comes a report. for the first time in seven years the russian president is visiting the middle east topping the agenda the conflict in syria and avoiding war in iraq and all the details in just a few moments. in other news this is the most mohamed morsi celebrates victory after being declared egypt's first democratically elected president but he is poised to take office as a mere figurehead with the military still holding the reins of power. turkey locks horns was syria for shooting down a military jet as international pressure grows on damascus over the affair that's with nato leaders preparing to meet to discuss the incident. and as the world's most wanted whistleblower julian the songs waits to find out whether ecuador will

grab more political asylum his next show is ready to air right here on our seat. it's three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live on and he said no way with our top story 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 pressure also rising over iran's nuclear program. in tel aviv with the latest. the russian president has arrived in israel his first stop was in the coastal city of natanya where he inaugurated and monument to the red army it's estimated that half a million jews fall for the great army against nazi germany in world war two now he's also meeting with the israeli president shimon peres the israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas topping the agenda as to be expected our iran syria egypt and the palestinian issue his visit here since a clear message that russia is a key player in the middle east region and at the same time that russia has a central role to play in helping to solve the region's various conflicts there were a number of issues that are on the agenda first on the topic of iran and moscow will be trying to convince the israeli leadership not to attack to iran in this comes amid ongoing 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 played out of the 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 its border and then on the palestinian issue here to moscow has a central role in trying to 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. christine whether or not by forging a close relationship with tel aviv if indeed moscow his relationship with the united states has also been full to whether or not this put russia american relations to. stay with our team for the latest from israel where president putin

is expected to hold a joint news conference with prime minister netanyahu very shortly. another news egypt's president elect mohamed morsi is set to begin forming a new government after being announced on sunday as the country's next leader huge celebrations greeted the delayed results which showed he beat mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik by around four percent the mersey has pledged to bring unity and resigned from the muslim brotherhood to become a nonpartisan leader but the authority of office he is soon is determined by the ruling military which holds lawmaking powers after the generals to solve the parliament well they've promised to have executive control to mercer by july it's not clear how much leverage will be given the u.s. has been quick to congratulate the winner but as our team is made up more and i reports the muslim brotherhood ties to extremist mean america is undermining its own policy. 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 peoples' 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 why 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 stuck. in this video film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate so that there can no. similar and we know yet that

that is. ah. that. 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 to be honest i don't know what. you know what it would be . like you know sort of. the syrian opposition scene here waving al-qaeda flags as received a public support from the terrorist network and created what some call

a de facto 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 that hardly ever wanted her in a porno i.r.t. new york. now the results of egypt's presidential election made world headlines and

here are two we're interested to know what you think you have to our website or to dot com and take part in our ongoing poll on what the future holds for the arab nation let's take a look at reaction so far just over a third of you think that mohamed morsi will become a mere puppet of the west slightly more than a quarter reckon he'll be a nominal figure while the military will still reign supreme twenty three percent or so are convinced that his victory will widen the religious divide egypt and a minority of you who responded believe the new president will succeed in creating a stable and democratic egypt if you haven't done so already had our web site r t v dot com and have your say. nato leaders are to hammer out a response to syria's shooting down of a turkish military plane washington has described the act as brazen and unacceptable while britain says the also regime will be held accountable and ukraine says the jet was downed in international airspace without warning while

damascus maintains it was flying over syrian territory turkey has denied claims the plane was on a spying mission saying it was on a training flight before syria responded that its actions were defensive and that it has no hostility towards turkey wreckage has already been located in the mediterranean sea with the search for two missing pilot ongoing john reese 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 reprint in speech warning the russians about the provision of attack helicopters we've seen the british send a ship back supposedly carrying got those from 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 less tense when the diplomatic has been has been heightened to this degree such errors become part of a process of our wider process which is more than accidental which is deliberate and that's the danger in the situation. inside syria rubbles have reportedly captured a military base with ammunition in the northern province of aleppo with sixteen soldiers dead the conflict disaster made by the united nations to have killed more than ten thousand people since it began early last year among them how many thousands of children started with a notion of reports now from to math gets. this is 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. 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 q it's hard for me sam and. this footage is just one in a series of clips posted online showing the ugly face of war unfold 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 with you see children a month price on demonstrators. four year old or young just praising his mother and and this is a microphone the kids caring not a kalashnikov. baryons father

couldn't imagine that his youngest son is participation in apache arctic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and that if 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 as promising five hundred thousand syrian pounds to those who bring him to them we couldn't imagine they'll come to our home and not let me in i mean in my years in wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room which i'm not and this is where they smashed first out here were shootings and they cried a lot barked at on my heat under the bed you know. and it may move to the school told me a week before his death but 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 and i was crying

because they killed years and i miss him a lot so wanted to get a good certificate again i would be. the funerals of the two teenagers had been on the guard is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr a laboratory to cue us this is their freedom i am out here now and then you'll be killed and then the less of me they wanted to kill a song like a hula and then see this is the government usually valinor not money and stuff not losing a thing that's enough to last a lot not ready to lose anymore how it has a thing to stomach to read about yemen has three more brothers left he has something to lose in this cemetery we found at least eight fresh graves small ones but the rubble kids are becoming victims of grown up games in 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 a ways found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. don't forget we have plenty more stories in store for you want our website including a show of power russia parades the latest battle vehicles of the international forum of engineering technologies twenty twelve take a look for yourself at r t dot com. well lawsuits are filed to try to stop american biotech giant monsanto from making genetically modified maize but it could have been a new breed of root worms build lawyers to it find out more online. the anxious wait continues for weiqi leaks founder julian assange is over ecuador's decision on whether to grant him political asylum having lost his u.k. supreme court appeal he's facing extradition to sweden over questioning on sex

crime allegations but fears a venture will transfer to the u.s. where he 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 cheap terror has more. julian assange and his just spent his six nights in the ecuadorian embassy here in london waiting for the all important decision his bid for silence in the country asuncion his supporters have always maintained that the case against him is politically motivated and that campaign to silence not just the staunch unself but also wiki leaks the spike having spent more than five hundred days detained without charge that hasn't stopped asuncion 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 spy as giants of the intellectual left renowned linguist and rebel thing can

be and terry could lead 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 then they spread it's to your patient of buried square in cairo inspired activists all of the united states to even russia so the the power of spring has been very infectious and it's still going moment different ways learn from ski no i can't predict. assume that sooner or later there would have to be a popular reaction to the. bitter class war that. for the past generation very contra's class war which is.

always a class conscious business courses 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. will create but it's gone into very few pockets stream and equality the united states is very heavily by a literally a tenth of a percent of the population mostly. 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 is always pitched itself as a strong defender of human rights and certainly in chile in a sound just case his supporters would say they haven't lived up to that they assume very much a sense that they let down julian assange in this instance as we await the decision we've seen the ambassador and are open traveling with the why she met with president of course giving the full briefing over julian assange just case before they make that all important decision. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour police in india say they were read with a key figure suspected of involvement in the mumbai bombing going to tax of november two thousand and eight in which one hundred sixty five died. being described as the handler of ten gunmen responsible for sixty hour carnage ending in a siege targeted a luggage luxury hotels a main railway station and

a jewish cultural center relations between india and pakistan worsened significantly after new delhi blame to militant groups based on pakistani territory for the attacks. tunisia 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 but valued mahmudiyah was a prime minister in the toppled libyan regime and he was sent back on sunday in custody accused of crimes against his people the movie is the first senior official of the former gadhafi regime to have been extradited for trial. madrid has officially asked the eurozone for one hundred billion euro to shore up its crisis had banks this make spain before the e.u. country to seek a bow out after greece and portugal the government has already spent fifteen

billion euro to rescue small regional savings banks which recklessly lent to developers a co-op in the property market has plunged the country's financial sector into crisis with massive debts. the modern art is meant to fuel creativity stimulate inspiration and provoke thought and discussion but far from winning admiration a number of exhibitions in russia have ignited a wave of furious protest instead our correspondent daria prisco explains why there's been such outrage. a small but intensely passionate protest in russia's southern city of krasnodar. the crowd blocks the entrance to stop the opening of a modern art exhibition it's called icons and on display our works by contemporary artist made of plastic the last supper is depicted as a tense business meeting while a metal exhibit called trinity has also brought a hostile reaction it's

a clash between old and new. items the display is an attempt to make sense of how traditional i can painting has transformed in the modern world that invokes natural resentment among people who think conservatively the exhibit in curator who was welcomed at the opening by being spat in the face claims the problem is people's ignorance you think that would be a contemporary artists language is often obscure but what differentiates an unsophisticated person from a peasant if the former doesn't understand what he wants to try and learn while an ignoramus simply deny everything however it isn't so much the show itself as the personality of its curator that ignites protests across russia at most exit business he's involved in matter of gilman's name has been synonymous with scandal for you is it that you're with this is the man who tries to sell as graffiti in

public toilets as art. gilman's previous exhibit that included kissing policeman a crucified jesus christ with the head replaced by the order of lenin and a photo of an orthodox i can being smashed with an axe have caused widespread outrage in russia that i have a degree in art and what he calls art is nothing of the sort it's an abomination and evil game plan to bring a cultural revolution to the central russian city of perm by carrying out a total make over shocked most locals more used to traditional forms of art little headless red men dotted around the city and other innovations didn't go down well nor did the annual price tag of ninety million roubles or around three million dollars of public money given their wants to spread what he sees as contemporary art into other promises but faces furious resistance forthwith mirrors and we are not against the center for contemporary art in our region but we don't need

government here for that if you put a prostitute as a headmaster of a boarding school for young girls be sure within two years they would all become horse no matter the amount of protests and controversy in the end all of my arguments exhibit do open and attract derrius people what's interesting though is that gilman is not alone in promoting contemporary art in russia but no other exhibit has other provoked such an emotive public response in all the six years nina worked at the moscow museum of modern art there wasn't a single scandal within its walls despite many product of exhibits about the artist breaking boundaries can certainly provoke an biggest reactions it can be to the benefit of more not but also to its detriment. however change is in the even the most conservative members of the church have learned by know what the formants of it is father aleksey was the one who spent a lot of gillman at the opening of the show in cross and are you always the build

order i came forward as a contemporary artist maybe amateurish but still an artist experts in the field so my act of spitting fully falls under the definition of performance art. arty. regulators from the clash at the brazil business das and crude out the lowest levels we've seen in months isn't in the past or absolutely it is in fact at seven eighteen months a low it has resumed its downward spiral after briefly rebounded earlier in the day the w.t.r. is now trading at around seventy nine dollars a barrel let's see those numbers and of course that's a far cry from the one hundred twenty dollars a barrel russia would need to balance its budget for him want to pick a from commodities information service who wants to explain what's going on and how it's going to affect the world's biggest crude producer russia.

from the the mom point of view europe does some of the very healthy as we all know from our supply point of view the market is producing enough to account for the iranian sanction effect so the market is truly getting affected by the two prongs of the man the weak on supply tomorrow those two situations would continue at the point their own doors the a.t.m. maybe even the seven people dollar 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 in. and let's now quickly run through the markets and we'll start with the euro which as you can see is shedding value the footsie and the dots are both under pressure mainly because of the banking and the pharmaceutical stocks that's after spain officially asked for the help from the european union to help save its ailing banking sector and after the investors remain pretty skeptical about the upcoming e.u. leaders summit starting on thursday now here in russia we're seeing a pretty similar picture everything is pretty much in the red as you can see both the r.t.s. and the mice it's now losing around one and a quarter for santa and some of the biggest movers on the my sex let's see those stocks there include in the financial sector the t.v. which is losing almost two percent energy stocks are also under pressure with

gazprom shutting want to know what percent airflow is the only one bucking the downward trend and that's after the states that will. heap of gold and share during the company's privatization and now onto the currency market the euro is a losing value against the dollar while the russian ruble is actually managing to game against both currencies the ruble the euro and the dollar and stay with the exchange rates currencies of or the largest emerging economies also known as brics are posting their biggest declines in fourteen years that's as investors are fleeing from risky assets on concerns over the eurozone crisis and on fears of deeper global recession less than two months the russian ruble lost eleven percent of its value the brazilian plunged twelve percent analysts say the bric countries could lose at least another fifteen percent by the end of the year. and that's a latest from the business desk my colleague in the course we will bring in update

in about fifteen minutes to drive them all right thank you for that update that lines are coming your way here on r t after this very short break don't go away. they've been living these waves seems to seventeenth century. rituals are strict. their communities are isolated.

they clearly distinguish between their old. and the alien. and guard their families and think. well for the future of science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if. russia's going to be soon which brighten.