things to question. these for instance on t.v. dot com. syria's opposition says it won't to gauge and donald with the country's president and hopes moscow 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 the presence of a charlatan. also this hour emergency aid sent to russia's flood ravaged southern region a present for a one hundred sixty people were killed and tens of thousands lost their homes. in the former boss of britain's barclays bank gives up a twenty five million pound bonus off the resigning but it's still a tardy pay off. that fuel claims the big bang because the reward

days despite allegedly doing as the parliamentary grilling failed to bat and the free. 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 here in moscow and have reiterated their main aim is to oust current leader bashar al assad government reports. no dialogue though with the government of president bashar al assad that was the main message from syria's main opposition group which was 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 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 where 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 osce odd 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 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 and the beirut based middle east expert. you hear a lot he says that russia's stance on the conflict in syria could be gaining more traction. the see the national council doesn't represent all of the syrians and i think with some pressure being put on b s n c there might be a change of mind you have to recall here that western powers and the other our

powers of world have stated very clearly that they want out of power these members of the syrian national council are very much to influence than actually i have to say perched to one of the statements were to the stance of the west in general the russians have shown that they have been more even handed approach now the tide is turning in favor of what we could call the russian chinese iranian club i mean coffee i learned right after visiting by shot her so he goes ahead and pays a visit to iran and iraq coffee i learned according to my information during his talks with showed us that he focused on the geneva meeting and didn't view of any importance or didn't even mention the so-called friends of syria meeting which was held in france meaning i think that i learn knows the solution with russia. and china and that the west really here has limited ability my information from washington is that the u.s. will tolerate is not welcome in welcoming but it will tolerate iran and playing

a certain role and if that is true there is certainly a certain breakthrough and it's bad news for the biggest enemies or bashar assad who are israel and the potent gulf countries like saudi arabia and qatar. places revised figures say over one hundred sixty people have died in russia's southern region of class and down after a devastating floods swept through the region on friday night he managed care an 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. on the roads of crims traffic jams and crowds of people tried to escape the town center it took just a few minutes of the rumors of a second floor to create this live jam in the streets above proves 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 the terrible floods we've lost everything we'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. 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 enough and what happened 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 allies 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 in london with her clinging to him 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 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 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 perch 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 he 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 the highest about it and where the 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 the other side still volunteers and emergency workers there a priest with saw 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 the humanitarian aid many people need counseling we're going to give more sure if there's food ready for you know borscht soup poor rich water bread the number one you were just a fear that such strong grain could cause

a flood when i stood up from the sofa the rugs were floating was it wasn't she my uncle's i rushed to the whole way by that time the level of force which to my chest over the top of it was outside of the place now my home mostly was going through you need to count goods we can see here women you still come in handy on you then 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. what with the latest details along with the timeline of the disaster on our website at the moment. dot com. the former barclays chief executive bob dorman

does decide to forego any deferred bonuses which could be worth up to twenty million pounds they were due following his resignation over the bank's rate rigging scandal but he could still be in line for todd to pull off as our correspondent laura smith unloved 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 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 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 or none of that kind of an. mation hardly any email trail 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 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 have for you this from the british banking crisis to the european debt crisis and find out why many in germany are saying that are not created equal when it comes to competition within the single currency zone. and here ourselves more than eighteen years of negotiation process lower house the parliament ratified the nascent entry into the world trade organization today what they think is that play join me in five minutes time to debate. in greece valving clashes between supporters of the far right golden dawn party and groups of anarchists have shaken the western city of a gimme a police report say that the fighting cause considerable damage to cars and shops

leaving the city's streets in a mess well to talk more on the growing influence of far right nationalists there i'm not joined by yanis varoufakis he's an economist and lecturer at athens university should the skirmish serve as a sort of a warning for the authorities are ultra right nationalists become are becoming a threat to stability in greece these days. it should act as a warning for all of us that whenever a social economy implodes are as opposed to just going to the recession. scapegoating becomes the order of the day and. more or less mainstream the problem is that the authorities themselves are being infiltrated by these are meant that if we have folks not the indexing that goes. on that's in the police and we have units in parliament and we have the breakdown effectively the consensus seems it's like when the warden creates fascism and that's. why

would an economic crisis result in this sort of rise in popularity and support for nationalism. we've seen it in the thirty seven when people lose hope. this begins and out of it nothing good can. we there are no we. cannot make conclusion like the one we have in greece class class warfare where you know the gains of capital come of the expense of labor advice here we have just holes the moves as everywhere the only people we are the ones. of matter of. the immigrants these immigrants are forming victim to the rise of nationalism in greece and indeed in other countries as you intimated earlier surely these sort of people should be welcome because they provide valuable skills in the labor supply in

a police good economy. so we need between ninety nine and two thousand and seven two thousand and eight which is when the prices were up that it was migrant labor that use the labor unit costs increase sufficiently for greece to be able to make it in the euro zone girl quite substantially so the benefits for the migration will be very clear the ones are after the great crash in nationally or two thousand and eight sort of the financial system. once that it's affected it's call me and we had this spiral which is companies now consuming the social poverty in greece there are simply no jobs will jobs for the job so the migrants and there's another to mention that the european union and the. because greece has a land border. and it's quite easy to cross it migrants from people coming from all sorts of corners of the earth with conflicts. they cross into

greece and then suddenly they are back in greece most of them don't want to stay in greece they want to move on to france to canada to the united states but. rules and regulations say that they have to stay in. greece cannot express them. i'm not saying that sure. nor can i love them. or travel. or indeed. sure but if they did move on from greece or to interrupt would they still face the sort of the same sort of problems in the likes of france and italy that they're facing in greece at the moment other words is what's happening in greece indicative of what is perhaps or could be happening in the rest of europe. absolutely but if you have a small country which. lasts of the worst. or depression.

since the the end of the war and adds to look at a very large number of people increasing number. not because they want to be greece and the rest of europe is not to share the burden of . handling then or providing them. medical care and so on and then expect that we. all saw from which the worst kind of and that's. just briefly about the domestic politics in greece the sort of acceptable loss i suppose you could say face of the far right attitude the golden dawn party do you see its rise even on the increase more so i mean five percent back in two years ago then it got seven percent in the most recent vote in a do you see this as a major rise of of a political party now in greece just briefly. most certainly but i wouldn't call

them a political party. except their gang of thugs there are no two ways about it and the fact that they have managed to secure for the very very. seven percent gives them white blood number of members of. the group is an outrage. there's a greek as european as a human one of these people in parliament. you know it's very interesting to hear your thoughts thank you so much for joining us live here on r.t. yanis varoufakis economist and lecturer and i think university. the new e.u. bailout institution designed to help countries like greece is under review by a german court but ins expected to rule whether the plan which is designed to safeguard the euro is constitutional opponents say it 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 well lead to the currencies downfall of micah reports. not taking from others and not giving your own that's what made them their company grow from a small soap shop a century ago into a multi-million euro business nowadays to him 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. 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 my laughing for the land i think countries like greece used the opportunity always used to play eight or nine percent interest rates before joining the euro but after

they came on board they got access to low rates that germany and france enjoyed encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with the seventeen to many experts this dichotomy is a decor of the current europe crisis professor 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 since liberal project is becoming a very socialistic. former soviet union common currency means no competition between. common debts means is responsible for your own debts so in russia for instance.

but in europe it's coming. i see 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. with the german guy i mean we are working until we drop 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 pushed to choose between being and nanny state accident or car three reporting from germany. some of the stories making headlines around the world egypt's constitutional court are suspended a presidential decree which would restore the country's parliament earlier on tuesday for a brief session after a call from the new president mohamed morsi despite being having been ordered by the military to dissolve you simply was elected this winter in the country's first general election since the revolution but was. caught in cairo last month.

union forces u.s. and e.u. sanctions have driven a rant to shut down oil wells cutting production to its lowest levels in two decades the move is likely to mean a loss of billions of dollars in revenue to terrill a senior iranian official says a private support group has been set up to try to bypass a 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 tonight's. i wish. to project at the moment when as promised we are joined by the business. world trade organization details on the market good day for russia has been a good day indeed actually we know that as you say the state don't do much as i say as for me agreed by the state to exert the terms and that was happening today and it will for excising indeed because it's been nearly nineteen years in the makings

of a testing about that later on because some analysis as well in the meantime is going to wall street and see the sentiment remains and it's a mixed day the tech heavy nasdaq bourses taking a head with advanced micro devices incorporated leading the losses after they reported a drop in sales we've also got the dow jones now down after posting some gains earlier on in the session now seven tenths of a cent in negative territory out of the european markets and they managed to gain in the session that actually closed up now and that's because britain and italy boast they posted some promising factory think is greasing expectations a seven tenth's of percent for the for the down eight tenths of a percent you get up to the year overseas it remains at a two year low against the dollar while the ruble old man has to regain some strength with the those exchange rates now as you can say as to the moscow. growth

and as he says the big day for russia the parliament has indeed approved russia's w t o membership although the government says that and treat losses could reach thirty billion dollars but could lower growing foreign trade in the long run there . is a volley 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. 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 the fortune magazine's famous list of the most profitable companies now has only used. gas problem has topped the list with nessa of forty four point five billion dollars apart from the gas giant there are russian in the list mostly from oil and gas the only exceptions this might eleven billion dollars of net profit it's losing position. have a look at those prices and they are still dropping in the. days away and it is strike that threatened to hope that by western europe's largest create exports involved china would. want to build out how business for the business salty team will be back tomorrow morning at around eight thirty with the e.u. latest updates kicking off with the asian markets see how they're going to react. thanks a lot for that more insight into the financial headlines coming up from next keyser

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