the russian foreign ministry today said that it does not support any foreign military contingent sent to syria as it would not produce any positive results but russia has long been trying to maiti the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dial open trying to find peaceful solution to the crisis but the u.n. claims that syrian authorities were committing crimes against humanity and turkey is even considering imposing a buffer so when along its border to protect syrians the russian foreign ministry says that further attempts should be made to engage with damascus well sergei lavrov has been saying that. both sides were to blame for the cold plagues and said that it was in fact expect that the syrian authorities would not respond to unrest russia believes that for the most part opposition groups are both official damascus however russia blames condemns both the syrian authorities and the opposition and that holds on to and become fact but he believes that the conflict should be solved by the syrians themselves without any outside any foreign military into theories. of course russia

the russian foreign ministry today said that most would not support this patch of foreign military contingency to syria as it would not produce any positive results for russia has been trying to maybe the conflict in syria for a long trying time by bringing both sides to dial open trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis mosco also believes that it's not only the syrian opposition to the government to be blamed for the violence but the opposition as well it also says that further attempts should be made to engage with official damascus therefore most who describes the syrian opposition rejection of. maybe forty's as nonproductive been absolutely correct it is also against an arms embargo saying that it was unfair to expect that the syrian government would not respond to on the rest and russia believes that for the most part armed opposition groups will provoking syrian authorities in other words unlike the un russia condemns both the syrian government and the opposition in the ongoing violence and of course it believes that the public should be sold by the syrians themselves without an

issue of moscow was busy with in the global arena in twenty eleven artie's peter oliver is apa foreign ministry and now joins us live for the latest peter the situation in syria seems to have dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister how is russia involved in africa to bring the peace in perth bring peace i should say to the troubled country. of used his statements in the questions that he was asked today the answers they give to this question of a good man to be iterated russia's stance when it comes to syria well that stance is that they want the russia blames both the assad government and the opposition for fighting continuing in the country and moscow wants to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there now what was new that was said by sergey lavrov on wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo said should they break

have to remember cho reporting live from outside the foreign ministry thanks for that. still ahead for you this hour crippled stability with the eurozone balance front now downgraded top bankers say it's time to do without credit ratings we asked why in just a few minutes. and as thousands of children in india disappear every year we investigate what's behind the frightening trend. iran says it won't resort to terrorism to avenge the latest murder of one of its nuclear scientists the speaker of the iranian parliament accused israel and the u.s. of using such tactics in a desperate bid to stop to iran's nuclear program and number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran those are just follows there are now reports many in israel say a covert war may already be well underway. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv and tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every ni

japanese foreign ministry director general shiksuke sugiyama and south korea's top envoy lim sung-nam will attend the talks. diplomats are likely to confirm they will continue to seek cooperation from china, the north's closest ally. participants are also expected to discuss the resumption of the six-party talks on pyongyang's nuclear program. they're likely to consider how to pressure the north's new government to stop uranium enrichment immediately and they'll push the regime to accept inspectors from the international atomic energy agency. >>> a japanese government official held talks with pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi and expressed his government's interest to cooperate in myanmar's development projects. yukio edano expressed japan's policy for development in myanmar during a meeting in yangon on thursday. >> translator: japan plans to help stabilize your country's economy and improve the standard of living. >> edano explained that japan is ready to help revamp myanmar's electrical and water systems in tandem with its movement toward democratization. aung san suu kyi comme

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journalists on the country's policies during the past twelve months while artie's at peace all of the foreign ministry course now in. russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful resolution in syria and there's a very much alive and. well what we're expecting to hear from the foreign minister when he starts speaking in just under an hour's time is syria expected to dominate the address from him now russia its position on syria has been to condemn both sides for their part in the violence which continues to rage in the country russia has said that they are vehemently opposed to any kind of outside military interference into syria whether that's from anybody in the west or whether it's our league peacekeepers being sent into the into the middle eastern country russia opposes any kind of foreign military intervention but russia still wants to see peaceful coming through dialogue in syria and one of the reasons russia so vehemently against outside military intervention is they feel let down by what happened in libya in twenty eleven where as far as russia sees it the un mandates that allowed to foreign mi

and you can see the full interview with russia's foreign ministries commissioner for human rights next hour here on r t. afghanistan is demanding the u.s. army hands over control of its main prison in the country within a month and that's after detainees the american run jail outside bagram air base complained of torture medea benjamin co-founder of the anti-war group code pink says the u.s. should speed up its pullout from ghana. this goes all the way back to two thousand and two when the abuses first started coming out in fact there were two deaths of afghan prisoners that led to many stories about abuses and background and we have heard about those kind of stories for the last several years i guess the only thing that is a surprise is that karzai is certainly taking it seriously think there have been terrible relations now for quite a long time and this is just one more in the mission of that i think the u.s. should really speed up the transfer of power in all its ramifications to the afghan government the obama administration is now having talks with the taliban the taliban want to

missile shield all under scrutiny at russia's foreign ministry. top diplomat said the case complete questions from countries point.

peter oliver reporting live from the foreign ministry thanks for that. well as we've heard russia is against any foreign military intervention in syria that's a midcap to ours recent proposal to send troops into damascus and u.s. calls to increase international pressure on president assad to step aside however syria is now saying it may let arab league monitors extend their mission in the country the observers mandate expires this their stay at the mascot's won't allow any change in the scope of their brief tasked with inserting compliments with a piece of the peace plan the monitors are said to present their findings later this week now or the last the mission has drawn criticism from inside syria for failing to help stop the violence middle east expert on the risk things arab states are being steered into a biased report. while the arab league was very clear it has said that the that there was cooperation from the syrian side it also has said that there have been groups however there will be pressure from the west to take and attitude or take a position

in moscow and was busy with the global arena in twenty eleven artie's peter oliver is at the foreign ministry and now joins us live for the latest peter this situation in syria dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister russia is keeping out for its to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive isn't it today. well certainly a lover of the russian foreign minister used this opportunity to reiterate russia's stance on syria now that stance is that russia holds both the syrian government and the syrian opposition to blame holds and to blame for the ongoing violence in the middle east and country and says that both sides need to put down their weapons and come together for talks to try and hammer out a peaceful solution now so to get a lover of said today that should proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league could take place in cairo should those peace talks break down then russia was prepared to step in and host both the the syrian opposition and the syrian government here in russia to try and broker a peace deal now one thing that russia is firmly agai

hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in ankara it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear breach of syria is killing their own people or not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria for over here it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be an accurate one the technology at changing when you look at the progress or the videos coming from these governorates you can easily see that there is something going on with the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled and we'll get a false picture of what's really happening but there does. stop researchers from coming to firm conclusions the military operation this is the last option which turkey does not want to see but this is an option it may have declared it doesn't welcome a military solution to the syrian crisis but turkey hasn't ruled it out either plain and if if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey say

he wrapped up a briefing on twenty eleventh's foreign policy parties peter all over is at the foreign ministry. blames both the assad government and the opposition for fighting continuing in the country and moscow wants to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there though what was new that was said by surrogate love rival wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo said should they break down should they not come to through.

in moscow and was busy with the global arena in twenty eleven parties peter oliver is at the foreign ministry and now joins us live for the latest peter the situation in syria dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister russia is keeping out for its to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive isn't it today. the russian foreign minister used this opportunity to reiterate russia's stance syrian stance is that russia holds the syrian government.

the biggest group is a group of germans, the german foreign ministry saying 12 germans, but there are a whole bunch of other alternatives, french, italian, americans. they're all still missing, we don't know who they are, including this american couple tonight. >> i talked to friends of the american couple and he said it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. carnival cruise line stock prices are plummeting after the wreck of the concordia. what are investors saying? >> investors, brooke, are hitting that sell button. shares of carnival down 14% because of the financial damage the company could suffer. carnival itself is estimating the loss could go up to $95,000, but that's just from the cost of concordia being out of service all year and the cost to fix it. it doesn't even count the possible personal injury claims, the lawsuits, the insurance deductibles from ship damage. that could reach into the tens of millions of dollars, and not to mention the damage from the company and the cruise line. and of course the number of people who may be scared away from taking a cruise. brooke?

north korea responded angrily to the offer overnight with a foreign ministry spokesman accusing washingtonticizing the food shipping. this comes as kim jong il's son works to become the leader amid food prices and a nuclear standoff. >>> and construction of a high speed rail link between the country's two largest cities. the new line will carry 225 miles per hour of train and shorten the commute time between london and birmingham by almost half of that to just 49 minutes. the project will cost about $50 billion and set to be finished by 2026. >>> take a look at this. this temporary snow town in russia boasts its own wedding place, and jail and more. it was presented at the youth architecture winter festival. >> so beautiful. >>> 5:17. cold enough for ice but we don't have much of that around here and we have cold temperatures. a brief warm-up. then another cooldown in time for the holiday weekend. 25 baltimore, 27 ocean city. freezing above richmond southbound. that is where the storm is coming from. so yet another storm that brings with it warm air. clouds starting to move in towards dc a

. >> iran foreign ministry spokesperson posted a statement on the website. he says the eu -- imposing economic sanctions is illogical. will not stop iran from exercising its rights. the government yet to announce -- the council made no notable response to western neighbor deployment, through the strait of hormuz sunday. >> leaders of france, germany, britain say they're willing to negotiate, but only if the iranians are ready to talk seriously. they released a joint statement after the eu approved the sanctions. the leaders call on iran to suspend the nuclear development immediately and fully abide by its international obligations. their statement stresses iran is a threat to peace and security in the region. it says they will unite behind strong measures to undermine the iranian regime's ability to fund the nuclear program. the strait of hormuz is the only waterway to the open ocean for many areas around the persian gulf. we have a report. it is still busy, at least for now. >> reporter: the persian gulf was busy with oil tankers from all over the world. th

damascus has warned the arab league against sending troops to pthe syrian foreign ministry sad that thentry rejects any foreign intervention in its affairs. amateur video from syria shows renewed heavy fighting which has reportedly killed at least 12 people. so far, the arab league monitors in syria have failed to bring about a reduction in the violence. the arab league is planning to meet sunday to discuss further measures to talk about the unrest. a turkish court sentenced a man to life in prison for the murder of a turkish army journalist named hrant dink. but the judge acquitted 19 other suspects. the ruling has disappointed supporters of the slain journalists. a citicorp fell to address charges that government officials played a role in the murder. hrant dink anchor turkish nationalists. he was gunned down by a 17-row gunman as he left his istanbul office in january 2007. ever since germany decided to phase out nuclear power, there has been much debate about where the country's future energy mix will come from. some in government are holding on to subsidies for solar power. but oth

we're told that the foreign ministry in colombia is trying to get her back to the united states, buting on for more than a month. it's not exactly clear why it's taking so long to get her back, john. >> ed, is the colombian government helping in that effort or resisting? >> well, that's what is kind of difficult to tell at this point. the public -- and we've reached out to the consulate in houston where presumably they have sent officials over to speak with turner, but last year -- and we're told by our colleagues down in colombia that the foreign ministry is working on getting that -- on getting her back. but this has been a very slow process which leaves many people here in the united states very confused as to why this is taking so long. she was essentially given colombian citizenship. that might be the revocation of all that might be slowing this down. it's been difficult to get answers. we've been waiting for most of the day for statements from the ministry and haven't received those statements as of yet. >> ed lavandera, fascinating story. we'll stay on top of it. thank you. on

germany's foreign ministry says it cannot yet confirm the abduction in northern nigeria, a city recently by a series of attacks blamed on an islamist sect. president jonathan has called on the group to identify itself and state their demands as a basis for talks with a police in nigeria said they have no information linking boko haram to the kidnapping. the arab league has renewed its call for the u.n. security council to take action against syria. an arab league delegation is due in new york on saturday. it will ask the council to support a peace plan, calling for president assad to step down. arab league monitors were in the suburbs of the syrian capital damascus, where security forces say many areas there are no longer under their control. the observer mission has drawn sharp criticism for failing to stop the government's 10-month crackdown on protesters. here in germany, the parliament has extended the country's military mission to afghanistan for another year. the new mandate was expected and marks the beginning of germany's planned withdrawal. the bundestag lowered the number of tr

. >> the foreign ministry has set up a crisis team to investigate the circumstances of the attack.man officials are turning investigations in ethiopia. >> i have sent my liaison officer from kenya to the region. we will also be flying officials from germany -- from germany to the region to provide support to the german consulate. >> the survivors arrived back in the ethiopian capital on wednesday afternoon. the region says neighboring eritrea is to blame for the ordeal. ethiopia regularly accuses its archenemy of supporting separatism groups and says it trained and armed the gunman responsible. >> russia is warning of a catastrophe with the most severe consequences if the west carries out a military strike on iran. the foreign minister also said new sanctions against iran could harm, rather than helping, efforts to solve the nuclear standoff. the u.s. recently extended its sanctions on iran, and the european union is considering an oil embargo. they want to pressure iran into rethinking its nuclear program, which the west sites is a bad let's get the top business stories. >> no. >>

. >> iran foreign ministry spokesperson posted a statement on the website of the state-run television. he says eu embargo constitutes economic warfare. he says economic sanctions are illogical. it will not stop iran from exercising its rights. the government has yet to announce whether it will protest the hormuz strait. the country has also made no notable response to a western naval deployment led by u.s. aircraft carrier through the strait of hormuz on sunday. observers say iran appears to be cautious about sparking a military confrontation with the west. reporting for nhk world, tehran. >> leaders of france, germany, britain say they're willing to negotiate, but only if the iranians are ready to talk seriously. they released a joint statement after the eu approved the sanctions. the leaders call on iran to suspend its nuclear development immediately and fully abide by its international obligations. their statement stresses iran is a threat to peace and security in the region. it says they will unite behind strong measures to undermine the iranian regime's ability to fund its nuclea

hours at the foreign ministry for us now. the situation in syria dominated the pose to the foreign minister who was sure is keeping efforts to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive isn't it. for all of really reiterating what's been russia's. ongoing situation in syria from the beginning saying that both the the governments.

and arab league the dayton row of arab league is the threat of foreign ministry invasion for syria is in the past right or not yet of course is still a possibility of course as to the possibility of poor border rather because it's so risky for intervention would be so risky however it was done would be to kind of maintain the support for what's happening inside syria on the side of the opposition and their calculation would be that sooner or later these precious if they maintained would result in the collapse of the assad government well as compare syria with the lead and iraq to what extent the syrian national council similar to libya's national transitional council or iraqi national congress rocky national congress was almost a fiction the leader of no support inside iraq whatsoever he lived outside iraq for a long long time and he was pumped up because they wanted to create this exiled body called the iraqi national congress so there was an iraqi voice in the propaganda war against saddam hussein the libyan situation the lives of the libyan transitional council as you know basicall

iran's foreign ministry calling the rescue human taern and positive act. and showing an iranian crew member hugging an american soldier. i'm jamie colby, back to bulls and bears and i'll see you at 1 p.m. eastern here on fox. >> brenda: millions of americans still looking for work and those with jobs praying for any type of a pay raise. well, federal workers prayers may be about to be answered. reports out say the white house is looking to hike government employees pay after a two year freeze. toby, you say they should be cutting, not liking pay? >> yeah, i'm praying for this. we have basically in the private sector, we haven't had income in ten years, could be 20 years if you went inflation-wise and these guys have gone up 20, 25, 40%, we're in an economy and an environment now where we need to cut spending and since labor is 70% of the cost of government is just like business, any business sense would be that we would cut it. that's the sensible thing to do and that's the right thing to do. and it has nothing to do with economics. >> brenda: steve, what

tland the wake of the arab uprising that began a year ago in to these villa, israeli foreign ministry said -- tunisia, hundreds of thousands of sephardic jews across the middle east, but the suggestion the small communities who remains a pack up and leave is being rejected by many of the jewish people themselves. a report from tunisia. >> and jacob, on the outskirts of tunis. he is a proud tunisia but he is also jewish and owns the last kosher restaurant in an arab nation that has just undergone a dramatic revolution. none of which is contradictory, says jacob. he certainly does not intend to leave tunisia. >> i stay here because it is my country. why have to leave this country -- to go where? >> this is the exquisite great synagogue in the hearts of tunis. built in 1937 to accommodate a community that was then 300,000 strong. today there are so few je here isw capitals that this great hall is hardly ever used. services are held instead in a small anteroom. as in the rest of the arab world, tunisia's jewish population crashed dramatically after the creation of israel. no more than 200

and economic discontent ending in mass protests across the world and next we also the russian foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights for his assessment of what's been going on that's in our special interview next on r.t. . thank you very much for joining us today in two thousand and eleven we've seen a number of human rights violations taking place throughout the world and you want to tour the implementation of human rights abroad so today i would like to talk about those issues that caught your attention in two thousand and eleven but first of all i want to start with domestic issues and what is your view on the protests that took place in russia after the parliamentary elections in the country under some of the fourth does extremely important to be a reaction of the authorities has been very responsible one and i will say very measured well unlike the reaction in some other countries and we've seen the ones not only in the united states but we've seen in the for instance last summer in the united kingdom obviously it was quite a serious challenge to the authorities definitely it was

wasco was busy with in the global arena and twenty seven well arty's peter all of us at the foreign ministry for us now. the situation in syria dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister the washers keeping efforts to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive is until. well that's right so he allowed for all of really reiterating what's been russia's stance on the ongoing situation in syria from the beginning saying that well both the governments the assad government and the opposition have to bear responsibility for the violence that is still going on a little eastern nation and that they need to come together and talk to try and find a peaceful solution that they're not going to they shouldn't try and find a solution to violence to the church be through dialogue now what was new. speaking about proposed arab league talks that would take place in cairo between the both governments and the syrian government and opposition saying that should those talks fall through and that summit not happen in cairo that russia was ready to step in and two of the the chance for peace talks

implemented and who's going to respect that being with your opinions like you know the french foreign ministry pathetically is saying look we have to curb our imports of iranian oil what's going to happen to the european economy if that happens now it's one hundred eighth a barrel so it's going to be one hundred twenty any one months could be one hundred forty one hundred fifty and you want to recover the economies of the u.s. and europe as well with oil at one hundred fifty it's not going to happen and it's totally counterproductive. law and amendments and the way it's going to be interpreted by the obama administration i'm not sure they're going to try to provoke a confrontation against south korea for instance an ally with russia china or with countries in south america or central asia for that matter. the editor of the colbert report current affairs website says further pressure by the u.s. and its allies on iran pushed the region to the edge. i think it's quite remarkable to think that france and the us and other countries would be willing to step up sanctions that have already had such a

in syria for months and has thrown its support behind the arab league monitors and russia's foreign ministries commissioner for human rights says there must be more understanding that some of the violence is being caused by an armed opposition. we do very much support the peace initiative by the league of arab states with you or submit to the draft or screw the council resolution you are in the security council. which calls for the you to see from where the last. by whoever can see it because it's reviewed for them to strike the balance unfortunately violence has come upon me from the from the government forces from from the army and police but while most significant for this come also from all sorts of. extremist elements. who try to hide behind the backs of peaceful peaceful demonstrators. and you can see the full interview was russia's foreign minister is commissioner for human rights next hour here on our team. afghanistan is demanding the u.s. army hands over control of its main prison in the country within a month that's after a detainees at the american run jail outside bagram air base

a solution rules out any possible military intervention in all this according to the russian foreign ministry which says that despite the differences in approaches it's still ready for dialogue on this matter with the west and foreigners but stresses that the libyan scenario can not be repeated in syria meanwhile the secretary of russia's security council has said that foreign military intervention is possible without the green light from the u.n. security council according to the official those reasons to believe that operation is already being prepared by some western states including possibly italy some countries in the persian gulf and possibly even syria's former ally turkey the secretary of the security council has also said that he sees the reasons behind the international tensions around syria don't lie within the human rights situation in the country and issues around the syrian opposition but are dealing directly linked with president assad unwilling to cut relations with iran the tensions around which are continuing to rise as well. all right our thanks very much indeed for bringin

arab league's report in detail and not act so swiftly or too swiftly now on monday the russian foreign ministry did invite members from the syrian national council as well as the syrian government to come to moscow to participate in negotiations and to get a dialogue started our viewers may remember that it was back in october when russia and china did veto a previous u.n. resolution on syria citing that the language that was used in that draft that was of course also written by by european countries that the language open the door for foreign intervention possibly foreign intervention similar to what the world saw transpire in libya. now reporting there now the dust has not yet settled over the suburbs of the capital damascus which saw some of the fiercest fighting since the beginning of the unrest with regime troops taking the upper hand now that's amid concerns the escalation of violence is down to outside players throwing fuel on the fire as our teams sara for three ports. with the sounds of gunfire and hillary. yes of praise tests from the streets. numerous international opinions britain n

the issues moscow was busy with in the global arena in twenty eleven peter oliver is out the foreign ministry and now enjoys this live for the latest peter of the situation in syria seems to have dominated the issues posed to the foreign minister how is russia involved in efforts to bring the peace to bring peace i should say to the troubled country. used his statements in the.

washington is sending an envoy to cairo for talks with about the latest developments with syria's foreign ministry says the u.s. . interfering in affairs that it's business it's pulled out heavy weapons and tanks from cities after pressure from the arab league which says security forces are still killing civilian protesters london based political analyst chris bambery blames america's actions indicate it's gearing up for military intervention. in the arab league they are convinced sanctions against syria and the key are in the sense of prize turkey has been involved in arming the free syrian free syrian army and training them and we nor there are also american advisors in those camps in turkey training and i think when you combine that that together sanctions deployed diplomatically but also the involvement with the free syrian army it begins to create a dynamic where perhaps the americans don't want woman to be involved in a lot of operation in syria because pull in that direction that is a very dangerous dangerous route as we know from previous history of the conflict going on in vietnam once yo