the security of war torn afghanistan will be in local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm the countdown that they're meeting in washington. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities a year after the conflict erupted the opposition calls on foreign forces to move in . and the illegal immigrants trapped in a vicious circle in the u.k. as a search for work. and in the business bulletin the russian equity markets opened sharply in the red find out which some managing

a downward trend right. around the world around the clock says r t welcome to the program well plans to exit afghanistan are taking shape with the british and american leaders confirming that foreign forces under the security next year it was a new strategy shift announced at their meeting in washington but a gradual move towards an advisory role before combat troops leave in twenty fourteen investigation is also pending into a possible assassination attempts against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to afghanistan. 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 it is this is turning into a face saving operation for the leaders especially in the wake of the tragedy that happened over the weekend when u.s. soldier apparently murdered sixteen innocents 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 herin 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 new one. with a so-called war on terror is just one of the reasons the west says it gets involved in conflicts uproot the other is bringing democracy but it's the u.s. and its allies criticize other countries that have that freedom and human rights the thirty to go to spots is closer to home and experience. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar. outsiders about that your words of democracy iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the creasing suppression of

human rights to my pursuit there is a big step backwards for democracy rule of law human rights these are all values and we 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 time include of course have been used to public protests at home. why is police handcuffs and iron fists have repeatedly been used against unarmed demonstrators in greece spain and london 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 you know 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 me fight fire with a barrage of water can which senior scotland yard officials are reportedly trying to get hold up along with taser stun guns and tear gas to break up a really 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. it felt like opening up a door almost. from about my sternum to. the new

active denial system can repel crowds using an invisible electromagnetic beam 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're seeing an intensification of repression because people are challenging the system a challenging year in europe a challenge to get in the united states and it's easy for our readers the point the finger somewhere else rather to take responsibility here in america do anything differently lecturing others on democracy and human rights has become a branch of the press turned foreign policy i discoursed that claims to be based on

the highest of standards but as recent years i've shown it's a lot easier to scold others when everything is i. may say protesters in all or injured students in europe might suggest that their leaders do a homework before attempting to be a teacher of democracy or not artsy new york. come the program the e.u. might be forced to dance to china's chin if it wants to see the cash russel's in beijing the president of the school economic concessions it's a tough hearing china's debt a one driver also. these screw ups it's so much more the job. the simple still is the thing i called for to do. this day to manage him metalwork he traveled to the russian region where minerals are hot stuff.

syrian government forces are gaining ground in several flashpoint cities a year after the conflict escalated in the country your position which once upon a tree intervention by western states says recent army gains only likely to quell the revolt is for a diplomatic solution isn't also respond positively to these proposals put forward by the end of the lake. they include an immediate cease fire by both sides access for humanitarian aid and the start of political dialogue despite that opposition leaders admit that some foreign governments are sending weapons to support the rebels political analyst chris bambery says it shows that neither the opposition or the tail states peace on their minds the opposition no fences they have support from the west from the gulf states and saudi arabia and aren't just going to go back although they themselves are quite for fragmented and that's usually called a fragment of fragmentation we're already seeing on coming in from so day from

probably told from the west the french the americans and i suspect the british as well i think. they're throwing it in this group of friends of syria met in. there all these i said advise those be no. military advisers being sent to the free syrian army arms are coming coming in saudi arabia has been involved in stoking up sectarian tensions itself there is a western intervention in my opinion already underway into the civil war in syria. well twelve months into their own arrest in syria we're asking you who's actually behind it it's not a dot com well so far the majority of you think it's hungry elites most third world support to get their hands on the region just reporting from france the agenda in media outlets are fueling the violence just six percent say it is only the syrian people and government says the key players in the conflict rather voice

now for. president obama has warmed up their window for talks to solve iran's nuclear dispute is shrinking and the rather negotiations over to ron's nuclear ambitions is in the quite large despite the threat of a strike by israel right away by his approach towards iran change from offering dialogue in the early days of his presidency the confrontation we're seeing today. it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine about it well mostly and wanted to pursue it but i also knew that he had very limited political space and political time to do so and that political space was very quick weary eaten away by several different factors 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 the rains have become a gamble on a single dollar because it either had to work right away or not at all a bargain it is a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington but that promise he could yield something by the time he got to the table ten months of his presidency has passed and he needed a quick victory he didn't get it and as a result four weeks later the obama administration essentially abandons the promises and enters the sanctions track. but you can catch the full interview with a trade policy in just over an hour's time. now the search for a better life is the draw for thousands of illegal immigrants who arrive in the

u.k. many are left are subjected to more degrading poverty than they left behind in this either bennett reports some of the promised land is not a point of no return. it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground and squalor plain to see how 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 that they 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 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 i think the law. is. for all that where do you sleep. only have a look at all it's been in the in. with no official identity and then light 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 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 call drew pulling in numbers over just six years such is the desperation to leave this car park used to be busy pick up spot for manual labor but now there's nothing this is where the man waits looking for work every morning hoping to be picked up and paid for a day's labor today though like most days there waits 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 stoop to all the guys who are in india all thinking about you know ringing learned you know money's gone. really through much more you got to build your know what happened here because the reality reality is

there. as we didn't you know do in india you know we. 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 either bennett. london. you can find more stories that are analysis on our web site at r.t. dot com here's what's being covered for you on line right now something to cheer the occupy wall street protesters a top goldman sachs executive quit sim disgust on the right heartless toxic i destructive. and that isn't patrick's party begin the moscow going she's a week of operation to take that. summer world news for you that a fragile truce between israel and palestinian militants has been shaken by what stranger for its really armed forces a rocket was fired into southern israel under small with an air strike on plans no

casualties are being reported by the side twenty six palestinians have been killed in the worst violence in a year response by israel in the high ranking system of militants. family and friends have attended a service to remember the victims of a bus crash in switzerland that killed twenty eight people most of them children the coach was packed with students were returning belgian skiing trip crushed tunnel italian in the police speeding as the calls looking into whether the driver suffered a heart attack. dozens of illegal gold miners have battled police or control over regional capital in the room at least three people were killed by gunfire and thirty others injured i'm honest tried to seize public buildings including the airport and are resisting government efforts to regulate small scale gold extraction which officials say is destroying the rain forest.

well 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 regime is also facing a world trade organization as washington and the e.u. challenge its mistress' exporting minerals to make high end it tricks the. prospects of getting help from china and it's also their experience with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt leader of europe came knocking on its store from the chinese sorry the leaders always say ok they are willing. to meet the car so actually you can see this kind of i think you're the president. it's like not putting in practice may be some kind of a deal for me well it's not even

a maybe i'll try it as claw 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 its potential 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 in 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 meaning greece and so it 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 per day here for the whole european continent raising more fears of china's far reaching influence it does would emerging superpower as. it is you know. he's it's. can but your hasn't thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes ever 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 of international politics being played is very much. next in practical 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 the chinese prime minister. tried 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 one local commentator wrote don't hand over a dime without asking for the world in return tesser cilia r.t. brussels. us an adventurous exploration next time as we take you to another corner of the largest country in the world in russia quest.

today we travel more than fifteen hundred kilometers east of moscow and. it sits a foot in the urals that guides europe and asia and its nose a new rich amount is that exhibition that we manufacture many locals it's in the profession though it's a passion as tom botanist. russia's ural mountains have a long history when it comes to metals and mining for centuries they provided the wrong materials but allowed russian industry to grow and now they're trying to adapt to the steel mills and industries around the mining but trying to adapt to modern conditions the modern steel industry it's those things that i'd be examining in our plants. and metal the 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 tones fancy ironwork and fence posts but he still remembers the very first thing he made this is true. it's so much more than just a simple truth is the thing i hold dearest. when asked alexander is content hammering one piece at a time the urals also contained smelting operations on a truly industrial scale this plant turns thousands of tons of molten steel into thousands of kilometers of oil and gas piping isn't about crofton scale anymore say engineers here it's about science and needs details education was a. technical specialists need computer and math skills to work use increasingly complex machines sadly the russian education system isn't turning out skilled

enough people so we have to train them up here. these barstools of the direct descendants of the first forges urals dating back to the eighteenth century of metal working in all its forms is still widespread in the region the furnace is here poor out three thousand tons of molten steel a day it's one of the around a dozen such plants scattered across the your else but for steel you have to heat it up to one thousand six hundred degrees to get to go like this not with all metals gold the stuff that's made while it's fact the 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. just people like us and you know if you think too much about the price you can put out a decent product we don't actually value it pass highly it's a huge responsibility look at it. go small thing is about the most carefully humble

not for peroration there is. not to knock alexander of course and his enduring passion for his age old got a passion he ses is just his presence in all matter workers no matter how nonchalant his cold strokes in contemporary history seem. he's lying he's lying of course they feel something. working with gold and all the wonderful nettles they're just not admitting it was consulted require that ration whether in a small force or a vast complex metal workers here are following in the footsteps of many pioneers and nick trade and at least according to alexander they all share the spirit of this man he's met. tom barton r.t. . it's time to get the latest a business update from natasha and ukraine's got its sights set on buying less gas from russia we understand was that. gallant threatens to buy gas

from germany if russia fails to offer a significant discount now russia is the sole supplier of gals to ukraine and it's been refusing essential to cut the price in its long term contracts ukraine's prime minister recall laws are of on wednesdays why gals from germany's r.w.d. may help ukraine save some money but experts actually 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 kiev to stop buying gas 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 it 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 north stream with europe's gas infrastructure have to reserve up to half of their capacities for other suppliers now it's still

unclear who those of the suppliers may be but analysts say the decision is a reaction to russia charging a high price for gas delivered to europe but russia our views it's the oil price that serves as the basis for gas price formula now speaking of the oil price crude is seeing a very choppy trade this thursday it's mixed this hour on the one hand wednesday's data shows that crude stockpiles in the united states of rules last week essentially pressuring the oil price on the other hand braun's oil production is the lowest it's been about ten years as sanctions against iran's nuclear program heard an industry that's already been suffering from years of under-investment we'll see how the situation develops we'll keep you posted on this throughout the day now on to the asian markets in asia they are higher this hour in tokyo

the new. is gaining quite a bit it's quite robust thanks to a weaker yen that supporting the exploiters and in the whole kong the hang seng is actually flat to positive the sour of those that in the red most of the day and that's the way things are at this moment now into the currencies a euro is actually setting value against the dollar and the ruble is also lower against both the dollar and the euro and on to the russian equity markets here in moscow the markets opened sharply in the red but they've balanced the value this hour as you can see there now the biggest movers on the my sex is very bank it's losing ground on reports that it will offer up to eight percent of its shares to the public in april and carmaker off to vaas is actually extending its rally from wednesday for a second day essentially gaining value on reports to its biggest shareholder

nissan will increase its stake to a controlling one and an while major ross nafta is trading pretty much slot this hour now the u.s. aviation giant bowling has come up with a way to double moscow's air traffic in just about a year according to venomous daily the company wants to help all of moscow's main airports to boost their traffic capacity by a greeting their navigation systems the price tag is ten to fifteen million dollars and that's the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes so you don't.

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