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start on t.v. dot com. russia 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 aimed at the assad regime. often surrenders to the last of use bailout demands only to be kept in limbo and presented with all terms as austerity leaves a greek hospital struggling with military unscathed. iran's display of nuclear progress an offer of talks are dismissed by american israel as bluster response to a survey on exemptions. the russian markets have opened up today's trading session in the red following on from losses in asia and the us all of the figures are much more in our business bulletin and it's time.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. activists in syria have accused the regime forces of stepping up attacks on rebel held cities meanwhile the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution does not appear to have help 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 reference is in damascus forty. 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 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 this particular reform with this particular referendum this news it's have 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 homes where reportedly

there have been explosions at the all pipeline since almost all these recalls 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 wasco has warned it won't back the document yes it suggested amendments are taken into consideration it wants both sides of the conflict held equally responsible that calls on all opposition groups not to back rebel militia changes have already been dismissed by arab delegates at the un well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says foreign countries are intervening and 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. or the white house has criticised the syrian government's promise to hold a referendum describing it as laughable and accusing the regime of making a mockery of the unrest that's a swelling chorus within the us call in washington to supply fighters with weapons and sanity is a kind of chicken reports many believe that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of insurgents in syria we should start thinking all options including arming the opposition i give them training i give them communications equipment and then ultimately 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 they ask political strategies that the more that lied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition and the more that happens the less likely it is that they'll be a negotiated solution pleasing to a cease to be civil settlement they're 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 the last 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 syria sound even more all army given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example that 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 that the united states said these. these alliances a totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of prince william you know 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 of now the administration denies having such plans but will that position hold i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. . well michel chossudovsky from the center for research on globalization says foreign intelligence operatives on the ground are helping to stir up political chaos in syria. i certainly knowledge the fact that the government. that's that's its commitment to swallowed by the constitution that introduced policy a multi-party system but the people who are out fighting the government are not interested in multi-party democracy and they are they are directly and we know they are directly backed by doing so by six and cia. operatives which are present at the growl 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 all to a biased the syrian government destabilizing syria as a nation state what they don't like about syria is that syria is not a proxy state it's all the like with washington so it's not like being all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance. but one possible outcome of revolution in syria we take a look at libya it's been. since the start of its revolution its economy in shambles the rebels fighting each other thousands of former gadhafi supporters reportedly prisons. and overseas demand.

as the recession hope to parents have paid the price tag. greece has fulfilled the last few preconditions needed to secure a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but that cash injection may yet prove to be elusive greece pushed through final cuts on wednesday committed to promise to stick by austerity after elections that's still not enough for the e.u. he wants to set monitors to make sure it's following the terms of the bailout for greece has already struggled to meet the terms if you want to train has provoked an angry response from some quarters. any russians 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. papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote

for the right parties 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 goodbye 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 and spending slashes left workers short of cash hospital short of medicine and many ill greeks out of luck what has artie's jacob greece reports not so the military with nato chief and his rasmussen's visit to greece highlighting a sector seemingly immune to austerity. the mini athens has been a battleground in recent years fighting against popular stare to sunday's events to show there's 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 card 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 been through we are being threatened from a member of the lives that we belong and the alliance doesn't do anything. so we have to spend huge amounts of money but that is 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 or france. if we spend really big nor and you procurement of course that means that we can function in france since the major

creators 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 to treatment this problem persists in other hospitals i want to dimitri's account comes in the back of cuts slashed medical staff pay a letter desperate shortage of equipment including affordable prescription drugs is a problem only likely to worsen as the job increase and fewer people were able to afford private health care this is the very human face to. measure cream. number of people caught up on the treatment need in the current health care system and desperation turned to aid agencies like this regime nova care into athens

immigrant population the midday queue at this center shows just how sought after the treatment is first of all are seeing more and more people coming to us that are there is that we might see up to three hundred people and the numbers of the greeks are increasing in the past we have nor many greeks but lately we see more than twenty percent greeks coming this cleaning though president 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 one billion euros putting

greek's health at risk despite the sizeable midget defenses protecting them to greece r.t. athens. well it's been no secret that from the onset of the euro crisis germany has spearheaded the use austerity drive their original argument was that cuts were necessary and pain a consequence later on this hour express a different view. well actually wolfgang schauble 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 is 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 the score. earth policy to greater 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 to germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i want to is just the imperial genie out of the bottle once again. israel wants washington to batter roman tougher sanctions before its nuclear program reaches what it described as a point of no return he 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 after announcing it can now domestically produce nuclear fuel rods and state of the art centrifuges to enrich uranium but this was met with skepticism by the u.s. state department which dismissed the claims as hype in the face of western economic pressure yes creating situation around iran has some worried about a military outcome but the amount of the 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 ends 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 cemented the founder of the trends research institute has a preview of what he has to say with the full interview coming up next hour. if the united states israel or nato attacks iran's nuclear

facilities. it will be as i said before the beginning of world war three syria may be the new into because who's serious topics. are wrong. as we have seen from reports that came out with really. the united states and the west has been very instrumental in. the syrian government even before the latest uprisings have begun. international has accused libya's national transitional council of failing to stop human rights abuses it says thousands of women are good all through 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 reports it comes as libya prepares to my first anniversary of

the start that. despite the sort of. struggling to get the situation under control before the rebels are now buying for power efforts to disown the civilian population failed in the country's economy is in ruins our. beirut based political scientists. its use of term or the view. 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 lime 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. well on our website r.t. dot com you can find out how to shock waves of the arab spring are still being felt a year on it's a case of days of rain where protest is to the streets calling for democracy reforms confronted with a police crackdown. and reform inaction presumably that it submits a new bill which makes it easier for people to get involved in political life. the double hits of infertility and the recession is forcing some hopeful 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 the plane to india and it could be much cheaper. method one couple who did just that. arrogance isn't for it and all came to india from texas two weeks ago india is a bit of a challenge for someone who's used to travelling 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 a 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 ten years ago we decided we would try to have a child and didn't happen naturally and we pretty much given up hope and you spent

a bunch of money. and that's when we realized 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 sarah casey is a quarter of what it cost in the united states eric and susan found this deli fertility clinic online while they were at home in the u.s. 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 a whole year after husband left her seriously seemed the best way to support her

two kids and mother good. at the end of the deed they do would they want and i get the much needed money. but it's this sense of desperation that critics fear make these women vulnerable because women are poor because they are. for you know because they have the challenge said and just said. why would they have to sell do it alone 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 sarah get 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 are to new delhi india. when i look at some other stories making headlines around the world almost

a hundred percent voters involved in kosovo rejected the rule from the course of a capital prishtina organized referendum the e.u. and serbia were against the votes that would complicate ongoing discussions with a breakaway state around forty serbs to live in kosovo which you could actually brew crumbs almost four years ago. thousands have gathered in the north korean capital to commemorate what would have been the seventieth birthday of the great leader kim jong il the crowds have been making their way to the city's main square to the flowers next to his portrait former head of state who died of a heart attack two months ago who succeeded by his son. ok he brings us the latest business news. helos you welcome to the business program at this hour the u.s. is looking to cut

a wrong financial life blocked by removing it from the wall to financial clearing systematists with it will rack up pressure on as the country's leadership with those new progress on its new can't program but as all t. is done you bushel of pools america's action 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 all the worlds of business that all the world of business they use 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 the work which has always said such issues should be handled on a national level what is clear is barack obama's frustration that sanctions aren't working iran hasn't backed down in the nuclear dispute in fact there's no one else to enrich fuel production new tensions mean more misery for u.s.

consumers brant his six month highs 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 into a new deal with russia the british john to work with a skull call high tech helps improve the efficiency of crude oil refining the announcement comes just days after british will make a call to westminster to issue a warning against doing business with the country however the head of b.p. in russia david petit dismisses such concerns saying his companies have a 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 for over twenty years inside of russia we had 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 the markets that must start with oil prices are in the red this sound

despite reports around halted shipments to europe in retaliation for a plan and later this year on the asian markets are in the right after a decision on a second burnouts agrees it was close although some japanese jazz did get support from a relatively weak yeah but still finished the day in the red the russian markets are now open both m i six on the r.t.s. i opened up in the red dots where they were mine at this hour. let's have a look how the individual getting on the truck to make a come out is losing ground on profit taking off the adding over twenty percent at the beginning of the week and the majors are tracking down the market's sentiment and are facing moderate losses banking stocks are also under pressure is losing over a percent this. russia's largest lender has finally found the keys to access the european markets bank is closing the long awaited deal to purchase is vox bank

international artie's dimitri medvedev 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 sweeteners 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 this deal as 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.