the turkish prime minister visits moscow for syria crisis talks as the u.n. security council stands divided on how to bring peace to the war torn country. the games in the balance as a private security firm proves competent it is with us agents now being flown in to man the posts at british airports. and a split at the top in israel the largest party in parliament to withdraw its from the ruling coalition over army sports.

following welcome to our t.v.'s wednesday broadcasting from our studio in moscow i'm karen tara well amid deep international divisions on how to curb the syrian conflict the problem minister of neighboring turkey arrives in the russian capital for talks moscow and on kata have opposing views on how to resolve the crisis which is very much reflected in the u.n. which votes later on today on just what to do archie's sean thomas joins us along with the details sean well it certainly is a difference of opinion between russia and turkey but are we really likely to see a sort of meeting of the minds. well karen it is interesting in fact turkish prime minister erdogan is meeting in moscow today with the russian president vladimir putin primarily because the two countries are allies and there's a lot of things that they're going to be discussing including trade agreements as well as construction and energy contracts but the one question on everybody's mind of course is syria

a topic which both countries have opposing views on if you look at the differences in the two turkey is more aligned with nato i one point in time they used to be allies with syria but their position has since changed they are now calling for regime change and for bashar al assad to step down the other thing is that syria has called it turkey says that they are becoming a hotbed for terrorism and of course things a tension between the two countries have not gotten any better sense of the june twenty second when syria down shot down a turkish fighter jet russia of course is more into promoting a dialogue they are against u.n. sanctions and also they are strongly opposed to the possibility of foreign military intervention now ahead of today's expected a vote on the u.n. security council on the topic of syria it is expected that there will be a meeting of the minds in terms of diplomatic relations but the both countries will

agree to disagree on the topic of syria that's on why is it that moscow has become sort of a center almost a hub for just closely over syria. well certainly russia has differing ideas than many of the countries in the international community on how to resolve the conflict in syria this of course makes moscow a central location of for diplomatic discussions and a place where people are trying to change minds if you will in fact kofi annan yesterday wrapped up his two day trip to moscow discussing syria his second trip he was here back in march as well also the syrian opposition has comment to meet with the foreign minister sergey lavrov to try and come to some sort of an understanding on syria as well in the meantime if you look at what's happening on the ground in is syria the government there saying that denying reports from the rebels that they are launching an all out massive attack we actually have an r.t.

correspondent maria often otieno who is in syria on the ground in damascus this is what she has to say about what's happening there. the capital damascus since the beginning of the uprising last march has most of the tang been under governmental control and the closest the fighting has ever moved has been in its suburbs in the eastern part of the mask curse in the area known as duma there have been several assaults against opposition hotbeds there but the clashes have never actually taken place inside this city and activists and residents have described was going on in damascus as the most intense they have used violence since the beginning of the uprising last march and the opposition groups have also been reporting that the army has been using more tires and even armed vehicles and how he called theories and has been shelling in the areas where the rebels are this information is very hard to be very far and we're hearing from governmental sources here that a great number of terrorists have been killed during these operations many rebels

have been captured and few in number have surrendered but what is absolutely clear is that armed groups have a cheek to spread this fear in damascus this feeling of despair and cares here in the capital. and was artie's correspondent sean thomas live from moscow and of course maria. out of damascus syria we will be keeping you up to date but in the meantime global affairs researcher benjamin shirt believes the syrian opposition is using the fear it spread in damascus to pressure foreign allies over military intervention. this into the future a. capital in order to cause chaos and. fear and population and to these that allies. the capital which has been relatively quiet despite some some stereo suicide bombing so far. this ongoing case little abuse by western powers i was you know my philosophy lived through too

much to go on pressuring russia and china and going on. pressuring us off and maybe even started and the so called humanitarian interventions. they had of shamed private security firm g four s. says he regrets signing on to work at the london olympics the company could lose fifty million pounds after failing to provide enough stuff to thousands of troops drafted to make up the numbers but the u.s. doesn't seem to be ready to trust britain's contingency plans and is taking matters into its own hands artie's laura smith reports. as athletes and guests start to arrive here at heathrow airport for london's olympic games they'll be met by all the usual sites including loans that immigration as u.k. border officials struggle to cope with the sheer numbers involved but it won't be just a u.k. official felt come across some may be surprised to see american agents operating on

british soil the u.s. transport administration or dorothy has reportedly been allowed to bring in agents in a move aimed at helping british authorities to secure american flights in and out of the u.k. the agents apparently won't be allowed past boarding gates or the u.k. aircraft but them if presidents could prove culture bushell in the us they've been accused of performing intrusive pat down it's just the latest confession that britain's been forced to make to the u.s. which doesn't believe the olympic host has done enough to ensure the security of the games the american team will reportedly bring with it five hundred f.b.i. agents to protect its athletes and diplomats plus a further five hundred security star all of whom will be operating on british soil raising questions about sobering to be american on the this follows

a catalogue of failures on behalf of the security company that won the contract for the games g four s. . it's admitted it couldn't provide the number of security staff it had promised that's meant that three and a half thousand soldiers and hundreds of police have had to be drafted in at the very last minute to plug the shortfall the head of g four s. is appearing before m.p.'s to explain himself and the possibility even more troops may be needed in the coming days. and london is struggling to secure its borders against attacks a british bank is implicated in letting money go to terrorists. coming up giant lender h.s.b.c. is accused of helping saudi arabian organizations finance terror and multiple other offensives. also find out why the american dream is fading away with other countries overtaking what was once i believe there are so-called vertical mobility

. israel is facing fresh political turmoil after the largest party in the country's parliament quit the coalition government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu the disagreement was over the drafting of ultra-orthodox jews to the army comes at a sensitive time for the israeli government are just fall asleep explains. at the current moment the status quo is such that religious jews do not serve in the idea of compared to the majority of secular israelis who serve at least two to three years now when the kadima party joined the netanyahu government a little more than two months ago it's running paul at the time was that it was going to put an end to this exemption that the two sides have failed to reach agreement over the drafting of new legislation it could trigger the withdrawal of other political parties it makes in this one yahoo that much more vulnerable to pressure from the far right wing political groupings and the religious parties and

at the same time it also no longer allows him to claim that he presides over a government of national unity because he certainly doesn't it is making him that much more weak at both domestically and internationally and it comes at a time when israel is trying to deal with its worsening public image in light of a number of issues not least of all the social protest this past weekend that saw an israeli city himself on fire and this has provoked anger and frustration throughout the country certainly also in the international community there is the possibility that the government might have to go for early elections the question being asked is why did not only are not foreseen this development if indeed he did why did he choose to ignore it because it comes at such a vulnerable time it comes at a time when the country is having to deal with very unstable neighbors who are

going through their own political ad people and also with the whole question of the rand the question of whether or not israel will strike you round is still very much looming over the reputation of the sky vermont policy our team tel aviv. and for more on the divisions plaguing israel you can head to archie dot com here's what else you'll find online right now. the pentagon is the new song they were on a radar belt around the country is almost complete with up to twenty nations or drills in the persian gulf. and even the mosquitoes are growing in u.k. labs as scientists hope for a tour to insect borne disease that some other result could be riskier than expected all the details that are plus watch all of our best videos on our new to china. it's easy.

to. download the official. your own phone called talk from the. video. and street now in the palm of your. on the dot com. welcome to our team twelve minutes past the hour and while the you can banking scandal deepens as a london based lender h.s.b.c. stands accused of allowing money to flow to terrorists and u.s.

government report has accused h.s.b.c. of longer ring drug cartel cash ignoring sanctions and helping saudi arabian organizations finance terrorism earlier my colleague bill don spoke to middle east affairs expert all the risk who says people will not allow this to continue. i think this proves what many people have said all along that it is saudi arabia which is the main export of radical of this religious extremism of the radical elements and i think how they handled it just explains wonder what guys under what guys we're talking about what sort of terrorist groups are we talking about here while we're talking about you know for example the extremism of those people who are now for example causing violence in syria or those who were sent to chechnya are the people of groups in pakistan even our car there as well we have to have to say here that some elements of the royal firmly do also have their contacts and have contributed as well to our choir but more importantly i think that this report

. sheds light on the. alliance between the saudi family the saudi royal family and some western countries what this will do with it will put more pressure on the western governments to try and change their policy here now of course saudi arabia is considered to be an ally for how long could this continue in many people are speculating that maybe the western governments might reconsider might soon reconsider their alliance why why early what are you right would they be doing that first of all because we have the uprisings currently happening which puts more pressure on the on the u.s. government on the british government the saudi arabia until now hasn't taken any steps towards political reform and the other reason is that saudi arabia when it becomes more known that saudi arabia is the main source of this extremism that will lead to a popular vigilance for example in the u.s.

in countries like britain i believe that this report and more similar developments would put more pressure on the on the u.s. and all of these western countries. later on r t with a parliamentary election in georgia drawing closer position is gaining support we look at all means the government is using to suppress its opponents and prevent them from coming to power. it was once known as the land of opportunity where you could literally turn rags to riches but today's economic hardships have brought the american dream grinding to a halt and leaving many people with little chance of making a decent living marina for nine has more. likely story that is a burka. there has never been anything. about help. hope has always been central to the national myth known as the american dream problem is

today's harsh reality of economic inequality leaves the promised land offering less opportunity for a better life depending on who you are and what your objectives are and what your resources are america may not be the best choice anymore according to reports germany canada and the scandinavian countries all have better social mobility than the us this means citizens living in those nations have a greater chance of increasing their income and status through hard work everyone in the countries you mention have systems that are focused on giving people maximum opportunity education mostly free in those societies medical care generally available and free childcare generally available and free when you add up all those conditions you're facilitating every person's ability to find a career to get an education to get the skill training that will allow them to do better than they are in their parents' generation america's current landscape is

a bit different for the first time since the great depression american men are earning less than their fathers did. not more than fifty percent of recent us college graduates are unemployed or working low wage jobs this as the an affordable cost of higher education in america has produced a national student debt bubble topping one trillion dollars teachers meanwhile are among the seven hundred thousand federal and state public workers who have reportedly been laid off since the crisis hit the u.s. a country where sixteen million are reported to be without full time jobs and approximately fifty million people are living without medical insurance now we've reached a point where the middle class is shrinking. and sighs and what is growing is the distinction between the people who have the american dream the people who don't and the people who will never get it as millions of americans are sliding down the

economic ladder median household income has it moved up in more than a decade americans are making less now than when bill clinton was in the white house while the top one percent have nearly tripled their fortune since the eighty's we have a. deeper pool of poor people than ever before and unlike before experts say it's more likely that more americans will remain in familiar waters we're not growing we haven't grown in this economy in a significant way for almost six or seven years now and so there isn't the expansion in the company that means we need to hire forty more people we don't have that we're laying off everywhere we're cutting back everywhere. also being slashed is the muscle behind america's labor force over the decades the number of u.s. unions has declined those left standing are being stripped of bargaining rights and existing benefits the elevator for people at the bottom to get up and out we're

trade unions and once america went on the warpath against trade unions and the best realisation of the kind of went along with it that that blocked the paths for low income people to get decent jobs i stagnate reality american dreamers are now forced to reckon with marina point nine zero r.t. new york. all right it's time now for more stories making headlines around the world there's been a russia show of anger across pakistan as thousands rallied against the lifting of a blockade on a nato supply route into afghanistan islam close them after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed in u.s. drone strikes last year and the decision was overturned. america apologized for the incident in the meantime american drone strikes still continue in the country despite repeated calls from as a lot of bought for them to stop. two trains have collided in the egyptian capital

cairo leaving at least four injured the accident was reportedly caused after passengers from another train which had been delayed put rocks and logs on the tracks in protest officials have denied earlier reports people had died in the accident critics say railway safety in egypt is poor as a result of years of under-investment. the final results in libya's election have been confirmed and as lawmaker alicia and led by wartime prime minister mahmoud jibril has won thirty nine out of eighty seats available the muslim brotherhood gained seventeen while the west sees the election as broadly liberal journalist patrick a is believe there is not much for the libyan people to celebrate. were it not for a nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west role for the

then actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government there are unhappy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people that they want to be in power. and you can catch the full interview with patrick kazan just about ten minutes right here on our. parliamentary elections in georgia maybe several months away but the government and their opponents are gearing up for the fight police have arrested three opposition activists for allegedly violating party funding laws as artie's arena got a score reports its lead to claims the government's hampering the efforts of its rivals to outstay it from the seat of power. where was my friends who were

kidnapped by the by georgia imposed by the kind of groups which we accompanied by georgian polis like many of the outspoken critics of the regime of president saakashvili is used to this kind of treatment but now as parliamentary elections draw closer the authorities are trying to do really any opposition momentum on top of the tried and trusted methods of shutting down the opposition where there are three things but as a really seems to have switched his attention to their wallets now all donors are subjected to thorough investigations and the researching parties themselves are usually slapped with have to find a new law imposed earlier this year bans corporate donors and puts a rigid cap on donations made by individuals who incidentally it came into effect shortly after georgia's wealthiest businessmen billionaire businessman she really founded his own political party georgian dream. after even if she only became the new face of the georgia opposition really became seriously worried and began

hampering our efforts the first history of the big deal even issuing of his georgian citizenship and is now trying to take away his business under this new law even his release party has already been fined more than a million dollars for allegedly receiving only go the nation's opposition parties with smaller budgets aren't overlooked by the government either party was also find you know by two hundred the use door two hundred dollars and the us dollar and a huge amount. budget of two months so these fighters show sanctions it means that real opposition parties are prohibitive in georgia cutting cash flow appears to be the latest weapon in. with the opposition and with only three months before the elections it seems the playing field is becoming increasingly on. even in tbilisi georgia if you are t.

. time now to check the latest business news of marina marina it's twenty four minutes past the hour and russian investors have kicked off the trading session now what are the numbers like that's right karen well the markets are in fact managing . gains that we saw on tuesday of course the stronger crude prices were a factor on tuesday where so they were seeing them drop slightly and it's pretty early to say what numbers will be like later on as it's only been a couple of minutes since they began the trade in session also we had some negative comments made by the u.s. for all time and ben bernanke about the weakness in the economy if we take a look at the russian markets and see what the numbers are like and how investors are reacting here we are seeing again is there a moderate so far but as i said because we're seeing the drop in food prices that might affect the investors here but again i want to take a look at what is happening next hour for that now let's move on to currencies when it comes to the ruble exit makes against both the main currencies when it comes to the euro it's in fact with rating against the greenback and i want to talk

a little bit more about because it's going to try to get sued here alone as a ganster dollar as you're about to see on the graph there and of course their common currency was hit hard by the eurozone that problems and concerns over the future of its union in fact the latest reports of one of the main point it seems like the later is that such a bank says the european authorities are partly helping to stabilize the situation and come forth and discuss this issue with the head of the bank's f.x. strategy john harvey let's take a listen. the only way the year is going to stay together two things the the first dream is to become more involved than be more generous than it's going to be so far in the equation and as well we need to see a restructuring of the debt is too much the periphery we can't keep the stand alone in the current solutions that germany is offering saving austerity that's not the way if there is no way to save our way and sleep requires that somebody take. it was as with the dead it's written off to

a certain extent to allow it to be sustainable if you're talking to the electorate and bay want to hear from bankers too they don't just want a church do you say to them hey fight the system you've been badly mistreated by bankers by people like yourself or do used to around and say to them you have to shut up now stop protesting all have to realize as a society that it's not about throwing one party out and bringing another party and it's about realising this loss has to be taken your pension is not worth as much as you think it is because so it is nice to be written down so that realisation that is an important step towards towards real change towards a restructuring taking a loss realizing that the upfront pain is actually better because it creates a sustainable system going through painful reforms now unneeded and the past has to be gone through there's no way to escape it although it may be too late to go on exactly unfortunately the longer it goes on the bigger the system or the pilot that

builds up so it becomes more painful in the long run it's better to take the head now rather than later in the e.u. is going to be the first place to take the hit because of its fragile political fiscal framework. now let's consider whatever vs some of the international markets of course is still trading right now and basically we were seeing and makes picture japan was the only one assume james and sue negative territory as well as the spike the fact that we've seen a boost in the auto industry also ever point them out so that we might see the hikes and then the person at the clinton side but as you can see it's now slept through some point four percent that when it comes to china has been see that as stopping more than that supersized and in general we're seeing losses across the board and those are when it comes to oil i mentioned earlier on that this might and violence russian investors will see that the. lights when stating close to eighty nine dollars per barrel and basically now have dropped from this. someone call and

that's a concern signaling that china and its economy is weakening as well as the fact that european companies have cut their profit forecast of the fastest rate since two thousand and nine all right i'll have of course the european markets with lopping next hour we'll see how they're reacting to everything that's happening all right we look forward to it thanks maria well shortly we discuss whether libya has turned any more liberal after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi but first i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. with .

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