syria's opposition says it will go to gate and dialogue with the country's president and hopes moscow will help to bring about a change in the current regime. at the moment 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 presence bashar al assad. also this hour emergency aid sent to russia's flood ravaged southern region of krasnodar wherever one hundred sixty people were killed and tens of thousands lost their homes. and the former boss of barclays bank gives up a twenty million pound bonus after resigning but is still in line for a tidy payoff. that fuel claims the big bang because

a rewarded stiff allegedly wrongdoing at the parliamentary grilling failed to back any freight. on screen online international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow this is good to have you with us 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 here 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 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 loads 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 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 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. you see coming over that wolf i'm going now. washington and edward spend elsie's the law editor of the executive intelligence review news magazine well the syrian opposition said today they hope the moscow will help to bring about a change in the current regime how can they really expect that considering moskos always stressed that it will not take sides in this conflict well i i don't think

they can expect that russia and president putin have been very firm. that they are not going to participate in regime change and overthrowing president assad has been very important that president putin has done this that he has stood firm on this issue had he not stood firm on this we would probably be. in a regional war or world war three at this point because the intention of the british obama who is a british puppet french turkey is to force russia to back down make concessions and the fact that russia has not done this i think the world owes a debt of gratitude because this is only been that factor plus the u.s. military opposition has been what has prevented the war so far for these talks the opposition of already said they will no end to into any dialogue with sad do you think most code could put pressure on the opposition to change their mind on this

stance. perhaps i think the fact that the president putin was meeting or lavrov meeting with the opposition groups. is a good sign russia has played a very consistent grohl in this as opposed to the. u.s. and the british have done the obama administration which is to take a very one sided sort of unilateral approach going for military intervention under the guise of what's called humanitarian intervention. the kofi annan plan is the only way out of this thing which means a dialogue between the groups and resolution of the conflict by dialogue and not by armed force president assad has agreed to a new u.n. peace plan containing the most violent areas in syria saying. that he will build up his peace initiative from that do you think stopping this fall in the country if it

is achieved it will be something that the west will actually that he is trying to do something. i doubt it i doubt that the british or bomber will acknowledge anything they seem determined to keep the violence going and to portray all the violence as the fault of the assad government when in fact much of the atrocities if not the majority of them have been committed by the opposition who involve the saal of. all kinds of extremists. and the west refuses to acknowledge his brother arming arming and encouraging these people rather than approaching it even handedly and i think kofi annan is initiative with the support of russia is the only way that this conflict could be resolved and the problem is of course all meaning people that really nobody knows who they are the syrian opposition lacks any sort of political he can hear it's disagreements culminating in fistfights recently i mean is it rational for western nations to continue

supporting them when they really don't know who they are what they made up all. well there is nothing rational about the process and this is why the u.s. military and the joint chiefs of staff have been very firmly opposed to military intervention. but the obama administration many people in the state department. are promoting intervention they don't care what the truth of the matter is they don't care who's responsible all the propaganda is to portray the government as responsible and the the opposition as a bunch of saints when in fact the worst atrocities against civilians and syrian security forces have been committed by the opposition with the implicit backing of the british the french the turkish the saudis the guitars and the obama administration. countries that but of course u.n.

envoy kofi annan has been visiting iran and iraq today trying to reach out to the syrian allies to stop the bloodshed just how influential can then participation be in solving this crisis now well it's it stands to reason that if you're going to resolve a conflict like this the same thing was true with iraq and the same thing is true with afghanistan you need the neighboring countries involved iran is an important factor in syria iraq has been through the same type of situation with the sunni extremist al-qaeda and in fact iraq has warned syria and had been asking syria to crack down with syria and it recognizes that even though we rock as a u.s. ally and that al qaeda and various all of physics very mr part of the opposition. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts a great to hear from the lower editor of executive intelligence review joining me live there in washington thank you time. you're welcome.

latest revised figures say over one hundred sixty people died in russia's southern region across nadar 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 r.t. tom barton 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 rumors of a second flood to create this live jam 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 but 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 to talia's young daughter. as opposed to when my little girls were 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 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 there is a size of. 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. clinging to him this is if we fail if these planks 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 but without her neighbors she might not have been in time i was sleeping when the neighbors came in welcome me out 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 their. 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 and communities tom barton r.t. . has been witnessing the work of volunteers in the aftermath of the devastating disaster in spoke with some of the survivors and those reaching out to help them. these people just arrived from the i.c.c. they are volunteers i 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're helping one of the families living here in the very outskirts of grimm's one of the places where the water was that high as they were and then word stream was destroying houses was going through them for more ground but other of them were trying to help older people that 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. his side still volunteers and emergency workers there a priest with saw groups a group of priests from sochi who brought food to people they talked to everyone they tried to help because besides the cleanup and besides humanitarian aid many people need counseling we're going to get more sure there's food ready for you know borscht soup poor ridge water bread the number one you were you i feared that such strong grain could cause a flood when i stood up from the sofa the rugs were floating the water was reaching

my ankles i rushed to the whole way by that time the level of force here which to my chest. it was outside of the place now more than most me was going through you need to count goods we can see here women you still come in handy on you than when i'm rebuilding my house or of 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. and i just remind you we have the latest details along with the timeline of the disaster on our website. followed by. chief executive bob garment has decided to go for which could be worth up to twenty million pounds he would do for his resignation over the bank's rate rigging scandal but he could still be in line for

tardy payoff as a correspondent nor smith in london now 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 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 was involved at barclays did that 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 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 or none of that kind of information hardly any. trail's 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're 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. still ahead for you this hour from the british banking crisis to the european debt crisis to find out why many of germany are saying that all euros are not created equal when it comes to fair competition within the single currency zone. and here in the us are to more than eighteen years of negotiations rather than a lower house of parliament rocked by the nation's entry into the world trade organization today for what they thought may be developed by the bit of a. brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world the egyptian parliament is complete for a brief second 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 car 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. here in force u.s. and e.u. sanctions have driven iran to shut down oil wells cutting production to its lowest level in two decades the move is likely to mean a loss of billions of dollars in revenue to tehran 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 iran denies. a rebel advance has forced residents to flee their homes in the eastern democratic republic of congo panic is 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 if is a conflict could drag the country into another cycle of violence. 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 so 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 currencies downfall which has 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 iranian company is of course different from running a country or a union of countries but all require fiscal discipline. before we do anything there 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 africa is 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 low rates that germany or france enjoyed encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with it he said and to many experts this day card to me 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. come and their means so

is responsibility for your own debts so in russia for instance. but in europe it's coming. or spirits. i see your crisis but i think. in the 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 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. 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 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 that's one of our current 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 years 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 share a common interest in a path towards growth and recovery david cameron stated that action agreed at the recent e.u. summit needs to be taken immediately with both men backing plans for a banking union european central bank sort of vision. the two have clashed on economic issues in the past it's coming calling for budget restraint and alone pushing for more public spending it's the french president's first visit to britain since taking office two months ago. remember all our stories and much much more available for you right now online just log on to our dot com here's what we got lined up for you there at the moment offline offensive the russian version of the we could p.d.f. free information website has shut down for protest what is taking a stand against. it with reports of a sharp rise in cell phone tracking without a warrant in the u.s. raising public fears that big brother surveillance is getting out of control.

well as promised we're now joined by on the business desk to fill us in all the world trade organization details on the market up there. it's a good day to be sure about what investors a say maybe waiting fred nearly nineteen years as we know of negotiations so they finally got what they want is that really interesting to see what's going to happen more details on that later let's get stuck into the markets and see how wall street is getting on they are indeed having a big state today is the dow jones that is holding on to their gaze around a tenth of a percent though the now is that those suffering amounts because they're very tech braced they have companies like apple face and the technology sector that's really taking a battering in stays there now we've got some optimism coming from the european regions we have the european officials moving to bolster the spanish banks and factory data come from britain and so as you can see there what the european

figures as they come to the end of their trading day that's what the up around seven tenth's of the standard does around eight tenths of them are to start to look at the common currency with the how that form of the trade is now we have a look at the exchange rates for those if you are on holiday sometimes a one time it's a fifty eight. then the group will go roll the strong in comparison with recent weeks that managed to gain some strength against the u.s. . for the russian market say the exits managed to gain some momentum in the session today. news coming out how the r.c.s. around nine tenths of the my six around six tenths of a cent positive territory there has been an exciting day of big days for russia because the parliament has indeed officially approved russia's w t o membership now although the government says that and two losses could reach thirteen billion dollars but they're hoping for growing foreign trade in the long run say jaroslaw

volek allies 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. 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. and fortune magazine's list of the most famous property company is now has a new job losses gazprom has topped the list with net earnings of forty four point five billion dollars apart from the gas giant the seven best in the list mostly

from the oil and gas sector there an exception though is despite eleven billion dollars of net profit is losing position in the ranking. the oil prices the russian xs didn't seem fazed by the dropping prices we have the strike. rate and that western europe's biggest exports as you can see there the breadth edging towards ninety nine dollars a barrel all right out of the markets well i'll be back shortly just under two hours time i played thanks seen a bit later here in our team. building there with all the business news i'll be back shortly with a recap all the headlines stay with us this is not in moscow. me

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