fueling the fire is the way mediators struggled to get warring sides in syria to negotiate london valves to keep cash flowing to rebels in their fight against damascus. recent shooting rampage carried out by a french gunman in toulouse draws presidential candidates and to fear a supreme election rhetoric over extremism and immigration. spain's prime minister set to announce a new wave of austerity cuts a day after a nationwide strike led to violence between police and protesters.

eleven am in moscow i match you with us here on r t our top story despite officially supporting a u.n. appeal for a cease fire by all sides in syria the u.s. and allies still back the opposition unconditionally britain's promise to funnel additional aid to rebels worth hundreds of thousands of dollars amid reports they're already getting weapons from abroad laura smith reports from london. the u.s. we understand is expected to make a similar pledge this weekend to seventeen nations whose expressed goal is to unite this opposition in syria which is hugely fragmented as we know and consists of at least four main factions and the foreign secretary william hague says that he hopes this will help the opposition to unite as a as a credible force against us for the u.k. this represents a doubling of aid to the country they've already given seven hundred fifty thousand

dollars which was being used in areas like training for media skills and also to help the opposition to gather information on human rights abuses now it's not clear how useful that money is actually being we've been receiving a lot of conflicting information on casualties from the opposition including from here in london the syrian observatory for human rights which has been hugely inflating the number of casualties lots of conflicting figures that now this money is planning to widen the scope of the help it's destined to woods buying equipment including we understand secure phones to help the opposition to communicate secretly and effectively and there are several main points really here firstly how secure is this money how does the british government know that it's not going to buy weapons and it is going to be channeled into these more sort of peaceful measures and the answer is possibly they don't secondly who is this opposition is

something where any further forward in determining exactly who makes up this factional opposition in syria we do know that a part of it is the free syrian army which is a hugely dangerous group known to have killed a number of people and also believes to include a number of possible islamic extremists thirdly how useful is it in diplomatic terms to support one with a view to obtaining a diplomatic solution. is very displeased by these gifts of money he's already said stop providing both money and weapons to the opposition they have to stop immediately if kofi annan six point plan for peace in syria is going to work that suggests that if countries carry on giving money he may just pull out of the talks altogether we're seeing austerity cuts we're seeing strikes and demonstrations literally almost every week here in this country and it's against that backdrop that the british government is sending more and more money to syria to cover more

and more things and who knows where this intervention on this scale is going to end the only way to help the syrian people is to promote negotiation instead of just simply supporting one side may conflict so we have you were in for war is editor an analyst patrick hemmings. it's unbelievable how it's got to this point where it seems ok to fund the opposition whatever form it is and you know let's not kid ourselves the u.s. and the u.k. have been attacking guerrilla forces in syria for the last year ok and we can't erase that from the history books has been happening that's been admitted by the u.s. state department it's been admitted by the u.k. foreign office and all the sudden they're back pedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear

president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know is already pretty caught through proxy smuggling on over the border in jordan but also there's arms going over the border eleven on where these coming from ok you know these are coming from these are coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region they're doing this through a third party. coming up in a little more than twenty minutes cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syria arrest. it was not the international law of the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two was the united states navy if you're talking about the relative peace will be bad in a world we've had relative peace because of u.s. intervention you might call it imperialism i would call it a part of the role that the united states is playing and maintaining

a balance somebody will see. that he's not in the same as he had lacey's yes also. with your attention in the least the united states plays a very significant role in maintaining the kind of peace that you would like to see even in iraq because as you look at this is doing. the right of. herbert opened up a can of worms here and. stay with us here on r t still to come this hour fuel frenzy drivers in the u.k. rushing to the pumps as they're warned of a possible fuel tanker strike plus. it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machines here plays that you have no idea i don't need the help of the fact that it goes what they're actually use it with their larger purpose do you think it is or how soon may your dishwasher start spying on you we track the brothers players for the privacy of americans. but first the man who

gunned down seven people including three school children in one of france's worst terror attacks has been buried outside the city of toulouse this after days of debate i want to do with the body of mohamed merah a frenchman with algerian origin but as well as being a figure of public hatred meraz first fast becoming a game changer in the country's upcoming presidential vote test or so he reports from paris. why mcnair was killed by police after a thirty two hour seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse isn't there as background shit to me from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terrible violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purpose of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally

punished. so that's in addition to sarkozy's policy of stripping foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france and promising to bar radical muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an islamic conference next month they're clearly advocating the political change and it's from his view it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the risk repeats tony. was a french citizen and he's family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism. from inside francis that society it's not just something that is important for. me to leave. and you cannot. take away french nationality from the french

nationals this is not. the french constitution and then there's marie le pen the far right national front party candidate having long pushed a more radical anti immigration line call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes on a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammad neurons are the in the boats and planes trains and france full of immigrants is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war in this fundamentalist political religious groups why kill him now with children the threat that was slamming fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think although it's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which will aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with now the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as

a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic that are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is it's pretty difficult to recruit because what is the goal of all the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris. there's panic at the pumps in the u.k. were threatened strike by fuel delivery drivers already seen stations are running dry even fears the army may be deployed to keep the country moving this at a time of wallet emptying oil prices as the governments of london paris and washington considering flooding the market with their own reserves francis said there's a good chance the u.s. and europe will agree to release oil stocks into the market to drive down crude costs bias here as the war in libya tighten supplies countries the warning to the

paris based international energy agency released sixteen million barrels of crude into the market to cool prices now a new sanctions over iran have also been influencing the cost of the from the national iranian american council says the west can only blame itself for the spike in prices the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the sanctions that we put in place to try to restrict iran from profiting off of oil sales is really actually backfiring on us and that iran has tremendous leverage against us if we're going to take this confrontation to one to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this president obama has even said a number of economists have said that the fear of a war with iran has actually added about twenty dollars to the price of

a barrel of oil so this concern that israel may strike iran or that the united states may end up in a war with iran is one of the driving factors of why it's so expensive and simply addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate that. remember you can always check out our t. dot com for all the latest news or video and analysis here's what's a click away right now. wall street versus main street two thirds of americans under happy with the u.s. economy is they continue to pay for the mistakes of the financial fat cats. and taken a hit in cyberspace the f.b.i. says it's fighting a losing battle as it continues to be a target for hacktivists out all this and more at our t dot com the.

police in spain and clashed with demonstrators during a general strike against labor reforms and more economic belt tightening this is prime minister mariano rajoy is set to announce a new austerity measures for the country aimed at saving tens of billions of euros and making it easier for employers to fire workers but he's taken precise more from madrid. these are the size and sounds of a protest essentially richer and better known but in the tens of thousands is a half foot part of a general strike it's a rapid pace around space you see similar demonstrations oh. yeah that's a great place but let's you have an all star here possible or not that we saw. serious clashes between demonstrators and police buildings being smashed by protesters at the sea imagery and around the country the effort has been against

austerity measures but most of the points it's being i guess are full to labor law this sets the make it easier to sack boys in the future and also decrease their wages. and this labor reform deprives us working men of critically ill rights and the most outrageous thing is that it's done under false pretenses they say that it's going to reduce unemployment but no labor reform can achieve this this will have the reverse effect and we've tried in the protests we've been having for a year against privatization of public service like education and water we've touched on the topic of public debt when the burden of private debt is put onto the public the reason this is causing such mind is owing to some of the economic conditions that the mayor is saying it has the highest unemployment i've missed any of us a fair that's country at twenty three percent of the population but even among i was seeing a lot of young people out of astri's and starts rising space demonstrations the reason behind that is all those unemployed alcoholic relation of the twenty five

well i think fifty k. already i don't know if it's a situation that obama's size going to really face even a crossroads on the one side it has a year or so has he who i precinct that russia it's so hot. that deficit and they want. all this week dominos austerity passes you see the tiny prime minister saying this is a threat to not only space but because the haven't made the rest of the eurozone as well and that's meant aspires primary says me take the heart of this ignoring these themes of protest and demonstration stressing that the austerity bill the budget speech passed on friday will be very very austere results being cut some outreach to p.b.s. bureaus but on the other side help them face these protesters except there should be austerity but the question of what cost of that should be the wants to pay its.

part is jake of greece reporting from madrid crisis strategist gonzalo lira says saving spain could be a task easier said than done. because it's forty percent the size of germany you cannot save a country that size you cannot bail him out like you would bail out greece or ireland or portugal spain is a big country is one trillion euros g.d.p. per year. that's simply too big for any country or any group of countries in the european in the euro zone to bail out france and germany cannot be allowed spain so the only solution and i think this is inevitable is for spain to exit the euro zone and go back to devalue and start rebuilding its economy and that i think will likely happen in the next government after hoyt who i think unfortunately is going to fail and the government after that will be left wing government and they will probably exit the eurozone and go back to and the value and do what has to be done

because this government unfortunately they have the best of intentions and i have no doubt that they are very capable and competent but they just don't have what it takes to do what's necessary which is exit the euro. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe north korea's started preparations for a walk it last scheduled for april according to satellite images taken by a private u.s. for washington says the exercise is actually a long range missile test and in breach of u.n. resolutions with japan saying it's ready to shoot down a north korean rocket if necessary says it's intended to send a satellite into space for scientific purposes meanwhile the north fired two short range missiles off its west coast thursday. west african nations have issued an ultimatum to the leaders of a military coup in mali to relinquish power within seventy two hours or face a ship proposed measures would include include shutting off land borders with the country and freezing mollies assets last weeks who was led by soldiers unhappy with

president obama due to money tories policies their self declared leaders have since unveiled a new constitution and announced elections in which hundred participants would be barred from standing. a suspected u.s. drone fired two missiles at a house that house in northwest pakistan killing three alleged militants the attack happened early friday in the town of miran shah an area known as a sanctuary for taliban and al qaeda insurgents foreigners believed to be among the group of those hit the strike comes at a time when pakistan is demanding an end to u.s. drone strikes in the country. israel's military has closed off the west bank as palestinians and arabs prepare to mark a land day the annual march commemorates the death of six arabs killed by israeli police during protests over government confiscation of land in northern israel thousands of troops have been deployed intice a patient of violence the palestinian authority has also urged supporters to hold demonstrations outside israeli embassies in other countries big brother is slowly

creeping into americans lives with the cia chief even joking about spying on people through their dishwashers according to recent polls people in the us aren't seen the funny side fear of big government has sort of mitt expanding unchecked security measures or he's a marine important has more. ten years ago biometrics robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a spy by flick starring tom cruise center from the roof today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report how arguably calm and know can we ality with life ominously imitating art your walking down the street of the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license photo or some other photo maybe a mug shot maybe a surveillance photo and say all right it was on the corner of forty second and.

three o'clock last saturday in addition to facial recognition new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody. in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street activists police under arrest like christina gonzales they really don't tell you why they just say it's another form of identification and it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machine to your phrase that you have no idea that only the health of fags out there are clearly use it with their larger purpose of using it is for iris scans are like a high tech fingerprint but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who's unique scan is on the database but technology is becoming increasingly useful as

a tracking tool in the u.s. in the virtual world of tweets. facebook posts and search engines every internet user is defined by a data footprint if you think anonymous comments and blogs are protected think again through the use of what's called forensic linguistics. u.s. investigators can now uncover whose fingers are behind every single keystroke if i have a good a large enough sample of your writing and your postal card can tell you can compare it i can even put it into a database and database. using that information finding every other post you ever did the digital data trail of every american will soon be connected to a massive building in utah a two billion dollar data center is reportedly being constructed for the u.s. national security agency the complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and

store all forms of personal communication including online purchases cell calls google searches and yes private messages but they're actually looking at di encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g.-mail your all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you this service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. center is designed around building systems that will d.m. crap that data and remove any protection that you can put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian freefall when describing the emergence of the internet of things the freeze refers to an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all home electronics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty up to one hundred billion

ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that bottomless pit of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says. very idea of secrecy will change forever. archy new york. harbor marina pros are able to join us now with all the latest from the world of business and the european markets are open how are they doing so far. yes they are open and they're managed to recover from the thursday's losses and we're seeing a completely different picture out of if you can see behind me but basically we've gone from a c.e.o. of red so now asia is the only one remaining in the reconcile let's take a look at the latest figures we'll start with europe and we can see there that the footsie is up almost a half a percent all the dax is gaining three quarters overside and we'll get

a clearer picture of what is happening next hour because this is early into the trading session and of course investors will be looking at what will happen when the finance ministers will be meeting to discuss what they will do with their intervention in the fall and emergency funds there ok let's move on to russia and it's also a positive picture here we can see both the arts yes and the mice excited again in over one of the sour and this has been so for a pretty successful quarter for russia in the markets we know about the arts he has gained seventeen percent since the beginning of the year and for the my six not seven percent and among the factors was stronger or oil prices as well as gains on wall street and analysts expect this number to go to twenty percent by the end of the year now let's take a look at some individual share moves on them i say it's because of the strong or oil prices we see that most of the trips are trading in the black this hour as specially energy substance that gas problem is why actually we don't see gas one was the natural but also gas was up almost two percent which seems to have some

outdated figures graphics not working but we do have m.k. that is there and that is gaining almost a two percent and that's the news of a company gotten approval so acquire a strain in iron ore explore flinders hopefully we'll have the c d's working for the next hour let's move on that to a user as i meant. and it's still as sea of red there and basically investors are reacting to a number of reports first we have in japan the new reports show that industrial output fell unexpectedly in february and that was due to lower overseas the matter for electronic goods as well as the cars production fell by one point super cent compared with january and in hong kong who saw that property related stocks plunged and that's after news that suit billionaire crawlers who are property tycoons in hong kong got arrested on suspicion of grue ivory now let's move on to prices are going up and that's after seeing the biggest decline in the week and factors

affecting that war the u.s. stockpiles which are on the rise in the western countries discussing the possibility of releasing their strategic oil reserves ok when it comes to currencies the euro is slightly lower against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's again against the dollar but losing against the euro ok now let's move on to other news we have a new record which claims that model phone companies are losing a staggering fifty eight billion dollars a year world noid that's due to billing errors and fraud and in africa in the middle east it accounts for fifteen percent of revenue in europe it's one percent and in north america it's two point eight percent but when you consider the fact that last year the industry made nine hundred twenty billion dollars in total the last doesn't sound that big in comparison. now global i.p.o. activity has slumped seventy percent in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve that's compared to the same period last year i reported by ernst the young

says the laser amounts of roughly fourteen billion dollars so far the deal is that is and that's the lowest level in some years the uncertainty in the euro zone and a smaller number of large listings from states on farms created unfavorable conditions and that's why it wouldn't see that many i.p.o.'s but emerging markets are still the i.p.o. leaders and china tops the list in the number of deals and when it comes. out of the league and the last time it hosts that i.p.o. was last summer. and i had some difficulties with graphics out hopefully will be back on track next hour and show you some of the individual share moves on the my sax player looking forward to that thanks very much marina for that. well stay with us here on our t.v. i'll be back with the headlines followed by a debate show cross talk in a little bit. question

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