really happening to the global economy with mikes cars are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r.g.p. . turkey confirms that sending military units towards the syrian border just days before an international meeting on the situation in syria which faces questions of credibility after iran is excluded. duce one mistake that we've committed we've put all our eggs in the american basket allies turning into enemies three out of four pakistanis now think of the u.s. as their photo with anger growing over civilian deaths from america's drone attacks . and divided they stand disagreements between leaders play the bloc some even before it starts with germany rejecting the idea of debt sharing kharaj in the hopes of crisis hit countries.

one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t on merida joshua welcome to the program turkey is moving troops to the syrian border as a security measure after syria abroad down one of its warplanes last week it's likely to heighten tension as foreign powers prepare to meet in geneva on saturday for talks they are aiming to unite influential states behind proposals for a syrian led political solution to the crisis there let's now talk to our correspondent in damascus maria finish. there are serious differences between the parties at the upcoming talks about how the crisis should be solved with iran's of course and what we're going to be a major bone of contention what more can you tell us. you're absolutely right marina runs a participation in the discussion over the syrian crisis on how to end the violence here in the country has been a bone of contention between russia and the us as the states with influence on both

the rebels and government are preparing for me to be in geneva this saturday but this is now the matter of fact iraq iran will not be invited initially just to remind you when kofi annan and the national peace envoy has pushed forward beside dia he wanted iran to take part to participate saying that the remnants of a powerful regional player and the of course have a big influence on damascus and have close ties to the syrian government but changed his mind and teheran will not be invited. and maybe this is the result of u.s. reaction we know that u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has repeatedly been warning that america may cancel its attendance of the meeting iran is invited although it's still remaining it's still remains unclear why coffee and changed his mind and why iran is not invited eventually and whether it has anything to do with america's reaction but

already we are hearing skepticism growing about these factors runs in seclusion or that this group. meanwhile apart from russia and you as in the meeting in geneva britain and britain china france turkey caught all in some other countries will take place and diplomats say that. of course it's obviously the main goal of this meeting is to hammer out a different approach to this solution of the syrian crisis to to think and to plan concrete steps and action to be done to that and the violence here in the country and diplomats say that the group will mean. idea of the unity cabinet a national unity cabinet through that will include both the representatives of the opposition and of the government but will exclude quote those whose participation

would undermine it to look clear exactly what does that mean but we know that washington wants a handover of power in syria that would see president bashar assad to go and just right now we are receiving russian commons foreign minister sergey lavrov has just sad that russia didn't confirm that fact the idea for coffee or not he has sat that it's clear that in this situation a transitional period is needed to settle the crisis and something should be done but he has said that. idea is just a plan and it's not more than a plan right now but anyway he stressed that this up to syrian people to decide exactly how this transitional period will look like and what kind of mecca it will

use. r.t. has got hold of a shocking video purporting to be about an alleged massacre in syria what do you know about it. yes indeed he has managed to do food to show we brutal results over a massacre in the syrian city of hama where relatives. who were killed claiming that their. close loved ones have been slaughtered by the rebels i hope you can see this video right now and i have to warn you that some of the ridges in this video very disturbing at the beginning of this video we can see three children. here is an older girl demands to be allowed to see her mom in hospital. of course. i mean we cannot say for sure what is in this video and how credible but that just proves that

syria violence is continuing conflict is escalating and it's absolutely impossible to find out exactly who's doing what and who is responsible for so many massacres happened in the last time here in the country. all right maria thanks very much indeed for bringing us up to date more information reporting from damascus. to other news now three and four pakistanis now consider the u.s. an anime according to a new survey published in america ties between the two countries have recently hit new lows over the civilian casualties caused by ongoing u.s. drone attacks more than twenty people have been killed the militant attacks in pakistan over the past few days alone adding to the thousands of lives lost since the washington led war in afghanistan began eleven years ago. takes a closer look at a complicated aligns. it's not only u.s. bombs that fly in pakistan but also the stream of demands and accusations from

washington there are several things that where asking the pakistanis to do more and better number one they've got to do more about the safe havens inside their own country even ridiculed the u.s. defense secretary has laughed at pakistan for being in the dark on the bin laden raid. literally in washington's rhetoric now suggest that during the decade of war in afghanistan pakistan had been there myself instrumental ally in the region the united states could not have had security gunstar in three weeks with minimum cost in terms of money and in terms of in terms of the lives of its soldiers that would not have been possible without fox and the assistance and help free sentiment towards the alliance with the us has fueled domestic insurgency in

pakistan some has lost about somewhere between five thousand to six thousand soldiers and paramilitary soldiers but more than that we've lost more than thirty five thousand civilians and these people died because of these spate of bombings in a crude comparison the us has lost two thousand troops in afghanistan they want the pakistanis to do our dirty work for us and the pakistanis have simply said we've supported you forward eleven years we can't do it anymore you're killing our stability they have to stop the civil war in the country they have to stop the war that's going on on their own territory because of their help for the united states so they have a number of problems which i think amount to a mass and they're going to be left high and dry when we leave many washington see a different picture of a country that does not fully do their. waiting in exchange for the billions they'd sent them were given taxpayer money to this country which is not treating us right

but we've made a mistake we were we have trusted pakistan way too long the pakistanis see another mistake there's one mistake that we've committed we've put all our eggs in the american basket and part of the deterioration in our job is to teach position over the past decade since two thousand and one is because of this fact that we completely relied on the americans and it's not the first time they've before as well but but so to speak we made this mistake and we're trying to know correct that mistake pakistan is now working hard on its regional alliances primarily with china but the u.s. still needs pakistan washington has been able to continue drone strikes in pakistan likely because of its military leaders tacit agreement the u.s. also needs the short route through pakistan to supply the troops in afghanistan islam watch shouted down last year in response to the killing of two dozen pakistani soldiers but with elections approaching their end with people furious at

the u.s. there is little chance of pakistani policy makers who want to be seen as being more accommodating to the united states the mockery and condescending remarks from washington make those chances even slimmer during the last decade of war and have got is that pakistanis have dealt with an unprecedented insurgency in their own country terror which has killed an awful lot of people much more than the loss is carried by the u.s. in afghanistan and that to a large extent was the price pakistan paid for its alliance with the us but these days in washington it seems hardly anyone keeps that in mind when handing out another portion of accusations and humiliation to the nation they once convinced to become their ally i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and so i have for this hour thousands throw their support behind wiki leaks editor julian assad all of that the worst amnesties in the u.k. and u.s. receiving a flood of. mails urging the nation to accept the world's most famous whistleblower

. serve time in the military or observe time behind bars find out why the decision is so difficult for a community in israel all that much more coming your way in just a few minutes. deeply divided leaders are gearing up for some of this thursday this as german chancellor angela merkel insisted there will be no doubt share in your stance that won't sit well with troubled states such as spain and italy and there's also no relief for greece or the country's most vulnerable suffering under a sterile as artie's grace now reports. dealing with the problems facing disabled greeks on a daily basis is all too familiar with the realities of eurozone branch of the new government will be. the second bailout. that means that you have to. public. spending.

within a month actually up to further eleven point five years she points out it's been three months since anyone has been paid fine to disability benefits it's really difficult to have a health problem in greece today fighting a long term battle with multiple cirrhosis the fee is now without state support stricken health care system is left out on the road. i want you because i have money from my job but that other people cannot even get their medications. from well pharmacists. and get medications. for help. so if you don't get. this money you can maybe came to austerity fewer state cutbacks often prove in the toughest of those who need the money the most cases like the fees are by no means unique in

modern day greece but one question is now being asked of the government is it down to a simple lack of state funds or are they misspending what little they do have nearly full in the current government is largely made up of old factions new democracy and the past party made up the ruling coalition of the previous administration presiding over a period of cuts for the military remain somewhat shielded in two thousand and ten as debt ridden greece penned its first bailout deal signed away one billion euro to france and germany and weapons contracts but even with no obvious conflicts looming is an expenditure still defended this is because we're. in the military we don't have so much clout as work of it. in the source like truth for example in the hospitals we have. but we don't have them in

greece is not the count we've got without an active army but given the current plight of many greeks is there's nothing left to axe from healthcare on the back of public pressure the new government is now see here reworking the bailout conditions. greece's latest round of political instability is economic troubles are still very much under the spotlight greece. but while germany continues to call for more discipline among the debt ridden states the nation is unwilling to implement the same measures at home that's according to british have a p.v.t. forte we have another european summit where everybody seems to be disagreeing before they even get into the room. speaking to german colleagues speaking to for example finnish colleagues they're still enormously uncomfortable with the idea that they effectively guaranteeing the other countries in the euro zone's debts and

the two sides to this deal they say are one side you're asking us to guarantee you a debt to these euro bonds on the other side if we're going to do that we want to have control of how you spend your money we want to have control of your national budgets and so then the the weak tend to be southern european countries saying no we're not going to give up that lack of sovereignty or not going to give you control of our own national spending and huge democratic deficit that that would cause so that's the big argument to germany saying there's no guarantee unless you also give us control of the budgets and them say we're not going to give you control of our budget and interestingly just last week i'm in a fight where germany has decided they don't want to disclose the size of some of their office and. so on she is so the saying one thing to others and they're not favored to do the same thing myself. and on the other side of the atlantic the five biggest u.s.

banks are drawing up contingency plans in case they fail one of them is j.p. morgan which among other financial institutions was recently downgraded by moody's as max kaiser and stated her to reveal later today the american giant would have been rated even lower without government support. there's cufflink jamie you know the god rest his like a good fellow. i'm assuming that you're not going to downgrade me more than two categories or i'm going to have to cut off all your junk in the guns and i'm going to have to make sure that your guest even get home today because i'm jamie up with a gumbo and you know this still does same kind of language you're wiretapping when you drop in on the mafia they're like so choky the dead fish. is saying that. that you could always get a big rig in a certain period of time or he's going to come over there to steam the general going to be living much longer.

by car door it takes this time to decide to join his son just play for political asylum there are a growing number of calls for the latin american country to say yes more than ten thousand e-mails of support for the whistleblower have been sam's today for dorian embassies in the u.k. and u.s. and a separate show of support thousands have signed a petition a move initiated by a u.s. based civil liberty group just foreign policy r.t. talk to robert nyman policy director for the organization who initiated the campaign. my sense sense of the people i've talked to is that ecuadorian government officials are sympathetic to their requests they understand the situation the same way we do understand the threat to join the songs from the united states with the threat that sweden once they got custody of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very

controversial espionage act we don't know everything about what the u.s. government has done a night or might do but we know that a grand jury was impaneled in the united states to investigation of wiki leaks and bring charges we know that bradley manning's attorney believes his harsh treatment in u.s. custody was an attempt to get him to. testify against julian assange there's a recently that they have the opportunity to try to get him and the u.s. custody they will do so this is totally rational the documented fear. and don't forget join us not just hosting his own interview serious here on r.t. and if you've missed any of the ten episodes that haue already aired are still available in a special section of our website www dot com. i mean julian assange. it is true what you read where they expose the world secrets

these documents long united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question because it legally shoots five hundred days now being detained without charge. that hasn't stopped this. today we're on the course for really ideas that can change the world tomorrow. what you aren't seen now is take a look at some of the stories from around the world nine people are dead and dozens more wounded after a series of bomb strikes around baghdad north of iraq's capital in taji two cars exploded outside a government office a few hours later police were hit by a roadside bomb south of the city at another bomb went off inside a market in western baghdad it tags adds to an already deadly month in which more than one hundred people have been killed in bombings targeting mainly shiite neighborhoods. and out of control wildfire has destroyed hundreds of homes and

forced tens of thousands evacuated region in the u.s. state of colorado the flames reached parts of an air force academy destroying over a third of its property present barack obama is expected to tour the area friday where heavy smoke can still be seen harboring over neighborhoods a lighting strike sparked the wildfires several weeks ago. i religious minority who once proudly manned israel's military are now refusing to join the ranks some of the man are even choosing prison over the national service are his policy or explains. a family united in grief but divided in loyalties the tears mixed with feelings of regret and loss and the perpetual question did their loved ones die serving the enemy. i used to see them as marchers i see them as victims but my brothers were victims of the zionist movement and they

died fighting the room people yemen's family belongs to israel's drew sicked an offshoot of islam of about one hundred fifty thousand people there arab in culture and language but are loyal to the jewish state for years this son served proudly in elite israeli units first as volunteers and for the last fifty years as conscripts and although it was the druze who asked to be drafted today a growing number of the youngsters choose prison over army service. years are we are used as a tool to oppress so people the palestinians who won't take part in it anymore. spearheading the changing mood is this man whose two brothers and one uncle died serving in the i.d.f. outraged by many israeli government policies he works as a lawyer defending palestinian prisoners in israeli jails so the course we've druze are palestinians and israel can't change that we have always been and will always

be palestinians means uncle silo was killed while working in the israeli border police in one thousand nine hundred ninety his brother florida fell on christmas eve thirteen years later and then tragedy struck again when his older brother named after his fallen uncle was killed on mother's day by his ability to a side bombing in lebanon. as you know ever since he died i do not celebrate mother's day i do not accept gifts. in my remaining children i can bear it so it was spoiled and beautiful after he was killed i said no one will go to the army ever again it had been son his choice to serve on the front line is the commander of a combat unit he wanted to play his part fighting for his country but it's that same country that now his brother is making sure no one from the family puts on a uniform to defend it again. if he were here and i'm sure they would have reached the same conclusion. i'm sure that they are proud of me but pride is

a feeling lost in the anguish that stalks these walls the shadow of death a reminder of the all too high price this family's paid many israeli jews complain they treated as second class citizens because while it's true they do enjoy some benefits because of the army service like palestinians in israel they suffer inequalities in municipal budgets education and employment policy r t tell of of. all right a sound check out later this news now is marina and of course you know we've been reporting on the e.u. summit in brussels that is due to take place later today so how are investors feeling about it over another not very optimistic to say the least that we can see that reflecting in the numbers basically it seems that investors all think that there will be any adequate measures taken by european leaders and that's what we see the markets in europe pointing lower if we take a look at the latest figures we'll see where the footsie and that are on that and we can see that the footsie is losing over half a percent of roman banks as well over one percent in the red and as i said this

mainly comes from that some of the brussels and the fact that many believe that this will be another one of those meetings will be a lot of talk and not a lot of action and not many measures introduced as if that wasn't enough there's also no more problem with the banking sector there as well and that's because some of the banks there are now under investigation for trying to manipulate interest rates at. which banks lend to each other this comes after barclays was fined around four hundred fifty million dollars after its traders a law needed to make the bank look more secure during the financial crisis and the problem is a restricted to europe because banks in asia and the us are being monitored now as well. if you take a look at the markets here in russia we can see that they're tracking losses overseas the r.t.s. is losing of a one percent my sex risen about three quarters of the percent and this is all coming not only because we have of course the crude prices which continue to head south and this is a bit of

a surprise because we do have some positive news coming out here first of all with all that standard and poor's graded their shorts on foreign coins currency rating i should say of the country and also we know that inflation is now. a record lows at two point eight percent compared to four point nine percent during the same period last year that's the annual inflation here and now let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my six naturally most of the blue chips in the red we have been just emotional it's minimized earlier losses of all we know is that the piece of russian adventure is looking for a partner in this power generation business that's now looking at that as a long term priority and it's ready to put up a really billion dollars but it's looking for partners put up the rest then we have loosened again just minimising the earlier losses what we know about lukoil is that it has set aside two and a half billion dollars for its nearly started back program and after that it will sell its shares on the hong kong stock exchange and the financials which were doing

quite well earlier on have now that the read in the private among the biggest losers this hour we can seem to be shouting over one percent there now let's move on and take a look at oil price of course always very important for the russian economy and again you can see that continued said south lights we design there eighty dollars per barrel one fifth of its value since the beginning of the year the brand blend which has been given us a little bit of hope and optimism. in the past couple of days as well declining as well trading at ninety two dollars and fifty nine cents per barrel it will move on and take a look at the close of picture on the wall street for one so for us and there is a wash on that is because most markets tend to go on from what they saw there and taken out the momentum although as you can see there are a positive a picture the dow and the nasdaq out in the seventy four percent that was mainly due to some positive data that came out from the us about housing then that as well as better than expected orders for durable goods and if i look at currencies as to where the euro dollar. the euro is still moves in against the dollar when it comes

to the ruble it's a lose against of both major currencies the sour and the force was so waiting for that east summit to go to see how big there's my trains and that c.r.s. but for now about see every now right let's wait and see and thanks very much indeed marina for this update and a quick look at our top stories coming your way here on r.t. . excuse me can i speak with you. let me give you. my son if you don't agree and

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