the first group of u.s. marines arrive in australia. in on these are pacific region to challenge china's growing influence details from new york coming up. also this hour deadly debt burden as a greek pension is shoots himself in front of parliament in athens amid a soaring suicide rate and growing financial desperation across. russia was against arming the syrian rebels with peace efforts underway saying they can topple president assad and it will only lead to carnage.

very good even for moscow it's nine pm when is the thing here now my name's kevin zero in and this is r.t. the top story the first u.s. marines have arrived in australia as america boost its military presence in the asia pacific region more than two thousand personnel are said to be deployed there over the next few years and it adds to america's military footprint in such countries as the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard is one of poor guys got the latest on this from new york. but total of twenty five hundred american troops are expected to arrive. by twenty sixteen this part of a bilateral defense agreement of the two countries and now. part of that agreement also includes an increased presence of u.s. warships and military aircraft including the fifty two bombers to operate from australia's bases but of course this is part of a bigger plan that u.s.

president barack obama announced in january in which he said the u.s. has a new strategy of pivoting its defense to the asia pacific mr obama said the plan is aimed at countering china's growing military and economic influence he also said it would also counter potential attempts by beijing to block u.s. capabilities and areas such as the south china china sea really there are forty seven thousand u.s. troops stationed in japan twenty thousand american troops stationed in south korea with the u.s. maintains bases in both of those areas additionally washington recently announced plans to build a military defense shield in asia and the middle east clearly none of this news is making china any happy because all of this defense from the u.s. is being built up in its backyard now back in january after president obama

announced his defense pivot plan china released a statement basically telling wording the u.s. should be careful with its words and its actions in a statement released by the ministry ministry of defense china called america's accusations baseless and said it would closely observe the impact of america's military in the asia pacific so this latest step is not going to make china happy at the very least we'll see what their response is of by. as we're reporting our help in reporting the u.s. is moving forward with building up its military presence in china's backyard our correspondent in new york want to put their the latest asia time for the co-sponsor pertly ask about told us that beijing's well aware of what's going on in his backyard and it will put up with it there's only one thing about this whole thing which is certainly if not arrests in china or do you know other way around rather

caressing put it chinese know it they know this is about american culture all of the western pacific and the south china sea and they all have their account of measures in place of course china doesn't have an expansionist strategy in the south china sea but now they're facing a you where expansionist strategy in their own backyard superior countermeasures be basically defensive measures but it's not that the trainees leave it and more is going to start to actually bolts in the south china sea if this is what some o.t. some freaks of the vatican that's their wishful thinking actually. was about it to judge colbert editor of the colbert report news website explaining to us of r t why the asian pacific nations siding with the u.s. and not with china. it's a case of real politic and i think that there are certain governments that believe that they can they can benefit from this and they're they're likely to side with

whoever is going to be if you were a player or they perceived to be is going to be eventually when you're in a state of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has clear security already when it comes to convention all the naval assets for example let alone cyber weapons and all of the other tools of warfare that are being deployed in an unmanned aerial vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously the dominant player here and a lot of governments will will she can't with their will as it were if even if they don't agree with all of the u.s. policies they'll certainly go along with with it in order to get certain kick back some kind of diplomatic so. they're watching r.t. with me kevin now into night still to come the hague's rejection of palestinian request to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on their territory throws doubt over the court's impartiality. i'm reporting to you from britain where having a typical is proving to put opinion swaying about how best to call time on the country's lethal drinking culture. struggling with money

has proved to be an unbearable burden for a great pensioner who shot himself dead in a square in central athens is just one of a string of suicides across the e.u. caused by financial desperation and the continuing harsh austerity measures things tests are said in reports from brussels. well on the bigger picture it is a symbol of the desperation on the street of the ordinary people across the e.u. who are suffering from obvious thirty cuts in the financial difficulties other countries are going through at the moment though the seventy seven year old now before shooting himself in front of parliament in athens has said that he would be leaving so as not to leave debt with his children and this is a sentiment that is called by a lot of people they may be suffering as silently or they may not be protesting out of the streets or are killing themselves but it is certainly a sentiment that is reflected across the e.u. and it's not just in greece this country is seeing a rise in the suicide rates but also in italy there have been

a string of recent suicides directly linked to their financial problems we've seen a seventy eight year old woman who threw herself off of the balcony of her third floor flat and she said this was because she had said before that that this was because of the cuts in her pension this was the reason that her son had given to those who had been asking and this is again the interesting thing here is these suicides are directly linked to the financial crisis and this is a message that they're trying to get their leaders to understand those who are trying to are making these decisions for them and again austerity cuts are still being tried to push being pushed through by leaders of these countries in order to get their accounts in accordance with what you want to emphasize goal of a sovereign debt crisis however you know greece is the latest that have received to be allowed the eyes are still on the trees like italy and spain portugal the question being asked of them is my this is the next to receive another bailout which country is going to go downwards with spiral again and there are reports that the european commission a showing of the possibility of

a stagnation or another recession coming this year or in the near future and so it's very it's clearly not the end of seeing the cycle of the spirit the spirit in the shares and unfortunately this time around peace and suicides as well. interests of the. in brussels well there are more details for you of this extremely sad and very public suicide in greece. we've accounts from the scene where money pressures just got too much for one elderly man as we've been saying where and also accounts from shocked onlookers wondering what this says about their country so our website now r.t. the calm. russia is accusing a group of western and arab states who supported the syrian opposition of undermining peace efforts gulf nations are calling for weapons to be given to the rebels but wasco says the opposition will never defeat the army even if it's armed to the teeth our middle east correspondent paula sleep has the latest. these comments by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov come just as they do is take

a trip state hillary clinton has restraints to the united states' position that they want the syrian president bashar assad to step down immediately against the backdrop park ongoing peace talks you can say that the u.s. want to decide to step down in any situation and the sooner the better now at the same time we are witnessing increasing support for the opposition inside syria with the brains of syria at all the way to commitment and support to the rebel fighters we're hearing from the gulf nations from qatar and saudi arabia that they are willing to pay several million dollars each month in salaries to rebel fighters the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says one of this undermines peace efforts on the goto's peace efforts of course initiated by the four million chief kofi are not in the process that they are hampering the peace accords because they are encouraging the parties to engage in fighting and not engaging peace in response to

the gulf nations court for the rebel fighters to arm themselves so they'll abroad have this to say. it's clear as day that if the opposition is armed to the chief it will not defeat the syrian armed forces but instead will be slaughter killings for many many years we've heard from the syrian government that they have actually started implementing the conversations for the scorpion and peace plan that they have begun would bring me troops from their volatile cities with tips on moving to the perimeter and encourage the cities we've actually seen some of the troops returning to the army bases but according to this cease fire implementation off to a pub a ten day on the opposition will have forty eight hours in which they will have to cease their own hostilities and not be hearing from the syrian regime is that while they are committed they needs to be the same kind of commitment coming forth from the opposition in terms of wanting to see this violence and discuss more fully. wrote the story go live to jordan now is professor taufiq shomer from philadelphia

university and jordan professor very good evening thanks for being with us saudi arabia is our allies are agreeing to pay syrian rebels to boost this fight against the regime now since peace would cut off the opposition's wages what's the incentive for them to lay down arms them. well i think that the incentive. here in the middle east there is to positions the position that these are for the gulf states and people with allying with unite this theory that want to. position groups and the other the position of the majority of the. arab street at least the majority in jordan and. posing to. any kind of arming of the opposition groups because we think that such an arming of the

opposition group might. effect. terribly and of course it will not help in any solution for the syria as mr lavrov was saying today. even if the oppositions have any kind of weapons they will not be able to cripple that regime even for years to come because the syrian army proved to be very consistent. army they have a many to continue holding together for more than one year and they are. you know. can step down on the opposition and crackdown. and hold the country in one piece we still haven't heard every from the opposition as to whether they're going to commit to the international peace plan russia says it wants countries with links to these rebels to them to do so with courage as best

they can to do so why do you think those nations are still being so apparently one sided. well i think that because they are not looking for democracy in syria they are not looking for their well being of syria they are looking only to. weakening syrian regime and weakening syria for. you know for other kinds of. politics in the politics of the region on. is holding. when syria is holding back because you politics. united states and the west. powers want in the region and i think that the russian position which have been proven to be that it is still. strongly supporting the. regime and

supporting the reform in syria rather than supporting the regime change. because some of the media in the middle east have said that russian position have been soft and in recently and this is obviously by mr lubbers of statement today have been ruled out one other position i think that the opposition are not willing to sit on the table because the moment that they don't have anything to negotiate on they are. obviously through the year we saw that the majority of the syrian people are supporting of the regime and supporting of the reform in syria rather than supporting the opposition hence we can see that position trying to do game so that they can win their western powers and when they win. a tripling very seems to western

intervention rather than the willingness of all the whole lot of the syrian people we hear your thoughts professor surface. from philadelphia diversity jordan thanks for being on the program is pretty sheeted thank thank you for. staying in the middle east north africa in egypt the movement brotherhood is no fielding its presidential candidate is already pledging a push for sharia law in the country if it wins charles got some to say about that seven pm g.m.t. cross-talk on whether islam and democracy can ever co-exist. in the wake of america's so-called war on terror which effectively put the muslim brotherhood push the muslim brotherhood underground and. to the part of. an officially political landscape nonetheless. i would.

do my. own no no no no no no reason first the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the year of the nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in libya was doing is going as facts. through the day's news the decision not to de ice of russian passenger plane is now considered the most likely cause of monday's deadly crash in western siberia that aircraft came down just minutes after takeoff killing thirty one of the forty three people on board including all the crew doctors are still fighting to save the twelve critically ill survivors investigators telling us the plane's engines were functioning when the plane hit the ground a three day period of mourning for the victims says no started the first funerals taking place today. and we'll keep you cross on the latest developments as the investigation into that plane crash in western siberia on our website are also online tonight other stories may be interested in how to handle presidential prying

. is a pleasure to speak. and to have a microphone that i can see. feel free to transmit it to if you see him barack obama laughs off last week's incident when a rather sensitive conversation between him and president diverted discord among my . plus per grade for protesting online for us we report on a heavy handed crackdown on american students demonstrating against skyrocketing education costs that footage in full at our table. international criminal court turned palestinian request to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on their lands the official cause of the rejection is that palestine is not a un recognized state just helper a co-founder of the israeli committee against relations told us that shadow over

the whole international justice system. the palestinians exist in a kind of a limbo because they're not a state they don't have access to all the instruments of international law or of the u.n. system but at the same time. international law that doesn't apply to the occupied territories it's intended to protect them especially the fourth geneva convention is not enforced by the international community so on the one hand they don't have the instruments to protect themselves on the other hand the international community doesn't accept its responsibility to afford protection for the palestinian problem of the palestinians is that occupation was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting one to three years until it's over this is a forty five year occupation and international law simply isn't geared towards dealing with it so the fact that the palestinians are to states i think. completely

destroys their chance to use international law and and if in fact these millions of people are left without any to fans or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. but if look at some other world views now to somalia's top sports officials were among at least ten killed during a bombing at the reopening survey of the country's national theater the president of the somalia olympic committee and the head of the national football federation both died in the attack by the islamist al-shabaab group which says it planted the explosives that militants were pushed out of market issue by african union troops last year but they've continued to carry out bomb attacks. passenger grams exploded in pakistan has killed at least six and wounded nine others through the injured when a critical condition visual said device was planted inside the van in the khyber district which is known to be an al qaeda and taliban. self-proclaimed mastermind

of the nine eleven terror attacks and four suspects the couple says are finally set to go before a guantanamo war crimes tribunal that charged with terrorism hijacking aircraft almost three thousand counts of murder any trial could still be months away and if convicted they face the death penalty. britain suffering a nasty hangover from a nationwide bargain basement binged low cost alcohol is being blamed for a spike in drug related deaths and lawmakers now think tackling the supermarket sales is a solution but both the industry and the drink use a price won't put them off as that is over but it explains. this is your average friday night now in britain it's not yet midnight but many people have already drunk well over the limit of what's considered binge drinking from now on i drink wine.

yeah take bites yeah. maybe a couple shots. fired maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths for a liver disease in the cake live in the heart thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths are down to alcoholism so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points of being even if you drink in the night so. we binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get through come last orders are a very. big

. and amount six times more than what's considered safe right now all the oysters where there is a very great need to address the misuse issue in the united kingdom the short and long term side of his on the short term there are issues around getting weight getting in trouble potentially putting yourself at physical risk or you know violence or something along those lines those are all short term issues that need to be addressed then you have the longer term health issues which are issues around heart disease cancer liver disease the government blamed supermarkets selling rock bottom prices just twenty. pounds can buy you as many as forty cans of strong cider it now wants to ban these multi by discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will fall supermarkets to effectively double their prices on the cheap piece drinks but the industry's adamant it's not

cost that's causing the trouble the heaviest cheapest people drink problematic levels of a least likely to be to increase by price rises the minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers little reception of society likely to be harvested it's the poor it's the lowest income so it seems very unfair and it's not actually going to be successful in tackling the problem drinkers at the moment fools and the police that punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the government claims ending bargain losing would instantly cut crime and messily reduce alcohol related deaths but with the bulk of binge drinkers ready paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the temple bar them from having another destructive night toils michael bennett party. of the business now a sober day on the markets in recovery some of them. no actually it's going from

bad to worse caverns there is the oil is going down to hard dollars per barrel this hour not good for the russian economy for the ruble for the market and especially the mood is dampened in russia given the high levels of capital outflow just in the recently released dates russia has seen double in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve compared to the same period last year now as you can see there reached thirty five billion dollars now that's almost half of what the country saw in the whole of two thousand and eleven now the central bank hopes this trend will reverse as soon as may after the new government has been formed. reiver you just take a look at those figures speak for themselves pretty much r.g.s. down almost three percent my sex to an hour was said hydro among the notable losers of the day down three point six percent it's apparently going to postpone the sale of its shares with two billion dollars to state bank the d.m.k. b.p.

is much better than the market still down by just an orgy as you can see there it's net profit went up forty one percent last year and after. one of the only gain is weathering the storm it's up one percent as its new car rolls off. the car assembly line up for the new law the law has been launched by prime minister vladimir putin after last plans to produce twenty seven thousand of this car this year to some put forward new measures to support domestic carmakers including a recommendation the government should only buy cars made in the customs union of russia bella reese and stuff. stay with the auto industry russia's car assembly holding after an canadian auto parts producer mag now they're considering creating a car making class in russia now in order to do that the company's plan to set up twenty one new plants in the country's northwest. now say look at

other markets and the dow jones the nasdaq also fall in the nasdaq is dragged by yahoo's shares the company's going to fly in two thousand people to downsize in europe the trading is over the footsies down more than two percent the dax almost replace them at the close a lot of negative factors here spain's important option didn't go so well gloomy outlook for the economy pretty much inflation at two percent g.d.p. to decline point one percent this year and also knows that melissa pretty much interest rates have been left that one person. on the currency markets because of all the sell off for the dollar is of course in high demand a lot of money going in there out of the euro as you can see there and out of the ruble but the ruble is straight filling versus the euro and it's down to thirty

eight rubles sixty seven euro. and commodities as i mentioned earlier really going down two and a half dollars per barrel for light sweet and that's of course because of the dollar's strengthening there for oil since it's counted in dollars is going down and. that's what i have for you kevin tonight all right the latest business talk to one way very soon from washington d.c. our studios there laura listed takes a close look at america's economy rollercoaster to play to the headlines here on our team moscow.

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