the u.s. declines a to rule out arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington's push for regime change its year it could plunge the country deeper into chaos. also the failure of the u.n. a nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions and around these long stay begins to take its toll on the countries putting those penalties in place. plus russian markets kicked off the trading session on the positive note with both the r.t.s. and the my second skate in over a quarter of a percent get the full picture in business and twenty minutes. it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program now the streets of spanish cities become a battlefield this stance of thousands of schoolchildren and students have been protesting against education cuts the demonstrations turned violent earlier this

week in the city of landsea worst seventeen people were injured and what's been called a have be handed repression of the rally five days of protest have been sparked by the latest budget cuts implemented to meet tough e.u. deficit targets are you sara for of has more from the spanish capital. scenes of a stares here on the streets especially in valencia clashes broke out between riot police and university students and young protesters as they demonstrated against education budget cuts which they claim have left many closely and without even basic piecing now scenes of riot police chasing dragging and hitting the protesters in claims of arrests being made in some cases involving minors the spokes widespread criticism here in madrid a smaller group of protesters turned out by the education ministry in support of the protesters in valencia but this is just cause of the why did demonstrations

we're seeing taking place across the country in recent days the new conservative government's been in power just a few months faced with its first must've union protest phase of the weekend the government had introduced tough measures they say were necessary to bolster spain's economy but it hit the public sector hard including health and education let's face the full largest year as a member but has the highest youth unemployment rate jokingly more than forty nine percent spain's youth are now unemployed that six to twenty four age group finding it extremely hard to get jobs in the adults not very much better twenty two percent unemployment amongst the adults in space and people here in the country in increasingly desperate situations are left asking really just how much worse the situation can get her first reporting there now greece is also bracing itself for a new round of protests following approval of its bailout deal the country remains

in the eye of europe's financial storm as the agreement leaves athens five years of pain to have the second cash injection of one hundred thirty billion euros has been freed in exchange for a drastic measure of sensitive concessions one of them is to allow permanent monitors injury happened she controlled album. fulfills the demands of its creditors dr sure is our role model from the e.u. research center thinks greece won't be able to escape default even where the rescue cash. there's no question that the greeks are going to end up defaulting at some way down the road the problem is that europeans the rest of the eurozone is not quite ready for a disorderly default right now and so another hundred thirty billion is being poured into their country so there isn't a disorderly default so it doesn't spill over into countries exactly next spain and italy so what you're going to end up seeing is some very very poor countries which have been put into dire straits because of the fiscal austerity measures that we

just agreed upon the problem is when the elections happen for example in greece in april you know when the new government followed through with such harsh measures i mean they're in place now but what happens are able is anyone's guess and what effect do you saying the latest round of austerity measures will have on greece log on to r.t. dot com and share your thoughts with us let's take a look at the site that we've got there so far as you can see not much optimism so far as more than half of the viewers think it will change nothing in an economy that's already doing. more than a third say the measures only mean further hardship for greek people and six percent are convinced that you will not let the greek economy collapse minority considers bailouts to be the only way for athens to survive well do you want us now why is think on this issue to our website our team.

the u.s. has hinted they could eventually give arms to rebels in syria despite previous strident opposition to further militarizing the conflict in the country the obama administration says if a political solution to the crisis prove impossible it might consider other options and this amid warnings that washington's continuing efforts against the syrian regime could see fighting side by side with al qaida or he's got to report. amid bloodshed in syria more extremists are penetrating the country to help bring down a sot that's according to u.s. intelligence which says all current affiliated fighters were responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings in damascus and aleppo targeted at syrian military and intelligence facilities has seen evidence of. extremist sunni extremists i'm not can't label them specifically as al qaeda but similar ilk who are infiltrating the opposition's groups.

while fighting in syria continues the violence in neighboring iraq has dropped in some areas by as much as fifty percent in the last few months this as an al qaeda leader iman al-zawahiri as called on his supporters around the world to back the uprising in syria i do. think that these men who call themselves the mujahedeen say they're on their way to fight a holy war against our song. in washington senators asked the head of america's intelligence james clapper you think what happens if assad falls here long are we prepared for the situation of a possible failed state we're enjoys a safe harbor in refuge and from which to coordinate attacks his response bears no optimism there would be kind of a vacuum i think that. would lend itself to. extremists

operating in syria which is particularly troublesome some ask a different question is the u.s. on the same side as all kartik in syria and whether its policies are indirectly aiding the terrorists or american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for a. can it be good for us and not to look at say he may be a ruthless dictator in what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state this is why i'm against putting weapons in and aiding the anti resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state and syria even for many of those syrians who are not supportive of

their president the fear of the alternative is far greater why are they sitting on the fence or why they are not in the streets with the supporting the movement and they are often too fierce is that one is that pushed us to be this. and that would be the careless the opposition in syria is very fractured they don't seem to be under anybody's control this spite concerns voiced by top u.s. intelligence officials about anti psychotics treatments washington has failed to widen its calls to include armed opposition and therefore basically ignoring the fears of a huge part of the syrian population who don't want radicals gaining momentum and directing the country into chaos i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. and further measures to help the syrian opposition will be discussed at the first meeting of the so-called friends of syria group and tunisia on friday the group consists of western and arab powers openly seeking president assad downfall

moscow has rebuffed the gathering saying it's biased and its efforts to resolve the syrian crisis they have the foreign affairs committee and russia's lower house of parliament told r.t. the meeting won't paint an accurate picture of the situation in syria. yeah. judging by the statements we have been hitting on the farm out of the so-called friends of syria club the sole purpose of the conference is not to find a way out of the current situation but to promote the idea that the conflict can only be resolved if assad leaves that's why mostly refused to take part in a meeting i have met with mr assad and with representatives of two opposition organizations i did not get the impression that it is the people versus assad in this conflict the situation is different a faction of the people is opposing the regime while another party supports mr assad well yet another faction does not want syria to fall into chaos they support the regime possibly they do not support the idea of a state interference it is not black and white it is not a scenario where a whole nation rises up to overthrow

a government they don't like they believe that the situation cannot be resolved without the regime in representatives of the gulf monarchies which do not have a single democratic institution and start complaining about assad's regime being undemocratic i believe that that undermines the political and moral legitimacy of the friends of syria club is a club a city as friends or a club of people who want bush gone so that's a question we have to school so he was the host. of it seven hours of talking to the hat of the stay dumas foreign affairs committee at me can see that injury in full program on thursday. lawrence davidson professor of middle east history of west chester university believes the voice of peaceful protesters in syria has been a lost i miss the violent uprising of some opposition groups. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them

are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact desert errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitution no document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters who have seemed to be in co-opted now who are displaced by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to essentially get those people off the streets and accepting of their of the government's scenario where the solution to this but the others are they're going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured because they're not

going to surrender. that we have more insight into development and syria at r.t. dot com it's our website as well as plenty of other stories there as well including drums of web war. as some in washington brand hacker attacks as an act of terrorism the hacker group anonymous appears as authorities of waging a campaign of fear among americans. and it is the u.s. sponsoring russian opposition who is behind the recent mass protests across the country and what's the future for their reset in russian american relations but just some of the topics covered by washington's really a point of vasant or to moscow to hear what he told r.t. on air today at online anytime at r.t. dot com.

the u.n. nuclear watchdog says its two day mission in iran has failed to produce a definitive result and clarifying the purpose of to ron's controversial nuclear program the i.a.e.a. adds that this is due to its team not being allowed to visit a key military site to iran which insists its activities are purely peaceful inturn says the agency's second visit in less than a month was for talks and not inspections islamic state has also reiterated its readiness to return to the negotiating table the failure of the i.a.e.a. mission might pave the way for more sanctions against iran but previous experience shows that such penalties often and up hurting the countries imposing them as bennett now reports. putting up with this two years ago would have cost me around seventy five pounds if think that thought well it now costs over a hundred because petrol in britain's never been more expensive the average for

a liter of diesel soared to over one pound forty three two dollars twenty five cents the previous peak was during the libyan conflict last may and its people at the pumps who are paying the price again this is a disaster again for motorists and not only are they being stoned month after month now by these fuel price rises but there's also a concern that this is going to spread to the cost of every day items such as food because those transportation costs to get the food to store will be passed on to businesses and then the consumer it's a result britain has banked on when threatening to block iran's oil exports to the e.u. although the book's a major customer individual members aren't britain imported just eleven thousand barrels last year not even a one percent of its total imports but in practice the tough talking back fired iran struck first by freezing deliveries to british and french companies

a move not harmful in itself but one that stoked fears in an already nervous market that iran's saber rattling could be for real it's already threatened to block the strait of hormuz a vital oil trading route iranis is trying at the moment before these sanctions come into effect to do what it can to talk up the price of oil without actually sacrificing any production so it's seeking to to benefit from maintaining its exports. a higher price for each barrel that it sells the timing of sanctions couldn't be worse a loss of production in south sudan yemen and the north seas already driving prices higher with the rainy and. crude still in demand in asia it's the u.k. and it's motorists that are the hardest hit they are for that other company thanks for. if i was by myself i would rather go public with it people buy

through it people drive in effect how much you come yes i think it probably does i think that's why there is a small cheer so it's hope the threat of sanctions will bring iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear program but so long as the numbers are rising here in may not be iran he's the first to buckle in what's become a dangerous game of brinkmanship experts predict the ongoing tensions could add twenty five percent oil prices by easter. bennett r t london and as a factor in this of sanctions is question more often fears of padding military confrontation whether iran become more prominent christopher chambers journalism professor from georgetown university told r.t. why american media is in the vanguard of international warmongering. you have to have a symbol of fear you have of you have a presidential campaign now that is definitely

a soap opera. worst you know just fun to watch at best people are searching for issues and tag issues and red meat issues that they can feed their constituency with mainstream media and i'm here i mean television no i mean what it is is they're not covered they don't do nuance terribly well they do the fear factor kind of shows very well and this is a great item for fear you know and what you have here is is people ginning up coverage of of new people understand nukes people understand military exercises in the gulf people understand us responding to it and then. calling the military exercises god's vengeance that gets people crazy what we aren't talking about are the you know the assassinations the cold war war the drones if cetera any intrigue that might be going on with israel they don't do that particularly well and that's

the devil in the details it could get us into trouble. how the possibility of an attack on iran and how justified it will be is also the focus of our cross dog debate and about ten minutes time here in our team here's a taste of what's ahead. the united states and the european union and its allies have launching what is in effect an economic war against iran saying to the iranian leadership look you can either have your nuclear weapon or you can stay in power you get to choose i think patrick kind of put it really out there very openly it's all about regime change that's what this is about it's not about the nuclear program is a debate in the united states foreign policy community is a long one line only and that is can we do it that is based on efficacy ignores totally the question of should we do it or what would the consequences be of doing it. and please have fired on protesters outside a u.s. military base in afghanistan warning several people during a second day of protests demonstrators are hurling rocks at police and chanting

anti-american slogans after copies of the koran the muslim holy book were said to have been burned by troops a senior commander apologized yesterday and ordered the full investigation former u.s. marine jag deliberate a tells r.t. this won't be the last time troops raid a p.r. nightmare for america. this cannot be seen as an isolated incident this needs to be seen in the broader context of the united states having a p.r. problem with the islamic world since one thousand fifty three the us has been engaged in a series of affairs in the middle east that has not been done well for arabs persians or in this case afghans and this is the general movement within the islamic world to reject a lot of american. political ideas as well as activities we should be we should know this isn't going to be the last time we're going to see something like this

because i know i can show you this probably wasn't done. purpose this was probably an accident but something like this is going to help but again it's only going to make the hard to your mind your brain you know damn it stand and globally basically turn up again the us has a p.r. problem with the islamic world and we need to change what we do on our look at some other stories from around the world president of the caucasus republic of a positive has escaped an assassination attempt on injured one of the leaders bodyguards was killed and three others injured when gunmen opened fire on the president's car near the capital so who it's the sixth tam on live in the past seven years and the first since he was elected president last summer. to strengthen the republic after its long struggle for independence from neighboring georgia russia and a number of other countries recognize a positive sovereignty more than three years ago but tbilisi and most of the

international community don't see it as a separate state. more than a dozen soldiers were killed in clashes between the colombian army and rebel forces revolutionary armed forces of colombia or a far bombed the town of colloidal which lies within a critical supply route and drug corridor through the country southeast earlier this month a similar attack killed seven. police in bali indonesia have regained control of a prison after riding inmates you know fired up to one thousand armed security forces backed by dozens of armored vehicles and water cannon were used to restore order with this is a inmates have control of the facility for nearly seven hours officials are still investigating what caused the disturbance but some believe the ride began after one prisoner stabbed another. all of these financial facts and figures in our business update with marina stay with us.

hello and welcome to business here on i t. now the price of flights to europe is about to get more expensive than efforts a cat greenhouse gas emissions the block is imposing a new carbon tax on any carrier that flies inside or to the region and it has been strongly opposed by nearly every other major nation whose diplomats are meeting in moscow to discuss the response and the societies and it was able to reports for us . a trade war is brewing in the skies over your like many conflicts before this is over both ideology and money forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the e.u.'s unilateral move to charger lines for carbon emissions the international air transport association which unites all major passenger and cargo airlines says the system isn't as it should be imposed globally not regional the airline industry already pays enormous taxes in europe that were

supposed to be to cover the environment that's the airline perspective but there's also another perspective which is that outside of the airline industry a number of states say this is an infringement on their sovereignty because that u.t.s. charges to cover the entire flight not just the portion of the flight it takes place over a year where space to encourage airlines to reduce greenhouse gases the e.u. will oblige them to effectively pay a tax on fifteen percent of their carbon emissions this will be done by purchasing quotas on the emissions trading system the other eighty five percent is free of charge by twenty twenty the chargeable amount will write to eighteen percent. this means costs will go up which russia the us india and brazil all of well china has flatly brought here but it's companies from paying even though the sums of money for each passenger are relatively small to europe. to euro's or five years from addition of heroes are charging the fuel prices are higher to euro's off the new

inflation and you result in quite a significant amount ten percent maybe even ten percent so once all together given that airline business is very profitable to your is actually quite important the e.u. is showing no signs of backing down this raises the prospect of nations outside the block refusing to introduce. taxes in retaliation this will make travel even less affordable there will be fewer flights and lines will go out of business but will be. business. for let's take a look at currencies now the euro is rising slightly to the dollar that's after one hundred seventy two billion dollars bailout has been agreed following an all night summit of european ministers and strong all is pushing the revolt higher against both the u.s. and european currencies that's where. crude is fly at this hour on speculation that

prices which are near a nine month high will curb the violence as europe continues to struggle with its that crisis and that's also against the backdrop of rising crude stockpiles in the u.s. which is of course the world's biggest consumer of oil let's check on international stock markets now we'll start with asia and shares there are now in the positive territory despite concerns over the greek rescue deal and higher oil prices japanese stocks are managing to gain ground on the weaker yen carmakers are top gainers and so here with more than one percent. here russia one hour into trading and the markets are. still going off that's after losing more than one percent each on tuesday both the r.t.s. and m i six are again around a half a percent then let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sex energy majors are heading higher with gas from adding more than a half percent banking stocks are failing to gain momentum as flattens burbank is

adding a quarter of a percent you get a car from troika dialog gives us his outlook for the day straight. yesterday we saw i would see lights correction. the market was down but that was only very light volumes so i think many investors not many investors were impressed by this correction and mania really to step in in the markets again in the market is for the sectors i think. strengthening so all domestic stories like banking sector. see domestic food retailers then favorite no so i would attract investors really. especially to the sectors and i thought as us looks this hour for more stories you can of course always had to our website our three dot com slash business but in the meantime do stay tuned for the headlines with.

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