washington's intelligence services reportedly conclude that iran is not building a nuclear weapon but america's main news outlets refused to drop the and the iranian scaremongering. and less than a fortnight before russians choose a new president the front runners face floods the streets of london we explain why . as oil sees its seventh consecutive session of gains of russian markets on the friday on a very positive note with the audience of four point nine percent of my six point seven percent or more in this twenty. a low it's certainly one pm here in moscow right now you're watching r t live with me kevin owen and our top story this friday night calls for tougher economic sanctions against syria are getting louder tonight at the friends of syria meeting currently being held in tunisia with the e.u.

already preparing to freeze the syrian central bank assets next week it's among the new measures to cripple the assad regime being proposed by the u.s. and its allies as they gather there try to hammer out the syrian crisis let's get the latest now from our teeth from national is in damascus for us maria hi the meeting is not yet finished but we've already heard some strong statements coming out of that meeting what is being said bring us up to date if you would. well kevin indeed we are already hearing in a number of quite strong statements from other countries taking part in this meeting in tunisia the u.s. state hillary clinton has said that president bashar al assad will pay a high price for the violence against syrian people america has called for more economic sanctions against the regime and particularly to boycott the all from the country and to freeze assets syrian assets abroad this is something the french foreign minister has already confirmed france will do the u.s. has also sad that it will give ten million dollars to

a scale syrian humanitarian efforts meanwhile it's not quite clear exactly what did they mean by that and what kind of west africa as they've been talking about and the raw speculation is the raw fear is growing that it may be military action given the fact that just recently washington didn't rule out the possibility of army in the ravelled meanwhile this out of the league ation walked out from the meeting of friends of syria in tunisia saying that the country will not support the action that will not lead to the quick protection of the syrian people and a saudi foreign minister has also sad that arming syrian opposition is an excellent idea so here on the ground and everywhere abroad actually fears are growing that the military intervention that has been considered as the last option to resolve serious and go in crisis is becoming more

a more realistic scenario these days and people here are very much concerned and their fear is not groundless actually we've been recently hearing reports about. about this military possibility and that the western countries are actually planning military action against syria and they may use this meeting for. of syria to push to lobby this idea as they can do that on the house of the friends of syria recently we've been here reports from some israeli sources that pentagon has already been working on this plan and it's already ready actually and it's just waiting right now to be approved by president. obama and it's also been reported that others nations this is what other nations are also doing well we've been hearing from the opposition as well such intensions the syrian national

council syria's opposition based abroad has had of this meeting in tunisia has appealed to friends of syria group asking for assistance for free syrian army including weapons so actually. fears are growing about militarization further militarization of this conflict and the home opposition here in syria national called a nation committee has already said that concerned about that saying that it may only get things here on the ground worse meanwhile china and russia are not taking part in this mission in tunisia saying that it's not able to resolve the conflict peacefully while one side only the opposition has been invited and only the opposition based the broad because the home opposition the home syrian opposition has boycotted this event and while the syrian government hasn't been

invited to this event and this is why many say many analysts say that military solution will not be possible here in syria because china and russia will not allow this to happen they've already vetoed. the u.n. security council resolutions. on syria so they will food as much pressure. also to not to allow this to happen to stop what was we can see what's going on around tunisia is quite tense it's quite contradictory and right now before the palace where the meeting is taking place there are hundreds of pro syrian government protesters demands trade say. yes this event caused many questions even before it started actually. 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 get into nature has been a mystery till the last moment when a similar if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people in a negative way when the lot of i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government. 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 french 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 u.s. have suffered in the intervention in the syrian issues 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 with the saudi us all of them want to start a war against syria but non is yet ready the only sign of a could do that is nato and even they are not ready the syrian national council is not ready they gather to unify pressure and efforts to get justification for an operation. the music into new zealand is amusing and indeed 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 anti 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. national r.t.

damascus syria well the coalition of states meeting in june of zero now is reportedly going to recognize the syrian national council as legitimate representative of syrian seeking peaceful democratic change the opposition groups based outside the country political analyst professor abraham aleutian told us it's being used as a tool to stir up civil war. 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 the action 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 an intervention which need not be their act it might be a military as it does now in the sense of lending support to the armed gangs and

the streets of syria as opposed to german govern consultant christophe horse still he told me earlier that the west is trying to transplant he thinks it's regime change strategy from libya to syria now. so what we face here is some kind of you know prefabricated agenda that agenda is helpful you know if we if the west is starting an uprising in iran it is helpful if they start uprisings all of the arab world of the northern africa and libya for example where the cia started it from scratch from zero here there was no such uprising against gadhafi in the you know in the further it with international law is and western media propaganda and now they're trying the same agenda on syria but as we notice everybody in the world who is watching closely notices with this kind of agenda simply doesn't work here and you know times just yesterday has made headlines saying this opposition in syria is so badly this united there is so much you know in trouble with each other

inside this opposition that there is no real thing we can do nato can do politically right now well another country in the string of revolutions disappearing to inaugurate a new leader this week's presidential election in yemen was very much a foregone conclusion because there's only one candidate on the ballot paper so washington held it is a step forward in yemen's democratic transition cross talk show at seven thirty pm g.m.t. tonight discusses what's behind the america's 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 and states of course is interested in stability and instability and in a strong government figure that they can crush al qaeda the problem is is that yemenis don't like strong government by anybody like their independence and. has

wanted you know. taking advantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and but at the same time the popular pro-democracy movement. is united states all this in this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weakened al qaeda because many people who have been prone to support that kind. are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. russia's presidential elections just around the corner but you won't find many pictures of the front runner or a moscow is billboard's putin's campaign is relying instead on the recognition he's already achieved but it's a different story abroad which is a putin of a paid through london promoting a new book laura smith gauges the growing interest of russia's prime minister. russians

a used to seeing bloody 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 ad but 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 caught up 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 rebels 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 you probably appreciate you supposing the russia is i got no bad. times or russia but 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 challenges and how

does the recent protest movement affect his politics and his outlook having his face on double decker buses won't help you say this russian is prepared to go to the polls but love him or you since reputation is russ's strong man has captured the imagination of documentary makers and also here in the u.k. and elsewhere whether it's fame or infamy it's an open question laura smith r.t. . apparently in the program tonight with me kevin i would hope terrorism apparently has no age limit this retired british sixty five year old is cuffed dressed in an orange jumpsuit and packed off to america we face is a lengthy jail term for allegedly shipped big batteries to.

america's intelligence communities ruling out suggestions that iran is creating a nuclear bomb the l.a. times reports that sixteen special service agencies all reached the same conclusion not that it's making an impact on america's main news outlets as many explains many remain hooked on painting around 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 would be the proxy for iran and could 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 iran upping the ante a u.s. senator has called on federal agents to quote increase 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 or surrogates will 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 are used by some of the bush administration it's the same strategy it's all well there might be things but only all the world know the intelligence so well no it's not really credible then of course it's making a material. jack up is what always goes well when you combine characters together that you get is a media event they want to impede the march to it could be construed as a bit instead a few bama bandwagon you see it time and time again and we're seeing it again there with the way according to recent polls americans consider tehran to be the us is

top enemy and nearly half of all citizens support a military strike against iran. in fact doing healing beings it's necessary for evolution is a cause we have these new reports and this constant drumbeat is designed to play on that fear to tell you that if you dare question with any ins they will question your marina porter r.t. new york a shame and disgrace to the british justice system their final words of christopher tappin before he was handcuffed and put on board a plane to america accompanied by his wife was visibly upset the pensioner now hopes he'll live long enough to return back home again sometime. i look to. mr carroll to look after my rights but he's failed to do so i have to write that we could order book of the streets of the world today and we could all fix it right if. he has more rights to do it. but i was

a tourist i was going to agree with. the sixty five year old former gold club presidents being handed over to the u.s. to face accusations that he was planning to sell commercial batteries to iran for which he stood to profits a mere five hundred dollars because of that though he now faces decades in jail but the case is added fuel to a row about the whole u.s. u.k. extradition treaty with many britons furious over how one sided it is i spoke to attorney douglas mug now who specializes in cases like this he told me he believes the agreement is actually being used just as it was always intended. what i understand the significant majority of those individuals that have been extradited from u.k. the us are not terrorists. two thousand and three extradition iraq which was an act passed by the u.k. parliament lowered the standard that the u.s. must meet to seek extradition basically reasonable suspicion something analogous in the u.s. to a police officer stopping someone for

a ticket on the other hand if the u.k. were to seek to have someone extradited from the u.s. there were much higher legal burden probable cause u.k. would be required to show that the individual probably committed the crime so there is an imbalance you know the extradition treaty between the two countries will abuse a brief to bring it up to date with germany's withdrawn it's from early from an outpost in northern afghanistan itself the two nato soldiers were killed following protests over the burning of posters of the koran at a u.s. air base protest this week have claimed at least twenty three lives and left dozens injured president obama sent an apology to afghan leader hamid karzai saying the religious books were destroyed by mistake. hundreds of palestinian protesters a clash with israeli troops in one of the west bank's most volatile cities the demonstrators one of hadron's main streets to be reopened after being closed for almost two decades it was shot by the israeli army after twenty nine people were killed in a religious ride by an american immigrant doctor in one thousand nine hundred four

. suicide bombers have targeted a police headquarters in northwest pakistan killed four offices needed six others 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 ripped through a bus station on the outskirts of pressure killing thirty the city's been frequently targeted by militants in recent years. forty minutes of financial news awaits you this hour with our team's new show capital account on the air less than ten minutes from now and dmitri medvedev right now. bluto you know when welcome to business r t a bank funded exclusively by emerging nations is being discussed by the brics group of nations brazil russia india china and south africa suffered as western leaders pulled out billions of dollars in the wake of the credit crunch the brics

a bank that would fund infrastructure projects in these states the fastest growing economic bloc in the world it would also count away the dominance of the i.m.f. the world bank which of always been headed by politicians from europe and us. it's a bank bonus season that i knew all right of big money and even bigger egos but the party may be over in the russian banking sector the country's central bank is taking steps to avoid excessive payments it will make the fees depend on the lenders financial performance and that's just the beginning reward systems will also figure in the rating in the future the regulator also wants to fix half the bankers salaries the other half being performance space which of haynesworth from a rating agency was raising explains what's behind the move. russia is trying to harmonize its regulations. regulations that are in other parts of the world so harmonization 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 banks to compete with the very large russian banks. take a quick look at the russian the markets and they ended friday's session on a very positive note with the r.t.s. gaining four point nine percent m i six three point seven percent these are mainly driven by financial and energy shares gas from up three point seven percent on strong well d.t.b. one of the strongest the blue chips up more than four percent now metals were generally better because of higher commodities although it's a change of fortunes for sevastopol at the close it's down two point two percent foreign forces planning to expand in southeast asia alexander lifting from multiple lives he wraps up this week straight. from the beginning of the week when we have

seen some new information on the greece and finally decision on the greek bailout it was actually not that much appreciated by investors as we have seen we have seen a slight correction for a couple of days after that but later on friday finally closer to the end of the day we have seen very firm growth for russia which was also basically. supported by growing oil price way grow in russian currency robel and by some positive releases of economic data from us and from europe. russia's largest internet company mailed to our us reported a fifty three percent increase in earnings for the second half of two thousand and eleven now it's benefited from attracting new users and selling premium services however the company expects a slowdown in growth this year following a similar forecast by russian rival yandex daughter or you. finally a quick look at the exchange rates the euro is higher versus the dollar despite

concerns that rising oil prices could deal further blow to the fragile euro zone economy and the ruble is higher against the euro and the dollar russian currency has reached its highest level against the world in six months and it's not a free one from u.b.s. says keeping money in cash is not without risk as currencies in dollar general race to the bottom. mr just to be very diversified because there is essentially a battle of which is the least ugly of the ugly major currencies and they're all pretty ugly so the euro has got a lot of structural problems we're aware of until there's a real fiscal integration and united states has a long term big structural challenges on its debts but i think the u.s. dollar looks much more attractive than the euro over the next six months at least. if you own a jag you are in a big countryside cottage in russia be ready to pay more tax the country's economic ministry has unveiled the terms of a new luxury duty which could be introduced as soon as next year now will apply to real estate starting from one thousand square meters on to cars with

a capacity of two hundred fifty horsepower and over economic ministry says it shouldn't apply to more than ten percent of russian citizens now also no details on what the rates will be. that's all for now the headlines are next on our team to stay with us.

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