question on dot com. tonight a terrorist plot to kill vladimir 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. iran's nuclear envoy tells r.t. that his country is open to genuine u.n. inspections but accuses the i.a.e.a. of working for american air. and cash rich berlin backs a new rescue deal for greece despite unease it won't be enough to say bath and worries that spain is set to follow.

welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow with me kevin our in our top story at ten pm this monday evening a plot to kill. after next sunday's presidential election has been prevented in a joint operation between ukraine and russia the suspects caught red handed with explosives earlier this month turned out to be planning an assassination attempt jacob greaves is across the latest developments. it's already based on confessions there since speed acquired warm say in this so-called war was actually a church of minutes and who's thought to remind a number of very bloody terrorist attacks in russia scouser moscow although he was paid a small fine even straighten this assassination of the prime minister also according to confessions of one of those involved a fixer in fact spent some time studying in the u.k.

in a british university is in fact in london where he says he learned the art of explosives and trained there now this is for two authorities attention back in january i saw for an accidental explosion in the farmers in odessa in the ukraine their voices investigated situation put out the flames and when doing so they found a number explosives also a laptop containing information about this planned assassination bid promise of enemy hussein he's known for his role in the k.g.b. also heading up the f.s.b. russia's security services we certainly saw he was aware of the dangers involved all this job of leading a country that made all the more power and so instantly what his serving has been one of those rare. attempts on his life for and measuredly war to a covered mainly by foreign intelligence services including allies of those in azerbaijan iran and ukraine or when he's trying to visit other countries don't know

that really puts his life in that would be a real danger that has to be stressed although when he does travel around russia and moscow because a stanch or security entourage you see at least seven vehicles following him wherever he goes on the roads also traffic police usually lot down the roads that he's traveling on but of course this is all the more important becomes just before those presidential elections in the fall watch our correspondent jacob greaves they want to suss nation plots aside prime minister putin is gearing up for his presidential bid on sunday publishing his latest article outlining a vision of russia's future as he sees it and with a focus on foreign policy the premier slammed u.s. efforts to promote regime change in the arab world too. 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 and this to be true 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. we do know obviously want to cooperate with western powers he's just on paper with a certain actions or need to other western countries which as he approves 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 as have usually because of the victors always you would revenge on the bank. he

speaks about 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 stall 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 ward with their biggest amount of fire power but also it will be able to strike anyone it wants to strike. still ahead this hour on r.t. the cost of blank is spring spanish protesters turn out in their thousands in the struggle to stay afloat in the country's be printing debt crisis got the latest from there for you also hacked e-mails published on wiki leaks claiming an israeli military attack on iran is imminent again the details to come.

to conflict on syria now though where the people have made their voices heard a new constitution one massive support in sunday's referendum despite ongoing violence in some parts of the country still. has the latest from damascus. nearly two thirds of all those eligible to vote in syria cast their ballots on sunday with eighty nine percent of them voted in favor of the new charter there's been many concerns before the reform started on sunday about how the ballot may go on amid bodies in team in the country how the vote in may go a had in particular troubled areas here in syria like in the besieged city all poems on the city of a live north of the capital damascus syria interior minister has said that the violence is isolated to some particular areas within the cities as well the other areas it's quite calm there have been many polling stations that people had the opportunity to come there and to vote to express their will kill suicide that they've been attempts to intimidate people there on the ground by gunmen they've

been attempts to prevent people from voting and of course because that most all those who wanted to vote in the referendum actually had the opportunity to do that but the fact is that fifty seven percent of all those eligible cast their ballots here in syria their sources meanwhile refused to provide a breakdown on how people voted in particular areas like for example in the city of poso either live or that are where the clashes between the opposition and this source is still continuing serial interior minister has provided the job list with kind of a date on what's going on in the city of homes right now was the situation that he said the security forces are on the ground trying to take control of the city trying to fight with opposition forces and they will do that until it's all over and until we know on forces on the opposition forces left in the region

a correspondent in damascus move from what despite the referendum in syria the european union is hitting damascus with its toughest set of sanctions yet they include an asset freeze against officials and abandon importing precious metals and minerals from the country brussels correspondent tests or similar reports. 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 question here is you 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 on that yet 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 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 to the reporting ahead in the program playing with the u.s. and south korea begin joint military exercises despite threats of missile strikes and retaliation from the north. russia's called on iran to provide assurances to the international community that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only

but in return. rights to the regime enrichment must be recognized. to bush it is a school 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. when coming after the un's atomic official said they're on able to confirm whether iran has the ability to build nuclear weapons to rahm's criticized for its failure to cooperate with them during two recent visits to the country the western allies suspect the islamic state is building a nuclear bomb the country goes on a tough sanctions from the u.s. and the e.u. with israel also threatening military action something iran's nuclear and voice said might put existing sensitive discussions about their program at risk and in the past few hours earlier may spoke to us live feed told r.t.

the open to genuine nuclear inspectors but not the american agencies they represent . the are warning that couple of countries including united states is trying to randy agency so that they can dictate from washington what vienna should do and that is why we don't not permit such a thing to occur and that is the whole issue that the agency as a professional technical organization should do its work and that is why you see they make me so many noses here and there they do not let the agency to do its work and that is why we want expect all countries including russia and others and i am very pleased that last meeting in fact russia and china ambassadors along with hundred countries of nonaligned movement all together questioned what had happened in fact namely the least of confidential information that that we need mobilization a member states to prevent something happening in vienna which did you raise this

agency from its actually that is what we need but i went on. well ali asghar soltanieh spoke to me at length a couple of hours ago we got a repeat of that full interview coming up here on r t in about twenty minutes time . german or makers have this monday evening approved a new rescue package for greece this despite worries that athens will need even 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 last week after months of tense discussions among the eurozone leaders germany as europe's richest economy has to contribute the majority towards it but there's a sense of unease in berlin a little have to keep coughing up cash to prevent a greek debt default is the second bailout in a little over eighteen months and it's set to ensure athens can pay its debt is for the time being at least political analysts will amend told me he thinks the bailout plan is tailored to push greece out of the euro at a convenient moment. but 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. those elections and some time 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 my analysis of the terms that germany imposed insisted on for the greek because i could be a lot of hundred thirty billion or so stringent that it was preplanned to force breeze out get the weakest link out of the euro zone if the do stay in the eurozone and do except 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 word and the additional austerity on top of that is going to create 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 of g.d.p.

so it's just. absurd to imagine that greece is going to stay. in the euro. but while you as the 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 in public spending particularly education and protesters have been out on the streets even this last weekend sarah firth reports now from paul rushed valencia. if you are a sentiment 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 would assume back to work with an economic crash yeah games. government policies and we were we were into. it and no question of quality for our kids the latest round of cuts reforms but nationwide protests and they led via and it was the students 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 without heating you know there's no money there a 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 but has been that this place and. that is the coming late country in the grip of the year in the rise in the thousands upon thousands of people are taking to the israelis that look right now and again beyond that if you measure you know that it was up on the population well spain's protests have by and large been peaceful that will bring a familiar scenes last week the spanish riot police clashed with protesters worry about the same thing happening here is that 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 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 that of grace with the press population being squeezed even tighter we are about. behind in terms of pro. but you see the policy which the troika. and the international border found european central bank and european union are imposing on but if for 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 you. push them deep into recession like greece spain billions in foreign debt held by germany and france it's money which

wouldn't be paid back less painfully. schools without heating teachers without jobs and unemployment on the rise makes for a bleak prognosis and as the country tips into the 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 surfer. valencia spain. and coming of you this still from politics to prison his career has been bruised by fist fights and drunken brawls but no ukraine's former interior minister faces more serious charges details ahead. 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 underage of thousands of troops or a silent declaration of war in twenty turned the north responded to drills from its

neighbor with an artillery attack at the time that killed four people and raised fears of a wider conflict or franks an expert on north korea in east asia he's a real university you think it won't take much to light the fuse. north korea has issues as they so statements in the past and lucky leave these for just 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 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 we have no experience whatsoever with whom we have a chance to actually open some new avenues for cooperation and for resolving all those pressing issues that we have on the table you have about two hundred thousand south korean troops about thirty 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 all 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 hot area and it's surrounded by countries like south korea japan and china so if day become 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. being far more something to know website r.t. dot com while you're there the story just a click away as well tonight as the world's oil map shifts new superpowers are emerging a new battle could be ahead for the pricey black gold as they call it the next good analysis in foreign a website for. ukraine's

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 yuri gidzenko has now been sentenced to four years in prison corresponded to lectures us ski reports now from kenya. 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 a veteran 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 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 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 in less. the ruling party's reading drop below which michigan's party the public doesn't approve a resolution that's what i'm a shock was reading is two or three times higher no even higher than that of president you know. the ruling elite unwillingly made let's go and tell mission symbols of a struggle against themselves and any political force can now use these symbols to gain votes. just like his case looks sanctus korea had also been filled with controversy from his fights with keith's mayor was to being detained in frankfurt

airport for a drunken brawl that that will happen along with doubtful decisions during his ministerial works of which makes the ruling party believe he is guilty and then will you do us we do and then my unit didn't have enough education and law for this job that's why he made many mistakes for instance he wants prag. issuing a speeding fine to the president's son you 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. looks and goes 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 the continues global criticism of the tymoshenko trial this could put even more strain on cubes ruling elite the opposition has been picketing central kiev ever since june last year and daughter says that the protests will not die down even when the euro twenty twelve football championship

comes to ukraine so the case will definitely add more spice what is expected to be a rather turbulent year for the ukrainian politics alexia s.s.t. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. part of a nine story apartment buildings collapsed in an explosion in southern russia it's left fourteen people buried in the rubble tonight wounded dozens of others no reports thankfully at the moment at least of any deaths there we go this blast first took down a lower section of the building astragalus people rush tell them the upper sixth henri's collapse as well and that gas explosions believed to be the cause of the tragedy investigators also looking into claims that it was caused by one of the residents attempted to commit suicide or rescue teams or medics are working at the scene keep you posted. and more news in brief a suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan is left nine dead and several others wounded the blast happened in 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 korans at a 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. remote control bomb blast at a mass political rally has killed at least seven people and left two dozen wounded in northwest pakistan the motorcycle device went off outside a gathering of the region's ruling a one man national party attended by thousands the province has seen an increase in attacks recently and it's home to major military installations. a train carrying around seventy five people as derailed in canada three railroad employees were killed dozens of passengers were injured two when those carriages came off the tracks the train been traveling from agra falls to toronto at least one ambulance is on standby as crews work to pull passengers from the wreckage the cause of the real mintz not yet. show business news the silent film the artist stole the show at 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 off because back in one

thousand thirty nine and meryl streep the best actress award for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher lady while martin scorsese's prison adventure hugo claimed five awards in the technical categories. now the ruble sitting your eyes against the dollar the euro for more on the russian currencies upward what at the moment let's cross to greener the business there corrina crunch those numbers for us well that's right kevin the ruble has been rallying since the beginning of the year on the back of a strong oil prices and also by money coming back into the country to pay tax bills and the end of the month let's check the screen now for the latest numbers as we can see there the ruble is at twenty nine to the dollar which is a six month high and against the euro it's at its best since mid two thousand and ten below thirty nine that is elsewhere you is lower against the dollar all has declined not much though for the first time in eight days this happened after

a group of g twenty finance ministers held off calls from countries to boost international lending resources but a standoff between the west and iran over its nuclear program continues to keep oil prices around nine months high light sweet is losing sixty six cents trading at one hundred nine point fourteen dollars a barrel brant is losing more one dollar fifty four cents and is currently trading at one hundred twenty over one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel. now for the equity markets here in russia the r.t.s. in the markets closed mixed as you see right here on the screen financials were among the main gainers of the day with bt bank up over one and a quarter of a percent spare and also close it has signed a memorandum of understanding with italian carmaker fiat's the companies are reportedly planning to set up a joint venture to produce cars in russia but the most energy majors unfortunately

finished in the red who coil a third of a percent down. now here's europe it closed lower the footsie and the dax lost over a quarter of a percent despite the fact that the german parliament approved a rescue package for greece banks and autos were driving the declines on both the board says no it's cross over to the atlantic where markets are trading higher raising earlier losses the main factor here is data showing an increase in american home sales the dow jones is gaining a point four to important fourteen percent pretty a pretty much the same as the nasdaq it's up point seven point twenty three percent this hour crude has also kept the s. and p. five hundred index from further gains in recent weeks and that's as worries over destructions are that said to me supplies push prices higher. as are updates this hour but stay with us for headline news coming up next.

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