the un is inching closer to a united solution members agreed to soften that starts on syria with moscow pledging to throw its support behind a resolution with no anti regime ultimatum. to mean that if the blood it was a tragedy in my life most of all i feel for the parents of those men to whom i am for she can channel with the brother of survival for executing two men found guilty of last year's deadly terror attack in the capital minsk how we talk exclusively to president a look at shankar explains why he feels the decision was the right thing to do. and oil exploration. but as the u.k.

brandishing its military might fall by three decades after the war dougherty is raging against what they call reply colonialism. and. it is good to have you with us today this is our live from moscow with real reception you and states have agreed to tone down a proposed security council statement on syria it's a clear sign the world body is moving towards a united stance russia said it's ready to back a resolution as long as there are no ultimatums aimed at the assad regime at least correspondent paula has the details and 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 binding and 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 from the proposal being put forward by the former head of the united nations call for nine 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 solely the syrian regime for what has transpired in syria now we don't have to tells of course the announced plan we do understand that includes elements such as calling for hope for violence such as humanitarian access such as the withdrawal of simply forces from protest cities and some cities that are under siege and also for the release of detainees were also saying that that's that those proposals will be quote 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 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 the holding the same position and as china has said that it needs to be investigated for me 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 grossed abuses in torture as well as in replies all killings so certainly both sides are to blame and this has been the position that moscow has been put forward from the beginning but it really needs to be some kind of accounts in terms of both sides being responsible and both sides being able to book. party's

policy reporting right meantime abdullah but i want the editor of a london based arabic newspaper says that or we should be looking at the bigger picture of syria just being a stepping stone to the real goal of iran. i had a feeling that. syria from. the fall definitely it would be easier for the west and iran because it means they managed to secure the front. neutralize thousands of syrian messiahs syrian warplanes which actually would have to speak in any war against iran but in order to do that you have to invade syria to invade 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 we could determine what they are going to do with programs are they going to bomb iran if the have decided to bomb i think they will bomb iran and seated together and

hezbollah i think they will launch you know attack is war and i believe. it is the war will take place the question is when. and where you can see the full interview with our bell about an. editor in chief of a london based arabic newspaper that'll be just over twenty minutes time here on out. it is turmoil in the arab world that's now threatening a bigger blow to the global economy rather than the crisis in the euro zone the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde has warned that escalation of the situation with iran for example could drive oil prices above one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel and artie's control of a reporter. for the warnings that we're hearing from christine lagarde head of the. face a potential. price of oil now what does that mean in dollars and cents where we

would see a peril of brant crude rise from one hundred twenty five dollars a barrel as it is right now to one hundred and sixty dollars a barrel now why she said this is the chief he is a potential increase in price could come around a potential huge increase peak increase in price could come around should iran. disrupt the distribution of oil through the strait of hormuz now. if that was to happen she has warned about some serious financial problems for europe and for the rest of the world now should we see a rainy in oil production be disrupted in this way then the saudis have said the saudi arabia of course the largest producer of oil in the world of said they can increase production by twenty five percent we're also hearing from libya that they can chip in and take up some of the slack however guard warning should this happen

should we see such a major rise in the price of a barrel of oil then all of the good work that's been so far in europe with regard to dragging the economy kicking and screaming back from the the state it was in following the financial crisis would all be undone and we could say see a potential new recession hit europe well the reason that all of this is come about is due to the the ongoing standoff between iran and the west over the reining in nuclear program now both the united states and the e.u. have imposed sanctions on iran trying to get them to abandon their nuclear program and what we've actually seen is a group of of european countries as well as japan have slashed their imports of a rainy and oil however the major importers of iranian oil haven't done well

haven't done that. satisfactory levels especially for the united states we're looking here at china india and it's south korea now. the united states and delicate part of the president has warned this should these countries not cut their imports of iranian oil by satisfactory levels then both countries could face sanctions of their own or partner threatening to cut off the countries like i say china and india from the u.s. financial system now that could have potentially huge repercussions when it comes to business dealings and trade between those countries in could result in some quite serious financial disaster. reporting right there of a need for oil drives exploration to the most remote of places and of course for yours conflicts as well but peru has cancelled the shuttle the visit by a british warship and what it called a spirit of solidarity act with argentina but us arias has

a long running dispute with london over the falkland islands in the atlantic both countries claim the archipelago is there's. no reports of this. first prince in the warship all apparently routine but to watch and tina the message is clear when i go 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 they are sending a destroyer the words out that is huge in modern along with the heir to the throne who would have liked to see him in civilian clothes not in a military uniform on. 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 anniversaries irrelevant to us here it genuinely is routine there's no attempt to escalate anything but i do recognize the argentinian president is seeking to put a different interpretation on it for fighter jets missiles and a state of the art destroyer to 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 stanley a celebrated here is the man the island capitals named after the falklands themselves may be small and distant. but there 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

photons belong to the planned as they are british we have a right to self-determination that's and shined in the u.n. 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 is suddenly a lot more to lose. respecting has become more sort of widespread in terms of exposure then i think it's it's helped to ratchet up the crisis between britain and argentina russian team is going to view if the four probes in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercially exploitable then of course there's a fear that britain for beauty would never wish to negotiate about the future

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 margin time protests and others are now listening the islands are amongst 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. that is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and still to come for you in the program here a one off exercise or a life long commitment to explore whether our of the revolutions have done enough to bring the democracy and freedom they promised. under sharp criticism for executing two men found guilty of a deadly terror attack in the capital minsk the e.u. is now preparing to impose new sanctions on the country while its human rights

groups question the fairness of the trial president lukashenko has told us here at r.t. exclusively that the refusal to pardon a man was tough but it was ultimately the correct choice to make. it was a tragedy in my life most of all i feel for the parents of those men to whom i unfortunately cannot. prove absolutely transparent but brushes federal security service the f.s.b. israel's mossad and interpol in the investigation and none of these organizations had any questions about the inquiry and it's to process so i have absolutely no doubts about the fairness of that certainly. and you can catch on more of this exclusive chat with the russian president in our

interview show spotlight throughout thursday here on out. summer three hundred a french police may have surrounded a house in to lose with a suspect in the killings of a at a jewish school is holding out he's already thrown a handgun out of the window but is reported to have other weapons including a k forty seven but the interior minister killer told them he would surrender at noon he's reported to be a french national about jiri an origin what officials said he belongs to an islamist terrorist group that's not a journalist and author barry lando joining us live from paris so here on the program good to see you the suspect is said to be a french citizen who has spent time in afghanistan and pakistan is a homegrown terrorism a big problem in france because we've got reports here that the gunfight goes on with police the suspect is calling himself a mujahedeen claiming his you hardest convictions. i think it's this this is been a problem here as far as the police and terrorists the authorities have been

concerned for for more than a decade now and we've been watching this film for more than a decade and watching it grow and there are probably now probably hundreds of young men from sweet woman also in france. back with a lot of them but who are french citizens who may have been to afghanistan and pakistan and who will similar beliefs. ok well i was first told that this was ultimately a simple case of race hate now it appears the most his were different now with the french interior minister saying it was revenge for the french army's campaigns abroad with an event as shocking as this have an impact on policy do you think when he said it's not just revenge for the partially revenge for france's activities suppose more of more or less and afghanistan we're going still active but the

person who is holding out the young man himself has said that it was also in revenge for the killings of young children in gaza but these are really some of the roots of the most sense or we're here to ultimately talking about the process for and how to pay that you're saying also talking about the palestinians as well the french presidential candidate as i'm sure you well know i have polls from campaigning at the moment but a person asako z. has been very big on the anti immigrant rhetoric even a one point threatening to withdraw from the open door pact in the e.u. what do you think he will do now. i have no idea what he's going to do right now he's got an enormous problem what do you do with these it's a strong feeling among a young french again of my grubby and or muslim background who don't feel part of france and don't feel part of the country and you have the same problem of course

throughout europe to live in in england in spain. where you have similar kinds of young people who are in serious economic difficulties a lot of them with the economy in very bad shape throughout the continent and a lot of them living in slums how do you deal with this problem. well you talk about a lot of them living in slums certainly over the past eight or nine months but there's been a massive influx of immigrants people leaving north africa and coming into frauds at a time when there are already many many immigrants living in paris as you mentioned a moment ago slums being the case and typically every year you have these what are called student protests in paris what it tends to be a lot of immigrants who are engaged in those that have burning cars and causing chaos how do you think these events are going to strain and already difficult situation a lot of people talk about the fact of integration in paris and for all of that just hasn't actually would absolutely correct it hasn't worked. unfortunately during the. campaign right here and president sarkozy has

really trying to espouse the line of the right. nationalist party here as well. you know we always attacking immigrants talking about how you meet me he issues. over in so muslim groups he said become major issues in france rather than the question of creating jobs which should be the major issue for this government and for all the politicians who are running for president but in fact they are taking their eye off that and a lot of the talk it's been. the problem of integrating muslims but not in a positive way. i know a journalist and author we don't have any more time for this i do apologize thank you for coming out so it's a day. a website all to talk called a great source of news blogs and videos twenty four hours a day let's check out some of the items got lined up for you there right now a u.k.

student is to stand trial for posting what's being called a quote grossly offensive message about the afghan war on his facebook page. and drug users in russia might face up to two years in jail if the authorities step up the battle against the. so the full story at r.t. dot com. well i don't let's get to the r.t. world operates some of the international headlines for you start with the big apple new york police have carried out an overnight raid on union square park avenue in camp and the occupy wall street protesters reports say at least four people have been arrested the demonstrators have been at the location since saturday when a police raid forced them from zuccotti park hardcore activists have been calling for more people to swell their ranks but also been demanding the resignation of the city's police commissioner what they call his use of brutal tactics against their ongoing movement. a seven point four magnitude earthquake has hit southern mexico

at least eleven people have been injured and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in the mexico city a pedestrian bridge collapsed crushing many bass and downing telephone and power lines. mexico every few years or the strongest was back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five i killed at least ten thousand. al-qaeda has claimed responsibility for tuesday's series of deadly blasts all across iraq a terrorist group claims it proves how weak government security is just ahead of next week's arab league summit in baghdad a total of eight iraqi cities were attacked forty six killed over two hundred injured in the violence comes nine years after the u.s. led invasion of a country antiwar activist michael already says nato has left a deadly legacy in that country.

we do apologize i don't know how you remember the back is it's fixable it's still under occupation. we may have seen the withdrawal of combat troops but there are still tens of thousands of 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 kid this conflict going there won't be any change in these countries until not only did the soldiers and the armies leave but all the private contractors gone too and also the puppet governments so commonly been put in place by the americans and the british think we would destroy the country we've destroyed its culture we've also destroyed its future its children in the last nine years the u.k. and 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. just rising off the scale this is already contaminated the ground contaminated the groundwater so for the foreseeable future the iraqi population and not going to have a future that we can be optimistic about all and it's been more than a year since the beginning of the uprising of the middle east and while protesters and initially rallied under the banners of democracy many are finding the arab spring has tailed rather than broader than the other party's boyko points. no shortcuts because nation bunkmate in beirut stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plans here from to test their stamina is not only the most popular jogging venue across the arab world for some lebanese it's actually a simple 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 draw with god being harassed or love or not is the only arab country these days that have this freedom when i try 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 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 we should be able to dress like this but alone enjoy the outdoors with your boyfriend this opening 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 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 let me know what does

democracy mean you this is just to walk around and have fun with this and talk in the way i love to the things i love no it's not about that it's about having to share things with others while the arab spring sprout on the 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 non-religious women are increasingly forced to cover their heads in public to protect themselves from being harassed in libya militia now want to control not go. in the future but also the past saying 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've been predicted as was predicted at the outbreak because but 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 picking and so it's total anarchy and chaos in syria where armed

rebels are also calling for western support of the 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 second feist 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 or when you try to export stuff 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 one hundred thousand people killed. but the west arab democracy may be one of exercise a project to get done and over with but it's lebanon's example shows the real freedom like a muscle needs time and sustained effort to grow some of the artsy beirut lebanon. or to talk about ahead of the business where you got your eyes on the markets what's the latest where you are yeah that's right really monitoring oil prices at the moment actually we've been reporting here and i'll say that the obama administration is trying to cut off iran from its masers of income oil exports as a sanction over its nuclear program so let's hope the prices are fair and at this hour the prices are rebounding from the biggest decline in three months after a pause showed crude stockpiles falling in the u.s. if we go over to europe we see how they're doing today and so prices are indeed on the rise you've got banks oil and pharmaceutical companies all benefiting in the

region to say the footsie may have a change of fortunes later but the british treasury chief george osborne he's going to deliver his budget later on he's he's trying to keep hold of the triple a rating that's been threatened recently by raising agencies while also out here after the founders budgeting trying to make ends meet at the moment moving on to the russian markets no rational decision rather well to say actually they're extending their gains if we look at the individual we can see that ross and you have to. just call has also had a change of fortunes at this hour they've got their tax burdens of twenty billion dollars coming in to pay out a poor almost the employees our salaries and their pensions that we're interesting one to watch but they've come back up into positive territory if you get added to the currencies we can see that is still trading rather well today's mixed fortunes for the group against the main prices that is hard hits us dollar lower against the

year at this hour that's how the markets are looking all be back in about fifty five minutes i'll have the latest figures the latest updates and as they say watching oil prices.

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