street medio dog party dot com. well. it's technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future. security of war torn afghanistan will be in the local hands next year as a british and american leaders confirm the countdown meeting in washington. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities in iraq the conflict of up to the opposition calls on foreign forces to move in. and begin the legal immigrants

trapped in a vicious circle may as a search for work in washington. well news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. plans that the exits afghanistan are taking shape with the british and american leaders confirming that foreign forces will have their security next year there was new a strategy shift announced at that meeting in washington but a gradual move towards an advisory role for combat troops leave in twenty fourteen rustication is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to afghanistan his artie's going to count. president obama was talking about pulling out responsibly within the next two years so no change of plans there the british prime minister basically echoed what the

u.s. president said the two main contributors to the war in afghanistan are coordinating a timetable for withdrawal it becomes increasingly clear that this is turning into a face saving operation for the leaders especially in the wake of the tragedy that happened over the weekend when a u.s. soldier apparently murdered sixteen innocent afghans in cold blood including women and children nonetheless prime minister cameron and president obama were talking about real progress in afghanistan but it doesn't quite look like the right time for the leaders to pat each other on the back really and celebrate success when so much speaks to the contrary insurgency in afghanistan is rampant afghans clearly want the allied forces out incidents like the latest murder of innocent civilians are used by all kinds of extremists to recruit even more people to their ranks opium poppy and herion production in afghanistan has increased dramatically in the last ten years of the war as far as other crucial international issues the u.s. and the u.k. have been pretty much on the same page on everything on syria both want to see

regime change as prime minister cameron put it not through revolution but through transition both leaders the military intervention. undesirable and both say they're looking to work with russia to bring about a peaceful outcome on the red president obama said the window for a diplomatic solution is shrinking but most experts agree a war will not solve the problems but will create a million you want over a couple of david cameron have been stressing their country's special relationship throughout the visits with other state dinners in their trip to busk it will be a british investigative journalist and the worthington believes the both are hiding clinton secrets about. i think it's strange really i mean you know ever since nine eleven and the war on terror began first of all you know a labor prime minister cozying up with a republican president and now we've got a democratic president cozying out with a conservative prime minister it doesn't seem to make much difference maybe all it

demonstrates is how into change of all these people you can certainly there are you know pretty terrible reasons for obama and cameron to be close but it's you know they're both deeply involved in this. horrible wall that has gone on longer than any that anyone can remember. that should have ended long ago they're also you know they were the country's at least you know hand in hand shoulder to shoulder with each other in countering terrorism and their development in torture and rendition in the darkest days of the war on terror ministration has not wanted to open up about what took place in those years only cameron administration here having initially appeared to favor transparency is now clouded up as well as war on terror is just one of the reasons the west says he gets involved in conflicts support the other is democracy but the us and its allies criticise other countries

their lack of freedom and human rights. as spain's. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice of scolding outsiders about the millers' of democracy iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the precinct suppression of human rights something called democracy is a big step backwards for democracy rule of law human rights these are all believe these must be respected by the egyptian authorities in russia we've seen crackdowns on civil society groups as western leaders wag their finger around the world. wouldn't the times include all force have been used to quell public protests at home. why have police handcuffs and iron

fists have repeatedly been used against unarmed demonstrators in greece spain and mind where thousands flood the streets to protest against austerity measures and unemployment they should focus on getting their own house in order and practice what they preach rather than nosing about seeing other countries and trying to you know grandstand on an international scale rather than deal with you know they are there are very serious democratic deficit as public anger continues to be inflamed u.k. officials made by public fire with a rush of water cannons which senior startling yard officials are reportedly trying to get hold of along with taser stun guns in tear gas to break up a really or unwanted crowd on the other side of the atlantic uprisings against economic inequality and corporate greed have left countless occupy wall street activists covered in blood temporarily blinded. and behind bars

the movement is currently planning to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators to the upcoming g eight and nato summit in may. but this week the u.s. military is unveiling its latest non-lethal weapon to members of the press. if you don't like opening up an open door almost next to me. from about my sternum to my neck the new active denial system can repel crowds using an invisible electromagnetic beams that delivers a blast of intense heat up to one kilometers away without a sound a smell or even a warning the weapon promises to disperse crowds and reinforce security while the military weapon isn't currently intended to be used by police critics say ray guns like water cannons could eventually be rolled out in the land of the free we are seeing an intensification of repression because people are challenging the system

and challenging it in europe are challenging it in the united states and it's easy for our leaders to point the finger somewhere else rather than take responsibility here in america to anything differently lecturing others our democracy and human rights has become a branch of western foreign policy i discoursed that claims to be based on the highest of standards but as recent years has shown it's a lot easier to scold others when everything is i. may say protesters in. more injured students in europe might suggest that their leaders to what homework before i had something to be a teacher of democracy. artsy new york. still to come on the program the e.u. might be forced to dance to china's chuen if it wants to see the cash brussels in beijing prepared to trade political and economic concessions. i don't think china's

debt eight hundred also. this spoon so it's so much more than just a simple stove is the thing i hold dearest. people the men who marvel at metal work truck old russian region where minerals are hot stuff. syrian government forces are gaining ground in several flashpoint city is a year after the conflict in the country the opposition which runs military intervention by her western states says recent only gains are unlikely to quell the revolt that's for a diplomatic solution and present settlers responded positively to its proposals put forward by the un arab league and right. and i'm committed immediate cease fire by both sides access corporate aid and the start of political dialogue and this is why that opposition leaders and some foreign governments are selling weapons to

support the rebels political analyst chris that marie says it shows that even the opposition or nato states it's on their minds. the opposition no senses they have support from the west from the gulf states and saudi arabia and aren't just going to call back although they themselves are quite for fragmented and or simply for the fragment of fragmentation we're already seeing arms coming in from so de from probably it's ok from the west the french the americans and i suspect the british as well i think if we move fighting and more death row is in this group of friends of syria met him they are there all these i said advisor has been a good sense of military advisors been sent to the free syrian army arms are coming coming in with saudi arabia has been involved in stalking out sectarian tensions itself there is a western intervention in my opinion already underway into the civil war in syria where president obama has warned about the window for talks to solve the iran is

unclear just into shrinking a new round of negotiations over tehran's nuclear ambitions in the pipeline despite the threat of a strike by israel i think to me here where his approach towards iran changed from offering dialogue in the early days of his presidency to the confrontation we're seeing today. it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine about diplomacy and wanted to pursue it but also knew that he had a very limited political space and political time to do so and that political space was very quickly eaten away by several different fact through some of them he had no control over there was pressure from israel it was pressure from congress there was pressure from saudi arabia even some of the europeans were very concerned about the extent of the diplomacy that obama was willing to engage in by the time he managed to get everyone to the table in october two thousand and nine. the policy

according to one senior obama administration official brains had become a gamble on a single roll of the it either had to work right away or not it was a bomb a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington that diplomacy could yield something by the time he got the tape ten months of his presidency has passed and he needed a quick break through he didn't get it and as a result four weeks later it was an instruction essentially abandons diplomacy and enters the sanctions track. and they can catch the full interview with it trita parsi a little later this hour. be a search for a better life is the draw for thousands of illegal immigrants who come to the u.k. but many are left subjected to think orating poverty and they live. with other better reports suddenly the promised land is now

a point of. it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground a squalor plain to see harder to spot the signs of life this is what forty illegal immigrants call home under a motorway bridge in london's outskirts penniless and without sanitation the place is infested with drugs disease and destitution many risk their entire family's fortune to get here dreaming of the riches that await instead they found a nightmare they probably are looking for a better life they've been told in fact they've been sold the fact that if you come to the u.k. . it's like the streets are going to be paved with gold this man paid traffickers in india over fifteen thousand dollars to smuggle him to britain in the back of a lorry like most he destroyed his passport when he got here to make people take in more difficult but it means he now can't escape even though he wants to but he was

promised he'd find plenty of work money and accommodation but he's now trapped in poverty worse than he left behind oh i have a large job and think. it's. very all it where do you sleep we only have a look at all it's been in the intervening years when we've no official identity and then like locked in a stuck in a bureaucratic no man's land britain won't deport them unless they can prove who they are and where they came from each case has to be dealt with individually and some can be complex with many not having to travel documents or not wishing to comply with the documentation process in the cases of indian nationals we continue to work with the high commission to speed up the time it takes to return them to their home country. nearly thirteen thousand illegal immigrants left the u.k.

voluntarily last year a quadruple in numbers over just six years such is the desperation to leave this car park east to be a busy pickup spot for manual labor but now there's nothing this is where the men wait looking for work every morning hoping to be picked up and paid for a day's labor today though like most days they wait isn't this before the downturn was earning up to three hundred pounds a week now he's lucky to get fifteen pounds a day doing jobs he never thought he'd steeped in all the guys who are in india all thinking about you know in england you know. running through much money but no beard or no what happened here because the reality reality is there. as we didn't you know do in india you know we. really are from a good family the men are expected to send money back to their families in india no

wonder most were reluctant to appear on camera after bennett. london. well you can find more stories and analysis on our web site at r.t. dot com here's what's being covered for you online right now something to cheer the occupy wall street protest is the talk of goldman sachs executive quits in disgust remember right less toxic on this. planet the same tricks to begin scribbling his week off a politician to take. some more world news for you a fragile truce between israel and the palestinian militants has been shaken by more exchange of fire israeli armed forces said a rocket was fired into southern israel responded historical guns are no casualties are being reported on either side least twenty six palestinians are all killed in the worst plot it's not yet quite israel killing

a high ranking honestly militant. here friends have attended a service to remember the victims of a bus crash in switzerland that killed twenty eight people most of them children because it was packed and students were returning to belgium from the skiing trip crush the tunnel of the taliban and also speeding the course now looking into what the drivers of the health are. brassens of illegal gold miners have probably police for control of a regional capital and from at least three people were killed by gunfire on it and thirty others injured the man is trying to seize public buildings including the local airport the resisting government efforts to regulate small scale gold extra action official ses destroyed by forest. china is in need of urgent political and economic reforms if it doesn't want to plunge into chaos according to the country's prime minister. facing

a battle at the world trade organization as washington and the e.u. challenge its strictures on exporting minerals used to meet high and tronics conflicts could hurt the prospects of debt help from china. reports with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt limit and europe came knocking on its store from the chinese side of the leaders always say ok there we. go there we can reach full power so actually you can see that's kind of a thank you. it's not good not putting in practice may be some kind of a deal from a well it's not even a maybe but china's clout is clearly on the rise and so is its confidence this time around china has no qualms letting the e.u. know that it is well aware of its truck card and that any help will come at

a price top of its list of demands. gaining the status of a full fledged market economy and lifting the one nine hundred eighty nine ban on its purchase of military weapons from the e.u. . but for the first time china has openly used that spittle cash card to lash out at the e.u. for a recent anti subsidy an anti dumping investigations into imports of chinese made steel products precisely because the chinese know that there is a danger of some forms of protectionism what they want to do is have companies and bases in europe factories manufacturing products or screwdriver companies in europe so that a lot of their products will be labeled made in germany made in france made in greece and so on so they will not be considered the implications from china and the plans already in action just last month the first chinese automobile assembly plant opened in bulgaria aiming to produce fifty thousand vehicles are here for the whole

european continent raising more fears of china's far reaching influence it does would wreak emerging superpower as. it is do you know. plays its cards where they can but your hasn't thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes and as the country's second biggest trade partner the fall of one is the fall of both the e.u. also has its own demands for one backing on syria and iran part of the political game but international politics being played is very much related to the economy it's impractical for resources but behind the gates of cash rich china it's fighting its own battle trying to sell the idea to its people chinese internet forums were abuzz with annoyance at what they see as poor ordinary chinese paying

for rich europeans so that's why they try to prime minister when talbott mr winter and i try to persuade people and people and. colleagues in the government. thing that. helping the european union is also helping ourselves not all the chinese are convinced but if business must go on and one local commentator wrote don't hand over a dime without asking for the world in return that's our cilia r.t. brussels but some adventurous exploration next as we take you to another corner of the largest country in the world in russia close up. and today we travel more than fifteen hundred kilometers east of moscow the city of

katherine work itself out of the rolls that divides in europe and asia but it's those the new rich and mountainous the creeks to regional hub of metal that fracture. their calls its intervention and suppression system battles that. russia's ural mountains have a long history when it comes to metals and mining for centuries they provided the rule materials but it allowed russian industry to grow and now they're trying to adapt and the steel mills in industries around the mining are trying to adapt to modern conditions and a modern steel industry it's those things that i'd be examining in our ports. and metal surroundings of blacksmiths for thousands of years and over alexander lucic cove and his forge and russia's mountainous euro region for the past thirty he's now as much a part of this world as the hammers of songs from c.i. and work and fence posts but he still remembers the very first thing he made. this

spoon serves its so much more than just a simple food is the thing i hold dearest. with us alexander is content hammering one piece at a time the urals also contained skelton operations on a truly industrial scale this plant turns thousands of tons of molten steel into thousands of kilometers of oil and gas piping this isn't about crofton scale anymore sangean is here it's about science and needs detailed education. technical specialists here anything pewter unmask eels to work this increasingly complex machines sadly the russian education system isn't turning out skilled enough people so we have to train them up here by. these vast pools of the direct descendants of the first fortunes euro's dating back to the eighteenth century metal working in

all its forms of still widespread region the furnace is here poor out three thousand tons of molten steel a day it's one of the around a dozen such fun scattered across the urals but for steel you have to heat it up to one thousand six hundred degrees to get to globe like this with all the holes gold the stuff that's made while it's fat guys greedy since time immemorial these men smelt it into its iconic gold bullion form but they say to them it's just another metal. if people want this and you know if you think too much about the price you can put out a decent product we don't actually value it cost highly it's a huge responsibility to look up to its. gold smelting is about the most carefully humble metal operation there is. not to knock out xander of course and his enduring passion for his age old lot of passion he ses is just as present in all natural

work as. no matter how nonchalant his contemporaries see. these lines. of course they feel something working with gold and all the wonderful metals they're just not of getting to themselves. whether in a small or vast complex metalworkers we're following in the footsteps of many pioneers trained and at least according to all it sound they all share the spirit of his message. from boston. all time to check what's happening in the world of business that has the latest update for us now and it's russian that's right well the biggest news of the day is not that much new ukraine wants to buy gas from germany if russia fails to offer it is significant discount russia's ukraine's gas supplier and has been refusing to cut price in its long term

contracts in korean prime minister because our fund once they said buying gas from germany's r w e may help ukraine save some money but that's precisely doubt this plan is going to work they say if it happened the volumes of such supplies would be very low certainly not enough to key have to stop buying from russia not to mention that ukraine's transportation network is designed to pump gas in the opposite direction from russia to europe and now staying with gas looks like russia will be able to use the full capacity of the north stream pipeline its newest route to europe the e.u. regulators say pipelines that link the one stream with europe's gas infrastructure have to reserve up to half of their capacities for other suppliers now who those of us suppliers y.b. is still unclear but analysts say the decision is their reaction to russia charging a high price for its gas deliver to europe but russia says it's the oil price that serves as the basis for its gas price formula and now moving on to the oil. i says

it's very choppy trading for oil today and it's actually mixed to the sour as you can see there on the wednesday's some data show that u.s. crude stockpiles were actually on the rise for a wost week and that put some pressure on the price of oil but on the other hand iran's production has dropped to the lowest level in about ten years as the sanctions over iran's nuclear program heard an industry that's already been suffering from underinvestment so we'll see how the situation develops we'll keep you posted on what's happening with the price of oil throughout the day and let's now take a look at the equity markets and in asia they are mixed to was actually beat thanks to a weaker yen that's supporting exporters and in hong kong behind sang's actually shedding value this hour and now and you currencies the euro's slightly lower against the dollar and the russian ruble is trading

a little more against both agreed back and the euro and now on to the russian equity markets they started trading less than twenty minutes ago and they are sharply in the red as you can see there the r.t.s. is already shedding more than one percent in the first hour of trade now yes month russia could see its biggest privatization deal of the year better mr daley says the country's top lender bank will offer more than seven and a half percent of its shares to the public in april the deal is expected to raise more than four hundred twenty million dollars and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back at all fifty minutes i'll see that.

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