president putin and chancellor merkel agree that a civil war in syria must be prevented and they praise growing trade and energy ties as vladimir putin visits. on the brink of civil war the u.n. warns that its envoys peace plan for syria must be observed or the country could end to the point of no return. and at least six people are injured in northern cause of as nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to protesters. plus there are some markets and the trade in session and the fact that that's hardly surprising and find out why in the business update in about twenty minutes.

wired news live from moscow this is r t with me rule research and welcome to the program a lot of me putin has vowed to do what he can to prevent syria from sliding into civil war but repeated his stance that it's important not to take any sides in the conflict the comments came as the russian president and the german chancellor met in berlin putting on his first series of short visits abroad since he returned to the top job just last month now reporting from berlin is this kind of. thing that the most important thing at the moment is to prevent this issue of. full throttle civil war and the only way to do that and that's agreed upon by both what you put in and then go through political measures through the united nations through the course. specifically the united states. i've 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 which i was again stressed that russia is standing for a balanced approach where equal pressure has to be applied on both sides gypped are good at that i'm sure i see it but gives you a taste you say russia is unilaterally supporting yesod regime we have long standing good relations with syria but we aren't supporting any side of the conflict if there is a threat of civil war but i agree with chancellor merkel to get our community is to prevent this scenario what we're seeing today is the start of the civil war this is extremely dangerous we want to stop violence no matter where it comes from both russia and germany and other partners. we can to prevent violence from escalating but that may help you an employee kofi annan now russia does have contracts on the supply of forms to the syrian authorities and what do you know putin has also

reiterated that the arms supplied by the russian federation to see could not be possibly used in any civil conflict the eurozone crisis is a very important and stressful issue for both sides both for wash and for germany and i do know that russia's reserves around forty percent of them are held in euros which is. looking for ways to get the eurozone out of the crisis first of all this is for members of the euro zone itself but of course russia will be assisting in its own possible ways and of course energy cooperation in general is one of the most important aspects of the cooperation between russia and germany i mean of course the more stream pipeline project which is an international project includes russia and germany and is aimed to send the russian gas directly to the european union germany has been chosen as the first the western nation fall. his visit since

returning to office earlier in me now would you want to put in planning to head off to france to meet with the french president there continuing his european tour. you're going to piss off reporting right there while the u.n. human rights chief has 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 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 foreign military action it's a claim the u.s. strongly rejects secretary of state hillary clinton says plans are being drawn up to intervene in syria and he will activist sara flounders says america's never been interested in any diplomatic outcome. but 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 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 and russia's position on syria has been supported by china with the two vowing to strive for a nonviolent solution to the conflict both states have used the veto powers of the u.n. twice to block where they called. resolutions on syria and are some nations of kicked out syrian diplomats cutting ties with damascus moscow and beijing as relations with syria could ultimately help to resolve the crisis of this according to at least one chinese expert. the world sees russia as a very strong ally where people perceive. basically supporting russia and its initiative and a lot of the reason is that china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about their support for syria he also functions in syria right now what is your view there is military intervention what comes next and i think that there's

a lot of pause for military intervention because there's been a lot of bloodshed but even if people are dying right now the end result of your government will be bloodshed and of 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 almost in this instance far more effective than a u.n. sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria right now on the conflict in syria is spilling over into neighboring lebanon deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees in the areas divided between pro and anti assad supporters with more from lebanon as r.t. is more ethanol. this move in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon you've shown to two five syrian families running away from atrocities and violence in their own land owner. 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 met 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 we need some more attention many though fear that this

attention may bring in its wake even more trouble serious street in the city of tripoli separates the white and sunni neighborhoods in this part of you know from lebanon running like a move that between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out their own 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 the divisions and tensions between these tell of the coming 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 they say house where just minutes ago a grenade was thrown he says the man lives in an area known for being pro assad trace 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 her neighbor was thrown from a sunni area they hate assad and they hate us. but while he's blaming his opponents

in law. went on for the destroyed house his blaming the unrest in syria for destroying his peaceful life by spreading to his community well a measure of how 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 bay now the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile calm a trace duration optionality tripoli lebanon. it's ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come here on r.t.

action against the actor concerns over the legality and impact on civil liberties forces parliamentary committees to reject the controversial anti parsee agreement. and india stands shoulder to shoulder with iran voicing support for its trading partner despite mounting pressure from the u.s. and europe. now ireland has said yes to the e.u. backed fiscal treaty drawn up in response to the eurozone debt crisis the plan was supported by the government and trade unions but critics worry that now control of the country's finances will be handed a long brussels along with its sovereignty following the referendum all these are lower. good to see you not much of a surprise in the result but did or did the irish really have any choice. well i guess ultimately the choice was between the devil they knew and the devil they didn't and we all know how that one usually plays out the devil they knew in this case was of course the e.u. back to the which is now being written into irish nor will be when this is all died

down all of course according to the yes campaign fear of not being allied with europe quite so heavily anymore not being able to benefit from ted so bailouts from the e.u. might be needed further on down the line it was a large majority in the end in fact there had been a strong no campaign but the large majority of the major political parties in ireland were always yes. and they've both been littering the country with billboards. every single place is covered in billboards and paste is talking about who should be seen so much political literature in my life there's ultimately emerged a split between the rich and the poor between the and the rural people who voted yes around about sixty percent of what may need middle class from small rural towns or villages and the people who basic know just under forty percent told. working class people from maybe the urban areas the campaigns being criticized all three

this for working on a sort of a negative basis they've been accused of not having a single positive message in their campaign they've been saying if you don't vote yes you are that's going to have to go it alone is not going to be able to benefit from any more you bailouts austerity in this case will possibly be deeper. and many it seemed to come to that message under that pressure basically for the safer choice for the devil that they know even the. trouble so it may not be able to help countries that get into trouble anyway. the bigger picture here what exactly does this fiscal treaty mean for europe as a whole. for the treaty as a whole is aimed at restoring confidence in the euro which as we know is has been deeply embattled recently. having much closer coordination of budgets in the european union so that everyone's managing their money in the same way it's a balanced budget which is going to be written into the door of these countries to encourage what the germans are calling good housekeeping the european court of

justice then will check whether countries are abiding by the rule of balancing their budgets and if it's not then fines will be issued for ireland it really means more of the same as far as we can see extra taxes for householders more financial pressure on small businesses which you already suffering to pay off these these banking debts people. feel like it's a loss of sovereignty but of course it also means that they have less control over the way that their economy is run economists believe that growth is the answer to this but what it partly means is be able to money into a country cheat to fall into the creation of jobs growth that kind of thing so. in order to get the economy out of the mess that extend at the moment the central message of the u.s. campaign was stability and it turns out that that's the message that people have for but what others are saying is why would we want stability when we're in such a mess we need to move. all right laura smith there live in dublin thanks.

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which are being called peacekeepers are actually trying to use force to force the course of the serbs to accept living in independent kosovo which they won't accept and that's the whole root of the problem this morning they've actually a fired live ammunition at people trying to keep the barricades and they're trying to keep the barricades to prevent. the calls of all baiting regime from priest to not to get a hold of the north northern part of the territory so actually this morning we've had wounded civilians wounded by so-called peacekeepers using live ammunition against barehanded people on our people so actually peace is the last thing that on their mind unfortunately i do want to say that this was something at the beginning of june which was to be expected because there is a sort of a power vacuum in belgrade right now we've just heard parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government and we only have a technical government so actually what's nato and the e.u.

and the us are doing they're using the power vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo this is an internet freedom campaign as in europe have a cautious sign of relief the controversial anti piracy agreement act has been rejected by three influential committees of the e.u. parliament it's all ahead of the final vote taking place next month triggered mass protests in europe with internet users saying online freedom is at risk and at work a faltering yet from the swedish pirate party believes the treaty at best is confused. if you're sending something over the internet. your exercising freedom 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 cop romanov so our basic freedom of speech has become fundamentally incompatible with age old monopoly.

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 ordinary citizens and it's just not doing to criminalize two hundred fifty million europeans on what they do pretty much every day that said even those who are in favor of strong monopolies recognize the actor deliberately conflates the issues of fake medicine as 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. but before we see marina with the business there let's start with afghanistan and the r.t. world update now or seven people have been killed thirteen injured in a suicide attack in the eastern afghan city of cost but the taliban claims its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into

a nato base their violence has spread across the country since the taliban began its spring offensive in april vowing to target foreign troops and government forces . thousands of gathered in cairo once again to protest against a presidential candidate who is part of the pre-revolution mubarak regime they want shafiq to be barred from the race for the country's top job he'll be in the second round runoff against the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi the protests comes just a day after egypt's controversial decades long emergency law expired. israel has launched an air strike on gaza after a border clash in which a palestinian militant killed an israeli soldier a rocket landed in a residential area and wounded four people in a single vehicle two critically it comes after several months of relative calm along the gaza border. now india has dealt a fresh blow to america and europe's attempts to force iran to stop enriching

uranium just one month before unprecedented sanctions against the islamic republic come into force new delhi the biggest buyer of iranian oil said that trade will not be affected the story not to auntie's preassure. 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. growing but even up to ninety per cent of its over requirements you don't become too falls for acquiring and that you to sources and many say the sanctions simply won't work without india since its iran is biggest oil customer and so the united states finds itself in the position of hoarding india's cooperation for its plan to be successful hillary clinton recently visited india during her asia tour trying to sell the american 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 in 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 and economic 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. but will it work but for you in trying. to link up. ports into center. 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 get you one thing their troops in twenty fourteen this is the what interests of all of us to ensure that. 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's a 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 will be affected so i think perhaps and it's a whole. thing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west pressure either r.t.

new delhi india. or the time of the hour to head over to see marina hello again to you i do understand that the russian markets of closed but the end of the session on a negative note that's right rory first of all there were tracking losses overseas most of the markets now are in the red so it's hardly surprising also where we go crude prices but i'll get to that in a second first i want to talk about more drama in the russo british c.n. k b p this time it's boiling points b.p. is saying that it will hold on to its share in the firm and in fact the recently resigned c. b p says he warned that one of the two partners needed to take full control of the firm otherwise the joint venture would be paralyzed this man is michelle friedman of course and at the same time the financial times says b.p. has received a buy offer from one of. the russian state companies here in moscow following rumors that had a. past seven his company was not buying this they can see on t.v.

and that such a decision requires a deep market and that isis now i know this estimate that a fifty percent stake in russia's third biggest oil producer would be at around thirty billion dollars and while there are no guarantees that any transaction will take place alex a call came from says that the possibility is quite high. there's been disagreement 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 be holding. and apparently big pay you would like to get all this cash dividends us the russian side would like to use the car for global expansion and if this disagreement goes on it's perfectly conceivable that b.p. might want to sell out if this were all the successful. operation of the

interesting question here is whether we want to try to outbid about potential and yet unknown whether it would seek to control the whole company one hundred percent of itself. and there are markets have been reacting to this very well and five shares and dropped over ten percent as you can see with the russian markets this is the closing picture and the r.t. has dropped over one percent while the my six lost over half a percent both of the point of minimize earlier losses ever so slightly and as i said we could crude prices which will get in the cycle and also we have a risk aversion across the board and russia markets were pretty much tracking losses overseas let's take a look at currencies now the euro is flat against the dollar but the highlight today is the ruble it has lost ten percent of all of its value since may and is. trading at three year lows against the u.s. dollar as you can see there and the ruble is also losing against the euro now we've

been talking to renaissance capital chief analyst and a year's eve on and he said despite the weaker ruble this could actually help russia overcome the storm that is the financial crisis in europe. well i actually don't think we can you will necessarily here with the russian economy grow but i think that the week will help ensure a late 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. 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. over an hour into the try to session for the u.s. markets a sea of red there as well both the dow and the nasdaq losing over one percent but in placers are really reacting to negative data negative u.s.

jobs data that came out basically analysts expected to see one hundred sixty five thousand jobs added new jobs for the month of may and instead they got only sixty nine thousand vassar's are really disappointed because of that and we see that reflected in the numbers if we move on to europe a sea of red there as well and investors are not only reacting to the negative view as has that up but they also had their own negative data which was a negative p.m.i. data to be precise and that's following on from negative data coming out from china so not a lot of optimism go and around there it was like a look at oil prices are still heading south in fact they're heading for their longest weekly losing streak in about five and a half years we can see that light sweet is trading close to eighty four dollars per barrel. ninety nine dollars and there you have it now a lot of optimism as usual rory see you. in a many thanks indeed see you next hour. we're back with the headlines of the last

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