the u.s. declines to rule out arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington's push for regime change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. also the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran the fuel stop of even more sanctions while the tension around these lawmakers state begins to take its toll on the countries putting those penalties in place. for tonight to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and the streets of spanish cities become a battlefield this stance of thousands of schoolchildren as students have been protesting against education cuts the demonstrations turned violent earlier this week in the city of valencia worse seventeen people were injured in what's been called a heavy handed repression of the rally five days of protests have been sparked by

the latest budget cuts implemented to meet tough deficit targets are to serve for as has more from the spanish capital. scenes of a sturdy anger 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 classrooms 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 a spokes widespread criticism here in madrid a small group of protesters turned out by the education ministry in support of the protesters in philadelphia but this is just cause of the why did demonstrations we've seen taking place across the country in recent days the new conservative government's been in power just a few months whose face with its first must've phrase has

a for 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 shockingly more than forty nine percent spain's youth are now unemployed that sixty to twenty four age group finding it extremely hard to get jobs and the adults not faring much better twenty two percent unemployment amongst the adults in spite of people here in the country in increasingly desperate situations are left asking willy just how much worse the situation can get. sara for us reporting there 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 agreement leaves athens with years of pain had a second cash injection of one hundred thirty billion euros has been agreed in

exchange for drastic measures and sensitive concessions one of them is to allow permanent monitors into athens to control how the country fulfills the demands of its creditors dr sherris other of man from the e.u. research center thinks greece won't be able to escape default even with 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 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 a diet straits and 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 after it was anyone's guess. and what effect do you thing the latest round of austerity measures will have in greece while log on to our tea dot com and share your thoughts with us. let's take a look at what's happening on our side vote the moment. well as you can see not much optimism so far as more than half of you think it will change nothing in the economy that's already doomed for the third say the measures only need further hardship for greek people six percent are convinced the e.u. will not let the greek economy collapse and the minority considers bailouts to be the only way for athens to survive. the u.s. has hinted it could eventually give arms to rebels in syria despite previous strident opposition to further militarize and conflict in the country the obama administration says if a political solution to the crisis proved impossible it might consider other options at this amid warnings that washington's continuing efforts against the

syrian regime could see it fighting side by side with art is going to count reports . i meet bloodshed in syria more extremists are penetrating the country to help bring down a song 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 we've 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 qaida

leader iman al-zawahiri as called on his supporters around the world to back the uprising in syria. he said these men who call themselves the mujahideen 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 were enjoys a safe harbor and refuge and would 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 as a different question is the u.s. on the same side as all critics syria and whether its policies are indirectly aiding the terrorists american strategists would have to be fools not to see what

al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it. good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at it and say he may be a ruthless dictator and 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 assad 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 that if that is supporting the movement and they are often too fierce is that one is that pushed aside the.

and pushed aside 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. armed militants leaving iraq to join the rebellion against president assad in syria has also been acknowledged by iraqi officials the free syria inscription on the palm of this gone mad at the border between the two states speaks for itself all the army of free iraq once fought against u.s. troops in iraq and have now vowed to help the syrian neighbors to fight against the government baghdad says weapons and fighters are regularly seeping into syria

adding more fuel to the violence for a state it's a professor of middle east history at west chester university believes the voice of peaceful protest. in syria has been lost amidst a bloody uprising of some activists the i think that the the people who are 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 deserved 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 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. measures to help the syrian opposition will be discussed at the first meeting of the so-called friends of syria group antony's on friday the group consists of western and arab powers openly seeking president asa downfall moscow has we bought the gathering saying it's bias in its efforts to resolve the syrian crisis and have a foreign affairs committee in 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 in the form 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 the 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 and representatives of the gulf want to use which do not have a single democratic institution 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 the city is friends or a club of people want but. that's a question we have to ask. and

you can see that in reinforcing our program on thursday here on r.t. and we've also got more insight into developments in syria at r.t. dot com as well as funny of other stories there including drums of web war. as some in washington brand cyber attack is acts of terrorism the hacker group anonymous accuses authorities of waging a campaign of fear among americans. and as the u.s. sponsoring a russian opposition goes behind the recent mass protests across the country and what's the future for the reset of russian american relations to some of the topics covered by washington's newly appointed ambassador to moscow well here what he told they are today. and aligned any time that you know.

the u.n. nuclear watchdog says its two day mission and iran has failed to produce a definitive result in clarifying the purpose of to ron's controversial nuclear program that i am 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 am mission my pave the way for more sanctions against iran but previous experience shows that such penalties often and up hurting the countries imposing them as artie's are bennett now reports. filling up with two years ago would have cost me around seventy five pounds if think that thought well it now costs over a hundred because peered through 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 his people at the pumps who are paying the price again this is a disaster again for motorists and not only are they being stoned now by these fuel price rises but there's also a concern that this is going to spread to the cost of everyday 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 hadn't 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 one percent of its total imports but in practice the tough talking backfired 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 trading route iranis is trying at the moment before these sanctions come into effect to 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 a real. crude still in demand in asia it's the u.k. and it's motorists that are the hardest hit i mean i thought that a company thanks for that if i would fight for it myself but i would rather go

public with it people buy it through it people drive in effect how much you cover yes i think it probably does i think that's why there is a small cheer so it's hoped 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 as a effectiveness of sanctions is question more often fears of padding military confrontation with iran become more prominent christopher chambers journalism professor from georgetown university told r.t. why american media is in a 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 except for any intrigue that might be going on with israel they don't do that particularly well and that's

the devil in the details that could get us into trouble. now the possibility of an attack on iran and how justified it would be is also the focus of a crosstab debate later today 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 nor is totally the question of should we do it or what would the consequences be of doing it. police have fired over tester's outside a u.s. military base in afghanistan wounding 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 a full investigation former u.s. marine jake deliberate oh tells our team this won't be the last time troops create 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 the 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 and we should know this isn't going to be the last time we're going to see something like this because i am i going to show you this probably wasn't done on purpose this was

probably an accident but something like this is going to happen again it's only going to make the hearts and minds campaign in afghanistan and globally basically untenable again the u.s. has a p.r. problem with the islamic world and we need to change what we do. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the president of the caucasus republic of a cause you know xander on quad has escaped and assessed nation attempt uninjured one of the leaders bodyguards was killed and three others injured one gunman opened fire on the president's car near the capital so who it's the sixth attempt on cause life 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 of sovereignty more than three years ago but tbilisi and most of the international community don't see it as a separate state. as surely as foreign minister kevin rudd has resigned saying he

could no longer function without the support of prime minister julia guillard the resignation comes after days of speculation that he would seek to reclaim power from dillard who ousted him from the top job in a party who nearly two years ago rudd says he's future is. yet to confirm that he will run the next year's election in the package of. more than a dozen soldiers were killed in clashes between the colombian army and rebel forces the revolutionary armed forces of colombia were far beyond the town of colonial which lies within a critical supply route and drug corridor through the country southeast earlier this month a similar attack killed seven people. today here on r.t. this is news is next with marina. hello and welcome to business here and i think al the price of flights to europe is about

to get more expensive and efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions the block is imposing a new carbon tax on any carrier that flies inside or to the region and this is being strongly opposed by nearly every other major nation and his diplomats are currently meeting in moscow to discuss their response and business and it seems to fit in with erica is there for us. a trade is brewing in the skies over you like many conflicts before this is over both ideology and money. forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the lateral 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 to region the airline industry already pays enormous taxes in europe we're 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 you charges to cover the entire flight not just the portion of the flight it takes place over and you are a 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 u.s. india and brazil all well china has flatly brought here but it's companies from paying even though the sums of money for each passenger already it's at least me to europe. two euro's so or five euros from additional charges given the fuel prices. to yourself and you inflation and you result in quite a significant amount ten percent might be even ten percent so once this all

together given that airline business is very profitable each to your is actually quite important the e.u. is showing no signs of backing down this raises the prospect of nations outside the bloc 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 what. business are to. take a look at what's happening in the currencies the euro is rising slightly to the dollar after one hundred seventy two billion dollars bailout has been a great fall and all night some of the european ministers and show us pushing the ruble higher against both the u.s. and european currencies now let's move on to oil crude for hours on speculation is up prices which are near a nine month high will curve demand continues to struggle with instead crisis

that's also against the backdrop of rising food stockpiles in the west the world's biggest consumer of oil. baron europe markets have opened a higher following up its sentiment in asia both the footsie and the banks are adding around well into one percent this hour. over in asia own stocks are now in positive territory despite concerns over the greek rescue deal in the higher oil prices japanese stocks are managing to gain around on their ground rather on the weaker than. makers are top gainers in tokyo with nissan adding more than one percent this hour and here in russia it's now two hours into trading and the markets are still going up both the ideas and the mindsets are getting there around three quarters of up the side of let's take a look at some of the individual share moves energy majors are heading higher with gas arriving almost one percent and banking stocks are also gaining momentum between bankers out in point six percent well as burbank is adding three quarters

of a percent then looking ahead to the coming training sessions. the dialogue tells us some of the stocks he favors. my first choice would be my stick stores like banks and retailers maybe some routers then. store for example as for gas from i think coming few weeks will see very good inflow in general and just filled with the rush of proxy will be very good the months building position for. two or three weeks ahead. probably good choices. and that's how business looks this hour for more stories you can always had to our website r.t. that com slash business headlines are next to the marina.

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