but you when it's security council has passed a statement calling for a cease fire in syria and the opening of humanitarian corridors to move indoors is a peace plan by the u.n. arab league special envoy to syria kofi annan negotiated in person with president bush. and while washington and its allies can teach support the opposition human rights not. guilty of murder and intimidation. french police are still locked in a standoff with a man suspected of killing seven people the city of toulouse the interior ministry has denied previous reports of arrests right now to live from the scene from

toulouse of the earth where we have the funeral now of the three paratroopers shot by the gunman and there we have to the left of your screen the french president nicolas sarkozy in attendance live pictures there of the. warnings over oil shortages that lead to sky rocketing prices as tensions in the middle east put iranian crude supplies in jeopardy threatening to destabilize the world economy. international news live from moscow this is artsy with me rule restriction i welcome to the program the u.n. security council has agreed on syria by toppling a nonbinding statement appealing for a cease fire at the move which door says special envoy kofi annan plan also calls

for secure humanitarian access to the country but the u.s. and its allies are still backing the opposition which isn't as harmless as washington likes to think as an artist explains. in a public place her 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 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 detention to moderation 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 because it's these security force members and literally consisting to crimes they committed

but that in fact 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 has to be the group is calling on the opposition in syria to forbid its members from doing this but this raises the problem in terms of who exactly is in charge of the opposition in syria on the one hand you have lost in turn them 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 own accord they have. allied sentiments and there is no organized command structure which begs the question that the western court for the syrian president bashar assad to step down is a call that is not clear in terms of where it'll in and what will replace the syrian regime so it is falsely reporting that what are coming up for you later this

hour here on our three cross talks people of el gets a firsthand account from human rights watch on the scale of rebel atrocities inside ongoing syria. we sent a letter. so to the syrian national council raising some issues we've started looking mentoring some cases of abuse position forces it's not clear how much control see an actual code culture you all the free syria army have over there but you know there's been a few instances where. i have you know summary executive people maybe torture the kid now. so there are a couple of problems there and we think the syrian national council should speak out even though this is really control of this people. you're watching r t now french police are still surrounding the home of the gunman suspected of killing three jewish schoolchildren

a rabbi and three paratroopers in the south western city of toulouse the interior ministry has denied previous reports of his arrest president sarkozy is in toulouse for the funerals of the three paratroopers shot by the gunman and he. having live pictures here on our in yet here they are excuse me that you apologize or president sarkozy now addressing those in attendance for the three paratroopers and their funeral there in toulouse the gunman the man it named as mohammed merah is reported to be a french national of algerian origin and claims he belongs to al qaeda and actually to avenge palestinian children police are hunting for a complicated and have detained several members of his family including his brother after they discovered explosives in his car meanwhile early wednesday morning the bodies of four victims of the shooting were flown to israel where the funerals took place in jerusalem french and israeli foreign ministers were among those attending investigative journalist of michelle cornwell says france's military campaigns

abroad are to blame for dividing people and promoting hatred. this is a political problem this is a policy of obama because he and nato and it's not a question of jew or muslim or it is not that you have any jews or i.q. using the state of israel and you know some muslims who are cooperating with hindsight because the end is so it's not a question religion this has lead it clear. it's. it's really dramatic that there isn't really it's because everybody sees the. us mushing the palestinians. the people in iraq and afghanistan and so are. of course there is people are very unhappy and where they don't know what to do to change this injustice something only i can even be. sure growing tired of

this is very very dramatic because this huge increase this will increase the mission among the people. and so good to have you with us today here on 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 legarde she says the shortfalls and disruptions could drive prices up by thirty percent of his picture 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 eight barrel 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 prices could come around

a potential huge increase 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 than 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 have 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 power all 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 rein 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 to our haven't done that is satisfactory. levels 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 this should please countries not cut their imports the rainy and oil by satisfactory levels then those countries could face sanctions of their own. iran is at the top of the agenda of the u.n. a security council meeting underway in new york right now stronger statements have

been made by the u.s. accusing iran of supplying weapons to syria but russia has criticized if you are sanctions calling them unilateral more honest i'll talk to american lawyer a professor of international law of the geneva school of diplomacy dr alfred desires to live in geneva thank you for coming on r.t. today iran's economy and financial sector are already under heavy sanctions from the u.s. and the e.u. who all the while claiming iran is pursuing nuclear weapons what is the agenda here do you think well i am not an economist i'm a professor of law. former united nations our senior official. and i very much believe in the united nations charter and very much believe in the purposes and the principles of the organization the most important one being peace keeping and peace making and i have

a great concern about the organization being transformed into a war making organization misusing the security council for purposes of incitement. so as you may know when you give us some examples of these purposes of incitement can you give us some examples please. if you follow all the media. in europe in the united states you see that we're gearing up for an attack and we're trying to make. an attack on iran's somehow plausible somehow justifiable now we know already from the experience in two thousand and three exactly nine years ago the war against iraq come inst we know that there was

a gearing up to that war linked with the sort called weapons of mass destruction that did not exist the united nations was engaged in. inspections the inspectors were persuaded that saddam hussein at the time was cooperating and there was no justification whatsoever for. me to go to iraq if we go back to the whole iraq what we understand about hans blix and the whole alleged mobile weapons lab is i think you're trying to draw a parallel between iraq and iran but the point i was raised she was this is that in recent days israeli intelligence. and the cia both agree that iran is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon what argument kind of america or nato or the un continue to use to further pressure and isolate iran it is not for me to. define the agenda of my country

i am very much an american and i very much believe in the good things of my country and i am just concerned about certain. circles that actually want war the military industrial complex always makes money with war and that is part of the agenda and you have to use the weapons if you want to continue selling and as far as. it war against iraq or war against iran is concerned the area is already ideally destabilized and it would be a monstrous catastrophe if we were going to do that but that is prohibited in article two paragraph four of the u.n. charter and article two paragraph three blige has us to negotiate and to negotiate

in good faith so that is what the your organization you know you were using saying when you talk about arguing and creating diplomacy in good faith it's seems to me that you're saying that when it comes to the un with this issue with iraq and afghanistan with nato as well with libya now looking at syria also looking at iran is there some sort of geo political if not regional or global strategy being undertaken by the united nations in new york i wouldn't say i know united nations certainly but certain members of the united nations they have their agendas but the united nations has one hundred ninety three states and the organization is not being directed by any one in particular but what the organization has to do is to be indicate the rule of law until they indicate the validity of the charter and to make it clear that international law cannot be

a la carte you cannot say we will apply international law in this case we will not apply it in that case take the non proliferation treaty article four guarantees the right of every state to have access to nuclear. energy. and article three requires a certain level of inspections iran agrees with a certain level of inspections you have to see where the threshold lie or certainly all you got to offer desire i do apologize if this is certainly an issue that requires a lot more time than we have available for both of us here on our t. today professor of international law at the geneva school of diplomacy lives in geneva thank you so much for coming on our team today pleasure. i know it's a crossover i don't know the b.r.c. business they're going to find out what the latest middle east tensions mean for global oil prices daniel yet the week of war was continuing for markets with

closing another day of balls of more economic news the business will be in around ten minutes time. and later we report on on how various aspects of the oil trade and embargoes are affecting the global crisis as well more with daniel shortly and al qaeda says it's behind a series of bomb attacks that killed forty six and injured at least two hundred 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 stationed in baghdad the meeting is aimed at establishing a rock as an important political player in the region since the u.s. troop withdrawal in december but antiwar activist michael the ready says the invasion has left a legacy in the country. and i think what we have to remember the back is it's frankly 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 elites around the world to keep this keep this conflict going there won't be any change in these countries until not only to the soldiers and the armies leave but all the private contractors gone through and also the puppet governments no commonly been 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. and the u.s. military have dropped over two thousand tons of depleted uranium on iraq. places like flu. cancer spreading in that region. childhood child birth effects are just washing off the scale this is a really contaminated the ground contaminated ground water so for that for the

foreseeable future the iraqi population are not going to have a future that we can be optimistic about all right are starting with new york let's get to the r.t. world cup at some of the international headlines in brief for you it is like in the big apple where police have removed up occupy wall street protesters from union square 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 to protest against corporate greed which began in new york last year. doctors and staff greece's a 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 haven't been paid for in four months the country is in its fifth year of recession has made several cuts to its health care spending this year

earlier today greece's parliament approved a second international bailout giving the country an additional one hundred thirty billion euros in rescue lines. at least five students have been wounded during clashes with police in london city of. 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 remains on. japan and 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 so again this rocket is set to fly over western japan in april tokyo is worried that the launch could go wrong and land in japanese territory. 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 human rights groups and the e.u. is preparing to impose new sanctions on minsk the country's president alexander look at shaker 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. prove absolutely transparent but russia's 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 verdicts because that certainly.

you can watch the full exclusive interview with the butler russian president in our spotlight so throughout the day here on r.t. . now britain's prince william is a back from his tour of duty in the falkland islands where he's been stationed at since february is deployment has added to growing tensions in argentina as the thirtieth anniversary of the fourth than war approaches one as ari's and london have had a longstanding dispute over the islands with both countries claiming ownership. of a bennett as the story. first the prince. in the warship all apparently routine but to argentina the message is clear when i go sour 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 here sending a destroyer the words out 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 an ill timed coincidence or a deliberate provocation whether there's an anniversary is irrelevant to us generally it 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 terrence enough to argentina it's like a red rag to a bull with flag burning and protests against what it sees as a colonial hangover the empire may be dead but the sentiment still very much alive

in britain today figures like lord stanley a celebrated here he's the man the island's capitals named after the falklands themselves may be small and distant they are the last whispers of what's expensive 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. 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 in question 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 there is suddenly a lot more to lose. respect in has become more sort of widespread in terms of exposure but i think it's it's helped to ratchet up the crisis between britain argentina rushing to respond to if you if the four probes in the waters to the north contain lots of oil and gas reserves the commercial exploitable then of course there's a fear that britain in the falklands beauty would never wish to negotiate about the future argentina claims it's being robbed in 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 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.

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markets anything to report for us this is all doing a bit better than at the start of the week but we'll show you the. oil because there's we've been hearing the global economy could be thrown back into recession if the dispute over iran's nuclear program causes oil prices to spoil the global director of market reporting up plus. a hundred and fifty dollars a barrel. if we start getting towards the one hundred fifty dollars or a lot there will definitely be a serious impact into the world economy. so many analysts say if the straits of hormuz work to be a close or temporarily obstructed for some reason then prices will go off to raise and then most likely prices will cross that one hundred fifty dollars line and the world economy would definitely suffer and that suffering would be the northern

hemisphere us europe asia everybody would suffer and then. there would be a correction in the market place to the downside. all those pushing crude up from its biggest decline in three months lot sweets now fifty cents for the day if we move on to wall street and in the morning over in new york it comes off the news that existing home sales in the u.s. fell almost one percent to european markets they're tumbling in turn it comes off the u.k. finance chief george osborne caught the fifty top titrate in his annual budget and russian markets they lost from the morning with strong crude support to investor sentiment they've now closed lower for the third day in a row let's check some stocks most blue chips raised earlier games rosneft last point six percent despite strong crude prices retreated a report reportedly increased twenty two billion dollars over the next five years i'm thinking still under pressure would be to be almost one percent down and the

exchange rates the euro's just are not lower against the dollar the ruble is mixed against the main currencies in the last trade and that's all for this in fifty minutes time the headlines are next. to. fewer chances book full of life. limited time.

more optimistic. the theater where the ingenious opened their hearts to the rest of us. what are the real limits. on our team. were the end of the core war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake specially if ounce of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but most of it been for use in a day as a threat or as an actual bit when you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you can't you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to know through weapons or build the new.