which bryson. from steve. starts on t.v. dot com. today's news are the stories that shape the week called finance peace mission could be the last chance for syria to avoid a civil war russia outlines its outlook of the conflict to the peace on envoy when he's here in moscow. also the killing of the to lose government uncovers a bigger problem in france as experts highlight the dangerously widespread social exclusion of minorities despite decades of attracting immigrants plus. china. korea is the punishment for bad behavior barack obama's promise to north korea if it goes ahead with a controversial sublight launch next month we look at what's behind the increased

pressure on pyongyang from washington. welcome it's ten pm here in moscow right now you're watching the weekly iran are to round up all the main stories of the last seven days with me kevin and first a russia says kofi learns peace efforts could be the last chance for syria to avoid plunging into a long lasting and bloody civil war the joint u.n. arab special envoy the russian president of help talks here in moscow today to discuss ending the violence and to get both sides in a conflict to talk of his people are followed that meeting. is the all through of a six point plan to try and bring your own peace in the country now included in this this universal cease fire. that you want. terry and a be allowed to.

cheat to get into those parts of syria that need it most also that dialogue take place between the sides in the ongoing crisis there now during that meeting their prison dmitri medvedev saying just how important the anon plan could be to the future of syria. for syria this could be the last chance to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war we very much hope that our mission will be successful we will provide you with any assistance necessary afghani level and in any way of course if russia is capable of providing. well for his part kofi annan has said that he hopes for russia's assistance and advice then going about putting his plan into place now the assad government seem to be willing to go to the table to have talks so russia have made the point of saying that the main emphasis should be on getting the opposition to get to the table and saying

peace was impossible in syria as long as foreign weapons were making their way and help was making its way towards the rebels we heard from the united nations in the last week saying that they supported kofi annan proposals really a landmark when it comes to syria being discussed in the u.n. that everybody was singing from the same song sheet however we're still hearing from countries like the u.s. that say that they want to see regime change in syria that they want assad to be to be forced out we've also seen fresh sanctions imposed by the e.u. on syria in the last week as well so it is a mixed bag when it comes to the response and as far as the the chew it's being signed if you will by the international community now is also reports that the rebels have been receiving not just support in terms of words from from foreign countries but they. actually be receiving weapons and training on the ground russia

has warned against taking warm sides here that the syria crisis thing that both sides have to be looked at also warning against the railing of the peace plan peter over a correspondent in moscow there was shall be no one is of middle east expert from sudan to these college or university she told me she believes that opposition groups rejecting coffee announced plans may soon find themselves isolated the external based opposition which is largely supported by external players and doesn't have natural constituencies in syria may be completely sidetracked in the seat six six point plan i think that's a positive development. the plan actually specifically says that the opposition should enter into dialogue with the regime and i'm not i'm wondering if that was not. placed there to maybe sidetrack the external opposition who have not

been able to get their act together and increasingly are it seems being represented by the muslim brotherhood russia is clearly taking the lead in an effort to create some time and space for the syrian government reforms that initiated last spring and of course it's supported by a number of developing countries particularly with the brics and you can see players like you so it's very critical in fact that russia is taking the lead in helping you move into the next phase of the syrian crisis what was the light at the end of the tunnel in syria the chief already knows that it could plunge into an all out civil war a deep sectarian spence's in the country it's a prospect so really having chili consequences beyond syria's borders is artichokes on avoid. it's an air of c.t. on the mediterranean with pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like it's libya namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the

revolutionary violence it's conscious 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 to the 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 not approve of that came just a few weeks ago when one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes claimed the lives of two people and 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 but i just want to thank you 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. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event of his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria's from your about maybe half an hour and with the everything you know we're. going. to syria with growing from lebanon syria. or from jordan from there from. across the street in the hospice. 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 a different syrian army his take 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 this will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory would you still have time to make the right choice but the. hospitals administrator shows us some of 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 what did the revolution is worth all this suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian we have many destruction and we have more than i can no more than thousand as we we hear you. i think. evolution has to pay some some.

something. with. changing to do with of life to keep it you warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd quality resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario. see tripoli lebanon follow the story interested to know later this hour the lebanese foreign minister talks to us tells us why he thinks syrian rebels should lay down their arms this is a quick preview of what he had to say. groups fighting against the government financed supplied with weapons we hear calls for military intervention come. from within syria as well as internationally we see one party in a concrete fact you can't see other parties opposition being supported to fight the government

a political transformation is not to be cheap by force violence produces more violence every country has its political opposition if you feel movements of the world with a push for its agenda through violence the world will go up in flames as. protests have continued in egypt on sunday as portside football fans vent their firy over a two year suspension that's been slapped on their club well and said they are liers saw one teenager shot dead and sixty eight others injured as the military clashed with the angry crowds well the decision to suspend the club followed the worst stadium disaster in egypt's history seventy four people were killed in rioting last month a number of place offices and had been charged over the tragedy with many egyptians claiming lax security in middle east professor lawrence davidson told me that they'll be no clear and he thinks the violence because the would taking charge of the situation. egypt has no standing law and order

actually. that has stayed things are such that the government is not in control bihari is. not going to come out of its barracks it's controlled to. very very large way and so the populace is essentially on its own and that means that unpopular decisions are really you're going to get the this sort of spontaneous kind of outburst of anger and there is no capacity you control it nor is there any has to be actually prevent the reasons for going there is no central control in egypt now. the fragile process of creating egypt's new constitution is already showing serious signs of discord with lawmakers stalling

out of a key parliamentary vote of who will write it and drafting panel will press on regardless later this week even the liberal m.p. say the group dominated by islamists because of this side of the story are things paul asli mideast correspondent. of the one hundred members fifty are parliamentarians of the fifty fifty seven come from islamic parties of the remaining fifty who are public figures here to the islamists have a comfortable majority there is a small minority of christians of women and of activists who participated in the revolutionary movement that ousted the former egyptian president hosni mubarak last year but as i say it's a minority and so what we're hearing from these liberal nor make is that you cannot have a permanent constitution that is drafted by only one stick to of the population and stick to one and majority in only one election at the same time we do know that the panel will have six months to write this new constitution it will replace the nine

hundred seventy one constitution that was abolished when would barak was good and once the constitution is written it will be put to a vote in a national referendum and if rooney to determine the balance of power between the previously powerful president and parliament at the same time it will need to map out the future identity of egypt in terms of the role of religion and minority rights and now earlier this month the lower house of parliament unanimously adopted a text that called it is role public enemy number of egypt it also called for the expulsion of the israeli ambassador to the stopping of all egyptian oil and gas exports to israel and also for review of all previous agreements between cairo and television so it's all to you is increasingly alarmed over the growing is alarmist stronghold in the government and this is an alarm that has been expressed elsewhere in the region so the question that people really are asking is what kind of egypt

is replacing that of hosni mubarak. paulus lia. but rain has been caught up in fresh violence this week his anti regime rallies are ruptured into fierce clashes with security forces throughout the country the opposition claims two people have been killed in the unrest rubber bullets and tear gas we used to disperse rallies in the capital manama and some other mainly shia opposition parties claim the two victims of the violence died after daily tear gas military forces and accused of killing scores of protesters not arrested thousand since ninety government revolt began last year global research correspondent finian cutting him says western nations are reluctant to get involved in the situation because it doesn't serve their interests in the woods and. is not interested in seeing all the all the leads are. not part of the rule solution where you can be critical and still serving the bible which has a very selected focus all in all browsers and countries and this is all good news

we're. going to do resumes and using this in syria the regime is very you know of washington or london and the we're still doing. is doing everything in its. brute is against the on the saddam regime. and insists that we do that which is very much in the order of the be. there or to be and talk about the latest there from unama this is r.t. from moscow still ahead for you a flash of inspiration for russia's election cameras weeks after keeping a fair eye on the presidential poll we look now at how these costly web cam networks can open up the shutters of a new lease of life. next britain's petrol prices are hitting new highs is the government still driving up the fuel tax leaving motorists and businesses feeling i'm broke you'll hear about that as well we got to the details

coming up shortly in a few minutes. during a tense thirty two hour siege this week french police shot dead a government into loose and murdered seven people mohammed made a kill three children and a teacher at a jewish school as well as three soldiers french one of the scent was shot more than twenty times in the end by officers as he tried to escape through his apartment window he claim ties to al qaeda and then they went training in afghanistan french intelligence have been watching there for some time with security services been criticized for not acting earlier his brother who said he was proud of mira's actions was in court on sunday and is charged with complicity in the murders political little it's called will says france's attitudes towards migrants may lead him down a path of violence he thinks the french don't arabs in france are really a little is a latent because. they don't feel like french people think that they are french and

when they go back to jail for example and they are despised by the local population because they don't speak arabic and because they don't know the culture so in a way they are really good on both sides and turn to. religion as a soup to treat for for an ancestral culture in france because of these past police sees it only policies but the gross doesn't exist so you have a lot of people in the prisons of the of the immigrants and they will feel that they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions. so those friends continues to reel from those deadly attacks pakistani intelligence saying dozens more french muslims are following in mira's footsteps and their training with the taliban we'll keep you up to date on that story on our web site r.t. dot com. u.s.

president barack obama's threat to punish. career for what he described as bad behavior his comments were made of the south korean capital seoul the head of a nuclear summit which kicks off on monday above i was referring to a planned satellite launch by pyongyang next week next month rather which many fear is a disguised missile test i suppose a current affairs radio host and author stephen leatherman said that washington needs a threat in the region to maintain its presence there. there's no matter whether he said he's here in africa or in america or in europe he is saber rattling he is complaining about other nations wonder is wrong with north korea or a body else it didn't seem that she has he's north korea wants the largest share of the life so could you imagine if your western countries want to launch a satellite they're walking toward cleaning up the boat or it's there are. new

weapons they would be really developing one range missiles which they hold your instant where i think or what you would never do that who korea north korea is their target was and it must take their king says the two or more tools obama i mean this means if you want to go over the highway the price of the world we need to establish a presence. in the middle east is not the field and not the battle was that people are more in the area he said east asia he had one country murray and then it's share of shite in all of that area. troops reigns i believe in austria but twenty five hundred they believe the very controversial new york base. in korea koreans that were protesting the most about this they want nothing to do it china knows who's going to go on china's that are here korea is the poaching

there so you've led on there and this is also tightening around a raw. and with the e.u. imposing a new batch of sanctions last friday this time for alleged human rights violations it's part of a growing campaign against iran over its nuclear activities even though israel's spy agency and the cia reportedly agree that iran is not developing a bar some experts think the pressure on the islamic republic of could backfire. since iraq we just cannot take seriously practically any american declaration regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction as saddam hussein was supposed to have or iran's nuclear program had put myself in the shoes of the real leadership and if your country is threatened all the time if the only country with weapons of mass destruction nuclear bombs in the region is israel and israel threatens iran every other day there is going to attack it unilaterally well i wouldn't be surprised if iran did think about militarizing their nuclear program why is it that the united states britain france can be trusted with nuclear weapons israel can be

trusted with nuclear weapons whilst israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been deplorable over the past decades however iran has to be practically erased off the map because they want to have a nuclear program. with the e.u. preparing to impose a ban on a road in oil imports this summer then petrol prices of britain already hit an all time high this last week but i explain feel by new duties announced by the british government as artie's laura smith reports next the changes could further hurt small businesses seen as an engine of the whole u.k. economy. creates tens of thousands of jobs at no cost what government could say no big 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 fuel 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 cents

would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand people back in work the creation of the jobs will take people off the dole. and these jobs would be creating more tax going out spending more money etc but they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty p. top rate of income tax for the rich people meanwhile small business is found sound untoward chapman run a company which sells them installs fences to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs full vans in which engineers deliver bits and 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 to first of all we have the increase in the eighty which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty as 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 third like to rebuild it but growth and development is out of the question according to sam he says the price of fuel is throttling the price at the pump has already hit one pound fifty. i delete or 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 future is actually a very convenient types for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid i mean one of the approaches on labor mobility say how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually jobs that might be travelling distance from home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly if your g.c. is too high it's a problem that bill says down into the entire economy ninety percent so everything we have in our homes offices in shops is delivered by lorry with fuel do you see so

high haulage companies of course to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yet small press the recession hits british consumers nora smith r.t. london. look at a few stories online tonight you might be interested in protest in a rest more offered by activists see the peaceful demonstrations in the detention is fourteen held in new york we've got the footage is pretty graphic some of it sort of t. dot com if you want to take a look at more of that plus the cutting edge cameras catching criminals in japan as it scans of millions of faces in just seconds we'll tell you how it works but our t. dot com. no talking to cameras and high tech stuff like that there are a quarter of a million electronic guys looking for a new lease of life in russia right now they were those web cams installed at great expense to provide maximum transparency for the presidential election where they're

going to go what they're going to do catherine approach over try to find out. if. those abuse went wrong from cultural dancing in chechnya some why did president workouts five hundred years worth of the. video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia what cameras were installed on polling stations don't want to tour any possible fold but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the ins taman provided some have already dubbed the election the most expansive light show in russia's history the. most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia now we can do video conferences call is going to be lectured by the best professors for russia and abroad. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras and while russians

may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to control not entertain the all seeing eye all the webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere critics have argued for a while we need to come under greater scrutiny but equally up to several people digress and probably going juries receive the well in preliminary. i suggest we should move cameras from polling to police stations it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faeces would be hard to reduce those with but it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse. meanwhile parents want to protect their children from another type of abuse corruption in schools with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june they are lobbying for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for us that all children during all types of exams are on equal

terms that they do their tests without help there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair so hard petitions that there had been no proof right now there will go. with so many ideas on the table authorities have launched an official comp. for the bass to use the costly and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big rather looks to state it to the grandchildren r t scale. reporting how serious troubles are having ramifications for its neighbors in a few minutes there was foreign minister talks to us at r.t. about how he thinks the conflict should be tackled before that recap of mine stories for you one is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight coming up i passed tennis late sunday evening i was back in just a minute. with

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