as the syrian government embraces a un peace plan members of the syrian opposition struggle to come together with a single unified join me here and if that both old and i just came in. a wave of cold war the stars are crashing through capitol hill some republican presidential hopefuls jump on the contents of a private conversation between it leaders of russia and america. just as in britain call for a head behind the riot police to face justice as one up to the seriously injured in the student demonstration finds himself in the dark.

this is r t live from moscow welcome to the program the syrian government has accepted a un backed peace plan which includes appeals for a ceasefire on the opening of humanitarian corridors in the country the syrian opposition has yet to follow suit and some of its members calling for continued attacks on the mascot's the us once rebel forces to come together present a unified vision for peace signs washington's on the rise continue to call on president assad to step down. that it won't help solve the crisis. conference in turkey some rebel factions rallied behind the syrian national council those to plenty of room for disunity so he said facts are facts. both come out of the meeting is. that opposition that's really struggling to get its act together

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

what's going on inside the country so that it was an optimistic kitchen 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 a united front with a peace deal between damascus and the opposition will be difficult to broker because of the political tug of war within the room camp it's going to be released observe the country pays. it's very hard to know exactly who the opposition is in syria you have a very divided opposition a very fragmented one but you affectively have it which is the national syrian council which is led by a theology professor. born in paris the university there you have on the ground the free syrian army and other kind of collective groups and it's very hard to get any kind of consistent sense of what needs divided groups that fully 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 they're not able to really state their demands with any sense of really legitimacy from representing the body of the syrian people but on the way for you on the program of leading a five global economic challenges team up find the powerhouse planning to tackle the possibly the lives of. the people it's. a moscow is warning of an emerging arms race should washington fail to provide guarantees and its plans for a missile defense system in europe will not be aimed at russia it comes as president that had been to president obama held the key talks at the nato nuclear security summit in seoul this week where at least one part of the conversation wasn't intended for the public.

it was overheard assuring that more flexibility on arms control this seems often event as u.s. presidential election his comments to harsh criticism from his republican rivals back in the states and he's going to take on the ports now and the reaction from capitol hill. 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 it's president elect you should remember. that.

i think president represents a real threat. to the. 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 spirit types and take a look at the calendar. i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable sleep it wouldn't do them any home to do so and suggest they will choose it's the year twenty twelve look at midnight and seventy's and you know the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too to good. 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 trying out a ran syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward by arming arming isolating threatening i want to be china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and the end of it and looking for ways to have. to work to harness of course should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidate suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the world's trum they became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted in

a sketch it's some kind of you know it's a cool and very kind of a real view of the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world would 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 eventually win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to start our reporting. but the head of foreign affairs in russia is no house of pontifex scoff says it's hardly surprising that the cold war team towards russia instead of republican traits. 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 the drummer is considered 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 discourse this was an exchange which is quite understandable when there is an issue between russia and the united states and there's the a.b.m. issue so basically what about it was say that if we are to solve the a.b.m. issue it will be easier to do after the elections when the passions are down when he has a new mandate and when he will not be criticised every day of 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 strange but when

political leaders when they discuss issues of that scope and that magnitude. from us chief nuclear negotiator richard but told r.t. that president obama should find common ground with russia on missile defense and she now faces strong opposition in washington which is the next down to his every. 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 and he said he's more capable missiles in poland on 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 vladimir putin.

trial is underway of a u.k. student accused of violent disorder and twenty ten protest against commission fee hikes. if the other students end up in hospital that day many as a result of alleged police brutality and face up to five years in prison if found guilty and its supporters are fighting back 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 alfie meadows not the police facing trial for violent disorder strictly the unjust and the rather should be to place the healthy that she believes she's in charge of life itself is

a victim of violence not the least 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 university chew wish 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 were the only ones who have been charged in connection with the violence of 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 with 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 advances which even if they're. technically correct are trivial in the sense of they didn't cause any harm nor could they have cause harm to a police officer just right here and so on so the real victims here are not you know there's any other police there but they are the protesters who have been beaten attacked in obvious cases virtually killed alfy members 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.

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five make up forty 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. in the economy. but oh it is it is the. food but it would be to go to join the geopolitics in the geopolitics of the word the summit this year is expected to discuss a new joint being between the five other brics countries are interested in getting tiniest investment in infrastructure and. of their resources so obviously the relevant bank would be a very very useful vehicle put this kind of investment properties. bilbies the code of. bricks while you construct exchange. before the

new exceeds a new tradition of big political leaders believe that a brick bank could merge the growing economic powers between the country into with centralized establishment they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to why thirteen 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 one is also still firmly on the agenda it would become a goody goody good goods experience and it would be giving. it is just breaking of this the summit will be hoping to advance further the

economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on western dominated global economic architecture preassure either r t new delhi india. here at least fifty people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in two days of tribal clashes in southern libya comes as the country is faced with continued violence with former rebels still carrying arms and a year after the revolution that toppled long time the market asking for more on this we're joined live now by freelance journalist and blogger neil clark live from oxford in the u.k. or thanks for joining us here on r.t. the national transitional council was created to rebuild libya after gadhafi but dozens of just died in two days of of crashes and the trend of the n.c.c. to step down so is the new government actually failing to meet its goals. because massively failing to achieve its goals and let's look back twenty seats of power last year they promised peace democracy human rights in libya we've actually had

the very opposite there is no peace in libya into the fifty people killed in the last two days in every over one hundred people were killed a human rights watch has been appalling attacks on black africans has been ethnic violence racist violence unpunished i mean that the people who committed these crimes have been accomplished there's been desecration of british war graves you bring garcia again the. punishment the fact is the agency is not in control of the country there's a lot of us are scaling on. and the country is in a real mess now and you see representative in summer where the clashes took place that you mentioned her was also resigned saying that the council is not doing enough to stop the cards but what more could they possibly do to stop the bloodshed or the fact is it is there in a very difficult position to put me probably is a bit awash with arms and who's to blame for this but it's the western powers who gave these arms to gravel's to topple gadhafi and the fact is now you've got

militias you've got different tribal militias all heavily are you could have very weak divided government in tripoli that is mind control of its territory and so you've got a real recipe for a moment where he's really. sorry i mean these clashes between rival tribes and this was. do you think they have been become more frequent since the new council took office compared to the gadhafi regime oh absolutely if you could actually regime took power in ninety six you know i was in power tools but it's eleven that's forty two years it was only in the last few months that actually violence of this scale broke out and of course spoke to other western powers who after regime change in libya and you know good athlete also struck a strong man who was a dictator he kept the country together because you try to unify his very quiet country which is divided on. tribal grounds and try to unify the people so it can. forty one years of gap israel nothing like this took place and already it is getting astrology for the days of good happy because there is lawlessness

there it's very similar to what's happening in iraq now the rebels are still armed as you say yet most of them seem interested in joining the police or armed forces and how will the new government get there to promote peace and lay down their arms i'm going to happen it's going to be very very hard and i'm afraid it. doesn't look very good at all i think and i think the model is of course is of course iraq because in iraq the same thing happened a secular regime was toppled by i don't guess. the west liberty stepped up ethnic and tribal divisions in the country they armed various groups. see what was happening there what was going what in iraq on a regular basis and if you don't think that's what lies in store for libya so what can we expect for the future of this be about in your opinion with the national transitional council appearing on the able to put an end to the violence well i'm i'm afraid i'm afraid it's not good news i think we have to look at iraq and see

what happened and you know the interesting point about this country is the west and let's think back to twelve months ago there was the propaganda the western media and he's trying but we must intervene in libya for human rights democracy they have this so-called humanitarian intervention what's happening in humanitarian aspect things a lot worse i think fascinating thing is russia today is actually covering the situation today but the main western news channels are not covering the story the same way they don't cover iraq but then it's the end of the story get up the score and they're really not interested in reporting what's going on which is the human rights catastrophe we see in ethnic violence because see a race against black africans effort but for the west it doesn't matter they got what they want it and they don't really care now. ok we'll leave it there live from oxford that was journalist writer and blogger neil clark ready for joining us here on out. but after some other news making headlines around the world

this hour. the u.s. domestic flight was forced to land after its pilot to go to the ground off screen at the bottom was on board the captain was also in the cockpit crew in tackled by terrified passengers the plane was diverted to texas the copilot the captain was cuffed and taken from the aircraft under thirty five passengers and later landed safely in respirators instigate three instances now on the way. dominic straus khan's lawyers say he's being unfairly targeted and committed no crime before the i.m.f. chief faces allegations of us part of a prostitution ring involving prominent city figures and police a civil case one can only wednesday to determine whether he sexually assaulted new york who tell me last may just cause attorneys are protesting a french judge is whether it's passing from speaking to the media. u.s. defense secretary says that the internet also should continue implementing the

strategy in afghanistan despite the public for t.v. after decades of conflict with your comments congress opinion polls show that two thirds of americans believe that personnel should be fronting in the country u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan began in summer last year when the joints of soldiers expected to go up by twenty fourteen. strive for business news with marina and a russian company has increased its net profits a ten fold we understand yes that's right kerry that's pretty impressive if you ask me well the company in question is actually going to russia's top gold miners it's called. basically it's so a net profit of two hundred ninety million dollars in some problems there have been the company says that this was the result of both increased production improvements as well as strong girl gold prices well since you mentioned it let's take a look at what's happened with gold prices that we can see that they are coming

down from two weeks rise and that's after posting the biggest one day rise since the late january let's move on to europe there we're still seen as the session we've seen them come down. and right now it's pretty much there and stay there basically that's following this it points us consumer data as well as a decline in commodity prices also the fact that the status of economy contracted in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve didn't help in this report came out just recently poor and not a factor playing with investors' minds is the euro zone's the organization for economic cooperation and development and it says that you have to stay out from the . one for euros stronger financial support could help the phone call with or not to play alliance and some experts fear it hasn't got enough cash so far greece and portugal have been bailed out i'm going to say it's against spain although. sometimes take

a look at the markets here in russia so we can see that there are still stuck in there right there in the can in their losses yards the u.s. is now down over one and a half percent now let's take a look at the individual travelers on the my side most of the energy shares are down this hour blue color is in the red one percent russia's biggest lender is also losing its over half a percent lower and that's after posting that its net profit rose seventy four percent last year but that was much lower than and dissipated by analysts so we also have bucking the trend as car maker come on and it's more than one percent higher ok that we can see now the picture of for oil through this coming down from almost a one week call is there enough after reports showed that u.s. consumer confidence was low and u.s. policy was on their minds and also another factor from the us was that it's thinking about releasing its roots into all reserves i consider market supposed prices lower and finally let's take a look at the currencies the euro is still higher against the u.s.

dollar i'm going to comes to the ruble and the saturn gains against both in euro and their greenback. right care of all of that so how business looks this hour back so you take a thank you marina with all that the very latest business unusual for us to you back with the recount no votes what stories just a few moments here no case to. so

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