the u.n. calls for a halt on all arms supplies to syria to pave the path for peace and a transitional government. meanwhile to rid no signs of ceasefire with russia's between the army and the rebels only it's like saying more details just ahead. less than a week after it was agreed the euro zone's a new bailout fund is already under pressure under challenge from stronger economies and in the german court. and it looks like the u.s. has no intention of giving up hope of getting their hands on julia song while our team will bring you the final episode of the whistleblowers interview show at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday.

on screen and online twenty four hours a day seven days a week thank you for joining us well despite the latest international peace plan for syria the fighting there isn't tons of fine across the country as well as near damascus the u.n. has urged a halt to weapons supplies from abroad to the warring sides which it says is fueling the violence archies more if it isn't damascus. situation is very dramatic in syria as president bashar assad has recently sat series now in a real state of war and this is exactly what we see right now here on the ground the clashes between the rebels and the syrian army have only been this clayton recently and the last several hotspots of the fighting in the central part of syria not far from the city of palms in northern part of the problem turkish border on the syrian iraqi border but the fear is clashes happening some time into full ten

kilometers from where i am right now around damascus in a belt of villages and suburbs that there have been known as opposition strongholds and have been permanent source of trouble since the beginning looked up rising here last march this time u.s. has made it clear both sides of the conflict are equally responsible for raids and weapons supplied to both sides again over this conflict has been escalating needs and also opposed to further militarization should be avoided and is a very dangerous today is the second day over the opposition mission in cairo and the main idea of this mission was to unify you know the to gain some trust of the syrian people indeed the opposition since the beginning of the uprising has been harshly criticized for being too fragmented and too fragmented even to be trusted and they themselves been confirmed that that they have that they have to unify they

have to do not like to hammer out a common vision on this syrian conflict but some of these opposition boycotted this meeting in cairo and the free syrian army members in some independent activist base in syria have criticised this meeting paul and it is a conspiracy and accuse a need for ignoring the question of buffer zones protected by the international community humanitarian corridors and air embargoed and amin all the rebel fighters it's surprising to hear that while u.n. is saying that the weapons being this. flights to both sides is fueling the conflict so it sounds like some of the opposition is now raging to do so because the idea of interim government this latest peace initiative at the meeting in geneva in geneva but the reason all that is this still is not ready to give off and doesn't want to talk and only wants to continue. oxford university middle east

academic. says violence must stop before any further steps to stabilize syria can be taken but we really need to move away from looking at the rebels who are largely foreign backed. as the only opposition in town there is a dynamic and diverse domestic opposition and i think it's incumbent upon the media and different players to pull out these voices first the government of syria house to ensure the safety of civilians and protect infrastructure before they move on to the next step i mean you can't rush to the second step without the first so i think there has to be a deescalation of violence inside syria before you can move on what's the point of having peace talks when there are bombs going off and very few civilians and soldiers getting killed we have to consider first who supporting the violence on the ground and it's still a number of western countries and then a number of arab states particularly in the gulf countries we cannot move forward

in this process until that part has been taken care of and it's it's unfortunate that iran and saudi arabia were not including the geneva talks saudi arabia is a major supporter of of arming and supporting the militias inside syria this process and the rhetoric behind it that comes largely from the west house to be unraveled before moving forward. for inside coming up on what elements of a healthy transition are needed to avoid more bloodshed in syria author and correspondent martin schaefer wonders whether such concerns bother the minds of hawks across the atlantic. this fall democracies evolve they cannot be created instantaneously overnight americans have for a hundred years drunk instant coffee you take a little. a little envelope of coffee of powder you poured into a cop you had hot water instant coffee now they believe democracy can be spread the

same way you simply take american instant democracy the american blueprint for democracy you impose it on the country you have water pressed so instance democracy the world does not work that way they thought it did with the arab spring but they also so the administration and the republicans too as i said are blind to the terrible dangerous but their policies are causing. state and for the full interview with mark coming up in just around twenty minutes time. here as ons latest financial solutions are having trouble getting off the ground in the netherlands are unhappy with plans to allow the new permanent bailout fund by bonds on the open market the rescue party is also to be challenged in court in germany where the poem and saying it violates the country's constitution risk

consultant john hulsman says chancellor angela merkel is finding herself with little room to maneuver. what's going to happen is that they're going to have to backstop the hundred million million dollar loan to spain which means the german taxpayers will be indirectly responsible and what the court case is about is the court gently telling the prime the prime the chancellor to slow down because we live in a democracy and if there's any change in liability where power is devolved to brussels and directly the court says that the germans have to consult their parliament and indeed may have to have a referendum the last thing mrs merkel wants is to go to the people on these issues where obviously giving people money without conditions is not wildly popular mrs merkel has to tread very very carefully and this is the problem she's pressed by outsiders to give more money she's pressed to medically to give no money and eventually the rock in the hard place are going to lead to an almighty bang part of the problem for her and she's in a terrible position is that she needs to move faster than the glacial pace of the twenty european summit so markets can move money and with a flick of a keyboard millions of dollars so she know she has to go faster but if she goes too

fast there isn't due process meaning there isn't time to deliberate over this in parliament and there isn't time then and produce full review in the courts so if she does move too fast she loses the very democratic democratic legitimacy which is vital if she's going to bring germany along with her so she's stuck between a rock and a hard place all right it's a minutes past the hour and it's cots and markets and a weaker euro zone nations economically strong germans are also forced to change their ways normally conservative consumers have been splashing out on luxury cars and expensive houses more sell than before the current crisis like investigates what pushing the spending spree. better for economy good for business dittrich ross has been selling vintage cars for almost three decades but he says he's never had a better run of trade than in the last year and a half and use of the euro's instability has sold the wills of his business so well there's competition given to become one of his customers. to the gold of the go.

you have the markets in your garage and the markets. and i think they buy more than . before the crisis price tags in his collection run from a mere fifty thousand euro to massive three million for the bands. and while in the past the majority of his clients had a real passion for classic whales dittrich ross is now dealing with a new kind of buyer those who just want to part of their money to profit this car is a b.m.w. . only built two hundred fifty two cars. in two thousand and. five you have to spend for a call like that three hundred fifty thousand euros and today you have to spend a million realestate are jewelry almost all luxury sales are now reporting and as germans fearful of the euro collapsing. churning that embattled cash in just

something they see as more durable it's not like money has always been burning holes in german pockets traditionally the people of this country have been pretty conservative spenders but the average household putting aside eleven percent of the time come what may be your a future is shrouded in uncertainty more and more german for now barring into the idea that saving is wasting low interest rates combined with increasing inflation made savings accounts and profitable more than a decade ago france here among the bag few believed him the euro crisis vindicated here once and for all turning a one's diligent saver into germany's most. vocal advocate of spend spend spend more and more people get. nervous even like the luxury people like rich people. think. they don't believe the money and from home renovations to expensive medical

procedures fear of the possible devaluation is pushing germans into a spending spree and his dental clinic the appointment calendar is already booked for several months i had and the clinics director himself is in no mood to wait and see in addition to a brand new x. ray machine he's just bought a house that he never intends to live in money from. people who want to. don't want. and while in other countries this would be taken as a sign of growing consumer confidence for big banking germans this really is spending for a rainy day a kind of boycott artsy reporting from munich in germany coming up ahead in the program an iranian rebuff to sanctions. lawmakers and worry all markets by drafting a new law that would seek to block the world's busiest oil around the strait of

hormuz. and the british government continues to trumpet nato's progress in afghanistan as a success despite the mounting death toll of foreign military personnel in the country this year. julian assange presence on r.t. which has made world headlines drawls to an end at least for now the final episode of his news making interview show airs this tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. it's time the top whistleblower talks to a malaysian opposition leader anwar abraham about the fight for freedom hypocrisy of some world leaders for a three ports. later on today we're going to watch julian a stunt as he conducts his final interview for his show you that's been running on are now in it he keeps up with his tradition of interviewing formally imprisoned activists political leaders going to see him speaking to and what. malaysia's

bhowmick deputy prime minister and now one of the leading opposition figure in the country both of them have faced persecution that's been politically motivated leading of course to the most sinister criminal allegations discussed you use this for. democracy democracy elections should the independence. be used to. so to be strong in the scheme. i sometimes feel like speaking this way myself. now as a rising internal rival to the former prime minister. and what you face sexual assault allegations and was imprisoned for five years after being smeared with allegations that you control the similarities between his case and what's happening with julian assange to close julian the son has never actually been charged with a crime but he is wanted in sweden the questioning the sexual assault allegations

now a fountain his legal team paying they're fighting this legal battle against the extradition because they fear that once in sweden it will be very easy to extradite if it's to the u.s. so this particular thing that i mean came about as a result of. your department. we must have a way to take terrorists from one country to another you know. you must you know the rule of the game enjoy it because. now all this coming at a time when the u.s. has once again reiterated its calls for songs to be prosecuted for espionage we've heard senator dianne feinstein saying that the wiki leaks founder had compromised america's security she said that the song schools himself a journalist but he's no journalist he's an agitated very strong language that

mixed messages that have been coming from the u.s. with the foreign minister of that country denying the possibility that any case against assad and. that coming as the u.s. justice department has said that the investigation into wiki leaks continues so it doesn't really seem that the u.s. knows exactly what this line on the song should be at the moment so the stakes remaining extreme. the high here as to the sounds remains inside the ecuadorian embassy away think that all important decision on whether or not he'll be granted asylum as how far it was just saying it's refusing to leave ecuador's embassy before a decision has been made on his fate he has attempted to he is attempting rather to avoid being put on trial in the u.s. for spying free speech activist trevor tim says these plans undermine america's constitution and could set a dangerous precedent what the new york times does is actually considered worse

than what wiki leaks did because the new york times routinely publishes what is called top secret classified information which is actually the highest classification that u.s. government uses and the only thing wiki leaks has published although they've published hundreds of thousands of documents has been secret and below which is a lower class occasion and if we leave this punished for this type of behavior the new york times isn't just in much trouble or if or more so now the government has argued that they can go after government leaders but never have they been able to prosecute a private citizen for publishing this information in the public interest and the real problem is that if it if it actually came to fruition then not only would wiki leaks and joined us on to be in jail for doing what essentially every other newspaper does but in the future other newspapers who want to publish stories in the public interest the administration would be able to threaten these newspapers prosecution bring them to trial and not only would it stifle free speech in the

sense that it could put journalists in jail but it could also bankrupt many media organizations would have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves against what is traditionally a protected. protected by the first amendment. don't forget that the final episode of julian assange interview show is set to air on r t today at eleven thirty g.m.t. and you can also find all the previous episodes at the sun starting dot com. now iran has launched several long range missiles that are capable of reaching the persian gulf in military exercises they come as the country's parliament is mulling over a draft a law that seeks to block shipments of oil through the strait of hormuz to countries that have them post sanctions on the islamic republic and iranian m.p.'s said any such action would be in response to europe's oil embargo and u.s. penalties against iran those measures are aimed at pressuring iran into curbing its controversial nuclear program but the islamic republic says it has no problem

selling oil as some large customers like china have been exempted from u.s. sanctions iran has also been stockpiling money and goods to buffer the impact of the measures against the country independent researcher and writer soraya who are all rich says is actually trying to fight back at attempts to bring down islamic rule. uganda looking back at the history knows that it has no choice it either goes or it has to defend itself and i think it will be it's ready to defend itself it has the means and the capability of the politics of all in barca's have been used to devastate the economy for foreign powers to basically take over the country the civilian nuclear program it's simply a means to an end what washington has in mind is to remove the regime you have has tried with washington with the people i mean one that's one it has even said that

we give up its medical isotopes it's twenty percent enriched uranium if iran is to buy with ice for its medical research but they will powers not want it to come to conclusion reached an agreement so iran is even more convinced that this is just. an excuse for regime change. you can find more on the story available whenever you want it on our website here's some of what else is waiting for you there mike's behind bars inmates at a brazilian prison get the chance to shave time off of their sentences by generating electricity through adult power and giving them more than just light at the end of the tunnel plus. football crazy a russian club that can afford to sign the most highly paid player on the planet charon to however play at home get the details on big spending on g.'s misfortune dot com. right now eighteen minutes past the hour and while nato chiefs are

optimistic on progress in afghanistan critics believe the war of over a decade has left only chaos and uncertainty behind frequent attacks on foreign troops there continue and while twenty fourteen will see a full handover to local security forces there are growing fears of even more violence afterwards laura smith has the details. it's now a familiar refrain so-called green on blue killings in afghanistan this week saw three more british soldiers killed by an afghan policeman bringing the number of foreign personnel killed in route shootings this year to over twenty britain's ministry of defense though sees a much rosier picture the recently returned brigadier patrick saunders telling of a helmand province where local forces take more responsibility for security there are fewer taliban attacks more schools and medical centers have been built the

disparity between what the amount is saying and what's actually happening is absolutely glaring one. everything's ok let's hope for the best it's all going to work properly at the same time we see record numbers of western troops now being killed by afghan police and soldiers exactly the people who are supposed to be taking over from them so isn't working death tolls are rising and perhaps most importantly growing in their opposition to foreign troops former captain patrick barry can well imagine the scene he was deployed to sangin in helmand in two thousand and eight his job to win hearts and minds it didn't work when we deployed there we realized pretty quickly that only about fifty percent of the population actually wanted because of the tribal dynamics in our. they were very keen to have us a lot in the area and so became a lot more violent and we predicted and really want to achieve in the six months

that i was there very little with blood being spilled on a daily basis the so-called security transition rolls on soon afghan forces will be responsible for seventy five percent of the population by the middle of next year the rest of the country will start being handed over to its own troops and the british to leave altogether by the end of two thousand and fourteen seemingly whatever happens helmand. is relatively calm compared to parts of kandahar where drugs and the taliban still dominate but gains even according to some in the army all reversible particularly if nato soldiers are no longer there to reinforce them if you put in afghan forces into these areas are they actually going from their bases and patrolling and so winning over the population or as the attacks mean to get some to they just come back so they control only a small area and what they call like a small lozenge of security and a really confined to the base you know on paper you say you know we hand it over and it looks really good but in reality what's going on it's an interesting

question i personally believe in some of those hotly contested areas i think we're going to have a big a big. problem whatever afghan forces do it's got to be paid for european countries are under pressure from the us to foot a third of the four billion dollars annual bill president karzai says he needs to maintain security of the two thousand and fourteen something austerity ridge in europe will be deeply reluctant to shell out for norris myth r.t. . time now for some world news in brief this hour the chief executive of u.k.'s third largest bank barclays has resigned in a deepening financial scandal homeowners and businesses were overcharged for loans during the credit crunch because the lender was fixing a system of inter-bank lending rates bob diamond has said he's quitting to limit damage to the organisation which has already lost its chairman the government ordered a fall parliamentary inquiry into the country's banking sector and we'll have

a market reaction in our business bolton shortly. the mayor has freed four members of international criminal court arrested four weeks ago on suspicion of spying they still have to return to tripoli later this month for a final ruling on their case one of them lawyer melinda taylor was charged with smuggling documents to colonel gadhafi is captured son saif al islam was accused of killing protesters during last year's revolt libya wants to try him itself but the i.c.c. is concerned that he won't get a fair trial there. in new york court has ordered twitter to release private tweets in the case of an occupy wall street protester activists say the move will violate the privacy of malcolm harris who's charged with disorderly conduct over demonstrations last year the judge insists he'll personally review the data and release only relevant parts of it prosecution lawyers paris was arrested in october along with hundreds of others during

a march against corporate greed and inequality. all right daniel here with the business and chinese carmakers continue their expansion abroad your choice needs a or expanding group will motor opened its first. gear info brewery no toy. says it's going up in russia next year for its gen model russia's low speed tariffs color importers to encourage manufacturers to set up here cheaper chinese calls abroad all growing drivers caught book in the economic crisis the. royal that would quote external pressure the force to melt this morning he's been criticized for his home of the bones conviction for interest rate manipulation as we've been hearing shares fill in the e.u. also mentions iran to keep been sending crude oil as we heard earlier her own plans to stop ten because shipping crude through the strait of hormuz with countries backing sanctions so something those prices will go asia has just closed up all the

wall street against us. david chinese called make the shares of hits a wall after another mainland city kept call sales to east traffic jams this chick exchange rates it's the euro the strength against the dollar they sell but the ruble is gaining two of the major currencies markets here and most to continue just today gains let's have a look at some individual share movers on the my six as you can see both the all ts and my six gaining point seven of a percent. individual moves most financial zaha i was getting overhauled said hi this are i think you may just like i was in the thrall so up supports a boy stronger crude comic of the scene but from earlier losses bush was top comic is cussing with his name issued stuff the first complains their prices on the new law they're granted without permission company shares fell on the news yesterday late yesterday it's been a bad few days for us devise which will submit sales skidded fourteen percent this

year and more news in interviews on the website thank you very much for that update daniel. truly we will discuss the difficulties arising from rapid political changes in the middle east in our interview that's after after a year with the headlines. how

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