president putin and chancellor merkel agree civil war in syria must be prevented and praise growing trade and energy ties. visits berlin. on the brink of civil war the u.n. warns that its envoys peace plan for syria must be observed or the country could enter the point of no return. and at least six people are injured in northern cause of as nato peacekeepers fire tear gas and rubber bullets protesters are top stories . around the clock around the world this is r.t. with news and comment live from moscow let me

a 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 sides in the conflict the comments came as the russian president and the german chancellor met in berlin with putin on his first series of short visits abroad since he returned to the top job in russia last month going to spin off is in. are saying that the most important thing at the moment is to prevent this situation there in syria to going into a full throttle civil war and the only way to do that and that's agreed upon by both what you're pushing and go america is through political measures through the united nations through the coffee on peace plan to nations 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 and once again stressed that russia is standing for

a balanced approach where equal pressure has to be applied on both sides chipped away at the time still i see it but usually they see you say russia is unilaterally supporting the acid regime we have longstanding 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 a civil war this is extremely dangerous we want to stop violence no matter where it comes from your both russia and germany and other partners. we can to prevent violence from escalating but let me help you an employee kofi annan now russia does have contracts on the supply of forms to the syrian authorities and what 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 . looking for ways to get the eurozone out of the place where the crisis is first of all this isn't 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 north stream my point project which is an international project both includes russia and germany and is aimed through saying the russian gas directly to the european union germany has been chosen as the first western nation for his visit since returning to office earlier in may. the world which is planning to head off to france to meet with the french president there continuing his

european tour. 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 houla last week saying it may amount to crimes against humanity the syrian government is blaming rebel terror groups for the massacre which it says those 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 the war activists are flawed and says america's never been interested in a diplomatic outcome though. 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 un 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 with the two vowing to strive for a non violent solution to the conflict both states have use their veto powers at

the u.n. twice to block what they call unbalanced resolutions in syria while some nations of kicked out syrian diplomats cutting ties with damascus moscow beijing's relations with syria could help resolve the crisis according to one chinese expert the world sees russia as a very strong ally where people perceive. basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of the recent china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about their support for syria he also freshened in syria right now if you give you various military intervention what comes next and i think that there's a lot of pause for military action because there's going to be 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 you know. far more practical than

a u.n. sanction or your kind of mention of what's happening in syria right now. the conflict in syria is spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes a broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees with areas divided between pro and anti supporters auntie's more of a notion that has more now from lebanon. this small house in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon gives shelter to five syrian families running away from atrocities and violence in their homeland oh not long as 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 talman 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 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 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 move those protests this is a call for the international community for humanitarians and even lebanese authorities that we meet our we need 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 for running like a murderer between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out their own device because 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 and tensions between these two becoming even more pronounced while we were in town we heard the sound of an explosion the men 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 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 naidu is thrown from a sunni area they hate assad and they hate us. but while he's blaming his opponents in love. and 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 bay now the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile calm at trieste. tripoli lebanon. r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours and days still to come this hour india's stand shoulder to shoulder with iran voicing support for its trading partner despite mounting pressure from the u.s. and europe. all and 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 to brussels along with its sovereignty is nora smith has been following the referendum in dublin. 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 our role will be when this is all died down or of course according to the yes campaign of fear of not being with quite so heavily anymore not being able to benefit from potential bailouts from the might be needed further on down the line it was a large majority in the end in fact there had been a strong campaign but the large majority of the major political parties in ireland were always. in the country with billboards. every single post is covered in billboards and post is talking about who should be

the yes campaign has been criticized the 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 yes you are that's going to have to go it alone it's not going to be able to benefit from any more 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 where the treaty as a whole is aimed at restoring confidence in the euro which as we know is has been the embattled recently. having much closer coordination of budgets in the european union said everyone's managing their money in the same way and it really means more of the same as far as we can see extra taxes for households as more financial pressure on small businesses which are 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 means to be able to money into a country to fall into the creation of jobs. that kind of thing say. in order to get the economy out of the mess that it's in a moment that the central message of the yes campaign was stability and it turns out that's a message that people have called for but what others are saying is why would we want stability when we're in such a mess we need to move forward. with there in dublin more joining me now is because he's the director of the national platform research and information center based in dublin how much of a relief was a yes vote for the government for brussels was this result expected. i think probably it was yes i think they're quite relieved at this very difficult time for the euro or when many people think about he'd be cracking up it's useful for the people of brussels and broadly in frankfurt indeed to have a yes to this. treaty which opposes quite strict rules on national budgets of the

eurozone countries and was that yes vote. of not getting the bailout money next year because of course if he said no it wouldn't qualify for any more help. well discredited dispute over that because the bailout fund for next year the problem being our fund has not yet actually been set up and it depends on the ratification of the european stability mechanism treaty treaty which hasn't yet been ratified by . several other eurozone states and actually there's a constitutional challenge to the treaty as you know as a country which has regular referendums on these treaties and that may well be another referendum b.s.m. treaty down the road that issue is present before the high court and supreme court in due course is staying on that theme of referendum referendums on and gave its people a choice one of the countries of course is the parliament that votes on such matters if other countries populations in the member states would given the same option do

you think we would see the same sort of support that we've seen in the moment. not at all i mean there is a general reaction against the austerity regimes and they are certainly programs when pushed on the euro zone by the european central bank and others and. is happening in my view in that a many others is a kind of german led takeover bid for the eurozone and with questionable legality that is why there are actual legal challenges constitutional challenges in germany itself in a stone here and the european stability mechanism treaty which is. this problem bailout funds that are very anxious to get up and running soon or to help bail out spain but everyone knows that most people think that the sums of money involved are insufficient and this fund can't be set up unless the relevant treaty is ratified the same treaty which already is beginning to give you talk about that because the government will probably seek to ratify that next month though as i said earlier

it's subject constitutional challenge in the irish courts so we still hear more about referendums in the wrong but not much is being placed on this fiscal treaty for the euro zone member countries is it really a way of gaining confidence if everybody agrees to adhere to this treaty is it important now is it a cure for europe's debt problems. well your problems are vast and as we know the spanish government to correctly in deep crisis over its banks had this huge property bubble as we had then when the bubble burst of the banks went bust of the spanish banks and. now buster many of them our. special coverage has no money to bail them out so they're looking for some kind of euro zone form to bail them out and this proposal for the five hundred seven hundred billion fund the problem. and the question is who's going to buy the money for that so that the germans of the austrians of the freedoms of the north europeans are expected to ride these this

money for to bail out the southern europeans you know this is. the problems of the eurozone. can quickly fundamentally flawed and i quickly ask you just very very briefly alan is now set to pursue those austerity measures how will the people cope now with those obviously suffering from the economic problems lack of jobs and so on what is life looking like for the irish now or just very briefly. how things are going to get worse and worse in my judgment the fifty percent unemployment rate is likely to rise the immigration to get worse and so on because the austerity is being pressed all over the euro zone and particularly the in the peripheral countries including out and i don't see any real improvement coming about and actually live from dublin thank you very much for joining us there good to hear your thoughts thank you. well don't forget to we have a lot more stories in ulti dot com here's what's waiting for you at the moment spanish miners scuffled with police during a demonstration of nearly ten thousand in the capital they're angry about budget cuts putting their jobs at risk. to collision the entire milky way is going to

crash where the neighboring andromeda galaxy will dramatically change the view of the night sky from earth but when find out on our website. at least six people have been wounded in northern kosovo in clashes between protesters and nato peacekeepers the serbs trying to prevent the removal of the barricades they set up last year on the border in response to an attempt by course of an authority to take control of it political analyst alexander in belgrade says foreign presence only stirs up trouble. the nato forces 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 have actually 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 bare handed people on our own 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 had parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government we only have a technical government so actually what's nato and the e.u. and the u.s. are doing they're using the power vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. now let's check out some other news making headlines around the world that very nearly twenty minutes past the hour seven people being killed and thirteen injured in the suicide attack in the east an afghan city of cost the taliban claims its fighters rammed

a vehicle packed with explosives into a nato base that balance is spread across the country since the taliban began its spring offensive in april than to target foreign troops and government forces. thousands of gathering to protest against a presidential candidate who was part of the three revolution mubarak regime they want to be barred from the race for the country's top job in the second round run up against the muslim brotherhood mohamed mursi the purchase comes just a day off egypt's controversial decades long emergency breaks. israel's launched an air strike in gaza. border clash in which a palestinian militant killed an israeli soldier a rocket landed in a residential area and wounded four passengers in a single vehicle two critically comes after several months of relative calm and long. india has dealt a fresh blow to america and europe's attempts to force them to stop enriching uranium just one month before unprecedented sanctions against the islamic republic

came into force come into force i should say new delhi the biggest buyer of iranian oil said their trade won't 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 unfortunate. growing but its even up to ninety per cent of its over requirements you don't become two souls. acquiring and that you do 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 why don't you go to relationship with the countries of central asia this is the only way to be have been. ruled it will be you in 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

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 go into. that of god his son is linked to the world through communication means that cannot be destructive that will that it has the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody induce 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 our hope that better sense will prevail and that there would be a peaceful outcome flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west pressure either r t new delhi india.

time to check in with our business desk and. back in the spotlight today but not because the good news from what i understand. that's basically the co-owners of the russian british oil from have always been pretty much there's throws that wouldn't have been conflicts for years but this time the relationship has reached a boiling point and basically b.p. is now pursuing its have in the shares of the firm and we know that most recently resigned c freedman war that won all of the two partners the state full control of the firm otherwise the joint venture would be paralyzed at the same time the financial times says b.p. has received a buy offer from one of the russian state companies and here in moscow after all the rumors the head of rosneft search and has said that his company was not i am buying a stake in seeing b.p. and that such a decision requires the market analysis analysts estimate that the fifty percent

stake in russia's third biggest oil producer is at around thirty billion dollars and while there are no guarantees that any transaction of all take place alex a call came from. the possibility is quite high. there's been disagreement apparently between. the and the russian cotton as. of how to use the money the steady cash flow generated by by the russian oil price and the ten k. would be holding and apparently big pay you would like to get it all as cash is dividends whereas the russian side would like to use the cash 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 of effect the interesting question here is whether they would want to run or try to outbid that potential and yet unknown but whether it would seek to control the whole

company one hundred percent of that itself. well it sounds like a look at the markets will start with what happened here in russia in the c's end of the session both in the red we can see that the r.t.s. lost over one percent volume i said stop over happy he said we have a lot of risk aversion going on across the board all the markets are in the red and in fact. prices that are going south on alternative help in the russian economy i'll tell you about that in just a second but first let's take a look at the currencies the ruble is news and ground and gas the dollar in fact the last ten percent of its value in the month of may and it's trading against me alone as against the greenback and earlier we spoke to chief economist of new works at the right essence capital and explain why a greek a group or could actually help process insulated from the facts of the european financial crisis. well i actually don't think that we can you will necessarily hear

what 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 external shocks wilkens make it one to one for the other to the russian economy right now it is the ruble that is taking part of the external shock and i think it's a good thing for the russian economy. all right now over to the u.s. so we're seeing how the traded session is going there in this is still in the red the dow is dropping a one of the half percent of all the guys that is now down over two percent and there we have a negative view was affecting investors basically atlas had estimated that for the month of may the u.s. economy would generate one hundred and sixty five thousand new jobs in the end all we saw was sixty nine thousand which there really impress investors moving on see europe there also weren't impressed with the u.s.

jobs data but also they had their own negative data to react to and that was p.m.i. data that was below expectations and we saw that the figures are for the close of the footsie losing over one percent then with over three percent then the numbers for the puts the are slightly we are there will correct that next hour obviously so five to four zero and all the rest that you see there and we're not so well priced there are heading south as i've mentioned earlier and they're heading for there along this weekly losing streak and five and a half years we see the lads this trading at around eighty three and i have dollars per barrel while the breadline is approaching ninety nine dollars per barrel and this is what we have for you the south. thanks a lot will see you in the next here and. then we're going to business news just ahead russia is gearing up for its final friendly before the start of the european championships all the details in our sports update with paul but first the headlines in just a few minutes. scenes

of welcome to one exist transmission center break from the beating heart of this insane that one remaining real concern with him for missions in trouble free from filters and back to use the back solicited like speed to cyberspace where rebel journalists have made the jump to hyginus space challenging the establishment's grip on information and the now being pursued by its sinister agents more of what's happening in because of the office of ends of the spectrum thus we will come off by .