terrorist plot to kill vladimir putin in foreign aid by moscow in kiev which was planned shortly after the presidential election on sunday. as the syrian people await the results of a landmark referendum on a new constitution the new steps up foreign pressure by assuring in a tough new set of sanctions on damascus. and cash rich berlin expected to back a new rescue deal for greece despite an easy it won't be enough to save athens and worries that spain may be yet the policy.

six pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story a plot to kill vladimir putin after next sunday's presidential vote has been foiled in a joint sting between ukraine and russia three suspects arrested earlier this month for a bomb plot confessed to plotting the assassination one of them reportedly made contact with terror operatives while living in london. has the details. implosions press secretary confirmed to our d. that the invents did take place however he restrained from calling any further meanwhile channel one has shown the video of two suspects describing how he prepared for this assassination one of them said that it was actually ordered by interest goku one off but this information is still has to be confirmed since the investigation is still ongoing he also said that three people in this group three men they studied at the root of putin's motorcade the amount of bodyguards there

were hiding from the boys switching flats and. they were putting together an explosive device which went off right in that apartment the prime minister is quite heavily guarded by dozens of security officers both a new uniform and undercover the motorcade itself isn't a large really it usually consists of up to it was seven cars this courted by around four traffic police vehicles but the entire route of the motorcade is also guarded by security officers this isn't the first time that became a target of an assassination but then never came to actual attempts on his life. several of the country's previous leaders have also been targets of murder plots boris yeltsin maccallum gorbachev leonid brezhnev and live in your lenin all managed to avoid being killed thanks to their security guards and intelligence services. nation plots aside prime minister putin is gearing up for his

presidential bid sunday publishing his latest article outlining a vision for russia's future with a fork focus on foreign policy the premier slammed u.s. efforts to promote regime change in the arab world. the recent events showed that the desire to impose democracy by force can and often does lead to opposite results it leads to a rise in extremism which attempts to change the course of the country's development and secure rule. also reaffirmed moscow's refusal to back the u.s. led drive to pressure the syrian president to step down political analyst dimitri babich says the kremlin simply wants the international community to adopt a more balanced and case specific approach to solving conflicts. i think the whole article was not anti western. would you know obviously want to cooperate with western powers he's just on paper with certain actions all we need to other western

countries which as you proves in that article actually run counter to the west interest itself. you know he wants the problem to be solved by the syrians themselves without outside involvement and i think that's that's a very good difficult path forward but it's the only possible one because we have some experience with civil wars in russia a civil war which is one by one side or another it's never a solution because the victors always stay you would you venture on the bank which . he speaks about cold in the vulnerability of the united states seemingly it's a good concept you know why shouldn't some state be told lean vulnerable to security threats but he writes in his article that these stall doing vulnerability for the united states means total vulnerability for many others i mean before all that this because then the united states would not only be the biggest power when the world with the biggest amount of firepower but also it will be able to strike

anyone it wants to strike let's check in with the business desk here some reaction from the prime minister's article. and i hope published in you know is the daily prime minister put in gives his view on how to resolve you have some economic woes and you suggest forming a common economic zone with the european union in return your rights you have to give up energy i guess we'll have more on that in a moment. also ahead the coastal blanket of spring is spanish protesters turn out by the thousands in a struggle to stay afloat during the country's debt crisis. but first here opinion slapped the syrian government with its toughest set of sanctions yet use include an asset freeze on officials and a ban on importing precious metals and minerals from the country are these tests are so your has more from brussels. aside from that all syria cargo flights will no longer be allowed to land at airports or wherever there is an exception to that if

these cargo flights are carrying passengers they will be given the all clear now it has to be said that the e.u. was syria's largest city trading partner county for more than a twenty percent of trade in question here is your bs new sanctions is will these actually be effective in the past posed to asset freezes of about one hundred individuals thirty eight organizations including an oil and arms embargo yet the desired effect has not been achieved i mean the concert has been going on for eleven months now the conflict still continuing between the two sides of the country and all of this comes on the back of that meeting on friday between the friends of syria who had announced who given a statement saying that they would like president bashar al assad to step down as well as organize a u.n. peacekeeping force now this today was mentioned by the dutch for the minister again floated the idea of a peacekeeping mission to the country although there have been no details on that yet now it has to be said that this is not the last of the sanctions that syria is

going to get the u.k. foreign secretary william hague that called for even more sanctions on the country and he said that new efforts for a u.n. resolution on the country will be taken up again in new york later this week as the puts the squeeze on damascus the syrian people are expecting the results of saturday's vote on a new constitution reforms put forward by president assad are designed to end the ruling party's fifty year monopoly and pave the way for free elections officials say the high turnout turnout was high despite a boycott from the opposition violence is raging in some parts of the country including the flashpoint city of homes where dozens were reported killed over the weekend meanwhile a u.s. led a group of nations has agreed to step up pressure on the masses and provide more assistance to the rebels but political analyst jeremy solve think supporting. one side of the conflict may be counterproductive. these two friends of syria and then things of

god since friends of syria by the bulk of syrians the syrian people i mean they had an agenda which they tried to push through and the simple fact is they couldn't they couldn't get it in the one thing that they have not contemplated during all of these long months of terrible inside syria isn't to go she had a settlement and they haven't pushed made any attempt to push their protege race towards negotiations and into dog with the syrian government and i think the main point here is the western mainstream minorities is fundamentally false it's based on a higher moral ground being held by one side and i think anyone looking at the situation can see this no high moral ground held by the side and in that situation it would seem to me the most constructive way forward would be to push both sides to towards talking to each other but once was not willing to do that will stay with us here on r.t. still to come playing with fire the u.s. and south korea start joint military exercises and despite threats of missile strikes in retaliation for a little. but first russia has called on iran to provide assurances to the

international community that its nuclear program is for peaceful uses only in return moscow says tehran's rights to raney and into richmond should be recognized . it's very important for world powers to confirm once around answers all the questions raised by the international atomic energy agency on its nuclear program that it will in turn have the right to peaceful uranium enrichment city of but this is the same rights exercised by other members of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. this statement comes after the un's atomic officials said they were unable to confirm whether on has the ability to build nuclear weapons tehran was criticized for its failure to cooperate with them during two of their recent visits to the country the western allies suspect the islamic state of building a nuclear bomb the country is under tough sanctions from the u.s. and israel also threatening a military strike. earlier it came to light that israel may have already destroyed

iranian nuclear sites and that preparations for a military attack on terror are underway this cold from millions of e-mails allegedly hacked from the u.s. intelligence think tank strapped for and revealed by wiki leaks more on this from our correspondent laura smith joining us live from london so laura how solid is this information exactly. well we're not sure how solid it is it's part as you say of a release of around five million e-mails which wiki leaks has obtained from the u.s. and global intelligence companies strapped for it's not clear how those e-mails were obtained but strive for has something of a reputation as a kind of shadow cia it's a private intelligence company that does a lot of work for government agencies and the like. this e-mail that to wiki leaks has obtained from struck for secret files says that all iranian nuclear infrastructure has already be already been taken out they say that israeli commando forces in conjunction with kurdish rebels already destroyed all of iran's nuclear

infrastructure on the ground and i quote some weeks ago israeli sources said in this in this string of e-mails that wiki leaks released said the current let's bomb iran campaign was just a sort of way it was ordered by e.u. leaders to distract from the current financial problems that the e.u. countries are facing domestically now there is evidence that these e-mails were hacked from struck for by anonymous the major group of hackers of them passed allegedly to wiki leaks in that way but it should be said and wiki leaks says this so that it is generally great information that comes from struck for they just sat in a press conference by wiki leaks where they said frequently that struck for appeared to have a lack of understanding of what was going on in the middle east region an over reliance on one source that they saw in these e-mails a source that they call one and also overemphasizing of this of this conflict

between the u.s. and al qaida and why is that important well it's important because u.s. agencies government agencies according to the accounts for that wiki leaks have also seen u.s. government agencies all clients of struck four u.s. marines the military various different. if governments and secret services and diplomats relying on this kind of great information then we can be said that that could be a serious threat to our national security there's new response on this information from iran or israel so far but we should watch in the come in the coming days because wiki leaks is going to release more of these five million emails as wiki leaks itself and various media organizations pick through the details of. his laura smith reporting for us from london thanks for that update. german lawmakers are expected to back a new rescue package for greece later on monday this despite concerns athens will need even more cash in the future and suggestions from germany's interior minister

that it's time that greece left the euro zone all together hundred thirty billion euro bailout agreed in principle last week after months of tense discussions among euro zone leaders germany as europe the richest economy has the has to contribute the majority towards it but there is a sense of unease in berlin that it will help keep it that will have to keep coughing up cash to prevent a greek debt default is the second value of a little more than a year and a half that would ensure athens pay its debt or for the time being but investment advisor patrick young thinks it could already be game over. reece is truly a tragedy in every sense of the word and i didn't 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 to another five or six years old total potential destitution in all staring you might just stand

with one and a half times the debt that they basically house at the moment and countries like germany or canada totally reasonable are 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 also suspected all along they really should be no need 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 of the credibly highly paid greek politicians and the poor greeks themselves are absolutely stranded there is no way that greece can manage to bring together. for all of these cuts there is no possibility that greece is going to survive in the euro with the long term why we are throwing good money after bad and why were they bring actually the good people of greece on the

ground absolutely defines launcher but while euro zone leaders are hard at work ensuring greece remains within the euro their attention may soon need to shift to spain the country is feeling the pinch of deep cuts in public spending particularly in education and protesters are massing in the streets as artie's sarra for ports from valencia. your recent move was riding high off to spain during the year is a back in two thousand and two but a decade on and years of a starting to put us all back to work with an economic crash be a against. government policy and we were we were in town and no question of quality but for all the latest round of cuts reforms but nationwide protest in spain led via and it was the students leading the way 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 thing. to bring not the basic reason of names class to them this way should. think about is the coming late this country in the grip of the year is a rise in thousands upon thousands in the book take that as a look right now and again beyond ours imagine you don't understand because upon the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful that will bring a familiar scenes last week the spanish but 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 bit better than greece all the political helping is more or less the same

yeah yeah because there's no money spain's not there yet while being a very different country with very different problems it's now facing a scarily similar scenario to the us agrees with the press population being squeezed even tighter we are about two years should be going to greece think times of. but you see the policy which the troika. and the international more unified and the european central bank and you would be a union are imposing on but if a country's greece spain portugal it's economics one hundred one is very simple to understand that i mean if these countries. with problems and you force the. public spending you. push them deep into recession like we spend billions in debt by germany and france it's

money which wouldn't be paid back less than a year as a school or that he's saying teachers without jobs and unemployment on the right make for a bleak places and as the country tips into a second recession and with more protests planned later in the week seems like these could be set to become much more common on the streets of spain so if. they come your way this hour from politics to prison his career has been bruised by fits of fist fights and drunken brawls but now ukraine's former interior minister is facing more serious charges more just ahead. but first south korea and the u.s. now started large scale joint naval drills despite north korea's threats to attack if provoked from pyongyang the exercises involving hundreds of thousands of troops maybe a silent declaration of war in two thousand and ten the north responded to drills

from its neighbor with an artillery attack that killed four and raised fears of a wider conflict ruediger frog an expert on north korea and east asia at the vienna university thinks it won't take much to like the few. who he has issues such statements in the past and look at just those statements but you never know you can play with fire. safely for a while and until you create some kind of big blast and that's what you don't want i'm really concerned because we have a new leader in north korea kim jong il with whom you have no experience whatsoever with whom you have a chance to actually open some new avenues full cooperation and for resolving all those pressing issues that you have on the table you have about two hundred thousand south korean troops involved in two thousand american troops in this one exercise alone on the most korean side we have over one million soldiers it's

a state that is on the constant state of emergency on high alert is a state that is in possession of nuclear weapons although we don't know exactly how many and what in which quality they are there but this is definitely a very a hard area and it's so wrong to buy countries like south korea japan and china so if david come involved in some kind of military confrontation the whole thing can easily get out of hand so i do believe that we are facing a potentially dangerous situation. you can buy more on the subject on our web site r t v dot com here's what else is a click away right now the world's oil map shift there's a new super powers emerge as well as new battles ahead for a pricey black gold we've got expert analysis on our web site.

ukraine is preparing for a political term elance after one of the leading lights of the country's orange revolution was convicted of embezzling state funds former interior ministry interior minister yuriy let's go was now been sentenced to four years behind bars. he has the details from key. 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. president yannick which of the 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 and meet with their desire to get rid of political rivals 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 will send cool landed him

a four year prison term and the confiscation of all his property or you're his trial has lost it for more than a year during which lets him go went on a hunger strike several times 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. the ruling party's reading drop below he looked on the shingles part of the public doesn't approve or not what i'm a shock was reading is two to three times higher no even higher than that of president you know. 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 caseload sank us korea had also been filled with controversy from fistfights with keith's mayor as to being detained in frankfurt

airport for drunken brawl 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 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 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 is expected to review his case on april seventeenth combined with the continues global criticism of the tymoshenko trial this could put even more strain on peeves ruling elite the opposition has been picketing central kiev ever since june last year and. that the protests will not die down even when the euro twenty twelve football championship comes to ukraine so little will definitely add more spice to what is expected to be

a rather turbulent year for the ukrainian politics let's see reporting from kiev in ukraine turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan has left nine dead and several others wounded the blast happened at the airport in the eastern part of the country the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was in revenge for the burning of korans at a u.s. military base last week in the days of deadly protests over the burning have erupted across the country leading to the deaths of more than thirty people. a train carrying around seventy five people dorel due in canada three railroad employees were killed dozens of passengers injured when the carriages came off the tracks the train had been going from agra falls to toronto at least want to air ambulance on standby as crews work to pull passengers from the wreckage because of your element under investigation. and the silent film the artist stole the show

with the academy awards taking home five prizes including best picture and best actor it's the first silent movie to win since the very first oscar ceremony back in one hundred twenty nine meryl streep bagged best actress for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher in the iron lady and martin scorsese's persian venture hugo also played five awards in the technical category it's. time now to check the market figures let's go live to the business desk where rena melican is standing by with the latest corrina hello matt well the ruble is hitting new highs against the dollar and the euro today it's been rallying since the beginning of the year on the back of those strong oil prices and it's also helped by money coming back into the country to pay tax bills at the end of the month now let's have a look at the numbers right now. as we can see there is it's a twenty nine to the dollar which is the six months high is that said and again the euro is at its best since mid two thousand and ten and is below

a thirty nine. now all is declining on monday agreeing and a day rally to an end tensions over iran's nuclear program have been one of the main factors that are driving oil prices up but today they're in the red as you can see and losing between one and one and a half percent not too much enthusiasm on the global equity markets in the my six a mixed in even trading them isaacs is weight primarily by energy stocks and here are the biggest movers on them isaac's russian bank b t v is talking the. trend it's gaining one and a half percent and is adding more than. down as you see right now. and europe is still down as well both of which in the dax are sliding the g twenty meeting over the weekend has added pressure on the eurozone to boost its bailout fund and investors are now looking out for germany to prove that rescue package.

and as we've been reporting earlier prime minister putin wrote an article in moscow skin oversteer where he gives his view on how he things the europe's economic woes should be resolved he suggests forming a common economic zone with the european union and even offering financial help in return puts in is insisting that europe should give up the energy market reforms also known as the third and i g package now the package boils down to this companies such as gas problem are not allowed to own transportation and production networks at the same time put in has been long critical of all this idea saying it aims to squeeze russian companies out of europe well that's all for me this time back to you matt.

assures that so much in which of course you are on a sense of unity the price of premium stubbornly high and consumers feel the pinch but why are energy prices so hard use of the lack of supply and security.

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