syria's under pressure president vows to fight foreign terror and keep up reforms but r.t.d. travels to an ancient city where support for the regime is underway for despite the nationwide protests. global powers agreed on new talks with iran over its nuclear program after terror on says inspectors are welcome to visit its military sites but israel's threat of a strike still stands. and despite the overwhelming support of russians routines are coming return to the kremlin is raising some western politicians as the case of former top diplomat calls him a dictator tabloid press. and

online twenty four seven you're watching r.t. the syrian the president has pledged to continue fighting what he calls foreign backed terrorism in the country russia says the people will be able to build a new syria through reforms it was his latest response to international pressure to end the year long crackdown against an uprising. is in syria they are mostly though my god money you know away from the battles in this long running conflict time feels like it has almost stopped me even the children here speak in ancient almost the cold language. now. here is a unique place it's well known in the world has the only place on earth where people speak out to me the language of jesus christ it has troubled neighbors. but

not of you and your brood a friend of smuggler here in syria is this twenty minutes away home a hundred kilometers away but this place is one of few in the country that has not been any trouble a while and since the uprising began home to end of the strine and fall century catholic church and dozens of mosques these towers religious heritage the soul it is residence lettuces keepers have a specific explanation of this lark. saying just this tragedy didn't come to us because god loves the city but it seems that god is not the only one to watch carefully but his christian dominated community mostly use the area in home still we feel sad because the people you don't speak their cover me alone we are free the people will come here to try to disturb us and destroy our peaceful life as they did in the homes of many cities but we trust the army and security and state for decades the government of president bashar assad who is himself from the

shia islam minority allawi sect has protected the interests of ten percent of the country's population who are christians by enforcing it strictly secular program and by curbing the influence of radical east side of the we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were afraid people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy this unity assad became more than just the head of state he is a kind of international symbol of this fight for our lives. that. when the time came the people returned for good while the plagal the same circle and want to street says the people here didn't join the uprising not because they were scared of the regime but because they were scared to lose this regime so that all of that there were people here he wanted to push against the government the president the army if you hear. the army enter the city and kill people believe me this is

a mistake the army is here to protect people god bless our side we didn't want to protect this state and make it strong these mounds though these athletes who are not big enough put in prison calls for foreign intervention and the army of the opposition and no we'd fight would be tragic. our country before the crisis was developing now we are all losing jesus said any kingdom that splits will die fast these people are receiving money and listening to the orders for we want to rule in this country. now that the leaders of wars are recognized by the tiles in mom. i remember last april there were several men after friday prayers to try to persuade people to test it is the government encouraging them to go and make trouble we had a meeting with residents and the people then agreed to support the leadership the mom says they've never seen most of those people before and never saw them again after that friday. but we're not talking about normal people but people with an

extremist way of thinking. in the towns charge the children continue to pray in aramaic arabic greek french but it's clear the prayers of the people of this unique town are understood in any language. or syria. or present a bomb has dismissed or calls from some senior lawmakers to start bombing syria he said the conflict is more complicated than libya and that diplomacy is the solution the u.n. security council is debating a new draft resolution proposed by the u.s. and the chicken is in washington for us. with regards to syria president obama said we can't resolve every issue by deploying the military we have to look at the consequences there was a suggestion from senator mccain that made it russians that the u.s. should launch an attack on syria no matter what the u.n. security council faced about it president obama's response basically was that such

talk comes from people who don't consider the consequences the president said a unilateral action against syria would be a mistake and that the situation in syria is no complicated thing when it was in libya in the meantime violent violence there continues russia and china call for both the government and the armed opposition groups to cease fire and start a dialogue washington so far has been addressing their cease fire calls to alone but that may change we're getting reports that a new draft u.n. security council resolution may be put forward by the u.s. that would address calls first to the syrian government and then to the armed opposition groups the resolution is being discussed behind closed doors as of now it's very much unclear whether the wording of the new draft will satisfy china and russia which push for a more balanced approach for that reason they vetoed the previous syria resolution because it lacked that balanced approach. lawrence freeman from the intelligence

review magazine says despite the presence of all his diplomatic words it's too early to think the threats are for intervention in syria this passed. well right now the only thing that's kept us out of a war with syria has been essentially the us military and intelligence community have completely a cold any kind of military action so obama himself is really not completely in charge and offensively manipulated around him which could lead him to take a very dangerous action but so far the u.s. military has prevented from occurring the situation inside syria has been there many outside forces including al qaeda including forces from libya there we supported including forces from iraq have moved in and the power to try to force a regime change in syria and to get the force the russians the big killer to

submit to that and if the russians don't submit to that then you can have a confrontation but there's no wielding kanchan why the obama administration or the west for a constructive policy. tribal leaders in eastern libya have declared this semi autonomy for an area stretching between the city of gyptian border and country's national transitional council described it as a dangerous move that could break up the nation security expert and saying in the news the n.c.c. and nato have effectively split the country. it's a real threat for the future a leader but i would say it's of craddock's you know because from the beginning and the end of the transition less from can see when you screw up done everything to create such a breakout between the western and eastern libya and of course the mean by nato and as well as by our country from the cold there are already so it's not

a surprise for us and nato are only sexy to create chaos in libya and maybe of each will be not able to do the same in syria but the problem is nato as be able to do the same to take the power in tripoli that nato is absolutely unable to solve that to the situation and they are responsible as well of the libyan and their lives of about all the turmoil in the libya as well in the rest of the south i'm talking in particular and the problem you know. well coming up later in the program we explore why america's involvement in many wars abroad is merely. axis of evil things that sound somewhat describing the three u.s. senators pushing strongest for military interventions that story coming your way in a few minutes. and the people's choice or dictator cold

war rhetoric is back in britain as a former foreign minister russia's president elect. and sunday tabloid. world powers have agreed to a new round of talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program. only a green light from the country to allow inspectors to visit a secret military complex the move comes amid fresh speculation of a preemptive military strike by israel against iran's missiles that israel and the u.s. suspect around like a nuclear weapons but islamic republic says its program is purely peaceful political analyst believes that inspectors have become politicized in the following washington's lead. the i.a.e.a. i.a.e.a. has made a great deal in its november two thousand and eleven report about the alleged existence of a bomb containment chamber a cylinder that they were told by an unnamed member state which i am quite

confident it was israel exists or did exist at some time. at the parchin military base. it was constructed supposedly in two thousand but the fact is that the i.a.e.a. has no confirming evidence physical evidence of any kind that this containment chamber even exists let alone that it was ever used to test a nuclear weapons design so if in fact they go to parchin and find there's nothing there as i'm quite certain will be the case how will the i.a.e.a. respond to the situation i have a feeling that they will move on to the next piece of alleged evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program or a previous one and that the show will continue and the reason i say that is because for many years now since two thousand and six the i.a.e.a. has been committed to a line

a political line if you will that assumes that the iranians have to prove a negative but the iranians have to prove that they're innocent of these suspicions that they have a covert nuclear weapons program i don't think that's going to end anytime soon because that is in fact the official position of the united states and the western alliance. but once it's clear out of the searing his piece on the situation in iran . but it will for many who tend to the kremlin in may fourth a ten to almost sixty four percent of russians chose him to become the next president some western politicians however didn't support that decision even before the first. polling station u.k.'s former foreign minister javad called pretty ruthless dictator saying you were lost his next time in power what he's i've been reports. a ruthless dictator who's days are numbered not exactly the language of

international diplomacy but that's what britain's former foreign secretary thinks of russia's president elect casting his aspersions even before russians cast their vote while david miliband is using these sort of expressions dictatorship they don't conform to reality in a dictatorship people are not allowed to protest people are not allowed to walk around publicly with placards in the face of the leader of the country with the rocketry terms written across the park cause we've seen this in russia we saw this last december after the parliament parliamentary elections and we've seen this was in this at the moment after sunday's presidential elections david miliband comments appeared in a british tabloid the morning of russia's presidential poll long before it finished the m.p. accusing putin of reversing russia's reforms because of vested interests and sort of claim some experts say typifies the perception here of putin and russia one of the big criticisms i've had for

a long time is that the coverage has been very scary type to say that when bad things happen in russia then they get huge coverage and then when as it were good things or progress like economic progress that tends not to get reported david miliband may not be in government now but he's widely expected to feature again should labor return to power should that happen he'll face a tough job repairing relations with russia after such a venomous attack talk about getting off on the wrong foot as miliband asserts that to a vital partners when it comes to foreign policy security and economic issues david cameron's reaction to putin's elections been far more may. until now the prime ministers haven't exactly been close didn't even make it on to cameron's extensive christmas card list last year but while cameron may not have congratulated person on winning he has into office the result it's clear the election has delivered

a decisive result evenly and your polling data put putin up of the fifty percent needed to win in the first round the same can't be said of britain according to the electoral reform society two thirds of m.p.'s elected in two thousand and ten lacked a clear majority thanks to the ballot method of first past the post is russia's electoral system perfect no it's not but there's no electoral system in the world is perfect let's not forget in britain no british prime minister ever achieves anywhere near fifty percent of the votes if you have a look at market fractures nights and it's a free landslide election victory tony blair's nine hundred ninety seven landslide election victory but have never got anywhere near fifty percent of the votes the protest movement against putin's return to the presidency is certainly loud but according to official election results it's towards by those in favor pollution received almost sixty four percent of the vote miliband predicts that support won't

last for long but while it does britain will have to like it or lump it if it wants to do business either bennett r.t. london. it's not just western politicians plenty in russia were also dissatisfied out of sunday's election well thousands take to streets claiming the vote was rigged present electoral. actions and a thorough investigation report on what. brawling on a live t.v. show watch our member of a well known and well meaning campaign group took out in frustration on the ukrainian pay. roll you. there's going to serious blow to the international hacking group a new sec after all of its key members were allegedly turned in by their own boss and supported the troops and either has been working for the f.b.i. to months his former colleagues have been charged with cyber crimes or awaiting

trial in new york for his most famous for its support of wiki leaks its attack on websites belonging to the cia what's names and credit card companies are governments can't wait to get their hands on what they call online offenders in case pirate party says that your forces are following the interests of corporations . one of the one of the things that's really interesting is that we're seeing how the free web is in fact pushing growth for artists but we're seeing that the growth in music sales is being pushed by digital it's being pushed by is free and open and functioning whatever now what we have to realize is that it's copyrights the kind of law that it's made from the tiny difference set of circumstances it's really not that controversial to say that it is no longer fit for purpose in the digital age one of the things that's really interesting is that the end industry body is very

narrow group of lobbyists has made its nice trick of saying that they represent artists really they represent no one else other than their own narrow interests and actually trying to preserve business models that are frankly out of date. and you can watch the full interview with anita of the u.k. our party lost in an hour's time here. there are five police officers have been killed in a suicide bombing at a police checkpoint in russia's republic of dagestan a female bomber detonated her explosives when she was prevented from entering the station at least two officers were also injured in the attack in a separate incident in the turn of these two gunmen opened fire on a police station killing one officer and a local resident russia's north caucasus region suffers regular attacks from its most intense. for some of the world's main news stories now in brief.

french president nicolas sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in his country benefits plan to cut the number of your rivals are off if he's reelected next month because the also believes attempts at integrating people to process coltrane society have become paralyzed is often a controversial comments on immigration minorities say they are being used to swing conservative support the presidential campaign. lehmann brothers investment bank which collapsed in two thousand and eight says it has emerged from bankruptcy the company will start giving about sixty five billion dollars to its creditors and investors next not payments bankruptcy was widely seen as on key moments of financial crisis and banking floyd thousands of people once the fourth largest investment bank in us. i suppose closed in ten states on

super tuesday america supports a split for the republican candidates vying for the presidency mitt romney scored early victories and was leading in a crucial. high a washington. decisive contest party's presidential candidate his rival rick santorum countered with strong wins in three states eventually when i will face barack obama will move. to the white house. well whoever takes the top job in the u.s. are free of action will inherit a number of foreign wars paid for by the defense budget pressure on iran is also agree with what will make or even calling for a strike that ati's christine for zone looks at three u.s. senators have never backed down from a fight. they stick together through thick and thin from the queensland to the holy land from the ball field to the battlefield they are senators joseph lieberman

lindsey graham and john mccain seen frequently side by side both physically and politically to call for more war a song almost on repeat for them three have a better war that they don't like they lead the charge to afghanistan we need more troops there are american troops tax by the enemy have gone up about a thousand percent in the words of one time is not on our side and they've been called everything from the three amigos the three blind mice and the axis of error by the website downsize d.c. org based in to work together as a blocker kind of an axis and bold in foreign policy kind of her getting back to that old axis of evil we heard about that foreign policy is not just limited to bush's wars what here they are meeting with libyan president moammar gadhafi in august of two thousand and nine at a time when it was in the u.s. interests to call him friend mccain later tweeted this calling him interesting but a year later wanted him gone if you want to go in one of the steps among many would

be to establish a no fly zone over the world stand by. a leader like production slaughters on people an ongoing target for them iran if we use military action against iran we should not only go after their nuclear facilities we should just store their ability to make an additional war they should have no planes that can fly and no ships they can float we can point the gun we haven't pulled a single trigger yet and it's about time that we did the two years on that lack of the media and military action hasn't resulted in armageddon anything like it so the calls for action expand now across the globe the iranian nuclear program is a threat to the entire world foreign military intervention. is now the necessary factor to reinforce this auction. needs to know that he will not win and now we find ourselves in virtually the same identical to your later syria

what's going on in syria what's happening oh should we respond to it and once again i mean almost every response these guys come and say well we've got to go to war the mood of the american people may have shifted to ending the wars but the perpetual lobby for war does have its supporters they're very popular with the military industrial complex which sees every new adventure every new invasion every new occupation every new major bombing campaign as an investment but it's an investment fewer and fewer americans are willing to make as they've already lived through the consequences of the previous military adventures in fact critics say those who continue to follow senators mccain lieberman and graham are blind themselves they may hear the drumbeat for war but they fail to see the bigger picture the very real possibility of pitfalls ahead in washington christine for our team. to a check in with a business career is there for us so what's the latest with greece's economic

troubles or carry out a gram and other critical point for the country and that's because the banks ensures and that's not funds must the side by thursday if they want to cancel half of their debts and basically under the terms of the deal with secure them that second bailout and so they need to decide if they want to exchange a thought of two hundred and six billion euros in bones for needs that which has long overpayment that lines as well as a lower interest rates now six of the country's largest banks have already agreed to this but greece the only more creditors to sign up for that line and without this that it won't get one hundred thirty billion euros in bailout loans from the indian. and the i.m.f. and probably the fall later this month russia's biggest financial institutions burbank says it knows how to overcome that crisis in greece and the banks experts say more cash and writing off parts of the countries that will simply not be enough

. i think that we are on here in greece and some point. from yours because. we owe it all for all the structural problems which greece has although of course it's. big problems i mean should turn. eventually in greece will get a little bit crazy as first greece may consider the. proverbial. while a second look at what's happening with international markets will start with the currencies the euro is adding a little bit of value against the dollar and that's despite the additional concerns in the euro zone after greece's surprise back in the headlines and then the ruble is couldn't thing you know with its losses both against the euro and the greenback but we'll give you the latest figures on that once the russian markets open but let's move on to the u.s. markets there are of course close that for

a moment on tuesday the end of the trading session in the red in fact wall street suffered its worst losses in almost a year and that's almost three months i should say the dow fell about one point six percent and the drop was its worst since november and this came as european markets suffered their wars in almost three months now let's move on to asia as sea of red across the board is of course influence of investors there as well after all the negative news we're receiving so we see markets tumbling there as well and in fact listen goldman. goldman sachs also lost an angel for the first sun since two thousand and eight and that's after the company's asian division posted the loss of one hundred three million dollars in two thousand and seven last compared with a prof that it's zero point one billion dollars and so some interesting facts out there let's move on to russia it's now an hour and head of the opening bell and she was there again like pretty much most of the other markets there the traders

session in there i thought it was a man. sure all factors there we have these protests follow the presidential elections what's happening in the u.s. and europe as well as slower growth in china and finally we have oil crude prices are gaining after reports so they use gasoline and the dollar we can increase in the appeal as crude as and. now on to some of the news that we have turns out that tuesday's training session was a very costly for some people apparently the market plunge i thought cost one c.e.o. of the world's richest people over eleven billion dollars you know in other news brazil's economy grew two point seven percent last year and that has now made it this six biggest economy in the world knocking britain off its spots and just a reminder the top three are the united states china and japan and russia is currently at number five but prime minister putin did promise to make russia out one of the top five in the near future. and that's how business looks the south

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