the influence of the two asian giants but news of those allies is already causing concern across the pacific as she explains this is a historic trip for india as the chinese defense minister hasn't visited this country in nearly a decade and the top priority for the list of things to discuss on this trip are strengthening the india china border and promoting a stronger cooperation between the two countries armed forces many people believe that india and china because they have two of the fastest growing economies in the world should be rivals but a lot of analysts i've spoken with have actually said that a partnership between the neighbors actually makes more sense with forty per cent of the world's population and at a time when these two countries' economies are growing while many of the traditional western powers their economies are decreasing many people say that a partnership between india and china could actually be detrimental to

a country like the united states the united states actually exports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and india is actually the number one importer in the entire world many people say the united states is interested in india to counterbalance china's growing influence in this region and to have a strategic ally here when the united states plans to withdraw its troops from afghanistan twenty fourteen so while other countries might have an interest in what kind of relationship india and china has all signs are pointing to stronger military and economic ties between the two countries. that china india alliance is key to countering america's tightening grasp on south asia as well as to keep the region of float while major western economies are declining so says de petro party historian and research of south asian and us politics. the country will interest

will. not will definitely be the united states if it wants to be one vicious. in its first two and circle china that's what president obama's policy right now seems to be because yes sir some time ago that. the united states wants to focus its policy on china which means containment of china so any improvement in relations between china and india would not be welcomed in washington however while the region itself it's good news the economies of china and india will increasingly depend on each other. and therefore the rest of the richest countries. which is really emerging in order to block. i think it is good news that china and india and improve their lives and increased

trade at a time when when the economies of the west just aren't. growing financial clout over asian countries and the global implications that it could have as also the fight has off peter lavelle's debate with this gas and cross talk as showing at one hundred thirty g.m.t. and here's a quick preview. on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now centers in the east and south are we living in the pacific century and if we are what does that really mean . media reports have surfaced suggesting that the u.k. has failed to freeze or some of the asses of top officials in the regime of forming gyptian leader hosni mubarak the move targeting mubarak and his in a circle was introduced in february last year after the lead us are down amid mass rallies joining us live now from all is investigative journalism tony gosling very

good to see they turn eight now london is apparently demanding more evidence from cairo before agreeing to freeze these assets is that a legitimate demand and why does karr fail to provide these evidence. well it's really good to see the b.b.c. doing this report. the important thing to remember here though is that the speed in which the assets were see both daffy in libya and of course of the hundred million or so of president assad in syria this money was seized by the british government in milli seconds with mubarak's money and his friends money it's eighteen months down the line and there's still letters going backwards and forwards between the british and egypt governments asking questions we can't seize the money not only that they have allowed companies to be set up by people who are supposed to be on the egyptian sanctions list those companies have been allowed to continue trading those companies have been shut down with no questions asked so i

think the sort of hidden message in british foreign policy towards egypt is that we don't actually really recognize this new regime where actually wedded to some of their business contacts in the previous old mubarak regime now i was there was going to be my next question actually there what are the benefits for britain in protecting some of the core cronies in the mubarak regime by save guarding all these fortunes. well i think it's because the many business connections between the two i mean essentially we're talking about hidden connections that is to do with arms dealing i mean we had david cameron of course did a big arms to selling to the middle east during the arab spring and they're still forget where this money came from in the first place because we have in britain at the moment a big privatization program going on many of our state assets being sold off to friends of the leading conservative party who are themselves of billionaires worth of cabinets but those assets were seized over in. the over in egypt

by the egyptian mubarak's friends themselves so it's really a privatization scam of state assets have been sold to individual friends of mubarak that were where they got all this money and the egyptian people should have that money back straight away and those business contacts i'm afraid between between britain and egypt and the military industrial complex over here that likes to sell arms to egypt seem much more important than actually honoring their diplomatic commitments it's always interesting to see how when the you know government sees all money specifically in areas like this where a lot of people do ours what happens to their seas money after a while and in this case the egyptian people do need that money back they're trying to rebuild their country i mean this is in a circle where queues of stephenville tens of thousands of billion dollars the yugas already frozen as you said one hundred billion of there's what effect is this going to have vitally on the banking sector in general. well i can tell you what

happens when there's delays in seizure like you know we've got a complete contrast with certain countries the way they're out is to see it immediately what happens is when there are delays the people move their assets around around the world hide them even further even in just a couple of days i mean for example in switzerland when these assets were seized in switzerland they were seized within thirty minutes to stop any of this stuff being moved around the planet but the mo the more important background to all of this is that british foreign policy has it's talked about by people like william hague in officially by people like david cameron is actually not necessary this is evidence that we're not actually doing what we say we're going to do so where is this other kind of shadow foreign policy coming from and i think that's in many ways exposed if you start looking at groups like the private club called the royal institute for international affairs chatham house this is funded by the very financial elites and also by the military industrial complex and incidentally by the b.b.c.

and these people from the wall institute for international affairs in chatham house are actually setting in to a large extent through their organs their papers like international affairs their magazine what british foreign policy is they're far much plant far much more clout than the foreign office and they were essentially tell people like william hague what to do so a lot of this is to do with who is actually setting this foreign policy and that's why we've got a contrast between what we're hearing from how you can cameron and what's actually happening on the ground right let's leave it right there thank you very much tony gosling investigative journalist you giving us his opinion on. that money that's still being frozen and hasn't been seized thank you very much. rides a whole lot more still lined up for you in the program including a look at those coping with cats of less of sciri are from the outside world of driving thousands of basic necessities are those who work in the countries the agriculture sector which only for an end to war.

cambodia is reportedly working to extradite one of the co-founders of the file sharing website pirate bay to sweden got freed walker was arrested by local police wanting a request from sweden where he was sentenced to a year in jail for copyright offenses and found all of us. vain yes says the arrest itself raises questions the jury is still out on the what unfortunately there are conflicting reports on. what really led to its arrest i've heard reports about a bar brawl being the run up to it with just local police interfering. a local disturbance. the american ambassador being income boag at the time of his arrest and high level talks taking place. this morning as was mentioned reports surfaced the year rest was

a result of swedish authorities use for assistance from cambodia despite the lack of an extradition agreement. so it is part party m.e.p. a million and distorters cess has always been a lot of pressure to say the founders of the pirate bay behind boss. there was really really big international pressure and you don't have the time or the going. to make us arash our mission went to. three essential young men that were burning it or a tractor to get there and there are three times the pirate bay who have been very defining trickle. down and. to question their relationship with knowledge sharing and how. this pressure still lingers on and there is major industrial nations would rather think are still lying quite hard to get it's going pressure on. other countries through local. intellectual.

and other fly in the ointment for russian british relations london has apparently followed in washington's footsteps and approved a bad list of russian officials prevented from stepping on its soil the individuals like use of human rights abuses in connection with the case of sergei magnitsky a russian lawyer who died in custody more on that from marty's polly boycott. russia's ambassador to the u.k. wants an explanation from the u.k. foreign office after it emerged in the sunday times that the u.k. home secretary had sent a list of around sixty russian officials to the british embassy in moscow in order to ban them from traveling to russia now the list contains the names of russian judges prosecutors and intelligence officials who london believes are involved in the death of the russian based lawyer so game admit ski he worked for the london

based company hermitage capital fund and he died in pretrial detention back in two thousand and nine in moscow now that he was jailed for tax evasion and awaiting detention his family say that he died because of repeated beatings and being refused medical care now. yes a geisha into the case in russia is still ongoing but it's had a big resonance home and abroad earlier the u.s. said that it had also banned around sixty russian officials from traveling to the u.s. speaking often magnitsky his death the very president dmitry medvedev he said that the people who are accused of economic crimes and tax crimes in particular they should not be put into pretrial detention and of course most of this as well as death is a big tragedy but they've called on other nations not to stage a political show regarding the matter and they've promised a tough response to any foreign sanctions that could be put in place over the case

. thirteen civilians are reportedly did after a u.s. drone attack gone wrong in yemen the unmanned aircraft was apparently targeting the car of an alleged al qaeda militant but had two other vehicles near the city of washington has stepped up its journey operations in the country in recent months but so valued casualties are rarely mentioned in the official reports right turn web journalist ryan dawson says u.s. drone strikes are actually aimed at creating more instability not less sometimes the military industrial complex spends money just for the sake of it. it's not always to win sometimes it's a process of killing what you create and i don't really agree that this is really a conflict between islamic militants versus the government gaming was just unified in one nine hundred ninety eight a civil war in one thousand nine hundred four south yemen has had a success in movement since two thousand and seven and it wasn't about religion or

ethnicities it was about resources the jar the oils in that side of the country or the majority the profits been allocated to the northeast or monetary issues it has become more of a religious issue because of the press and because of the u.s. policies of killing civilians drives people in that direction there don't even have to see the idea ideologically they just have a common enemy. the new international peace envoy to syria has described his job as a near impossible lot of brahimi went on to say that not enough has been done to stop the violence both on the side of the government and the rebels meanwhile another car bomb explosion rattled a christian neighborhood in damascus today killing four people including a child and as the syrian death toll rises so so do the streams of refugees are fleeing syria to join the hundreds of thousands who've already left sanctions to make ordinary life difficult in syria with canada alone ramping up its measures against immense because ten times this year and i was on

a boy who reports it's now up to the syrian farmers to act as a last line of defense against a humanitarian catastrophe. reaping the harvest of economic isolation and a good one farmers across syria are is busy as ever collecting the foods of their labor decades of economic sanctions haven't taught syria to rely on no one but itself at least when it comes to agricultural production and there are no sour grapes about it now while the political pressure on syria is mounting this country is still fully able to feed its people. almost. everything that adds up on syrian tables is growing here in the country south far from the clashes and this year spared the usual drought these fields are probably the government's best had against all sorts of foreign pressure aiming to undermine its support base. syria has experienced sanctions since the 1980's and it is told the country to be

self-sufficient now i go culture is well structured we have all the seeds fertilizers water they haven't been damaged by the sanctions or by the ongoing clashes i can say that agriculture still remains among the sectors least affected by the clashes well this place still looks like a sanctuary of peace the actual war is heard here all too well seventy three year old jimmy webb says he understands the young who want their country to change what he contacts up is their means to him. people who are misled and hold weapons fight the government and destabilize the country are wrong i hope they'll calm down we all need peace to return to syria. polarized in so many levels the syrian conflict has also drawn the line between villagers and city dwellers as violence continues in urban areas people in the countryside are working hard to feed the two warring parties attacking villagers out in rural areas isn't going to really help

them in accomplishing their task which is to try to get assad out of out of power and so i think and that's certainly not going to get the syrian people on their side so i think that the attacks are being concentrated in urban areas where they have the greatest chance to affect syria economically and potentially to strike at military targets. in the left clashes is still the order of the day but twenty kilometers west mohammad is trying to preserve one of his family's to be colonies the other new homes is thought to have been destroyed they couldn't access it for more than six months. i don't want to come into politics it's too dangerous and all i can see is a thing using weapons was the biggest mistake of the. syrian beekeepers are absolutely convinced that peace as superior to all foreign species and that ability to withstand hardship and the blood of their pastures and as clashes in the north

continue taking that toll on the industry many here hold that there is the aliens of syrian peace will also be transferred today kippers artsy syria. right let's get the latest business news now marina is anyone trading right now well no really social and this now shall we all go home. there are the things happening so we'll continue first let's do a review of some of the global markets performance that we've seen we'll start with europe which only ended the trading session a couple of hours ago and basically their investors were quite optimistic about the footsie and the added over half a percent and all of this is the spy the fact that latest data showed that there was a manufacturing this strong for the month of all this but as you can see there by the figures investors were very concerned about that what they are concerned about is what mario druggy the head of the e.c.b. also on thursday he did of course pledge to keep the euro it's hard to preserve it

so we'll see what he has to say about that for now let's move on and take a look at currencies the euro is now gaining against the u.s. dollar we saw this. and that's been lasted for about two hours now when it comes to the ruble we saw a mixed performance in the last few minutes of the trade in session and we saw that the ruble lost against the u.s. dollar by again to the euro not talking about the ruble let's take a look at the russian markets and here that optimism from europe trickled down to investors here as they are yes and then my six added over a one percent and investor here we're also focusing on the asia pacific corporation .