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a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. countries are supporting the syrian rebels need to stop sidestepping the un and demand both sides of the conflict lay down their arms and that is the message from russia's foreign minister. said that some foreign forces are in fact. militants in syria to fight on. sergei lavrov talks about a variety of issues but clearly syria dominated his speech foreign minister lavrov says he believes and russia believes there's still an opportunity to and the conflict in crisis in syria but it will require some fierce international consensus he says the international community must come together to demand

a cease fire in syria by both the government and the opposition to demand the release of prisoners and hostages and allow for humanitarian assistance russia's foreign minister said that he believes that one of the very big problems is that all members that signed the geneva communique are not fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations he said is very important for the six point peace plan that kofi annan outlined many months ago for that peace plan to be the foundation of what there could eventually. result to the crisis that's escalating in syria but he said what is most troubling for russia is that many western countries that are supporting the opposition are only demanding for the syrian government to cease fire but are looking the other way when the syrian opposition is waging a very deadly attacks those who oppose the implementation of the geneva communiqué

they complain themselves an enormous responsibility to insist on a ceasefire only by the government and encourage the opposition to intensify. syria even deeper into the blood stream extremist organizations including al qaida have become in syria. against innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure. foreign minister lavrov said another serious concern is the use of unilateral sanctions particularly by western countries he believes that these unilateral sanctions taken outside of the united nations are for example in syria the u.s. and european. entrees imposing reduces the credibility first and foremost of the security council and also can escalate humanitarian crisis for the foreign minister lavrov said that at this point it is a very important time he believes for international relations to come together and the credibility to not be compromised even further by their it's by there being

many divisions within the u.n. security council on a variety of issues. and in a sign that syria rebel and government have launched a fresh offensives in the crucial battle for the second city and what's being called an unprecedented assault doesn't serve reportedly being killed in just the past twenty four hours with heavy weapons allegedly being used by both sides but this comes as the u.s. unveils forty five million dollars worth of more support to the syrian opposition political analyst says washington's determined to replace us with a proxy at any cost. well it's a standard policy of the u.s. government it is it is designed to oust rulers of regimes that are independent of what might be called the us military empire and replace them with pro-u.s. rulers so we have the dichotomy of supporting dictators in countries that are loyal

to the us government and trying to oust dictators that are not loyal to the us the us is committed to the ouster of the assad regime and whenever you hear that the united nations is just designed for the american taxpayer the american voter create the appearance that the u.s. is interested in spreading democracy and freedom when in fact it has a long history of supporting dictatorial regimes in saudi arabia even iran under the shah of iran syria itself don't forget that the cia used the assad regime to torture some of its rendition torture victims and so the the whatever goes on in the un is really ridiculous and senseless he watching spain is bracing itself for a new wave of protests as it faces its fifth austerity budget in a row despite the government's efforts the country continues to slide deeper into recession with cuts proving hard to swallow for its people and madrid as

a trick of craves. now we've seen those and demonstrators out in force throughout the course of the week on tuesday and wednesday massive demonstrations in central madrid with thousands of people taking to the shrieks part of the so-called surround or occupy congress movement we're also seeing clashes between police and demonstrators on both occasions on tuesday night police charging down those protesters they batters they fired rubber bullets in total sixty people being injured thirty people being detained in their accusations leveled against the police force of brutality using excessive force in those actions that's on the back of a very austere budget we've seen in earlier this week axing forty billion euros in terms of cuts target ministries and also see again a freeze on accounts the public sector pay third year that's now been enforced it's all comes on the back over sixty two billion euro cut that we saw take place

earlier this year that largely impacting the health care and education system through fruitless though because spain's boring cost look to software nine billion euros to thirty six billion euros in two thousand and thirteen that really take a massive swipe at any savings are seeing from these or stare t. measures. spain is also at the moment facing a crisis within a crisis because on top of everything there's those in catalonia calling for independence and separatism now this will only be adding to the worries of prime is the. catalonians feel they're being hard done to by current economic conditions that they contribute far more to madrid central budget and the ever see in return to take into account that catalonia is a region contributes about twenty percent of the nation's annual g.d.p. we suspect that sentiment to be heard later today in the streets in central madrid

as with more and austerity sentiment again prime minister rudd government will be forced to listen to some of that anger. shorter world update time here on r.t. will start with yemen where four members of the liberal party yemen's ousted president had been shot dead and they were ambushed while traveling to the eastern province yemen has been unstable ever since a yearlong uprising resulted in the ousting of. with many still demanding his prosecution remains at the head of the general people's congress party which holds half the seats in a transitional. and police in northern ireland the great more than thirty thousand protestants are arrayed through belfast the last event on this scale triggered three nights of disturbances in the city and soul schools of youths detained the protestant catholic tensions in the country sparked mass riots almost every summer during the so-called marching period. and somalia's al

qaeda linked militants have been driven out of their last urban stronghold of the operation came after african union troops shelled the city and attacked the airport . insurgents lost control of the capital mogadishu last year. was the last port they controlled. and fresh rallies erupted in pakistan's southern city of karachi as thousands protested the u.s. made film that mocks islam and the movie has sparked an unprecedented wave of violence throughout the middle east and northern africa after parts of it were broadcast on an egyptian t.v. station three weeks ago at least fifty one people have been killed in clashes including the u.s. ambassador. now and back rain officials say the police killed one person in self-defense when their patrol was attacked in the capital manama but opposition activists claim the seventeen year old victim was taking part in a peaceful protest which was fired upon by the authorities thousands took to the

streets on friday with fresh calls for the resignation of the unelected prime minister he's been in power since nine hundred seventy one and allegedly opposes democratic reform anti-government protests have been constant across the country since february last year police crackdown left dozens killed with key opposition leaders thrown behind bars including a job a western countries are turning a blind eye to the bloodshed simply because bahrain's a key u.s. ally with at least the view of geo political analyst patrick said. the situation in bahrain is completely ignored for reasons that are obvious what you would call good customer been pro-choice seen a lot of us on here and as it has all the gulf states that's one of the results of the ratcheting up of. iran it's all the gulf states that are within reach of iran currently arming up and also. the fact that it's in

a special club it's hosting the u.s. fifth fleet which is the key sort of piece of the military chess board you can really see where the game is and how the west calculates who's going to be targeted for humanitarian intervention lou is not parade is also very key. because of its position in the straits of hormuz so you can look at that is an important geographical and military point as this protracted conflict projected conflict with iran takes place over the next few years so it's kind of like a cold war situation where the u.s. is trying to surround its adversaries that's the way we see it. live from moscow this is the united states has removed the militant iranian opposition group from its list of foreign terrorist organizations originally one of the main players in the iranian revolution it's now committed to the overthrow of the iranian government international affairs and defense analysts. says the u.s.

is seeking to create an ally inside the country. this group. has been very successful apparently to get the support of my birth from both the republican and democratic parties. as well as retirement as work of military. officers included and also there is another issue that the washing up i find this group the useful it seems that they have used to use so feet at least two thousand and seven to try to . target the situation in iraq apparently the corporation always the israeli secret service mossad they have used this group to conduct the s.s.e. nation so for dr scientists to be run on to carry out all their acts of sabotage the group is the way they're going to be secular or the case with power. they would control over the radio program and they're going to go back to their own roots which she said in

a book six weeks of marxism alongside. police anybody who is a critic of the current government of iran i would say that it's child's play compared to what the government if you or i would be run by the. ok i still have for you are just a bit later here on are disillusioned and disenfranchised. i think that's when young people go off sometimes they can go after hours because they have nothing to do you thought unemployment in the u.k. is at crisis levels before why the efforts to tackle it i think that story and much more in just a couple of. his day starts at five am earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of tina fifty five years old it wasn't the life he gentle having studied accounting but she dishes and familiar dictated that he would

take care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. things it's

difficult to manage with everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher share price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in the public's capital because the old so he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact you can start to look for a new wife. four

fifteen pm here in moscow this is r.t. a fire at an oil processing factory in russia's urals region has killed at least eight workers i reports suggest the fire was caused by an explosion the bodies of workers were discovered by firemen while they were extinguishing the flames eight people were taken to hospital with injuries. now every fourth person under the age of twenty five in britain is currently out of work and despite government efforts many young people say there are no opportunities available for them are you sarah for three points. seen nothing to do and nowhere to go. name money and no prospects but this is not a film plot this is the reality for millions of young people all across the person who has come to join the mouth roles which is a film production company of this working and training young people. media and

communications this is a really good way for a lot of people who are looking for jobs to come develop those communications skills unfortunately across london in very much depends on which party live in a so whether these types of services are available to young people because of this see this opportunity to promote this different thing just give. people lots of anything it is a big issue a big issue. then i think that's when young people go off sometimes they can go off the roads because they have nothing to do job prospects a bleak one in full sixteen to twenty four year olds in britain right now are out of work and the capital's been hit particularly hard for everyone just. asked if. you can do.

anything and if you really. love the immediate reasons or economic east unemployment has been a growing issue for more than a decade and it's called far reaching cultural implications do you think it's the recession this is an issue that people get jobs as is and it's. just a recession i mean because there is there is jobs out there i mean i have some friends of going into shops that have signs in their windows and in they get turned down straight away anyway just gets put to the side so. why why why is the reason for that was because we're going jeans and not trousers so what's being done to address the problem the government pulls out providing a billion pounds of funding for schemes aimed at getting young people into work but by the ballot it's an organization aimed at getting young people politically engaged say that that's alone won't be enough all these wonderful things coming out

but they're not telling anyone about it and that's a problem. young people who are looking for apprenticeships and sending out with something like three thousand job applications and not hearing back at all and that's just ridiculous really so what they need to do is come down to the channels where young people are facebook twitter all the social media streams but actually beyond that door to door when people knock on your door and talk about politics or your parents that and that's not what we need anymore we need to go we're here to talk to you and stead and i think that's that's what they need to do anything to start really engaging with young demographic in fact engagement was the word repeated consistently by the young people we met lucky enough to have children. and it's a church. that we have. to cover just for us to do and have

a variety of options. you know do you feel. it's up to but once hollywood made love a happy ending the reality is the young people in london right now that might be a little hard to come by surface r.t. london. dot com right now. reality show started to broadcast an experiment. shedding light on the whole threatening influence on genetically modified food. after he dismisses charges against ninety eight.

it. is the internet becomes more readily available across the arab world it's also giving rise to a generation of. eager to break free of government censorship with the help of cyber weapons but is reports. being used by authorities to pull the strings. each day across the world millions of fingers fly across keyboards with the power to break through some of the toughest security fire walls this is the most powerful weapon streams of darter flashing across the computer screens of the world in the blink of an eye information that can promote provoke and agitate people. quite

a. lot or not that i mean. physically attacking the chronically that's why you will find a lot of hearkens grown up in this situation and this time the arab spring gave birth to a new generation of hackers they polish the skills in bypassing government controls to speak out it's very popular in countries where. you know websites are banned and there are restraints on websites most ingles countries they start by using proxies and other stuff to access private websites and then the big draw on it and they grow with this knowledge and this growth of knowledge is being put to work in jordan a leader in information technology in the arab world like other governments and man has introduced new laws to try and expose this new generation of hackers with power in the hands of some people who would do this. because it's powerful you can neglect the fact that it is powerful when when when facebook. is

giving one opinion and it's nobody knows that it starts giving the other opinion but it's to them this is a very very strong way to to reach to all these people you know to convince them to convert them but who is behind the web of secrecy these hackers spin the night foundation says openly it backs hacker groups across the globe the american foundation is attached to the international center for journalists in washington a group closely aligned with u.s. foreign policy its first. group started work three years ago in new york since then and chapters have been set up in cities across five continents the latest in tunis and amman so called hackers chapters are springing up across the arab world bringing together journalists and develop as their intentions might be noble to advantage citizen journalism and civil society but in real life they often pave the way for subversive activities what is going on in jordan and it's harper's program

that's going to be funded and guided by these forces and the west is part of a larger story of how the united states and the western powers are responding to the initial arab spring very quickly the u.s. wars in with democracy promotion programs and other sorts of programs to steer the arab spring into outcomes that are not going to be threatening to western capitalism and to us geopolitics and it's really geopolitics in the region history is littered with western governments using n.g.o.s and groups to advance their interests and more recently with the electronic media and social networks they employ but the angry demonstrations have rocked the arab world after the you tube clip of the innocence of muslims trailer when viral shows yet again how the west sometimes force victim to the very same activity it promotes policy r.t. . thanks so much for joining us here on our to today i'm rory sushi and interest on the money with peter.

the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still ting over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the pittsburgh an archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community union was determined to maintain it all costs strategically located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours western most outpost now it's

one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourist operators coming to a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic tradition. i should not like to have it in a shiny condition to be the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to

the repertoire of the audience call. all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. hello and welcome to on the money with the business of brushing his business i'm peter lavelle go east young man go east we're told this is the plan russia wants to go in search of markets and trade how realistic is this and over what time period where does the russian economy stand in this turbulent world. to discuss this i'm joined by ben eris he's the editor in chief of business new europe and erich krauss he's an independent asset manager all right first gentlemen let's go place your marker this is our the beginning of our program eric in a few words where or where is oil prices going they're stable or up then. it's

going to be stable next couple of years down to eighty or ninety people talk about the implications of that later china hard or not so soft landing no where the law it's flying it's not because it's maturing i mean this is a natural evolution so still growth growth but not quite as fast a commodity prices probably going to be under pressure for the next because of the bends answer on that for oil and that when i think it'll be probably weak for the next eighteen months then strong. but again it's it's a function of the global economy is slowing down and so that's going to put an ok my favorite topic eurozone crisis eurozone crisis it's been delayed but only for a year and then it's back ok there's optimism euro zone it's not predictable it's not an economic question it's a political question the europeans can save themselves if they so choose ok we're talking about saving countries obama reelection definitely yeah sure ok where is

russia's position in this volatile old place it's always been it is a major developing economy it's halfway between asia and europe it grows much faster than belgium much lower than china yeah the story is unchanged it continues to grow and develop it's being slowed down by the problems but that's all that's just having to wait a month point of using. bad idea quantitative easing probably necessary but you're going to have to get off it at some point ok and the attractiveness last question the attractiveness of emerging markets is. terrible except that they're better than any other markets out there worth being rebuilt and they were emerging markets are taking their rightful place and people have to wake up to that ok now we're also joined by simon fenton fletcher he's a portfolio manager with renaissance asset management before we go to my two other guests here let's take a look at russia's turn to the east.