syria's opposition now being called on to stop the violence as president assad signs up to the un peace plan but it's fear of the rebel factions are too divided and handling lay down arms. strength in numbers five of the world's fastest growing economies need an alternative to the i.m.f. and the world bank and good strong growth also. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe cold war bombast the sweets america's republican senators and demand no concessions for russia which while it's guarantees us the silence won't be a it's way. thanks

for joining our team at six o'clock here in moscow on charon taraji syrian rebels are under pressure to accept the un backed peace plan after damascus rubberstamp the deal and includes appeals for a ceasefire 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 to unite with some factions rallying behind the syrian national council at a conference and turkey r.t. sarah firth reports. both come out of the meeting is a picture of an opposition that'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 try and hammer out some common objectives and really lay to rest the

concerns over the very fractious nature of that it seems that that was elusive to then they were unable to unify and in fact the picture that came out we saw a walkout from some of the members of this agreement 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 as though foremost as an exile government in waiting a very similar feel it is anti fifty that hasn't really been the reality of what's happened and we seen a fish criticisms coming from the different opposition factions and those saying that the syrian national council ineffective and that they're very far removed from what's going on inside the country so that they will get 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 if the opposition sort of failing to present this united front can be solved to middle east history and politics professor bill counts university in turkey says the fractured syrian opposition has already lost momentum both politically and militarily. the syrian national council has been in disarray from the beginning and has been dysfunctional. now just in the last few days and of resignations of several important members now we hear from inside the council is that not i see members and there are hundreds if not in council or also made it quits and stronger in body because they see. i completely. unworkable and this one criticism coming from because members they say they're taking their interests into account. with the money is gone money has been given by western donors and are of donors and some questions about lack of transparency transparency social concern

want so we can see here and see is in. total disarray and cannot be said to represent suing people actual yet we're being told that next week when the frames for one thing which recognized or to clear the. legitimate representative of the syrian people and it just doesn't make any sense and you that's. sarah seeks an end to its ongoing crisis as we travel to another country in the region still struggling with the consequences of revolution find out about fresh trouble clashes in libya and its continuing violence with the authorities admitting they've failed to bring stability that's coming your way in a few minutes also. protestors in britain called for heavy handed riot police to praise justice as one activist was seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself in the dark. green peace to syria without

foreign military intervention and breaking the west's economic hold on the world have 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 far as with the world expanding economies meet archies priya sridhar is a new delhi for us. it's the fourth annual brics summit that's going on here and via the emerging economies brazil russia india china and the newest member south africa will be meeting here the leaders of those countries for the next two days russian president dmitry medvedev landed here and early this morning bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the brick 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 day 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 asserted itself 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 that would serve as an alternative to the western led financial institutions the traditional ones like the international monetary fund and the world bank there is also talk about creating some sort of brics 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 amergin the 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. it is. really. to go to join the geopolitics. of the word the summit this year is expected to discuss a new joint bank between the five other brics countries are interested in. investment infrastructures and indeed people of their resources so obviously

a bank would be a very very useful buccal for this kind of investment and. would build these the coated. bricks truck exchange this is not happened before this is a new exceeds a new tradition the leading political leader it believe that a brick could merge the a growing economic power between the of country life establishment they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to what's there in lead by mantle of situations like the international monetary fund and the world bank certainly the brics hopes to be able to or to remove the overall predominance of the institution by the united states and 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. pretty good because he couldn't see. it is just breaking the will pull you off the vis the summit will be hoping to advance further at the economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on western dominated global economic architecture preassure either party new delhi india. let's now talk to sang songs so from the bank of china how do you view the creation of a joint brics banks will the enterprise succeed. this worry important. sorts of creates the joint development bank among bric countries i think the fund this will call reset the trails among the cultivation we have become then those important because region among priests countries that we

oversee in the past two years after sri. agreed progress has to be made in trade corp material say others and other areas sulfa economies i think in the future the further show on the must be covered to say we have become the most important parts vicious the ten to five brics countries sold the joint to other bank is a very productive and the very problem you see i do year to be furthur prague proceed here control of the i.m.f. and to a european candidate and the world bank looks to be going to an american so one actually better for brics to focus on getting one of their own in such a powerful position as opposed to thinking up a new and untested institutions. well i think the warping kind i'm. in terms of the position the influence of the finest sunda money their

influence has been reduced a significant today in a positive decades particularly in the last one take a particular after asian from a crisis to the car in the financial crisis meant to be nieve the work of bank on the i.m.f. has not supplied a yes that's a vision is preventing a crisis to represent. the fates and all the voices are thought through you mirjam marchese emerging economy so i think the brics countries are really represented the largest clients of you virgin economies a soul there we all collaborate with creates a new institutions a father who is a future as a bouncer users you see a future that will represent the benefits all for you merging economies so i see the guest. very important attends i think the future i.m.f. and the world bank and the we are the smaller under smaller go into work that you called me i'm joined from the trees and which is all thought bricks come face to

play more the more you put it in particular for emerging economies now the brics countries want to step away from the dollar as the reserve currency and boost trade in their own currency how is it going to work. well in these years actually the currency treatment us trade in certain industries and that's where currencies sore arm beads are rushing currency india currency brazil on the soles after you can currencies and has made very good progress in the pasta years of particular china and other countries of trade i think that markets are the grading contraries or choose to use r. and b. the russian currency and other currencies of some place to settle their trade or so the us needs currencies to us to university and from the s.s. there's i think these trends we have become foster of the fostering the future under many people worry about so that the precision of us dollar and the wants to

have our prerogative through international reserve currency so i think the needers of a pretty companies we'll push forward these developments of during their summit in india all right sang songs from the bank of china thank you. multiple explosions sent off a massive fire in thailand as we report online. fireworks explode on a factory causing a blaze that took hours to contain more of this video is available on our you tube page also. the mystery of the kremlin catch reports of the disappearance out president believes if the feline friend hits the social networks during so the russian leader takes to twitter to sort it all out the tale told at artesia com. a group of republican senators have written to president obama demanding that no

concessions be made to russia and after obama was overheard assuring me that he needed to have more flexibility on arms control issues after november as u.s. presidential election. it was. a little he. was. demanding guarantees from washington that the plan missile defense system in europe would not target russia it's something that neither the u.s. nor nato have provided yet republicans claim any concessions to russia with threaten america's national security as their own education now reports. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . have perfect time to drag down 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 clyne enemy while its president elect you should recovery. represents a real threat to 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 inventive advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. but it would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home

to do so and to shift their watches it's the year twenty twelve and seventy's and the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to rest but for some it's just too good to like girl boy to return to those cold war simple there is. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the republican presidential hopefuls are capitalizing on the list also includes china when 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. china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and. and looking for ways to get you to want to harm a sick or 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 worlds in which they became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy this world is depicted triscuit it's some kind of hidden if it's cool. and very 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 also 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 leave them early when the leipzig because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to check our reporting. our team. america's former chief 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 reset has failed at all in fact on some issues like afghanistan there's a lot of cooperation i even think in the areas like syria where two or three weeks ago there was a lot of angry rhetoric do not about to have the two sides decision to leave 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. so russia go to work together. in particular you know there are two big countries that face big problems challenges both domestic and international that are most of those issues i think there similarly a lot. of that full

interview with richard bird is on air in just about ten minutes here on r.t. . a british student who suffered a near fatal blow to the head in police clashes during a student demonstration is on trial himself for the violence i think meadows and fifty others ended up in the hospital after the fighting during protests over two additional fees it could be jailed for five years of convicted but as i've repented explains his supporters want to see the police face justice over brutality. 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 is 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 unjust and shipping lease here elfie if she thinks she's in

charge of self and is a victim of violence and he sends a message that least in a sense it is a lie and if you approach this day 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 fee 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 and healthy 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 a throwing a joke shop smoke bomb these kinds of events which even if they are. technically career. trivial in the sense of it didn't cause any harm nor could it cause harm to the police officers just right here and so on to the real victims here and in other some of the police there but they are the protesters who have been beating the charges in the obvious cases virtually killed alfie meadows was charged soon after lodging a complaint with the police and 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

a london cabbie as admitted it's failing to bring stability that's after fifty people were killed in two days of travel clashes in the south of the country the state is faced with continued violence with former rebels still bearing arms a year after the revolt journalist and blogger neil clark says the national security council has done more harm than good since it began. i mean is massively going to achieve its goals let's look back twenty seats of power last year they promised peace democracy human rights in libya we actually have the very opposite there is no peace in nuclear ambition to the fifteen people killed in the last two days 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 on punished there's been desecration of british war graves in benghazi again the. fact is the city is not in control of the country as

a lot of us are scurrying on. and the culture is in a real mess with me probably isn't the east of wash with arms and the fact is now you've got the issues you've got different tribal coalitions all heavily art you could have very weak divided government including but it's not in control of its territory and so you've got a real recipe for an acute moment but who's to blame for this but it's the western powers who gave these arms to gravel's topple gadhafi and already he is going to starve for the days of kidnapping because there is lawlessness there and it's very similar to what's happened in iraq. take a look at some other international news the damage to one of the fukushima nuclear reactors is far worse than previously thought with fairly 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. mali has been suspended for a multinational african bloc following a last week's military coup the group is threatening sanctions and forest service the soldiers do not stand down who leaders have given details of a new constitution televised statement and pledge freedom of speech and movement the overthrow was led by soldiers unhappy with the way president toured was handling insurgency in mali. an american pilot terrified his passengers by running through the cabin screaming about threats and cooking oils burn or was captaining a domestic flight when he shouted that they were all going down he was subdued by passengers after being a locked out of the cockpit before being let off while handcuffed to a chair after the plane made an emergency landing in texas. time for the world of business with daniel and news of the biggest emerging market bond sale for

three years its current growth just hit today to set the process on seven billion dollars of euro bonds it will cope with the country's needs for a year but the chief economist of russia says it does not need me to spending. well the first call rationale of trying to finance. budget deficits is the dominant theme in this euro bond issue i think the dominant theme is for russia to. return to capital markets that are successful. and their return to capital markets facilitates the borrowing of russian corporates abroad. let's check the latest figures it's a bad day for all e.u. markets wednesday spain's economy fell back into recession in the first quarter in fact which is why vix is the only main european bourses losing year to date is down five percent wall street's open mixed much like yesterday follows not too positive

economic data released earlier here in moscow the all tears extending losses lower commodity prices are helping that we crude prices are pushing who calls herself russia's biggest lenders burbank is down again often it rose but below expectations truckman could come as those last early gains as well gold prices hit two weeks highs yesterday this slightly off at the moment silver still above thirty two dollars though oil's dropped from the coins close in more than a week of the reports confirmed u.s. gold polls have increased crude and brant now a polar bear on the euro swung into the red on the dollar ruble shedding recent highs against the euro and the greenback and europe to do more stories on the website of the dot com such business. as daniel question with the very latest business update for us their passports is a habit in fifteen minutes but a recap of our top stories is coming up in just a few moments here on our. culture

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