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squad. am. council tries again to break the syria turkey pushing for a buffer zone. while syria's delegates walk out of a meeting of states not aligned to the u.s. taking place in tehran outraged by egypt's new president damascus an oppressive regime. the engine room of germany heads east for investment chancellor merkel is in china to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to

recovery. online on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow britain and france say they're not ruling out any options in syria including a military force no fly zone the deadlocked u.n. security council is to discuss the crisis with turkey also pushing for the creation of a buffer zone new york. reports. nine foreign ministers of the security council seats will be in attendance as will representatives of turkey jordan and lebanon those representatives will be discussing the counter effects and the consequences of the syrian crisis and how it spilled over into their borders turkey is expected to raise the issue of buffer zones with the security council turkey

wants to create according to reports of buffer zones within syria for displaced people now this is an idea that has already been shot down by the syrian government as well as russia and china and if i'm not mistaken possibly even the secretary general of the u.n. because creating a buffer zone many say what put military a military presence into syria that is not a part of syria's government or military so china and russia are arguing that this can only make the situation that much more dangerous now that the foreign ministers of britain and france were addressing the media just a little while ago saying that their countries are already preparing and planning for a post assad era and they have also said raised a new call encouraging for the defections of syrian officers and soldiers what they're doing to encourage those defections is not clear and the rhetoric from the

west has been westward escalating over the past weeks we did recently hear france call on the syrian opposition to form a provisional government this came after france just a week ago called on the consideration of a partial no fly zone to be implemented over syria's air space meanwhile the u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. would intervene if the syrian government were to use chemical or biological weapons on syrian civilians and britain echoed america's. sentiments that we also see the west is planning they say for our post assad era but meanwhile this violence is still escalating and the security council has not reached any kind of consensus on how to deal with the problem so you're dealing still with a deadlock among the international community but they're also at least trying to handle the humanitarian situation in syria so clearly

a lot of issues on the agenda for the u.n. security council to be discussing but it's not only the u.n. that's divided there's also no consensus among the syrian opposition let's now talk to bus market money who's been a prominent member of the syrian national council but resigned this week or prompted you to leave the syrian national council what why have you been disappointed in areas. of the council are the same as the ones i pursued there is no difference there the real reason is that i feeling the work from inside the council is not effective enough i believe there is more work that needs to be done to connect with groups on the ground and to fire those connect them together this is a heavy task that needs to be undertaken quickly and urgently because this is this will determine the post restate the money station of syria we need to reassure the

international community that the syrian opposition is capable of connecting and coordinating with the groups on the ground and getting them to abide by certain commitments but susan who are divided by ethnic tribal and religious tensions how possible is it to unite such a divided syrian opposition now. i do think that they all pursue the same objective they are to find it not that they are divided in the sense that they are working in different directions they are all working in one direction which is to end the assad regime they are all fighting the assad regime all they know and if you have any power months themselves though they are fighting together and what we see is coordination in specific regions and specific battles that is taking place and therefore i think this needs to be turned into an agreement among these groups

because they working for the same purpose they need to strengthen these this coordination and establish rules among themselves a code of conduct that will lead to them really working together the moment the regime falls we are all afraid of chaos guaranteeing against chaos is by linking those groups together and that needs to be done by a political authority and do you think we have but those could be provided by the french president francois hollande he said that if the syrian opposition formed a government he would recognize it you really do feel that is possible. i don't think that france is claiming to be able to help establish that government is only saying if the opposition establishes such a provisional government france is willing to recognize it now recognition will of course be vital extremely important but the opposition has to come up with its own

process to produce a legitimate provisional government this is currently under a very serious discussion and preparation now the syrian opposition has once again as we're reporting today called for a no fly zone over the country what do you think about that is that the right way to go. i think this is something that the syrians have been longing for and particularly since they have liberated certain areas of the country at that price a very very heavy sacrifices now calling on the international community to protect those liberated areas i think is a more compelling demand that the international community will find difficult to ignore given the level of criminality of this regime the international community will be asked by the syrian people and it is us that syrian people to step in in order to allow these liberated regions to become

a safe area for the population and possibly for a provisional government to be set in that area a no fly zone in libya turned out actually to be a bombardment of the libyan air force and of course the syrian air force is a force to be reckoned with compared to what we saw there in libya would be a lot and no fly zone which would involve further bombing pap's provoke more tensions an escalation of violence and you talk of sacrifice a little earlier will see even more of a sacrifice more lives lost as a result of foreign bombing. because foreign intervention is not an easy option it is clear both for foreign powers as well as for the sin. maybe for the syrians more than others what the syrians are trying to do is to work with their own forces to count on their own strengths if that is an option then i think the syrian opposition should find the means to to face what the regime is doing now that means

facing the regime and its air force because the air force is actually bombing of the areas and the regime does not control many of these areas on the ground it is only pounding cities and and villages from the air so using the air force to against the civilian population is obviously. almost unseen and unheard of against the civilian population in any other context so it really is a responsibility here for the international community what do you do to protect the population in those areas actually across the country of course not only in the liberated areas but in those areas where the people have fought and liberated that region this region in the north of the country you need it for humanitarian assistance you need it for coordination and building in a structured command for the free syrian army i think these are compelling reasons

to consider but the money thank you very much for your thoughts interesting here we have to say but mike a man who resigned from the syrian national council this week thank you for joining us live on r.t. . still ahead for you this hour a 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. but first the syrian delegation is walked out on a session of the movement in tehran after the egyptian leader mohamed morsi called the syrian regime oppressive in his speech morsy out of the assad's government had lost its legitimacy and called on the attending nations to support the rebels well let's discuss this now with sara flounders from the international action center joins me live now from north carolina in the states now syria's foreign minister has condemned these comments as inciting further violence in the country what do

you think. well it really is a policy that the u.s. and the western imperialist powers to incite the violence but they have lined up a number of countries created a great deal of confusion and it's really an effort to create a great deal of dissension among countries that are meeting. right now and. what about the meeting itself was that the u.s. made every effort to stop at times this meeting and to make it impossible so the fact that so many countries have met. and are determined to find ways to cooperate itself. but do you think these comments clearly have a good iran and syria do you think perhaps you could say this is now being a failure on iran's part for mediation of the summit or there is still some hope

that something could be salvaged and something concrete could come out of this meeting. well and they say the very fact that the meeting. very complex. there was and. all out effort to stop this media and all out effort to keep. iran itself and to stop any country from having any economic political relations with iran whatsoever so over the very fact that one hundred and twenty eight nations top thirty five heads of state have come to tehran for this meeting is of extremely important of them now will they all agree with each other no i don't think so. will this be a voice and a possibility for the future i think that the tension is still there but we should be aware that there's the pressure. very much so on every one of the countries

i cannot understand fully syria walking out because they are playing facing absolutely regime change there's every effort of new apps to intervene and they're already intervening now with threats of the no fly zone are streamlined dangerous time can we just talk about the overall implication all morsi and his foreign policy now he appears to be on friendly terms with the wrong china also israel and the u.s. stuck in the middle of all of them really what does this tell us about egypt's foreign policy and the impact this has on the balance of power in the middle east. well clearly egypt's foreign policy is changing and changing dramatically on the basis of a huge profound social upheaval within egypt all the old relations are collapsing and no longer whether genuinely new relations will come out of the path of mainz to be seen for the future of a bunch of active chemically i ask you just what sort of influence is the us have

over egypt now because obviously he went to that meeting which upset the u.s. in the same time he did not she condemn the syrian regime and of course. what about the relations that. well i think he's trying to play a double role and balance himself both played second and be done not for any length of time that's an untenable position. but on the other hand it's a big dramatic rate where egypt has been for more than thirty years and ally of the us completely complicit and willing to accept every u.s. and israeli for more than thirty years that has changed at the same time it's important iran support and backing syria at that time when there's every effort to see overturned by military means that the government in syria

this is coming from the west it's coming from nato from the u.s. from turkey a nato member and it is standing up to that it is an important and important issue and it will be a big struggle within the nonaligned and perhaps the divided. sara thanks so much for joining us live and sharing your thoughts here and. from the international action center. well as the eurozone 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. or 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 jiggering current trade it's not just politicians 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 markets 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 to 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 on increasing economic ties to top the bill when it comes to i'm going to quit talking to the chinese leadership will be underlining the meeting is . that germany needs china far more right now than china needs germany. our team at r.t. dot com is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and videos from around the world and here's a quick look at what we have you on the website at the moment the school of hard knocks despair for two thousand students in the u.k. who may face deportation after their university lost its right to admit foreigners . plus the massive. new global test in thailand with the

vaccination and at this remarkable record breaking see the video and story in full at r.t. dot com catch all our best videos on our you tube channel. 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 tuesday 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 you've got to put it in our reports . the trip to work the tragedy that our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been against the spread of radical ideas along the lever survived to find his deputy was shot dead in another

part of town in masturbators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlights 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. some of the local muslim communities are financed by arabs from states where it's an official religion the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here. 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 citizen or any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought the same different ideas often taught in small mosques hidden from the

mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment block you aren't it's the moms denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance official 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 to 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 fan way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is chopped off. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal code nevertheless such 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're just going to of already that are stun. well the russian city of khazan 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 them 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 and 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 in the country's main cathedral. but all taken with a russian crew that had been seized by pirates off the west coast of africa has been freed none 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 tank was seized on tuesday after an exchange of gunfire with security forces from togo it will now continue its one week. what are some other top stories now in our world update five australian soldiers have died in afghanistan in a pair of separate incidents two soldiers were killed when the helicopter rolled over while landing and just hours earlier a man in the 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.

the scandal hit barclays bank is facing another fraud investigation of the billions it raise from middle eastern investors in two thousand and eight the bank is suspected of not being open enough and paid to advise that it raise more than six billion euros of emergency capital at the height of the financial crisis has also recently in broad in the row of manipulating the libor rate of rate which banks lend money to each other the reputation of u.k. banks all b.s. and standard chartered are taking a battering after they were accused of breaking the sank. imposed. also in a world of rescues in southwest china racing to save twenty one miners trapped in a coal mine after a gas blast left twenty six dead explosion happened on wednesday evening when over one hundred fifty people were in the pit the owners of the mine had been detained for questioning get on line accidents killed almost two thousand people in china

last year where safety rules are often neglected. a spectacular fireworks display proved to be one of the highlights of the conservative the london twenty twelve paralympics the show believed to be the event most watched ever the competition this eleven days with over four thousand athletes from around the globe taking part basketball shooting swimming and track cycling all feature on the first day. so where is for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories in six minutes from now in the meantime dimitris next with the business news. in a warm welcome to business r.t. russia's central bank chairman has landed near top notch in the global bankers rating beating ben bernanke he and mary are drug global finance magazine as graded fifty central bankers with marks from eight to deal on the basis of several criteria including levels of inflation and climate in their countries the biggest

grades were given to only six heads of financial regulators including the ones from australia canada and israel interestingly the chairman of russia's central banks. over took his colleagues from the fed and the e.c.b. that he was given a b. plus grade well ben bernanke you marry a druggie had to be content with just b. and b. minus respectively. well a second ago what was happening on the stock markets on thursday this is the closing picture for europe many reasons to be depressed for investors on this trading session mainly because of the u.s. jobless benefits standing flat and that means hiring is basically at a halt and the economy is not developing really quickly but still it's not harsh enough to have the federal reserve chairman ordering a new wave of quantitative easing but we'll have to wait for the jackson hole summit in wyoming on friday for that. and on the russian market also

a bad day with the r.t.s. in the my six dropping the my six supported a bit by the weaker ruble but lower prices were not providing much support to the markets some of the worst trading stocks were financials with the t.v. dropping more than two percent. all right gas giant gazprom megaproject stockmen has been put on hold and other parties involved gas from norway starts well in france's total they say that it's not feasible enough as costs are running very high while demand is faltering but bradley way from the nation's capital says this latest decision does not necessarily mean the project is do it. 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 current tax regime that this product is difficult to proceed so one thing that

we're seeing gas from exit per se i think we're seeing gazprom communicate publicly what it used to how it used to 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. and staying with energy projects roads they have to know where you stand so well of agreed to create joint ventures for the arctic project situated in russia's territorial waters stats oil will fund all exploration costs and only thirty three percent of beach joint venture agreements also foresee exchange of management and technical personnel between us. and that's it from this business update coming up next the headlines on r.t. do stay with us.

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