a little. president putin says some western countries need to reassess their syria as he shares his views on global affairs exclusively with the first interview since returning to. lead police fired tear gas and shotguns at anti-government demonstrators. who demand that the ruling release political prisoners. and the democrats name barack obama for u.s. president as they rally support for the campaign plagued by four years of broken promises.

international news live from the heart of moscow this is with me rule research president vladimir putin says that some western countries should reassess their position on the syrian crisis and the russian leader sharing his views of us here at his first exclusive interview since returning to power in may we talked to putin before he flew out to the country's far east when nations making up half of the world's economy a gathering a bushel of lot of our stock with details. they're charged with brainstorming ideas to fight so global financial slowdown preparation here is in full swing up police are everywhere ensuring security it's an important meeting for world leaders really the head of the international monetary fund is here as well a pick 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 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 all see 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 france 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 practically the same kind of people we should bear in mind is that one day these people would get back

at their former captors 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 and always straight to his own says the presidential elections in the u.s. has also touched on saying whoever gets in he will try to work with even mitt romney who notoriously calls moshe enemy number one but the president added he can only work with the american leads 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. of the mess this 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 but 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 us to be america's number one which is elected

this president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed against russia 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 quite hard so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security totally of burning diplomatic issue really started 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 but if we are constantly lectured about how independent britain's judiciary is it makes its own decisions and no one can influence it 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 i won't make a definitive statement but as far as i know ecuador has requested guarantees from the swedish government 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 president putin really warning there are dangers of escalate in this case and going out of the framework of international law we could not talk about pussy riot is that six and trot has dominated world headlines i staged a punk prayer in the main russian. phaedra got two years in jail for her looking as the most motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political provocations with person 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 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 yes normally 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 whether putin staying out of the post the right case there if you missed the full interview it is available on altie 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 of the crane was raised in captivity and they don't know how to migrate south so

environmentalist eros as you're all devised an imitation crane to show them the way has led to the spectacle of a person putting on a special costume and flying a motorized microlight to show the birds their way to asia. well there at the apec summit. you can watch a exclusive interview with president putin in just over an hour's time of course here on are. already providing its first business updates ok he is following the. multibillion dollar deals. and. companies. getting together three hundred.

fifteen minutes time for now the police fired tear gas and shotguns the shiite demonstrators in the clashes have left at least one person critically injured. to the streets in protest of jail sentences against prominent figures on tuesday appeals court upheld the sentences of twenty opposition activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government protesters are calling for an they say use discrimination discrimination by the sunni monarchy and the program for movement started in february last year police crackdowns of some sixty lives with dozens arrested asia times correspondent pepe escobar says. the us the protests a mosque minded by iran. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely legitimate it's the case 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 cool politically absurd there is a tradition of protesting bearing that goes on for decades in fact the workers protest that 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 the saudis especially the quran. they sold to washington the idea that this was an iranian plot in where ever happens in the ring is always you by the saudis and by washington as a minor disturbance and of course the u.s. does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. go our do an angel of the persian gulf. still to come shortly here on out shooting at a canadian post-election rally. could be behind the shooting of a rally marking the victory of perfect premie. most of the details surrounding the dramatic incident in one. of the recession shots. leaving small businesses struggling to make ends meet with no life. this is our team now barack obama has been nominated u.s.

democratic presidential candidate as the party's national convention drums up support for his reelection bid in november obama said americans were quote absolutely better off than four years ago but the country's growing national debt unemployment and broken promises have certainly played its campaign. portnoy reports from the us. in two thousand and eight broccoli bomb i turned us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we made and 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 valuing 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 a 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 the 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. of course you can always join our website r.t. dot com for many more details let's have a quick look now and see what's there for you at the moment frances started to

provide syrian rebels with direct financial aid with reports that anti aircraft weapons supplies are also in the pipeline. new technology which allows police to stop people recording video during protests by the general public details on that website. police have identified the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting during the parti quebecois post-election rally as richard henry bain left one man dead 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's alleged to have shouted in french the english. and the victory of moammar was he was potentially leading to a referendum on whether the province of quebec should gain independence from canada

or in the calendar report of a c.b.c. says the shooting has left the country in 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 kick 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 boy whom they didn't think anything of it only later did b. 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. or in about a four or five minutes as the world update for an hour nearly one in seven shops in the u.k. stood fake and at the end of june as retailers struggle to break free of a crippling double dip recession at the same reports that number is only set to grow this year many small businesses have been forced to shut down or government cuts as customers spend less and less this report now to artie's laura smith the only known well known 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 blown off. i think you know anyone with addiction i would not want to put someone to work. but . 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. even saturday sunday it looks like we are.

spinning less less cost of us like fifty points 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 prolonged 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 it didn't restock come down to eight hundred ninety s. 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 are simply wrong and in the street score a lot recently because they're frustrated because actually are working a lot harder for the sign money that we. see. 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 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 and as the u.k. works to minimize the fallout from the eurozone the e.u.

struggles to help weaker members back on their feet greece's creditors have suggested extending the working week in the country to six days but the efforts of fail to prevent ratings giant moody's from slapping a negative outlook on the block later on are to see a martyr and dreyer son who used to work for the european commission she says bad policies have simply contributed to the region's troubles. i was thinking. and actually lead people in their commission live in their ivory tower they don't actually understand what they should release 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 have any response and 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 really by showing that for me the euro has our short life. and you can watch the full interview with the u.k. m.e.p. and former member of the european commission undress and throughout the day here and see for now though some other international headlines in brief time for the world i will start with really soldiers on the aircraft having killed at least six suspected palestinian militants on the border with gaza and israel a military strike reportedly targeted the group attempting to plant explosive

devices along the coastal enclave of 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. the former like 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 which had been trying to win custody of the new see some critics believe he could expose details about extraordinary rendition of the process under which the u.s. moves convict convicts rather to countries known to employ harsh interrogation techniques that fled libya after last year's uprising against colonel gadhafi and is accused of crimes against humanity. concert line has canceled some twelve hundred flights on friday this ahead of a twenty four hour strike at germany's major airports other u.f.o. union which represents about two thirds of lift onto its cup and crew demands pay

increases and better working conditions to previous strikes prior to prepare a light germany's and traffic lift answer is trying to implement a cost cutting program amid tough competition from european budget carriers and expanding and i. think it will be i'm standing by good to see you again katie i know we're talking business here and of course of the apec summit ongoing in russia's far eastern vladivostok it's well it's late evening there now but it's been a productive day and has very much so big deals being made for a so far so good it's exciting stuff and i'm going to mention a few of them saw be here today have a talk through the more we've got a rough staffed and american x. on my bill they've announced plans of the joint shelf projects in russia's water as they aim to start exploration driving on the black and cars in twenty four cities which is ahead of schedule other companies also agree to create joint ventures and possible snow some shares in three of excellence projects in the u.s.

and this that's the first big money one as well as that with japan's monsters well launching joint production of its cars with russia's assemble our soldiers that can we work in to govern of the force. on the planet will start as soon as next month with overall output expected to reach seventy thousand calls a year now the initiative vestas into the joint ventures are estimated at around three hundred fifty million dollars and i'm going to be following well the business he will be following the apec forum throughout the day for you so right now there is dive into the markets and see what's going on and it makes sense to start of russia so here in moscow we're looking at gains and that's really following on. global lexmark is to. invest in really waiting for the cue from the looks of meetings that are just taking off in europe right now as far as the domestic scene

is concerned but net profit of russia's biggest company gas from falling twenty three percent in the first quarter of the year. that today if we look out the ruble that will be able to see that russia's economic minister has recently noted that the ruble has become more wallace all the russians at job right moves towards a free floating exchange rate cuts and we will if we talk about the euro the common currency is indeed in the spotlight today and that's really is the e.c.b. president mario draghi has to convince the markets that there is a future for the single currency and not a mild all to keep the carbon price cars he's going to want so he's going to be expected to put his cards on the table today moving forward to present his much anticipated plan to include details of the bond buying which really is aimed at reducing foreign cost flaws in spain and i want to mention the fact that i was talking about the bank of england's monetary policy meeting today in the last ten minutes or so i can tell you there is going to be no changes to the monetary policy

and that's because the gulf and the bank of england loving king has said he's awaiting what's going to happen in europe today i think is about fin them because the european debt crisis is starting to grip the previously saw the currency duty in the small export orientated economy of finland fell over one percent in the second quarter that's because of weakening to manon the country's products from all the eurozone members villain's economy is expected to shrink again in the third quarter to moderate growth only when the euro crisis it says polenta going on today and i'm going to have to be taking over in the next day and i thought and all the european. very good thanks. and then i was on the.