washington says it's ready to sideline the un and goes straight into syria as the regime and rebels blame each other for escalating violence. the power to choose votes on whether to hand over the country's money matters to brussels which could also see it lose its sovereignty as well. and a tipoff and a high profile whodunit the father of poisoned security agent alexander litvinenko believes the exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was behind his murder in london . after disappointing economic data in the u.s. the russian market is very able to post any gains on thursday with the ruble dropping to an alpha cent against both the dollar and the euro more on this in twenty minutes.

just after seven pm here in moscow you're watching the live with me rory stewart show 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 rebels continuing to blame each other for the violence moscow meantime has valid block any moves for military intervention at the u.n. but the u.s. says it is prepared to bypass the security council but this report artie's marine a fortnight. 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 if 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 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 know the fact that. the 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. reporting right at the rebels now is said to be u.n. envoy kofi annan to declare his peace plan a failure besides damascus says it's remaining committed to the world body's efforts a former syrian ambassador to turkey says he expects an escalation now of foreign funded terrorism as america hints at intervention over five thousand violations by . the groups have been documented by you and observers in syria so far. it's very clear that there are local regional and international powers and on his part can go off some sort of civil war in syria based on sectarian you cry to the. factors they are trying now to play the final card which is the sectarian the ethnic

factor that's why we anticipate that some more massacres will take place committed by those two groups fundamentalist salafist twenty six libyans who knew germs. and. citizens of other countries have been killed in action in syria and what they call the jihad what we call. against syrian civilians the syrian army and syrian security forces if they decide to take it for this is that they have to bear with it this is not libya this is not yemen this is. and to hear it out here we always are welcome to your input with the stories we're doing at dot com we're asking what you think about a possible intervention in syria bring out the numbers right now from the web site for this hour a vast majority believe it's already happening with foreign powers assisting the rebels and are down to thirteen percent of you say it's just a matter of time with nato states ready to have bypass international law while

almost the same number rule out the prospect of military action with beijing and moscow against it and the rest say though if assad goes things will settle down without external interference still there's time for you to controvert to talk because. it's good to have you with us here on the program today by the french president says paris doesn't rule out military intervention in syria either it comes as a disappointment to those who hope that francois hollande would reverse his predecessors aggressive foreign policy and instead focus on problems this report now to ati's test ourselves. i new president. but not soon new rhetoric just two weeks into his post. i heard don't really view mention of military intervention in it but it is not really dealt with. a 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 social issues at home rather than spending millions of military campaigns overseas but it seems they were wrong as foreign affairs magazine put it read for this. she is on the autopilot now being her. friend or. and that's not the right thing because. in the present or impose not even an issue and a last words are in line with the position of bernard on the levy a french activists and philosopher who drove to open letter calling on the lawn to

quote take the initiative in syria assad knows that it is counted for him the next emergency is to stop the killing in syria the minutes a day of levy's active role with 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 bow for foreign intervention. before that i mean some dickies ago when you intervene for me when the when there was a genocide you know it's a massacre and we won for us all to twenty even. in vain but where do we want to intervene in korea while all along to starting 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 a u.n. mandate. it is nothing nothing because with. 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. live from moscow this is r.t. still to come on the program the whistle blower's extradition julian assange his legal team battle to keep him from being shipped off to sweden on sex crimes charges with fears he could then be passed over to the united states. that were ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the people of ireland 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 authority to impose penalties will largely rest with brussels reporting from dublin artie's laurus mess. it's hobson's choice ireland 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 of what we were both looking for to change france. has said that they don't want to go down groove austerity and that's all that are and have gone so far 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 to and five full time employees for part time we're now down to two full time to part time. we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed for another three full time jobs. possible income is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have it you can feel it throughout. 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 yuri's they treat bank loans and bailouts and many economists think

a no vote would mean even steeper austerity and difficulty borrowing for the financial markets and we would find ourselves at the very least being looked at askance by foreign direct investments by 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 at 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 and banks and speculators have a portal into 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 damaged. in the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is ahead to which way it turns here in dublin literally every available post in the city is bristling with referendum posters the new posters call the fiscal pacs the bankers trees the pockets 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. nor a smith. and irish m.p. richard boyd barrett who we've just seen talking to laura smith also gave us his opinion on the austerity programs now gripping the eurozone he believes that cuts destroyed greece and ireland should stay clear of. i think the government's main weapon in trying to get people to vote yes has been fear trent's 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 wise 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 model right across europe and it didn't work 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 holes to the economy in our societies and so we think it is very very urgent that we call holds up and demand to both our government and european leaders in 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 you can watch the full interview with irish m.p. richard boyd barrett in just over an hour's time here on out say. a lot of me putin is heading west to talk energy and economics on the first foreign trip since being reelected as russia's president has said germany and france but the first stop for him isabella roasts relations between moscow and minsk became somewhat strained during that he had a presidency but political analyst to me which believes this will all change now.

if you look at the economic ties between russia and these countries you will see a very clear picture burden 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 bella which is the biggest trading partner 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 may be buddha was always very cautious he never got involved in a very very. angry exchange awards that took place between midriff and will question and there is a lot less bad blood between them and even made a video if you noticed changed his tone towards the question during the last one

and the years. i know we've got all of our top stories covered on air and online at r.t. dot com let's have a look and see what's waiting for you there right now the controversial at and t. piracy agreement dealt a blow by the european parliament to e.u. wide protests but the treaty could still come into force those details online that r.t.e. dot com. had a field of cannabis discovered right here in moscow with authorities saying that the hemp seeds must have come into the soil come in with the saw this used to grow lawns as for the allies those details also at r.t. dog. julian assange and his lawyers are considering a last ditch attempt to stop his extradition to sweden after much legal wrangling on wednesday the u.k.'s supreme court ordered the top whistle blowers transferred to answer questions on sex crimes allegations which he still denies

a journalist and author al book believes that after stockholm songes next stop is probably 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 in 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 really 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 four in the united states citizen and i have studied its foreign policy and its government activities for quite a while and it would surprise me if they don't try to get it i think it's a given. moment is the artsy world update for now though scotland yard has received a tip about who might have murdered former russian security agent alexander

litvinenko back in two thousand and six and it's a present of british investigators the defendant goes father blames exiled russian billionaire boris berezovsky and one of his associates. reports on whether this new renovation revelation will affect the long running case. twist in the story surrounding the poisoning. of former security official alexander litvinenko a live in a case of a volt 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 gold both former colleagues and friends of alexander litvinenko. knows all about. how do you think alexander first became infected with polonium to

turn why do you think this case has been dragging on for so long have been 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 sons who was just caught in the hands of i want to return to russia to seek justice for my son's death alex goen he's the chairman for spares those who live in the phone 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 the yankees that accusing the russian government of carrying out that crime though after the death the investigations take is very heavily all full of bodyguards andrey lugovoy he's 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. live in your own case father volta had previously apologised to him if he knew a thing that he was a. both in this crime being carried out now in an interview with our t. both a living yankee he said that 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 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 to the brits feel thirty's to continue the lines of investigation and other it tends to finding the truth of what really happened in this case. we're

watching on t.v. before we join dimitri for the hourly business let's go to iraq now to start the odyssey world update on a spate of attacks that have killed at least eighteen and left over fifty injured five bombings targeted a restaurant police officials in baghdad were seventeen were killed at the home of an adviser to the iraqi prime minister that was also hit and a gun attack in the city of mosul northwest of baghdad has killed a policeman iraq has seen a number of deadly attacks in recent months after the u.s. troops left in december. israel's heart of 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 but israel says the move is aimed at encouraging peace talks which collapsed in two thousand and ten after it 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 robotic arm of the r.s.s. has released the dragon capsule which we showed you all to plunge into the pacific ocean off mexico really any moment now i want to does. and it will be recovered at the cargo vehicle built by a california based company space x. spencer spent five days in orbit on a test mission america has been without its own means of transport to the i assess since its shuttles were retired last year one. as promised after dimitri of the business desk good to see you again do tell us how did russia and its thursday session actually was gaining for out most of the session but didn't manage to secure any of those gains at the very close so we are yet again seeing losses but this all came from the pessimism from the united states where the markets are also

declining right now we've seen the negative batch of economic data come out which is making investors sell yet again g.d.p. for the first quarter have been revised one point nine percent which is slower than expected and the jobs market has come out with one hundred thirty three thousand new jobs in the non-farm sector being added but this is indicating still a slowdown job listings have also increased and therefore the jobs market is not providing any optimism to the market in europe after this day everything changed for the worse for the c's down point three percent the dax even more than is more so at this hour but this is not even helped by suggestions by the european commission to create a banking union which would control the say in the whole of europe and provide help with bailouts. over on the commodities market we're also seeing a negative dynamic this one and

a half dollars yet again shared for both blends from above light sweet and brant brant is very close to the mark that was seen as quite low two weeks ago when the saudi arabian minister said that he wanted to see about one hundred dollars per barrel is just one hundred two now and this is not providing any support. as for the russian ruble on the currencies markets the ruble has been losing massively in the fact that it's lost more than two percent against both currencies in the case of the central bank has so far hesitating in russia to intervene and support the currency before we see some kind of certain move coming from the european union in order to resolve its debt crisis the euro has now dropped into negative territory against the dollar and we've also spoken earlier to set a good ear from the new economic school he says this dynamic we're seeing is not to be unexpected. i think it is normal that trouble is weakening right now it's an

emerging markets currency it's also an oil currency so whenever europe is going through the volatility it has now it's normal that investors sorry for trading money from the region markets during the school or to educate them that that we can see just like oh i think this is a very good news that the central bank doesn't intervene in interfere and let's or will slide i think this sends a very strong signal that central bank is committed to the floor for you know exchange rate. policy which at least has announced that more last year and that is going to work this year if oil price goes back a little bill will strengthen the four price slides down and go there but the very fact that the central bank is committed to the floor going to change rate policy and the inflation target and i think it's good news for russian inflation macroeconomic stability. right russian in the sea dropped to twenty percent this month and they continue doing so especially the years down two point four percent

on first day my six a bit a bit lower take a look at what was moving the my six a of cases was much better than the market for most of the day but then ended down with a verse to selling on the back of it's of first quarter results more than up more than four fold on the previous year rosneft has been supported for two days by news that it could essentially setting the company ad that it's buying back shares from minorities and gazprom was down around point seven percent of the close. russia and china setting up a joint venture to build a new passenger airplane based on russia's moscow provide the know how and the technology while beijing will be giving the cash the project is worth between seven and twelve billion dollars with an estimated seven years before the first jet will be produced there's a south sea caught up with the head of boeing international who said that russia is a very promising market. 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 two russian airlines in the next twenty years valued at over one hundred ten billion dollars. so that's the way the markets behave today to meet your many thanks indeed see you next hour. for it headlines and we're going to be backed up by max keiser and the kaiser report.

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