crackdown in bahrain where security forces attack anti government demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas as the year long arm rest in the country rages on . follow a group of doctors who treat the protesters are standing trial accused in france and attempt to overthrow the government. a gunman under siege in two louis has been confirmed over thirty hours after french police surrounded his house he's believed to have killed seven people one claim to have links to al qaida. 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. it's good to have you with us here today on artsy rule re sushi life in moscow i made ongoing unrest in the regime's cracking down on non violent protesters as well as people who have been helping them of doctors are on trial after treating wounded antigovernment demonstrators last year. as the latest. liberated 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 called tried and sentenced the matrix to put 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 across the top not the friends and supporters of the medics had hoped that they would be acquitted because of the international standards of this case and also because recently another has gone on record as saying and praising the recent reforms being implemented in the country they also say that they were significantly above the scene there is a retrial of the it is happening in a civilian court it does suggest that the regime is not ready to implement any kind of or reforms or any kind of concessions and it is causing alarm bells with many people saying that if such a trial have to happen for example in syria or in the wrath of western governments and western media would make a huge media frenzy around it but instead there's hardly

a murmur in reported all being reported about what is happening in bahrain and this is despite human rights groups calling for international attention it does seem to be justified by the fact that bahrain 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 bahrain 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 or the people on the ground and activists say that these reforms are too little and are not changing the reality on the ground. talk is paul a slip reporting meantime a correspondent with a global were such a phony and a cunningham he was in bahrain and witnessed some of the doctors treating the wounded during the crackdown i think that bahraini regime is persecuting the medics

simply to keep them side of the roads and peaceful cruisers and they'd be. in the hospital also many of. the doctors the nurses just chaos and they were doing in my name. my experience resume her usual chemical with hundreds you thought people coming in with terminal injuries from. rules cheerio. things you know i think the regime is continuing formulated and it is the three or the prime witnesses to really here it is fire issues of human rights then where it. says to quote the current regime. against peaceful civilian goods through in one way the middle must be charitable speedy and communion and i think that's what's behind this agenda and if

you don't usually you just bristle should be drawn on procedure. we're watching just a little bit later in the program here same name same game our report from what the lebanese city of tripoli. risk of facing a similar scenario to its namesake in libya. in neighboring syria. report on india's national project that the government promises will bring benefits to the. critics say it's just a way of keeping tabs on the population. suspected of killing seven people in the french city of toulouse has been killed by a sniper over thirty hours after police surrounded his apartment reports say he died with a weapon still in his hand claimed to have links to al qaeda and is believed to be a french citizen of algerian descent he's 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 it he was said to be armed with multiple weapons possibly including hand grenades political analyst alex korbel says french social issues may have been linked to the gunman's actions. the french young arabs in france are really a little is a latent because. they don't feel like french think that they are french and when they go back to for example they are despised by the local population because they don't speak arabic and because they don't know the culture so in a way they are really good on both sides and turn to aggression and maybe of religion as a substitute for culture in france because of sarkozy's past police seize economic policies the gross doesn't exist so you have

a lot of people same thing the presence of the migrants and immigrants feel they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions this is r.t. and are still plenty more to come in the program including. the creation of the job to take people off the dole but they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty p. top rate of income tax for the rich great britain to reveal the budget to eat into its massive deficit cutting taxes for corporations getting pensioners with a new granny tax. his will through his new york's not another day down the business news is intimate. beijing has slammed the latest u.s. a 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 terror on china the biggest buyer of iranian crude tops that list along with india and north korea they've been given six months to reduce oil imports from iran all face u.s. sanctions over japan and ten easy countries have been made exempt because they have significantly cut. consist of iranian oil and you have aco is designed to put more pressure on terror on over its nuclear program or natural export francis says that washington is showing bias towards its ally as well punishing others. have made a u. s. has said purchase foreign policy for its allies like japan and they you. set the rules for other countries like china which is there not on such friendly terms with the u.s. on. the syrian question is another set of rules so even china reduced its purchase of a rainy zero zero zero zero by almost half so we still bring the sanctions on china

. create a huge improvement expected between china and the us this is said to us think taking their foreign policy the global agenda for everybody i was there you know with me oh i piss me this is this is really what us. policies are. apply you put your dish really and if you're not undecided you suffer. well ten minutes past the hour here in moscow turning our attention to the out of syria where violence rages on despite wednesday's u.n. security council statement appealing for a cease fire government forces are reportedly stepping up their assault on opposition strongholds while armed insurgents are vowing to bring the fight right 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 has have turned to

all out guerrilla warfare as government forces have increased pressure on them 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 joshua landis of the center for middle east studies says that rebels are not interested in a peaceful solution believing they can overwhelm government forces with western backing. the rebels believe that with the external world on their side quickly the west with. sanctions on syria and with the gulf arabs willing to spend money on them that they will eventually overwhelm the regime and be able to win once they get their side organized and better equipped both sides believe that time is either side of that they can win that regime is doing classic clear and hold operations against the rebels there's four parties four or five parties that have

registered for these elections and they will run in the elections. and none of the major opposition groups that are fighting the regime have registered 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 assad regime. that's creating violence in syria is affecting neighboring countries as well dividing people across the border in lebanon on how things look on a boy i reports from the country and how it's been affected by the nearby conflict . it's an air of c.g. on the mediterranean with a pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's hard to sizeable alawite and sunni communities and the syrian border just half hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road

separating the allies and sunni communities here in tripoli exactly mean this 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 we have another pleb 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 sarber raised money to put out this impromptu memorial to their leader and the countries they consider their protectors . thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america much freedom is a euphemism for american interests they do include a bit more human rights of freedom. than. serious ruling ba'ath 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 here for regional powers syria is from here about half an hour and we see everything you know we're. going from. the syria we going from going into syria. from jordan from there from everywhere 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 mohammad don't hide their filiation the big three syrian army his take on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people but if they don't change their stand will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its slippery you still have time to make

the right choice on the hospital's administrator shows are some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. their trust logically committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity it when i ask him whether the revolution is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian but we have many destruction and we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand as we hear you. i think the old bird evolution has to pay some. something. with. changing to better life. to keep it you warning 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 it's not going to artsy tripoli lebanon well but the u.n. moving a step closer to a consensus on peace in syria where the u.s. still threatens damascus with more pressure and further isolation a lot of us are here on r.t. we talked to lebanon's foreign minister. he says the policy of blocking one side of the conflict could lead to disaster for the entire region. we are against a policy of double standards when great powers back one of the parties in a dispute this policy is a source of great suffering in the middle east of the occupied territories and there are un resolutions addressing we do not insist that the international community should throw its weight behind us in this dispute but we demand that the international agreements and resolutions should be respected and observed.

florida starting with yemen let's go to some other international headlines for you brief security forces have killed at least twenty nine al qaeda militants in the southern province of the yarn the navy targeted their positions with rocket and artillery shells over a twenty four hour period militants captured 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 i thought a year of mass protests against his predecessor. 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 supporting to the country's defense minister rebels who are accused by the government of cocaine. arms trafficking and bomb making fart although revolutionary armed forces of

colombia group has been after war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike it's all against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools post and other state services also badly affected the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by eight seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is looking two or 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 oust of the government in a coup they've imposed of military curfew and suspended the constitution or the country's president is seeking refuge at a military camp troopers staged a mutiny on wednesday taking over a state broadcaster and

a rental palace barly had been known as one of the most stable democracies in western africa since the one nine hundred ninety s. . well pensioners will pay more while taxes for the rich and big businesses will be reduced that's what critics are making the purchase government's budget for the year ahead saying it boosts the interests of corporations are making the lives of ordinary people even tougher artie'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 calling it a millionaire's budget and people will say it's a bit 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 meekness i see from fifty cents a full 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 bonds 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 lumbering our children essentially with our debts not just children either grandchildren great grandchildren but 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 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 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 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 concentrating on things like fifty p. . income tax for the rich meanwhile small businesses. found 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 work and how to share one day and then the next day depends on when the customer wants us all we have 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 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 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 iranian 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 i mean one of the impacts is on labor mobility how easy it is for people to travel to work or jobs there might be some traveling distance from home so it actually increase unemployment quite markedly if you do 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 haulage companies opposed to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yet small pressure recession hit british consumers nora smith r.t. london. well look do bear in mind have more news and videos always on our website at c.n.n. dot com let's have a look at some of gotham's where they call you that right now the post saying quote the barricades and bull horns are not enough to keep new york occupy wall street protesters out of union square. and mixing performances with politics and madonna makes a way to support his but promising to speak up for the city's gay community. and twitter turns six as the social networking web site celebrates its birthday we look back on how it's changed the way the world communicates you can find that and

so much more at our website r t v dot com. in a moment is daniel with the markets but for now india has come up with a new initiative to give a unique identity number to the country's population of over one billion but the government's project is being questioned on several fronts and though it promises to help deliver welfare schemes some fear the vast database could eventually compromise people's privacy preassure it reports. what it's been in delhi thousand cian year but he still can't get access to benefits because of ration card is registered back home for those like him india has come up with a twenty first century solution the herculean process has begun to get every indian

fingerprints and i are thinking and in one math repeatedly this code can be used for various purposes like ration cards and receiving russian it's. carrying many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are one thousand and is all it will take if the new idea project goes as. and it will be the largest collection of biometric data in the world the indian government is hoping that the twelve digit numbers of all allow indians to be more mobile and personal work where ever they want by tying them to a centralized database so that they can open a bank account get a cellphone 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 python at the met there is also the inevitable human rights worries about a big brother state something the.

state had the most to do with. people like walk that struggling on a few dollars a day have no clear idea of how this is going to how but they're willing to try it . when i actually receive the cards then i will know the benefits of having the cars. i know you don't have an official identity and i have access to health were accurate they are but the government media able to follow their every move preassure either archie new delhi india. or i turning out to daniel at the r.t. business desk hello to you again daniel how the numbers looking for this world will bring you the latest numbers in a minute but we have some corporate news coming in president medvedev has pushed the idea of slashing states ownership in russia's top banks he's also the government's strategy for reducing its they below fifty percent in particular this would apply to the country's two biggest lenders and the government is expected to

sell off a further seven point six percent stake in the spring as part of its thirty four billion dollar protestation program that cuts across a range of sectors this is how the markets are getting on another topsy turvy day in moscow first up there is now almost two percent lower really on contagion from asia and the u.s. also utility and there goes his net income last year sixty percent this chick sure moves the most energy stocks are doing better than the market despite crude prices financials are among the worst performers was losing more than one in the hope to said it has opened. for five percent lower this hour really that's off the chart and a report of a fall in manufacturing in europe is on its lowest downward spiral since november gold slumped ten percent off of a coup in mali africa where it has mines and crude you know lost two dollars today alone as industrialized states mold releasing crude stockpiles and on the exchange

the greenbacks gaining against the euro with the rubles no losing against the major currencies. and that's the latest business right angle thanks very much for that we will see you next hour. all right. i'm on r c has me tell you we'll see you in just a moment thank you for that. but we're coming up in just a few minutes here to stay with us so we're going to be talking to the lebanese of foreign minister are none monsoor for his take on how the conflict in syria can be solved but before that there are back with a recap of our top stories here on r.t. .

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