turkey threatened syria with military retaliation if its border is violated after a jet was down on friday by syrian air defenses and what turkey claims was international airspace. president bush tonight tours the middle east pushing for dialogue between israelis and palestinians having already focused on the syrian conflict and the nuclear iran during his visit live pictures of newton and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressing the press there. the eurozone claims of a crisis i should say claims a fifth victim has cyprus asked for

a multi-billion dollar about loud rescue its people banking sector and finance its debt. oh live from our studios in central moscow you're watching with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in brussels and nato is set to decide what action to take against syria after turkey called for an urgent meeting of the alliance ankara says its allies should view friday's downing of its military jet by damascus as an act of aggression war correspondent tests are silly it is in brussels and will be joining us shortly live from there with an update. the turkey claims meanwhile that the downed jet was on armed and it was simply tasking the country's radar system but the head of

an independent syrian media outlet says ankara was probably spying on damascus. it could be there they were just saying. it was locked and the silence was actually . artillery that shut it down with a maximum range of five kilometers on what was the stands i'm doing fine goes away from. our land our territorial water i don't think the needle or any legal. situation for putting any more pressure on syria it's something else the vision it was doing it over have sitting cording or trying to spy on the syrian army's movement in that area because there is a kind of hot air you will be this close to the syrian border there is actually a sense of or or some kind of. intelligence one. but later this hour our t.v.

interviews a top syrian diplomat who defends a country's continued purchase of arms from abroad. because the nation currently under attack syria has the right to produce a weapon used to protect its sovereignty. so the countries that have been supplying the terrorists with weapons this is a proven fact and we have brought up time and again the united states and from some of the gulf nations have been providing the militants with that one which in turn contributes to escalating violence in syria we lose our troops every day to terrorist attacks and we knew civilians were killed by militants no reason simply because an insurgent instructed specular certain number of people in a specific area when on the rebels and intimidate should produce into shutting down the store this is presented as a government protests started in the us where is it is really submission are business owners afraid of their property getting down if they disobey.

egypt's president elect morsi will begin forming a new government after beating his rival in the presidential runoff however he still faces a standoff with the country's military council in power the ousting of former leader hosni mubarak before the vote took place last week the general dissolved egypt islamist led parliament and placed limitations on presidential power check up hornberger from the future freedom says the changes in egypt will have political strategist in washington scratching their heads. i think washington is in a very difficult precarious position here for decades they've been supporting and partnering with this military dictatorship so it wasn't just a matter of the house to move barry from power and that wasn't going to bring freedom or democracy to the egyptian people the problem has always been the dictatorship itself that type of government and washed it has been one of the

premier if not the premier supporter of this dictatorship and so now you've got a man coming into power then to supported by many of the egyptian people that are saying the military is no longer going to be in charge here the civilians are going to be in charge words that leave washington doesn't support the democratic movement does it continue to support the military dictatorship which is refusing to subordinate itself to the civilian rule impossible to know were washington's going to go and this would. be coming up here in r.t. in just a couple of minutes we report on the by radical islam germany and why the government's attempts there to curb its spread or have a little bit. and as the u.s. minesweepers arrive in the persian gulf western nations fear iran will block the region's vital to figure. cyprus has become the fifth euro zone country to ask for financial help in the form of billions of euros to prop up

its elling economy the government there says its banking sector has been heavily exposed to the crisis in neighboring greece and cyprus plans to continue talks for a loan from outside the e.u. from countries such as russia or china it follows are then portugal greece and spain all of which have sought financial rescues from brussels earlier spain saw twenty eight of its banks downgraded by ratings agency moody's after madrid asked for a loan of up to one hundred billion euros crisis researcher jerome bruce says the eurozone is trapped in a vicious circle. but we see now is that this this crisis has reached sort of a tipping point especially in the case of cyprus and spain where would economists call the duma to sort of the mutual dependence of banks and states and one another has reached the point where the state is no longer capable to prop up its own banks and the banks are no longer capable to prop up the one government so basically what needs to happen is that external forces need to come in to prop up this real government so that it can continue putting out its own banks there's an ironic

situation the hundred billion is not enough for the spanish banks will probably need a lot more and i think within a year it will see another european bailout for the spanish banks coming along and at the same time these bank bailouts for the for the spanish banking system will be passed through. the spanish government in directly and this means that it will add up to the sovereign debt of spain and as a result it will make it more difficult for spain to repay its debts in the long term this one hundred billion euros that's being piled on to into the spanish banking system right now will add up to fifteen percent. in debt for spain and this is the real thing that we should be looking at because this will this will actually make it more likely that spain needs. a bailout in the near future but to our top story a nato deciding on what if any action it should take against syria after that downed. plane turkish plane i should say last week. secretary

general anders fogh rasmussen just giving a press conference in brussels artie's tests are silly as they are now joins us with the latest test of the u.s. led alliance rarely holds emergency meetings like this turkey requested it what has come out of it so far. well in fact very short statement had come out after that meeting due to quote most and he said that syria's action in downing the turkish plane is unacceptable added need to condemns it in the strongest possible terms and stands by turkey in solidarity when asked to elaborate on what specific actions could follow after this he simply did not want to give any details and he says that he hopes and things that it just will not happen again just to remind why this meeting had actually taken place turkey had called for cold for it invoked article four of the treaty of nato which states that if any member feels that it's threatened it can call

a consultation this is important to differentiate with article five now article four if any action or joint action is going to be decided upon any one member can actually stop that action from happening so there has to be consensus now for one there are several countries who do not want to see a military intervention in syria now article five which is more a stronger article in that treaty says that a war against an attack against one member is an attack against all member the only other time that this was invoked was after the september eleventh attacks and that was the fear before this meeting but again we have to remember that this was a consultation decided on the the the consensus that came upon is just the strong statement that was far as what's going on between syria and turkey is concerned that tensions are certainly rising but for now it's a war of words of rhetoric syria maintaining that it is correct in its action that it will simply defending its airspace and that it felt it was an act of

a hostile act from turkey while turkey maintaining that syria in fact had violated its airspace several times in the past and it was not down that none of those planes or helicopters had been down and therefore this is just a normal it happens all the time in the region and therefore what syria did was a hostile act so you have. words of two sides going against each other as far as the international community for now is concerned they've stopped short of saying that there should be any military action but for sure there are some voices calling for stronger actions against the side of the syrian regime but the priority for now they do even said that a priority is to defuse the tension first and foremost still this international round certainly has somewhat pushed events inside syria out of the headlines at least for now what's the latest we're hearing from the conflict zone well i would say temporarily out of the headlines because what we're hearing coming out of the ground from syria is that there is increasingly heavy fighting in fact of the heaviest fighting so for apparently very close to damascus just on the outskirts

a few minutes the death toll continuing to rise. the number count now is more than ten thousand it seems that the situation on the ground has not improved does not change as the international community just scrambles together figuring out what exactly to do in this situation right artie's tests are sillier reporting there live from brussels thanks for that update. now getting israel and palestine talking again is the main theme of putin's visit to the mideast already held to go she ations with the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas after earlier visiting israel for his first stop of the regional tour of discussion on the syrian conflict and easing tensions over iran's nuclear interests houser already been at the top of the agenda archies policy we're following the visit now joins us live from tel aviv paul what does come out of the meeting between president and i both. while the russian president is in the palestinian city of bethlehem where he has

been meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the focus of those talks will be stored israeli palestinian negotiations that haven't seen any kind of breakthrough for more than three years now following that meeting put in said that the talks had been frank they'd been productive he said that russia and palestine held very similar positions when it came to regional and international concerns he also said that the talks were supportive of the palestinian position which is mainly that of a two state solution and that russia supported this position which it saw as being very responsible he wound down any kind of human lateral action by either side saying that it was counterproductive he said that they had discussed various ways of overcoming the crisis in the palestinian authority at the same time he said that both israelis and palestinians need to show restraint and on a prior commitments now last night monday the russian president met with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu asked him to pass on

a message to president abbas that israel was willing to sit down and talk but a bus has responded in saying that they can be no negotiations for as long as israel continues its expansionist policies in the area earlier this morning prior to this meeting with a bus the russian president toured bethlehem he visited the church of the nativity which is built over the grotto where it is believed that jesus christ was born at the same time he attended a ceremony which marked the opening of the same to science and culture and he also heard from the palestinian president that a street has been named after him in bethlehem as street not far from the palestinian president's residence there and this follows the naming of a street back in january over the previous russian president and current prime minister dmitri medvedev. obviously a lot of the issues very difficult complex ones that the world has been trying to

solve for a long time a lot of people feel like russia could help any kind of prospects of a breakthrough. it's a mountain we'll see a breakthrough any time soon but certainly what this visit by the russian president does drum home is the central role that russia can and does play in solving these regional issues russia supported and seen by many as a neutral mediator later today president clinton will travel to jordan where he'll meet with the jordanian king abdullah they too will be discussing regional issues it is worth noting that also on the agenda are the issues of iran to this end the russian president urged the israeli leadership not to conduct any kind of strike he said that sanctions were counterproductive and he said that they needed to be a diplomatic solution the russian president also met with his israeli counterpart last night shimon peres at that meeting he said that israeli russian relationships are important he reminded president goosen that moscow had supported the

establishment of the jewish state back in one nine hundred forty eight at the same time he said that peace in israel was in russia's interest it was in the region's interest and certainly it was in international community's interests. to use poles there reporting live from tel aviv. a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world south korea has announced plans to build a new naval base near its border with the north the new base will include barracks and a training ground to accommodate around one hundred troops the base will be located on one of five south korean islands or stablished by the un in the one nine hundred fifty s. but gang refuses to accept sole ownership of the island borders been the scene of several clashes between seoul and crown gang the most recent attack happened in twenty ten in the north shelled one of the yellow sea island killing four south koreans. eleven people have been killed in two separate blast in

iraq the first bomb exploded outside a store northeast of baghdad killing five people and injuring three six others were killed after another bomb exploded in a minibus which was carrying a group of football players in the town of law more than one hundred forty people in iraq have died this month alone in attacks targeting mainly shia pilgrims and shrines. police in bolivia have clashed with government supporters in the city of la paz the officers on strike over low pay were met by advocates of president of a morales after marching to the city's main square police used tear gas to drive back the pro-government groups country's leader has accused officers of setting the stage for a coup claiming their motives are political. three policemen have been killed during a shootout at mexico city's international airport the gunmen were suspected drug traffickers and opened fire as officers closed in the airport is often used to move

narcotics money and illegal immigrants nearly five fifty thousand i should say people have died in drug related violence since two thousand and six and the country's president announced plans to deploy troops to combat cartel. for us minesweepers have arrived in the persian gulf the ships are scheduled for a seven month deployment in an area of operations that includes the red sea and parts of the indian ocean the u.s. navy claims the mission of will ensure the safety of the region's shipping routes it comes as an iranian military chief says tehran might try to block the strait of hormuz to defend the country's interests western countries fear the route may be close if you run is prevented from exporting oil when western sanctions are tightened on the first of july when the sexpert all the risk says the u.s. is simply trying to satisfy israel. i'm not sure that iraq will go ahead with this idea if things remain as they are right now however if we see you some sanctions

increase store for more tired or harsher sanctions then you might resort to other tricks that might have up at slieve including taking some measures in the strait of hormuz but i think that you can also look at this from another angle president obama has been accused a lot by birth the israelis and by republicans of being too soft on iran and recently a number of senators even sent a letter to obama urging him to make the military option appear more credible it might also be related to some internal factors inside the u.s. and also related to american genuine american fears that israel might go ahead and launch unilateral strike so by i think by taking this step as well the american administration might be trying to satisfy israel and keep israel reassured that it's taking up this situation it's in control and it was allow iran to go to go too

far and then in addition to the fact that it is also presenting a credible military option in case things go don't go to world. we have plenty of more stories i should say of videos waiting for you on our website or two dot com including a lift loader an electrician responds to a call to fix a broken elevator or walked away with twenty nine gold bars worth more than seventy five thousand dollars. and of torture of a german warship turns hazardous after toxic vapors are found on board forcing engineers to wear gas masks. germany is cracking down on radical islam the police raided scores of salafi as homes across the country earlier this month after the government claimed the muslim group has links to al qaeda so the office have been the focus of police investigations in the country since the terrorist shooting at frankfurt airport last year which is acts

on a boycott has this report from the german capital. to the casual passers by these are just ordinary young muslims who want to be understood by the neighbors but only if you can distribute the bible why should you be able to distribute the qur'an these young men are countrymen and they want to share what they believe in what's wrong with that but when you look closer they're spreading not just what they believe in but what they insist is their one and only truth worth living this sign reads the meaning of the qur'an in german and the man is to laugh ace at hearings of an ultra conservative branch of islam infamous for their righteousness and intolerance of infidels notion a bunch of people control other people in the west it's called democracy for me there's only one master you can judge me but how do you know what the most to wants and that's in the book that we're distributing today according to german domestic

intelligence report salafism is the fastest growing islamic movement in the world is preaching ever literally interpretation of the qur'an to the point of gauging some. one supplied by the shape of his beard or by the length of her burka since it's a mainstream islam has the same problem was a salafist like there's none muslims because i've already colin's viewers and in some. situations they did accept also like muslims for years the german government guided by political correctness watched as the domestic salafi community grew in size even the fact that some of the nine eleven perpetrators used to belong to humber mosque didn't prompt much action but this month after a series of police raids the german government moved to ban a number of salafi groups whose ideology was recognised as incompatible with democratic values hard core fundamentalist mainstream muslims justice and tell us

christians jews for one main in this burning mosque a relief to hear about the domestic violence of the cops. it stands proud of this ideology as a whole because it's neat sponsored saudi arabia. germany me point policy pals it's not only germany that's concerned about the spread of culture radical islam if you years ago france outlawed the full face veil norway has also banned saudi funded mosques but as western countries are increasingly taking a stance against radical islam their foreign policy all but seems to promoted salafi and related to how the movement's a seeing a major resurgence across the middle east especially in countries affected by the arab spring in the wake of the arab spring we've seen a group radical islamic power increasing its influence there is an overall agenda that is taking hold in the middle east and

a lot of this is due to the involvement of washington and london in particular the . intelligence agencies in the west have been ceding and backing radical islamist groups there are ties and links historically to al qaida and also the saudi arabian ruling regime and washington have worked together. for a long time while joe menees far less vocal and the need for regime change in syria than it was in libya as a need to remember it is still in favor of and forcing so-called democratic changes even the of those changes are likely to empower groups that are now banned in germany itself x. and y. to artsy berlin waving u.s. figure of charging ecuador to accept julian assange just political asylum request a letter signed by michael moore oliver stone and noam chomsky among others has

been delivered to the country's london embassy where songes been seeking refuge since last week a fact chomsky joins a song in the latest edition of his show on our two together with military historian tariq ali you can catch their discussion next hour. now moving over to the middle east the deep concern in the united states and the other imperial traditional imperial powers britain france particularly concern is that now they may the middle east may get out of control and that syria's a much more serious than south america by great that's why they invaded libya and i have no doubt about it was to reestablish encroach. i agree but i think it's all over so for example if you take a look what's happened in the arab spring are the countries that are crucial to western imperial power the oil producers they have been under a very tough hand in saudi arabia kuwait the emirates the major oil

producing regions it never got off the ground the intimidation of the security forces backed by the west was so enormous that people were literally afraid to go into the streets and the west mainly france and as you noted states and britain and egypt are following a very traditional pattern there's a playbook that you pursue you gives you a kind of a game plan when some favored dictators lose the capacity to rule. crossover to the business oil is trading near an eighteen month low how is that affecting russian oil companies natasha well you know wondering that too so we spoke to bosch now to find out all the details in just a couple of minutes but first let's quickly run through the equity markets and we'll start with europe let's see the numbers there here but here they are and as

you can see the footsie and the dax are both managing to put on around a quarter of a percent but trade is quite choppy and that's fall we monday's losses of one and two percent respectively here in russia it's also quite upbeat both the r.t.s. and m i six are in the positive territory in the r.t.s. is putting on one and half percent the my six is trading just above three quarters of a percent in the block and over in asia where the detroit is over for the day the indices closed mixed into the nikkei managed to elude three quarters of a percent while the hang saying was actually holding onto as gains as though it was swinging back and forth throughout the day now on to the currency markets at the moment the ruble is gaining against both the u.s. dollar and to the european currency and the euro dollar pair is trading pretty much

one now into the oil market an important indicator for the russian equity market oil is recovering some ground but it's still trading near eighteen month old lows south korea's going to halt imports over a rainy and oil starting on the first of july and that's after the e.u. imposed a ban on insuring tankers carrying a reign of oil meanwhile of course low oil prices are affecting the russian oil company russia being the largest oil producer in the world business ortiz spoke with a russian oil producer asked. to find out how it's got. that we see the crude price of ninety five dollars per barrel keep benchmark but you see what's going on in the markets move already drop below this level just as the government has its own anti crisis firepower we've got our own measures first of all these include avoiding long term investments and reequip and programs. and

that's all the latest from us here at the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see about ok see you then thanks for that ok we're going to take a short break here on r.t. and i'll be back with the headlines. wealthy british style. guys let's go. to.

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