syria's opposition says it will not engage in dialogue with the country's president and hopes that moscow will help to bring about a change in the current regime. stepped the limits after international calls for a new transitional government in syria the opposition convenes here in moscow to try to push for the removal of. emergency aid is sent to russia's flood ravaged southern region of cross where one hundred seventy people were killed tens of thousands lost. the former boss of barclays bank gives up a twenty million pounds bonus after resigning but is still in line for a very tidy payout. that you'll claim is the big bank as

a reward. at the parliamentary fail to bat. around the world twenty four hours a day this is our live from moscow rory sushi syria's main opposition alliances right here in moscow trying to negotiate the best way to put an end to continuing bloodshed in the country and the group wants to oust the current leader bashar al assad and hopes that moscow will help to oversee a transition of power more on this now it wants. no dialogue though 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 talks between the head of the syrian national council and the russian foreign minister on wednesday now for with

the violence in syria essentially entering its sixteenth 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 this kind of a demand a precondition for the removal of the syrian president for him from office goes against what was set out in the geneva talks last month which were world powers effectively decided or agreed that syrian factions the syrian people will have to negotiate this kind of process not outside powers based on what we heard from the syrian opposition today it really is unlikely that tehran is going to hold much sway over the situation at least when it comes to the opposition groups the delegate again told reporters that iran was basically accused of supporting the

assad government she said that quote the wrong played a destructive role in syria that it 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 kofi 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 the 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. reporting commenting on the u.n. envoy visit to iran over the conflict in syria one leading mideast expert says damascus into wrong seem more committed to peace than the opposition and its buckaroos. 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 the free syrian army. integrated have made it clear that they will not enter any or not contemplate any solution without the disappearance of pressure 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 in her 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 it 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 negotiations because iran is the regional player as important as egypt or 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 next hour here on r.t. the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and 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 u.s. 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 are considered enemies of the united state while here they're treated as allies.

this is r.t. thanks for joining us today coming your way just a little bit later in the program here that of a double standard in the middle east saudi arabia maybe a leading critic on syria but what it calls repression of the people of the country stands accused of not practicing what it's preaching obering of the full story in just a couple of minutes right here. russia's southern region of crush nadar 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 all volunteer workers travel to the area to help victims get back on their feet. and tells us how people of faced fear with heroism. panic on the roads of crims traffic jams and crowds of people trying to escape the town center it took just a few minutes of rumors of

a second flood to create this live jam in the streets about prince it didn't matter what your thirty's 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 me and my baby son it's likely he was nearby because just seconds after his saved us if huge wave it be. we're not just afraid we're scared to death two days ago we survived a terrible floods we've lost everything you've got nowhere to live we had dying a fear 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 the title years young daughter. was dead 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 she was very kind i want to thank you for your husband's help because without it all of these kids would have died. after 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 with you 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 heroic 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 and edged along with her clinging to him this is if we fail of these planks

we would have died the water looked like it was boiling outside all sorts of bits of debris even 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 up after surviving the surge by putting on top of a wardrobe does neighbors return and i took her out of her water logged house and in with them i love this like these neighbors here gave me shelter and this neighbors gave me food i'm very grateful to all those house because i'm an old person and i'm alone from the sacrifices of those who gave everything rather than see other 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 barton r.t.

. we have the latest details along with a timeline about disaster on our website r.t. dot com. now former barclays chief executive bob diamond has decided to forego any deferred bonuses which could be worth up to twenty million pounds they were to you following his resignation over the bank's rate rigging scandal but he could still be in line for one very tidy payoff as our correspondent laura smith reports from london. 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'm going to 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 inquiries aimed at finding. who was involved at barclays did the bank of england 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 talk of 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 that the whole financial system needs reviewing we've seen earlier this week a key participant in bob diamond's cross-examination by the treasury select committee saying that m.p.'s are powerless to get to the truth of what actually happens and said that 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 at morning meetings or none of that kind of information hardly any e-mail trails all they've got to go. regulator reports and what's being reported in the media 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 warts 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. or smith reporting quite that while i still had for you this hour you're out see from the british banking crisis to the european debt crisis find out why many many are saying that all euros are not created equal when it comes to fair competition

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it is a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital this is. at least two people have been killed when saudi police opened fire on the regime demonstrators the protests following the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric and government opponent on sunday the shia minority claims it's being persecuted in saudi arabia something the author of these deny political analyst professor believes riyadh is are ultimately contradicting its ideology. 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.

extremely supportive of western aims especially nights. in the arab homeland i think it's funny that they said speak about his so-called dictatorship in syria when you know if we apply the same measures to so the. elections are having different political parties or a free press. that we find that. far behind syria and many other countries and their needs and. but i do remember that all of our stories and so much more always available for you lying about our own comments have a look and see what's out lined up for you there right now for example offline 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. also online reports of a sharp rise in cell phone tracking without

a warrant in america it's raising public fears that big brother surveillance is getting out of hand. we are not far off from the world update here on r t but for now a german court is set to rule on whether the euro zone's last resort bailout fund was just designed to safeguard the euro is constitutional opponents of the fund say the plan threatens the rights of german citizens by giving brussels the power to spend their money meanwhile many worry that inequalities among e.u. nations may lead to the currency's downfall this story to r.t. is oksana boyo. 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 running a company is of course different from running a country or union of countries but all require fiscal discipline and i think it is before we do anything. policy it is not acceptable that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany and it does in. 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 for getting the land i think countries like spain will 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 and now says liberal project is becoming a very socialistic pol pot's a former soviet union common currency means says the competition between currencies. common debts means. response ability for your own debts so in russia for instance. faded away but a new hope it's coming. course. i see your crisis but i think the same destiny as in soviet union there's also a list a concept cannot survive a year in germany and

a year 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 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 de dios being a constant provider of subsidies for the rest of europe doesn't sit well with

a demand jury to 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. meanwhile the eurozone is preparing to pump thirty billion euros into spanish banks by the end of this 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 leaders from britain and france are holding talks today to try and develop a strategy to tackle the euro crisis david cameron of france were aiming to set a clear plan for europe despite differences of opinion when it comes to fiscal policy for the two of certainly clashed on economic issues in the past with cameron calling for budget restraint and all and the pushing for more public spending this is the french president's first visit britain since taking office two months ago.

we'll see katy soon for the business for now the world update will start with egypt 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 but 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 and the rising political tensions. tough new 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 the european ban on buying the country's oil sanctions are intended to put pressure on iran over its

nuclear program with the west suspecting it's trying to build nuclear weapons which tehran denies. a rebel advance has forced residents to flee their homes in the eastern democratic republic of congo panic has increased after the evacuation of un and independent aid agencies fighting between rebels and the congolese army has flared up since april ending a two year peace now with about two hundred thousand people being displaced there are fears the conflict could drag the country into yet another cycle of violence. off the coast we go there you are good to see you again so are russia's accession to the w t o it's been a long time coming what's the latest absolutely i'm following this story rory because it's all going on today actually we know it's been eighteen days in the running in the russian state duma has agreed now to the terms of the w t i contact membership that happens in the last hour say today a little details on that later in the meantime though we're going to head over into

the european markets and see how investors are reacting to what you were just talking. florrie all the details coming out of spain we know that the european governments have agreed to jump start the one hundred thousand one hundred twenty three billion dollars in the emergency loans to sure up spanish banks not really helping to boost in the med also u.s. stock futures are getting off the report showed u.k. it today's manufacturing unexpectedly rose in may and that's helping to reassure investors concerns that europe will now not drag down the global economy as a whole if we get into the common currency was to the business in a fraction against the dollar this on the ruble is managing to strengthen against the major currencies in the session as goes to russia and see that the most go x. is the still getting the solve today another can set to close out the day above the water line is a big day for russia the parliament has approved the russia's w.t.r. membership as i was saying and although the government says the entry losses could

reach the billion dollars that could be below a growing foreign trade so we spoke to each of our south and is of all that and he outlines this life will get easier straightaway. the export sectors such as. chemicals to some degree and part of the reason there is that these are precisely the sectors of antidumping duty's against russian producers is concentrated. 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. and stanley ross event just from says have been growing as it meets investors in europe and the states because major is raising money to develop the outtake and ejects price in all the region is

expensive cost hundreds of billions of dollars so let's have a look at the or prices now we can see that they are indeed still dropping for the day in four days away and to the strike that threatened to halt production by western europe's knowledge is crude exports of all china are reduced the commodity . your is in debt problems have created good buying opportunities in the. russian ball spot. on this topic. we are in negotiations with the representatives of greece to consider the possible with all the pressure that always in the process is with privatization and greece also interested in a position of some firms in the field. because we need the sort of expertise if you are pushing the boulder global corridos we need the six parties even more. interested in privatization interested in developing

a bracelet with the forum their ways in terms of increasing earnings for russia where we company. well right next hour i'm going to be talking about the i mean for wall street that be up and running so you than. just a moment here on the headlines then we will be backed up with a very interesting documentary about the past and future of the baltic state of lust for you to stay with us here are not.

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