life on the. video on demand our cheese mine broadcasts. are essentially now in the palm of your. questions on the job com. the arab league calls on the syrian regime to fully comply with the u.n. fact peace plan but it's the opposition let's now under pressure to end the violence despite its crippling divisions as we report tonight. also five of the world's fastest growing economies meet to hammer out their own vision of the i.m.f. and the world bank as a future financial fire wall. plus its petrol panic in the u.k. with fuel stations running dry as motorists get in a spin over a potential tanker driver strike. on wall street as u.s.

stock markets another day of business news in twenty minutes. hello this is r.t. it's now eleven pm here in moscow my name's kevin know in our top stories tonight for you the arab league is discussing the u.n. sponsored peace plan to end more than a year of fighting in syria calling on president assad to fully comply opposition groups are also now under pressure to unite and accept kofi announce proposal which includes a cease fire and dialogue sisera first following the basic relevance of culture with her life by the sara first off what's expected to come out of the arab league meeting. well syria of course as he said going to really be top of the agenda at that gathering it is the first time that the arab league son has been held in iraq for t. decades and it's expected that the arab league ministers who are gathered there are

going to see inducing kafeel and six point peace plan that of course is already been formally accepted now by the syrian government now that's understandably being met with some criticism from members of the opposition he say that he's made promises before that he's felt the liberal say certainly the message coming from the opposition is that against be looking for actions and not just words when it comes to that when the meeting in baghdad at the moment say far has not been seen as having started to really play he said late son of the country's guitar in egypt haven't sent that. gathering possibly. in part perhaps to the fact that there is a difference of opinion of course remember amongst many of the countries participating in that arab league summit you've got countries like it's are he very much been pushing for arming the syrian opposition and calling for arab kits to be

sent in to intervene in syria iraq's foreign minister has said that the country doesn't support foreign military intervention in the country but they are behind the syrian objectives and the fit of the people in syria calling for freedom as there is of course you can see there a difference of opinion i mean all eyes are going to be on this meeting to see really whether the arab league is able to bridge some of these divisions that we've seen really minor progress on the part of. the rebel groups in syria their lucky. sticking point this whole process as well isn't. well that's a levy scene here in istanbul a for the past couple of days a gathering of hundreds of the opposition members an. objective really is to try and hammer out their ideas and their plans and try and put forward a much more cohesive front and they haven't and to lay to rest some of the concerns that countries have about the fact is nature of course when we talk about the

syrian opposition you've got the syrian national council which is the sort of outside body and as we see in fall they very much try to pitch themselves as exile government in waiting in much the same way libya's n.t. see operators but the reality is that it's been a very different situation for them inside the country you've got different opposition factions you've got the free syrian army of course operating inside syria and so one of the main criticisms leveled at the syrian national council is that they're simply not representative and of course you've then got all this infighting which really does hamper the process how the process that they're making so all of this extremely concerning and very much everyone's going to be looking to see some sort of unity i mean we've heard ok for now a calling for these countries now in these different factions to be speaking with one voice and unfortunately it does seem that there's still a lot of in decisiveness and a lot of bickering that is going on there and of course everyone very much focused

on putting an end to this violence everyone knows that this needs to happen at the u.n. putting the latest figures more than one thousand people having being killed inside the situation as that conflict continues you know everyone's very much on the same page when it comes to putting an end to the violence there's just no one really seems to be to sure how they go about stopping at a crucial reading again for. you of course wrote becoming for the surface things of so much in istanbul would your results middle east professor of politics history university you spoke to says the french should syrian opposition has already lost moments of these three exposed politically militarily. but the syrian national council was being in disarray from the beginning and has made this conscience and until now just in the last few days the senators and i sensed now seventy four members now from inside the council is another eighty members and there are two hundred sitting in council are also going to quit. because they see

the essence of all i can to be counted on workable and this includes isn't coming from because they say that their interests into account. the money is gone money has been given the west and john is an arab donors it's questions about lack of transparency transparency social and so on so we can sit here and really isn't see is in a state a total disarray and cannot be said to represent the syrian people actual yet we're being told that next week when the friends of syria will one thing which i used to recognize or to try to be as in see as a sole legitimate representative of the syrian people and it just doesn't make any sense. that you can take. serious seeks an end to its ongoing crisis we look at another country in the region still struggling with the consequences of revolution to find out about fresh tribal clashes in libya and its continuing violence with

the authorities admitting though failed to bring stability to go more than a few minutes time also protesters in britain calling for heavy handed riot police to face justice that says one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself in the dog as we reported. next them bringing peace to syria without foreign military intervention and breaking the west's economic hold on the world dominated talks between leaders of russia and china in india big creation of an alternative to the i.m.f. or the world bank is top of the agenda there as five of the world's expanding economies meet his press freedom is in new delhi the latest on that story tonight. it's the fourth annual break summit that's going on here and india you 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 delhi early this morning in the bilateral meeting

on the sidelines of the brics summit the russian president and president hu with 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 a 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 sanctions 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 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 brits 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 few 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 to 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 could bring. but it would be it is

a. great leap would be. to join the geopolitics. of the word the summit this year is expected to discuss a new joint bank between the five. breaks countries are interested in capping tiny's investment infrastructures and. of their resources so obviously. we would be a very very useful for this kind of investment. because the code of. brics projects huge this is not a form it's a new exceeds a new tradition to be a big political leader it believe that of brecht's could merge the growing up in on the powers between these countries than to with her life establishment they also believe that it could serve as an alternative to life there and led by mantle institutions like the international monetary fund and the world beg certainly hopes

to be able to or to remove the overall or pretty garman ans 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 moody pretty good so you see the group being. pushed. it is just breaking up of this the summit will be hoping to advance for. or there are the economic interests of the brics group further loosening reliance on western germany to global economic architecture preassure either r t new delhi india. war for most of the multiple explosions set off a massive fire in thailand is reporting on line five of these pictures.

of the girl it's exploding at a factory causing a blaze that took prozac contains read dramatic footage you will see more that's in our you tube page also the mystery of the kremlin cat reports of the disappearance of president but village feline friends get the social network's poll saying where's it gone and what's up and what rushdie to take to twitter to try to find out the tales told at r t dot com. the front runner for the us republican nominations accused president of barbour of borrowing to russia and it wrongly claims of bombers foreign policy puts america's national security in danger this comes after of who was overheard assuring that we should move it of of all flexibility on arms control issues after the presidential election in november moscow was guarantees from washington that the planned bissau defense system in europe would not target russia

a group of republican senators has demanded the white house makes no concessions to russia rodney's called basco thought of america's side that save you shared by many republicans rubbing of this story out is gone each and she can. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war a 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 read every. represents a real threat. to the. stability of 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 stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. but it could mean that i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements 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 sometimes anymore 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 days. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the republican presidential hopefuls are capitalizing on the list

also includes china iran's 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 demand and movie three ways to get you to want to harm us of course you take military action to discount acceptable 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 series in which romney became president because i think he he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy this world is depicted in a sketch it's some kind of hidden if it 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 clearly 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 arkie. thanks tonight this panic at the petrol pumps important ahead of a possible time could drive a strike some stations it seems to really run dry for a government minister suggested that people should fill the tanks and stock up with fuel cuts despite the fact that no industrial action jet been cold scotch over this story or let me correspondent norseman scott with the. the scene that you see behind me is something that's repeating itself up and down the country today dr panic about whether they're going to be able to get enough fuel that queuing up at

petrol stations to fill up ahead of a proposed ruling national strike by petrol tanker drivers panic buying is of course a self-fulfilling prophecy if thirty million motorists suddenly decide they might not be able to get enough fuel coming up at the station and each one fifty liters of it then is not going to be a lot left to create shortage in itself and the opposition today is accusing the government fuelling that stigma one of the cabinet ministers said oh another news station this morning that filling up was a sensible precaution ahead of the proposed strikes meanwhile the government's desperately discussing various measures to try and prevent the strike or to compensate for it if it does happen which includes bringing in the oem to full says we've heard reports that around eighty. drivers have been drafted in to start trading training with. the union that looks off to the people who drive business plans a series of strikes that mostly pay our was

a redundancy in safety procedures that kind of thing but it's also a closer look to do with high fuel prices that we're seeing at the moment that's partly of course because of the iran oil involved but partly because of the huge amount of tax that's levied on cue in this country around sixty percent of what people pay at the pump is tax and that's looking to buy when the government puts up tax on fuel again now this looks set to be an incredibly disruptive strike but it's certainly not the buzz we've already seen teaches and lectures go out on strike on wednesday here in london particularly we also saw a general strike at the end of last year which was the it's first generation so really a huge need to throw up to industrial action which could see a massive show. fuel at the pump expecting people in their everyday lives the thirty million drivers in this country. next were british students who suffered

a near fatal blow to the head in police clashes during a student demo is on trial him self for the violence elfie meadows and fifty others ended up in hospital after the fighting cheering protests over tuition fees he could be jailed now for five years of convicted but his art is over bennett 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 and 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. the unjust and rather the ship if a nice healthy if she thinks she's in charge of self is a bit some of the essential message at least in a sense it is

a lie and if you approach to stay 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 you wish 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 run 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 but the students themselves a year on not even a single policeman has been investigated. it's the same protests or a disabled activist drank from his wheelchair and pulled along the road despite this video evidence no offices which i watched put 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 throwing a joke shop smoke bomb these kinds of offenses which even if. technically correct trivial in the sense of they didn't cause any harm nor would they have caused it opens up the dress and appearance on to the real victims here not others are the police there but they are the protesters who have been beaten attacked in the obvious cases 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 and could now face up to five years in prison either bennett r t a london. libya's admitted is failing to bring stability with tribal leaders thrown into the

clear a separate state in the south for more than fifty people were killed in two days of clashes that become trees suffering continual violence from former rebel still bearing arms a year after the revolt journalist a blogger neil clark says the national security council's done more harm than good since it began. i think is massively failing to achieve its goals let's look back twenty seats of power last year they promise 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 in every over one hundred people a human rights watch has been a poor 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 there's been desecration of british war graves in benghazi again and. the fact is the agency is not in control of the country there's a lot of us going on. and the country is in a real mess with me probably uses and the ease 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 a very divided government in tripoli that is not in control of its territory and so you've got a real recipe for it and who's to blame because it's the best powers who gave these arms to gregg's to topple gadhafi and already it's going to start the days that could that be because there is lawlessness there and it's very sad what's what's happening in iraq. and we bring up there are more world news in brief now 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 inside they sent a probe into the reactor for the second time since it was crippled by last year's earthquake disaster that now means decommissioned the facility is going to be much more difficult to clean up it's likely to take decades for the last a visit to cuba the pope closed meeting with fidel castro it ilya addressed the crowd of earth

hundreds of thousands. mass on the site of the country's communist revolution during his three day trip the pontiff called on the government to continue opening up to more reforms. us a spread of this planned food aid to north korea over pyongyang's from rocket launches you'll for next month washington says it breaks the terms of the deal struck back in february which included freezing nuclear missile tests in return for the food north korea insists it's only launching a satellite but other nations think it's a cover for long range weapons practice. i don't merican pilot's been suspended after he terrified his passengers by running through the cabin screaming about threats and al qaida the captain was in charge of a domestic flight when he shouted at bay we're 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. it was twenty five

minutes past. the dell with the world of business manning the business desk hey daniel wall street still singing the blues i guess you'd call it a wall street nightmare just a bit earlier what's going on in fact kevin because last week was the worst of the year so far and it's continuing now we have the latest figures in a moment but our top story russia has held the biggest emerging market bonds still for several years it was in the law of the place which means strong demand from investors the seven billion dollar euro portable code of the country's boring course for twenty twelve would have a list of all it's the butcher of the reasons for the move or the first call rationale of trying to fly a man's. budget deficit. is not the dominant theme in this euro bond issue i think the garmin and theme is for russia to have a return to capital markets that are successful. and return to count on

markets that facilitates the borrowing of russian corporates abroad. let's check those markets that dell nasdaq up both point six percent down at the moment reversing a strong start in the morning it follows none too positive economic data stateside released earlier in another downer for you markets across the board both along the frankfurt closed around one percent lower today here in moscow both main bourses ended lower as well lower commodity prices a major cause there let's check major movers on the most six now we could crude prices pushed luke all cells russia's biggest lenders also finished down off the net profit rose but below expectations and try to make a come has also lost earlier games gold prices hit two week highs yesterday even they'll just holding above sixteen sixteen else and silver is clinging on to thirty two dollars both crude and brits are down over a dollar

a day from the highest close in more than a week comes off the reports confirmed u.s. stockpiles of increase will need change root's the euro's swung into the black against the dollar in the last hour of the ruble shedding recent highs against both bureaus and the greenback and finally news corp is once again under the scrutiny of the law this time for supper told its competitors australian and british police are expected to look into allegations rupert murdoch's company hacked the codes of pay t.v. rivals then gave away the small codes alone viewers to get their programming for free news corp which is currently being investigated for phone hacking denies the latest allegations and you're up to date more stories on our website kevin church of such business tell you more trust in terms of a long running story and thanks for face the latest news the ups and downs of the wall street protests from cross-talk should mind in a few minutes be labelling cohere before that headline update for me kevin zero in on this quick break here on our team from moscow.

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around russia we've dumped a few jerks coverage. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day.