said to make a statement the u.n. adds the finishing touches to a draft on syria that could pave the way for decisive action after a year of disunity. and while washington and i've continued to support the opposition human rights not to warn that the rebels are a force to be reckoned with guilty of murder and intimidation. despite conflicting reports of french police still locked in a standoff with a man suspected of killing seven people in the city or two losing looting three schoolchildren interior ministry has it denied previous reports of his arrest while president sarkozy has now arrived on the scene. and warnings over oil shortages

lead to skyrocketing prices as tensions in the middle east put iranian crude supplies in jeopardy by threatening to d.c. stabilizer the world economy and. twenty four hour global news live from moscow this is r.t. with me rule research the u.n. is nearing an agreement on syria moscow says the security council members have reached a consensus on who's to blame for the ongoing crisis but the u.s. and its allies are still hoping to put more pressure on president assad as warnings emerge that the forces back in to fight him as harmless as washington likes to think. in a publication about 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 throats in addition to this the result kreider that is operating in syria against the syrian president bashar assad not what we're hearing from human rights watch is that there are elements within the opposition that are guilty of human rights abuses potential 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 their families that is it sees security force members at lately consisting of crimes they committed but that impact these statements were made and did you receive in addition to this they have a video footage that shows the opposition executing people it has in its trustee

the group is calling on the opposition in syria to for good its members from groomers but this raises the problem in terms of who exactly is in charge of the opposition in syria on the one hand you have washington 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 indeed are acting by and large on their own accord they have. anti alawite insulin's 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 where it will end and what will replace the syrian regime. pulis lee reporting there what i coming away on here later today will be cross talk with of course the host people of l. getting a firsthand account from human rights watch on the scale of rebel atrocities ongoing in syria. we sent a letter to the syrian national council raising some issues we've we've started the

commencing some cases of food use by position forces it's not clear how much control does he initial kohak else you all the free syria army have over there but you know there's been a few instances where. they have you know summary executive people. kidnapped. so there are a couple of problems there and we think the syrian national council should speak out this is. this is r.t. now french police are still surrounding the home of the gunman suspected of killing three jewish school children a rabbi and three paratroopers in the southwestern city of toulouse the interior ministry has denied previous reports of his arrest while president nicolas sarkozy has now arrived at the scene the man and named as mohammed merah is reported to be

a french national of algerian origin and claims he belongs to al qaeda and acted to avenge palestinian children according to police the suspect was identified via an ip address on his brother's computer meanwhile early wednesday morning the bodies of four victims of the shooting were flown to israel but their funerals have been taking place in jerusalem french and israeli foreign ministers were among those attending investigative journalist michelle connell says that france's military campaigns abroad are to blame for dividing people and only promoting hatred just like with the shooter. this is a political problem this is. cause the into nato and it's not the question of june or mostly not is not that you have many jews who are accusing the state of israel and you know some muslims who are cooperating with the provide stuff cause the end is so it's not a question religion this has to be clear. if. this is really

dramatic that there isn't it's because everybody sees. the us rushing to close to. the people in iraq and afghanistan and sa and of course there is a hungry heart that's where they don't know what will change this injustice so small guy can you believe. she was growing and this is very very dramatic because this huge increase create this we didn't create a mission among to be. live from moscow this is our duty now any interruptions in iranian oil supplies 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 lagarde she says that short falls on disruptions could drive prices up by thirty percent our

correspondent peter all of our reports. 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 power 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 pain 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 a rainy and oil production be disrupted in this way 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 apparel 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 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 iran and the west over the reigning 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 rainy and oil however the major importers of iranian oil haven't done well our

haven't done that is satisfactory level. especially for the united states we're looking here china and india and it's south korea now. the united states and barack obama the president has warned it should please countries not cut their imports of iranian oil by satisfactory levels then those countries could face sanctions of their own. and a crude oil is causing a headache in another part of the world or later we are of course on hold three decades after the war britain is accused of reaffirming its military might near the falkland islands all in the name of oil. 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 with blasts targeting police headquarters and security forces on tuesday 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 at 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 and michael arad says the invasion was left a deadly legacy of the cultural. war thing what we have to remember the back is it's still under occupation and 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 leaves 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 and the armies leave but all the private contractors gone too and also the puppet governments that have currently been put in place by body americans and the british 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. and the u.s. military have dropped over two thousand tons of depleted uranium on iraq. places like fallujah. cancer spreading in the region. childhood. birth effects just washing off the scale this is a really cool. no you the qur'an contaminated the ground water so for that for the foreseeable future the iraqi population i'm not going to have a future that we can be optimistic about it's all part of starting with a new york let's go to the r.t. world update some other international headlines for you in brief but in the big apple police have removed the occupy wall street protesters from union square at least one person arrested after officers in riot gear moved demonstrators onto the sidewalk and barricaded the premises protesters of occupy the camp since saturday after a police raid forced them out of the coffee party activists were continuing to protest

against corporate greed which began in new york last year. doctors and staff at greece's public hospitals are walking away from their jobs for a three hour period protest against austerity measures and pay delays physicians are demanding overtime salaries which they say you haven't been paid for for months the country is in its fifth year of recession and has made several cuts to its health care spending this year just earlier today greece's parliament approved a second international bailout giving the country an additional one hundred thirty billion euros in rescue loans. at least five students have been wounded during clashes with police the colombian city of tanya the dispute happened during a demonstration marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of a student leader the injuries occurred when two people fell while carrying explosives what triggered the clashes to this point remains on. japan it 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 tang's rocket is set to fly over western japan in april tokyo has expressed concerns that a failed launch will befalling stage of the rocket could endanger japanese right. well abuse has come of that 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 and the e.u. is preparing to impose new sanctions on beds the countries of president alexander the look of her 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 whom i unfortunately cannot. prove absolutely transparent but brushes federal security service the f.s.b. israel's mohsen and interpol all took part 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 the verdict because that certainly. you can watch the full exclusive interview with the russian president in hours so throughout the day here on our to. britain's prince william is back from this tour of duty in the falklands islands where he's been stationed since february if the toilet has added to growing tensions in argentina as the thirtieth anniversary of

the falkland war approaches what as are a lot of them have had a long standing dispute over the islands with both countries claiming ownership of course one of about as the story. first the prince. then the war ship all apparently routine but toward tina the message is clear when i go sour it's a regional and global issue because they're not rising 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 words out 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 and ill timed coincidence or deliberate provocation whether there's an anniversary is irrelevant to us here it generally 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 rapier missiles and a state of the art the straw 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 because 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 whispers i want so 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 full plans belong to the they are precious we have a right to self-determination rights and shined in the charter. were happy to talk to argentina about anything. except sovereignty our sovereignty is not in question 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's suddenly a lot more to lose. and gas 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 rushing to respond to you 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 its being robbed with britain sets a 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 argentina and protests but 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. for more news and videos you can just log on to our web site a click away is ours so you thought some of the items are standing by there right now include of from the big screen to the big house harry potter stars jailed for two years for taking part in last summer's london riots. and pressures over privacy all eyes are on google has to answer questions about the way it

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on the dot com. live from moscow this is our news just in now the u.n. security council kofi annan peace plan and a cease fire proposal to end the year long bloodshed in syria. well it's been a more than a year since the way via the rest first began in the arab world as regimes fail hopes for greater freedoms grew need to fade as the unrest and bloodshed continue to. look at whether the fight for democracy has failed. no shortcuts baker nation bunkmate in beirut stretches for over seven kilometers giving exercises plans here fruit to test their stamina not only did most popular jogging ban you cross the arab world for some lebanese it's actually a symbol that their democracy is up and running free there may be

a very political concept but to most ordinary people it's usually means something very concrete to me for example it's an ability to go for a tour without being harassed or lebanon is the only arab country business that can allow me 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 druggers may seem miniscule indic round scale of things but ultimately it's about living your life as you choose says susan in no other arab country she says we should be able to dress like this let 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 political opinion i was born in care say i suffered a lot there because it's it's true to 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 talk on with business and talk in the way i love do the things i love no it's not about that it's about having to share things with others while the arab spring sprout under the banner of democracy for many it came at the expense of basic freedom to choose your lifestyle can be 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 both. in the future but also the past saying something positive about take it off 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 as as could have been predicted as was predicted at the outbreak because put 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 pic and so it's total anarchy and chaos many across the arab world a longing for so sial and political change there is a widespread conviction that overexuberant ruston rooting for the opposition quite literally heals that can you in democratic movement you cannot export democracy people can achieve a former participation in government that is consistent with their values or when you try to export 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 a one off exercise a project to get done and over where it is lebanon's example shows

a real freedom like a muscle need time and sustained effort to grow from a boy to artsy beirut lebanon. and a straight over to the r.t. business actually right on your bushel for the latest on the market so what news do you have for us to store the markets are doing a bit better than at the start of the week we'll look at the figures later but first oil because the i.m.f. warns the global economy could be thrown back into recession if the dispute over iran's nuclear program causes all prices to spike the fund said christine legarde says crude could jump thirty percent if the key tanker route through the strait of hormuz is blocked to discuss the issue of. global director of market reporting of anality. above one hundred twenty four dollars today what point does the price get unsustainable for the world economy. the oil market has been harboring this somewhere around one hundred twenty dollars for a little bit over a year i mean that time period maybe in some areas in europe this version got worse

but in the u.s. because they're finitely improved this price now seems to have been absorbed into the market place so we are one hundred twenty four one hundred twenty five it seems that things keep on taking over the issue would be if we start getting towards the one hundred fifty dollars or a lot of that would definitely be a serious impact into the world economy and so many analysts say if the straits of hormuz work to be close or temporarily obstructive for some reason then prices will go off to raise this and then most likely prices will cross that one hundred fifty people are lying there in the world economy would definitely suffer and that suffering would be in the northern hemisphere u.s. europe asia everybody would suffer and then following that there would be

a correction in the market place to the downside so i think buyers and sellers and we have heard a lot of comments by the saudis in the last week. yearning for stability in oil prices of the question is of course could iran block the straits of hormuz and for how long. that the only sure there is see in everybody's mind i think if every country is the pendant on the pendant on. the likelihood that a hundred will close major artery is fairly limited. iran is still tied into the world of trade this by the us may sure is there are still countries that are buying their crude so right now i don't think they have the means. to close the strait of hormuz if iran

were to be removed from the world economy then they have nothing to loose even close of course closing it is not an easy thing to do we have been there over twenty years ago during the iran iraq war i mean affect even the else the seas were being blown up according to some figures i was reading over four hundred sailors were killed in. the straits were never fully shut down but. could i just interrupt you also hear about the washington threat to cut china and india from the us banking system if they continue to buy iran's oil how would that world trade the price of crude. it would hit the world trade quite a bit because he would slow down but right now there are already a lot of efforts in the marketplace to with different currencies or the. dollars

for oil. and finally i mean what would a world with iran all look like. it would not be here for a good picture of the moment because the world needs supplies saudi arabia says that it has the capability to hold or for that eventuality but in my discussions with a lot of the marketplace even before the producers have that capability would not be a good picture in their opinion because of the structure is rather one could use a member here substitution for an all there one hundred percent. from plus i listen to that's all for all the headlines are next here and i'll say.

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