a terrorist plot to kill virgin of putin after the presidential election on sunday is prevented by moscow and kiev. yes to reform the syrian people have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution but the e.u. is stepping up the pressure with tough new sanctions on president assad's regime. and cash rich burman is expected to back in the rescue deal for greece despite these it won't be enough to save athens and worries that spain is now set to follow suit.

welcome you're watching r t live from moscow with me kev you know in our top story at eight pm this monday evening a plot to kill vladimir putin after next sunday's presidential election has been prevented in a joint operation between ukraine and russia the suspects arrested earlier this month for a bomb plot confessed to planning an assassination attempt artie's jacob greaves reports. initial information on this release by russian t.v. channel was since the start chasing though by key russian officials to lots of to reach mr press secretary to produce a better way of producing those in the ukrainian security services as well though it was cool to authorities attentional published. explosion after mr extensors closure when told to test a new call purses size to be killed by the explosion two people say they were detained for several weeks interrogated but also that the factions have. the

release which much of these reporters mation is based on the moments of the war with a civilization there is no answer this is backed by so called the romneys a well known chechen militant nuisance thought to be behind a number of deadly terrorist attacks took place in moscow over the last couple of years or so all those are all said to be a fixer in this matter most lawyers now he said that he resided in london for a number of years and there he received training on how to use explosives that have been a number of assassination bits made against promise about amir putin particularly when he was serving as president of those alessio covered by forest security services such as in azerbaijan or iran or indeed ukraine as well as such he does have a very substantial security entourage following wherever he goes to cuba traveling on the road there are usually about seven vehicles behind him also traffic police

backing them up and sometimes they take they were traveling around moscow the close of the roads to be closed down to assure extra security this does come of course at a very key time for the prime minister just ahead of those presidential elections to be held on the fourth of march jake agrees reporting their first resuscitation pops aside prime minister putin is gearing up for his presidential bid on sunday publishing his latest article outlining a vision he has for russia's future with a focus on foreign policy the premier slam the 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 political analyst dimitri babbage 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 is not anti western. would you know obviously want to cooperate with western powers he's just on paper with certain actions or need to other western countries which as he proves in that article actually run counter 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 difficult path forward but it's the only forcible 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. he speaks about 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 maybe for all the us because then the united states would not only be the biggest power in the world with the biggest amount of firepower but also it will be able to strike anyone it wants to strike. so i heard on r t the cost of blank spring protesters turnout in the thousands and the struggle to stay afloat during the country's deepening crisis report on my coming up also this to the e-mails published on wiki leaks claiming that israeli military attack on iran is imminent as well. the european union is the syrian government with his toughest set of sanctions yet they include an asset freeze on officials in a ban on importing precious metals and minerals from the country. reports from

brussels aside from that all syrian the 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 search trading partner county for more than a twenty percent of trade question here is should these new sanctions is will these actually be instructive in the past posed to asset freezes of about one hundred individuals as asians 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. 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

floating the idea of a peacekeeping mission to the country although there have been no details on that yet so 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. so as the e.u. puts the squeeze on the massacres the syrian people have chosen a path to peace for reform a new constitution as one massive support in sunday's referendum with a row ninety percent of voters saying yes the changes put forward by president of the designer when the ruling party's fifty year monopoly and pave the way for free elections officials say turnout top fifty seven percent. though still raging in some parts of the country in the flashpoint city of homs where dozens were reported killed over the weekend meantime a u.s. led group of nations has agreed to step up the pressure of damascus and provide

more assistance to the rebels but political analyst jeremy salt says supporting only one side of the conflict is counterproductive. this group called the civil servants of syria i don't think that god has friends of syria by the bulk of syrians the syrian people and they had an agenda which they tried to push through and the simple fact is they couldn't they couldn't get in the one thing that they have not contemplated during all these long months. inside syria is a negotiated settlement and they haven't pushed made any attempt to push the a provisional is towards negotiations and indeed all with the syrian government and i think the main point here is the western mainstream narrative is fundamentally false it's based on higher moral ground being told 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 i was not willing to do that. so bad in the program played with fire the u.s.

and south korea begin joint military exercises despite threats of missile strikes in retaliation from the north. next year and chancellor angela merkel's urging a lawmakers to support the new rescue package for greece that's despite worries that athens will need of more cash in the future and suggestions from germany's interior minister that it's time greece left the eurozone altogether the one hundred thirty billion euro bailout was agreed in principle of last week after months of tense discussions among the euro zone leaders germany as europe's richest economy has to contribute the majority towards it first there is a sense of unease in berlin that it will have to keep up coughing up cash to prevent a greek debt default it's the second bailout in a little over eighteen months and it would ensure athens can pay its debt is for the time being let's discuss the possible outcome of this package with political analyst william angle now william very good evening she thanks me on the line from frankfurt know i'm glad merkel is expected to win isn't she tonight's vote but there are reports of a growing rebellion within her coalition with more and more calls the greece will

be better off on its own as i just mentioned why the now are such expensive efforts being made to keep athens in the euro over to you well i don't think the effort is to keep our friends in the euro the effort is to buy time until after the french elections and of april early may for president so that the thing doesn't blow up before those elections and sometime later in the year perhaps as early as june july maybe later in the autumn it's expected that greece is going to leave the euro zone and. well i just want to see. my analysis of the terms that germany and poles insisted on for the greek because i could be a lot of hundred thirty billion or so stringent that it was pre-planned to force greece out not so it's all complete and now you're going to have german ministers calling for that so i think that's the clear strategy get the weakest link out of the euro zone but we've talked at length about this for many many months but

william are you more certain tonight than that greece will be saying goodbye to the euro and the euro. i don't see there's any way that greece can sustain the conditions that the i.m.f. and the e.u. posed for taking the additional hundred thirty and doing the debt bringing the debt to g.d.p. down to one hundred twenty and a half percent by two thousand and twenty it's just not sustainable the austerity cuts on government workers the layoffs the cuts of pensions the lowering of the. economic growth rate to well it's now minus seven in two thousand and eleven and these terms will bring it down to double digit minus and that's just not sustainable how do they work and said that's a greece's exit will contribute to a potential failure of the euro and i thought that was the way you would self would be do you agree with that. well i think she's playing politics with this i think privately she knows very well that greece has got a got to be pushed out ironically the terms that the german government is imposing

on greece's conditions for the hundred thirty billion. of the terms imposed by the british and french victors at versailles in world war one on germany for the savage reparations that were demanded and that many think later led to the rise of the hitler movement in the twenty's and thirty's. that greece has been surviving on the previous bailout for eighteen months now without showing any signs of improvement there's no guarantee it won't need another bailout as they've been mentioning it in the next few years either isn't germany and the rest of the e.u. throwing good money after bad is an obvious question we keep asking it but the money still keeps getting thrown. well i think this is the last throw of the dice if you will and i don't think there is going to be any money more money after this merkel is riding high in the german popularity charts precisely because she's profiled her government as being tough as nails on the greeks and punishing them

for their past excesses and that that plays well in politics but after this this last round as i say i think the greek exit from the euro zone was pre-ordained of this and merkel wanted that but if this round does go through as we think it will that's going to mean more cuts for greasy yet more austerity cuts and that's not going to go down well we've seen the trouble so far what is going to happen in greece well if they do stay in the euro zone and do accept these austerity cuts and so forth it will be an economic catastrophe greece is already in an economic depression our we want to define the d. word and the additional austerity on top of that is going to create the economic situation inside greece where there is no way that the numbers will add up by twenty twenty to bring that down to one hundred twenty percent you piso it's just. absurd to imagine that greece is going to stay in the euro but the loss of greece to the euro zone at this point would not be

a dramatic event for the financial markets it's already been largely free discounted moody's rating agency doesn't believe this thing is going to stick and all very serious money is betting that greece will get will exit and in the end that that would leave the remaining eurozone countries. somewhat more stable than they are right now with greece and what amanda thanks so much political analyst and author of the gods of money and the death of the american century thanks been on the program. thank you but while euro zone leaders are hard at work to ensure greece remains within the euro their attention may soon need to shift to spain the country is feeling the pinch of deep cuts there too in public spending particularly in education and the protesters even this last weekend out on the streets again sarah firth reports from impoverished valencia. if you were a sentiment was riding high off to spain during the year as a back in two thousand and two but a decade on in years of a starting would assume back to work with an economic crash be

a against. government policies and we were we were in town was 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 as the classroom and onto the spanish street 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 the way they think it's right think of the plan to bring not the basic reason of nations that have been that this place and. think that is the come the latest country in the grip of the year is a rise in thousands upon thousands in the book take over the reins to look right

now and again we're going to see much of you say that it was upon the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful it will bring a familiar scenes last week a spanish riot police clashed with protesters worry about the same thing happening here is happening going. yeah we do worry but we think we're just a little bit determined resolve the political helping is more or less the same. that you have 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 in tighter we are about two years should be coming to greece in terms of pro. but you see the policy which the troika. and the international border found the european central bank and european union are imposing on countries greece italy

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 well 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 bills teachers without jobs and unemployment on the rise makes for a bleak. 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 surf. may. come your way this hour an hour to from politics to prison his career is

pretty brutal fistfight the drug brawls but now ukraine's former interior minister places more serious charges but the story of. russia's called on iran to provide assurances to the international community that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only but in return. to you reading richmond must be recognized. stupid shit 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 right 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 to rand was criticized for its failure to cooperate with them during two of the recent visits to the country western allies suspect that the islamic state is building a nuclear bomb or the country's under tough sanctions from the u.s. and e.u.

right now with israel also threatening military action i can let you know just a bit later this hour in about ten minutes on r.t. we're going to talk at length to iran's i am void a live interview alyeska sultan i will be joining us live from vienna. earlier it came to light that israel might have already destroyed or a nuclear sites and the preparations for a military attack on taran are well underway it's from millions of e-mails allegedly hacked from the u.s. intelligence firm stopped for by the anonymous hacker group our correspondent or a smith reports of london. email 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 emails 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 so it is generally great information that comes from instruct for there is no 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 them. with a correspondent in london south korea and the u.s. have begun large scale joint naval drills despite north korea's threats to attack if provoked for pyongyang the exercises involving hundreds of thousands of troops

or a silent declaration of war in twenty ten the north responded to drills from its neighbors not terrorist attack that killed four people and it raised fears of a wider conflict radhika frank is an expert on north korea and east asia at the the any university thinks it won't take much time like the few. of korea has issued such statements in the past and lucky louie these first statements but you never know till you can play with fire safely for a while and until you create some kind of a big blast and you don't want to i'm really concerned because we have a new leader in north korea kim jong il with whom we have no experience whatsoever with whom we have a chance to actually opened some new avenues for cooperation and for resolving all those posting issues that we have on the table you have about two hundred thousand south korean troops about thirteen thousand american troops in this one exercise

alone on the north 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 in what in which quality they are there but this is definitely a very hard area and it's surrounded by 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. ukraine is preparing for political turbulence after one of the leading lights of the country's orange revolution was convicted of embezzling state funds former interior minister here in lipsync is now been sentenced to four years in prison the next a year yes case got the details from kiev. go to the 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 will know that's inflammatory

rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars. 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 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 sound 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 lets them go went on a hunger strike several times is drawing clear parallels with that of ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko 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 parties reading drop below you'll to mission calls party the public doesn't approve of persecution that's what imma show because reading is two to three times higher now 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 keef's mayor to being detained in frankfurt airport for a drunken brawl that along with doubtful decisions during his ministerial work makes the ruling party believe he is guilty then well you know 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 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. look sync was different 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. the r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. well news in brief you know suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan is left nine people dead and several others wounded in the jalalabad airport in the eastern part of the country the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was in revenge for the burning of the qur'an so the u.s.

military base last week days of deadly protests over the burning of erupted across the country leading to the deaths of more than thirty people. a train carrying around seventy five people has derailed in canada three rail road and rail road employees were killed dozens of passengers were injured these are the latest pictures we got when carriages came off the tracks the train had been traveling from niagara falls to toronto at least one air ambulance is on standby tonight as crews work to try to pull passengers from the wreckage because of that derailment not yet know. showbiz news the silent film the artist stole the show at the academy awards taking home five prizes including best picture and best actor it is indeed the first silent movie to win since the very first oscar ceremony in one nine hundred twenty nine and meryl streep of the best actress award for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher in the iron lady and martin scorsese's parisite adventure hugo also claim five wards in the technical category

. check out the business now. those markets doing this cross to create a business to spruce up to date great if you would just given we're looking at the markets right now we're primarily focusing on the ruble has been rallying since the beginning of the year on the back of those strong oil prices and also by money coming back into the country to pay tax bills at the end of the month now let's check the numbers right now as we can see there it's a twenty nine to the dollar which is six months high and against the euro it's at its best since mid two thousand and ten below thirty nine elsewhere the euro is lower against the dollar now all is declining on monday bringing the eight day rally to an end and tensions over iran's nuclear program has been have 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 in the global equity markets here in russia the artists in the mises closed mixed here the biggest movers on the my six financials

among the main game is of the day with bt bank over one and a quarter of a percent higher. bank also closed it has signed a memorandum of understanding with italian carmaker fiat to build a car plant here in russia but most energy majors unfortunately finished in the red with third of a percent down. europe was lower than a foot in the dax are still down and investors are now looking out for germany to approve a greek rescue package chancellor angle america is urging german lawmakers to support it although she concedes that there is no hundred percent guarantee quote it will succeed now let's cross over to the u.s. where markets reversed from earlier losses and not trading higher with energy stocks still falling and one of the reasons for the downturn is the decision of the g twenty finance ministers to hold off on going additional giving additional money to the international monetary fund until the eurozone does more on itself well

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