washington says it's ready to. go into syria as the regime. violence. the power to choose. whether to hand over the country's money to brussels which could see its sovereignty surrendered as well. as a tip off in a high profile whodunit the father of poisoned security agent alexander litvinenko believes an exiled a russian tycoon or. he was behind his murder in london. around

the world twenty four seventh's live from moscow with me rory. washington says it could take direct action in syria even if that means going against international law this after the massacre of more than one hundred people in a syrian town with the government and the rebels blaming each other for the atrocity moscow has vowed to block any moves for military intervention at the u.n. but the u.s. says it is prepared to bypass the security council. reports. well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria last week those those comments were also echoed by america's european allies and as a result there is now a nother push within the security council for international sanctions against

against syria now the united nations is conducting their own investigation to find out who exactly is responsible for the killings of one hundred eight people in syria last week but the u.s. and its allies has come to its own conclusion now. that if the six point peace plan put together by kofi annan which calls for a cease fire in syria that plan breaks down and if sanctions are not supported within the security council then the international community and council members will have to consider options outside of the authority of the security council now what those options will be exactly is not clear we do know that the u.s. and european countries have already imposed their own sanctions on syria so many are interpret these words as a threat of military action now russia's ambassador to the un vitaly churkin believes that country should not come to jump to conclusions with respect to who

was responsible for the massacre in houla last week that that all parties should wait for the results of the un investigation ambassador churkin said that he's very disappointed with the fact that there's been very little progress or progress with mr anon six point peace plan and that both sides the opposition and the syrian government have been seen in some ways violating their agreements to a cease fire and many other things outlined by the six point peace plan but ambassador churkin said it's very important to note the fact that. responsibility of course lies on the syrian government the opposition group also is still carrying out acts of violence and it's important for those that are arming or financing the our opposition group to look at the circumstance and understand that maybe those moves are provoking the violence and further escalating it. putting it there now with the rebels said to be urging u.n.

envoy kofi annan to declare his peace plan a failure this as damascus says he remains committed to the world body's efforts a former syrian ambassador to turkey says he expects an escalation of foreign funded terrorism as the u.s. hints at intervention. over five thousand. groups have been documented by your observers. it's very clear that there are local regional and international powers them and on this part can go off some sort of civil war based on sectarian. and ethnic factors they are trying now to play their final card which is the sectarian the ethnic focus so that's why we anticipate that some more massacres will take place committed by those two groups fundamentalist salafist twenty

six libyans who need. some citizens of other countries have been killed in action in syria and what they call the jihad what we call. a good suit against civilians the syrian army and syrian security forces if they decide to take you through the steps they have to bear with this is not libya this is not yemen this is. now the french president says paris doesn't rule out military intervention in syria either it comes as a disappointment to hope francois hollande would reverse his predecessor's aggressive foreign policy and just focus of problems at home. as the story. new president. but not soon new rhetoric just two weeks into his post. i heard bernardo relive the mention of military intervention and that but it is not

. going to comment that came in response to the massacre in syria. from the leader of a country that led the implementation of a no fly zone over libya last year critics have pointed out that there was no real choice between french president francois launch and his predecessor nicolas sarkozy but for those who thought they had voted for change now appear to be already faced with a case of deja vu one of the pillars of the laws election campaign was the pledge to pull french troops out of afghanistan this has made many hopeful the new president would focus on issues at home rather than spending millions of military campaigns overseas but it seems they were wrong as foreign affairs magazine put it read foreign policy is on the out apartment now and her. french born. and that's not the right thing because. they print or impose not

even an issue and a last words are in line with the position of bernard on the levy a french activist and philosopher who wrote an open letter calling on the lawn to quote take the initiative in syria assad knows that is counted for him the next emergency is to stop the killing in syria i'm innocent of libby's active role of convincing former fed president sarkozy to support the libyan intervention and should france take the interventionists route again some say it begs a new question what's going to we're not going to interview the humanitarian argument is used to lower the bar for foreign intervention. before that i mean some decades ago when you. intervene for me when the when there was a genocide you know it's a massacre the real one for you all to twitter been. in vain but where do we want to intervene in north korea while a larger started to sound

a lot like sarkozy some analysts point out that there may be no real teeth to such rhetoric this time around telling that he will only act with un mandate. it is nothing nothing because. china and russia. we can be sure that he can he can do anything and as far as french people are concerned they don't care about foreign policy they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic fire in their own backyard first and foremost yes or sylvia r.t. brussels. it's good to have you with us here on our to today and still to come for you in this program that of the whistleblowers extradition hearing the sound of legal team battle to keep him from being shipped off to sweden on sex crimes charges for years he could then just be passed over to the u.s. . the people of ireland are voting on the future of their finances and

sovereignty if the majority says yes to the so-called e.u. fiscal pact power over the country's budget and the author already to impose penalties will largely lay in brussels in dublin as artie's laura's. it's hope since choice island has two options is it goes out to vote on a fiscal pact with the e.u. to say yes to writing austerity into law and cede precious sovereignty to brussels say no and incur the wrath of the european central bank and potentially kissed goodbye to e.u. bailouts and it looks like it's going to be close the reason i'm voting yes this time is that we are in the e.u. now we have lost a veto and it would be foolish to do anything else it is a matter for we were both looking for to change france. has to go down groove austerity and that's. and it's not working there's no change in our at the moment

so that's why our people want to send a message to your votes taking place against the backdrop of a failing economy unemployment up to fifteen percent welfare payments a cut public sector spending has been slashed everyone's feeling the pinch including publican jimmy killed near he's seen his turnover full by heart as locals batten down the hatches we would have had. five full time employees yeah for part time we're now down to two full time two part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's another three full time jobs gone possible income is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have it you can see it through out not just the pub but the restaurant business and people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economies tightly bound to

the ailing eurozone through bank loans and bailouts and many economists think a no vote would mean even steeper austerity and difficulty borrowing from financial markets we would find ourselves through. being looked at the sky by foreign direct investment financial investment they would say well are these people really in or of the european core that's arguable the sense of the sensibility of what's going on but if there's a club and they want to be part of us you know you join the army you are tickets we would be rejecting and i think that would be. attractive from a national pride perspective is it a pride we can afford i'm not sure people think it is thanks to their constitution the arash are the only european people who get to vote on the pact and all but two e.u. member governments have already signed it but if they vote no the irish will be joining a growing anti austerity backlash france's new president francois hollande has

talked about trying to renegotiate the pact and germany's angela merkel despite having written the treaty can't get her own parliament to ratify it most of ireland's main political party supports it but not richard boyd barrett of the united left alliance because of all of the gambling debts of banks and speculators of import on to the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of cults every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and we believe will do on told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead no matter which way it turns here in dublin literally every available post in the city is bristling with referendum posters the no posters call the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the austerity pact meanwhile the

yes campaign maintains it's all about stability either way the future looks bleak many seem willing to cede silver and tea in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed in a bid me good. euro smith r.t. die. and irish m.p. richard boyd barrett who we've just seen talking to laura smith also gave his opinion on the austerity programs now gripping the eurozone he believes cuts have destroyed greece and ireland should stay well clear of them. i think women's main weapon in trying to get people to vote yes has been fear threats that money won't come out of the a.t.m. is that the be no money to pay pensions and social welfare so there's no positive reasons being given it's just we've got to take this austerity all the why's there will be disaster and in fact we think the disaster is happening already it's clear greece have been if you like the major victims of austerity and now they're proposing to generalize that austerity all the right across europe and it didn't

work in greece what makes them think it's going to work in the rest of europe i think if we continue down the road of austerity we're about a year behind greece in terms of the devastation that is likely to be coals to the economy in our society so we think it is very very urgent that we call on hold until. the european leaders and the policy of bailing out banks and paying for it with brutal austerity being imposed on the people when that is doing such obvious and serious damage to the economy and its prospects for cover. and i know you can watch the full interview with. just about fifteen minutes time right here on our team. let me putin is heading out west to talk about energy and economics on his first foreign trip since being reelected as russia's president he'll visit germany and france but the first stop for him is relations

between moscow and became somewhat strained during the presidency of dmitri medvedev but political analyst dmitri babich believes this ultimately will change now. if you look at the economic ties between russia and these countries you will see a very clear picture verdun is russia's biggest partner in europe and the european union is in general russia's biggest trading partner and in the former soviet union velour which is the biggest trading fog in the close of trading partners and they're going to discuss economy they're going to discuss their joint venture on production of drugs they're going to discuss privatization of the russian enterprises by russian business and i would say that quarrel. with bill it was there were more still on the line between will question and former president maybe buddha was always very cautious he never got involved in a very very. angry exchange awards that took place between midriff and will

question call and there is a lot less bad blood between them and even made a video if you know it just changed his tone towards the question during the last one and the hof years. you're watching we've got all of our top stories covered. what else is on our website. and. that's still the. field of discovered.

the official. video. and. just a moment on the world update. lawyers are considering a last ditch attempt to stop his extradition to sweden after much of legal wrangling on wednesday the supreme court ordered the top whistle blowers

transferred questions on sex crimes accusations which. journalist and author al book believes. washington. what i've seen so far on the net is pretty consistent with what we have seen all along in the past eighteen months or so and that is a mean the hostile and negative attitude towards. julian assange and his attempt to avoid extradition to the us or to sweden i think the swedish prosecutors have invested so much per stage in this case that they're under a lot of pressure to get him convicted of something so i don't think they're just going to walk away from the case but they may surprise us yet. most of my life first floor in the united states citizen and i have studied its foreign policy and its government's activities for quite a while and it would surprise me if they don't try to get it i think it's a given. now scotland yard has received

a tip about who might have murdered former russian security agent alexander litvinenko back in two thousand and six in a tape sent to british investigators the father blames exiled russian billionaire boris berezovsky and one of his associates. now reports on whether this new revelation will affect the long running case. the twist in the story surrounding the poisoning. a former security official alexander litvinenko a live in your case has revealed in an interview the names of the people he says are the killers of his son other people he names of the russian billionaire boris the better results and alex told both former colleagues and friends of alexander litvinenko. it was berezovsky and gold for. energy how do you think alexander first became infected with polonium two turn why

do you think this case has been dragging on for so long why is the be no court case because they don't have anything and if it were to open it will become apparent who was behind it. pays money to some high personas. everyone is covering every one of my boys since it was just come out in the hands of i want to return to russia to seek justice for my son's death alex goen he's the chairman of. the validity was a very close confidant of the in the weeks leading up to his death he was the unofficial spokesman he was also the man he wrote the statement at the time of your case that accusing the russian government of carrying out that crime though after the death the investigation stake is very heavily all over bodyguards and a little boy he is now a russian and he recently passed a lie detector test that was carried out by british experts did you do anything

that led to the death of alexander litvinenko. were you involved in alexander litvinenko. have you ever had any dealings with polonium. livin in case father volta had previously apologized to him if he knew a thing that he wasn't. in this crime being carried out now in an interview with thoughts he both are living yeah. he was with alexander at the time that he died in that alexander litvinenko had written down the names of the people responsible for this on a piece of paper he's also told r.t. that he should be used as a witness now and indeed it seems on the back of this interview and these revelations could now be used as evidence and perhaps we can see this now being a further push for the british authorities to continue the lines of investigation and other attempts to finding the truth of what really happened in this case in

a moment dmitri with the business for now the world starts with iraq and a spate of bombings that killed at least twelve and injured twenty nine people died after a bomb went off near a restaurant in northern baghdad three others were killed in blasts targeting police officials in other areas of the city and a car bombing near the home of an adviser to the iraqi prime minister left one sort of you know iraq has seen a number of deadly attacks in recent months of course after the last u.s. troops pulled out in december. israel's hand at the border use of ninety one palestinians to authorities in the west bank the remains belong to those who died in past decades while carrying out attacks on israel israel says the move is encouraging peace talks which collapsed in two thousand and ten after refused to stop building settlements on land or seized from palestinians if the talks fail again the country's defense minister says israel could define the borders of a future palestinian state unilaterally. the first private spacecraft ever to reach

the international space station is on its way back to earth the dragon capsule has been released from the i assess. to plunge into the pacific ocean in about three hours from now that's where it will be recovered the cargo vehicle built by a california based company space x. spent five days in orbit on a test mission america has been without its own means of transportation to the i assess since the shuttles were retired last year. and off to do a tree at the party percenters good to see you today understand the russian currency is a seeing a tremendous drop that is correct so we're seeing it the russian ruble at three year lows and we'll look at it in just a second first of all secular what's going on the stock markets in the in europe we are seeing them of finally going up this is basically on bargain hunting coming back onto the market after well many weeks of drops that we have seen also the

markets are welcoming the latest initiative to create the banking union by the european commission now that can regulate the entire euro zone's banking sector and if needed will share the costs of bailouts bailing out individual players now on the oil market on the commodities market therefore we are also seeing a slight rebound from the lowest levels since last september october and as you can see that rebound is not very significant enough to support the russian currency which as i mentioned is at a three year lows fresh lows another one and a half percent last versus the dollar one a half percent loss versus the euro and the euro is slightly rebounding against the greenback on the russian ruble markets we are seeing a mixed picture right now with the r.t.s. going down another one percent since the beginning of may it has lost twenty

percent of its value so sell in may and go away works perfectly well this year one of the my six is gaining a percent on the week of ruble among the trysting stocks here we are seeing a systemic outperforming the market is up almost three percent as you can see there on news that it's the first quarter profit grew almost fourfold since the same period last year now look oil is up one percent on news that it may it may gain another whale field in the middle east and guess. problem is half of the week of the markets now. russia and china are setting up a joint venture to build a new passenger airplane based on russia's illusion aircraft moscow will provide the know how and the technology and beijing the cash the project is worth between seven and twelve billion dollars invested seven years to produce the first plane business r.t. caught up with the head of boeing international who said russia has

a huge market potential. we see russia is growth it's economic growth as a huge benefit to an enabler of aviation growth within russia and so the market there as we see it is over a thousand aircraft to russian airlines in the next twenty years valued at over one hundred ten billion dollars. large internet companies have more than twenty million visitors to their websites a month could be forced to report to the russian governments any plans for foreign investment and into their firms that the russian parliament considering a bill that classifies such companies as strategic enterprises meaning official approval will be needed for investment over ten percent of the stocks and they say the move will make life more difficult for internet startups seeking capital or. so i have for you this i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with a market update super dimitri thanks very much. harder the headlines are still to

come here on r t then we're going to discuss the whole school treaty which is not making any fans across the struggling euro zone. wealthy british style it's a mess but i'm glad it's money. markets

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