an assassination plot 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 this people's votes on a new constitution are counted but opposition boycotted the ballot escalating violence. and the anti will stare at each ride groups the spain's impoverished students lash out at more cuts saying they've been abandoned by their government.

around the world and around the clock this is r.t. the top story now russian and ukrainian special forces have foiled an assassination plot 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. joins us live now for more on this you know what more do we know. state t.v. two suspects were arrested in the ukrainian city of ideas. reportedly admitted plotting an assassination attempt on the life of prime minister vladimir putin in moscow right after the upcoming presidential election on march the fourth news agencies. has confirmed the information. but as we framed

from any comments just yet channel one has also shown a video of the two suspects describing how the prepared for this plot to one suspect said that it was actually originally ordered by russians number one terrorist one of what this information is yet to be confirmed since the investigation is still ongoing they also said that there were initially three men in this group in this group plotting the assassination attempts they studied the route of the prime minister's convoy the amount of bodyguards they hid from the authorities by switching flats and at one point early in february they were making an explosive device which detonated right in the flight killing one of these men and the other two admitted plotting this assassination attempt shortly after being arrested by the authorities. and this is of course all against the backdrop of the presidential election as you mentioned let's talk

a bit about the campaign itself and putin has been writing a series of articles hasn't he in leading newspapers outlining his plans and the recent one on foreign policy what are his views. well absolutely right this all comes as the prime minister written yet another order go ahead of the presidential poll in which he's going to take port this one of focuses on the foreign relations international affairs and while talking about syria the prime minister has once again stressed that any foreign military intervention into the situation there is absolutely 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 calls says was a not even the medieval but a stone age style execution of moammar gadhafi instead of a fair trial going to put in as also criticize the united states. for trying to

build a model in which washington would be invincible. the prime minister says that this isn't possible physically since that would mean that everybody else would be completely vulnerable and that is simply not accepted by moscow reporting is also mentioned iran saying that if an attack on this country would occur it would cause unimaginable consequences walled wide and said that iran has the full right to develop a peaceful nuclear program as long as it's under the for control of the international atomic energy agency and actually speaking about the issue of the nuclear nonproliferation what you will put in said that it's attempts to influence countries internal affairs and foreign military interventions into sovereign states which pushed governments to wants to make nuclear weapons thinking if we have a nuclear bomb we'll be protected well that's according to the prime minister only

we're seeing the situation in terms of nuclear nonproliferation and creating more instability in the global security structure. they are to go to school of life from central moscow thank you for that update. but as we've been hearing russia is against intervention in syria and is pushing for phones in the country and ask us is awaiting results of sunday's referendum on a new draft constitution that the government already hailing it as a success the vote which went ahead and made reports of ongoing violence he said seen a high turnout despite being boycotted by the opposition party is in syria. interior minister has said that it will take hours before their preliminary results come out but the main results 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 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 anti government here in damascus criticism 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 chad's that this referendum and this constitution i really will to bring peace to the country it's worth to try this chance when they bring in lebanon is one of the countries calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in syria an exclusive interview to r.t. is our big channel lebanese foreign minister. says meddling in syria's internal affairs could 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 stabilisation has 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 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 crisis. or us and its allies are teaming up against president assad and the e.u. set to freeze the assets of serious central bank this latest effort by nato states to put pressure on them ask us however beirut based political analyst among the 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 towards 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. more 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 step forward in that direction towards the reconciliation and true reform through democratic reform that can save syria the destruction that is being prepared for it apparently from some forces in the west. they're watching our table so they head this hour he engaged in fist fights with fellow politicians detained for drunken brutal airport former ukrainian ministers settle down his fate even more serious trouble for the 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 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 your prosperity r.t. surface their reports. so you are a sentiment was riding high off the 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 yeah get. government policies and we were we were in town was no question of quality but for our latest round of cuts 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 touching the low income people. and they just don't see anything that's they think it's right in the band to bring not the basic reason of names class but that place and. that is the come alive country in the grip of the year it was in the thousands upon thousands in the book take the reins to look right now and again beyond that imagine you can see that it was up on the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful they were worrying a familiar scenes last week a spanish what police clashed with protesters worried 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 the well 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 of. but you see the policy which the troika. and the international more uniformed european central bank and european union are imposing on 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. can't 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 claim 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 this day surf are to balance the spade. once the austerity protests are familiar sight on the streets of greece germany is set to vote in the next rescue package which would save the country painful default is agreed by e.u. leaders last week at the cost of massive new cuts but young from investment advisory firm devi advisors these 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

what it says is that essentially if you want to go to 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 and countries like germany are counted are totally unreasonable 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 lodger. for more on the euro zone's debt woes on our website r.t. dot com and why they can check out some other stories we've lined up for you today and circling moscow thousands held hands to surround the city's garden make a huge flash mob for their elections just a week should choose its next president. under smartphone spyware find out how some applications send your personal data straight to internet companies details right party dot com. a senior member of ukraine's former orange revolution government well then on monday he faces the next few years

in prison a key of court is expected to deliver its verdict on the x. interior minister. who's charged with abuse of office and corruption morty's 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. 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 lost it for more than

a year during which looks and 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 and 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 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 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 korea had also been filled with controversy from fist fights with keef's mayor to being detained in frankfurt airport for a drunken brawl that that will that along with doubtful decisions during his

ministerial work makes the ruling party believe he is guilty then will you do as we do and then my unit he didn't have enough education and law for this job that's. 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. and 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 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. a resolution proposed at the u.s. congress has caused a stir in pakistan a representative from california has introduced a bill demanding soften to pakistan's provinces but what is stand which has long sought independence well arty's contributor says the four that from the bill will not be easy to mend here is representative from california. on february eighth initiated non-binding resolution hearings the us congress stands and 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 a hidden agenda aims splitting and federalizing pakistan in the same fish as iraq almost five years ago if the us policy of balcon i.z. there is federalizing iraq didn't succeed it doesn't mean the u.s. policymakers wouldn't give it yet another shot these stime in pakistan. what some other stories from around the world this hour a suicide car bomb has hit so that about it a lot of waste in afghanistan killing nine people in the huge blast explosions went off near the entrance gates destroying several cars in the area taliban has claimed responsibility saying here was revenge for the burning of copies of the koran that an american military base last week tensions have been running high for in the incident with more than thirty people killed in violent protests. so

career in 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 of the largely computer simulated and purely defensive. national defense commission has denounced it 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 a row of station urgency crews have been working to free those who remain trapped in the wreckage because of the relevant is not yet. black and white silent movie the artist has won best picture best director and best actor oscar ceremony in hollywood when he was a favorite to clip the person. best actress went to meryl streep for her portrayal

of him with british prime minister margaret thatcher in the iron lady. martin scorsese's is eventually. took five oscars. soon after the u.s. led invasion in afghanistan america's then first lady said the campaign would finally give afghan women their freedom but a decade on has anything actually changed we take a look. we have a war lords war criminals we have. groups of the courts with. all our views in the right enough to my mind it was like many of them out h. it wasn't. just maddy when i was fifteen yes you can liberate their women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves

afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stand behind not to across. the part of the patient it's them in a position and at a construction 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. yes you can now watch next hour here on r.t. . what is the latest newspaper campaign article ahead of the elections presidential hopeful volume of putin also addressed russia's economic cooperation with the european union but it's cross over now to the other business desk for more on this . that's absolutely right in his article in moscow. a daily putin is essentially suggesting offering his view of how to solve europe's economic issues

he's essentially suggesting for me a call one economic zone including free trade zone with the european union but in return he is insisting that europe should give up. the energy market reform known as the third energy package essentially that package includes the idea that companies such as gazprom should not be allowed to own production and transportation networks at the same time putin has long been critical of that idea essential is saying that it's aiming to destroy the energy market formula that ties the gas prices to the price of oil but none of this seems to be phasing investors at least judging by the market reaction there both the r.t.s. and the my socks are pretty upbeat moscow time the biggest movers on the my sex are the second biggest russian bank v t v which is outperforming the market at the

moment and energy majors gal's problem and of was nafta both of posting pretty hefty gains there. and investors on a monday will also have plenty to react to namely the g twenty meeting over the weekend and then we'll move on to plenty of statistics coming out later in the week including the g.d.p. fourth quarter g.d.p. data coming out of the united states as well as home sales there and then by. thursday the p.m.i. or production managers index coming out of china it's an important indicator of the health of the chinese economy a bit more on that g twenty summit over the weekend the finance ministers of the world's leading economies economies met in mexico on sunday to try and iron out their differences when it comes to the second rescue package the package which should total around two trillion dollars is expected to be ready by april

but the main idea there of course is that europe has to put up its own money first if it expects other countries to chip in and help. the eurozone should sensually stop the crisis from spreading and should facilitate the recovery but the main sticking point there is germany it said it will decide sometime in march if it really wants to put up any more money into the bailout fund and it seems like the investors are not very optimistic about that outcome at least judging by the way the european markets opened this afternoon and europe opened a lower as i mentioned the. macro headlines will really drive the european markets going forward at this point both of the footsie and the dax are sliding one

of the economic headlines that everybody will be paying attention to is the price of oil rising oil price of course is a threat to global economic recovery but here's the paradox oil is actually declining on monday for the first time in eight days and escalating oil prices indeed a threat to the global economic recovery but tensions over iran's nuclear program is going to be the main factor going forward and hence analysts say that oil prices carry the so-called fear premium of around ten to twenty dollars a barrel. in the recent weeks and that's likely to continue in the near future a higher dollar is putting a lid on crude prices though and we see that today the dollar's gaining against the euro and of the ruble as actually strains the strengthening against both the dollar and the euro. and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back with an update in about fifteen minutes and i'll see about.

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or right enough against my marriage was like many other marriage that wasn't forced marriage it's just maddy when i was fourteen years old you can liberate other when certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun but then the social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stand because i'm not sure that cross paths without the part of the patient it's a position and better construction but it's the 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 silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything.