president putin says some western countries need to reassess their stance on syria as he shares his views on global affairs exclusively with our t.v. his first interview since returning to power. he's fired tear gas and shotguns of anti-government demonstrators in bahrain who demand the ruling moderate you release political prisoners. and the democrats name barack obama their candidate for u.s. president as their rallied support for the campaign plagued by four years of broken promises.

is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie president while you were putting warns intervening into foreign conflicts leaves a dangerous fog saying some western countries should reassess its position on the syrian crisis the russian leader shared stake on matters both at home and abroad with our tedious first exclusive interview since returning to power in may cross live responded daniel bushell who is a lot of a stop for us today and all well it was a long awaited interview so tell us what president putin have to say. yes the president putin is hosting world leaders at the apec summit here before arriving here really discuss a spectrum of world problems today the syrian crisis was obviously talked about as always he was straight to the point a rather skeptical i must say about the syrian rebels comparing them to one time

over the tame easy at the west is giving those rebels money supporting them really despite widespread accusations of atrocities on the ground from even that it will recognize an opposition government everyone supporting them in the west you know russia's president points out the rebels all the very religious extremists that the west is it is fighting against. today some want to use militants from al qaida or some other organizations with equally radical views to accomplish their goals in syria this policy is dangerous and very shortsighted in that case one should. all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting that you could have practically the same kind of people and useful to what we should bear in mind is that one day these people would get back their former captors and on the other hand these same people should bear in mind that they will eventually end up in a new prison very much like the one of the cuban shore. president's

concern is that syria's becoming another libya western powers are provoking revolutions there but more chaos is being brought rather than a better life in our interview putin also took her example of afghanistan and he said that america is going all guns blazing so to speak but it now doesn't know how to get out the last part of the country's g.d.p. is drugs yet the western invading powers all taking measures to fight it and it's moving all moving afghanistan another direction on the subject of america putin said he's ready to work with presidential candidate mitt romney took aim at the missile defense shield big plant in europe. the when we talk about the missile defense system our american partners keep telling us this is not directed against you but what happens if mr romney and believes to be america's number one foe which is elected this president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed

against russia as does technologically configured exactly for this purpose and you also have to think about his strategic character mostly what you look for a year or even a decade and the chances that a man with romney's views could come to power quite so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security post. well we seem to be having a technical problem with our correspondent daniel bushell who's reporting from water assad will try to reconnect with him later to get the very latest on what's happening there at the apac summit and of course the interview of russia's president on important which will be broadcasting here on our t.v. later term the day well and the asia pacific form and lot of us dog is already providing its first business updates and katie and our business desk has.

multi million and even multi billion dollar deals already struck with ross's roughly half of the americas so my bill announcing plans to start driving a bus as well just ahead of schedule as well as the japanese companies also getting it on the out she would call the company months up where the rushes follows that's all they would eat out and about twenty minutes in the business of the seven. other news now bahraini police have fired tear gas and shotguns and shii demonstrators the clashes have left one person critically injured activists took to the streets in protest of jail sentences against prominent figures on tuesday bahrain's appeals court upheld the sentences of twenty opposition activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government shii protesters are calling for an answer to what they call discrimination by the sunni the pro reform movement started in

february last year at least crackdowns have claimed some sixty lives with dozens arrested he's a times correspondent pepe escobar says gulf marquees were convinced by the u.s. that the protests are masterminded by iran. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely just them and it's the kids over the shiites my jaw. seventy percent of the country protesting because they are treated as second or third rate citizens in their own country by a sunni dynasty which is very close to the house of saud in saudi arabia and the problem is the house of saud the g.c.c. countries the petro monarchies in the persian gulf they manage to convince the us and the west that this is a plot snatched by iran to destabilize the persian gulf which is school absurd there is a tradition of protesting bearing that goes on for decades in fact the workers

protests they are shiite but they are also sunni is involved and the fact that this is a two tier society if you are a foreign businessman and if you are aligned with the al khalifa you live a very good life sunni's of course if you are shiites and you have to try to live the bahraini dream let's put it this way for get it most avenues are closed to you and if you want more human rights and to be treated. normally it's absolutely possible cause from the beginning of the saudis especially they could do no off the . bahraini they sold to washington the idea that this was an iranian plot in wherever happens in the ring is always view by the saudis in via washington as a minor disturbance and of course the u.s. does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. guardian angel of the persian gulf. well coming up in the program the shooting

at a canadian post-election rally people and. back from years rally shooting takes a closer look at the tale surrounding the dramatic incident in montreal. and the recession shots u.k. shops leaving small businesses struggling to make ends meet with no light at the end of the tunnel. obama has been nominated to the us democratic presidential candidate as the party's national convention drums up support for his reelection bid in a valley obama said americans were absolutely better off than four years ago but the country's growing national debt unemployment and broken promises have plagued his campaign. reports from the u.s. . in two thousand and eight. us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we made at one of those defining moments. a moment when

our nation is at war our economy is in turmoil the democratic presidential candidate accepted his party's nomination valen to rebuild america's moral standing and break from the policies of his predecessor the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in washington and the failed policies of george w. bush four years after change occupied the white house america is still at war twenty three million citizens are unemployed and most of the national security policies cemented by george w. bush continue unabated or have been expanded in the code of your station of what were illicit abuses under bush imprisonment without trial spying without warrants we've now replaced imprisonment and torture largely with assassination which is actually not a moral improvement under obama's leadership guantanamo bay remains open the patriot act has been renewed warrantless wiretapping extended but cia black sites

have closed targeted killings have been justified drone strikes publicly acknowledged military commissions codified however enhanced interrogation like waterboarding has been banned critics say obama has not only double down on bush's policies he's also raise the stakes signing the national defense authorization act made him the first us president to assert the right to assassinate anyone anywhere without any legal sanction if there is a war cries out there we can the war crimes iraq. tops the list this made many of those who voted for him hoping for change left disillusioned in fact what they appear to have voted for was more of the same obama's ratings are now the lowest of any incumbent per. didn't since the one nine hundred eighty s. the two major parties are very very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have engaged in in foreign conflicts that

we can't afford the cost of america's overseas military campaigns have contributed to a u.s. national debt that topped sixteen trillion dollars this week while obama's america is running on empty critics say wall street continues to play largely by the same rules that led to the global financial crisis there hasn't been regulation of the banks in a sufficient way and that the main crisis affecting the united states which is to say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate stranglehold on the political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from a coalition that led to that in the first place since obama has stepped into the white house america has seen an unprecedented rise in grassroots movements like the tea party and occupy wall street though both very different one thing uniting them is the claim that the people of america are being ignored by their own government the two major us political parties have historically gone to great lengths and have

spent hundreds of millions of dollars to highlight their differences yet following obama's first term in office the biggest change may be that more voters are likely to see a democrat and a republican as two sides of the same corner marina porte monnaie r.t. new york. well visit our website for more details and here's a quick look at what's there for you right now france has started to provide syrian rebels with direct financial aid with reports anti-aircraft weapons supplies are already in the pipeline. our full page and some new technology which allows police to stop people recording video during protests by the general public from war you can go to parties dot com. now in canada police have identified the suspect the gunman in the deadly shooting during the party post election rally richard henry

the attack left one man dad and another person injured. was giving her acceptance speech when shots were fired by security guards rushed her offstage sixty two year old bane and was arrested at the scene while carrying two guns as he was taken away by police he's alleged to have shouted that english are waking up in french or was victory could potentially lead to a referendum on whether the province of the bag should gain independence from canada more mccollum a reporter for c.b.c. says the shooting has left the country in shock. most people are condemning this shooting obviously it's not something anybody expected to happen especially on election night the mayor of montreal has come out to express his condolences to the victims he says that he walks safely in montreal without a bodyguard and that no one could see this coming i spoke to some people after the

shooting last night who were at the gathering of the paths which is our solver n'est party where the leader was giving her victory speech after she won the election and they said what happened was she was whisked away off the stage there was a small boom they didn't think anything of it only later did the find out that two people had been shot. one person was dead behind the nightclub where the speech was being given there was also a fire set police bench to put it out they arrested a sixty two year old man who has been taken into custody and should appear in court very soon but again there's a lot of shock here in montreal across the province of quebec that something like this could happen and until there's a motive known which we still don't know many people are asking a lot of questions there's the. like as mentioned the sovereigntists party there their mandate is to separate from the rest of canada along they have also more left leaning social policies as well which appeals to many people in the province of

quebec there's also a big push by the party to help encourage the french language here and some people who speak english feel that the those policies may be anti english and a little too strong but in general we've been dealing with this in this province for so many years we've seen two referendums to separate or not from canada in the past and those failed so the appetite for sovereignty has been quite minimal but in the lead up to the election we were hearing more and more debates between french speaking people in english speaking people and there was some concern perhaps that since the gunman uttered some words in english that perhaps it could have been politically motivated but as i say it's still too soon to make that connection. and nearly one in seven shops in the u.k. stood vacant at the end of june as retailers struggle to break free of a crippling double dip recession the same reports as that number is only set to

grow this year small businesses happened forced to shot amid government cuts as customers span last and last reports i've only. been. a nation of shopkeepers and dave ms family all some of the proudest with three generations in the. rade this shop has been here for seventeen years but recessions hit the business hard and dave's had to fire more than half his staff really blown off. i think. anyone with a dog would not want to put someone to work. boy. but everyone would have gone. at dave and his staff of victims of persons dreaded double dip recession which means the economy's been shrinking for three consecutive quarters but the second time in four years for ordinary people that

means there's less work available and more employment and if you're running a business you'll be selling less and won't be seeing any growth in sales or income there are home grown reasons for recession but a lot of the trouble comes from the beleaguered euro zone and for these market traders in camden a place that usually popular with european tourists it's a double blow to spain very very much given saturday sunday it looks like. we don't speak of us like a divorce and less than previous years this is now the longest double dip recession since world war two but stephen davis of the institute of economic affairs says things haven't been this bad since the eighteen seventies and that was a long period of very very low growth rates profound economic stagnation in places like britain and france. by something very similar to what we have the huge bubble

time in property stocks produces. the rise of. quite a lot of intense. divisions. come down to eight hundred ninety dave knows about social unrest his shops in croydon where some of the worst rioting happened last august during the trouble he camped out among the culprits in his barricaded shop to protect his livelihood. people are angry and. simply wrong and in the street score a lot recently because they're frustrated because actually your work in a lot of the sign money that we. will know things of increased a lot in processing. plus tax and everything so you know if it wasn't

for the support of a store of ours i think we'd be in a lot of trouble dave believes this is the new normal a stagnant economy where only the most scrupulous survive and even they make just enough money to scrape by and economists don't deny that the recovery will be long and arduous stating we could be in for a lost decade or even two laura smith r.t. london. as the u.k. works to minimize a far from the euro zone the e.u. struggles to help we get of members back on their feet greece's crowded ers have suggested extending their working week in the country to six days but the e.u. has efforts have failed to prevent ratings giant moody's from slapping and negative outlook on the block while later marta andreasen who used to work for the european commission's as bad policies have contributed to the region's troubles. i was in

the commission and actually the people in the commission live in their ivory tower they are actually in their stand what with the economy in the european union and we are where we are because of the lack of discipline of the member states but very much also because of the lack of control of the european commission on the policy that they have put out this crisis is to a certain extent or to a large extent the result of the good or bad policies that they put him play. but they don't assume and the response of credit rating agencies are part of the problem not part of the solution because obviously they take certain parameters and the are of course in a way with the rating for c you know the interest rate go up i think it's anybody's standard showing that for me. our short life that.

i watch the full interview with u.k. am of pm former member of the european commission martin andrius in throughout the day here on our team. all right we can now talk to our correspondent danio bushell who is in a lot of us dog and who is following the latest developments at the apec summit earlier to daniel and got some of the insights especially president vladimir putin's interview that we are broadcasting here throughout the day now daniel what i want to ask you now is the position of washington and julian assange i mean washington has also been under scrutiny recently for its stance on joint sancia that we can expound or in the white house hasn't commented on the issue by a sound himself fears he'll be extradited to the u.s. so how does president putin view the case yes this is currently

a burning issue diplomatic issue really was recently granted asylum as we know but still stuck in the ecuador embassy in london and is being blocked from getting out barbara shorty's who even threatened to storm the embassy in violation of international law president putin did warn the case is politically motivated and britain is once again guilty of double standards. but if we are constantly lectured about how independent britain's judiciary is it makes its own decision most of the no one can influence it the one about julian a song they ruled him to be extradited what is that if it's not a self evident example of a double standard that would make a definitive statement but as far as i know it could or has requested guarantees from the swedish government sweden wouldn't hand the soldier over to the united states it's true no guarantees have been forthcoming at the very least this suggests that we are looking at a politically motivated trial. if the president putin really warning

of the dangers of escalating the case. all right so those were primarily international issues but what about the events at home. well we could not talk to him about pussy riot control of dominated world headlines you'll remember they staged a punk prayer in the main russian cathedral got two years in jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political provocations with some scandalous performances elsewhere mr putin told us he doesn't approve of their actions but doesn't want to get involved in the case in any way. i have always felt the punishment should be proportionate to the offense first in case you've never heard of it a couple of years ago one of the band's members put up three effigies in one of moscow's big supermarkets with a sign saying that jews gays and migrant workers should be driven out of moscow

just a million years i think your forty's should have looked into their activities back then but after that they staged an orgy in a public place then they are unloaded video that was on the internet then they turned up at your lock of a cathedral here in moscow causing unholy mayhem and then went to another cathedral and caused mayhem that to do i will not comment on whether the verdict is well grounded in the sentence proportionate to the offense in which these girls must have lawyers who defend their interests in court they have the right to file an appeal and demand a new hearing it's up to them it is just a legal issue you just. so live in a primitive thing out of the a court case if you missed the full interview it is available on the t.v. dot com a website indeed daniel thanks very much for this update and just reminder that we'll be broadcasting this interview a short version of it here on r.t. and as you just mentioned is also available in full on r.t. dot com and also our you tube channel all right thanks very much indeed daniel

bushell covering the apec summit and we continue talking about a pack katie pilbeam who is at the business desk and got all the latest for us katie what more have you got to say our you know what is the talk about the deals that you will get. it also mentions some of the major was to go ross stiffed on american x. on my bill they've announced files over the joint shelf projects in russia's war says they aim to stop exploration driving on the black sea and chorus season twenty fourteen amount such as the head of schedule another company is also agreed to create joint ventures on sponsor rules to have some share in three of project in the u.s. and canada says the first big well let's move on and talk about two pounds monsters well because they've launched a joint production of it because with losses assemblers so all those all the full scale production on the plants will start already next month with overall output expected to reach seventy thousand cars a year now the initial investment into the joint venture are estimated at around

three hundred fifty million dollars but we for the business side of the four of us use a marina throughout the day but right now we're going to dive right into the markets and see how high it is doing right here in moscow i will be able to say we're looking at gains it's a busy day today laws about anticipation going on in the euro region that's what investors are waiting for waiting to get their key from the center of the door only a domestic say though in the corporate side we got net profit of russia's biggest company gas problem falling twenty three percent in the first quarter of this year this get on to the ruble and see what was up to and it's still gaining as is so supposedly if they're not how it's performing in the offing session here moscow is now the ruble as far as the economic minister is concerned has recently noted that it's become more volatile a loss is the russian central bank moves towards a free floating exchange rates meanwhile the year i was in the spotlight today as a mention d.c.b. president jogging a hoss to convince of all kids that there is

a future for the single currency we've got the x.'s as well they go present this much anticipated plans include details of his forms by which really is aimed to reducing the boring cost of the. spain is the also want to mention that london is pulling on the seven tenths of a percent just that now there's been a fall until about three in the because the euro zone's debt crisis is starts gripping the previously so although it's the currency unity in the small export oriented economy of finland so over one percent in the second quarter and that's because of weakening demand the countries products from. the economy is expected to shrink again in the third quarter i turn to moderate growth only when the euro crisis comes back because mcdonald's has decided to go vegetarian it will open a few meat restaurants it has a religious sports next year the false food chain has been on a nearly two decades slogan the country around eighty percent of the population is

over some induced took the announcement as a call to oems that the organization associated with cal soon is attempting to humiliate the by the outlets in sacred places where everyone loves mcdonald's. well it's important to actually be sensitive to local cultures as you know the same thing globally act locally with thanks very much indeed for the subject and back with you next hour how minds are on your way here in r.t. stay with us.

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