we've gone beyond the four year media project of free video gone to our teeth dot com. so once against arab and western countries reading the iran's peace mission to syria hopes ride on world leaders coming together to bend is the twelve months of turmoil. the rounds of banks get into down to the level of the system the fears growing here about the sanctions could not far lead the nation. than thousands of egyptians protest against police negligence amid swelling frustration over company leadership it's going to bring a change. larry

watching r.t.m. carry out the program. says it hopes western and arab countries don't ruin the un arab league envoy peace mission to syria and un's most powerful group will get an update on the syrian crisis on friday from kofi annan it's hoped his findings not breathe new life into stalled talks on anything that you know about its middle east correspondent joins us now with more on. must listen by the former head of the united nations call for a man is the latest attempt to solve diplomatically what is happening in syria and later today friday and now and will brief and update members of the u.n. security council guarding the latest proposals on the table and these include an immediate halt to the fighting in military assistance to civilians who've been caught up in the crossfire as well as political debate and political involvement now last weekend coffee and i was in damascus where he met with the syrian

president bashar assad as well as the opposition and he went on record after those meetings and say that the door was open to a diplomatic solution and at the same time the syrian regime has indicated that its response to announce proposals is positive were now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged all members of the international community to back this mission with the love of saying that russia puts its weight behind it because of this those i hope this mission won't be ruined we have a feeling it every time we manage to achieve some positive change in the stance of damascus there's an immediate counterweight reaction in any steps forward are dismissed i hope this won't be the case of how countries in the middle east and some western states treat the mission of kofi anon it was very strange that two days after his first visit to damascus the opposition syrian national council claimed the mission had already failed for sending definite signals to damascus to

cooperate with mr in arms and we hope that other members of the security council will also demand the opposition does not provoke the escalation of violence and cooperates with mr nonce mission but you do have a differences of opinion in the u.n. on the one hand you have the united states france and britain and on the other hand you have russia and china what we're hearing from washington is that the blame for the violence in syria is firmly to be put on the shoulders of the syrian president bashar assad and his regime in their. calling for his resignation they say mickens days are numbered and they're upping the pressure on him to step down what russia and china are saying is that the blame and responsibility in terms of what's happening in syria needs to be shades between both the regime and the opposition and they saying that here and any kinds of cause for machine change and one sided sanctions and the mulling over foreign intervention will only lead to a thing nation on violence at the same time us who is saying that he needs to be

some kind of investigation into that the various on factions and the great need to be brought into the fold and spoken to. political analyst michel chossudovsky says a foreign powers who put out support into one side of the syrian conflict could hamper any peaceful solution they are special forces on but rather on from nato countries every six. operatives of this is brought their own sources incidentally it's look here say it is actual fact british special forces have met up with members of the free syrian army and they are preventing there was a free syrian army from a base in turkey british am i six operatives have reportedly been training the rebels who. know what is that that means that all parts of the west the that realized staveley nato all the trouble of inside syria. and they are

complicit. and to see it in our beds at sea which is not an opposition which is fighting government forces. rather we want to know what you think about the situation in syria with our web site at r.t. dot com we're asking you iran who supporting the pricing in a conflict there is more than half of the one percent say it's one superpowers and the amount of natural resources is a quarter believe it's propaganda peddlers claiming to be media outlets eleven percent say it's syria's hungry meat was hardly a few of you said people right between freedom loving people in the press and government r.t. dot com this week. iran is facing further isolation as the world's biggest electronic banking system in this swift prepares to cut off dozens of financial firms blacklisted by the e.u.

it's part of a broader effort by you in nations who also plan to impose an embargo on iranian oil this summer to pressure iran over its nuclear program but is there a first now reports the measures are not going to ricochet straight back. spain is among the biggest importers raney and oil and all of that saying when the e.u. impose sanctions on iran come into force in july spain have until the end. of crude supply and all around saying a real risk to the country that is found out has fueled by iranian oil. prices are on the rise and there are fears that they're about to be can't even higher with the iranian oil embargo looming the e.u. m.p.'s ban comes as the west's been making waves a very runs nuclear program is shaping sitting around oil revenues in the country to the bargaining table even assuming the case against iran has a strong sanctions right now. exercised by countries like spain or greece or

italy that much those countries more than it will damage iran was countries like france and britain in fortini of very small percentage of iranian oil and supported the band is the country studying the west economically right now spain greece and italy but again to feel the effects of the sanctions the most we can treat russia if the us british. foreign minister actually said that if you. were sick person feel sick. even if. you couldn't hear about the facts before making decisions once you were told that in a healthy economic situation a rise in oil prices might be problematic coming at a time when spain is on the brink of a second recession is proving a nightmare for the population and. it's terrible that we should pay for decisions

taken in brussels is not taken for but certainly not for simple reasons. should trigger a rise in prices we should follow the example of the us to tighten our belt and keep use you have nuclear weapons. charge to revive our economy. of course i'm afraid because they're already too high if they go any higher and won't be able to afford gas attempts to come fears about a rise in prices have been made saudi arabia says it's got enough oil to make up for the loss of iran's supplies when the in vogue comes into force because she's like spain will still be paying the price of last trade with iran and the cost of replacing those oil contracts ironically spain's imports of oil from iran had increased since the e.u. backed libyan war now the prospect of hysteria he's with iran is causing huge concern. while there's no war prices collations to be sanctions can be corrected the problems will come if there is a war with iran then you can see

a real crisis. now countries like spain elected the mess of a volatile situation that no one wants to see ignites. r.t. spain. well plenty ahead for you this hour including unveiling the enemy only two years after accusing alleged bradley manning with aiding and unnamed government prosecutors on this say it is the case against the soldier. taking to you catherine birds of dust off a precious business tucked away in russia's urals the next stop we got close observers. still deep anger in egypt where thousands gathering in cairo over the football stadium stampede which killed seventy four people last night dozens of people have now been charged with murder. including a former security chief and a police officer as a report sits just compounding the despondency over revolution that was meant to

improve their lives. the revolution happened just around the corner of the streets and i really close the door here and have always been and if i mention interest top of the city but over the past year with the protests predicate breaking out these shopkeepers have seen their lives now just and their livelihoods broken repairs and cleanup in the wake of protestors clashes with police brought many businesses to hold meaning they're already small income was hit but. after the revolution there's been last work because of all these events we shut down early and go home because there's no business we have to stay closed for several days immediately following the uprising on january twenty fifth last year. the security situation in egypt capital remains on easy in fact many residents say right now it's even worse than it was at the height of the uprising last year there are one out of every two people you meet in the street under the age of twenty five who doesn't work and

this is the. fourth problem the angry unemployed youth often choose to sweep in after the protesters losing in stealing from damage shops. the book everything we have here other businesses in the neighborhood were also looted all houses on the street or near to your square either broken into or rod everyone suffered in an attempt to keep the protests under control the government installed cement walls blocking off the area around the tucker square it may have made things easier for the police but it's only made matters worse for locals at the barricades they've built on the streets they've really affected us as well as the huge protests we haven't worked for seven days since and afterwards had to clean up a lot. and yet most egyptians believe the main problem is not the mess which follows the protests but the absence of jobs which turns many desperate people into looters it was the country's flailing economy which forced thousands out on tahir

square in the first place the first slogan that was here in paris where was the word because it was. it was actually getting ugly people were killing a target in the line why they broke in was have their allusion would turn all of that around bringing more jobs to people and food on their tables but as things stand now more than a year after the uprising even those who did have a livelihood are now struggling to stay afloat it in. cairo. world news online when you wanted to r.t. dot com here's what we got there the right point is another violent crackdown occupy protesters headquarters in miami the security forces storm an apartment mostly women and children were moving legally put in full on like. i think that story of a city customers he went to a restaurant struck a few cocktails in the base jump from the fifth floor.

in a two operated helicopter has crashed into a house in kabul killing eight turkish soldiers on board and four civilians on the ground so it's a setback to the u.s. led operation in afghanistan that's been rounded up from both sides coming from the afghan government about the islamist militant group has suspended peace talks with washington describing america's position in a club with gratitude and vague afghan president also ground on the nato campaign calling on forces to leave rural areas after last week's massacre of sixteen civilians an american soldier instance has intensified calls for an early exit of nato troops because i wanted his forces to take control of security by next year

nato plans to withdraw by twenty fourteen there today crosstalk hears from experts who take on america's military strategy. and when we talk strategy strategies military this country doesn't succeed when it uses its military if somebody fights back except for world war two when you go through all of the other wars we don't have the staying power we're not going to get that staying power ultimately we're going to leave if not this year then next to the year. after and everybody knows that whatever you want to. hear christian. what about panama. i was just you know there's already. history if you look at all the places where the u.s. military has intervened it's been a story of remarkable stability you know these places don't resemble switzerland necessary but iraq has a nascent democracy it's violent we exit it too quickly kuwait is free persian gulf

oil flows are very interesting here you can see that. if you look at the instances where we've. gretchen you want to jump in you want to disagree. i just want to say that you're wrong i'm saying when people fight back we don't do well. but attorney for us soldier bradley manning was accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information was asked a military judge to dismiss the charges he argues the government mishandled certain documents in the case also which of course it's finally said on their own enemy manning is charged with assisting is out if convicted the soldier could face life in prison spokesman for something else and. you can subject to punishment. they can make these claims and go on with this fear mongering as they have been as

much as they want but they're entirely baseless and we know that they're baseless because we know for a fact that the government conducted a number of internal impact assessments that found that the wiki leaks materials pose any threat to our national security that our troops were never put in harm's way it reminds me of growing up in school going to civics class you know you learn these basic concepts that you know trial tends to proceed punishment you know these are basic foundational concepts of you know western law and justice and that's been completely thrown out the window in this case and that's a clear violation of his eighth amendment rights that's a clear violation of articles one in sixteen of the un convention against torture that's a treaty that has been ratified by congress in accordance with the constitution and these really aren't optional standards these are basic rules of the road that the administration needs to play by and if they're not able to do that then they're not

qualified to govern. what else is making news around the world. with korea plans to launch a satellite states some of us in south korea can discover it's what the terrorists or the northeast prohibited from doing on the un resolution of killing young insists the peaceful space program. police in chile her detained fifty people were among the thousands of students ready to reform the country's education system three officers were injured in clashes. using tear gas to close more protests are expected to some of the days of. survivors and relatives of the victims wanted a swiss bus crash return to brussels family members when they identified the world

who died when their coach hit a wall inside a tunnel killing twenty eight people mostly children one of the young survivors reported seeing the driver trying to change a deep deep just before the crash lisa medhurst it. is. time now to explore one of russia's biggest cities and what it has to offer. it's nestled in the mineral rich ural mountains together in bird has always been known across the country for its precious stones but big industry had a metal on its mind it moved it and this town barton reports that took a shine off the jewels from its beginnings as an outpost of the fledgling russian empire you could terror has grown up as a city which exploited the mineral wealth of the ural mountains it's gone on

developing on that line throughout its history and it's those themes the exploitation of the region's rich mineral wealth which i've been examining in my report the fairy tale of the mistress of copper mountain it tells of the mysteries of the legendary greenstone malakar it he didn't rushes you around mountains but malak kite it's not. this looks like a pile of rather dull mountain rocks but step over here and when we have water we can see something of these rocks natural beauty these are the stones of feel the legends and fairy tales of the urals and they also feed the skill hands of local craftsman. these men are cutting and polishing precious stones and chief among the treasures the most famous greenstone of them all emerald.

it should be large one hundred percent translucent with the name properties being color quality and weight it also depends how after the precious stone is found in nature most of them will find their way into jewelry and display pieces but as the nonnes says these stones seem with the urals the vast majority don't even come from russia is that when you know no one works with locally developed precious stones here it's very sad and i even feel sort of been because they do that business is though there are the stones it's not that the urals the short of these gems quite the opposite in fact precious stones were so easy to find while the cottage industry grew up here around them but nobody bothered to invest much in so vain what deposits exist let alone extracting them and once metals were discovered such as beryllium which is used in military applications little was thought of destroying the emeralds in which it's normally found. there are still thought to be

enormous deposits of emeralds and other precious stones within the euro's and no matter where they come from the region still has craftsman that spend their working lives creating masterpieces from them who knows maybe one day if the mistress of copper mountain allows it and these marvels and stone could be made from part of the country they represent. we're going to discuss a little bit more about you have to turn burke's past and its development as the capital of the urals is maxime hummock of he is vice rector here at the ural federal university but seem if we start off back in the past and the discovery of the huge mineral wealth that there is around here perhaps you could talk us through the development of the city from its early origins right well the the history of mining here from those here goes down to the late seventeenth hooley eighteenth

century and we can train it up to remove the spare millie one of the most to reach people here in russia and they built a lot of factories here you know not only in your kitchen and worldwide some of the region then in thirty's you're in the soviets who considered wars they created a lot of heavy engineering tractor is so this was the it starlin's in the story it was asia so we take that up to them if we'll call it this the region's moments of crisis really after the fall of the soviet union in the ninety's and the region i think it's probably fair to say found itself a bit lost. well of course when you have so many you know factories and then you know the whole economy collapsed you know the the city was in a crisis i mean there was a call region was in crisis it's actually even court tomorrow to weigh all of

repudiation of the criminal capital of sharing this time for the moment i think strategy or a raisins as they go through business is working quite well thank you so much same honokaa from the university here you can turn burke has been a city that's never been afraid to push business opportunities where they come from the ural mountains all from all that the shopping malls that are springing up here and it's that future that will be looking at the development of you and bird in the decades to come. well tomorrow. cancer and that's how we move from the rolls to come next hour when our intrepid adventure sets out to explore another major since you.

were. well it's time for the markets now with katie on the business desk and that will gadget lovers getting their fix i understand that's exactly right is the. carrier is a veritable on shop shelves today we seeing queues of thousands of people lining up sleeping on the pavements desperate to get hold of the latest offering from apple

i'm going to talk about that a bit later on but right now i want to focus on oil markets because it's a very interesting time indeed because right now the u.k. prime minister david cameron he's saying that it's it's time to tap into strategic reserves the emergency reserves he said the prices are so high that it's now necessary whereas barack obama the u.s. president is saying that officially he's not agreed to this we had the white house officials saying today that nothing has been agreed but bear in mind is an election coming up of this year and when it comes to prices they need to be alone order from people so that it is worth mentioning that as you can see prices are indeed there are a high if we move on that we can see that european markets down are open for business and it is a mixed view as you can see greece is still up some headlines they have now asked for more money it's now been agreed not hundred eighty billion dollars which we

first thought is are two hundred twenty five billion dollars that's agreed amount of money that they're going to get to keep them afloat as you can see mixed picture right now be following it throughout the day the russian market is they too have been struggling for direction and also a mixed picture you've got there apparently largely being put down to slow growth in china that's having a direct impact on this part of the world we look at the stocks and we can see there's a few stronger by. doing better today than they were yesterday they're gearing up for a six billion dollars of their shares that's to take place. and i thought the sixteen now as you can see it gets promo interesting they all do particularly well today considering the ore prices so if we move on to the current series we can see that the cola is proving not to be doing quite so well i guess you're right that it is firing back against the ruble moving on we've got gold an interesting one today

it's now in its third straight week of the last days and that's because investors appetite for risk appetite is improving there for the safe haven isn't quite as popular as you can see it is completely plummeted by full sense that it was a lost ours is not going to have a talk now let's talk about the array as i said we saw you use this morning those people are desperate to get hold of it and by all accounts it's not actually that much different it's not big. revolutionary inspired saw it is very much like the first one it's. so the first reviews have been saying if it gets two thousand and ten cells of the first i pod work beloved expectations with some consumers quoting it's an expensive and that really that says an apples marketing efforts have paid off the ipod is now more than fashion statements in its third generation of those. from apple we've seen it in ten countries today it's just kicked off in europe at

the moment we've seen pugh's in paris it started off in sydney i love it gets now talking about shares though interestingly they have now hits an all time high and dish it they've increased by forty five cents so at be interesting to see more reviews as the day goes up i'll be back in fifty five minutes.