syrian says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning in accordance with the un brokered of law and for a ceasefire with opposition fighters. and as russia urges foreign partners to use their primary to be influence to promote peace in syria the u.s. is using seemingly under climatic languish towards moscow i'll be back with more into the few minutes. also this hour the british prime minister turns his tour of asia into a book that is a sales page seeking arms deals with nations in the pacific a move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clock. and

palestinians say the wave of revolutions in the arab world has diverted international attention from the issue of illegal israeli settlements on their land . thanks for joining our eight o'clock here in moscow on karen. the syrian defense ministry says it will hold only literary operations on thursday morning in accordance with the un brokered cease fire agreement earlier special envoy kofi annan said his peace plan is very much alive and someone countries again unleashed criticism on the regime for its alleged failure to stick to commitments archies oksana boycott reports from damascus. on one hand every party to the

conflict vocal support for these proposals within the average many syrians fear that their west and its arab allies essential trying to sabotage this initiative before it had any chance to be fully realized now the deadline for a general cease fire is expected to expire at six am local time on thursday but the statements we've been hearing from our u.s. policymakers all throughout these past week have essentially buried this initiative already on the top of the hour on the grounds of the two senior here is senator john mccain and joe lieberman made a surprise visit to one of the refugee camps on the turkish syrian border and they're once again three new guy calls for arming the opposition that's at a time when koffi annan and other supporters of his peace initiative including russia are really working hard to try to put pressure on their side government to try to persuade it to speed up the pullout of forces from some of the northern

settlements and trying to persuade him not to respond in such a manner to the attacks by triesman a position as far as russia goes it does strengthen and toughen its language with regards to syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov to meeting his syrian counterpart on wednesday in moscow sad that the syrian authorities could have and should have been more decisive and more proactive in a hearing to the kofi annan peace plan glad that he also made it clear that it was only fair worth while other parties would put the same pressure on the opposition and would first rate opposition fighters to lay down their arms. russia has called on foreign powers to use diplomatic leverage to stop hostilities the u.s. has accused moscow of being a roadblock in its drive to topple the syrian regime developments in the crisis trying country it will be a hot topic as foreign ministers from the g eight countries are gathering in

washington for a two day meeting and she's going to can reports from the u.s. capitol right now the rhetoric essentially between the u.s. and russia is very tense to say the least secretary clinton said russia's refusal to support quote unquote constructive action by the u.n. security council on the crisis in syria is keeping its president bashar al assad in power the u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice went even further saying russia and china have both laws on their hands were refusing to go along with an intervention in syria and that she was disgusted her words very graphic statements one would argue are really on diplomatic susan rice is generally known for making on diplomatic statements and sometimes getting too creative with facts for example she wants announce that could all be troops were being issued by agra and told to rape as a measure against terror but interesting u.s. military and intelligence officials said there was no evidence no basis for ms rice

its claims anyways their policy makers here who are very pro intervention and they tend to blame russia for all that's happening in syria so that's the kind of environment that russian diplomats have to work in and it is a very tough environment and also is pushing for a political solution with a guy like between the opposition and the government. more reaction on syria now from neil clark a journalist and contributor to the london based guardian newspaper now neil the government has officially confirmed it will stick to the ceasefire agreement are we likely to hear similar assurances from the opposition. well i think it is interesting to hear the west response because the the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia and on turkey it's on those countries that are backing your positions and tell them to support the peace a peace plan to stop this talk about arming them first not just talk about. us and then if they do this we could get peace in syria because we would he have

a democratic framework to consult a strong interest in and now the government also says it reserves the right to our politics from armed groups are we likely or c.b. end violence by tomorrow well again it all depends what the opposition does because there's two sides to this conflict obviously the west is betraying this country as if it's only the that the assad regime which is degraded violence of course that's not true and just imagine if this was happening in america kerry imagine if say the syrian government was backing opposition to president obama and the american government talking about arming them financing them and you know what would be the american government's response and so you know what's been going on in syria is an attempt by outside powers to bring about regime change and the syrian government has responded to that. piece of. you know has to be accepted by both sides but that i'm afraid to recreate the west which the attacking russia it's attacking

present the. british for a second because you are sad to go to war construct is a very helpful now we heard from our correspondent there u.n. envoy kofi annan was denied of the chance of visiting saudi arabia which is a star supporter of syrian rebels what would you read into this. but it's interesting isn't it i mean i'm not really sure what the reasons behind that word but saudi arabia is a key player in all of this it's saudi arabia and qatar being the countries that have been very vocal in their support for your position here talking about arming them for hasnat centra and i think that but it's important you know does go decide where do i think because the key players in this conflict are i think the us britain saudi arabia qatar and turkey these are the countries i'm afraid who are preventing a peaceful solution to this problem if all the countries were supporting the russian plans there we have peace in syria but they're not well we've heard our american senators john mccain and joseph lieberman again suggest arming the rebels

tell me what kind of impact do these comments have on the peace process we're going to look at it i mean senators mccain and lieberman are two of the most neutral u.s. neo con group on guns in america. they were a strong supporter of the of the illegal war in iraq and they'd be calling for the ability to actually get serious for a long long time now i mean it shows you what there are gender is these people want assad to go they're not interested in democracy in syria because as i said before we've already got this framework for democratic elections in syria and the western narrative is of course the president assad is an evil dictator who has no support within the country you know that's not true he does have majority support which is why i think he was confident of democracy part and we've got very powerful. very very powerful countries who don't really want to see democracy in syria very briefly there certainly are loud voices in the u.s. turkey and some got states urging military intervention now with this announcing criticism of the peace plan is this becoming

a more realistic scenario. well you know it reminds me yugoslavia back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine where the western powers didn't really want a peaceful solution to that conflict they wanted an excuse to intervene and you get the feeling that that's what's going. on here you won't you know the last thing that the likes of mccain and lieberman really want is to have those elections in syria to have the parties standing and to have a compromised political solution there are people who want to forcibly topple the assad regime the question is though will russia and china stay further i hope you and also the syrian people because at the end of the day. it's the syrian people who are keeping president assad in because they want him to stay in power and and the reason why would you change hasn't happened yet is because president is that still has to go if you support the right nail on free that's all the time we have a journalist neil clark thank you thank you very much and some hearts in washington

keep calling for military interference in syria or launching a preemptive strike on iran a majority of americans are against such drastic steps that's according to opinion polls which often reveal views the authorities are unwilling to listen to later this hour we'll bring you an interview with the c.e.o. of the major u.s. pollster a gallup here's a quick look at what's to come. americans aren't nearly as war aggressive as we were. a few years ago we have enormous. war fatigue now that's not really a positive for a rise in the way that americans believe that iran has nuclear capabilities they believe that they're evil all that they want to do bad and all that kind of thing but americans who really want to take a break from war. strain

is still at the epicenter of the e.u. debt crisis has its borrowing costs remain alarmingly high concerns are growing the euro zone's fourth largest economy will need rescuing following similar bailouts of greece portugal and ireland for more on what's next from a spent force spain i'm joined by a good solid lira he's the founder of lear us p.g.a. dot com a group which provides analysis of possible crisis events thanks for being with us today now spanish sovereign debt is at a disturbing level bigger than a lot of greece portugal and ireland combined well the e.u. be able to gael it out like other struggling members. well it's certainly not the way that they were able to bailout portugal and ireland and greece they're going to have to do something much more aggressive and so far as the european central bank is concerned because quite frankly spain is simply too big to bail out it is roughly half the size of germany and it's the deputy and the hole that it has on

both its own sovereign balance sheet as well as the banks' balance sheet is simply too big so i would expect that the european central bank will have to come up with some sort of quantitative easing program for spain if they are serious about saving spain and that remains to be seen quite frankly do you think you much attention was paid to greece and saving it from default when in fact the severity of the situation in spain means it should have been the focus. absolutely look the whole rationale for saving greece was not greece in and of itself greece is tiny it's less than two percent of the total eurozone g.d.p. the issue of saving greece of course was to show the world that the euro products were serious about potentially backstopping any of the sovereign debt of any of the other major countries but of course they botched the job they stretch it out over a two year period from may two thousand and ten until march of two thousand and twelve and it kept getting bigger and worse and they just did not do the firewall that they should have done initially and so of course now that in decisiveness is

is coming back to haunt them because the markets in general don't really think that the europe it's the troika that is the european commission the european central bank and the i.m.f. the international monetary fund nobody really thinks that they have the the political will to really fix a country is because spain now because the problem with spain is not that it's simply overdid it you have a whole host of structural reforms that have to be implemented and at the same time you need to weaken the euro because you cannot have only austerity if you have only austerity in spain you are going to have a deflationary spiral that is growing unemployment. and you know less consumption and a shrinking g.d.p. which will add to more unemployment and it will just go down the tubes that's right the troika interactive but spain does have the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone it's reaching almost fifty percent among young people now the government is continuing its austerity drive with more cuts to health and education ahead is

that really the solution at this point. you know the solution is a combination of austerity measures but not so many that you're cutting to the bone you have to cut the fat and that's fine but not cutting to the bone because you have to have an industry in order to rebuild your economy but the way that they're going about it is they're cutting so drastically because germany is is wanting to us has been pushing for this that you're hurting the spanish economy and so it's making it harder for them to get out of the hole that they're in now it looks as though spanish people really have nothing to lose and they continue to express their outrage out on the streets work of us public anger ultimately. that is a very good question you have a total unemployment which is just shy of twenty five percent twenty four point three percent i believe you have youth unemployment that is eighteen to twenty four year olds are unemployed at a rate of fifty three percent which is as you said the highest rates in all of europe the economy is going to be shrinking at least one point seventy five percent during two thousand and twelve now this is going to create more unemployment i

would expect to see unemployment reach possibly as high as thirty percent by the end of the year this is depression level unemployment and this is a. this can only lead to no i won't i don't want to say revolution but serious serious social problems in spain which will only exacerbate its financial problems so the solution to spain has to be done now before things spiral out of control both financially and much more important politically that's all the time thank you gonzalo layer of the founder of we're a speech. selling the us to defense equipment to one of the world's most important democracies and that's how the british prime minister has defended his stock wealth in indonesia as part of his arms trade tour of asia and comes a decade after the country saw an embargo by the u.k. itself for using british jets to bomb civilians david cameron arrived in jakarta

from japan as britain seeks to boost its military presence in the region all in china's backyard archies on preventive reports. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron unashamedly town says 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 its must be perfectly predictable result of the shifting of the focus of american attention in the attention of much of the world to be measured 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 attendant attention from the military in some of the u.s. and 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 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 the physical 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 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 had cameron's been criticised for turning an overseas trip into a travelling 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's been forced to defend his party weapons

manufacturers think it's perfectly responsible and respectable but this is a region that's highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuver and tent. 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 threatening to shoot it down fearing it's a disguise long range missile test similar suspicions are being cast on china to its japan and south korea seek allies further afield. but you certainly want to confront one man and do you do not have the resources to. restrictive military restraints. so the. promise of more and of course is to count on. more strategically. more foreign power into the region so as to have a vocal challenge 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 r t london. teams or had to overtake the u. last as the world's largest economy artist peter lavelle asks his scarce whether washington is ready to be the number two but your program later today are. 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 corruption are still much much better than most of the emerging markets if you have not educated people you know as i've always only talking about our educations much better in

america then in a.d.r. for example that's their job because i'm just looking at the international record they have always coming out and obviously education seems to be considerably better in asia and then they say that this is not the case in all shows so maybe there's something wrong with that here in america. let's now take a look at some other news from around the world this hour a serious are powerful birthplace of western indonesia are have. spread panic around the indian ocean mass evacuations took place in many coastal regions with people fearful that after last year's disaster in japan there were no immediate reports of death or damage and tsunami warnings have been called off in two thousand and four a nine point one magnitude earthquake and tsunami killed almost a quarter of a million people and countries and islands around the indian ocean. nine peruvian miners trapped underground for a week by

a rock fall had been rescued they were met by relatives and president. of the nagle mine in southern peru but then left the mine one by one wearing blankets and sunglasses to protect their eyes 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 fearing it's a test of young guns 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 lift off is scheduled to take place between thursday and sunday depending on weather conditions. palestinians have appealed to the u.n. security council asking for condemnation of israel settlement activity this comes ahead of a meeting of major world powers aimed at and jumpstarting peace talks between the

two sides as archie's polis lir explains ordinary palestinians feel they are being marginalized and mistreated on their own land. 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 their livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid to stand here even though this is my farm the soldiers and settlers often come here to harassers you've been here protects me israelis are controlling our springer's the source of our water this is not the style of village a place with its how many tribes has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago any israeli settlements sprung up next door and slowly started encroaching on villages land today a third of what used to be to me ground is controlled by sickly as. it's very frustrating to see the settlements on loans that is ours and which we can no longer

access it's part of a plan 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 while the cities use it all the time and far from opinion a city for them they are making money and using it as a tourism site the settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try and get the israeli public to come here internet sites an advertisement spoke about a goal made restaurants and wineries and of course the magnificent springs. the not the silent spring as one of fifty six the united nations detailed in a recent report. but eighty four percent of the springs are promised to privately so you can assume magic. but. in a lab where water is raise a red commodity for if you have it for decades a generation is lost because you said let's come up. with the words. that

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 about their business i think it's a perfect time for the israelis to strip out just their actions against the palestinians i think the wall is busy with themselves nobody nobody is keen to hear about all the palestinian the last year. has been record in terms of the increase in the number of new housing units israel have very limited 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 he sell a village palestinian of ministration now our world nears

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a percent banks rallied and that was after as sector upgrade as well as the easing own the strain and it's only now if we move on and take a look at what's happening with the u.s. markets are still trading and stocks there are bouncing back from of five session losing streak now you can see the dow and the nasdaq are added over half percent at this hour now and this is the main factor for this is company alcoa was posted on expect net profit for the first quarter and that made of course many investors very very happy are you already looking at the russian markets and this is the closing picture both here at the u.s. and m i six out of around half a percent and investors are mainly reacting to a speech made by vladimir putin and he said that russia has recovered from the declines in previous years that the economy is bigger than there was before the crisis and that is growing quickly of course. listen to the speech at the state duma and he brings us the highlights. unemployment's also importantly no on the

levels of two thousand and eight yet the government debt remains low he controls to death with the united states and europe's largest deficits and their very high unemployment levels they said the e.u. states like greece losing this sovereignty in effect handing over national decisionmaking to crossings in return for aid so it's good he said that russia doesn't need outside help now for the countries however it is not too small novelty or price changes as some way things this listening to what he had to say. all the social initiatives are not connected with oil and gas revenues we should budget according to a conservative scenario for prices and even if the oil price falls to seventy dollars a barrel will still be able to meet. you will see it's a process of truth does stay high russia will be one of the fault lines biggest economies by p.p.p. those purchasing power parity he said but he admitted the country still likes world

war was in key areas for thirty's only. that means it takes twice as long for a russian worker to achieve the same amount he also said that there will be laws to ease of doing business so bringing guarantees through business 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 up to mystic well received by m.p.'s with a standing ovation at the end of. sorry dark hair loss of optimism today which is nice for a train to have a great x. our carrying right now thanks for that special day and our special interview our hero americans are leaning towards writing upcoming u.s. presidential election that will be after a recap of our top stories. because.

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