hello there live from moscow at eight pm you're watching r t with me kev you know it's very good to have your company now top story president obama has ruled out an attack against syria saying it would be a mistake after a leading u.s. politician john mccain called for air strikes syria's president assad meantime responded by saying he's determined to continue fighting what he calls foreign backed terrorism and pressures piling on both spain has closed its embassy in damascus while china has withdrawn most of its workers over fears for their safety now the u.n. is considering a u.s. proposed resolution demanding that both government forces and opposition fighters and the bloodshed a year long uprisings now claimed thousands of lives and forced many to seek shelter abroad but there's one corner of syria that so far been untouched by the troubles parties made for national service. it was really well i guess. we fought the battles in this long running conflict time feels like it has almost stopped even the children here stick in ancient almost forgotten language. as well all our nation are

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whole region was in a crisis it's actually even the war not to well it would be a shallow sea criminal kev it's all prostrate this time for the moment i think straight that you'll raise a stage a small business is working quite well thank you so much simpler mccall from the university here you can turn burke has a city that's never been afraid to push business opportunities where they come from the ural mountains or from all that the shopping malls that are springing up here and it's that future that will be looking at the development of a turn burg in the decades to come. but we have more from the year olds to come later today and sets out to explore another major hub. well let's head over to the business now with katie and i understand the oil is dominating the market news right now it is it really is actually we've got all sorts of mixed reviews at the moment because we've got david cameron on one hand the u.k. prime minister saying that now is the time because prices are so high to start tipping into reserves he said him and the us president barack obama got an agreement to say that th

. >> hi, kev. >> mm-hmm. >> it turns out if you cut a bell pepper it looks a lot like a shamrock.you have a four-lobed one, you have a lucky shamrock. you'll toast up some english muffin, layer on cheddar cheese and one of your pieces of bell pepper for a stem. >> cute. >> just about 30 seconds. what do we have down here? >> we love projects you can do with things you have around the house. this requires some potatos, a heart-shaped cookie cutter and some paint. >> adorable. >> stick your heart shape there, cut around it. >> you can make a clove with them. >> three hearts make a perfect shamrock every time. >> you did it. genius. if you want to make t-shirts for the parade. >> thanks, everybody. that was neat. >> up next, our st. patrick's day celebration with guinness soup. ♪ it's a great day for the irish ♪ >> in "today's kitchen," st. patrick's day style. >> here to show us how to make a deliciously irish dish that is so simple even hoda could make it -- >> hey, hey. >> the author of "kitchen hero," donal skeen. >> hey, ladies. thank you for having me. so excited. >> look like

. >>> what about you, kev? what is your ultimate superpower that you choose?> if i wick one, it's not one that is very sexy, patience. ultimate patience. >> who is the closest hero that has that power? >> i go for the original choice. rather than like who can i look at? i go, no, what hasn't been done. for me, having ultimate patience, they haven't done that character yet. the ghi can just outweight everybody. >> kevin smith, you know him as a comedian, producer, director and he has a lookout. he joins me now. welcome back. >> how you are, sir? >> you are not fat or lazy. >> yes, i am. >> i'll be honest with you. first title of the book to do on tv, i've been saying tough smit. most critics do that anyway. smith is equated with that s word in the world of cinema. i think that is a healthy substitution on tv. i just got back from two weeks ago me and muse went way east, we went out to the uk. >> that is east. >> to do our podcast show. we did london, manchester and sold out shows. when i'm over there for nine days, what i discover the traditional english breakf

we've seen, of course, a big sticking of the yield kev with the ltros. one will wonder now whether we're getting to the point people might -- even though there's liquidity, whether they want to play the carry or, indeed, whether they think there's value at the shorter end. >> i don't think that the front end has really been supported. we're still of the view that really what's happening here is that banks that have and continue to tap the three-year facility in order to fund their own debt which falls due this year and next. a positive by-product of that rather than the actual aim itself is the support this provides for short data and spanish debt as they park that liquidity until such time as they need it to pay for their own bonds they are redeeming. given that, there's going to be some mechanism support as it were for the front end of the italian and spanish curve. yields have fallen rapidly since december so the scope for further decline is limited, but i think there's limited risk of a flattening here given this money still has to be parked somewher

boris was the one who reached out to me and said, kev, can you come through, take a few minutes.their kids. courtney vance and angela bassett did their psa with their kids. boris had his kids there. it was fun, a family atmosphere, and everybody talking about a very serious subject, but also trying to keep in mind that we want to do something to help this situation and not hinder it. you know, done want to stir up the flames. actually just want to make people think about it and realize we need to kind of reach out to each other and find a way to stop things like this from happening in the future. >> as we're looking at it, we can see the family atmosphere there. kind of like you remember the "we are the world" thing when we saw all the selects in one room together in commune. >> it's actually the same studio as "we are the world." that was part of the significance of that day. it was also just that everyone that showed up, there was no e gegos. folks waited in line to get a hoodie or take their turn. they exchanged stories and talked about how they wanted to help kind of ease the

. >> yeah, unless perhaps, kev, you get an acknowledgement from the fed that the economy is, in fact,'s been the one disconnect that you've had the job market improvement. obviously at least the numbers seem to show that, some of the data has been better but yet the fed has been slow to recognize that or at least acknowledge it publicly. >> right. they might be forced into a state of denial i guess, scott. but the market certainly in front of him. from a timing perspective post these events the market has tended to just go into correction and then everybody goes into let's try and explain it mode. so, you know, i think -- i don't think it decimates the core kind of slow growth picture that people are buying into. but we've come a heck of a way since last fall. again, i think one thing i would point out, if the market corrects, it will be the most well advertised and participated incorrection in my career. and that's one of the reasons over the past month the market has continued to kind of hang around. >> yeah, we had the one big down day, what was it last tuesday and that was it. yep

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