syria's opposition says it will not engage in dialogue with the country's president and hopes moscow will help to bring about a change in the current regime. well it's diplomacy to the limits after during international calls for a new transitional government in syria the opposition convenes here in moscow to try to push for the removal of president. emergency aid to russia as a flood ravaged southern region of krasnodar well over a hundred and seventy people were killed and tens of thousands lost their homes. on the former boss of barclays bank gives up a twenty million pound bonus after resigning but he's still in line for a tidy payoff fuelling claims that big bankers get rewarded regardless of alleged

wrong. worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me rule research showing syria's main opposition alliances here in moscow trying to negotiate the best way to put an end to continuing bloodshed in the country the group wants to oust the current leader bashar al assad and hopes that moscow will help to oversee a transition of power. standing by outside the foreign ministry headquarters here in moscow let's cross over to her lucy good to see you is certainly an important day for diplomacy what we're hearing so far. well no dialogue with the government of president bashar al assad that was the main message from syria's main opposition group which is convened here on the eve of topps between the. head of

the syrian national council and the russian foreign minister on an un tuesday answer when say now for it with the violence in syria essentially entering its sixteen months all sides do agree on the need for some sort of a transitional government in syria some sort of a transition in that country the divisions however are over what role if any president bashar al assad should play in this transition now for the s.n.c. again this is the main opposition group for syria there negotiating position there precondition is that assad is removed from power before any negotiations over a new government take place in fact that statement was reiterated today when the s.n.c. delegate told reporters quote there could be no dialogue with the ruling regime there can only be talks on how to switch to a quote new political system effectively they want action before any sort of talks take place so you see as you say the opposition members are here in moscow right now that they're hoping to find some sort of a peaceful result to to to as you were saying the end of the assad regime and yet

all the time they're saying they're on willing to pursue any type of dialogue but the problem is that they know the russia stands by their unity government proposal laid down recently in geneva so so what if any what would all the opposition goals in moscow with the moment. i mean based on what we've heard from the press conference earlier by the syrian national council they really dug in their heels i mean perhaps their goal is suspected lee change russia's mind and try to bring the russian government to their side so to speak again the s.n.c. delegate when speaking to reporters said they were hoping that russia will quote turn the page linked with the old regime and switch to a new democratic system again a force of this kind of demand a precondition for the removal of the syrian president or form from office goes against what was set out in the geneva talks last month which were world powers back to the lead decided or agreed that syrian factions the syrian people will have to. this kind of process not outside powers before and he's part of sort of

dialogue takes place within the country so if you see one of the black sheep of the global community certainly black painted by the west out of iran we all know iran is a supporter of the current syrian regime but it never took part in negotiations of a serious future do you think that tehran cash really helped to settle the crisis. but based on what we heard from the syrian opposition today it really is unlikely that tehran is going to hold up much sway over the situation at least when it comes to the opposition groups the delegate again told reporters that iran was decently accused of supporting the assad government she said that quote the wrong played a destructive role in syria that have participated in the crimes of the all saud regime that was in the delegates words but this statement of course comes on the heels of hopefully on a visit to tehran in hopes of convincing the islamic republic to lend some say to try to use some of its influence to sort of quell the violence there but again with

this kind of really tough rhetoric against head of the talks it's really difficult to see how these groups are going to look at iran as a sort of influential ally in any sort of potential peace negotiations or talking so there's a couple that lived in central moscow thank you. think and commenting on the u.n. envoy visit to iran over the conflict in syria one leading mideast expert says damascus and to wrong seem more committed to peace than the opposition and its backers. kofi annan had full cooperation from both governments and they going along with his plan for negotiations without preconditions the problems he's going to encounter is when he begins talking to the other side because the syrian national council and the free syrian army both of course are integrated have made it clear that they will not enter any or not contemplate any solution without the disappearance of bashar al assad from the same he cannot be a part of the negotiations and they have the united states behind them hillary

clinton has been very forthright manner of the last couple of weeks you might remember that only a few days ago she told the new so-called friends of syria meeting in paris that russia and china should have to pay a price for staying on the sidelines as she called her well of course what she calls staying off the sidelines of. russia and china blocking any attempt by nature to bomb syria although the fact that iran wasn't invited to the geneva summit last month of just one thing which is that the friends of syria so-called don't want iran to be part of any negotiations and i think the point should be when we look at the only regional situation that iran should be part of any sense because iran is a regional player as important as egypt as egypt as turkey but the fact is that for reasons of their own the united states in particular but supported by the gulf states and picked by saudi arabia want to totally excluded iran and keep it on the sidelines and this underlines the point that what's happening in syria from their

point of view is also about iran it's not just about the future of syria. and a lot of us are here on r.t. you're the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament says that washington support for the syrian rebels simply put doesn't make any sense. 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. when it's good to have you with us here on our t.v. today just a bit later in the program of that of a double standard in the middle east saudi arabia may be a leading critic of syria what it calls for oppression of the people of the country stands accused of not practicing what it's preaching premier the full story in just

a couple of minutes here on r.t. . now russia's southern region of crushing adar is slowly trying to recover after a devastating flood killed over one hundred seventy people on friday night humanitarian aid is pouring in from all across the country while volunteer work has traveled to the area to help victims get back on their feet. and tells us how the people have faced fear with her it was. panic on the roads of crims traffic jams and crowds of people tried to escape the town center it took just a few minutes of rumors of a second flood to create this live in the streets above prince it didn't matter what the author of he 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 many to stop thinking about that night when my husband managed to save me and my baby son it's like he was

nearby because just seconds after his saved us if you do a. period but we're not just afraid we're scared to death two days ago we survived the terrible floods we've lost everything you've got nowhere to live we had dying a fear of us. but as well as fear the floods also brought out acts of great heroism as the waters rose policeman. jumped in his car and started ferrying women and children to safety among them was to talia's young daughter. as opposed to when my little girl was saved i asked her who saved her life she said it was a mr policeman but i don't remember his name as he was very kind i want to thank you for your husband's help because without it all of these kids would have died do you suppose after saving so many just laugh 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 i'm sure she wouldn't just pass by someone in trouble it was in his nature i was sure nothing would happen to him because he was very brave very clever and very decisive. stories abound both tragic and her roic 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 with water and edged along the way with her clinging to him this is if we fail of these planks we 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 eva had no family to help her 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 is she there kept growing and growing after surviving

the surge by putting on top of a wardrobe ito's neighbors return and took her out of her water logged house and in with them these neighbors here gave me shelter and this neighbors gave me food i am 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 in 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 communities tom boston r.t. . and we have the latest details along with the timeline of the disaster on our website r.t. dot com. now former barclays chief executive bob diamond has decided to forego any deferred bonuses worth an estimated twenty million pounds he was due to receive the money as

a pay off following his resignation in the wake of the bank's rate rigging scandal correspondent in london laura smith out with us live from on this story oh and laura so mr big shot bob diamond just a few million pounds short is a. he is certainly this is all come out as a result of the questioning today of marcus agius who's the barclays chairman it's been reported that m.p.'s on the treasury select committee have given him a relatively tough time he says he deeply regrets what's happened at barclays and he's truly story and during the course of his evidence it came out that bob diamond is indeed going to give up his twenty million pounds bonus now he's only going to take his salary and his pension allowance and that amounts to a grand total of two million pounds i say that again two million pounds that's three point one million dollars that he gets despite the fact that he has had to resign because the bank's board lost confidence in him obviously that is a great deal of money by anybody's measure no this inquiry is all about finding out

who knew what this lowballing of libel rates what barclays was doing was essentially submitting lower rates for lending money to other banks to make the bank appear stronger than it actually was during the banking crisis the inquiry is aimed out finding who knew what who was involved at barclays did the bank of england earlier in the week we heard paul tucker who's the deputy government governor of the bank of england saying no he hadn't known but a string of e-mails suggests otherwise it's just certainly a certain amount of complicity between the bank of england and bankers and in turn civil servants paul tucker during the course of it his evidence also issued a warning he said that he thinks that the libel rigging is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the scandal and that the whole financial system needs reviewing or so you're saying when it comes to mr diamond or foregoing a twenty billion pound bonuses you are saying that with a pension and possible salary he's still going to get a couple mil

a great deal of money as you were saying earlier to anyone like you or me or the average person perhaps and his circle of friends are just chump change i know you are suggesting that investigators are moving closer to finding the truth but when it comes to the whole. any other details that you can tell us well we see earlier this week a key participant involved aman's cross-examination by the treasury select committee saying that m.p.'s are powerless to get to the truth of what actually happened and let's instead she thought it was fair to call the investigation useless she says they've got no information to go on m.p.'s they've got no transcripts of what's been happening of morning meetings or none of that kind of information hardly any e-mail trails all they've got to go on is regulated reports and what's being reported in the media so that's going to raise a lot of questions about whether we'll actually know whatever what happens during this banking scandal and who knew was of course there is going to be this largescale parliamentary inquiry into the whole dirty business but if banks close

ranks then the m.p.'s can then get the information that they need to really you know people are asking how can that possibly work david cameron the prime minister has already rejected a judge that inquiry saying that's going to take too long meanwhile bob diamond specifically his evidence is being slammed by a variety of m.p.'s across the spectrum which ranges from calling it inconsistent to not entirely honest right up to simply unbelievable so it looks like he may be recalled but of course the question on everyone's lips is if m.p.'s can't get to the bottom of what actually happens then who will. be lower and certainly there are two throughout the day mark's cars are the cars report they're trying to get to the bottom of this so certainly this is not the last we've heard of it r.t. is laura smith in london thank you. so i will still have you this hour here on r t from the british banking crisis to the european debt crisis find out why many many are saying that old euros are not created equal when it comes to fair competition within the single season. you're watching r.t.

at least two people have been killed when saudi police opened fire on anti regime demonstrators at a protest followed the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric and government opponent on sunday the shia minority claims it's being persecuted in saudi arabia it's something the authorities deny political analyst professor believes the reality is contradicting its own ideology . when so there is not only 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 the policy in general 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 the so

that. the elections are having different political parties free press or you name it we find that so they. are behind syria and many other countries in the region. now i do remember that all of our stories and much much more always available for you on line just log on to our team don't call here are some of the items we got lined up for you right now on line offensive the russian version of the wiki pedia free information website has shut down for a day in protest of. what it's taking a stand against. all the online for you reports of a sharp rise in cell phone tracking without a warrant in america by raising public fears that big brother surveillance is getting out of hand.

just a few moments on the world update here on r.t. for now though a german court is set to rule on whether the euro zone's last resort bailout fund which is designed to safeguard the euro is constitutional opponents of the fund said the plan threatens the rights of german citizens by giving brussels the power to spend money meanwhile many worry that inequalities among e.u. nations may lead to the currencies down for this story now to ati's oxana point. not taking from others and not giving your 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 i think it is before we do anything this should be unified school and economic policy it is not acceptable

that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany and it does it at 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 with greece use the euro in quite opportunistic 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 low rates that germany or france enjoyed that encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with the seventeen to many experts this dichotomy is a 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 mean says the competition between currencies. common debts means. response of billy t. for your own debts so in russia for instance. faded away but in new york it's coming. or spirits. your crisis but i think the same destiny as a soviet union there's also a list a concept cannot survive a year in germany and here in greece it 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 the. guy with the german guy i mean we are working until we drop here in germany the euro two of the central planning close to communist system the same system that we had before nine hundred eighty nine in the east it has nothing to do with the free market it has nothing to do with capitalist because entities countries and banks 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 majority 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 push to choose between being and nanny and daddy

state accident or car three reporting from germany. meanwhile the eurozone is preparing to pump thirty billion euros into spanish banks by the end of the month e.u. finance ministers are also expected to give madrid an extra year to cut its budget deficit to three percent it comes as the leaders from britain and france are holding talks today to develop a strategy to tackle the euro crisis by david cameron. aiming to set a clear plan for europe despite differences of opinion when it comes to fiscal policy or to have clashed on economic issues in the past cameron calling for budget restraint and pushing for more public spending but this is the french president's first visit to britain taking office two months ago. part a straight to egypt now to start of the r.t. world update it's where the parliament has convened for a brief session despite being ordered by the military to dissolve it was elected earlier this year after the country's first general election since the revolution

it was banned by the supreme court in cairo last month the parliament met in defiance of the ruling after a call from the new president mohamed morsi it is the latest confrontation between the new leader and the military amid rising political tensions. police have arrested an armed man who had taken the hostages at a parish school he had been holding a parent who had come to drop off a child after releasing a group of children he had kept captive for a time of the incident happened in the community suburb of a victory store sun the complex which is open despite the school holidays the hostage taker who's in his thirty's is in custody but it's not thought to have any prior police. you western sanctions are already forcing iran to shut off wells in its vast oil fields production has been cut to the lowest levels in two decades meaning billions of dollars in lost revenue one senior iranian official

says a private oil export group has been set up to try to bypass a european ban on buying the country's oil the sanctions are intended to pressurize iran over its nuclear program with the west suspecting it's trying to build nuclear weapons which tehran denies. over the case we go the r.t. if you're in it's just good to see you today or last hour daniel was telling me it's not all looking too bad. so they have come and mum says some green car is that israel the go because i'm positive figures to look out we've got u.s. futures they're actually advancing at the moment there's been a report saying that u.k. amount of factoring unexpectedly rose in and that is easing concerns that your will be a drag on the global economy now let's talk about the european markets i id's still getting a. if it was announced that thirty billion euros which is thirty six point nine billion dollars would be available to assist spain's banks by the end of the month as you can see the first. on that up so over one percent opposed to how the common

currency as you can see it is indeed gaining swung into gains it's also a little bit of traction in the last hour though it's one twenty two eighty three still moistening around those two year lows the ruble though is managing to strengthen against the major current says that brings us on to the russian forces that will see moskos growing in the afternoon after president putin said the state should follow all rule steps example and height dividends to shareholders also here brush in the state duma is scheduled to vote on the terms of russia's w.t.r. membership today earlier today we spoke to the chief economist of. there's a balik about the widows and he spoke about the results. the export sectors such as the steel structure chemicals to some degree and part of the reason there is that these are precisely the sectors of antidumping beauty's against russian producers is concentrated once russia is in the w t o it will have the benefit of

countering foreign protectionism and accordingly russian producers and the sectors in steel and chemicals will be able to bypass foreign protectionism to overcome it and to export more of their goods abroad. gas from shows are growing as it meets investors in europe and the states the gas smell as raising money to develop the arctic and the expiration of the region will cost hundreds of billions of dollars so that brings us on to the oil markets and we did have a strike in norway prices all dropping a time in four days no way and did this strike that was the wrestling to help production up by western europe's largest crude export so while trying to reduce this is all they come out and say now all during euro zone debt problems have created good buying opportunities in the e.u. we spoke to russia rollways boss about them

a decade in his but he said it's. brian negotiations with representatives over for greece to consider the possible that all the pressure that always in the process is for privatization but also interest to be in a position of some firms in the field for just because we need this sort of expertise if you are pushing the ball to global corridos when you disagree with you even more i can say that the interested privatization the interested in developing corporation with the forum their ways in terms of increasing earnings or for russia where we company. well we i'll be back in about fifteen minutes for you lots of updates lots of figures also business as per usual thank you see you later. just remember the headlines are then i will be backing that up with a rather introspective interview on the ongoing syrian crisis.

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