and i sassed nation attempt targeting russia's prime minister vladimir putin has been foiled by russian and ukrainian special forces according to russia's state t.v. channel. syria waits to discover whether democratic reforms will come into effect people's new constitution accounted for the opposition boycotted the ballot amid escalating violence. and the drive groups the usa spain's in congress students national to move cuts and they've been abandoned by government.

broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital you're watching r.t. russian and ukrainian special forces have foiled an assassination attempt targeting russia's prime minister vladimir putin that's according to russia's main state t.v. channel the suspects reportedly admitted planning to make their move in moscow right after sunday's presidential ballot well let's get more on this now. we go what other details do we know. who according to channel one state t.v. russian and ukrainian special forces managed to prevent an assassination attempt on the life of. three suspects were reportedly arrested in the ukrainian city of i.d.'s on february fourth one of them was on the international wanted list and we. have admitted planning to assassinate in moscow right after the upcoming

presidential all on march the fourth according to news agency which is press secretary. confirmed this information but is yet to comment on the situation the agency also says that police were able to track down the suspects using their mobile phones. now the suspects were targeting sunday's presidential election as you say as part of the campaign build out putin today made some strong statements on syria didn't in his latest article. well that's right so all this comes as the prime minister has published yet another article ahead of the presidential election in which he's going to take this one focused on international relations and talking about syria. the prime minister has said that any foreign military intervention into the situation there is totally unacceptable reminding how the events unfolded in libya when the international community clearly took one side of the conflict

which led to what fortune calls was not even a medieval but a stormy style execution of moammar gadhafi instead of a fair trial and also talked about iran saying that any possible attack on the country would have unimaginable consequences for the whole world and said that iran does have the full right to develop a peaceful nuclear program as long as it's under the full supervision and control of the international atomic energy agency and speaking about the issue of nuclear nonproliferation which inside of its attempts to influence internal matters of sovereign states and foreign military interventions that push governments to wants to develop nuclear weapons sort of to protect themselves from foreign intervention and that doesn't only hamper the nuclear nonproliferation process but also destabilizes the entire global security structure the prime minister is also

criticized by the united states for trying to build a model in which it would enjoy for involvement ability from the others which according to fortune is impossible since it would mean the rest have to be totally vulnerable so that is unacceptable to moscow according to the prime minister and still with the foreign policy he's also voiced support for china and the debt stricken usa what's the suggesting there. wasn't important to expect the chinese economic might to grow in the future but he says that this shouldn't be viewed as a threat but as an opportunity as a challenge for the other nations to work with china with chinese businesses and according to the prime minister this is his vision of russia's future cooperation with china which is only going to increase between russian businesses and chinese

businesses the same goes for the rest of the other members of the bric group which of course india and brazil are pushing also talked about the economic situation in the european union which is russia's biggest trade partner and that any problems in vatican city will definitely affect the global economy in general and said that moscow is only keen in having. a healthy european economy and is going to work to support that. ok article reporting from central moscow thank you. syria he's awaiting results of sunday's referendum on a new draft constitution but the government already having it as a success the vote which went ahead and made reports of ongoing violence he said to have seen a high turnout despite being boycotted by the opposition parties 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 circulating in local media about possible terror attacks at the polling stations the syrian opposition both the one base the bread and the help has not only boycotted the vote in but also has been repeatedly calling all people to go on strike to take to the streets to protest against this referendum and against president bashar assad this referendum and this constitution has been considered part of a package of democratic changes democratic reforms promised by assad's government we've seen demonstrations both prayer and to government here in damascus criticism and pressure from the international community has also been quite high the main concern was that the very chain comes amid a valance to continue in 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 clashes 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 charles that this referendum and this constitution i were you able to bring peace to the country it's worth to try this chance. for neighboring lebanon is one of the countries calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in syria an exclusive interview to ati's arabic channel lebanese foreign minister none sir says meddling in syria's internal affairs can only worsen the crisis. and over to asia had rejected the idea of interference in 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 have said that dialogue is the only way out of the crisis so 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 in terms of both the struggle and causes outright damage to the people and the economy we're standing by syria by its people and its government with standing for a solution to the grocer's. or the u.s. and its allies are teaming up against present i sat in the set to freeze the assets of syria's central bank and so latest effort by nato states to put pressure on damascus however beirut based political analyst and things it's counterproductive

saying fails to address the needs of the syrian people. direction is western politics and the western plan to. remove a president from office and they don't care at what cost if one wants to be really caring two with the syrian people really caring for the basic human rights basic a human preserving human life one should call for dialogue one should call for the . question mark 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 you're watching r.t.

still ahead this hour gauging fights from politicians and was detained for drunken brawl an airport former trainer listed as fatal serious charges details just ahead. eurozone leaders are hard at work to boost the union's 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 illusion with the promise of euro prosperity and first now reports. he recently was riding high off to spain during the year is saying back in two thousand and two that a decade on in years of us starting to put us all back to work with an economic crash be a against. government policies and we were we were into

was no question of quality but for all the latest round of cuts and reforms but nationwide protest in spain led via and it was the students leading the way they took their complaints as the classroom and on to 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 band to bring not the basic reason of the nation's class that this place should. think about is the coming later this country in the grip of the year in their lives in the thousands upon thousands in the book take the reigns to look right now and again we'll find out if the magical you can understand because of all the population plus spain's protests by and large been peaceful it will bring

a familiar scenes last week the spanish riot police clashed with protesters worry about the same thing happening here is happening going. yeah we do i mean we think we're just a little be determined resolve the political helping is more or less the same yeah yeah because there's no money spain's not there yet well being a very different country with very different problems now facing a scarily similar scenario that's agrees with the press population being squeezed even tighter we are about two years should be going to greece think times of pro. but you see the policy which the troika. and the international more uniformed european central bank and european union are imposing on but if a countries greece italy spain portugal it's economics one hundred one is very

simple to understand that i mean if these countries are. with problems and you force the. 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 less painfully. schools without heating teachers without jobs and unemployment on the rise makes 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. surf. while the anti austerity protests have been a familiar sight on the streets of greece it's finally been saved to a painful default as the e.u. cleared its next bailout of the cost of massive new cuts but germany's interior

minister said that i things can get back on its feet if it exits the euro zone 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 greece well what it says is that essentially if you want to go another five or six years old total potential destitution in all staring you might just end up with one and a half times the debt that they basically harbor 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 so 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. more on euro zone's debt woes on our website r.t. dot com and while you're there check out some other stories we've got today and circling moscow thousands held hands to surround the city's garden or a huge flash mob there elections just a week before russia chooses its next president. and smartphone spyware

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costs and says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the altie dot com. senior member of ukraine's former orange revolution government well then on monday he faces the next few years in prison a queue of court is expected to deliver its verdict on the x. interior minister here that sank a charge with abuse of office and corruption. ripples. 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. under. 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 a flat for his personal driver the charges against son could land him in prison for up to four and a half years his trial has lasted for more than a year during which will stand to 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'll to mission calls party the public doesn't approve of persecution that's why the mission was reading is two to three times higher now even higher than that of president you know which the ruling elite unwillingly made go and to mission symbols of

a struggle against themselves and any political force can now use these symbols to gain votes. just like his caseload sanctus career had also been filled with controversy from just fights with keef's mayor to being detained in frankfurt airport for a drunken brawl that will that along with doubtful decisions during his ministerial work makes the ruling party believe he is guilty then will you do it with your if you didn't have enough education and law for this job that's why 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 there's 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. goes defense said weeks ago that whatever the verdict they would file a lawsuit with the european court of human rights is 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 key of the ruling elite the opposition has been picketing central kiev ever since june last year and 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. a resolution proposed that the u.s. congress has caused a stir in pakistan a representative from california has introduced a bill demanding sovereignty for pakistan's province of pakistan which is no sort independence which a contributor says the fallout from the bill will not be easy to mend here is representative from california. on february eighth initiated non-biodegradable ocean here in the u.s. congress stands in calls for the independence and separation of the province

from pakistan despite the best efforts from the white house and the state department to disavow the u.s. 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 u.s. policy of can ization pakistan which is a hidden agenda aims splitting federalizing pakistan in the same fashion as iraq almost five years ago if the us policy balcon eyes there is federalizing iraq didn't succeed it doesn't mean the u.s. policymakers wouldn't give it yet another shock these stime in pakistan. a suicide car bomb has hit the airport in eastern afghanistan killing ninety three huge blast explosions went off near the entrance gates destroying several cars

parked in the area tell about has claimed responsibility saying the attack was revenge for the burning of copies of the cologne at an american military base last week tensions have been running high on the incident more than thirty people killed in violent protests. in south korea and the u.s. have begun joint military naval exercise despite north korea's threats of possible return the nation want to solve the shoals the twelve day drills are largely computer simulated and he wanted defensive the north national defense commission has denounced the military display as a silent declaration of war. the train carrying some seventy five people has derailed in canada three railroad employees were killed and dozens of passengers injured courage's which were traveling from niagara falls to toronto came off the tracks close to rowing station emergency crews have been working to free those who remain trapped in the wreckage because of the derailment is not yet

. black and white silent movie the artist has won best picture best director and best actor oscar ceremony in hollywood movie was favorite collected preston. best actress went to meryl streep for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher in the only. scorsese's presume a venture took five oscars. the finance ministers of the world's leading nations met over the weekend to discuss greece's second bailout package let's cross now to the trash at the business desk to see how the markets are reacting with us over to you. indeed investors on monday will react to that g twenty summit over the weekend and then they'll be plenty more statistics coming out throughout the week namely the g.d.p. figures and home sales data coming out of the united states and the p.m.i. or purchasing managers index coming out of china it's an important indicator of the

health of the chinese economy now a bit more on that g. twenty meeting over the weekend the finance ministers of the world's leading nations met on sunday in mexico to try and iron out their differences when it comes to these second bailout package it should total around two trillion dollars and should be ready by april but of course the idea there is that europe has to put up its own money if it wants the rest of the world to come in and help and the main sticking point seems to be germany it said it will make a decision sometime in march as to whether or not it wants. to put any more money into the bailout fund and we'll see if that result really satisfies the investors the only way to gauge that right now is by looking at the way the equity markets are performing and of course asia first and in asia the indices are mixed in tokyo the nikkei is down around point two percent the sour exporters are all performing

on a weaker yen and in hong kong the hang saying is a quarter percent and the block and the russian markets started monday's trading session mixed the r.t.s. was swapped to positive the my six is down just a notch you can see those numbers there that's following a very bullish end of last week when the r.t.s. jumped almost five percent on friday and in the united states it wasn't a bad week at all of those some might have been disappointed that the dow didn't reach the thirteen thousand level benchmark ending friday's session flat to negative but nonetheless it finished the week almost at a four year high. but this week's the earnings season is winding down so the a macro economic headlines will really drive the market one of those of course is the price of oil and escalating oil prices a threat to global economic recovery but the good news is that crude is a lower this monday tensions over iran's nuclear program are still one of the main

factors driving world prices analysts say the price of oil has carried this so-called fear premium of ten to twenty dollars a barrel in recent weeks and that's likely to continue in the near future but this monday a higher dollar is also putting of the lid on crude prices the dollar is gaining against the euro on friday the ruble strengthened against the dollar but it's actually moving in the same direction now but it's actually losing against the euro . and that's all the latest from the business desk the sour i'll be back with the latest in about fifty minutes i'll see them.

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