french carmaker renault's as it is drawing up plans to build a new plant in the country -- french car maker reynaud says -- french car maker renault says it is drawing up plans to build a new plant in the country. >> israel's plans to build new homes for jewish settlers in occupied territories have been condemned by the international community. the ute's foreign policy chief strongly opposed what she called the unprecedented expansion of settlements. >> these latest plans were also condemned by members of the security council, with the exception of the united states. israel has made several announcements accelerating its settlement program following the united nations upgrading of palestinian status. a new rights report on serious as the fighting is increasingly putting sunni rebels against the tribe of president assad and his christian allies. >> the report also underscored the threat the growing number of foreign fighters pose in escalating violence. memo more weapons to fight assad's forces. opposition fighters building bombs in a small town. the insurgents now control large parts

>> well, it means for renault, because the timing itself is surprising.ment is not a big surprise. renault sold a 15% stake in volvo trucks two years ago and it was no secret that at some point the french carmaker would sell all its stake in volvo truck. renault explains that the process will improve its financial stability. the process will be allocated in priority to reducing the debt level of its automotive division. but it will be used to finance its international expansion like in russia yesterday. if you remember, renault and its japanese party nissan finalized its acquisition of a controlling stake in the russian carmaker. the deal is valued at $742 million and will give them a 67% stake in the joint venture controlling atovalve. renault wants to refocus its business on emerging countries that it's facing a sharp decline of its sales in europe since the beginning of the year. its sales in europe dropped by 18% with the european car sector shrunk by nor than 7%. >> stephane pedrazzi, following the latest in the european car industry. now, google has

the quality of the job which would be done by our teams obviously the out of us team but also the renault team underneath some team in russia have you personally driven a lot of car i did so what do you think what i think the car of the car help you understand you know what the russian consumers want and what russian consumers do not want and that's why i think it's very important to still strengthen the brand because i think russian consumers want russian brand but they want modern products offer by russia and we think that by driving the previous generation of flood the cars we understood what are the enhanced months which are needed to make new cars for the like the larger. or like disgruntle we should say i'm very pleased to see that very lot of orders for these cars that of the of us is struggling to supply so you don't think a lot of brand carries a negative reputation absolutely not i think in the law the brand as a brand is an asset the fact that it has a very strong russian identity it's an asset for the for the alliance as much as nissan is without the discussion in japanese bra