the e.u. brags down the regime in damascus with the strongest sanctions to date as the majority of syrian voters say yes to political reforms. kicked while it's down greece's juncker growth score was cut again by ratings giant standard and poor's the spied a massive bailout finally being secured. also rans envoy to the un atomic watchdog tells our t.v. agency's bias against his country accusing washington of trying to influence inspectors. and brochure. au-prince disputed we'll have the details in the business program in twenty minutes.

of the action gavel you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program and the european union has hit damascus with its tough a set of sanctions yet they include more asset freezes against officials and impose restrictive measures on the country's central bank the e.u. continues to execute its strategy of putting political and economic pressure on the syrian regime to force president assad out of power tells maintaining support for the opposition recognizing the syrian national council as a legitimate representative of the population meanwhile speaking at the un human rights council the french foreign minister said austin will soon face justice for crimes against these people that's amid the referendum outcome on the new draft constitution in syria where the majority of voters said yesterday forms. has more

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 referendum started on sunday about how the ballot may go on amid bonds to keep in the country how the vote in may go a had in particular the troubled areas here in syria like in the besieged city all poems on the city of live north of the capital damascus syria 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 and there's been many polling stations that and people had the opportunity to come there and to vote to express their will he also said that they've been attempts to intimidate people there on the ground by gunmen they have been attempts to prevent people from voting and of course he has said look old 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 these sources meanwhile refused to provide a breakdown on how people voted in particular areas like for example in the city of poso a little doubt on where the clashes between the opposition and this source is still continuing serial interior minister has provided the journalist with a kind of update 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 financial reporting there from damascus as western powers pledged support for the opposition they are either aided that a levy a stylus an aerial will not be repeated and syria political analyst activists regrows of sas damascus is already following the same path. as

a whole have no interest in a peaceful resolution. of the conflict with syria wherever they want to one side a victory for opposition forces the deposing of the government they want some sort of regime change and so they were made by the government and to see a certain degree of bringing them to play a multi-party coalition for example to reach an agreement with the non violent opposition there's for them to the violence and the gun to some sort of national reconciliation as a part of the some of the world that was once was the prospects for resolving the issue. and for very about a reconciliation syria are not going to be aided by the sort of the rhetoric. of the circuits are openly called for north korea the intervention in syria the pattern in the star wars britain where we're seeing with the last year libya syria

the world community will. know who's going to who is going to be tomorrow and one of. the. political analyst and activist rick ross of talking to us from chicago. it looks like greece is junk credit score could drop now lower but ratings giant standard and poor's had other ideas it's cut the greek debt once again classifying athens as being a selective default after it forced private creditors to accept losses in a massive bond swap the move was part of last week's deal to qualify for one hundred thirty billion euros of rescue cash the german parliament overwhelmingly supported a bailout of monday after a chance language in a cold war and lawmakers of the risks of turning away from the greatest financial advisor margaret berthing reefs and p. downgrade stead and come as a surprise in view of current events i mean you could if you know in my head. and

you know happy that he did exactly what the markets both expected and need to do and what the markets are actually doing is only waited for all that i have to be dotted and all the teams to be crossed really came to an agreement with private creditors it's worth the try to secure our debt deal all ending that b. was waiting for was for those passed to be finalized who are they actually put into place you know and now was that i think it's been here for months but that we just needed finalized and all these agreements what happens now i think we need to start taking a look at countries like ireland portugal spain i mean i think ireland in particular is a very interesting case to look at and they were in a very similar ization a few years ago and they were able to play by the rules and you know do good within the european union and i think that was the response and it was a reason that means it's. you know what's pretty is eventually we have to start looking at those countries i do think what this does not buy is the european union

will take on a very different political and economic shape within the next half. so i have for you on our russian elections turned digital after video showing alleged vote fraud go viral web cams are installed in every polling station to make the presidential ballot as transparent as possible. and a once the land of liberty now the home of fear we investigate why americans feel insecure in their own country that's coming your way in just a few. the u.n. nuclear watchdog isn't impartial when it comes to iran says the country's envoy to the i.a.e.a. ali asghar soltanieh told r.t. exclusively that the u.s. would suspect iran is seeking nuclear weapons is trying to influence the agency's work the i.a.e.a. criticized iran last week for not allowing its officials to visit a key military side but told in a says that such an inspection would undermine the agency's credibility and

threaten iran security. they said that they will respect their national security but at the same time following the american allegation they want to go to the military side without any restrictions in these against iran the issues are regarding to me size explosive which is nothing to do we demand it of oil. interests that you should only money toward nuclear material not to see what kind of a country has that is something which is due from their mandate and of course embedded can and trying to push it in order to have intrusive include being increased the intrusiveness beyond the national security of the member states it is not good for the kind of the ability of each come they said i apologize they forgot to go to an end i placed last time we told them that they can choose anywhere in this site and they chose it and the former director general when i was with him in fact at the

evening of the two times of visit he said and declared that the parching is part of the story now how come they're just requesting again still we're not ruling out access to military sites including parching provide that everything goes right down . the pan and catch the full interview with iran tannoy to the u.n. nuclear agency next hour here on our team. israel says it won't warn the u.s. if it decides to launch a strike on a rain nuclear facilities israel which believes iran is a threat has been ramping our belligerent rhetoric in recent weeks the spy warnings from washington by the authorities or in english can i report other more immediate threats may be dangerously overlooked. love their neighbors as the biblical saying goes but in the case of israel there is not much love lost between the jewish state and the countries closest to it while authorities in jerusalem in fierce and

feyerick is ations at iran some wonder if in their empty tehran frenzy they may have overlooked other troubles brewing much closer to home to gary the roots of my euphoria in israel called the result hostile activity. there is no terrorist activity. other than. the gaza strip. in fact the post conflict has long been a source of problems for the israeli government but recently seems the issue has all but been forgotten some believe this blinkered approach may end up having dire and explosive consequences for israel with the rise of islamic in the wake of the arab spring states which until now have been top of the benevolent what israel may do it turning around in fact such changes already evident in egypt the muslim brotherhood which holds the majority of seats in the parliament has already threatened to break peace accord but this israel as a response of pressure from the u.s.

. and. it's even worse egypt will undergo tremendous changes egypt will stand behind hamas one day hamas may attack israel as it did in the. two thousand and eight the question is how would egypt such a conflict i think is an imminent threat iran is not an imminent threat. but could also be an imminent threat some believe is the situation in syria which seems to go from bad to worse with every passing day. of control by the central division in the mess because. the presence of terrorist groups that may operate to get steve israel meanwhile israel's most placid neighbor jordan may seem to be a bedrock of stability but experts say that isn't so because the media the neighbor to be used it's a pantry that israel has. peace with it also has the longest border with and i

think it is most vulnerable to. influences from almost everywhere else spill over from syria spillover from iraq there are very serious problems and one look at the map is enough to show that israel's position in the real. could be described as potentially problematic at best however israeli authorities seem to be less concerned with reinforcing good relations with neighbors or preparing for those relations to worsen instead they are certainly continue to confront iran with the word of words for now in tel aviv it is a ghost coat party almost every polling station in russia is now equipped with web cameras just days ahead of the presidential vote the measure was introduced to secure maximum transparency after last december's parliamentary election triggered allegations of vote rigging the orcas going off explains how the new web system works. video that went around the web

alleged a merry go round of voting prevented at one of moscow's cooling stations during the recent parliamentary election. is among those on the recording he claims for a promise to be worn from the city district of tories he was given ten completed ballots to stuff in the box in favor of a certain party little did the alleged plotters know it was a journalist on an undercover mission your possible seculars i was shocked by the cynicism of the situation i mean what's the point of the vote all the other if you could easily give out filled out ballots the whole groups of people scores of similar videos have been posted on the world pushing tens of thousands to protest many cases are under investigation but to prevent a repeat during the presidential vote the sunday nearly all pulling stations across russia are being equipped with the web cameras post a dog the idea is not only to prevent stuffing them but to show on camera the

results in each polling station and they could then easily be compared with the final figures on line this is maximum transparency. each polling station is being equipped with at least two camerons one with a general shot of the ballot box and the other with a cool simple this long all videos will be fed to google reader centers after computer processing then be sent to seven large storage and distribution facilities . radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals for everyone to watch online these are the servers where the data from all the web cameras will be process to rolls and rolls of heavy duty forward in order to work for around five hundred years of information that's only thought he would take to watch all the videos from beginning to end. is

a good move or to moscow. presidential front runner while the reporting has been publishing a series of pre-election articles outlining his political vision i had of this sunday's poll find him out all line at r.t. dot com also read the latest one a which focuses on foreign policy with putin discussing syria and nato and washington. and there is a bear in a siberian zoo having some fun as you can see do and go for russian style take it watch the amazing video at our you tube channel. if you. believe.

down the official altie up location. your on the phone the i pod touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand. world com. now in the palm of your. dot com. following the nine eleven attacks national security became a fact of everyday life for americans but it was not only the police who were expected to serve and protect u.s. citizens were also asked to play they brought or as marina were now reports from the work it's a role that's leaving many people even more afraid. the united states of america is home to over three hundred thirty million people we are a country known for freedom. that was then this is today it's.

kenya sure report suspicious activity of the authorities the land of liberty is fast becoming known as the land of fear and suspicion there are individuals of the united states who seek to carry out acts of terrorism a post nine eleven slogan born in new york city has been adopted nationwide don't assume it was left by accident if you see something say something this see something say something american campaign depicts terrorist scenarios and encourages members of the public to keep watch on well other members of the public according to f.b.i. pamphlets distributed to local businesses potential terrorist activity indicators include always paying with cash wearing backpacks and baggy clothes and the discreet and prolonged use of cameras for note taking even the cyber cafe owners are encouraged to keep watch on any customers overly concerned with privacy even

just trying to shield your screen from others can make you a suspect. questioning government policies or making anti-war statements can also land citizens on the u.s. watch list as of two thousand and nine the u.s. defense department categorizes public protests as low level terrorism we live in a military dominated society. the people are aware of. that there. they should know terrorism is a threat you know on nine eleven has created a level of fear has been exploited and. sustained the n.y.p.d. under fire again for its intelligence gathering campaign involving muslim americans and illegal surveillance scandal erupted in the big apple after police officers were caught spying on mosques and muslim communities according to the associated

press thousands were under surveillance with no evidence or even allegations of criminal behavior we have to keep this country safe this is a dangerous place many of the us fear that with america's escalating definition of suspicious activity the government's expanding powers remain the biggest threat to the people security arena port not artsy new york. now this is r t coming up in the next few minutes hating controversy. india wants to be the india doesn't want to do more of the food being towed by mother to do things that are fans many indians and worse most brits but london's aids to new delhi keeps flowing anyway find out why shortly on arts and. tell us to go get some other stories from around the world police in full riot gear have removed occupy london tans outside st paul's cathedral this came after the high court gave the green light to clear the protest site the victuals reported as peaceful demonstrators

inspired by the global occupy movement have been camped outside the economy london landmark since october. and remote control devices exploded in a mass rally northwest pakistan killing seven and injuring dozens of bomb which was fixed to a park motorcycle was detonated outside a gathering of a leading political party tanning attended by the province has seen an increase in attacks recently and is home to major military facilities. fishing boat reached strata cost allegro a cruise ship and its one thousand passengers in the indian ocean is towing it to a nearby island the liner was sailing from madagascar to the seychelles when a fire broke out in an electric and electric generator room the blaze was extinguished but caused a loss of power now injuries are reported. they say charity begins at home but it

may not be the case when it comes to the aid the u.k. has been sending to india former british colony recently called the nation's peanuts and said a didn't need it any more but the u.k. government keeps the cash flowing while at the same time cutting public spending at home are just lore smith reports. whoever wins these streets they get a used to the pounding of feet with demonstrations large and small a regular sight don't spend our money on foreign wars don't cost our public services these people are saying but although the government insists the company. still sending millions to india one of the fastest growing economies in the world is absolutely crazy really and foreign aid of course is one of the few areas that the u.k. purchase actually increasing substantially if the next three or four years that money could make a huge difference if it was for example spent on tax cuts for low pay workers or

you could make a huge economic difference if it was spent in the right tree angry it's a government that they. should take care of it but can't afford just one. billion dollars a year to india which now has more billionaires than britain and the indian economy will grow by seven percent this year compared to a measly one percent here it's already got the ninth largest gross domestic product in the world and it's got a space program immense wealth rub shoulders with crippling poverty though and defenders of the aid program point to india's six hundred million poor people living on less than two dollars a day the government says the aid is kept really targeted investment into education for women and children and helping the private sector create jobs and growth it is

wrong to portray this as an indiscriminate about of money being given to the indian government who can go and spend it on. space or indeed other things this is a very concentrated. targeted a program and i think on that basis given it has been targeted at some of the poorest people in the world. i'm happy to defend the aids concentrated on the three poorest states in india but if the government thinks that'll help it reach its goal experts say it's mistaken the problem is. particular have also got some of the worst problems with corruption and poor governance in india i mean that's one of the reasons those are still struggling states is because they have a very bad government so the idea that somehow this is going to be different this time is different though it's only in the fact that the indians have said they don't even want the eight the foreign ministers dismissed the monies paid us and the recent decision to buy french rather than british fighter jets shows the cash

doesn't even matter according to indian journalist mayhem he says it's up to the four hundred million wealthy indians to help their impoverished country men not patronize ing post-imperial britain we are showing how good we are this is the way to do it and this is what you should be doing in fact it produces the opposite effect it makes them resentful it makes them feel they are not taking indian seriously india wants to be treated as a world power india want to be treated equal india doesn't want to be treated any more as a little child being told by mother how to do things within a decade economists predict india will take in the case become the world's largest economy while british great stagnate its time stay commentated for britain to build all relations with the new powerful india before the eight needs to start flowing in the other direction. r.t. . on it is for those who do their business and rove also the russian currencies are

strong as well in almost six months against a dollar dale's a r t business news desk. isn't hurting the energy opposed to calling me here was less well known is that russian firms are due to pay some fourteen billion dollars today and yesterday in mineral extract. and profit tax which is helping the russian currency as well let's have a look at the figures for the currencies at the moment the euro's bounce back to go higher against the dollar and as we can see the ruble gained on monday now at twenty nine two the greenback gives the euro is at its best since mid two thousand and ten below thirty nine one of the latest numbers on the ruble for you when the russian markets both in shortly but we spoke to the chief economist adults kriti a bank he told us how next sunday's presidential elections also help the ruble. what we're looking at is some sort of a pre-election really in russia when investors have more confidence that stability

will be insured and for that matter you know the the risk in the investing of russia might be lower than anticipated or i'm not sure how long it would last because elections are only a few days ago way and also if we see for instance oil price compass starting to come down more aggressively i think this rally can very quickly run out of steam mind you that if there are reasons to expect the ruble to move in another direction towards being becoming a bit weaker central bank will not intervene as well in large volumes so what we're likely to see is much more volatility in the ruble rate. time to check the markets in asia japan's retail growth slowed and chip maker lp does declare bankruptcy dragging tokyo a lot more lenders all supporting gains over on the hang saying what out of the opening bell here in moscow russia ended a week of gains mixed on monday a lack of bad news from the e.u. and u.s.

help stocks but after a very healthy games this year investors trust some of those profits pushing the my six down. in the states the market started the week pretty flat most financials finished higher was a positive housing data point investor confidence but a handful of stocks that trend h.s.b.c. bank was a loser after reporting a ninety seven percent drop in its european investment banking on all futures they're extending previous losses snapping the recent surge has written the global economic recovery continuing concerns over middle east supply all stemming those fools. staying with oil russia and china have sealed a year long price dispute with moscow agreeing to cut a dollar and a hole for barrel from the price it charges beijing the main supplier to the far east is rolls left which gains more long term stability with this deal in turn china will settle its hundred thirty four million dollar debt for previous oil deliveries experts call the new agreement a victory for russia as china was calling for

a ten times bigger discount. and that's the business they will have the opening bell from moscow next that.