russia warns against western countries derailing coffee and peace mission to syria hopes ride all world leaders coming together to and syria's twelve months of turmoil. thanks again booted out of the global payments system but here's a growing europe about the sanctions could backfire on beleaguered e.u. nations. and thousands of egyptians protest against police negligence and it's swelling frustration over how the new leadership is failing to bring change.

and thanks for joining us at this friday two o'clock here in moscow on carrots are actually russia says it hopes western and arab countries don't ruin the u.n. arab league envoy for peace mission to syria the un's most powerful group will get an update on the syrian crisis on friday from kofi anon it's talk to us findings my breathe new life into stalled talks on ending the year long violence our middle east correspondent paula slayer joins us now with more on this. let's listen by the former head of the united nations is the latest attempt to solve diplomatically what is happening in syria and later today friday and man 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 humanitarian assistance to civilians who've been caught had in the crossfire as well as political debate and political involvement

not last weekend kofi annan 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 at the same time the syrian regime has indicated that its response to announce proposals is positive now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged all members of the international community to back this mission with lavrov saying that russia puts its weight behind it because of this those fish 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 and 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 we're standing definite signals to damascus to cooperate with mr in arms and we hope that other members of the security council also demand the opposition does not provoke the escalation of violence and cooperates with mr nobbs 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. calling for his resignation they say next his 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 the responsibility in terms of what's happening in syria it needs to be shared between both the regime and the opposition and they saying that here that any kinds of cause for machine change and one sided sanctions in the mulling over foreign intervention will only lead to an escalation of

violence at the same time moscow is saying that he needs to be some kind of investigation into hades that various on factions and what they need to be brought into the fold and spoken some political analyst michel chossudovsky says foreign powers who plow support into one side of the syrian conflict could hamper any peaceful solution they are pressure forces on but rather from nato countries. because of they i know this is probably our own sources and so they stop it's little hearsay it is actual fact british special forces have met up with members of the free syrian army and they are training because of the free syrian army from a base in turkey british m.-i six operatives etc have reportedly been training the rebels they. know what is that that means that operatives of the west that doesn't

realize staveley they are on the drugs inside syria. and they are complicit in it and to see it in our kids it's it which is not an opposition which is fighting government forces. well we want to know what you think about the situation in syria with our web site vote at archie dot com we're asking you a year on who's supporting the fighting in the conflict in syria this hour more than half of you fifty one percent say its world superpowers and their demand for natural resources just over a quarter believe it's propaganda paddlers claiming to be media outlets eleven percent think it's syria's power hungry elite while slightly fewer say it's a fight between freedom loving people and an oppressive government. is where you can go at your voice. iran is facing further isolation as the world's biggest electronic banking system known as swift prepares to cut off dozens

of national firms blacklisted by the e.u. it's part of a broader effort by european nations who also plan to impose an embargo on iranian oil this summer to pressure iran over its nuclear program but as sara furthur reports the measures are likely to ricochet back. spain is among the biggest importers raney and oil and all that. come into force if you like grain hasn't tell the. causes of crude supply. and all around facing a real risk to the country that intel route you'll play rainy and oil. prices are on the rise and there are fears. even higher with the iranian oil embargo a looming the e.u. increased ban comes as the west's been making waves runs nuclear program it's getting around while revenues in the country to the plug in cable even assuming

that 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 struggling less economically right now spain greece and italy but again to feel the effects of the sanctions the nicest things we can trick is that pressure from the u.s. because he's still the foreign minister actually said if you're sick you check for sixty five percent of the sikh community even if. you didn't hear about it you can't be forced to make the decision once you get 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. it's terrible that we should pay for decisions taken in brussels is not known for but certainly not for simple residents. trigger a rise in prices we should follow viewed sample of the us belt and keep the issue of nuclear weapons in. march to revive our economy. of course i'm afraid because they're already too high if they go anywhere and won't be able to forget the attempts to calm fears about its rise in prices have been made by the radius as it's good enough will to make up for the loss of around supply when the in vogue comes into fools the countries like spain will still be paying the price of loss trade with iran and the cost of replacing those oil contracts ironically spain imports of oil from iran have increased since the e.u. backed libyan war now the prospect of hysteric ease with iran is causing huge concern the. prices relations due to sanctions can be corrected the problems will

come with. you know countries like spain and left at the mercy of a volatile situation and one wants to see if it's. r.t. spain play you had for you this hour including on bailing the enemy nearly two years after accusing alleged whistleblower bradley manning of aiding and unnamed follow government prosecutors finally say who it is as they build the case against the soldier. and later we take you to your very important to dust off of precious business tucked away in russia's urals it's the next stop in our close up series. there is still a deep anger in egypt with thousands gathering in cairo over the football stadium stampede which killed seventy four people last month thousands of people have now been charged with murder and negligence including

a former security chief and police officers as a renegotiate reports it's just compounding the despondency over a revolution that was meant to improve their lives. their evolution happened just around the corner of the street and i really close the field and have always been and if i natural interest half of the city but over the past year with the protests predicate breaking out these shopkeepers have seen their lives gnashed and their livelihoods broken repairs and cleanup in the wake of protesters clashes with police brought many businesses to a halt meaning they're already small income was hit. after the revolution there's been less 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 at the security situation in the egyptian 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. everything we have here other businesses in the neighborhood are also looted all houses on the street or near tahrir square either broken or rock everyone suffered in an attempt to keep the protests under control the government installed cement walls blocking off the area around the top tier square it may have made things easier for the police but it's only made matters worse for locals but 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 almost all of the hold. 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 were thousands out of here square in the first place the first slogan that was here and behind the square was the word broke because it was. it was actually good for god to do good work really good for the long run it was have there aleutian would turn all of that around bringing more jobs to people and food on their tables and as things stand more than a year after the uprising even those who did have a livelihood are now struggling to stay afloat even to. cairo. well you can get world news online when you won it on our dot com here's what we've got there right now. yet another violent crackdown on occupy protesters headquarters in my and me with security forces storming an apartment where mostly women and young children were living legally we've got the footage in full mine.

also dine and dash the story of the student customers who entered a restaurant drank a few cocktails and then base jumped from the fifty fifth floor more are not. thirteen minutes past the hour and a nato operated helicopter has crashed into a house killing twelve turkish soldiers on board and at least two civilians on the ground it's the latest setback to the u.s. led operation in afghanistan that's being rounded all from both sides with close coming from the afghan government and the taliban muslims militant group out suspended peace talks with washington describing america's position in the conflict as a radical and vague afghan president also rounded on the nato campaign calling on forces

to leave rural areas after last week's massacre of sixteen civilians find american soldier the incident has intensified calls for an earlier exit of nato troops but how many cars on locking his forces to take control of security by next year battle plans to withdraw by twenty fourteen in the next hour also talk here is from experts who take on america's military strategy. 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 the next to the year after and everybody knows that whatever way you want to. hear. nato what about pay it off.

i was just you know there's already been i think that is good but it's no eating 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 flow those are very interesting areas you can see that area three are right now if you look at the instances where we've gretchen you want to jump in you want to disagree thing at the end. i just want to say that you're wrong i'm saying when people fight back we don't do well. an attorney for u.s. soldier bradley manning who is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information has asked a military judge to dismiss the charges he argues the government mishandled certain documents in a case also military authorities have finally said the unknown enemy manning is charged with assisting result. and they did the soldier could face life in prison

a spokesman for the group supporting manning says he's already been subjected to unlawful 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 did not 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 trial tends to proceed punishments 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 and 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 let's take a look now at what else is making news around the world this hour north korea plans to launch a satellite to mark the birthday of the state's founder kim il sung the u.s. and south korea condemned the move as a disguise for carrying out ballistic missile tests which the north is prohibited from doing under a u.n. resolution telling young insists the launch is part of a peaceful space program. well essentially detained about fifty people who are among thousands of students rallying to urge for reform of the country's education system three officers were injured in clashes and security forces broke up the un sanctioned rally using tear gas and water cannons or

protests are expected now with summer holidays happens it. survivors and relatives of the victims from tuesday's swift bus crash have returned to brussels family members spent thursday identifying their loved ones who died when their coach had a wall inside a tunnel killing twenty eight people mostly children one of the young survivors reported seeing a driver trying to change a d.v.d. just before the crash which police are now investigating. tom now to explore one of russia's biggest cities and what it has to offer in close up. nestled in the mineral rich iran mountains you can put in board has always been known across the country for its precious stones but begin this tree had metal on

its mind when it moved in and this town barton reports that took the shine off the jewels. from its beginnings as an outpost of the fledgling russian empire. has grown up as a city which exploits of the mineral wealth of the ural mountains it's gone on developing line throughout its history and its those themes the exploitation of the region's rich mineral wealth which i've been examining in my reports the retail mistress of. it tells of the mysteries of the legendary greens can't he didn't russia's euro mountains but i'm going to fight it's not some. this looks like a pile of rather dull mountain rocks but step over here when we have water we can see something of these rocks the natural beauty these are the stones as a field the legends and fairy tales the urals and they also feed the still hands of

local craft these men are cutting and polishing precious stones and chief among the treasures the most famous greenstone of them all emerald. should be large one hundred percent translucent with the game properties being color quality and weight it also depends how often the precious stone is found in nature and most of them will find their way into jewelry and display pieces but are synonymous as these stones seem to urals the vast majority don't even come from russia just going to bring it up with no one forced me locally developed precious stones here it's very sad and i even feel a sort of pain because the jewelry business is built around the stillness 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 that

nobody bothered to invest much in surveying what the posits exist let alone extracting them and once metals were discovered such as but really i'm 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 europeans and no matter where they come from the region still has craftsman that spend their working lives creating masterpieces from who knows maybe one day if the mistress of copper mountain allows it these marvels in stone could be made from parts of the country they represent. we're going to discuss a little bit more about yucatan burke's past and its developments as the capital of the urals is maxime hummock all 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 developments of the city from its early origins right well the the history of mining here and into motion here goes down to the late seventeen early eighteenth century and to we can track it up to the musics family one of the most to reach people here in russia and they built a lot of factories here you know not only in the incident were bought and the region and then in thirty's you're in the soviets who had to remove a trade to do a lot of heavy engineering tractor is you know so this was the it era of stalin's industrialisation so we take that up too if we call it 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 right well of course when you have so many you know factories and then you know the whole economy collapsed you know the city was into crisis i mean and the whole region was in crisis it's actually even walt not to weigh all of the asian altie criminal capital prashant this time for the moment i think strategy will raise a status for businesses working quite well thank you so much sinha mccall from the university here you can turn burke has been to a city that's never been afraid to push business opportunities whether they come from the ural mountains or from all that the shopping malls that are springing up here and it's that future that will be looking at the developments of the turn bird in the decades to come. all right well tomorrow we wrap up our journey. but we've got more from the year olds to come later today when our intrepid adventurers sets

out to explore another major hub the city of perm. lieut. ok let's now get over to katie at our business desk

a day anderson and gadget lovers are having a field day oh you're exactly right carol and they're loving and that's because the rate is now available on shops shells and it was all security and he was happiest. it was then and now it. just didn't happen them up this is we're going to come back to that a bit later right now going to talk about oil because that's probably the most important stock at the moment and that's largely because david cameron the prime minister is for a cane on top. of because the ore price is so high at the moment he will take the pressure off of the british economy at the moment if a family is trying to objects of barack obama we saw the prices of oil rebound to slightly because barack obama's administration said the this was going to be the case just yet there's no official statement put out as you can see this hour though

prices have gone back up barack obama remember there's an election coming out of this years and he's going to want to keep or price is relative in order to get the popular vote or prices at the moment as you can see the light sweet is over one hundred five dollars per barrel as you can see over one hundred twenty three dollars per hour for the have a high if we move on we're going to take a look at how the european markets are faring the moment. the gains are very much for the rankings that the mining sector do particularly well we've had greece of back in the spotlight they've had a hold off another round of should we say or should i say to another head for the holders we've got one hundred eighty dollars has now been taken up to two hundred twenty five bit into a full the troubled economy. moving although we're going to say the russian market is all also mixed this hour as you can see yes point four down on the my. i said it's around the same amount in positive territory says i'm excited to be trading is

rather thin today it's friday afternoon in most cases not so much. moving on we're going to take a look at the stocks and see the best of us. on the they've managed to get in a lot of those losses that they lost yesterday when they announced that they were going to be selling six billion dollars of that. are also not doing so well despite those high oil prices if we look at currencies we can see that the dollar is relatively flat against the euro and we've got it against the russian ruble now so a change of fortunes for the currency is there anywhere from home saying it's on sale if we take a look at gold it has now said would you believe look at that and you know as just happens in the last couple of hours or so it really has been suffering and it's lost half its value this year and. if we move on the let's go back to that i let's go back to the story that because as i say we've seen sydney was never

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