the conflict in syria and a void in war in iraq and off high on the agenda of the russian president as he visits the middle east beginning with talks with israeli and palestinian leaders. in other news this limits mohamed morsi celebrates victory after being declared egypt's first democratically elected president but he's poised to take office as a mere figurehead with the military still holding the reins of power. turkey wants horns with syria for shooting down a military jet as international pressure grows on damascus over the affair with nato leaders preparing to meet to discuss the incident. as the world's most wanted

whistleblower julie knows tonge waits to find out whether ecuador will grant her political asylum his next show is ready to go on air right here on r t. o. t a live from the russian capital on needs now with our top story this hour president putin is back in the middle east after a seven year break his visit comes as russia steps up efforts to help mediate a solution to the conflict in syria but the pressure rising also over iran's nuclear program let's now get the latest from our cheese polis lior who joins us live from tel aviv paula putin's first stop on this mideast tori's israel what is expected to chant top the agenda there. while the russian president has just touched down in israel he's making his way to the coastal city of natanya

where he will be inaugurating a raid on the monument it's estimated that some half a million jews fork of the red army against nazi germany back in world war two after that he will be meeting with top israeli and palestinian leadership is needed scheduled with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the israeli president shimon peres as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas not topping the agenda as to be expected are the issues of iran syria and egypt and the palestinian issue who does have a number of good relationships with israeli leaders some of those relationships are personal relationships and indeed his visit here to the region does send out a strong message that russia has a central role to play in this region and a central role to play in helping to resolve the ongoing conflicts at the same time it seems an implicit message to the american president barack obama who has not visited israel which is the united states his closest ally in the region for more

than three years russia too has a vested interest in playing a key role in this region particularly in light of the recent arab spring and concerns that the trouble from the arab spring might spill over to the caucuses ultimately into russia. like you said paula out russia centrally involved in trying to help solve many difficulties that the region is facing how do prospects look for any breakthroughs with moscow's help. well as i said they were a number of issues that are on the agenda first on the topic of iran moscow will be trying to convince the israeli leadership not to attack to iran and this comes amid ongoing war with critique from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu russia recently hosted the latest international conference that dealt with the question of whether or not iran was building nuclear weapons and indeed that those talks had no

breakthrough russia is of the opinion that they can be no attack on iran and certainly that any kind of sanctions do not work they have outlived their usefulness on the topic of syria here russia will be trying to convince the israelis not to get involved in the ongoing violence just across the border and then on the palestinian issue to moscow has a central role in trying to hold restart israeli palestinian talks that have been deadlocked for quite some time now it is worth noting that this is against the backdrop of the arab spring that russia has had a traditional role in this region it's looked upon by many as a close ally and when it comes to the whole issue of syria and iran these countries are increasingly under pressure from the united states and from its allies such as the gulf states and when you look at this it could be interesting whether or not by forging a closer relationship with tel aviv if indeed moscow his relationship with the

united states has also been faltering whether or not this would hope russian american relations too. closely or speaking to us live from tel aviv president putin's visit really gets underway there thank you. egypt's president elect's mohamed morsi is starting to begin forming a new government that's after being announced on sunday as the country's next leader huge celebrations greeted the delayed results which showed he be mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik by around four. percent m.r.c. has pledged to bring unity and resign from the muslim brotherhood to become a non partisan leader but the authority of office here soon is determined by the ruling military which holds while making powers after the generals dissolved parliament while they promise to have executive control to mercy by july it's not clear how much leverage will be given us has been quick to graduate the winner but as our teams were important i reports the muslim brotherhood ties to extremists

means america is undermining its own policies. egypt's revolution began with tens of thousands into here square and it became a success shortly after washington sided with the anti-government opposition by stepping down responding to the egyptian people's hunger for change america's indorsement of change has paved the way for the muslim brotherhood to become egypt's strongest political force the international organization is considered to be one of the world's largest islamised movements and mohamed morsi has reportedly called for a constitution that is based on the koran and sharia law in the case of egypt we're taking a piece of the board that was one of our pieces this is what it was one of the strongest american assets in the middle east and for many years we've removed that piece and brought in some people who i do not think will be friendly to us. in this

video film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate. and we. so. the muslim brotherhood has many different factions many different elements they are a political organization but they also have ties to terrorism they're also directly intertwined with what's going on in syria according to the new york times cia officers secretly stationed in turkey are currently working with syria's muslim brotherhood to smuggle automatic rifles grenades and ammunition into the country i didn't work out. you know it would be. like you know some of. the syrian opposition

seen here waving al-qaeda flanks has received public support from the terrorist network and created what some call a defacto alliance between america and its number one enemy. critics saying america's campaign for regime change comes with the consequence of empowering more radical and extreme leaders in the arab world let's not forget that assad and his government is a secular government just as gadhafi is government was a secular government if you get rid of that and you create the power vacuum or another force that is as organized and as strong will take its place continued political instability in cairo has raised questions about the so-called success attributed to the arab spring governments in egypt and libya were toppled with a u.s. stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe america could eventually find itself in

a circumstance it hardly ever wanted were an important i r t a new york. nato leaders are to hammer out a response to syria shooting down of a turkish military plane washington has described the act as brazen and unacceptable while britain says the outside regime will be held accountable anger insists the jet was downed in international airspace without warning while damascus maintains it was flying over syrian territory now turkey has denied claims the plane was on a spying mission saying it was on a training flight syria responded that its actions were defensive and not aggressive beckett's has already been located in the mediterranean sea with the search for two missing pilots ongoing diaries from stop the war coalition says the incident was most likely an error that could yet turn into an international conflict. witnessing the drawing in of the major powers into the conflict in syria but we've seen here replay inten speech warning the russians about the provision of

attack helicopters we've seen british send a ship back supposedly carrying a child it got was from around the coast of britain back to back to russia and now we see this incursion into syrian airspace by by the turkish air force it is of course theoretically possible that what the turks were doing was probing syrian air space to see whether or not they would react in this way i think actually this is probably an error but when international relations become this tense when the diplomatic has been has been heightened to this degree such errors become part of the process of our wider process which is more than accidental which is deliberate and that's the danger of the situation. side syria rebels have reportedly captured a military base with ammunition in the northern promise of aleppo but sixteen soldiers dead after that attack now the conflict is as two made by the you went to

have killed more than ten thousand people since it began early last year among them have been thousands of children is more if an ocean of reports from damascus. because. the place for these kids boys and girls is at the playground but someone dressed them in a minute she uniform hung them with real guns told them what to say and put in front of camera this little girl four maybe five years old and she's almost crying as people behind the camera pushed her and other kids to chant and slogans out of nineteen kids half remain silent. this footage is just one in a series of clips posted online showing the ugly face of war unfolding in the country recent u.n. report says both sides in the syrian conflict the rebels from the free syrian army and the government are using children in their fight but looking to see children

among pro assad demonstrators. four year old or young is praising his motherland and this is a microphone the kids caring not a kalashnikov. baryons father couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache otic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and he threatened us many times once the road on the house as well that the time has come then they sent me a symbolic loop then they put the picture of reality on facebook promising five hundred thousand syrian pounds to those who bring him to them we couldn't imagine they'll come to our home and the living and i'm in because i wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room and this is where they smash first they were shootings and they cried a lot more than i hid under the bed and. then they moved to the school

told me a week before his death that she feels you're not finished his exams and even if she does not get a certificate. am unsure me is eldest son was shot dead on the way to hospital as he was trying to get help to his injured brother little rayyan escaped death only because that night he stayed with his grandparents and it daily as i was crying because they killed us them i miss him a lot he so wanted to get a good certificate again it would be. the funerals of the two teenagers had been on the guard this is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr a laboratory to cuba this isn't freedom if you're not kill them you'll be killed and in places they wanted to kill a song like houla and then see this is the government usually valinor not money not lose anything that's enough we lost a lot not ready to lose any more. name said mcteague of whether yemen has three

more brothers left he has something to lose in this cemetery we found at least eight fresh graves small ones but in the rubble kids are becoming victims of grown up games and this conflict they've been used as human shields they've been forced to take up arms and they've been killed for a purpose they barely understand and no one can say for sure how many more will die until always found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. welcome back to our top story and of course continuing our reaction on the presidential results in egypt we're going to speak to your subsidy horn editor in chief of only one newspaper what tommy he joins us live from cairo of course just to refresh our viewers mohamed morsi winning and being declared egypt's first democratically elected president but the estimates have lost while making up already with of course the recent dissolution of parliament how much

power do they really have now that they've gained the presidency. well the president retains many presidential powers but of course with the absence of a parliament the supreme military council has retained certain parliamentary powers in its hands and this is something which will not last. and we believe that with the new elected parliament all presidential powers will be regained. religious tensions have risen since the toppling of mubarak we've seen deadly clashes breaking out between muslims and christians where are things now likely to go as you see it while for the past six months. things have not deteriorated of course there have been several successive episodes

of atrocities of churches since the pollution. on part of the. things not change for the better but even for the worse off the pollution but i have to make the things out of the jewish underscore since six months and i hope it is we look forward to that. newly elected president dr mohamed morsi who would fulfill his commitments as a president for all egyptians to work in restoring the rule of law and then establish a constitution which will safeguard the equal rights for all egyptians right but right now the military has only pledged to hand executive power to the president by the end of this month the generals are officially the lawmakers still

do you think they're really going to give up those reins of power. yes i do i do believe that they will stand to their commitment and they would fulfill what they announced that by the end of june the president will be put to and. in a matter of few months maybe three or four months egypt will go to a new part of the mint and this will be the end of old powers retained by the military what about in terms of relations with israel the muslim brotherhood is known for its anti israeli stance mersey is now trying to defend this in some self from such rhetoric but if you coming across as credible what would you think. well comfortable enough in his speech. dr mohamed morsi addressed this

situation because there were many concerns. about the relation with israel and he stressed very clearly that he would be respecting all commitments. with between egypt and the outside world that was said generally but of course everybody knows that he means the david treaty and that he means to respect the peace process and the peace which has been established with since the camp david treaty. all right live from cairo use of third war an editor in chief of the country's only christian newspaper thanks for that. the anxious wait for it continues i should say for wiki leaks founder julian assange over ecuador's decision on whether to granted political asylum i mean lost his u.k. supreme court appeal he's facing extradition to sweden on sex crime allegations but

fears eventual transfer to the u.s. where you could face the death penalty for leaking thousands of government secrets meanwhile the next edition of his political show airs on tuesday right here on our t.v. star firth has more. julian assange has just spent his six nights in the ecuadorian embassy here in london waiting for the all important decision that his bid for silence in the country julian assange to his supporters have always maintained that the case against him is politically motivated and that campaign to silence not just the sunshine itself but also wiki leaks the spite having spent more than five hundred days detained without charge that hasn't stopped julian assange in the time he's posted an insidious show that's been running on all of the now and what will be his eleventh interview airing tomorrow on nazi julian assange to meet with the man that he the spied as giants of the intellectual left renowned linguist and

rebel think big and heavy believe the street fighting novelist a military historian now during that interview they discussed the new ways of revolutionary movements we've seen taking place around the world in the past couple of years and you have these ups and they spread because it's to your patient if they read square in cairo that inspired activists all of the united states even in russia so the the the power of spring has been very infectious and it's still going on in different ways one transfer you know i can't say i predicted it assume that sooner or later there would have to be a popular reaction to the. bitter class war that then for the past generation very contras class war which is.

always a quest conference business. really felt they were on a roll so in the united states for example. we all know the facts over the past generation and there's been. well created but it's gone into very few pockets of the stream and equality of the united states is weighted very heavily by a literally a tenth of a percent of the population mostly fund managers. of major corporations and so on but talking about the united states but the phenomena are basically worldwide two activists who themselves have been very involved in revolutionary movements because of course many people consider julian assange a revolutionary as well one of the big questions when he took this dramatic step seeking asylum in ecuador was why ecuador why has he chosen a country that itself comes under a large amount of criticism for its human rights record put

a lot of people have been quick to point out is that the united kingdom this is always pitched itself as a strong defender of human rights and certainly in chile in a silent this case its supporters would say they haven't lived up to that they are so very much a sense that they let down today in a song in this instant as we await the decision we've seen the ambassador and are open traveling to where she met with president correia of course giving the full briefing over julian assange just case before they make that all important decision . well some more world news in brief for you this hour police in india say they've arrested the figure suspected of involvement in the moment and gun tax of november two thousand and eight in which one hundred sixty five died homs is being described as the handler of the ten gunmen who carried out the deadly assault on targets in the city a sixty hour carnage ended in a siege targeted luxury hotels the main railway station and

a jewish cultural center relations between india and pakistan worsened significantly after new delhi blamed militant groups based on pakistani territory for you to. do use of president marzouki says the extradition of former senior gadhafi figure back to libya for trial is illegal and damages his country's image the decision was taken by the tunisian government which said it didn't need presidential approval by god to mahmoud he who was a prime minister in the topple libyan regime was sent back on sunday and is in custody accused of crimes against the people mahmud he is the first senior official of the former gadhafi regime to have been extradited for trial. madrid has officially asked the eurozone for a hundred billion euro to shore up its pricing crisis hit banks that make spain the fourth country to seek a bell out after greece ireland and portugal the government has already spent

fifteen billion euro to rescue small regional savings banks which recklessly learnt to developers a collapse of the property market has plunged the country's financial sector into crisis with massive debt. would not cross over to the business that's not thought she joins us an emerging market currencies have dropped to levels not seen in years what's happening well absolutely and that's the result of investors running away from all the assets they consider risky all the details in just a couple of minutes but first crude has. it's downward spiral after briefly of rebounding earlier on monday the dow b.t.i. is now trading at a bull low eighty dollars a barrel as you can see there and overall crude prices have shot around a quarter of their value over the past three months jorge mung to take a from a commodities information provider plots explained what's going on and how it

affects the world's biggest crude producer russia. from there the mom point of view europe does some of the very healthy as we all know from from a supply point of view the market is previews ing enough to account for the iranian sanction effect so the market is really getting affected by the two prongs of that man too weak on supply to march those two situations would continue at that point their doors the a.t.m. maybe even this seventy dollars level by most measurements russia may be the largest producer in the world on its budget is set at roughly one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel on we are nowhere near that so for russia i think is going to have to make some very painful decisions in the masks few months on those the say shows will have to do with rewriting budgets and seeing what kind of projects he really wants to get involved there. and let's not check out the equity markets and

we'll start with europe that's failing to withstand the pressure as you can see the footsie and the dots are both shedding value spain officially announced the european union for help in trying to save its a failed ailing banking sector and investors are pretty skeptical about the upcoming leaders' summit that's scheduled to start on thursday and russia is also in the red let's see those figures there here they are and as you can see the footsie and the r.t.s. and m i six a both a losing around one and a quarter percent and some of the biggest movers on the my six include and the financial sector d t v which is shedding more than one and a half percent problem in the energy sector and air florida is also failing to let stand the pressure despite the fact that the state said it will keep the gold and share during the company's privatization now into the currency markets at the

moment the euro is losing value against the dollar the russian goal is gaining against both major currencies and the euro and the dollar and staying with the exchange rates the currencies of the four largest emerging economies economies known as brics are posting their biggest declines in fourteen years that's as investors fleeing from risky assets and concerns over the eurozone crisis and on fears of deeper global recession and less than two months the russian ruble lost eleven percent of its value the brazilian ryall plunged twelve percent analysts say the bric countries could lose at least another fifteen percent by the end of the here. and that's all we have time for in the situation of business will be back in about fifteen minutes with all the latest do join us them are looking forward to it thanks for that update. and the news headlines are coming your way during r.t. don't go away.

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