nato condemned syria for shooting down a turkish jet but stopped short of naming it an attack against its members. president putin urges restraint between israel and the palestinians with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas saying peace talks can't rest start while jewish settlements are being built. and the dead domino rolls across the euro's outside paris becomes the fifth state to admit it needs ballin out while spraying a way to tone hundred billion to your old life line.

live from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian capital nato has held an emergency closed door meeting at turkey's for qwest after one of its fighter jets was shot down by syria from the alliance has condemned damascus actions but fell short of calling it an attack on the whole block or she says are silly is now joining us live with more from brussels tests of the u.s. led alliance rarely holds emergency meetings what's come out of this one. well it was a very short statement at the end of this closed door meeting essentially nato said that to syria's downing of the turkish jets is unacceptable and the need to condemn said in the strongest possible terms and also that it stands by you a turkey in a show of solidarity but let's remember again that this emergency meeting was called by turkey under article four of the treaty of nato which states that should

any of the members feel threatened it can call a consultation and it has to be said that any action under article four should be a consensus and therefore any one of the members could stop any joint action that you know the government for instance has explicitly said that any question of military and intervention is out of the question for their government and this is very much a different article five huge turkey had wanted they wanted nato to actually invoke article five which is harsher and stronger which states that an attack on one member is an attack on the whole block and therefore military action is inevitable in that case and it's only been invoked once and that is after the september eleventh attacks clearly turkey wanting stronger action here but that's not what they have gotten now in terms of what actually happened between syria and turkey both sides maintaining that they are right in their assessment syria saying it acted in self-defense that be a jet had over into a syrian air space and therefore it had every right to shoot down the plane that it

saw as a threat well turkey on the other hand said that it was simply a mistake it was testing its own domestic missile defense and planes cross over into other territories all the time in that region now there hasn't been any official. investigation into the matter and therefore at this point it's just turkey's word against syria historically two countries that have good relations that it has soured in recent times especially since turkey is said to be holding keeping some a free syrian army rebels in the country and also a lot of refugees from syria is. there's any conclusion we can get from the statement that nato had made today it's that it reiterates what we already know it's what side they are on and what side they will continue to support should the confrontation go on. this international round has somewhat pushed events inside syria out of the head by it's what's the latest that we're hearing from the conflict zone yes it did push syria out of the headlines just for

a short while though but what we're hearing from the ground is that there has been no stop to the fighting in fact some of classifying to the recent fighting as the heaviest seen so far and this is just around the capital damascus so again as the international community continues to debate and figure out how to what step to take syria the conflict on the ground it involves a lot of the civilians just getting caught in the crossfire still continues and there seems to be no end in sight for now. minorities tests are still alive with us on the line from brussels thanks tessa. now turkey claims its downed jet was unarmed hours on a training flight testing the country's radars but that of an independent syrian media outlet says ankara could have been spying on damascus it happened long after the game is the fictional syrian pilots it could be we're just saying it was months and you suddenly it was actually. artillery that shut it down with

a maximum range of. what it was that i'm doing five kilometers away from from our. territorial water i don't think the need to or to have any legal. situation for putting any more official in syria it's something else that was doing there perhaps that in courting or trying to the spy on the syrian army is movement in that area because there is a kind of a how to area to be this close to the syrian border is actually a sense of some kind of police and intelligence one. now continuing on unrest in syria leaves the government no choice but to buy arms from abroad so says a top syrian diplomat and in an interview to r.t. . as a nation currently under attack syria has the right to procure weapons that it can use 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 france and some of the gopher 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 do civilians who are killed by militants no reason simply because an insurgency constructed specular certain number of people in a specific area went on the rebels and intimidate show produce into shutting down this store this is presented as an anti government protests started where is it is really submission by business owners afraid of their property getting downed if they disobey. but you can hear more from syria's deputy foreign minister later this hour here on r.t. . president putin has called on all factions in the israeli palestinian conflict

to not take action alone a restart peace talks the russian leader is now on the second leg of his mideast mediation tour which also involves helping reach an understanding on the cellmates in iran and syria are two poles near as following talks. 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 stalled israeli palestinian negotiations and 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 won't 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 that and 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 it can be no negotiations for as long as israel continues its expansionist policies in the area it's unlikely we'll see a breakthrough anytime 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 all the issues of iran to this area and

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 come. paula 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 so it was in the international community's interest. coming soon here in archie's so hopes to bolster its forces along as disputed border in the yellow sea and a few minutes we investigate why south korea is planning to build a new naval military base on islands claimed by the north. and from whistleblower to talk show or it's time for the next installment of julia father's

explosive show on r t today marshall question great minds noam chomsky and tariq ali on the revolution phenomenon that's taken the world by storm. the eurozone will have to find more cash for another of its struggling members after cyprus became the fifth state to say it needs battling out its side of heavy exposure to greece the blocks hardest hit remember no official figures have yet been given but analysts estimate cyprus could ask for five to ten billion euros this is only a fraction of the hundred billion which spain has already asked for to shore up its own beleaguered banks and the promise of rescue cash however did not save madrid's banking sector from another international downgrade ratings giant moody's house the scores of twenty eight spain blenders crisis researcher drove bruce believes the eurozone is trapped in a vicious circle of debt and balance. but we see now is that this this crisis 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 their one government so basically what needs to happen is that external forces need to come in to 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 to 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 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. well find out how much money the eurozone is pumping into its ailing members that are to dot com and while you're there check out other stories we're covering for you on line a fact or a national surveillance drone a u.s. universities developing bugs finest flying spies which could revolutionize covert warfare. and the not so for russia's ceefax part in drug abuse holds the beatles responsible for promoting narcotics back in the sixty's all the details that are teen dot com. south korea is planning to build a new front line naval base near its disputed border with the north the site of clashes between the two. in the past the base will be located on one of the five

islands recognized a south korean by the un in the one nine hundred fifty s. of appealing a has always refused to accept the decision to corbett editor of the news and information site the corbett report believes the base is a sign of an escalating conflict in the region. building porton thing to remember about this is that it's in fact the second provocation in less than one week from from south korea against north korea in fact just on monday peeling was protesting the use of the north korean flag as a target during some joint military exercises that were being conducted very close to the north korean border and so this has to be seen as something of an escalation that me indicate an increase in border tensions and perhaps even military tensions between the two entities the question is why now and it has to be understood that there is something of a quiet revolution happening in north korea in terms of its relations with china china has invested over two billion dollars worth of infrastructure in the last year alone to build roads and and other things that may be part of an infrastructure whereby china will be able to start investing more and more in north

korea and south korea to me see that as a type of threat against their their one leverage over north korea which is their food aid and their monetary aid to the north and if china is investing more and more north korea that kind of gets gives them more of an advantage in that respect so we might see some mounting military tension to to try to regain south korea's predominance over north korea. egypt's newly elected president mohamed morsi has moved into his new office and is starting to form a government there's a misleader has promised it will represent all egyptians including muslims and christians has also met with the military rulers have been running the country since mubarak was ousted last february the army promised to officially transfer power on saturday when morsi is sworn in as head of state ever the question remains whether they'll stick to the deadline and how much power the president well actually have experts believe gaining full control of the country won't be easy

task for more sam. i think the real critical issue is is his relationship to be so be the military dictatorship there the military has made it very clear that it will not subordinate to the civilian rule and the question is whether morsi is going to go along with that and then the ultimate question is does the u.s. government continue to fund this military dictatorship which it has been doing for several decades marston 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 hours to move barrett from power and it 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 washington has been one of the premier if not the premier supporter of this dictatorship where does that leave washington does it 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 washed is going to go in this. coming up here on araa to the religious intolerance a surge in radical islam has prompted german authorities to take action but is it too little too late we investigate shortly. first a look at some more news headlines from around the world masked gunmen have attacked headquarters a private arab television station in beirut starting fires around the property one of the assailants was detained then rose comes after the t.v. channel aired a fiery interview with a sunni muslim is the miss who criticized the hezbollah movement the group itself condemned the incident saying it's not behind the filing. police in bolivia have clashed with government supporters in the city of the power the officers on strike over low pay were met by supporters of president ever morales after marching to the city's main square police used tear gas to drive back the pro-government groups the

country's leader has accused officers of setting the stage for a coup claiming their motives are political. the uprisings in the middle east have created new terrorist training camps and our special conditions for potential attacks that's according to the head of the u.k.'s m i five security service he says al-qaeda militants are using their countries which toppled their leaders in the arab spring as bases to train radical western you have to two hundred u.k.p. of streamers are thought to have joined forces with heavily armed terrorist groups in yemen somalia libya syria and afghanistan. but it's been a week since julian a solider asked for door for diplomatic asylum and took refuge in the country's embassy in london yet no decision has been made meanwhile prominent americans including filmmakers michael moore and oliver stone along with renowned philosopher noam chomsky have signed a letter in support of

a song just bit now chomsky is in fact one of the gassed on the whistleblower show that's airing today here on art. you can watch it over an hour here's a preview. now moving over to the middle east the deep concern in the united states and the other 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 so i agree that's why they invaded libya no i have no doubt about it was to reestablish one crew. i agree but i think it's all over so for example if you take a look at what's happened in the arab spring 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 united states and britain and egypt are following a very traditional pattern there's a playbook that you pursue gives you a kind of a game plan when some favored dictators lose the capacity to rule. in a recent crackdown on radical islam german authorities have launched nationwide raids on an ultra conservative religious group that's a laugh as they're suspected of having links to extremists and posing a threat to democracy but for years the movement has enjoyed conditions that have made it thrive as a clown a break up our parts. to the casual passers by these are just ordinary young muslims who want to be understood by the end they bruce bowen is that if you can

distribute the bible why should you be able to distribute the qur'an these young men are countrymen and they want. share what they believe in what's wrong with that but when you look closer desperately not just what they believe in but what they insist is their one and only truth worth believing this sign read the meaning of the koran in german and the man of face appearance of an ultra conservative branch of islam infamous for their righteousness and intolerance of infidels. people control the people of the west it's called democracy for me there's only one master . in judgment but how do you know what the most towards. distributing today. according to german domestic intelligence report salafism is the fastest growing islamic movement in the world this preaching ever literally interpretation of the qur'an to the point of gauging someone supplied by the shape of his beard or but

their line of her burka since it's a mainstream islam has the same problem was a salafist like non muslims because of a radical and. in some. situations they did accept muslims for years the german government guided by political correctness watched as the domestic salafi community grew in size given 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 i justice and tell us christians jews atheists and while remaining in this berlin mosque i believe to him about the last to balance out the cops. it is time to spread of this ideology as a whole because it's needs points from saudi arabia to among germany me foreign

policy pals it's not only germany. it's concerned about the spread of culture radical islam few 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 goal but seems to promote salafi and related to how the movement 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 growth in radical islamist power increasing in 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 seeding 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 giuliani's 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. artsy berlin. does not check in with marina the business stats hi there markets for us any developing anything developing out there yesterday was brutal yes and so yes it wasn't the most of all we are seeing the little bit of a comeback today and that's because we got a lot of supplies from germany confidence they saw an improvement there the good doesn't seem to be outweigh the bad and we can see that in the numbers when it

comes to europe it's a mixed picture right now and that's because we have a spine as a ball. and cause of course that round of downgrades from moody's investor service also the contrast of for more money now cyprus asking for more money all of this of course isn't helping boost investor confidence as we can see from the numbers that it puts the add in just the knowledge that the recent just last investors are really struggling to find direction now stay on with the euro zone it simply is now considering allowing its banks to sell to the government according to bloomberg news agencies the measure could be approved later on choose day and it's of these videos keep rising and that some fears that e.u. leaders will not come up with any viable solutions to the euro zone that crisis when they of course meet later on thursday. let's continue with the markets we have wall street features that wall street is now trading at still a couple of hours before that happens but meters do indicate what the performance

will be like when the markets do open there and as you can see they're pointing slightly higher and investors are today will be waiting to hear about consumer confidence they tell for the month of june and also home price index for the month of april so we'll be following to see what happens there now move in only here and russia of the markets are performing quite well which is and saw a contrast of what we saw of course on monday and some say that apparently the recent sell off they see it as a wind up which in its own we see that reflected in the numbers the r.t.s. out in over one percent the mice excited over half a percent they're now moving on to currencies let's see what's happening with a euro dollar and ruble of course when it comes to the euro it's still gaining against the dollar though it's pretty much four out there when it comes to the ruble it's gaining against both major currencies this tuesday now moving on so oil which is always a very important for the russian economy of course is managed its management survey cover some of the losses but of course there's still trade in the eighteen month lows and it's a mixed picture this hour is starting to rise ever so slightly but when it comes to

the light switch it's still below that eighty dollars per barrel mark and of course as i said this has a major effect on russian oil companies and in fact business i spoke to a russian oil major passionate about how this market volatility has been affecting the company. most of the crude price of ninety five dollars for a very close or keep benchmark when you see what's going on in the markets. just as the government has it's own into crisis. we've got our own measures first of all these are long term investments and real quick new programs are going to beat you all right and this is what we have in this business for now back to you on the right marina thanks for that update we'll see you back here same place same time next hour. now surely here on our tour we asked syria's deputy foreign minister what he thinks needs to be done to bring peace to his country that's coming up.

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