you hear see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. the british prime minister turned his tour of asia into a weapons sales pitch seeking arms deals with nations in the pacific it's a move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout. peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has assured him it will respect the u.n. brokered cease fire with rebels with a deadline now less than twenty four hours away. palestinians say the wave of revolutions in the arab world has diverted in international attention from the issue of illegal israeli settlements on the.

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at. the best offensive to one of the world's most important democracies the british prime minister has defended his stop off in indonesia as part of his trade. it comes a decade after the country saw an embargo by the u.k. itself for using british jets to bomb civilians david cameron arrives in jakarta from japan as britain seeks to boost its military presence in the region all inside china's backyard with its reporters artie's off a. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron unashamedly touting 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 this must be the perfectly predictable result of the shifting of the focus of american attention and the attention of much of the world to be asia pacific region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and even india and other countries in the region for him to actually become more economically dominant i think with that comes the attended attention from the militaries of the u.s. and the u.k. and other countries america's recently announced plans to station two thousand the remains in australia hoping to exert influence in the region china says it 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 i physically presence the british government claims is needed these geopolitics are relevant but i think that's even more reason for the u.k. to be going out there to engage with what is one of the few key allies in the region with over thirty executives from the u.k.'s highly profitable arms industry this isn't the first time david cameron's been criticized for 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 wait prime minister david cameron has been forced to defend his party weapons manufacturers saying it's perfectly responsible and respectable but this is a region that's highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuver and tensions are the most. meant a particularly high north korea's planned rocket launch later this week is stoking the traditional regional panic japan and south korea are threatening to shoot it

down fearing it's in the skies 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 that moment and greed do not have the resources to work you are your respective military strains to counterbalance china so the. best course of more and of course is to count on to get. more strategically and more foreign power goes into the region so as to have a poke at chalons of exerting the pressure of the international community on china until now britain and america have had to make do with exerting their influence on the region from afar but with the talk of physical presence there the theories could upset the balance either bennett r t london and us beijing steams

ahead to overtake the u.s. as the world's largest economy artie's piddle of our last six as guests whether washington in israel is ready to be number two for four program coming your way letter today here on our city. there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining power of the united states and the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline in european quality of lives g.d.p. per capita air quality. education level control of the corruption are still much much better than most of the emerging markets in fact if you have you know educated people you know supposedly talking about our educations much better in america then then in a zero for example that's that's a job because you're just looking at the keys or international record there isn't always coming out and obviously education seems to be considerably better in asia and then to say that this is not the case you know shows maybe there's something wrong because they think asian americans.

watching artsy peace envoy kofi annan says he's received assurances from the syrian government that it will respect the u.n. brokered cease fire with rebels would choose to to begin an hour less than twenty four hours the key to go share remains optimistic about the deal some western countries again unleashed a barrel of criticism of the regime for its alleged failure to stick to commitments following the situation in damascus is artemis upside. syrian authorities claim that they have begun to partial withdrawal better troops from in and around urban settlements which was to first requirement of these six point kofi annan plan now they do you recognize that so far these for sure have 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 iran out to these steps 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 are going to very clear by that the russian side has also boyce that its criticism yesterday out of what is perceived to be the slow pace of the forces the russian foreign minister said you also called on sale price to these conflict on the size that have a voice that supports what the prime to put pressure on both sides and ask for their boss 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 these proposal reheard naysayers from the united states policymakers analysts saying that these rises and not a proposal that was worthwhile to pursue two of the an american senators john mccain and joe lieberman surprisingly visited one of the orchestra average accounts on whatever syria and began called for supplying arms to you the relation requested

coffee and he still continues his last minute after his two sort of resuscitate his proposal he was sitting with the foreign secretary over iran and both of them again voiced their support for the proposal and have the moment it's the past diplomatic option that they have on the table. that is often reporter reporting right there while russia has called on foreign powers to use diplomatic influence to stop hostilities washington is accused moscow of being a roadblock in its drive to topple the syrian regime jeremy sort professor of middle eastern history and politics says the u.s. and its allies should pay attention to voices in their own countries that might ruin the peace efforts senator mccain's last remark to reporters was. this kind of attitude is hardly. a ceasefire that. is trying to set our from amongst the opponents of syria that was not good will go equally among some states

and they were singled out here saudi arabia and qatar they want the syrian government destroyed their interest is not in syria their interest is not treating the syrian people who are interested not human rights the syrian people or they don't their own people don't have those rights so what is they gain in syria what do they want they want yes a government toppled and that is for largely sectarian reasons they're trying to set up a which might cause a muslim wall across the middle east to block iran to block the rise as she is an across the region iran syria is tied up in a strategic alliance across the region and saudi arabia what regularize for reasons of its own those reasons also converge with the determination of the united states to break at last so you can see there is most definitely a very big job to gain going on here which will determine the shape of middle east for a long time to come and those are some hawks in washington keep calling for military interference in syria or launching a preemptive strike on iran the majority of americans are against such steps that's

according to opinion polls which often reveal views the authorities are unwilling to listen to the next hour here on r.t. will bring you an interview with the c. of the major u.s. pollster gallup has a quick preview of what's to come. americans are and are not nearly as war aggressive as we were. a few years ago we have enormous. war fatigue now that's not really a positive for iran in the way that americans believe that iran has nuclear capabilities they believe that they're evil and that they want to do bad and all that kind of thing but americans really want to take a break from. ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is all still to come for you in this program indian protestors rage against nuclear expansion but it's the

behind the protest movement and much bigger powers who are green with envy rather than environmentalist. this is street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to feel. something it's an .

old. technology and innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. this is r.t. in a few minutes it'll be the r.t. was out i found out there were palestinians have appealed to the un security council asking for condemnation of israel settlement activity as comes ahead of a meeting of major world powers aimed at jumpstarting peace talks between both sides but as our teams fall asleep explains ordinary palestinians feel they're being marginalized under street and on their own like while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on a different kind of spring the kind that farmers rely on for the livelihood and without which many palestinian villages could not survive. i'm afraid to stand here

even though this is my farm the soldiers and settlers often come here to harass us you being here protects me and israelis are controlling all springs and source of our water. this is an obvious style of religion a place where the tommy tribe has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago and israeli settlements sprung up next door and slowly started encroaching on the villages land today a third of what used to be to me ground is controlled by sitters so. it's very frustrating to see the settlement on learned that is ours is which we can no longer access it's portable and i'm afraid 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 by the city's use of all the time and far from it being in a city for them they are making money using it as

a truism site the settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try to get israeli public to come here internet sites and advertisement talk about a great response protein wineries and of course magnificent springs the not 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 powerless to progress so you can assume magic. exasperate. in a lab where water is raise a red come out of this part of the ready for decades a generation is lost because you said it was a come on board. but palestinians feel the water spin issue is only the tip of the iceberg because while the world is zoomed in on the arab spring these rays are using the chance to go with our people i think it's a perfect time for the israelis to step out there with their actions against the palestinian i think the wall is busy with themselves nobody nobody is keen to hear

about the palestinian last year. has been recorded in terms of the increase in the number of new housing units israel have been 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 put up for every drop of water will continue unnoticed policy r t now diesel a village palestinian administration. well let's go to the outside world doctor here some other international news from around the world will start with indonesia where the u.s. pacific tsunami warning center it's canceled the tsunami watch for the indian ocean areas though warnings still remain in force in india indonesia sri lanka and the mall deaves an eight point six magnitude earthquake off western indonesia and a powerful aftershocks triggered mass evacuations of people fearful after last

year's disaster in japan and there are no immediate reports of death or damage of course it was back in two thousand and four a nine point one earthquake and tsunami killed almost a quarter of a million people in countries and islands around the indian ocean about three quarters of them. nine approved miners trapped underground for a week by a rock fall have now been rescued they were met by relatives and president orlando who are outside the cockpit as a president a negative of mine that's in southern peru they left the mine one by one wearing blanket sun sunglasses to protect their eyes and they're all said to be in good health. north korea has fueled up the controversial rocket it plans to send into space to launch an observation satellite western nations and japan have condemned the plan it's a test of pyongyang's nuclear capabilities north korea says the launch is for

peaceful reasons taking place on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the nation's founder kim il sung a liftoff is sure to all to take place between thursday and sunday of course depending on weather conditions. one person has died and nearly two dozen have been hurt when a bus carrying swiss tourists crashed in southwestern turkey the coach was returning to the military mediterranean resort of and when it skidded before ending up on its side at this point it's not quite known what caused the accident. india's ambitious nuclear energy plans are being met head on by a growing green protest movement the indian government however has accused the us of stoking the opposition but as artie's previous read reports american interests are being driven by money rather than environmentalism. protests have erupted across india outside of nuclear power stations like this one the current

uncool implant a joint indian russian venture in the south it will be the largest such electricity generating facility in the country construction of nuclear power plants in india has been stopped 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 there could be. interested would be you know. or the politics of the nuclear industry or the me or. geopolitical concerns that india's prime minister manmohan singh has taken away the licenses of three n.g.o.s and put seventy seven more on the global watch list for 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 at 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 are receiving funds from america the small amount of money that we need comes from our own people and 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 have maintained that developing a peaceful nuclear energy program will only help the country meet its growing energy needs and it creates the dependence on foreign sources of energy but other countries see india's growing energy needs. potential business opportunity while the u.s. says it's got no objection to india's 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 as this great market they want 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 the power of american business interests to keep others out of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets preassure either party in india. as soon as marina with the business but for now do bear in mind lots on the stories we're covering and plenty more at our website our to talk call me putting. corporate cords firmly out of tune with big business with a new cue peleg giving musical voice of protesters i listen to that listen to the songs or you can do so a click away at our t. dot com. have a look at this for

a droid here the customer is always right they say but not so in this case find out why this man who revved into a fury after leaving his car in for service and what is rampage cost him totally lost to see the details that are to come. now just after twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow as worries about spain's finances intensify an american billionaire thinks there's still money to go around by planning a las vegas style complex near madrid or barcelona some say it will bring in cash and much needed jobs others are vehemently opposed believing the plans will create

a sin city rife with prostitution he said jacob reeves is there to investigate. blighted by economic woes the spanish government may be about to take a peek gamble it's causing an american tycoon known for his part in developing gambling mecca yes vegas it's somewhat ironic because this is a country where gambling was forbidden for so many years for my research so that doesn't seem to to to matter much now the problem i see is that we are always complaining about our economic model the fact that we rely too much on the tourism industry on the construction business and here we are again with another magic project the billionaire wants to bring a colossal casino offshoot to spanish sure's vegas it could bring the cash strapped government twenty two billion dollars in the for around three hundred thousand jobs a much needed relief for an unemployment rate an 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 its already familiar with prostitution has existed for some time here with this i mean legal status even in broad daylight on the main tourist streets has seen its existence as a problem in the wake of the financial crisis that has increased so this presence now if there are lots of women who want prostitution if they want to find a way out of a crisis but if you decrease in the prices of jobs now this money hardly helps you get by sex workers those streets are by no means a new site traditionally it's been something that attracts immigrants unable to find work elsewhere but no more spaniards are being rewarded in love with them or privileged kind of surprising because before the majority were foreigners brazilian

germanium the latin americans but now because of the crisis every day either him or spanish all are offering. services. and with the nation's unemployment so often those young and hopeful most vulnerable because of the crisis a major increase of prostitutes is seen among university students looking to pay for their education is a low inflation but more and more being forced to take threatening to cross specs of the country's youth and with projects in the pipeline which could leave an even greater mark many fear where their governments are less money maybe you can do you groups see retreat. into the world of business we go there's a marina we understand that our writers are probably lost or has been talking about the economy in the state duma but tell us what's got him so pleased hire or well he was at least because he had something good to gripe about this time as

a result of the russian economy it's over comments prove it the declines we've seen in previous years and the economy is now bigger than it was before the crisis and the continues to grow quickly but our correspondent daniel bottle listen to the speed at the stadium and he has the highlights for us. unemployment's also importantly no on the levels of two thousand and eight yet the government that remains low he controls did that with the united states and europe budget deficits and their very high unemployment levels he said the e.u. states like greece losing this sovereignty in effect handing over national decision making to cross rules in return for aid so it's good he said that russia doesn't need outside help now for the countries however it is noticeable nable to oil price changes as some may think this listening to what he had to say. all the social initiatives i'm not connected with oil and gas revenues we shape the budget according to a conservative scenario for carbon prices and even if the oil price falls to

seventy dollars a barrel will still be able to meet. you in the most of the year it's a process of crude oil stay high russia will be one of the folds following biggest economies by p.p.p. that's purchasing power parity he said but he admitted the country still likes world war was a key areas for tutsis only hope is high that means it takes twice as long for a russian worker to achieve the same amount as that there will be laws to ease doing business of bringing guarantees dreamless just he's discussing with president medvedev creating a public prosecutor who will control a level playing field for business overall as you say the tone of the speech was optimistic and well received by m.p.'s with a standing ovation at the end. i don't see how this optimism has been a factor in the russian markets the i.c.'s and my sex are still adding in fact are increasing their gains we can sit up on them i'll go to one of her sad sap and move

on to europe it's a similar picture there as well we can see that the indices are pointing upwards whether bax adding over one percent and of course what we see there is that the markets are gaining with banks leading our movements and that's after a second. i'm great in that industry and as well we have and these are the only yields in spain and italy now have in stock that we do have news from a company here and that's not it expects to make a loss in the first and second quarter of two thousand and twelve and this has sent the shares downwards analysis and fourteen percent right the second look at the currencies when it comes to that we see that the euro is gaining against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's a mixed picture still this hour we see that it's great in against the dollar and losing against the euro horizon as i said almost three is about so right now and the next few minutes on next hour we'll have all the figures and see if there are all sorts of nice things and say sounds good marina many many thanks we'll see you

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