prime minister visits small scale for syria crisis talks as the un 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 incompetent it is u.s. agents now being flown in to man the polls at british airports. and banking giant h.s.b.c. tied to terrorist cash as washington reports its money laundering to help saudi arabian groups finance terror.

thank you for joining our t.v.'s wednesday with me karen tara wall made deep international divisions on how to curb the syrian conflict the promise of neighboring turkey arrives in the russian capital for talks. to have opposing views on how to resolve the crisis which is very much reflected in the u.n. and votes later today on just what to do is john thomas has the details. prime minister aragon is meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss syria the two countries are allies but this is one area where the two countries disagree turkey they're calling out for assad to step down and for regime change syria has said that turkey has become a hotbed of terrorism and of course tensions have not been great between the country since a june twenty second where syria shot down a turkish airplane now russia's stance on the situation is that they are wanting to promote dialogue they're opposed of sanctions of any kind against syria and they

also don't want any kind of foreign military intervention and this might be one of the reasons why earth began is here today to try and make one last ditch attempt to sway russia to the side of the international community in one of the sections of the security council resolution that is on the table is a clause that allows a for military intervention as a last resort this is something that russia strongly opposes kofi annan was here this week wrapping up a two day visit his second trip to the country on the topic of syria so russia a hot bed of diplomacy a central hub for talks on the subject but right now that main sticking point is russia does not want to see boots on the ground or foreign military intervention in syria now what we do know is on the ground in syria over the night the rebels have claimed that there has been more fighting over the night something that the syrian government flatly denies they say that there is no rebel are offensive against the

city of damascus archies them or if notion is in damascus this is what she has to say what's happening on the ground the capital damascus since the beginning of the uprising last march has most of the time been under governmental control and the closest the fighting has i've been moved and has been in its. heart of damascus outskirts in the area known as duma they have been several assault. against opposition hotbeds there but the clashes have never actually taken place inside this city and activists and residents have described what's 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 taz and even vehicles and how he called and has been shelling 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 achieved to spread this fear in damascus this feeling of despair and of chaos here in the capital. global affairs researcher benjamin shot believes the syrian opposition is using the fear it spread in damascus to pressure foreign allies over military intervention. to cause. fear and population to do. despite some. are. going. to. russia and china growing. pressure and.

so-called humanitarian intervention. global affairs researcher benjamin schott talking to us from canada. what's security failing in the upcoming london olympics the u.s. is taking matters into its own hands washington is sending in its all agents after the shamed private security firm g four s. didn't train enough staff the company is now set to lose fifty million pounds while the u.k. is drafting thousands of troops to make up the numbers but the u.s. still doesn't seem to be ready to trust britain's contingency plans artie's laura smith explains. as athletes and get 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 shit 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 for a city has reportedly been allowed to bring in its 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 controversial in the u.s. 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 five hundred security dog all of whom will be operating on british soil raising questions about sobering to the american on the 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 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. and doesn't the us helping great britain to secure its borders back home its people's financial security that's under threat find out why the american dream is fading away with other countries overtaking what was once the leader so called for the poor. immobility. plus with a parliamentary election in georgia drawing closer we lift the lid on the tactics being used to prevent new faces from coming to power. 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 and comes out of some sort of time for the israeli government parties paulus lear has the story. 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 we'll look at them a party joined netanyahu government a little more than two months ago it's running all of 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 miss on yahoo that much more vulnerable to pressure from 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 weaker 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 app evil 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.

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ah ah. this is not the politics but a culture. of resistance. thanks for being with r t a twelve minutes past the hour now the u.k. banking scandal deepens as london based lender h.s.b.c. stands accused of allowing money to flow to terrorists a u.s. government report has accused h.s.b.c.

of laundering drug cartel cash ignoring sanctions and helping saudi arabian organizations finance terrorism earlier my colleague bill dal 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 law of radical of this religious extremism of the radical elements and i think how they handle it just it just explains why do what you guys wonder what guys we're talking about what's in the terrorist groups are we talking about here well we're talking about you know for example the extremism those people who are now are for example of causing violence in syria or those who were sent to chechnya are the paid people of groups imposed by christiane 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 car that but more

importantly i think that this report. that 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 and why. it was all you're 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 annoyed that saudi arabia is the main source of this extreme ism 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. that 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 graveling to a halt and leaving many people with little chance of making a decent living as mark. but in the unlikely story that is america. there has never been anything. about help. has always been central to the national myth known as the american dream the 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 u.s. 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 and 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 hasn't 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 poor 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 every where 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 who have standing are being stripped of bargaining rights and existing benefits the elevator for people at the bottom to get up in out we're trade unions and once america went on the warpath against trade unions and the dust realisation that kind of went along with it that that block the paths for low income people to get decent jobs

a stagnant reality american dreamers are now forced to reckon with marina port r.t. new york. time now for more stories making headlines around the world almost two dozen nato supply trucks have been destroyed and a bomb attack in afghanistan and devices planted on a fuel tanker detonated and golfing other trucks nearby the tankers were transporting fuel into the country from neighboring uzbekistan the attack comes after pakistan lifted a blockade. and our nato supply routes into afghanistan in a move that provoked anger across the country. the final results in libya's election have been confirmed as lawmakers a coalition 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 hayes believes there is not much for the libyan people to celebrate we're not for 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 rather 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's their own happy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people they want to be in power. and you can hear more from patrick hasan just about ten minutes right here on r.t. . 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 but as our reports

it's led to claims the government's using underhand methods to cling on to power. where was my friends who were kidnapped by the by george imposed by the kind of groups which we accompanied by jordan polis like many of the outspoken critics of the regime of president saakashvili who go is used to this kind of treatment but now as parliamentary elections draw closer the authorities are trying to do real any opposition momentum on top of the tried and trusted methods of shutting down the opposition where there are three things but is a really seems to have switched his attention to their wallets now all donors are subjected to thorough investigations and the receiving 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 saakashvili became seriously worried and began hampering our efforts the first his trip to be 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 illegal donations opposition parties with smaller budgets aren't overlooked by the government either party was trying to you know by two hundred the use door two hundred dollars in the u.s. dollar and it's a huge amount of. budget over two months so this fight a show that means that real position 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. all right from georgia let's move on to europe as a whole and the markets marina it seems like a quiet day on the markets right now what are the investors focusing on. what we're seeing is a lackluster performance across the board not the major moves on high or lower supersize it was like a look at europe there investors are really reacting to earnings reports we had a very positive for a heavyweight bank credit suisse of course but also we had another board earnings report from ericsson and that meant analyst expectations of well ways that investors are really focusing on not and waiting to fall for those numbers and was that reflecting in the markets will we see in the i never so slightly and then the german dax up in point five percent the sound moving on. the markets here and what

we're seeing is basically they're extending she used but again when it comes to the my six missing sat in just a moment so the lackluster performance that i was talking about which is in stark contrast to the r.t.s. i don't point seven percent and that's also despite falling crude prices which will of course we'll always have a major five on the russian economy i'll have more on that later but for now let's take a look at some major movers on the my psych's the blue chips that we have a bank it's out in point two percent and what we know about the bank of course is that it's right seventeenth in the list of the world's biggest lenders by capital ice age and then of course we have lost that out of point supercenter i would know about we're hearing that we might see some changes in the top management sometime soon that we also have gas from that which is just an option and we also know that the company is basically seeking to expand in albania just to give you more details on this and what the company plans to do it's planning to acquire private take ports in the privatization of local food producer al petrol which is currently

estimated at around half a billion dollars but i notice that the acquisition could be risky and that's because the albanian company there's not publicize its financial reports and most of its oil deposits are hard to develop. you know look at currencies and we see that the ruble is still makes the guys the main currencies when it comes to the u.s. the retreating i guess the u.s. dollar and back it's trading at year lows against the greenback and of course all of this is that i'm from concerns from the eurozone as well of course of us hit hard by that that quizes and the last reports of one of the main foreign exchange speculators outside a bank of course says that the european authorities are hardly helping to stabilize the situation you can see on the graph there that senior lows that i was talking about of course and parties tom bars and actually this issue with the head of the bank's strategy that's let's hear what he had said. the only way the year is going to stay together two things need to happen first jury needs to become more involved

more deeply involved and be more generous that is 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 state alive in the current solutions that germany is offering saving austerity that is not the way a solution there's no way to save our way and solution that requires somebody takes a loss and that the debt is written off to a certain extent to allow it to be sustainable if you talk to the electorate and bay want to hear from bankers too they don't just want to change do you say to them hey point the system you've been badly mistreated by bankers by people like yourself or do you still around and say to them you have to shut up and 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 realizing 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 realization 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 to pay the reporters now unneeded and that has. it has to be gone through there's no way to escape it although it may be delayed to go on exactly unfortunately the longer it goes on the bigger the system or the pilot it 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. of course punchers would probably disagree with those statements they're incurring losses in the short term for the benefit of the long term security of the economy but never mind that we have it when it comes to a user considered on the international markets we see that it still is see over there the nikkei end of the session point bring two. percent there and basically we're seeing their disappointed with it have a boost to the auto industry as well as rumors about the dividend the hikes up my

column in the future according to a later report that came out from japan in the equipment for certain sector but of course other really influence investors are when it comes to china age as we see this news in still over two percent this hour and investors not feeling very up to miss that they're special because of concerns about its economy would take a look at oil prices are also dropping from a seven seven we call it i should say and what we're seeing there is also having to do with drawing up because there are concerns that the economy is weakening and also of course have analysts which i have basically caught the profit expectations of for profit forecasts for european companies at its fastest rate since two thousand and nine not helping the situation for either of us as we are in europe wall street or here of russia all this is how it looks. surely we discuss whether libya has turned any more liberal overthrowing of colonel

gadhafi first i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. well to the. mayor and more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of food and.