from fans to pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. to us and its allies ridicule syrian government claims that terrorists are responsible for the houla massacre as washington admits military intervention plans are in the pipeline and warns it's considering sidestepping the u.n. . top dog on syria is expected in germany and france where president bush will be discussing business and politics on his first foreign tour off his new term in office. and tallying the totals irish government exit polls suggest the country has voted yes to that huge fiscal treaty which are in say dooms island two years of crippling a steady and loss of sovereignty to brussels. just days after the shock resignation of t. and k. b.p.'s chief executive of b.p. has announced that the now looking to sell its stake in the russian joint venture

join me in twenty minutes time for all the details in the business but as. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t. the syrian government is blaming rabble terrorists for a last weekend's massacre in which more than one hundred died in the town of houla it's a claim the u.s. strongly reject says the secretary of state says plans are being drawn up to intervene in syria bypassing the u.n. security council if necessary hillary clinton also criticized russia's position urging moscow to put pressure on damascus here's our report now with the latest from new york. these comments are clearly coming in the in light of last week's massacre in houla u.s. officials are making their words much stronger just on wednesday the u.s. ambassador to the u.n.

susan rice said that if kofi annan six point peace plan fails and if the security council does not agree on international sanctions on syria then countries would have to consider taking independent action without the authority of the security council what that action would be is not clear because the u.s. and european countries have already imposed their own independent sanctions on syria so those words led many to speculate that the u.s. and its allies are possibly considering military action the commander of the free syrian army has called on joint special envoy kofi annan to publicly say that his six point peace plan that's about seven weeks old cars failed and out would allow rebels to resume their military attacks against president bashar al assad and his supporters nobody from the united nations has come out and blatantly said that peace plan has failed clearly there's been

a violation of the cease fire on both sides the opposition and the government also the syrian government has publicly said that they're the result of their investigation into last week's massacre in houla has found that rebels are responsible they say for the deaths of more than one hundred people there and according to their investigation they believe it is because armed rebels are trying to start a civil war in the country the u.n. is also continuing their own independent investigation into what happened in houla and that those results will be known in the next couple of days now reporting there now russia says it won't change its position of seeking peace in syria even as washington attempts to push moscow towards forcing damascus into submission and i were activists sara flounders says america's never been interested in a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict. it's important to know that it's the u.s. and nato who are creating a civil war in syria in terms of arming commando mercenaries thugs

flooding the country with weapons doing everything that they can to destabilize syria and the latest massacre in houla is just one more example because it's this exact scenario that the u.s. has used to justify quote humanitarian intervention in the past and after they create total destabilization send in all sorts of mercenaries and armed groups and they claim that they're going in in order to save the situation it's absolute hypocrisy and fraud and they've done it with the u.n. security council support and they've done it without u.n. security council support and we've seen this in the past and it's clear that the u.s. is not interested in a diplomatic solution they are in every way trying to move toward military intervention which means massive destruction of the entire country but they're

already responsible for great destruction. russia's position on syria has been supported by china where the two countries already using their veto powers the u.n. twice to block what they consider unbalanced resolutions on the conflict and one chinese academic told r.t. that moscow and beijing have the best chances of mediating a peaceful solution. the world sees russia as a very strong ally where china i mean a lot of people perceive china basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of the reason is that china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about support for syria she also questioned in syria right now that even if there is a military intervention what comes next and i think that there's a lot of calls for military intervention because there would be a lot less but even if people are dying right now the end result. will be bloodshed and thousands possibly tens of thousands. so right now there's no clear solution i

think what russia and china are understanding is that they have a lot of sway over the sharon government perhaps diplomacy in this instance far more affected by u.n. sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria right now the conflict in syria spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees with areas divided between supporters and bitter opponents of president assad marie ivanovna has more from lebanon. this movie house in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon you've shown to two five syrian families running away from a twelve cities and wyland home and. we were forced to leave shelling in homs never stopped we were afraid to leave the house while in this part of everyday life we were just tired. to be to bloodshed means the just ten movies like ali have had

their childhoods talents from then he now has to earn money to help his family he shows us what he does for seven dollars per week. no longer sounds like a child if you don't i want to join the rebels i want to fight refugees complain they live here in lebanon is really hard no work not enough money and often not even a roof over their heads but it's not just women and children who fled to syria night man made a spokesperson for the syrian refugees in lebanon says the right around one hundred activists among them who continue their resistance here and sometimes we make their move those protests this is a call for the international community for humanitarians and even lebanese authorities that we meet we need some more attention many though fear that this attention may bring in its wake even more trouble serious threat in the city of

tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of north was running like a move there between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out their old device that is here just as the conflict in neighboring syria does and with the spillover of violence from across the border are being felt here now that it wiggles one tensions between these two of the coming even more pronounced while we were in town we heard the sound of an explosion to many of the scenes says he's the owner of base house where just minutes ago a grenade was thrown he says the man lives in an area known for being pro assad portrays of the syrian leader on every building here including the one now badly damaged the victim is very quick to come to a conclusion along with an aide was thrown from a sunni area they hate assad and they hate us. but while he's blaming his opponents in. lebanon for the destroyed house he's blaming the unrest in syria for destroying

his peaceful life by spreading to his community. this is all from syria refugees they come here radicals in santa fe it's support them and this is how. we are supposed to be one family here. number one has been blighted by recent trouble it witnessed an almost fifteen year loan civil war two in troops who were stationed here for three decades and only left in two thousand and five meaning they've never had too many sympathizers in lebanon but more recently the country had managed to keep religious and political tensions and they know the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile kong a tree sq. tripoli lebanon on. how can the latest updates on any of our stories and much more by logging on to our website r.t. dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now i watched the footage of a huge early morning fire in the heart of the russian capital and helping some of

the city center in dance thick smoke. and thousands of angry spanish miners staged a rally that leaves over a dozen activists and police officers her read out what caused the clashes at r.t. dot com. president putin is heading for germany and france later today to talk economy and politics he'll be lobbying hard for russian businesses trying to acquire european industrial assets in return his hosts are expected to pressure russia for u.n. action on syria artistic corpus cut off raise us more from berlin. why grange over issues is on the table here in berlin including syria of course russia has been in strong opposition to the west blocking draft resolutions in the un security council

since many countries in the west don't exclude the possibility of foreign military intervention into the situation in syria we know that germany stands for a political solution but still earlier it was announced that chancellor angela merkel is going to try to talk into applying more pressure on president vladimir putin has been seen enjoying body in beer with german leaders before but it's yet to be seen if that's going to help them reach some sort of a mutual understanding on this issue a long time ago and why didn't which it was an agent of the k.g.b. he spent a lot of time in germany and since coming into politics this country has always been special on his list of foreign partners it's here that putin made some of the key statements including the phoenix munich speech at the security conference when he slammed to nato expansion to the east and called an end to the washington led uni polar world system now germany has been chosen as the first western nation for

his visit after returning to office earlier in me and it's no wonder why the two are strategic partners trade is booming germany's russia second largest trade partner after china of course i mean energy cooperation as well including the nord stream pipeline project which sends russian gas directly to the european union but also germany is a key player in the euro zone spending billions of euros to keep some of its weakest members float of course there's also the iranian nuclear program various school truly joint projects and after visiting berlin was going to put in the plans to head off to france to meet with the french president continuing his european tour. reporting and i'll still to come later this hour energy iced over and in the refuses to ballot american pressure in turn is bad. his closest energy trading partner iran. also the european parliament gives the thumbs down to a controversial anti-gay internet piracy agreement which opponents say would

drastically limit online freedom. ireland has voted on the e.u. fiscal treaty designed to implement strict belt tightening measures but which opponents say represents a charter for steri and permanent loss of sovereignty counting has just begun and with irish government sources claiming the plan is likely to pass after a low turnout under the agreement the e.u. will have ultimate control over the country's fiscal policy ireland is the only nation holding a referendum on the treaty from where laura smith now reports. through friday votes are being counted and at the end of the day will know whether it's going to have european impose austerity britain in which we don't know or know whether it's joining the growing and the austerity backlashes people out into the street you know you're a it's widely expected that the yes side will win though they're having spoken to some voters yesterday that's by no means some told me they'd been intending to vote yes only to change their minds at the last minute and vote no and that's

a symptom of a general malaise in the country many are tired of all sterile and tired of feeling wait for the dow down to the you could the european union if the irish do agree to the treaty they'll be sacrificing economic decision making so frontiers some say is in exchange for the financial assistance is the path of least resistance than the one most main political policies to support but it is used by not sure help but it's not guaranteed to promote europe increasingly mired in economic would. if they don't know it's unknown territory to guess how to paint paints a picture of a future with the long goal starer see and no more bailouts from europe but some irish people would prefer self-imposed to spending cuts in full by brussels with germany calling the shots counting down the way i'll be bringing you

a tally of the results as they come in. and i was government has a poll has suggested the treaty has passed by a margin sixty forty despite a low voter turnout in the referendum that sound or all of the liberty party campaigning for a no vote says europe needs to find an alternative to dumping huge debt on the irish people for massive bank losses they didn't cause. the chances of real a real return of vitality in the european economy i think is somewhat slim particularly in peripheral countries ireland for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debt that was social lives after it fell down the rest of the european union and we did that in two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten in order to start to save the euro to prevent contagion from spreading so what needs to be done now is the europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spreads it across all of the

european union or the right set off in some other form but to leave that stuck on the irish taxpayer money that our government never borrowed that cannot stand i call for serious moves to be made to create a. united states of europe constructed in a federal way from the bottom up that is to say that it is fully democratically accountable and solvent. the european parliament has given the thumbs down to the kind of arsenal international. agreement known as three major committees all rejected the legislation voicing concerns over its legality the plan sparked mass protests in europe with activists it puts users online at risk. from the swedish pirate party says after trying to bite off more than it's going to. if you're sending something over the internet. your exercising freedom of speech but at the same time if you study anything that means that you can also use this freedom of speech to infringe on the copper so basically the speech has become fundamentally

incompatible with age old monopoly right. predominantly up until a couple of decades ago only used by corporate lawyers these last few years is battled its way and to the bedrooms of most ordinary citizens it's just not doable to criminalize two hundred fifty millions of europeans on what they do pretty much every day. even those who are in favor or not please recognize that actor deliberately conflates the issues of fake medicine as a counterfeit show util medicine with teenagers downloading and sharing music those two issues are not the same problem and they should not be covered by the same laws now india has put its foot down over iran despite pressure from the us over to iran's nuclear intentions. lateral american and e.u.

sanctions or won't be allowed to affect vital trade where these logic republic. has a story. india has taken a stand despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead india is severely egyptian its imports have been growing but it's even up to ninety per cent of it over guam and it only becomes the truck to souls. according to the due to sources and many say the same simply won't work without india since its iran is biggest oil customer and so the united states finds itself in the position of courting india's cooperation for its plan to be successful hillary clinton recently visited india during her asia tour trying to sell america's strategy to isolate iran but leaders here in india won't budge while they have reduced imports on iranian oil slightly they say they won't ever stop

completely their reasoning extends beyond just india's energy needs with one of the fastest growing economies in the world iran is an important partner for india to continue to grow in the future india is in talks with fourteen other countries to use iranian highways railroads and ports to connect it to parts of central asia and europe and half the time it currently takes if you're going to have a trading relationship i mean could only relationship why don't you go to relationship with the countries of central asia this is the only way and to be have been helping in building. we're told it will be you and trying. to link up. ports. to central asia and iran also serves as india's only link to afghanistan a place that has plenty of mineral resources india is keen to get its hands on and to place the united states should want to front easily get to once they pull out

their troops in twenty fourteen this is the what both the interests of all of us. that. is linked to the world through the means that cannot be disrupted that. the. ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody india say isolating a rod won't work and it's time for the americans to take a step back. because the americans to look at the bigger picture because. we're going to be affected do would be affected so i think perhaps. they're. flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world first to somalia where african

media and government forces have captured the city are away with egypt's military base in the south of the country the al-shabaab armed group abandoned the town without a fight as troops approached despite facing pressure on a number of military fronts al-qaeda groups still controls much of the country has been a key target for kenyan troops who make up the african union and the south of the country since they and somalia last october. the best government has suspended to give with university students after four days of talks over planned increases protesters asked the state for freeze and challenge an emergency law put in place to curb street demonstrations the promise premier says the issue will be left up to voters in next year's election more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested since protests began in february student leaders are calling for a return to the streets with a rally planned for saturday. egypt's controversial state of emergency that's been

in place for over thirty years has expired there's been no statement from cairo on any plans to extend the last detention without charge and alice say the government used it as a tool to stamp out any dissent the lifting of the special powers means that over one hundred eighty detainees held under its provisions will have to be released but it's still unclear if they'll be free to. all right switching to the world of business now with katie hello there again so more oil drama to tell us more absolutely you know i've been following this story with a big payday in the volatile relationship between the co-owners and right now it seems to have reached a boiling point b.p. is now pursuing the sale of fifty percent of that says in the rush a british now the british company the decision is due to quote unsolicited indications of interest a potential acquisition of a shareholding now the recently resigned cia mackellar that it's been walled up one

of the two paul knows needed to take full control of the company although wise a joint venture would be paralyzed b.p. doesn't guarantee any transaction will take place like say cocaine for a year as it says the possibility is high. there's been disagreement apparently between b.p. and their russian partners. over how to use the money to study cash flow generated by by the russian operation to be holding and apparently the pay you would like to get all this cash is dividends or us the russian side would like to use the car for global expansion and if if this disagreement goes on it's perfectly conceivable that b.p. might want to sell out of this rather successful russian operation but the interesting question here is whether we want to run or try to out but

about potential and yet unknown but whether it would seek to control the whole company one hundred percent of that itself. all right we're going to follow the story right here let's check out the russian markets and see how they're doing this friday out today as you can see on the my stocks are indeed in negative territory despite modest gains as we opened up today the go risk aversion playing its role with the ruble under pressure with the banking sector particularly sensitive at the moment awakening oil as to housing starts. right here as you can see paying five point seven tenths of a cent so that's the stock we're watching right now as the drama on the folds if we have a look at the exchange rates will be able to see that the dollar house resumes its northward journey right that the euro dollar one twenty three twenty five don't employ that one twenty five region i want to talk about the russian ruble if i may

as well because right now it's at a three year low against the dollar now the former u.s. trade minister who's car like one of the top managers citi group says of the small to this you look at other currencies i mean the euro. currency is around the world that are impacted by the soft europe countries that export goods so it would make sense that in the short term there would be wrong from the dollar i don't think things will continue because everyone else is in bad shape. i think that would be a terrible strategy to think that we're going to be ok because everyone else is so bad that the dollar will be stronger at some point. someone will have to take action. the amazing thing is that it has been under cover. almost you know what's happening in the us because of all these problems with grocery world. moving on to the us the well would check out the european markets

and traders remain cautious and that's ahead of the u.s. jobs days we've got coming out to. the downbeat china factory data that really was a disappointment and of course we've got the sovereign debt crisis as well the spanish banking system is still on guy we've also got our the are we spoke for the european union fiscal compact is happening later today so we're going to sit down about a quarter of that the dax edging towards one point nine percent in negative territory check out the oil prices and traders here are some might want to just close their eyes right now because they are dropping particularly the softer news getting towards the region that the arabian oil minister wants it for the brands he was talking about one hundred dollars per barrel that was when it was a one hundred ten edging towards that direction right now and despite all these economic on surfaces the growth of private wealth in russia was one of the false just in the world last year business advisor b.c.g.

says the country's households became twenty one percent richer and that's ten times more than the global average wealth growth last year however most of that money was made by multi-millionaire as control around forty percent of the country's private asset. all right marina that's the market's back about a fifty minute all right thanks very much indeed k.t. for this date and we're looking forward for more for the ad though we'll take a look what's happening and in our headlines stay with us.

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