the first ceasefire over a year of violence between syrian forces and armed rebels comes into force following a u.n. deadline meanwhile russia calls for international monitors to help keep the peace. out of the frying pan and into the red help payday loan companies offering crippling interest rates or replacing banks in debt ridden britain for people looking for a cash flow quick fix. that is egypt's first presidential campaign since mubarak's fall gathers pace those criticisms of the country will end up with another dictator again.

it's a pleasure to have you with us today here on r.t. i'm real risk to show you live in moscow syria remains mostly calm after the un brokered cease fire between the government and the opposition came into force on thursday morning the truce resulting from the mediation efforts of international envoy kofi annan is the first in the year long violence but as artie's oksana boyko reports from damascus with mutual distrust between both sides the peace remains fragile. this ceasefire came into effect at speaks am local time and so far it's been holding syrian the finance minister promise not to conduct any operations at any of pounce if they count as they are military groups while they did say that

they reserve their right to retaliate in case their units are being attacked as for the syrian opposition what we're hearing from various members of various opposition groups is that there are going to respect these cease fire and they promised not to open fire if the regular army indeed silences its guns damascus has obviously been spared the destruction and violence that has ravaged some of the northern areas of syria but the stress of violence is still present in your daily lives 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 a young people are looking for ways. being dropped to get into the army the economy is getting harder and the cost of living is increasing jobs are scarce and many people here in damascus now are saying that we can discuss political changes later on the first thing that should be done is to stop violence. on

a porker reporting now russia's foreign minister is calling for an immediate deployment of international monitors to syria to help to maintain the truce but after meeting that with partners in washington d.c. circle of north also accused some countries of being unwilling to help bring peace to use a gun a joins us live from with the u.s. capitol. go they are serious and definitely high alert diplomatic agenda these days but there have been some strong accusations as well tell us more about them. a lot of skepticism care in washington about kofi annan plan and the u.s. executive plan but it almost designated as doomed even before the plan had a chance to work we have the russian foreign minister in town for the arrow meeting here in washington he said russia is very supportive of the plan and would do everything they can to make sure it holds and the dialogue begins between the opposition and the government the syrian government says its armed forces will remain on standby to retaliate against any attacks by armed terrorist groups

against civilians or troops whereas the russian foreign minister said. talk without the importance of having monitors to verify the situation on the ground to avoid provocations take a listen to this it was rules and i am the un secretary-general ban ki moon to put forward suggestions as soon as possible as to the format and size of the monitoring mission in syria so we don't provocations that's why the presence of independent monitors on the ground is very important political. russia's stance remains the same and that is all parties must lay down their arms but for a cease fire to work all sides need to commit to it as far as the rhetoric between the u.s. and russia it's tense to say the least their current 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 as president bashar al assad in power their policy makers 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 here is how the russian foreign minister addressed some of those accusations. that's why it's a listener side is in power not because russia and china support him but because he represents a considerable number of syrians according to some estimates it's more than half of the population it is to get all sides to the negotiating table we're also trying to influence the syrian opposition groups but it's also absolutely clear that some of our international partners tell them different things and prevent them from making any concessions so you see you sergey lavrov and kerry clinton have a bilateral meeting today here in washington we hope to hear more but even though the u.s. accept that kofi annan plan which addresses all five of the conflict not just the syrian government washington still seems to put all responsibility in the hands of present nothing and never mentions the opposition which also has to lay down their

arms all right are these are going to try and live in washington many thanks indeed . but he has hinted it may ask nato for help to protect its borders after gunfire from syrian skirmishes reached its territory just a few days ago and for more on the international reaction to the search and a situation in syria let's not talk to dr siegel a political analyst joining us live on the program from jordan oh good to see you today so the first ceasefire in over a year of violence over the day that comes turkey make suggestions it once nato did get involved in the region and why now at such a delicate stage. well i think that these are. i don't think they're serious about it you know. perhaps it's merely some sort of an inertia it's the inertia of the situation that is driving them. towards this absurdity but i think that. ultimately i think that the situation there is not

one such destruction of the understanding between the contenders what i mean is that now the situation is ripe for some sort of an understanding i don't mean an understanding between the syrian regime and the so-called opposition but i mean after all in syria we have a jew political conflict so i think that it is going to be some sort of an understanding between syria and the real contenders namely the oil rich countries so what i mean is that now the syrian regime realizes that. quite a few syrians can be recruited by oil money and on the other hand the aldrich countries and the western countries realize that the regime cannot be toppled at least not in this in the way they thought they could so i think that both parties are now ready for some sort of a dialogue or understanding admittedly the conflict has not ended but i think that

. they realize that there's no other road nor other route except some sort of an understanding so as you know i do apologize for interrupting you as you say you know now it is time for both the opposition and the assad regime to come to the peace talks table but perhaps you know today marking a year of violence today is the first official ceasefire a ground breaking ceasefire up perhaps there should be celebrations in syria as once again the u.s. the u.n. and nato have successfully brought peace to a troubled region of the world. well i think. the real force of peace and understanding now in the world is russia and china rather than the west i mean the west has been actually trying to instigate trouble not only in syria but in the whole arab region and everybody all arab citizens know that they know that if there is. a credit to any power that has actually brought

some sort of peace and understanding it is russia particularly russia and china so i think that these claims. well are hollow they they are. not actually credible claims they only actually we are witnessing a new relation of force a new situation world situation in which the us is not the only player in the world and this is very encouraging so i think that if i may just jump in for a moment i do apologize for running very very low on time here but the syrian government is saying that it has defeated those seeking to bring down the regime do you think this is why it agreed to the ceasefire moments ago you are saying the west has been trying to aggravate syria is that how the assad government sees it they've been ultimately successful against western people who are getting involved . yeah i think so yeah i think that the west at one time the west and the rich

countries actually believed that they could topple the regime in this way you know they they. of course they were misinformed but now i think they realized too strong for these methods you know they know that the regime is is there to stay but of course now the regime should be for me to prepare itself for any external aggression well what is required now is for the regime to widen its base to widen its spectrum of alliances and also to open some sort of a dialogue with the oil rich country and. i think that's the only way dr he should i wish we had more time for this we turn to political analyst joining us live from jordan thanks so much. but of course here at r.t. we're always eager to know your stance on the story we're taking for example today at r.t. dot com we're asking you were whether syria will see a complete ceasefire this week let's bring up your numbers from our web site r.t.

talk com here's how they stack up at the moment about forty just over forty percent of you say the syrian national council will push for a libyan style intervention scenario in the country about about a third think that neither approach the assad's forces nor the rebels will lay down arms just now for this our fifth just over a fifth believing the rebels will have to back down to maintain the cease fire just under three percent of you the bare minimum of the opinion that international pressure will successfully bend to the conflict. we're coming to you live from moscow with the e.u. deluged in debt it's not only governments looking for crisis cash as bank credit dries up for those in desperate need companies providing so-called payday loans are booming offering money but at a very high price as artie's laura smith reports short term funds often lead to long term debt. let me explain the dot coms have eaten it all

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the storm rex kaiser and stage i hope it will be giving a rather unique take on the situation but will be coming your way after fifteen thirty g.m.t. . a lot of easy money courtesy of the european central bank may 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 fund do you really want that you take a country like greece and stick it on the farm do fork he did put into the debt and then you serve it have to goldman sachs or j.p. morgan. all this debt fondue is great now spain is being thrown into the debt fondu . it's a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital where egypt is preparing to vote for its next leader and the first presidential poll since the fall of hosni mubarak and i'll show you all for next month the election has been overshadowed

however by a controversial kind of it's accused of offering hollow promises as a record of score explains that democracy egyptians fought so hard for years and the thing that's certain. the list is long but a choice made limited with just do a little over a month left before the crucial presidential polls they campaign is off to a start the liberal candidates believe this election is vital in determining whether the egyptian or aleutian will sink or swim for our daily revolution a serious transitional period and it's not clear whether it will reach its final destination its goals of freedom and social justice haven't been breached yet many more you deal with through committee will have to sift through more than twenty names on the list of those who applied for the country's top job but they aren't the ones faced with a crucial choice. right. now the feeling

because. now there are. some things. i think. it's liberalism copts all good we don't really a problem people moderate people of various clear of the islamist who have been unleashed deliberately by the staff or the military so the people would have patrols to use a. circle of military people should all of. the people shop the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party or j.p. already holds the majority of seats in the country's parliament and promised to abstain from the presidential elections but later backtracked on their words many question whether such a staunch group of islamists may be successful in giving the egyptians civil liberties and freedoms they demanded a team of the f.t.p. members disembarked in washington d.c.

last week for a charm offensive on both the western politicians and media to prove sharia law does not mean a return to the dark ages yet when you're skeptical of the censor. you know the competing this is an ideological totally perry an organization of immersion a communist whens an america and says we were not. imposed would mean is that we would respect the police who would believe such a thing you meet say something like that practically but you know in parliament become powerful they will follow the program and the alternative hosni mubarak's former prime minister foreign minister and chief of intelligence are hardly a better option as many theories they will return things that to where they were before their evolution. speaks for the source. you're going to run for to see. just living clean was part of it.

so i don't want to just leave out what i would like to think she's. saying i'm not going to if you. like and thus the much lauded presidential election in egypt may turn out to be just another big disappointment in cairo in a girls' school. ok or twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow as the world celebrates the fifty first anniversary of the first manned space bye-bye of course you're a good guarin russian scientists have revealed a rather ambitious plan to make it to the moon and stay there at his home garden takes a look at the next giant leap for mankind. 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 troy's all this but what's known klein 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 those who goal is to put unmanned 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 on a 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 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 climates 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 moonbase 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 from the decades of the space race from the fifties to the eighties 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. if sometimes it's of mars missions planned as well as the world remembers the pioneers who made it up to space in the first place those in charge of cosmic exploration want to stop marking the breakthroughs of the past and start making some of their own tom dart and party. we are also covering the fifty first anniversary of the first

manned space flight on our website at www dot com one of the stories there now just a click away for a cosmic hero right here in moscow a group of enthusiastic about watching the massive forty meter monument of space pioneer you are just in time for the anniversary celebrations of the historic flight it's certainly been a lift off for all the dirt and grime as you can see right there the full footage of ansi dot com. panda forelegs good obama mania sweeps through a colombian village preparing to present the u.s. president with a donkey right now the name of his very special gift at r.t. top. secret leverage to. be able to build its most sophisticated group we jointly those interviews are doing about anything. to teach creation and why you should care about humans. this

is why you should care only dot com and just a couple of minutes of the world out there but for now iran will not give up its right to nuclear energy despite pressure from the west the country's president mahmoud ahmadinejad made a declaration ahead of this weekend's talks on the issue with major world powers in turkey now the first of their kind in now more than a year earlier tehran signaled it's going to come forward with new initiatives aimed at proving the peaceful nature of its nuclear program the u.s. and the e.u. however seem convinced that enough will be done to lift tough sanctions including an oil exports ban imposed over why the islamic state is working on a nuclear bomb talking to r.t. a former national security advisor to president obama says there's nothing wrong with iran developing nuclear capabilities for peaceful purposes as long as it's willing to play by the rules and the full interview coming up later this hour in

about ten minutes or so but for now a quick look for you. iran. should have access to a peaceful nuclear power if it wishes if iran seriously wants to. play according to the game but play one of the rules that all of us play by. signing the documents that. guarantee a certain behavior. there's no reason why iran could not have nuclear power and nuclear power for peaceful use so it's up to iran to say you know. we want to be north korea. years from now living in the world was a little. starting with ramallah straight into the world out there we go hear it out see palestinian leaders are rejected israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is the latest invitation to resume peace talks they've insisted that israel stops its

construction of jewish settlements there first which are being built against un resolutions and widespread international opposition the palestinian refusal follows yesterday's appeal from the middle east quartet for both sides to take proper steps to improve relations. deadly clashes between fighters linked to al qaeda and the yemeni soldiers continues for a fourth day over one hundred seventy people have been killed in the fighting and airstrikes since monday it's oceans have been attacking army barracks trying to retake the strategic southern town of loder it's the latest in a series of deadly confrontations following an uprising which forced a longtime leader ali a boat out so late from power. the international criminal court has confirmed that saif gadhafi the imprisoned son of the former libyan leader was tortured and abused since his capture last november investigators met him at a detention center near tripoli earlier this month where he said he'd prefer to

stand trial in his home country on charges of war crimes however it's believed it is to his to disclose decision excuse me was made under duress as a libyan official was sitting in on the conversation a trial of the i.c.c. would remove the threat of a death sentence if he's convicted on charges of killing protesters during last year's uprisings. straight to dimitri there you are the r.t. business desk i understand that unemployment in america not exactly the markets is it well to answer your question of course it's not the markets but on the other hand we've got wholesale prices data which has come out flat no change here energy prices actually going down and therefore this is of course being taken very well in the u.s. markets take a look at those indices or the dow and nasdaq are up both of them more than. half a percent over in europe it's also all turned positive after that wholesale price

report with a four c. one percent these soul decline a big decline in today's world at shell as inspections continue over the ten square mile oil spill in the gulf of mexico. and also because there was a bond auction we talked to about it was a very important with the boring costs coming out and it's only increasing by one percentage point not good but not as bad as it could have been of course. let's move over to the other markets in russia we are seeing in the final minutes of trading we are seeing also some positive movement compared to what we saw of one hour ago the r.c.s. . flat point two percent my six still a bit a bit lower so it was moving the device is on a decline after announcing that it will be boring two billion dollars to modernize our production shores up one percent on its second day of trading moving over to

currencies we are seeing the euro gaining massively versus the greenback this is of course a very good sign given the importance of every batch of economic data coming out in the united states if investors are not selling of course then the dollar's running versus here and the ruble continue strengthening against the basket of currencies and the commodities market because of. the declining energy prices and the wholesale price reports we are seeing light sweet brant catching up but moving up less than a dollar less than half a dollar for. that's the way the markets look this hour oriel have course more at the top of the hour on the how the russian markets because we will do so in fifteen minutes all right i mean you're looking for tried many thanks indeed. all right in just a moment here on our t.v. i will be talking to a man who used to be an integral part of barack obama's inner circle that's after a recap of the top stories with me warm reception.

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