really risk losing face by backing down and taking part of an elective procedures on the way here in r t embracing the bogeyman. to get. the chinese are going to get. to. go to. find out why the white house is comfortable and that was busy in the spider rising way of trying to phobia across the u.s. . now was a move for testers in bahrain as a universe of other countries uprising was met with a brutal crackdown by police. iran is stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of qom by installing thousands of new generation centrifuges according to reports and israel is stepping up its on tehran rhetoric and urging the international community to increase sanctions against iran israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting its diplomats in india georgia and taiwan earlier this week to rile ready under enormous international pressure over its nuclear program denies any involvement the slimy state insists its nuclear war. it's peaceful and accuse israel of waging a psychological war that some fear is paving the way for military action political analyst c

but i think the one thing that has been looked at in the literature is in an r&d study, for example, when they look at the dataer, they might see what looks like an increase in spending. but what has been looked as, you know, is that really more r&d that results in more products or is it, say, a rise in the input prices. and there is actually one study that shows that all the increase in r&d spending actually goes to salaries, r&d. so it's not more r&d, it's just paying the engineers more. whether the input providers actually demand a higher price for the inputs when they know the other party has an r&d credit that part has been looked at. and there is some mixed evidence on it. but i don't know of a study, because that would take some researcher, you know -- >> okay. i thought you might have come across. i would add that there are people who i think would have advantage of it. i hung around in the tax area with a guy name steve jobs, probably before you were born. and he didn't really pay much attention. i mean, he would take advantage and he came to this committee to get some tax re

united states congress that really recognizes the need for this country to continue to grow and invest in r&d. we don't have the national leaders capable of stepping up and taking a difficult position and articulating why we must do something. i'm not interested in something for gene kranz. i'm interesting in something for my children. i'm interested in something for my children's children, because we are in the only nation on the entire earth that is blessed with the types of freedom that we've had, that has the economic potential of a great nation composed of so many different ethnic groups and types of people that are capable of doing these types of things. so we must continue to force leadership to grow. and i was privileged and proud to be part of the years when leadership flourished in this mission control. there's not one flight director who ever left here who was not inspired to do something else and to do better. and i think that is important for us to communicate, not only to people here at johnson, people are going to be looking at these tapes. but the people of the nation, this

we will be in the raineys on on zone.nyy r it's mostly sunny today, temperatures near average. erage high is 51. be in a low 50's 50's farther south of the metro. from the morning tomorrow afternoon, rain off and on. showersew lingering especially south of the metro. expect around three-quarters of an inch of rain locally. high temperatures near 50. clearing on president. moving overnight construction. on 66.ll be gone they have been doing work on the 202 and should be out of there soon. we will take you into live pictures across the 14th street bridge. uneventful heading into down. and the next picture is coming t of frederick, maryland. outsidedlights clarksburg. 270 outside the beltway. dupont circle at 10:00 lightsrning all traffic out.go doing because if they're upgrades to the signals. crews will direct traffic as the done several .ours they hope to have the signals back on by the evening rush hour. easy area telecommutes even with lights. keep your eyes open. 4:42, 37 degrees in olney. the first of several meetings on a proposed fare increase for metro. what customers had

so welcome to business here in r t we go straight to our top story this hour all have hit a six months high following an elvis month in the iranian media that the country was cutting exports to six european countries iran's state run press t.v. says it's a response to the e.u. sanctions over the country's nuclear program the move applies to spain italy france greece portugal and netherlands earlier the european union approved an embargo against iranian oil imports starting from the first of july however it intended existing contracts be complete it. meanwhile crude prices already has worries over supply dominated concern about weak economic growth light sweet is currently trading near one hundred two dollars a barrel while brant is hovering between one hundred in one thousand one hundred twenty dollars per barrel. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday and the ruble is high against both the european and u.s. currencies following gains on the russian market now let's cross over to europe that is trading higher at this hour britain's footsie move

so that comes over here in r t shooting itself in the food for state's expert cern's doubt that you could end up at the losing end up at the bar go on iranian oil. say or a sinner or the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets is banned as branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the greek pm look as papa davis has warned of uncontrollable konami chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek calendar to secure one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new const package and some m.p.'s coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggests firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage biggest trade unions have held a forty hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret burbridge of the financial

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ini these are job initiatives not et spent in 2012.ar >>> i want to be clear that we r do not count the sequester in our total deficit reduction.repc we believe it is bad policy ande we propose that it be replaced by this larger more balanced package of deficit reduction. but be clear, the sequester is e still in place, the president believes it's an important to enforce balanced debt reduction. even as we achieve the deficit reduction we continue to make i key investments in priority enfo areas. these are short-term measures for job growth totaling $354 billion and tax breaks for the o middle class and small businesses amounting to $352 ing billion and continued investment in our long-term priorities including education and job training for american workers. d innovation in r and d, and clean energy and infrastructure, and we abide by tight spending caps and we make hard trade offs.nt's let me now pull it all togethero for you.3% i compared the adjusted baseline that i talked about in the first slide with the results of the president's policies. as you can see in 2022, deficit. from th

in spending. what's looked at is that really more r and d that results in more products or does it arise in the input prizes. there's one study that shows that all the increase in r and d spending goes to salaries r and d. it's not more r and d it's paying engineers more. it's whether the input providers demand a higher price for the inputs when they know that the other party has an r and d credit. that part has been looked at. there's some mixed evidence on it. i don't know of a study that would take some researcher -- >> okay. i thought you might have come across. i would add there are people who i think would have advantage of it. i hung around in the tax area with a guy named steve jobs probably before you were born. he didn't really pay much attention. he would take advantage and he came to this committee to get some tax relief for giving computers away. but that didn't stop him from developing what the iphone and all these gadgets my kids want regardless of whether or not he got the investment tax credit. he was just an innovative guy. i suspect that's true of most innovators. they're going to

that's the top stories here in r t v let's now take a look at what's happening in sports here's andrew. welcome to the sports and these are the headlines resignation fabio capello quits as england manager just four months before the start of the european championships while spurs boss harry redknapp is the favorite to replace him after being cleared of tax evasion. his own place their first defeat in the euro league's top sixteen with a narrow. but first a capella has sensationally quit as engler manager just four months before the start of the european championships the italian resigned after a meeting with the england football association bosses in london this isn't coming after the f.a. publicly undermined him last week they failed to consult before taking the captain's armband from john terry who is facing a racism trial capello said on italian television. it was absolutely the wrong decision taken over the england boss in two thousand and eight after england failed to reach the last european championship but had it disappointing twenty ten world cup campaign for the favorite to re

these include training for workers and innovation in r & d. we make these investments in a budget that abides by the tight spending caps and makes for the hard tradeoffs. let me pull this all together now. on the left, i compared the adjusted baseline we discussed in the first slide with the results of the president's policies. as you can see, in 2022, deficits from the president's policies are below 3% of gdp compared to 4.7% in the baseline. furthermore, debt as a percent of gdp is stabilized from 2018 on. this is important for maintaining a strong investment environment. the president's budget replaces the sequester with the balanced budget. with $2.50 in spending cuts for every $1 of revenue increases. we made tough choices and we all need to work together to maintain this balanced approach. in closing, as a business person and now as acting omb director, i believe the president's budget makes the right investments to make us even more competitive in the global marketplace and achieving declining deficits and stabilizing our debt is critica

signifying a rightward shift in r rhetoric. >> i had a chance to read the speech. and i almost threw up. >> reporter: and for the president suggesting all kids should go to college. >> the president of the united states said that every child in america should go to school. what a snob. >> reporter: again, whether or not you agree with these statements or the subject matter in the gop contest, it appears to be turning off some independents. in an abc news poll out today, among independents, just 32% see santorum favorably. 29% romney. four years ago at this time, both barack obama and john mccain were at or above 50% favorability, among the candidates. >> it will distance them all from independent voters they need to get in november. >> reporter: this has left some republicans wondering if another candidate should get in. >> they barely win his home state of michigan. and that puts them in a position where they know he's still vulnerable in the primary, but really vulnerable in the general election. >> thanks, you guys. you are the best. >> reporter: a win is a win.

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revenue into r&d. in 2012 we'll launch more new products than any year in our history, roughly twice our historical average. regardless of company, regardless of region, we think that a resurgence and a focus on science, technology, innovation has got to be the cornerstone of any successful company. it's the cornerstone of job creation, and it's something that we think winning countries an winning companies will do. second is manufacturing, there's a lot written today about manufacturing. what i would say -- i came to work for ge in 1982. for roughly 20 years, if you look at global cost, materials were inexpensive, and the largest piece in your cost structure tended to be labor. we lived in a deflationary time period. now we live in more of an inflationary time period where the cost of materials are really the largest cost on anybody's income statement. so as a result i think it makes manufacturing, owning your own supply chain, very different today. and that's the way strategically we look at our busines

i personally think we cut r & d too hard here in the past four or five year. below r and d levels in many of the businesses. >> some investors concerned there is simply a lack of competitiveness on the part of hewlett-packard in some key areas where it seems to be losing share. whitman addressed those concerns. >> there are certainly pockets of our business where we can do a lot better. we can have a, one, hp go to market much more effective than we do today. we've run this company as siloed divisions. we have to compete with a broad and excellent set of assets. then each individual business unit does have to be more competitive, be more cost competitive, bring out our next generation of products. >> it does seem that after five months in the ceo position whitman has gotten her arms around a number of big issues at the company. but perhaps didn't appreciate just how big those issues were, even as little as a few months back. >> david, i wanted to point out to viewers out there, it's interesting meg whitman specifically said take a look at ibm and how long that

eleven pm in moscow matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story fresh clashes in egypt with reports of at least four killed and some four hundred injured across the country as police again fire volleys of tear gas and birdshot to disperse crowds of protesters they're looking at a live video from tahrir square where thousands have gathered to voice their their discontent with the government the unarrest broke out after wednesday's football violence when seventy four died in post match clashes protesters have been massing in tahrir square and around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent the soccer pitch deaths they also call on the military council to step down analysts say many young people are dissolute disillusioned with how their revolution has been turning out. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers louis will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and

and again, we're forming coordinating efforts in manufacturing r&d across the office of science, ere and rpe. we want to lead in clean energy technologies. our motto is invented in america, made in america, and sold worldwide. our budget calls for $95 million in wind, mainly in developing offshore wind reliability. $330 million in our sunshine initiative, to develop next generation technologies that can remain competitive with the rest of the world, but also supports geothermal, biomass, and other renewables. it also supports cross-cutting work in advanced alternative fuels, batteries, and other vehicle technologies. it doesn't support certain paint jobs. now, the first time since 2008, in 2011, the united states reclaimed the title from china in leading countries in terms of total clean energy investment. you have to look at the numbers. 55.9 and 47.4 don't, because the zero is down below. so it's a slight edge. but we are concerned as to whether we're going to keep this lead. that leadership in 2011 was in large part due to the government programs like the 1603 grant in lieu of tax

innovation in r and d, and clean energy and infrastructure, and we abide by tight spending caps and we make hard trade offs. let me compare it for you. i compared the adjusted baseline that i talked about in the first slide with the results of the president's policies. as you can see in 2022, deficits from the president's policies are blow 3% of gdp, compared to 4.7% in the baseline. furthermore, debt as a percent of the baseline is stabilized from 2018 on. the president's budget replaces the sequester with a balanced approach to deficit reduction, with $2.50 in spending cuts for every dollar of revenue increases. we have made tough choices and we all need to work together to maintain this balanced approach. in closing, as a business person, and now omb acting director i believe the president's budget makes the right investments to make us more competitive in the global marketplace. and achieving declining deficits is critical. this is good for business, good for the middle class good for america. i would be happy to take a question. >> thank you, mr. zients, we will do great if our an

in the world of business now with natasha. twenty three minutes past you watching business on r t. as we've reported earlier oil prices have jumped to their highest level in the months after on halted crude exports to the u.k. and france on sunday the move follows the european union's decision to stop buying a rainy and oil starting in july and as you can see brant has jumped to the highest level this year it's trading at more than one hundred twenty one dollars a barrel same story for the w t i which is currently topping one hundred five dollars a barrel despite a surge and prices analysts say the wrong decision is more of what symbolic act since the european union doesn't depend on a rainy an oil for its part of ron's now looking for new markets. and let's now check out the latest figures brand is putting on more than a one and a half dollars a barrel the w.t.r. it's meeting at around one hundred five dollars a barrel as i mentioned and let's now move on to the equity markets in asia they are gaining value a week began has sent tokyo stocks higher than the case adding more than on

coming your way here in r t innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest airstrike has left afghanistan as president and damning foreign troops. and separate that's why israel is stopping thousands of palestinians from living here israeli families. civil society in russia is moving to the forefront of politics with a mission to keep the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent a group of leading public and proactive figures are joining forces and crucially they seem to have the support of the candidates and the voters are going up has more. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly when. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competit

clearly this impacts what you can do in personnel and modernization and in r&d. would you tell us for the record how much more you could do in personnel, modernization and res a dndd if we could close these facilities without the obligatory clean-up? i have a question, general dempsey. if you ask our combatant commanders what they would like more of, it's always isr. so it's appropriate that the new defense strategy crites intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance of the one of the capabilities, and i quote, critickri critical to our future success. yet the d.o.d. budget request is approximately $1 billion, or 25% less than fiscal year '12 for isr programs. each of the services is terminating at major isr program in the fiscal '13 budget request. the army reconnaissance and surveillance system. and the air force's block 30 global hawk unmanned aerial system. 18 aircraft aircrawill be place storage. nine of these are in support of combat operations. would you eplease explain what appears to be a real conflict between the new strategy and fiscal year 2013 budget

in the palm of your. home. welcome back you're watching r t and here's a recap of all our top stories the violence in syria escalates as a high ranking religious leader is assassinated a damascus reportedly from his pro-government stance well that's a syrian opposition accuses the government of stepping up attacks on rebel held areas of the city of daraa the latest target. athens fulfills the last of the e.u. is be allowed to bounce but brussels postpones is the socialist to release the second rescue package meanwhile many greeks feel that they should well to recover from harvest already measures which harm their health care system while leaving the military on scale. and fierce of head to confrontation between tell of the tear rot and grow following reports that a raid has arrested over recent thailand bombings were targeting israeli diplomats israel also wants more sanctions against iran as its nuclear program progresses despite terror rather iterated its will of the storage unit six party talks. those are the headlines for you and up next spotlight with do stay with us. hello again or welcome to spotlight the int

well there is more about moscow's rival rallies online in r t dot com as thousands gathered for a day of protest in r.t.e. photographer caught the highlights on camera you can check out the big jurors are based.

now it's time for sports here in r t with kate. well welcome to the sport and here at the top stories. deja vu the new york giants produce a late comeback once again to break new england and win the super bowl twenty one seventeen. while guilty alberto contador is stripped of his tour de france title and picks up a two year ban for failing a drugs test. on the track russia's olympic high jump champion embrace a lot of records the biggest leap of the year as the country's athletes shine in moscow. says the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six of the quarterback eli manning let his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots in indianapolis just as he did four years ago when the giants were in new england's perfect season well this time around the giants were the foster out of the blocks at the lucas oil stadium for manning combining with victor cruz a nine millimeter. however new england responded and had their noses in front at half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown aft

next business here in r t with kareena. hello and welcome to business here and actually thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest in russia shares since the beginning of the year and setting growth in the us and progress with europe stats and feeling appetite for risk this is help reverse the trends in capital flow last year more than eighty billion dollars fled the country so far this year has been an inflow of one billion dollars so he challenged from the nation's asset managers says the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of attitude towards the russian language the market since the beginning of the year and. then will strengthen by the time to bed the russian equity market has outperformed the markets in the world so to give you a plane full of russians not nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the whereas the us market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the politics and seems to have subsided very much market thinks of patients now they h

for a welcome to business here in r t thanks for joining me this hour there's been a burst of interest in russian shares since the beginning of the year with earnings growth in the u.s. and progress with europe's debt ceiling appetite for risk this is help reverse the trend in capital for last year more than eight billion dollars led the country so far this year there has been an inflow of one billion dollars and tackle he challenge from the nation's asset managers the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of rocky two towards the russian equity market since the beginning of the year and. demonstrated by the fund to bed the russian equity market has outperformed other markets in the world so to give you a flavor of russia nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the year whereas the u.s. market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the weeks and seems to have subsided it's very much market expectations now and they're putting what come back is president and the one difference which we have relative to the stime last year is

no i just want to finish on this because think it's quite important to make the point but nothing in the r. to evolvement process from the. international commission's report in two thousand and one through a high level panel report that was subsequently commissioned by kofi annan through kofi annan the report to the world summit in two thousand and five nothing in there recommended anything other than the decision to intervene in these circumstances militarily should rest with the security council within the united nations and so in some sense is i would argue that our two pig he has in some ways strengthened the role of the security council and made it less likely although you may be maybe it's great that it's created a lot more paralysis even if i can go to you because russia and china it's good to get good been given a lot of criticism in the world for its vetoing of any more intervention into syria and the russians and the chinese will go back and say look what you did in libya you abused that mandate because of this new doctrine in the russians and the chinese are going to not budge o

plenty more in-depth analysis on this story and all our election coverage on our web site r t v dot com here's what else is a click away case of deja vu in bahrain where protesters who took to the streets calling for democracy reforms were confronted with a harsh crackdown from police. and vandals with a taste to find out the security measures needed to protect moscow's newest vending machines which offer red caviar at the touch of a button. as libya celebrates the first anniversary of the start of its nato backed uprising its national transitional council struggles to take control over the country's volatile situation and mr nationalists recently accuse the m.d.c. of failing to protect human rights claiming thousands of khadafi supporters are being held without charge and even being tortured the group reports at least a dozen have died in rebel prison since september as a result of mistreatment reports from libya say former rebels want to take over power as civilians remain armed and the economy has crumbled since the war political scientist dr not a hashmi tells are the country's futu

well as what you think about the latest clashes in egypt r t dot com today we ask you why has failed to return after egypt's revolution last year so far most of the respondents believe it's because it's the same officials who were in power under the ousted president mubarak that are now running the country a quarter think the continuing on the rest please to the interests of radical groups eighteen percent believes that every revolution creates its own downfall about the same number also say the unrest continues because of high unemployment persisting those are out of the figures stack up right now to change them by casting your own vote log on to our tea dot com and click away. and you can see the first hand events unfolding in cairo at r.t. dot com we're streaming the protests for you live on our web site. the u.n. is edging closer to a deal on syria with a new draft resolution softened to overcome russia's objections references to president assad stepping down an arms embargo have been dropped from the revised text which is still pending approval moscow continues to warn it will op

states is when people are robbing us of our technology, which, of course, saves them the investment in r & d. that's almost a double whammy, if you will. i think there is difficulty for some and something you can't see, feel or touch since it is a passive theft and you don't directly see immediately the negative impacts of that. unlike an attack, which obviously is by its nature active, in which you would feel the effect of a seizure of the banking system or the stopping of our electrical grid or some other egregious effect like that. >> would you agree, finally, or general burgess that right now we're not -- our privately owned and operated infrastructure, transportation, even water sfli and dams are not adequately defended against such an attack? >> that's probably true, and it's -- you know, it's uneven. some parts of the infrastructure are reasonably well protected. >> i agree. >> but it's not complete. of course, you're kind of in the weakest link proposition here, the vulnerability. >> general burgess, do you want to add something? >> sir, i was just going to say and i'm like direc

welcome to business up here in r t thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest in russian shares since the beginning of the year returning growth in the u.s. and progress with your stat is fueling appetite for risk this is helped reverse the trend in capital flow last year more than eighty billion dollars that the country so far this year there has been an inflow of one billion. from renesas asset managers says that perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of towards the russian equity market since the beginning of the year and. demonstrated by defying bed the russian make what you market has outperformed the markets in the world so to give you a rush nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the. u.s. market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the. very much market patience now and then it. will come back as president and the one difference which we have relative to this time last year. there expectations for reform. the bank president. let's have a look at the markets now exchange rates for the euro's gaining va

and still to come in the program here in r t the green economy goes on sale fresh clashes erupt in athens as yesterday ravitch public rails against what they see as a buyer sale of the nation's future. and frozen to death by eating cold its brain in an icy grip as the country suffers its most severe winter in years with more than a hundred people die over the last week. britain after the european court of human rights ordered the release of dubbed some of bin laden's right hand man and you are it's the latest in a string of judgments that have overruled domestic decisions reinforcing the opinion that the e.u. is interfering in matters it has nothing to do with and as art is laura smith reports patients with use running thin. a silver in land with its own queen its own currency and its own parliament but laws made by someone else this building houses what we in the u.k. call list supremum courts but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going or you can take his or broads to fran

high-tech areas. >> do you have any sense of how we might fair with the international community in terms of r & d investment? >> we do pretty well. including both public and private. we are certainly the biggest absolute amount of -- we have the biggest amount of, in absolute term, of research and development investment, and we have a pretty high percentage of gdp as well. some emerging markets like china are beginning to approach us, at least in terms of shared gdp, but we remain and r & d leader. >> mr. flores? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, chairman bernanke for joining us today. i want to follow-up on some of the questions we've had earlier today, and to talk about policy responses. as you said you're worried about the federal government's fiscal sustainability as we move forward. looks to me like we don't have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to policy responses. look it's a the chart on the screen. you can see the differences in recoveries during the 2007-2011 time frame, versus 1982 to 1986. there was an article -- an op-ed in the "wall street journal" by phil greene and mi

productive. >> do you have any sense of how we might fare with the international community in terms appeared r &d investment? >> we do pretty well including public and private. we are certainly the biggest absolute -- we have the biggest amount, in absolute terms, of research and development investment and we have a pretty high percentage of gdp as well barracks some emerging markets like china are beginning to approach this in terms of share of gdp but we remain an r &d leader. >> thank you for joining us today. i would like to follow up on some of the questions we had earlier today and talk about policy responses. as you said, you are worried about the federal government's fiscal sustainability as we move forward. it looks to me like we don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to policy responses. if you look at this chart, you can see the differences in recoveries during the 2007-2011 time frame vs. 1982-1986. there is an op-ed in "the wall street journal" this morning betts says if we had just follow the same policies that reagan followed when he inherited a bad economy, that we woul

r t t v dot are you and so next time x. guys are saying by all. top stories on our violence in syria escalates as a high ranking religious leader is assassinated in damascus allegedly for his pro-government stance our correspondent as a part of advance in the syrian capital. fears of pending confrontation between tell a vivid tehran and throw fall with reports that ring answer arrested over recent thailand bombings were targeting israeli diplomats. and athens fulfills the last of the e.u. bailout amounts but many greeks feel the nation vote for cover from austerity measures which harm their health care system leaving the military on skating. south of four pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. now the syrian opposition have accused the government of stepping up attacks on rebel held areas with the city of daraa the latest target meanwhile a high ranking religious leader was assassinated in the capital damascus reportedly for his political views now this comes after the president's announcement of a referendum on a new constitution which could create a multi-party system in

the latest news on the week's top stories here in r t the arab league is set to decide the future of a town for its own serious violence escalates the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus. the spirit of revolution returns to gauge it on the first anniversary of the bar sounding the sounds of metastasis calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council. and the people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by security and other bailout. and russian a civil society takes center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential elections with the backing from all of the candidates. it is not out of the russian capital you're watching. they would take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news now the arab league will hold. the series of meetings on sunday to decide what further action to take on the crisis in syria the body will consider resuming its observer mission and the syrian opposition e

hello and welcome to business here in r t thanks for joining me out of the world's largest diamond mine a buy output may sell a fourteen percent stake in an i.p.o. the flotation of the state owned company may take place in the second half of this year and you evolved from the west bank says that the stock will be a unique opportunity to invest directly into the dollar business. the company is in no hurry to attract money from the market but probably the i.p.o. for also is a question of. trading in russia a world. is going to be about one billion dollars it will give free float comparable to other russian metals and mining stocks are usually. a public offering company instead of becoming more. and more friendly to the public overall and to investors. well in terms of business and business development something that will change. let's have a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro's trading lower against the dollar and the ruble that's after being down in the early asian trading rate downgrades by the move by the rating agency also weighs on the ruble which is saying moderat

the time to send us a letter this hour here in r t we talked to a spanish economist on how close the euro zone's fourth largest economy is to the brink and whether its future and all lies within the block. now coming your way in just a few minutes here on our team geographically close by politically far apart we explore why there was a huge gulf political support to neighboring russian regions and whether the same can be expected of the presidential polls this sunday. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the world with the true science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style it's time to. go. to. market why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars a report on our. russia's presidential campaign is answering the homestretch with just a few days left before the e

on the way here in r t embracing the bogey man. the chinese aren't going to get. the economy is. going to. get. this comfortably in bed with beijing despite a rising wave of china phobia across the u.s. . and it was deja vu for protesters in bahrain as the anniversary of the country's uprising was met with a brutal crackdown by police. iran is stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of home by installing thousands of new generation center fujis according to reports and israel is stepping up its anti around rhetoric and urging the international community to increase sanctions against iran israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting its diplomats in india georgia and thailand earlier this week already under enormous international pressure over its nuclear program tonight and the involvement of the islamic state insists its nuclear work is peaceful and accuses israel of waging a psychological war that some fear is paving the way for military action political analyst chris bambery explains what he thinks israel is up to. i think what they're