thanks. president putin and chancellor merkel agree that a civil war in syria must be prevented and praised a growing trade and energy times as visits berlin. on the brink of civil war the u.n. aborted its envoys peace plan for syria must be observed or the country could enter the point of no return. and early estimates suggest most irish people say yes to tighter financial control from brussels despite fears their sovereignty will be sacrificed.

life in the heart of moscow this is. a welcome to the program. has vowed to do what he can to prevent syria from sliding into civil war repeated his stance that it's important not to take sides in the conflict the comments came as the russian president and the german chancellor met him with putin on his first series of short visits abroad since he returned to the top job last month. now standing by live now you go to the situation in syria is looking like it might if not already is starting to descend into civil war what have the two leaders agreed upon regarding their. ears are saying that the most important thing at the moment is to prevent this issue we should there in syria to growing into a full throttle civil war and the only way to do that and that's agreed upon by both. is through political measures only political measures can be applied to the situation according to both of them through the united nations

through the course here on in peace plan and both leaders also say that the they will try to do. they're basking in order to support the course leon and peace plan now this is quite interesting talking about the political resolution to the conflict in the united nations sort of a way to do this because the nation specifically the united states have already said that they are not excluding the possibility of foreign military intervention into the situation there in syria even if it means going around the united nations now also by doing which and once again stress that russia does not support president assad's regime and standing for a balanced approach where pressure has to be applied on both science. dicta good at the time start i see it but with the new bill in russia is not supporting any kind of regime you know that's really like that the acid regime those who claim

it should be all wrong when we have a very good and longstanding relationship with syria but we are not supporting either of the parties. here is there is a threat of civil war. involved i agree with mr chancellor our common objective is to prevent it but i think he you know the development of this kind of unfavorable scenario what we're witnessing to date him but you know he's the beginning of a civil war and this is extremely dangerous terrain you know what our objective is to stop violence no matter whom it comes from we have agreed with madam chancellor that we will do all we can both russia and germany and other partners. well we'll do all we can to prevent the escalation of violence we will help mr on to achieve a positive result which nationalists you're picked right.

now russia does have contracts on the supply of forms to the syrian authorities and has also reiterated that the arms supplied by the russian federation to see could not be possibly used in any civil conflict answering a question about. this sort of accusation that russia is supporting the assad regime which is supposedly attacking civilians. but you go let's talk about the issue of the ongoing eurozone crisis certainly one question from a member of the press who are saying you know who's getting it worse does it affect russia president putin saying that it affects russia and all of europe as well that it's going to be a joint effort so vitalized the european and russian economy that both in the twine and what economic times were discussed between germany and russia at this meeting. of all definitely the eurozone crisis is a very important and stressful issue for both sides both for russia and for germany

and both leaders have said that they are first of all interested in the health of their nation's economies which is directly connected to the health of the eurozone . russia's reserves around forty percent of them are held in euros so russia's economy heavily depends on the health of the euro itself and while they said. that looking for ways to get the eurozone out of the crisis of the crisis is first of all a decision for the members of the eurozone itself but of course russia will be assisting in its own possible ways in order to get finally through this crisis center for. energy cooperation in general is one of the most important aspects of the cooperation between russia and germany i mean of course the north stream pipeline project which is an international project. russia and germany and is aimed

to send the russian gas directly to the european union it's actually almost finished and by the end of this year russian gas should start flowing directly to you would be in consumers but also once again reminded. russia and germany our strategic partners and the trade turnover has grown by around a third exceeding seventy billion us dollars which means that germany's russia's second largest trade partner after china and of course both leaders are saying that they are going to continue this tendency. all right you're going to go to there of course over the next stop off the president put in leaves but he goes to. more details on that here at r.t. also at dot com. the un human rights chief is warned there could be a full scale civil war in syria unless kofi annan peace plan is followed the commission also called for an investigation into the killing of more than one

hundred people in a houla last week saying it may amount to crimes against humanity the syrian government's blaming rebel terror groups for the massacre which it says are seeking to trigger a foreign military action it's a claim the u.s. strongly rejects while secretary of state hillary clinton says plans are being drawn up to intervene in syria and she wore activist sara flounders says america's never been interested in a diplomatic outcome that. 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 marson aires flooding the country with weapons doing everything that they can to the stable. 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 an armed groups and they claim that they're going in in order to save the situation it's absolute hypocrisy and forward 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. but russia's position on syria has been supported by china where the two vowing to strive for a nonviolent solution to the conflict both states have use their veto powers or the u.n. twice to block what they called unbalanced resolutions on syria and while some nations of kicked out syrian diplomats cutting ties with damascus moscow and beijing

relations with syria could ultimately help to resolve the crisis that's according to at least one chinese expert. the world sees russia as a very strong syrian ally where people perceive china as basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of reason is that china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about it support for syria the ultimate question in syria right now is 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 will be a lot less but even if people are dying right now the end result of a failed 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's one of the policy in this instance but far more effective than a u.n. sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria right now and the conflict there is

a currently 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 pro and anti assad supporters with more from lebanon as aussies maria phenomena. this move shall see in the outskirts of three three in lebanon you've shown to two five human families running away from atrocities and violence in their homeland are not long before 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 per week. no longer sounds like a child would 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 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 move those protests this is a call for the international community for humanitarians and even lebanese authorities that we meet our 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 you know what i'll be running like a murderer between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out of their own device that is just as the conflict in neighboring syria does and with the spillover of violence from across the border are being felt

here now but it wiggles and 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 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 he's blaming his opponents in lead. anon 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 violence increases while 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 they now the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile calm at tree sq narration ocean r.t. tripoli lebanon it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come action against proctor a concern over the legality and impact on civil liberties forces e.u. parliamentary committees to reject the controversial penalty of piracy agreement. and india stands shoulder to shoulder with iran voicing support for its trading partner despite mounting pressure from the u.s. and europe. early results suggest ireland has said yes to the e.u. backed fiscal treaty drawn up in response to the eurozone debt crisis at the plant

was supported by the government and trade unions but critics worry that now control of the country's finances will be handed along to brussels without of its sovereignty artie's laura smith is following the referendum for us and double. the counting is not over yet but it certainly looks like the yes campaign has carried the votes by a majority of about sixty to forty but there has been a strong no campaign hit in ireland including from gerry adams the head of sinn fein he's now island's most popular political leader but the yes vote was supported by the majority of ireland's main political parties and these trade unions and i mean that both campaigns have literally lifted the country with political literature on every billboard on every lamppost there's been something to do with the referendum i haven't seen too much political literature anywhere the yes campaign has been criticized for operating on really a very negative basis from

a basis of fear that critics say that there hasn't been a single positive message in the yes campaign is all been about about fear you know if you don't vote yes island will be on its own it will be able to benefit from any more european bailout austerity will be deeper and it will last for longer and many of course have succumb to that message some of them reluctantly the fiscal treaty is aimed at restoring confidence in the euro which of course has taken a huge battering in recent months it means much closer coordination of national budget is within the year a saying to everyone in the e.u. is then managing their budgets in the same way the island though hit means more of the same really that people have been suffering here for extra taxes for householders much more money due from small businesses a lot of quite natural pressure they're all to pay off banking debts and people see this as just a loss of super into which is of some sort of ideological message but also a loss of economic control and will know you don't really be able to control

a large part of how its economy it's run and economists believe of course that group is the answer but this will mean the island be able to put its own growth part of plan into place it will be able to invest money in the economy to creating more jobs and to get the economy out of this mess so oh. really the central message of the yes campaign was stability but the new campaign basis had said you know who wants to remain stable in this mess that ireland is in now and it looks like that's what's going to happen. we have a lot more stories on our website on. some of the items standing by if you know for example. with the police that's all joining a demonstration of nearly ten thousand in the capital they're angry about budget cuts putting that. look out here. the entire milky way is going to crash with a neighboring galaxy that would dramatically change the view of the night sky from

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home just a moment on the. internet freedom campaign is in europe of breath a sigh of relief the controversial piracy agreement or act has been rejected by three influential committees in the e.u. parliament that's ahead of the final vote next month. protests in europe with internet users saying online freedom is at risk. from the swedish pirate party believes the treaty best has confused. if you're sending something over the internet. your exercising creed of 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 open so our basic freedom of speech has become fundamentally incompatible with age old monopoly right. predominately up and or couple of decades ago only used by corporate lawyers these last few years is battled its way

into the bedrooms of ordinary citizens and it's just not doable to criminalize two hundred fifty millions of europeans on what they do pretty much every day that said even those who are in favor of strong or not please recognize the actor deliberately conflicts the issues of fake medicine as it 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. we will see soon with the business for now the r.t. will drop dead will start it with northern cause of at least five people there after clashes erupted between protesters and peacekeeping forces nato run for troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets while attempting to dismantle road blocks blocking traffic some protesters fired back with handguns and stones. set up with

their kids last year after a cause of your thought is try to seize the frontiers to enforce a trade embargo. seven people have been killed and thirteen injured in a suicide attack in the eastern afghan city of cost the taliban claims its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with explosives right into a nato base violence has spread across the country since the taliban began its spring offensive in april avowing to target foreign troops and government forces. egypt's controversial decades long emergency law has expired the law sanctioned detention without charge and analysts say the government used it as a tool to stamp out any dissent or the lifting of the special powers means that over one hundred and eighty detainees held under as professions i will now have to be released. india has dealt a fresh blow to america and to europe's attempts to force iran to stop enriching

uranium now just one month before unprecedented sanctions against the islamic republic come into force new delhi the biggest buyer of iranian oil said their trade will not be affected. as the story. india has taken a stand despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead india is severely deficient its imports. growing but it's even up to ninety per cent of the over requirements it only becomes of the two souls. according and that you to sources and many say the same simply won't work without india since it's 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 are going to have a trading relationship i mean could all make relationship when you go to relationship with the countries of central asia this is the only way and to be have been helping in building. but will it work but for you in trying. to link up. ports 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 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 to ensure that of god his son. is linked to the world through government means that cannot be disrupted that will that it has the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody in 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 if so i hope they're better sense will. be. flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west pressure either r.t.

new delhi india. had over to marina now she's standing by patiently business that's good to see you again although i understand we're not meeting out of the best of circumstances you have bad news. are you surprised really come on are you surprised or i don't think so because it seems that in the recent months we all know you have bad news and there's some that have to do with a you was basically for the month of may the unemployment rate went up and also the u.s. economy jager at the fewest amount of jobs in a year but first let's talk about b.p. the volatile relationship between the co-owners there seems to have reached a boiling point b.p. is now pursuing its have in the room so british oil firms and the recently resigned c.e.o. of b.p. which is three men who are the one of the two partners needed to take full control of the firm otherwise the joint venture would be paralyzed meanwhile the financial times says b.p. has received a buy offer from one of the russian state companies and analysts estimate that the

fifty percent stake in russia's third biggest oil producer will be around thirty billion dollars and while there are no guarantees that any transaction will take place alex a call came from says other possibilities quite high. this being disagreed. and apparently between b.p. and their russian partners. over how to use the money the steady cash flow generated by by the russian operation to take care would be holding and apparently big pay you would like to get it all as cash as dividends or as the russian side would like to use the car for global expansion and if if this disagreement goes on that it's perfectly conceivable that b.p. might want to sell out if this were all the successful russian operation of the interesting question here is whether they would want to and will try to outbid.

potential and get a no good whether it would seek to control the whole company one hundred percent of that itself. now it's a look at the markets will start with the figures here are and they're right pretty much the same across the board we have a lot of risk aversion gone online up last week of food prices on help and i'll get to that in just a second because that the r.t.s. is setting over two percent while the my six is out over one second of that sum and initial share moves on the my six a c. of bread there as one option is for a bite out of a four percent nationally ten k.p. approach almost ten percent in the red after talks of possible exit five v.p. that if you move on and take a look at currencies the russian ruble is still losing ground against the us dollar in fact it's now lost ten percent of its value for the month of a this friday had. lois and earlier we spoke to chief economist afghanistan's capital that's why she got up and he said why a week of ruble could actually help russia overcome this financial crisis. well i

actually don't think we can rule will necessarily kill the russian economy grow but i think that the we will help ensure late 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 the external shocks welcomes make it run for the russian economy right now it is the ruble that is speaking. and i think it's a good thing for the russian economy. for some european markets as i said investors are very much the support first we had negative p.m.i. data coming from the region and also now the negative knew was always there and i said i'll give you something and because of that sixty nine thousand jobs were added for the month of may that's well below analysts forecasts was thought that would see one hundred sixty five thousand jobs added for the month of may and as i

said unemployment levels went up but we can see that reflected in the figures that you see a sea of red there as well now physical look at oil prices as i said they're heading south which never helps the russian economy in fact they're now in their longest and weekly losing streak in the five and a half years you can see that the lights with this trading at around eighty three dollars per barrel and the bread lines are around ninety eight dollars and all the news of you know that despite global economic uncertainties the growth of private wealth in russia was one of the fastest in the world last year and that business advisor b.c.g. says that the country's households became twenty one percent richer which is eleven times more than the global average wealth growth last year however most of that money was made by multimillionaires that control around forty percent of the country's private eye sits. and that's how business looks i have another update for you next hour one thousand myrna many thanks indeed we'll see you that. i just want to hear all the headlines will be about a very moving documentary about russian volunteers who help the search for missing

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