crackdown in bahrain security forces attacked anti government demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas. one a group of doctors three treat protesters are standing trial accused of inciting to attempt to overthrow the government. also this hour not here government under siege interludes has been confirmed dead of the thirty hours after french police surrounded his apartment he's believed to have killed seven people and claim to have links with al qaeda. china condemns washington's latest sanctions against iran aimed at other countries the u.s. compiles a list of nations to be punished for continuing to import rain in our top stories at 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's cracking down on known violent protesters as well as people who've been helping them a group of doctors are on trial after treating wounded antigovernment demonstrators last year. as the latest. the liberating 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 tweeting mooted protesters during the violent crackdown last year now back in september a military coup tried and sometimes in the matrix two hundred fifteen years we do understand that the decisions they made were made and it generates 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 recent between how much has gone on record in saying and praising the recent reforms being implemented in the country and also said 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 had to happen for example in the serial or in the rand western governments and resisted media would make a huge media frenzy around it but instead there's hardly a murmur being reported or been reports of 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 regime 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 almost changing the reality on the ground. closely there while they replace political shabbiest told me earlier that the violence in bahrain is one sided and the government isn't even talking to the people who simply want democracy 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 factory she now has a new since 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 and just saying this for propaganda in order to calm down the international pressure in fact i just want to remind that the regime 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 they are just people calling for democratic reform. a little later on in the program 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 and . india's national id project that the government promises to bring benefits

to the poor or critics say it's just a way of keeping tabs on the population. restores to come of the common 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 a man claimed to have links to al qaeda and is believed to be a french citizen algerian descent he's suspected of killing a rabbi and three children of the jewish school as well as three soldiers in a separate incident police surrounded his apartment for over thirty hours before storing it he said to be armed with multiple weapons possibly including hand grenades belgian philip come by says the member states need to work harder to integrate immigrants into society. i think what we are witnessing now with the radicalization 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 they have what they sometimes have been born they don't identify with our civilization or culture but still don't feel like they're. itself rather this is a big problem and i think we should work towards a more strict integration and integration policy in all the member states of the european union we move there are tens of people right now in our training camps in in afghanistan. to stand and cetera but still we know some of these people are coming back to their countries in europe and we let them do as if nothing as if there was no problem and i think we should monitor all these people much more closely than we have been doing in the past. beijing has condemned the

latest move by washington to restrict iran's oil trade which could result in american sanctions against other countries the u.s. published a list of nations that could be cut off from its financial systems if they continue to trade with iran charter 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 or face u.s. sanctions whatever japan and ten e.u. countries would be made exempt because they have significantly cut purchases of iranian oil and embargoes designed to put more pressure on iran over its nuclear program the natural expert francis lund says that washington is showing bias towards its allies while punishing others. foreign policy for its allies and the e.u. . said the rules for other countries like china. such friendly terms with the u.s.

and. the syrian question is another set of rules so even though we do. by almost have so you still bring the sanctions on china. create a huge improvement expected between china and the us this is the u.s. . foreign policy be. before everybody else you're with me or against me. this is really where u.s. . policies are. applied to do surely and if you're not on this yourself. still plenty more to come from the program the including. the creation of the jobs will 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 people. britain reveals its budget to eat into

its massive deficit cutting taxes for corporations put it in pensions with a new granny tax and. wall street continues another keep fall and we'll have the lowdown in business ten minutes. 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 well armed insurgents are vying 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 guerrilla war as government forces have increased pressure on them across the country the u.n. security council resolution calling for peace is none binding and carries no ultimatums but 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 because they support rebels with weapons

instead of encouraging encouraging them to take part in forthcoming elections of president assad is very quickly go down to democracy route and now the emphasis on the opposition we all know what they're against they're against the regime now come out and stand the elections not stopping in the west it was really responsible who really want to depend this situation in syria peaceably why while the rebels take part in the elections it is quite outrageous the crap that the us and the west has been cheering on. training and it's terribly irresponsible and wrong the west we support the way we have a democratic path. through the election trying to call the west democracy the west goes around the world went to another country about him ocracy let's have democracy in syria leave it to the syrian people to decide. across the border in lebanon reverberations from the syrian conflict to bring acutely filled with

divisions there just as in the conflict next door of physics on a board to reports from the lebanese city of tripoli where some fear a repeat of the turmoil it's libya namesake the same. it's an arab c.t. on the mediterranean with a panch and for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's haunted 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 in the serious street and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese and 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 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 freedom is a euphemism for american interests they don't care about more human rights of freedom. than. serious ruling ba'ath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event in his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign into. vention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria is from here about maybe half an hour ok and we see everything in our. going from. the

syria we are going from going to syria. or from jordan from there from everywhere was 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 mohammad don't hide their affiliation of the different syrian army he staked on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people if they don't change they 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 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 what if their revolution is worth all the suffering and just traction his

response is not exactly humanitarian we have many destruction we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand as we hear you. and i think. evolution has to pay some. something. with. changing to. life to keep the two warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd for all its resemblance of the libyan. capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario it's not going to artsy tripoli lebanon. with the u.n. moving a step closer to consensus on peace in syria the u.s. still threatens damascus with more pressure and further isolation well in the next

hour we talk to the lebanese foreign minister who says the policy of backing one side in the conflict could lead to disaster for the entire region. we're against the policy of the great powers back one of the parties in a dispute this policy is the source of great suffering in the middle east and the occupied territories and the un resolutions address well yes we do not insist that the international community should throw its weight right of this dispute but we demand that the international agreements resolutions should be respected. well let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world now and world update the security forces in yemen have killed at least twenty nine al qaeda militants in the southern province of rb on the navy targeted their positions with rocket and artillery shells over a twenty four hour period militants captured towns in the area last year against

a backdrop of political turmoil in a country yemen is seen in its collation of since president hadi took office last month a year of mass protests against his predecessor of the summer. the colombian army says troops are killed at least thirty nine members of the fork leftist group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for called the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one nine hundred sixty full. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transborder severely disrupted with school. post and other state services also badly affected the latest protests was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout there's been 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 asked of the government in a coup that impose a military curfew and suspended the constitution while the country's president is seeking refuge at a military camp stage a mutiny on wednesday taking every state broadcaster and attacking and looting the presidential palace money had been one of the most stable democracies in western africa since the nine hundred ninety s. . pensioners will pay more 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 while making the lives of ordinary people even tougher artie's laura smith as the details 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 also say that it's tinkering around economic disaster just dealing with the edges of it the top line of this project 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 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 no longer in our children essentially with our debt it's 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 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 fourth to go off. the. tracks going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring that concentrating on things like fifty eight giving contracts for the rich people meanwhile small businesses. sound sound and towards chapman run a company which sells an installs fences to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs full 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 there so we have the increase in v.a. tree which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty is well you can't keep being a screen at 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 due to the geopolitical situation including the iranian oil embargo a staggering sixty percent tax it's an easy damaging way to raise money fugitive is actually a very convenient types for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid one of the impacts on labor mobility say how easy it is for people to travel to work or to jobs that might be travelling distance from home so it actually can

increase unemployment quite markedly if you do seems 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 whole it's 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 you're a smith forty london. more news and videos on our website article com here's a taste of what's waiting there right now staying. barricades and bullhorns aren't enough to keep new york's occupy wall street protesters out of union square. express yourself for causing a commotion but over promises to speak up for some petersburg's gay community when the world's number one pop star gets into the groove of

a forthcoming concert in the city. and through the turns six as the search will networking web site celebrates his birthday with how it's changed the way the world communicates and fun all that and more on our website www dot com. injuries come up with a new initiative to give a unique identity number to the country's population of over a billion the government project is being questioned on several fronts i know promises to help deliver welfare schemes some for the false data base could eventually compromise people's privacy. reports. it's been in delhi for seventeen years but he still can't get access to benefits because of ration card is registered back home for those like him india come up with a twenty first century solution the herculean process has begun to get every indian fingerprints and iris scans in one massive data be this code can be used for various purposes like. and receiving russian is and was sold the house salute

carrying many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are one scan is all it will take if the new idea project goes as planned it will be the largest collection of biometric data in the world the indian government is hoping that the twelve digit numbers will 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 but i found out in it there is also the inevitable human rights worries. about big brother state but something like. the country. they make. the most of the soup of the people rather than. people like walk eli mad struggling on a few dollars

a day have no clear idea of how this is going to help them but they're willing to try it. when i actually receive the cars then i will know the benefits of how doing the cars. finally it will have an official identity and they'll have access to see how we're after if they are but the government may be able to follow their every move preassure either archie new delhi india or. just turn twenty four minutes past the hour here in moscow business went downhill after the short break.

hello welcome to the business program it's been another day for world stock markets let's show you how they're doing starting stateside wall street still losing this hour both the nasdaq nor point seven percent in the red it comes off the china reported a fall in manufacturing and europe had another shocker is now on the longest downer for four months run gold slumped thirteen percent after the coup in mali africa

where it operates three mines crude slipped over a dollar today brit's also tumbling it comes as industrialists consider releasing crude stockpiles to stop the recent price hikes and all new exchange rates in the green gaining against the euro but the ruble shared against the major currencies today this morning started higher before continuing its worst losing streak since september the altie has closed two percent down in the u.s. and asia in corporate news northern utility says last year's in its income sixty percent this chick the share movers now most energy stocks fish better than the market despite weak of crude prices were among the worst performers was sleeping more than one and a half percent and the most six has revealed plans to become one of the world's five biggest of to achieving its top ten name a head of share jewel earlier spoke to its president who confirmed the firm will also hold a new public offering slated for next year but rubin i guess

a big must make progress as an international financial center first. we're not yet public company public company we're planning to do they go on but basically we're going to talk to the key question astrology we get them to look for i'm talking about the market cap when i think i think it depends on the shelf part of the world to actually develop the financial markets here we approach your ability to develop financial markets here. and that's all the business all right thanks a lot daniel good work thanks very much indeed for coming up very soon artie's financial guru will stay with our money matters mexico is or he'll be taking on the latest business headlines and for that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories.

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