syria's president assad to cry is the houla massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters well fresh attempts to blame his regime are being labeled as part of a plan to engineer foreign military intervention. thousands of quebec students protest against a dramatic hike in the chu issue fees which will double the cost of level education saying their government should stop copying its southern neighbor. and russia will follow in europe's footsteps when it comes to managing mass opposition rallies so says president putin after his meeting with e.u. leaders instead peters. plus china eyes ross as the third biggest company as b.p. plans an exit from or made its way all the details and business in botswana for

that. it's three pm monday afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. with me kevin i know in and first syrian leader bashar al assad has flatly rejected any state involvement in the houla slaughter calling it a monstrous massacre the president went on the blame not the opposition but foreign backed fighters in syria he said as spreading chaos. this is foreign intervention may be the ultimate goal. ten days after the terrible massacre in the syrian city of who're the world is still watching to see how this tipping point will shape the crisis while there is still at least some hope of a peaceful solution many analysts believe those hopes are fading fast the american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely

enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans obviously taking the lead the specter of a military solution has returned after the syrian regime was condemned internationally for the death of one hundred eight people half of whom were children before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive lee i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to far to see where hasty judgment is so a rush to take up arms at the cost of war and not see exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s.

ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground yet claims that it was a hero as are innocent civilians by government troops certainly with blame presented with ultimatum and random game and bought back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon separatists from the kosovo liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved. most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know about the. reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basically

training on how they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that could have ever even anybody is how to figure masculine or stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruling the alliance is a strikes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again. when these disturbing images from the syrian village of whole are made world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called in ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are exposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life grief nationality moscow neil clark a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper told me

a major obstacle to coffin and peace plan is the virtual free rein given to the rebels by their burkas. we reach the crucial point of the whole affair now and i think that the onus must be on the western powers to sort of back down here because you know let's face it the u.s. britain france saudi arabia qatar do not want to succeed it's the syrian government that wants it to see the russian china what you know why is the plan working so far bringing peace because the rebels are still fighting they're still using arms terrorist attacks are taking place in syria and one of the syrian government supposed to do in response it seems now evidence has come out of who are that you know last week we were told it was a syrian government now the evidence is not so clear and the only way we can have a peaceful solution to this is the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and stop supplying them with arms so you know it's not repeated to the people who are backing the violent

rebels to rein them in thousands of lebanese troops have been deployed to tripoli the nation's second largest city in an effort to stop clashes between pro and anti assad groups more than a dozen civilians have died there in recent days as the conflict from neighboring syria spills across the border. for america's syracuse university believes the growing violence is being fueled by gulf arab states. the regional countries are are interfering in syria this easily becomes a regional conflict and it's devastating for lebanon which has suffered enough already so many years of civil war between one hundred seventy five and one thousand nine hundred and now you know the violence is happening on a much more extreme level in the north and the lebanese are getting nervous they don't want to have to live through another civil war and it seems like the international and foreign in the gulf states are only encouraging the lebanese to get more involved and to drag it into a civil war and again i think this is more

a political agenda than anything else this has to do with the resistance access this has to do with hezbollah this has to do with iran and the west determined attempt to undermine these players in the regional politics because they know how popular they are and you know how powerful they are and it's just going to make the whole region into a complication huge conflict and this could be avoided if the gulf countries step back didn't get involved in lebanon didn't get involved in syria and the west didn't instigate them to. you just a few minutes report from cairo and protests over the call verdict on ousted dictator hosni mubarak the decision to jail him for life but free his sons unaids has ignited fears protests from those calling for his execution as both candidates competing in that forthcoming presidential election now seeking to exploit the controversy for their campaigns and say they just coming up also reporting too about the u.s. military seeking to return to vietnam as part of its buildup in the asia pacific region what's being seen as

a further effort to undermine china. first in canada thousands of taken to the streets of quebec the latest demonstrations following weeks of protests and demands for a cheer we should see freeze didn't deter crowds from marching through montreal two days after talks between student groups in the government broke out again more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested now since those protests started back in february and more than a dozen colleges and universities in the province are he's going to reports now on how american influence in the canadian government thinking is big play. the canadian province of quebec a region that prides itself on free healthcare and affordable education for its residents students here pay a fixed amount for tuition fees around twenty five hundred dollars a year for all of the colleges and universities that's the lowest rate in north america and the taxpayers pick up the rest but that model might change as their government looks south they are looking across the borders and seeing what united

states are doing and trying to become closer and closer to what the united states are working on which is more in my presence is a show and so they're having new social programs that cover primary by the. tens of thousands spilled onto the streets when the government said they'd be pushing up to ration fees every year and in five years the students of care back will face education costs almost double what they're paying now. i mean even know this is a student at a montreal university she works part time at a local ice cream shop she says if the people of keg don't stand their ground now in the future higher education just won't be an option for many if it's too expensive a porch adenoma not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible they're not even think about being a doctor or if it wasn't for you know it would be you know it's

a symbol and what i was saying is that in us it's so expensive so the people the poor people they want to study they have no choice but going to army for that the prospect of having to join the military to provide for their education is not the only thing about the u.s. example that scares the kick walk to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders that we need to preserve this and become what we've seen growing in the united states right now having a lot of students they are still paying for it there. university program and when they aren't seventy years old so we need to make sure that every students will be able to contribute to the. whole region and make sure that they have you can afford actually to start maybe they're new and new businesses the rest of north america should be looking to go back as an example of how to mobilize how student association should function through direct democracy and how they should actually

organize and challenge these measures and challenge this debt shackle system. the protest clearly signaled the path that back is willing rather not willing to take when we look towards the united states we see a country in which the idea of access is wrapped up in the ability to pay and this is what we're seeing the resistance against that access to things like higher education or like health care are in fact access to public goods and that there should be a way of controlling the costs and ensuring that people no matter what their monetary capabilities are able to take advantage of these kinds of programs. what the world knows about the protests here is that they have to do with students and their tuition fees but for people of the province it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they are striving to keep. reporting from montreal canada r t more than most stories about

colm. where we're talking about the end of an era the famed soviet saying edward he'll also known as mr troll or die is innocent petersburg the age of seventy seven with a legacy though of twelve million you tube visitors alone the major his huge popularity his books and smiles in the past. and iran's new space center the years completion and cause controversy is critics fear it's just a cover for making nuclear weapons. flashback that's what the american military wants as it seeks a return to the country for exam forces during the latest leg of his asia pacific to us defense secretary leon panetta has asked for permission for the u.s. navy to use port facilities he also announced that the majority of american warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty dr parkman one from who is a professor at the city university in hong kong believes it's all part of

a battle for influence in the region between the u.s. and china. i think the washington d.c. has been consistent. the scenes the obama administration have at top the return to asia policy right i think for the south china sea is a major irritant for china and southeast asian countries and i think i would not say that this office asian countries more powers would like to give up china but they would like to invite the united states to join in the arena so that they could have more pocketing chips against china vietnam of course welcome americans return because it was so kind of. our signal to try not that china ken norton our sort all the solvency pains over the south china sea and vietnam can also be packed up out by the americans military power to china's

military dominance in the region. greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election in less than two weeks time though which could mean athens scrapping its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. greece's future in the eurozone is also under intense scrutiny and in an interview coming up next hour american economist a nobel laureate eric mask in says an end to the e.u.'s financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go and go. into a long term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical heights it's already very high but it could it could certainly get higher. the. things are by no means currently as bad as they as they could get i see the the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unity.

well the clock protests are continuing on tahrir square in cairo of this fury there over what demonstrators say is the lenient sentencing of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak and his associates are says tom barton says many are angry he's not be executed. protesters are occupying rear square in central cairo calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness that former president hosni mubarak was given a life sentence turned to anger as other senior security officials were acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters last year mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections second round in the country towards the camp he said that the revolution should continue and that if he was chosen as president he would try and get mubarak back on trial and

have him executed and the chief prosecutor of egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the acquittals of some of those senior security officials after meds shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race in a race a presidential race that seen by many as not really being sufficient not up to what they hoped for for this revolution and they see the courts verdict at this very crucial time in egypt as a sign that not much has changed and that they're all you military regime is still in power and mr shafique said that he would not reinstate that old regime and that a choice for the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages as he put it although he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to make people believe that he's not part of that old regime in the meantime as this election divides the egyptian people more protests

are being held here in the capital and elsewhere over the country and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital that is tom barling car there of the first year listener bill or undone he says both remaining candidates in egypt's presidential election are trying to spin the reaction to my bags and their way. they are people demonstrating against hard wired life sentence which d.c. has never in any and but it also has to be said that there are also commentators and other people who think that the key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the more of their own and trying to send execution barak would be a setback to not only egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general surely and a key to a successful revolution is not to see the american tactics being reproduced in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are swift to capitalize on

. the said that he was a great day for justice and because it means that nobody is among now this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was and his dies little men who are going to the regime in the early in his campaign in. hold it. hold it. clear. the speed.

with. the missile good. luck. just see the enemy. come out find him a little. with the cold war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. to use it as a threat. but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to

nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. you're watching live from moscow with me kevin owen thanks for being with us now if you're watching the last hour you will know the president putin said that russia should implement to europe start legislation to regulate opposition mass rallies the statement came after a meeting with e.u. leaders and some petersburg which we brought you live let's get more on this and more thoughts about it a really good. in some previous but the issue of opposition rallies in russia has been in the spotlight since the country went through an election period recently that was talked about as well wasn't it. yes absolutely and of course that was one of the questions which was asked actually was the first question which was asked to

during the press conference and they did look for a minute like the leaders looked uncomfortable well that is all of them except for budget was it was really quick to respond. to the question about the protests which are happening in russia sporadically from time to time his opinion of course is that it's a good thing that protests are happening he says that it's normal absolutely but he did say that russia is well on its way to comply with european standards in its way to deal with protests from human rights in the country. the distinction without you the only thing we should do now is to include european legal regulations enforced in many european countries on rallies in our legislation no doubt there are democratic norms that at the same time they will create a different regime governing mass rallies. of course the question was brought up by a by a foreign journalist who was also talking about the pose of political prisoners to

which was not present also responded of course he said that they are you speaker or rather the journalist probably had in mind for the course to be former or tell cool who has been in prison on charges of fraud. you know the one with which answer so-called political prisoners wherever i go i'm asked about mr goodere craft and his future you know the european court of human rights ruled that there are no political motives in hundred criminal case in his sentence . but of course that wasn't this was not the the human rights and the protests definitely were not the main points off the summit was strapped up here in st petersburg mostly it was about energy and the economy all of it concerning russia and the european trade to end it and the comic relations of course both sides have retreated to time and time again that it was the economy and which was one of the

main points that to be discussed and that there was a codependent relationship between russia and its european partners and that was one of the main issues covered here they also touched upon some international issues as well but they didn't speak at length about syria as some have expected them to they did say that russian the european union are agreeing on the fact that the peace plan which is of being implemented by coffee on is the best way to deal with it but basically it was mostly about trade and the economy and that you were. and of course the european leaders in particular seemed to be adamant to keep thing euro successfully afloat and alive they did say that they're hoping that they actually know for a fact that greece will be staying in the euro zone. terms which have been proposed for it and basically seem to be rather optimistic overall all right thanks for bringing remind our viewers as well more about that as well if you want to yourself

what was said at that summit dot com it's. twenty four minutes past three in the afternoon. with marina next she's got a business. hello and welcome to the business of the here on our always for start with our top story which is that china's two biggest oil firms are considering to buy a stake in. now of course b.p. has paid eight billion dollars by consumer three to buy half of the b.b. and now this is worth around thirty billion dollars and the move comes weeks after a string of corporate conflicts between russian emperors shareholders and other potential candidates include russian state on there to hold us and sources close to the russian billionaire owners say they could buy out before twenty five billion dollars. that sounds like a look at international markets just to give you

a quick wrap up first of all we have european markets will continue to extend their losses following friday and we have investors reacting p.m.i. data that's coming out from the region and also a very disappointing u.s. jobs data we saw that's like a domino effect on markets across the world now to discuss the market fluctuations around the world i'm joined by my. who is the head of equity sales at capital if we can join us now and the sky there we. see you there now if we talk about international markets and focus on that we've seen them. do you think it's all because of the p.m.i. they are in europe and the disappointing jobs report or is there something else. the main reason were. coming out of the u.s. in the last week i mean the u.s. was perceived in the way and stability was. one point six percent year to date.

so obviously if the u.s. is struggling then the bad news to europe's troubles and through the signs of slowdown in china so this factors together obviously contribute to increased risk aversion globally but when it comes to the russian markets we also have declining crude prices play a major factor now if we just first talk about food prices how long do you think we'll see them go in the medium to short term. well to do it sooner it's probably the most difficult job on the road to focus the all prize but you know we believe that you might see throws a lows before they'll have a rebound general view is that opec might interfere of the price they below ninety dollars for quite a while but we were talking about roughly the same back into falzon day it didn't materialize unfortunately so i would say that the you know you'll probably see

frozen downside pressure before some sort of rebound but you know it's going to be pretty vote and despite these decline in oil prices we're now seeing there are some markets bounce back what is the cost for that is there and positive news coming out from russia right now that's encouraging investors again. but i think you know it's a combination of factors that were punished very heavily last week you know the ruble came on the strong speaker if attack over the weekend we had very serious statements coming from all quarters of the russian government of the kremlin which acts are more or less move the fear of. weakness but helps that's fact the number one secondly i think the fact that london this close today and tomorrow is also contributing positively i mean what we've seen in the past few weeks is actually a substantial western setting of russian expert just so that's also a factor oh finally i think it's a bit technical. all right mike some special called head of equity sales at what

else and capital thank you very much for your analysis now this is all about we have and the best as i call it that you will have next update for you next hour that's it from us by phone now. well the future of science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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