following on from the trend there in asia the all ts is opening up one point three percent down russia's largest lender has finally found the key to excess the european markets bank is close in the long awaited do also. vote buying international artie's jimmy meant for the anchor has

more. sperm bank has finally got the platform for foreign expansion after more than a year of searching and negotiations it's finally closing the deal. international. now since sealing the deal in september has managed to receive several sweetness for the deal with the final price being almost. five hundred. million euros now the final price cut of around eighty million came through. hung garion operations coming in with poor performance now with these deals burbank now gains access to financial sectors twelve countries operates excluding romania which was not included into the deal now this is of course a very important step. towards establishing itself.