break the stalemate the u.n. closer to a syrian peace plan to make both sides lay down while the u.s. threatens more pressure on the regime if it doesn't comply. with the site but police are laying siege to the truth. with reports of violence is passing through the security court on officials say they are not sure if the suspect is still in. the u.k. spending plan is a bank is a project with a hike in fuel prices dealing a heavy blow to small businesses who are driving the struggling economy.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at our team. you are showing a united stance on syria after months of deadlock that the u.s. has threatened damascus with more pressure and further isolation unless the latest peace initiative is carried out by 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 i just buy that position leaders admit that some foreign states are sending weapons to support the rebels u.s. based journalist and author susan lindauer believes that by fully backing the opposition washington isn't helping to resolve the entire crisis. one of the

reasons the violence has continued is the united states is covertly financing the opposition to government the united states is providing tactical assistance for training military operations. outside of. 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 must reach a cease fire it requires both action from both sides. the violence in syria

is spilling over to neighboring lebanon on dividing its people on the crisis all across the border. on a boy now explains how lebanon has been affected and continues to be affected by the conflict. it's an air of c.g. on the mediterranean a bit pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan 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 up to the serious street 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 piece 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 their leader and the countries they consider their protectors but you must thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their enemy america's large freedom is a euphemism for american interests they don't kill a great democracy human rights or freedom. series ruling baath party has its regional office here its chiefs 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 tier for regional powers syria is from maybe half an hour and with the everything you know we're. going from.

going from lebanon to syria. or from jordan from there from everywhere across 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 muhammad don't hide their affiliation of a different 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 they will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory would you still have time to make the right choice on the hospitals administrators shows or some of the about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. their charset 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 you know we have many destruction we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand we hear. i think. evolution has to pay some. something. with. development and changing. with of life. to keep the two warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd quality resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario that's not going to see tripoli lebanon. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow fresh explosions are rocked the street in toulouse where police are laying siege to the

suspected gunman's home where the blasts have been identified as flash grenades and checking for signs of life inside the flood french officials said earlier they weren't sure the suspect was still alive and he said he wanted to die with weapons in his hands it's been reported arguments is passed through the security court on police had no contact with him throughout the night the man is claimed to have links to al qaeda and is reported to be a french citizen of algerian origin and suspected of killing a rabbi and three children in a jewish school as well as three soldiers intelligence expert claude that money kay explains why police hoped to take the suspect alive. if we take him alive you could speak and you could explain or you were through and. find the he found his way to gary stern into pakistan where. he's come to us when we were stranded us were to learn to live in the camp and of course maybe he could carry

a folder of french fry came ever. do the same the same training in every eastern europe and maybe today are very to do it somewhere in france when he came back even though in forced us gov kind the first surveyors monitoring it but the point is you have so many people to have a twenty tour that you cannot do it for each of them we speak abodes maybe for a few hundreds if not thousands of people will be potentially dangerous in france so you have to choose you have to make some some you have to just pull through to choose which are the most gun shows like a muslim shows and target both it seems that this man was not faggot it was very general fitness mystic what we learned today would last week is that the truth is not only the truth of organized of organized networks but also the traitor for the lone wolf the easily the terrorist which is a real nightmare for the security services. ok let's go straight to live pictures

here from to loose our police are on high alert around the house of the suspected killer of seven a siege continues into its second day like i mentioned a moment ago our blasts were heard earlier aimed at flushing the gunman out with the use of flash grenades you can watch the police special operation on folding live on our website called we know over the past twenty four hours now the government through its cult forty five out the window that he was allegedly still brandishing a k forty seven officials also brought his mother to the scene to see if she could convince him to put down his arms and and come out of the house and yet she said no he pays no attention to me so i thought of this life ongoing now at r.t. dot com. still to come for you this hour here on the program that have lights out for hundreds of people could be left without electricity but israel's unhappy with the green energy project for one palestinian community.

the u.s. has issued a list of countries that could suffer from its sanctions on tehran china the biggest buyer of iranian oil tops that list washington it said it was exempting ten e.u. states and japan from the sanctions that would block access to america's banking system and let's discuss this now a financial expert of process loans joining us live in hong kong oh good to see you today so china did cut imports of iranian oil by forty five percent last month that's the lowest level in two years yeah why why why is it still under yeah. well. the u.s. has. a foreign policy in bed for its allies like japan and they you is one set of rules for other countries like china which is there not on such friendly terms with the u.s. not on the you as. in the syrian pressured there is another

set of rules so even if even though china will reduce its purchase of oh oh oh by almost half so they still bring the sanctions on china. create a huge improvement expected between china and the u.s. when you say you say this will create a huge diplomatic spat between china and the u.s. what about the economic impact all the u.s. sanctions really going to deal a big blow to china. not really because when you look at the china chinese banks except for china which is the. special specialized phone exchange bank so. has said i'm just all over the world but the big banks like. commerce bank china consumption

and bengal china. not really strong internationally and basically almost pick banks so he's you fret insentient where for them real is the the. u.s. dollar business only comes highly fraction of the business so that he will not fight for better china is a different story. from thirty percent of the. foreign currency we have per day with me but surely surely washington d.c. would have known that by creating these oil sanctions on iran it would have affected china being the biggest number one consumer of iranian oil a sudden might say it is a possibly a chance here of all of getting two birds with one stone america puts pressure on iran it vertically and perhaps knowingly puts economic pressure on china one of the growing world superpowers. this is the best way to go

forward because. this is said to us taking a foreign policy be global for everybody i was. there you know with me or against me this is this is really what u.s. . policies are. they were applying to produce surely if you're not on their side you suffer now one iranian lawmaker said the decision to make accept exemptions from the sanctions for example ten e.u. countries have now been put in a position where they are exempt from the sanctions but one iranian lawmaker says that shows the u.s. is in retreat do you possibly see it that way no not really. because. the last known iran already before you even. iran already. go to

you states so i don't think this is a retreat of for you policy i think. it's. the be the one to help to use peace because someone who used thesis he would depend on even the oil he had to keep there more time to. countries like saudi arabia all right our financial expert a fraud has learned that joining us live on the program from hong kong thanks very much for coming on r.t. it's ok. well motorists on the elderly will be feeling the pinch in the u.k. as the government has unveiled its two thousand and twelve budget a measure of freezing of pensioners allowances have been dubbed a granny tax waters criticism that only large corporations and the rich will be protected from london as artist laura smith. the government is 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 and people think that it's tempering around economic disaster just dealing with the edges of the top line of this budget is really just tap for the very richest and so i see from fifty cents to five cents huge. government does not make money anyway 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 pouring money it only needs to be paid back in a hundred years' time the government says it's doing that so look you know interest rates but the critics say that it's numbering our children essentially with our debts not just children grandchildren great grandchildren one of the most 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 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 big 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 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 the creation of the trial to take people off to go off important benefits and. going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty people to give income tax for the rich people meanwhile small businesses. found sound and towards chapman run

a company which sells and installs spence's to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs full vans in which engineers deliver train pets to use the fences the guys can reckon hand share one day and then the next day depending on when the customer wants us first of all we have the increasing p.h.a. 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 for around seventy percent of the economy is small business because of them and says it's depending on firms like 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 near grainy an oil embargo a staggering sixty percent is tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money is

actually a very convenient tax for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid one of the impacts on labor mobility see how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually get jobs that might be travelling distance from home so it actually increase unemployment quite markedly if you choose to hide it's a problem that bill says 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 haulage companies of course to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yet more pressure on the recession hit british consumers nora smith r.t. london. bear in mind that our web site r t dot com where you can find even more news radio. now and see some of the items waiting for you there right now for

example like cashing in on incarceration more federal jails in america private profits rise in line with the growing prison population there's concern over the conditions for the inmates. siberian villagers discover an unidentified objects fall in from the sky sparking rumors and speculation as to what it might be those details for you that are teed off. israel is fighting battles on its home soil it's threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems installed to provide electricity to some palestinian communities but they say no official permission was ever obtained but activists say the real agenda could be much darker. reports. in the remote hilltops of south hebron this ancient plate when tried ekes out a living from the land but they've unwittingly become the latest phone in the side

of the israeli government now look around 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 will bring 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 free to show us how nice clean transformed they have no electricity they have no power to charge the phone they would need to go to the nearby city of. you know it's two hours was just to try to the telephone and that's it but the progress of the anger of the israeli authorities they say it was a record without permission and have threatened to send in all we are asked is that they apply for a license the product you're talking about not only did they not reply brad when a warning was given that this is in violation of the regulations they have

a right to appeal they refused to appeal that in germany look at 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 not interested in having more caring for the world be listing and scenarios. other that he would like to see. me. promised 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 i described the developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speaking. nek tel aviv 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 the joy could be short lived if israel decides to repeat all the way. in the south hebron hills. in just a few minutes here on r.t. it's katie with the markets before now let's start with new york and head into the r.t. world update it's the big apple where police have closed the city's union square to clear clear it out over occupy wall street protesters for the second night in a row last rights raid has seen at least six people arrested activists moved to the square after they were forced to leave their previous base at zuccotti park they're demanding the resignation of the city's police chief what they call brutal tactics against the occupies. 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 have suspended the constitution the troops staged a mutiny on wednesday taking over a state broadcaster and attacking the presidential palace soldiers around three of

the government's handling of a separatist rebellion in the north of the country. colombian troops of killed thirty nine rebels in operations over the past two days the defense minister described it as the biggest blow against the revolutionary armed forces of colombia in the past five years for it killed eleven soldiers in the area just a few days earlier the colombian government says the rebels are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and the manufacturing of bombs. portugal has been brought to all halt by a twenty four hour general strike a subway and ferry service is a disrupted while some public offices and schools will also be shut workers are protesting against welfare cuts and tax hikes are starting rogers were adopted in return for seventy eight billion euros in international rescue cash as portugal sinks deeper into recession with growth figures expected to drop. of the

financial figures in the u.s. are not looking too optimistic either later our economic expert max keiser looks at the inequalities in the states. this is like segregation this is like color to the back of the bus. to the back of the bus thousand dollars and you pay four hundred forty percent on interest on your payday loans and this is segregation this is a financial apartheid if your wall street you actually your funds are negative their negative one percent the fed gives you gift you money and then you park it back at the fed you make a one percent spread that's a negative interest rate you know it's just like the indians back in one hundred fifty years ago two hundred years ago with buffalo bill the only be rolling across the plains shooting the indians shooting the buffalo did to starve out the indians here blankfein and jamie dimon j.p. morgan are starving out the poor people america hoping they just die and go away

that's the whole plan. but when you watch the cars reported just over an hour start right here on c.n.n. although off to business as we go through and i know you keeping your eye on all the markets and what's going on certainly for this day any news for us with well you know ball i have certainly tress for the occasion so it really is all down today to some very negative figures i'm going to tookie right through them and first kay calls with the russian board design so we can see the l.c.s. . percent down and the my six point seven percent down it's been incredibly chalky day of trade but they seem to be heading into negative territory this hour i can take the full day of losses as well so be interesting to see how they close on later on in the day so let's see how the individual shanny's it getting on there now take recently just dropped into the red also joined call and spare bank

in that skull that regions it's not looking at she's going to talk about how to look at europe and see about the pairing and but i'm pretty sure it's where a loss or indeed in the rise and its banks. mining companies that are going to be today that's off the back of chinese manufacturing activity posting disappointing figures i can also tell you i know you just saw the cars are coming up later but u.s. futures as well so that's a concern on the european markets on the biggest losing streak since november last year because the oil prices and day to declining after france that industrialized nations are considering releasing strategic crude still calls to counter the rising prices and. working there for this hour and i even just the just the press about ok does have a look at the current says and see how the euro dollar is getting on it is indeed down this hour one thirty one that's fifty nine for that currency pair right now the traders favor we've also got the variable as well it's bearing lower against the u.s. dollar against the euro hour. so that the markets and all the news america's

historic grip on the presidency of the world bank is being challenge the first time since nineteen forty four the developing countries have put forward to credible contenders all. now you all these people well they all the nigerian finance minister the former finance minister of colombia they will be no but i did ask candidates before the deadline on friday and that's because they all surprised robot. retiree's that the interesting to see when you go vote bank is a top provider of aged to poor countries its head is one of the world's top policymakers. and in the years rushes have been right the forty eight most afraid will come true to run against us in a racing bloomberg hong kong let's hope the left thanks to its free market policies corporate taxes. looked at wages start up costs and how the country controls

inflation and the russians the price the top fifty might not sound too great but it's far better than another writing it last year with doing business by the world bank where the country took one hundred twenty it's price. in other news the my space r.c.s. has rebuilt has become one of the world's five biggest bosses all for cheating its top ten i head of schedule in an interview with artie's don't you bush so it's president also the merger will hold an initial public offering currently stated the next year but rebound i go again i won't progress as an international financial center come. when over here probably the company of the company we're planning to do they deal with but basically we're going to talk to keep pushing this whole do we get to the top five talking about the market go away and i think i think it depends on the profile of the world to actually develop the financial markets here

we will. develop for an initial market here. that's how the business looks at this hour. thank you very much indeed next hour you give us some good news for one. or as you say or in a couple of minutes here are we to hear from the lebanese foreign minister about why he thinks it's important to stay impartial in syria's on a rest but first i'll be back shortly with.