syria waits to discover whether democratic reforms will come into effect as people's votes on the new constitution are counted for the opposition boycotted the ballot escalating violence. you know with libya start interference in syria russian the premier and presidential candidate. outlines his foreign policy plans ahead of this sunday's poll. and the ante of steroids he tried grips the usa and spain's impoverished students to lash out at more cuts saying they've been abandoned by their government. and the finance ministers of the world's leading nations tell europe it has to put up its own money if it wants the rest of

the world to help how the markets are reacting to the g twenty results find out of the business boardroom and about twenty minutes. hello and welcome to r.t. world news twenty four hours a day now our top story syria is awaiting results of sunday's referendum on a new draft constitution with the government already hailing it as a success the vote which went ahead and it would ports won't go in violence is said to have seen a high turnout despite being boycotted by the opposition parties reform is in damascus for us. the interior minister has said that it will take hours before the preliminary results come out with the main result so far is the fact that this referendum actually happened they've been fears that those against the ballots

could try to wreck the referendum they've been attempts to intimidate people reports have been circulated in local media about possible terror attacks at the polling stations the syrian opposition both the one base the bread and the hell has not only boycotted the vote in but also has been repeatedly calling all people to go and try to take to the streets to protest against this referendum and against president bashar assad this referendum on this constitution has been considered part of a package of democratic changes democratic reforms promised by assad's government we've seen demonstrations both travel and to government here in damascus which is been pressure from the international community has also been quite high the main concern was that the very chain comes amid a valance to continue on in the country especially in the besieged city of homs north of the capital damascus indeed we are receiving reports about people being killed in the questions between the opposition and authorities literally every day

but the fact is that it hasn't stopped people from casting their ballots we have been able to speak to a number of voters and the feeling we've gathered is that people are simply tired of instability and unrest in that country and they say that if the results like chad's that this referendum and this constitution i wave will to bring peace to the country it's worth to try this chance on neighboring lebanon is one of the countries calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in syria in an exclusive interview to artie's arabic channel the lebanese foreign minister. says that meddling in syria's internal affairs can really worsen the crisis. and over to asia we rejected the idea of interference from syria's internal affairs from the very start as meddling from the outside will not serve the interest of its people or the syrian government such interference will only complicate the conflict that's why we've said the

dialogue is the only way out of the crisis we think that russia and china have taken a wise position after all where does the outside interference lead to there are many examples of this in the region does it lead to stabilization as afghanistan become more stable in the last ten years no one can look at what's happening in the arab states outside interference only worsen the crisis intensifies the struggle and causes outright damage to the people and the economy we're standing by syria by its people and its government we're standing for a solution to the grocers. while the u.s. and its allies are teaming up against a president asset and the e.u. set to freeze the assets of syria's central bank is the latest effort by nato states to put pressure on them ask us however beirut's based political analyst and on a shabby things it's counterproductive saying it fails to address the needs of the syrian people. the direction is western politics and the western plan

to remove a president from office and they don't care at what cost if one or wants to be really caring to work the city and people really caring for the basic human rights basic a human preserving human life one should call for dialogue one should call for. between the different groups within the syrian cultural diversity to come together and bring in a new solution and i think this step that was done with the vote the referendum for the constitution the amendments is a step maybe a small step but it is a step forward in that direction towards the reconciliation and a true reform through democratic reform that can save syria the destruction that is being prepared for it apparently from some forces in the west. spoken alister mona shourie talking to us there. are libya's regime change must not be

repeated in syria so says presidential hopeful putin in his latest newspaper campaign article in the elections on sunday let's get more on this now from artie's hugo piskun off. to go over in a putin is known for his outspoken comments and this time is well he's had some strong words of a situation in syria. well the prime minister is known for his tough words and this article is no exception speaking about syria because you can put in a stressed once again that any foreign military intervention in the country is totally unacceptable reminding of how the events unfolded in libya when the international community clearly took one side of the conflict which led to what putin called not even a medieval but a stalling style execution of moammar gadhafi instead of a fair trial speaking about iran the prime minister said that any attack on the country would have unimaginable consequences on the world in general and said that

tehran has the full right for a peaceful nuclear program as long as it's under the full control of the international atomic energy agency and actually talking about nuclear nonproliferation that it's attempts to influence countries internal matters and foreign military interventions into sovereign states which push governments to want to develop nuclear weapons sort of as a as protection against that and that doesn't only hamper the nuclear nonproliferation process but creates more instability in the world. if you go to putin there is also voiced support for china and the debt stricken euro zone what's the suggesting there. the prime minister sees and expects the chinese economy only to grow in the future but says that this shouldn't be viewed as a threat to be seen as an opportunity as a challenge for other nations to work with china increase cooperation and that's his vision of russia's the future of russia working together with china as well

with russian businesses only likely to increase their work with the chinese porters the same goes for the rest of the other members of the bric group meaning of course india and brazil speaking about the european economy with the e.u. being the biggest trade partner of russia putin says that any problems with vatican amee definitely affect the global economy in general and moscow is only keen to see a healthy europe healthy european economy and is going to work to support that and still with foreign relations he's described russia's relations with the united states as unstable why. put in says that relations with the washington have traditionally been going through ups and downs partially because of old cold war stereotypes still remaining in the relations but also because moscow isn't. often and doesn't often agree with some of washington's

foreign policies for instance going to put in says that the united states always criticized the human rights situation in other nations but aren't really taking any criticism that well off the human rights situation in the united states itself and to put in washington trying to politicize and exploit human rights in general by doing which and of course also mentions of the issue of washington's plans for the anti missile defense system in europe saying that washington still hasn't provided any legal guarantees that that system isn't aimed against russia will not be aimed against russia and also said that washington is currently working on building a system where the united states would enjoy full invulnerability which. wouldn't only mean that the rest all the other countries would have full vulnerability which is an unacceptable but is only it's also physically impossible. ok aunties

who are pissing off talking to us from central moscow that thank you. well you are watching r t and still ahead this hour in gauged in this fight spirit from politicians who are detained for drunken brawl airport. former ukrainian mistress today and it's played even more serious charges details just ahead. eurozone leaders are hard at work to boost the unions financial fire wall to prevent economic troubles from spreading between member states but spain's so-called lost generation of unemployed youth are already feeling the pinch of deep cuts pushed through to shore up national finances students have been taking their grievances to the streets this is with the promise of prosperity and the reports. if you are a sentiment was riding high after spain during the year is a back in two thousand and two but

a decade on in years of us started to put us all back to work with an economic crash be a against. government policies and we were we were in town was an impression of quality for our kids the latest round of cuts and reforms but nationwide protest in spain valencia and it was the students leading the way as they took their complaints out of the classroom and onto the spanish streets and we're spending millions like we're rich but actually we're seeing that we're not rich at all i mean we have high schools without without heating you know there's no money there are cutting where they shouldn't they're cutting the low income people and. and they just don't see anything that's they think it's right in the plan to bring not the basic reason of the nation's class but that this place should. think about is the coming late this country in the grip of the year is

a rise in the thousands upon thousands in the book take the reins that look right now and again beyond ours imagine you know that it was upon the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful they were worrying a familiar scenes last week a spanish riot police clashed with protesters worry about the same thing happening here is happening going. yeah we do worry but we think we're just a little be determined resolve the political helping is more or less the same. that you have because there's no money spain is not there yet while being a very different country with very different problems it's now facing a scarily similar scenario to that agrees with the press population being squeezed even tighter we are about two years should be going to greece in terms production of. but you see the policy which the troika. and

the international more uniformed the european central bank and european union are imposing on but different countries greece italy spain portugal it's economics one o one is very simple to understand that i mean if these countries are. with problems and you. got public spending you. push them deep into recession like greece spain billions in foreign debt held largely by germany and france it's money which wouldn't be paid back well spain to leave. schools without heating teachers without jobs came listeners and unemployment on the rise make for a bleak prognosis and as the country tips into a second recession and with more protests planned for later in the week seems like these could be set to become much more common on the streets of spain surface.

valencia spain. to austerity protests have been a familiar sight on the streets of greece it's finally been saved from a painful default as the e.u. cleared its next bailout the cost of a massive new cuts but germany's interior minister said that athens can get back on its feet if it exits the research investment advisor patrick young believes greece should have left the currency union long ago. greece is truly a tragedy in every sense of the word and i mean what we're not doing is they're not only cutting i mean they're cutting flesh in fact they're possibly cutting into their own arteries and let's face it what does this deal actually do for preschool what it says is that essentially if you wander go another five or six years old total potential destitution in austerity you might just end up with one and a half times the debt that they basically house at the moment in countries like germany or canada totally unreasonable and unbelievable the tragedy of greece is

that two three years ago when it first came to light that their financial figures were a complete fiction and we finally knew the truth that we'd all suspected all along they really should have been out of the euro at that moment instead we've got this absolutely psychotic desire by a group of frankly well economically illiterate people in western europe particularly within germany who are desperate to manage to hold this all together then we've got another group of people who are absolutely determined to try and keep greece in the euro zone which are the incredibly highly paid greek politicians and the poor greeks themselves are absolutely stranded there is no way that greece can manage to bring together all of these cuts there is no possibility that greece is going to survive in the euro with the long term why we're throwing good money after bad and why we're there covering actually the good people of greece on the ground absolutely defines a larger. or more on euro zone's

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the official altie allocation your i phone on called talk from the top story. on the go. video. old girls and street now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. a senior member of ukraine's former orange revolution government well then on monday faces the next few years in prison a kid of course is expected to live or it's a verdict on the x. interior minister that year it sync up who's charged with abuse of office and corruption what is in the reports. noted that his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where your real center was one of the driving forces now with no less inflammatory rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars. among the worst

you know president yannick which in a gang fight against corruption that's lawful they are corrupt through and through that's why they orchestrated this case against me which has nothing to do with criminal law only with their desire to get rid of political rivals. you know from unlawful distribution of high place jobs in the interior ministry to using state money to buy f. lat for his personal driver the charges against could land him in prison for up to four and a half years so his trial has lost it for more than a year during which look son who went on a hunger strike several times it is drawing clear parallels with that of ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko currently serving seven years in prison for abuse of power in both trials loud protests of support were ever present and say experts such strong public outcry has seriously changed the country's political landscape but it was. the ruling party's reading drop below you look to mission

calls party the public doesn't approve of persecution that's what the mission was reading is two to three times higher now even higher than that of president you know coverage the ruling elite unwillingly made let's go into mission symbols of a struggle against themselves and any political force can now use these symbols to gain votes. just like his case career had also been filled with controversy from fist fights with keef's mayor to being detained in frankfurt airport for a drunken brawl that along with doubtful decisions during his ministerial work makes the ruling party believe he is guilty then while you do it with your if you didn't have enough education and law for this job that's where he made many mistakes for instance he wants bragged of issuing a speeding fine to the president's son he had no right to do that as only traffic police could and it was a violation if a person is in the wrong place he makes mistakes and one needs to pay for his mistakes. defense said weeks ago that whatever the verdict they would file

a lawsuit with the european court of human rights because expected to review his case on april seventeenth combined with a continuous global criticism of the tymoshenko trial this could put even more strain on kiev's ruling elite the opposition has been picketing central kiev ever since june last year and tymoshenko daughter says that the protests will not die down even when the euro twenty twelve football championship comes to ukraine so the case will definitely add more spice to what is expected to be a rather turbulent year for the ukrainian politics let's hear s.s.t. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. where resolution proposed that the u.s. congress has caused a stir in pakistan representative from california has introduced a bill demanding sovereignty for pakistan's province but that's a start this is a long sought independence but later contributor says the fallout from the bill not be easy to mend here is representative from california.

on february eighth initiated non-binding resolution here in the us congress stands in calls for the independence and separation of the most province from pakistan despite the best efforts from the white house and the state department to disavow the us congressman initiative the irreparable damage to their bio lateral relations between pakistan and the united states has been done and that is to face a clear and present danger from the us policy of both can ization in pakistan which is the hidden agenda aims splitting federalizing pakistan in the same fish as iraq almost five years ago if the us policy of balcon i.z. various federalizing iraq didn't succeed it doesn't mean the u.s. policymakers wouldn't give it yet another shock these stime in pakistan.

well to some other stories from around the world now this hour a suicide car bomber has hit about the airport in eastern afghanistan killing nine people in a huge blast an explosion went off near the entrance gates destroying several cars parked in the area the taliban claimed responsibility saying attack was revenge for the burning of copies of the koran in the american military base last week tensions have been running following the incident more than thirty people killed in violent protests. south korea and the u.s. have begun a joint military naval exercise despite north korea's threats of possible retaliation according to seoul officials the twelve day drills and largely computer simulated computer defense that the north national defense commission has denounced to display as a silent declaration of war. a train carrying some seventy

five people has derailed in canada three railroad employees were killed and dozens of passengers injured carriages which were traveling from niagara falls to toronto came off the tracks close to robo station versions of crews have been working to free those who remain trapped in the wreckage because of the relevant is not yet known. and dr white silent movie the artist has won best picture best director best actor the oscar ceremony in hollywood movie was to collect the prestigious awards best actress went to meryl streep for her portrayal of former british prime minister in the iron lady a martin scorsese's adventure hugo took five oscars. now the finance ministers of the world's leading nations met over the weekend to discuss greece's second bailout package well it's now cross over to natasha at the business to see how the markets

are reacting to this. that's right carrie investor investors will react to the g twenty meeting over the weekend and then move on to plenty of other statistics coming out throughout the week namely the fourth quarter g.d.p. results and home sales data in the united states and then by thursday the p.m.i. a purchasing managers index coming out of china it's an important indicator of the health of the chinese economy and i'll bit more on that g twenty meeting the finance ministers of the world's leading nations met in mexico on sunday to try and iron out their differences when it comes to the second global rescue package the idea is that europe has to put up its own money if it wants the rest of the wall to come in and help and sensually it should be ready by april and it should total around two trillion dollars and the idea of course is to try and stop the spread of the euro debt crisis and to facilitate the recovery but the main sticking point

there is germany it said it will decide by some time and more whether it wants to put any more money into the bailout fund and we will see if that result really satisfies the investors and the only way to gauge that right now is by looking at the way the asian equity markets are performing since everything else has closed at this hour and so far so good it looks like into the nikkei is up around a third of a percent exports are up performing on and we are again and the hang seng is up around who are a percent and that's about one hour ahead of the opening bell in russia we saw a very bullish end of the week for the russian equities you can see those numbers there more than three and a half percent for the my six and a whopping five percent for the r.t.s. and in the united states it wasn't a bad week at all of those some white have been disappointed that the dow did reach the thirteen thousand level benchmark ending friday's session a lot to negative number. listen finished the week almost at

a forty year high but this week's the earnings season is winding down so the really the macro economic headlines will drive the market and of course one of those is the price of oil and escalating oil prices is a threat to global economic recovery but the good news is that crude is a lower this monday morning tensions over iran's nuclear program is still one of the main factors driving while prices analysts say the oil prize has been carrying this so-called fear premium of around ten to twenty dollars a barrel in recent weeks and that's likely to continue in the near future and currency a higher dollar is also putting the lid on those crude prices the dollar's gaining against the euro on friday the ruble strengthened against the dollar and less than an hour we'll see that's a trend. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back with an update in about fifty minutes i'll see them.

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through the barrel of a gun salute if they give social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe going to stunt can not truly cross paths. but the patient it's a position and that it comes to actually stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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