quick. from. the divided u.n. security council tries again to break the syrian with turkey pushing for a buffer zone as heavy battles continue. 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 in damascus an oppressive regime. plus the euro zone's engine room 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 enforced 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 our new york correspondent marina portnoy has the details. 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 buffer zones with in 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 west 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 airspace 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 we also see the west is planning they say for a post assad era but meanwhile this violence is still escalating and the security council has not reached any kind of consensus so you're dealing still with a deadlock among the international community but they're also 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. apart from calls on syrian officials to defect u.k.'s william hague has promised an extra three million pounds to help the country's refugees with thousands fleeing into neighboring states it seems the measure will do little to stem the immense influx of displaced people are reports now from jordan. exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides swelter under the scorching desert sun sheltering from the violence back home in syria they walked for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under the wire not one person here has gone through the official borders instead depending on the level of violence in syria as many as a thousand people each day are fleeing across into jordan they're picked up from the border by the jordanian police and brought here to this camp. and now a man doesn't know what to do with them the country is struggling with few natural

resources little water and is in need of foreign aid they're growing number is putting pressure on an already refugee way republic we can't close the border on the faces of the refugees we have to help them syria is like a sister to jordan and king abdullah and president assad friends now our king is in a very difficult situation goes on has a direct impact on what happens as 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 with 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 and this will make problems for jordan where we have our

own extremists far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlog. if a conflict which some in the country have helped 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. the atmosphere here is so. mysterious 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 serious shockwave however that conflict in policy r.t. zar to a refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. still ahead for you this hour here in r.t. a look at the roots of radicalism we investigate the spread of islamic extremism

here in russia and whether it's being fueled from abroad and that's in a few minutes on r.t. . first the syrian delegations walked out on a session of the nonaligned movement in tehran after egyptian leader mohamed morsi called the syrian regime oppressive in his speech he added that assad's government had lost its legitimacy and attending nations to support the rebels and the war activists sara flounders has told me that morsi is trying to do america's bidding who didn't want to see the meeting go ahead. there was an all out effort to stop this media and all out effort to keep. iran itself and the stop any country from having any economic or political relations believe iran whatsoever so it is very fact that one hundred and twenty eight nations thirty five heads of state have come to tehran for that meeting is of extremely short of that 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 potential is still there but we should be aware that there's big pressure. very much so on every one of the countries i can understand fully syria walking out because they are playing they say absolutely game change there's every effort of the u.s. to intervene and they're already intervening now their threats of the no fly zone arc streamlined danger it's on. 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 chance i'm going 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. i'm 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 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 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 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 eurozone monetary union so will be the eurozone crisis on increasing economic ties. the bill when it comes to trying to create talking to the chinese leadership will be underlining the meeting is. that germany needs china far more right now than china needs germany. peter over there in china's prime minister has also called on greece italy and spain to grow go through with reforms and budget cuts to get their finances back on track let's now

talk to hans küng the nanny who's the editorial director at the european council on foreign relations what despite his warnings chinese president hu jintao said he supports europe's efforts to overcome the crisis in what way could we see help then from the east. well as your reporter suggested the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism. the chinese. offer lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example how much the chinese invested in european bones in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably won't know so there's

a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about that so china wary about europe's debt clearly owns a lot of european debt at the moment those big deals we've just seen no including a three and a half billion dollar deal clearly that would help much of europe or any part of europe i'm thinking obviously there's a two tier element to europe at the moment well that south part of europe the ones which are really in trouble the euro members their benefit. yeah that's a good question and i think that's the sort of general question about the special relationship that as your reporter suggested is developing between china and germany the extent to which this is in germany's economic interests in the sense that if this is in the interests of europe as a whole in the case of a bus obviously this is a european company and so it would benefit not just germany but also fronts. and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off the german companies are open to european companies and so in that sense there is

a competition going on between germany and other european countries and generally seems to be winning that competition and just tell helpful though all of these contracts for for the economy obviously we talk about germany there but but for europe i mean short of these investments they seem pretty big these contracts will they actually help. they well i mean they you know these these and this is the reason why why merkel and other european leaders are so keen to sign such big deals with the chinese is that they they create jobs so they do have they do have an impact in that sense from the start of the crisis germany has really been trying to to bind the euro zone into a tighter political and economic union chancellor merkel is always stressing how it's the only way out of the crisis do you think that policy is going to work if she really stick in pursuing that. it's very difficult to say she's talking now about political union and that. as she's making the idea of debt mutualization

within the euro zone dependent on the creation of a political union and it's not all clear whether they'll even be support for that in germany that alone in some of the other euro zone countries and in any case even if they're even if there was support this is obviously going to be a very long. process of creating a place where union within europe and the question i think is whether that will be quick enough to save the euro political union as well as a fiscal union the course of many states not happy because that of course could threaten their sovereignty their democracy right and the french in particular hastert involved france if it's going to if it's going to fly tall but also as as i said in any case in germany also there is it's not clear that a referendum on a political union in exchange for debt mutualization can be one german public opinion is increasingly euro skeptic too and some polls indicate

a majority of germans now opposed to the idea of further integration so it's not at all clear that if that were put to the german people though to vote in favor hans good to talk to you thanks very much your time hans küng the nanny of the editorial director the european council on foreign relations joining us live here on r.t. thank you. what does remind you that 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 here's a quick look at what we have for you on the web site the school of hard knocks despair for two thousand students in the u.k. you may face deportation after the university lost its right to foreigners. plus the massive massive charge to end them all a new global best in thailand with relaxation at this remarkable record breaking down see the video and story in full at r.t. dot com and catch all our best videos on 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 he attacked him on tuesday when a female suicide bomber entered the cleric's home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up concern has also been fueled by last month's sorta muslim thinkers in the republic of. some experts believe the roots of extremism lead all the way to the middle east others say the threat from islamic hatred could be even stronger. reports. the trip to work the tragedy our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his core the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among 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 spotlight it's now on to understand most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical

islam in washington. some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where it's an official religion because the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here it's. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches over. slum it 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 lol 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 blocks they aren't it's a mom's denying radical but admit they do not support our 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 as. we were told here believers are taught to sincerely any quality there are no longer up held in modern society with justice can only be achieved through. some one sense islam is the only fan way of life and social order that called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is chopped off. and 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 engulfed by the worst of the radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now key the wrong moves could only worsen the situation you've got going to of already that are stun. well the russian city of 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 lawyers of the band of already described it as a provocation three members of the russian punk band were killed earlier this month for two years for performing a so-called punk prayer in the country's main cathedral. you want your to come to you live from the russian capital still to come for you in a few minutes from now a stairway to heaven the idea of

a service engineer is now being put into practice and find out about the plans to boldly build an elevator into space. but first an oil tanker 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 tanker was seized on tuesday after an exchange of gunfire with security forces from togo it will now continue its voyage. time to update you on our main. our international news stories in our world update this hour five australian soldiers have died in afghanistan and a pair of separate incidents two soldiers were killed when their helicopter rolled over while landing and just hours earlier a man in an 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 claiming the lives of forty five troops. scandal hit barclays bank is facing another fraud investigation over the billions it raised from middle eastern investors in two thousand and eight the bank is suspected of not being open enough and what it paid to advisors when it raised more than six billion euros of emergency cap. at the height of the financial crisis barclays was also recently brought in the. rates the rate at which banks lend money to each other the reputation of u.k. banks including standard chartered taken a battering after they were accused of breaking the sanctions imposed on iran. rescuers 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 coal mine accidents killed almost two thousand people in china last year where safety rules are often neglected. and

a spectacular fireworks display proved to be one of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the london twenty twelve paralympics the show believed to be the events most watched competition will last eleven days four thousand athletes from around the globe taking part wheelchair basketball swimming and track cycling all feature on the first day. well forget rockets and shuttles a lift 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 ground breaking development a russian idea. 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

lowered 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 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 ups 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 lift port is raising money for the project and the japanese firm abo yeah she 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. there the media is next with business news and he'll be telling us all about to the global finance magazine that is rated central bank heads around the world with russia getting a better grade than the fed an easy be that story and plenty of others in our business next with dmitri. well 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 a to d. 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 of gig that you have over took his colleagues from the fed

and the e.c.b. that he was given a b. plus great well ben bernanke you marry a druggie had to be content with just b. and b. minus respectively. while 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 us 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 or world 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. gas giant gazprom megaproject stockmen has been put on hold and other parties involved gas from norway starts well in france is to tell 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 project is difficult to proceed so i'm thing that we're seeing gas from exit per se i think we're seeing gazprom communicate publicly what it used to how it views the project and 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 are also they have to know ways stats or level grades or create joint ventures for the all projects situated in russia's territorial waters stats oil will fund all exploration costs unknown thirty three percent of each should joint venture agreements also foresee exchange of management and technical personnel between the companies. and that's it from this a business update coming up next the headlines on aussie do stay with us.

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