my wall street. take back wall street brick. crackdown in bahrain where security forces attack government demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas as the year long unrest in the country continues. while a group of doctors who treated patients are standing trial accused of inciting an attempt to overthrow the government. a government under siege and to lose has been confirmed thirty hours after french police surrounded his house he's believed to have killed seven people last week and they claim to have links to al qaeda. china slams washington's latest sanctions against tehran aimed at other countries as the

u.s. compiles a list of nations to be punished for continuing to import iranian oil. flows those stories flow all day to business news in twenty minutes. worldwide news twenty four seventh's this is our it's he with me will receive live in moscow amid the ongoing unrest in the regime's cracking down on people who have been helping nonviolent protestors a group of doctors are on trial for trying to save people's lives for the latest now life paula paula what is the bahraini government reasoning prosecuting these. well the bahraini regime is going ahead with the trial of twenty medics who are

charged with trying to overthrow the government and medics who include among them world renowned surgeons were treating wounded protesters during the violent crackdown last year now back in september a military court tried and same terms natixis up to fifteen years we do understand that the confessions they made were made and jew grace and among the charges are incitement to overthrow the government as well as trying to occupy a cross between now friends and supporters of the medics had hoped that they would be acquitted because of the international scandal of this case and also because recently none has gone on record saying and praising the recent reforms being implemented in the country he also said that they were significant and what we're seeing here is a retrial although it is happening in a civilian court it does suggest that the regime is not ready to implement any kind of reforms or any kind of concessions and it is causing alarm bells with many

people saying that if such a trial hasn't happened for example in syria or iran western governments and western media would make a huge media frenzy around it but instead there's hardly a murmur being reported or been reported about what is happening in bahrain or certainly paula you know you are is a good point over the past the arab spring when all of these all these revolves around happening in various countries typically the western media was all over it giving it maximum attention but bahrain it certainly seems to have slipped off the map why is that. well grain certainly does seem to have slipped for now i mean if we look at increasing atrocities being committed in that country by and large these are unreported in the mainstream western media and this is despite human rights groups calling for international attention it does seem to be justified by the fact that the lady is a key american ally in the region and as such it is often

a question of self interest and whether or not it is in the interest of washington and other western allies to report about the growing violence coming out of the rain the doctors trial has received little attention and so too do atrocities that are being perpetrated in that country receive little attention by comparison if there was some of the kinds of scenes happening in syria and iran the media has been all over those stories the slightest wrong doing in those countries it's a massive media frenzy reporting about it in the rain itself the rallies are continuing with demonstrators taking to the streets calling for an end to the violent crackdown of the regime but the regime insists that it is implementing reforms although people on the ground and activists say that these reforms are too little and are not changing the reality on the ground or of is a policy of i've been told every thank you. all

a correspondent with your global research group finian coming in was in bahrain and witnessed some of the doctors treating the wounded during the crackdown he thinks the bahraini regime is persecuting good medics to keep them from charging the truth . and they do which is given in the hospital also on the. pay the doctors the nurses just cables and who are doing. the experience we do who would you call with hundreds or thousands of people coming in with terminal injuries from. rules to you know as one seems to think not me who really needs to keep me longer in their lives is me or the prime witness is really religious coalitions of human rights then he. says to walk with her in. prison. peaceful

civilian religion when we mean to in the middle east speak arabic it must be engineered and i think that's work what's we're trying to secure and. if you don't usually disgraceful shooter i don't see if you're you're watching r t it's good to have a company it's a day the gunman suspected of killing seven people in the french city of two lewis has been found that thirty hours after police surrounded his apartment a report say he died it with a weapon still in his hand the man they claim to have links to al-qaeda and is believed to be a french citizen of algerian descent he suspected of killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in a separate incident police surrounded his apartment for over thirty hours before storming if he was said to be armed with multiple weapons possibly including hang grenades but more of this we're now joined by political analyst alex korbel standing by for us live in brussels our good to see you thanks for coming on r.t.

today i present to see held a news conference just about half an hour ago now announcing an inquiry to see if the government had any accomplices do you believe he was acting alone i think it was pretty it is related yes. so as he as the inquiry goes further you would imagine that he was absolutely alone and no one else could be tied to him here maybe he's maybe his brothers were aware of fear of his acts maybe we don't know yet now many and many are painting this is the most terrorism yet all the reports say the gunman was not a religious extremist so what do we know about him and his personal reasons for his actions i do want to stand he did serve some time in afghanistan and pakistan yes you see the. there that the french. in france are really a little is related because. they don't feel like french think that they are french

and when they go back to algeria for example they are despised by the local population because they don't speak arabic and because they don't know their culture so you know way they are really hated on underside and it turned to. religion as a substitute for for culture so i think that's pretty much what we have here plus the fact that again things that i mean he he advocated for for yet forcing for his back to be because of the situation in palestine and the birth of the presence of the french army in afghanistan yeah that's right indeed he certainly did say that he was acting in revenge for the people of the palestinian struggle on the gaza strip and in ramallah that's why apparently he targeted a jewish school now as we were saying the government is believed to be muslim or

algerian descent and with all this taking place during an election when president sarkozy is campaigning for tighter immigration laws could this tragedy do you think when sarkozy some votes. you see immigration. economic outsourcing and insecurity are all linked in the french you know indifference division of the world to the minutes globalization and quite frankly would. anger and this is defiance if if from. very high it can be growth because precisely i mean in countries where. it can be groups. in new immigrants new people are seen as new opportunities for the local people that's what you see in singapore and only known can the local population quite welcoming

but in france because of these past police sees it and he sees the gross doesn't exist so you have a lot of people think the presence of the of the immigrants and immigrants feel that they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions so the immigrants they come to france they feel they're not welcome there's a lack of economic a job opportunities there but then they resort to some form of aggression surely surely it should be a case of if you are a visitor in a country that is not your native land then perhaps you should just integrate. again they don't feel like fringe they are not they don't i mean i'm talking about the man they're reaching you know. this is going man was was again he's related i think and i'm not talking about every young arab in france. but they don't really feel like fringe for them from. being being proud to be french is seen as something

from the from the it's from rachel. or it's well or certainly there's something else a massive theme to the idea of integration if you are living in a country that is not your own where you feel welcome or not perhaps many would say they should integrate now when sarkozy had his had his press conference in the past hour he warned that prisons must not become training centers for brainwashing or terrorism do you think he has cause for concern when saying that. i think that you know when again if you if you don't have any hope. for a better life what are you going to do may be you i mean you can find a real job you are not integrated into even inside your own community unity integrated in the world country. what are you going to do so maybe you could you turn it on to crime. to some control and you know and then you you go to prison and of course in prison you meet people who

are already here for i mean you're already there for maybe higher crimes you know alex school or political analyst for us from brussels thank you for coming on our team today thank you. well are still plenty more to come here in the program on r t including. the creation of the tools we take people off the dole if they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty p. top rate of income tax for the rich people britain reveals its budget to eat into its massive deficit cutting taxes for corporations but hitting pensioners with a new granny tax. beijing has slammed the latest u.s. move to restrict iran's oil trade which could result in unilateral sanctions applied to other countries earlier washington issued a list of nations that could be blocked from accessing america's financial system if they continue to trade with tehran china the biggest buyer of iranian crude tops

that list along with india and north korea given six months to reduce all imports from iran or face u.s. sanctions over japan and ten e.u. countries have been made exempt because they have significantly cut purchases of iranian oil and you embargo is designed to put more pressure on to run over its nuclear program financial expert francis learn says that washington is showing bias toward its allies while punishing others. i have faith the u.s. has the picture to show foreign policy for its allies like japan and the e.u. is one set the rules for other countries like china which is that not such friendly terms with the us and. the syrian question he said not a set of rules so even though china reduced its purchase of a rainy zero zero zero zero by almost half so he still bring the sanction of china

peace through create a huge improvement expected between china and the us this is a us think taking the foreign policy before global before everybody else you know with me oh i can see me this is this is really what us. policies are having apply it prejudicially and if you're not on this side you suffer. are you watching r.t. let's turn our attention now to the out of syria where violence rages on despite wednesday's u.n. security council statement appealing for a cease fire a government forces are reportedly stepping up their assault on opposition strongholds insurgents are vowing to bring the fight to the capital damascus the opposition so-called free syrian army has set up a military council to coordinate attacks in and around the city fighters have turned to all out guerrilla warfare as government forces put them under pressure

across the country the u.n. security council resolution calling for peace is non-binding and carries no ultimatums but america is threatening to come down hard on damascus if it doesn't comply well to discuss the situation in syria we're now joined live from oklahoma by joshua landis a director with the center for middle east studies are good to see you today the u.n. security council has reached a consensus at last on a motion calling for a ceasefire now but is it likely to work as the u.s. and its allies still stand solidly behind that of the rebels it's not really likely to work both sides believe that time is either side of the picket when you ask that regime is doing classic clear and hold operations against the rebels and the rebels believe that with the external world on their side particularly the west with sanctions on syria and with the gulf arabs willing to spend money on them but they will eventually overwhelm the regime and be able to

win once they get their side organized and better equipped but let's address the issue about kofi annan the u.n. and arab league special envoy here his plans for a cease fire it's a cease fire that involves directly both sides if it fails the u.n. security council says it will consider other options so what do you think these options me. well obviously the options are trying to convince russia and china to condemn assad under a chapter seven so that they can put greater military pressure and that's that is where the international community is trying to work they're going to try to embarrass russia in every way that they can in order to get the kind of condemnation they had on libya and one of your articles we've read here and you say that the opposition in syria is becoming more and more militarized do you think i know as you mentioned a moment ago the rebels are strongly supported by the west but is it possible that they will eventually come to the negotiating table and meet with assad's government

and talk about an end to this well it's hard to imagine that they will do that because the government is quite a narrow government and they're not willing to make big compromises the opposition wants to replace this government entirely it wants to tear down the security structure which is loyal to us and rebuild it in a whole new syria that will be fashioned to after the victors of this revolution president assad has has reached out the only branch more than twice now trying to get the opposition to the negotiating table he's made some democratic propositions of parliamentary elections are scheduled for may in syria gigi do you think president assad can actually deliver on the changes that he's promised or will be given the chance to. well there is four parties for five parties that have registered for these elections and they will run in the elections i mean none

of the major opposition groups that are fighting the regime have registered so their voices and their representatives will not be running in these elections it's possible that the elections will bring in a certain sector of syrian society but i don't think it's going to heal the great divide that has opened up between the revolutionaries and the outside let's take a slightly broader step here when it comes to the arab spring this means going on well over a year now certainly the western media and western forces getting a lot of attention to the arab uprisings in various countries but still a year on uprising continues in buck rein with little or no attention being paid to it why do you think that is well i think it's because the united states needs bahrain it's the shiite uprising that they have accused of being somehow related to iran and this undermines the power of the sydney monarchs in the gulf which

is the primary oil producing region that the united states. the stability of which the united states holds very dear does not want to see any kind of revolution. all right so certainly the u.s. has a vested interest there in bahrain the america has a previously intervened however in a country without any u.n. mandate you think it's possible we could see something like this going on with syria. i don't know any you're referring to yugoslavia and no but i think it's very different situation the united states has tried to take control of regime change and nation building in several middle eastern countries most notable of course are afghanistan and iraq none of them have been notable successes i think the most that the american people have no stomach for getting involved in syria syria is the size of iraq it could be quicksand and my sense is

that the obama administration is very reluctant to get more deeply involved it's been hoping that turkey saudi arabia would lead the way to get into this but neither of them seems to want the sort of vietnam sort of situation was forced joshua landis a director with the center for middle east studies in oklahoma thanks for coming in . it's a pleasure. check out some of the international headlines in brief with reality world up it for you will start with yemen where security forces have killed at least twenty nine al qaeda militants in the southern province of abyei yun by the navy targeted their positions with rocket and artillery shells over a twenty four hour period the militants captured towns in the area last year against a backdrop of political turmoil in the country yemen has seen an escalation of violence since president hadi took office last month but following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian

army says troops of killed at least thirty nine members of the far left group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years this is according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. forty two is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport it's severely disrupted with schools and other state services badly affected by the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is locked into a three year program of cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. rebels in the west african country

mali claim to have seized power and ousted the government in a coup they have imposed a military curfew and suspended the constitution while the country's president is seeking refuge at a military camp the troops staged a mutiny on wednesday taking over a state broadcaster and attacking the presidential palace mali had been known as one of the most stable democracies in western africa since the one nine hundred ninety s. . pensioners will pay more while taxes for the rich and big business will be reduced that's what critics are making of the british government's budget for the year ahead saying it boosts the interests of corporations by making the lives of ordinary people even tougher aussies laura smith has details from london. 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 and people are also saying that it's tinkering around

economic disaster just dealing with the edges of it the top line of this budget is really this tax cuts for the very richest people in society from fifty percent support five percent hugely controversial the government says the tax is not making any money anyway but groups like the occupy campaign say 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 in the 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 fuel again later this year that has a huge impact on the economy and it is 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 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 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 concentrating on things like fifty p. . 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 pet in your garden it employs 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 the pentagon 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 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 to rebuild it but growth and development is out of the question according to sam he says the price of fuel is. 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 jew to the geopolitical situation including the iranian oil embargo a staggering sixty percent tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money through egypt 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 see how easy it is for people to

travel to work or to jobs that might be some traveling distance from their home so it actually increase unemployment quite markedly if you will to choose to hide 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 i call it companies are forced to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yes more pressure on the recession hit british consumers nora smith forty london. and off to the r.t. business that's got there's daniel again i know you're keeping your eyes on the numbers anything to report for us traders not happy campers at the moment and there's lots of reasons for that let's start with russia first here in moscow they're starting well but then heading south every year every day this week so far it's now done over a person really a contagion from the u.s.

and asia this chick sure moves this little stocks and energy stocks are doing better than the market despite weak of crude prices financials are among the worst performers was losing more than one percent europe's on its longest downward spiral since november run gold some twelve percent off a coup in mali africa where has mines and crude gone gone from six this hour as industrialized speights more releasing crude stockpiles on the exchange rates the greenbacks gaining against the euro to sell but the rubles now losing against both major currencies and america's historic grip on the world bank presidency is being challenged developing countries have put forth two critical contenders of their own in the nigerian finance minister and the former find its chief of columbia will be nominated before friday's deadline to replace will bit silly who's retiring provides a poor countries its head is considered one of the world's top policymakers and in other news russia's been right before th most favorable country to run

a business in the rating hong kong topped the list thanks to its free market policies and low corporate taxes the survey looks at wages startup costs and how a country controls inflation russia's place in the top fifty is more welcome than last year's world bank poll by the country took one hundred twenty three place. and that's the latest you can from more stories on our website ulti dot com slash business headlines are next to your loyalty. the.

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