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wealthy british stock. market. really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser reports. to business i'm katie i am now self africa plays host to the bric summit this week in south africa and i doubt the latest worries of the eurozone and the crisis in cyprus will be discussed as well as establishing a brics development bank the emerging economies also face a general sense that some of the shine has perhaps come off their economists rarely

generating the same excitement as before among investors bought nevertheless still boasting an enviable growth record when compared with the stagnating west now the taliban is in south africa with all the latest. the emerging nations of brazil russia india china and south africa make up for nearly half of the world's population and a third over its g.d.p. the so-called brics countries are seeking greater sway in global finance to match their rising economic power they've been calling on for an overhaul of management of the international monetary fund and the world bank giving them or a presentation on their hands south african finance minister said today that the five states of brics have agreed to establish a brics development bank of course the final decision is yet to be made by the leaders of the brics states nevertheless creatives with combined for an currency

reserves stopping four and a half trillion u.s. dollars the brics bank would be a serious challenge to the world bank domination and a symbol of the biggest emerging economies uniting another step it was made today two lessons abandons the emerging economies on the u.s. dollar when brazil and china agreed to make billions of dollars worth of trade deals in their domestic currency currency perhaps to those factors combined are a symbol that the world power is now shifting from the developed world to the emerging economies. only today i had the pleasure of interviewing economist constantine good former editor of business some finance magazine on the concept of a break spankin what this would actually mean for the global economy and if it would really lift sickly rival the world bank for instance. absolutely not

a chance of it in current state of those of hormuz and the current state of the global economy where we can see a reasonable challenge arising from the brics to the world bank the i.m.f. that said i think that the the world and the brics themselves would be best served to push for more aggressively forms within the world bank and especially when i'm out what kind of breaks countries do you to improve that partnership. well i think first of all that what they need to do is they need to improve the institutions within which they can meaningfully partner again world bank and i.m.f. i am to mine but also there on the regional interleague or russia or china and india there is a natural interlinked there in terms of the corpsman trade flows and form of trade zones i think they should be focusing more on liberalizing trade liberalize investment building business lies building connections both in terms of access to each other markets but also oxes the other markets jointly on some joint efforts and joint landforms again russia for example is an excellent logical entrance into

the c.i.s. markets and the media and the central asian markets chinese an excellent platform for the russians for example to access that if you want asia pacific markets india is also a very flat form kind of building those morgana links they can themselves together in terms of both form of the objectives and form of development if you want effort investment effort beyond that i don't think that's the reason pretty much they should be doing i think russia in particular should be focusing much more on that being a bigger stronger regional player and also at the same time or obviously focusing on the form it's the best economy consolidating with the most economy with more investment more institutional capital and better quality institutional doubtful focusing on the vision and all that is ation internally first and foremost there's no point of taking weaker economies or more volatile for them is watching them together and deploying them in some sort of the multi annual even multi decade long if you want that that they can such as enveloping. and cyprus banks will remain

closed to prevent a run on deposit planned opening of bank of cyprus no marquis delayed has been delayed for at least two days to ensure the whole system functions smoothly that's in the words of the cypriot finance minister michael is sarrasin on the phrasing of this banking system follows an international rescue deal that involves restructuring the country's two largest lenders with heavy losses for wealthy savers. all right with that in mind then the situation in cyprus and see how the european markets performed today and mainland europe managed to break a three day losing streak out she thanks to positive data from the u.s. including a rise in orders for durable goods and growth in home sales as well stocks in london also rose on news release from across the pond so wall street which is actually still trading now we see how about it's getting on as well. probably no surprise that stocks are indeed in positive territory durable goods showed orders

for big ticket items surge five point seven percent in february home price starts reached the highest level since september twenty ten although it wasn't all brilliant because consumer confidence that she saw. below expectations. both the u.s. dollar and the common currency fell to the russian ruble in the cheese day session choppy session for both of the world's most traded currencies against virtually all of the other pairs actually must be set so we get on to the russian market see how they fared both e.r.t.'s in the mice ended the trading day actually in the red losing almost a percent each most of the blue chips drop metal dry and m.k. losing the most more than four point six percent and this was due to poor financial results as revenues fell almost seven percent amid lower metal prices and all

prices the. as you can see they are indeed mixed right now a strong showing for u.s. durable goods orders that i mentioned raise the prospects for energy demand will be helping out the oil price is building on recent gains ahead of this week's updates on domestic petroleum a surprise now going to stay with oil as russia's most precious commodity the oil markets always closely watched we spoke to the head of russia's biggest independent or company you call but gave a like put off on how he views the current price of the black gold we should look to that we think the current oil price between one hundred ten and one hundred twenty dollars per barrel is quite family has had a surprised by the suppliers and produces we're not seeing social tensions in europe in russia or anywhere else as a result of energy prices we found that balance between active investments and consumer comfort level all the prices are not falling there fluctuating if you

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around russia we've got the future covered. news continues here on when those what's online crossed the line in israel the country's military is widely using social media as a p.r. tool during combat missions but what happens when the soldiers start using these means inappropriately. investigates how much the israeli defense forces controversial web content is seen to be damaging israel's public image offensive and damaging or a bit of fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a style posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit should wish the mesh just as the government uses social media for

explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to deal with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier got two weeks in a military prison. after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this infantry fighter was brought to book for abuse of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned their patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of the army than any spin doctor ever could under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which if in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would before really potentially at least expose you to criminal liability could actually find yourself in jail but it's not always fun and games neither is it so clear cut the i.d.f. told r.t.

that a sniper who posted this image was dealt with appropriately it's the problem of free speech i don't see how you can control it i don't think the dancing is abusing power i do think that putting your sniper in innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is that it's think that the army should do gil you gave was an officer with the paratroopers unit he says he prefers soldiers regularly about what they could and could not post online but many were careless or childishly unaware of the impact one clip could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. eventually they're just they're just kids that misuse the misuse of power just for them just for fun is not shooting the kid not trying to kill the kid the irony is that the i.d.f. itself put so much emphasis on social networks using them extensively to promote

its actions. the i.d.f. has taken its war to twitter facebook instagram and even tumblr turning its social media tool box into the most globally visible arm of the israeli defense force it started during the israeli gaza war at the end of two thousand and eight but the idea of social media department flexed its online muscles. and a half later distributing regular video taken from an israeli assault craft and tweeting in sixteen languages after the most recent israel gaza war last november the erstwhile embarrassed i.d.f. social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy some claimed foreign media asked more questions about the idea of twitter activity than about the army's bombings in gaza but when ordinary soldiers start using the same platforms all that positive public diplomacy threatens to be undermined one click at

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the arab league summit currently underway in qatar has affirmed the right of member states to give military support to the syrian rebels and that is according to the gathering's draft resolution britain france and recently been pushing for direct arms supplies to the opposition let's get more now from the editor of the online blog the syria tribune dr ali mohamed. the gulf states have been allegedly sending arms to syria's rebels for a long time now anyway will official resolution actually change anything. the mother of the girl. they wanted to be. the two for the opposition they could only have been saying they were things in large quantities and they have been sending him sam. i don't think they can do any more if they were just keeps him they were they have been sending. and media coverage at the moment the show is that

what they are doing is legal and covered by the arab league would also mean perhaps if it is now legal that would get more weapons coming from those states and would it make any difference to what's going on in syria and now they have been sending as much as they could for the past year or more so i don't see how they can do more to topple the balance of power on the ground the problem is they were awful might have politics of course and with all the public support nobody and five and they got a list of how much work that they are standing on when it will be sending the balance was going to be the same in favor of the syrian army. the summoning qatar is seen by some as a diplomatic triumph for the syrian opposition with its leader who of course pretty said he was going to resign and he didn't here of course is taking the seat at that gathering just how much political weight do they really have among the syrian people now. where this is really going to question people whose political weight is so doubtful are given this heave to the syrian seat in the in the arab league this

is like that who does not giving that who does not deserve. i think if we examine the image carefully we will see that this is no thank you for them at any level because the person who was who was sitting is actually resigned and he has not. taken his resignation you have and the person next to him who is supposedly the current interim prime minister was rejected by all the fighting around so they are they wanted to look like. in reality it is. but this opposition leader he called on the u.s. to help more he's asking for the u.s. really to try and help bring the conflict to an end after many months of non-lethal aid from washington do you think that the u.s. could now get involved militarily. do you likely know i don't see this happening

especially with the earth. downs very clear that this is this should not happen but the us has been or more of them in a way to raise more than the in my own little aid we know they have like five hundred or more than five hundred fighters where it seems by the us enjoying them and the intensity just recently and they have been conducting fighting in in parts of the country so the us is evil but there is a question here is if it were anybody else in the opposition can only win him if the us gets more involved and what does this say about their way inside the country . and what about the opposition itself it really is divided isn't it do they have enough control influence on the rebels on the ground who of course now reportedly being infiltrated by islamic extremists who don't have to because of the rebels fighting on the gravity jacketed of the the interim prime minister brinkley and they hardly accepted the coalition. so we don't really need to guess here not the

case they have absolutely no going for them himself today he was flirting with extremists he was saying that these are people with a weak conscience and they were the lead if you want to watch the killing without being in it without coming and interfering and he's talking about nancy and people who are coming to fight and i think extremists coming from outside the country to fight the syrian people and this is this is what the person who is supposedly are presenting to syrian people saying which is. just too late have a syrian man to turn to a large majority of the syrian people so what is the prediction for the future will sad hold on or now with this pressure although you say it's not extra pressure from the arab league from the gulf states saying that we're going to provide more weapons do you see this conflict going on at all and yet more and more deaths. well yes we we we are looking at forms of. violence and now we have a very dangerous indication that talk about chemical weapons and the use of

chemical weapons by the locals and then them in the hood not syria so we just got looking at monza elation a lot of this a lot of casualties a lot of his price to be paid by the syrian people but without actually changing the balance of chemical weapons that's an alarming development many thought that a sad would be perhaps potentially using chemical weapons now there are accusations that the rebels themselves could have used chemical weapons just recently where would they be getting those weapons from. first the. investigation that we did see interviewing team we can see where they have it was not. gas which came from a factory that they have been controlling for the past three months as i remember so. i'm sure the viewers know that chemical weapons can be produced by simple means

and they can be marked by simple and their work work it takes decision. to use them which obviously there is no health problem one on the other hand why would this. chemical weapons get an army has you know means to cause all of the coughing and they don't need to do that and of course the use of those chemical weapons by rebels that wouldn't be under the consent of the syrian free army or devious and see what it. thank you there was nothing no such a thing as the consent of the free syrian. army is not an empty it's just a group. of many many factions fighting together for one. reason or another some of them fighting for their little season some of them just stealing some of them actually want to topple as it's up to us or so there is there is no one single entity or head office that will campaign for what's going on on the ground so when or without the consent of anybody in the in the opposition this from happening. britain france they've been calling for the rebels to be armed in effect is what's

being said by the gulf states now something that they doing on behalf of the european interests when you know we can see in this we're some of the special you have the european union was not very keen on removing the embargo on syria so i suppose that with everything that has been happening and with the serious push towards dialogue and indeed we should the end in the way that i owe the. twenty five or end of their interest in the country and they want it to scale eight more and so on till in the possibility you know in a moment the repercussions beyond syria obviously with those gulf states now supporting the syrian rebels officially what about the reaction from the likes of iran over this. government and the syrian people who might need any direct support from your own or from anybody else

on the ground the political support and the other. boards especially with. medical equipment etc it seems this is where the car the problem is not on the border with the city important it never stopped the stuff it's or the mission of the government and there are a lot of black possibility of in that country iraq is in danger jordan itself is in danger it didn't work and nobody can know what would happen if this thing continues and the extremists continues and the support with money and. weapons. good to talk to you could have a conversation about this thank you very much indeed editor of the online blog the syria tribune dr mohammed thanks for your time in your thoughts here bill. we'll be back with more news free in just a couple of minutes stay with us this is all to life in moscow.

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