markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on r.g.p. . the syrian government embraces a u.n. pact they've planned members of the syrian opposition struggle to come together with a single unified purpose to me here it is. just a maybe. a wave of the cold war mr crashes through capitol hill some republican presidential hopefuls jumped on the contents of a private conversation between the leaders of russia and america. the trouble clashes in libya lead to the resignations of two n.p.c. members under worries that the interim government can't control the country's ongoing violence.

thanks for joining our care and broadcasting live from the heart of moscow the syrian rebels are facing mounting pressure to accept the u.n. backed peace plan which includes appeals for a ceasefire but no calls for president assad to step down the syrian government's already signed on but some opposition leaders are still calling for continued attacks on government troops the u.s. wants rebel forces to come together and present a unified vision for peace says washington and its allies continue to call on president assad to give up power but russia warning that it won't help solve the crisis i don't opposition conference in turkey some rebel factions rallied behind the syrian national council but there was still plenty of room for disunity as archie sara first reports. thoughts come out of the meeting is a picture of an opposition that is really struggling to get its act together

they've been meeting 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 able to unify and in fact the picture that came out we saw a walkout from some of the members disagreements and further criticisms of the syrian national council and the object is that they put forward saying that they were trying to impose their will to much indeed it is very concerning because the s.n.c. of course is trying to pitch its though foremost as an exile government in waiting a very similar feel it is anti see that hasn't really been the reality of what's happened and we seen a fierce criticism coming from the different opposition factions in stealth 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 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 its united front peace deal between damascus and the opposition will be difficult to broker because of the political tug of war within the rebel camp at least that's according to a middle east observer pattern. 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 close by of sociology professor in. the universe. 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 to

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 they're not able to really state their demands with any sense of briley legitimacy from representing the body of the syrian people that's been coming up on the way in the leading five global economic challenges team are to find out how these powerhouses are planning to tackle the monopoly of the dollar defense market that's just coming your way in a few minutes time. and protestors in britain called for heavy handed riot police to face justice as one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself standing trial. moscow is warning of an emerging arms race should washington fail to provide guarantees that its plans for a missile defense system in europe would not be aimed at russia it comes as

president medvedev and president obama help keep talks at the nato nuclear security summit in seoul earlier this week however at least one part of their conversation wasn't intended for the part like. rocklahoma was overheard assuring medvedev of more flexibility on arms control issues after november's u.s. presidential election but it's comments through harsh criticism from his republican rivals back in the states aren't he's going at it you can reports on the reaction on 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 the president elect you should remember. i think president putin represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world but that's seen 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 you can but i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do so and they will choose it's the year twenty twelve little midnight in

seventy's and you know the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war 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 arming isolating threatening i want to beat china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and end up at the end and looking for ways to get it to work to harness a horse should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but it would give 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 would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted in the picture sketch it's some kind of mythical and very unreal to 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 really never really win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to take their reporting from washington r.t. . former u.s. chief nuclear negotiator richard burr told our team that president obama should

find common ground with russia on a missile defense issue but place a strong opposition in washington you can watch his full interview in the next hour but here's a preview now. obama is in a tough political spot because i think what he would like to find it arms control solution to this problem and solve it he already backed away from the bush plan to deploy 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 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. thank you for joining us now past the hour and the trial is underway of a u.k. accused of but i want to sort are in a two thousand and ten protest against the hikes alfie meadows and fifty other

students ended up in hospital that day many as a result of a wedge of police brutality he could face up to five years in prison if found guilty but his supporters are fighting back artie's after bennett reports. fiercely defending the rights of 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 and not the police facing trial for violent disorder strictly unjust and that rather he should be the police here alfie that she thinks she's in charge and i think something is a victim of violence on the field sends a message at least in a sense to 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 implant 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 fee hikes along with thousands of other students but police were out in force too 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 but 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 offices which 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 a smoke bomb these kinds of offenses which even if they're. technically correct are trivial in the sense that they didn't cause any harm nor could they have caused the police officers just here and so on to the real victims here not you know there's any other police there but they are the protesters who have been beaten attacked in the obvious case virtually killed our female is 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. and for more news and videos you can head to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's going there now. a rumor gone viral across the web igniting

discussion on twitter claiming russia's president medvedev has lost his car for a lot of guns are to see online to find out what happened to the kremlin's first feline. also paying the price coral in the gulf of mexico could be slowly dying out to new years a catastrophic oil spill at the water. and controversy in france as reports emerge lepanto whose government made of been an informant for french intelligence can check out our you tube channel for all the up to date news twenty four hours a day. he has. to.

be official we can show you on phone call george from the. joel she is on the go. video. blog she's mine. all russians for you know with the palm of your. own home. creation of an alternative to the i.m.f. and the world bank will dominate talks as five of the world's expanding economies meet on wednesday the brics group of nations will work out a plan of action for two thousand and twelve in a drive to boost their own growth while bringing more diversity to the global market. has more now from india. heads of state from the five leading emerging economies brazil russia india china and south africa the brics nations meet for

their annual summit the 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 the. economy being. what it would be. great to believe would be welcome to join the geopolitics given 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 tiny's investment infrastructures and. of their resources so obviously the relevant bank would be a very very useful role for this kind of investment. is the go to. bricks. this is not happen before it's

a new exceeds a new tradition that political leaders believe that a brick could emerge the a growing up going on a power between the country into a centralized establishment they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to what's there and lead petitions like the international monetary fund and the world beg certainly hopes to be able to or to remove the overall pretty garden gnomes 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 that would become moody pretty good big. going to unsee it would be giving a. challenge. it is just breaking the will probably

or of this the summit will be hoping to advance further in the economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on western dominated global economic architecture preassure either r t new delhi india kill chair i did or in chief of chinese news outlet the fourth media says that a new joint bank formed by the brics countries would dollars global dominance. reach to green diversification international ideation of the group of the mean little to receive by reappraising the guard on the scene the fuel of the market. so much here on the needy that we are again there are his story the world in terms of the new law and all through all the. nations you all know what you call it not i only recall who do you mean by that but

. in the us are probably protesters have reemerged promising a new wave of demonstrations against corporate greed and inequality they are the sour peter lavelle and his cross truck as debate whether the movement has been successful has pretty. 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 you think you are going to do that just even from your own point of view ok charlie's line justice i want children going but you're also replying one fairly i'm charles by and large putting the words in front of justice you can't use a socialist what is not socialistic about wanting to redistribute wealth nationalize various industries what is not socialistic about it well what's wrong with it either. charles nobody except you nobody except you is raise the question

of nationalization i don't think that if you are doing is going to be in the national review you're still fighting the last through your. police fifty people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in two days of tribal clashes and second libya it comes as the country is faced with continued violence or with former rebels still carrying arms a year after the revolution that toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi freelance journalist and blogger neil clark says the national security council has done more harm than good since its creation. because massively failing to achieve its goals let's look back twenty seats of power loss here. 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 killed a human rights workers in appalling attacks on our black africans has been based in

current racist violence unpunished i mean the people who committed these crimes have been punished as been desecration of british war graves in benghazi again the . fact is the agency is not in control of the country there's a lot of us is going on. around the country is in a real mess look at me probably a wash with arms but who's to blame for this but it's the western powers who gave these arms to rebels topographic in the forty one years of israel i think that this took place and already it is going to start with the days of because there is lawlessness there and it's very sad that's what's happening in iraq. now to some other news making headlines around the world and u.s. domestic flight was forced to land after its pilot allegedly ran through the aircraft screaming that a bomb was on board the captain was forced from the cockpit by the crew and tackled by terrified passengers the plane was diverted to texas by the copilot where the

captain was cuffed and taken from the aircraft one hundred thirty five passengers later landed safely in las vegas investigation into the incident is now under way. a saudi arabian diplomat has been kidnapped in yemen and the law. was taken by gunmen as he was getting into his car in the city of the search operation is now underway kidnapping is common in yemen with captives are often used as negotiating tools between rival tribes and armed groups. dominic straus can's lawyers say he's being armed. clearly targeted and committed no crime the former i.m.f. chief faces allegations that he's part of a prostitution ring involving prominent city figures police a civil case will begin on wednesday to determine whether he sexually assaulted a new york hotel maid last may collins attorneys are protesting a french judge's order which morris' him from speaking to the media. the u.s.

defense secretary says that nato led forces should continue implementing their strategy in afghanistan despite public fifteen after a decade of conflict we are put out his comments can't calm as opinion polls show that more than two thirds of americans believe their service personnel should not be fighting in the country u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan began in the summer of last year but the majority of the soldiers expected to be gone by two thousand and fourteen. another american troop withdrawal but this time from iraq has already taken place but has left behind a grim reality the use of deadly u.s. weaponry on pollution are being blamed for the region's high levels of birth defects and abnormalities later on today our special report looks into the lasting effects calls by the invasion of iraq. so if resistance and rates of. race if you came in for example the surgery that. breast cancer

has more than ten zones chose cancers fourteen times. as bullish numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any of the demos study tell us ever there is a wedding that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something that is born without skulls without or the least and sometimes with their legs totally twisted blood means death to those who it's point is such. an answer to those who choose this planet. and the celebration and they don't realize that stand looking at their future counts. and this is just. so science. i

have. leakage and i'll show you to the extent for much i have leaked. that special report is coming up for you later now it's time for the business news with marina and marina how is the trading session going so far hi karen well i would say that the mood is pessimistic and it's pretty much a sea of red across the board europe has been going up and down ever since markets are open less like a look at the latest figures that we can see that it's still in the right and there are a number of factors influencing that for so we have this appoints a new us consumer data as well as of course a decline in commodity prices also now we know that this. anissa called me trying to come fall back into recession in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve so this of course didn't help matters and also we know that the euro zone's the

organization for cooperation and development says that europe's bailout fund must be. really in euros so no financial support could help the fund cope with another bailout and that's because some fear it hasn't got enough cash so far greece ireland and portugal haven't belt agonists a that it's only in spain to follow now let's move on to some other international markets here in russia we see that it's also a sea of red in the arts yes in fact is losing over its this hour let's take a look at some individual share moves on them by sex and we can see that most of the energy shares are losing we have which is that one percent russia is the biggest lenders for a bag is also losing and the company post about its net profit rose seventy four percent last year but that was a lower than expected and a truck make a composite is actually among the new gaiters this hour now moving on to one company related news story we have here one of russia's top gold miners. increase

that stupendous eleven net profit and called the list of companies two hundred forty million dollars old was supported by both production improvements and stronger gold prices well since you mentioned that let's take a look at the latest figures there for gold prices we see that they're coming down here sooner we can high is there and also we saw the biggest single day rise since late january now when it comes to crude we're also seeing a drop there from the highest close in more than a week and that was followed reports that us on the rise and also another american story that employs the market here was that the u.s. is thinking about releasing its strategic oil reserves to push the price lower when it comes to currencies we see that the euro is. higher against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's still seven games against the greenback and the euro. and that's how business looks the stock aaron that's up from its

a day my colleague daniel bushell will have the next update for you next hour well many thanks right now of course it all with the very latest business out there for us there and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments here are. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. if. it is to get the maximum political impact.

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