beyond not just diplomacy rules but any common decency russia's top diplomat slams us threats that moscow will pay the price for syrian and rest and accuses foreign powers of blackmail over u.n. action against damascus. firsthand accounts of beatings torches and raids in bahrain as r.t. his from a journalist kicked out by the regime she shares her eyewitness reports of a brutality against anti monarchy protesters. and football's new man at the top accidents of premier fabio capello's confirmed this russia's head coach.

hello and welcome this is r.t. it's now eight pm here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story this moscow says it's under arm twisting tactics from foreign partners who want to push through a un resolution on syria which could allow the use of external force the words of the russian foreign minister and comments to from artie's paper all over now. unfortunately we've even seen some moments of blackmail so i consider it talks only counterproductive and dangerous approach because it is unacceptable to use the observers as a bargaining chip with words well what russia wants to see is the extension of the u.n. monitoring program on the ground in syria now they proposed a resolution to the u.n. security council which says just that's now some of russia's foreign partners have come forward and said yes we'll vote for your resolution if you vote for now the second resolution is being put put forward by countries such as the united states

and great britain now the wording of this second resolution is open to interpretation it could see foreign military intervention in syria now this is something that russia have always been against they don't want to see any foreign military intervention because they don't want to see the situation in syria turn out the same way as the situation in libya prompting sergei lavrov to say that russia feels blackmails let's go back to comments that were made a little while ago by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton in which she said china and russia were to blame for the ongoing conflict in syria saying that essentially they had blood on their hands and would have to pay a price no foreign minister lover of reacting well less than pleased he could say to those common saying that this wasn't the way that the poem is the should be done to. some acceptable to blame it all on russia and china and especially to resort to threats like they will pay for this which is beyond not just diplomacy rules but

any common decency so far it's the syrian people who are for the unwillingness of some of our foreign partners to observe the u.n. security council decisions. well those syrian people it's a lover of mentioned they're all the ones that russia wants to see decide the future of the country there have been claims that russia is supporting the assad government these were dismissed out of hand. for all of these new troops with those they tell us that we need to convince asad to step down voluntarily that is simply unrealistic but this is not about our preferences likes or dislikes he will not step down not because we bear came up but because he has the support of a significant part of the country's population. foreign minister lavrov they're setting out russia's stall when it comes to the ongoing crisis in syria all of this of course coming as kofi annan is in the midst of his all important visit to moscow to discuss the future of the conflict ridden middle eastern country our

correspondent peter all over what dr ali mohammed is the editor in chief of the syria tribune website and says those powers are trying to blackmail russia won't see the country bend under their old tomato. we have seen them agree on something and then do the exact opposite on the ground we have seen them support the militia they're able militia with weapons with money with. even. talks a few days ago about. real support and we all know what that meant in libya so they are trying to create a situation where russia has absolutely no option but to do what they want unfortunately for them this tuition is not being created because of the unity and strength of the syrian army and because of the awareness of the syrian. foreign policy as well as the allies foreign policy such as china and specially russia still to come on r.t.

israel a blaze a new wave social sweep of the jewish states after a man said himself on fire to protest the prime minister's policy claims robbing the people we've got to report ahead and also do the safe is a spreading across europe our teammate's an austrian so certain of the urals demise that it's already stocking up on fuel and food. fresh protests have flared up in bahrain despite the ruling monarchies declaration that all forms of public demonstrations are now burned in the latest clashes police and troops fired shotgun rounds and tear gas at demonstrators the police response was to the rest of the media with hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protestors and dozens of arrests and we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality of the streets before being kicked out of the country itself filmmaker and veteran human rights activist jen marlowe she was one of the few western journalists left in the country and says the situation is more desperate than many would believe. what i witnessed is an increasing increasing repression against the

pro-democracy and human rights activists in this short time that i was in bahrain i thought that the situation was actually deteriorating. and arrests and attempts to silence free speech are intensifying right now in bahrain from what i could see it is across the country it is it is extremely widespread in villages and towns all over bahrain there is violent repression of attempts to demonstrate and attempts to protest even more alarming much more increase of house raids in middle of the night in villages all over riot police coming in surrounding houses brutally arresting people and imprisoning them taking people from restaurants swimming pools their private homes. this practice of targeting activists and demonstrators fortunately seems to be on the rise and very widespread

right now and only time will tell i guess how or how long they will be able to keep struggling but i did not see any signs of people giving up i saw signs of people reinvigorated the bahraini regime is very determined not to let what's happening be exposed and so anyone who's going to bahrain with the purpose of the agenda of trying to show what's happening and trying to really expose the reality on the ground there is jeem wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible. leading figure. regs largest opposition party says all protesters are demanding an end to the. the country is singularly only a minority within the community it's not sectarian it's related to rulers want to think. and. you might not see it hundreds or

thousands but i can assure you that all of them there will be hunted. despite all. this is this is happening because not because the people want to. see it because they're the amounts that they want to be there that's also. not that it isn't but. you can find out more about all our stories on our web site r t dot com a quick taste of what else is there for you tonight atomic powered merchant ships have been given the go ahead by iranian lawmaker is a midwestern suspicion it's a cover them for developing nuclear weapons more about that from us online and reporting about a brand new world class race track over your stories in the moscow region with hopes it could hold formula one races in the future.

the hearing in the case of bradley manning the jailed u.s. soldier accused of leaking vast amounts of data to wiki leaks begins today the twenty four year old jailed now for two years already faces a serious charge of aiding the enemy which if proven could see him on death row but getting young start campaigning to have manning nominated for the nobel peace prize says his trial be used to scare would be whistleblowers. i think it's obvious that the government is trying to make the scare tactics case on bradley manning to scare people from the only song and the fact only kidding says well it's because prosecuting people are all but what is actually. it's have they reversed the impact there is no more discussion about was of lawyers and the importance it was a glowing all over the world and as the world is becoming more and more strained it

in secrecy will have cause for option thrives. but it is actually what was a blowing into the heart of it like you know world and i think this extremely important in this ten minutes coming up here on r.t. in a program as people turn their back on a guy prone mainstream media an increasing number of americans are taking the news into their own hands find out why the trend has u.s. networks worried. more oil has been poured into the fire of the israeli social unrest mass rallies marking the protest movements first anniversary of been spurred on by an act of self immolation thousands of people have gathered in the streets as artie's paul asli a report. what we see now is the whole issue of economic and social concerns been back in the mainstream israeli discourse and this comes in light of the anniversary protests hold this past weekend around the country marking those social protests that were held in the summer months of last year if you remember those

demonstrations for the largest number of israelis in this country's history take to the streets of this country now the protests climax on a saturday night when an israeli form a small businessmen sit in south on fire he's currently fighting for his life is in critical condition and he's suffering from a second and third degree burns the sense that he did this because the israeli government was literally robbing him of his livelihood and his future now since saturday there have been solidarity protests held around the country on sunday these two thousand people took to the streets of a major highway here in tel aviv in jerusalem there were clashes between protesters and police in front of the prime minister's residence and what we've seen from organizers of these demonstrations is a hope that this incident has injected a new anger and a new passion that will mobilize israelis back onto the streets these protests also have a throwback to the occupy wall street demonstrations we saw last year at that time

they were slogans similar being valued across here in israel people calling these demonstrations occupy his role as indeed the anger and frustration at the government and the fact that it's done so difficult since last year to address real social concerns as that anger grows people are making a parallel between what happened here in israel with this man moshe solomon setting himself on light with the street vendor who set himself on fire back in december two thousand and ten the netanyahu government following those distant demonstrations last who did sit up a committee to investigate but most israelis feel that it has done little to precious to nothing to actually address their concerns the justification by the government has been that it has no prison concerns such as that. a nuclear iran and the question of ongoing violence in syria to to to to address but many people here feel that this is merely an excuse not to put a tension on the very real concerns at the same time there's also the feeling here talking to protest organizers that these demonstrations could move from economic

protests to political considerations there is of course the arab spring which never quite moved into its role over the rambling here and second today's newspapers and in some opinion on into here coming to think that perhaps this could be the spark that will see the arab revolution finally firmly implanted self in israeli society policy or a middle east course what it will israel's the latest leg indeed of a negotiation too by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton where the jewish state's ties with the trouble egypt will be topping the talks talking of which the post-election political standoff in cairo's also up for discussion a lot cross talk debate show that's on air at nineteen thirty g.m.t. here on r.t. . what's the point of having elections if you're elected and you can't sit in your position of power you know we're in a situation in transition i mean we're talking about a country that hasn't had to marcus lee in thousands of years they had successful

elections they had to use a lot of going around that's going on right now if we go if we play it out in sequence with it's likely. it's likely to as a foundation for this process then there are possibilities that it can succeed stephen thinks that what we're watching is a transition is a muddy transition where people are stumbling around making mistakes and having teaching moments that though them grow from i'm not sure that we're in the midst of a transition we might be in the midst of a retrenchment. what it is today for england manager fabio capello said to take on russia's top football job to being named as the new national coach it's hoped he could guide the team and towards qualifying for the world cup and twenty forty with rumors he'll be signing a lucrative six year contract of everyone under a fall of the sport's got more on the move. fabio capello a massive name in football famous for leading england for the last four years he did step down from there after falling out with the english f.a.

but i mean apart from his success of getting them to the euros he did it all to get them to the world cup in two thousand and ten not a successful campaign that has to be said that was part of the reason he went but he comes with a great track record before he took over england he won the champions league he also won league titles in italy and also in spain with major clubs there so he's a big fish in the footballing world and he when he was. in charge of england he did in around about six million pounds a year and it was thought in the media that if anyone could perhaps compete with that sort of salary would be the russians were not sure what his salary would be but they have said in the build up to this that he would be a man that would be prepared to stay and work in russia which is something big africa and the guus hiddink the manager before him didn't do. andrew farmer bias of bungled reporting on u.s. news networks behind plummeting audience numbers according to one influential opinion poll is more important looks of

a cutting edge project than that's encouraging ordinary americans to drive the country's news agenda instead. venning goodness statics around the clock operations a product always being exported america's mainstream news industry generates power and profits but it seems partisan reporting and frequent gaffes may have made many americans turn away from the big broadcasters when they are. writing the revolution going our across. and going to. home to getting the work that where are our recent gallup poll shows an all time low of only twenty percent of the public trusting the news many say this means citizen journalism is becoming a big game changer and the amazing thing about training citizens to be really good pundit is that they they have a wealth of information that journalists just don't have when you help them connect

what they know are exposed to their experience with a big picture political event it's very powerful what's that journalist and best selling author and i only wolf not only supports citizen journalism she and business partner lisa thomas have built a nonpartisan training ground for it it's called daily klout dot com we're not just teaching people to vent we're training people to write rigorous shapely opinion pieces which are eight hundred words long and also to source their assertions and we also teach them how to link what they're exposing are calling for with action steps. daily klout also features a legislative search engine that monitors and explains bills making their way to capitol hill a tool allowing everyday people to hold federal state and corporate leaders accountable when america's fourth state fails to i think the mainstream media has

become about entertainment. and. so concerned who holds the purse strings if the mainstream media is controlled by large corporate interests they're going they're beholden to them but this website is independently financed giving tens of thousands of citizens the freedom to report on topics many news networks are accused of suppressing i think one of the best ways you can judge the state of democracy is an approach needed. and i think if you have a situation where the citizens of the country are actually bypassing the mainstream media i think that says a lot of the stage of the moccasin critics however argue that only properly educated and experienced journalists should be intrusted with understanding the rigors and ethics involved in news reporting but even then. there is no guarantee the public will receive facts the supreme court justices have struck

down the individual mandate unconstitutional the direct blow to the president i would say it's a direct blow to his democratic party the individual mandate has been struck down it has been struck down no it has no i suck i knew i was mass media still maintains a stronger and wider reach that citizen journalism but it no longer holds the power to determine what the public has to be doing or even reporting about very important artsy new york. more news making headlines this hour thousands of gathered in tokyo demanding japan abandon nuclear power ahead of the restart of a second reactor that all of the company's plans were shut down for safety inspections after an earthquake and tsunami triggered last year's fukushima disaster now last month so the first track to turn back on again the country's prime minister says some atomic energy must be reintroduced to sustain an adequate

power supply. more than eight hundred people have been evacuated from resorts and hotels as far as threaten the tourist area on the island of sardinia off the west coast of italy emergency services have been mobilized with helicopters dumping water to try to control the flames so far for firemen have been injured high temperatures being blamed for a number of places raging across it. the first clashes in madrid after civil servants tried to march on space parliament protesting against austerity measures plainclothes police also joined in the demonstrations coming up against their own as riot police and metal fences protecting the government building it's the latest outburst of public anger a deficit cutting reforms announced by spain's prime minister last week. not just the spanish but people across europe are getting more and more disappointed with their leaders attempts to deliver solutions are to exam the boy could talk to one austrian who's already created his own doomsday survival kit.

it seems like a place where the grass is always green and where every cloud has a silver lining but even in this a deal exciting in western australia there are fears of an economic doomsday. but the last few years me hell has been converting his house into a fully self-sufficient residence and his reasons for purely economic. we got the worst case scenario that we're preparing for is the total collapse of the economy there would be problems with food electricity water supply so i want to make sure we could waste this time when money will be worthless. solar panels wind turbine and emergency generator he's now producing more than two thirds of the power he needs the cows in the garden should provide a backup if supermarkets. and in case of fuel shortages there is also a radial turn in chief. while this scenario may seem to you apocalyptic we hill billies the euro collapse and the ensuing social upheaval is

a matter of when rather than if the. politicians keep talking about decreasing debts but what they do is just to prove. that a new new steps no new solutions and what to do about this whole situation the rude awakening is coming we all hope to postpone it but eventually it will come out of the. still asked us to change his name and not to give out his address out of concern that in case of the total collapse his europe proved refuge will be inundated by the angry and hungry as the fears are not entirely foreign to many europeans especially of an older generation these part of the war has to be righted therefore frond of the cold war and preparing for the worst was part of the government's contingency plans but the idea that calamity may come from them a year of rather than outside is relatively new and therefore all the more frightening after day kids of increasing prosperity the thought of losing basic

comforts is still rather hard to take in for many northern europeans but on the other hand a few years ago their southern neighbors couldn't imagine that soup kitchens would become so popular in greece without food aid would be in such demand in spain some people say the gold care for the government. i'm responsible for myself let's say about fifty percent of the. citizens may think in this way but the majority will say no government we pay our taxes and so for we expect that we get. supplied by the government while the nissho infuse the hours behind the euro project was at least partially based on the rx to reach the steam an increasing number of europeans are now fearing the opposite to vission action of weaker artsy reporting from western austria. you know as well just to this we speak through fluent szell british businessman who's offering

a big prize for anyone who can put forward a bright idea about how to rescue the struggling eurozone coming up in a minute so let's go to business. take up some of the. well that sounds like an afterthought created many like those you know the drama surrounding russia's third largest. could finally this is because of a long time isn't it been oh no no no no i'm kevin could finally be over actually and that's because the situation is at the moment the russian billionaires who are in the halls of the anglo russian teen k b p they're ready to sell their stake to the big pay now they want cash and they want ten percent of b.p. stock in return a move that could potentially put an end to the a long conflict now the shareholders relationship between b.p. and its russian partners called i saw broke down last year now b.p. try to reach an alliance with the state run rough staffed by the deal was brought

by oh another four left the company without an operating board and b.p. ends up putting its stake officer at the end of. so what's the situation now let's get up to wall street and see how the markets are performing in the first half of their trading day still dropping as we can see just a lot of size because there was a report that came out that showed that u.s. retail sales unexpectedly dropped for third straight month that's really dampening the momentum as the european stocks and develop close to performance all round really today especially when you consider that we're coming off the back of last week's euro stock fifth day when they completed the longest stretch of weekly gains in more than two years since these in a little bit of buy on to the common currency there we can see it's gaining a fraction one twenty to sixty for the traders favorite part of the ruble ended up the session stronger against the u.s. dollar and the year write this check out there is that here more we see the. it was a bit similar for the round vase we ended up with gaines actually moving on we'll

have a look at that shot of the stars and if we may and one of the biggest game is today was actually the mets will produce that and that's because they have a visitor president who said a visit to the state for a federal me saying i will be or oil prices as well still managing to get in as well as that's helping the russian markets it's a mixed picture right now but they are gaining throughout the session now russia has set his goal of significantly improving its business now the world bank currently writes russia as number one hundred and twenty in terms of its condition for doing business think of paul hong kong new zealand and the united states in the top four as you can say now president putin has said that russia should do what ever it takes to make it into the top twenty eight within six years so investment consultants are knights of capital they came up with a step by step plan for achieving this goal. given the customs union. if russia can just adopt the same reforms the

best of the reforms that both those countries have done them by two thousand and eighty two russia would have jumped from one hundred twentieth place to thirty fourth place we also think just marginal small improvements which would get russia to twenty eight twenty eight or top thirty pro so i think that's very doable. better than one hundred twenty anyway heaven course and then you know in an hour to your own culture the business then thanks katie no very soon back to the present we told her british business mogul who thinks default is the only option for the struggling euro zone countries to boost the economy more on that then after headline update into enough minutes from now.

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