edging toward a syrian solution un members agreed to soften his statement with moscow ready to put its weight behind a resolution with no ante regime ultimatums. mission incomplete brushes un envoy lawrence nato it's too early to pull out of afghanistan still plagued by insurgency and drug production. oil exploration off the falkland islands has the u.k. brandishing its military might almost three decades after the war with argentineans raging against the big hole revive colonialism. it's now i ben and i slipped into negative territory despite the rebound so i mean about twenty minutes

time i'll have lots and think it's. eleven am in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story u.n. the states have agreed to tone down a proposed security council statement on syria and a clear sign the world body could be moving toward a united stance russia says it's ready to back a resolution as long as there are no ultimatums aimed at the assad regime or he's middle east correspondent paula smear has more. the statement as such is a statement that would not be binding and this is because although the violence in syria has been ongoing for more than a year in that time security council members have been unable to agree on a resolution a resolution by comparison is binding a statement is not but it does have the potential to become a resolution at a later stage now russia is backing this statement and has added it will back

a resolution that will be formulated from the proposal being put forward by the former head of the united nations coffee or not he has a six point peace plan but moscow has made the point that any kind of statement any kind of resolution can not blame soli needs syrian regime for what has transpired in syria now we don't have details of course announced plans we do understand that includes elements such as calling for hope for violence such as humanitarian access such as the withdrawal of security forces on protest cities and some cities that are under siege and also for the release of detainees with moscow saying that that those proposals to be put on the table they should be discussed and debated at the united nations as soon as possible not a day goes past without reports of dozens of people including again those losses are being experienced by both soldiers as well as the opposition as far as the

opposition goes it is a fragmented group then it's not quite clear who is in control over oh the united states and other western bodies has backed the syrian national council which is effectively made up of political exiles in turkey and russia from the beginning the holding the same position which as china has said that it needs to be investigated for me exactly are these rebels who are receiving reports that they have been funded and continue to get clusters of funding from saudi arabia and qatar we're now hearing from the human rights watch group that it has proof that the rebels have. abuses in tools as well as in replies the killings since it need those sides are to blame and this has been the position that has been put forward some the beginning that they really needs to be some kind of it comes in terms of both sides being responsible and both sides being able to book a washington based activist jacob hornberger warns when drawing up

a un resolution on syria the security council should be wary that some members have a history of using mandates for their own purposes we've seen in the past what the u.s. government does is it takes these what seem to be innocuous nice sounding resolutions and then drives you know a mack truck through them and says oh well this justifies military intervention this justifies bombing attacks and no fly zones and so forth i would assume that the russians are going to be very cautious about the wording of their resolution but it but i think we should keep in mind that no matter what they do with these these resolutions these interventions they always end up with a worse situation and there's much more death and destruction is so forth if there is intervention my position is just leave this to the syrians to resolve what guides us foreign policy is getting their people into public office around the world and it's led to the disastrous consequences we see in iraq and afghanistan

elsewhere around the world where people despise the u.s. that's why some of us are saying it's time to dismantle this whole regime change the foreign policy of interventionism in undeclared wars. barry at one of the editor of the london based arabic newspaper says she would be looking at says we should be looking at the bigger picture with syria being a stepping stone to the real possible goal of iran. have a feeling that. you cannot isolate the cvo from this as a full definitely it would be easier for the western caribbean island because it means they managed to secure the front there because the israeli neutralize thousands of syrian missiles he didn't see it in war please which actually would have to speak in any war against them but in order to do that you have to invade syria and syria is very very complicated adventure would be very costly i have a feeling that there is not intervening in syria because there are we can determine

what they are going to do with programs are they going to bomb iran if the decide to bomb iran i think they will get together and hezbollah i think they will launch an attack war and i believe. the war will take place the question is when. you can see the full interview with. me in the next hour in their hour here on our team. moscow says the u.s. led coalition forces should not be pulling out of afghanistan just yet is the mission there has not been accomplished russia's envoy to the u.n. stressed the problem of drug production as rabbit with trafficking cash being used to fund terror or at least marine important i reports from new york. according to international law it is the security council that house to give approval and write a report before all the troops can withdraw from afghanistan what ambassador

churkin indicated is that the fact that there is an escalation in violence that's ongoing and terrorism continues to be a stretch he said it is ill considered to establish arbitrary deadlines for withdrawing troops if the situation in afghanistan right now remains very critical and very unstable ambassador churkin said that security viable security needs to be established before international forces leave one of the many concerns that churkin raises the fact that conflict reduction and illegal sales of drugs continues in afghanistan he said the production of opiates increased by sixty percent in twenty eleven and the fact that he said that there has to be stringent measures taken to eradicate the drug fields and drug crops in afghanistan he went on to paint what we could consider a very scary picture of this circumstance in afghanistan with many

civilians still being killed by airstrikes led by nato forces and an upsurge in violence still taking place there so the point that is being made by the russian bastards the united nations the nato forces cannot just withdraw on a specific date of a specific year if afghanistan is not stabilized recent incidents including a u.s. soldier shooting dead sixteen afghan civilians and copies of the koran being burned in u.s. military bases have severely undermined the campaign anti-war activist richard becker is as americans are still far from reaching their objectives despite plans to withdraw in two thousand and fourteen. about one fifth of all of the u.s. and nato troops who kill this year having been killed by people wearing afghan military or police uniforms best indication that the so-called

how to ration of these forces to take over from the u.s. and nato is very very far from being a reality and there's no sign that the u.s. war in afghanistan has really been going on since one thousand seventy nine and some breaks that it started then it's now the latest phase been going for ten a half years and no one can claim i don't think that they are any closer to the objective of military victory which is then the real objector and there is no such thing is in sight the united states is determined to keep some bases and key bases particularly to try to as pirates drive to surround both russia and china and they want to do that but it's there's no question ability i don't think there can be stability without the people of afghanistan being able to exercise their right

to self-determination and to take matters into their own hands will stay with us here on r t still to come a decade long dispute between britain and argentina enters a new phase with london making the most of its distant corners while it still can. but first a series of blasts iraq's several cities in iraq killing at least forty six people and injuring almost two hundred latest violence comes nine years after the u.s. led invasion of the country started and ahead of next week's arab league summit in baghdad anti-war activists michael raddy says nato has left a deadly legacy in iraq. well i think what we have to remember the back is it's still under occupation. we may have seen the withdrawal of combat troops but there are still tens of thousands of what western media would refer to as private contractors but we all know that these are paid mercenaries hired killers and it's in their interests and it's in the interests of the the leagues around the world to keep this keep this conflict going there won't be any change in these countries

until the only to the soldiers in the armies leave but all the probably contract is gone through and also the puppet governments that are currently being put in place by the americans and the british thing we've. destroyed a country we've destroyed its culture we've also destroyed its future its children in the last nine years that the u.k. in the u.s. military have dropped over two thousand tons of depleted uranium on iraq. places like flu. cancer spreading in the region. childhood child birth effects just washing off the scale this is already contaminated the ground contaminated the ground water so for that for the foreseeable future the iraqi population the not going to have a future that they can be optimistic about all it's been more than a year since the start of the uprisings across the middle east and while protesters initially rallied under banners of the market see many arab spring has curtailed

rather than broaden their freedoms or he's on a boy who reports from beirut. no shortcuts the kearny sjambok meant in the road stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plenty of room to test their stamina is the only do most popular jogging venue across the arab world for some lebanese it's actually a symbol that their democracy is up and running freedom may be a very political concept but to most ordinary people usually means something very concrete to me for example it's inability to go for a job without being harassed and lebanon is the only arab country these days that can allow me peace freedom when i started to go for a job in egypt last year i was physically threatened when i tried to do it leave it was automatic gunfire rather than my own vigor that made me sweat. the plight of female joggers may seem miniscule in the grand scale of things but ultimately it's

about living your life as you choose susan in no other arab country she says would she be able to dress like this but alone enjoy the outdoors with your boyfriend this softening of social norms didn't happen overnight but for susan it is just as valuable product of lebanese homegrown democracy as being able to voice a political opinion i was born here say i suffered a lot there because it's it's too too too limited i have to cover my face my eyes my whole body what i'm hearing being over here please look at me what does democracy mean you is it just to walk around and have fun with this and talk in the way i love to the things i love not it's not about that it's about having to share things with others while the arab spring spread under divan or of democracy for many it came at the expense of basic freedom to choose your lifestyle your dishonest taking over politics in egypt not really just women and recently forced to cover their heads in public to protect themselves from being harassed in libya

militia now want to control not the. the future but also the past saying something positive about take it off the air or can get you killed we can look at the record of what the arab spring has wrought in terms of so-called democracy and it's a catastrophe because as could have been predicted as was predicted at the opening because police if you go to egypt if you go to libya you have arm bands that have been armed the so-called opposition national council and they're shooting each other to fight for the the picket so it's total anarchy and chaos in syria where armed rebels are also calling for western support of their democratic aspirations parting for freedom all but killed a normal life sending your children to school without fear or not having your house destroyed this is what freedom often means for the average person and according to these syrian leaders this is what was sacrificed when the opposition took up arms

many across the arab world a longing for social and political change there is a widespread conviction that overexuberant ruston rooting for the opposition quite literally kills the genuine democratic movement you cannot export democracy people can achieve a former participation in government that is consistent with their values when you try to export in from abroad into a contrary you very often end with the results that we saw in libya where before there was any foreign interference in that country there was an estimated at the highest five thousand people killed after that the highest estimate so that there are hundred thousand people killed but the west arab democracy may be a one off exercise a project to get done and over with but as lebanon's example shows the real freedom like a muscle needs time and sustained effort to grow it's not going to artsy beirut lebanon . our web site r t dot com you can find

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on the go. below among all t's mine calls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. pushing on the com. peru has canceled a scheduled visit by a british warship in what it called a spirit of solidarity with argentina when us aires a long running dispute with london over the falkland islands heating up again ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of the war there but this time of may not be about the sovereignty of the islands but oriel exploration off their shores as arkansas river bet reports. first the prince in the war ship all apparently routine but toward teener the message is clear when echoes it's a regional and global issue because there are militarizing in the south atlantic one more time try as we me in turkey any other way they are sending

a destroyer the words out that is huge in modern right along with the air to throne we would have liked to see him in civilian clothes not in a military uniform. the island sovereignties peacefully disputed argentina claims them as last mile venus the u.k.'s latest show of strength comes at a delicate time less than a month before the thirtieth anniversary of the war but claimed over nine hundred lives six hundred fifty of them argentinian an ill timed coincidence or deliberate provocation whether there's any anniversaries completely irrelevant to us you know aging release routine there's no attempt to escalate anything but i do recognize that the argentinean president is seeking to put a different interpretation on it for fighter jets rapier missiles and a state of the art destroyer deterrent enough to argentina it's like a red rag to a bull with flag burning and protests against towards it sees as

a colonial hangover the empire may be dead but the sentiment still very much alive in britain today figures like lord stanley a celebrated here is the man the island's capitals named after before put themselves may be small and distant but they're the last whispers i want six tenths of reach giving them up is simply out of the question. it's in refuses to negotiate on the island sovereignty and till the people who live there want to know wonder with the three thousand inhabitants direct descendants of britain's colonists the four clans belong to the plan because they are british we have the right to self-determination that sunshine and the charter. were happy to talk to argentina about anything except sovereignty our sovereignty is not negotiable but the u.k.'s posturings left its subjects their high and dry argentina's blocked supply ships in retaliation this lump of rock may not seem worth fighting over its thirteen

thousand kilometers from britain and cost seventy million pounds a year to defend but with oil exploration just beginning off the coast there is suddenly a lot more to lose. respecting has become more so widespread in terms of exposure then i think it's it's help to ratchet up the crisis with repression argentina russian genius point of view if the problems in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercial exports will then of course there's a fear that britain in the falklands beauty would never wish to negotiate about the future of argentina claims it's being robbed with britain set to yield up to sixty billion barrels of oil from under its nose no surprise the u.k. still refuses to negotiate then after argentine protests but others are now listening the islands are monks just sixteen territories left in the world the un says need the colonizing for now though britain's making the most of its distant

corners whilst it still can i've been it r t london. and other stories making headlines across the globe french while we have surrounded a house of interviews where a suspect in the killings or killers was holding out two policemen were injured in the shoot out twenty four year old brother who was inside the. as with him was arrested the interior minister said this is specter killer is a french national of algerian origin while officials say he belonged to an islamic terrorist group on monday a rabbi his two sons and a schoolgirl were shot dead the killers also suspected of shooting dead three soldiers of north african descent. new york police have mooted on union square and are clearing the park of occupy wall street activists this is live streaming video you're looking at the scene at union square park there are reports that some people have been arrested protesters have been at the new location since saturday when

a police raid forced them out of zuccotti park hardcore activists have been calling for more people to swell the ranks but also demanding the resignation of new york's police commissioner over what they call his use of brutal tactics against their movement and you were. a seven point four magnitude earthquake has hit southern mexico at least eleven people were injured and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in mexico city a pedestrian bridge collapsed crushing a new bus and down in telephone and how low volume quakes hit mexico every few years the strongest in one hundred eighty five that killed at least ten thousand people. delarue says come under sharp criticism for executing two men found guilty of a deadly terror attack in the capital minsk he was ready to adopt new sanctions and issue a resolution against the country the metro bombing in the capital in april last year left its thousand dead and injured more than three hundred two men found guilty of carrying out the attack were executed by firing squad last week president

alexander lukashenko dubbed europe's last the dictator refused to pardon them despite numerous pleas from both within his country and abroad human rights groups have questioned the fairness of the trial but luka shane cohen says everything was done according to well. put this with those who put us through but was absolutely transparent and the investigation was laid. the new head of the country's investigative committee who just toured the prosecutor's office is also russia's federal security service the f.s.b. israel's mossad and interpol all took part in this investigation and none of these organizations had any questions by being quietly on the stoop and most importantly at my personal request every step of the investigation since the first interrogation was recorded on tape not once since the arrest of the defendants claimed innocence they testified this through everything and charges have been supported by evidence and the trial itself was held in open court so i have absolutely no doubts about the fairness of the courteously than the.

you can hear more from belarus president. throughout thursday here on our team well time now to go to business desperately need pilbeam is standing by with more so i understand investors are closely watching oil right now yes it really is the case at the moment this is staying at the geopolitical risk for the rest in provoking yet another spike about sauce to the head of the i.m.f. christine lagarde that this is one of the primary race for the global economy as the european concerns have now so lightly if we look at the ore prices for this we can see that they are rebounding from the biggest decline in three months after a report showed that crude stockpiles are falling in the u.s. meanwhile the obama administration is trying to cut off from its main source of income oil exports of course as a sanction over its nuclear program the u.s.

is calling on a number of nations to cap iranian imports otherwise it threatens to cut that banks off from the u.s. financial system and saudi arabia is ready to boost supplies in order to stem any price rise that could with global economies as i say all eyes will prices up the moment we had on the russian markets and see how they're faring as you can see it's like gains for the russian markets are not on the back of those strong prices we look at the individual news all majors including ross next are heading higher it's no surprise on those crude prices but that's not the case for gas promise trading or flat is now a report says tax burden will increase twenty two billion dollars over the next five yeas and that's because that russia's next president piece of it was posted these pensions are salaries for the states for yes' banking stocks under pressure with russia's second largest and the t.v. we can see it playing at point four as we head into asia believe china in the last

hour of trade now and as you can see the just pop up in to the grade so they're on for a positive finish so that would be a relief for the global economy because. that's after they increased their fuel prices to the most you know over two years about was a concern if you look at the cars as we see how they're doing at this hour the euro dollar is archived improved types over the year region as you can see the group has got make sentiments there is no u.s. dollar and higher against the part of a part of that as you can see is a mixed mix makes sense when the u.s. dollar is hard it's a revolt against the euro ok that is how the markets look from now on to other news i can tell you generally those cells are going to be true and that's because when the u.s. withdraws itself from the soviet era restrictions when i talk about those i'm talking about the trucks and. the president of the russian units he says that

by them not being by them in forcing this the u.s. is rapidly excluding itself from growing markets let's say right now the u.s. exports to rush to about four percent versus twenty nine percent in your opinion about forty three percent so the u.s. has a big opportunity to increase its trade if we have. commitment and grandparent to your people take advantage of a song reduce the tariffs for equipment coming from the united states and also give us a little playing field we can store european and asian counterparts if we see jacksonville being repealed and russia being granted by the united states we expect our sales to triple by two thousand and twenty in russia. ok that's how the markets look for this that our in the eyes bullets and i have the figures for the european market.

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