moscow and washington see eye to eye over the role of special envoy kofi annan mission in syria as a first step towards peace president and obama meets for the final time also. to many parties who have interest. it doesn't talk that he should be silenced for the. party speaks the architect of the libyan revolution against moammar gadhafi the former n.t. c.b. the voicing what many had long suspected. it's easier to deal with a dead soldier the kidnapped soldier. a criticism of

a controversial israeli army policy which calls on soldiers to avoid kidnapping costs even if it means taking life all that accommodate. forecasting live from the heart of the russian capital you're watching r t uncharacteristic with no end in sight the crisis in syria still dominating international attention has been in the spotlight as a final meeting between the leaders of russia and the u.s. the outgoing president was meeting president obama on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in the south korean capital seoul for more on this let's cross now to the really what's being said the president's got together for the last time. but

a lot. things have been said as as you have mentioned this is the last time that they're going to meet in their current capacities so a lot of issues on the table for them to discuss but syria of course dominating the talks as it is the dominating the headlines and for the first time the i think we have the official word from the leaders of the two countries and that is they both believe that kofi annan is mission in syria is absolutely intrinsic to the peace process in the country this is what the russian president had to say on the matter . we have agreed with the u.s. president this mission could be the first positive step to use the tension. for a dialogue between different forces reaching into syria at the moment we are prepared to provide. any help would be necessary. of course kofi annan was in moscow just on sunday and after talks with president medvedev the latter set of. missions absolutely absolutely vital in order to

prevent it from the civil war in syria of course there are still some differences which remain on the issue which the american president and the russian president agreed to work out the issues have been there all along russia says that a peaceful solution to the crisis must be found. that is absolutely important that no party supports no party no country supports only one side in this conflict whereas the united states from the beginning was the chairman to see president bashar asad leave his current polls they did express their support for the opposition fighting forces they did talk about supplying the so-called non-lethal aid to the fighters so so of course this is one issue where at least it's good to see that russia and the united states have agreed that mission is extremely important but of course there were other issues which the president's all russia and the united states have discussed among them of course the missile defense

shield in eastern europe that unfortunately is still where russia and the united states disagree upon russia sees it as a threat says that it's absolutely necessary this is what we should be very have said on this matter. of course you need to position russia. and the united states. and frankly speaking you. well enough with the disagreements that there were some things were made of in barack obama did come in agreement over and those issues of course include iran and its nuclear program both presidents said that it's absolutely vital that iran continues only our continues to. coordinate with countries barack obama said tehran must return to the community of nations and work out on a peaceful and work on

a peaceful nuclear program but for that the return to the five plus one format talks is absolutely necessary there of course was also the issue of northern korea of northern korean tests north korea says that they are going to carry out a satellite launch next month but that launch is seen as a missile test both by the united states japan and south korea so the leaders of russia in the united states have agreed that they are going to put pressure on north korea in order not to prevent them from carrying out that supposedly missile tests next month so overall a productive meeting but again no serious breakthroughs really except for of course this final finally voiced agreement on the situation in syria which obviously has to be dealt with in a peaceful and diplomatic matter. the mission carried out by kofi annan is absolutely vital. and she's really going to school thank you.

well international peace envoy kofi annan is now headed for china having secured russia's backing for his efforts to bring bloodshed in syria to an end it comes as the syrian national council the rebel authority to be the country's true government calls for a pact among opposition groups since he has been losing support of more groups into a new way from it it's now invited a. turkey. to them its wing this blog says the opposition's internal bickering. one way western supports. their 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 aside from the fact there are political political division there isn't one political authority that has control over the armed groups whether it be a f.s.a.

the free syrian army or other groups on the ground 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. sort of reaction the west doesn't have any 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 really it's a joke it's it's sort of when you don't have any other initiative or any other pressure to apply this kind of sanctions on the president's wife and his mother so all of that the lack 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 certain pathway. surely no one here middle east expert from oxford university believes that the elements of the opposition ignoring calls for peace 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 and the seat six six point plan i think that's a positive development. the plan actually specifically. 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 so so so you know forget what the players are saying watch what they're doing that's going to tell us what's going on and you know in the back rooms. there with our table so the head later this hour range range from the baltic we call me that fear is running its brightest and best leaving a country like iran for its own good. analogy puzzles out the

problem of what's the best way of getting to work taking a company car getting a truck to traffic squeezing into the fast of a crowd. of a man that widely credited with spearheading the rebellion against moammar gadhafi has criticized the west for abandoning libya in its time of need speaking at the brussels for about global security. and the country's no risk of being taken over by extremists correspondent also there spoke to him in an interview and she's here now in the studio to tell us more about this thanks for joining us now a very revealing interview indeed what do you have to say about this author's violent death that was something very interesting the whole world was watching when it actually happened and it to hear him his theories on what could have been the cause or who was actually behind it was really very interesting let's listen to

what he had to say. many parties who have interest. doesn't do that he should be silenced for the interview. with that he was killed by a foreign entity or libyans or libyans or me or from others i really don't know. and what's interesting there is a few remember from the from the beginning he was traveling around the world visiting foreign leaders to get their support to the regime he was leading the effort in the m.t.c. against to get off the regime and afterwards after some an investigation or the sorts of questions arising of the death of gadhafi the way he was killed he himself a pass a suspicion and and i had asked him was it a foreign power which western power were you referring to and what he said well right now i can say i don't know it could have been for him to discount the fact that it could have been those for how that was questioned from the very beginning talking about foreign policy admitted that the west had been supplying arms into

this you did in fact that the brussels for with was very open and i think honest revelation of the thoughts he said i am thankful for grateful for the nato support and not just nato the other countries as well outside of nato that have provided arms but what's ironic here now is he also came in there saying that the biggest problem in libya right now is to get the guns off the street and so it's a bit ironic we saw that ok you have the help coming in in the form of arms and now that is the biggest problem to create a civil society the democratic side if he himself has been trying to push for. we feel a sense of gratitude and appreciation for what they did help us tremendously supply this with political support with weapons. a lot of the most important thing that he came out there saying was if there if any help is going to come in again that he would hope that it would be to address this very issue of arms that my pants on the

street over there and this situation or chaos or something might say really in libya if this isn't addressed and what could happen to in terms of regional security have anything to say about that because he did actually one of the main topics that we wanted to discuss with them was about longer study groups what he actually thought of that extremism or even even our presence in the region there let's listen to what he had to say about. having all of them in libya this. might result in extremism and if that happens the whole european continent is going to suffer from that. here so this rise of possible extremism or could be the level it varies depending on what country we've seen in the arab spring countries the rise of such groups as islamist groups with that foundation of their political view and now in the international context what was interesting we asked him is how do you think the whole world or europe of the u.s.

is going to react to a possibly new leader that's legitimate legitimately elected by the people of these countries of libya but may not be in accordance with the interest on those countries that supported him there was a very interesting part of the interview he had shared his thoughts on this is not very revealing interview indeed there's also a thanks for joining us with that history here. controversial army policy calling on soldiers to avoid capture at all costs even if it means taking their lives is coming to find israel for those of you lost your son the release of an israeli soldier exchange for movement thousand palestinian prisoners and that kind of swap is one that israel doesn't want to see repeated as artie's honestly in our . it's that time of year again when no one's called up to put his life on the line for his country. when you go before. you understand that.

the come back and six israeli soldiers never did come back another nineteen were returned in prisoner exchange deals for actors of kidnapped soldiers present a huge problem on a strategic level for our country which is why in the one nine hundred eighty s. the israeli army introduced its hanibal protocol it says i.d.f. soldiers must prevent the kidnapping of a fellow soldier even if it sees him killed. some other. time bomb iran. it's easier to deal with a dead soldier going to kidnap soldier and that message was loud and clear last year when israel set free more than a thousand palestinian prisoners in exchange for one captured israeli soldier and that price say one in five israelis is simply too high but will it force commanders

to get strict and if the space soldiers kill a calm made rather than having captured. your is going to shoot he's going to read it's the instincts. is the strongest us emotion familiar to ours but this fighters i'm not so sure he knows the power his uniform has to hold his country to ransom i would like a question i would. try to read to. avoid. the subject in the program cost even at the risk of being killed by friendly fire the ultimate price for a soldier to pay policy r.t. for television. and on our website at r.t. dot com reports on the latest controversy of the u.s. military found out by the troops responsible for november's airstrike that killed twenty four soldiers risking their lives to start getting charged. also on.

the beatles' famous abbey road album covers to be produced it's been sculptor comes up with a daring project. e.u. accession became the start of a rollercoaster ride for latvia just a few years the baltics don't showed rapid economic growth used to begging for a bailout tourism remains a major source of income but unemployment and an opportunity and you the best brains are fleeing the country. and greece has more. formerly known as a booming bolcik that these economic gains have massed a greater problem bloggers earning the very survival of the nation after spending

some time drunk on foreign money that is now waking up to a bit of a hangover buskers was as mean as steady influx of tourists to the country there's also been an increasing outflow of skills to mess that labor low birthrates play their part but more damaging is the exodus of workers to greener pastures after latvia joined the e.u. in two thousand and four when opportunity arose left his homeland for a job in publishing in london as such a good cause contrary to that i was struggling to get a job pay let's say six hundred pounds pounds in u.k. i mean even if you're doing a very very average show you still get twice as three times as. so gay is by no means unique after leaving many fail to return zero to low wages and unemployment which of course social welfare system as

a situation most acute outside the country the tourist centers this area is just a few minutes drive from the picturesque old town well within the city's boundaries but the contrast is striking one of its own minds is a lack of investment outside of a key tourist hobbs lighting the prospects for younger working generation. away from re your life is. in the coastal town of your eclectus housing estates have become dens of unemployment but many dreaming of a new life abroad. the problem is where to get money many of my older friends have already left and i'm graduating from school very soon i don't know if i'll stay here after that. with a man for jobs that broad agencies are sprung up around latvia. one such firms oh

yeah it's finalizing her move planning to pick asparagus on a u.k. farm manual labor is what awaits many who leave regardless of their educational backgrounds seventy percent of our recruits going to cave in boarding another culture horticulture or forestry in full industry mostly doing jobs a lot of people not keen to do it all hard last night shifts over the post decade latvia's population has plummeted by almost a sixth and they're hovering just above two million but even with an annual exodus of around thirty thousand people many think the real figure is worse. to say the real there is not a little bit above two million. one point five most part of those are lucky ones who are not willing to really have to because for the last couple years they were unable to find any more than but they still have families to feed that's left

growing ways of latvians making imprints uproot leaving those from all walks of life struggling to see any signs of hope on the horizon jake agrees r.t. latvia. was more international news in brief for you now is a list of political forces in egypt have secured a majority in a hundred member panel cost with a draft of the country's new constitution it was decided in a parliament vote boycotted by the bible minority he says it isn't just some optimizing drafting process for secular liberal groups nothing it is majority the role of islam in society the previous constitution was a no last year by the ruling military which took charge after the problems were finished. thousands of attended an acting u.s. rally in northern pakistan organized by an islamic political party turning right we have criticised the afghan and american governments for initiating talks of the taliban have also threatened to resist any moves by the government but later supply

routes through the country to resume the border crossings were closed last november after u.s. airstrikes killed twenty four pakistani troops. apparently has struck down another nuclear reactor for maintenance leaving the country only while you got to run it raises concerns over pro shortages demanding the sun or some of months the reactor is operated by the same company which runs the tsunami crippled power plant over all japan has fifty four reactors since last year's disaster has been unable to restart any of the ground maintenance due to public safety concerns. take the car or take the metro. from the audience of people in moscow where traffic is often at a standstill but it is completely packed out that he's very clever tries to find the answer for the daily commuting conundrum.

they both believe home early. it's still dark outside. he goes on to use public transport she gets into the comfort of her and car. they are young muscovites russian lady and a frenchman living and working in a school. they both spend roughly an hour to an hour and a half to get into one except that on the map his route is twice as long as hands. and while he enjoys his book she's stuck in traffic and once the west in the words . coming from paris i think it's so it's a very difficult traffic especially by car you never know when you're live you know when you leave but you never know when you're arrive nicolas is charmed by moscow's metro with its elegant mobbles bus release and glittering chandelier is one of the most beautiful of soviet creations it is also known to be extremely efficient first

of all the network is amazing it's probably one of the best time to get people to do that well. and also the frequency of actually you know it's amazing good response some way everything they want me to study i've never seen god in my life despite the efficiency of its underground moscow now has more than four million cars and no extra space when he rose with the city's car growing by three hundred thousand calls every year. i don't like that there's a lot of people and it's stuffy i think it's a question of conference you travel on your own now i want to stay on your feet there's no dirt so you get so work all clean and pretty many foreigners coming to moscow believe such attitude is simply irrational psychologists say there is a whole list of factors contributing to people's attachment to their cars it's a known fact that there's

a private intimate zone around each person that is constantly violated when we get on the chills when we go for them because in almost physically discomfort in a watery add to this the social furniture people see a car as a means of climbing up the social ladder and no one wants to go back down there's also the memory of soviet times when people had to save their own life to buy a car and it was considered bullshit since then the car has become to symbolize a better life and the traffic jam a big part of everyday life a recent study on people's feelings about traveling to and from work place moscow eight commuter unfriendliness almost half of the city's car owners spend up to three hours sitting in traffic every day while those using public transport spend less than half of that. so if you all get into trouble inside. your house if you will show it to the people strangers or you're in space. which moves

responses makes the journey where you meet. r.t. . ok now that's a crossover to the business desk with marina and the russian rockets and only seeing red. carry ball they have been gradually simple act which is a good thing they're my success are over a half a percent while the r.t.s. is gaining point eight percent and that's after russian equity shared more than five percent last week and that was over concerns over the crisis in the euro zone as well as volatile crude prices now if we head over asia we're seeing the trading session after a week's start equities are now gaining momentum but ever so slightly in tokyo it's export oriented blue chip companies which are leading the gains goose that by a weaker yen haven't said that is a loser and that's after reports in my day it's commercial vehicle business by the

end of the decade and the hong kong listed stocks are dragging the hindsight in the lower with bank of china loosen over super size in the us markets are closed out the latest figures were positive and their eyes was driven by gains in financial as well as commodities stocks and that was due to the higher oil price now let's take a look at the exchange rates we can see that the euro is flat against the greenback when it comes to the ruble it's stronger against the u.s. currency but it's news in against the euro and in fact the ruble is becoming more popular among emerging markets it's trading volumes at the chicago mercantile exchange group by forty six percent year on year and the first two months off with two thousand and twelve now speaking of crude. we can see that it's trading in the red there would go we have the picture now and that's this war it's now we're expecting to see the strengthening of the american economy and now also the key

support here is there remain intention in iran which experts say we might see a military conflict then the region of course has more than half of the world's oil reserves now comes the companies with an active bank accounts one out of nine does not pay taxes in russia and that's the latest finding of the central bank which tries to estimate the scale of money laundering in the economy in absolute terms some two hundred thousand companies evaded access in two thousand and eleven and may turn out to be bought for companies but the situation is getting better because back in two thousand and ten that figure was two hundred fifty thousand forms and in other news strainers launched a new airline with my sister and i just twenty five euros beer express is owned by the same parent company as british airways and that will cover spanish cities including madrid and the islands like and this comes after spain's fourth largest airline collapsed in january strengthened some twenty eight thousand passengers.

but european bank for reconstruction and development says that moscow can become a global financial center and that's after world bank said that it's trances or limited world bank russia say quotes that their clients are only realistic at in that the country has less so offered to investors but experts we spoke to be are these say why they disagree with that opinion. this can go very first he can come in ken in ten years i think you could easily have a if riding center you know there are definitely problems with the business environment with transparency with predictability of political decisions and so on but there is of those so many unique features about russia and about moscow that financial capital is very mobile so if right russia stuff taking the right decisions and there is some sense of commitment to that path i think it could grow

very quickly. and as a business looks the sour the headlines are next with carol. the. atomic floods. to run its intentions costs. cooling system for. the few thousands of nuclear security summit. on the parties.