the russian president says western backed rebels in syria basically guantanamo bay detainees to run amok and much more in exclusive interview to r.t. . a frantic series of meetings between e.u. leaders and new anti crisis plans from the european central bank but some experts believe the only solution to financial turmoil is to let the euro collapse. and france reportedly considers giving syrian rebels heavy artillery as part of increased support for anti government forces.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today. live in moscow vladimir putin says that the u.s. and its allies need to wake up and realize they're backing al-qaeda linked extremists in syria and the president spoke exclusively to my colleague kevin o. enjoying his first t.v. interview since returning to the kremlin putin has a sense of flown out of the countries far east where nations making up half of the world's economy a gathering for a summit in vladivostok with this report daniel bushell. their child with brainstorming ideas to fight so global financial slowdown 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 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 are 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 one time to move all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting that you could have practically the same kind of people and you don't what 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 that 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 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 to 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 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 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 a quite high so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security coralie of burning diplomatic issue really recently granted asylum but he still stuck in the ecuador embassy in london being blocked from getting out by bridgeforth ortiz who even threatened to storm the embassy in violation of international law president putin that war in 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 the

one 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 you know 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 and really warning there are dangers of escalating there sanch case and going out of the framework of international law we could not talk about pussy riot is antics and trial has dominated world headlines i staged a punk prayer in the main rushed. because they've really got two years in jail for her looking as the most motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political for occasions with 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 a minute 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 it but after that they staged an orgy in a public place then they are loaded video that was on the internet then they turned up at your locker 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 pollies way to vladivostok go but 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's 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 costume and flying a motorized microlight to show the birds their way to asia. oh he's done your butcher right there reporting from the ongoing epic somewhat of lot of our stalking regarding these clips of r.t. interview that we had with the russian president vladimir putin you can watch it right now on our you tube channel and the asia pacific forum already producing its first financial agreements and a lot of all stock on the tasha is a cuban across the latest business desk. absolutely in the business bulletin will bring you all the details of the apec forum taking place in russia's far eastern city of bloody of all stock including some of the leaders deal find one of them is in the energy sector between russia's role as nafta and the u.s. oil major x. and mobil and another one in the automotive sector the details of this story and

more later this hour. you're watching r.t. now the european central bank has a new anti crisis plan it will buy bones from struggling eurozone nations allowing the likes of greece and spain to borrow even more cash at this time though perhaps a bit more cheaply it comes in the heads of the e.u.'s five leading leading economies are basically on a merry go round of meetings or their latest efforts to ease the union's financial woes french president francois hollande is talking with the british prime minister david cameron just two days after meeting the italian prime minister mario monti a monti is now meeting of the european commission president jose manuel manuel barroso in rome and the german chancellor angela merkel is in madrid for a summit with the spanish leader why for more on the subject let's cross live to our carlos deck or say sociologist pay you

a university in boston. a pleasure to see you today thanks for coming on so how optimistic do you think the eurozone should be feeling about how the european central bank now buying debt. well that depends on what we consider the euro zone that we're talking about euro zone financial. probably a little bit of time or they have you know another round of really good. isn't that we're talking about european society you know regular regular equal i don't think they have any reason to be optimistic and they haven't had any reason to be optimistic. need to know a little bit more time or financial decisions because in you don't. extrapolate ing well from. there but i mean let's address the issue when you're there in spain let's address the issue as you were just alluding to that how do people feel for example that spain borrowing costs would go up at a bond auction today it looks like

a good sign but the people in spain react to the up and down financial developments with optimism a bit of hope surely there must be some light at the end of the tunnel here. well actually there really doesn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel honestly i think actually the normal folks on the street are listening. when with these. words all the properties of the streets. here twenty three percent a lot of them were by the country that's gone through the civil war and depression in the last century the number of homes with children and which all members of the household running oil right now has increased one hundred twenty percent since two thousand and seven in chronic poverty is increased to three percent so they're seeing that and they're seeing actually that would be actually by the the thing that got killed in the. in those days i'll go to. one of those answers that the

labor union. usually get are expropriating it is the. basic necessities of markets to give the families and agreeing that so i think because they say i'm sort interop as you said a moment ago unemployment is some a record high it certainly youth unemployment in spain is the highest in all of europe you know you talk about the issue of tightening the belt the ongoing austerity fatigue of the german chancellor is meeting spain's prime minister today to discuss the possible deals of another possible bad option but you would if it doesn't happen are the people ready for another financial beating we've seen them out on the streets over the policy year or so and well it seems to me that the austerity fatigue is wearing very very heavily. well you know yesterday egan did three things to them if you're going to. the question of whether that's going to happen if there's a big going to happen whether there's a bailout or. poverty and she was right this is something

that's managed and this isn't really anxious to do right what so called us i mean talk to we have talked about some sort of solution here we always hear about more bailouts we hear about the need for more austerity measures for the tightening of the belt i mean you'll there and bosler know what do your friends what you'll find many members saying about a possible solution to the eurozone is it just quite as simple as cut and to touch off the eurozone neighborhood. not it's not really and actually i think what we're hearing about more and more in the bank and the condition. of the profit. margin talk about developing. some degree democratic institutions such as the european central bank now that we can have these conversations about whether it's good that you're out of the european central bank you have a conversation with. and you don't really have a lot of democratic in the e.u. you just kind of how you sort of you decorative branches of our local government or

national government and of with the heart launch to do whatever they want and and in like banks it's going against the desires and wishes then leading to world programs voted on by the vast majority of the population called a cyclist a sociologist at a pump a university live in boston on a story we don't have any more time for this one thanks so much for coming on the on the program today thanks for having. but we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow in just a few minutes here we've heard the latest from the front line in the battle for the white house as the democrats and company the president for a second term some of obama's old promises still appear little more than just words . france is considering supplying heavy artillery to the syrian rebels to help them fight against president assad and that's according to diplomatic channels who said that paris is also stepping up support for the syrian opposition to help them forge

a government in waiting. as this 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 were 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 an idea that it has put forward and that is namely buffer zones to be created inside of 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 are doing everything except

promoting peace initiatives if anything you do in 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. tell of. and in the meantime geo political research f. william engdahl says the rebel forces paris is backing fighting to impose their own order on the syrian people and their long term agenda is introducing a. taliban like fanatical. islamic sharia law in into syria and ending the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under under the old assad family. in general and there are reports of from journalists inside syria over the last months of the 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 a really. i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile really 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 washington or something like that it's just absurd. you're watching r.t. live from moscow still to come your way and just a few minutes well fight for your right police fired tear gas and shotguns a program for demonstrators in rain protesting jail sentences given to a leading opposition activists. now barack obama's democrats of formally nominated him for reelection in november during the second day of the party's national convention in north carolina 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 the what's he going to put in our report the democrats are fairly to explain why some of obama's promises were never fulfilled. in two thousand and eight for october my 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 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 expanding 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 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 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 banks in a sufficient way and 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 you know 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 merino portnoy r.t. in iraq. or in a just a minute on the show with the business for now though police some of clashed with protesters venting their anger at jail sentences given to prominent opposition

figures security forces used tear gas and shotguns to disperse the crowds a seriously wounding one of the demonstrators at least on tuesday the country's civilian court upheld the sentences of thirteen leading activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government protesters want an end to discrimination by sunni rulers and more democracy movement started early last year when police crackdowns claimed around eighty lives thousands of others were injured and many dozens arrested. asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the gulf monarchies have managed to convince the us that iran is behind the protests. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely legitimate it's the keys 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 solve 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 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 as 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 cordoned off the area. they

sold to washington the idea that this was an iranian plot in wherever happens in bahraini 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. or as well as i do want to touch as promised to the r.t. business and get the latest update for this hour. for those that are so good to see you again and i both know eurozone leaders flying back and forth for more emergency financial crisis talks as they're doing that you're keeping a close watch on what's happening at the european central bank aren't you. absolutely and the european central bank is actually making some radical decisions on thursday it has decided to buy government bonds of troubled nations to bring down their borrowing costs the e.c.b.

president mario draghi says the program will be unlimited a country that wants e.c.b. to buy its bonds must first ask for bailout funds and agree to a strict budget rules to discuss this and more details are now joined by nick parsons from national australia bank hi nick thanks a lot for joining us so the first question that comes to mind is where is the european central bank going to get all that cash to buy troubled nations bonds. it's a very good question but you know the answer is remarkably simple the e.c.b. simply creates the money that is one of the functions of a central bank that can bring money into existence so the e.c.b. will create money for itself in order to purchase these sovereign debt essentially that means it's going to crank up the printing press doesn't it what does that actually mean for the average e.u. citizen if such person exists. your idea is cranking up the printing presses what

it means for the average e.u. citizen depends very much on where you sit if you're in spain or if you're in italy there's probably some relief that you know finally interest rates can come down will come down and that we're going to see a bit of. you know the end of the debt crisis is in sight if you're in germany though with all the worries you've had in your history. about excess monetary creation and hyperinflation you're probably not feeling quite as good today as you were yesterday but overall we think this is a good thing but it does sound like this new program can actually actually create some problems can't it. well the problems it creates a more political than economic one in here are very depressed demand we think that those concerns over inflation are overdone i think on balance this is seen to be a good thing. e.c.b. is drawing he says there is no end to that program does not seem kind of

frightening. well you know he has to frighten the market see has to frighten speculators and he has to frighten those who want to take him on yes to frighten those who are going to stand in his way but he's got an extremely large monetary weapon now he says it is potentially unlimited in theory the e.c.b. could buy every single bond that's ever been issued by spain italy portugal and the rest of europe so i guess the practical cappy several trillion euros but in practice he's going to buy as much as it takes but he certainly got enough ammunition there to frighten people away. and the markets really seem to be welcoming the news internationally and they seem to be rally thank you so much for joining us you are arsons from national australia bank. and that's all we have time for in this edition of business i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with all the

latest for you ok was approaching to thank you very much power just a moment here are two will be cutting through all the economic spins out there in the world with one person in particular max kaiser the kaiser report just a sec. there conduced childhood was already shadowed by this tragedy. they still feel the fear

they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. the town and using so. innocent. tom a little angel on augustine. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration what about if mitt romney gets in a could you work with him so that you will work with whoever gets elected as president by the american people it will get but oh if it will only be as efficient as all partners allow it to be bloody near putin speaks exclusively to r.t. .