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this is actually live from moscow with me marina joshie a ceasefire has been in place in syria for several hours already was no reports of major violence received so far but mutual distrust and rebels refusal to guarantee the end of hostilities means there is no concrete guarantee either side will avoid firing the first shot some boy who was keeping us across developments in the capital damascus. this ceasefire came with her effect at six am local time so far it's been holding syrian to finance minister promise not to conduct any operations that any have found if they are military groups while they did say that they reserve the right to retaliate in case of being attacked as for the syrian opposition and hasn't released any official statements yet but what we're hearing from various members of various opposition groups is that there are going to

respect the cease fire and they promise not to open fire if the regular army indeed silence has its guns damascus has office has been spared the destruction and violence that has some of the northern areas of syria but these trust supply lines is still present in your daily life people have to think twice about where you park your car and they try not to do that in front of the government offices or police precincts young people are looking for ways to avoid being dropped to into the army the economy's getting carted to cost of living is increasing drop us here and maybe people here in damascus are now saying that we can discuss political changes later on the first thing that should be done is to stop violence and avoid the reporting there from damascus and russia's call for some foreign players to persuade the rebels to cease hostilities had apparently fallen on deaf ears foreign minister

lavrov accused them of stirring up violence even further at a meeting with he's gay partners of washington d.c. as she can explain. the g eight ministers are meeting at a very important juncture is the fate of the u.n. and arab league envoy kofi annan peace plan that is now at stake the syrian government says they are committed to the plan russia stands with mains the same and that is all parties must lay down their arms it's important to know that the syrian opposition hasn't come up with a common joint response before a cease fire to work all sides need to commit to a 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 moderators to verify what's the situation on the ground. and that's why the presence of independent monitors on the ground is very important . as far as the rhetoric between the u.s.

and russia it's tense to say the least effort 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 their policy makers here who are very pro integration and they can still blame russia for all that's happening in syria at least in their public statements in the meantime moscow's pushing for a political solution with a dialogue between the opposition and the complement whereas the u.s. and the u.k. for example and the arab league cans 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're also for a political solution because it's will lose their lives trying to influence the syrian opposition teams with your position inside the country and the exiled

opposition but it's absolutely clear that some of our international partners tell them different things and prevent the opposition from making any concessions this is room so i'm seeing a lot of rauf also warned western and arab nations against arming syrian rebels saying quote even if the syrian opposition is arms to the teeth it will not be able to defeat the syrian army and the blood checks will go on for years and of quote near clark age here i want to stand contributor to britain's guardian newspaper says coffee on its plan to do little to stop foreign states from bolstering the rebels and putting the blame on the us and government. it's interesting to hear the west response because the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia it's on those countries that are backing your positions and tell them to support the peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop this talk about reaching

entropy 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 obviously the west is betraying this conflict as it into the assad regime which is to believe that's not true and just imagine it is happening in america imagine if so the syrian government was backing opposition to president obama and the american government talking about arming the financing and you know what 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 peace plan. you know has to be accepted by both sides but i'm afraid the rhetoric from the west the british foreign secretary calling for assad to go before war crimes trial is a very helpful well there are 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 now that's a question we're asking in our online poll or to dot com so let's see the answers that we've got so far from the viewers well percentage wise the majority are the response which is forty three percent of skeptical saying that since the world pushed for and after the second largest group which is thirty three percent so far thinks neither acid nor the rebels would back down but twenty one percent say a ceasefire is possible you rebels lay down their arms and a minority which is only three first xanth international pressure well now you can let us know what you think on this issue of my logic here west said party caucus participate in the polls. in the global financial crisis one man's loss is another man's gain while millions struggle good by others seeing and grasping opportunity for profit or you can't respond laura smith reports on the predatory banking schemes taking advantage. links.

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are becoming part of the fabric of the u.k.'s economic society the only growth sector in the consumer credit market what's happening in the current economic climate is that people are going girl new credit card debt people don't want. because they're worried about the future income stream. so the ability to borrow just the money you need for a short period of time many people are finding much more advantageously running up long term bit on credit cards as bonds hey just maybe if you pay it off straight away the high interest rate extortionate late charges can make it impossible for people on low incomes to pay off their debts according to research by the day the book trusts people on average twelve hunted out and forty percent of them but borrowing money to pay the basic living costs even more worryingly mooste cost of forage paid

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with euro crisis appearing to simmer down but that may be about to change after an extremely poor showing at a spanish government debt action next eisenstein herbert was warned out at eleven thirty g.m.t. . a lot of easy money courtesy of the european central bank made for a calm start to twenty twelve but a poor spanish bond sale last week signals it may have only been a law before the debt storm breaks analysts warn why i think of it more as a debt do really work that well you take a country like greece you stick it on the farm do fork and you just put into the debt and then your servant of the government or j.p. morgan. all the do is great now spain is being thrown into the debt. now russian space scientists are preparing the next giant leap for mankind is goal of gaining a foothold on the moon with within ten years now summit of the daring project

coincides with the fifty first anniversary of the very first manned space flight dumbarton looks at the chances of success. to put a man on the moon and 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 was bogus but worth 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 that. a goal is to put on manned 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 there and i'm in it who 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 leaks 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 what might not be all we find if we look carefully organic samples may have been preserved in comets in a frozen state 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 arrows 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 from the decades of the space race from the fifty's to the eighty's so 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 that knowledge so for now sticking with the moon might be ambitious enough. with some tentative mars missions as well as the world remembers the pioneers who made it up to space in the first place and those in charge of course the kicks from nation want to start marking the breakthroughs of the past and start making some of their own tom watson our. space entrepreneur believes in 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 pharmaceutical research growing different process season materials on the reduced gravity on the maybe you set something up on the far side that really can look what scientists i'm sure you can get. a jump on a rocket ship and spend five years on the far side of the moon. twenty more on our

website r.t. dot com so don't hesitate to log on for the latest stories here's a taste of what's there for you today. powerful cast aside used as a chemical weapon in the vietnam war has been approved safe for farmers. and we operate a sneak peek into a new wonder of boeing's brand new dreamliner and check out this futuristic lie machine online. good leverage or. need to build a huge most sophisticated robot we jointly does interviews with jordan found anything jim's mission to teach creation and why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. iran is ready to make the asian buyers of its oil an offer they can't refuse it's cut supplies to germany and

is now aiming to attract new customers to offset the effect of sanctions imposed by the u.s. and the e.u. however tehran says it's also ready to make new proposals to countries worried about its nuclear program and the route of talks will take place in the sample later this week but iran's chief negotiator has warned they will not respond to pressure i'm talking to our key former u.s. security adviser general james jones says while iran has the right to nuclear power it must work with the international community or become isolated really isn't about fifteen minutes time here in our teeth but here's a look. at iran. should have access through peaceful nuclear power for which means if you run seriously wants to. play according to the game play part of the rules that all of us play by. signing the documents that. guarantee a certain behavior. there's no reason. to run for the. nuclear

nuclear power. for peaceful use so you know to me the. pressure of the responsibility is not upon russia for the united states through to . make iran do anything that it doesn't want to do it's up to around and say you know we want to be like north korea ten years from now living in a world of isolation. please feel. the limits to see

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really take three days for a charge for free. range three. three stooges free. and free volunteer to be over for your media projects free media to our teeth dot com. please. what unites us take a look at some other stories from around the world saif gadhafi of the second son of the late leave the leader says he's prepared to the phantom sell the war against war crime 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 last week the international criminal court rejected lidia's request to postpone a transfer to the hague. war planes from sudan f.

launched their first attack on a major town in neighboring nation south sudan aircraft dropped five bombs on the capital of a northern oil producing region apparently aiming for a bridge on wednesday there was heavy fighting on the contested border between the two countries and sudan accuses the south which only gained in the panels last year of occupying i don't know field bottle to its economy. at least seventy two suspected al qaeda linked fighters have been killed following three days of clashes with yemeni soldiers insurgents have been attacking an army barracks trying to retake the strategic southern town of flow there as the latest in a series of deadly confrontations following an uprising which forced long time leader ali abdullah saleh from power and the latest fighting it's reported the u.s. warplanes have carried out airstrikes. hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the chilean capital santiago against the construction of five dams in patagonia

illustrators fear the project could harm the landscape and wildlife of the southern region police broke up the peaceful march with water cannon arresting dozens the chilean supreme court's relighted the project last week rejecting a legal challenge from its critics. well on a lighter note would like to show you this video from a russian motorist recorded by his dashboard camera it's definitely something you won't see again for a while and i were very drive quickly turns ugly where the driver error we invading to oncoming cars only to find himself spinning out of control towards a speeding truck luck or reflexes the car winds up drifting around the truck and even right into itself hard to imagine what was going through the mind of the driver there but you certainly won't be forgetting the morning commute anytime soon . well we are switching gears obviously and turning to the world of business where the charges in the us go with our lives for us so natasha what's in the spotlight this thursday well the spotlight is on

italy or more specifically on the italian debt these three year borrowing costs for italy are set to jump by a full percentage point compared to a month ago that set a bond auction later on thursday and it seems to be making european traders nervous let's take a look at those numbers there and as you can see the footsie has slipped into bread even though it was higher on the opening and the dax is managing to withstand the pressure so far the russian markets also started their trading session quite r.b.t. but they've slipped into red as you can see there around the percent down for the my six and the biggest movers on the my sex are of course the blue chips which are all in the red they're all hurting as bear bank is among them as you can see they're troubled carmaker off to vaas is also being punished by investors it plans

to borrow up to two billion dollars by two thousand and fifteen and mainly to modernize its core production but the only one who's managing to buck the downward trend is sparkling wines producer eyebrows you saw in its second day of trading during its i.p.o. on wednesday the company managed to raise one hundred thirty eight million dollars and it's doing quite well as you can see the currencies now the dollar is. losing value against the euro and the russian ruble is actually gaining against both the euro and the greenback and onto the asian markets where the trade is wrapping up as we speak and it's pretty hefty gains for both choke e o's nikkei and hong kong's hang seng as you can see the hang seng is putting on over. one percent or actually one percent and wall street had a pretty good day on wednesday the dow jones industrial average actually managed to snap out of its five session losing streak and it closed higher mainly on two

issues spanish and italian bond yields fell which offered some support to the equity markets both in europe and in the united states and alcoa posted pretty good results it surprised analysts by posting of profit when everybody expected it to come out with losses and of course one of the stocks to watch today is google it's reporting later after the bell and also weekly jobless claims is one of the indicators of the health of the u.s. economy's coming out later as well and more oil is higher this hour though trade has been pretty choppy there are also two factors weighing on the oil price a u.s. stock piles are actually dropping faster than expected but on the other hand of crude inventories are higher and that's putting pressure on the oil price and we saw it actually a little were earlier in the day than staying with the energy sector or russia's

oil major major oil producer rosneft and downs producer i terra have received the green light from russia's anti-monopoly watchdog to join forces will create a gas aventure which is that they really says will be set up as a water ross now will get a controlling stake and i terra in return for access to. draw as nests gas deposits analysts say within a few years the joint ventures production could match that of the country's second largest company nova tap. and one more thing growth in emerging markets is speeding up despite weaker demand for their products in the developed. h.s.b.c.'s index of business conditions in developing nations rose to more than fifty. three points in the first quarter a reading above fifty and to kate's expansion the rebound in manufacturing and growth in the service sector are the main drivers with russia china lagging behind

brazil and india. and that's all latest from the business that's right and i'll be back in about fifteen minutes but you can always find a lot more stories on our site r.t. dot com slash business finding their absolutely in touch thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update and there's plenty more to come here on our team including a finalist for the russian comp are in place after two very tense and final showdowns in moscow and cazan and a far will have more on that in about twenty minutes time before the ad there will bring you the exclusive interview and of course the headlines that's coming your way.

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