the. beasts of the rich brighton if you move the song from feinstein's pression. stance on t. dot com. further cut off for radio prank sublight used to go the world wide system which runs international transfers. that's what the organization says it's taking this absence of comply with the european mrs against iran's nuclear ambitions i'll have more on this breaking story sort of. also mass rallies both for and against the syrian government mark the first anniversary of the country's unrest while some media reporting is accused of only fueling the fire. britain's guardian newspaper releases not purport to be thousands

of emails from president assad's private but are they true or traps more for me just about. the taliban suspends peace talks with the united states president karzai says he wants nato out of rural areas for an american soldier gunned down sixteen villages in cold blood. you watching r t live from moscow it's now nine pm this thursday evening my name's kevin zero in the first as you just heard further isolation than for around this time in finance with the country's banks on an e.u. blacklist being cut off from the so-called swift system which runs international transactions developing story tonight let's get fully across it without these middle east coast all the sleep there paula how serious

a step is this tonight and what's it going to mean for iraq. well it certainly is a serious step what we're looking at here is a major company that deals with the bulk of close international financial transactions announcing that it is severing ties with iranian banks what this will effectively mean is that iran will be cutoff from the international global market now the organization known as swift which stands for the society for worldwide into banking financial telecommunications in its announcement did say that it was president of an extraordinary. disconnect from banks that did say that it was the result of direct international and multilateral action to intensify financial sanctions against iran now the move will go into effect this coming saturday and what we also know is that all of the rain events that will be affected are those that have been blacklisted by the european union so the pressure on iran growing

one of the next omissions to become enforce them. well late january it was agreed that and oil embargo would go into force in july so that would be the next major focus on sanctions and that together now with this announcement that iran will not have access to the global market will have severe consequences for the country effectively isolating it even further from the international community now there are those who are also saying that this latest move by the swift organization and maybe an effort to buy time for the united states to just wait is well from launching any kind of preemptive military strike against iran of course there was a call earlier this month by global powers for a resumption of long stalled nuclear talks but we haven't yet seen any movement on that so they will be these two avenues happening sanctions reaching unprecedented

levels although in the background still some countries calling for talks to be resumed ok policy or at least correspondent thanks ever so much and staying with us is reportedly threatening with penalties if it doesn't comply with washington sanctions against iran the american law which targets payments made to central bank applies to any country that doesn't make big cuts in purchases or crude for the first half of this year the asian judge says iran's third largest oil customer in fact washington is now offered to help it find alternative suppliers professor earlier from the school of international affairs told us he believes the u.s. is still trying to maintain a strategic relationship with india while opposing the growing influence of china. i don't think it is going to get me into any kind of pressure from the right search on this issue and i think americans understand it's true i mean there would be people in congress you know in an election year who want to ramp up the pressure on

behalf of these really consider arm but you know i think the obama administration this team your partner at the executive signing will think differently from the legislative side some of the more people who want to you know enforce this partial sanctions on iran and make it a global sanctions i don't think he is going to be pressured into it and certainly i think india has an old tradition of article isn't maher in the foreign policy and especially on this issue is strong on the bridge and i think he also knows the united states. get plans on india to counterbalance china in this region so it would be strategic skew say on the part of the united states to actually go or heard any more sanctions on indian companies. the syrian president remains in power a year since protest against his rule and violence crip the country and according to legal e-mails allegedly from his account but charlotte under rainy and guidance and weather kills his own reforms result is laura smith reports now from london this considerable doubt about the credibility of the claims which come from

splintered opposition groups. well there's a variety of things that refer to in his professional life and also in his personal life these e-mails it's claimed were intercepted by some hackers belonging to one of the opposition groups the supremes council of the revolution between june and early february to june last year early february this year it's significant that they're being released now obviously they're bound to receive quite a lot of media coverage because it's the first anniversary of the uprising in syria so we should certainly look at the timing of that it's just some of the e-mails refer to communications that assad has with iran and with a grainy and proxies he people giving him advice to use powerful and violent language when he's talking to the people also to show appreciation for friendly states and to leak more information on syria's military strength to suggest to the

people that it's serious it's come under a time under any kind of onslaught likud's defend itself now that really plays directly into the hands of old opposition groups in syria which are very fragmented there are at least four different opposition groups that we know of and it has been known to be quite to the loose with the truth before they have released a very top figures as far as any other organization is concerned of the number of people who have been killed during this syrian uprising so we have to be a little bit careful about how much credence we give to these allegedly leaked e-mails nocioni today show the political order they allege to show the political workings of assad's mind but they also show details from his personal life after scenes links from you tube videos he even forwards to one of his aides to link over you tube video of the home seeds reenacted using toys and biscuits so

a little bit of a look into the into the inner workings of relationship there. morris i thought correspondent in london well in syria itself the first anniversary of widespread protests and rest against the assad regime is remarked with more demonstrations across the country for thousands of all spring rallying in the capital in support of the president there hailing ongoing democratic reforms which include the parliamentary election should you from a opposition leaders though say the initiative is really a gesture and they want to sad to quit government troops are pushed rebels out of several flashpoint cities with both sides taking losses lately again here in estimating the violence is no claimed at least eight thousand lives since last march political analyst crystal holsters in damascus he told us the rebels fighting assad to damage a syrian democracy hopes. most of the syrians see three things first we need continuous reform yes this corruption i tell you even government can

tell me that the fates other people see the leadership reacted too late others see in the beginning with the whole uprising in the shape. took the wrong measures they were too brutal in not pressing it instead of listening to the people early on these things are very clear but what is also clear right now today in the face of very happy you know constitutional reform in the face off election date set by the president just a few hours ago on may seventh it is very clear that everybody who is now picking up arms against this government which obviously is it does in our history form and in elections this person these persons are not serious about the constructive it's in the internal dialogue and mostly dog in syria it's quite clear they're not on as party of a process just killers and that is

a bit it's usually. we don't know what you think of this ongoing very big of sorry story in syria log on to our website r t v dot com you can take part in our latest poll today we're asking a year on how do you think the conflict in syria is being fought between that's the question this hour this is what you're telling them so over a half of this hour as you can see they're saying it's world superpowers you think in need of natural resources just a report of you telling us you believe it's propaganda published headlines claiming to be media outlets are the less of you from last suggesting it's the power hungry in syria just eleven percent think it's a fight between freedom loving people and an oppressive government we do like the we've got to say but the big stories of the day this is your chance now to get both of this one r.t. dot com is the place to have your say. coming up in this half hour of newsroom telling control at any cost. good job like opening up in your almost no

excuses sting from about my students might find out how far the u.s. is willing to go to disperse gun straight is a new force authority despite lecturing other countries about human rights. thousands of illegal immigrants who come to britain in search of a better life and the dreams of a good job and money instead becoming a nightmare many pay big bucks to traffickers to make the journey but they end up in test to ship. living on the streets who find themselves stranded now there's no means of returning home. it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground the 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 families for

chain ticket 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 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 the whole. thing the law. it's. all it where do you sleep. i wanted to have it at all it's been in the

in yeah it's been with no official identity men like lack 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 quadruple in numbers over just six years such is the desperation to leave this car park east to be a pick up spot for manual labor but now there's nothing this is where the men waits looking for work every morning hoping to be picked up and paid for a day's labor day though right most days they wait is in this for the downturn

ending 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 worried india or thinking about doing learned you know. really much more when you go to bed or know what happened here because the realize reality is there. as we didn't you know do in india. 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 i've been it r t london all of our news much more to be heard of the time on our website r.t. dot com there are now leading figure of the russian anti-government protest movements going on hunger strike in response from being sentenced to ten days in prison because the latest about him also see how citizens of an italian town could

no longer die because it's against the more you hear me correct find out the details of our website r.t. . western nations been pointing the finger at countries who don't share their ideals but america and its allies aren't always practicing what they preach when it comes to human rights and democracy so i believe that western politicians should first lead by example before lecturing the rest of the world is more important i. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice called an outsiders about that yours of democracy iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the policing suppression human rights and go to my office and there is a big step towards democracy rule of law human rights these are some 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 times including of course have been used to help public protest at home. why is police handcuffs and iron fists ever feel even 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 in 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 quite public fire with a barrage of water can which senior scotland yard officials are reportedly trying

to get hold of along with taser stun guns and tear gas to break up and leave 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. it felt like opening up a door almost mixed with from about my sternum to my. 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 the point the finger somewhere else rather to take responsibility here in america to do 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. mean sperm testers it 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. but these tens of millions reportedly been killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan and the taliban suspended peace talks with the united states senate americans keep changing the terms and conditions of a road map to peace this comes as the afghan president slammed the nato campaign in his country calling on alliance forces to leave rural areas it was responding to the massacre of sixteen civilians by an american soldier last weekend not long after burnt copies of the qur'an were discovered at the u.s. air base in the country western leaders of the war u.s. president of brother and british prime minister david cameron have confirmed plans to hand over security responsibility to local forces transitions to take place next year in preparation for an end to the coalition combat mission by the end of twenty fourteen but activists and journalists who can chant have told me he thinks washington already has plans for

a post nato afghanistan. a history of the afghanistan for over a century is a history of colonial adventures gone terribly wrong that's assuming that things can go right which they can't so i don't think or the pulling out of troops will result in that much more bloodshed that's been occurring anyway for the last couple of decades not going to stand i think the west what they want and then the good situation now in the endgame with the taliban but what they want from the taliban is assurances and this i'm sure the hard bargain is this that the taliban stay basically hostile to all their neighbors in the region and that's what the west want the last thing the west want is any kind of functioning government and infrastructure and national infrastructure in afghanistan that is at peace and not to mention a neutral kind of respect with its neighbors they want to stay hostile to china especially to iran now now they're coming up to the attack on iran. more world news now in brief prosecutors charged seventy five people including nine police officers

and sue minors with murder and negligence of last month deadly soccer riots at least seventy four were killed in the coastal city of port side of the first when fans of rival teams clashed after a match and violence by don't be riots across the country. the problem of chinese politicians being removed from his post as a high ranking communist party leader after contact between his police chief and the us consulate bossi lies removal as party chief in the city of chongqing comes after his former top caught reportedly sort of silent sixty two year old serious contender for high office with china's ruling party. a free trade agreement between south korea and the us has come into effect five years after it was signed it's the biggest such deal for the us in sixty years it's a slashing tyrus another trade barriers south korea's opposition democratic united party says the plan will trigger a backlash against the government claiming it favors the u.s. over the country's workers activists have staged rallies and seoul called for the

protocol to be scrapped. the international monetary fund's approved a twenty eight billion euro loan for greece on thursday the cash is part of the second one hundred thirty billion euro international bailout for the struggling country intended to keep it funded until twenty fourteen now greece has been hit by protests over the austerity being ordered in return with widespread unemployment and poverty because of the downturn from the massive national debt. often a travels next tonight room for some more adventurous discoveries as we take you on another trip around another corner of the largest country in the world russia and our close up series. and today as you can see on the mount we travel to the city katherine burke that is focusing in located at the foot of the ural mountains dividing europe in asia the

middle rich try again the mineral rich man since you try senate have made the regular massive center of a metal manufacture that is r.t. tom parker discovered the many locals it's more than a profession it is a passion. 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 hummers and tons from c i n 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. that you could wear as alexander is content hammering one piece at a time the urals also contained smelt an operations on a truly industrial scale this plant turns thousands of tons of molten steel into

thousands of kilometers of oil and gas typing this isn't about craft and skill any more say engine is here it's about science and needs details 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 forces in the uro's 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 scattered 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 metals gold the stuff that's made while it's fat guys greedy since time immemorial these men

smelt it into it's iconic gold bullion form but they say to them it's just another metal. yes it was 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 you look at it 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 art the passion he say's is just as present in all metal workers no matter how nonchalant his gold silting contemporaries may seem with maria he's lying he's like of course they feel something working with gold and all that 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. some bottom party. character is nowhere to be pursued the businesses catch up that late as men high their dinner rushes the major gas pipeline nord stream could start losing its capacity was sold out of the well e.u. regulators have now are now saying that basically pipelines linking nord stream to european gas infrastructure needs to reserve a capacity of around fifty percent for other suppliers now some speculate that this is because of the high gas prices that russia is charging europe but we have heard an opinion from the winters of all the company which built the linking pipeline that this could in turn lead to even higher gas prices this would be a stranded investment of fifty percent of the capacities and in terms of the sufficiency of it it would not make sense at all that we don't use in the future

percent of the city we have is that for i cannot find any other single shooter who wants to do the book the capacity because he has no gas he wants to transport them to that location with this reason why the single we have a good chance to find a new agreement. well russia has always claimed that high gas prices mean. a high oil price because the gas price in formula is calculated on the oil price and what we're seeing right now is brant is declining by more than a one dollar that's on reports that the u.k. and the u.s. could potentially release their reserves of oil and therefore supply will go up say good what's going on in the stock market some is looking quite positive in the united states point three percent for the dow jones high tech nasdaq is up around half a percent supported by google amboy apple which is about to release the sales of its new i pad. in europe it's all pretty positive but the end of the session of

course he was wearing in the red all session long down by just a notch at the end of the session of course on fears that fitch may cut the aaa rating of the u.k. and the dax is up almost a percent at the close games are limited by blue towns which reported a financial loss and she fell. in russia it was a mixed close of the session on my sex breaking its winning streak them point three percent only r.t.s. shows before consecutive session of growth rather nice x. was weighed down by this burbank which declined two point six percent on news that it could go ahead with its additional share placement in as soon as next month actually while energy shares were very bad so they were up around two point three percent of course. now let's take a look at also what's going on the currencies markets barely any change in the euro

dollar exchange rates whereas the ruble continued strengthening versus the dollar and the euro. and i'm afraid that's now we've got time for one more story russia's seen budget deficit sharply rise in the first two months of the year to reach the. point three billion dollars double the official forecast finance minister says that growing spending by local authorities have already spent almost seventy percent of their annual budget compared to last year which we saw where we saw a figure of around thirty percent saying. more business news in two hours' time i see them.