but you crags down the regime in damascus with the strongest sanctions to date as the majority of syrian voters say yes to political reforms. case while it's down greece's junk credit score was cut again by ratings giants and on the board despite a massive bailout finally being secured. both or iran's envoy to the un atomic watchdog tells r.t. the agency is biased against his country accusing washington of trying to influence inspectors.

ten am and their action capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie 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 a strategy of putting political and economic pressure on the syrian regime to force president out of power it's also 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 assad will soon face justice for crimes against his people that's amid the referendum outcome on the new draft constitution in syria where a majority of voters said yes to reforms are an option 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 to make. t.v. in the country the vote may go ahead in particular troubled areas here and see. real life in the besieged city all poems on this issue and 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 they've 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've been tends 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 their sources meanwhile refused to provide

a breakdown on how people voted in particular areas like for example in the city of poso it leave all doubt on the clashes between the opposition and this source is still continuing series i'm sure a minister has provided the journalist with a kind of update on what's going on in the city of holmes 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 or if a national reporting there now is western powers pledged support for the opposition they reiterated that a libya style scenario will not be repeated in syria but political analysts and activists rick ross of says damascus is already following the same path. the west as a whole has no interest in a peaceful resolution. of the conflict with syria or are they want to one side of

opposition forces the deposing of the government they want to ensure regimes and so that. made by the government and damascus to see certain degree of power. play a multi-party coalition for example to reach an agreement with non violent opposition that is for them to the violence in the country one some sort of national reconciliation has a purpose in the world that was once was not the prospects for resolving the issue . and for very about a reconciliation syria are not going to be aided by the sort of rhetoric. of the sort that are openly called nor jury intervention in syria the pattern of those divers who are at this point we've seen with the west you're moving against syria the world community anyone will. know who is going to who is going to be tomorrow and one of. the words in our. political analyst and

activist rick ross of talking to us from chicago there. it looked like greece's junk credit score could drop no lower but rating china's standard and poor's had other ideas and cut the greek debt once again classifying athens as being in selective default after a force private creditors to accept losses and 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 the bailout on monday after chancellor angela merkel warned lawmakers of the risks of turning away from greenspan to financial advisor margaret bellary says the s. and p. downgrade didn't come as a surprise in view of current events. in my opinion you know he that he did exactly what the market both expected and he to do and what the markets are actually doing is really waited for although i have to be dotted and all the t.'s to be crossed

really came to green and with private creditors it's worth the trade to secure our debt deal all ending that imbues waiting for was for those bags to be finalized who are they actually put into place you know when you know was that i have been here for months but that we just needed finalize to go easy what happens now i think we need to start taking a look at countries like ireland portugal spain i mean i think i remained in particular is a very interesting case to look at and they were at a very similar ization and 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 receipt and it was a reason that we need to but 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 year. and still have for you on our team russian elections turned digital after

a video showing alleged bomb vote fraud go viral web cams are installed in every polling station to make the presidential ballot as transparent as possible. and once the land of liberty now the home or fear we investigate why americans feel insecure in their own country that's coming your way in a few minutes. the u.n. nuclear watchdog isn't impartial when it comes to iran says the countries and voice to the i.a.e.a. scarcella today told r.t. exclusively that the u.s. which suspects iran is seeking nuclear weapons a striving to influence the agency's work that i criticize the iran last week for not allowing its officials to visit a key military site but stalled in a says that such an inspection would undermine the agency's credibility and threaten iran security. they said that they will respect the 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 the me size explosive which is nothing to do with the mandate of our. 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 the mandate and of course embedded can and trying to push it in order to intrusive include being increased the intrusiveness beyond the national security of the member states it is not good for the credibility of each com they said i apologize they forgot to go to an in their place 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 that the evening after two times a 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 provided that everything goes right down. and catch the full interview with iran's envoy to the u.n. nuclear agency in around twenty minutes time here on our t.v. . israel says it won't warn the u.s. if it decides to launch a strike on iranian nuclear facilities israel which believes iran is a threat has been ramping up belligerent rhetoric in recent weeks the spy warnings from washington but as iraqis read english can 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 bring much closer to home to gary the reason why euphoria in israel called the result hostile activity. there is no terrorist

activity. other than the hamas. 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 and some believe this blinkered approach may end up having dire and explosive consequences for israel with the rise of islamic tendencies in the wake of the arab spring states which until now have been tacitly benevolent to what israel may do it turned 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 to pressure from the us. and. it's even worse egypt when they go 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 react to such a conflict that 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. centralism in the mess because. the presence of terrorist groups that may operate the good 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 a peace relationship with it also has the longest border with and i think it is most vulnerable to. destabilizing influences from almost everywhere else spillover from syria spillover from iraq there are very serious

problems and jordan 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 obstinately continue to confront iran with the word of words for now in tel aviv it is a ghost go by to. almost every polling station in russia is now equipped with web cameras just days i have of the presidential vote that measure was introduced to secure maximum transparency after last december's parliamentary election triggered allegations of vote rigging it was going off explains how the new web system works . the. 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 promised reward 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 i was a journalist on an undercover mission your possible seculars i was shocked by the cynicism of the situation i mean was the point of the vote all the other if they could easily give out filled out ballots to whole groups of people scores of similar videos have been posted on the world pushing tens of thousands to protest many cases or under investigation with to prevent a repeat during the presidential vote the sunday newly all pulling stations across russia are being equipped with the web cameras. the idea is not only to prevent stuffing of 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. with each calling station is being equipped with at least two cameras

one with a general shot of the ballot box and the other with a close up of the slot all videos will be fed to local data centers after computer processing they'll then be sent to seven large storage and distribution facilities via cable radio and satellite and 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 processed to rolls and rolls of heavy duty where in order to work for around five hundred years of information that's only thought it would take to watch all the videos from beginning to end. good move or d. mosco. presidential front runner a lot of your burden has been publishing a series of pre-election articles outlining his political vision ahead of the sunday's poll by them all online at r.t. dot com. and find out why put in things interference in syria as

a threat to national development and how washington is striving for a status of invincibility that's in these latest publication focused on foreign policy. and pan despair and siberians it is having some fun as you can see doing calling for russian stock to watch the mazing video on our you tube channel. is he to. be official. from the.

video. feed the palm of your. 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 big brother as marina i reports from new york 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. can you assure report suspicious activity of the authorities the land of liberty is

fast becoming known as the land of fear and suspicion there are individuals in 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 not really. 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 a low level terrorism we live in a military dominated society. the people are on or. that their. terrorism is a threat you know and ryan eleven is career level 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 hear that with america's escalating definition of

suspicious activity the governments expanding powers remain the biggest threat to the people security. artsy new york. this is r t coming to live from moscow and coming up in the next few minutes eighteen controversy. do you want to be to the equal india doesn't want to be treated any more as of the future being towed by mother how to do things in a fancy manning the ins and angers most britons but london's aids to new delhi keeps flowing anyway find out why shortly on our team. now take a look at 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 addiction was reported this peaceful demonstrators inspired by the global occupy movement have been camped outside the iconic london landmark since october. every mo control device

has exploded at a mass rally in northwest pakistan killing seven and injuring dozens of the bomb which was fixed to park motorcycles was detonated outside a gathering of the leading political party attended by sal's and the province has seen an increase in attacks recently and as home to a major military facilities. a fishing boat to reach the strata caught. a cruise ship at its one thousand passengers an 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 generator room the blaze was extinguished but caused loss of power no injuries are reported. well they say charity begins at home but it may not be the case when it comes to the aids the u.k. has been sending to india the former british colony recently called the donations peanuts and said it didn't need any did 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 laura smith reports. whoever wins these streets they can say used to the pounding of feet with demonstrations large and small sites don't spend our money on foreign wars don't cost our public services these people are saying that although the government insists the company. 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 of the u.k. actually increasing substantially if the next three or four years but money could make a huge difference if it was for example spent on tax cuts for low paid workers or you could make a huge difference if it was spent. to be. free to go. services but can't afford just that. billion dollars. to india which

now has more 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 the space program immense wealth rubbed shoulders with crippling poverty 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 could 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 think that'll help it reach its goal experts say it's mistaken the problem is. particular states have also got some of the worst problems with corruption and poor governance in india i mean it's related 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 it is different if only in the fact that the indians have said they do 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 were 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 with 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 it's time to take commentators from britain to build relations with the new powerful india before the eight days to start flowing in the other direction. r.t. . well it's time now to check some market figures let's cross now to jim what's on our business desk so what's happening there daniel yeah good morning well the cross is not hurting the energy post economy here what's less well known is the yesterday russian firms are paying some fourteen billion dollars in tax mineral

instruction and profits to the government that's also helping the cause. let's have a look at those figures at the moment the euro is trading higher against the dollar as we can see the ruble is extending previous gains now below twenty nine to the greenback gives the euro is that is best since mid two thousand and ten below thirty nine we spoke to the chief economist at the critique of bank he told us how to make sunday's presidential elections also 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 being in russia might be lower than anticipated or i'm not sure how long it would last because elections are few days ago we 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. let's check stocks in the last hour tokyo's swung into the black a rise in january retail sales has helped consumers stocks the bankruptcy filing by chip maker elpida over in hong kong lenders are leading gains of the hang saying bank revealed profits jump last year now russia which is mixed off the opening higher this hour as some piece of the downgrade of greece to selective default has kept traders worried on the euro's future. in the states the market started the week pretty flat most financials finished higher as positive housing data void investor confidence but the current full of stocks bucked that trend h.s.b.c. bank was a heavy loser after reporting

a ninety seven percent drop in its european investment on oil futures they're extending previous losses snapping a recent surge that threaten the global economic recovery but continuing concerns over middle east supply all stemming those falls. and 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 in turn china will settle its hundred thirty four million dollar debt for previous old deliveries the main supplier to the far east is rules in the which will benefit from the stability this deal provides expose called the new agreement a victory for russia as china was calling for a ten times bigger discount and that's the business update headlines are next on our city. to. all.

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