a terrorist plot to kill driving near putin after the presidential elections sunday is prevented by moscow and. yes to reform the syrian people overwhelmingly approved a new constitution but the e.u. is stepping up pressure with tough new sanctions on the assad regime. and cash rich berlin expected to back a new rescue deal for greece despite unease it will be enough to save our fins and worries that spain good beef set to follow suit. and in business we're looking at the rule that has been rallying since the beginning of the year on the back of strong oil prices we'll take a look at the numbers out at this point. seven

pm in moscow i mattress like 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 prevented in a joint operation between ukraine and russia three suspects arrested earlier this month for a bomb plot confessed to planning an assassination attempt let's get the details or marty's jacob greaves standing by live so jacob what exactly do we know about the suspects and how exactly were they plotting such an attack. the initial information on this release by russian t.v. channel since it started chasing though by key russian officials who lots of do we should be still press secretary thomas about of a person and those in the ukrainian security services as well as those bolts who authorities as you know of that. they have reached awfully explosion off today

still stands exposure when told its destiny you surely will post is still to be killed by that explosion two people pains to tell you cool several weeks interrogates it's not all through that defections have been. a release which much of these reports of mation is based on the slogans of a war with a civilization there is no doubt this is a bonus boy dokubo often he's a well known chechen militants used to be behind a number of deadly terrorist attacks took place in moscow over the last couple of years also while those in both said to be a fixer and this other most lawyers now he said that he resided in london for a number of years and then he received training on how to use of explosives as you mentioned this was said to have taken place this assassination surely all to his presidential elections. now this isn't the first time that a lot of people who has been the target of an assassination attempt but has he ever had to dodge the bullet. or no he hasn't but the have been

a number of assassination made against promise that out of me putin particularly when he was serving as president and those alessio covered by forest kids associates us in azerbaijan or iran or indeed ukraine as well as such he does have a very substantial security fully where ever he goes taking which have really on the road be usually about seven vehicles behind him also traffic police backing them up and sometimes they take he was traveling around moscow the close of the roads to be closed down to assure extra security this does come of course as a very key tolly enfolded prime minister just ahead of those presidential elections to be held on the fourth of march rather to jacob riis live for us from central moscow thanks for that report. several of the country's previous leaders have also been targets of assassination plots morris yeltsin macao gorbachev leonid brezhnev

end of life in your line and almost to avoid being killed thanks to their security guards and intelligence agencies. assassination plots aside prime minister putin is gearing up for his presidential bid sunday publishing his latest article outlining a vision for russia's future this time the focus on foreign policy the premier criticized 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 leads to a rise in extremism which attempts to change the course of the country's development and secure rule putin also reaffirmed moscow's refusal to back the u.s. led drive to pressure the syrian president to step down political analyst dmitri babich thinks the kremlin simply wants the international community to adopt a more balance and key specific approach to solving the conflict i think the whole

article is not anti western. we do know obviously want to cooperate with western powers he's just on hate be a with certain actions or we need to and other western countries which as he approves in that article actually are wrong counter the west interest itself. you know he wants the problem to be solved by syrians themselves without outside involvement and i think that's that's a very good difficult 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 all of us you would revanche or on the bank. he speaks about coal in the vulnerability of the united states seem in the 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 stalled doing vulnerability for the united states means total vulnerability for many others i

mean before all of that this because then the united states would not only be the biggest in the world with the biggest amount of fire power but also it will be able to strike anyone it wants to strike. still ahead this hour the coast of blago spring spanish protesters turn out by the thousands in the struggle to stay afloat during the country's deepening debt crisis. but first the european union has slapped the syrian government with its toughest yet set of sanctions these include an asset freeze on officials a ban on importing precious metals and minerals from the country or 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 more than twenty percent of trade

question here is should these 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 conflict 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 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. 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 had 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 you put the squeeze on damascus the syrian people have chosen a path to peaceful reform a new constitution one a massive support in sunday's referendum with around ninety percent of voters giving it a yes the changes 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 turnout top fifty seven percent violence though still raging in some parts of the country including the flashpoint city of homes where dozens were reported killed over the weekend meanwhile u.s. led group of nations has agreed to step up pressure on damascus and provide more assistance to the rebels political the. jeremy salt thinks supporting only one side of the conflict is counterproductive. to speak of syria and in things of god it's friends of syria but 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 and then one thing that they have not contemplated during all of

these long months of inside syria is a negotiated settlement and they haven't pushed made any attempt to push the a protege race towards negotiations and into dog with the syrian government and i think the main point here is the western mainstream narrative 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 there's 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 i was not willing to do that still add in the program playing with fire the u.s. and south korea start joint military exercises despite threats of missile strikes in retaliation from the north. but first russia has called on iran to provide assurances to the international community its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and in return moscow says tehran's rights. should be recognized. bhutia

newest is this 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 this is the same rights exercised by other members of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. the statement comes after the un's atomic officials said they were unable to confirm whether iran 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 western allies suspect the islamic state of building a nuclear bomb the country is under tough sanctions from the u.s. and e.u. and israel also threatening military action. earlier it came to light israel may have already destroyed iranian nuclear sites that preparations for a military attack on terror on could be well underway this culled from millions of e-mails allegedly hacked from the u.s. intelligence think tank strapped for and revealed by wiki leaks artie's laura smith

has more from london. email that to wiki leaks has obtained from strike force 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 has 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 . that it is generally great information that comes from struck for there's no response on this information from iran or israel so far but we should watch in the

coming 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 off them. german chancellor angela merkel urging her lawmakers to support the new rescue package for greece this despite concerns athens will need even more cash in the future and suggestions from germany's interior minister that it's time greece left the euro zone altogether the hundred thirty billion euro bailout was agreed in principle last week after months of tense talks among euro zone leaders germany as europe's richest economy has to contribute the majority toward it but there is a sense of unease in berlin though have to keep coughing up cash to prevent a greek debt default is the second bail out a little more than eighteen months and would ensure that athens can pay its debt or as for the time being but investment advisor patrick young thinks it could already be game over. greece is truly

a tragedy in every sense of the word and i did meet 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 off with one and a half times the debt that they basically house at the moment in countries like germany or canada totally reasonable an unbelievable 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 with 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 to 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 all of the. so 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 we're connecting actually the good people of greece on the ground absolutely defines launcher well euro zone leaders are hard at work to ensure greece remains within the euro their attention may soon need to shift to spain that country is feeling the pinch of deep cuts in public spending particularly in education and protesters are out on the streets r.t. sarah furthur imports from valencia. your recent move was riding high off to spain during the year is saying back in two thousand and two that a decade owning years of us starting to put us all back to work with an economic crash yeah get. government policies and

we were we were in town and no question of quality for our kids the latest round of cuts and reforms but nationwide protests and they led via and it was a student leading the way they took their complaints as the classroom little to the spanish three 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 we are heating you know there's no money there accounting 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 that this place should. think about is the coming late this country in the grip of the year is a rise in thousands upon thousands of people are taking the reins that look right

now and again just as you mentioned you say that and because of all the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful and we're going 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 worry but we think we're just a little be determined resolve the political helping is more or less the same. be together 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 the us agrees with the press population being squeezed even tighter we are about. behind. terms of. but you see the policy the troika. and the international more you found the european central bank and you would be a union are imposing on but if an account 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 a. public spending will you. push them deep into recession like we spend billions in foreign debt 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 naysayers 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 so. let's see if they. still to come this hour from politics to prison his career has been bruised by this fight drunken brawls but now ukraine's former interior

minister faces more serious charges more ahead. but first south korea and the u.s. have started a large scale naval drills despite north korea's threats to attack if provoked for appealing young exercises involving hundreds of thousands of troops could be a silent declaration of war in two thousand and ten the north responded to drills from its neighbor with an artillery strike that killed four and raised fears of a wider attack rigor frock an expert on north korea from vienna university thinks it may not take much to light the fuse. most career has issued such statements in the past and look at just those statements but you never know you can play with fire safety for a while until. so you create some kind of a 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 un with whom you have no experience whatsoever with whom you have

a chance to actually open some new avenues for cooperation and for resolving all those pressing issues that we have on the table of 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 it's a state that is in possession of nuclear weapons although we don't know exactly how many and what in which quality of their but this is definitely a very a hard area and it's so wrong to buy a countries like south korea japan and china so if david come involved in some kind of military confrontation the whole thing can easily get all of hand so i do believe that we are facing a potentially dangerous situation if i'm on the subject on our web site r.t. dot com and here's what else is a click away right now as the world's oil map shifts new superpowers emerge and new

battles could be ahead for the pricey black gold we have expert analysis and fall on line. ukraine preparing for political turbulence after one of the leading lights of its orange revolution was convicted of embezzling state funds former interior minister yuriy with sankoh has been sentenced to four years in prison artie's alexei or chefs as more. go to the his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where you deal with santa 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 only 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 his trial has lasted for more than a year during which let's enter 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 you look to mission calls part of the public doesn't approve or preservation and that's 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 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 sank us korea had also been filled with controversy from fist fights with keef's mayor 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 us we do and then my unit he 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 you 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. look synchros 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 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 tymoshenko says that the protests will not die down even when the euro twenty well football championship comes to ukraine so that 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 turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan has left nine dead and wounded several others the blast happened at jalalabad airport in eastern afghanistan the taliban claimed responsibility saying it was in revenge for the burning of qur'an zadie u.s. military base last week but days of deadly protests over the burning iraq did across the nation leading from the to the deaths of more than thirty people. a train bringing around seventy five people has a direct hold in canada three railroad employees were killed dozens of passengers

injured when the trains came off the tracks train have been going from niagara falls to toronto at least one air ambulance helicopter standing by as crews work to pull passengers from the wreckage the cause of the darrelle meant 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 in one thousand twenty nine meryl streep grabby best actress for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher in the film the iron lady martin scorsese's parisian adventurer hugo plane five awards in the technical categories. going to check in now on the stock market figures let's go to origins corrina melican live at the business desk arena take a bank you might well we're looking at the ruble that has been rallying since the beginning of the year on the back of those strong oil prices and also because of the money coming back into the country to pay tax bills in the end of the month now

let's look at the numbers right now as we can see there is a twenty nine to the dollar which is six months high and against the euro it's all the best since may two thousand and ten below thirty nine elsewhere the euro is lower against the dollar now oil is declining on monday bringing in a day rally to an end tensions over iran's nuclear program has been one of the main factors driving oil prices higher but today it's in the red as you can see there not too much enthusiasm on the equity markets globally here in russia the r.t.s. and the mines it's closed mixed here the biggest movers on the my six financials among the main game as of the day with the bank over a one point two percent spread was closed higher as well has signed a memorandum of understanding with italian carmaker fiat to build a car plant in russia but most energy majors unfortunately finished in the red. point six point three percent down sorry now here's europe it's also lower the foot

in the dax both sliding and investors are now looking out for germany to approve a greek rescue package banking stocks are weighing on the footsie and carmakers are a drag for the german attack for the german index now let's cross over to the u.s. where markets are following euro fan open lower with energy stocks falling back now one of the reasons for this downturn is the decision of the g twenty finance ministers to hold off on giving additional money to the i.m.f. until the eurozone does more on its own. what's the latest i have for you but do join me and in about fifteen minutes for more and stay with us the headlines coming up next. the.

culture is that so much money which of course is more money than zero days the price of crude mean stubbornly high and consumers feel the pinch the wire energy crisis so hard news of the lack of supply and security.

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