now physician stronghold in the rest of syrian city of homs is back on a government control and humanitarian aid is on the way as a resident reveals to r.t. atrocities she claims on rebels. russia's prime minister putin says the rise in opposition activities has energized the government to respond to changing public mood but refuses to back new parliamentary elections if you win some these presidential polls. and a leader is prepared to seal a key fiscal path aimed at keeping member states deficits within the limits which critics say will cause nations to your sovereignty when it comes to washington policies.

which marty coming to live from moscow are seeing government forces have again control of the baba amr district in homes which has been the main center of armed resistance for almost a month rebels say they have retreated for tactical purposes but authorities seem confident they have broken the backbone of what they call terrorist operations are just riffing off the spoke to residents of the deceased city who gave an eyewitness account of what she said word frosties the rebels committed while in control. clashes continue in homes but we're hearing that one of the opposition's main strongholds here in syria is now under the governmental forces control also the rebels withdrew from the city after the army is offensive to cleanse the rebel held areas humanitarian situation on the ground is really very dramatic infrastructure is badly damaged no word to know the true city in the city garbage is everywhere no

mobile coverage and load line is also broken after many attempts we've finally been able to talk by phone with homes residents a woman who's identified herself as. the south complained of lucian are real bandits they can shoot in the back of the queue people rob one can be shot dead for no reason we're afraid to go into the country and our car can be started and we can who shot the kill both young and on the people from their homes and chop them to pieces and put them in plastic bags and then throw them out she's also the world retreating from. the area known as baba amr the rebels have moved to another area in the city have media and they've killed many many people there especially christians. i mean civilians are tired of syrians want peace and love. but the syrian soldiers who protect us are being killed every day we've heard the

mercenaries from france tunisia love and. we don't go anywhere and just see that these were freed of snipers people like. shortly after the rebels withdraw from the city the syrian main opposition group formed a military council to organize the armed resistance and to provide the rebels with more weapons if that shows just how deep the militarized the conflict has become recently here in the country while syria is vereen very close to civil war. international reporting there from syria meanwhile the syrian authorities have given that your national record their green light and heard the embattled city of homs on friday this calls a call from the u.n. security council to allow immediate humanitarian access to the worst affected areas also supported by russia and china but is marina part i has details from new york. it's been nearly seven months since we've seen any type of consensus coming out of the security council with respect to syria but that consensus is coming through the

form of a press statement issued by the security council with respect to humanitarian aid in syria we are seeing some consensus coming from the security council on humanitarian fronts not how to end this conflict is where un security council's remain divided the security council members remain divided russia has said and continues to say that there needs to be a cease fire in syria were both sides put their weapons down and begin to engage in a dialogue at that point was separately underscored by kofi i don't you envoy to syria a newly appointed envoy by the u.n. and the arab league so he of course saying the same thing russia has been saying for months now that both parties participating in the conflict in syria need to now begin engaging in some type of the negotiation we do see that the u.s. and western allies have been pushing for more of a regime change that is a push they need through two separate resolutions that were presented to the

security council and of course vetoed by russia and china because russia and china hold the position that the international community cannot just push out the governments that with respect to syria the syrians need to decide what will take place in their own sovereign country. of washington says it will keep up efforts to convince russia and china to put pressure on president assad and impose tougher sanctions against the syrian regime james editor of the japan based upon news and information website about reports it's not the developments within syria but international politics that will shape the country's future. as we see there is still a lot of wrangling going on at the international level in the u.n. security council and other united nations organizations and the friends of syria and all of these other international organizations that are putting various types of pressure on the syrian government and or the syrian opposition groups so it's absolutely up in the air at this point and it really depends on the extent to which

the international community really wants to continue pressing ahead with the ongoing admitted support for these supposedly opposition rebels that have supposedly spontaneously risen in syria but as we now know have been being funded and armed and trained and equipped by the international community for some time now certainly last month there were a number of multiple confirmed reports from various different news agencies confirming that iraqi officials were admitting that certain will a long established smuggling routes were being used through iraq to funnel arms money and even jihad needs to syria to take part in this uprising so once again whether or not the the opposition is able to regroup and see which once again take on their some other significance really depend on the extent of the aid that they're going to receive if the international community loses stomach for attempting to institute regime change in syria i think we'll see beyond the end of the year the opposition also to come here on r.t.s. or be able to step closer to joining the e.u.

some are not so excited when belgrade will suffer if it becomes a member of the bloc. russia's prime minister about a report in a setting rise in opposition of terror in the country has helped energize the authorities the premier and presidential candidate was speaking at a meeting with foreign media just three days ahead of the presidential vote put his relations with his opponents and russia sties with other countries also came under scrutiny oliver has the details but just a few days to go before that presidential vote the questions coming thick and fast for that to be of putin on the subject of authorization protests and political activism in. sure that we've seen a real spike in following the palm entry elections at the end of last year that any of putin said that well the authorities must listen to the legitimacy some of the legitimate grievances of these protesters and it's up to the authorities to act on . those that are legitimate grievances and and put them right saying that it was

a good experience for russia however mr putin did say that if he becomes president that he will call early parliamentary election enough had been something that the opposition protestors in russia had asked for well foreign policy a major issue going into the presidential election and in addressing the relationship between russia and the united states pacifically focusing on the reset as it was called in relations between the two countries now with regards to the united states has proposed anti missile defense shield in eastern europe but i mean putin really saying that reset had failed however he did go on to say that in other realms such as the economy that leaps and bounds had been made as regards to the relationship between washington and moscow when a country is under the impression that it's invincible twenty tell us and strike from another country it leads to a lot of conflicts some aggressive behavior and it's not just because america has

an aggressive country by definition but because this is the way life on account of anything about us and we think it's very dangerous. when it comes to foreign policy and foreign issues at the moment all eyes are really focused on syria to me of putin using this opportunity to say that he opposed any decision by the west that would see he would oppose any decision by the west that would see arms put into the hands of the syrian opposition saying that putting guns into their hands would really make it far more difficult to get the opposition and the assad government to a table to try and discuss. diplomatic and political solution to the situation in syria. and all of our reporting there and later today people of al and his guests will bring that polarizing attitudes towards whatever put it into closer focus in our debate show crossed out here's a preview. the average russian version is there such a person is relatively apathetic partly because they think there isn't much of

a real choice and secondly because they think the protein is going to win it will be organized if you are in support of the voters too so i think there's more even if he wins and even if we give even if he wins it's rigged i mean it seems to me that kind of argument caves in on itself erick if i can go to you i mean it's just hard for the outside world to understand that right i mean for this research popular. well this something very embarrassing for the journalists we've heard a lot in the western press about how putin was losing his popularity how the facebook protests in moscow in the demonstrations meant that the regime was on its way out and of course when the polls which i can't give any numbers on but the polls have certainly shown a very substantial rise and that mr putin is going to sweep to victory in the first round so i understand that he is unpopular with some of the foreign powers.

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now serbia is formally a candidate for membership the process decision falls three years of talks and concessions from belgrade including a major one according ties with casa which is recognized by almost all states canada c status is just the first step towards membership with years of negotiation still had but a voice and expert on serving history says it's only that the benefits from the accession process and the e.u. weeks is really going to give serbia anything but the mansour people everything is already lost a lot in small is pretty much been forced to surrender its claims and problems of course load it is currently speak only in people it is being forced to basically

subordinate its policy to brussels and to lesser extent washington and now i've heard that there is talk from brussels about the necessity for serbia to move through russia's most favored nation status we treat it means only just government supporters actually speak of do you miss me i don't think anybody in serbia honestly expects to approach the result by joining the e.u. especially after seeing rights and spain and greece the problem is nobody really cares. and none of the people in government really care because they don't really care what the people think. now the decision to grant serve even count as his status has come as a surprise on the first day of the brussels summit center stage however is the so-called fiscal pact which the leaders are due to sign later today are just as are silly reports on what's to come if brussels gets powers to police member states fiscal policies. it's good talked about for months claimed as a solution to europe's crisis fiscal compact car park the new fiscal rules by the

end of this today summit this fiscal stability compact will have been signed sealed and delivered this pact comes with tight budgetary rules that must be strictly adhered to face automatic sanctions member states must maintain a balanced budget or have a surplus keep a budget deficit of three percent or less and trying to balance a budget rule international legislation within one year preferred within the constitution it budgetary targets are not met the guilty nation could be brought to the european court of justice and be obliged to make penalty payments the reins of strict budgetary oversight will be in brussels hands now we've been europe in brussels we've got our first saw and it's a good start and he's going to police all the bridges all the member states and these member states will lose sovereignty in the field of budgetary policy now

is the population going to accept this. a population that's already been forced to accept one tough a sturdy measure after another good economy sniffles and if you are doing close to everywhere you go towards crisis everybody is no tackling problem because if we are cutting expenses everywhere then you crash we were in the boonies concerning nobody's interest but the point of this treaty is a continuation of liberal orthodoxy. so we are exactly going back to what we have been in the last fifteen years. in the us e.u. leaders see the budgetary discipline the school security pact is expected to bring as a step closer to solving the eurozone structural imbalances and help crisis hit countries ease their way out of their predicament but it's a one size fits all approach worried about the impact it could have on healthier economies you could lead to a huge solution by this so even those countries to see

a fiscal situation the. fiscal accounts each can depress economy. at a time when banks face problems and they do want to be one too and not a desirable scenario where the new buzzwords are growth and employment that's are still your archie brussels euro zone finance ministers have also gathered in brussels to discuss the one hundred thirty billion euro greek bailout but greece must wait and another week before the money starts to flow the file say will be given all the first tranche after athens reaches agreements with its private creditors next thursday as a nervous week lies ahead for greece idle for raj and p. and leader of the u.k. independence party says sacrifices being forced to make only drag the country deeper into trouble. but the idea that you take it economy like greece with fifty percent unemployment among its young people with an economy that is likely to

contract this year by a further seven percent and that what you do is you impose austerity without any stimulus whatsoever frankly is madness what works for germany doesn't work for greece in economic terms and in political terms you know just put yourself in the position of greek people the situation is desperate and getting worse by the day they see their own elected prime minister removed replaced by a puppet who is doing the bidding of brussels and people saying well if we can't vote to change our lives we will have to take to the streets to try and change our lives and i think perhaps you know seriously the economics are i suspect that it's the social side of this that may in the end bring the euro down. i'll go on to argue dot com to discover why was late for the evaders meeting in brussels. run a gauntlet of their throwing and spinning protesters the french president has

a tough day on the presidential campaign trail you can watch this video r.t. dot com. also a smuggled secret nasa revealed a computer containing the command code for the international space station has been stolen details are. a brief look now at other major news stories from around the world elections are being held for iran stew hundred ninety seat parliament as the first nationwide vote since the presidential poll in june two thousand and nine which sparked protests protests over alleged vote rigging and a crackdown on the elections are viewed as a battle between two conservative groups that have turned against each other after a recent dispute between president mahmoud ahmadinejad and supreme leader ayatollah

ali harman a. seven americans working for non-governmental organizations or n.g.o.s who left hip after the lifting of a travel ban imposed as part of a criminal case against nonprofit organizations dozens of the fan and sixteen of them u.s. citizens are accused of cooperating with foreign n.g.o.s and funding the rest that shake in the nation for over a year it comes to days after all judges involved in the case resigned citing uneasiness in how the prosecution was proceeding. agree factory worker who shot and wounded three people and two others hostage has surrendered to police the man had stormed of plastics factory shortly after being fired demanding his job back half the staff were dismissed amid a financial crisis that's been gripping greece. right and let's see what's happening in the world of business we're crossing out here and

rain of course we've been reporting on the e.u. summit in brussels and what's been achieved there so tell us more about what alice are saying about it or to say that there aren't so exactly happy some of them is a bit of an understatement and that's because they say that they're seeing these meetings happen over and over again but they don't really result in anything and actually we spoke to nick parsons from national australia bank and he says that this meeting by ben ministers in brussels will not be any different actually and no formal agenda is actually being published i think we're in danger of really getting some retreat over kill here the but because there are too many summits or quite simply too many of these meetings there is plenty of scope for disappointment when they don't actually an ounce or achieve anything but the markets themselves have become more tuned to this more might hopefully expect that any disappointment in price terms at least will be quite limited. and now let's take

a look at those markets in europe they just opened and as we can see they are pretty much of a large spot in positive territory but have a better picture next hour let's move on to the exchange rates the euro and straighter lower against the dollar and that's following concerns about what will happen in the euro zone when it comes to the ruble it's a nuisance a little bit i guess the greenback but again then against the euro and if you move on to asia shares there i see more of a growth in japan exporters are benefiting from a weaker yen but as the office a picture with models that which is losing all over it see percent financials on the rise in hong kong and that's because it's generally been a good day for banks across the board the blue move on to the u.s. markets there are plows out on thursday they finished on the high and that was because of higher oil futures as well as positive jobs they were going to go well so let's move on and see what's happening there prices are coming down from a forty three month high and now some reports that there was an explosion in which

the steroid oil pipelines in saudi arabia the country has since this mess those reports say that they were false but since we got on the topic high oil prices are good for the russian economy but not necessarily for the u.k. or its manufacturing sector which contracted by almost one percent in the last quarter of two thousand and eleven and experts say that if they continue seemed rising costs and weaker demand it will make sustaining out for growth and job creation quite difficult and oil prices are said to be rising at the fastest rates and nineteen years. but a slightly different picture in switzerland where the economy showed signs of growth during the same period it would be p. grew by zero point one percent in the final quarter of two thousand and eleven and that was fueled by exports and that happened despite this florence whispering. i'm going to check out what's happening on the revulsion markets both the arts us and them i said so i got in around half a percent let's take

a look at some individual share moves on my six we see the russian telecoms off greater valse that's hallock home is among the top performers and that's after announcing an acquisition that it made you also have brought in after which is gaining and that's after the company's net profit rose to almost eleven billion dollars last year and we have some news from c b which is also gaining the bank has approved the buyback i played initial i.p.o. price which is why it's as much as the current price then moving on in some of the russian related news that innovative startups will soon have an easier way to get financial supports the russian venture company the arts yes my six boys and my take from most non-o. are setting up a joint venture to trade shares of our listed companies and analysts say it will become a business and the beta for promise and firms willing to list on the russian markets . and also the deadline is now over for those interested in getting a piece of moscow's then why did the airports and as it turns out only one company

wants to buy it and that is russia investment holding. the owners of them i did a lot are looking to get over five billion dollars for the airport but no one seems to be willing to dish out that much money at the moment. and that's what we have for you this hour we'll have another update in about fifty five minutes feel free to check out our website for more stories that's artsy dot com slash business and you stay tuned for the headlines with marina. before.

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as much a vote for president archie looks at the five running for the kremlin top jobs picture and it. says jimmy rolled off a fair russian on the record the former senate speaker was a strong supporter of loving your position for ten years but in two thousand and eleven called putin's united russia the party of crooks and thieves plan for presidency free education and health care progress of tax collections to replace government appointments controversy previously described himself as a pro kremlin candidate ready to run for the presidency the role of. for opposing russia's accession to the w t of presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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