it's not just diplomacy but really common decency russia's top diplomat slams u.s. threats that moscow will pay the price for syrian unrest and accuses foreign powers of blackmail of a u.n. action against damascus. firsthand accounts of beatings tortures and raids in bahrain as r.t. hears from a journalist kicked out by the regime she shares her eyewitness reports of the brutality against and to monitor the protesters. and football's new man of the top example and supreme of fabio capello's confirmed russia's head coach.

welcome this is r.t. it's now ten pm here in moscow my name is kevin our top story moscow says it's under armed 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 comment to from our correspondent peter oliver now . unfortunately we've even seen some moments of blackmail i consider it part of the counterproductive and dangerous approach because it is unacceptable to use the observers as a bargaining chip but it works 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 no some of russia's foreign partners have come forward and said yes we'll vote for your resolution if you vote for hours 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 for it military intervention in syria now this is something that russia has always been against they don't want to see any foreign military into. because they don't want to see the situation in syria turn out the same way as the situation in libya prompting sergey lavrov to say that well russia feels blackmailed 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 your son 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 greens. well those syrian people it's a lover of mention they are the ones that russia wants to see decide the future of the country that have been claims that russia is supporting the assad government these were dismissed out of hand by. a business with those and 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 came up but because he has the support of a significant part of the country's population. foreign minister lover of the 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 correspondent peter all of the reporting for us there from central moscow ok let's get some

reaction of brushback you should we use national coordinator of the. coalition brian high so russia says it's faced blackmail tactics at the u.n. security council is this common when it comes to big politics well unfortunately all too common and i think the russian foreign minister is in fact being very diplomatic when he says there's an element of blackmail or arm twisting the u.s. government the clinton foreign policy of the clinton obama foreign policy is is akin to the way the mafioso works if you don't go our way if you don't do what we do we'll break your leg will make it impossible it will threaten you blackmail and hostage taking is it is sort of a softer way of putting it in fact in the united states hopes to be able to break russia and china down to have them intimidated on the international arena so it can do what it wants to do which is to form an civil war using all available elements of violence pushing aside the possibility of peace in order to accomplish its main

objective which is to overthrow the assad government not because their government is undemocratic not because it's anti humanitarian but because it's not a proxy for the west and that's the real objective of the u.s. foreign policy in the middle east in syria and elsewhere let's take this forward that if russia does fail to pass a western drafted resolution which is the most realistic outcome let's face it what would be the next step for the u.s. and its allies. well the u.s. is extremely frustrated right now that the assad government has been able to hold on in spite of the sustained pressure from western powers and from turkey and saudi arabia and qatar who are arming the opposition to the hilt they're very frustrated because they expect these smaller countries to fall when the u.s. says you must for all be expected to be shattered quickly and the assad government shows a great tenacity a great staying power as because the russian foreign minister said it correctly because there's a big part of the syrian population that still supports the government and so the

united states will if stopped on the diplomatic arena find another outlet for its unbridled use of violence in this case to overthrow the government this isn't going to stop this is going to be ended by one side or the other having a military victory in the united states is determined to overthrow the regime how would that work is it possible to. see the u.n. security council well certainly we've seen that in the past look what happened in the case of yugoslavia there too the united states and the western powers when they couldn't get the u.n. to go along with the overthrow of the are the breakup of yugoslavia they resorted to the use of nato the united states can use nato turkey of course is the eastern flank of nato it too can invoke nato treaty obligations to bring in other partners and it has other regional allies in this case saudi arabia and the gulf states so i think we're heading towards foreign military intervention by if the assad government stays the course is able to hold on in spite of the extreme pressure

it's facing growing let's try to pick up most of this says it's unrealistic to make president go voluntarily because he's supported by a significant part of the syrian regime but isn't it possible to that is that his resignation could end the violence what do you think. well i mean perhaps but then what does it say it says the united states and nato if they arm the opposition significantly if they. raise the level of bloodletting significantly then ultimately this government and all governments all to me only have to go if the united states says it must go the syrian people and only they can be the determiners the masters of their own destiny if there is to be justice and so and that sense the russian position and the chinese position is correct let syria decide free from outside foreign intervention especially given the human toll that it's taking i want to get you final view on a number of the russian standpoint russia argues the presence of you in one of his is absolutely vital in resolving the syrian crisis yet we've seen so much bloodshed

will they all the briefly what do you have. well you know the russian government is trying to find some way out they're using the u.n. monitors as a way to stave off foreign intervention i believe they're hoping the there can be a diplomatic settlement between those elements of the opposition and there are many who don't favor military intervention with the assad government but then you have on the other side western forces who pushed that part of the opposition of aside and only really want to work with and through the armed opposition the peace monitors have unquenched quell the violence but then again is there an international peaceful settlement on the horizon it doesn't look like. thoughts national coordinator of the surrounding as you are. still to come on this channel israel a blaze a new wave of mass social unrest sweeping the jewish state after a man said. to protest the prime minister's policy he claims of being the people.

to do safe is a spreading across europe our teammates an austrian so certain of the euros devise that he's already stocking up on food and fuel. but next fresh protests flared in bahrain despite the ruling monarchies declaration that all forms of public demonstrations are banned in the latest clashes police and troops fired shotgun rounds and tear gas at demonstrators the police response was to the rest and it was a media with hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protesters and dozens of arrests and we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality on the streets before big picture of the country himself filmmaker the veteran human rights activist malo 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 the short time that i was in bahrain i felt like the situation was actually deteriorating and house and arrests and attempts to silence free speech

are all intensifying right now in bonn. 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. with. opposition party. to. the country is a single family a minority within the community it's not sectarian it's related to rulers who want to dominate the thing. and. you might not see the hundreds or thousands but i can assure you that after all of them there will be hunted. despite all. this is this is happening because not because the people want to enter their industry it's because they're to meet the demands that

they want to be their power that's also. not that it isn't but. for modern or more on all our stories our t. dot com our web site there now atomic power ships given the go ahead by iranian lawmaker is a midwestern suspicion it's a cover for developing nuclear weapons when read out more about that on our website it's a good read also a brand new world class race track opening its doors in the moscow region with hopes it could hold formula one races in the future again that's your bag it's on our website. this is r.t. the hearing in the case of bradley manning the jail to u.s. soldier accused of leaking vast amounts of data to wiki leaks begins today the twenty four year old who's been in jail now for two years faces the serious charge

of aiding the enemy which is pro from could see him on death row brigade to young his daughter is campaigning to have manning nominated for the nobel peace price as his trial will be used to scare would be whistle blows. 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 is supposed to scare people off but what is actually. it's have the reversed impact there is no more discussion about it was of lowers and the importance that was blowing all over the world and as the world is becoming more and more strained it in secrecy will have cause for action thrives. but it is actually what was a blowing into the positive light in a world that this extremely important to this ten minutes. more oil has been poured

on 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 picking up the story tonight artie's paulus lier. 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 making a parallel between what happened here in israel with this man sitting in the south on lights with the street vendor who set himself on fire back in december two thousand and ten the netanyahu government following those this demonstrations last

who did sit up a committee to investigate but most israelis feel that it has done little to precious and nothing to actually address the concerns the justification by the government has been that it has no prison concerns such as that. nuclear rather 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 attention on a 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 rumbling here and sit in today's newspapers and some opinion columns you hear coming to say that perhaps this could be the spark that will see the arab revolution finally be firmly implanted cells in israeli society. paula slayer a middle east correspondent know one of the points made by the israeli government is that it must address relations with troubled egypt caro's

post-election political standoff is up for discussion indeed two in our cross-talk debate show that sonnet next. 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 them are grossly in thousands of years they had successful elections they had to say a lot of us are going around that's going on right now if we go if we play it out in sequence when it's likely. it's likely that 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 ago 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. delancey the world sport today for regular manager fabio capello said to take on russia's top football job

after big name does the new national coach is sochi can guard the team and tools qualifying for the world cup in twenty fourteen with rumors of the selling a lucrative six year contract is andrew farber. 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 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. sports team the world news in brief this thousands of gathered in tokyo demanding japan abandon nuclear power ahead of the restart of a second react to all of the country's plants were shut down for safety inspections after the earthquake and tsunami triggered last year's fukushima disaster last month saw the first reacted to back on again the country's prime minister says some atomic energy must be reintroduced to sustain an adequate power supply moving eight hundred people evacuated from the resorts and hotels as fires threaten a 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 it's a heck of a job got there so far for firemen have been injured high temperatures are being blamed for a number of blazes raging across italy the first clashes in madrid after

a civil servant tried to march on spain parliament protesting against austerity measures plainclothes police also joined in the demonstrators coming up against their own as roy police man metal fences protecting the government buildings it is the latest outburst of public deficit cutting reforms announced by spain's prime minister ehud last week. and course not just the spanish but people across europe getting more and more disappointed with their leaders the terms to deliver solutions 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 ideal exciting in western australia there are fears of an economic doomsday. for the last few years me hail has been converting his house into truly self-sufficient residence and his reasons are purely economic . figure out the worst case scenario 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 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 of. still he 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 ruth refuge will be inundated by the angry and hungry the fears are not entirely foreign to many europeans especially of an older generation this part of the world peers to be rioted their forefront 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 in europe rather than outside is relatively new and therefore all the more frightening after day kids of increasing crisp area 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 or that food aid would be in such demand in spain some people say the gold care for the government. i'm responsible for myself that about

fifty percent of the. citizens may think of 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 new issue 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. actually work or artsy reporting from western australia or do those predictions of calamity in dumas tranche are a source of good our business because it clement to do there are governed nought they want to go forth no for russia kevin no maybe for the rest of the globe but for russia things are looking to buy the top and that's what the i.m.f. is saying they have the global forecast but for russia they kept on change and that's an every ago situation to be in right now so we in session want to fund what

they believe now is that russia will grow four percent now to put that into perspective that's fifty basis points more than the rest of the world now the funds have warned that the european recession and the u.s. slowdown. of the global economy and the effects may become visible for russia next year and they all saying that potentially expansion could slow down so that's one to watch but right now as far as russia's concerns it's all good now let's talk about russian billionaires because i'm talking about the ones i would haul off of the angry russian pay now what's happened now is they are apparently ready to sell their stake to that part of the pay situation is they will cash and they want ten percent of b.p. stock in return a move that could potentially put an end to the bitter conflict that we follow here now the shareholders relations between b.p. and. russian partners i broke down last year b.p.

tried to reach an alliance with the state run but the deal was blocked by another fall out left the company without an operating board and b.p. ended up putting its stake out for the end of the drama continues let's get over to wall street and say the stalls are still the klein as they enter the second part of the trading day now really the biggest report that came out today was u.s. retail sales all they felt press for the straight month and that's really taking its toll as to the european stocks they are close now but it was a lackluster before words today we're going to have a look there is a mixed performance really. pretty much we've got the c. seven bases poised on the dow thirty seven have a couple common currency the example a lot of people are watching at the moment is the most traded currency in the world and we can see one twenty to eighty four hours is managing to get is the change of fortunes are in this as for the ruble that managed to gain against the u.s.

dollar this session as the extreme market so here moscow as we can see they gained a lot of that was because we have stronger or what have a look at those in a second first elizabeth snapshot of some of the biggest movers and shakers here moscow today because there was a what is and that was to loses one of the biggest gain is that was because they had a visit from the president today put it in turns up at the federal meeting managed to dip into negative territory towards the end of the trading session lou called over ops that leads us on to those crude prices that are indeed actually gaining in the session now we russia for now because we took an ambition i would talk about goals of improving the business climate now the open karlie rates russia is number one hundred twenty in terms of its condition to do business but it does well really singapore hong kong new zealand the united states there the top four now president putin he said that russia should do whatever it. takes to get into the top twenty

and he wants it down within six years so investment consultants variants of capital came up with a step by step plan for achieving this. given that customs union is like kazakhstan and belarus if russia can just adopt the same reforms the best of the reforms that both those countries have done then by two thousand and eighteen russia will have jumped from one hundred twentieth place to thirty fourth place we also think it's marginal small improvements which would get russia to twenty eighth place twenty eighth or top thirty place i think that's that's very doable. i'll be back in an hour kevin think yeah see then you want to go and see things play with us headlines coming up very shortly.

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