on. activists in bahrain face a continued crackdown as government forces keep up the pressure on peaceful protesters appealing for democracy. but the violence goes largely unreported worldwide probable raney was seen claims of carrying out democratic reforms. plastic security is a myth but it's reality the stark words that it's big even go for nato not leave it. with me and now wait for more to. also this hour an american soldier has been formally charged with seventeen counts of murder of afghan civilians in a shooting rampage but the taliban val's revenge over the killings. the wall

street swings into the blood of the world with the world still book is the business isn't words but it's. international news and call it live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day a protester has died after security forces again to 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 the security forces have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds meanwhile in an effort to try and clean up the public human rights image the why it could be said that they were installing video cameras in several of

their offices the critics say that this is not going to hot situation because most of the youngsters who are being be. eton are being beaten before they even reach the police stations now earlier this week the united nations high commission on human rights to see that there 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 it needs to be stabilization efforts there needs 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 rain received 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 reign as its closest ally in the region and the

headquarters of the u.s. navy's the feet are stationed there if you look for example at an ongoing trial of some of the medics who have been 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 stanchions on the life of the syrian president bashar assad and his family that has received widespread media attention what we do know is that full members of assad's family as well as eight government ministers will have sanctions what's left against him that is receiving a lot of attention where is what is happening in terms of there's a violent crackdown in bahrain is receiving little attention. well those e.u. sanctions against the inner 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

eighteen soldiers near the turkish border the main opposition group the syrian national council has also dismissed a un resolution urging a ceasefire 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 and russia doesn't demand president assad stand down washington continues to insist on this plan is threatening to put more pressure on damascus if it refuses to comply with the u.n. motion for more nessun are joined live by dr wagner he's a peace come from hamburg well two days after the u.n. security council adopted because he announced peace plan to solve the syrian crisis the european union imposes more sanctions why. so i think it's mainly to keep up the pressure on syria and i mean

a lot of pressure to to move towards a peace process but the pressure to move more towards civil war because i think that the proposal of course we learned brought forward is the first real proposal for a true peace process and a cease fire but there could bring stability to the region. i think the e.u. is trying to battle this new. six point plan why would the e.u. want civil war in syria. well it's it is it is in the strategic interest where it seems to be in the strategic interest of the europeans to here the with the western and nato forces to to instill. in libya here. to overthrow the government of president assad what

a short carry on you know it in order to do that you know have to. hinder the true peace plan. to to still move on further to fire up the conflicts within syria so so banning a sad relatives from traveling to europe and also putting pressure on other members close to the regime i mean that really would make some sort of difference to what's really going on on the ground in syria well it it's it's kind of an overload that you can hear through all the way that they are there and they're not really interested in coffee and on behalf to bring something something forward even if it's not very important i think when you use sanctions or not very important for syria or for anyone else what is just they have to come up with some kind of fake world and see if he's so young does that explain why the opposition then in syria

is not keen in taking part in the forthcoming parliamentary election shuttle from may they're actually singing the same chuen as the european union they want civil war themselves they don't want to pursue some sort of democratic chance in the country. you know i think you're maybe they have been they have been given the information they're there will be back to anyhow but with maybe military force if they keep up the struggle. to do it for them it may be here and it's. a week to meet their their claims and to have a have a new government to keep up the war and to actually have a few lot more to fire up the conflict well does the e.u. really all those who want to see regime change understand who the opposition really is. i don't think so. well.

from out from for for us. i think it's very important to to come in contact with the syrian parties but what is it what is equally important to understand for the syrians also is that this conflict in syria is not only a conflict within syrian. parties with the. president with president assad and his government it must be seen in an international context and certainly in the context of the of strategic doc dominance in the region of western powers they have interest in the region he specially in the you know upcoming and maybe war situation with iran so serious first before a bigger war with iran and in this context the syrian conflict is to be seen that's why the interest of western. troops or western and western forces is truong in

syria it's not because of a specific syrian party of the surplus we specifically syrian democratic movement that's not the case but who really would gain any sort of strategic dominance in an area that many say will be plummeting into total and utter chaos if assad goes civil war takes place in syria because all the various factions whether it's iran as you just mentioned or qatar and saudi arabia it really could somebody gain some sort of strategic foothold there and power and influence in such chaotic circumstances. well unfortunately this question is not. those who decide about the wars that are have taken place and last ten years or take the iraq war or the afghanistan war those people who have decided for those wars certainly don't have those natural questions. and i thought. yeah it was good to hear your thoughts thank you very much for joining us live on how he ends up garden

a peace activist the journey he welcomes thank you. 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 meeting to belive says he wants western alternatives to missile defense plans and for nato to stop living in the past artes and its an ally. the theme of this russian and international affairs council is euro atlantic security is a myth or reality and president may change it made it very clear that he believes it is a myth that needs to be hungry out here are two major issues that are hampering progress 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 was 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

trying to time between a bit of an obama there was a little bit of relief and it was he really as the peak of the reset but lately russia has been pushing very strongly that they need written guarantees which are not in the start treaty that there will be no expansion of missile defense and prove that it's not aimed against them for another issue which you touched upon was the u.n. as a body it has become somewhat of the seem to be used as a body of force rather than a body of diplomacy and there he was 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 guest spot in this horrible moscow so cold weather that we're having the secretary general of the council on the up hope warning get good thank you so much for being with us is it a myth to you is european security joint european security a reality. i don't think it's i mean. it is.

reality are that we have gone a very very long way towards the security given for. getting married we have excellent institutions but they have to be a little boys. before all disappears yes the female. made all. of the states you. see were russia coming from when they say they need some kind of currency that they can just be promising words that you get on paper and that any kind of prison system close to the borders he's be proving that it's not against russia that it's going to be so much. security yes i can little guys. we. are about to go broke out of these pieces maybe you saw the. whole. everybody is like you got the difficulties but people who got the reality is

the culmination is. not just a some dress. together they disappear you to see the old is just fine ok i'll. put it we've been hearing today on the conference about the prom i know there are a lot of differences we talked about racism and it seems that i've been hearing today that we do need to focus on that cooperation forward how do you see it how to rein this is better but it then this thing if we come to the point where there is a military confrontation will be. everything that there should be do you. feel. they believe is the most boys there. are. ok the secretary general of the court thank you very much for coming out the speech was there an artsy on the security you know

a classic security assessment coming to an hour i just want to highlight again the main thing that all sides seem to be able to work beyond is that it's cooperation that will take both parties forward but there's still a lot of work to be done. it's to have you the tweets of change the world one hundred forty characters at a time it's not a drunken post you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't while you've reported in the newspaper you probably shouldn't but i'm sort of. a twitter celebrates its sixth birthday we look at how it's generated scandals and inspired a world change. but still to come first the u.s. soldier accused of a massacre of afghan civilians has been charged with seventeen counts of murder and six of assault and attempted murder start 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 earlier this week his attorney said there's a lack of evidence against his client he has no memory of the incident meanwhile

the taliban has already failed to take revenge against american forces saying it doesn't trust the u.s. court to deliver justice jim brann from the water lucian says washington privately 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 pakistan is what the united states called a major non nato ally that helps pakistan but the united states went in for example and. the markets than it killed osama bin laden and. cia man who killed i think three targets guys on the street and he was whisked away and so on so many many examples both in that region and throughout the world so yes they don't they don't treat car as though with any respect at all think if you just

take the car of a government it's hardly true that he has any more credibility now then he pin years ago if you remember that the united states picked him. he wasn't. they picked him in. shortly after september the 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 so his rivals didn't really have much of a chance. european union has expanded its sanctions against iran freezing assets and adding more officials to a visa blacklist it cites serious human rights violations for the measures which follow other similar penalties over the islamic republic's nuclear program the us has just drawn up a list of countries which should be cut off from the american financial system if they don't produce it raining all imports within six months meanwhile israel says

its threat of a military strike on iran is stopping it from building a suspected nuclear bomb iran maintains its atomic program is for peaceful energy purposes only the u.s. is against an imminent attack on the islamic state believing it will drag the whole region into war one middle east expert believes that western allies are trying to turn the iranian people against their 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 more recent sanctions are intended to strangle the iranian economy this is the. this is official statements version given by western governments and western media so it's intended to hurt ordinary iranians 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 major violation of the human rights of the iranian people 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. good career is announced it will launch a rocket next month which will put a satellite into orbit of the u.s. and its own and see the plans as counter to international diplomatic efforts to deal with the reclusive state's nuclear program and the technology could be used to develop long range missiles in the future it could also potentially violate u.n. security council resolutions and threatens last month's deal between north korea and washington under this purely i was to freeze its uranium weapons program and its long range missile activities in return for american food aid japan has responded by deploying its own missile defense system to shoot down any rocket threatening its territory a former european parliament member glynn ford says tokyo's worries maybe over

exaggerated. a bit clearly the u.n. could take action but what quite what it does and it's got fairly fierce sanctions on north korea already north korea is actually alleviating the tribute to japan because it shifting list launch from the east coast to the west coast so it will not fly over japan in the same way whether it flies over chickens territorial waters is it's not quite clear depends on exactly the direction of launch but certainly north korea's attempted to take that into account of course the it's possible for the launch to go wrong because the previous two have gone wrong for the first one fo the third stage failed to ignite. and so it crashed into the sea way past upon it seems to be rather unlikely that there's going to be any gain share that this is going to hit your part in the sense that if it's a three stage rocket during it why the rafale before it gets to japan or what's going to pass over it as i said if they're launching to south and it looks like they're going to do that having shifted the the launch site from the east coast to

the west coast it's very very unlikely to have a have a pose any danger to japan. but some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the world updater former russian banker is in a critical but stable condition after being shot several times in east london could have been goldman solve was targeted by a man with a submachine gun outside an apartment block near the canary wharf business area police are hunting a suspect seen running away and are investigating possible links to an attack on another bank in moscow three years ago governments of previously owned banks in russia and moldova. tens of thousands of protesters have hit the streets of yemen ex-president put on trial. from office last month in exchange for immunity from 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 these two thousand people have died since an uprising against him began last year. fridge intelligence has been criticized for adding to rest the to lose government before he killed seven people one hundred men i was under surveillance for months but for us as prime minister says there was no prior evidence that the government posed a threat to society he was killed by police not on thursday after thirty two hour siege outside his apartment films of killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. no more excuses for missing or being late for class in brazil where microchips will be stitched into school uniforms to keep tabs on people for having devices will be embedded in clothing meaning there is no escape parents receive a text message when their child has arrived at school or if they're late for classes almost a million dollars is being invested by a local authority on the scheme to cover all students up to the age of fourteen. it

helps spread news of the arab spring and ended the careers of a few celebrities love it or hate it twitter has forever influenced the way the world communicates and as the social networking site celebrates its sixth birthday . does it chicken or looks back on the good the bad and the ugly of the past six years of tweets. six years ago the little blue bird chirped its first tweet a new era of social networking took off point of view squeezed into one hundred forty characters that tweet really should just be a random occurrence and you know like it should be held to almost zero standard whatsoever it's really should a brain fart but we've half a billion users today from anonymous bloggers to world leaders twitter has become a much more powerful force than that. microblogging site help the spread of protests during the arab spring but it's also become a tool for manipulating public opinion a book has

a higher standard of checking than a column just a column is a higher standard than a blog tweet is the lowest circle of fact during iran's green revolution tweeted eyewitness accounts of government brutality helped boost western support for protestors turned out many of the bloggers were thousands of miles from the action p u thirty s. also appreciate the power of a tweet recently occupy wall street somebody who we don't know who posts you know a message that say a cop should be killed ok my guess is the cops post you know because then they were the ones that reacted to it made it a story whether for this information or propaganda you have a very misleading tweet from some of the members of the security council in the sense of what they're kind of using it for propaganda they're right today we said you know and it's very selective they don't want reporter to try to find out what happened in a closed door meeting with their tweeting things are often forced from inside the closed doors to private affairs outed reckless twitter posts have seen its authors

humiliated and virally hated even fired whether it's somebody like charlie sheen who can come out and say it's for terrible things about his bosses on twitter and lose his job or someone like as their client who's now back on them as are the seeds that in two thousand and seven he was on with ted russert and treated. some russert with an acid spine attempt. you know lost his. contract with imus and the c.e.o. for arguably the most notorious downfall now former congressman anthony weiner's tweeting a photo of his most private of parts wiener certainly is one model of what not to do. i think that if i were ever going to cheat on my wife i don't think i would start by broadcasting it over twitter but this new broadcasting tool available to all is seductive i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come to twitter already stupid they simply use it stupidly i think probably the latter was closer

to the truth the micro blog is a minefield for those not cautious and they could twitter drunken posts you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't want be reported in the newspaper you probably shouldn't get on twitter so what are we putting on twitter and early study found so-called pointless babble made up forty percent of tweets news only four percent is we surprised me with you know yes if you really care what sandra bullock over you're following has to say it's not always time for you good social network or definitely more time is wasted on how to contribute and information. everyone's we can extend everybody else about nonsense the world burns at the end of the day you can use it to dumb down you can use it to smarten up it's how you use anything that really matters the sixth anniversary of the first tweet marks billions of tweets already posted and revolutions guided lady

gaga is the number one blogger with over twenty one million followers but micro blogs talk trending topics of today include bieber our boyfriend and things i hate about sex some tweeters may well regret that i was this in target r r t. so i'm going to get away. just from the business world daniels having a close look at all the updates there so daniel what have you got for us hello bill well we're still feeling the effects of the two thousand and eight financial crisis but russia gas deliveries are finally expected to exceed pre-crisis levels this year speaking at an industry meeting with putin said this will be supported by growing demand both at home and abroad he also provided some relief to local consumers saying there will be no further price hikes than those already planned for this year countries guess monopoly gazprom was reportedly aiming to raise prices by a further twenty six percent in october for russian corporate clients you this take a look at the crude price which is again on the rise that's bad news for global

recovery that's as washington continues to the n.t. over iran or to wall street which is it raised early morning losses it's slightly higher in trade now there's off the news that new home sales for food refill e.u. markets ended up just off the trading in the rid most of the day reversing losses in asia where hong kong finished three percent belled all next change is the euro's extend the gains against the dollar the ruble finished mixed against the main currencies here in moscow russian markets closed higher at the end of a choppy trading day and week feel two years and was six games around point eight percent let's have a look at some individual movers now. finished in the black off to a ratings upgrade but fitch also indeed hoyer off the same governments won't be caught below fifty percent for four years at least her export into real rose to a twelve percent despite announcing its one to a net loss for twenty eleven now russia's largest coking coal producer could lose

the right to operate key fields countries environmental watched or found license violations by one of mitchell's main units could google says the company didn't produce the required amount of coal from the field. operates several fields including russia's largest coal field loss of licenses for those fields could cause mitchell up to one and a half billion dollars but will says the have been no significant violations and he hopes to resolve the problems. and that's the latest to go for more stories on our website or to dot coms less business headlines and next target.

culture is that so much pride on the job that you go for the most there's the taliban bad guys the massacre continues from so again highlights the lack of consensus in europe and the western world when it comes to national identity and the impact. and details started here of the before going global and now. with my. blog. choose your slave. trade.