if you. see from the stupid. stunts on t.v. . set to make a statement tell us the finishing touches to a draft on syria could pave the way for decisive action after a year of disunity. and while washington and its allies country to support the opposition human rights much more about the rebels are forced to be reckoned with guilty of murder and intimidation. french police are locked in a standoff with a man suspected of killing seven people in the city of toulouse including three schoolchildren i'm going to cross over here a likely just for you live pictures from the scene. where the french president is expected shortly we understand the police are trying to take the government live

and have. warnings over oil shortages that lead to skyrocketing prices as tensions in the middle east put iranian crude supplies in jeopardy threatening to be stabilized of the global economy. just after five pm on wednesday here in moscow this is with me. the u.n. is nearing an agreement on syria but the u.s. and its allies still hoping to put more pressure on president assad but the forces there backing to fight against him aren't as harmless as washington likes to think with details. in a public later by human rights watch they reinforce the position that moscow has been holding since the middle of last year and that is that there are elements

within the opposition in syria who are not peaceful at all in fact they are clearly cut throat in addition to this the result kreider that is operating in syria against these syrian president bashar assad that what we're hearing from human rights watch is that there are elements within the opposition that are guilty of human rights abuses detention intimidation torture all of this happening to the security forces as well as syrian people who support the government human rights watch says it has reviewed at least twenty five videos on you tube and they found these videos it's these security force members of literally consisting of crimes they committed but that in fact these statements were made under duress in addition to this they have a video footage that shows the opposition executing people it has in its custody the group is calling on the opposition in syria to forbid its members from dumas at this raises the problem in terms of who exactly is in charge of the opposition in

syria i'm the one hand you have not returned and various other western allies who have recognized the syrian national council as the opposition but you do have many people in syria who do not belong to these groups and who indeed are acting by and large on the only call they have and anti alawite sentiments they know there is no organized command structure which begs the question that the western call for the syrian president bashar assad to step down is a call that is not clear in terms of very little in what will replace the syrian regime. or his policy reporting coming a bit later here about seeing your course dogs people live well gets a firsthand account from a human rights watch on a scale of regular trust to reside inside syria. we sent a letter to the syrian national council raising some issues with when we started the committee some cases of food use by position forces it's not clear how much

control. the free syrian army have over there but you know there's been a few instances where. you know summary people may be tortured kidnapped. so there are a couple of problems there and we think the syrian national council should speak out even though this is a. this is our he now french police have surrounded the home of the gunman suspected of killing three jewish schoolchildren a rabbi and three paratroopers in the southwestern city of who knows the man named as mohammed merah is reported to be a french national of algerian origin he claims he belongs to al qaeda and acted to avenge palestinian children the french interior ministry said that the alleged killer told him that he would surrender at noon according to police the suspect was

identified via an ip address on his brother's computer i mean well early wednesday morning the bodies of four victims of the shooting were flown to israel where the future also been taking place in jerusalem french and israeli foreign ministers were among those attending is not thought to be shall call on an investigative journalist joining us live from brussels hello to you what impact do you think president suckle zs right wing policies may have had his recent anti immigration rhetoric that's or perhaps have spawned an event like today. well i think one has to be very cautious about. the lies they mean and comment those terrible events have to remind and of schiller's ago there was somebody killed in a mosque in us in falls who we could go somebody worse killed

with kids in brussels under the act. and. have to remind. actually mr sarkozy the. exciting self very well. the appropriation. because actually he described the security problem as being a problem of the arabs and muslims. and kill me and. all the nato propaganda. this is. a. recurring syria and iran all these programs he's playing on the idea of dividing people excited people spreading hate and fanatism and this is

unfortunately a good consequence of this program as you say so it's a propaganda propaganda is being utilized here to sway public opinion for certain nato or u.n. foreign interventions but as you say it's separating the people that are supposed to be integrated together if i may just focusing on what's going on now this french standoff with an algerian gunman into lose but the french interior minister said that the man had been tracked by french intelligence for several years why didn't the author already to act sooner potentially a version in this tragedy very good question and you go down another one. of the these kind of services who. don't have the answer but it's specious and you've got this question of why. the need to dance. with the libyan section. who says.

in this title apartment through g.d.p. in libya why are they doing the same thing with. me in syria so who is your group so i'm sorry to interrupt you but if i can just understand when it comes to the shooting over the past few days a rabbi two children one teenager in jude's three paratroopers shot but in two days before this the standoff continues are you saying the blame for today's standoff with this government of algerian descent and this the blame lies with nato and the u.n. or is it the blame with the government who's currently engaged in the standoff. of course this sort of action and everybody can then decide the actual killing innocents is. never correct it's. really what happens. you have to analyze why that solid

fanatics are excited stimulated by all these claims. and warn hints but now they've got the government claims to be linked to al qaeda he's been calling himself a mujahedeen he's been he's been talking about this she hard it's rhetoric is that it is any way to front for france to to crack down on the radicalization of young muslims do you think or can we all just throw it away to the propaganda from nato and the u.n. saying that nato is the one who's actually supporting these types of people. no i don't think you have to you can buy probably goes asian. and speaking many times with a lot of people giving lectures the be a bar it's. hardly be. all situation of the ira muslim world in the united states and. almost everybody understands

that this is a political problem this is a policy of obama because the internet talk and it's not a question of jew or muslim or this or that you have many jews who are accusing the state of israel and you know some muslims who are cooperating with the provide stuff because the it is so it's not a question of a religion this has to be clear. it's. it's really dramatic that there isn't really hates because everybody sees that the man has a cause the us rushing the palestinians are smashing the people in iraq and afghanistan and start. of course there is people are very angry about that and where they don't know what little change this injustice some small guy can't believe. she was growing tired of this is very very dramatic because this feeling increasingly make this will increase the mission among the

people. michelle cottle an investigative journalist from brussels thank you for coming on our team today thank you. any interruptions in iranian oil supply is caused by a standoff between tehran and the west would jeopardize the world economy that's according to the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde who says that short falls and destructions could drive prices up by thirty percent not his pretty lot of other reports. well the warnings that we're hearing from christine lagarde head of the i.m.f. as 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 pledge of huge increase peak increase in prices 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 your a pound for the rest of the world now should we see a rainy in 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 guard warning should this happen and should we see such a major rise in the price of a barrel of oil then all of the good work it's been so far in europe with regards of dragging the economy kicking and screaming back from the 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 uranium 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 rainy and oil however the major importance of iranian oil haven't done to our haven't done that is satisfactory. levels especially for the united states we're looking here china india and it's south korea now the united states and barack obama the president has warned it should be countries not cut their imports of iranian oil by satisfactory levels then well those countries could face sanctions of their own. if i let down your now the r.t. business desk and find out what the latest middle east tensions mean for global oil

prices. yes still above one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel be renewed situations they want people talking about but there are other factors keeping the high as well we'll bring you those reasons in the business in the world ten minutes on. a later we report on how three decades after the war britain is accused of reaffirming its military might near the falkland islands all in the name of oil. it's a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital al-qaeda says it's behind a series of bomb attacks that killed forty six and injured at least two hundred all across iraq eight cities were struck the blasts targeting police headquarters and security forces on tuesday but the latest violence came a day after the ninth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of iraq and just one week before the arab league summit is due to be held in baghdad the meeting is aimed at establishing iraq as an important political player in the region since the u.s. troop withdrawal in december but antiwar activist michael already says the invasion

has left a deadly legacy in the country. and i think what we have to remember to back it is it's still under occupation and we may have seen the withdrawal of combat troops pull out of 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 leaves around the world to keep 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 that are currently being put in place by probably americans and the british far thing 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. . 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 are just rising off the scale this is already contaminated the ground contaminated ground water so for that for the foreseeable future iraqi population and not going to have a future that can be optimistic about it's all right a look at some other international headlines for you and brief with the r.t. world update will start with new york where of police have removed occupy wall street protesters from union park at least one person was arrested after officers in riot gear moved demonstrators onto the sidewalk and barricaded the premises protesters have occupied the camp since saturday after a police raid forced them out of zuccotti park the activists were continuing the protest against corporate greed which began in new york last year. doctors and staff and greece's public hospitals are walking away from their jobs for three hour periods in protest against austerity measures and pay delays physicians are

demanding overtime salaries which they say they haven't been paid for for four months the country's in its fifth year of recession and has made several cuts to its health care spending this year earlier today greece's parliament approved a second international bailout even the country an additional one hundred thirty billion euros in rescue teams. at least five students have been wounded during clashes with police in the columbiana city of tanya the dispute happened during a demonstration marking twenty fifth anniversary of the death of a student leader the injuries occurred when two people fell while carrying explosives what triggered the clashes remains unknown. panda may deploy land and sea based interceptor missiles ahead of north korea's planned rocket launch next month officials say tokyo has not ruled out shooting down north korea's rocket if it enters japanese airspace john yang is

a rocket is set to fly over western japan in april tokyo has expressed concerns that a failed launch pulling stage of the rocket could endanger japanese lives. but has come under sharp criticism over the executions of two men found guilty of deadly metro bombings in the capital minsk last year the death sentences were condemned by western officials and international human rights groups with the e.u. are now preparing to impose new sanctions on minsk the country's president alexander lukashenko told r.t. exclusively that it was one of the toughest decisions he's ever had 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 help it's. absolutely transparent brushes 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 its two process so i have absolutely no doubts about the fairness of the verdict that certain. that you watch the full exclusive interview with the russian president in our spotlight show throughout thursday here r.t. . britain's prince william is back from his tour of duty in the falkland islands where he's been stationed since february to support it has added to growing tensions in argentina as the thirtieth anniversary of the four plane war approaches but as our as and london have had a longstanding dispute over the islands with both countries claiming ownership our correspondent i bet it has the story. first the prince.

in the warship all apparently routine but to watch and tina the message is clear when it goes that 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 they are sending a destroyer the word itself that is huge and 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 but claimed over nine hundred lives six hundred fifty of them argentinian and ill timed coincidence or deliberate provocation whether there's an anniversaries irrelevant to us here aging release 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 deterrent 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 pope of themselves maybe small and distant but they're the last whispers 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 four clans belong to the us they are british we have the right to self-determination that's and shined the charter. were happy to talk to argentina about anything. except sovereignty our sovereignty is not negotiable but the u.k.'s

posturings left its subjects 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. gas perspective and has become more sort of widespread in terms of exposure then i think it's it's helped to ratchet up the crisis between person argentina rushing to his point of view if the problems in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercially exploited can of course there's a fear that britain in the falklands you 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 origin 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. for more news videos you can go onto our website. now it's safe to watch waiting for you there right now from the big screen the big house. stars two years for taking part in last summer's london riots. pressures over privacy all eyes are on google as it's questions about the way it handles and. you can find all about how much more on our website. he.

is. the official. from the. video. calls. in the palm of your. on the call. now let's head over to our business to ask the hourly update on the markets and to daniel so what is the latest of all the numbers you're looking at the more than the start of the week we'll have

a look at the figures or belittle later but let's check the oil out first because we've been strangely trying to cut off iran from its main income crude exports and there are sanctions over its nuclear program that's pushing a lot from its biggest decline in three months the u.s. calls on the nations to curtail or rein in imports otherwise it's threatens to cut their banks off from the u.s. financial system and other things sending crude oil is a report showing stockpiles of crude pulling in the u.s. european markets all slightly growing but some losses from monday and tuesday it comes as u.k. budget chief george osborne delivers his and your speech designed to stop a double dip recession their russian markets have lost this call from the morning when strong crude supported investor sentiment little of the news on the ground though to justify the market's rising market movers now oil majors including heading higher stronger crude prices recovered from earlier losses caused by reports text twenty two billion dollars over the next five years the next president

putin plans to boost pensions and salaries for state employees banking stocks are looking for direction with p.t.p. just a notch down exchange rates next fall change for the dollar in the last hour now off against both ruble and the euro the euro still down against the brueghel this hour though in other news general electric says its sales will triple to russia when the u.s. . trade restrictions the president of the firm's russian unit says the jackson valley commitment to look for the us from a rapidly growing market. right now the u.s. exports to rush to about four percent vs east asia twenty nine percent and your opinion about forty three percent so the us has a big opportunity to increase its trade if we have if we repeal the jaxon van to commemorate and grant pantie your would be able to take advantage of it so reduce the tariffs for quitman coming from the united states but also give us a level playing field against our european and asian counterparts if we see jaxon van it being repealed and russia being granted by the united states we expect our

sales to triple by two thousand and twenty you know. i'll be back in fifteen minutes time you can point more stories on our website. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people

thought that nuclear weapons specifically at. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake special it sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. if a significant could use it as a threat all as in a good bit where 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 the nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalence of firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

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