geology. video on demand. mind broadcast. and. now in the palm of your. local forces or take charge of keeping war torn afghanistan safe next year as a british and american leaders give a timeline of their meeting in washington. syrian forces gain hold of several flashpoint cities a year into the conflict while the opposition transformed troops to. reduce illegal immigrants from the grass is definitely not greener on the hunt for work a good life or leave them penniless and in the cold. and in about twenty minutes ukraine is flexing its muscle by saying it wants to buy gas from germany find out why experts doubt it can execute its plan in

a business bulletin. so you're watching r t broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program. plans to exit afghanistan taking shape for the british and american leaders confirming that foreign forces will handle the security next year there's no strategy shift announced today meeting in washington but a gradual move towards an advisory role before come back troops leaving twenty fourteen investigations also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary judy his visit to afghanistan is artie's knowledge occur. president obama was talking about pulling out responsibly within the next two years so no change of plans there the greenish 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 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 hereon 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

a revolution but through transition both leaders deem military intervention. undesirable and both say they're looking to work with russia to bring about a peaceful outcome on the rend 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. well dozens of police officers equipped with shotguns and assault rifles of storming apartment building in miami florida these weapons against occupy wall street protesters were legally residing inside that lists move into the building arsenal thought their previous encounter the city government building was shut down. there is a failure of one u.s. and its allies to practice what they preach when it comes to freedom and human rights. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice of scolding outsiders about the pillars of democracy the

iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the creasing suppression human rights democracy is a big step. for democracy rule of law human rights these are our 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. times and brutal force have been used to quell public protests at home. riot 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

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 public fire with a barrage of water cannons which senior scotland yard officials are reportedly trying to get hold of along with taser stun guns and tear gas to break up or 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. the job

like opening up an open 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 is in her early 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 the challenge in the united states and it's easy for our leaders the point the same or somewhere else rather than take responsibility here in america do anything differently lecturing others on democracy and human

rights has become a branch of western foreign policy discourse that claims to be based on the highest of standards but as we see here i've shown it's a lot easier to spalls others when everything is i. may say the testers it. or injured students in europe might suggest that their leaders do a homework before attempting to be a teacher from ocracy. r.t. new york. also called the program we've got some hand crafted hardware for. this. it's so much more than just a simple screw it's the thing i hold dearest. metalwork we travel to the russian region where minerals are stuff. syrian government forces are gaining ground in several flashpoint cities a year after the conflict escalated in the country the opposition which once richly

intervention western states says recent army gains on likely to quell the revolt as for a diplomatic solution present responded positively to peace proposals put forward by the un arab league envoy kofi annan bang crude and immediate cease fire by both sides access for humanitarian aid and the start of political dialogue despite that opposition leaders admit some foreign governments are sending weapons to support the rebels political analyst chris bambery says it shows that neither the opposition new nato states have peace on their minds. the opposition know senses they have support from the west from the gulf states and saudi arabia and iran just going to call back although they themselves are quite for fragmented and or simply for the 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 couldn't be more fighting and more deaths rory is in this group of friends of syria met and they are there all these i said advisor. sense military advisors been sent to the free syrian army arms are coming coming in with saudi arabia has been involved in stalking of satyr intentions itself there is a western intervention in my opinion already underway into the civil war in syria. well twelve months into the unrest in syria we're asking you who is actually behind it simply had to r.t. dot com to cost your votes biggest except for the south forty percent think it's superpowers to get their hands on the region most of the propaganda peddling media outlets are fueling violence almost a quarter believe it power hungry elites within syria just six percent say it's only the same people and the government is the key players in. your voice now head for r.t. dot com. the u.s.

is reportedly threatening india with penalties if it doesn't comply with washington sanctions against iran india is one of the biggest consumers of iranian oil american officials are quoted the saying they're worried that india may sidestep payment restrictions goatees be assured it is in new delhi for us now or here is this something that india should be worried about at all. well carrie it's something that people here are certainly talking about india as you mentioned is one of the biggest customers of iranian oil india is actually the number three buyer of iranian oil behind china and japan and iran is obviously one of the biggest x. quarters of iranian oil in the world and so far indian officials have refused to stop buying iranian oil which washington has clearly been very angry about some top u.s. state department officials in the past couple of weeks of said that this was

a slap in the face to them they really want india to get on board with the oil embargo that washington and the e.u. has put in place the indian foreign minister has said that while india has followed u.n. sanctions in the past there is nothing that actually binds them to follow them another big point that many indian officials here are sort of looking at is that the new u.s. law doesn't specify what percentage nation must reduce its import to qualify it from exemptions from the same sions so right now there have been reports surfacing that obama could impose penalties on india as early as june twenty eighth if india refuses to stop buying iranian oil in the past in the past few weeks they've been saying that to circumvent these things they might actually use gold instead of dollars to continue buying the oil and obviously both india and china

are major customers of iranian oil and many analysts here in india are saying that sanctions simply won't work if india and china don't get on board and privatize the u.s. provided in the alternatives then for india. that's right kerry actually the united states is trying to help india as there is thing look for alternatives to iran for their energy needs and two of the options they're actually saying are iraq in saudi arabia so you know they're there trying to help india but india thing listen we have our own relationship with iran we need this oil so as of right now all indications are pointing to the fact that they're not going to stop buying a ronnie in oil despite washington's urges. you know it's pretty sure they're talking to a slower from needs anything. president obama has warned that the window

for talks to solve iran's nuclear dispute is shrinking and the round of negotiations over tehran's nuclear ambitions is in the pipeline it's not the threat of a strike by israel but later we'll hear why his approach towards iran the change from offering dialogue in the early days of his presidency to a confrontational scene today. it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine about the promise even 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 or read in a way by several decree factor some of them he had no control over there was pressure from israel there was pressure from congress too especially from saudi arabia even some of the europeans were very concerned about the extent of the see that obama was willing to engage it by the time he managed to get everyone to the table and to the two thousand and nine. policy according to one senior obama

administration official there in to become a gamble on the single role of the governments it either had to work right away or not into the bar but he did a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington 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 promising and there's the sanction track. and you can catch the full interview with the truth of policy in just over an hour's time. the search for a better life is the draw for thousands of illegal immigrants arrive in the u.k. but many are left subjected to more degrading poverty and they're left behind as i reports for some of the promise that is now

a point of no return. it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground the 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 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 the fact they've been told the fact that if you come to the u.k. i it's like i just 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 he was promised

he'd find plenty of work money and accommodation but he's now trapped in poverty worse than he left behind the hope i have been largely of. this. very well all it where do you sleep with only a sliver have a look at all it's been in the in. with no official identity and then like last in a stuck in a bureaucratic no man's land britain went to port 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 trouble 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 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 like most days they wait isn't this before the downturn was annoying 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 all thinking about doing learned you know money's gone. really too much money going to. have been here it was the reality the reality is there. as we didn't you know do in india here 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 rather than it r t london. waiting for and more stories and analysis on our web site at article called here's what's being covered for you online right now something to cheer the occupy wall street protest as a top goldman sachs executive quits in disgust or in the bank heartless toxic and destructive. recent patricks party begin the moscow launches a week of irish into treatment. small world news headlines for you now but fragile truce between israel and palestinian militants has been shaken by a more extreme fire israeli armed forces said a rocket was fired into southern israel responding in strikes on gaza no casualties are being reported by either side twenty six palestinians have been killed in the worst of violence a year to spot by israel killing

a high ranking palestinian militant. family and friends are paid tribute to the victims of a bus crash in switzerland that killed twenty eight people most of them children approach was packed with students while returning to belgium from a skiing trip and crashed in a tunnel they haven't been. speeding is always looking to drive a heart attack. the presence of illegal gold miners have battled police for control of the regional capital and route at least three people were killed by gunfire and wouldn't thirty others injured now lets try to seize public buildings including the local airport the men are resisting government efforts to regulate small scale gold extraction which official say is destroying the great forest. some adventurous exploration next let me take you to another corner the largest country in the world in the russian quest.

and today we travel more than fifteen hundred kilometers east of moscow. it's a fourth of the rules that divides europe and asia and it's those we knew which now turns that makes the beach in the heart of metal manufacturing and for many locals it's more than just a profession it's also a passion thomasin discover. russia's ural mountains have a long history when it comes to metals and mining for centuries they provided the wrong materials but it allowed russian industry to grow and now they're trying to adapt and the steel mills and industries around the mining are trying to adapt to modern conditions and the modern steel industry is those things that i've been examining in airports fire and metal and surroundings of blacksmiths for thousands

of years and of alexander loose chekov 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 food it's the thing i hold dearest that i view but whereas alexander is content hammering one piece at a time the urals also contained sultan 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 skill any more say engine is here it's about science and needs detailed education. technical specialists here need computer and math skills to work this increasingly complex

machines so we have to train them up here these vast holes are the direct descendants of the first forges 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 gloat like this not with all the things gold the stuff that's made while it's flat and i greedy since time immemorial these men smelt it into its iconic gold bullion form but they say to them it's just another metal. you know if you think too much about the price you can put out a decent product we don't actually value a class highly it's a huge responsibility look at it gold smelting is about the most carefully humble

metal operation there is. not to knock all xander of course and his enduring passion for his age old art a passion he ses is just as present in all metal workers no matter how his gold silting contemporaries may seem. he's lying he's lying of course they feel something working with gold in 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 boston archie. but it stars get latest business update from the treasure and the ukraine has got its sights set on buying less gas from russia and the star wars that. well essentially it's negotiating it threatens to buy germany if russia fails to offer

a significant discount russia is extol supplier of ukraine has been refusing to cut the price in the long term contracts ukrainian prime minister macaws are of on wednesday said buying guns from germany's r.w. even help ukraine save some money but experts doubt this plan is going to work they see that happen the volumes of such supplies would be very low certainly not enough for kiev just stop buying gas from russia and not to mention that it might be technically difficult ukraine's transportation network is designed to probably gas in the opposite direction from russia to europe and saying was gas it looks like russia will be able to use the full capacity of the nord stream of new us through to europe the e.u. regulators say pipelines that link that on stream with europe's infrastructure have to be reserved 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 their

reaction to russia charging a high price for gas liberty europe russians the loyal price that serves as the basis for its gal's prize formula and l. speaking of the oil prices it's very choppy trade for crude today basically at the moment it's mixed and iran's production is at the lowest level it's been about a decade as the country's sanctions against its nuclear program is essentially punishing the industry that's really been suffering years and years of under-investment but all the other hand the latest data released on wednesday shows that u.s. stockpiles actually rose. last week especially putting pressure on the price of oil so we will see what's going to happen throughout the day let's now take a look at the equity markets and europe they are mixed this hour they're mostly higher but this is a losing value and the reason is this pitch essentially says that.

the united kingdom might lose its triple a rating because that country has a pretty high chance of fault and now on to the currencies the euro as flat to the dollar while the ruvo is actually losing value against both the greenback and the euro and now on to the european equities and they are recovering slightly from sharp wasis earlier in the day the biggest movers is their banks actually losing ground after it said it might offer about eight percent over its shares to the public in april and russian carmaker all to vaas is losing value. at war actually it's expanding its being that's the important part it's extending its robust gains from wednesday after one of its major shareholders reno nissan said it will increase its stake to a controlling one and an oil major rosneft is trading pretty much flat at this hour

now u.s. aviation giant boy has come up with a way to double moscow's air traffic in just about here voting to go to mr daly the company wants to help all of moscow's name airports to boost their traffic capacity how by upgrading their navigation system a price tag is ten to fifteen million dollars. that's the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes so you've got. the little.

nearly a billion people in the world for going from greece every day. in the united states even our trash cans or food the food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just thrown away rotten choose from the german oh you clearly need my supper by. the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill take is made from one dozen times tr egg whites. delicious breakfast for the family make some toast for about a week and every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.

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