as calls for foreign intervention in syria grow in some western and arab countries china warns against meddling in the conflict saying it would lead to all out war. if someone suggested i go to prison and i have good company. well slight delay there but voted responding to opposition leaflets given the rusher e.u. summit in st petersburg again stressing there was no political motive behind the jailing of former old tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky that came up as well we got a full rundown of what happened in some of the earlier on. coming up later this hour a live report for you also had learning on r.t.

thousands of canadian students returned to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education during their country's copying the u.s. system has landed young americans in huge debt. four pm monday afternoon here in moscow welcome if you just joined us you're watching t.v. with me kevin i know in the top story china is warning that syria faces even more bloodshed if the west helps unleash military intervention and it signaled that abandoning the u.n. peace plan could push the country into a full scale war voices a growing and some arab and western nations around action to force regime change after the civilian slaughter of houla but it's rare for national reports now recent incursions dangerous presidents. 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 like 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 judgments saw

a rush to take up arms but the cost of war and. exactly what happened when i would have 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 the claims that it was a row as a group innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with . 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. when reports of syrian

rebels whoever they are. think of being in kosovo liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basically training on they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that they could have ever even anybody is how to. stage a war exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances the 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 thousands of lebanese troops have been deployed to the country's second city of tripoli as they try to stop clashes between groups linked to the warring factions in the neighboring syria more than a dozen civilians have been killed in recent days as the syrian conflict spills across the border. for american syracuse university believes the growing violence is largely being fueled by a third party. 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 axis this has to do with hizbollah this has to do with you on the west determined attempt to undermine these players in the regional politics because they know how popular they are and they know how powerful they are and it's just going to make the whole region into a complication are huge conflicts and this could be avoided if the gulf countries step back didn't get involved in lebanon didn't get involved in syria and if the west didn't instigate them to. top you officials are expected to press russian president vladimir putin to change his stance on syria during the summit of the last forty of those and petersburg alongside china the kremlin is opposed to any kind of military intervention it was dialogue instead but there was other issues that took the spotlight into the day leading some of russia's own affairs let's get across what was said the. summit meeting

a couple of hours ago it was listening in for a side of the arena there and some petersburg what came out of that meeting that. well of course we all the expected that they are going to talk at length about syria but no actually it was other issues dominating the agenda and one of the most unexpected outcomes was the question about the state of human rights in russia was asked to avoid supposed rather by one of the foreign journalists who said that only eve of the summit flyers were distributed in the hotel where all of the all of the so-called pool press was the presidential pool was staying i have to say by the way that we were apparently staying in the same hotel i saw no such flyers which according to the journalist proclaimed no to russian clear no shade and that hundreds are in prison on political issues of course some have raised an eyebrow but a lot of puts and did not seem to bat an eyelash and he actually was quick to come out with a response with a. thank you. because for so called political prisoners whenever i go i'm asked

about mr holder and his future as we know the european court of human rights rules because there are no political motives in holocaust ski's criminal case his sentence so if someone suggested i go to prison then i have good company. well of course we're talking about me of course to hear the former oil tycoon who is in prison at the moment on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion now there of what we're of course other issues covered at length and are the first and foremost of those was the economy of course the you. europe is finding itself in a rather tight grips of the economic crisis we have a greece which is threatening to leave the eurozone and of course the decision on that is just weeks away from from now but it did look like the european leaders actually saw the picture and rather rose the colors they said that they are adamant in keeping a greece a in the eurozone bods on the terms and conditions that they themselves put down

for the country and this of course comes on monday when the markets have crashed yet again so we're we were expecting the international agenda to be dominating on this on the summit on the on the during the talks it turned out there was some other issues primarily energy and economy that were actually at the top of the discussions as you say it is ridiculous because thanks for bringing us up to date. greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election in less than two weeks time which could mean athens scrapping its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. greece's future in the euro zone is also under intense scrutiny now in an interview coming up later this hour with an american economist a nobel laureate eric mascot says an end to the financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go on. and so on term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical heights it's already very high

but it could it could certainly go higher. things are by no means currently as bad as they say as they could get i think the the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unit. canadian students about on the streets thousands of march for montreal two days after talks of the government should freeze collapsed student groups are demanding a freeze on planned increases in higher education costs but authorities have ruled out the possibility protesters are now vowing to renew daily rallies which last month led to fierce clashes with police and movement two and a half thousand arrests that is out is going to come reports now what started in february as a student strike has grown into a popular protest against mirroring the welfare system of kind of this southern

neighbor. 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 at present 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 and more for it is a shame and so they're grabbing your social programs that cover for everybody. tens of thousands spilled onto the streets when the government said they'd be pushing up to we should fees every year and in five years the students of keg will face education costs almost double what they are paying now. i mean even you 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 porch adenoma not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible they were 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 so expensive so the people the poor people they want to study they have no choice but going to army for 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 to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders that we need to preserve this and. what we've seen growing in the united states right now having

a lot of students they are still paying for their university program and when they are seventy years old so we need to make sure that every students will be able to. make all region and making sure that they have you can afford actually to start maybe yeah. new and new businesses the rest of north america should be looking to come 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 shackle system. the protests clearly signal the path that 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 where 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 but for people of the big problem it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they are striving to i'm going to check our reporting from montreal canada r.t. . some of it later in the program the egyptians who want more than life for killing cairo braces for of protests against demonstrators calling lenient sentence for hosni mubarak and his former right hand man who got more. i mean business china is looking at a stake in one of russia's top all companies. after its british shareholders confirmed its selling up the news comes a day before the team of putin's first tour of asia since returning to the kremlin again or not a bit later too. but now the u.s.

defense secretary is in vietnam as part of a charm offensive in asia that slowly and circling china in its own backyard washington's beefing up its military presence in the asia pacific area is seen as an attempt to contain beijing's growing regional influence the input of the ones greater american access to vietnam's ports to park nung wong from hong kong city university told us he believes china's neighbors baby using washington to get leverage against china. i would not say that this office asian countries this 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 bargaining chips against china if we will serve a kind of. a signal to china china can nort assert all is so frantic claims over this of china sea and vietnam can also be packed up our by the americans military power to come to china dominance in the region the south china

sea has been a very important past raji take location for number one connecting the oil shipping routes from the middle east to east asia number two baseballs saw a very important commercial shipping routes for all of the east and southeast asian nations the south china sea has been a very important irritant for china and southeast asian nations international relations for the past decade. don't forget all the stories we're covering also available any time from us online as well some loaded and ready to go right now dawtie dot com. to troll all the sensational soviet singer of his day infusion of twenty ten with twelve million hits he's passed away and sent peters but we chart his success on the line also the chinese bus driver who saved all twenty four passengers despite being stuck by

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moshe's would be soo much brighter if you knew about someone from funniest impressions. whose friends don't on t.v. dot com. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a shame because a lot of people at area just go and try to just the west when it comes to soft power is the where specifically the us losing its ability to influence others through example. around the clock protests are continuing cairo's tahrir square as demonstrators there demand the death penalty for ousted president hosni mubarak he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in deaths of protesters in last year's uprising all those posters associates were cleared of the charges r.t. tomba reports from the egyptian capital protesters are occupying tiris 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 how him execute it 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 marriage shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race seen by many as not really being sufficient not up to what they hoped for for this revolution and

they see the court's verdict at this very crucial time in egypt as a sign that not much has changed and that the only 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 all though is 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. tree and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital. to our correspondent in cairo they were there of affairs journalist in a bigger room danny told us both remaining candidates in egypt's presidential election are trying to spin the reaction to mubarak's dig their way. they are people demonstrating against one article i sentence which is very lenient but it

also has to be said there are also commentators and other people who did a key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the mood of the room and in trying to send an execution of mubarak 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 america tactics being reproduced in a tree in democracy in egypt but the two candidates who were switched to capitalize on. said that he was in great danger just. because it means that nobody is among now this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was in his dies little new. regime in the early in his convening. in brief car bombs going off near to government offices in the iraqi capital baghdad it's killed at least eighteen people and wounded

dozens more the blast is the deadliest single attack in months it follows a series of assaults last week that claim seventeen lives. emergency crews nigeria say they fear the country's worst plane crash in nearly two decades has claimed many lives on the ground as well all one hundred fifty three onboard died when their adult douglas eighty three jet plowed into a two story building in a neighborhood near lagos airport the exact cause still is known by the plane's pilot reported engine trouble partly minutes before the tragedy a jury has declared three days of national mourning for the victims. denmark was convicted for murder of plotting a terrorist attack on the newspaper the published cartoons mocking the prophet muhammad seven years ago the men were arrested in twenty ten after their plan for a shooting rampage was uncovered all those convicted are of north african or middle east descent they could get up to sixteen years jail when centered. later on monday . and monday marks the anniversary of the tenement square massacre in china in one

thousand nine hundred nine when hundreds of pro-democracy student protesters were killed in a brutal army cranked their charge leadership hasn't released any official accounts of the events with the exact number of dead still on no public remembrance of the trams allowed in china. it's cultural business and i was just a little after twenty three minutes past that for the afternoon bushels there and now be paying could lose one of his main cash cows this story goes on and on there's neighborhoods that every day on these firms the bidding for its russian norm which brings in around a quarter of b.p. profits really profitable for can see not have contacted the british firm of the peace russian management that it wasn't happy with the way the joint venture is being run across europe is in beijing with the latest. chinese companies said they signed it back and also the china national offshore all corporation which are the second and third largest oil companies in china

respectively are looking to buy into the dmca b.p. now that the british shareholders are selling their stake now certainly for china this would mean diversification of their resources of of buying oil from russia right now when the stand that russia and china are already on the in agreement russia sells thirteen million tons of oil to china every year until twenty thirty it's already more than half of china's overall purchases but still this number could be bigger certainly for china this is a very important issue it is one of the most energy hungry countries in the world in fact different experts and organizations china in the first place in the energy consuming countries in the world and i say that more than twenty percent of the global energy consumption comes from china so we understand that for the moment the russian shareholders have the priority of buying the british part of the shares but definitely nobody could rule out the possibility of the chinese buying

it in. the process of tumbling further on the one hundred dollars of terrible economic data from the world worst of all. this eurozone investor confidence index has just been good meanwhile lending between pulling the since zero eight mostly london's close for a holiday today what you see there is friday's closing has hit. lows regaining some of its losses this year if only slightly both the roundabout call for two point eight percent. exchange rates the euro is gaining but some recent losses against the dollar the ruble though is shifting against both major currencies and europe to the new news from eurozone banks coming in and we'll have more. all right. and thanks so much those kids up there appreciate it the next time i'll tell you the world's finances under the microscope even more with us economist nobel laureate eric mascot he speaks to us in

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