crackdown in bahrain where security forces attack government demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas as the year long gone dressed in the country rages on. while a group of. protesters are standing trial accused of inciting and attempting to overthrow the government. a government under siege in toulouse has now been confirmed over thirty hours after french police surrounded his house he's believed to have killed seven people and claims to have al qaeda linked. 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. groundhog day from. another beastly showing business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. ongoing unrest in bahrain the regime's cracking down on violent protesters as well as people who have been helping them a group of doctors are on trial after treating the wounded anti-government demonstrators last year. has the latest on this. liberated regime is going ahead with the trial of twenty medics who are charged with trying to overthrow the government the medics who include among them world renowned surgeons were treating

protesters during the violent crackdown last year now back in september a military court tried and sentenced the medics to up to fifteen years we do understand that the confessions they made were made and jurists and among the charges are incitement to overthrow the government as well as trying to occupy a hospital 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 it recently. has gone on record in saying and praising the recent reforms being implemented in the country who also said that they were significant about 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 reforms or any kind of concessions and it is causing alarm bells with many people saying that if such a trial had to happen for example in syria or iran and western governments and

western media would make a huge media frenzy around it but instead there is hardly a murmur being reported or been 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 rain 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 interests of washington and other western allies to report about the growing violence coming out of the rain the rallies are continuing with demonstrators taking to the streets calling for an end to the violent crackdown of the regime of the regime insists that it is implementing reforms although people on the ground and activists say that these reforms. too little and i'm not changing the reality on the ground. his policy reporting means i have a correspondent with global were so funny and cunning and. i witnessed some of the

doctors treating the wounded during the crackdown he thinks the bahraini regime is persecuting the medics in order to keep them silent and peaceful cruisers and they do which is medium and in the hospital also in. the doctors the nurses this is chaos and they were doing and running. experience from to. cook with hundreds we thought people coming in with terminal injuries from. a rules cheerio. under the theme this is you know i think i need to really listen to treatment or get in the military is because any one of the prime witnesses to really reduce our ambitions of human rights then you have a korean woman who says to walk a girl any regime barker's and. peaceful civilian against religion you know me between the medics must speak arabic and speak and communion

and i think that's what's behind this agenda if you don't believe in this kind of dismissal should try on procedure. you're watching r.t. later on in the program same name same game our report from the lebanese city of tripoli asks if it's at a risk of facing a similar scenario to its namesake in libya this jews were events in neighboring syria. the government suspected of killing seven people in the french city of toulouse has been killed by a sniper by this over thirty hours after police surrounded his apartment reports say he died with a weapon still in his hand but the man claimed to have links to al qaeda and is believed to be a french citizen of algerian percent you 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 over thirty hours before

storming yet he was said to be armed with multiple weapons or possibly including hand grenades more of these are now joined by belgian m.e.p. philip weiss our life thank you for coming on our team today some of said that the government may have felt isolated as a second generation immigrant in france not accepted there but not entirely feeling connected to his algerian roots either is there any substance to this view why do you think he did what he. did stiffen. to talk in his plays and to know exactly what exactly moved him i think what we are witnessing now was a ready kaliz ation of the many muslim people in western europe and of course this is a very worrying a very preoccupied problem. we send people that don't feel as if they belong in western society where they have where they sometimes have been born they don't identify with our civilization or culture but still don't feel like.

this is a big problem and i think we should work towards a more strict immigration and integration. policy in all the member states of the european union now whether it comes to issues of integration or assimilation he did post the shootings online by clearly wanting to get his point across to a wider audience in one video he's telling a paratrooper quote you kill my brothers i killed you what does that tell us about his motivation. will he kick it with thinking as a muslim radical as a muslim extremist then. i think we see police reports intelligence reports in a whole lot of member states in the european union pointing out this radicalization of the muslim communities especially among young people and we should do something about this and i think we have been too lax in tackling this problem we know there

are tens of people right now in al qaeda training camps in afghanistan in pakistan etc but still we know some of these people are coming back to their countries in europe and we let them do as if nothing else if there was no problem and i think we should monitor all of these people much more closely than we have been doing in the past the french antiterrorism church or shall we grew good point to this that the muslim recruitment is still going on people are being sent from the u.k. from belgium germany. to training camps of al qaeda we know these people we often know when they come back and where we should do something. special specific in laws prohibiting participation to terrorist activities and

participating and going to a terrorist training camp is in some way participating and taking part of terrorist activities as as you say. intelligence officials are aware of such people on the radical believes who are living or coming into france in fact a french intelligence says it has been tracking the government for three to four years and it hasn't done anything about it apart from the measures that you've just recommended are there firmer harsher ways to go about cracking down on radical fundamentalism spawned by immigrants influence. oh yes i think the time has come to say very clearly that there is no place for such people in europe people that don't accept basic european values like the separation of the states and the church like equality of men and women like the rule of law people that don't accept these basic

european falcon's word should have no place at all in our european society and when we know that they have gone to terrorist training camps we should say well ok you are not welcome anymore you have taken part in hostile activities that are threats that are a menace to our security in europe. they shouldn't be allowed to go back to the countries all the should be in jail whenever we know that they have been in these terrorist training camps we should have a much. stand now president sarkozy has said that no one in france should consider revenge or discrimination because of the event but is it possible we can expect to see an outcry towards the muslim community now even though the vast majority of muslims are horrified by what happened perhaps a backlash of some sort. or the other think there will be any backlash i think we have to make very clear to all people that are coming in our countries that we we

stand for and values and we should see to it that these values are shared by everyone in public life and i don't think that there is a problem with the majority of muslims living in flanders in belgium or in the rest of europe most of these people are war guarding citizens but this minority that clearly don't accept laws and our way of life we should be much and that's very important that i think it's it would be in the in the interest of very one if we would adopt such a policy also in the interest. of muslims living in. northern every life and there are law abiding citizens where they should agree with us that the time and can take a much from the stance life in brussels or belgian m.e.p. philip klein thanks for coming on our team today ok.

beijing has condemned the latest u.s. move to restrict iran's oil trade which could result in duty lateral 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 china grown china the biggest buyer of iranian crude tops that list along with india and north korea they've been given six months to reduce all imports from iran all very able face u.s. sanctions however japan and ten e.u. countries have been made exempt because they have significantly cut purchases of iranian oil then you involve go is designed to put more pressure on terror ran over its nuclear program financial expert francis says that washington is showing bias toward its allies while punishing others. see the u. s. has. foreign policy for its allies and they you.

know rules for other countries like china which is they're not on such friendly terms with the u.s. . it's another set of rules so even though china reduce his per use of. oil by almost half so you still bring the same issues on china. create a huge improvement expected between china and the u.s. this is the u.s. foreign policy be global agenda for everybody i was there you know with me or against me this is this is really what u.s. . policies are with every apply you could you do surely and if you're not do something. you're watching on t.v. 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 some concentration of things like fifty feet right to give income tax to the rich but the reveals its budget even to

its massive deficit cutting taxes for corporations getting pensioners with a new granny. turning our attention to syria now 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. going 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 of turned all out guerrilla warfare as government forces have increased pressure on them across the country and u.n. security council resolution calling for peace is non-binding on carries no ultimatums but america's 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 peaceful resolutions believing that they can overwhelm government forces with their western backing. colonel 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 both sides believe the time is either side of bacon when the outside regime is doing classic clear and hold operations against the rebels there's four parties for 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 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. and the

escalating violence in syria is affecting neighboring countries as well dividing people across the border in lebanon on r.t.s. on a boy reports from the country and how it's been affected by the nearby ongoing conflict . it's an arab cd on the mediterranean with a passion 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 an 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 lebanese and more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor here cannot approve 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 caused 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 . thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america like a euphemism for american interests. human rights for freedom. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event of his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria from maybe half an hour and with the everything you know we're. going from. syria we're

going from going on. here from jordan from. 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 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 this will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its tree and you still have time to make the right choice. because he tells administrator shows us some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. allegedly committed by assad's regime amounts of crimes against humanity but when i

ask him what he did 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. and i think all good evolution has to pay from. something. changing. of life to keep the two warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the city for all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario sound like artsy tripoli lap and on in a few minutes daniel with the ali market update from our starting with yemen let's

go to some other international headlines and brace it's where a security forces have killed at least twenty nine al qaeda militants in the southern province of. the navy targeted their positions with a rocket and artillery shells over a twenty four hour period. militants captured towns in the area last year against the backdrop of political turmoil in the country yemen has seen an escalation of violence since president hadi took office last month following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty nine members of the far leftist group it's one of the biggest such strike in five years this according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one nine hundred sixty four.

forty four that's being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools and other state services also 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 programme of cuts altered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. 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 making the lives of ordinary people even tougher from london with details artie's laura smith. 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 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 really this tax cuts for the very richest people in society from fifty percent to forty 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 bonds boring money it only needs to be paid back in one hundred years' time the government says it's doing that to look in low interest rates but the critics say that it's long bring our children as actually with our debt not just children either grandchildren great grandchildren but one of the most controversial parts of this budget is the raising of the tax on fuel again later this year that has a huge impact on the economy and in fact it's a matter 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 is really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to the fair fuel campaign cutting the tax on fuel by just four said it would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand people back in work the creation of the. tracks going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring that concentrating on things like fifty three. income tax for the rich people meanwhile small businesses. sound so 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 pit

train pets to use the fences the guys can work in hampshire one day and then the next day depends on when the customer wants us postal 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 screened at all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on firms like coke 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 iranian oil embargo a staggering sixty percent tax it's an easy 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 local mobility so how easy it is for people to travel to work or to jobs there might be some travel in distance from home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly if your g.c. is too high it's a problem that filters down into the entire economy ninety percent of everything we have in our homes offices in 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 more pressure on the recession hit british consumers nora smith forty london. and i think more news and videos are always on our website r.t. dot com and check out some of the items there for you right now staying put barricades and bullhorns aren't enough to keep new york wall street protesters out of union square. mixing performance with politics.

petersburg promising to speak up for the city's gay community. and twitter turns six the social networking web site celebrates its birthday we'll look back on how it's changed the way the world communicates and you can find all of that album much more at r.t. dot com. and over to daniel we go with the r.t. business to ask what news for the markets this hour we'll have the market figures just a little later on but first president medvedev pushed the idea of cutting state ownership in russia's top he's also giving the government to prepare a strategy for reducing you state below fifty percent in particular this would apply to the country's two biggest lenders and v.t. b.

the government's expected to sell off seven point six percent. bring as part of a thirty four billion dollar privatization program across a range of sectors let's see how the markets again this morning moscow started higher before closing lower for a fourth day in a row the old sears closed two percent down contagion from weak in the u.s. in asia in corporate news northern utility lead in their courses last year's new team comes sixty percent this chick share move was most energy stocks of india better than the market despite crude prices financials were among the worst performers was losing more than one the whole percent and wall street's open. point seven percent in the red because of the china reported. in manufacturing and europe's known as longest downward spiral since november randgold slump nine and a half percent off to the africa warehouse mines crude has slipped two dollars today brant is also falling as industrialized states small releasing crude

stockpiles and on the exchange rates the greenbacks gainey gives the euro and the rubles lost against both the major choruses today and finally russia's economic ministries count of the cost of joining the world trade organization the country could lose up to nine billion dollars a year in tax revenue due to reduced tariffs however the ministry hopes that will be compensated by increases in trade and that's the business. that you push a lot of the r.t. business desk thank you. now if you stay with us here on r.t. in just a few minutes it's going to be our very own financial guru max keiser taking on the latest business headlines with extreme prejudice i'll be back with a recap of the top stories.

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