i think it's in bahrain face a continued crackdown as government forces keep up the pressure on peaceful protesters appealing for democracy. that violence goes largely on the fourth worldwide bother to rein in machine claims of carrying out democratic reforms. mantic security is a myth but must become a reality the stuff first hesitated to scout for nato somalis in the. new knowledge or it's. also this hour an american soldier accused of a massacre of afghan civilians is to face seventeen counts of murder in the u.s. but the taliban val's revenge saying it has no faith in american justice.

good news for gazprom limit purchases russia's just deliveries of oil evokes a pretty close this level because this news is in twenty minutes. international news and comment live from moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day a protest has died off the security forces against gas and rubber bullets at opposition rallies in bahrain the government's been continuing a crackdown on dissent over the past twelve months. has the latest. we are hearing from the family of a woman who died on thursday saying that she died from inhaling tear gas we do know that her security forces have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds meanwhile in an effort to try and clean up their public human rights

image the white police say that they're installing video cameras in several of their offices that critics say that this is not going to help the situation because most of the youngsters who are being beaten are being beaten before they even reach the police stations not only this week the united nations high commission on human rights the seeds every was a disproportionate use of force being used by the security forces and this is something that moscow too has indicated it finds alarming what moscow is saying is that there needs to be stabilization efforts they need to be some kind of movement towards national dialogue and the violence needs to be brought under control and stopped immediately the media coverage that the brain receives is are longingly little when compared to countries like syria iran and libya and what some activists are suggesting is that this is because the united states clearly has a vested interest in not showing the violent crackdown by the very regime the

united states regards the rain as its closest ally in the region and the headquarters of the u.s. navy's fifth fleet are stationed there if you look for example at an ongoing trial of some fifteen relics who have you sentenced to fifteen years for merely assisting protesters during the violent crackdown last year that trial has received little to no attention in the mainstream western media was by comparison reports coming out today friday of the european union slapping sanctions on the life of the syrian president bashar assad and his family that has received widespread media attention but we do know is there are four members of assad's army as well as eight government ministers will have sanctions what's left against him that is receiving a lot of attention or is what is happening in terms of there's a violent crackdown in bahrain is receiving little attention. pulis live there and those e.u. sanctions against the in a circle of president bashar assad and his wife include travel bans and the

freezing of assets meanwhile the violence continues in the country with insurgent fighters killing two syrian army troops and capturing eight hundred soldiers near the turkish border the main opposition group the syrian national council is also dismissed a un resolution urging a cease fire saying it doesn't meet the needs of the people in motion passed earlier this week approved a peace plan proposed by envoy kofi annan it calls for all sides to stop fighting provide for humanitarian aid and begin a political process towards peace while the resolution backed by china russia doesn't demand president assad stands down washington continues to insist on it and is threatening to put more pressure on the masses if it refuses to comply with the motion and with christopher still however says that the u.s. is sponsoring terrorism in syria. bashar. in any case tried reforms from the start of his tenure and should he have been you know in a friendly manner supported by other countries syria would have been

a much better position no what we have done is this the west has you know stimulated corrupt regimes and unfortunately also a d.l. a turkey to interfere in a syrian situation and what we have now is president obama you know openly declared that we have state sponsored terrorism in damascus i was present with this you know double bomb attack in damascus it's very clearly a secret service business with some you know i qaeda people attached to it who are the sharpshooting on any helpers approaching to the scene and we have no incidents of the bridges incident in aleppo and things like that i call this terror management by the u.s. . three years on from the reset in russia. u.s. relations earlier optimism appears to have cooled addressing a security conference in moscow russia's president dmitri medvedev says he wants

western alternatives to miss our defense plans and for nato to stop living in the past parties and he said. the theme of this russian and international affairs council is bureau atlanta security is a myth or reality at present middle aged made it very clear that he believes it is a myth that needs to become reality there are two major is he is that are hampering congress on making that a reality the first is this mindset that there's nato and that's all that's needed for european security the second our expansion plans on missile defense which saw a little bit of relief it's been a long time standing issue between russia and the us and of course in cooperation with nato and after we saw the signing of the strategic arms reduction treaty in twenty ten between mitt event obama there was a little bit of relief when it was the billions the peak of the reset but lately russia has been pushing very strongly that they need written guarantees which are

not in that start treaty that there will be no expansion of missile defense and group that it's not aimed against them for another issue which she touched upon was the u.n. as a body and how it's become somewhat others seem to be used as a body of force rather than a body of diplomacy and they're just talking about syria and a lot of the rhetoric we're hearing about iran and its nuclear issue but to make more about european security as a whole joining me now is a very special guests come out in this horrible moscow so cold weather that we're having the secretary general of the council on iraq but warning get good thank you so much for being with us is it emits to you is european security joint european security a reality. i don't think it's obvious. if these. are the what we have all know where there's a long way towards this a good defense for the. d.v.d. america we have expected to make they have to be

a little boys. before all disappears as the female. made all. of the states you. see were russia coming from when they say they need something i can't see that they can just be promising words they get it on paper and that any kind of defense system close to its borders needs to be proven that it's not against loss and that it's going to want. security said yes i can little. progress to get those i think these issues may be sorted out so. not everybody is going to go with the physical business but the people who got the reality is the culmination has got you not just days i'm going. to get you disappear the disenrolled is just fine ok i'll tell you what we've been hearing

today on the conference about iran and i know there are a lot of differences we've talked about cooperation and it seems that i've been hearing today is that we do need to focus on that cooperation forward how do you see it up on the iranians this is a very bit dangerous thing if we come to the point where there is a military confrontation will be a lot on their plate. speedy and. they know it is the best way. to park it. took a look secretary general of the council of europe thank you very much for coming out speech was here in our see the security bureau at plans of security assessment comments which were i just want to highlight again the main thing that all sides seem to be able to agree on is that it's cooperation that will take both parties forward but there's still a lot of work to be done. and still to come this hour punished for genes.

for example in. another minority went apart. and i said i'm sorry you can't come in head because of who you are unhappy absolutely outcry. communities in britain say the basic right simply because of who they are that report coming up very shortly for you here on r.t. . but first the u.s. soldier accused of a massacre of afghan civilians will be charged with seventeen counts of murder and six of assault and attempted murder staff sergeant robert bales is currently held in solitary confinement at a military detention center in the u.s. and could face the death penalty if convicted now earlier this week his attorney said there's a lack of evidence against his client and he has no memory of the incident meanwhile the taliban is already to take revenge against american forces saying it doesn't trust a u.s.

court to deliver justice jim graham from stop the war coalition says washington proudly views afghanistan's leaders dismissively policy it follows in dealings with other countries. that kind of behavior is absolutely consistent with united states policy in afghanistan and other countries if you just look at for example party star is. what the united states calls a major non nato ally that's pakistan but the united states went in for example and . deep into pakistan and killed osama bin laden and. the. cia man who killed i think three targets than is on the streets and he was whisked away and so on so the many many examples both in that region and throughout the world so yes they don't they don't treat karzai with any respect for think if you just take the karzai government it's hardly true that he has any more

credibility now than he did ten years ago if you remember that the united states picked him he wasn't. they picked him in. shortly after september eleventh and they declared him to be the head of some kind of local administration and it's true that later on he was elected president but then he was the only person who could actually travel around afghanistan in united states helicopters rival's didn't really have much of a chance. the european union has expanded its sanctions against iran freezing assets and adding more officials to a visa blacklist it citing serious human rights violations for the measures which followed other similar penalties over the islamic republic's nuclear program the u.s. has just drawn up a list of countries which should be cut off from the american financial system if they don't reduce iranian oil imports within six months meanwhile israel says its

threat of a military strike on iran is stopping it from building a suspected nuclear bomb maintains its atomic program is for peaceful energy purposes only the u.s. is against an imminent attack on the islamic state believing it would drag the whole region into war well for more on this let's talk to middle east expert professor have a morality joins me live from beirut the e.u. let's talk about this first issue the e.u. saying just just very recently saying that the latest sanctions are against apparent human rights abuses there in the run up what are these accusations based on. well iranians believe the bees are just excuses otherwise on the other side of the persian gulf you have the saudis who occupied and you have. the torture and murder of bahrain civilians by. the ruling family and you have american drones in numerous countries that have

effectively killed thousands of people many innocent people. and of course the european and american support for the israeli regime the. situation in gaza. and the embargo in gaza. all these including the embargo on iranian oil and the iranian central bank which is that which is intended to hurt ordinary iranians these are major violations of human rights and they are being carried out by the europeans and as a whole no soriano's in the holidays just ask all those involved in sanctions aimed at the government there to run and not the people in what way all of the people in suffering. not at all they were never directed at the government even the initial sanctions a few years ago if you look at the weekly leaks documents that they were intended for ordinary people to make them change their minds about the iranian government the recent the more recent sanctions are intended to strangle the iranian economy

this is the. this is the fischel statements version given by western governments and western leaders so it's intended to hurt ordinary run into the americans by sanctioning the central bank or trying to even prevent iranians from importing. grain or rice and this is you know in the eyes of iranians absolutely disgusting so it's a it's a major violation of the human rights of the iranian people and the europeans and americans are trying to force other countries non western countries to buy this embargo and the sanctions through pressure and through friends so let's talk about the way they are not i ask you how can a fact can quickly all see the way the u.s. is trying to put pressure on other countries who are not supporting it's go on oil exports from iran it will happen or perhaps back far against america in some way by picking fights with other people not centralizing its pressure on iran.

well that's absolutely correct the sanctions while they do have a short term effect on iran and do increase in inflation but basically what it is doing is that it is angering independent countries like china like russia like brazil like south africa like india among others and in indeed. these countries are in fact increasing their trade with iran as a result of the western environ go so while the americans are trying to pressure them they are they are both angry in these countries in the same crimes since the iran is dealing less with western countries in trade than before these countries are actually taking advantage of the situation and trade between iran and these countries are actually increasing so western countries are actually hurting themselves more than they are hurting iran and. you're saying that these are all

embargoed this is sanction could actually result in a big hike in fuel costs in already harsh economic times throughout the european union in particular which is really pushing for this morning barbara. that's right here the price of oil has increased dramatically iran is making much more money than it was before the sanctions have had no effect so far on iranian oil exports and numerous countries especially in the country's independence of the western block are actually seeking for greater amounts of iranian oil iranians are now going to have a problem really with the exporting oil because there is a huge shortage in the market in many of the countries dictatorships and regimes allied to the united states are inherently unstable there is there is trouble in central asia there's trouble in nigeria or in sudan so do you arabia has a very old and dying king. as the market really needs iran and western countries by

imposing these sanctions are limiting their own ability to import and to export and you know their rivals are replacing them with regards to iran but this question's been asked of you many times isn't the simple solution for iran simply to become more transparent to disprove those who accuse you of developing nuclear weapons it's as simple as that isn't it. well the iranians have been transparent in fact the iranians halted nuclear enrichment for two years the problem is that western countries really don't have a problem with the iranian nuclear program at the end of the day it's iran's independent foreign policy it's iran's support for the palestinian people if it's if the iranians back down from their nuclear program which is peaceful and there's no evidence that it is not peaceful then the americans and europeans will go after some other excuse to put pressure on the country the rani and are willing to solve the issue but as we've seen for example with iran declaration when the iranian

president and the brazilian president as well as the turkish prime minister start to gather and signed that declaration subsequently the americans who supported it initially they they went for further sanctions and rejected the declaration so in the eyes of the iranians western countries do not want the issue to be solved and the issue is is easily solvable and in fact the russians right now they have a step. by step proposal that the iranians have accepted and but the americans are refusing to really move forward on in this regard professor mohammad marandi good to talk to you thank you very much for your thoughts there live from they rethink you for having me. now to some other news making headlines around the world in our world updates tens of thousands of protesters have hit the streets of yemen to madiba ex-president put on trial ali abdullah saleh stepped down from office last month in exchange for prosecution is expected to leave yemen after resigning but many suspect he's still involved with the government working with friends and

relatives in top military positions at least two thousand people have died since an uprising against him began last year. french intelligence has been criticized for failing to arrest the toulouse government before he killed seven people. surveillance for months across is prime minister says there was no prior record that the government posed a threat to society he was killed by police sniper on thursday after a thirty two hour siege outside his apartment filled himself killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. no more excuses for missing what's being late for class in brazil where microchips are to be stitched into school uniforms to keep tabs on people's home devices will be embedded including meaning there's no escape parents receive a text message when their child is arrived at school or if they are late the class is most a million dollars has been invested by a local authority on the scheme to cover all students to the age of fourteen.

european leaders including a good merkel have said that multiculturalism has failed in the e.u. but part of the result is that ethnic minorities say they face regular discrimination and the noise of their basic rights european human rights watchdog has condemned britain for its treatment of gypsies and travellers across one another when it reports on the difficulties they face. syfy is a victim of racism she's training to be a barrister but as an english gypsy she's frequently turned away from bars for refusing to serve travellers two thousand and twelve two thousand live and this is happening freely every day freely discriminating against a race a culture that has a minority that has done. nothing wrong but i would say it with racism because you know i for example if. another ethnic minority went hog. and i said i'm sorry you can't come in here because of who you are unhappy

absolutely outcry severe blames the media the only coverage gypsies get in britain ridicules their culture despite complaints of racism and this was deemed suitable advertising no wonder when public opinion so overwhelmingly hostile to job. wife or their kids if you made your whining about the full story for the people living here i'll feel sorry for the pain that they would if thought of it that way is the right way they were there and they trust our thoughts and so so straight away so they're just this is the paper where they and i piece about each and it's just another thing to hear about and relay but others are now listening and human rights watchdog slammed the british government for discriminating against gypsies and travellers groups in travelers need to access to the need our rights to and to

a private family life respected and that is what is presently not respected in this country. dale farm used to be the largest concentration of travelers in the u.k. housing over a thousand people but then the bailiffs came october's a vacation the violent end to a decade long legal battle that's left fifty families homeless. critics say could have been averted had the government provided enough legal caravan sites in the first place one square miles all that's needed to house the four thousand gypsies with nowhere legal to live in the u.k. right now but local authorities are refusing to give up land pledging housing instead it's a matter for them there is a roof over their heads with arkansas if we wish to force them so if your for reserves i wish to carry on living israel outside of the law but so much of. a roof yes it's simply not an option for a centuries old name addict culture that's why many dale farm prefer to live

outside of the law they say discriminates against them for travellers who are left are allowed to stay so long as they stay within these walls that's the legal that's left here wants that is still quite big it's not big enough for everyone according to the local authority anyone outside of that plot so all these caravans is in breach of planning regulations so it's pursuing yet another court order to have all of these people roaming travelers and gypsies are one of the most vulnerable groups in britain they have the lowest life expectancy handed acacia levels of any ethnic minority but at the moment they getting the least help are the bennett party london . rapidly approaching twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital it's time to get the latest from the business desk and then we find out through years we're still feeling the effects of the two thousand and eight financial crisis but russia's gas deliveries are for only expected to exceed pre-crisis levels this year

speaking at an industry meeting libya putin said this will be supported by growing demand both at home and abroad he also provided some relief to local consumers saying we will be no further price hikes than those already planned for this year because she's just monopoly goes from was reportedly aiming to raise prices but for the twenty six percent for russian corporate clients which includes again on the rois which is bad news for global recovery there's more saber rattling comments coming from washington over iran and wall street is no raising early morning losses it's flat in trade there that's off the news that new home sales for brief european markets are heading up this trading in the red most of the day following losses in asia where hong kong three percent on the exchange rates the euro's extending its gains against the dollar ruble finished mixed against both and. in currencies here in moscow russian markets was to close higher the end of a choppy trading day and my six games around point eight percent let's have

a look at some individual share movers they're all major rules they're finished in the black off the a rating upgrade by fitch also indeed higher after saying the government's stake in the lender would not be called below fifty percent for another four years per exporter into railroads to a halt percent split screen to a net loss for twenty eleven when its analysis results just now russia's largest coking coal producer could lose the right to operate its key fields contraries environmental regulator found license violations by one of mentions main. goal is the company could produce the required amount of coal from the field your google operates several fields including russia's largest coal field loss of licenses for them could cost mitchell up to one half billion dollars mitchell says there have been no significant violations and it hopes to resolve the problems. and that's the latest deal on the show is nextel so we'll be back in two hours time with the rugby here on r.t. . more

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