small scale calls on arab and western states not to thwart kofi mediating effort in syria but higher hopes the special envoys report to the un security council may bring the crisis closer to a solution. also sparing no expense the rallies exiled from the global banking system sending all prices soaring and western nations rushing to open emergency domestic reserves. and the controversial tradition of remembering s.s. veterans as heroes that we had nationalists gather for an annual march condemned by half of the population and seen as an inspiration for young neo nazis.

for a good evening for me kevin over here in moscow it's eight pm here now you're watching t.v. has a say in our top story for you the un now the u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan is that the u.n. security council to break the political deadlock on syria he said unity over the crisis will help his peace mission cohen said made securing his brief meeting to the body on his findings following his recent visit to damascus to your correspondent reporting i got the latest. kofi annan on has told the security council members that he plans to send a technical mission to damascus early next week so discussions can begin on a plan for international monitors to go to syria kofi annan the u.n.

and arab league envoy to syria has now urged the security council to overcome their differences he said it is very important for there to be unity and consensus among the security council to help his peace plan become actual absolute success as we know for the past year the security council has remained extremely divided on how to approach the situation in syria with the u.s. and western countries calling essentially for regime change and asking for the charlotte side the syrian president to step down now kofi annan the former secretary general of the united nations was in damascus last week he met with mr assad two times and also met with the opposition group he said that the doors are open for there to be eventual peace mr assad from reports indicated that he is open to and welcoming mr mr non's efforts to help reach peace in syria

however this is the syrian exiled opposition group labeled kofi annan strip she didn't ask is a failure now russia is one of many countries that said that the security council should very much assists and support mr anon efforts to reach some kind of peace syria and there's the sluice and i hope this mission won't be ruined and that all sides will support coup few naan just like we do every time we have a feeling that we managed to achieve some positive change in the streets of damascus there's an immediate counterweight reaction and any steps forward are dismissed i hope this will happen with the attitude of countries in the middle east and some mustard states to the mission of us. arab league envoy kofi in arms and it was very strange that two days after is first visit to damascus the opposition syrian national council claim the mission had already failed i think it's

irresponsible we're sending definite signals to damascus to cooperate with mr anon and we hope that other members of the security council will also demand the opposition does not provoke the escalation of violence cooperates with mr nonce missions you know mr lavrov also mentioned last week i highlighted the fact that russia and the arab league came up with a five point plan to help bring peace to syria and that includes our unintended humanitarian assistance and access in syria and also immediate cease fire where both sides put their weapon salad and begin to engage in dialogue according to the united nations more than eight thousand people have been killed in syria since this violence began. as a muffled but it's now talked to rob lines is that the editor of the online magazine spite of his lies could even to thank spring on r.t. moscow says it backs kofi annan peace mission but with no visible results achieved

so far what you think about its effectiveness the. well it's very difficult to see how far kofi annan can get because america britain and france have been very clear that they want the regime change in syria they're not really prepared to settle for anything less than that as a result of this in the syrian government doesn't want to be replaced so there is a basic deadlock in that situation in russia and china seems to be hoping for some kind of in between solution as much as on the ground. and that may be a step forward but fundamentally the. attitude of the major western governments it's much much. in terms of replacing the assad regime and i just don't see this much room for compromise unless and rob another development today arab league states have decided to close their damascus embassies in reaction to

the conflict how does that all fit into the latest russia arab league five point peace plan well i think it's unfortunate that the good embassies closed if you're sitting down lies communication that has to be kind of a. cheap point because. it's make you look good to the outside world rather than being very constructive so. i just think that the arab and the arab league at the moment really we've got a lot of governments are in many ways just authoritarian as the assad regime. to curry favor with the west and also. try highlighting themselves against assad interesting scenes yesterday when the run of first anniversary we saw tens of thousands of the sad supporters taking to the streets on the first anniversary of when it all kicked off what does that say about the regime's legitimacy twelve months on. well there's always been a substantial minority of the syrian population that was very like in support assad

first of all the alawite minority which is part of the believing members of the regime are a part but also much more broadly view christian. regime to what it's like greatly. for many other people may just see the fact that the destabilization of syria in the long run is going to be worse than. putting it with the democratic system that moment. where there are clearly a substantial minority is also let's get rid of assad i think this. most supporters of all the people who are walking said about stability and about getting rid of assad now we're hearing this side government says it's ready to cooperate with kofi annan but then on the other hand some opposition groups are quick to label this mission a failure from the very onset and without clear split in opinion can

a political solution to the crisis be found at this stage do you think. i think it's very very difficult partly because of the intransigence of the west because the very clear line that they are holding in terms of wanting to get rid of assad and not really being prepared to accept any compromise and also because who the opposition is the opposition is a very very divided bunch and. labels like the s.n.c. like the free free syrian army was actually just the fact that actually that these are very disparate groups of very disparate interests who are only very tightly i one thing want to get rid of assad in every other respect they have very very different interests so how they can be really much of a solution for this is difficult to say just really really briefly while you're there i mean publicly washington's once again confirmed that military intervention is not on the agenda along with its french and british allies yet moscow still very divided foreign intervention why the. well i mean i would be very worried about

this not the serious talk in the. last week or so from america about arming the rebels whoever the rebels are it's not exactly clear who we are and. meantime there is an incredible amount of it's eventually going on inside the sanctions in terms of the use of. nuclear inspectors and so i want that to actually intervene in syria already so i think it was like that continues i think will only confirm the idea look just for the west to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states and from that point of view i think moscow has got something to be worried about. the editor of the online magazine spike thanks for your thoughts . because the fate of syria hangs in the balance another middle eastern nations wrestling with the consequences of an excess fall revolution egyptian authorities desperate to avert more on rest a crackdown on police brutality is an employment poverty and the dissolution of

tensions across the country good report coming up. on the troubles of the heart of the urals to later in the program where precious gems lost heavy metals still best chance to explore the land of the rich resorts it is just a few. attempts by the u.s. and its allies to bring terror on to its knees through sanctions is intensifying after swift the company that handles global banking transfers says it's cutting off iranian banks that the price of oil the lifeblood of the world's economy hertling forcing the u.s. and the u.k. to tap into their own crude reserves but as artists are a first reports now many nations simply don't have that luxury. spain is among the biggest importers rainey and oil will sayings when the sanctions come into force in july spain have until then. of crude supply. and all

around saying a real risk to the country found out has been fueled by iranian oil. prices are on the rise and there are fears that they're about to be pumped even higher with the iranian oil embargo eliminating the e.u. in peace band comes as the west's been making waves if her runs nuclear program it's getting around the oil revenues would bring the country to the bargaining table even assuming that the case against iran is a strong sanctions right now and exercised by countries like spain or greece or italy that much those countries more than it will damage iran most countries like france and britain and fourteen e a very small percentage of iranian oil and supported the band because she's struggling the west economically right now spain greece and italy but again to feel the effect of the sanctions the most we have is we can't refuse to rush if the u.s. pick. still the foreign minister actually said if you're sick you check the

sick personal stake in me even if you assume you couldn't hear about the fact you can't be forced to make a 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 and it's terrible that we should pay for decisions taken in brussels is not known to conform and certainly not from simple residence. certainly should trigger a rise in prices. sample of us to talk not belch and keep the issue of nuclear weapons a punch to revive our economy. of course i'm afraid because they're already too high if they go any higher will be able to afford gas. attempts to come fears about revising prices have been made saudi arabia says it's good enough oil to make up

for the loss of around supplies when the in bug comes into force to countries like spain will still be paying the price of lost trade with iran and the cost of replacing those oil contracts ironically spain's imports of oil from iran have increased since the e.u. backed libyan war now the prospect of his with iran is causing huge concern and. while there's no war price students sanctions can be corrected the problems will come if. for now countries like spain elect at the mercy of a volatile situation and no one wants to see ignites so. just to take a minute out so a point out to of course our web site r t dot com great resource for the latest news coming out of analysis from us is a taste of a few stories there right now while the u.s. presidential campaign is in full throttle the country's electronic voting system presented those impregnable gets hacked less than two days after the test launch

its start plus of cultural company criticised over its harsh treatment of small time farmers gets the go ahead for a massive biotechnology contract in the united states threatening even more independent businesses who got the background to that too. this is r.t. in egypt nine police officers have been charged with assisting a murderous model football fans in a rampage that killed seventy four opposing team supporters last month police have been largely immune from prosecution in the country for decades even after the revolution last year out of fear of upsetting stability but now words are teaser in english to reports this current car is unlikely to last. revolution happened just

around the corner these streets are really closer to here and have always been and if i want to look interest up of the city but over the past year with the protests spreading the breaking out these shopkeepers have seen their lives and their livelihoods broken repairs and cleanup in the wake of protestors clashes with police brought many businesses to hold meaning they are 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 a. for

a problem the angry unemployed youth often choose to sweep in after the protestors are losing in stealing from damage shops does develop the book everything we have here like other businesses in the neighborhood are also looted all houses on this street or near tahrir square either broken into everyone suffrage in an attempt to keep the protests under control the government installed cement walls blocking off the area around the talkie or square it may have made things easier for the police but it's only made matters worse for locals here in 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. 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 to here square

. in the first place their first slogan that was hearing the hideous word was the word bread because it was. it was actually a good thing godly people were killing it for that was the line. it was health care aleutian we turned all of that around bringing more jobs to people and food on their tables when it was things stand more than a year after the uprising even those who did have a livelihood are now struggling to stay afloat even if i was quite cairo. and afghan parliamentary investigation team says that twenty u.s. troops could be implicated in the massacre of sixteen civilians in kandahar that claim contradicts nato has a current one room soldier was behind the attack on the u.s. military's confirm the defense secretary leon panetta was the intended target of a suicide bomber to british base in southern afghanistan the country's president hamid karzai has called on nato forces to leave rural areas after last week's shooting saying he wants them to withdraw entirely before the current deadline of

twenty fourteen all this comes in the wake of the taliban suspending peace talks with washington now on cross-talk on this channel at nineteen thirty g.m.t. the panel's going to be taking on the whole issue of 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 but ultimately we're going to leave if not this year then next to the year after and everybody knows that whatever way you want to. know is near christian. what about pay it off. i was just you know there is already getting out and put it against him but if 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 a violin we exit into quickly kuwait is free and persian gulf oil flow those are very interesting areas you can see that there are three or if you look at the instances where we've. gretchen you want to jump in you want to disagree king at the end. i just want to say that you're wrong i'm saying when people fight back we don't do well. but the every member of this for what an s.s. veterans is being held in the latvian capital riga and will rally features s.s. supporters and nationalists and it's condemned about half the country's population is glorification of nazis and as i see jacob graves reports next its influence on young latvian sparks fears that neo nazi support is growing. scenes like this have concert characterize legionnaires day in latvia it stands to commemorate the around one hundred forty thousand people who fought on the side of the waffen s.s.

partner in legion aiding nazi germany's war effort they maintain their fighting against another foe the soviets red army also guilty of committing crimes itself against the last few equal but it's not just those in attendance that youth intimate service that has many of zervos with so often some nationalistic and ultra nationalist far right undertones that's brought about another protest an anti fascist protest as well they don't want to live in government to e-mail around these demonstrations take place in the first place they want and i mean going to be doing more to actually planets now the president of latvia he's already been criticized for some of his words on this saying this will take him to heart in those demonstrations is a criminal well the russian foreign ministry retaught is saying that in fact this will do nothing to stem the flow of xenophobia in latvia on that issue just

a hundred yards away from here there is a conference an international conference convening about the rise of the far right not only in latvia but also the rest of europe. couple top world news stories for you now belgium's holding a day of mourning for the victims of a school bus crash in switzerland the vehicles on its way back to belgium from a school organized trip when it crashed into the wall of the tunnel it killed twenty two children and six adults one of the survivors reported seeing the driver trying to change a t.v. he just prior to the accident those claims are being investigated as a possible cause of the crash. its helicopters crashed into a house near the capital of afghanistan it killed twelve soldiers on board and four civilians on the ground the aircraft was on a mission from nato forces in the region according to the turkish foreign ministry the pilot had tried to avoid the homes as he made the emergency landing no hostile activity was reported in the area at the time of the crash and the exact cause of

the incident is still not know. right now we're off next to a europe needs asia to explore russia's fourth largest city that stands on a natural boundary between the two continents it's the subject of artes latest close up. so our destination is a country book it's nestled in the mineral rich ural mountains and home to a renowned jewelry specialist but despite areas around the city teeming with gems local craftsman reporting precious stones from abroad why lottie's time bartman find that. promised beginnings as an outpost of the fledgling russian empire here to terra burke 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 its 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 malakai it hidden in russia's ural mountains but now a kite is not alone 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 natural beauty these are the stones the feel the legends and fairy tales of 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. with and it should be large one hundred percent trails loose and with the main

properties being color wallowing in wait it also depends how often the precious stone is found in nature. most of them will find their way into do re and display pieces but as anonymous as these stones seem with the urals the vast majority don't even come from russia winnable no one worst locally developed precious stones here it's very sad and i even feel a sort of pain because they do their business is though there on the stones it's not that the urals a 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 deposits a 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 europe 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 in stone could be made from a part of the country they represent dumbarton party. well if you george is serious i can tell you this more heart is closer to come from the capital region tomorrow for you tom the table back with a report from a village with a headline grabbing name so it's coming out twenty four hours from now. the business twenty five minutes past eight o'clock at night this friday evening a weekend retreat is manning a business there's none the less it being an early weekend here world's biggest rally william company found a replacement for it still the big his name is very strong is coming in to replace the big one of russia's the richest man who stepped down resigned from his position

of chairman of the roof fell on tuesday this week well gary chong has been an investment an independent director i should say since of two thousand and ten and the company has also heads the hong kong mercantile exchange it's a very big step down on choose they because he had several differences with the company's management especially with the main shareholder. and one of the being sticking points was the sale of the stake in the normals nick all mine. well take a look at what's going on on the markets so right now what we're seeing in russia was a negative session on friday after a very positive we've actually a six day week working week in trading week of course on the my sex however if you just take a look at what's happening in roussel it's bucking the trend it's up more than three percent you can take a look at those share movers right now they're coming in roussel they're gaining

three point three percent g.d.p. also an interesting stock is up three quarters of a percent at the end of the session when it was falling for the session on news that the company may go ahead with a secondary share offering in september or october for another three billion dollars and the lukoil was down one point four percent despite high oil prices a look at them in just a second. because of its disappointing for results price you can see there brant grown more than two dollars per barrel this hour now a bit of a yo yo actually of past twenty four hours the news broke all the other room of growth lost in the last session with the u.k. and the u.s. reportedly opening their reserves strategic reserves and letting more oil onto the market before the world prices fell right now we're seeing growth on escalating tension between the west and iran which has been isolated from the world banking system has been disconnected from swift. move on to stock markets in the united

states are looking very moderately positive just by a notch apple shares are down this is our first day of trading of the new tablet apparently sell of the new syndrome for the stock because it's up more than forty percent since the beginning of the year remarkable it's moving on to europe and it's also quite moderate over there for the seafaring better driven by mining shares also on the positive. mood on the increased factory factory production in industrial production indices in the united states point three percent. and finally a second look at what's happening in the currency markets and the euro is regaining position against against the dollar and that's reflected in the ruble exchanges it's the gaining versus the dollar the weakening around one thousand copecks versus a european. so we've got for you this hour we will be back next hour with nothing

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