it's syria's opposition now being called on to stop the violence as president assad signs up to the un backed peace plan but it's clear the rebel factions are true divided and unwilling to lay down arms. strength in numbers five of the world's fastest growing economies me to hammer out an alternative to the i have nothing and the world bank and growth also. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe cold war by the sweeps america's republican senators who demand no concessions for russia which wants guarantees the u.s. missiles won't be aimed at sway. with the original reporting

through the report because with news it would. go and thanks for joining our team this hour five o'clock here in moscow and karen's karachi syrian rebels are under pressure to accept a u.n. back peace plan after damascus rubberstamp the deal that includes appeals for a cease fire but no calls for president assad to step down something the opposition and washington have been calling for the u.s. is pushing for the rebels cim night with some factions rallying behind the syrian national council at a conference in turkey archie sarah firth reports. both come out of the meeting is a pitch that opposition 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 laid to rest the concerns over the very fractious nature but it seems that that was a lucid and they were able to unify and in fact the picture that came out we saw walkouts 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 the much indeed it is very concerning because the essence of course this try to pitch is the almost 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've seen a fierce criticism coming from the opposition factions and sells 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 is going to nate

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 term recent middle east history and politics professor at bill can university in turkey says the fractured syrian opposition has already lost momentum both politically and militarily. the syrian national council as being in disarray from the beginning and has been dysfunctional. now last few days. serving full members now. council is another i.c. member. council are also going to. see. unworkable and this one criticism coming from.

the money's gone. and given there is an air of governors and questions about a lack of transparency transparency. so we can see here. is in. total disarray and cannot be said to represent the syrian people at all yet we're being told that next week when the. recognized. as the sole legitimate representative of the syrian people and. that. as syria seeks and to its ongoing crisis we travel to another country in the region still struggling with the consequences of revolution find fresh trouble clashes in libya and its continuing violence with the authorities admitting they failed to bring stability that's coming your way in just a few minutes also. protestors in britain call for

a heavy handed riot police to face justice as one activist seriously injured in the student demonstration finds himself in the dark. bringing peace to syria without foreign military intervention and breaking the west sick economic hold on the world dominated talks between the leaders of russia and china in india the creation of an alternative to the i.m.f. and the world bank is top of the agenda as five of the world's expanding economy sneek. is in new delhi. it's the fourth annual brics summit that's going on here and the emerging economies brazil russia india china and the newest member of africa will be meeting here the leaders of those countries for the next two days russian president dmitry medvedev landed here in delhi early this morning bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the brics summit the russian president and president hu were discussing syria leaders have said that they back kofi annan plan for

a cease fire in syria but both leaders have said that they don't want president assad to step down which is something that western powers have been saying another country that the two of them have been talking about is iran both countries have repeatedly said russia and china that they are against think sions on iran they believe that iran is developing a peaceful nuclear program obviously there are a lot of things to talk about between china and russia one of the key things being trade in recent years china has a third of its dolls as russia's biggest foreign trading partner actually last year trade between china and russia increased by forty percent reaching eighty three point five billion dollars one major proposal here that's said to be at the top of the agenda for all of these countries is an alternative bank between the brics countries with third as an alternative to the financial institutions the

traditional ones like the international monetary fund and the world bank there is also talk about creating some sort of bread basket currency that could serve as an alternative to the dollar as the global reserve currency here is more on what the leaders of these brics countries are set to talk about in the next two days 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. but i would be it is. food police would be people who join the geopolitics contain the geopolitics of the word the summit this year is

expected to discuss a new joint bank between the five other breaks countries are interested in capping tiny's investment in infrastructure and independent of their resources so obviously a bank will be a very very useful for this kind of investment properties they can build because the cotton to the bricks struck exchange this is not happened before the new exceeds a new tradition the big political leader is believe that a brick could merge see it growing up and on the power between the country then to attend doubtless they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to what's there in lead financial institutions like the international monetary fund and the world bank certainly of brics 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 the reserve currency to a brick strip in line is also still firmly on the agenda it would become a hoodie would be good to see. it would be giving good push to. europe it is just breaking the world the bully or the vis the summit will be hoping to advance further of the economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on western dominated global economic architecture preassure either r t new delhi india. chinese journalist cule chong believes stepping away from the dollar as a reserve currency will not only benefit the brics countries but the whole world. the good lord her line changes going all the reindeer you know global

resume currency the international ideational lokeren see them all by brings nations will mean so much in terms of the new wall replacing a dollar domination of more than her century and he's all live you were so you saw adam toolholder diversification in terms of the global reserve currency the international allies asian old local currencies all responsible nations in the wall will eventually help everybody and help the wolf who are giving all of the global economic crisis these ongoing crises which namely stereo are all us i am all day and all of the worst turn down namely the global institution not the financial news groups missions running the old economy. multiple xplosion said after a massive fire in thailand as we report online. fireworks

explode out of factory causing a blaze that took hours to contain more of this video is available on are you to pay it's also. a mystery on the kremlin kept reports of the disappearance of president maybe they didn't feel i'm brenda gets the social now works during so the russian leader takes to try to just sort it out the tales told at our teams out.

the official ulti allocation your i phone on called talk from the. show you see. the. g.'s in line. and the resonance for you now in the palm of your. on call you're just joining us twelve minutes past the hour and a group of republican senators are however into president obama at the nanjing that no concessions be made to russia it's after obama was overheard assuring to make a new day they have a more flexibility on the arms control issues after november's u.s. presidential election. let's. talk. shows demanding guarantees from washington that the planned missile defense system

in europe would not target russia it's something that neither us nor nato have provided yet republicans claim any concessions to russia with threaten america's national security as you can now reports. 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 this. i think president putin represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world. that seeing 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 made it advise them to stop reverting to olden days hollywood spirit types and take a look at the calendar. and you can all u.s. presidential candidates to make a reasonable statement if you didn't do them any harm to do so. it's the year twenty. nine hundred seventy s. anymore the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but first some is just too good to lead. 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 he ran syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategists 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 at the end of it as and and looking for ways to do it to want to harness of course you take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidate suggests 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 says some kind of you know if it cool and very common real do it world if america takes 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 we really negatively win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to check our reporting that are to. be had of foreign affairs and russia's lower house of parliament sounds in their pre-election favor the republicans miss the point of obama's talk of flexibility. mitt romney is considered to be one of the moderate republicans that if a moderate republicans say things like this that russia is an even number one we can only imagine what a real conservative republican would say on this score because they jumped immediately on this occasion to accuse obama that he's almost having kind of plots

of the really kind of plot between. which he has nothing to do there is an issue between russia and the united states and there's the a.b.m. issue so basically what about who is saying that if we are to solve the a.b.m. issue it will be easy to do after the elections when the patients 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 corman exchange just usually exchange between political leaders when they discuss on political issues of that scope and that magnitude. america's former chief a nuclear negotiator told r.t. that washington and moscow have a lot more in common than many republicans would like to see. obama is in a tough political spot because i think what he would like to find an arms control

solution republicans are making it difficult for him to make i think give him the room for maneuver that he needs to find a practical solution and i don't think the research has failed at all in fact on some issues like afghanistan there's a lot of cooperation i even think in areas like syria where two or three weeks ago there was a lot of angry rhetoric about some sides physicians' even i think even on syria the two sides are becoming a little more pragmatic and moving towards each other so there are a lot of strategic reasons for the united states and russia to work together. in particular you know there are two big countries that face big problems challenges both domestic and international and on most of those issues i think there are similarly a lot. of the full interview with richard burr is on air and just over an hour here on r.t. the british student who suffered a near fatal blow to the head in police clashes during

a student demo is on trial himself for the violence i'll think meadows and fifty others ended up in a hospital after the fighting during protests over to wish him fees he could be jailed for five years if convicted as iver bennett explains his supporters want to see the police face justice over brutality. 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 alfie meadows not the police facing trial for violent disorder that's clearly unjust and while the it should be the police here elfie it should be pursued in charge of self is a victim of violence or not that really sends a message of police essentially to life 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 tuition fee hikes along with thousands of other students but police were out in force today 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 are 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 from these kinds of offenses which even if they are. technically career. trivial in the sense of they didn't cause any harm nor could they have caused harm to the police officers just right here and so on so the real victims here are not others are the police there but they are the protesters who have been beating the target of his case 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 but he is admitted it's failing to bring stability after fifty people were killed in two

days of travel clashes in south of the country the state is faced with continued violence or with former rebels still bearing arms year after the revolt journalist and blogger neil clark says the national security council has done more harm than good since it began. because massively fighting to achieve its goals and let's look back he took power last year they promised peace democracy human rights in libya we actually have the very opposite and there is no peace in libya to the fifty people killed in the last two days every over one hundred people were killed a human rights watch as a core attacks on black africans has been ethnic violence racist by unpunished i mean that the people who committed these crimes have been on punished as been desecration of british war graves in benghazi again the. fact is the agency is not in control of the country as a lot of us are sculling on. as the country is in a real mess for the people he's a bit east of russia's arms and the fact is now you've got the issues you've got

you from tribal provisions all heavily armed you could have a very divided government in tripoli that is mind control of its territory and so you've got a real recipe for anarchy. and who's to blame because it's the western powers who gave these arms to grab a couple kidnapping and already because it is a starting place that could happen because there is lawlessness there and it's very similar to what's happened in iraq. now on to some other international news for them and to one of the fukushima nuclear reactors is far worse than previously thought with fatally high levels of radiation and dangerously low levels of cooling water a probe was sent into the reactor for only the second time since it was crippled by last year's earthquake disaster it means decommissioning the facility will be much more difficult and the cleanup will take decades. to mali has been suspended for a multinational african bloc following last week's military coup biko last group is

threatening sanctions and force if the soldiers do not stand down who leaders have given details of a new constitution in a televised statement and pledged freedom of speech and movement the overthrow was led by soldiers unhappy with the way president hu or he was handling insurgency in mali. american pilot terrified his passengers by running through the cabin screaming about armed threats and al qaeda couldn't hours been worse captaining a domestic flight when he shouted that they were all going down he was subdued by passengers after being locked out of the cockpit before being let off while handcuffed to a chair after the plane made an emergency landing in texas. time to take a trip to wall street journal how do you a future say in new york will or will future is there very choppy really taking a lead from europe let's check the latest figures it's of all e.u. markets wednesday spain's economy fell back into recession in the first quarter. is

the only major european balls losing you to date five percent. for must be double to a trillion euros is the organization for economic cooperation and development greece portugal have already been bailed italy and spain will follow because record of the brain club says the think tank is right. i think it could be very effective in terms of bringing confidence to the euro zone the one trillion dollar figure has been mentioned a number of times for the last couple of months and there was a lot of actually pushback on that issue from germany with over the last three and a number of very positive statements coming from america expressing the support from down from there for that measure i think in that sense that could be very supportive of the overall confidence environment in the european union so i think it's definitely a positive for europe. let's check those markets here in moscow the r.t.s. is extending losses lower commodity prices are contributing to that we could crude

just pushing lukoil sells russia's biggest lenders is down again off the rose but below expectations and try to make it last earlier games. last year the london company credit strong good gold prices and production games and gold prices hit two week highs yesterday this slightly off at the moment silver still above thirty two dollars however oil has dropped from the highest close in more than a week off to reports confirmed stockpiles of increase crude. for the day. the ruble shedding recent highs against the euro and the greenback and europe today more stories on our website business thanks for the business update daniel and in a few moments how the consequences of america's invasion of iraq compare with those of poster child after our headlines shortly.

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