the british prime minister powers ahead with his arms sales pitch and asia opening up the u.k.'s war arsenal to the nation surrounding china. there's still a chance of a truce says the special envoy to syria while u.s. bombers hawks oppose the outward syrian rebels and step up calls to supply them with arms. plus critics say spanish plans for a vegas style gambling empire to make money and jobs could actually end up losing the sex industry more than the economy.

what you know if you live from moscow on pm in the russian capital i'm marina joshua a joint anglo japanese weapons research pact and a permanent british naval presence in asia those are the first fruits of british prime minister david cameron's strongest yet push to hawk his country's weapons to you weren't having departed from japan is now in indonesia calling for that nation to be allowed to buy weapons and ball that just a decade after the country was embargoed by london itself or using british jets to bomb civilians accompanied by a red arms dealers representing the u.k.'s oldest and biggest weapons makers cameron is currently on a five day tour across the continent and for the u.k.'s are reports aside from standing to make an explosive profit there's also the benefit of irritating china. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david

cameron unashamedly townson the u.k.'s military hardware only he calls it flying the flag for britain it's seeking to become only the second country other than america to trade arms with japan not only big business but the chance for a crucial foothold in what's clearly the place to be business perfectly predictable result of the shifting of focus of american attention in the attention of much of the world to the asia pacific region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and and even india and other countries in the region for him to actually become more economically dominant i think with that comes the intended attention from the militaries of the u.s. and the u.k. and other countries america's recently announced plans to station two thousand marines in australia hoping to exert influence in the region china says isn't theirs to meddle in and britain could soon join them part of its defense deal with

japan could see a british hunter submarine deployed in china's backyard complete with missiles and all the physical presence the british government claims is needed these geopolitics are relevant but i think that's even more reason for the you could be going out there to engage with what is one of the few allies in the region with over thirty executives from the u.k.'s highly profitable arms industry this isn't the first time they've cameron's been criticized that turning an overseas trip into a traveling sales pitch cameron was left red faced last year when on the same trip he went from praising democratic uprisings in cairo to flogging weapons in q eight prime minister david cameron's been forced to defend his party weapons manufacturers saying is perfectly responsible and respectable but this is a region that's highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuver and ten. and at the moment a particularly high north korea's planned rocket launch later this week is stoking

a traditional regional panic japan and south korea are threatening to shoot it down fearing it's a disguise long range missile test similar suspicions are being cast on china too as japan and south korea seek allies further afield he certainly did not want to confront i know. and they do not have the resources to. restrictive military strains. so that that's the best approach and of course is to count on. more strategically and even more foreign powers into the region so as to have a poke at chalons of exerting the pressure on the international community on trying until now britain and america have had to make do with exerting their influence on the region from afar but with the talk of a physical presence there the theories could upset the balance either bennett art

see. the speed of china's unprecedented economic rise has caught many by surprise and now the question is not if but why hand beijing were overtake the u.s. of the world's largest economy and that's one of the themes up for discussion in today's crossed up coming your way at eleven thirty g.m.t. . i still think the china has a long way to go no no denying that china is growing a lot it is but it has a long way to go before it can get close to even the us ok. you know i would say six years isn't and you know if you actually know joshua bell is the former comptroller of the united states the guy who is in charge of auditing the books of the u.s. government. has been saying earlier this year that the u.s. is now where greece was two years ago in terms of instead crisis or just under present numbers in six years is not really there find a future. special

envoy kofi annan says he's received assurances from syria are an agreed backed ceasefire by thursday after a deadline for troops to leave the cities passed on tuesday with some western and arab states accusing the regime of failing to stick to its commitment i saw a boy who is in the country for us. syrian authorities claim that they have begun to partial withdrawal of troops from in and around urban settlements we trust the first requirement of the six point. plan now they do you recognize that so far these fish oil has been partial and they claim that the only reason for that is that the opposition has intensified attacks on the government forces and on civilian locations in the run up to these apparently in an effort to you and your elite it's clear that the partial withdrawal is not enough for the americans it's

not enough for the europeans they've been very clear about that the russian side has also launched its criticism yesterday at what is perceived to be the slow pace of the rollout of forces russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also called on to these conflict on the size that have willingly voiced their support for the crime to put pressure on their sides and for the west to put pressure on the opposition to make sure that they also lay down arms from the very beginning even before the assad regime accepted this proposal really heard from a seris from the united states policymakers analysts saying that these rises and not a proposal that was worthwhile to pursue of the an american senators john mccain and joe lieberman surprisingly visited one of the turkish repartee council did whatever syria and they again called for supplying arms to the opposition asked for coffee economy he still continues his last minute efforts to sort of resuscitate he's proposed he was meeting with the foreign secretary of iran and the both of them

again voiced their support for the proposal and have been moment if the past diplomatic option that they have on the table going to reporting there while russia has called on foreign powers to use the american funds to stop was still is the u.s. has accused moscow of being a roadblock in its drive to topple the syrian regime political analyst professor jamal what camus asked washington is determined to ruin peace efforts. united states is trying to back down on its agreement with the russians over a compromise regarding syria and this is how we can understand militant groups or armed groups are stepping up their fight against the syrian government and in our current failed the initiative of kofi annan in turkey is being pushed by the united states in order to harass the syrians especially by supporting an appropriate i

ding safe haven for armed groups to move from its territory to launch attacks on the syrian government and the syrian troops and the syrian troops had retaliated the same way they did with armed groups coming from lebanon so in this case this is to justify their thirty is the number of need to justify an intervention by nato without passing through the you know and council. and coming up later the program arab revolutions push the palestinian crisis on the backburner. the walls themselves nobody nobody is skewed. to the studio and. people on the occupied territories are left baffling for basic essentials while israel uses the power to do what it wants. and developing the atomic energy sector in india turns into pitched battle between competing interests as some american stakeholders are accused of stirring up and say nuclear protests in the hands were

dropping. there's a growing trend in the u.s. of punishing those exposing government misconduct under a law designed to imprison spies the espionage act was used on bradley manning who had the data to weaken leaks now a former cia officer may face prison time for revealing use of torture both cases go against the very basics of the us constitution says stephen cohen an attorney and author of that was the lowers handbook. it's government misconduct that the government wants to suppress the public every learning about so the heart of the first amendment it's essential who are was to prove to permit people to expose government abuses but what we see in these censorship cases is that the government is using its power to intimidate to prosecute to threaten preventing the american people learning about the abuses of their government fear censorship document that

they predicate their censorship on said that the director of the f.b.i. can censor federal employees if they disagree with the policy being advocated by those employees whose unconstitutional all of the cases say their right to center is limited to classified and secret yet the f.b.i. is saying they can censor based on policy these are the types of rules that they sneak in that have to be challenged. spain is going to have to wear the cost cutting reform of health care and education introduced on monday despite loud protests from the countries our decision madrid is also pushing through an ambitious project to build a vegas style casino complex in order to fill its coffers but as it is jake agrees reports that could turn out a long shot bear with poor odds. by economic woes the spanish government may be about to take

a peek gamble it's causing an american tycoon over his plans in developing gambling mecca last vegas it's somewhat ironic because this is a concert where a gambling was forbidden for so many years for more research so that doesn't seem to to matter much now the problem i see is that we are always complaining about our economic model the fact that we're alike too much on the tourism industry on the construction business and here we are again with another magic project a billionaire wants to bring a colossal casino offshoot to spanish sure most likely base it in madrid outskirts . they use it could bring the cash strapped government twenty two billion dollars and up for around three hundred thousand jobs and much needed relief for an unemployment ridden economy in madrid it's a prospect that's been met with protest as people fear a sin city on their soil could bring more voice to the capsule something it's

already familiar with or shushan has existed for some time here with this i mean legal status even in broad daylight on the main tourist streets because see its existence there is a problem in the wake of the financial crisis that has increased so his presence. there are lots of women who want the world of prostitution because they want to find a way out of the crisis put him on tuesday creased in the prices of jobs now this money hardly helps people buy sex workers and spanish streets are by no means a new site traditionally it's been something that attracts immigrants and they didn't find work elsewhere but now more spaniards of the marriott in the lobby of the from a privileged kind of surprising because before the majority were foreigners brazilian germanie and all latin americans but now because of the crisis and we don't hear him or spanish who are offering their services. and the nation's

unemployment. and. because of the crisis the major increase of prostitutes among you. pay for education. being forced to take. pics of the country's youth and with projects in the plant. and even grates and many fear where they. may leave and. see the truth. find out more about the stories we're covering online on our t.v. dot com now let's take a look at what else is definitely worth your attention on our web site of voices occupy wall street have knowledge grown louder but also melodious that's due to the growing popularity of their. use guitars and singing as their main weapons.

have a doctor who literally lost his patients just so angry and being forced to wait for attention and this and show were laid waste to the entire place in less than three minutes find out what drove him to the. diplomatic corps tab am that restarting israeli palestinian talks is due to meet on the fringe of a g. eight foreign ministers meeting in washington if coincides with a palestinian appeal to the u.n. security council over a new israeli settlements being built on occupied lands but palestinians have little hope they are complaints will be heard as they are now reports. while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on

a different kind of spring the kind their farmers rely on for the livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid to stand here even though this is my farm and soldiers and settlers often come here to harass us you being here protects me israelis are controlling our springers the source of our water this is not the style of religion a place with its how many tribe has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago any israeli settlement spawn of an external and slowly started encroaching on the villages land today a third of what used to be term in the ground is controlled by settlers so. it's very frustrating to see the settlement on learned that is ours in which we can no longer access its portable plant and unafraid that the day will come when they will knock on my door and say this house it's not yours it's ours or the one spring in the area is the main source of water for these palestinian farmers but they can now

only access it ten hours a week other cities use it all the time and far from it being a necessity for them they are making money and using it as a tourism site that settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try and get israeli public to come here internet sites an advertisement talk about a goal make a restaurant but take wineries and of course magnificent springs cannot be silent spring is one of fifty six that the united nations detailed in a recent report. but eighty four percent of the springs are pallister probably so you can assume magine exasperate. lab where water is raise a record model to spot for the very fabric of the generations is lost because you said it was a come up. with swords but palestinians feel the water spring issue is only the tip of the iceberg because while the world is zoomed in on the arab spring he's rays are using the chance to go about a business i think it's a perfect time for the israelis to step up. their actions against the palestinians

i think the wall is busy with themselves nobody nobody is keen to hear about the palestinian the last year. has been record in terms of the increase in the number of new housing units israel have better method or. in the occupied territories as expansion of settlements and so for as long as the world remains focused on the big battles happening across the arab world the daily fight these farmers push up for every drop of water will continue i noticed policy r t now diesel a village palestinian administration. now look at some other stories from around the world and indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after registering a point so mad in that earthquake is reported to have hit three hundred kilometers southeast of the country's western province at a depth of thirty two kilometers the region lays over

a series of fault lines and often experiences earthquakes a massive nine point one earthquake fall by a tsunami there in two thousand and four killed almost two hundred thirty thousand people three quarters of them. at least one hundred thirty three people have been killed in the two days of violent clashes between yemeni soldiers and. comes after militants linked to al qaida army barracks in the southern town of slaughter a government official says the group have now surrounded the area preparing to take over the town. and u.s. rick santorum has suspended his campaign for the republican presidential nomination after he was the needle to the primaries facing a loss in his home state of pennsylvania is this is are we are some way for front runner mitt romney newt gingrich and ron paul are still campaigning but are lagging

role behind romney in the lead up to november presidential election. and there is more on the buildup to the u.s. election coming up next hour as our he is going to speak to jim clifton c.e.o. of a company conducting opinion polls in the state he says the earth figures show obama may have a fight on his hands to stay and white house. well we ask right now if you're to vote tonight who to vote for me and according to the gallup poll if we vote tonight romney will beat him because you know you may very well vote for romney but not for him you're just voting against the president is there a survey what are the main reasons not to vote for the president it's just strictly unemployment as far as. i think foreign policy plays no role at all right now i mean if something really big happens so israel bombs iran and we've got to back them up or. i mean some good it will make a little bit of

a difference but americans are the place right now they don't want to hear about foreign policy they should that they don't. think we are power plants have mushroomed across india opening up here job opportunities for big business but also angry environmentalists but politicians insist protests often have motives beyond the ecological because appreciating the reports where there is big money there are thirty tactics. protests have erupted across india outside of nuclear power stations like this one the couldn't call in plant a joint indian russian venture in the south that will be the largest such electricity generating facility in the country construction of nuclear power plants in india has been stalled because of growing opposition and now the indian government has said it's the united states that's behind the protests motivated by american business interests. interests and wall that would be you know corporate

or the politics of the nuclear industry or. geopolitical concerns of india's prime minister manmohan singh has taken away the licenses of three ngo's and put seventy seven more on the global watch list of the key believes american n.g.o.s are helping fund anti-nuclear protesters while such a is not illegal the action reflects government anger i what delhi sees as interference in india's internal affairs and energy policy in a recent interview to the american journal science prime minister singh said the atomic energy program has got us into difficulties because these n.g.o.s mostly i think based to the us still appreciate the need for country to increase energy and . the protesters deny that they're receiving funds from america the small amount of

money that we need comes from our own people the fisherman on the market. but according to information from the indian home ministry released to parliament last year one third of indian ngo funding actually came from the united states india has maintained that developing a peaceful nuclear energy program will only help the country meet its growing energy needs and decrease its dependence on foreign sources of energy but other countries see india's growing energy needs as a potential business opportunity while the u.s. says it's got no objection to india civilian nuclear program u.s. and western firms will be keen that they win the business rather than russian firms . in the last few years india has access to the international nuclear market but india has this great market but billions of dollars. while protesters may be simply opposed to nuclear power some of the money behind

them may be motivated by very different reasons and power of american business interests to keep others out of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets preassure either r t india. and crossing to the world of business really of course is all the latest now but a report is addressing parliament as we speak so how have the markets been reacting to his assessment of the year well basically it's actually hard to say because the the reaction has been quite modest really although the assessment of the economic specially assessment he started from was indeed quite positive and started off by boasting that russia has completely overcome the consequences of the crisis of two thousand and two thousand and nine and that g.d.p. is back to pre-crisis levels and that russia actually has a g.d.p. growth the highest level of g.d.p. growth along the g eight countries are cyclical what's going on in the russian market and it's mostly positive i have to say would be nice except part of percent

but it's really driven by what's going on in europe where the spanish and italian bond yields are going down more than ten basis points we're gets about a bit later so the my say there's an interesting quote from. gazprom is down half a percent but if it has been talking about the hydrocarbon industry saying that there's a revolution potentially looming in shale gas and that russian companies should start preparing for this revolution d.t.b. among financial stocks is also a percent in line with the market point six percent the potash make a large part of making the world as reported net profit increase sixty four percent to. to move over to another story there's no i.p.o. potentially coming up on the russian market and russia's third largest mobile phone operator megaphone may consider listing in the foreseeable future quoting two very misty daily writes this is likely to happen if billionaire owners had

a smaller succeeds in almost doubling his stake in the company to fifty six point two percent now megaphone is the only one of the big three operators in russia which has not yet done a listing and is worth around twenty billion dollars. so move over to european markets and so looking pretty positive started off on a bad note now back to the point seven percent mostly led by banks and that's on the back of as i mentioned spain that if these are bond yields going the spike the fact that spain's industrial production decreased to five point one percent in the month of february. move over to currencies now and the euro is gaining on those declining bond yields and on the fact that the earnings report season in the u.s. started off with. a surprising gain in alcoa is net profits well actually everyone was expecting a net loss the ruble is continuing to decline despite the fact that the market is

restoring and rebounding. in commodities we are seeing a rebound wolf look at that was the second first of all asia was down zero point eight percent for example in japan pressured by sony and sharp shares as they downgraded their earnings forecast. and now to commodities i presume yes light sweet is coming back up forty cents while brant is mixed well has been quite low lately on the fact that u.s. symmetries have only been growing and in the previous session on tuesday we've seen yet another increase to a twenty two year high in gasoline and oil industries in the u.s. . and that's the way the markets look this hour we of course will be back around fifty five minutes time to bring it up it. might be thanks very much andy it for the sob it of course there's plenty more to come here on our t.v. our special report that's looking behind the scenes of the first manned space

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