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this is r t live with me. says the u.s. and its allies need to wake up and realize they're backing extremists in syria now the president spoke exclusively. his first t.v. interview since returning to the kremlin. now to the country's far east where nations making up half the world's economy are gathering for a summit. 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 they will 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 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 puts it always straight to the. presidential elections in the u.s. there's also touched on saying whoever gets in he 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 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 so. 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 we 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 as

president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed against russia but as it is technologically configured exactly for this purpose and you also have to think about its 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 so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security coralie of burning diplomatic issue really started well so recently granted asylum but he still stuck in the ecuador embassy in london being blocked from getting out barbara traill thought is here even threaten to storm the embassy in violation of international law president putin that war 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 and 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 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 present really warning there are dangers of escalating there sanj case and going out of the framework of international law we could not talk to. those antics and trial has dominated world headlines i staged a punk prayer in the main rushed. because favorably got two years in jail for hooliganism ofa motivated by religious hatred they were also staged political from occasions 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 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 a minute with a sign saying that jews gays and migrant workers should be driven out of moscow yes normally i think your thirty's should have looked into their activities back then but after that they staged an orgy in a public place then they are loaded video 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 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 a person staying out of the pussy riot case there if you missed the full interview it is available on dot com so spoke about the serious parts of his trip on his way to vladivostok go it was also part of a first 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's 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. you can i watch the full interview with right now on our r.t. you tube channel and the asia pacific forum ongoing a lot of hostile called already providing us first financial agreements and at our shows across the latest that are. in. business bulletin will bring you the details of the biggest deals from the apec summit including one in the energy sector of russia's oil major ross nafta and its u.s. counterpart xom mobil signed a deal to explore the shelf together and japan's mazda has launched a joint venture with a car assembling plants there's all the details of the story and more in the

business world. watching our now the heads of the e.u.'s five leading economies are on a merry go round of meetings for their latest efforts to ease the union's troubled financial future french president francois hollande is talking with the british prime minister david cameron just two days after meeting the italian prime minister mario monti montes is meeting the european commission president jose manuel barroso in rome and the german chancellor angela merkel is in madrid for a summit with the spanish leader but her hoyo so a lot of more talking still ahead though still a little sign of a solution coming out of any of it right now let's now talk live to robert alter the director of the group which is a guest british involvement in a single european state good to see you today we are seeing a large number of top level meetings taking place there ultimately all at once and

all on the same subject is this a sign the situation is getting worse we have the situation is getting increasingly worse the levels sold many countries in the eurozone is increasing even the personal debt of germans is now up to incredibly high levels needs germany is in debt an average of around twenty five thousand euros and that's creating a great deal of strain on german economy as well and if people want need there because people are desperately while waiting it's a league restrain where unemployment is continually wise you can. coming quite alarming and there's a number of plans being put forward by the german government at the moment to have what's known as intergovernmental conference to set up a new treaty for the european union for the eurozone states to have more of a single form of government for the e.u. which would be quite undemocratic really because it would be a further centralization of power in europe away from ordinary people and away from

national parliaments further centralization of power in europe or many say there's enough of that already going on with the technocrats and euro kratz in brussels if i may for a moment despite not being in the troubled eurozone britain is feeling the agony of a double dip recession i do apologize here on r.t. we've just lost our guest there robert oulds the director of the brewers group he was joining us our life from london we're talking of course of our view on going crisis in the eurozone looks like we have managed to reconnect the connection here on r.t. robert i'm not sure if you can still hear me there you are thank you so much for joining us i do apologize about that i was just asking that of britain you know britain is not a part of the eurozone though it is of course a part of the e.u. i mean and it's feeling the agony of a double dip recession how far and why do you think it's the eurozone term or really being felt well it's a real drag on the economy and on the world economy as well and creating a great deal of insert uncertainty with the heart of the issue isn't so much that

the problems of the debt levels within spain that's really part of a symptom of the problems of the euro because the fact is that having one common see across so many different divergent economies as greece and finland and ireland and greece and germany just does not work and creates a situation where countries economies become uncompetitive then they can grow and then the debts become unsustainable and they increase so really once the euro exists as the single currency for many different states within the e.u. then the economic. problems will continue and so having plans that the e.c.b. would buy the bonds of various governments that a struggling is just a trying to put a sticking plaster over the problem of the euro having a political union with fiscal transfers from the wealthy north say particularly germany in the netherlands to southern countries that are that

a struggling economically is of course just trying to offset the imbalances caused by the euro so until they recognize that certain countries just should not be in the single currency then economic problems will continue well but let's talk about a balance or an imbalance or as you put it all the director of a group that stands against british involvement in the european state but don't you think that britain would actually lose more than it would gain from standing alone while britain shouldn't really be joining this country this country that screen created which is the european union and becoming more centralized decentralization parts of that britain could always trade with other states within europe just like britain trades around the world globally and other countries around the world trade with other nations and other businesses within the european union within the euro zone but of course do not have to be part of a political set up which is taking away power from ordinary citizens more you know if you take out a political set up and there are many that are saying that there's so much politicking going on here particularly behind the scenes and as you know

a president is set to meet with david cameron today we all know over the past recent months they are not the best of friends or robert oulds i wish we had more time for this we don't know you're the director of the bruce group are joining us live from london i do apologize for having to cut this short but thanks for coming on thank you. francis considering supplying a heavy artillery to the syrian rebels to help them fight president assad's forces and that's according to diplomatic sources who say paris is also stepping up support for the syrian opposition to help them forge a government in waiting artie's story. france has started providing direct aid and money to five syrian cities as paris intensifies its efforts to weaken the presidency of bashar assad now this is the first time a western power has made these announcements and these kind of moves and follows reports last week that powers had identified areas in the north the south and the

east of syria that would free of assad's control and that they were considering sending heavy artillery to the zones now the zones of being called so-called liberated zones areas that are in the hands of rebels and that will ultimately be governing themselves but what has become clear is that this whole offering of these kind of zones is really an alternative by the waist to nigeria that it has put forward and that is namely buffer zones to be created inside a syrian territory the idea that did not receive approval at the united nations security council because of the positions of russia and china be concerned really is that you create a buffer zone merely as a pretext for creating military intervention because with out having a no fly zone you cannot create a buffer zone and to create a no fly zone you certainly need to have military involvement and to this in the french foreign minister has admitted and i'm quoting him there to ensure the protection of displaced people they must be anti aircraft and yes it's as well as

ground forces that would also be needed what is the coming clear is that paris has become the locomotive of the syrian opposition paris has said that the opposition in syria needs to unite and that it is standing by to recognize the opposition as the official government of syria the recreate coming out of powerless against assad is also increasingly hearing from the french foreign minister that the assad regime needs to be smashed the problem is that when you use this kind of rhetoric and when you start sending heavy artillery into syria you're doing everything except promoting peace initiatives it really. they needed the opposite with many saying that the scene is being created for more violence more death more destruction and more devastation inside syria policy r.t. television. for us so let's get some more reaction and analysis of on this now from a geo political researcher william angle and author of full spectrum dominance joining us live here on frankfurt thank you very much good to see you today why do

you think france is getting so involved in syria what's paris seeking to gain by supporting the rebels. well i think france is being a very dishonest peace broker in this whole process and i think they're acting as the cat's paw if you will for the u.s. state department and pentagon until after the us elections obama doesn't want to get in and i'm involved in what will be an extremely messy conflict in directly in syria until after the u.s. will do is over so i think france is playing that that hitman role and the idea of giving heavy artillery to these so-called buffer zones is the most cynical thing imaginable it's it's going to create civil war it's going to create bloodshed anything but peace as your commentator pointed out the just previous to our discussion here so this is one of the most dangerous moves of. the whole syrian gauge and by nato in the last eighteen months but surely but surely by it

might by giving the syrian rebels heavy artillery and possibly anti aircraft guns. into them that would help so the seeds of a peaceful democracy well i think if you look at what the muslim brotherhood has been reported doing sense since they took the presidency in egypt you'll see that the syrian opposition is dominated by the muslim brotherhood the same organization and their long term agenda is introducing a. taliban like. fanatical. islamic sharia law in syria and ending the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under under the all assad family . in general and there are reports of journalists inside syria over the last months of these so-called opposition in many cases there are al qaeda or mujahideen that have been brought in from saudi arabia and elsewhere and provided

guns and weapons. that they have beheaded civilians and blame the atrocities on the assad government so this is. really. i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile rebuilding a government in exile perhaps if the russian government were to recognize the ku klux klan as a government in exile in america and provided heavy artillery so that they could go against against washington or something like that which would have been any which would ever. take taken a while as i was saying hey you're mentioning about that perhaps france is offering to lead the way with syria because as you said we've got the whole election campaigning going on in the united states obama wanted to keep his hands clean but we saw it was fraudulent that heralded and let the campaign in libya now many are saying that will france did that because one of the things that former french president sarkozy did was to agree to french all companies that they would get a massive stake in the oil reserves there so if they don't eating if they championing that lead into syria what is that again. well that's

a good question the french elite historically going going back. to the napoleonic or if you want to have always tended geo politically to punch above their weight and i think since sarkozy and the french military industry backed sarkozy is the way to get france back in the nato game as a player that they've tended every single time on major international decisions to punch above their weight with catastrophic consequences for france and i think the syria adventure that the. government is engaged in is going to backfire in the face of france and certainly of the world if it comes to world war three by miscalculation this is the most dangerous thing that i've seen in thirty seven years of analyzing geopolitical developments and it's a conversation that requires more time than we have available for us now they are such a geopolitical researcher and author william and thank you enough good to see you thank you. you're watching us here live from moscow and barack obama's democrats

have formally nominated him for reelection in november during the second day of the party's national convention in north carolina next president bill clinton took center stage to praise obama and hit back at republican claims that he has the worst economic record of any president in modern history although ati's more important reports the democrats are fairly to explain why some if not many of obama's promises were never fulfilled. in two thousand and eight. u.s. 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 valley 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 fixation of what we're 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 cries 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 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 coin marina porton i.r.t.

new york. force was going to touch her there the business does go good to see you again i know you're keeping track of what's going on at the european central bank this hour and i don't know if in any way what's going on there has anything to do with what's going on in the eurozone there are all these different eurozone leaders having these quick emergency meetings about the crumbling eurozone neighborhood any relation there am i way off well absolutely and what's mario draghi the head of the european central bank is really trying to do is patch up the situation and make it better and for the moment he left the interest rates unchanged and agreed to a limited bawn buying what all that means i'll tell you in just a second but first let's see what's going on at the apec summit in the russian far eastern city of lot of a stock of course there were a number of deals signed this thursday with will bring in the biggest ones rosneft and the u.s. will major exxon mobil have announced plans over their joint shelf projects in

russia they plan to start exploration drilling on the black and cars season twenty fourteen which is ahead of schedule the companies also agreed to create joint ventures and to rosneft some shares in three of exxon's projects in the united states and canada and japan's marcelle launched a joint production with russia's car some solars a full scale production of a lot of us steel plants will start next month with the output expected to reach seventy thousand cars a year the partners are investing around three hundred fifty million dollars into the joint venture and of course we'll bring you all the latest from the apec forum as soon as we get the news but for now let's check out to see what's going on the equity markets and first we're looking at a europe where the footsie and the dax are both showing pretty hefty

against me. only on the back of mario druggies announcement that he's not only leaving the interest rates unchanged but that the bond market is also going to be that he approved of these unlimited board buying to support the european economy and let's see what's happening here in russia and we're seeing a pretty healthy picture of broad boston gains for both the r.t.s. and the my six in fact the r.t.s. is managing to put on around one and a quarter percent and that's despite gal's of russia's biggest company probably announcing second quarter losses but apparently that's not disappointing investors and the stock is managing to gain three quarters of percent now moving on to the currency market where as we can see the ruble at the moment is trading mixed to the currency basket but the european the currency is

a stronger to the dollar as investors develop an appetite for risk thanks to mario druggies announcements that i just described and we are seeing some bad news coming from the euro zone this thursday the export oriented economy of finland dropped more than one percent in the second quarter and that's because of the weakening demand for the countries products from other euro zone members finland's economy is expected to shrink again in the third quarter. and that's all the latest from the business desk here we'll be back in about fifteen minutes but if you can't wait that long you can always find a lot more stories there on our site are t. dot com slash just see her give us a thank you for the headlines in just a moment when but i'll be a backed up by spotlight to interview one of the leading opposition leaders in syria to try and find some sort of peaceful solution to the cold.

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