u.t.v. to break the stalemate the u.n. edges closer to a syrian peace plan to make both sides lay down arms while the u.s. threatens more pressure on the regime if it doesn't comply. gunfire and explosions heard in the french city of toulouse as police lisi who i was for suspected killer at a jewish school is holed up for a second day. the u.k.'s new spending plan and the bankers budget with a hike in fuel prices dealing a heavy blow to small business is driving the struggling economy.

in moscow right mattress a good to have you with us here on r t our top story with the u.n. showing a united stance on syria after months of deadlock the u.s. is threatened damascus with more pressure and further isolation unless the latest peace initiative is carried out the move endorsers special envoy kofi annan peace plan including an immediate cease fire by both sides access for humanitarian aid and start of political dialogue despite its opposition leaders admit some foreign states are sending them weapons to support the rebels u.s. based journalist susan lindauer things by fully backing the opposition washington isn't helping resolve the crisis. one of the reasons the violence has continued is that the united states is covertly financing the opposition to government the united states is providing tactical assistance for training military operations being done outside of the country just across the border. however as long as as

washington continues to feed this conflict it will go on but the message needs to start with washington washington has got to stop interfering in syria i believe the violence in syria needs to stop this is the people are suffering terribly the point is that it's two sides that are keeping this conflict alive this is what's good for bashar assad is also good for hillary clinton the united states must announce that it was stop supporting the rebels in syria and they will stop feeding this conflict both sides together must reach a cease fire it requires both action from both sides. violence in syria spilling over into neighboring lebanon dividing its people on the crisis across the border which is our sort of boyko explains how lebanon has been affected by the conflict. it's an air of c.t. on the mediterranean lebanese tripoli looks a lot like it's only been namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the

revolutionary violence it's home to sizeable alawite and sunni communities and with the syrian border just half hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road separating the alawite and sunni communities here in tripoli is happening in the in this area street and attitudes to what's happening there why it's lebanese more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor not approve of that came to you weeks ago when one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes claimed the lives of two people and pushed the rest deeper into their ideological trenches residents of these alawite sarver to raise money to put out this impromptu memorial to the leader and the countries they consider their protectors. thank you russia there is also no second guessing on home they consider that anime america.

for american interests we don't care to make more human rights for freedom. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event of his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria from maybe half an hour and everything in our. the weapons going from lebanon to syria with going from lebanon to syria. or from jordan from there came from. the street in a hospital run by a sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like mohammad don't hide their

affiliation to get free syrian army his take on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people that if they don't change their stand will cut all ties with them once their revolution reaches its victory you still have time to make the right choice. the hospitals administrator shows us some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. allegedly committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity but when i ask him whether it be revolution is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian you know we have many destruction and we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand as we hear. i think all the revolution has to pay some some.

something. with. development and changing to a better life. so you keep it you warning communities that part of the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd for all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli he's still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario it's not going to artsy tripoli lebanon lebanese foreign minister anon monsoor thinks it's a vital to work out a balanced approach to the syrian conflict and since calls for foreign intervention are hampering peace. who would speak against ending the sides of the conflicts were. previously said that the syrian government had to stop its aggression as if it was the only one guilty of the events in syria escalated into hostilities on the resistance against government forces from the very start groups

fighting against the government being financed and supplied with weapons destroying civilian facilities. cools for military intervention coming from within syria as well as internationally we see one party in the conflict being act against the other. the opposition being supported to fight the government a political transformation is not to be achieved by fools and pilots produces more violence every country has its position if you or your position movements of the world must push for its agenda through violence the world will go up in flames it is unacceptable to fuel violence smuggle weapons undermine government institutions and destroy some from nation as. you can see the full interview with the lebanese foreign minister a little more than twenty minutes here on our. french police are laying siege to a house in toulouse where a suspected killer at a jewish school has been holed up since wednesday gunfire and explosions were heard

in the c.v. interior ministry says that earlier last were intended to intimidate the suspect the man claimed to have said is reportedly a french citizen of algerian origin said to be heavily armed has broken off earlier talks with police are full scale assault on the house is yet to happen the man is also suspected of killing three soldiers investigative journalist michelle collins says the policies of nato leaders are bringing dangerous of vision. this is a political problem this is the policy of obama who is the in nato and it's not a question of junior or mostly all this is all that you have many jews who are accusing the state of israel and you know some muslims who are cooperating with obama because the in this so it's not a question religion this has to be clearly. it's. it's pretty dramatic that there is. because they didn't see that

obama is not going to see. the palestinians us crushing the people in iraq in afghanistan in song and. of course there is the people of it. and when they don't know what. this injustice some flu guy coming in the. ground on this is very very good because this huge increase create the sweden crees the mission among the people and you can watch the police special operation unfolding live into lose on our website our team. will stay with us here on the program a lights out hundreds of people could be left without electricity as israel's i'm happy with a green energy products project set up for a palestinian try. india having every citizen scanned in to assure a fair benefits system but find out why many feel the population's been tagged into a giant prison. but first motorist any elderly could be feeling the pinch in the

u.k. is the government's unveiled its twenty budget measures freezing pensioners allowances have been dubbed a granny tax while there is criticism that only big companies and the rich will be protected or he's laura smith reports. the government's calling this a fiscally neutral budget which basically means that they're giving with one hand and taking away with the other labor the opposition party is calling it a millionaire's budget of people's estate but it's tempering around economic disaster just dealing with the edges of it the top line of this budget is really just tax cuts for the very richest people in society from fifty percent to forty five percent hugely controversial the government says the tax is not making any money anyway but groups like the occupy campaign say that it's basically a tax cut for the one percent another very controversial thing is this this issuing of one hundred year or even perpetual pouring money it only needs to be paid back

in one hundred years' time the government says it's doing that to look in low interest rates but the critics say that it's long bring our children as actually with our debt not just children either grandchildren great grandchildren but one of the most controversial parts of this budget is the raising of the tax on fuel again later this year that has a huge impact on the economy and in fact it's a measure that according to some polls seventy seven percent of people in this country are against create tens of thousands of jobs at no cost what government could say no to you case coalition government apparently as it sticks to another rise in the tax on fuel to take effect in august small business owners are feeling the pinch. over the last few years has really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to the fair fuel campaign cutting the tax on fuel by just four cents would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand people back in work the creation of the job to take people off to go on to

fix. more tracks going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty three. income tax for the rich people meanwhile small businesses. found sound and towards chapman run a company which sells an install spence's to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs full vans in which engineers deliver fit and train pets to use the fences the guys can work in hampshire one day and then the next day depending on when the customer wants us first of all we have the increase in the ha which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty as well. you can't keeping a screen at all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on therms like to rebuild it but growth and development is out of the question according to who says the price of fuel is

throttling the price at the pump has already hit one pound fifty five a liter in some places that's two dollars forty six and although some of it is due to the geopolitical situation including the arabian oil embargo a staggering sixty percent is tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money for projects is actually a very convenient tax for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid i mean one of the impacts is on labor mobility so how easy it is for people to travel to work. there might be some travelling distance from the home so it actually increase unemployment quite markedly if you will to choose to it's a problem that filters down into the entire economy ninety percent of everything we have in our homes offices and shops is delivered by lorry with fuel do you see so high call it companies of course to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yes more pressure

on recession hit british consumers norah smith forty london. on our website r.t. dot com you can find more news in videos here's what's a click away right now cashing it on incarceration more federal jails in the us called private as profits rise in line with a growing prison population but there is concern over conditions for inmates. siberian villagers discovering unidentified object that's fallen from the skies sparking rumors numerous rumors and speculation find out more at r.t. dot com. the u.s. and britain have accused iran of supplying weapons to syria russia though was warned against turning up the heat on heroin which is under heavy international pressure over its nuclear program international consultant adrian he says the decision to attack iran could already have been made. but has been dear strategy

all along not only with respect to iran but also with respect to syria and even iraq if we go back to two thousand and three and before undoubtedly the problem that now the united states has is that it is at loggerheads with its main ally in the region israel to see which is the best tactic to attack iran they both coincide on the strategy they want to take down iran's no matter what for different reasons perhaps what they want to take a down nevertheless however as far as the way to do it israel would seem to favor a direct attack a unilateral attack where they have been threatening to do for years now while the united states seems to believe that the best way to reach tehran is going through the muskets so for various reasons even military reasons and the military and the united states have a very strong say in this are preferring first to deal with syria in order to have should so to speak of free chessboard to then yes go ahead and attack iran. still

about some other stories making headlines across the globe new york police have surrounded the city's union square to clear it of occupy wall street protesters for the second night in a row last night's raid saw the park closed and arrested at least six people activists moved to the square after they were forced to leave the previous base as a comedy park downtown they're demanding the resignation also of the city's police commissioner for what they call brutal tactics against the occupiers. rebels in mali have appeared on state television saying they've taken control of the west african country they've announced a nationwide curfew and suspended the constitution troops communions wednesday taking over a state broadcaster and it's happening the presidential palace soldiers are angry at the government's handling of a separatist rebellion in the north of the country. colombian troops have killed thirty nine rebels in operations over the last two days it defense minister described it as the biggest blow against the farquhar or revolutionary armed forces of colombia in the last five years the fark had killed eleven the soldiers in the

area a few days earlier the colombian government says rebels are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making. portugal has been brought to a halt by a twenty four hour general strike subway and ferry services disrupted well some public offices and schools also closed workers are protesting against welfare cuts and tax hikes this charity measures were adopted in return for a seventy eight billion euros in international rescue cash this is portugal seeks deeper into recession with growth figures expected to drop. but eventually figures in the u.s. are not looking too optimistic either right now in our economic expert max kaiser coming up takes a look at inequalities in the u.s. . is like segregation colored to the back of the bus and back to the back of the unbacked dollars you pay four hundred twenty percent on interest on your payday loans and this is. segregation this is

a financial apartheid and if you're on wall street you actually your funds are negative they're negative one percent the fed gives you gifts you money and then you park it back at the fed you make a one percent spread and that's a negative interest rate you know it's it's like the indians back in one hundred fifty years ago two hundred years ago with buffalo bill the i would be rolling across the plains shooting the indians shooting the buffalo dead to starve out the indians here blankfein and jamie diamond j.p. morgan are starving out the poor people america hoping they just die and go away that's their all play. cards a report in an hour here on our team making life easier for the poor might be a noble task but it's close some controversy in israel solar panels providing electricity to palestinians are under threat of demolition and israeli authorities say no official permission was given to install the panels but activists say the real agenda could be darker as are his posts lior reports. in the remote hilltops

of south hebron the ancient between tribe ekes out a living from the land but they've unwittingly become the latest thorn in the side of the israeli government now. this by any means make any real security threat to the israeli government but the support of earth was on the agenda when the german foreign minister met with his israeli counterparts at the center of the conflict these wind and solar generators which while putting electricity to and lighting up the lives of some four hundred people as tel aviv complaining it was left in the dark but it's just excited to show us how her life's been transformed since electricity first lit up these hills just two months ago this is what she used to do she tells us four hours twice a day they have no electricity they had no power to charge before they would need to go to the nearby city of. you know it's two hours walk to street drugs the

telephone and that's it. and a two hundred thousand american dollars to build these six hybrid wind and solar energy projects the project for the anger of the israeli authorities they say was a record without permission and of threatened. all we are asked is that they apply for a license the product you're talking about not only did they not apply brad when a warning was given that this is the in violation of the regulations they have the right to appeal they refused to appeal that german mcbain who is funding the project says they weren't sure concerned with getting an israeli stamp of approval because most applications are rejected could. the state of israel's not interested in having caring for the world being a listing and scenario. rather that he would. promise to more settlements which is what some european diplomats are suggesting

because it's here. in these remote hills with some of the most fervent settlement activity is taking place in a statement to r.t. the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speculation their tail of it was reacting spitefully to a leaked confidential e.u. report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century their joy could be short lived if israel decides to rip it all away politically r.t. in the south hebron hills. finally in this news block india has come up with a new initiative to get each of its billion citizens registered in electronic database to get an id card that will allow them easier access to basic services and privileges but as artie's british reader reports there are fears the project could turn the country into a police state. it's been entirely seventeen years but he still can't get access to

benefits because his ration card is registered back home for those like him in india has come up with the twenty first century through lucian the herculean process has begun to get every indian's fingerprints and iris in one now fifty eight of this code can be used for various purposes. and receiving russian is and will solve the salute carrying many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are once again is all it will take if the new idea project goes as planned it will be the largest collection of biometric data in the world the indian government is hoping that a twelve digit number as well allow indians to be more mall bile and personal work wherever they want by tying them to a centralized database so that they can open a bank account get a telephone or get rations anywhere in the country but the plan also has its critics apart from the amount of time it will take ten years but i thought that's a myth there is also the inevitable human rights worries about big brother state

would something the. people like walk hill are mad struggling on a few dollars a day have no clear idea of how this is going to help them but they're willing to try it. when i actually receive the card then i will know the benefits of having the card. finally they'll have an official identity and they'll have access to see . help we're every day our government may be able to follow their every move reassure either new delhi india. let's go to business just now or for all the latest from katie sort of russian mortgage have just opened charles moore yeah that's right they've just kicked off the been open for about twenty minutes also now so it's only days but i can tell you it's a positive for the russian markets this morning and that's on the back of the read

days of the losses there as you can see their point three percent out the mice that was around point four percent positive territory be looking at individual moves throughout the day if we get on to asia and see how they are getting on this as you can see they too are changing actually because it's been a free chalky day in the region and that's because investors are digesting data showing that chinese manufacturing fell to a four month. putting this down to what we could invest in them on another worry in the region is employment which is recorded of a new low since knowledge two thousand and five as you can see right now in china is around a quarter of a. if we move on to have a look at the us and see how that finished up yes the exhaustion fit so. it was a disappointing day actually considering it's been a very strong in those mixed sentiments corporate reports which is a poison as well as home sells as well have

a look at the prices for this hour as well and they are declining after france said that industrialized nations are considering releasing strategic crude stockpiles to counter rising prices so therefore they are down this hour as you can see around one hundred six and a half of the light sweet the bread is over one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel this hour let's have a look at those gold prices my personal favorite now by all slightly down this hour actually and that's after taxes introduced by india's finance minister to cut india's trade deficit. because gold accounts for fourteen percent of the country's imports and tyrus that. it's not a big impact is the biggest consumer of culture of us. moving on or have a look at the currency rate see how that's going on as you can see the euro dollar is still high this hour one thirty two forty three about one of the ruble is set off it's trading for today and as you can see there it's hard hits us dollar

against the euro at this hour. another nice see my six dollars yes has revealed the become one of the world's fifth biggest bourses also achieving its top ten i am ahead of schedule in an interview with the new bushell its president also confirmed the much will hold of initial public offering currently has been mixed but again it warns progress as an international financial center. we're not here for the company of the company we're planning to do very little. but basically we're within the children the key question is told we get them to do it for a little bit about the market go up when i think i think it depends on the cold hard work to develop the financial markets here we. have to develop for initial markets here. and we're going to be looking at about stock market old day today in

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