three broadcast quality video for your media projects free video done to r.t. dot com. today's news of the stories that helped shape the week finance peace mission could be the last chance for syria to avoid a civil war russia outlines its outlook of the conflict through the peace envoy here in moscow will bring you up to date on that meeting today also the killing of the to lose government uncovers a bigger problem in france's experts highlight the dangerously widespread social exclusion of minorities despite decades of attracting immigrants plus. china is the time it is the punishment for bad behavior barack obama's promise to north korea if it goes ahead with

a controversial satellite launch next month we look at what's behind the increased pressure on pyongyang from washington. welcome it's eleven pm here right now in moscow you're watching the weekly here on our. main stories of the last seven days with me kevin no into night and first russia says coffin arms peace efforts could be the last chance for syria to avoid plunging into a long lasting and bloody civil war the joint un are of special envoy and the russian president held talks here in moscow today to discuss ending the violence and to get both sides in the conflict to talk about his paper all of the follow that meeting kofi annan is the all through of a a six point plan to try and bring your own peace in the country now included in this in this plan you to. the ceasefire. that humanitarian aid 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 a meeting to present dimitri medvedev saying just how important the anon plan could be to the future of syria and we. are serious this could be the last chance to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war we very much hope that your mission will be successful we will provide you with any assistance necessary at any level and the only way of course russia is capable of providing the required support. well for his part kofi annan has said that he hopes for russia's assistance and advice in 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 a 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. they say that they want to see regime change in syria that they want to be to be forced out have also seen fresh sanctions imposed by the e.u. on syria in the last week as well so. when it comes to the response and as far as the the choose 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 would . from foreign countries but they'd actually be receiving weapons and training on

the ground russia has warned against taking sides here that the syria crisis both sides have to be looked at also warning against the railing of the peace plan peter all of our correspondent reporting from a snowy moscow bill are all reactions from blogger mideast affairs karl shero is joining us on the line from london karl good of you on the program thanks taking the time let's talk about this meeting today just how significant is it this meeting in moscow towards reaching progress in syria i don't know in the long term how effectual the whole u.n. mission and coffee and i was mission in particular would be but i think what we're seeing very clearly is russia taking the kind of the initiative seizing benefits of on syria and using its close relationship with the standing and international community to it's kind of saying here is the solution for a problem and what allowing guards to happen is effectively the west doesn't have

any plan in syria it's been very large but it doesn't really have a clear plan of action and you saw the sanctions by you i mean them really it's a joke it's it's sort of when you don't have any other initiatives or any other rationale to apply this kind of sanctions on the president's wife and his mother so all of. the a lot of ideas in the western about what to do in syria and i think where it's significant is russia seizing the initiative. on a sort of pathway and russia really ramping up the calls for other nations to stop taking sides to support the mission this of course as president obama's pledge to send non-lethal aid to the syrian rebels whatever that might be how is that going to how's that going to tie in kind of sound you know america's not going along with what russia is wanting here. well i think i mean again it's if you want to

criticize it coming in obviously you could say but russia is sending weapons to the syrian government but ultimately what russia is trying to do is look after its interests something that even if you want to put assess the western performance it doesn't seem to be coherent enough to be actually western nations and the u.s. in particular looking after their own interests in the region so again it's kind of ping the balance in favor of russia and especially after it seemed to be with together with china to be ostracized after the last part of the use of the veto against. the security council resolution now that kind of the initiative and handling of this situation seems to be turning again but you kind of what you wish for is had it been available for or open for seniors to to resolve question internally then you wouldn't have needed all the internal meddling but it's been a year of died so i think obviously it's not going to happen because vitally

important as well of course everyone's on board this six point plan kofi annan six point plan internally as well but already that's not happening a key syrian opposition groups really dismissed and and despite this widespread international support for his mission we also heard as well spoke to an expert who said she believes that rebels who reject talks for the government in damascus are no set to be sidelined you think she's got a point. it's a much bigger problem than that to be honest because if you look at this jewish and in no way what allowed this struggle to become a protracted one for syria to take such a particular path is the fact that there's no coherent opposition leadership has emerged and aside from the fact that our political political division there isn't one political authority that has control over. the armed groups whether it be an f.s.a. the free syrian army or other groups on the ground so i'm afraid that kind of

a lot of the ability of rising up to this and saying we will handle those negotiations or any negotiation is said to divide the opposition further and also take their ability to resolve this one addition in one way or the other to the situation in their favor is eroding very far so they haven't been able to expand their support base within the country and they haven't been able to unify politically and that's kind of what explains this inability to propose a solid reaction to the six point plan so following on from what you're saying there begs the obvious question what's your prognosis than for kofi annan six point plan will it be able to negotiate an end to the syrian conflict. to be honest i don't think so i've lived through another kind of protracted war in lebanon i've seen external plans come and go or if the structure of the situation the dynamics on the ground are not resolved one way or the other all you're looking

at is kind of temporary patches that my. one three maybe even truce is but fundamentally the power balance on the ground is too close for one side to win it or not and at the moment there doesn't seem to be any historic leadership that can emerge and unify the syrian people and take them to is the next they're within kind of a very good future so what we're looking at is probably two three more years of various levels of struggle after which syria will necessarily have to move towards a different future to avoid the fate of places like lebanon and iraq study group picture you played in the middle east political show on the line from london thanks for your thoughts on the program thank you. western nations being accused of blinkered vision on the subject of violent crackdowns against protesters with the u.s. and its allies turning a blind eye to clashes in another arab country later this report of how peaceful

and he raising demonstrations across bahrain were met with police rubber bullets and tear gas that led to more civilian casualties. meantime protests have continued in egypt on sunday as portside football fans vented their theory over a two year suspension that was slapped on the club well and today earlier saw one teenager shot dead and sixty eight others injured as the military clashed with the angry crowds the decision to suspend the club full of the worst stadium disaster in egypt's history with seventy four people were killed in rioting last month a number of police officers have been charged over the tragedy will when you claim an lax security middle east history professor lawrence davidson talked with will be no clear end he thinks for the violence because no one's taking charge of the situation. each year has no standing law and order actually. that. beings are such that the government is not can 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 made you're going to get this sort of teen years kind of outburst of anger and there is no capacity to control it where is there any capacity to actually prevent the reasons for going there is no central control in egypt now. the fragile process of creating egypt's new constitution really showing serious signs of discord with lawmakers stalling out of a key parliamentary vote over who's going to write it a drafting panel will press on regardless later this week even though liberal m.p. said the group dominated by islamists. picks up the story. of the one hundred

members fifty our parliamentarians and of the fifty thirty seven come from islamised parties other remaining fifty who are public figures here to be 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 what we're hearing from these integral nor make is that you cannot have a permanent constitution that is drafted by only one stick to of the population and seek to get 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 nineteen seventy one constitution that was abolished when mubarak was ousted and once the constitution is written it would be put to a vote in and national referendum and it will need to determine the balance of power between

a previously all 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 now earlier this month the lower house of parliament unanimously adopted a text that called it is roll public enemy number of egypt and also called for the expulsion of the israeli ambassador to the stopping of all egypt's an oil and gas exports to israel and also for review of all previous agreements between cairo in tel aviv israel today is increasingly alarmed over the growing is a 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 course. but our own has been called in fresh violence this week as anti regime rallies ruptured into fierce clashes with security forces throughout the country the opposite. claims to people have been killed or be on

rest rubber bullets and tear gas be used to disperse rallies in the capital and other main shia towns opposition parties claim the two victims of the violence died after inhaling gas military forces have been accused of killing scores of protesters have arrested thousand since anti-government revolt last year the research correspondent finian coming and told us western nations are reluctant to get involved in the situation because it doesn't serve their interests the west. is not interested in who is in all the and all of these in the group. for the we're all solution where you can go critical and still serving the agenda by the way has a very selective focus all these things in countries and this is all bullies were in suits that we're suggested to the regimes and we usually do this in syria beyond regime is certainly not the brit washington or london and the the west. is doing

everything in its power to try to. protest against the uncertain regime workers in bahrain and in cities that the region do which is very much in the order to be firmly ensconced there are a mentee and. it's exactly quarter past eleven moscow time you're watching r t still ahead a flash of inspiration for russia's election under now of course weeks after. the presidential poll there we look at how the costa web network can open the shutters on a new lease of life. during a tense thirty two hour siege this last week french police shot dead the gunman in toulouse who murdered seven people mohammed merah killed three children and a teacher at a jewish school as well as three soldiers french one of algerian descent was shot more than twenty times in the end by officers as he tried to escape through his apartment window he had claimed ties to al qaeda and underwent training in

afghanistan french intelligence had been watching me for some time and security service is now being criticized for not acting earlier his brother who said he was proud of mary's actions was in court on sunday and is charged with complicity in the murders political analyst alex caldwell says france's attitudes towards migrants may lead them down a path of violence the french arabs in france are really a little is a later because they are big don't feel like french people don't think that they are french and when they go back to for example they are despised by the local population because they don't speak arabic and because they don't know the culture so you know way they are really. on god's side and turn to. aggression and maybe religion as a super treat for for culture in france because of sarkozy's past

polices economic policies but the gross doesn't exist so you have a lot of people sinking in the presence of the of the immigrants and immigrants feel that they are not welcome so they're trying to aggressive actions. and as friends continues to reel. from the deadly attacks pakistani intelligence saying dozens more french muslims are following in mirrors footsteps in the training with the taliban if you want to get up to speed on battle more you got the details on a website on t.v. or home. u.s. president barack obama's threaten to punish north korea for what is described as bad behavior his comments were made in the south korean capital seoul ahead of a nuclear summit which kicks off tomorrow monday obama was referring to a planned satellite launch by pyongyang next month which many fear is a disguised missile test as opposed to current affairs radio host and author stephen leatherman who says washington needs threat in the region to maintain its presence there. there's no matter whether he's in he's here in africa or in america

or in europe i hear saber rattling he is complaining about other nations what is there is wrong with north korea or anybody else it didn't seem it technology in this case north korea wants to launch a satellite but if you imagine if all the western countries want to launch is there a way they're watching to we're cleaning up the literates there are they're testing a new weapon and it's really developing one range missiles which they have a leader in cinema i think we're watching the women who korea north korea has their target watching and it must pay for their cable since the who are the tools obama being the speech if you want to go over the highway the two cars of the world. needs a presence but the middle east it's not the field enough obama was there before our

more the other here he said east asia he had one country and this show had a shot in all of that and where is it going troops were remains i believe it or austria you know zero twenty five hundred they believe a very controversial movie or peace. in korea koreans have been protesting for most of our there's. nothing to do it china grows politically on china it's our view korea is the poaching there. and the noose is also tightening around the rather with the e.u. imposing 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 spy agency at the cia reportedly agree that iran is not developing a bomb to make split think the pressure on the islamic republic of could backfire. since iraq we just cannot take seriously practically any american declaration

regarding allegedly weapons of mass destruction as saddam hussein was supposed to have or iran's nuclear program had put myself in the shoes of a 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 while israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been the poor of all over the past decades however iran has to be practically. off the map because they want to have a nuclear program. with the e.u. preparing to impose a ban on a radio because this petrol prices in britain of already hit an all time high this last week hike springfield new duties announced by the british government and that is laura smith reports the changes could further hit small businesses seen as the

engine of the u.k. economy create tens of thousands of jobs at no cost what government could say no thank you kate coalition governments apparently as it sticks to another rise in the tax on fuel to take effect in august small business owners are feeling the pinch you know the last few years has really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to fair fuel campaign cutting the tax on fuel by just four said would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand people back in the creation of the job to take people off the dole of benefits cetera 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 so. all business is found sound and towards chapman run a company which sells an install spence's to keep your pet in your garden it

employs seven people full time and runs four vans in which engineers deliver it train pets to use the fences the guys can reckon hampshire one day and then the next day depends on when the customer wants us 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 for 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 them he says the price of fuel is troubling 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 an oil embargo a staggering sixty percent is tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money

future it is actually a very convenient tax for governments because it's actually very difficult to avoid i mean one of the impacts is on labor mobility so how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually get jobs that might be some traveling distance from the home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly it feel to see as to how it's a problem that filters down into the entire economy ninety percent of everything we have in our homes offices and shops is delivered by lorry with fuel do you see so high quality companies are forced to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling yes more pressure on recession hit british consumers norris me r.t. london. just click on a website out stories and might interest you tonight. protest and arrest more occupy activists seeing their pictures full demonstrations and in detention

fourteen are held in new york of cameras but we've got the footage got the pictures online at r.t. dot com. also the cutting edge camera that's catching criminals in japan has its scan lose millions of faces in just a few seconds we take apart the euro works but we don't think the pub we do to get rid of it or. talk about high tech cameras there are a quarter of a million electronic eyes looking for a new lease of life here in russia they were the webcams installed a great expense to provide maximum transparency for the presidential election where they got to go over find. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life 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 fruit but the relatively few violations were obvious shadowed by dean's team and provide it some have already done the election and 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 callers can election going to best professors and have ruled. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras and one 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 some where critics have argued for a while we need to come under greater scrutiny particularly will digress and. receive the while in for even. more you're proposing and i suggest we should move

cameras from polling to police stations it would not violate the rights of those detained because their thesis 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 they've exams due to take place in june last ones to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for all children during all types of exams on equal terms that will do their tests without help there had been numerous complaints in the past with about unclear is hard to show that there had been no proof right now there are . many ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best project to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big brother looks set to stay it through grandchildren r t

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