is he journalism we. we want to present. something or. breaking the deadlock russia says it's ready to back u.n. action on syria and the peace plan put forward by the world bodies envoy to the country. well as it will continue to pay any ground that this will to make the syrian government's. dozens of killed and over one hundred injured in the latest spate of violence across iraq just one day after the nine front of verse three of the start of the u.s. led invasion. and the thousands of construction workers in the u.k. struggling for employment demanding justice after learning they were placed on a secret list supported by the police. and global markets for

news of the world economy the business is in twenty minutes. it is now a five pm on tuesday here in the russian capital you're watching are with me rory sushi. is ready to back a u.n. resolution on syria as long as it contains no ultimatums aimed at president assad's regime and this is according to the russian foreign minister who's voicing strong support for the u.n. special envoys wrote about peace in the conflict torn country and the u.n. security council is set to consider voting on a draft statement on syria later on tuesday with little details now was artie's sarah. essentially russia's position remains much the same as it has right from the very beginning when they've been calling for

a cease fire in the country for absolutely months now and they remain very firm on the sticking point which was that they're not going to back any plateau proposal that because the ultimatum to be on the syrian government they don't want to document the should be backing one side and that's what we saw russia will bring its details at the u.n. resolution they did that very not so that they felt that the subject matter in the wording of things resolutions cools the regime change rather than putting the focus on both sides but needing towards peace and a hold of the violence and say that position there remains very very bad that they will certainly but take it on a peace plan that they're very much behind the client calls for humanitarian sistar in the country does what the support from russia but i think the most kayleigh not going to be backing anything that doesn't put the ideas homebase sides now to move

towards holding the violence in syria there is a lot of faith now that the security council is so to me full pos these barriers that they've been meeting eva things like the wording of these resolutions and katyn and sensibly seem to have this is a mediator between the west and russia stones that we've had for minister level saying that if you don't fund doesn't put the ultimatum it doesn't put the pressure just on one side can say if this can now put pressure on both the opposition and assad to push through this cease fire is that he there's a lot of play that some sort of consensus can be reached. ok sarah further porting there are meantime human rights watch has slammed the syrian opposition using it of committing abuses including torture and retribution killings however some countries are still backing the rebels who the assad's government say carried out several deadly bombings in damascus over the weekend independent news editor james

corporate thinks that foreign forces are willing to support anyone who is fighting against the president unfortunately the cycle of violence shows absolutely no signs of abating and absolutely those terror blasts are particularly worrying because they were of course targeting the air force intelligence and national security buildings so it does seem to prove the point that assad has been making for some time that there is clearly some international coordination and arming of the beast so put cold rain plagued rebels who are who are supposedly doing this it would seem to point out that there's been more reform in syria in the past year than there has been in the past fifty and if that's not enough to to at least bring the sides to the table to start some sort of negotiation and one would have to imagine that nothing will so regime change seems to be absolutely be inevitable course that. the west and others and set their eyes on certainly that arming and giving weapons to be insurgences is absolutely designed for nothing else than to cause more bloodshed

and and the idea of doing that in a humanitarian fashion i think is is laughable on its face and once again street goes to prove the point that really diplomacy isn't the end game here the end game is to get rid of assad and unfortunately we see that from the playing out right now so one has to hope that the recent initiatives lately a red cross call for the cease fire on a daily basis and things like that could have some sort of effect but at this point it really seems the cycle of violence and just got school even. and the more on syria coming your way next hour in artie's a special interview with dr bashar the authority of the country to the u.s. . a series of coordinated blasts have rocked nearly a dozen cities in iraq killing more than forty and injuring almost two hundred three car bombs exploded in the north an oil rich province of course book killing nine further two car bombs hit a predominantly shia city of hadera that's about eighty kilometers south of baghdad

killing thirteen other attacks on the capital and it to southern towns targeted local police headquarters the latest violence comes nine years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq began and just ahead of next week's arab league summit to be held him back and see war campaigner david swanson says that despite u.s. efforts iraq is a country in tatters. the mileage their country destroyed what was one of the most advanced civilized country split the highest standard of living in that region we've destroyed it for over twenty years we've had it here of wars and in lisp our meal and say cheese in between in millions of lives just in the past nine years we've killed over a million people in three to four million refugees the refugees in the world are now from iraq or afghanistan and we've ruled there is for structure trillions of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know

your appearance or your ocean want every woman giving birth as the same first question is it normal any we have just really natural untreated. you're watching r.t. now afghan officials have now denying rather findings by human rights groups that point it took wide spread torture in the country's prisons and the claims also stated that some of the detainees subjected to abuse were handed over by america despite a ban on transfers adopted last summer these allegations come just weeks after several atrocities were committed by u.s. soldiers in that country artie's guy nature can has more. every year international forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and a new york based open society foundations were feels that what awaits the detainees after being transferred is often torture and denial of due process the report

refers to very specific cases and testimonies and basically asks whether the u.s. is complicit in torture there we're talking about some gruesome reports of abuse detailed in that report beatings suspension from the ceiling electric shocks of threatened or actual sexual abuse and other forms of mental and physical abuse which are routinely used to obtain confessions or other information the research primarily focuses on how the afghan intelligence agency does business and i think it says that the u.s. in the business of the u.s. forces is just to hand over those detainees but for years america's own network of secret prisons in afghanistan as provided ample material for various reports rampant torture and unlawful practices have been reported at so-called black site interrogation centers by the way the u.s. government has admitted the existence of those secret centers but the admission the confirmation came after many years of denials so now as the u.s. is in the process of handing over its presence including the infamous prison on dog

or a mayor base to the afghan government though these reports come out about what happens to the detainees after they're handed handed over by american forces to their afghan colleagues this pullout operation is becoming increasingly challenging for the united states at times plain embarrassing because of the bad news coming from afghanistan on a regular basis the american soldier who apparently killed sixteen innocent civilians the burning of the holy muslim books of u.s. marine you're in aiding and dead afghans and more broadly the surge of violence there rampant opium production which terrorists. around the globe. yes journalists tend to focus on problems in afghanistan it seems there are more problems than time to report. he's going to asia kind reporting right for us what to do stay with us here on the program coming up in just a few minutes but about black listed britain. when i got morning star

you can imagine that it's a choice and you have probably had a trip from with a friend server to your relationships in jeopardy you can't pay your bills anymore find out why union workers are whistleblowers of the u.k. fighting back after being kicked out of the workplace. and a report on how russian authorities are planning a new lease on life for the two hundred fifty thousand where becomes installed during the recent presidential vote. because parliament is set to approve the country's new international bailout deal later today as more protests against austerity measures in return for rescue funds are planned athens it received a second bout out this year combined with its first rescue package the country now stands to receive over one hundred seventy two billion euros in loans from a eurozone countries and the i.m.f. but greece's creditors claimed the country's most recent austerity measures could

be quote accident prone experts say the country may fail to lower its debt burden to the specified targets later requiring yet more rescue loans greece is in its fifth year of recession and many believe it needs to recover before debt reduction plans can have much effect more on this we're now joined by author economic analyst and international lawyer. live from athens good to see you today as i was saying earlier greece is due to receive its first batch of the second bailout and we're talking thirty five point five billion euros many are saying the money is coming in like water would come into a bucket with a hole in it how long can this money last. the plan is that it should last this until about the end of two thousand and fourteen and out of this particular loan that we're getting this month twenty five billion of it is going to go to recapitalize banks which we hope will have a positive effect on the economy so they can start being credit can flow and so

economic activity can improve and hopefully so can growth and employment five billion is to pay off a loan that we had which is in the form of a bomb that was worth fifteen billion but after the here we only need to pay five billion which helps significantly and of course there is another five billion in interest loans that we have to pay as well but certainly greece can expect to rely on bailout money for ever how does the country plan that actually generate growth and finally get back on track. well it's actually very interesting that in the last i.m.f. report that you just mentioned a bit earlier they finally actually recognized that there is a hard balance of risk which is nice and redeeming after two years of ignoring it and they also said something quite uncharacteristic and quite controversial that they wanted a slower adjustment and it was actually the european union that was pushing for faster and harder austerity measures now the first thing greece needs to do is to

appreciate the fact that while you reduce your debt by one hundred five billion through the haircut you're not going to get out of this until you actually implement some of the structural reforms that you've promised to do and that can be kind of hard there is a high political cost and even when that is taken out of account there is a public service that doesn't want to actually do the things that we pass in terms of bills in the parliament we also have to look at things like privatization but it can't go too fast because asset prices of collapsed and of course underneath it all we have to forget this austerity policy of tax everything top wages and slash pensions because it's a dead end what we have to do instead to create a primary surplus is to actually reduce waste and get rid of corruption i was just last hour and a guest who is from athens was saying that you know given the austerity measures that you just mentioned with lower pensions and lower salaries suicide rates in

greece are now ten times above the norm i know if i may just just one moment here i put this report this very intriguing greek officials a meeting with investors from turkey to showcase a sale of state run assets for example greece possibly selling out ports gas companies even airports and relying on its regional rival turkey is this some might assume this is a new low for greece one of the reasons do you think. i think that i would. in traditional sources of investment in the western world through capital markets in places like london and new york greece is looking further afield not just to the brics but even neighboring rivals now when it comes to turkey the two peoples actually don't get on too badly it's usually the generals and the military banking industrial complex in ankara that creates more problems with sweetness when it comes to privatization i think for smaller assets and assets that are actually

non-strategic not networks of course there may be something that can be done and i think it's specially in the tourism sector i don't think anyone may have a tremendous problem with a small marina somewhere that is not you know a contentious zone say in the ionian going to ownership i think overall the old expression of you don't want to kill your customers it's probably very yeah if we do get some small scale and sensible investment it may be a good thing also i think that there might be might be some who will flare a few times when it comes to selling off the whole idea of selling off state assets to turkey to some seem quite atrocious but if i may for well over a year now well over a year we've been seeing these protests and these and your stay with the rallies going through the greek capital when we know that more protests are planned today when it comes to the average person in greece how can they further expect to deal with austerity austerity measures they've been showing that outrage you say is

a lost art of the question but from what i understand i think the best way for any great to actually express their political will and ask for a change in policy is through the ballot box and we're actually going to how diligent either at the end of april or the start of may so that may be determinative i think also there is austerity weariness here and people are a bit sick and tired of more of the same socks exhort of medicine that got us here in the first place what they can actually do is lobby for the right kind of change and that would help with the media write off economic analyst and international lawyer life matins thank you becoming an arts you today. but it will be. all right where you are with our live from moscow let's get to the r.t. was that play for you some of the international headlines now in brief one of the biggest manhunts in of france's history is currently underway after four people were shot dead in the southern part of the country a gunman on a motorbike killed

a rabbi the rabbi's two sons and a young girl at a jewish school in the city of toulouse police have linked the attack to last week's shootings which resulted in the death of two soldiers of north african descent but the country has its unique scarlet alert for the first time which allows tighter security including military patrols. for the first time in three years north korea has invited u.n. inspectors to monitor a nuclear freeze deal with the u.s. to include the suspension of uranium enrichment and missile tests however there have been complaints after the country and its plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite washington says the move will break last month's deal in which the u.s. offered food aid in return for a partial nuclear freeze. italy's prime minister has begun a final push for a deal with unions over a revamp of labor laws mario monti wants unions to abandon rules that make it

virtually impossible to fire workers for misconduct italy's largest labor group is resisting the changes claiming the deal is impossible for failure to persuade union leaders could lead to mass strikes within montes parliamentary coalitions well thousands of construction workers in the u.k. have discovered they were placed on a secret employment blacklist which enjoyed police support the illegal files deemed the victims many of whom had complained of safety standards to left wing and troublesome and led to their sackings or made employment near impossible our correspondent laura smith reports. from working for speaking the truth these trade unionists and whistleblowers all fighting back after years of wondering why they couldn't get a job these skills engineers now know their names were on an illegal blacklists. in two thousand and four former union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously

sacked and for the next four years he wondered why he couldn't get another full time job then a friend told him about a blacklist held by a private company and accessed by some of the u.k.'s biggest construction firms sure enough he uncovered a sixteen page file on himself goes into detail reports. what political party political activists were right through. part it was clearly. they were the employers were distributing this amongst themselves. organization. basically par for people for much of the information in hadley style is clips pretty left wing newspapers and union magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police i was and their main. participant. demonstration. this information. could only have come

from a place i mean we don't agree with. qwest it's an illegal thing. a. force is ok. it almost marks a place that working on a building sites one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.k. last year alone there were fifteen deaths in the construction industry many of the workers say the reason they're on the blacklist is because they blew the whistle on poor health and safety standards to cut they say construction public. make increased profit filed held by the now shut down consulting association so the police are complicit in companies exploiting workers and destroying anyone who stands up to the deed smith from the blacklist support group believes collusion comes from the very top of the force it's not. you know. who's just

happened to have found and passed on this information because why would any on the . field as the console association even existed i believe it's and i was so union levels in place colluding with the directors of nowhere national companies against people that i found loic because of trudging series because we raise concerns. and because i don't like a politics blacklisting devastates the noise that it's big to highly qualified people unable to give us their skills steve hadley his marriage breakdown. of the world from reagan support when i was contractor representative for the part of the course was qualified. nobody stopped you provided. put your horse in jeopardy put your farmer away from your relationships and. you can't pay your bills anymore the company that held headley style has now been closed down but he and his

colleagues believe there are more black happened yet been uncovered they say they'll fight until they know the extensive state security involvement in their persecution norris made r.t. . you know just a moment here an artist daniel with market update of you can always catch more news and videos on our web site c.n.n. dot com a quick taste now of what's waiting for you there at the moment it's no longer those golden age for gold the precious metals used as shoppers drop in true months of red light running for assistance. and cubans may soon be forced to start out their famous cigars as restaurants across the country for a healthier way to die and all that and more waiting for you on line just a click away but i see. these are the images. from the streets of. hope for

a show to rule the day. and so good to have you with us today here on out see thousands of web cameras were installed all across russia monitored a presidential election earlier this month but now with even the most remote regions of the country having the most advanced software decided to give the billion dollar project a fresh focus. now looks at whether cameras could be shooting next. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia what cameras were installed at old polling stations don't want to tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations

were obvious shadowed by the entertainment provided some have already dumped the election the most expensive live show in russia's history the system cost almost a billion dollars. most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia if not for the elections it could take another five to ten years now we can do video conferences callers can be lectured by diverse professors from russia and abroad. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras the interior ministry's investigating a police station and a true man died from series injuries sustained in custody a string of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too much money training and one russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to control not entertain the all seeing eye of the

webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere critics have argued for a while need to come under greater scrutiny particularly after several people doubtless and paul probably injuries received while in for living. where you can also just remove cameras from polling to police stations they should be installed in preliminary coast to be stills directed and policeman on duty and in the rooms with suspects are questioned it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faces would be hard to see but it will save the detainee themselves from police abuse is the really. meanwhile parents want to protect their children from another type of abuse corruption in schools with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june they are logging for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for us that all children during all types of exams on equal terms

that they do their tests without help that they don't use the internet means otherwise those who don't cheat have a worse chance to get into a good university there had been numerous complaints in the past and unfair competition but there had been no proof now there will be a super war with any ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best project to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big bragger looks set to stay if you are t. scale. straight to the business first where are our markets are they with your course or down your how are the markets doing any and anything positive to remember all too well at the moment of showbiz a mix of news stories coming across the world let's start with your first morning stocks of dragging you markets are continuing their miserable weakness after b.h.p. billiton says the chinese them all foreign or was flattened the belt. is suing the

european commission for blocking its merger with the new york stock exchange praful says that with damaged competition and moscow which is followed europe into the red despite opening higher this morning both are now one point six percent down let's check movers on the wires six goals from the floor reports it was the high prices for industry another twenty six percent or major roles left is also retreating traders don't like the news that net profit job just ten percent last year and gold is also on the retreat today russia's top falls why the focus is suspended plans to join the footsie one hundred index comes off the delays in receiving approval from brussels for. an investment commission the company had planned to list seven and a whole percent in london raising a potential seven hundred million dollars. let's check those precious metals prices now they're on the pressure with some holding suffering two months record falls one percent today a strong jewelers in india fears demand will slump in the world's top consumer and

oil which was dropped from a two week peak in new york on sign u.s. supply is rising china's also reported seven percent growth in petrol prices the biggest jump since twenty ten which could hit sales let's check the exchange rates funny the polish gaming on tuesday clawing back some recent losses against major currencies investors see it as a safe bet in the current economic on certainty and that's the latest we'll have the opening rates on wall street for you next hour.