from the start on t.v. dot com. the. crackdown in bahrain of the security forces attacked anti-government demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas if forces continue to deal harshly with opponents who want to change a more democracy. while a group of doctors who treat the protesters are standing trial accused of inciting an attempt to overthrow the government. a government under siege interludes has been confirmed dead over thirty hours after french police surrounded his house is believed to have killed seven people and claim to have links with al qaida. china condemns 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 our top

stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day amid ongoing unrest in bahrain the regime is cracking down on non violent protesters as well as people who've been helping them a group of doctors are on trial after treating wounded anti-government demonstrators last year parties. 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 were known surgeons were treating wounded protesters during the vine and crackdown last year now back in september a military called child and same terms to the medics up to fifteen years we do

understand that the confessions they made were made under jus grace and among the charges are incitement to overthrow the government as well as trying to occupy a hospital no 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 came how much has gone on record in saying and praising the recent films the incident in the country he also said that they were significant the local scene there is a retrial though it is happening in a civilian court it does suggest that the regime is not ready to implement any kind of work reforms or any kind of concessions and it is causing a lawn bowls with many people saying that it's such a trial have to happen for example in syria or in the rand western governments and western media would make a huge media frenzy around it but instead there's hardly a murmur being 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 the 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 interest 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 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 i'm not changing the reality on the ground. let's not get some reaction from beirut based political analyst shari as we just heard from our reporter that the king of bahrain is claiming that he's made significant progress in implementing reforms if this is true why are we still seeing protests ongoing. well simply because it's not true it's not true there

remains a large number of political prisoners he hasn't done any initiatives in that direction to actually. at least promise that he's going to review their files this was not done there is among the prisoners there is. a peaceful activists for human rights who's been on a hunger strike for now forty five days there are also several of the others there are women incarcerated as political prisoners because they participated in the strikes in the past and now they are also doctors that are on trial as your report mentioned and that is really very bizarre because doctors are supposed to cure people who suffer from injuries regardless of their political affiliation or the reasons for their cause what happened this is. a condition i believe in ethical conditions for all doctors to treat wounded people in ensor constantin this is

a basic human frontal it allow them up they are been sure they are on trial but we're actually seeing them being retried there's another trial going on is that not perhaps a sign of some sort of reform taking place that they are facing another trial and not being convicted yet. no i don't think they should be on trial in the first place these are doctors they were doing i mean they were acting according to the ethical conditions of they are professional and therefore they shouldn't be on trial at all especially in a collective way as if you know all of them were acting in any collectively that is related to their religious identity and that is not the case they acted based on the fact that they were respecting the oath that they took when they became doctors now there are other issues you know i have to remind perhaps that the training every time the regime tries to show this and the kingdom try to show this conflict

as a religious conflict as a sectarian conflict between shia and sunni between the shia majority and the sunni minority ruling the country that is not the case if the regime tries to show that these are striking because they are there is an iranian involvement in bahrain affairs that there is also not the case these people are taking to the streets calling for true democratic reforms here but they're holding only the fraley fly ignore other flag they are not receiving any they are not using any weapons or using any guns as you report to confirm they are peaceful demonstrators there should be serious steps to or democratic reform where everybody can participate in of all your running the country and that is not the case just like just how then is this opposition we of course get reports in syria where the opposition is fragmented what's the situation there in bahrain. well of course the brain is a smaller country these are people. this is

a small island and people know each other and i think they are well organized they haven't hasn't been any violent incidents on the part of the protesters they never used weapons they never resorted to address excessive violence in fact their flags as you can see hold the same good peace they wanted but they are peaceful demonstrators calling for democracy they are not paving only slowly in culturally we can get it helping peaceful why are we seeing such a violent crackdown by the regime well because the regime is made of minority or a group that considers itself in a minority religious group facing a majority of the population that are calling for democratic reform so the regime is frustrated at this fact there is now has a new sense like a day last month until today is saying that it's doing negotiations with the demonstrators that is a that is a fallacy it's not true it's not happening i mean there were some contacts but they

were not true negotiations they're just saying this for propaganda in order to calm down the international pressure in fact i just want to remind that they were called upon the saudi army to interfere and enter with weapons and guns to to to crush the demonstrators who are it happened to be that they are a majority of shia and the regime is a minority of sunnis but that is not the reason for the conflict or there is no conflict there are just people calling for democratic a fart perhaps you could read into the fact it's very very harsh reaction to these protestors is perhaps the regime is afraid it really is under threat could it perhaps fall the implications if it did collapse is that likely. well they're not asking and i mean when it first started in back and they were just asking for them a classic reform they were asking for basic rights to participate in for me because i meant to have equal rights in voting to participate in government institutions

these people i just want to be ordinary citizens like any western country like any country in the world that seeks true democratic system and democratic way of running things and running the government they were not asking for impeaching the king they still i think that the opposition in bahrain will not i spare actually insist on impeaching or they move in the clink they came can remain where he is however the king cannot be an absolute monarchy that is not a democratic system he has to be there has to be a constitutional monarchy that is what the people are calling for and for and and there has to be minimal respect for basic fundamental human rights and dignity of life of a root political analyst a man a shabby thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. well later in the program here in r.t. the same name same game a report from the lebanese city of tripoli asks if it's at risk of facing a similar scenario to its namesake in libya due to events in neighboring syria.

that story but first the government 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 and a man claiming 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 is what is three soldiers in a separate incident police surrounded his apartment for over thirty hours before storming it it was said to be armed with multiple weapons possibly including hand grenades belgian m.e.p. philocles says that a human but states need to work harder to integrate immigrants into society. i think what we are witnessing now with a radical is ation of the many muslim people in western europe and of course this is a very worrying a very preoccupying problem. people that don't feel as if they belong in the

western society where they have what they sometimes have been warm they don't identify with also the position of culture but still don't feel like they're jillian's in itself rather than 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 and we know there are tens of people right now in our 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 i think we should monitor these people much more closely than we have been doing in the past. well paging has condemned the latest move of washington to restrict iran's oil trade which could result in american sanctions against other countries and if the u.s.

published a list of nations that could be cut off from its financial systems if they continue to trade with china the biggest hole of rating crude tops that list along with india and north korea and six months to reduce oil imports from iran or face u.s. sanctions which pan and ten e.u. countries have been made exempt because they have significantly cup she says of iranian oil a new employer is designed to put more pressure on to run every nuclear program financial expert francis lund says that washington is showing bias towards its allies while punishing others. are you as has their perch at the issue of foreign policy for its allies and the e.u. is that one set the rules for other countries like china which is not on such friendly terms with the u.s. on. the syrian question is another set of rules so even though china reduce its purchase of. oil by almost half so they still bring the sanctions

on china. create a huge expense between china and the us this is a us thing taking their foreign policy be global agenda for everybody i was there you know with me oh i can see me this is this is really where u.s. . policies are. apply you put your do surely and if you're not on this. so pretty more to come into programs including. creation of the trial 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 but. britain reveals its budget to eat into its massive deficit cutting taxes for corporations but hitting pensioners with a new granny tax and. wall street singing the blues with another bomb though it's

on the mali markets the latest figures for you in the business in around ten minutes. first to syria where violence rages on despite wednesday's un security council statement appealing for a cease fire government forces reportedly stepping up their assault on opposition strongholds while armed insurgents are vowing to bring the fight to the capital damascus the opposition so-called free syrian army is set up a military council to coordinate attacks in and around the city fighters have turned to all out guerrilla war as government forces have increased pressure on them across the country the u.n. security council resolution calling for peace is not binding and carries no commitments america is threatening to come down hard on damascus if it doesn't comply journalist neil clark says the west doesn't care about a peaceful solution of the syrian crisis if they support rebels with weapons instead of encouraging them to take part in forthcoming elections. president assad has made it quite clear what go down the democracy route and now the emphasis.

should we all know what they're against they're against the regime but now come out and stand the elections what's stopping them and the west if it was really responsible and really want to depend this situation in syria peaceably right while encouraging the rebels to take part in the elections it is quite outrageous the fact that the u.s. and the west cheering on the. financial support training and it's terribly irresponsible and wrong the west we support these people way we have a democratic path. through the election process. it's time to call the west about democracy the west goes around the world lecturing other countries about democracy let's have the rockets in syria and it's the syrian people who decide who should run their country. across the border in lebanon reverberations from the syrian conflict to be acutely filled with divisions they're very similar to the ones next door forty six on a voyage to reports from the lebanese city of tripoli where some fear a repeat of the turmoil it libyan namesake has seen. it's an air of c.g.

on the mediterranean with pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like it's only been namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's home to sizeable alawite and sunni communities and it is 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 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. came just a few weeks ago when one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes clean bill lives of two people and pushed the rest deeper into their ideological trenches residents of these awards harbor raised money to put out this impromptu memorial to the leader and the countries they consider their protectors.

the new russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america's like a euphemism for american interests they don't see human rights of 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 here about maybe half an hour ok and we see everything in our. going. to syria going from lebanon to syria. or from jordan from there from. across the street in a hostile. 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 the state on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people and if they don't change this will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory you still have time to make the right choice but the. hospitals administrator shows us some of the about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. allegedly committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity but when i ask him where they develop aleutian is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian we have many destruction and now we have more and no more than eleven thousand we hear you. and i

think. evolution has to pay some. something. with. changing to better life to keep it you were in community is a part of the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to this city all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario. artsy tripoli lebanon on. let's take a look at some other news making headlines now around the world in our world update the security forces in yemen have killed at least twenty nine al qaeda militants in the southern province of the navy targeted their positions were broken until it shows over twenty four hour period militants captured towns in the area last year it gets a backdrop of political turmoil in the country going to see an escalation of violence

and president hadi took office last month following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. because he says troops are killed at least thirty nine members of the fork left this group it's one of the biggest sub strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels who are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts tax increases transport is a village schools post and other state services also badly affected the latest process was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout there's been as locked into a three year programme of cuts ordered by the e.u. and the i.m.f.

to reduce the country's huge debts. bunches will pay more while taxes for the rich and big business will be reduced that's what critics and making of the british government's budget for the year ahead in the interests of corporations but making allies of ordinary people even tougher lottie's or swift as the details from london . 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 will say that it's ten corrina 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 forty five percent hugely controversial the government says that the tax is not making any money anyway but groups like the occupy car campaign say that it's basically a tax cuts for the one percent another very controversial thing is this this issuing a one hundred year or even perpetual call boring money that 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 debts 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 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 few of the last few years is really really crippled and crunching 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 children take off to go off and broaden benefits and. more trucks going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty paid top rates give income tax for the rich people meanwhile small businesses. found sound untoward chapman run a company which sells an installs fences to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs four vans in which engineers deliver and train pets to use the fences the guys can work in hampshire one day and then can the next day depends on when the customer wants us to personal we have increasing the ha which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty is well you can't keeping a screen at all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on firms like dock friends to rebuild

it but growth and development is out of the question according to them he says the price of fuel is totalling them 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 fugit is actually a very convenient target because it's actually very difficult to avoid i mean one of the impacts is on labor mobility so how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually get new jobs there might be some travelling distance from the home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly if you will to cease to 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 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 recession hit british consumers nor a smith forty london. we're going to hear with the latest financial optic cross that's after a short break stay with us. from

ramstein. startup t.v. dot com. it's a business we'll bring you the latest market figures in a moment but first president medvedev pushed the idea of cutting state ownership in russia's top banks he's also in the government to prepare a strategy for reducing the stake below fifty percent in particular this would apply to the country's two biggest lenders burbank and bt b. the government's expected to sell off seven point six percent since burbank this spring as part of a thirty four billion dollar privatization program across a range of sectors let's see how shares are getting on now this morning moscow started higher before continuing its worst losing streak now since september closed

two percent down a week later in the u.s. and asia in corporate news northern utility lead in there goes as last year's net income slump sixty percent and share movers now most energy stocks finished better than the market despite weak of crude prices financials were among the worst performers with more than one of the hot percent heading into the off wall street still both the dow and nasdaq around whole four percent in the red light comes off to china reported a fall in manufacturing and europe's had another shocker is known the longest downward spiral since november ruggles will slump thirteen percent after that coup in mali africa where it's operates three mines and crude has slipped two dollars today britain's also tumbling it comes as industrialized states mold releasing crude stockpiles to stop recent price hikes. and they'll need change rates the greenberg's gaining against the euro but the ruble shared against both major currencies today and finally russia's economics minister is counts 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 those with business will have more in fifteen minutes time and the headlines are next on our team.

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