reportedly concluded iran is not building a nuclear weapon but america's main news outlets refuse to drop yes ione and scaremongering. less than a fortnight before russians choose a new president the front runners face and floods the streets of london we tell you one. four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the friends of syria gathering designed to find a solution to the country's crisis could instead be used to push for a military intervention and as well an israeli website known for its links to intelligence sources says the washington the western lead meeting serves as a means to bypass russia and china as u.n. security council vetoes the site also suggests the pentagon is hammering out an operational plan expected to get the go ahead from president obama similar procedures are apparently under way in other western capitals russia and china

refusing to attend the friends of syria talks with which wants to further tighten the screws on the assad regime and due to start shortly in tunisia moscow says the group is biased by ignoring the role of the armed opposition fighters in the bloodshed it's a view shared by many within syria as art history of the notion of reports. 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 in the sun 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 onto 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 package but some claim the friends have an ulterior motive so this meeting serves as a media campaign to cover up the frequent set backs of the western countries headed by the us have suffered in the intervention in the syrian issue it is trying to find a new way of intervention from the outside. to force assad to go is on the agenda of the friends gathering they want a political price and they want to fight to divide tape to make the country your political position because he is important then. to iran then to his

goal this is a. plan against syria but all be heard of democracy. you moron china and russia still among the few countries in dialogue with the assad regime have refused to attend the news. position 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 see 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 all of them want to start

a war against syria what no one is yet ready the only side that could do that is nato and even though 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 the last. meeting of. friends 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 and to government activity among syria's enemies are the country's name in themselves friends friends of syria get together across the sea to thrash out their solution to the conflict many here wonder if their own stories will really benefit the people on the ground or is it a case of with friends like these who needs enemies. notion r.t. the moscow's syria tunisia says it will also see the deployment of a peacekeeping force in syria as part of a solution to the crisis karen kotowski

a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel says the idea is unlikely though to make things better . our experience with with peacekeeping forces is that they are never neutral they always take sides and this is the problem and you know we 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 an abject failures of peacekeeping forces and so you know obviously i think it hides another each and and when it comes to the middle east the united states is not is not unbiased we are extremely biased we have an agenda and we've played out that agenda for the last i don't know twenty or thirty years 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 that could 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 another country in the string of arab revolutions preparing to inaugurate a new leader yemen's presidential election earlier this week was very much a foregone conclusion with only one candidate on the ballot even so washington hailed it as a step forward in the country's democratic transition party's cross-talk discusses what's behind the u.s. support. 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 there and states of course is interested in stability and instability and in a strong government they figure that they can crush al qaeda the problem is is that yemenis don't like strong government by anybody like their independence and. al-qaeda has wanted you know. has taken advantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and but at the same time the popular

pro-democracy movement. the fia's united states all this in this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weakened al-qaeda because many people who might have been prone to support that kind of the opposition are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. russia's presidential vote just around the corner but you won't find many pictures of the front runner on moscow's build the billboards vladimir putin's campaign is relying on the recognition he's already achieved but it's a different story a broad images of putin have appeared throughout london promoting a new book laura smith gauges a growing interest in russia's prime minister. russians a used to seeing putin in all manner of surroundings not only in top level meetings also out in the wilderness and even singing to a hollywood's a list crowd. but

there are always new heights to scale and currently find him looming large on a london icon the double decker bus. is coming it proclaims so may find the wording of the adverts 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 and yes the right people who feel and be violent towards putin the rubbles who love him or those who do but the most important thing is that sort of more would you can see that they don't. although as it turned out that wasn't quite true. but it might be desperate or

russia to name. those is probably a person who is opposing the russian who is i got no bad. times or russia back you got 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 nationally and the other a critically acclaimed to full part counter through relations with the west during his twelve years at the top there will be the world's attention on him again and people want to know is this a man we've seen before or is he changing. can he face the new joneses and how does the recent purchase movement affect his politics and his outlook having his face still in double decker buses way help painted as russet is prepared to go to the

polls but love him only since reputation is russ's strong man has captured the imagination of documentary make hits and all things hit in the u.k. and elsewhere whether it's a infamy it's an open question numerous mentality. still to come after spending the better part of two years behind bars america's military whistleblower is finally charge of u.s. soldiers facing life in prison for turning over classified documents to wiki leaks is the wrong guy in the docs a attorneys more on that in a few minutes. the u.s. intelligence community is ruling out suggestions that iran is creating a nuclear bomb times reports sixteen special service agencies have all reached the

same conclusion now that it's making an impact on america's main news outlets as marina port i explains many remain hooked on painting to iran as a bomb making bogeyman. 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 believing that new york could eventually be on iran's hit list we have to assume that hezbollah will be the proxy for iran and will 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 iran 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 are surrogates will revelations of a much less threatening tehran was recently disclosed during intelligence briefings the agency assesses iran is unlikely 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 were amused by some of the bush administration it's the same strategy it's like all well there might be things but only your the know the intelligence so well know it's not really credible don't know it's mccain i'm addicted to jack up his work till he goes well you combine characters together that you get is a media event doesn't want to impede the march to it we can scrutinize it but instead feel that engine by the bandwagon and you see it time and time again and we're seeing it again that if there were according to recent polls americans consider tirant to be be us his top enemy and nearly half of all citizens support a military strike against iran is a. bit when factoring human beings it's necessary for evolution to suppose we have these new reports and this constant drumbeat is designed to play and now we have to

tell you that if you don't actually running in the crash sure marina porter r.t. new york. turning back to our top story right now the situation in syria for more analysis on what lies ahead for the country we join jordan based political analyst professor you bring him home so let's focus first on the allegations that the friends of syria meeting will be a tool for the u.s. and western states to work on a foreign military intervention there how likely do you think that is and what if any do you any thing do you think the meeting may actually achieve. well first let's comment on the name you can call it the meeting for the friends of the united states or the enemies of syria but you cannot call it a meeting for the friends of syria this meeting is supposed to enhance the legitimacy of the syrian national council and that the same time legitimize oxon

from outside the bondy's of the un security council especially after the veto that was pressed by russia and china so i think this is a free for emperor venture in which need not be that it might be militarily as it is now in the sense of lending support to the armed gangs and the streets of syria but it need not to be directly openly military clan the stein help in the form of financing arming or just political and moral support for the syrian opposition as is the main expected outcome of that meeting or do you think anything would be changed if russia and china where join that guy the gathering. i think it's very good that russia and china are both boycotting that meeting because their presence even of they opposed the proceedings would have lent legitimacy to

the meeting itself since they are likely to be a minority in the and there's no shame and being a minority as long as you are defending the rights of third world states and your own state to pursue independent action that is independent of imperialism and zionism now the syrian national council the exile in opposition is allowed is when it comes to foreign military intervention how in touch is it with the situation on the ground and what influence does it have within the country. well if somebody is giving you billions of dollars on arms and providing political cover for the crimes that you are committing within a country then certainly you will have some impact on the ground the question as is that sort of helping stabilize or these stabilize syria and i think the obvious answer is that they are these stabilizing syria and they are doing that not in the

employ of peace and syria but in the interest of fomenting civil war that is unfolding right now before our eyes so why do you think the west is supporting. the national council the syrian national council i think the answer to that is obvious to basically because the syrian national council the spy of the islamic or thought of many of the representative of the present and the syrian national council and they are basically stooges of imperialism and zionism the mere fact that the meeting is taking place in tunisia after the so-called revolution that has taken place proves that the islamists and alliance and bad openly with imperialism against third world independent nations and national liberation movements against russia.

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a plea at his arraignment bradley manning already spent nineteen months in custody but has only just been charged he could spend the rest of his life behind bars if found guilty of aiding the enemy one of the twenty two charges against him hundreds of top u.s. lawyers have been voicing their anger they say manning was tortured during interrogation many believe a fair trial is now impossible after president obama remarked the whistleblower had broken the law the next hearing is set for march fifteenth attorney kevin zeese from the come home america group thinks the wrong person may be standing trial. well this is a case of very low level classified documents in fact there's questions as to whether they should be classified at all we have to also realize that one day you know those were released the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets and even those were not releasing any national security information that should have been kept secret all we're finding out from even the highs little secret of the pentagon papers in the lowest level secrets that meetings accused of is crimes

unethical behavior misbehavior by the u.s. foreign by u.s. foreign policy we're showing our corporations and the government work closely together the support corporate profit. rather than public interest we're showing all sorts of inappropriate behavior by people who like surgery said clinton who ordered us to metz to spy on u.n. officials when they came to meetings in the united nations that's illegal yet she's not being prosecuted manning who is accused of isn't really telling the truth is being prosecuted facing life in prison while people who commit war crimes and other crimes are not being prosecuted all turned out as some other stories making headlines across the globe taliban suicide bombers have argued at a police headquarters in northwest pakistan killing four officers injuring six others armed with assault rifles and grenades it's thought the attack was to avenge the recent death of a militant commander in a u.s. drone strike it comes a day after a car bomb tore through a bus station on the outskirts of peshawar killing thirteen people this has been

frequently targeted by militants in recent years. germany has withdrawn its troops early from an outpost in northern afghanistan amid protests over burning the copies of the koran at a u.s. air base earlier two nato servicemen were killed by an afghan soldier and once thought to be a revenge attack days of protests outside the u.s. bases have claimed nine lives and the dozens injured president obama said that apology to the afghan leader hamid karzai saying the religious books were destroyed by mistake. a rally in front of the chinese embassy in seoul is pushing for the release of a group of north korean defectors held in china south korean m.p.'s earlier adopted a resolution calling on beijing to stop deporting north koreans back to their home when the group of thirty four were arrested earlier this month but human rights activists fear their safety if they're forced to leave. little sports update coming your way later we'll meet some formula one stars happy to swap the as fault for ice

that. we were apart from the moscow hippodrome or this winter course made way for ports power among those behind the wheel for time f one champion allan pros to. rub shoulders or other bumpers with racers who really know the snow used to figure that one out in russia coming your way in about twenty five minutes but first. the hour's business next with dimitri stay with us. thanks madeleine welcome to business artsy and it's a bank bonus season that annual rites of big money and even bigger egos but the party may be over in the russian banking sector and why is that the country's central bank is taking steps to avoid excessive payments it will make the fees depend on them and its financial performance that's just the beginning reward systems will. lend the ratings in the future the regulator also wants to fix half

the bank is salaries the other half being performance going richard aynesworth from rating agency ross rating explains what's behind the move. russia is trying to harmonize its regulations with regulations that are in other parts of the world so harmonize ation of all regulators is something beneficial it does create an environment in which all buy has a paid in a fairly regular fashion and that may help. some of the smaller banks in the medium to compete with the very large russian banks. and staying with the story angus campbell from london capital group explains how similar measures are already making european bank is more spots. ready we're seeing a huge change in banking on the way it works the investment banking arms have

had 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 are 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 at my in the long run make them less profitable but as long as they're safe that can only be a good thing so we're already seeing changes to the way banks were and we will continue to see that going forward right time now to take a look at the markets we start with currencies the euro is slightly higher versus the dollar now has a spike concerns that rising oil prices could deal further blow to the fragile euro

zone harming the ruble which is why the expected as we go towards the versus the euro stronger versus the greenback by thirty five. now is next and it's rising for the seven days the longest winning streak since january twenty tap us weekly government report showed that there was a small that expected rise in entries investors but the fuel demand may climb off the u.s. jobless claims however for your love and german business confidence of past forecasts over say right now is light sweet at one hundred eight and a half dollars per barrel brant is up less by seventeen cents one hundred twenty three dollars is of course not been european markets. still keeping hold of their game shares in the british bank who were its rows in early trading despite the firm is reporting a net loss of four point three seven billion dollars and that was largely due to provision for compensating customers over payment protection insurance and the bank

also warned of a tough year to come all this and we're still seeing gains for these up point six percent the dax point eight again at rush hour still a lot of hype in the final trading session of the week the r.t.s. up four point two percent amounts of three point two percent very good performance in the second of what's moving the markets and well as usual traditional picture that energy and financial shares gazprom up three point three percent strong well supporting shares d.t.b. is the most liquid stock at the moment it's the most widely traded p.t.b. is up two and a half percent and also look at what's happening in the middle sectors all seeing gains although it's a change of the business climate we've seen severstal shares go up more than two percent let's listen to the media google from verner investment research. 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 by young. where couple of headlines on the advertising market i think people will be focusing on the interest story like young bucks and my little interesting but overall i think we'll see a lot of preposition for the election was i don't expect this position to be very aggressive and people will be carrying a lot of page people we looking for ways to trim exposure in the worse. names. and also in other news russia's largest internet company mailed to you as opposed to the fifty three percent increase in the second half of two thousand live and it's benefited from attracting new. users and selling premium services however expects a slowdown in growth this year following a similar forecast by russian rival again begs the idea. that if you own a jag you are in a big country side house in russia be ready to pay more time the country's economic

ministry has unveiled the terms of a new luxury duty which could be introduced as soon as next year it will apply to real estate starting from one thousand square meters and to cars with a capacity of two hundred fifty horsepower and up because of its ministry says it shouldn't apply to more than ten percent of russian citizens now so no details on what the rates will be. the headlines are next on i think with that to stay with us .

four thirty pm in moscow these here are the headlines as the u.s. and its.