a republic we can close the border on the faces of the refugees we have to help them syria is like a sister to jordan i'm king abdullah and president assad we're friends now our king is in a very difficult situation it goes on there has a direct impact on what happened here relations between a man in damascus are already strained a number of defected soldiers and senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then that the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power this will make problems for jordan where we have our own extremists although they're far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped to escalate meanwhile more than one

hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so so ban in syria you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place but caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the syria shockwave however that conflict ends. result to me refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. still ahead here this hour here in our look at the roots of radicalism we investigate the spread of islamic extremism in russia and whether it's being fueled from abroad that's in a few minutes here. wealthy british style.

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to minutes past the hour here in the russian capital as the own is failing to break free of its crippling economic crisis the leader of powerhouse germany is eyeing profit in the east on a visit to china chancellor angela merkel is aiming to convince beijing that europe is still a safe place to invest with billions worth of business deals having already been signed. has the details. no stranger to china this is her sixth trip to the country since she came to power in two thousand and five and there's going to be some big business to be talked about during this current trip and it's not just politicians that they're on this visit a group of around twenty in the delegation including people like siemens and volkswagen who are all there to show that the eurozone still is a stable market to invest in but china has its own vested interest in seeing the eurozone stick together europe is china's biggest export market so there will be support there from beijing to keeping the monetary union together but just expect

some kind words they shouldn't be any talk of cash coming forward from china to help the ailing eurozone now there is talk of a special relationship between germany and china not unsettle some people in brussels who feel a little left out and when you look at the figures you can see why some nations would be feeling like they're not getting a slice of the pie trade between the two countries is set to rise to around two hundred and eighty billion dollars by the year twenty fifteen well the reason that the to make such good economic bedfellows at the moment is that germany produces the machinery needed for china's manufacturing industry germany also sees china as a growing market full day or exports since the orders have started drying up from within europe due to the people simply not having the cash to buy german goods within the european union and within the euro zone monetary union so will be the

eurozone crisis an increasing economic ties that will top the bill when it comes to i'm going to quit talking to the chinese leadership but what will be underlining the meeting is a cruel fact that germany needs china far more right now than china needs germany. china's prime minister has also called on greece italy and spain to go through with reforms and budget cuts to get their finances back on track spain is meanwhile trying to dispel fear is that it will need to buy announces its full money strongest region catalonia has run out of money risk consultant john hulsman believes that angle of medical will not be able to convince beijing to throw its cash into europe struggling self when what they want to talk about is not europe and germany relations between china and germany are great trade bilaterally grew at eighteen point nine percent last year one fifth of all exports to china from europe or germany one quarter of all imports in from china are go to germany that's a booming relationships that's the difference uncouple in germany from europe so

a lot of countries around the world are doing it so i think you'll see a polite no on buying spanish and italian bonds as the chinese not become suicidal and this is america can be a good business person for germany but i doubt she can do the same for your the chinese are very polite indeed but they're realistic of everything but they don't want to be saddled with the insanity that is the productivity of italy and spain compared the productivity of germany the eurozone has worked very well for germany these other weaker countries have gone on a spending binge binge and bought german exports but that no longer being the case because they're in no position to do that germany is it's absolutely vital looks for more partners to buy their wherewithal and that means more from china or from india the problem is the whole world is in a downturn and so who buys this access german capacitate becomes vital for the future of germany because of germany goes down well in the titanic really has hit the black hole and it won't be long before the whole ship sinks. working twenty four seven friday june with the very best stories and videos from around the world

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the killing of a spiritual leader of dagestani muslims by an islamic extremist is being seen as another sign of a steady rise in radicalism in russia the attack came on choose day when a female suicide bomber entered the clerics home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up concern has also been fueled by last month's double the sort of muslim figures in the republic of tatarstan some experts believe the roots of extremism lead all the way to the middle east but others say the threat from anti islamic hatred could be even stronger reports. the trip to work that turned to tragedy that our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas and on the lever survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlight is now on the other stun most people here are

muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in russia yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab funds from states where whack a bit and as an official religion the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but any other radical movement of us live of course not part of the official religion here but i thought he saw a different ideas often taught in small mosques hidden from them is. like this one form a boiler house we build into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment block you aren't it's the moms denying radical but admit they do not support their stance of visual branches of islam. we

don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit islam. we were told here believers are taught sincerely any quality and there are no longer up held in modern society with justice can only be achieved through islam and when someone says islam is the only fair way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the polish meant for stealing the hand is chopped off. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal court nevertheless surge ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for some experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in books by classical world famous authors are banned or that some of prophet muhammad

saints how can we expect muslims to react and of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course start their stand is a long way from becoming involved by the war stuff radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now the wrong moves could only worsen the situation you've got going on of our guys i don't understand well the russian city of concern has come under the spotlight again this time as two women were found dead in their flat with the words free pussy riot written on the wall above them apparently in blood it's being treated as murder both the elderly woman and her middle aged daughter died from multiple stab wounds authorities are investigating whether the killer was a supporter of pussy riot laws of the band of already described it as a provocation three members of the russian punk band would jailed earlier this month for two years for performing a so-called punk prayer and the country's main cathedral.

this is r t we're coming up coming to you live from the russian capital still to come in the next few minutes void a stairway to heaven an old idea of a soviet engineer is now being put into practice find out about the plans to boldly build an elevator into space. and all take it with a russian crew that have been seized by pirates off the west coast of africa has been freed one of the twenty four people on board were hurt that's according to the russian foreign ministry the pirates pumped out some of the oil and made their escape the tanker was seized on tuesday after an exchange of gunfire with security forces from togo it will now continue its voyage. what are some other top stories now five australian soldiers have died in afghanistan in the fear of separate incidents two soldiers were killed when their helicopter rolled over while landing and just hours earlier a man in afghan army uniform opened fire on australian soldiers at

a military base killing three and wounding two the so-called green on blue attacks in which uniformed afghans turned their weapons against coalition allies have surged this year claiming the lives of forty five troops. scandal hit barclays bank is facing another fraud probe over the billions it raised from middle eastern investors in two thousand and eight the bank is suspected of not being open enough in what it paid to advisors when it raised more than six billion euros of emergency capital at the height of the financial crisis barclays was also recently embroiled in the row over manipulating the libor rate rate at which banks lend money to each other the reputation of u.k. banks and the obvious and standard chartered taken a battering after they were accused of breaking the sanctions imposed on iran. the death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest china has risen to twenty six people while twenty one

others are still unaccounted for that last happened on wednesday evening when over one hundred fifty miners were in the pit the owners of the mind of being detained for questioning coal mine accidents killed almost two thousand people in china last year with safety rules that often neglected them. and a spectacular fireworks display proved to be one of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the london twenty twelve paralympics with the show believed to be the event most watched ever the competition will last eleven days with over four thousand athletes from around the globe taking part wheelchair basketball shooting swimming and track cycling all feature on the first day. forget rockets and shuttles a lift to could soon become the new way to get to space american and japanese companies are working on projects to achieve just that but at the heart of the groundbreaking development lies a russian idea as artie's tom barton explains. as strange as it sounds the idea of a space elevator has been around for decades it was

a russian yuri azza turn of who in the one nine hundred sixty s. had some of the first modern ideas on it first you would have to send a satellite up into geostationary orbit then a line could be lowered and secured to earth and another one up into space as a counterweight all of this would keep the line tight and allow spacecraft to be loaded up and down it at thousands of kilometers an hour and at the fraction of the cost of space flight it could literally be our lift to the stars and it's not as far off as you might think most of the technology already exists the biggest problem being that cable reaching out into space to make one strong enough to stretch the thirty six thousand kilometers necessary scientists think you'd need a material over thirty mega yury strong that's the measurement named after yuri arts the turn of the strongest material available now is just three point nine but new projects are trying to solve that science problem and make the space elevator a reality they want it to reach the moon the american company live port is raising

money for the project and the japanese firm corp aims to have one up and running by two thousand and fifty in the meantime russia is working with ukraine and kazakstan to try and build super sized booster rockets for more traditional trips to the moon but who knows by the middle of the century we might have swapped iraq it's for a distant cousin of the humble lift. now the beach is next with the business news and global finance magazine as rated central bank heads around the world with russia getting a better grade than the fed and e.c.b. russia's. almost top notch bill well indeed global finance magazine has graded fifteen central bankers with grades from a to d. so almost like in school and on the basis that was on the basis of several criteria including levels of inflation and unemployment in their countries the biggest grades were given to only six heads of financial regulators including the ones from

australia canada and israel well interestingly the chairman of russia's central bank sergei ignazio over took his colleagues from the fed and the e.c.b. he was given a b. plus grade while ben bernanke druggy had to be content with the b. minus respect. let's now move over to the stock markets and in the u.s. they are looking pretty gloomy this hour with the dow jones and nasdaq going down almost one percent as you can see the. job lists of benefits have stayed pretty much flat over the past week which indicates that hiring is going really slowly in the u.s. economy and even though we are not seeing. the economy showing such a gloomy data gloomy enough in order for the for the central bank for the fed to come in and go ahead with a new wave of the easing but everything depends on what will be decided at the

jackson hole summit on friday with talking about that all week now when it comes to europe same thing there we're also seeing a pessimistic pick closing picture where the dax is driven down one point six percent by quarter most of shares with b.m.w. folks waga and sadie's all going down more than three percent now on the currencies market the euro is dropping versus the dollar this used to be gaining now it's correcting around thirty five cents but there still was a huge jump on wednesday so that was on tuesday so that's with primo still a correction meanwhile the russian ruble ended the day losing a lot of against people get home with the year and on the year russian markets the r t s and m i six also pretty bad day with m i six supported by a weaker ruble and banks were some of the biggest drags with v.t. be declining more than two percent. and now gazprom is

megaprojects stockmen has been put on hold now the monopolist and its partners norway's start to well and france's total have said that costs are too high while demand is going down but broadly way from our nation's capital says this could not be the end of the project or rather why is this could be just gazprom changing its strategy. it's important to note that gazprom in our view isn't exiting the project gazprom is indicating to investors into the government that due to the location the difficult conditions and the context that this product is difficult to proceed so i think we're seeing gas from exit per se i think we're seeing gazprom communicate publicly what it how it views the project what is really signaling is that many of the next generation projects shelf projects offshore projects or arctic projects are going to need a different tax structure whether it's lowering taxes or changing the set up or

framework within which they are taxed so i think that this is an indicator for next generation projects across the board. all right i'm back in fifty five minutes time as always things not to me. in about an hour from now just on the. head in the next . i witness reports from syria for now though a short break and i'll be back with a look at our top stories in about three minutes from now.

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from our new center here in moscow this is our top story is not exactly. in the russian capital syria's delegates walk out of a meeting of states not the u.s. taking place in time and they were angered by egyptian leader mohamed morsi who called president assad's regime oppressive. divided u.n. security council tries again to break the syrian deadlock turkey was also invited to the ministerial meeting it's pushing for a buffer zone something russia and china strongly object to. heavy battles continue . to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery beijing says we can eurozone states need

to impose further cuts and reforms. but with another summary for you fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we talk to a nun who lived in syria for a decade and witnessed what the people went through when the first spots of trouble ignited the war in-depth interview next. well today we're joined by sister agnes mariam of the cross she's founded a christian community and i'm on a street in damascus she's been living there and working there for the last twelve years thank you very much a sister for joining us today my first question is you've been there for twelve years working in damascus in syria iran different areas has there been a difference in your work throughout those years and in the recent months that we've seen uprisings and violence of course we have been facing.

reality evolving to get more and water but as you can pick you know it's really in the sample head. so for us it was new because we were. put in sort of probation of the smallest petty since nineteen ninety four and we could do really. appreciate. the security team in syria you know its security of course which is imposed somehow. by regime which is very strong good and sometimes it kind of. again but nevertheless the reality is that everybody was living in security now were when the events begin. to appraise we were very happy. because we also wanted felt that

the that is a need for a chance but very very quickly. we got bad news. from. witnesses. in our biases in homs. and also from damascus in daraa where what to do is witnesses civilians without any political. position you know they were counting us telling us stories that were expected to contrary of what we were seeing on the television so we took position for. objective truth. real information and also for sunday that it because only by scully you had to help opposition where you

had. people detained so you were also helping the opposition yes it's what we call opposition. to the civilian or push your position which is not under any party and that i'm not out of. you have you have always been today peaceful demonstration ok. so we had in our village to free to set free people. also if there is a need of humanitarian help even we had the opposition meeting in our monastery and the first appeal for the day i logged and recourse english and was in our monastery i'm sure very well aware of all the criticism that has been thrown your way what is your relationship with the assad regime. if you know you have normal relationships with. religious entity and our of thought it is

religious it's not political. it's not even civilian you know we had mainstream reporters that came to syria and for in one way for a while i went with them on the scene you know but in january. in december i asked to go to do a position where the get really were already implemented ok and so i could have an idea as an eyewitness and in the beginning we did not even know who were resource people and we said said those people there were. identified. gangs you know we said we don't know who they are but they are spreading. these sort of the killings abducting and many kind you know of

met odds. to destabilize a country and all saw to implement a kind of racial for its evil war for example they would kill. targeted targeted for example they would kill a low it i have seen. in homs. if luck of blood. because in the day before. people you know source and i did then defied gangs have been beheading nine and now with people just because they want to know if i have seen this with my eyes and i i thocht to the palatial the sunni population who are losing has has perpetrated this they didn't know they said.