syria's opposition now being called on to stop the violence as president assad signs up to the un back to a peace plan but it's clear the rebel factions are true divided and than willing to lay down arms. strength in numbers and with the follow up of the world's fastest growing economies are meeting to hammer out an alternative to the i.m.f. and the world bank and boost growth and also. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe cold war sweeps america's republican senators who demand no concessions from russia which wants guarantees u.s. missiles will be aimed its way. in the mystery moskos market so for

a second week of the business it is interesting. thanks for being with r t it is seven o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen to herat say syrian rebels are under pressure to accept a un backed peace plan after damascus rubberstamp the deal that 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 party sarah firth reports. both 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 trying to hammer out some common objectives and really laid to rest the concerns over the very fractious nature but 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 its though foremost as an exile government 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 fierce criticism coming from the this the 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 i think was an optimistic picture 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 a united front term results middle east has tuireann politics professor bill can university in turkey says the fractured syrian opposition has already lost momentum both politically and militarily. the syrian national council has being in disarray from the beginning and has been dysfunctional. now just in the last few days a millisecond. severin for members now we hear from inside the council is that another i.c. members and there are two hundred seventy in council are also widget. body because they see. on workable premise in criticism coming from. their interests into account. the money is gone. and given by western

journalist and arab journalists and questions about lack of transparency transparency so someone 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 friends of syria. one thing to. recognize or to clearly is in see as the sole legitimate representative of the syrian people and it just doesn't make any sense into that. as syria seeks an end to its ongoing chorus we travel to another country in a region still struggling with the consequences of revolution about first 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. protesters in britain call for heavy handed riot police to

face justice as one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself in the dark. bringing peace to syria without foreign military intervention and breaking the west's economic hold on the world tom david 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 father of the world's expanding economies meet. her is a new delhi. it's the fourth annual great 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 dmitri medvedev landed here and early this morning in bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the brics summit the russian president and president hu were discussing syria both 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 saying 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 asserted itself as russia's biggest foreign trading partner actually laugh your 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 with third as an alternative to the last three and 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 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 and the. economy. it is the. police. who go to join 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 getting tiny's investment in infrastructure and indeed people of their resources so obviously people of unbanked will be a very very useful vehicle for this kind of investment properties and i think. it is the code of. bricks exchange this in order for the you exceed can you introduce any political leader at believe that of brics could merge the growing out on the powers between the country and into a centralized establishment they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to what they're in lead by mantle institutions like the international monetary fund and the world beg. the brics group hopes to be able to or to remove the overall predominance of the institution by the united space 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 brics driven one is also still firmly on the agenda it would become a goody goody good good experience and a good. push to challenge the. euro it is just breaking up of this 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. well control of the world bank looks to be heading to an american candidate while the i.m.f. is already in the hands of a european but channel strong zoo from the bank of china believes these institutions have outlived their usefulness anyway and maine and new ones are needed i think they're working on the i'm out in terms of

a position the influence of the finest sons of money and their influence has been reduced the significant today in a positive decades particularly in the past a one decade taken off her asian from the crises to the car in for this requires these men to be nieve a work of bank and i.m.f. has not supplied a it's the submission is zero in preventing the crises to represent. the fates and told of war use of emerging markets you dirty called me so i think the brics countries cerebro presented a largess of parts of the virgin economies of seoul they will collaborate to create a new easy tuition so for those reasons he was a bouncer user of the represents the better the feeds all for you murthy you call it is so i see the desk. very important attends i think the future i have met by the world bank and the we all play

a smaller and the smaller go into work he called me on the join for that reason to which is off brics countries where play more the more you put in particular for emerging economies. alterable explosion set off a massive fire in thailand as we report for you all. fireworks explode at a factory causing a blaze that took hours to contain more of this video is available to you on our you tube page also there. a mystery all the kremlin catch reports of the disappearance of the president made big gives eli a friend gets the social networks pouring so the russian leader takes to twitter to sort it out the tales told at our team dot com. it. is.

the official. one called touch from the dumpster. geology. and. on the job. if you're just joining r.t.m. karen it's twelve minutes past the hour a group of republican senators have written to president obama demanding that no concessions be made to russia and it's after obama was overheard assuring to meet the needs of up more flexibility on arms control issues after november's u.s.

presidential election. well scales demanding guarantees from washington that the planned missile defense system in europe would not target russia it's something that neither of us nor nato have provided yet republicans claim any concessions to russia would threaten america's national security as guy and she 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.

represents a real threat. to the. realty 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 steered types and take a look at the calendar. and you can voice all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any harm to do so and such and will choose it's the year twenty twelve midnight and sometimes in 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 is. 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 strategies they put forward the arming arming isolating threatening i want to be. china i want to go to war with china these guys around for years and in and out of it and looking for ways to get you 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 good trigger happy candidates 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 this world is depicted in a miniature sketch. some kind of hidden if it cool and very unreal 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 ability to be dangerous for america because we can 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 would 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 our reporting from washington our team. i had a foreign affairs and russia's lower house of parliament says 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 if 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 score because they jumped immediately on this occasion to accuse obama that he's almost hiding kind of plot so there is a kind of plot between him and moscow in which he has nothing to do there is an issue it when russia and the united states and there's the a.b.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 passions are down 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 not careful but it was quite understandable and i don't see that there is anything here. which is out of the call an exchange just usually strange but when political leaders when they discuss political issues of that scope and

magnitude. 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 he would like to find an arms control solution and 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 areas like syria where two or three weeks ago there was a lot of angry rhetoric to know about the two sides physicians' lead 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 go 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 they are

similarly allied. full interview with richard byrd is on air in just over an hour 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'll thing medals and fifty others ended up in a hospital after fighting during protests over. it could be jailed for five years if convicted for benefit explains his supporters who 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 and is now a victim once again despite nearly dying from injuries sustained at a sanctioned protest it's alfie meadows and not the police facing trial for violent

disorder strictly unjust and ship lease healthy that she thinks she's in charge of itself is that in the files on a piece sends a message to fleece in a sense it is a lie and if you're a protest you are basically fake 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 and help it 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 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 to throw in a joke shop smoke bomb these kinds of offenses which even if the correct. technically. trivial in the sense of they didn't cause any harm nor could it cause harm to your police officers dressed in riot gear and so on so the real victims here are not you know there's the police there but they are the protesters who are being beaten attired in obvious cases 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 party london but he has admitted it's failing to bring stability with tribal leaders threatening to declare a separate state in the south of the country after fifty people were killed in two days of clashes there the country is suffering continual violence or 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. because possibly trying 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 libya into the fifty people killed in the last two days every over one hundred people were killed a human rights watch has been appalling tax on black africans has been death in parlance racist violence unpunished i mean that the people who committed these

crimes have been on punished as been this is a creation of british war graves and garcia again a. punishment the fact is the agency is not in control of the country as a lot of us is going on. and the country is in a real mess and look i mean probably is a bit of wash with arms and the fact is now you've got militias you've got different tribal militias all heavily aren't you could have very divided government in crippling that is not in control of its territory and so you've got a real progress of before. you know who's to blame because well it's the western powers who gave these arms to gravel's to topple gadhafi and already libyans are getting the start of the days of good happy because there is lawlessness there and it's very similar to what's happening in iraq now it's time for some other international there's panic at the petrol pumps in britain head of a possible tanker driver strike some stations have already run dry after a government minister suggested people should fill their tanks and stop with fuel

carrots that's despite the fact that no industrial action has yet been called leaders are condemning the potential strike which they say will why it's at risk. the damage 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. ali has been suspended from multinational african bloc following last week's military coup the eagle last group is threatening sanctions and force if the soldiers do not stand down 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 tori was handling insurgency in mali

. an american pilot terrified his passengers by running through the cabin screaming about bomb threats and al qaeda claim mauls been i was captaining a domestic flight when he shouted that they were all going down he was subdued passengers are 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. it's time to dive into the world of business with danielle so danielle russia has decided the price of its euro bond placement what's the tag is that the cheaper of the. first of the billion dollar euro bond will cover the contras needs for the year which if you call them is that good russia says it's not so meet the spending go. well the first goal 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 that facilitates the borrowing of russian corporate so broad. religious figures it's been a day for all those london and frankfurt so no sent there on wall street swung into the red in the last elbows the nasdaq no point two percent lower it follows none too close to the economic data released earlier both mobiles is indeed down again locomotive prices haven't helped let's check stocks with crude prices pushed lou calls sells russia's biggest lenders also finished lower off the nets rose but below expectations and short may come as last earlier games gold prices hit two week highs yesterday this slightly off at the moment silver still above thirty two dollars the oil's drop from the highs close in most of the week off to reports confirmed us polls have increased both crude and print now were over

a dollar down the euro swung into the red on the goal of the ruble should recent highs against the euro and the greenback and in corporate news news corp is once again on the lease this time for competitors australian and british officers are expected to look into allegations rupert murdoch's company hikma codes of pay t.v. rivals then gave away the small called the long view is to get a programming for free news corp which is currently being investigated for phone hacking denies the latest allegations and dropped today more stories on our website or to dot com slash business many things taking a bushel with the very latest business update for us there better levels crosstalk is just a few minutes away and recap of your headlines this hour here on our. culture

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