venture. washington's intelligence services reportedly conclude that iran is not building a nuclear weapon but america's main news outlets refused to drop the anti radiance scaremongering. have led him a putin says the u.s. is playing up security threats as an excuse to be far put european missile shield adding that russia's response will match. hello it's eleven pm here in moscow right now you're watching r t live with me kevin i know in the top story this friday night this hour calls for tougher economic sanctions against syria getting louder at the friends of syria meeting in choosier with the e.u. already preparing to freeze the syrian central bank assets next week it's among the new measures to try to cripple the assad regime being proposed by the u.s.

and its allies as they gather to hammer out the syrian crisis artie's maria financial has the latest for you. 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 human to terry in africa meanwhile it's not quite clear exactly what did they mean by that and what kind of what. 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 rabble meanwhile this elder deliberation walked out from the meeting of friends of

syria into news are saying that the country will not support the action that will not lead to the quick protection of the syrian people and the saudi foreign minister has also sad that arming syrian opposition is an excellent idea we've been recently hearing reports that the us and countries are actually planning military action against syria and they may use this meeting friends of syria to push to lobby this idea china and russia are not taking part in this meeting in tunisia saying that it's not able to resolve the conflict peacefully while one side only the opposition has been invited while the syrian government hasn't been invited before the palace where the meeting is taking place hundreds of syrian government protesters demonstrating this event caused many questions even before it started actually. the meeting of the country's calling themselves friends of syria

raised many questions before it even started. why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather into nature has been a mystery till the last moment. if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people in a negative way minimal out 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 held by the u.s.

have suffered in the intervention in the syrian issue 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 as with all of them want to start a war against syria known as 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 in the last given me to a 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. national r.t. damascus syria. post two more about the latest statements of decisions taken at the friends of syria meeting in june is the top issue is the beirut based director of the center for middle east are these these joining us on the line now dr gelb a very good evening to you the so-called friends the syria concluding that tough economic sanctions will help resolve the syrian crisis do you agree with them not at all the answer is no because i need economy. have effects not on the syrian regime on syria on the syrian people and which will not solve the problem they can make political pressure on the syrian regime they can me like they . close the embassies of syria and kick out the ambassador's bad

not all for this it will not solve the problem it will not also harm the people in syria but i me economy. will harm the people in syria it will not solve the problem at all it will make it much more complicate a lot of focus on this meeting tonight in. the saudis attended then they walked out a couple of hours ago saying that they will. not take part in an action that will not lead to the quick protection of the syrians what would they support do you think of what do they mean by quick protection. i think it's very very. it's not fear at all it's. cloudy. and the protection of the saudis means the protection humanitarian protection of civilians and people who do understand this they can

do it tour humanitarian organization and the red cross and etc if they want. protection military intervention under the umbrella of the united nations for example it will not happen everybody knows that annie military and prevention or multinational forces may go to syria must go with the approval of the security council which will not. come with such a resolution. based on the. russian. chinese and russian and the chinese made it clear that they are against any foreign intervention military intervention in any circumstances in syria we know that dr but is there a danger that one country may go it alone illegally maybe. it's

a again we'll take it what you're saying there but is there a danger that a country might go in alone an israeli website known for its links to intelligence sources says the friends of syria group thinks may be used to push for military intervention bypassing the u.n. security council just talked about. is there a danger of that happening and would that even be legal i guess not. i don't know any military intervention besides united nations and the security council it may have been like it happened once in kosovo i don't know of they will do it but in my opinion does push syria make syria to be a butterfield you know but there between the western blot and other acts which syria and iran and iraq and there there are lights if they want syria to be a battlefield for a long time to syria and to a civil war they can do it and now when they are talking about. ceasefire for

example which is our means and i am ex-military i ne filed and where i am in time and it's a constant call to side this who are fighting to fracture each other to stop the fire to stop fighting now in this congress they called only the syrian regime to stall and to respect the ceasefire they did not even mention the doctors richard has military organization they have they are. so-called terrorists and they are destroying and from a structure they are kidnapping people nobody did mention that if they are to be fair if they are the syrian regime only and one side will stop military operation to go back the army to its but they have to call the other side to stop their military operation the question is who can control the military organization of the

syrian army. three army what they call it who can control of the moor by d. did answer this right here talk nobody did mention when they said that for example today the united states encouraged the idea to. and provide work to the opposition. who gave what brings to the opposition. for seven miles for eight months when they started their operation the question is the opposition nobody can divide this the secretary of foreign affairs mrs clinton said long time ago they are well equipped well trained and. now we have. white house give us a doctor we're out of time i know we could talk about this for far this news

program but times again says we always appreciate your thoughts and your comment dr director of the center of the middle east studies in beirut thanks ever so much being on r.t. . another country in the string of revolutions is preparing to inaugurate a new leader this week's presidential election in yemen was very much a foregone conclusion with only one candidate on the ballot paper even so washington held it is a step forward in yemen as democratic transition cross-talk program just a bit later this hour discusses what's behind 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 there 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. the fears united states all this that this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weakened al qaeda because many people who might have been prone to support that kind of are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. america's intelligence community is 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 now that's make an impact on the america's main news outlets though as i put my i found many remain hooked on painting to run 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 that new york could eventually be on iran's hit list we have to assume that hezbollah would 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 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. 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 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. that. you know. again it doesn't matter if you. should reserve.

some strategy it's all well there might be things work on new york no no the individual so well no it's not really credible it's making a manager. has worked oh it goes well when you combine. to get it you get is a meeting with everyone to impede the march to it with critical scrutiny i was a little scared few at m.g.m. by the way when you see the time and time again and will see it again there were 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 is a. good thing fabulous beings it's necessary for the original i suppose with. constant be just as i am to the podium now. if you don't actually i mean here's the question to marina porter r.t. new york. now the developing story tonight thai police have declared that they

found no league between a spate of bombings in bangkok and attempts on the lives of israeli diplomats in georgia in india now that complicates matters than for television which found a media frenzy at the time by accusing iran of being behind all three attacks skeptics accuse israel of using the attention to bolster support for a military strike on iran's nuclear assets across this story go live now to tel aviv our correspondent ridiculous because there are in a good evening bring us up to speed then on what this statement from the thai police actually means. well this statement means that they have. a looks into possibility of whether or not the iranian nationals which they have in custody right now whether or not they weren't is connected to what seemed to be for a while this extensive terror plot which sought of course to essentially annihilate or to attack israeli diplomats abroad and according to type at least indeed the two

other two iranian nationals who were arrested in bangkok just earlier this month are actually not connected to the terror plots in india and in georgia now the two men were arrested following a small explosion in a residential part of the city of bangkok they were apprehended iranian embassy in the country did acknowledge the fact that these two men were indeed iranian nationals but they have denied any connection to these men they said the men were never involved in any sort of governmental operations or in any of the movements connected with iran and in fact the radian government has condemned the terror attacks but there are some whizzes which are saying that this was in fact in part in large part and the attempts by the israeli government to draw as much media attention as possible to the events in fact there was media frenzy for a while there it seemed like. like the world was just steps away from war because the israeli government was going out of their way in order to make it look like all

of their nationals world over are going to be under attack from iran and in fact they tried their utmost to paint iran as this ultimate evil power which is on the brink of just literally steps away from creating a nuclear bomb of course until now we still have no evidence of that being the case iran insists that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes and indeed there is no evidence to contradict that statement so of course this statement from the only shows only goes to show that in fact. israel may have been pushing the whole iran is going to attack every israeli citizen in the world and is steps away from creating the nuclear bomb is that those statements me not have that much basis in reality after all the really good springs of today there from a television appreciated. a shame and disgrace to the british justice

system that the final words of christopher tappin before being handcuffed and put on board a plane to america accompanied by his wife was visibly upset the pension and now hopes of live long enough to return back home one day i look to. a secure room to look after my rights but he's failed to do so i have to write that we could order retrieve groupie the streets of london today we could all pictured right here . he has more rights to go if. i was a tourist i was going to occur. while the sixty five year old former golf club president speaking handed over to the united states to face accusations that he was planning to sell commercial batteries to iran for which he stood to make a profit of a mere five hundred dollars but he now faces decades in jail because of it but the cases added fuel to a row about the u.s. u.k. extradition treaty as a whole with many britons furious over how one sided appears to be attorney douglas

mcnabb who specializes in cases like this told me he believes the agreements actually being used just as it was always intended. from what i understand the significant majority of those individuals that have been extradited from u.k. to us are not terrorists. the two thousand and three extradition act which was an act passed by the u.k. parliament lower 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. they have a 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 in the extradition treaty between the two countries. no tonight russia has its own position on the crisis in syria and libya putin is says moscow won't bend to foreign pressure this and other sharp statements were directed

westward by the russian prime minister as about the country's top military experts artie's jacob greaves can tell us all about that jacob good evening what exactly did you have to say they're all really here who's building upon what he said just a number of days ago and dressing tens of thousands of people in mass to show support for the prime minister what we're hearing is a bit of a snippet of what we might expect if he takes the presidency on the fourth of march with words certainly growing in strength and sharpness as well when dressing international relations in general said that russia won't dance the tune of any other nation major upon three key policy areas one being syria defending russia's role in the u.n. security council and the right so we all to veto he also touched upon that of the missile defense shield a sticking point with u.s. relations expressing even though every nation has the right to fences defend itself against any national security threats the current policy is really plenty of problem of a global security threat here so stressed that the u.s.

on this issue of proving quite allusive and not very serious when it comes to negotiating with russia but maintained that russia has enough of an arsenal enough clout to bring the u.s. to negotiations on the issue of touch upon that of iran and economic sanctions there the uranium enrichment program even though when the in this area the russia russia and the west have seen some similar ideas they also differ as well and that in the future he says he fears that some of these nonproliferation based economic sanctions may be aimed at toppling the regime. what is jacob graves thanks for bringing us up to date appreciate it. will do stories in brief now there are reports that demonstrators torched twenty nato trucks in eastern afghanistan following protests over the burning of copies of the u.s. base german. says it's withdrawing some troops early now after two american soldiers were killed protests this week of 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 have clashed with israeli troops in one of the west bank supposed volatile cities but demonstrators want one of hebron as main streets to be reopened after being closed for almost two decades it was shut by the israeli army after twenty nine people were killed in religious shrines by an american immigrant doctor in one thousand nine hundred four. that's news write ups for us so far coming up a little bit later this hour crosstalk taking on yemen's presidential election which saw any one candidate in the ballot yet was still praised in the west as a democratic achievement a lot more to talk about without the next thirty minutes but it's business first with dimitri. and warm welcome to business r.t. a bank funded exclusively by emerging nations is being discussed by the brics group

brazil russia india china and south africa suffered as western lenders pulled out billions of dollars in the wake of the credit crunch the brics bank would fund infrastructure projects in those states the fastest growing economic bloc in the world it would also count away the dominance of the i.m.f. and the world bank which have always been headed by politicians from europe and the us. it's a bank bonus season that annual right of big money and even bigger egos but the party may be over 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 lender ratings in the future the regulator also wants to fix half the bank itself is the other half big performance space richard haynesworth from a rating agency rules rating explains what's behind it. 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 bikers are 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. right let's quickly take a look at the russian markets and they've had a wonderful friday session with the r.t.s. up four point nine percent of my sixty three point seven percent of the close and the my sense was mainly moved by energy shares gas from up three point seven percent their own strong well it's supporting the stock financials are also strong d.t.b. up four percent now the mats all sector was generally seen gains and high commodities although is a change of fortunes for sevastopol at the close one or both kids are planning to

expand in southeast asia and it's on the review from multiple live see 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 and that's all for now the headlines are next on r.t. do stay with us.

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