local forces will take charge of keeping war torn afghanistan safe next year as a british and american leaders give a timeline that meeting in washington. syrian forces gained a hold of several flashpoint cities a year into the conflict or the opposition wants the troops to step in. and britain's illegal immigrants find the grass is definitely not greener on the hunt for work and a good life before the end of this and the constant. international

news in common twenty four hours a day your watching r.t. i'm characterized now plans to exit afghanistan are taking shape with the british and american leaders confirming that foreign forces or handover security next year there was no strategy shift and announced that meeting in washington but a gradual shift towards an advisory role for combat troops leave in twenty fourteen and rest a geisha is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to afghanistan as r.t. is going to judge her. 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 innocence of 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 heroin 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 rent 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 where the so-called war on terror is just one of the reasons the west says it gets involved in conflicts abroad the others bringing democracy as a us on the sunrise criticize other countries over the back of freedom and human rights they fit into the smarts and closer to the experience. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice of outsiders about the killers of democracy be running people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the precincts human rights for so there is a big step towards democracy rule of law human rights these are 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. why didn't the times in a little force have been used to public protests at home. why 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 noticing about you know 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 may fight fire with a barrage of water cannon which senior scotland yard officials are reportedly

trying to get hold up along with taser stun guns and tear gas to break up on unwanted crowds 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 and door almost needs to be. from about my sternum to my. 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 ruled out in the land of the free we're seeing an intensification of repression because people are challenging the system and challenging it in europe the challenge you get in the united states and it's easy for our leaders 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 of the land of western foreign policy i discoursed that claims to be based on the highest of standards but as we sit here i've shown it's a lot easier to scold others when everything is i. may say protesters it. or injured students in europe might suggest that their leaders do

a bit more before attempting to be a teacher of democracy or not artsy new york. but still to come the program the e.u. might be forced to dance to china's cheap if it wants to see the cash flow he's in beijing for it's a trade it's a call and economic concessions you are sick of hearing china's debt it could run joined us. it's so much. more than just a simple scoot is the thing i hold dearest. the men marvel at metalwork we travel to the russian region where minerals start. syrian government forces are gaining ground in several flashpoint cities year after the conflict escalated in the country the opposition of which once military intervention by arab and western states says recent army gains on largely to quell

the revolt was for a diplomatic solution as the downside was responding positively to peace proposals put forward by the un envoy a confusion when they include an immediate cease fire that both sides access for. the start of its good dialogue despite that opposition leaders admit that some foreign governments are sending weapons to support the rebels political analyst group says it shows that the opposition states have police 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 go back although they themselves are quite for fragmented and for the fragment of fragmentation we're already seeing on coming in from saudi from probably told from the west the french the americans and i suspect the british as well i believe the move fighting and more death row is in this group of friends of syria met in june is there are there all these i said

advise those be no sense military advisers been sent to the free syrian army arms are coming coming in with saudi arabia has been involved in sort of sectarian tensions itself there is a western intervention in my opinion already underway into the civil war in syria. well twelve months since the arrest in syria we're asking you is actually behind it all to dot com we're getting the biggest vote so far the south thirty nine percent think it's worth superpowers to get their hands on the region almost a third say it's probably hungry elites in syria of course or believe it's the propaganda peddling media outlets that are fueling the violence well just six percent say it is the syrian people in the government and in the call you can project your voice said for the party dot com page. well president obama has warned that the window for talks to solve iran's nuclear dispute is shrinking

a new round of negotiations over tehran's nuclear ambitions in the pipeline the threat of a strike by israel well later we hear why his approach towards iran changed from a friend dialogue that early days of his presidency the confrontation was seen 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 the very limited political space and political time to do so and the political space was very quickly eaten away by several different factor some of them he had no control over there was pressure from israel there 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 that our interview had become

a gamble on the sea with the guy it's either had to work right away or not off the bomb a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington but the 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 even to get it and as a result four weeks later the robin restriction essentially abandons diplomacy and there's the sanction track. you can catch the full interview with the person in just about twenty minutes time . now the search for a better life is the draw for thousands of illegal immigrants who arrive in the u.k. and many are left subjected to more degrading poverty and they left behind as other bennett reports for some promise that is now a point of new turn. it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground

a squalor plain to see harder to spot other 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 families 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 told the fact that if you come to the u.k. . it's like this 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 deportation more difficult. but it means he now can't escape even though he wants to he was

promised he'd find plenty of work money and accommodation but he's now trapped in poverty worse than he left behind. and free of all this where do you sleep. i want to sleep or have a look at all it's been in a million deal. with no official identity men 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 nearly thirteen thousand illegal immigrants left the u.k. voluntarily last year called drew pulling in numbers over just six years such is the desperation to leave this car park used 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 day though like most days they wait isn't this before the downturn was an ing 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 older guys are all thinking about doing learned you know money's gone. really too much money you got your know what happened here it was to realize reality is there. as we didn't you know do in india go. from a good family to men are expected to send money back to their families in india no wonder most were reluctant to appear on camera either bennett. london. well you can find more stories are now it says on our website at r.t. dot com here's what's being covered for you on line today something to cheer the occupy wall street protest as the talk of goldman sachs executive quits zim disgust

when a prank heartless toxic and destructive. isn't patricks party begin the moscow launches a week of irish entertainment. world news for you now a fragile truce between israel and palestinian militants has been shaken by more exchange of israeli armed forces that a rocket was fired into southern israel responded with an airstrike on guns that no casualties are being reported by either side at least twenty six palestinians have been killed in the worst violence in a year to spot by israel in a high ranking palestinian militant. probably in friends paid tribute to the victims of a bus crash in switzerland killed twenty eight people most of them children because it was printed students were returning to belgium from a skiing trip crushed in a tunnel. speeding is the cause now looking into the trial after.

thousands of illegal gold miners police for control of the additional capital. at least three people were killed by gunfire and more than thirty others injured modernists trying to seize buildings including the local airport many are resisting government efforts to regulate small scale build extraction and traditional say destroying the rain forest. but 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 beijing is also facing a battle of the world trade organization as washington and the e.u. challenge its instructions of exporting minerals used to make high intellectual nicks and conflicts could hurt the e.u.'s prospects of getting help from china saucily reports with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt laden europe came knocking on its store from chinese

side of the leaders always for you ok they are willing to be sold that we can reach the power to actually you can see this kind of work if you would be present to your community it's like we're not putting in practice maybe we want some kind of a deal for me well it's not even a maybe well china's call is clearly on the rise and so is its confidence this time around china has no cards letting the e.u. know that it is well aware of its drug 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. . and 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 chinese know there is no danger of some forms of protection is what they want to do is have a company isn't bases in europe factory is manufacturing products. it's companies in europe so a lot of their products will be labeled made in germany made in france meaning grease and so on so they will not be considered to be implications from china and the plans already in action just last month the first chinese automobile assembly plant opened it will be area aiming to produce fifty thousand vehicles per here for the whole european continent raising more fears of china's far reaching influence it does really mode so far as. you know. he's it's from cards where you can but europe hasn't thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes and as a 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 the national politics being played is very much a mix in particular 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 pain for rich europeans so beth why they can use prime minister when jobs are missed when you try to persuade people and people and. in their government. i think 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 yes or sell your r t brussels while some adventurous exploration next as we take you to another corner of the largest country in the world in russia close up. yesterday will travel more than fifteen hundred kilometers east of moscow to the city of the country it sits at the foot of the urals that divides europe in asia and those new rich mountains that makes a beach in the heart of metal manufacture for many locals it's professional it's a pension system bought in the south. russia's ural mountains have a long history when it comes to nettles and mining for centuries they provided the raw materials but it allowed russian industry to grow and now they're trying to adapt to the steel mills in industries around the mining trying to adapt to modern

conditions and the modern steel industry is those things that are big summoning in markets. and metal the surroundings of blacksmiths for thousands of years and over alexander loose cough and his fortune russia's mountainous euro region for the past thirty he's now as much a part of this world as the hammers and tongs from c. iron work and fence posts but he still remembers the very first thing he made this spoon. it's so much more than just a simple spoon it's the thing i hold dearest of it. but whereas alexander is content hammering one piece at a time the urals also contains 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 this isn't about craft and scale

anymore say engineers here it's about science and needs detailed education technical specialists here need computer and math skills 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 these vast holes are the direct descendants of the first forces in the urals dating back to the eighteenth century and metal working in all its forms is still widespread in the region the furnace is here pour out three thousand tons of molten steel a day it's one of the around a dozen such plants covered across the urals but for steel you have to get up to one thousand six hundred degrees to get to go like this not with all the holes gold the stuff that's made wallets fat guys greedy since time immemorial these men swells it into its iconic gold bullion form but they say to them it's just another

metal. if you think too much about the price you can't put out a decent product we don't actually value with us highly it's a huge responsibility you look at it. gold milton is about the most carefully humbled metal operation there is. not to not call xander of course but his enduring passion for his age old art petition he ses is just as present in all metal workers no matter how nonchalant his gold silting contemporaries may seem rude 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 to themselves. whether in a small forge or a vast complex metal workers here are following in the footsteps of many pioneers in their trade and at least according to alexander they all share the spirit of

this man and his metal from bottom r.t. . it starts getting late as the business update from the tasher and ukraine's got its sights set on buying less gas from russia we understand what's going on well essentially once a discount ukraine threatens to buy gas from germany if russia fails through offer of a significant discount russia is ukraine's sold gas supplier has been refusing to cut the price and its long term contracts in korean prime minister because are of on wednesday said buying gas from germany's r w e may help ukraine save some money but experts doubt this was going to work they say what happened the volume of such that lie would be very low certainly not enough to start buying gas from russia not to mention that ukraine's transportation network is designed to prod gas in the opposite direction from russia to europe and i'll stay with gas and looks like russia will be able to use the full capacity of the nord stream gas pipeline its

newest routing europe the e.u. regulators say the pipeline link the north stream with europe's gas infrastructure has to reserve up to half of their capacities for other suppliers now it's still unclear who those other suppliers might be but analysts say the decision is the reaction. charging a high price cords of gas deliver to europe but russia. insists that it's the oil price that serves as the basis for the gas price formula and speaking of the oil price crude is seeing a very choppy trade on thursday it's actually higher at the moment after. the data came out that iran's production is the lowest it's been in about ten years after the sanctions against the country's nuclear program essentially hurt the industry that's already been suffering from years and years of under-investment and now on to the equity markets in asia they are in the block the nikkei has been doing quite robust throughout the day as

a weaker yen supports the export is but it was quite choppy for hong kong's hang seng but it closed in the block as well and now into the european markets they opened mixed this losing value in the first hour of trade and that's after the revised the u.k.'s outlook to negative essentially they're saying there's more than one to two chance that it's going to lose its top notch triple a rating the dax is trading slot to positive and as you can see there are now moving on to the currency markets the euro is a trading ever so slightly higher against the dollar and in the russian currency the ruble is losing value against both the euro and the dollar and now on to the russian equity markets they started the day sharply down but they've balanced back somewhat this hour as you can see now into the biggest movers as burbank is losing ground after it said it may offer up to eighty percent of the chairs to the public

in april investors are apparently punishing the stocks and carmaker off to vases extending its winning streak for a second straight day after one of its major shareholders reno off to vaas said it mean crease its stake to a controlling one. and one of the oil majors overawes nast is trading flat to positive this hour and now a u.s. aviation giant boeing has come up with a way to double moscow's air traffic in just about a year according to that in his daily the company wants to help all of moscow's main airports to boost their traffic capacity how by upgrading their navigation systems the price tag is ten to fifteen million dollars and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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