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and the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshie welcome to the program a ceasefire deadline in syria has passed with the regime remaining the only party in a conflict to confirm it is pulling back its military russia's call for some countries to persuade rebels to cease hostilities have apparently fallen on deaf ears moscow has accused these powers of stirring up violence even further are just going to reports. the g eight ministers are meeting at a very important juncture is the fate of the u.n. and arab league envoy kofi annan plan that is now at stake the syrian government says they are committed to the plan russia's stance remains the same and that is all parties must lay down their arms this is for the street means through some

distance and repair patrols a limit of coffee on the field before it was even introduced. the students indicated that there are some people who are interested in the course and succeeded . and we're now at the moment do we believe that you can split in the very least it will and you do every single european to succeed it's important to note that the syrian opposition hasn't come up with a common joint response but for a cease fire to work all sides need to commit to it president assad said he will stick to the plan but will reserve the right to respond to terror attacks the russian foreign minister said that in that situation it's important to have monitors to verify what's the situation on the ground to avoid probably patients as far as the rhetoric between the u.s. of russia it's tense to say the least secretary of state hillary 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 u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice went even further saying russia and china have quote blood on their hands for refusing to go along with an intervention in syria there are policymakers here who are very pro intervention and they tend to blame russia for all that's happening in syria at least in their public statements in the meantime also those pushing for a political solution with a dialogue between the opposition and the government whereas the u.s. and the u.k. for example and the arab league tends to prompt the syrian opposition not to hold any talks with president assad and to continue fighting the sensually even as if they say they are also. for a political solution to a lot of also gore western and arab nations against arming syrian rebels saying quote even if the syrian opposition is armed to the teeth it will not be able to defeat the syrian army and the bloodshed will go on for years and of quote.

reporting there neil clark and journalist and contributor to the britain's guardian newspaper says kofi annan plan did little to stop foreign states from bolstering the rebels and putting the blame on the us a government. it's interesting to hear the west response because the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia and on turkey it's on those countries that are backing their positions and tell them to support the peace the peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop this talk about regime change and then we think do this we could get peace in syria because we would have a democratic framework to solve this problem there's two sides to this conflict one recently the west is the trade is conflict as if it's only the assad regime which is to play because of course that's not true and just imagine if this was happening in america 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 you know peace plan. you know has to be accepted by both sides but i'm afraid the rhetoric from the west british foreign secretary calling for assad to go before war crimes trial isn't very helpful. other mixed opinions around the world on the syrian crisis but today we want to know whether you think a complete ceasefire is likely to be respected that's the question we're asking him to face poll on our web site actually dot com and here's what we have so far let's take a look. so as you can see the majority so far it was forty two percent are skeptical thing you will push for another the second largest group which is thirty four percent of respondents think that neither are certain or if the rebels will back down twenty one percent say a ceasefire is possible if the rebels lay down their arms and the right order which

is three percent now think that international pressure will work well you know just what you think on this issue by logging on to our web site r.t. dot com. and coming up in the program dying hopes for. for democratic change despite up to twenty people competing in a presidential race an idjit trust is at a minimum for the candidates with some serious got a closet. and finding balance the online activist assessed people need to take action against a bill that could see the government taking a look at their online life whenever it wants. now in the global financial crisis one man's loss is another man's game millions struggle to get by either others seen and grasping an opportunity for profit or u.k. correspondent laura smith reports on a predatory banking schemes taking advantage. leaks dot

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can't. this year so far been relatively good for the e.u. with the euro crisis a period to simmer down but that may be about to change after an extremely poor showing at a spanish government auction next keyser in states herbert with more of the seven thirty g.m.t. . a lot of easy money courtesy of the european central bank may for a calm start to two thousand and twelve but a poor spanish bond sale last week signals it may have only been a law before the debt storm breaks analysts warn to give it more of a debt fund do really work that well you take a country like greece you stick it on the fondue fork and you dip it into the debt and then you serve it have to go through j.p. morgan. all this debt fondue is great now spain is being thrown into the debt fondu . page of the first

presidential poll since the fall of former leader hosni mubarak next month offers the hope of a first step in the way to democracy but broken promises dirty political tit for tat and candidates ambiguous background suggest can a when change is still some way off as your english can now reports the list is long but the choice between them it's just a. presidential campaign just starts the fool can you just believe this election is the lights it's turning whether through the revolutions bush was. ahead of. the. if you can and. when i don't have them i do let's go to meet you have to say this through more than twenty names in the list of those incidents like the country style jobs cookie aren't the ones faced the crucial choice think your.

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liberties and freedoms to demand it's. very distant barks in washington d.c. last week for charm offensive it was to use a media to prove sharia law does not return to the dark ages yet many are told of the seriousness of the complete this is an ideological totally perrie an organisation and measure the communist party whereas an america and says we were not. mean is that we would respect people is who would believe such a thing. to something laid bare back to him but not in parliament to become powerful he wouldn't follow the program to the alternative. prime minister minister instances are hardly the better option. or the religion things just work for their evolution i see the soul like a place. just because the source has things. to tell you we're going to sort of see

. just completing the play with the rest of the season. so i don't want eastley i do what i would like to do which is. saying i'm not going to give you an excuse. the much lauded distance of the election later now it's just another statement in cairo. and. iran can have peaceful nuclear power but it must decide if it's ready to play by the rules that entails that the view of former u.s. security adviser general james earl jones who shared his views on global politics and russian american relations with our team of watch the full interview in about fifteen minutes time and here's a preview. should have access to peaceful nuclear power with a whistle if you run seriously wants to. play according to the game the book play

board of the rules that all of us play by. signing the documents that. guarantee a certain behavior. there's no reason the. iran cannot have nuclear power nuclear power for peaceful use so you know to me the. pressure of the responsibility of this is not upon russia or the united states to to. make iran do anything but it doesn't want to do it's up to iran the say you know. we want to york north korea turbulence from our living in a world wide solution. russian space scientists are preparing the next giant leap for mankind whether bishes goal of gaining a foothold on the moon within ten years you know in spite of the hearing project and sides with the fifty first anniversary are the very first manned space flight

artists on board looks at the chances of success. to put a man on the moon to keep him there that's the aim for space exploration in the coming decade according to a plan unveiled by moscow's academy of sciences' choice will go slower mankind cannot stay where it is now for a long time we have been successful in exploring near earth space it's time to move beyond it a goal is to put rovers on the moon by two thousand and twenty with landing stations established by twenty twenty two which will start the process of building a permanent manned base their own on the minute the moon is that all well say scientists we actually know surprisingly little about our closest cosmic neighbor and the consensus is we should try and prove our skills and science as close as possible to home before attempting any bigger leaps vast quantities of frozen water have been discovered under the moon's surface taken there by billions of years

worth of collisions with asteroids and water might not be all we find if we look carefully organic samples may have been preserved in comets in a frozen states it's impossible to investigate them from afar so we should deliver those samples back to earth in the control rooms there have been serious questions about whether we can technically manage a moon base the past year has seen a catalog of the areas including a supply rocket on its way to the international space station plunging back to earth and an unmanned mars exploration rocket falling from orbit we're still using technology for decades of perspex rates from the fifty's to the eighty's say scientists and new ships have been taking too long to arrive. until we get these new ships we will have problems also many of the people with the knowledge of the old models are no longer with us and the younger generation doesn't have much so

for no sticking with the moon it might be ambitious in. sometimes it is mars missions planned as well as the world remembers the pioneers who made it up to space in the first place and those in charge of course mechanics from nation want to start marking the breakthroughs of past and start making some of. the. space entrepreneur jeff member believes moon exploration offers unlimited opportunities for mankind only three nations have said human space and now companies are trying to do it and that's a big difference from a sort of call research growing different process season materials and then we do so gravity on the moon maybe you saw something up on the far side that really can look with scientists i'm sure you can get science it's sort of an end product it's a day to jump on a rocket ship and spend you know five years on the far side of the moon. and we've got plenty more on our website r.t. to don't hesitate to log on for the latest stories but here's

a taste of what's there for you right now a powerful pesticide use as chemical weapon in the vietnam war has been approved as safe for farmers. and we offer us a sneak peek into a new wing wonder of boeing's brand new dreamliner can check out this futuristic flying machine online at c.n.n. dot com. online activists in the u.s. are gearing up for protests against a bill which could give the government access to people's personal data demonstrations have already led to the separate stop online piracy ad being scrapped there as saying at the same time the e.u. is considering the controversial anti-piracy apps agreement which could be in force as soon as june frat house and internet campaigner believes online freedom should

be strongly defended. if you provide the materials in a format and some kind of mechanism that is simple to use at a good price people will pay. that it's as simple as that and instead of actually spending the time and effort on that these old outdated business models are they're using the law they're attempting to subvert our freedoms and ways that we're not going to allow when what they really need to be focusing on is research and development and coming up with new methods to get our data to us i mean the biggest one is when you hear you know the next studio this decided to pull out of netflix well what's going to happen from that is people like me aren't going to be able to find your movies on the services that we pay for anymore and we're going to turn to the only other way we have to get them sitting in our chair at our house we're just part of it's up to them to provide us their material their content in ways we want to consume it. and here in our key we're going to bring you the latest news but for

some people world affairs on top of the urgent that if you know someone like this our brand new program could be right up there street exclusively on our web site and kirby explains why they should care with an offbeat take on current affairs only on r t. r g three shows. she could leverage or in the caribbean was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't use a doing anything to change mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should watch it only on the dot com. now look at some other stories from around the world. saif gadhafi the second son of the late leaving leader says he is prepared to the fam self in court against war crimes charges he's currently being held in a city in the west of the country where a local militia men are reluctant to hand him over to the central government and

last week the international criminal court rejected lidia's request to postpone a transfer to the hague. greece has said may the sixth as the date for an early parliamentary election came from the country's current prime minister a look as for the demons following a decision to dissolve the legislative body campaigning is likely to be tough in a vote already being seen as a test for the bailout plan designed to rescue greece is dead torn economy in order to secure a deal from the e.u. the government imposed heavy as thirty measures causing massive protests. thousands of miners and construction workers have taken to the streets of bolivia demanding a wage increase they called for more negotiation between the government and three units as they say their country's current payment policy doesn't compensate for soaring food prices the march follows a strike by health care workers unhappy with the decision to increase their working day to eight hours. on a lighter note would like to show you this video from

a russian motorist recorded by his dashboard camera and it's definitely something you won't see again for a while. and ordinary drive quickly turns ugly with a driver in narrow alleviating to oncoming cars only to find yourself spinning out of control towards a speeding truck with a quick wit and reflexes play their part of the car drifts around the truck even brightens and cell block or otherwise that's one driver born to be behind a steering wheel. it's probably time to find out what's taking place in the world of business with international because our business desk want to tell markets and in europe and. russia and europe have an open good but asian trading isn't full swing what's going on there oh absolutely it's actually a pretty upbeat trading session in asia so far so far so good and it's mainly following in the wall street's footsteps where it was pretty of beads on wednesday

mainly on european war going costs alluring which offered some support to equities both in europe and in the united states and more on u.s. markets because later of bites at this point as you can see the nikkei is gaining less than one percent and turn up since the us pretty stable it's benefiting export as usual and in hong kong the hang saying is more than that of forty percent higher and in the united states as i mentioned it was a pretty upbeat session on that wall street which managed to break its five session a losing streak two factors there first as i mentioned borrowing costs in italy and spain more lower which essentially supported the equity markets and of course alcool reported better than expected results the el minium maker group would have a profit when most expected a loss and that was of course good news for the markets will street also keep

a close eye on google which is expected to report later in the day and on weekly jobless claims which everybody will be watching closely to make sure that growth remains intact and now on to the oil markets let's see the oil here and here it is it's swat this hour after briefly snapping its losing streak on wednesday on a u.s. set of fuel stockpiles bawling my. much more than expected last week with crude inventories were actually higher which is one of the reasons we saw oil old losing value this thursday morning and the other reason is of course the usual suspects iran which is expected to present its new proposals to ease concerns over its nuclear program later in the week and the other interesting thing is barclays capital came out with a report on when's the essentially saying its experts expect a brand of prices to continue rising this year but the prizes they say will go

down this year and next essentially saying this spread between these two most actively trading contracts to remain intact years to try and l. speaking of oil russia's oil major rosneft and gas producer i terra have received the green light from russia's anti-monopoly watch on to join forces to daily says rosneft will get a controlling stake in i taro and return for access to its gas deposits analysts say within a few years the joint ventures production could match that of the country's second largest gas company nov attack. and now let's take a look at the currency markets as you can see there the greenback is losing value against the euro and to the russian ruble was actually gaining against the major currencies and the euro and the dollar on wednesday we'll bring you all the latest there figures as soon as the russian markets reopen in two hours time and speaking

of the russian markets they had a pretty good session on wednesday you seeing those numbers there more than half a percent for both of my sex and the r.t.s. and of course the nina driver there was the much discussed speech by president elect obama in the putin who essentially said the russian economy fully recovered from the crisis of two thousand and eight and she was ninety also said he expected to be one of the world's top economies within the next three years we'll see if that comes true absolutely and it has thanks very much for this optimistic update from the business desk and to looking forward to another one next hour well stay with r.t. for a special interview with rocco bombers former national security advisor and that's after a short break and an update on the headlights. if

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