diplomatic tension over the syrian conflict rises after a deadly bomb attack in the capital the country's rebel movement seemingly on the brink of war with hezbollah in lebanon. israeli security forces have violently suppressed protests in the west bank where demonstrators rallied in support of. prisoners held in israeli jails. shortly. and a leading of new figures david cameron is britain's most.

commentary live from our studios in moscow this glad to have you with us. now russia has accused of us of attempting to justify terrorism in syria moscow criticized washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning a string of bomb attacks in the syrian capital there are conflicting reports about the number of killed syrian authorities say the blasts took the lives of fifty three people with human rights groups putting that figure out more than eighty moscow says it is unacceptable to make excuses for terror especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries this as the conflict in syria could well spill into neighboring lebanon the rebel free syrian army threatened to attack hezbollah bases demanding that it stop shelling insurgent held areas in syria there has been no response yet to that deadline which expired on thursday activists and journalists who come to chandan believes that foreign powers backing the rebels were behind this show of money. grandpop at my office here is

the western states particularly london who is really trying to get the americans to arm the serial terrorists for good part of two years but really the agenda is to get revenge on his blog now and open confrontation with hizbollah by means of nato or particularly the white settlers state will probably is not the ideal situation for the west it's an ideal situation doesn't matter what capacity the f.s.a. and the other terrorists have got in syria it's the ideal situation for them to ratchet up tensions against hezbollah and to really not divide and rule but divide and destroy which is the name of the imperialist game currently so like with libya like with iraq like with afghanistan like with syria now and like that during from mali they need to totally knock out these countries totally to devastate these countries to really kind of start merge them into ethnic and civil strife and so they can get the security contracts the military contracts and the essential hydrocarbon and natural resources that they can from these areas so really that's

what's going to be because if they come upon lebanon and everyone in the region knows this very clearly r.t. has spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict who had some barbara comments for the opposition the u.n. it peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said their reluctance to make any concessions to the assad government is one of the major roadblocks to peace do you think the only problem is now side and not stepping down. a lot of people who are opposed to all who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and their picture to every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what your believe either when you're saying maybe talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself the problem is that the opposition to seeing every five minutes but they don't want to talk about how last or this is the

problem it's his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands i'm talking about assad i don't want to talk about that. and you can see the full exclusive interview with of the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria on our website r t v dot com. david cameron it may be the most indecisive prime minister in recent british history new figures are calculated by the guardian newspaper show he's made it more u. turns since taking office in two thousand and ten than his two predecessors parties their first try to find out why exactly they've been changing their minds so often at number ten. it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime minister say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and

from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus animals petrol and even passed these the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that some wonder if this is the most indecisive british government ever this kind of difficult to get a tow truck to be partly because people change what we call them so on after modifier to talk about you turn a low you stop turning your everybody's word buteux for up top are calling downs all part downs or whatever back then the words you turn carried negative connotations you turn if you want to get into . the ladies not for turning. the warmest thirteen might not have been for turning this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocks

up to getting thirty five if you tend to say far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like and i can pass rafferty two days for gordon brown and tony blair was much more wrong was less likely to change ration he was one of them self and margaret thatcher you know you turned i took around four hundred days to get a change or a shot of tony blair's government going back to the coalition when it comes to why do you think we have seen this government have so many say many more than previous government i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think are these been difficult from a leadership point of view but i think it's something that. has been accepted going in and during the coalition agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government is clear that what they say might not always be exactly as

i think it is the fact that they clocked up so many times a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well both it's not good is not a good thing. if you vote for government in aspects of what they say it's going to be a good few times actually going to be it's not proper to say well i don't know why i think if initially the obviously people are worried about that it will interest them if it's something. where but whether you call it a u.-turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many think it's a case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well be recorded as being indecisive but he was being indecisive it be attacked for the opposite for being mean so ultimately and this is something i often used to say you take your

money you pays your money you takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind so. london israeli security forces have clashed with palestinians in the west bank where protests have been going on for a week now demonstrators are rallying in support of for hunger striking palestinians held in an israeli jail discuss the situation with show one of the palestinian human rights organization hark thank you very much for being with us now despite the israeli crackdown protesters don't seem to be giving up where exactly is this going. i think leaves no ball is getting begin big every day and there's really continue not respecting you know their legal obligation under the international law and continue with ignorance

during the. visitor's rights according to law i think the protesters will continue when we compare you know today yesterday with two days before i think the demonstrated demonstrations getting bigger because that's the case what's about the future to be honest with you i don't know but i think in many cities you know. will be active in this these demonstrations that's the case i can't say or i can't conclude that we. know and daintree often you. but they can say this is the prisoner's intifada now as you said these protests are getting bigger and bigger why hasn't there been any official reaction from the international community as of yet. there are some reactions from banki move from the e.u.

representative from the high commissioner for human rights but it's not from french also but it hasn't. you know just to pressure israel to respect their geisha and what we're asking for we are asking for more political pressure and the real pressure and more actions are not just wars because i think there are a few palestinian prisoners in a very critical situation and really we have a real concern about their life that's the case and i hope not to have been do you know i wish not to happen but if anything had been like one of them die i think it would become a really big issue here in the theater now the hunger striking prisoners were initially convicted of taking part in militant attacks but

then they were released in two thousand and eleven for a swap for the israeli soldier gilad schalit you could argue that israel had every reason to rearrest that. well look i think this is really the playing the game and they organize everything as they want. and they put it conditions you know not to release them really i can see that they release them like a vacation more than a real release because you know. they prefer the details of the contract or the agreement which is not true you know forty one to come to romola it's not serious a breach. they are asking just to send them back to the prison for another twenty years or twenty eight years i think it's a big problem it's not for and they put them under the administrative detention and

you know that administrative detention it's a punishment policy that the israeli use to intervene and to punish you know the palestinian activists. some of those detainees they are also. seems we got cut off a little bit there but there thank you for your thoughts shall want to bring in from the palestinian human rights organization. israel has awarded the first a license for oil exploration in the golan heights to a u.s. based company the region was seized by force from syria over forty years ago and is still occupied by israel even though it's considered syrian territory by the international community and as our policy or explains the drilling permit could raise serious concerns especially from the u.s. . israel has awarded its first ever license to drill for oil in the golan heights to be an american energy company this is according to sources in the energy sector

who say that after israel decided last year to allow for oil and gas exploration in the golan djimi energy was awarded the license to drill but the new jersey based company still needs further work permits for drilling to commence and this is a process that could still take several years the company is headed by none other than the golan heights residents and a former general and could cabinet minister the company's shareholders reportedly also include rupert murdoch and one of the company's advisors is former u.s. vice president dick cheney geological tastes have indicated the potential for oil and foreign oil discovery in the golan heights which is all captured from syria back in the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war in one nine hundred eighty israel and mixed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally the strategic area has seen exceeding extensive israeli settlement construction it is also the science of

a major israeli wind turbine project the golan status has been at the heart of previous talks between israeli and syrian leaders damascus is demanding its full return there is concern that as the syrian revolt threatens the president bashar assad's rule israel is digging in its heels on the golan heights it was also an observation that on the eve of almost every high level visits to israel by american officials the israeli government has without fail angered the americans by coming up for example with announcements of settlement expansion in the west bank president obama is due to visit israel at the end of march and no doubt the state department is likely to criticize this permit as they do not recognize the area as being part of israel well still ahead a little clarity sparkling lots of. controversy russia wants of the younger brother of a russian adoptive child who died in the u.s. to return home and asks to see the results of the police investigation. also ahead

on the line but off limits iceland is considering becoming the first western democracy to introduce web is censorship under proposals to block off internet for its story and more after a short break. all those north korean scamps are at it again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in two thousand to the north korean scoring to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people see the war's coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again with great just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state

may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country will be turned into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the us not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going on and on and about two years the same headlines will be back with the same fear will be back lather rinse repeat but that's just my opinion .

and live from moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us the death of a three year old adopted russian child in the u.s. last month has become an emotionally charged international incident moscow is demanding the return of maxime's younger brother with the police investigation still ongoing artie's you've got a piece going off as the details. the death of three year old marks in queen has caused definitely an emotional reaction from russian authorities but first let's look at the facts the boy died over a month ago the exact cause of his that still haven't been established there are reports that american of the bodies have we received to the preliminary results of his autopsy but haven't disclosed them yet his adoptive mother as she described what happened said that she was in there all the while he was playing outside with his brother where she called him unresponsive immediately called for help with this brings us to the second sticking point yourself towards themselves mitt that to be

investigation into much seems that was not started immediately unfortunately we get these kind of this particular kind of calls for. every day we don't put a press release at all unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it wasn't all a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that live there he just took a little more time for us to develop. adoption is a major stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths of russian children after they were adopted and brought to the united states that's why shortly after the new soft mark seems that came out several russian officials including russia children's alderman's men were quick to point the finger of blame at his american adoptive mother also because of reports from u.s.

authorities that they found bruises on the kid's body we had information that he. had been severely beaten. before birth or. led to a conclusion. possibly he had been killed now officials. in moscow do acknowledge that the investigation is still ongoing and it hasn't established the exact person to blame for months seems that but another issue fueling anger in russia is that mark seems that game less than a month after russia introduced a general ban for all americans to adopt russian children not only because of the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths but because of a lack of a proper legal reaction from the u.s. authorities including the lack of a proper follow up which apparently we're seeing now again all right we're also

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twenty two after the hour here in moscow this is r.t. let's get to our top story the french president will receive a peace prize from the u.n. for his military intervention in mali. cultural organization says francois hollande should be rewarded for his valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa france based independent journalist and author robert harness the logic behind

selecting the french leader a contradictory message. putting oneself in the position of the jury who awarded this prize they must be thinking well it might have been well see if he hadn't intervened i don't necessarily agree with that but i suppose that's what they're thinking but it sends a very quick uli a message to the world that a man who never said a word when self goes he reduced libya to ruins and bloodshed and who is at the moment trying to do the same to syria and has intervened militarily in mali gets a peace prize pretty astonishing really and when you look at some of the people who have been awarded this peace prize nelson mandela and declare who was the two men who handled the transfer of power in south africa. without bloodshed. it really is pathetic it seems to be a move by those people who are in favor of international intervention in africa rather than african states conducting their own affairs. what we don't know is

quite of the sort of solution that was taken by a majority your unanimously and their view is that the european on what one has to see as a new colonialist intervention is better than letting the terrorists take control of their own country but it's beginning to look as if that whole a suggestion that that's why france into being used is a little smoky because there is actually no proof that that's what happened it's very very difficult to get any clear evidence as to what's going on in mali because there's a complete old press clamp down on. iceland it could become the first western democracy to introduce censorship of the internet the government is thinking of banning online pornography in an attempt to protect children and reduce violence methods under consideration include the introduction of the same filters used in china as well as making it illegal to use credit cards to access pay per view porn former m i five agent any make it says that iceland may be creating

a dangerous precedent. it's a very slippery slope to start going down the path of any sort of censorship for whatever reason because of course once in a position where authorities can look into what is being passed down the wires and then choose to block whatever they want be it violent porn to begin with then of course they have the tools to look into other communications and blocked other things in the future so it's a very slippery slope for me to believe that it's wrong to begin to go down the issue of people you know the issue of corn and the issue of terrorism has always been used to justify any sort of attempt at censorship in a crackdown on the freedom of the internet and this is crucial for the development of the global society as soon as you start allowing certain technologies to be important to the internet to stop and censor certain nations they will be misused by our police state by our intelligence agencies and as soon as we are aware that the internet is being censored and we might be being watched or monitored at all times then we start to sell censor as well we will not download books or

information as freely as we might in case it might be deemed to be radical or subversive me go on to some domestic extremist hit list and then of course we sell since what we say on the internet well be very quick to slide into some sort of orwellian big brother dystopia i mean we probably slide down that rabbit hole faster than any of us could say i was. on to some other news briefing for you this hour police have killed two demonstrators during violent clashes across bangladesh forty people including twelve journalists have been injured as two separate protests merged in the capital activists angered by what they see as lenient court sentences are demanding the death penalty for recently convicted of war criminals a second protest accuses the government of plotting to ban islamic political party . india let police have revealed that they were warned in advance about two blasts that ripped through the city of hyderabad on the thursday the two

simultaneous explosions killed at least fifteen people and will. over one hundred fifteen no militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. oscar pistorius has been granted bail by a south african court is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend actress steenkamp on valentine's day after a heated argument in the early hours of the morning the paralympic athlete claims he mistook her for an intruder as stories will appear in court on charges of premeditated murder in june. egypt's president mohamed morsi has called parliamentary elections for april struggling to calm the ongoing protests and street violence engulfing the country the opposition's accusing morsi of backtracking on reform promises and hijacking the revolution rights groups are reporting widespread police abuse and torture resulting in the death and the detention of minors are true has been investigated. in his hometown of tanta

the bell gindi points out where local youth have renamed streets after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on tahrir square in a with a hold on the first time i went to see mohammed in the hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his face was covered with wounds his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohammed again dealing with a little i know that one would be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash yet to be about. what vehicle breaks teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legacy. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least

ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the worst divide it's often a chis in places like this infamous security directorate behind me risking being for mohammed's balcony however the most worrying trend activists say is the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son abdulrahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander i thought demonstration the police use violence against children my son has cuts and bruises all over his body they hante young children because kids contre away from them. and police told us if anyone tries to contact their family or friends they would beat us despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and refer. it's that torture

is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police officers sparking fears of their abuses human rights organizations and advocates are extremely concerned by the increase in one violence between the supporters and the opposition to president morsi to the political cover for that president morsi the administration and the legislators are giving to the. violence exercised by the police force and the increased level of brutality. being exercised by the police force three were they concerned by the increase of weapons back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform but people here say there is no evidence of that until there is crowds of thousands continue to push for change so many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo. and coming up after

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i don't believe. i lay there welcome to business to save a dying now the british pound has been taking an absolute pounding so saw they share now a three year lows against the us dole off to dropping five percent this year at a time when the british economy is also battling with falling at schools low productivity and a shrinking economy so what is worse and joining in the so-called currency wars aware does this leave the struggling british consume up well earlier today i spoke to mike ingram from three g. c. paul is a majlis him exactly that. it means that you're likely to have persistently higher inflation because you're importing or inflation and in the bank of england's own

inflation report last week they did admit that having come over their two percent target pretty consistently over the last two years inflation is going to remain above that two percent target for the for the next two years what that does of course to the domestic economy is well it's not only import inflation but it means the real value of people's wages is continually being ground on the other issue of course is that with a third of. british government debt being held by overseas investors they're going to look at it and say what you know we're not really getting any yield it's not even covering inflation and you know they will sell they were sold their holdings down and that of course feeds back into that even we comparing so we do seem to be a little bit of a death spiral as far as sterling is concerned right now and you mentioned wages so really is it the average british citizen going to the supermarket trying to make ends meet are they the real loses in all of this. yeah i mean i would say you know

the vast majority of britons are poor than they were you know a few years ago there was actually some data right last week that suggested that real wages in the u.k. back to where they were in the year two thousand and three sets of a decade of any increase in prosperity effectively wiped out by the real wages or wages are running at about one point three percent at the moment inflation is double that and for sort of bills like gas electricity etc that's running at you know four five or even six percent so people are feeling progressive leave for a while of course that's having consumption out of italy growth and in terms of current says we've had the topic of the currency was really dominating the markets recently spoken about here in moscow the g. twenty meetings is the sterling the new men by all of this wall well and perhaps unwittingly i mean i think the issue is is that no government is going to stand up and say i deliberately trying to get my currency weak or however is going on is

they are policies which are going to make currency is weaker so you know look at the bank of england they're saying that we are we going to come in above our inflation target they're also saying that you know with thinking about printing more money again i mean that was that was what came out of the minutes a few days ago that is sending the power lower and they'll say well look at supply product of other policies it's the same in japan to some extent it's going to be the same in the u.s. so yes they try to tone down the rhetoric of currency values but you know that is the situation that we actually are in almost by default let's talk about someone who loves the current says george soros he's he's been shown in the gann he's more than one billion in profit since november and now he set his sights on the british pound so why is he up to right now and should the bank of england be worried i'm i'm referring bouts of the black wednesday of one nine hundred ninety two he broke the by having learned so what's going on that what's. well you know he loves money

but he hates the parent again. and i think what george soros is talking about is is symptomatic of the fears of many many investors out there that you know given that the budget in the u.k. is clearly not coming is not being reduced as is the chancellor george osborne would have liked even though inflation is running persistently high given that you know that seems to be little or no growth in the u.k. economy that's such a very very dangerous dynamic for the u.k. so why would you be holding. guilt why would you be the best against it at this point in time so yeah i mean i've been saying for a number of months now you know a lot of people have been very keen on sterling back in the last summer there are lot a lot of decisions out there that was reverse right and as you say you know everybody is short and to be honest with you with a credit rating downgrade likely i think next month. i think they're probably pushing on an open door. mara let's open the doors in the markets and have a look at u.s. stocks they aren't again aimed at the dow jones they're around the halls of percent

in the same for the now so they're ready staging a comeback most socks are indeed rising so cutting weekly losses now we did have an all the german business confidence data coming out and as well as up better than expected results from personal computer hewlett packard as well so a bit of optimism on the markets this friday and the same goes for europe as well the markets really fighting back you see the footsie seven tenths of a cent up the dogs over a percent in positive territory as i say is that german business confidence also the biggest event going on with the elections in a sea of course taking place this weekend the results on cheese days investors already holding tight for that let's see how the russian ruble performed today did she manage to get a against both the us dollar and the common currency so finish up the week on a high as it is here in moscow again the the theme once again bouncing back. the lows that we witnessed yesterday as you can see the r.t.s.

and the mice that get around fifty each for both of them in positive territory what i mentioned some of the gain is a good truck make a command two percent up and that's after production return to a full working way that's after cutbacks but the biggest move today is going to be polly ross gold gaming almost three point five percent now why while the stock soared after the news broke that. of sold thirty eight percent stake in russia's largest gold mine are forty three point six billion dollars now with the purple is one of russia's wealthiest men and the sixty eighth richest in the world he has vowed to focus more of his attention on political aspirations and less on his business ventures ourselves again for the presidency of russia last year but of course he was up to putin now party ross was his largest asset in his

empire of stocks which actually included the brooklyn nets basketball team in the us. moving on the following the revelation that overhauls of the fifty billion dollars that the russian board is in twenty two of was a legal russia's economic minister is in berlin to discuss the topic so on the table rauf has addressed german economic ministers and says these numbers will decrease this year and then don't necessarily a bad thing. use of her share of russian capital outflow crease and reach some fifty billion dollars in twenty thirteen we should understand at this rate amount of leaving capital consists of direct investments by russian companies abroad we welcome such capital flows you should create companies and assets to have some market shares. in the bickering between gas problem and ukraine

i have a gas payments continues now the president of ukraine of eight. is refusing to pay seven billion dollars for on use gas gas from is to marketing the dolph song to the take or pay contracts from two thousand and nine mr young i called it is hopeful that the dispute will get resolved and has expressed a desire to liberalize the gas malkuth and i dealt with squabbles look at ten you for quite some time. all right that out next on your bush so examines how the us is among other western nations all. the major life indicate is the true seeker and i'll say this right. we are facing a lot of problems. because no what i think schools.

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