bhaskar moves the mediation forward syrian opposition groups are in the capital and reportedly want to persuade russia to go get behind foreign intervention. no answer a british m.p. admits politicians were useless in covering the truth behind the barclays scandal while the bank of england denies involvement. and russian sanded aides to the ravaged southern region across the dar where emergency workers and volunteers are trying to help those affected by flash floods. ten am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program russia is

stepping up its efforts to help solve the crisis in syria foreign minister sergey lavrov is due to meets representatives of syrian national council in moscow later on tuesday the s.n.c. demands president bashar asad step down a position supported by washington there were poorly try to persuade russia to support tough u.n. resolution which doesn't rule out a foreign intervention lavrov has met one other opposition group and moscow is also holding arms exports to syria meanwhile the un arab league envoy kofi annan says bashar asad is committed to a six point peace plan after visiting damascus kofi annan is in tehran to seek support but the peace effort is doomed as long as the u.s. insists must go journalist and activist don de bar. on the one hand. there's a greater chance of success now that kofi annan is involved directly russia and going to tehran to try to involve all of the parties in the negotiations that the

united states is trying to conduct on its own with sal eyes that that's positive the clip we heard from hillary clinton and the statements she made last friday of belligerent. demanding that most of the world punish russia and china for insisting on a political solution and insisting that a priori assad has to go the president of syria has to go before they will you know come to the table in any meaningful way that's a very bad sign it indicates that you know we're not really going to make any progress the united states is backing this even not correct to call it an armed insurgency because it's really an armed invasion in many ways you have emigres that were brought into the country with arms you have with foreign nationals also that are on the ground they came across from lebanon in turkey and also americans that came brought the training in jordan and came from iraq on their way back to the

united states so it's really an invasion and you know a military campaign against syria being conducted by the united states through proxies and until that stops either we risk widening the war if russia and china are going to stand up to the united states or you know syria being. conquered essentially in the same way that libya was. washington support for syrian rebels is confusing says the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament. but. i don't quite understand how the us can support the armed opposition because these are the same kind of people who blow up american soldiers in afghanistan and iraq the same kind of people who kill nato troops in afghanistan in the same country they're considered enemies of the united state while here they're treated as allies.

in cabs the full interview with i say pushed off in about twenty minutes time here on r t. the bank of england's deputy governor a has denied claims to gave barclays hints to manipulate lending rates and the height of the crisis this latest banking scandal has reached parliament now the chancellor is facing calls to apologize to his opposition counterpart for accusing him of being involved in the nipple ations two party's laura smith reports. a key participant in the cross-examination of disgraced barclays chief executive bob diamond has admitted that m.p.'s are powerless to get to the truth about bad because andrea led simms comments come in the wake of diamonds appearance before the commons treasury select committee to answer questions about fixing the law you ball rates the price at which banks lend to each other to benefit barclays letson was one of the

politicians are asking the questions at last week's hearings and admitted it would be fair to call the investigation useless she blames a lack of information parliament had no transcripts of morning meetings the records that were being said you know email trails all they had was regulator reports and what's been reported in the media has led sims revealing remarks made in an interview with the independent newspaper will raise questions in the public about whether the truth behind the libel scandal and who knew what will ever emerge the largest scale parliamentary inquiry is now being set up to investigate the banking crisis but if the banks closed ranks and m.p.'s can get the information they need how can it work prime minister david cameron has already rejected the idea of a judge led inquiry saying it would take too long meanwhile bob diamond's evidence is being variously judged by m.p.'s on the committee on

a spectrum ranging from inconsistent through not entirely honest right down to simply unbelievable he maybe recalls to answer further questions regardless of having had to stand down as barclays chief executive bob diamond currently still stands to receive a seventeen million pound pay off twenty six million dollars to be in disgrace in the meantime this all begs the question if m.p.'s are powerless to get to the truth who will. later maximizers days are over to reveal what they say is a global bank heist and it's an inside job. your waste is you is there is it is. a max in fact is a global bank heist going on speculators want low rates to fund their respective bets and squeeze out the entrepreneurs squeeze out the sabers squeeze out wages

keep rates really low the libre scandal is about keeping rates low by manipulating rates quantitative easing is about keeping rates low by engaging in radical central bank policies like operation twist the lowering rates is about central bank collusion with other banks to keep rates near zero to fund speculation to squeeze out population of workers and savers. with the kaiser report throughout the day here on r t n as a british banking scandal deepens the eurozone is handing out cash to prop up its banks coming out and a few minutes we have reports on how germans are quickly losing their will to the play paymaster of the whole region. and one of the most vocal critics of the syrian regime saudi arabia opened fire on anti-government protesters and all the details in a few minutes. there hasn't been anything good on t.v.

. it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is one hopes journalism on the we. we want to present. something will. help us pouring into russia's southern resort region of crossing the dar from across the country people are sending in basic. necessities while volunteer workers travel to the area devastated by a heavy flood it swept through across nadar region on friday night killing over one hundred seventy people brings us the stories of people's fear and terrorism. comic on the roads of crims traffic jams and crowds of people try to escape the town center it took just a few minutes of rumors of a second flood to create this little jam in the streets above prince it didn't

matter will be authorities said people weren't listening to them they were getting out that was how much fear they felt in the end people returned to their homes but after the worst floods in living memory it's hard for me to stop thinking about that night when my husband managed to save him and my baby son it's like he was nearby because just seconds after his saved us a huge wave appeared we knew but we're not just afraid we're scared to death two days ago we survived the terrible floods he's lost everything he's got nowhere to live we had dying a fear us. but as well as fear the floods also brought out of great heroism as the waters rose policeman. jumped in his car and started ferrying women and children to safety among the most a tightly as young daughter. as opposed to when my little girls were saved i asked her who saved her and what she said it was a mr policeman but i don't remember his name that was that she was very kind i want

to thank you for your husband's help because without it all of these kids would have died the t.v. spots have to saving so many himself was caught by the rising waters and drowned his widow has much to grieve about but she is strengthened by the knowledge that her husband would never have acted any other way most of you i'm sure he wouldn't just pass by someone in trouble for it was in his nature i was sure nothing would happen to him because he was very brave very clever and there. stories abound both tragic and horowitz of people's attempts to save their own lives and those of others and his family were lies they had to get out it was his eighty five year old grandmother who needed guiding out of the windows to safety he laid planks above the surging water. clinging to him this is if we fail if these planks would have died the water looked like it was boiling i would say all sorts. of cars were

floating around further down the street seventy three year old eve had no family to help but without her neighbors she might not have been in time i was sleeping when the neighbors came and woke me up i looked through my window and there was a sea in front of my house he see that kept growing and growing after surviving the surge by putting on top of the wardrobe he does neighbors returning to and took her out of her waterlogged house and in with them. neighbors here gave me shelter and this neighbors gave me food i'm very grateful to all those who helped me because i am an old person and i am alone from the sacrifices of those who gave everything rather than see other people danger to the kindness of neighbors in times of great need this community has experienced countless human qualities that will be much needed in the rebuilding of crims homes and communities from boston to.

all that are websites to read more about the heroism and drama and across the dar region and are to also start their latest research and photos from the disaster zone as well as a timeline of the tragedy residents are piecing their shattered lives back together trying to find hope among the ruins. also volunteer centers driven by social networks have been set up across the worst hit city of crims convoys of trucks carrying food and clothes for the floods victims are making their way to the affected. me it is easy to.

download the official ulti application to go on the phone or i pod touch from the top story. launch altie life on the go. video. ati's mind rolled costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the altie dot com. and anti regime protests has turned violent in saudi arabia two people were killed after police opened fire on demonstrators the protest was sparked by an arrest on sunday of a prominent shiite cleric the shiite minority claims it's being persecuted in saudi arabia something riyadh denies it's not the first time there have been deaths at protests in the country and manny acta start thrown behind bars what a glamorous professor aloof says saudi arabia may be one of the loudest critics of syria but uses similar tactics. when so that arabia is not on the

supplying arms it's also financing the western backed insurgency in syria and it has its long arm playing games in other places including lebanon and several countries in the gulf as well so so the policy in general as is extremely supportive of western aims especially nato and the arab homeland i think it's really funny that they should speak about this so-called dictatorship in syria when you know if we apply the same measures to so the. elections or having different political parties free press or you name that we find that so that. far behind syria and many other countries in that aids and. a series of taliban

bombing and shooting attacks across afghanistan has killed over three dozen people including children in the past two days on sunday six american soldiers died when their armored vehicle hit a bomb in the east of the country a spike in violence follows u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's visit to kabul where she declared of ghana stand washington's a major non nato ally and geopolitical analyst eric draitser believes the bloodshed won't stop the u.s. drive for regional dominance. when the united states dignitaries or those from the western powers go to afghanistan we always see a spike in violence we saw the same in iraq years ago and i think that this is part of a broader campaign to legitimize the u.s. military presence in afghanistan remember this is a very unpopular war despite what the obama administration may say and they need to find reasons why they can stay why they can legitimize their presence in a war that's now going on into its second decade the united states has been able to

justify a military presence to surround iran to export the afghan war into pakistan to destabilize a region that it sees as critical to its future power projection into central asia afghanistan is one part of a broader campaign a campaign to prevent the chinese from consolidating power in south asia a campaign to to project us hegemony for the next few decades and so in that sense the afghan war has been successful though on the surface it does seem that the united states has failed. now to some other news from around the world bahrain human rights activist has been sentenced to three months in jail for anti-government comments he made online. posted a tweet criticizing the prime minister for jobs helped organize protests in bahrain which saw the shia majority call for changes to limit the powers of the sunni ruling family officials have been under criticism for multiple violations of human rights. there is

a new showdown in egypt where the country's highest corbat by the military council insists the dismissal of the islam is dominated parliament is final said a third of lawmakers have been elected illegally this is the first major challenge for the newly elected president ordered legislators to return the military took over governing the country after barak was ousted less to your face accusations of not handing back power. rebels in the east of the democratic republic of congo have left the strategic town of true it after taking it without a fight and one talks with the government now sees a series of key towns plunging the country into its worst conflict in years the army failed to put up a fight thanks to mutiny years defecting over poor pay congo says one is backing the rebel movement in order to control its mineral wealth. the first witnesses taking the stand at the trial of rock

a lot of the former bosnian serb army commander of the dean passage described fighting burned bodies in his destroyed village. been on the run for sixteen years was arrested in serbia in a sting operation last spring he denies all charges including genocide during the war in the ninety's. now the eurozone is ready to poor of thirty billion euros into spain's beleaguered banks by the end of the month but the money may soon run dry as a german court is set to rule whether the euro zone's new bailout fund is violating germany's constitution and the unequal rules inside the currency union may prove its downfall as artists on a boycott now reports. not taking from others and not giving your own that's what made them their company grow from a small soap shop a century ago into a multi-million euro business nowadays to him iranian company is of course different from running a country or

a union of countries but all require fiscal discipline and. before we do anything there should be unified fiscal and economic policy it is not acceptable that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany and it does it in our common experience trading all across europe mr is in favor of keeping the euro what he doesn't agree with is that common currency should necessarily mean diluted responsibility in mind often forget the land i think countries like spain or greece use the euro in quite opportunist ways they used to pay eight or nine percent interest rates before joining the euro but after they came on board they got access to the low rates that germany or france enjoyed that encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with it he said to many experts this day car to me is the decor of the current euro crisis professor real him hankered one of the first and most prominent euro skeptics says europe's common currency takes away

a crucial element of the free market system that is fair competition. the common market started as a very liberal project and now says liberal project is becoming a very socialistic. former soviet union common currency means no competition between currencies. come and that means. response of the for your own debts so in russia for instance. faded away but in europe it's coming. or spirits. your crisis but i think same destiny as a soviet union those socialistic concepts cannot survive a year in germany and a euro in greece may look exactly the same but the underlying productivity is drastically different the introduction of the common currency may have promised

greeks the same living standards as in germany but didn't make them work just as effectively you cannot compare the infrastructure and the productivity of agrees of a. guy with a german guy i mean we're working until we drop in germany the euro two of the central planning close to commoners the same system that we had before one thousand nine hundred eighty nine in the east it has nothing to do with the free market it has nothing to do with capitalist because. countries cannot go bankrupt any more germany may have a generous social system but even here they deal of being a constant provider of subsidies for the rest of europe doesn't sit well with the damage auriti germany has a unique experience of dealing with both capitalist and socialist systems and while

domestically this country is all for fair competition and self-reliance in a larger european context it's pushed to choose between being and nanny and daddy state accident or car three reporting from germany. for oil companies all over the world for half a century but success never comes without consequences violence corruption and massive pollution has made a jury of one of the most dangerous parts of the world we look at why. there are those who desperately need it to survive. the spoken who is the time give money to look i'll choose my own gold in the future under suppresses the prize the rights of the. new clothes and those who don't get their share of the change. good by god flooding park place real dollars but not the one that people need to

know about it i mean look anything from the company from more be. those who suck it out to prosper. sees. some. nice nice is. no one can live without it's in one of the largest blood banks in the world. a lot of nigeria. on our t.v. . i can watch this reports throughout the day here on are. now turning to the world of business was danielle and germany's just dipped into its pockets again you know we just heard about that in your report but off the nine hours of talks in brussels another thirty billion euros to go to spain's banks but

i'm glad merkel insists madrid must get spiralling that under control revised its public deficit up from six percent to eight point nine so the money will go straight to the lenders to avoid but the states of spain with mold that check the markets because those euro zone concerns of sending the single currency down again the russian ruble is just a slight you know for a second session china says imports a surprisingly weak sending. asia down australia and miners who supply beijing are also suffering the sell off in crude is a dollar down off the top produce and norway called off the three week strike brant just holding above ninety eight dollars per cent russia another point four percent lower in the opening minutes the country's parliament meets in hoffman hours time sawing off world trade organization membership ongoing eurozone debt problems have created good boy opportunities in the e.u. we spoke to russian roadways both of them you can in. negotiations with

a representative of greece to consider the possible that all the fresh and i always in the process of privatization in greece but also interested in a position of firms in the field. because we need to sort of expertise and if you are talking about the global corridos we need this expertise even more i can say that we're interested in privatization interested in developing our collaboration with the foreign oil ways in terms of increasing the earnings of russia where we company is dog eat dog in the industry at the moment as freight operates a global trend top of the markets for almost a billion dollars is to fund acquisitions both the call good markets quote ripe for consolidation the russian firms on a spending spree recently buying roco units from the likes of ono mind the mittal invest and europe today you seem to be on the website right now cardinal thanks

very much indeed for this and of course looking forward to the next one next hour and meantime we discuss political crisis in syria in a few moments after a break here on the headlines.

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