the u.n. agent closer to the united solution members agreed to soften their stance on syria with moscow pledging to throw its support behind a resolution with no end the regime ultimatums. with valerie slam for executing two men found guilty of last year's deadly terror attack in the capital minsk speaks exclusively with president lee fishing poles the decision that absolute tragedy in his life but still insists it was the right thing to do. the oil exploration off the falkland islands has the u.k. brandishing its military strength almost three decades after the war with argentineans raging against what they call revived colonialism.

one pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on our team 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 stance russia said it's ready to back a resolution as long as there are no ultimatums aimed at the risk of the assad regime middle east correspondent paula as well. the statement as such is a statement that would not be 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 being a statement is not but it does have the potential to become a resolution at a later stage now russia is backing the statement and has said it will back

a resolution that will be formulated on the proposal being put forward by the former head of the united nations kofi 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 soley the syrian regime for what has transpired in syria now but we don't have details of course announced plans we do understand that includes elements such as are 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 the tape needs with moscow saying that bets that those proposals have been caught 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 being killed and 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 and it's not quite clear who is in control of russia from the beginning the holding the same position of as china has said that it needs to be investigated to exactly are these rebels who are receiving reports that they have been funded and continue to their promises are 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 isil killings 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 . abdel-bari atwan editor of a london based arabic newspaper says we should be looking at the bigger picture with syria a possible stepping stone to the real goal of iran. to have the feeling that. you isolate that syria from. the full definitely it will be easier for the west and

they'll be in iran because it means they managed to secure the front because the israelis could be neutralized of thousands of the sea the. syrian warplanes which actually have to speak in any war against them and all the through that you have to invade syria and syria is very very complicated adventure could be very costly i have a feeling that the west is not intervening in syria because they are weak to determine what they are going to do with their programs are they going to bomb iran if the. i think they will bomb and seated together and hezbollah i think we will. have peace and war and i believe. the war will take place the question is when the. full interview with abdel bari atwan coming your way in about an hour here on our

team. peru has canceled a scheduled visit by a british warship in what it called a spirit of solidarity with argentina where oh sorry says a long running dispute with london over the falkland islands in the atlantic as both countries claim yorka péladeau was their own party's i've repaired it as well . first the prince in the war ship all apparently routine but you watch and tina the message is clear like i was that it's a regional and global issue because they're not rising in the south atlantic one more time try as me me we can't interpret it any other way here 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 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 that claimed over nine hundred lives six hundred fifty of them argentinian an ill timed coincidence or a deliberate provocation whether there's an anniversary is irrelevant to us 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 the stronger the terrence enough to argentina 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 figures like lord stanley a celebrated here is the man the island capitals named after the falklands themselves may be 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 and till the people who live there want to know wonder with the three thousand inhabitants direct descendants of britain's colonists the falklands belong to the us they are british we have a right to self-determination that's and shined in the charter we were happy to to talk. 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 widespread in terms of exposure then i think it's it's helped to ratchet up the crisis between britain motion to

you know rushing to respond to a few if the problems in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercially exploited 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 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 either bennett r t london moscow says the u.s. led coalition forces should not be pulling out of afghanistan just yet is the mission there hasn't been finished russia's envoy to the un stressed the problem of drug production is rare with a trafficking money being used to fund terror or he's worried a port has more 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 as 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 one of the many concerns 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. it's turmoil in the arab world that's now threatening a bigger a blow to the global economy than the crisis in the eurozone i.m.f.

chief christine lagarde has warned that escalation of the situation with iran for example could drive oil prices above one hundred sixty dollars a barrel that's got more orders with our peter oliver so what else has all of our been warning well she said that we could see a potential thirty percent spike in the price of oil now to put that in two dollars and cents that would see the price of a barrel of brant crude jumped to one hundred and sixty dollars from the level of one hundred twenty five where we see it at the moment no she's saying that this could happen if iran was to cause problems with the distribution of oil through the straits of a sort of moods now if that was to happen then iran the second largest oil producer in the world that would cause big problems now saudi arabia the largest oil producer in the world has said that they can take up some of the slack saying that they can increase production by twenty five percent also libya saying that they can

chime in with some extra production in order to help out should that happen however christine legarde warning that should boil rice to levels of one hundred sixty dollars a barrel that any of the good work that's being done in the e.u. regarding the economy with trying to pull the out of the recession it's being gripped by it rose to one hundred sixty dollars a barrel all of that would certainly be undone and we would face perhaps another serious financial crisis. the situation in iran shaping up to be such a financial threat well this all goes back to the the ongoing standoff between iran and the west over the a rainy and nuclear nuclear program now. what we've seen from the united states one from the e.u. is very stiff sanctions against iran they want. to abandon their nuclear

program now they've certain countries have it here to the sanctions on imports of oil stopping countries from bringing rain in oil in we here in japan and a group of european countries are already slashing their imports of. oil however some of the largest importers and in fact the largest importers of the iranian oil in china in india and in south korea haven't fulfilled what the united states see as an adequate drop in the hundred cut in their imports of oil from the islamic republic now this is prompted barack obama the u.s. president to threaten sanctions on those countries that don't follow the u.s. sanctions on tehran now what this could see is countries like i mentioned like china india south korea being cut off from the u.s. banking system now what would mean would be serious problems when it came to trade

between the united states and those countries and perhaps some quote form of serious financial problems as well. peter our thanks very much for that report. well stay with us here on our team still to come on the program a one off exercise or a lifelong commitment we explore whether arab revolutions of that enough to bring democracy and freedoms of a process stay with us. please . just so.

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series technology innovation called the least a million minced from around russia we've dumped the future coverage. staying with us here on our team quarter past the hour and moscow bellers has been slammed for executing two men found guilty of last year's deadly terror attack in the capital minsk r.t. spoke exclusively with president bush who insists it was the right thing to do. it was a charm city in my life and most of all i feel for the parents of those men to whom i unfortunately cannot you know it's. absolutely transparent rushes federal

security service the f.s.b. israel's mossad and interpol. investigation and none of these organizations had any questions about the inquiry and it's true since i have absolutely no doubts about the fairness of that. and hear more from the russian president alexander lukashenko in our interview program spotlight airing on thursday here at r.t. . a series of blasts have shaken several iraqi cities killing at least forty six and entering almost two hundred latest violence comes nine years after the u.s. led invasion of the country started any ahead of next week's arab league summit in baghdad as a 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

effectively 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 who but 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 not only do the soldiers in the army's leave put all the probably contractors gone through and also the puppet governments that have commonly been put in place by body americans and the british loathing 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 saluja. cancer spreading in the region. childhood child

birth effects of just one more thing 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 they can be optimistic about it's all still working out some other stories making headlines across the globe some three hundred french police have surrounded a house in toulouse where the suspect in the killings of a jewish school is holding out two policemen had been injured in an earlier twenty four year old suspect a brother who was inside the house with him was arrested the interior minister has said the alleged killer told him he would surrender at noon is reported to be a french national of algerian origin well officials said he belongs to an islamic terror group on monday a rabbi his two sons and a schoolgirl were all shot dead the killer also suspected of gunning down a resold. new york police have moved in on union square to clear the park of occupy wall street activists there are reports of some arrests protesters have been at the new location since saturday when

a police raid forced them from zuccotti park hardcore activists have been calling for more people to swell the ranks also demanding the resignation of the city'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 injured and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in mexico city a pedestrian bridge collapsed crushing ameba us and downing telephone and power lines quakes hit makes it mexico every few years the strongest back in one thousand nine hundred five which killed at least ten thousand people. it's been more than a year since the beginning of uprisings across the middle east and while protesters and initially rallied under banners of democracy many now find the arab spring has curtailed rather than broaden civil liberties or he's on

a boy who reports from beirut. no shortcuts the current mission bank mint in beirut stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plenty of room to test their stamina the only d. 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 truly means something very concrete to me for example it's an ability to go forward through our without being harassed and lebanon is the only arab country these days that can allow the peace freedom we're going to try to go for a job in egypt last year i was physically threatened and i tried to do it leave it was automatic gunfire rather than my calling the figure that made me sweat. the plight of female joggers may seem miniscule indic round scale of things but ultimately it's about living your life as you choose susan and 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 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 the banner of democracy for many it came at the expense of basic freedom to choose your lifestyle islam is taking over politics in egypt no 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 all. in the future but also the past saying something positive about it get off the air or 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 police if you go into egypt and 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 picking and so it's 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 peteris 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 form of participation in government that is consistent with their values who when you try to export something 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 one hundred thousand people killed but the last 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 sustained effort to grow as an artsy beirut lebanon. earlier on the program we were talking about oil let's keep that discussion going

by going over to the business desk where he will be joining us with all the latest figures yeah that's right i'll give you the exact figures i'm out i mean if you've just joined us here on our t.v. obama administration is trying to cost of iran from its main source of income and that is of course. as a sanction its nuclear program so in a piece will give you all the details you can see the light sweet over one hundred and six dollars per barrel this hour the difference is over one hundred twenty four dollars per barrel so they aren't doing all this stuff we can be monitoring it very closely indeed as saudi arabia house said the least of their supplies so that could be affecting. those figures at this hour we have a look at that the second hour of trade and it all looks very positive indeed you would expect a rosy out of european stock markets are these on the rise and it is the price of oil and pharmaceutical companies that are really pushing those days this is there

are waiting report coming out of the u.s. that day is expected to show that existing home sales have gone up so that's why there's optimism in that part of the world today let's take a closer to home if an hour we've got our figures hit in the moscow region these are the russian markets as you can see. up nine percent up to my sex point six percent are in a positive territory at this hour and that's on the back of those stronger oil prices because the individual as we can see is really benefiting from that as a mixed if you probably got to stop us on the strong got oil of calls against home is down this is an interesting one because there's been reports of tax burdens about will increase by twenty two billion dollars over the next five years and that soft putin and now as he plans to boost pensions and salaries for states employees so that's an interesting one indeed we've also got a russia second. also change of fortunes come back it's positive territory

to see how the course is going on you can see the gazing at the moment one seventy five for the one that is makes your visa for the day all day to get some u.s. dollar and they've lost some traction against the euro so that the current system right now but you talk about a particular company out the moment general electric they're actually expecting a very positive in the short term they're expecting bethel's to triple when the u.s. that we jaws itself from soviet era trade restrictions when i say that i'm talking about the jackson of panic. which means blocks the u.s. from iraq really growing market. 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 true. if we have. to your we will take advantage of reduced tariffs for equipment coming from the united states

but also give us a little playing field against or european and asian counterparts if we see jackson . 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 now to join me in about fifty five minutes i'll have all the licensed updates for you.

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a threat call. you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to. a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalence of fire power the world's nuclear arsenal today.