the russian president is in paris on the last leg of his european tour just a few hours ago in berlin putin german chancellor merkel vowed to prevent syria sliding into civil war. the un human rights council calls for an investigation into the massacre in the town of the syrian government claims armed gangs for wanting to trigger foreign intervention. at least six people were injured in northern kosovo as nato peacekeepers for gas and rubber bullets at protesters. around the clock around the world this is the with news and comment live from

moscow financial recovery and the turmoil in syria the focus of the russian and french president's meeting now in paris that improved in his reach the last stop on his first european tour since returning to the top job last month. he vowed to do what he can to prevent syria from sliding into civil war and insisted russia is not taking sides. joins me live now from paris. france where. they meet for the first time as president what are we expecting to come out of their talks today. well we are expecting to talk on a lot of a range of issues many of them is similar to what i have let me put in had spoken with angela merkel in berlin but i think a more symbolically here it's interesting to see that the u.n. if meeting for the first time since they both took their posts as a newly elected presidents of their country and especially for francois laundry during the entire campaign of his presidency he was criticized for his lack of

experience much less experience with foreign leaders of foreign policy and international relations so it will be interesting to see the kind of rapport that the two men have behind closed doors it will set the tone on how they will proceed when they do negotiations and we know that behind closed doors the deals and talks are very very important. and everyone was waiting for putin and chancellor merkel to collide on the issue over syria that isn't exactly what happened. no that's not what happened in fact if you listen to what they had said it's pretty much very similar when it comes to syria we know that the issue on the contrie had come to the forefront as both germany and france has said they will put pressure on moscow to try to get them on the same side but in fact they had been sounding like they were on the same side like you might putin had confirmed had said that yes there is a danger of a civil war in the country but then both countries germany and russia will be working together to prevent any escalation let's hear exactly what he had to say on

the matter. but those who say russia is unilaterally supporting the said regime are wrong we have long standing good relations with syria but we aren't supporting any so out of the conflict if there is a threat of civil war with chancellor merkel. is to prevent this. 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 both russia and germany and other partners. we can to prevent violence from escalating u.n. envoy kofi annan. well certainly it will be on the table also with the law and a lot has said very recently that possibility of a military intervention is not off the table provided that there is a backing of the u.n. security council this will certainly be on the agenda but lattimer putin again was quick to reiterate and asserted that russia is not

a super supplying weapons to the to the country that they're just honoring old contracts that already exist between the two so we're going to be waiting to hear what they have more to say on a syria but the economy basically dominated the talks there in berlin and will do so there in france as europe is suffering badly from a financial crisis the power of the ties between the e.u. and moscow. well certainly very deep and we do know the euro crisis will it will also be a main topic here albeit it's been going on for some time now russia's role in how to help the entire european union in getting out of this crisis is important at the e.u. is the main trading partner of russia the latest figure i have is forty seven point one percent in trade for russia also investors coming in from the e.u. to russia trade being very important and we know that the last visit of a lot of fear putin that to a france was in two thousand and ten and again that sealed the deal between the two countries we are expecting more on the details of that to come for tonight live

there in paris thanks very much indeed for that update well the u.n. human rights council wants an investigation into the killings of more than one hundred people in the syrian town of houla last week it also condemned forces for the massacre but the meskins has blamed the terrorist gangs which it says are seeking to trigger for military action and moscow says the tragedy in houla shows the danger of backing rebels and extremist elements u.s. is supporting the opposition and proposing regime change in syria and that's the wrong plans for action if it feels forced to intervene. where the conflict in syria is spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees with air is divided between pro and anti assad supporters what is more of a notion that has more from lebanon. in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon gives shelter to five syrian families running away from atrocities and violence in

their own land long 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 too weak to boy no longer sounds like a child to die 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 street in the city of tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of the no fly zone on running like a murder between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out their old device that is here just as the conflict in neighboring syria does and with the spillover of violence from across the border are being felt here now that israel's intentions between these terror becoming even more pronounced while we were in town we heard the sound of an explosion to manage the scene says he's the owner base housing 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 her name was thrown from a sunni area they hate assad and they hate us. but while he's blaming his opponents in law. been 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. notion r.t. tripoli lebanon but if president assad is removed there is growing concern

about what would happen to his chemical weapons arsenal syria controls one of the arab world's largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction which could pose a global threat if it ends up in the wrong hands well for more on this we can now talk to charles blair he's from the federation of american scientists joining me live now from washington so if these chemical weapons do fall into the hands of islam and al-qaeda groups fighting for the rebels could you give us a larger what could be the consequences. certainly thank you for having me on i think that the key point that you made is what they might be certainly we don't have an understanding of the how largest stockpile it is so it's hard to precisely determine what the effect would be but given the estimates of the stockpile as it is now specifically their chemical weapons you could see the weapons themselves used either within syria between different factions if it's

a civil war that are vying for power you could see it used by the assad regime against the free syrian army or in other scenarios if there was complete chaos you could see groups like jihad as type groups of violent islamist groups taking those agents out of syria. and then they'd have some work to do they'd have to weaponize the agents they'd have to do some sort of. research and development with them but that it's likely they could employ those weapons really anywhere throughout northern africa europe they could even potentially bring them here within the united states and of course the asian countries south asia russia and east asia would all also be at risk so it really is a general global threat that we're looking at but charles that was a concern was it not in libya that threat never materialized that you just mentioned whether weapons could get into the wrong hands why should we be worried

that this time in syria. sure well let me just give you a quick background on the libyan program libya joined the chemical weapons convention in two thousand and three as you may well know after they abandoned their nuclear program and the libyans were very cooperative they showed the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the people that run the chemical weapons convention the un they demonstrated to them all the chemical weapons they had and where they were and frankly the chemical weapons at the libyans had were in very poor quality they only had what were called nerve agents which are the crudest types they're very dangerous but they're crude in terms of their sophistication of building and so they had all been declared and they were in about a half a dozen leaky canisters at one central location so what happened was they got politicized a little bit people are saying well what if chemical weapons were used when the

experts knew actually that that was not a possibility the difference is that with syria they have a much much larger stockpile syria is not a part of the chemical weapons convention meaning that there is no u.n. inspectors or is no way of knowing what they have and they have much much larger quantities ok so what is the lesser evil here as sad staying in pella all these were falling into the hands of innocents. well and that's really that's a an excellent question that and i think that's really what the international community is grappling with if your sole desire if your only wish as a state is to prevent the use of chemical weapons outside of that state or against civilians then you have two strategies the first would be to quickly try to support the for the syrian free army to get it organized so that when they did eventually

take over control of syria they could quickly account for the chemical weapons and that might be one of the reasons why the united states and some western nations are pushing hard for military action if they can get the chinese and the russians on board so that's the one scenario where you do you you quickly and very effectively try to organize the opposition and then get a numerical accounting of what's out there and you guard against it the other way that you can look at it is that if you're playing the long game which i think some people have said that the russians and the chinese are doing it may be safest just to let things play out hoping that the assad regime will stay in power and if that is the case then the chemical weapons most likely are going to be kept in safe hands so a lot of that depends on what you think the ultimate outcome is going to be can assad cling to power can he do so in a way where there will not be mass defections of army units that may have access to chemical weapons or do you think it's a completely lost cause and that the u.s.

and other western forces with the support of china and russia need to move in quickly and establish some sort of organizational method so that when power is given to the free syrian army it's a smooth transition and i'll add one more point and that is that one of the lessons with what happened in libya was that although there was a lot of support for the libyan opposition what was discovered later was that the opposition was still quite fragmented so hopeful. people have learned from that and if we do support the anti aside forces we can work more clearly with them to have a more cohesive organizational structure while it's worrying possibility of the consequences of that unrest we're seeing in syria interesting to hear you talking about and explaining to us the possible dangers thank you very much charles blair from the federation of american scientists talking to us live there from washington thank you for having me on. whatever get we have a lot more stories in r.t.

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agenda in syria as it was in libya and the other countries of the so-called arab spring is to create a transformation of the entire muslim world from pakistan to morocco over the period of the next several years so of course washington is not happy about a negotiated diplomatic settlement. i think the europeans are much more interested in a diplomatic resolution because they don't want rolling instability in libya today after after the nato intervention is one huge army of tribes battling tribes in the streets of tripoli and benghazi and elsewhere so it's just total chaos. and that wouldn't be at all. european stability and security as well when we talk about the relations we're seeing developing between russia and the u.s. over this clinton says that russia's failure to take a definitive stance on syria should be seen as support for said that putin directly

stated he wants a cease fire from both sides is this old school bush era are you with us or against us is not it we're seeing here from the states what i think so they're talking out of two sides of their mouth when hillary clinton says we support the kofi annan plan but we want regime change which is not part of the kofi annan plan. the u.s. wants to essentially push an agenda that's been supported by saudi arabia and by qatar which is a it's turning into a. versus. sunni conflict within the islamic world and if you set that off you're going to have rolling instability for maybe decades in that part of the world and. divide and conquer i think their game. and then in paris of course economy has been on the agenda in both countries he said that russia is ready to help europe's economy get back on track can you give us an idea of just how vital russia is for the e.u. . well i think russia is vital for the e.u.

especially for germany not only historically despite the second world war but russia and germany have a kind of economic synergy that fits quite quite well together in quite positively germany exports the machine tools the. high value added technology that russia needs to rebuild its infrastructure or to build its infrastructure russia has at moment at the moment the raw materials and also the scientific know all that is world class it's often forgotten that the russian technology which is often found in the military area because of the exigencies of the cold war is is cutting edge or bleeding edge and in many cases compared to that of the west especially of the united states today so i think there's a very natural fit with natural gas energy. transfers and also

export of machine tools and german says austria technology due to russia school relations there between the two what about france is there a similar relationship that particularly bearing in mind we have a new president in france now. well de gaulle of course had a very. very far sighted view of the cold war he tried to build relations with the soviet union back then and washington was very unhappy because in effect washington and wall street benefited from the constant state of tension so that europe was beholden to america for the nuclear umbrella and was forced to make economic concessions repeatedly so i think france has a lesser synergy but nonetheless a synergy one of the things that. might bring in that sarkozy did not sarkozy was very very close to the american agenda in terms of military intervention in libya and syria and other places and it remains to be seen now. how much alarmed and his

government plays into that card or if they're looking for a more neutral stance that could be interesting thanks very much always very interesting to hear your perspective thank you william and del joining us live there in the u.k. manchester thank you. and said yes to the e.u. back to 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. laura 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 e.u. backed off cyrus which is now being written into our role will be when this is all died down all 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 e.u. that 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. littering the country with billboards and. every single place is covered in billboards and post is talking about who should be how the us campaign is being criticised all through this 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 is 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 it has been

deeply embattled recently. having much closer coordination budgets in the unions have 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 has more financial pressure on small businesses which are already suffering to pay off these 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 is partly means is be able to money into a country to float into the creation of jobs graced. kind of thing so. in order to get the economy out of the mess that extend at the moment the central message of the yes campaign was stability and it turns out that's the message that people have but what others are saying is why would we want stability when we're in such a mess we need to move forward nor smith there at least six people have been

wounded in more than kosovo in clashes between protesters and nato peacekeepers the serbs tried to prevent removal of the barricades last year on the border in response to an attempt by course of and authorities to take control of it political analyst alexander public 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've actually were 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 or 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 their hand the people on our people so actually peace is the last thing 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 with just parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government or 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 costs will. come out to twenty five minutes past the hour in russian capital which marina now that she is with the latest business news so what have you got for us this hour. the u.s. markets are the only ones open right now the numbers are just keep going south but i'll get to that in just a second first let's talk about the new feed between the coal owners all in fact it's not a new it's although it's been happening for years but this some we might actually

see and in and that is because b.p. is considering selling its stake in the russo british oil for another recently resigned c. p friedman the has warned that one of the two partners need it's a full control of the farm otherwise the joint venture would be paralyzed meanwhile the financial times says b.p. has received the file for. one of the russian state companies and here in moscow after many reports the head of. his company was known to online buy in a stake in seeing that such a decision requires the market and alice's analysts estimate the fifty percent stake in russia's third biggest oil producer to be at around thirty billion dollars and while there are no guarantees that any transaction will take place. says the possibility is quite high. there's been disagreement apparently between b.p. and their russian partners. over how to use the money this cash

flow generated by the russian operation to be holding. and apparently the people would like to get all this cash dividends. russian side would like to use the car for global expansion. if if this disagreement goes on it's perfectly conceivable that b.p. might want to sell out of this rather successful. operation but the interesting question here is whether we want to try to outbid about potential and get to know whether it would seek to control the whole company one hundred percent of that itself. or let's take a look at some international markets with. the markets here and the trade in session all of the week on the negative note tracking overseas losses that we saw a lot of risk aversion resulting in the figures that you see there the r.t.s.

lost over one percent of the my section at over a half a percent if we take a look at currencies the russian ruble ground against the you was dollar in fact that ten percent of all that's valley for the month of may and was trading at three year lows against the greenback you mentioned the greenback so let's take a look at how u.s. markets are doing as i said the only ones overall. and the figures they're pretty much a sea of red as it is across the board and while we haven't they're affecting investors as a negative us jobs data analysts expected figures in new jobs generated for the month of may one hundred sixty five thousand and the end that figure was sixty nine thousand so way below expectations a real big disappointment and that also affected european investors let's take a look at the picture the markets are closed but investors didn't have time to react to that negative the data and also we had negative p.m.i. they came out in the region to add to all the negative data that would go from

china on a very altruistic day there we could see that the footsie lost over one percent and the german dax lost over the reapers and a quick look at oil prices they're heading south in fact they're heading for their long us weekly losing streak in five and a half years and we see that light sweet is trading at around eighty four dollars a barrel while the brant blood is that around ninety nine dollars a barrel and this is how business. this week basically back to you bill thanks a lot marina have a good weekend thank you. headlines from just a few moments stay with us. culture is that so much i'm going to give each musician the right mind to mark with a revolution misunderstood soon egyptians will go to the polls to democratically elected president but what about the choice is this a contest that. wealthy british style. sometimes.

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