iran is already in full swing in the us beating a third of americans to label islamic republic as the nation's biggest enemy any harm to support military action against tehran. and the face of putin in london we find out how the man to be russia's next president has been capturing the imagination of british authors and filmmakers in the fortnight before russians head to the polls. and in business. could be in danger of losing their youth the. central bank. join me in twenty minutes i'll have all the details for you. international news in college twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. the future of the syrian crisis will be the focus of a meeting between the u.s.

european and arab nations opening in tunisia today the so-called friends of syria group is expected to discuss new measures to cripple the assad regime which they blame for the neighbor long long deadly violence in the country russia china refused to attend the meeting moscow says the group is biased in its attempts to settle syria's internal bit by ignoring the role of opposition groups in the violence in which thousands of died. washington is reportedly holding talks with the u.k. france italy and turkey appropriations for military intervention in syria and israel website then for links to an action sources claims a decision will also depend on the outcome of the meeting in tunisia and whether the u.s. gets the support of its arab allies lottie's takes a look at the noose tightening around damascus. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started

why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment for the what are the if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people in a negative way. i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government. but it's become clear that none of these issues will make it on to the meetings agenda our priority is to facilitate the humanitarian the delivery of the humanitarian assistance and we have some proposal on the table to prepare. the best way to deliver this assistance as quick as possible. the u.n. estimates about six thousand deaths in fierce clashes between the government forces and the armed opposition with the humanitarian situation described as a catastrophe allowing aid to get in and immediate cease fire are key points of the friends of syria ultimatum tak age but some claim the friends have an ulterior

motive they don't want democracy in syria they don't want in their forms they want a political price and they want to give fights to two different states and to mix the country your political position here is important then. and then to his goal this is a. plan against syria but all behave of democracy. is to force assad to go is on the agenda of the friends gathering to russia and china will need to convince the syrian regime to put in power since it lost all its legitimacy and that a political and peaceful solution of the city in crisis is not possible while there remains you know china and russia still among the few countries in dialogue with the assad regime have refused to attend. has been invited to participate in the tunisian summit none of the government representatives were invited that means the interests of

a large portion of the population will not be represented in this case i doubt that this conference will aid and nationwide dialogue on ways to resolve the internal crises. a regime making war on its own people families suffering in cities under siege a nation. brought to the brink of chaos we cannot allow the obstruction of a few countries to stop the world community from coming to the aid of the syrian people and as with us all of them want to start a war against syria known as yet ready the only sign of a good do the us is nato and they are not ready the syrian national council is not ready they gather to unify pressure and efforts to get justification for an operation in a mosque. surprisingly enough an internet search of the friends of syria reveals a totally different community this website claims to reveal the truth and collects

evidence of anti government activity among syria's enemies are the country's name in themselves friends. r.t. damascus syria where character tarski a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel says the idea to send a peacekeeping force to syria which might be put forward at a meeting in tunisia is unlikely to help solve the syrian crisis. it was our experience with with peacekeeping forces is that they are never neutral but they always take sides and this is the problem and you know we don't worry so much about what goes on in central africa or even north africa in fact we have plenty of experience with the failures repeated and abject failures of peacekeeping forces so you know obviously i think it hides another agenda and when it comes to the middle east the united states is not is not unbiased we are extremely biased we have an

agenda we've played out that agenda for the last i don't know twenty and thirty years and it is very obvious to to to the people around the world and to the governments what what our interests are and they are not i'm sorry are the american government could care less about most of the people in the middle east i think that's borne out by our past activities and certainly the very casual and cavalier discussion of sending in troops and arming the rebel groups that we don't even know the names of who reflect that lack of consideration for the actual people who live under these governments and who have a personal responsibility and a collective responsibility to change those governments. well yemen is one country in a chain of arab revolutions which will see a change of leadership it awaits the inauguration of a new president for an election this week in which voters had only one candidate to choose from one of the polls widely seen as a sham the u.s. was among the countries which held the vote as

a model for peaceful transition in the region but they tell debate show cross-talk focus is what's behind the american applause. one of the reasons why the u.s. state department congratulated the yemeni people on the election is because the united states will continue to use drones and fighting the. elements of al qaeda in the country by the way so i was staying at the ritz hotel in new york right now i guess he's not too sick ok so i mean this is why the united states supported this and states of course is interested in stability and instability and in a strong government. the problem is is that yemenis don't like strong government by anybody. and. you know. vantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and the same time the popular pro-democracy movement. this chaos is going to

strengthen ironically weaken al-qaeda because many people who are prone to support that kind. are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. as a russians or carry out for the presidential election next month the image of one of the candidates prime minister putin has become a familiar sight on the streets it's not only in russia but in britain as well where the posters are however for a new book about him as r.t. said laura smith reports from london the public city underlines increased interest there in the politician the latest polls suggesting a likely return to russia's top job. russians a used to seeing vladimir putin in all manner of surroundings not only in top level meetings also out in the wilderness and even singing to a hollywood a list crowd. but

there are always new heights to scale and you currently find him looming large on a london icon the double decker bus. is coming it proclaims so may find the wording of the slightly sinister but it's all to do with a new book which analyzes putin the man not the politician the books the results of a six year collaboration between a british author and russian journalist alexander. put in is probably the most interesting political from in the world at the moment he's a great person has a great personality. huge bag wrong has a very serious following and yes the right people who feel him belong towards the rebels who love him or those who do but the most important thing is that sort of. you can see that they don't. although as it turned out that wasn't quite true you

know it's about him that might be desperate or russia. but those are probably a person who supposedly russia. i don't know but. the prime minister of russia let's take a look at it the authors say friday's book release isn't connected to next month's election in russia but it does come hot on the heels of two separate british documentaries involving putin one a look at the controversial political youth group nasheed and the other a critically acclaimed part counter through relations with the west during his twelve years at the top. there will be the world's attention on. people. is this we've seen before. the recent protest movement affected his politics and his outlook having his. help.

prepared to go to the polls but love him pearson's reputation is russia's strong man has captured the imagination of. all things in the u.k. and elsewhere whether it's infamy it's an open question. well still ahead for you this hour the e.u. steps up and calls for cash. china respond to the plea for help at this weekend's g twenty finance ministers summit. as reports emerged that police in new york are targeting profiling muslims we ask whether selective surveillance is making society safer and more hostile. rhetoric from israel and western powers seems to be having some impact on the u.s. public according to opinion polls the latest survey shows that

a third of americans now see the islamic republic as their country's worst enemy better just twenty five percent a year ago. reports now on the intensity of the iranian message flooding the us media and its impact. in the u.s. capitol of media and messages one particular story a unilateral strike keeps spinning round and round iran could attack the united states in a much more fearsome way iran a hypothetical national security threat growing more dangerous by the day that new york could eventually be on iran's hit list we have to assume that hezbollah would be the proxy for iran and well carry out the attack as assumptions about iran's potential plan of mass destruction floods us mainstream media more cops an automatic weapons are flooding specific areas of the big apple the new york city police department increased security around israeli government facilities and synagogues last week amid growing tension over tehran's nuclear program however the

n.y.p.d. says it has not received any specific threat related to iraq upping the ante a u.s. senator has called on federal agents to quote increased scrutiny and vigorously monitor the iranian mission to united nations but as politicians police officers and most mainstream journalists perpetuate a terrifying scenario for new york city officials in washington have thrown a wrench in this armageddon theme type news narrative by stating the facts about iran there are surrogates who are revelations of a much less threatening tehran was recently disclosed during intelligence briefings the agency assesses iran isn't likely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict they continue to develop their enrichment capability but the intelligence does not show but they've made a decision to proceed with developing

a nuclear weapon. many experts have labeled iran america's new iraq critics then and now say washington paves the path and corporate media plugs the message was iraq. you know. again it doesn't matter if you because you were missed by some of the bush administration it's the same strategy it's like all well there might be things but on the other a no no the individual say well no it's not really credible you know it's mccain i didn't jack up is what always goes well when you combine abbi tatton is to get it you get is a meeting with that they want to impede the march to it with critical scrutiny as a but instead a few engine by the bandwagon you see it time and time again and we're seeing it again there the way according to recent polls americans consider to be iran to be the u.s. is top enemy and nearly half of all citizens support a military strike against iran. even when factoring human beings it's necessary

with our evolutionary psychology and these media reports and this constant drumbeat is designed to play on that fear to tell you that if you don't question really i mean crack sure marina porter r.t. new york. but i remember you can always log on to r.t. dot com for more news stories and comments and some of what's in store for you right now from the podium that alexander the great or winston churchill moscow voters face a tough choice at the city's election committee stages over her saw the presidential pup discover who the other guy find candidates out on line. and pancake fever sweeps russia this country celebrates mass and it's a traditional festival bidding farewell to winter. wealthy british style.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines and to kaiser report on our. much brighter if you knew about song from france to pressure. you start on t.v. dot com. york police have reportedly been increasing surveillance on mosques muslims and

their businesses mayor michael bloomberg defended the move saying it's the responsibility of police to keep america safe but in the saucer executive director of the arab american association of new york says a culture of fear in the u.s. is allowing police to target muslims without penalty. mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly have continued to defend their tactics and say that we just follow the lead but as you can see from the a.p. reports and from the secret documents that are being revealed to the public that the only leads in those documents are the fact that we are muslim or muslim owned businesses or mosques that's the only thing that we have and where i see our community right now is actually in a more hostile environment than we've ever seen even days after nine eleven i don't see this issue getting any better as you watch the g.o.p. debate to see that the muslims and islam and radical islam is at the forefront of these debates so i don't see this going any time to what unfortunately and why p.t. has instilled fear in new yorkers and has used talking points like the last

fourteen boiled plots were by the n.y.p.d. which is absolutely incorrect it's actually been by citizens who have helped in that employing these pops still this national security paradigm is really causing fear among people to believe that what the n.y.p.d. is doing is ok to profile and surveillance by an entire community in the name of national security so it's just a smokescreen in and it's very unfortunate. for more on that story and to read where bloomberg defends his police force targeting muslims go online to our website r.t. dot com. the european union is set to press the world's largest economies to provide more cash for the struggling block by the international monetary fund g twenty finance

ministers are meeting in mexico this weekend but i.m.f. is keen to more than double its resources to help with debt ridden new economies at the center of world economic uncertainty that's after the green light was finally given following months of negotiations for a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout for greece to save it from going broke. well the plan to boost the i.m.f. with fresh cash may face opposition from countries like the u.s. and china as they expect you to do more for itself professor of political science period says beijing is using all the negotiating muscle of a superpower. already china bought up large a large area around the greek harbor pyrrhus the chinese want to have bases to explore their products build want to have companies in europe so that these companies import. ready made or almost where mitt ready made products from

china and then they sell their products of the rest of europe for example the recently bought. a company embargo to do this so. the chinese are going to get a lot in return the question is why do europeans do not what why don't they settle their own problems although they have the means of doing it you know the central bank functioned as a real central bank there would be no need to ask anyone china or any other entity for outside money so i think you have a situation of terrible political inefficiency at this summit of europe and china be merging superpower and it does what a great emerging super super power as all it's done but is it do you know. plays its cards wherever it can. well the greek bond swap deal with private investors is

set to get under way after parliament to approval in athens apparent aims to raise arjun seven billion euros of the country's debt considered to be the biggest ever sovereign restructuring devon's parliament is now set to pass further measures under the bailout agreement costa's dizziness a professor of law at the burbank university of london says the plan will only further drain greece. my family and livelihoods got their lives destroyed. you push people off it why they leave it can't you can all they live off the obvious fix as to what. the mess we have is going to do percent unemployment fifty percent unemployment over here was a huge increase in the whole mostly account of such a phenomenon of course a huge increase in troops time this has to move on and way through this resolution because be awfully result of these measures which have been implemented in order to

take money from the germans and the first people to give them to the german the french is nothing to. the greek people the only result of these measures is precisely the recession it is a slow bet with these problems. while there has a look now what else is making news around the world the south bradley manning the u.s. soldier and seems to passing classified secrets to wiki leaks has been officially charging the military court less declined to enter a plea he's already been hell for nineteen months and subject to treatment which a group of top u.s. lawyers say amounts to torture his supporters believe a fair trial is impossible the president barack obama made remarks that had broken the law. disabled protesters have clashed with security forces in the believe in calderon has mounting that your thought is start paying him and subsidy just over

four hundred u.s. dollars right police detained at least four people demonstrators. has attempted to break into the presidential palace clashes follow the end of a one hundred day protest journey across the country. and rescue helicopters had more than a shaky landing literally falling apart after touching down in the brazil injuring . on board i'm going to footage shows how the vehicle shuddered to a halt by breaking into pieces mr geisha into the course of our populations on the way. i'll be back with a wrap up of our main stories in a few minutes before that the business news with katie fielding. thank you carrie welcome to the program this hour bhatia central bank is taking concrete steps to limit bankers' bonuses soon fees will depend a lenders financial health and that is just the beginning along with capsize asian

debt burden except reward systems will also figure in the end. in the future the regulator also wants to fix health of the big bankers salaries the alcohol thing performance based and as campbell head of cells from london kept a grave explains how similar measures already making the european bank is more responsible. we're seeing a huge change in banking on the way it works. the investment banking arms have have a huge overhaul they have not only been subject to huge job losses but increased regulations they have to build up their capital requirements the risks they are taking at the moment much more considered much less the risks are. certainly not as big as they used to be in the past and that is changing

the way banks currently work potentially in the long run make them less profitable but as long as they're safer that khamenei be a good thing so we're already seeing changes to the way banks work and we will continue to see that going forward. and staying with the story russia's deposit insurance agency insists so-called golden parachutes should not be paid to departing executives if their company has filed for bankruptcy the former top managers that would have to wait till all company debts are paid off before they can get their goodbye bonuses the agency says sometimes gold. parachutes a given to the managers right before the bankruptcy is announced however lawyers appoint to wage legislation on what payments should be included in didn't in dismissal. let's go over to the markets and see was going on we'll see currency raising fresnel the euro is slightly down against the dollar all concerns that

rising oil prices could deal a father blow to the eurozone economy on the ruble retreated against both the european and the u.s. current says during the last trading session on the russian markets i will see those all prices now and as you can see they are indeed high rise interest that the day that's the longest a winning streak since january twenty fifth and the us weekly government report showed a small unexpected rise in inventor is best and that the field a man made five after u.s. jobless claims held at a four year low and added to that german business confidence for the past four cars light sweet is about one hundred eight in the hall dollars per barrel brant one hundred twenty three nearly one hundred twenty way. down with see the stock market is the asian indices are still mixed it's been a choppy session with some energy shares supported as all prices continue to rise as we just saw and with those german business confidence also beating expectations

a spade is shedding light on you have a large part of the nikkei is around the quarter of the cent and the sign is just a fraction down. right now it's less than one hour ahead of the i mean bell here in moscow the russian markets work closed because of a public holiday on thursday so you are looking at wednesday's closing figures as you can see the r.t.s. was down just a notch the my six further inspected one point three percent down to me take your call from a van or investment research tells us what to look out for for today's trade. i think we'll see a flat opening i think we'll see. relatively illiquid trading we'll see. the investors looking for interesting ideas for we had a couple of headlines. by bygone days where the couple had to own the advertising

market that people would be focusing of the interest or look young dicks and my little son interesting but overall i think we'll see a lot of preposition for lectures and i don't expect this position to be very aggressive and people will be carrying a lot of page people we are looking for ways to trim exposure in the less liquid names. while with the markets will be so nice but i said aha place vegas for me then in about fifty five minutes.

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