the un is inching closer to a united solution members agreed to soften their stance on syria with moscow pledging to throw its support behind a resolution that has no regime ultimatums. with. executing two men found guilty of last year's deadly terror attack in the capital we talk exclusively with the president. calls the decision an absolute tragedy in his life but still insists it was the right thing to get. the oil exploration off the falklands islands has the u.k. brandishing its military might almost three decades after the war. raging against

revived colonialism. worldwide news around the clock this is artsy. life in moscow u.n. 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 now russia said it's ready to back a resolution as long as there are no ultimatums aimed at the assad regime middle east correspondent paula has details. the statement as such is a statement that would not binding and this is because although the violence in syria has been ongoing for more than a year in the times. i'm. by comparison

is binding statement is not but it does have the potential to become a resolution at a later stage now russia is betting the statement and has that it will back a resolution that will be formulated on 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 so you need syrian regime for what has transpired in syria now while we don't have details 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 security forces from protests cities and some cities that are under siege and also for the release of the chaney's with moscow saying that bets that those players will support on the table they should be discussed and debated at 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 afraid meant to groom them it's not quite clear what is in control russia in the beginning at the polling the same position which as china has feared that it needs to be investigated exactly are these rebels seen reports of a crime didn't continue to their promises from being from saudi arabia and qatar we're not hearing from the human rights watch group that it has proof that the rebels have carried out gross abuses in churches as well as in reply isil killings and 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 . or more the situation here in the situation in syria we can all talk. shaath

middle east expert and author joining us live from belfast thanks for coming on r.t. today as we're listening to the reporters now if the u.n. states accept a balanced text than it has the backing of all the members how likely is it that the resolution will actually bring the breakthrough into the crisis. it will happen since the cease fire is what everyone is after the syrian government the world the russians the chinese lots of the most of the people learned the art of war all drugs well i won't go here is the worst one country is going to seize fire in syria since the opposition in syria how popular support it's all the action is committing if it is in syria to give the impression is collapsing so if we see this is fire would have gotten through solution a from the united nations everyone is after in the area from the people of syria their fear god all of this

attacks targeting innocent people and the security good so low in the capital damascus or a little to the cracking. meanwhile the local opposition inside syria are totally agonist guard and they are agreeing and be wanting a ceasefire since these are thugs which is. why i actually say i do apologize for interrupting but as you say you know the opposition has no popular support for these so-called terror attacks ultimately hitting civilians i would it comes to you when it comes to the idea of peace talks you were talking about there you know that it is sad government has approached kenya i was just saying the yes the assad government has approached the opposition a couple of times to say let's come to the peace talks let's talk at the negotiating table but with reports that the opposition is rather fragmented who is

the assad government supposed to negotiate with. we have to give you an example to the local musician and side syria. people easy to talk to agree with this. agenda of destroying the very gene they want some reforms but you have the what they call it the turkish all istanbul council and so many offshoots of from it they know who you go to every one of them have it's sort of a sponsor there is some groups there how the on side in for some groups on something for saudis some groups and something for islam some groups and something for different so you have all of these the fragments and those people of the outlook interested in the outside this stuff will cause them into looking since they know the popular support they are interesting in keeping the military. is

going on since we discovered there received a lot of equipment seven hundred fifty tons of israeli military supplies out if the news of this really newspaper to say that through jordan the qatari paid for the two for what is the dust of course how dark in syria they are not after the cease fire those guys if they agreed to cease fire and those guys they mean they have no support so the government have to talk to the sort of. people to represent those people the government is already engaged in syria so on what we are asking is that balances of the syrian people decide for themselves with their government with their people what to do so i support such a solution myself but keep the foreign intervention outside syria that's what we are after all right now if we can to address one last point here certainly a lot of international alessa saying a lot of people are missing the point when it comes to how the u.n.

is approaching syria some not warn that the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making chair on an isolated and compelled to act what's your take on that. it's part of the global geopolitical game right now tackling syria means destroying their existing. to get iran to control iran and to do a change change in iran you need to syria if you take syria then hezbollah will collapse then the get open to the iran. iran and controlling it on its means the russian goalie is soft right know russia is squeezed and then the chain of light to china is controlled by the allies and that's what they want they want to cordon off to china. russia. because i'll do that

with syria it's still a strong idea to still existing and controlling their country so the end game is a game russia india china in the process they have to kick syria first and then iran so the whole thing is linked taking syria it's a national security threat massive one for the russians and then the second step to the arena and i'm trying to ease. his he's me middle east author and expert or talking us from belfast thank you. but it's a turmoil in the arab world that's now threatening a bigger blow to the global economy rather than the crisis in the eurozone the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde has warned that escalation of a situation where there were on for example could drive oil prices above one hundred sixty dollars a barrel he's played a role in our ports. well the warnings that we're hearing from christine lagarde

head of the i.m.f. is that we could face a potential thirty percent rise in the 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 people increase in price could come around should iran. disrupt the distribution of oil through the strait of hormuz 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 iranian oil production be disrupted in this way to 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 lugard 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 regards of 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 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 a rant and the west over the rain in nuclear program now both the united states and the e.u. have imposed sanctions on iran to try and get them to abandon their nuclear program a group of of european countries as well as japan have slashed their imports of a reigning in oil however the major importers of iranian oil haven't done well haven't done that is satisfactory lever. especially for the united states we're

looking here china india and it's south korea now the united states in but i could bar the president has warned it should be east countries not cut their imports of iranian oil by satisfactory levels then well those countries could face sanctions of their own obama 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 encourages all to well some quite serious financial disaster. now the need for oil drives exploration in the most remote of places and fuels conflicts as well peru has canceled the shuttle visit by a british warship in a movie so it was a spirit of solidarity act with argentina when us ours has a long running dispute with london over the falklands islands in the atlantic as

both countries claim the archipelago was theirs as r.t. as i've been at. first the prince. then the war ship all apparently routine but toward tina the message is clear when i go out that it's a regional and global issue because there are militarizing in the south atlantic one more time try as me me interpret it any other way they are sending a destroyer the word itself that is huge in modern along with the heir to the throne we 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 and ill timed coincidence or a deliberate provocation whether there's an 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 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's capitals named after the falklands themselves may be small and distant but they're the last ever 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. british we have the right to self-determination that's and shined in

the charter. were happy to talk to argentina about anything. except sovereignty passenger is not negotiable but the ukase 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 it 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 argentina from argentina supporter of you if the falklands 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 for muti 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 years of arjen time 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 and we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow are still to come for you in a program here a one off exercise or a lifelong commitment how we explore whether our about revolutions have done enough to bring good democracy and the freedoms they promised. but the wrists has come out a sharp criticism for executing two men found guilty of a deadly terror attack in the capital minsk and the e.u. is preparing to impose new sanctions on the country while human rights groups

question the fairness of the trial president look at shankar has told r.t. exclusively that the refusal to pardon the men was tough but the correct choice to make at the end of the day. it was a tragedy in my life 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 all took part in the investigation and none of these organizations had any questions about the inquiry and it's true sense so i have absolutely no doubts about the fairness of that. you can catch more of this exclusive chat with the russian president in our interview show spotlight that is a throughout thursday here on c alright so let's check out some of the

international headlines in brief with the r.t. world update starting with france some of three hundred french policemen have surrounded a house and to lose where the suspect in the killings at a jewish school is holding out the interior minister said the suspect would surrender at noon but he has since a broken off talks with the police the twenty four year old is a self-styled al qaeda jihadist it's reported to be a french national of algerian origin and afghan officials have said the gunman was broken out of a kandahar prison in a massive taliban jailbreak last year it was also suspected of gunning down three soldiers. feel police have carried out an overnight raid on union square park and of 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 hard core activists have been calling

for more people to swell their ranks they've also been demanding the resignation of the city's police commissioner over what they call his use of brutal tactics against them with. 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 mexico city a pedestrian bridge collapsed crushing a minibus in the downing telephone and power lines quakes to hit mexico every few years back nine hundred eighty five that was the strongest one killed at least ten thousand. but i won't cite r.t. dot com is a great source of news blogs and videos are some of the stories we've got lined up for you there today for example you paid student to stand trial for posting what's being called a grossly offensive message about the afghan war on his facebook page. and drug users in russia might face up to two years in jail with your story stuck up

a battle against addicts that full story at r.t. dot com. not far from the business news with katie but for now it's been more than a year since the beginning of the uprisings across the middle east and while protesters initially rallied under the banners of democracy and many now find the arab spring has curtailed rather than broaden the civil liberties artichokes on a boy reports. no shortcuts the current mission bachman in beirut stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plenty of room to test their stamina is not only do most popular jogging banier across the arab world for some lebanese it's actually a symbol that their democracy is up and running reader may be a very political concept but to most ordinary people usually means something very concrete to me for example it's an ability to go for it without being harassed and lebanon is the only arab country these days that can allow me this freedom

religious right 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 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 and no other arab country she says which should be able to dress like this 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 voice 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 now it's kind of odd 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 your dishonest 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 look cool. 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 wrought 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 pic and so it's total anarchy and chaos in syria where armed rebels are also calling for western support of that democratic aspirations fighting

for freedom all got 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 thoughtful 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 but when you try to export something from a graunt 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 estimates are that there

are a hundred thousand people killed. but the west arab democracy may be a one off exercise a project to get done and over with lebanon's example showing real freedom like a muscle needs time and sustained effort to grow some of our it see beirut lebanon on. the top of. your world so there are already well we are watching oil at this hour we've been watching it all day because as you know i was you've been reporting so much going on we've got the ministration trying to cost of iran from its main source of income of course oil exports as a sanction over its nuclear program if we look at the figures that right now we can see that it's rebounding from its biggest decline in three months and that's after a report showed crude stockpiles are falling in the u.s. so that's what's happening today i know that we're expecting these sanctions to happen in the future but we could have to europe because that is alive and kicking

this hour and i can tell you that stocks are paying actually guesstimates positive territory of especially the footsie that's not fairing quite so well let's talk into that in a minute and let me tell you it's a bank oil and pharmaceutical companies that are on the rise and as far as persons concerned the treasury chief george osborne he's to deliver his budget today to convince raising ages is to keep their triple a a racing while avoiding pushing the economy into a double dip recession so he's got a balancing act to perform today as well as that stock futures as well i can tell you they are words they are pushing higher and that's on the back of those positive european stocks as well as commodity prices as well posting strong gains also u.s. home sales are expected to investors who got their eyes firmly on that one if we head over to the russian markets we can see that the strong got oil isn't helping the markets here however though not quite as strong as we saw earlier the stocks

are retreating. ever so slightly if we look at the individual. we can see the roof is still up as well is that we've got gas problems still enjoying gains this our tax burden situation to deal with the twenty two billion dollars we're talking about and that's because when putin was campaigning for his presidential campaign he was saying that salaries and pensions are going to be pushed up in the companies about what they've got to look forward to if we check out the currency rates we can see that the euro dollar is still higher this hour as far as the ruble is concerned it is still performing better against the u.s. dollar lower against the european occurrence day. well in other news general electric is expressing their selves to triple what the u.s. withdraws itself from the soviet era trade restrictions the president of the club says the jackson amendment blocks the u.s. from a rapidly growing market. now the u.s. exports to rush to about four percent versus twenty nine percent in your opinion

about forty three percent so the us has a big opportunity to increase its trade if we have. action and grant your will be able to take advantage of it so reduce the tariffs for equipment coming from the united states and also give us a little playing field against or european and asian counterparts if we see direction then it. should be integrated into your by the united states we expect our sales to triple by two thousand and twenty in russia. ok that's all the business now and it's all from me you will have done you push you in the next hour here have all the markets all business all the fine out so join in but if i. thanks .

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