anything out of downing street yet we haven't heard anything from the opposition party either the foreign office is really released a statement saying that the britons keen as it says to see the results of the independent election observers organization for security and cooperation in europe who are starting to hear from a bit and also at the office for democratic institutions and human rights the foreign office is saying that that person fully supports democratic elections in russia and in the rest of the world and as a member of the council of europe russia has an obligation to adhere to these democratic principles when it comes to elections we haven't had the full report from that yet but we'll be watching to see when the legion comes out and says anything to do with that he's going to be all right it is laura smith live for us from london thanks very much for your. well investors are pricing in the results of the elections as treating is underway on the global markets let's get more from the business desk. out of the russian market for. that posting fairly respectable gains that indeed they

of boarding a repeat of the bloodshed 20 years ago in the balkans is concentrating mind at the foreign office. " this is a regime that has been involved in the murdering of thousands of people. torture and abuse of many others. we have to see actions in that light. of course, we want them to respond positively. >> for a while, the fighting in serious built over into lebanon. a warning that the nightmare that could follow if the peace plan does not work. >> the u.s. secretary of state gave this reaction to the syrian announcement. >> it is an important initial step that the regime has written the united nations to accept the plan. let me pause here to say, however, given the history of over promising and under delivering, that commitment must now be matched by immediate action. we will judge his sincerity by what he does, not by what he says. if he is ready to bring this dark chapter in the syrian's history to a close, he can prove it by immediately ordering regime forces to stop firing and began withdrawing from populated areas. >> history clinton. kofi annan has been in china garner support

his bosnian counterpart, avoiding the bloodshed 20 years ago in the balkans is the focus of the foreign office. >> this is the regime that has been involved in the murdering of many thousands of people and the torture and abuse of many others. we have to see its actions in that light. but of course, we want them to respond genuinely and positively. >> before that -- for a while, the fighting in syria spilled over into lebanon, a reminder of the nightmare that could happen if the peace plan does not work, which is a possibility. >> for more on today's move by the assad regime, i spoke to the state department adviser, karen david miller, currently a fellow at the center for international studies. just looking again at some of these six points, releasing prisoners, allowing free movement for journalists, freedom to demonstrate. both kofi annan and hillary clinton said implementation is the key. are the syrians likely to implement? >> the problem is there's too much history and not enough political space to compromise. >> what do you mean? >> in other words, any long- term solution will have to in

the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described the developments as whining but it wouldn't comment on speculation air television was reacting spitefully to leak the confidential e.u. report calling for its weighty settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century they join could be short lived if it all decides to rip it all away policy r.t. in the south hedland hills. he is already in to approve sanctions against belarus over recent executions of two men found guilty of a deadly metro bombing in the capital minsk last year many western officials and human rights groups condemned the said instead of refusal of the belorussian leader to pardon the man president alexander lukashenko defended his decision party. for me it was yet another tragedy in my life but above all i think sympathy for the parents of those people i did to mike did not help unfortunately here we are talking about a criminal case plane and simple well wolf the man committed an hour through just crime and there is no reason whats

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the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described the developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speculation. tel aviv was reacting spitefully to leaked a confidential e.u. report calling for his release is limited to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century the joy could be short lived if israel decides to put a little way police e r t and the south hip on hills let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe new york police and close the city's union square right here at the occupy wall street protesters for the second night in a row last night's raid saw six people arrested activists moved to the square after they were forced to leave their previous location of zuccotti park they're demanding the resignation of the city's police commissioner for what they call tactics against the occupiers. mali rebels who appeared on state television saying they've seized control of the west african country they announce a nationwide curfew and suspended the constitution troops staged a

the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speculation their tail of it was reacting spitefully to a leaked confidential e.u. report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century their joy could be short lived if israel decides to rip it all away politically r.t. in the south hebron hills. finally in this news block india has come up with a new initiative to get each of its billion citizens registered in electronic database to get an id card that will allow them easier access to basic services and privileges but as artie's british reader reports there are fears the project could turn the country into a police state. it's been entirely seventeen years but he still can't get access to benefits because his ration card is registered back home for those like him in india has come up with the twenty first century through lucian the herculean process has begun to get every indian's fingerprints and iris in one now fifty

the german foreign office said it was following the situation i described the developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speaking. nek tel aviv was reacting spitefully to a leaked confidential e.u. report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century the joy could be short lived if israel decides to repeat all the way. in the south hebron hills. in just a few minutes here on r.t. it's katie with the markets before now let's start with new york and head into the r.t. world update it's the big apple where police have closed the city's union square to clear clear it out over occupy wall street protesters for the second night in a row last rights raid has seen at least six people arrested activists moved to the square after they were forced to leave their previous base at zuccotti park they're demanding the resignation of the city's police chief what they call brutal tactics against the occupies. rebels in mali have appeared on state television saying they've taken control of the west african c

of the most fervent settlement activity is taking place in a statement to achieve the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described developments as worrying but it wouldn't comment on speculation. neteller it was reacting spitefully to a leaked confidential e.u. report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel of a first taste of the twenty first century their joy could be short lived if israel decides to rip it all away policy r.t. in the south hebron hills. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe new york police have closed the city's union square to cater to the occupy wall street protesters from a second night in a row last night's raid saw at least six people arrested activists moved to the square after they were forced to abandon a previous pieces of the park downtown are demanding the resignation of the city's police commissioner for what they call a brutal tactics against the occupiers. ali rebels have appeared on state t.v. saying they've taken control of the west african country

weapon supplies local and regional media has been has been reported involves more than a hundred foreign offices the tains in country homes most of them reportedly french paratroopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the city that suffered from an almost month long siege is deteriorating the international red cross and syrian red crescent are both working on the ground they've brought in trucks of food water medical supplies and all of the emergency aid they're also expected to evacuate injured people and take away bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in hopes talkies and worth of national mourning that we're going to amateur filmmaker middle east expert he says the only option for syria is the negotiation table as any alternative but ultimately be disastrous. the key thing is where the interim eateries naacp's aligned with either side are capable of pushing both sides to a conference table to agree a solution to this crisis it seems to me the fisa court very hard on both from. the assad regime carries on as if it doesn't realize how heated it is by some sections of the pop

some of the most fervent settlement activity is taking place in a statement trochee the german foreign office said it was following the situation and described developments as worrying that it wouldn't comment on speculation. neteller it was reacting spitefully to a leaked confidential report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century their joy could be short lived if israel decides to rip it all away policy r.t. in the south hebron hills. most scientists agree that the global warming felt every day around the world. headlines or rest a reporter asked people in new york. do you know the pressure to try and stop it. this year the u.s. thought its fourth warmest winter on record and europe record breaking cold why is no one talking about the perils of climate change any more this week let's talk about that do you think it's still a threat to the planet yes over here especially what traffic. you know you lot of cars. here in the u.s. definitely you know what i mean. we can stop using plastic bags and we're

weapon supplies local and regional media has been have been reported involves more than a hundred foreign offices the tains in homs most of them reportedly french paratroopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the city that suffered from an almost month long siege is deteriorating the international red cross and syrian red crescent are both working on the ground they've brought seven trucks of food water medical supplies and all the emergency aid they're also expected to ever create injured people and to take away bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in homes. well still to come this hour here in r.t. when promises just don't come any more markets will be alarm bells with yet another downgrade for greece steering the. you out of it's euphoria over the for school deal it says will these words. plus u.k. users of a full sharing website and threatened with jail terms reserved for murderers just for downloading music is another portal falls victim of the internet crackdown. the story still to come but first barack obama is leaving the world guessing about whether the u.s. will la

foreign office and all the sudden they're backpedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear that president assad is not going to. you know except to close c.n.n. he's planned as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition is already pretty caught through proxy smuggling on over the border in jordan and also just arms going over the border in lebanon is it coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region during the party always imo stories news and analysis and on t.v. talk just a few of the items lined up for you this hour on our website for example pray is not born in egypt bans sex sites for destroying women just feelings and moral values liberal activists say it's a step towards sharia law. i'm going to extremes all right tara the russian orthodox church plans to check the welcome me to extremism find details on that and talk. let's get to some of int

the work of fair trials abroad and other organizations is important and i will make sure the foreign office meets with him soon. >> thank you, mr. speaker. will prime minister join me in congratulating the project that is starting in my constituency, which is being funded by both the private sector, the london bureau, charities, congratulate the co-chairman to get young people with special needs into employment? >> i will certainly join him in supportinghat project. i think it is important that we not only help children with special need through their schooling time but also through that transition after school and into college, and then try to help them to find work. it sounds like this is an excellent project that deserves support. >> thank you, mr. speaker. cannot ask the prime minister, is it true, and i quote, the problem is the policies being ruined by two public schoolboys who don't know what it's like to go to the supermarke, and to put things back on the shelves because they can't afford it for their children'sunch boxes? the words of conservative mps -- [shouting] >> i would have

weapon supplies local and regional media has been has been reported involves more than one hundred foreign offices detained in homs most of them reportedly french our troopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the city that suffered from an almost month long siege is the theory to the international red cross and syrian red crescent are both working on the ground they've brought seven trucks of food water medical supplies and of emergency aid they're also expected to evacuate injured people and to take away the bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in homes. so here's my financial reporting that well i mean time residents of homs and i witnesses say that horrific scenes of carnage become a part of everyday life there we spoke to one russian woman who spent over a week in their battle city she says the picture painted by the media does not always match the reality on the ground they have a sense nine days of the homes because syrian red crescent and so with my own eyes the killing the bloodshed under god is on the streets but the media often spends the numbers out of thin air the

the work of fair trials abroad and other organizations is important and i will make sure the foreign office meets with him soon. >> thank you, mr. speaker. will prime minister join me in congratulating the project that is starting in my constituency, which is being funded by both the private sector, the london bureau, charities, congratulate the co-chairman to get young people with special needs into employment? >> i will certainly join him in supporting that project. i think it is important that we not only help children with special needs through their schooling time but also through that transition after school and into college, and then try to help them to find work. it sounds like this is an excellent project that deserves support. >> thank you, mr. speaker. cannot ask the prime minister, is it true, and i quote, the problem is the policies being ruined by two public schoolboys who don't know what it's like to go to the supermarket, and to put things back on the shelves because they can't afford it for their children's lunch boxes? the words of conservative mps -- [shouting] >> i would

foreign office and all the sudden you're backpedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know he's already been caught through proxy smuggling on xp over the border in jordan but also his arms going over the border eleven on where these coming from ok we know these are coming for sure coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region and doing this through a third party. coming your way in a little more than an hour cross talk with peter lavelle opinions on the program collide over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syrian and arrests take a listen. there was not the international or the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two it was the united states navy if you're talking

weapon supplies local and regional media has been has been reported involves more than one hundred foreign offices detained in homes most of them reportedly french paratroopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the city that suffered from an almost month long siege is deteriorating the international red cross and syrian red crescent are both working on the ground they've brought seven trucks of food water medical supplies and all the emergency aid they're also expected to pay that they injured people and to take away the bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in hopes that he's wary of financial reporting for us there now staying with this story to rigali author filmmaker and middle east expert says the only option for syria is the negotiation table as any of turn it it would be disastrous but he's saying it's where the intermediaries not aligned with either side are capable of pushing both sides to a conference table or to agree to a solution to this crisis it seems to me both things have got very hard on board for. the also britain carries on as if it doesn't rely on how heate

he had been a foreign country and career foreign officer and had been in moscow to the last two years of the war. he saw more clearly than anyone else to that stalin was not going to continue to be the lat had to endure the word that he was really going to be troubled in the postwar period. george had repeatedly sent dispatches sent to washington warning that this is what you do when you write a long dispatch in george's dispatches from islam. so they went back and of course nobody read that the other end, so is on the verge of resignation today. 1846. and one more request came the state department. please help us understand what's going on. his reaction was that in trying to do that for years. but he decided he had to respond this time he was so mad that he cenobite telegraph has set up a pouch and it was verified customers, but shortly broke all the rules on the link of cables. and so of course this is red when it came in, whoever had written it. but once people have read it, then the compelling argument, the nature of the pros and particularly the fact that by faber 1986 they had c

anthony's gets students that are working at the foreign office in london and they take a year and think and write and do whatever they want. >> what's the next book? >> i will do a little book on the uses and abuses of history, because i think history is used and often misused -- >> by? >> by a lot of people. by nationalist leaders that try to create histories where their people have been always right and other people are wrong. to religious leaders who create histories of potential enemies enemies which i don't think necessarily exist and states member and states people who use history saying we must do this now because look what happened in the past when someone didn't do something similar. that's my next project and one day i will do something on yalta. >> you say it's a little book. this book on nixon and mao is almost 400 pages long. the other book i haven't looked at the numbers but it's about 550 pages long. what's a little book? >> a little book is under 100 pages and i'm really going to stick to it this time. i always write too much. >> is random house going to publish it? >> i

foreign office and all the sudden they're back peddling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear that president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know has already been caught through proxy smuggling on xp over the border in jordan and also his arms going over the border in lebanon where these coming from ok we know these are coming from these are coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region doing this to a third party. minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is artsy and still ahead for you this hour. it's really creepy to have someone holding up a machine to your peas then you have no idea not only the health effects there are actually use it with their larger purpose do you think it is or how soon will your dishwasher start spying on you we tra

foreign office and all the sudden they're back pedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know is already pretty caught through proxy smuggling on over the border in jordan and also this arms going over the border in lebanon where these coming from ok we know these are coming from these are coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region they're doing party. coming up later on cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over why washington has taken such an uncompromising stance toward the syrian government. the united states is acting out of humanitarian desire to see this in this does not mean that we will engage in direct military intervention as i suggested despite the fact that senator mccain and others have

-- >> if you're a republican, you're pointing to barack obama and he's had a few ticks in the foreign officef you like. he got rid of bin laden, helped get rid of gadhafi, brought the troops home from iraq but he also bailed out -- the genesis was with george bush, not barack obama, they would argue. obama care is being perceived to be a failure. the economy is still pretty awful. still got nearly 9% unemployed. they're all squabbling away about religious and social issues. not really focusing on what i would say are the vulnerable parts. >> i don't know about that. i would say that the lens through which that would be looked at, i think they know that that's not necessarily true, right? if you're talking to -- when i was working at the white house and health care reform passed, we had young people who now that pre-existing conditions are no longer an issue, they can stay on their parents' plan until they're 26. they have friends and family that can have access to health insurance. >> i come from a country that have free health care. the fact that you can put 30 million more people into a he