you need to break this stalemate you win edging closer to a syrian peace plan to make both sides lay down arms while the u.s. presence more pressure on the regime if it doesn't comply. french authorities not sure if it's a loser gunman is still alive as he said he wanted to die with weapons in his hands . the u.k.'s new spending plan dubbed a banker budget with hiking fuel prices dealing a heavy blow to small businesses who are driving you know when you're caught and. as in the negative out that this does they with both the boston and the european bourses are trading in the red. china is manufacturing tell me twenty minutes i'll

have. one pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story with u.n. showing a united stance on syria after months of deadlock the u.s. is threatening damascus with more pressure and isolation of us 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 the start of political dialogue despite its opposition leaders admit some foreign states are sending weapons to support the rebels u.s. based journalist susan lindauer thinks that i will be backing the opposition in washington isn't helping solve the crisis. one of the reasons the violence has continued is that the united states is covertly financing the opposition to bashar

assad's government the united states is providing tactical assistance for training military operations it's 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 will stop supporting the rebels in syria and they will stop feeding this conflict both sides together and must reach a cease fire it requires both action from both sides but violence in syria is spilling over now into neighboring lebanon dividing the people on the crisis across

the border on a boy who explains how lebanon has been affected by the conqueror. it's an air of c.g. on the mediterranean with pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's conscious 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 up in the mysterious streets and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor here another proof of that came just a few 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 raised 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 whom they consider their anime america as much freedom is a euphemism for american interests they don't create a great democracy human rights of 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's from here about maybe half an hour and we see everything you know we're. going from here went on to syria we're going from government to syria and. from jordan from there

from. across the street in a hospital run. by sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like muhammad don't hide their affiliation with the free syrian army he's 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 the revolution reaches its victory would you still have time to make the right choice for. the hospitals administrators shows us some of the 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 the revolution is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian where we have many destruction and we have

more than i can no more than eleven thousand we hear you. and i think the old bird evolution has to pay some. something. and change you to do with of life to keep the two warring communities apart levees government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd in all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario it's not going to see tripoli lebanon on lebanese foreign minister a man sort of thinks it's a vital to work out a balanced approach to syria's conflict and says calls for foreign intervention are hampering peace initiatives. who would speak against any in charge of the conflict

were. previously said that the syrian government had to stop its aggression. as if it was the only one guilty of events in syria and still eighteen into hostilities and resistance against government forces from the very start groups fighting against the government being financed and supplied with weapons destroying civilian facilities. cool's for military intervention coming from within syria as well as internationally we see one party in the conflict being marked you can see. the opposition being supported to fight the government. is not to be achieved by fools produces more violence every country has its position if you have your position movements of the world with supposed research into through violence the world will go up in flames that it is unacceptable to fuel violence smuggle weapons undermine government institutions and destroy some for a nation. that

full interview with a non-answer coming your way out of our your r.v. . the french interior minister says that to lose gunmen who wanted to die with weapons in his hands and that officials aren't sure whether the suspect was still alive police had no contact with him throughout the night with unexplained gunshots heard earlier a man has claimed to have links to al qaeda and is reportedly a french citizen of algerian origin police are laying siege to the house for a second day the suspect is said to be heavily armed a full scale assault is yet to happen but the man is also suspected of killing three of killing a rabbi three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers intelligence expert claude explains why police still hope to take the suspect alive. if we take him alive you could speak and you could explain or you were trained or you could find the info on his way to gary stern and to talk to stan who are so. nice contacts and were strenuous that were to learn to do in the camp and of course maybe you could tell if the order of

french fry came ever. to the same the same training in afghanistan and maybe today i heard it all somewhere in france when he came back in in france he was kind the first surveyors monitoring the point is you have so many people. who have a too many tours that you cannot do it for each of them so we speak about maybe a few hundreds if not thousands of people who could be potentially done shows in france so you have to choose you have to make some some you have to just told to choose which are the most gun shows like most done shows and to target those it seems that this man was not targeted as very dentals it was a mistake what we learned today were to learn of last week is that the truth is not only the truth of organized of organized network but also the traitor for the lone wolf the easily the terrorist which is

a real nightmare for the security services. and you can watch the special police operation unfolding in toulouse live on our web site r.t. dot com they'll stay with us here on archy still to come this hour lights out hundreds of people to the left without power as israel's on a happy with a green energy projects for palestinian try. india's having every citizen scanned to ensure a fair benefits system but find out that many people feel the population is being tagged into a giant prison. but first motorists and the elderly will be feeling the pinch in the u.k. is the government's unveiled its twenty twelve budget measures freezing pensioners allowances have been dubbed a granny tax well there's criticism that only big companies and the rich will be protected archy's laura smith reports from london. 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 pulling it's a millionaire's budget and people are also saying that it's ten calling around

economic disaster just dealing with the edges of it the top line of this budget is greatest tax cuts for the very richest people in society from fifty percent support five percent hugely controversial the government says that 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 a one hundred year or even perpetual bourne's boring money it only needs to be paid back in one hundred years' time the government says it's doing that to look in lower interest rates but the critics say that it's numbering our children essentially with our debts not just children either grandchildren great grandchildren one of the risk controversial parts of this budget is the raising of the tax on you again later this year that has a huge impact on the economy and 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. the last few years is really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to the fair few 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 be creation of a job to take people off to go off important benefits and these jobs are. going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring this and concentrated on things like fifty people to give income tax for the rich people meanwhile small businesses . sound sound untoward chapman run a company which sells an install spence's to keep your pets in your garden it's employees seven people full time and runs for vans in which engineers deliver fit

and train pets to use the fences the guys can reckon hampshire one day and then the next day depending on when the customer wants us to we have the increase in the ha which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty is well. you can't keep being squeezed all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on firms like dock friends to rebuild it but growth and development is out of the question according to sam he 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 tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money future it is actually a very convenient tax for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid

i mean one of the prices on labor mobility you see how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually get jobs there might be some traveling distance from the home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly if you will to choose to it's a problem that phil says down into the entire economy ninety percent so pretty big we have in our homes offices and shops is delivered by lorry with fuel do you see so high whole it's companies are forced to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yet small press the recession hit british consumers nora smith r.t. london our web site r t dot com is where you can find even more news and videos here's what's a click away right now. cashing in on incarceration more federal jails in the us though private as profits rise in line with a growing prison population but there's concerns over the inmates conditions. and

said here in villagers find an unidentified object that's fallen from the sky sparking rumors and speculation find out more about our team. and u.s. and britain have accused iran of supplying weapons to syria russia has however warned that against turning up the heat on terror on which is under international pressure over its nuclear program moscow also says military action could encourage iran to build an atomic weapon and your national consultant author adrian so bougie says there are valid grounds for suspicion of western actions in the region. since iraq we just cannot take seriously practically any american that gratian regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction as saddam hussein was supposed to have war iran's nuclear program had put myself in the shoes of the rainy leadership and if your country is threatened all the time if the only country with weapons of mass destruction nuclear bombs in the region is israel and israel threatens iran every other day there is going to attack it unilaterally well i wouldn't be surprised if

iran did think about militarizing their nuclear program why is it that the united states britain france can be trusted with nuclear weapons israel can be trusted with nuclear weapons while says israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been the plural over the past decades and however iran has to be practically raced off the map because they want to have a nuclear program so i think the intelligent thing to do would be to sit down discuss all the grievances discuss all the strategic and security problems of all the countries in the region not just israel in the united states and try to reach an intelligent deal which is what i believe russia is trying to do and thank god for the world that russia and even china are doing this because otherwise we would have seen britain america and israel overrun iran thinking that nothing will happen as nothing happened with libya where gross genocide was committed war in iraq. meanwhile israel is fighting battles on its home soil right ning to demolish solar

and wind power systems installed to provide like tricity to some palestinian communities authorities say no official permission was ever obtained but activists say the real agenda could be darker as archy's powerlessly reports from hebron. in the remote hilltops of south hebron the ancient between tribe exile to living from the land but they've done to me 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 despite a birth 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 are bringing electricity to and lighting up the lives of some four hundred people as tel aviv complaining it was left in the dark but these nomads are just excited to show us how life's been transformed they had 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

just to try to the telephone and that's the program for the anger of the israeli authorities they say it was a reprimand permission and have threatened to send in all we are is that they apply for a licensed product you're talking about not only did they not apply but when a warning was given that this is in violation of the regulations they have the right to appeal they've refused to. let a german mcbain who is funding the project says they weren't too concerned with getting any israeli stamp of approval because most applications are rejected could . the state of israel's. interests of them having more caring for the world be listing and some areas. other of the you would like to see. in areas promised 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 the developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speculation. tel aviv was reacting spitefully to leaked a confidential e.u. report calling for his release is limited to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century the joy could be short lived if israel decides to put a little way police e r t and the south hip on hills let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe new york police and close the city's union square right here at the occupy wall street protesters for the second night in a row last night's raid saw six people arrested activists moved to the square after they were forced to leave their previous location of zuccotti park they're demanding the resignation of the city's police commissioner for what they call tactics against the occupiers. mali rebels who appeared on state television saying

they've seized control of the west african country they announce a nationwide curfew and suspended the constitution troops staged a mutiny wednesday taking over a state broadcaster and attacking the presidential palace soldiers are angry at the government's handling of a separatist rebellion in the north the. troops say they've killed thirty nine rebels in operations over the last two days the defense minister called it the biggest blow against the fark war revolutionary armed forces of colombia in the last five years. fark had killed eleven soldiers in the area a few days earlier the colombian government says rebels are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and making bombs. portugal has been ground to all hope by a twenty four hour general strike subway and ferry service is disrupted public offices and schools will also be shut workers are protesting goes welfare cuts and tax hikes there are the measures were ducted in return for a seventy eight billion euros or international rescue cash this is portugal sinking

deeper into recession with growth figures expected before. i leave the news block india's come up with a new initiative to get each of its billion citizens registered in an electronic database get new id cards allowing an easier access to basic services but authorities pretty shrewd reports there are fears the project could turn into could turn the country into a police state. it's been entirely thirteen thousand years but he still can't get access to benefits because it's ration card is registered back home for those like him india has come up with the twenty first century for lucian the herculean cross that has begun to get every indian's fingerprints and i are thinking and one now fifty to fifty this code can be used for various purposes like it's. been receiving russian as it was sold the house solutrean many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are one thing 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 the twelve digit numbers will allow indians to be more mauled by a lone person to work where ever 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 by thumb at the minute there is also the inevitable human rights worry about the. big brother state when something. people like walk your mad struggling on a few dollars if you have no clear idea of how this is going to help but they're willing to try it. when i actually receive the cards then i will know the benefits

of having to. finally they'll have an official identity and they'll have access to help wherever they are but the government may be able to follow their every move reassure either new delhi india or. trying not to go right to the financial verse quirky news standing by with all the latest updates what's up get it. right now i'm looking at the russian markets and they're actually heading lower and if they do finish today on the down low it be the fourth day of losses as you can see that it isn't a major i mean the r.t.s. has gone up ever so slightly the last few minutes but it's been a very lackluster day indeed actually if we look at the individual. to see how they're getting on as you can see them honest to just hold on today gains today they've been one of the main gainers on the my. ever so slightly as well pretty flat today as bank has lost a fight it's almost a one percent in negative territory now so it's

a choppy trade all round we head over to europe we can see that there is all was. they already down say by well the first was about a third down and that has gone up. over the sands a lot of that is to do with about the chinese manufacturing activity was a much lower than anticipated so a lot of the losing stocks today are banks as well as miners because you know that china is a big mining and importer we move on or we can see. that it is declining of the problems that industrialized nations are considering releasing strategic crude stockpiles to counter the rising prices that were put into play because of international pressures about the embargo iran it's just a case in july so as we can see oil is down it's been down there for much of the day and the currency rates we see how the euro dollar dollar is very easy indeed down we just saw the european markets or the euro dollar is suffering as a result of that we've got one thirsty sixty six that as far as the russian ruble

is concerned it's lurker's the u.s. dollar and higher against the euro this hour. and in other news america's historic grip on the presidency of the world bank is being challenged for the first time since one thousand and forty four the developing countries have put forward two credible contenders of the ide so who are these people who are these for charles and david ok we've got the nigerian finance minister on the form of finance minister of colombia they were nominated as candidates before the deadline on friday plays robert zoellick who is retiring and to remind you the world bank is the top provider of aid a poor countries is head is one of the world's top policymakers. ok russia has been ranked the forty eight the most favorable countries from the business in a rating by bloomberg to hong kong topped the list thanks to its free market

policies a low corporate taxes the survey looks at wages start up costs and how a country controls inflation russia's place in the top fifty is more than last year's doing business rating by the world bank where the country took one hundred and twenty it right. we're going to attack his mate on the other mice and the l.c.s. hunter who plans to become one of the bald biggest bosses to achieving its top ten ahead a sketch show in an interview with all tease the new bush so is president. the much fumble hold an initial public offering currently faces the next year but rebound began warns progress as an incentive financial sense must happen for. a window to get public company for the company we're planning to do a great deal of but basically we're within the children the key question is how do we get them to feel like i'm talking about the market cap when when do i think i

think very different from sell side of the world to actually develop the financial markets here we approach your ability to develop for international markets here. ok about how the markets for they fell off i'll be coming back in about fifty five minutes. great thanks very much katie and surely we're going to get a backstage story of an actor who overcame all the odds to make it in one of the toughest industries but first the headlines with us.

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