starts on t.v. don't come. to. syria says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning and accordance with the u. one brokered deadline for a ceasefire with opposition fighters. and as russia urges foreign partners to use their format again florida to promote peace in syria but you are using seemingly on diplomatic language towards moscow i'll be back with more in just a few minutes. also this hour the british prime minister turns his tour of asia into a weapons sales pitch seeking arms deals with nations in the pacific a move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout. you have to cut

the frog looks fine but not coming to the bone as worries over the state of spain's finances intensify all along with fears of their own be a need for a bailout critics say resorting to more all staring the cards will just aggravate the crisis. here's a common broadcasting to live from the heart of moscow i'm karen arace well the syrian government confirms it will hold all military operations by thursday morning and accordance with the un brokered cease fire agreement earlier special envoy kofi annan said his peace plan is very much alive and some luster countries again unleashed a barrage of criticism on the regime for its alleged failure to stick to commitments on a boy reports from damascus. sears the consummate history says that it indeed intends

to silence their guns and hold it all militarization starting at six am local time now how will the ceasefire may lasted it's an open question the syrian authorities say that. if they see that the ceasefire is being misused or abused by the opposite side and if the opposition doesn't lay down its arms then the do reserve the right to respond as of now we haven't heard any reaction from the syrian opposition the feeling here in damascus is that some countries have been really trying to hind the scene to sabotage the peace process. you can recall to that in fact numerous statements coming out of washington suggesting that these peace plan was a failure even more of the assad government actually accepted it we witnessed a prominent u.s. senators john mccain and joe lieberman who once again called for supplying the

opposition arms and on the top of that heard them use that kofi annan was trying also to visit saudia rather be a major partner of the united states and what we're hearing is that saudi arabia refused to host this visit any people here in damascus said that it's really indicative of the commitment that saudi arabia has to the peace process on the ground that at a time when the koffi annan it ah there are supporters of his peace initiative including russia are really working hard to try to put pressure on the assad government russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov to meet and he's syrian counterpart in moscow. to syrian authorities could have and should have been more decisive and more proactive in that hearing to the kofi annan peace plan he also made it clear that it was only fair worth while the other parties would put the same pressure on the opposition and would persuade opposition fighters to lay down their arms bill karaka journalist and contributor to the london based guardian

newspaper believes that for the syrian peace process the bowl is now in the opposition's court. it's 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 all those countries are backing your positions and told you to support the peace the peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop this talk about regime change and then if we do this we could get peace in syria because we already have a democratic framework to solve this problem there's two sides to this conflict obviously the west is betraying this conflict as if it's only the that the assad regime which is to blame about and of course that's not true and just imagine if this was happening in america imagine if so the syrian government was backing up was issued to present the guardian of the american government talking about arming the financing them and you know what. 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 at the cove you know peace plan you know has to be accepted by both sides but that i'm afraid the rhetoric from the west the british foreign secretary calling for assad to go before war crimes drop is a very hopeful. for russia has called on foreign powers to use diplomatic leverage to start televisa the u.s. has accused moscow are being a roadblock in and strive to topple the syrian regime developments in the crisis china country it will be a hot topic as foreign ministers from g. eight countries gather in washington for a twenty meeting. 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 who are refusing to go along with an intervention in syria and that she was disgusted her words very graphic statements one would argue utterly 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 offer troops were being issued by agro 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 resources claims anyways there policymakers 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 as some hawks in washington keep calling for military interference in syria or launching

a preemptive strike on iran but majority of americans are against such drastic steps that's according to opinion polls which often reveal views of the authorities are unwilling to listen to at eight thirty pm g.m.t. it will bring you an interview with the c.e.o. of the major u.s. pollster gallup here's a quick look at what's to come. americans 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 they want to do bad and all that kind of thing. that americans really want to take a break from war. selling the best of parents

a quick bell to one of the world's most important democracies that's how the british prime minister has defended his stop off in indonesia as part of his arms trade tour of asia that 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 parties are about it reports. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron unashamedly chancy 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 focus of american attention in the attention of

much of the world to be aged pacific region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and and even india and other countries in the region threaten to actually become more economically dominant i think with that comes the attendant 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 a 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 that british government claims is needed these geopolitics. all 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 a few key allies in the region with over thirty executives from the u.k.'s highly profitable arms industry this isn't the first sign david cameron has been

criticized 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 key wait prime minister david cameron's going 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 tensions at the moment particularly high north korea's planned rocket launch later this week is stoking the 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 we certainly want to confront china moment and greed will not have the resources to work with your respective

military strains to counterbalance tango so that. the best hold at a moment of course is to count on. more strategically. more foreign powers into the region so as to have a poke at chalons or exerting the pressure on it you can national 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 fear is it could upset the balance either bennett r.t. london. as beijing seems i had to overtake the u.s. the world's largest economy argues peter lavelle asks his guests whether washington is ready to be the number to watch the full program later this hour on our team. there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining bar of you know it's the in the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline

in european quality of lives g.d.p. per capita quality. education level control of corruption are still much more to better than the emerging markets if you have educated people you know there was a new talking about how the education is much better in america and then in asia for example it's a job because you're just looking at the international airport they always come in order and obviously the education seems to be considerably better. to say that this is not the case maybe there's something wrong with america. or authority and twelve minutes past the hour and spain is still a center of the crisis and cost for me not alarmingly high concerns are growing in the eurozone as fourth largest economy will need rescuing following smaller bailouts of greece portugal and ireland economic blogger gonzalo as the e.u.

was too busy saving greece and like the situation in spain get out of control. quite frankly spain is simply too big to bail out it is roughly half the size of germany and it's the debt that it goes and the hold that it has on both its own sovereign balance sheet as well as the banks' balance sheet is simply too big 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 this can only lead to and i want i don't want to say revolution but serious serious social problems and spain which will only exacerbate its financial problems the issue of saving greece of course was to show the world that the euro kratz were serious about potentially backstopping any of the sovereign debt of many of the other major countries but of course they botched the job they stretched 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 that'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. political will to really fix a country is because spain. there with our clear and still her birth our indian protesters rage against nuclear expansion it is clear that behind the protest movement a much bigger powers were green with envy rather than environmentalists on. the core to middle east peace makers have called for israel and the palestinians to take proper steps to improve relations but were made up of the you were so you were an e.u. and russia also urged both sides to avoid actions that could we can trust including

settlement construction by israel our palestinian land our cheese parsley or explorers and why the everyday reality of that issue does so much to undermine the peace process while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on a different kind of spring the kind they're farmers rely on fully livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid to stand here even though this is the soldiers and settlers often come here to harass us you protect me israelis are controlling us bring us the source of our water. this is an obvious solid village a place where the term unique right has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago any israeli settlement sprung up next door and slowly started encroaching on villages land today a third of what used to be to mean the ground is controlled by settlers. 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 unafraid that the day will come when they will knock on my door and say this house it's not yours it's ours. the one spring in the area is the main source of water for these palestinian farmers but they can now only access it in hours a week while the settlers use it all the time and far from it being an assistant for them they are making money 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 talk about a great restaurants and wineries and of course magnificent springs. cannot be silent spring is one of fifty six that the united nations detailed in a recent report. eighty four percent of the spring thought i was to privately so you can assume magic. exasperate but. in a lab where water is commodity it's part of the very fabric of the generation

that's lost because new settlers 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 the israelis are using the chance to go about their business i think it's about for time for the israelis to strip out. of their actions against the palestinian i think the wall is busy with themselves nobody nobody is killed two years ago the palestinian last year. has been record and the increase in the number of new housing units israel have very limited or. in the occupied territories as expansion of settlements and so far 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 i noticed policy r t now he fell a village palestinian administration. let's take

a look at some other news from around the world this hour. a series of powerful earthquakes all from western indonesia have caused widespread panic around the indian ocean mass evacuations took place in many coastal regions with people fearful 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 in countries in islands around the indian ocean. nine peruvian miners trapped underground for a week by a rockfall have been rescued they were met by relatives and president. of the negative mine in southern peru the man 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 plan fearing it's a test of nuclear capability its 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 left office scheduled to take place between thursday and sunday depending on weather conditions. india's ambitious nuclear energy plans are being met head on a growing green protest movement the indian government however has accused the us of stoking the opposition but as artist british writer reports american interests are being driven by money rather than environmentalism. protests have erupted across india outside of nuclear power stations like this the cooling down call in plant a joint indian and 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 there could be some. interest and boy that would be you know. 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 puts seventy seven more on a global watch list for the key believes american n.g.o.s are helping fund anti-nuclear protesters while such aid 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 in 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 fisherman. 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 to create the dependence on foreign sources of energy but other countries the 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

and last year india has access to the international record market as this great market would earn millions 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 r. t. in india they mean hauling it as what prompted people to explore space. first man did just that some have gone to fairly lofty heights to honor the achievement in moscow a team of enthusiasm to watch the monument to. one of the tallest in the russian capital it's proved a tricky task and you can see professional equipment to be used to get to the top of the statue which is over forty meters tall the cleanup took place on the eve of

be an inverse story of god in the story light into space. now if you're jaded by world news a new program on our website could be for you tim kirby looks to explain why you should care with an offbeat take on the current affairs only on our team dot com. present. good luck or a tour. was. most sophisticated. those interviews with jordan sound anything change mission to teach creation and why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. now time to check the markets with the r.t. business desk marina wall street is the only one trading right now how's the session going hi karen well it's going pretty well and in fact that's the case with all of the markets that we've seen across the board it's been

a positive trade in session now when it comes to u.s. investors are feeling positive after the results of cooperate sickly the aluminum producer posted on expected their profit in the first quarter and that made a lot of investors really happy as you can see both the dow and then eyes that are out over a half a percent although there minimizing earlier gains a slightly now if we move on and take a look at oil prices they are heading higher not supported by increasing markets arrises stock markets around the world and a weaker dollar now we also know about the gains are slightly limited because of a report showing an increase in u.s. stockpiles basically inventories rose sharply last week and that's this might the fact that imports were down to thirteen level low and it's in domestic production original thirteen month high and imports went down so basically we have the opposite end and that was what's attractive prices and we see that the bryants is

trading at one hundred twenty dollars per barrel this hour when it comes to russia markets are of course close but they enter the trading session on the high and those both the arts yes and the vice that's added over half a percent and basically investors here were reacting to a speech given by president like a lot of the of routes in and he said that russia has overcome the declines of previous years the economy is there are bigger than it was before the crisis and the continues to grow quickly. listen to the speech at the state duma and you brought us the highlights. unemployment's also importantly no on the levels of two thousand and eight yet the government that remains low the controls did that with the united states and europe supported deficits and their very high unemployment levels they said the e.u. states like greece losing their sovereignty in effect handing over national decisionmaking to brussels in return for aid so it's good he said that russia doesn't need help slide help now for the countries however is not too small novelty

for price changes as some may think this listening to what he had to say seeing. all the social initiatives connected with oil and gas revenues we shape but it according to a conservative scenario for protocol prices and even if the oil price falls to seventy dollars a barrel will still be able to meet. you in the most to the surprise of truth does stay high russia will be one of the world's fourth biggest economies by p.p.p. those purchasing power parity he said but he admitted the country still lags world warbles in cheap areas for two teaser you call first time that means it takes twice as long for russia working to achieve the same amount he also said that there will be laws to ease doing business of bringing guarantees for investors 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 to mystic and well received by m.p.'s with

a standing ovation at the end. all right karen marble for war council training but this is where we are and therefore there will be another update from our morning thank you so much for that update marina now we take a ride over to cross talk stay with us. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money meant ization is maybe not

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