on the down however i totally disagree i don't even think the party began. we are still waiting for the actual revolution to happen. 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 mandela been a bomb and needs for the final time also. too many parties. have long suspected but. it's easier to deal with the don't soldier going to kidnap soldier. criticism of

a controversial israeli army policy which calls on soldiers to void kidnapped at all costs even if it means taking that i mean life or death of a common rate. and online twenty four hours a day with r.t. with no end in sight a crisis in syria is still dominating international attention and has been in the spotlight of the final meeting between the leaders of russia and the u.s. the outgoing president medvedev was meeting with president obama on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in the south korean capital seoul. arena the school has the latest. for the first time 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 that this mission could be the first positive step. for dialogue between different forces operating in syria at the moment we are prepared to provide. any help would be necessary. kofi annan was in moscow just on saturday and after talks with president bush that if the latter said that large missions absolutely in order to prevent a bloody civil war in syria of course there are still some differences which remain on the issue of russia says that a peaceful solution to the crisis must be found that is absolutely important that no country supports only one side in this conflict where is the united states from the beginning was the term and 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.

it's 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 needs to be devoid of said on this matter. of course you need. russia. and the united states. but also necessary and frankly speaking in. this issue. both presidents said that it's absolutely vital that iran continues to coordinate with countries barack obama said tehran must work on their 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 north

korean test north korea says that they are going to carry out a satellite launch next month but that launch is seen as a missile test by the united states 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 to prevent them from carrying out that oppose the missile tests so of course still a lot of issues between russia and the united states to tinker are good at least they have finally come to an agreement that it's absolutely necessary that coffee on and continued his mission on installing peace in syria. ridiculous reporting there were 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 and into the country's true government calls for that position groups since he has been losing support splintering away from it and invited every. twenty minutes to

move them back to its wing and middle east blogger karl rove says the opposition's internal bickering. western support. 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 division there isn't one political authority that has control over the armed groups where the. f.s.a. the free syrian army or other groups on the ground they haven't been able to expand their support base within their country and they haven't been able to unify politically and that's kind of what explains this inability to. action the west doesn't have any 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 then really it's a real 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 really is 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 and putting on a certain pathway. meanwhile sharmeen no one e. a middle east expert from oxford university believes that the elements of the opposition ignoring calls for peace may soon find themselves in 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. of the plan actually specifically as the opposition should enter into dialogue with the regime and i'm not i'm wondering if

that was not a place there are two 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 r.t. and still ahead later this hour range train from the baltic some relief to me that fear is finding its best leaving. a modern day problem and that's the best way of getting. here getting trapped in traffic or squeezing into the fast of a crowded queue. credited with spearheading the rebellion against a market don't think it's criticize the west for abandoning libya its time of need speaking at the brussels or about global security. that the country is not risk and

taken over by extremists the former head of the anti seems to show that he's the son of gadhafi. to many calls to his. interest. he doesn't talk that he should be silenced short of. who is trying to buy time. he sent to many here unless you use one of them or as much as saleh was sent to for. providing some sense of. what he called win win solution whether he was killed by a foreign entity or killed by libyans or libyans a mere four werther's really don't know but what i'm saying is that there are too many parties who have real interests there he just keeps sliding forever. or that a full interview is coming up in that just over an hour's time. controversial army

policy calling on soldiers to avoid capture at all costs even if it means taking their own lives has come under fire in israel follows a deal last year which saw the release of one israeli soldier exchange for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners what kind of swap is one that israel doesn't want to see repeated as artie's policy reports. it's back time of year again when no one's called up to put his life on the ninth for his country. when you go before. you understand that. you are not going back and six israeli soldiers never did come back another nineteen were returned in prisoner exchange deals for proof of kidnapped soldiers present a huge problem on a strategic level for 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. not. one bomb i am. sure. it's easier to deal with a dead soldier the kidnapped 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 come raid rather than have him captured. your is going to shoot it is going to it's the instincts. is the strongest emotion familiar. but this fight is not so sure he knows the power his uniform has to hold his country to ransom. trope and.

to. avoid. disturbing the game 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 r.t. dot com we reported on the very latest controversy a u.s. military found out one of the troops responsible for november's air strike killed twenty four soldiers from a scheme online from the start i'm not going to try and discipline also on the. beatles famous abbey road album covers to be introduced in russia society itself that comes up with a very big project from one terminal. is .

to. see. down the official on the allocation your i phone on called touch from the choose option. geology maek on google. video on demand. mine old girls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the oxy top call eva accession became the start of a roller coaster ride to latvia within just a few years the voting state showed ground economic growth but was then reduced to

begging for bailed out tourism remains a major source of income but unemployment and the lack of opportunity means that many of the best brains are fleeing the country hotties jehu graves has one. formerly known as a booming old trick that is economic gaze of mass the greater problem on concerning 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 best as was as been a steady influx of tourists to the country has also been an increasing outflow of skills domestic labor. low birth rates play their part but more damaging is the exodus of workers to greener pastures after ladley join the e.u. in two thousand and four when opportunity of rose left his homeland for a job in publishing in london especially because contrary because i was struggling to get a job let's say six hundred pounds pounds in u.k.

i mean even if you're doing a very average job you still get twice as many times as. so gay is by no means unique after leaving many failed to return zero to low wages an unemployment mix of a poor social welfare system it's a situation most acute outside the country's glitzy tourist centers this area is just a few minutes drive from the picturesque old town. in the city's bell varies but the contrast is striking one of the summarizes a lack of investment outside of a key tourist hobbs' one that's lighting the prospects for younger working generation. away for a read your life is bleaker in a coastal town of your big collectors housing estates have become dens of unemployment 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 oste here after that. with the demand for jobs abroad agencies are sprung up around latvia. at one such firms oh yes finalizing her move plans a 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 york a barking of a vulture horticultural or forestry and falling history mostly doing jobs a lot of people not going to do get all our walks night shifts over the past decade latvia's population has plummeted by almost a sixth now hovering just above two million but even with an annual exodus of around thirty thousand people many think the real figure is worse. than real

that there is not little. one point. most part of those americans who are not willing to leave have because for the last couple years they were unable to find any work. but they still have families the theme that's left growing ways of latvians making imprints of brute leaving those i'm all for survive struggling to see any signs of hope on the horizon degrees artie and happy. some more world news headlines for you now is mr political forces in egypt have secured a majority one hundred member panel tasked with drafting the country's new constitution it was decided upon it for its boycotted by the liberal minority which accuses the islamists of not polarizing the drafting process of secular and liberal groups now for their religious majority the role in society the previous constitution was an overall story about a ruling military which took charge after

a reserve aleutian. japan are shut down another nuclear reactor for maintenance leaving the country with only one reactor running the race is concerned that a power shortage is as demand increases in assignments the wholesale reactor is operated by the same company which runs the tsunami crippled fukushima power plant over all japan has fifty four reactors since last year's disaster tokyo has been unable to restart any on the ground maintenance it's a public safety concerns. mollies foreign minister and thirteen other high ranking officials taber productive it's. going to end the strike that's according to them that it is his brother's soldiers led by little writing to u.s. trained officers surrounded the president's palace on wednesday and took. the interim action for april the military says it seized control to a school country before the polls.

still to come later this hour peter lavelle's cross-talk he think debate on another volatile african country uganda the controversial documentary film kony twenty twelve you can see that discussion in about fifteen minutes time but here's a preview for you. this should've been accurate in terms of the portrayal of uganda today if you want to talk about it historically it should have been clear that it was a store corporate trail a good instead of prison and all the facts as if their current and that that and the messaging make famous were good two fundamental flaws i think of corny two thousand and twelve video but i but i also think from the point of view of looking at us policy that we should not be equally simplistic all they're just trying to chase. all they're just militarized. go go ahead go ahead julie jump in paris. we're just we're not being simplistic

we're saying that efforts are not made where they should be i mean in my opinion like i said it is high time for that us is africa other then a simple stock of natural resources it's also. a potential economic potential that should be embraced also so that's what i'm saying we're not being some place think saying that it's a reality. i'll take a car or take the metro bus then a from the reasons of people in moscow where traffic is often a standstill the tube is completely packed out he's trying to screw over tries to find the answer to the commuting conundrum. if. they both leave home early. it's still dark outside. he goes on to use public transport she gets into the comforts of her and. they

are young muscovite russian lady and the frenchman living and working in moscow. 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 he has . 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 a it's a very difficult trucker especially by car you never know when you're live you know when you leave but you never know when you're arrive nicholas is charmed by moscow's metro with its elegant mobbles bus release and wittering chandeliers 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 way to get people to do that well. and also the frequency of their choice is amazing

get a spot some way everything they want to study i've never seen that my life despite the efficiency of its underground moscow now has more than four million cars and no extra space for new reds 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 comfort you travel on your own now i want to say that in all your fleets there's no dirt so you get so worked all cleaned out 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 but constantly violated when we get all the children it causes an almost physical discomfort in our body add to this the social factor people see a car as a means of climbing up the social ladder and no one wants to go back down. memory

of soviet times when people had to save their own life. and it was considered pollution since then the car has become to symbolize a better life make the traffic jam the big story of everyday life a recent study on people's feelings about traveling to and from work place eight commuter unfriendliness almost half of the city's car owners spend up to three hours sitting in traffic every day all those using public transport spend less than half of that so if you are going to travel inside. the world shoulder to shoulder with people strangers or you're in space which moves responses makes the journey worth the wait. r.t. . or their time now to check in with other business desk.

yes or start with the markets a rush of the arts yes and then my stocks are over one percent and that's following that circular week because we saw that almost five percent of that was due to concerns over the troubles in the eurozone of course the situation in thing and they're all it's wild crude prices let's move on to the stocks and we can see their most blue chips are trading higher with russia's biggest lender spurred by adding over one percent more bank than almost one percent i should say in your bank st petersburg is flat a slight profit rose forty three percent last year but that was much lower than expected and north nickel is also on the rise and that's fallen records russian billionaire all exhibit pascal has made another offer to buy a block in state in the company from aluminum miner. let's move on to asia was seen trading session after a weak start we see in the quote is gain momentum and so its export oriented mood.

companies which are leading the gains and as we said by a weaker yen have insight that carmaker monster is losing or not some reports that its line in single digits commercial vehicle business by the end of the decade and hong kong listed stocks are dragging the hang seng slightly lower with bank of china percent but we've seen john slightly in positive territory this hour now a new europe markets just opened and they are in positive territory we can see there both of the and the dax are adding around a third of a percent in the u.s. markets are closed but the latest figures were positive the leading gains were in the financial and commodity stocks and i was the high oil price going on so the exchange rates we have the euro which is retreating against both the u.s. dollar and the ruble you know all the russian currency is again and again the greenback let's move on to the crude which is still and negative territory and

that's despite expectations that economic reports on the american economy will see that it's strengthening and said that the key support is still there and it's basically that tensions in iran will continue and will result in the military conflict of course went out iran has more than half of the world's reserves now let's move on to other news when it comes to companies with an active bank account one of no i am not this is not paid taxes and that's the latest winding up a central bank which tries to estimate this money laundering money in absolute terms some two hundred forty thousand companies evaded taxes in two thousand and eleven and may turn out to be software companies but the situation is getting better but i can see thousand and send that figure was two hundred fifty thousand firms. another new strain has launched a new airline with prices starting at twenty five euros my beer express is owned by the same parent company as british airways and it will cover spanish cities

including madrid and the islands like i and this comes after spain's fourth largest airline collapsed in january stranding twenty thousand passengers. the european bank for redevelopment and construction says that moscow can become a global financial center and that's the spy for a while back saying that its chances are high and experts are walled by cold call plans only a less than other country has little to offer it so investors but the chief economist at the said wife disagrees with our opinion this can go very first we can come in can in turn years i think you could easily be thriving center here there are a definitely problems with the business environment with transparency with predictability of political decisions and so on but there is so many unique features about russia and about most of the financial capital is very mobile if russia starts taking the

right decisions and there is some sense of commitment to that path ok you can go very quickly. that's a promise here at the business that's scary i'll have another update for you in about fifteen minutes away during the course of reporting from the business desk thank you. next hour we cut our top stories for you in just a few minutes there with us.

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