the syria vows to defend its people and sovereignty from foreign pressure a new constitution that says the e.u. enforces fresh sanctions over the ongoing violence live analysis on those developments shortly here on r.t. . the world bank loans china the world's second largest economy that without reform it faces a financial slowdown that could take the global system with it. at home and away britain's criticised for cutting spending at home and sending billions of broad in foreign aid to countries who say they don't even want the cash on top stories this hour.

international news incoming live from moscow this is with twenty four hours a day washington says the syrian president could be classified as a war criminal but secretary of state hillary clinton stopped short of calling for bashar assad to be prosecuted saying that would leave him with no incentive to step down. has the latest for us now from the u.s. capital. the obama administration has increasingly ramped up its rhetoric as it pertains to syria calling for the president bashar al assad to step down saying that a solution is not possible unless he leaves power these are really immense charges that could mean some significant repr questions for syria a lot of critics have said that this sets the international precedent for interventionism this is what happened in libya we did say sort of came to the united nations saying that this would just be a halt to the violence and turn into

a full on military escalation and that is what other countries including russia and china are worried about sort of happening in syria but it does seem that the european community is also to some extent pushing for some sort of intervention we just saw the french foreign minister making comments in brussels calling for the assad government to be brought before the international criminal court republican lawmakers a handful here in washington have been pushing to arm the syrian rebels also a point of controversy because again there's so little accurate information about what's going on in the ground it's really difficult to sort of tell who's who and who's really fighting for what side here. artie's lucic of on of there and staying with syria let's get some expert analysis from international consultant and former belgian m.p. load of unease but how much international pressure would it take to bring peace to syria here we're seeing these fresh you sanctions are our sanctions the best course of action or is there a more effective approach now do you think well there are of course examples from

the past that you could use as an example i mean sanctions brought to the apartheid regime in south africa down and it didn't lead to a massacre went forward now that they'd stein be dicks effort what you do what you do not do is part barton a part of the opposition now the sanctions you cannot just say are sanctions the best call because there's different kinds of sanctions first of all the only sanctions that are to me legitimate are the ones that have the backing of the human security council meaning of the whole world community not some organization like european union they are not in a position to do that. ok let's talk about that opposition you just mentioned damascus claim there was overwhelming support for a new constitution in that referendum on sunday but it was boycotted by the opposition groups now one video even shows rebels staging a mock vote in protests how much credibility does this referendum have at

a time when of course the country is in turmoil well of course it's not because are you advocating against the kind of intervention is happening right now that is mean that i back in the regime of the us in the massacres as it is this this new reform does not have real credibility as it leaves did you do it president of the possibility to steam power from forty more years now and these reforms whatever they are what you could do is enforce them on an international level say well ok you're saying you're going to do that well we're going to make you do it that's one thing you can do in a broader. ms of course that not needed the circumstances needed but should beijing gives this kid this referendum the legitimacy or despite the gesture of that referendum we're hearing widespread calls continuing for assad to step down and some now want him to be put on trial for war crimes is that helpful but that's

exactly where you want to do if you want to make a man like a president like you in this case in syria desperate to stevo as much as long as he can and as brutally as he as you as he can we seen that happen in libya we've seen it have any other countries lifing is what balls me the most is that this is being demanded by countries who at the same time support war criminals in asia or in africa i mean this is so hyper critical and the thing is what the media should do like russia today does that is this when it when people like hillary clinton say that is so scandalous that the world is not acting on the crimes being done in syria while at the same time doing exactly that supporting regimes in bahrain in in qatar in saudi arabia exactly the country that are asking for a military intervention in syria not really a model of democracy where you draw

a parallel with libya and italy how much longer do you think before we see nato or need arab bombs start falling on damascus or creating no fly zones or in the name of humanitarian missions well of course as i always say you know that i never predict the future and i think it's a it's a little different then i think there is a possibility that it might be postponed for quite some time especially the attitude of russia and china in the u.n. security council the change before i mean there is a reason why did change for several months but one of them certainly being that they saw what happened with their approval in. security council rule libya i mean the whole u.n. mandate was good totally violated there and of course they don't want to see that happen again just briefly load your perspective on u.s. foreign policy of course we're seeing the u.s. backing the syrian opposition along with other western countries of course while brushing aside the will of the people who still support a saturn without adel it clearly is indication that he is getting support and of

course many people against him but despite what the situation is there washington is supporting regimes in bahrain for example who are oppressing their people so where exactly do they draw the line here just briefly well some people might think this is going to be true or it is not there is a clear line in u.s. and by do it in european union foreign policy in the japanese or whatever fall on this to foreign policy in that is if you're on our side it doesn't really matter what you do as long as you're on the side if you're not on our side well you better be very effective in pretty you know people otherwise we will get in to push you out that's that gets the bottom if it profits us if you if you're against it if you're disobedient like a sound and especially courting mitt iran then you're a vendor and we will get you that's the bottom life of brussels international consultant and former belgian m.p. load for news thank you very much and if your thoughts always good to have

a chat you hear an r.t. thanks thank you well still ahead here on r.t. losing friends the israeli way to report on israel's neighbors are beginning to lose patience with the flow of iran rhetoric. that's still to come but first a report from the world bank has a sobering forecast for china's fiscal future it says beijing is heading for a slowdown that could have a devastating effect on the whole globe ati's business editor nick paul has the details. well it's warming it's warming the economic reform political reform or else it could have a economic crisis in order for china really to go belly up everybody else has to go belly up a bit as well so what's happening in europe in the u.s. possibly get worse or get more deep recession china in the so between five and twenty years will be the biggest economy in the world if you see that so clearly it should have a bigger role because say in how the global for the us has conducted the world bank

has been criticized on occasion for being an extension of u.s. foreign policy it is literally just down the road from the white house on pennsylvania avenue if you've got a chinese head or a russian head they will change the culture slightly within that it won't become. a chinese bank of an idea when become a russian. dominated by that kind of culture but it will sort of soften that out it'll take away some of the sort of u.s. dominance in that regard. nichole there and even with the world bank suggesting reforms for china the country still predicted to surpass the u.s. as the world's largest economy within a matter of years and international consultant and author he told me earlier that he thinks that beijing alongside other major emerging powers will continue to make decisions suited to their needs not america's. i think that the chinese are doing the right thing i think they are continuing to grow and of course this raises many

concerns in america britain and the european union basically the euro and dollars on because they would like to see countries are doing the things they want to do as argentina brazil and many other countries do but china will just mark told that line the chinese have shown themselves to be quite shrewd and they will add just the relationship between. their currency and other currencies based on their own needs and not based on american need but the key issue and i think china russia are the prime examples the key issue for every country is its own national interest and not the national interests of circumstantially powerful hegemonic like the united states and some of the countries of the european union starting in the year twenty seventeen america's greatest enemy or potential enemy is china because it will be the largest economy. will still have you the cash flow control over see. india wants to be treated as a world power india want to be treated of the people india doesn't want to be

treated anymore as a little child being told by mother how to do things you case and a steady stream of money to india cutting public spending at home even though india says it doesn't even want the cash. so that's still to come first the un's atomic agency says it can't tell whether iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb because tehran refuses to cooperate but the country's envoy to the i.a.e.a. has questioned the agency's impartiality and says its influence by the us well in an exclusive interview with r.t. ali asghar soltanieh filled in the blanks of iran's nuclear program following the recent visit of the inspectors now here's a brief preview for you. we are warning that couple of current is include the united states is trying to run the agency so that they can dictate from washington what d.n.r. should do and that is why we do 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 meet 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 a hundred counties of nonono movement all together questioned what had happened in fact namely the release of confidential information that we need the mobilization of member states to prevent something happening in vienna which did you raise these agency from is actually that is what we need but i went on. and you can see that interview with ambassador in full in about ten minutes from now here on r.t. well israel which has been threatening to attack iran's nuclear sites now says if it does strike it will do so without warning officials say they'll keep washington

in the dark to avoid it being involved the danger could look much closer israel is building a security barrier along its from two with egypt to keep militants and migrants out and reports that's just one close by concern. love their neighbors as the biblical thing goes but in the case of israel there is not much love lost between the jewish state and the country's closest to it while authorities in jerusalem fierce and feyerick is a she said iran some wonder if in their empty tehran the frenzy they may have overlooked other troubles brewing much closer to home to. the roots of euphoria in israel the result of slow activity. so 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 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. 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 centralism in

the mess because. of 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 the east 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 spillover 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 he didn't go. while some world news in brief e this hour in our world update government opened fire on a bus in northern pakistan killing eighteen and injuring servan the victims were from the country's minority shia community the ambush happened in a murder in this village in a district dominated by sunni tribes the taliban has claimed responsibility. some police in riot gear have cleared the occupy camp in london a high court ruling had allowed these from paul's cathedral side to be taken down twenty arrests were made as protesters tried to prevent bailiffs from moving in the demonstrators have been camped out since mid october it was one of the largest surviving sides of the occupy movement against corporate greed. and london's occupied demonstrators may have been sent home but a new wave of nationwide protests could be on the way taxpayers are making their voices heard angry that foreign aid still sent to india while public spending is

being cut at home and despite new delhi dismissing the handout as peanuts the cash keeps flowing laura smith. whoever wins these streets they're getting used to the angry 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 cupboard is. 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 of the u.k. purchase actually increasing substantially over the next three or four years that 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 economic difference if it was spent in the right three years ago.

which makes you nervous but can't afford to spend. billions of 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 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 carefully 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 amount 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 it is being 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 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 because they have a very bad government so the idea that somehow this is going to be different this time is different. the fact that the indians have said they don't even want the eight the foreign ministers dismissed the monies paid us and a recent decision to buy french rather than british fighter jets shows the cash doesn't even matter according to indian journalist. 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're not taking indian seriously india wants to be treated as a world power india want to be 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 u.k. to become the world's largest economy well. maybe it's time to take commentators for britain to build relations with the new powerful india before the eight days to start flowing in the direction. r.t. . that's news for the moment for the headlines for in about ten minutes from now in the meantime after the latest visit to iran the un's nuclear inspector said the

country wasn't fully cooperating they're trying to establish whether the program is indeed peaceful next r.t. speaks to the. void to the atomic watchdog stay with us from. i want to first with your permission to explain that the report is not really

having anything apart from before what they have said it namely referring to corporation is in fact a reference to the additional port of call or some others or suspension which we are not of course going to follow because of the resolutions which we do not have any legal basis but since last time according to d.c. poured you can see clearly that all nuclear activities including enrichment are under the full scope safeguard of i.a.e.a. and each paragraph you see at least more than ten parts of this report which is clear indication the results of the inspection is consistent with the declaration of iran the only thing is also new is about a detour round of negotiation that we had in tehran and d.g. has reported that we have had intensive discussions the only thing that it is somehow a pity. reflection not correctly is about the access to military

side parching as you have noticed and i have explanation for it if you permit me i will try to clarify what was. the reality please do so that's exactly the question is going to ask you next if if nothing sinister is going on there why was the inspectors denied access on two occasions why if you said no fair first. as it is in there the poor this was not inspected the group were not is spector's as per se they were the high officers of the agency from the legal political and technical departments coming to discuss about mortality and framework for our future work apart from normally specs and of course regarding those sort of allegations so-called possible military dimension which was reflected in the last report of the g in the annex of the report therefore the aim and the mandate of this meeting

to round the terror on was not. for a visit to any place we were supposed to negotiate on a framework in order to have. how to proceed from now on and see similarly he was not conclude that therefore the access of the places which ease in their mortality could not be and of course will be implemented after them or their ladies go blue they're ok so i hear what you say it sounds very complicated there's a new show here but in the spirit of openness why didn't you let these guys in my phrases like that very very good question their thing is that parching that they have requests and of course these requests as i said is already in the draft the last draft which i've been working after two rounds of discussion and therefore the name of the party known or their activities which are related to allegations

are there and we in any reasonable way have already accepted that when. text is conclude that then we get we will take a steps they should be a more ality a framework a term of reference that what they exactly they are looking for they have to provide the documents and exactly where they want they have the it is not enough it is not good for the credibility of each com they say i apologize he forgot to go to an end i place last time we tell them that they can choose anywhere in the site and they chose it and the former director general when i was with him in fact at the evening after two times a visit he said and declared that their parting is part of the story now how come they're just requesting again and still we said that we are going to make another for next ability but let's conclude this framework and less exactly know what are

the questions and we are going to do it therefore we are not ruling out we are not ruling out access to military sites including parching provided that everything was right down the americans are just trying to make these kind of fabricated information to keep this file open as you notice they call the so-called laptop american laptop coming out from iran and when we asked to have a copy of the material and mr arar variety former director general insisted that they should give these material to iran but they didn't permit and mr bradley harshly criticize us not permitting secretary to do its job that is why we are now was not able to solve the problem because agency has not delivered until now that i'm talking to you any documents to iran in order that we will work together in a professional substantial way this is a stumbling block is there a danger on past the year inside the you so should know its workings there is there

a danger you think the organization might fall victim to a nation's agenda anyone nations agenda there is no doubt about it. that is what we are resisting and we are mobilizing all a member states particularly the anon and i'm movement. almost without any in fact interruption have supported iran because of this principle as you mentioned we are warning that a couple of countries including the united states are trying to randy agency so that they can dictate from washington what to 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 has 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 we want expect all countries including russia and others and i'm very proud please that last meeting in fact russia and china ambassadors along with

a hundred countries of non and i movement all together questioned what had to happen in fact namely the least of confidential information that we need the mobilization of member states to prevent something happening in vienna which did you raise this agency from is a satchel that is what we need. just say.

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