great. struggle to come together with. a wave of cold crashes through capitol hill some republican presidential hopefuls jump on the contents of a private conversation between the leaders of russia and america. testers in britain call for heavy handed riot police to replace justice as one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself in the dark. national

news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. the syrian government has accepted a un backed peace plan which includes appeals for a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors in the country the syrian opposition has yet to follow suit and some of its members continued attacks on the massacres the u.s. once rebel forces to come together present a unified vision for peace. washington and its allies continue to call on president to step down with russia warning of. the crisis when small and i wasn't people have been killed in syria since last night watch rebel leaders are struggling to find common ground at a conference in turkey was out there for three ports. will come out of the meeting is a pitch that opposition it's really struggling to get its act together they've been

meeting here in istanbul hundreds of the syrian opposition members to discuss and to trying to hammer out some common objectives and really lay to rest the concerns over the very fractious nature that it seems that that was elusive to then they were unable to unify and in fact the picture that came out we saw walk out from some of the members disagreements and further criticisms of the syrian national council and the objectives that they put forward saying that they were trying to impose their will to much indeed it is very concerning because the essence of course this type of pitch is the foremost as an exile government in waiting a very similar to libya's n.t.s.c. but that hasn't really been the reality of what's happened and we seen a fierce criticisms coming from the different opposition factions and still saying that the syrian national council ineffective and that they're very far removed from

what's going on inside the country so that it was an optimistic picture and is going to make the western countries and governments very nervous and anxious those who would back seeing president assad out this is not really clear at the moment whether there is a viable alternative that the opposition sort of failing to present this united front. syria's opposition factions have agreed to unite behind syrian national council the middle east observer project hastens in a peace deal between damascus and the rebels so difficult to. remain divided. it's very hard to know exactly who the opposition is in syria you have a very divided opposition a very fragmented one where you effectively have the head which is the national syrian council which is led by a sociology professor. born in paris the university there you have on the ground the free syrian army and other kind of collected groups and it's very hard to get

any kind of consistent sense of what these divided groups that form the opposition actually want and obviously in terms of having a peace program or kind of moving forward towards peace it's going to be very difficult when you have an opposition that is so fragmented penn'orth able to really state their demands with any sense of really legitimacy from representing the body of the syrian people but on the way the leading of private global economic challenges team up about how to stop trying to tackle the monopoly of the volatile and market. pasco is warning of an emerging arms race in washington failed to provide guarantees that its plans for missile defense system in europe would not be aimed at russia it comes as president of the head of and president obama held key talks at the nato you can security summit in seoul and this week however at least one part of a conversation that wasn't intended for the public.

or a couple hours overheard assuring the deliver more flexibility on arms control it seems after november's u.s. information election his comments through harsh criticism from his republican rivals in states in this country go what's the reaction on capitol. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should remember. that kills for pleasure.

i think represents a real threat. to stability and peace in the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments president medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. but it can go i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable sleep and it wouldn't do them any home to do so and such if they will choose it's the year twenty twelve little midnight and seventy's and even the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too good to like girl boy to

return to those cold war simple days. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the republican presidential hopefuls are capitalizing on the list also includes china iran syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward warming farming isolating threatening i want to be. china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and at the end of it as and and looking for ways to do. it to want to harm us of course should take military action to disarm except a bill for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidates suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the world in which romney became president because i think he he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted in the picture sketch it's

some kind of the mythic cool and very kind of the real deal with the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world ability to be dangerous for america because we can't afford to do that mitt romney will most likely win the republican nomination and america will face a choice between him and president obama polls show the majority of americans disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that he will remember to really win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their leader i'm going to start now reporting from washington our team. head of foreign affairs in russia has no house of parliament cough so it's hardly surprising that the cold war attitude towards russia is still a republican trait. i think that this logic of the cold war that the united states is first facing a lot of foods

a lot of enemies in the world is still very much present in the sinking of the republican elite mitt romney still seems to be one of the moderate republicans that if a moderate republicans say things like this that russia is enemy number one we can only imagine what a real conservative republican would say on this course this was an exchange which is quite understandable when there is an issue between russia and the united states and there's the a.t.m. issue so basically what about i was saying that if we are to solve the a.b.m. issue it will be easier to do after the elections when the question is i do when he has a new mandate and when he will not be criticised every day every week by republican contenders so i think maybe it was a little bit careful but it was quite understandable and i don't see that there is anything here. which is out of the common exchange just usually change but when

political leaders are going to discuss some political issues of that scope and that magnitude for us chief nuclear negotiator richard burton told r.t. the president obama should find common ground with russia on missile defense if you face a strong opposition in washington watches he. has a pretty. obama is in a tough political spot because i think what he would like to find an arms control solution to this problem and solve it he already backed away from the bush plan to deploy these these more capable missiles in poland and the radar in the czech republic i think that he's got a u.s. he's got a u.s. senate. with some republicans that are making it difficult or making it difficult for him to make i think give him the room for maneuver that he needs to find a practical solution with putin.

but trial is under way of a u.k. student accused of violent disorder a twenty ten protest against tuition fee hikes i think that it was and fifty other students ended up in hospital that day many as a result of an edge to police brutality and to face up to five years in prison if found guilty but the supporters are fighting back to these other bennett reports. fiercely defending the right to protest against what they call a corrupt system these demonstrators are here to support an alleged victim of police brutality who's now a victim once again despite nearly dying from injuries sustained at a sanctioned protest it's out the meadows not the police facing trial for violent disorder exactly the unjust and the rather should be released here elfie if she

thinks she's in charge of life itself and is a victim of violence and that he sends a message at least in a sense it is a lie and if you're a protester you are basically fair game alfie alleges he was beaten over the head with police battens this is the immediate aftermath of the assault the impact was so hard he suffered bleeding on the brain and lost the ability to speak the scars a gruesome reminder of the emergency brain surgery that saved his life alfie had been demonstrating against universe teach english and feed hikes along with thousands of other students but police were out in force two and more than happy to show them the strong arm of the law alfie was one of over fifty who ended up in hospital after the protests most of them students are the only ones who have been charged in connection with the violence but the students themselves a year on not even a single policeman has been investigated the same protests or a disabled activist dragged from his wheelchair and pulled along the road despite

this video evidence no officers were charged but the courts haven't been afraid to hand down strict punishments to the protesters one student got fifteen months behind bars for merely throwing a placard that didn't even hit anyone another jailed for a year and a half just for throwing a joke shop smoke bomb these kinds of offenses which even if they're. technically career. trivial in the sense of they didn't cause any harm not put their paws higher in a police officer dress and appearance on to the real victims here not you know there's the police there but they are the protesters who have been beaten up hard enough his case is virtually killed alfie meadows was charged soon after lodging a complaint with the police regulator it's inquiry conveniently suspended because of this trial after spending the last fifteen months recovering from his injuries he could now face up to five years in prison either bennett r t london. well for

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percent of the world's population are expected to contribute almost half of all global g.d.p. growth in the next eight years and have a rapidly growing influence in international affairs i think the economy could be green. but i would be is it is it. we're going. to join the geopolitics. of the word the summit this year is expected to discuss a new joint bank between the five the other brics countries are interested in. investment in infrastructure and indeed people of their resources so obviously a bank would be a very very useful for this kind of investment to. build these the golden. bricks stock exchange this is not happened before this is

a new exceeds a new tradition that big political leaders believe that a brick bank could merge the growing economic powers between the of country than to a thank for allies this doubtless meant they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to life there and led by mantle institutions like the international monetary fund and the world bank certainly. hopes to be able to or to remove the overall predominance of the institution by the united states and the european union countries the brics countries have been busy this year not just in guarding against the impact of europe's financial crisis moving away from the dollar as a reserve currency to a brick striven line is also still firmly on the agenda and it would become a goody goody good good c c it would be good. it is just breaking the wooden pulley ork of this summit will be hoping to advance

further at the economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on bluster and dominated global economic architecture preassure either r t new delhi india. chang'an editor in chief of chinese news out at the forth media says that a new joint bank forward on the brics countries would dent the daughters of global dominance. at birth to bring about to be birthed asian internationalized asian of the i mean look at currencies by replacing the garment armenians in the global market lummi you know so much. these are. again there are historic the cross rolled in terms of the new we all are to all. three any kind of big relationship on what you call not by money called blue ridge dominated by the meanings now in the u.s.

occupy wall street protesters have reemerged promising a new wave of demonstrations against corporate greed and inequality but they too are t. people of that in his crosstalk guests debate whether the movement has been successful as a creepy. if you think all calls for justice are only being raised by socialists then i wonder why you aren't a socialist because we need more justice in our society i think you're going to marry without even just even from your own point of view ok your is mine justice i want children by going out but you're also required one theory behind charles bryan large putting other words in front of justice you can't just say socialist what is not socialistic about wanting to redistribute wealth nationalized various industries what is not socialistic about it well what's wrong with it either ok oh no charles nobody except you nobody except you is raise the question of

nationalization i don't think that if you're going to. be in the national review you're still fighting the last tour. of some other news making headlines around the world this hour at least fifty people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in two days of tribal crashes in southern libya fighting erupted in cyber city six hundred fifty kilometers from the capital of the bulletin from one ethnic group eventually shot and then go out of another country faces continued violence with former rebels still carrying arms year off the top of the. rest of us to the ground after. bombs on the captain was forced from the cockpit crew and. passengers the plane was diverted to texas by the copilot the captain was cuffed and taken from the aircraft one

hundred thirty five passengers landed safely in las vegas this. is now on the way. how many extra scans lawyers say he's being unfairly targeted and committed no crime. if she faces. ations i think that's part of the cost q. shipping people think i'm going to city figures and police a civil case will begin on wednesday afternoon whether he sexually assaulted a new york don't tell maid last name and strauss kahn's attorneys are protesting a french judge's order and bars him from speaking to the media. u.s. defense secretary says that nato that jam session attests to your intimate you know their strategy in afghanistan will spike target for taper off a decade of conflict and over that his comments come as a kenyan proles that one two thirds of americans believe their service people should not be fighting in the country u.s. a troop withdrawal from afghanistan began in the summer last year the majority of

soldiers expect to be gone by twenty fourteen. but the american troop withdrawal this time from iraq has already taken place but has left behind it a grim reality the use of deadly u.s. weaponry on for the job being blamed for the region's high levels of birth defects and the mallet is next on our special report looks into the lasting effects caused by the invasion of iraq. resists in fallujah rates of. the rates of leukemia for example a thirty eight zone. breast cancers more than sends ons joad cancers fourteen times exactly as bullish huge numbers there's no nothing that you have ever found in any of the memos study anyone ever there is a way that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something that is born

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arena the trading session going so i thought i care well the transaction so far has been a bit weird that we've seen up and down movements when it comes to europe i literally changed the figures about three times in the last couple of seconds let's take a look at the picture right now we can see that all the footsie and their backs are now back in positive territory over the fence again it just annoys father that says up point one percent and investors are reacting to a number of issues that first we have a report that this french economy has fallen back into recession in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve and then another fact it's a consider is that the euro zone's think tank could be organization for economic cooperation and development says that europe's bailout fund the most double to one trillion euros now stronger financial support could help the phone cope with another payouts and some experts fear it hasn't got enough cash so for at greece and portugal have the ballot out but analysts say that it's only in spain may soon

follow. i'm moving on so it's see over there still and that's a rally that we saw as you say so after a rally we can expect to see some profit taking on this is exactly what's going on there g.m. telecom shares are leaving but the clients their butts weaker yen is still supporting japanese exporters and in fact the u.s. dollar has gone off around eight percent i guess they have this year so far now moving on through the markets here are still in negative terms for we can see the r.t.s. is losing almost one percent this hour while there my sense is news in over a half a percent let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my sites and they're just stocks are lower on weaker crude prices and i'll talk about that a little later haven't sent that look why has its early managed to escape negative territory but now we can see that it's back it's loose interest slightly russia's biggest lenders has made its way it's over it's gaining over a quarter of

a percent this hour and we know that it's adding more it was adding three percent now russian carmaker after a pause is also higher adding more than one percent this hour moving on to a score of russian related one of russia's top gold miners has increased its two thousand and eleven net profit ten fold there on that list the company says the hundred million dollar results will support the puppet production improvement and stronger gold prices since we mentioned gold message look at what's happened in gold prices have also managed to escape negative territory this hour but this comes after reaching all eyes and close in the biggest one day gain since late january now moving on to currencies the euro is higher against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's the betting against all who gets the greenback and the euro members are known so well crude has a drop from the highest close in more than a week and that's following us reports on said that u.s.

stock miles have increased. and the other factor on the oil crisis was that the u.s. is thinking about releasing its strategic oil reserves but also the market supposed crisis lower and that's how business works out harry so you're right thank you rick ross of the very latest let's stop for a second but the back of the recap of our top stories and our debate should crosstalk is just i had to say about.

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