president putin says western countries need to reassess their stance on syria as he shares his views on global affairs exclusively with in his first interview since returning to power. police fired tear gas and shotguns at antigovernment demonstrators in bahrain to demand the ruling monarchy release political prisoners . and the democrats named barack obama for u.s. president they rallied support the campaign plagued by four years of broken promises.

broken or sing live worldwide this is moscow with me rory sushi it's good to have you with us today president of lot of. some western countries should reassess their position on the syrian crisis the russian leader shared his views with us here at r.t. ultimately in his first exclusive interview since returning to power in may we talked to putin before he flew out to the country's far east where nations are making up half of the world's economy gathering and we have done you a bushel who is standing by in vladivostok and we can cross live to him now and good to see you the preparations of the summit are still underway i'm sure hopes are high for it as many of the world players are attending what can we expect to come out of it at this point. you know preparation here is in full swing up police

are everywhere insurance security it's an important meeting for world leaders really the head of the international monetary fund is here as well apec seen as a counterbalance really to the economic power of the g eight apec states that make up over half the world's economy and brainstorming ideas to fight global financial slowdown tearing down trade is one of the key themes here and talks that have become a pick free trade zone which would be bigger than the e.u. president putin is already here before arriving he gave the first interview since his inauguration spoke to walty discussed really a spectrum of world problems today the syrian crisis was obviously talked about as always straight to the point he was rather skeptical about the syrian rebels even comparing them to guantanamo detainees yet the west is giving the rebels money supporting them despite widespread accusations of atrocities on the ground fronts even said to recognize an opposition government so everyone supporting them in the

west but russia's president pointed out rebels all the very religious extremists the west is struggling 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 could have been practically the same kind of people and you know what we should bear in mind is that one day these people would get back at 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. they were put in always straight to the. presidential elections in the u.s. is also touched on saying whoever gets in it will try to work with even mitt romney who notoriously calls russia enemy number one but the president added he can only work with the american lead to to the extent that the u.s.

side wants we also spoke about america in afghanistan about the u.s. rushing into war there and now of course looking for a way to get out of the mess it's created this part of decade long campaign taliban attacks are escalating we have afghan soldiers trained by nato now attacking the very same nato troops and you also took aim at the missile defense shield being planned in europe. when we talk about the missile defense system or american partners keep telling us this is not directed against you but what happens if mr romney and believes us to be america's number one photo which is elected as president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed against russia just as it is technologically configured exactly for this purpose and you also have to think about his strategic character not for a year or even a decade and the chances that a man with romney's views could come to power a quite so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security.

so the arms race morning really becoming an issue in terms of the missile defense shield it really is becoming an issue for russia as we approach the november presidential elections in the u.s. indeed and as we all know that america says the whole european missile defense shield is supposed to target rogue states like a north korea or iran and yet somehow it's been put right on the front doorstep of russia let's bring our washington a bit further out of this conversation it's been under scrutiny recently for its stance on the world's number one whistleblower of course julian astonished at the white house hasn't commented on the issue but as sanjay fears that he will be extradited to the u.s. i mean how does president putin view this ongoing case yes this is currently a burning diplomatic issue really stands was recently granted asylum but he still stuck in the ecuador embassy in london being blocked from getting out by british authorities who even threatened to storm the embassy in violation of international

law president putin that was the case is politically motivated and britain is once again guilty of double standards meetings a prearranged imprint discussed by on a british we're constantly lectured about how independent britain's judiciary is it makes its own decision most of the no one can influence it but what about julian assange 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 ecuador has requested guarantees from the swedish government the sweden wouldn't hand the soldier over to the united states through no guarantees of being forthcoming at the very least this suggests that we are looking at a politically motivated trial of the. present and really warning there or of the dangers of escalating their stance a case then going out of the framework of international law or without suffering into the framework of domestic policies what about events on the home front what are the russian president have to say on that. yes so we could not talk about pussy

riot is antics and trial has dominated world headlines you'll remember they staged a punk prayer in the main russian cathedral and got two years in jail for who are going to the most motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political provocations reversal scandalous performances elsewhere mr putin told us he doesn't approve of their actions but won't get involved in the case in any way. and i've 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 normal and yes i think you're thora he should have looked into their activities back then but after that they staged an orgy in a public place then they uploaded the 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 there too i will not comment on whether the verdict is well grounded in the sentence proportionate to the offense these girls must have lawyers who defend their interests in court they have the right to file an appeal and demand a new hearing and it's up to them it is just a legal issue just the. other person staying out of the percy right case there if you missed the full interview it is available on dot com so he spoke about the serious parts of his trip on his way to vladivostok though it was also part of efforts to save an endangered species of crane by disguising himself as one the crane was raised in captivity and they don't know how to migrate south so environmentalist eros as you are all devised an imitation crane to show them the way has led to the spectacle of a person putting on a special course to you and flying a motorized microlight to show the birds their way to asia. all right

daniel bush with a lot of lot of our stock of the apec summit many thanks indeed. the whole asia pacific lot of course talk is already providing us with our first business update is following them for us. yeah we're looking at multi million and even multi billion dollar deals being struck with. yes american exxon mobile they've announced plans to start drilling a massive moves ahead of schedule and japanese companies are getting in on the call company looking out where the grass is assembly. and i have all the details about things. all right at about ten minutes past the hour moscow time grainy police have fired tear gas and shotguns demonstrators in the clashes have left at least one person critically injured activists took to the streets in protest of jail sentences against prominent figures on tuesday peals court upheld the

sentences of twenty opposition activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government shiite protesters are calling for an end to what they say is that discrimination by the sunni monarchy and the program for movement started in february last year police crackdowns of claim some sixty lives dozens arrested and asia times court correspondent pepe escobar says that gulf monarchies were convinced by the u.s. that the protests a mastermind it by iran. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely legitimate it's the kids of a shiite majority 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 that is in the persian gulf they managed to convince the us and the west that this is a plot snatched by iran to destabilize the persian gulf which is school gleefully

absurd there is a tradition of protesting during that goes on for decades infected 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 us you live a very good life sunni's of course if you are shiites and you have to try to live the rainy 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. arrange 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. angel of the persian gulf. still to come here in the shooting at a canadian post election rally a political. rally shooting we take a closer look at the details surrounding the dramatic incident. and the recession shocks the u.k. shops leaving small businesses struggling to make ends meet with no light at the end of the. now barack obama has been nominated as the u.s. democratic presidential candidate as the party's national convention drums up support for his reelection bid in november obama said that americans were quote absolutely better off than four years ago the country's growing national debt unemployment and broken promises have plagued this campaign as r.t. as more important reports. in two thousand and eight frock obama turned us politics

into something of a pop culture phenomenon we made 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 valiant 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 expanding the coded fixation 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 raised 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 president since the one nine hundred eighty s.

the two major parties are very this are very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have. engaging 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 struggle hold 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 coin marina port ny r.t. new york. you can always visit for many more details or let's have a quick look and see what's there for you right now from the. syrian rebels with direct financial reports of. weapons supplies already in the pipeline. plus new technology which allows police to stop people recording video during protests by the general public details on that dot com. now

in canada police have identified the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting during the parti quebecois post-election rally is richard bane the attack left one man and another person injured. was giving her acceptance speech when shots were fired as security guards rushed her offstage sixty two year old was arrested at the scene while carrying two guns as he was taken away by police he is alleged to have shouted at the english waking up in french i was a victory could potentially lead to a referendum on whether the province of quebec should gain independence from canada laura mccallum a reporter for c.b.c. says the shooting is left the country in a state of shock. well 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 walk 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 path to get back well which is our sovereign is to party where the leader was giving her victory speech after she won the election and they said she that 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 be 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 managed 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. i just about twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital nearly one in seven shops in the u.k. stood vacant of the end of june as a return to struggle to break free of

a crippling double dip recession or the same report says the number is only set to grow this year many small businesses have been forced to shut amid government cuts as customers spend less and less artie's the us with us a story only known well known can then. a nation of shopkeepers and dave mears family are some of the proudest with three generations in the flooring trade 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 height blown off. i think you know anyone with a decent would not want to put someone to work. but. boy. but everyone would have gone so. dave and his staff of victims of persons dreaded double dip recession which means the economy's been shrinking for three

consecutive quarters for the second time in four years for ordinary people that means there's less work available and more on the 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's usually popular with european tourists it's a double blow spain very very. even saturday sunday it looks like we have. just been less cost of us like to 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 sparked off by something very similar to what we have this time all the time in property and railroad stocks british society was more the rise of new labor militancy quite a lot of intense competition divisions. and things of that sort he didn't restart come down to eight hundred nine hundred 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. who simply in the street score a lot recently because they're frustrated the guys actually are working a lot harder for the sign money that we were in in ninety ninety. and as we all know things of increased

a lot in prices then. plus you know tax and everything so you know if it wasn't for the support of our staff are 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 nor a smith r.t. london. and in just a moment with the business for now the world update will start in gaza where israeli soldiers an air of killed at least six suspected palestinian militants in the border with gaza and israel by the military strike reportedly targeted the group attempting to plant explosive devices along the coastal. the incident follows an israeli airstrike the night before which killed four palestinian militants as they were preparing to fire rockets at nearby southern cities. former spy chief and

confidant of colonel gadhafi has been transferred to libya after being extradited from mauritania this is seen as a blow for the international criminal court with chopping trying to win custody of a new c some critics believe he could expose details about extraordinary rendition the process under which the u.s. moves conflicts to countries known to employ harsh interrogation techniques fled libya after last year's uprising against colonel gadhafi and is accused of crimes against humanity. people have been shot dead inside a car on a forest road in the french alps the driver of the vehicle was a u.k. citizen all the victims are thought to have been members of a british family on holiday the two young girls were found alive at the scene one of them was only discovered eight hours later hidden under the bodies of the other girl is reported to be in a critical condition in hospital. we're going to cover so there's kitty pilgrim

good to see you today i know you're keeping track of all the deals being struck at the apec summit have rigidly we're dealing with a bit of a time difference here it's already nine twenty five pm over there in russia's far east what kind of deals that have been proposed today also fall over or we were talking millions billions of money to be my big overall sets and i saw my ball they've announced plans i have the joint show of projects in russia swartz's but i just saw exploration drilling on the black and car season twenty fourteen which is that she head of schedule other companies also agree to create joint ventures and the possible snap some shares in three of that soames projects in the u.s. and canada south of us one moves in all by japan's a monster as well they've launched a joint production of its cars with russia's assemble loves all of us the full stop production on the planet will start already next month with overall output expected to reach seventy thousand calls a year and all the additional investments into the joint venture are estimated at

around three hundred fifty million dollars supposedly n c of money changing hands today i'm going to be following the business side of things on the i pad for him throughout the day so right now let's get into the markets and see what's happening with check out russia to begin with and see that we're looking at healthy gains is business opposed to dave and your most go so far today invested for us waiting for they need some years to see what happens as a plethora of meetings going on all the domestic side of things a the corporate side net profit of russia's biggest company gasp rome fell twenty three percent in the first quarter of this year that sunny not having any effect on the markets today if we look at the ruble the russian currency will be able to see what's happening there and it is gaining against the boss get cars is now russia's economic minister has recently noted that the ruble has become more volatile as the russians had to find new ways to look for a floating exchange rate meanwhile the euro. and say right that's in spotlight

today not as easy as president mario draghi has to convince the markets that there is a future for the single currency right now is gaining optimism ahead of that meeting one twenty six thirty seven now right now as i say we've got meetings on the way he set to present this much anticipated fund to include details of the bond buying plan the whole point of it would be to reduce a boring cos of the lies of spain italy both want to mention loans of as well which check out the see if we may and have look at it as well ross said well london's actually been poles highs and that's why mine is buying as well as other e.c.b. we've got. the bank of england's monetary policy meeting as well that is going on today and the dust is over a percent opposed to territory stuff in the euro zone debt crisis those who are paying the previously sold it you know filthy currency union the small orientated economy off in the one percent in the second quarter and that's because of

weakening devolves on the products from other eurozone members finland's economy is expected to shrink again in the third quarter i might turn to moderate growth only when the euro crisis is calm so i say what right now we're it's a big. yeah and it is all of our analysts economists always saying when is the eurozone officially going to go down the drain so really no it's not good news any way you look at it could appeal when we'll see you in about an hour or so i think. she was saying of the european economy are certainly a subject for many to be addressing these days and we've got an exclusive interview if you want to in just about well three minutes time hope you can stay.

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