syria's opposition says the one. with the country's president and hopes will help to bring about a change in the current regime. diplomacy to the limits after international calls for a new transitional government in syria the opposition candidates here in moscow to try to push for the removal of president bashar al assad. russia's a flood ravaged the southern region where over one hundred sixty people were killed and tens of thousands lost. on the former boss of barclays bank gives up a twenty million pound bonus after resigning. for a tidy payoff that claims that big bankers are rewarded. wrongdoing

as the parliamentary failed. on screen online international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow this is. russia says it's ready to host another meeting of world powers over the continuing violence in syria members of the main syrian opposition alliance are in moscow and have reiterated their main aim is to oust the current leader bashar al assad. reports. 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 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 they're 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 way 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 kopi 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 up 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. when it's a good moral new diplomatic efforts on syria. from beirut based middle east expert risk well the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov meets with the syrian national council tomorrow here in moscow which is repeated today that toppling president assad is their key goal so what's the purpose of these talks then if the opposition as already made up its mind that it will not talk until assad is gone.

well i think that there has to be a continuation of talking in order to improve the situation on the ground of course people just can't sit idly by think that the see you have to remember here that the s.n.c. the national council doesn't represent all of the syrians and i think with some pressure being poured on the u.s. and see if there might be a change of mind you have to recall here that. the western powers and the other our powers of the world have stated very clearly that they want out of power for example hillary clinton not all of that but for the days are numbered and i think that these members of the syrian national council are very much influenced than actually i have to say as to why this state visit to the stance of the west in general so when they're when they said done with the opposition i think of mr in one way or another this means that russia is sitting down in directly with the west and the west and so what happens internationally i believe here is very important

if the west for example if we see a change in stance on the part of the west then i think you will see very simply a sea change in stance on the part of the opposition specifically the s.n.c. and do you think moscow will succeed in putting pressure on the opposition in this meeting because it is significant isn't it the opposition is meeting moscow when of course russia has been criticized for supporting the regime that of course the opposition wants to topple. yes i think that actually that's very interesting i think that the russians have shown that they have the more even handed approach previously has been accused of being. more in favor of the regime or in favor. however i think this shows as i've said more even had that most of the u.s. on the other hand can be beautiful here war can be accused of being in favor or of one side and not in favor of the other it has cut off all back to what so whether whatsoever with the regime with the government of bashar assad so it was

a very very smart step by the russians which shows credibility which also shows that the russians are the ones who are looking for a solution because they are the ones opening and communicating with both sides and coffee on him software was appointed by by the un and by the arab league he was also saying that there are two sides to the conflict and there are two sides of who we must talk to and more importantly he's confessing that there are two armed sides the regime on the one hand and the armed opposition he said this very clearly i quote armed opposition this is what kofi annan said and so the russian approach is in line with the coffee and an approach the six point plan and so i think what this does is exposes more and more the one sidedness on the part of those who really want to do whatever they can to get bashar assad out of power and of course you're referring to the the western powers there which kofi annan has been representing as

the envoy to the u.n. but it's significant that kofi annan isn't involved in these talks of course between russia and the opposition so do you think in some ways that perhaps he could be irrelevant now and the u.n. efforts if we see some sort of success in moscow. well i think often urns role in the end is in the spencer war the six point plan is the main bases so you know his role will continue our regarding success in moscow as i said that it appears that now the tide is turning in favor of what we could call the russian chinese iranian club i mean coffee island right after visiting bashar assad he goes ahead and pays a visit to iran and there he is by the by the way he is in iraq and of course there are no and according to my information during his talks with the shot i said he focused on the geneva meeting and didn't give any importance or didn't even mention the so-called friends of syria meeting which was held in france meaning i think

that i learned knows that the solution of lawyers with russia iran and china and that the u.s. really here has limited ability and that the u.s. just briefly earlier it's just briefly the u.s. have dismissed any involvement by tehran how significant is that all is that not a worry. when they are so there is another is not something i know unexpected i mean both the bar gulf countries saudi arabia and qatar and israel are on the same page here a lot being in the obama administration we have elections coming up in november and of course you're going to hear these comments from the white house however just briefly my information from washington is that the u.s. will tolerate is not welcome in welcoming but it won't tolerate iran and playing a certain role and if that is true there is certainly a second breakthrough and it's bad news for the biggest enemy is so who are his very own and the persian gulf countries like saudi arabia and qatar one significant development and that is of course russia has been accused of supplying arms to the

assad regime now is saying it is not supplying any more new arms to syria but what about those countries giving weapons to the rebels will they stop to. i think that's the biggest challenge the biggest challenge to the success of all these diplomatic activity the florey is this issue which you just mentioned the sending of arms no i don't especially now after iran is seeing as playing a bigger role i think this will very much and i don't go the persian gulf countries saudi arabia qatar because they have been so enthusiastically asked of us shutterstock or the i am of dealing king syria from iran and weakening iran because they have a sectarian view of things and against the shia are regime or a shiite country iran is sort of for this reason i think that more iranian of will lead to more escalation and more sending of weapons from saudi arabia and qatar to the rebels or to the terrorist groups inside syria which will lead to more violence

so i think we're in for a very escalated period and i think no no these are persian gulf countries well actually now choose to escalate their stance and even send more and more weapons to these armed groups interesting perspective thank you very much indeed middle east expert ali of his from lebanon joining us live there thank you so much for your time. latest revised figures say over one hundred sixty people have died in russia's southern region of klassen adar after a devastating floods swept through the region on friday night humanitarian aid is pouring in from across the country while volunteer workers travel to the area to help victims get back on their feet tells us how people have faced fear with heroism. panic on the roads of crims traffic jams and crowds of people try to escape the town center it took just a few minutes of the rumors of a second flood to create this live in the streets above crims it didn't matter what the 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 me and my baby son it's likely he was nearby because just seconds after his saved us a huge wave appeared we're not just afraid we're scared to death two days ago we survived a terrible floods we've lost everything we've got nowhere to live we are dying of fear. 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. when my little girl was saved i asked her who saved her 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 he 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 among them with her clinging to him if we fail of these pranks 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 eve had no family to help her but without her neighbors she might not have been in time i was sleeping when the neighbors came in 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 he does neighbors returning to and took her out of her waterlogged house and in with them these neighbors here give me shelter and this neighbors give 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 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 and communities tom barton r.t. . what he's done his blog has been witnessing the work of volunteers in the

aftermath of the devastating disaster he spoke with some of the survivors and those reaching out to help them. these people just arrived from the i.c.c. they were volunteers notice he's also suffered from the flood but not as badly as claims that they brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris and they are helping one of the families living here in the very outskirts of grimm's one of the places where the water was the highest about and then word stream was destroying houses was going through them for more ground but other than what we're trying to help older people were doing what they ask as a house nearby fell apart we were helping a seventy two year old owner salvage what was left of his belongings. beside still volunteers and emergency workers there a priest with groups of the group of priests from sochi who brought food to people they talk to everyone they try to help because besides the cleanup and besides humanitarian aid many people need counseling when i get back with the water here

there's food ready for you know borscht soup poor ridge water bread the number one you were i fear that such strong grain could cause a flood when i stood up from the sofa the rugs were floating water was reaching my ankles i rushed to the whole way by that time the level of water which to my chest . it was how fido plays now more mostly one can do you need to count goods we can see here women yes they'll come in handy on you then when i'm rebuilding my house or a course that's delicious. besides the massive cleanup operation that we saw in the streets of claims there is another factor which is very important at this moment with more volunteers arriving people get psychological help they get support the most powerful message of the day that they are getting is that they are not alone that has. crossed into our region. we've the latest details along with the

timeline of the disaster on our website r.t. dot com. the news not here not to fall the barclays chief executive bob diamond has decided to forego the deferred bonuses which could be worth up to twenty million pounds they would do following his resignation over the bench rate rigging scandal but he could still be in line for. in london reports 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 now 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 at finding who was involved at barclays did the bank of england in the week we heard paul tucker who's the deputy governor of the bank of england saying no 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 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 transcript of what's been happening at morning meetings and none of that kind of answers. hardly any e-mail trail all they've got to go on is the regulator 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 what 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. in london while still ahead. from the british banking crisis to the european debt crisis. why many in germany are saying that all euros are not created equal when it comes to competition within the single currency zone. and here are some optimism is high after the parliament upgrade to the final days out of the w t i. although it may not be immediately a benefit for joining me in the business but it is about five minutes time what happened that i feel for you. a brief look now at some of the stories making

headlines across the world the egyptian parliament to the 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 these two cream corn yukari last month the parliament met in defiance of the ruling after a call from the new president mohamed morsi it's the latest confrontation between the new leader and the military amid rising political tensions. union force u.s. and e.u. sanctions have driven iran to shut down oil wells cutting production to its lowest levels in two decades move is likely to mean a loss of billions of dollars in revenue to run a 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 put pressure on iran over its nuclear program with the west suspecting it's trying to build nuclear weapons which to iran denies it. a rebel advances force 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 with two hundred thousand people being displaced there are fears the conflict could drag the country into another cycle of violence. a german court is set to rule on whether the eurozone is a last resort bailout fund which is 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 current his downfall as the story. not taking from others and not giving your own that's what made this 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 they should be unified school and 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 forget the land i think countries like 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 and france enjoyed that encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with these seventeen to many experts this dichotomy is a decor of the current europe 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 no competition between currencies. common debts means. sponsibility for your own debts so in russia for instance. but in europe it's coming. or spread. your crisis but i think. in the. 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 of the productivity of agrees of a. guy with a german guy i mean we are working until we drop in germany the euro two of the central planning close to commoners 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. the euro zone's preparing to pump thirty billion euros into spanish banks by the end of the month with madrid expected to get a further year's grace to cut its budget deficit to three percent meanwhile the british and french leaders have met in london to discuss the eurozone debt crisis both leaders said they share a common interest in the past of growth and recovery david cameron stated that action agreed in recent. taken immediately with plans for a banking union. bank you conclusion that you have clashed on the economic. issues in the polls will come in calling for restraint pushing for more public spending it's the french president's first visit to britain since taking office. well as promised we're now joined by casey on the business desk to fill a similar w. details in the market update has been

a good day for russia so far than it has been that's what they've been waiting for nearly nineteen years in the making and today the state duma they officially signed the documents so we had investors very happy indeed and they demonstrated that in the bourses we'll have a look at the figures a little later on in more detail to the topic and the result of this checkouts overall story as you can see that they're still struggling up for direction and i can tell you in the last few minutes or so we have seen this is like gains that stay on the dow gained it must be said that it's the nasdaq that is due to killie suffering a lot because it's very tech heavy and it's the technology side to this really suffering in state of the european officials moved to both the spanish banks as you've been talking about it so we also had the battery data come from britain that is slowly out with other moms with the european biggest select as well as you can see their gains for the c. and that. if we look at the common currency with these it is managing to what we

have a look actually because it is if we try to never know what's going to one twenty two fifty eight is new using ever such a fraction again the u.s. dollar is still lost because investors a really big going to a place a haven it must be said we've also got the group was hoping to stop today it was a rather better more positive day the most encouraging gains against us and the you're right the russian markets are mentioned it is worth gaining in this session as you can see they closed up on a high above the waterline it was indeed a big day for russia the parliament did indeed improve the terms of the w.c. membership over the government says three losses it could reach thirteen billion dollars but could lower due to the growing four and try that's what's going to happen in the long run so people are hoping for. lizza valek out lies whose life will get easier straightaway. the exports.

are chemicals to some degree and part of the reason there is that these are precisely the sectors the bulk of anti-dumping duties against russian producers is concentrated. in the w t o it will have the benefit of countering foreign protectionism and accordingly russian producers and actors in steel and chemicals will be able to bypass foreign protectionism to overcome it and to export more of their goods abroad. than we brush against them shares are growing as it meets investors in europe and the states the gas major is raising money to develop the take energy exploration of the region is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars so let's have a look at the oil prices they are still dropping. in for norway and did a strike that threatened the whole production by western europe's largest group. and we also had china reducing the commodity well so that's all the time to pull

this out bear love back about fifty minutes thanks a lot because you could see that more from kansas she says a bit later a female athletes will become russia's flag bearer the sum of the first time that's ever happened. in our sports update. but first a recap of the headlines coming in two minutes from now stay with us live in moscow .

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