freebird video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. the one calls for a halt on all supplies to syria to pave the path for a peaceful and transitional government. to read no signs of ceasefire with lashes between the rebels only escalating more details just. less than a week after it was agreed the euro zone's new bailout fund is already under pressure under challenge from stronger economies and in a german court. it looks like the u.s. has no intention of giving up hope of getting their hands on julian assange. we'll bring you the final episode of the whistleblowers interview show at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. screen

and online twenty four hours a day seven days a week on karen thanks for being with our team and despite the latest international peace plan for syria the fighting there isn't tons of firing 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 artie's 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 to 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 collating recently and the last several hotspots of the fighting in the central paul it's all syria not far from the city of palms in northern part of the problem turkish border on the syrian iraq people but the fear is class is happening some time two full ten

kilometers from where i am right now around damascus in a belt of villages and suburbs that they have been known as opposition strongholds and have been a permanent source of trouble since the beginning looked uprising here last march but 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 all this conflict has been escalating needs and also opposed to further militarization should be avoided and is very dangerous today is the second day over the opposition weekend 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

you know it's to hammer out a common vision on this syrian conflict but some of these opposition boycotted this meeting in cairo the free syrian army members and 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 the amin all of the rebel fighters it's surprising to hear that while u.n. is saying that the weapons being. apply to both sides is fueling the conflict so it sounds like some of the opposition is now raising. the cost the idea of interim government this latest peace initiative forged at the meeting in geneva in geneva but the reason all the position that is the c.e.o. is not ready to give off and doesn't want to talk and only wants to continue. oxford university middle east academic charm on our wall 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 stop 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 in various cities and 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. more insight 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. successful democracies evolve they cannot be created instantly new sleep 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 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. station for the full interview with martin chef coming up in just over an hour right here on our team. there as owns latest financial solutions are having trouble getting off the ground and the netherlands are unhappy with plans to allow the new permanent bailout fund by bonds on the open market rescue pot is also to be challenged in court in germany but the pond and saying it violates the country's constitution risk consultant john holzman 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 private the private 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 we have to have a referendum the last thing mrs america 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 mastic lead 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 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 produce full review in the courts so if she does move too fast she loses the very difficult 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 it's cuts cuts and more cuts and weaker euro zone nations while economically strong germans are also being forced to change their ways normally conservative consumers have been blasting out on luxury cars and expensive house us more than before the current crisis marches that sort of like investigates what's pushing the spending spree. better for economy good for business detroit cross 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 told the wills of his business so well there is stiff competition to become one of his customers. to the gold of the go.

you have the markets in your garage and the markets. i think by more than. before the 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 wills cross is now dealing with a new kind of buyer those who just want to part of their money for profit this car is a b.m.w. . only bill 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 real estate or jewelry almost all luxury sales are now reporting and as gentleman's fearful of the euro collapsing. turning that embattled cash into

something they see as more durable it's not like the 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 risk future shrouded in uncertainty more and more german for now buying into the idea that saving is wasting low interest rates combined with increasing inflation make savings accounts and profitable more than a decade ago sponsor among the bag if you believe the euro crisis vindicated here once and for all turning a one's diligence saver into german. most vocal advocate of spend spend spend more and more people get. nervous people like the luxury people like rich people know things too they don't believe in the money and come 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 my. own people want to give you. don't want. for. a while in other countries this would be taken as a sign of growing consumer confidence piggy bank you germans this really is spending for a rainy day and a boycott artsy reporting from munich in germany coming up ahead in the program an iranian rebuttal to saying it's lawmakers and worry or oil markets drafting along would seek to block the world's busiest all round the strait of hormuz.

and the british government continues to trumpet nato progress in afghanistan as a success despite the mounting death toll of foreign military personnel in the country this year. julian assange has presence on our t.v. which has made world headlines draws 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. this time the top whistleblower talks to malaysian opposition leader anwar ibrahim about the fight for freedom and the park receive some world leaders artists are for reports. well a strong today we're going stay with the watch to you in a silent as he conducts his final interview for his shave it's been running on a c. now in it he keeps up with his tradition of interviewing formally imprisoned activists political leaders going to see him speaking to and. that's malaysia's bhowmick deputy prime minister and now one of the leading opposition figures in the

country faces them have faced persecution that's been politically motivated leading of course to the more sinister criminal allegations discussed you use this for sar 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 the songs of course killing a stunt is never actually being charged with a crime but he is wanted in sweden for questioning the sexual assault allegations

now asuncion his legal team have always maintained that they're fighting this legal battle against the extradition because they fear that once in sweden it would be very easy to extradite. to the u.s. so this particular thing that i'm trying to claim about as a result of. your police 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 a song 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 that he's no journalist he's an agitated not very strong language that

mixed messages that have been coming from the u.s. with the foreign minister of that country denying the remotest possibility that any case against assad and told but 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 extremely high here as julian assange to remain inside the ecuadorian embassy awaiting that all important decision on whether or not he'll be granted asylum. and as sarah ferguson was just saying julian assange is refusing to leave ecuador's embassy before a decision on its fate has been made he is attempting 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 of patient and if we can reach this punished for this type of behavior the new york times is in 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 that not only would wiki leaks enjoy a songe 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 who have

spent millions of dollars defending themselves against what is traditionally a protected. protected by the first amendment i can 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 of course you can find all of the previous episodes that assad are to come. around the household a military exercises launching several long range missiles capable of reaching the persian gulf the drill comes as the country's parliament is mulling over a bill that seeks to block shipments of wealth through the strait of hormuz to countries that have imposed an oil embargo and sanctions on iran measures are aimed at pressuring the islamic republic into curbing its nuclear program but france says and 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 poor old rich says teheran is actually trying to fight back at attempts to bring down islamic roll. iran looking back at the history knows that it has no choice it either goes down or it has to defend itself and i think it will if it's ready to defend itself it has the means and the capability of the politics of all embargoes have been used to devastate the economy and for foreign powers to basically take over the country considered civilian nuclear program it's simply a means to an end what washington has in mind is to remove the regime iran has tried to create with washington with the p five n one that's one it has even said that he would give up its medical isotopes its twenty percent enriched uranium if iran convinced by it with isotopes for its medical research but the war powers not

wanted to come mitchell conclusion reached an agreement so iran is even more convinced that this is just. an excuse or a gene change. more on that story available whenever you want it right on our web site here's some of what else is waiting for you there bikes behind bars and mates at a brazilian prison get the chance to shave time off of their sentences by generating electricity through prattled power giving them more than just a light at the end of the tunnel plus. rock and riot. gave poor in poor a big surprise when a. punk band pussy riot stormed the stage tomorrow and what happened right at our call. time now for some world news in brief for you this hour the chief executive of the 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 interbank lending rates bob diamond said he's quitting to limit damage to the organisation which has already lost its chairman the government's ordered a full parliamentary inquiry into the country's banking sector and we'll have market reaction in our business bulletin shortly. libya 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 who's 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 really. 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. in iraq at least twenty nine people have been killed and over sixty wounded in a series of blasts most of the victims died when a car bomb exploded in a busy market earlier in the day two roadside bombs targeted a ship pilgrims on the outskirts of the shrine city of karbala recent weeks have seen increased attacks on worshippers raising fears of a return to widespread sectarian violence. 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 even more violence after where it's lower smith with 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. happening is absolutely glaring and the 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 it isn't working death tolls are rising and perhaps most importantly growing in their opposition to the. former captain patrick barrie 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 and. they were very keen to have us in the area and so it became a lot more violent and we didn't 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 are 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 made to go 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 dollar annual bill president karzai says he needs to maintain security after two thousand and fourteen something austerity rage in europe will be deeply reluctant to shell out for norris met r.t. . daniels on our business stance and as the euro has come to an end cost ukraine counts the cost yes it spends six billion euro on the championship the organizers say that will pay for itself within three years it's already been pleasantly surprised by the millions of tourists that visited during the tournament postponements spent far more on the games but ukraine's success raises hopes russia's investment in the twenty fourteen winter olympics and world cup four years later can pay off let's start with markets here in london because the. external pressure that forced him out this morning he's been criticized for his handling of

the bank's internal interest rate manipulation scandal. growing before you also actions on the wrong have kicked in sending crude higher as we heard earlier in the program to stop time because shipping crude through the strait. whole mood of the country is backing sanctions so some think these prices will go higher the euro's recovering from yesterday's losses investors priced in thursday's expected interest rate cut by the european central bank the ruble is mixed to the major causes this hour a markets here in moscow have continued yesterday's gains on the back of your of the my six going further above fourteen hundred points this trick major move as most financials higher was a top gain energy majors including rules in there are also up supported by stronger crude and is bouncing back from recent falls taiwan's top carmaker says it's eyeing a cold in russia next year it comes off to greater new motor opened its first e.u.

in full gear last february. terrorists on call reporters to encourage manufacturers to set up here souls of cheaper chinese calls abroad growing as drivers cut back in the economic crisis and drop to the news in interviews on the web site all right thanks for that update daniel. i'll be updating you shortly on the headlines stay with us.

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