do you wait inching closer to a united solution members agree to soften its stance on syria with moscow pledging to throw its support behind a resolution with no anti regime ultimatums. mission incomplete russia's un envoy warns nato it's too early to pull out about paris which is still plagued by insurgency and drug production. and oil exploration off of top when i was the u.k. brandishing its military might almost three decades after war with argentineans raging against revived colonialism.

new in moscow i now try as i could to have you with us here on r.t. our top story u.n. states have agreed to tone down a proposed security council statement on syria in a clear sign the world body is moving toward a united stats russia said it's ready to back a resolution as long as there are no automated was aimed at the assad regime or his middle east correspondent paula sli or hasn't. the statement as such is a statement that would not speak legally 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 and statement is not but it does head intentional to become a resolution at the mesa stage now watch say it is battling the statements and has said it will back a resolution that will be formulated from the proposal being put forward by the former head of the united nations call for non he has a six point peace plan but moscow has made the point that any kind of statement any

kind of resolution cannot blame solely the syrian regime for what has transpired in syria now that we don't have to tells of course announce plans. we do understand that includes elements such as calling for hope for violence such as humanitarian access such as the withdrawal of seclusion also spawn protests cities and some cities that are under siege and also for the release of detainees with moscow saying that's that those proposals will be put on the table and 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 being killed and again those losses are being experienced by both soldiers as well as the opposition and as far as the opposition goes it is a fragmented group then it's not quite clear who is in control of russia from the beginning was holding the same position it's as china has feared that it needs to

be investigated from exactly are these rebels receiving reports that they have been funded and continue to get promises 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 carried out gross abuses in torture as well as in reply is appealing so certainly both sides are to blame and this has been the position that moscow has been put forward from the beginning that they really needs to be some kind of accounts in terms of both sides being responsible and both sides being able to book washington based activists treated hornberger warrens when drawing up the un resolution on syria the security council should be wary that some members of 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 all this justifies military intervention this

justifies bombing attacks no fly zones and so forth i would assume that the russians are going to be very cautious about the wording of their resolutions but 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 is much more death and destruction is so forth that 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 sastra its consequences we see in iraq afghanistan elsewhere around the world where people despise the u.s. and that's why some of us are saying it's time to dismantle this whole regime change foreign policy of interventionism in wars. one editor of a london based arabic newspaper says we should be looking at the bigger picture with syria being a stepping stone for the possible goal of iran. the feeling that. you cannot

isolate the c.d.'s from. full definitely it would be easier for the west and i because it means the man is to see from previous days that you need people neutralize them profound to see them besides he ceded war please which actually could speak and he warned against and i'm about to do that if you have to invade syria it would be very very complicated adventure would be very costly i have a feeling that the west is not intervening in syria because they determine what they are going to do with use of you did he mean nuclear programs are they going to bomb if he decided to bomb i think they will bomb. and i'm unsuited for good hizbollah i think it will be you know about the war and i believe that senator. the war will take place the question is when. the.

full interview with one coming your way in a little more than twenty minutes here on earth. roscoe says the u.s. led coalition forces should not be pulling out about ghana's stand yet is the mission there hasn't been completed russia's envoy to the u. webb stressed the problem of drug production is rampant with trafficking cash being used to fund terror or he's worried 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 there's light and massacre churkin indicated is that the fact that there is an escalation in violence that's ongoing and terrorism continues to be us fret he said it is still considered to establish arbitrary deadlines for withdrawing troops if the situation in afghanistan right now remains very critical and very unstable one of the many concerns that ambassador churkin raises the fact that the production and

illegal sales of drugs continues in afghanistan so the point that is being made by the russian ambassador to the united nations is that nato forces cannot just withdraw on a specific date of a specific year if afghanistan is not stabilized. well stay with us here on our t.v. still to come a one off size or a life long commitment we explore whether arab revolutions have done enough to bring democracy and the freedoms they promised. these are the images. from the streets of canada. for asians rule today. has canceled a scheduled visit by a british warship in what it called a spirit of solidarity with argentina where no sorry's long running dispute with

london over the falkland islands is again heating up ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of the war there this time it might not be about the sovereignty of the islands but oil exploration off their shores as for better or ports. first the prince then the warship all apparently routine but to watch and tina the message is clear. it's a regional and global issue because there are militarizing in the south atlantic one more time try as we me we can't interpret it any other way we are sending a destroyer the word itself that is huge in modern along with the heir to the throne he would have liked to see him in civilian clothes not in a military uniform. the island sovereignties fiercely disputed argentina claims them as last melvina the u.k.'s latest show of strength comes at a delicate time less than a month before the thirtieth anniversary of the war that claimed over nine hundred lives six hundred fifty of them argentinian an ill timed coincidence or

a deliberate provocation whether there's any anniversaries irrelevant to us here it generally is routine there's no attempt to escalate anything but i do recognize the argentinean president is seeking to put a different interpretation on it for fighter jets rapier missiles and a state of the art destroyer to terence enough to watch and to know it's like a red rag to a bull with flag burning and protests against what it sees as a colonial hangover the empire may be dead but the sentiment still very much alive in britain today because like stanley a celebrated here is the man the island's capitals named after the falklands themselves maybe small and distant but they're the last whispers of wants extensive reach giving them up is simply out of the question britain refuses to negotiate on the island sovereignty until 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. british we have the right to self-determination that's and shined in the charter. were happy to talk to us and. about anything except sovereignty our sovereignty is not in question but the u.k.'s posturings left its subjects there 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 is suddenly a lot more to lose. respecting has become more civil rights spread in terms of exposure then i think it's it's helped to ratchet up the crisis between person machine or russian genius point of view if the four probes in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercially exploited then of

course there's a fear that person in the falklands beauty would never wish to negotiate about the future of argentina claims it's being wrought 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 argentina 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. check out our tita for more news blogs videos and analysis here's what's a click away right now a u.k. student will stand trial for posting what's been called a grossly offensive message about the afghan war on his facebook page. drug users in russia may face up to two years in jail as authorities step up the battle against addicts that fall story of r.t. doug.

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thanks for staying with us here on our team of fourteen minutes past the hour and last. now a series of blasts have shaken several iraqi cities killing at least forty six and injuring nearly two hundred latest violence comes nine years after the start of u.s. led invasion of the country and ahead of next week's arab league summit in baghdad anti-war activist michael right he says nato has left a deadly legacy in iraq well i think what we have to remember the back is it's probably 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 to keep this conflict going there won't be any change in these countries until not only to the soldiers and the armies leave but all the private

contractors gone through and also the puppet governments no currently being put in place by the americans and the british think we've. destroyed a country we've destroyed its culture we've also destroyed its future its children in the last nine years the u.k. in the u.s. military have dropped over two thousand tons of depleted uranium on iraq. places like fallujah. cancer spreading in that region. childhood child birth effects just washing off the scale this is already contaminated the ground contaminated ground water so for that for the foreseeable future the iraqi population and not going to have a future that we can be optimistic about all. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe french police have surrounded a house in toulouse where the suspect in the killings at a jewish school was holding out to police and they were injuries there twenty four

year old brother who was inside the house with him has been arrested the interior minister said the suspected killer is a french national of algerian origin officials say he belongs to an islamist terror group on monday a rabbi his two sons and a schoolgirl were shot dead and killers also suspected of shooting dead three soldiers of north african descent. new york police have moved in and union square to clear the park of occupy wall street activists 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 their ranks they've also been demanding the resignation of new york's police commissioner over what they call his use of brutal tactics against the movement. a seven point four magnitude quake 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 the minibus and downing telephone and power lines quakes hit mexico every few years the strongest was in one thousand nine

hundred five which killed at least ten thousand. finally in this news block it's been more than a year since the start of the uprisings across the middle east and more protesters and initially rallied under banners of democracy may now find the arab spring has curtailed rather than broaden their liberties or he's next on a boy who reports from beirut. no shortcuts the current mission buckman been viru it stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plenty of room to test their stamina is the only do most popular jogging band you 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 its inability to go for a drive without being harassed and lebanon is the only arab country these days that can allow me peace freedom. restored 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 figure that made me sweat. the plight of female jogger is missing minuscule indeed grand scale of things but ultimately it's about living your life as you choose susan in no other arab country she says which should be able to dress like this but alone enjoy the outdoors with your boyfriend this toughening of social norms didn't happen overnight but for susan it is just as valuable product of lebanese homegrown democracy as being able to avoid a political opinion i was born here said i suffered a lot there because it's it's too too too limited i have to cover my fears my eyes my whole body what i'm hearing being over here please look at me or 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 probably it's about having to share things

with others while the arab spring spread under the banner of democracy for many it came at the expense of basic freedom to choose your lifestyle that islam is taking over politics in egypt not really just women are increasingly forced to cover their heads in public to protect themselves from being harassed in libya militia now want to control not pull. the future and also the past seeing something positive about the get out the era can get you killed we can look at the record of what the arab spring has brought in terms of so-called democracy and it's a catastrophe has as could have been predicted as was predicted at the outbreak because but if you go to egypt if you go to libya where you have arm bands that have been armed the so-called opposition national council and they're shooting each other to fight for the pick and so it's a it's a total anarchy and chaos in syria where armed rebels are also calling for western support of their democratic aspirations fighting 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 western 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 something from a broad into a contrary you very often in with the results that we saw in libya where before there was any foreign interference in their 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 a real freedom like a muscle needs time and sustain that for it to grow that's not going to artsy beirut lebanon. let's go to the business person our work is standing by with all the latest updates wherever stan investigators are closely watching oil right now exactly this kinds of concerns actually. a lot of them coming from the u.s. the obama administration is trying to cut off iran from its main source of income boil exports of course as a sanction over its nuclear program the u.s. is sending a message to major buyers of a particular china india south korea to reduce their imports otherwise it threatens to cut their banks off from the u.s. financial system meanwhile china the biggest buyer of

a grain in oil imports forty five percent in february from a month earlier as the nation's disagree over payment. if we take a look at the prices and now we can see that they are bouncing from the biggest decline into three months after of course the crude stockpiles are in the u.s. although saudi arabia has said that they're ready to boost supplies in order to stem any price rise that could hurt the global economy so we are indeed watching oil prices here and if we move on then we're going to take a look and see how asia got on today now as you can see it's a mixed viewpoint from that part of the world and a lot of that is because china actually increase their fuel prices by the most in why are you two years so that was a real concern in that region if we could have two europe they thought she just in

the last twenty minutes or so i think is a different viewpoint to them as you can see the footsie is around thirty percent imposed to the territory there and the does is point six percent opposite we are watching those stock markets all throughout the day and interesting that ben bernanke he has come out and said but he still views as the main concern and contagion is still his number one priorities that's an interesting one. they close it's a high risk for the meantime here in moscow as we can see is a positive point now it's been a chalky start to the day but right now the o.t.s. is up. zero point four percent on the mises point six percent up in a positive territory so i'll not known to see how the individual share music getting on then on i might say if we look at this so you can see that it's all majors including are heading higher almost crude prices that we saw it's not the case of gas they're actually heading. into the red but the song that's concerns

that apparently tops burdens i've been increased to twenty two billion dollars over the next year and that's because. jiri in the presidential campaign he promised to boost pensions and salaries for those state employees certainly an interesting one as we can see russia is the second largest island. is also dropping this get on up to the cars is as you can see the year at all is actually stronger and that's because there's a lot of positive sentiment coming out of the stocks themselves they are indeed higher at the moment greece have just seconds. with the parliament agreeing to it now so it's a positive in terms of europe. we can see that it's got mixed sentiments there is high against us start a lower against the euro at this hour. in. the general electorate the tump uneasy.

trickle actually and that's because that the u.s. is planning to withdraw themselves from the soviet era trade restrictions that when i talk about those i'm talking about the jackson. apparently stopping the u.s. from getting involved in growing growing markets. 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. to your we will take advantage of reduced tariffs for equipment coming from the united states and also give us a level playing field against or european and asian counterparts if we see action. should be integrated by the united states we expect our sales to triple by two thousand and twenty. ok that's how the markets are looking for this all throughout

the day we're going to be monitoring europe oil prices the markets here in most cases i mean fifty five minutes we'll have another update on the next official figures. the.

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