mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. the u.s. and its allies ridicule the syrian government claims that terrorists are responsible for the houla massacre. of military intervention in the pipeline and warns is considering even sidestepping the un. and tough talk on syria expected in germany and france where president putin will be discussing business and politics on his first foreign tour of his new term in office and very soon we'll be standing by for live pictures to stay with us here on out. and counting the ballots in ireland indicate the country has probably voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty which opponents say to the country two years of crippling austerity and a loss of sovereignty to press. it

is a pleasure to have you with us today here on our. live in moscow the syrian government blaming a rebel terrorists for last weekend's massacre and more in which more than one hundred died that was of course in the town of houla as we've been reporting it's a claim the u.s. strongly rejects with the secretary of state saying plans are being drawn up to intervene in syria possibly bypassing the u.n. security council if necessary hillary clinton also criticized russia's position in the kremlin to put pressure on damascus but moscow says it won't back down from efforts to mediate peace in syria washington and its allies have been funneling cash and material support to the syrian opposition antiwar activist sara flounders says america's never been interested. in

a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis. 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 thought 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 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. this is our two we cannot bring you some of the live pictures from germany where talks are set to happen as the newly inaugurated russian president vladimir putin and germany's. chancellor merkel that. he has just arrived in berlin and of course germany is russia's second largest trade off to china a business volume between both nations hit over seventy billion u.s. dollars last year they'll be discussing a broader range of issues some of the will be energy for example the north stream pipeline that's the most significant business project between moscow linda should have a capacity to shift fifty five billion cubic meters of russian gas

a year to europe by two thousand and fourteen that's about eighty percent of russia's gas exports to flow through the e.u. live pictures here on r.t. and president putin has obviously arrived in berlin talking economics and politics we all know syria will be a large story on the agenda as well though there's a lot of pressure coming on to russia as it's known around the world that russia does have the ear of the syrian government. for the further support on this now all the details on this let's turn over to. go to. moscow is in strong opposition to the west on syria since many western states have taken the side of the opposition and don't exclude foreign military intervention into the situation there which moscow is strongly against and earlier the german foreign minister said russia has to stop supporting president assad it's expected that chancellor merkel is going to try to talk into applying more pressure on syria enough tori's what

moscow has been saying the entire time that it's for a balanced approach and for equal pressure on on both sides but syria is serious business is business and it's highly likely that syria is going to somehow that fact german russian relationship in that sense. last year the trade turnover reached nearly eighty billion dollars which puts germany on the second place among russia's business partners after china. ford has risen by around a third on both sides also and of course energy plays a very important role in that specifically the north stream pipeline project which sends russian gas directly to the european union in germany ways a very important role in that as well in fact chancellor angela merkel italy are said that the north korean pipelines capacity could be increased if there's a demand from the european consumers because clearly this relationship is

beneficial for both science and after berlin was put in this plan to go to france to meet with the french president to continue his european work. russia's position on syria has been supported by china with the two countries already using the veto powers out the u.n. twice such a block what they considered unbalanced resolutions on the conflict and while some nations have kicked out syrian diplomats moscow's and beijing's relations with damascus could help to resolve the crisis that according to at least one chinese expert. the world sees russia as a very strong ally where should people perceive china as basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of the reason is that china has been very soft spoken and quiet about their support for syria he also freshened in syria right now is that you view the american military intervention what comes next and i think that there's a lot of pause for military intervention because there would be

a lot of leisure even if people are dying right now the end result of your government will be bloodshed and thousands possibly tens of thousands so i think what russia and china are understanding is that they have a lot of sway over the syrian government perhaps that kind of diplomacy in this instance was far more effective than a u.n. sanction or u.n. kind of mission of what's happening in syria right now. the whole conflict in syria now spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees where there is divided between supporters and better opponents of president assad with more on this from lebanon as it has more of. this move in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon gives shelter to five syrian families running away from atrocities and violence in their homeland. we were forced to leave shelling in homs never stopped we were afraid to leave the

house violence was part of everyday life we were just tired. to be to bloodshed means the just ten boys like ali have had their childhoods talents from them he now has to earn money to help his family he shows us what he does for seven dollars two week the boy no longer sounds like a child we 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 the syrian nightmare ahmed a spokesperson for the syrian refugees in lebanon says the run around one hundred activists among them who continue their resistance here and sometimes we make their moves 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 so many neighborhoods in this part of you know from lebanon running like a movie between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out the root device they came here to see just as the conflict in neighboring syria does and with the spillover of violence from across the border are being felt here now the divisions and tensions between these two becoming even more pronounced while we were in town we heard the sound of an explosion the man at the scene says he's the owner of this 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 his blaming his opponents

in law. going on 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 a sign of fists support them and this is how it will ensue creases well we are supposed to be one family here. lebanon has been blighted by recent trouble it witnessed an almost fifteen year loan civil war syrian troops 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 pain now the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile calm at tree sq. tripoli lebanon and it's good to have you with us for an hour to today still to come for you later this hour and i just over energy india refuses to bow to american pressure and turn its back

on its closest energy trading partner that of iran. also the european parliament gives a thumbs down to a controversial anti internet piracy agreement which opponents say would drastically limit online freedom. initial counting and ireland's referendum on the e.u. fiscal treaty suggests the u.s. side has won nearly sixty percent of the vote backing a plan to implement stricter belt tightening measures opponents however say it's a chart of course there are and permanent loss of sovereignty handing ultimate control of the country's fiscal policy to the e.u. and is the only country to vote on the far reaching measure 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 a european imposed all stare a c. hristian in which we don't know whether it's joining the growing and see austerity

backlash has brought people out into the streets all over europe it's widely expected that the yes side will win though they're having spoken to some votes as 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 city 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 princely as some say is in exchange for the financial assistance is the part of least resistance than the one most main political policies to support but it is used by not to help but it's not guaranteed to promote europe increasingly mired in economic would. if they vote no unknown territory to get out of pain paints

a picture of a future with the goal stare a sea and no more bailouts from europe but some irish people would prefer self-imposed to spending cuts and forced by brussels with germany calling the shots counting down the way i'll be bringing you a first tally of the results as they come in. that is laura smith reporting there meantime declan ganley the founder of the law but his party campaigning for the no vote says that europe needs to find an alternative to dumping she debt on the irish people for massive bank losses but the people did not 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 debts 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 that europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spread to the across all of the european union or that writes it off in some other form but to leave that stark 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. now the european parliament has given the thumbs down to the controversial international internet piracy agreement known as actor three major committees all rejected the legislation voicing concerns over its legality the plans that sparked mass protests in europe with activists claiming it puts users online freedom risk. from the swedish pirate party says actor is trying to bite off more than it can chew. if you're sending something over the internet or

your exercise increase speech but at the same time if you're sending anything that means that you can also use this freedom of speech to infringe on the copper and offer them so basically the speech has become fundamentally incompatible with age old monopoly right. predominately up until a couple of decades ago only used by corporate lawyers these last few years it's battled its way into the bedrooms of most ordinary citizens and 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 of strong monopolies recognize the actor deliberately conflicts the issues of fake medicine counterfeit fatal 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 of course you can always get the latest on any of our stories and so much more just by looking on to our website artsy dot com let's see what's waiting for you there right now you can watch footage of a huge early morning fire in the heart of the russian capital enveloping some of the city center in dense smoke the artsy building included. and thousands of angry spanish miners stage a rally the leaves over a dozen activists and police officers heard find out what caused the classrooms at r t v dot com. just a couple of minutes until the aussie world update but for now india has put its foot

down over iran despite pressure from the u.s. over to iran's nuclear intentions new delhi says that unilateral american and e.u. sanctions won't be allowed to affect a vital trade with the islamic republic or this story now to want to use preassure . india has taken a stance despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead india's severely energy deficient it imports seventy growing but even up to nine per cent over over requirements it only becomes a video to falls for acquiring elected 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 they have. of 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 can i make relationship or any kind of relationship with the countries of central asia this is the only way and we have been helping in building. ruled it work for you in trying. to link up. into 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 a place united states should want to front easily get to know one thing their troops in twenty fourteen this is what buckley interests all of us to ensure that of god his son. is linked to the world through communication means that cannot be disrupted that will that it has the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody india say isolating iran it won't work and it's time for the americans to take a step back we're trying to encourage the americans to look at the bigger picture because not only are we going to be affected but they too will be affected so i think perhaps and it's a whole they'd better sense will prevail and that. last thing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west pressure

either r t new delhi india. before we join katie for the business or let's get straight to afghanistan now the r.t. world of day begins with this story a suicide attack that killed seven at a nato base in the eastern part of the country the taliban claims its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with explosives straight into the base one police source says a gun battle is currently taking place in the area and violence has spread across the country since the taliban began its spring offensive vowing to target foreign troops and government forces. at least three have been injured during clashes with nato peacekeepers in northern cause over troops barricaded a bridge with armored vehicles and barbed wire as they removed roadblocks put there by protesters demonstrators threw rocks the troops they were sponsored with firing rubber bullets serbians began setting up roadblocks in the area last year to prevent the ethnic albanian government in cars of our capital from extending

control over the dominated region. quebec's government has suspended to go she ations with university students after four days of talks of a planned fee increases protesters are asked the state for a freeze and challenge to an emergency law put in place to curb. demonstrations the province's 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 law that's been in place for over thirty years has expired there's been no statement from cairo on any plans to extend it the law sanctioned detention without charge and analysts 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

though at this point is still unclear if that will happen. egypt about to face a much more significant milestone later this month which of course is round two of the presidential election but the controversy over the background of the two remaining candidates gives plenty of course for debate and that is up in artie's cross-talk in less than ten minutes time here on r.t. we're certainly hoping you can stay with us for that. radical islam is and revolutionary islam is and poses not just to internal egyptian politics but to the wider region needs to be clear fully exam and you should hold these people to their statements because the egyptians. because they see them as honest they also see them as. recommendations that the word. this is the exact problem i'm talking about you know conflating one islamic group in egypt that is a brother. in the eighty's with all of the muslim brotherhood painting everything with this broad brush not only willingness to look into the details and subtleties and analyze egyptian affairs on their own terms instead of what they might mean for

israel i mean in the unwillingness to really look at what egypt and politics look like on the ground you know this leads to fear mongering and frankly it leads to a dangerous foreign policy where you promote stability as the high is good and we've seen what that what that leads to. promise to you the r.t. business good to see you again for the best of news i understand if i would be seeing for the past couple of days now the russian ruble been dropping to three year lows against the dollar exactly why worry so it's not good news at all for these people going on holiday the four x. traders and it has lost another one percent of its value in the first half of today's trade in moscow ten percent and the last month and is currently at three year lows against the us now from all the top i'm joined by ivan chalker off chief economist capital for more on this subject hello. now tell me some of this is saying that the ruble right is no longer. well when we consider the fundamentals

it's not connected to that anymore so with that in my house that is the right action i would disagree with the statement above is no longer reflecting the fundamentals if anything at the very reason for the central bank to move away from targeting the exchange rate that was not a good thing inflation is worst. give more exchange and fix abilities so that actually the exchange rate responds in a better way to external shocks so i think that what we're seeing actually at the moment is just a very very natural response of the exchange rate to what is happening globally so for me this is actually a little doing exactly what it needs to do in such times of stress ok where do you see the ruble going that at the moment in the short made in long term i think probably the market testing the out of balance of the corridor of the central bank is defending against the basket and the upper bound is thirty eight

fifteen again this again is the basket if you assume of the euro dollar station it's current levels just means that probably the ruble goes to somewhere somewhere to thirty four and a half thirty five which means another from its current levels ok and how these drops affect the russian economy that well actually i don't think that we can ruble will necessarily help that action economy grow but i think that the we will help ensure the russian economy from external shocks and once again this was the very reason and the very purpose for the central bank to move to such an exchange rate arrangement before the two thousand and eight crisis we had a fixed exchange rate so all external shocks one to one for the russian economy right now it is the ruble that is speaking part of the external shock and i think it's a good thing for the russian economy ok now it's a good thing you're saying but what about exporters because we know that they love a weak current say so do you see them really benefiting here in russia from there i

think i think yes there definitely there is some some good things happening for russian exports because google is weaker and definitely this is helping the external competitiveness at the same time we all know that about seventy eighty percent of russian exports are oil and gas so actually do energy exports represent about twenty thirty percent of russian exports so you're going to have probably a minimum. impact on on a small portion of russian exports so yes some benefit but probably minimal ok ivan talk her off chief economist. thank you very much indeed you're in q one it's often a thank you i can check out the markets that we're having at the exchange right now and see how the ruble is before may of course it is indeed dropping against both the u.s. dollar and the the euro dollar as well one twenty three twenty three so it's below that one twenty five the rest of the see how the russian markets are performing this friday afternoon because that. as you can see the r.t.s. gearing towards two percent down the my so over a percent in negative territory and they look set to finish on the back foot this

friday and indeed the week on the negative note is get out of the stocks and see how that before me a quick snapshot for you spurred by nearly four percent down we've got to be over ten percent in negative territory we've been following the shareholder dispute going on. we're going to have more details next hour for you gas from a one percent in negative territory at this hour of the red are out in full force ok but is the biggest business news without marina next where we get by have a great weekend function you are going to roll your screen. just a moment the headlines and that is people crosstalk.

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