from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he says now it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in damascus our top story moscow's mind to do everything it can to make sure the u.n. security council doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria that plans for russia's top diplomat it as he wrapped up a briefing on twenty eleventh's foreign policy artie's peter oliver is at the foreign minister. of 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

down should they not come to fruition then russia was willing to step in to mediate and broker a peace in it both the opposition and the syrian government will welcome to come here to russia to try and sort out their sort out their problems now one thing that a lover of was. there was very strong on was reiterating russia's push stance that they will not tolerate any form of international interference international military interference into syria now a pointed a finger towards the united states accusing washington of having it led from behind when it came to the crisis that we saw in twenty eleven in libya. saying that so again level of on the russian government did not want to see a similar situation of foreign military intervention happening in syria warning the u.s. not to try this lead from behind tactic as he puts it when it comes to syria. saying

that international military intervention of that kind can have huge ramifications saying that it can spread beyond the borders and become a major international incident. of course leading countries are closely watching the situation in the region the changes that a far from over it's only the beginnings of we have to understand that if we want nations to solve their own issues we mustn't interfere especially militarily that we must support dialogue between the conflicting signs we have to explain to the opposition forces that they have to find an agreement not oust the regime this is a way to a wide scale war those that will affect not just the regions but countries far beyond look so gay lover of the saying that russia supports dialogue and bringing about peace in syria and warns other nations against attending any kind of foreign military intervention. well the u.n. security council is mulling over russia's latest draft resolution on syria that was put forward this week the kremlin says its balance and aims that appear to appease

all sides in the conflict while the u.s. is continuing to garner calls to get president also to go in syria itself though we're warring sides have agreed to a cease fire in assuming you're the capital but the government crackdown reportedly grinds on in the flashpoint city of homes but this week the arab league observers will deliver their verdict on whether the regime is complying with a peace wire it will then decide whether to extend its mission or ask the u.n. to intervene or already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former ally has turned its back on us up to no snow looks into the fallout. can shake he says embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed prime minister and syria's president where indeed considered friends like in the ninety's the neighbors were not doing that well together series support of kurdish

separatists drew wedged between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide its territory for the u.s. invasion to iraq golden era in turkey syria relations began with free trade agreement the visa regime dropped and several presidential visits the blue there is became especially close families living in both sides felt they shared a common home the turkish leader was even accepted at markets in the syrian city of aleppo but the honeymoon didn't last long following libras revolution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides supposin series of positions and aligned with the country's harsh and the us enduring thought they have. iran that antagonized iraq. well because now iraq is come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by his pool has also been very very critical of turkey to switch from

a zero problem policy with your neighbors to a problem cretin position you need good reason turkey seems to have one america needs another actor otherwise this gap can be fulfilled by you want maybe by russia so there's a kind of let's say. cohabitation between america and talking so turkey is helping this in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel turkey is profile is becoming more and more influential some of those who doubt the benefit will be equal for both sides to the turkish economy suffers a lot from the sanctions and supported against syria especially as syria is turkey's expurgated the world for this reason turkey is endeavoring to establish a new exporting of routes to lebanon and through iraq to the gulf states turkey is policy should be more autonomous should not be identical to that of washington or brussels to graphically politically and religiously took has always been the

crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them the people who calculate that the only question of time before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding a wave ok put itself on the crest of the way the quest of the wave of reform and change in the middle east and to be seen as the leader of this movement to take it believes that it is set in the middle and long term turkey has no chance to to to get the benefits of the region if our side goes ok then so we're tough but if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. well there are supposed to be gone for months for us you know. position that you had created actually is not really terrible any longer we've got to deal with you like it or not the rude no fooling me look slippery that no matter how dangerous it may be they seems to be no way

back without a u.n. security council resolution it will be vetoed by russia and china and leave us to our intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers turns to this region's countries to get them involved this take isn't turkey which has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps gone too far. r.t. turkey. that is meeting briefing media briefing i should say in moscow foreign minister lavrov also stressed the kremlin is stepping up efforts to prevent war in the persian gulf russia thinks a western attack on iraq would be catastrophic for the entire region a top iranian security official is currently in moscow to iran says it's ready to resume international disses discussions on its nuclear program but that it won't come easy the six party talks broke down a year ago when the u.s. and its allies assumed iran was developing a nuclear bomb tough sanctions are also being finalized iran is already threatening

to block a vital fuel transit route if restrictions prove harmful while the u.s. says it will use force to keep the strait of hormuz ok. now every day millions of people turn to one website as a one stop shop for their encyclopedia of research but right now they're seeing this would be via is deliberately blocking out its english language website it's joined a twenty four hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way for u.s. congress if passed they would allow the government to block search engine links to any website which may can contain what's perceived as copyright material all the laws are designed to protect people's work from being shared without permission or payment but internet campaigners say they would go way too far. this bill is going to change the rules for the internet not just in the united states but around the world up to now we've treated the internet like anything else if there's

a crime on the internet it's the job of the police to track down the people responsible bring them to justice and hold the trial to decide if they're guilty or not under this bill the rules totally change it makes everyone who runs a website into a policeman and if they don't do their job of making sure nobody on their site uses it for anything that's even potentially illegal the entire site can get shut down without even so much as a trial it's very unclear exactly how much is lost the copyright infringement and it's clear that whenever there are legal opportunities to download music and movies they're very popular look at the success of apple's i tunes but the point is even if it were true even if it was a big deal the solution is not going to be getting rid of the entire court system we need to continue to have due process because it's worked in every other case there's no reason that the copyright industry should be special and not have to obey the law there's a whole long list of sites that have taken part in the strike because everyone understands this is something very different from the way u.s. laws normally work it's much more extreme and it takes us down a really dangerous path. well your opinion matters to us so we're asking what the anti-piracy bills mean to you it are to dot com if we look at the numbers so far

the majority of you believe it's a conspiracy to kill freedom of speech around a quarter think accounts grab by greedy entertainment giants the final few are split between seeing it as an overstated bid of what started as a noble cause or whether it's an honest anti-piracy drive being marred by paranoid thank you give us your thoughts at r.t. dot com here's what else you'll find online today. where would you turn in a world without with twitter users are almost filling the gap with a few fun facts of their own take with a pinch of salt. and also the prized bronze backside iraq demands the safe return of a chunk of saddam hussein's demolished statue read more of our to dot com and we've plenty more online video reports for you on our you tube channel.

these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. so i have this hour here on our to you why denise is yet to turn over a new report from a region where people are still struggling to find a job and make and meet a year after the revolt that promise them a better life. initial probe into voting at russia's parliamentary elections has found around three thousand violations the prosecutor general's office report has been sent to president medvedev ben says there were both there were complaints both during the election campaign and the poll itself ninety five people now face legal proceedings resumes raise of calls for an investigation after thousands rallied in moscow and other cities in december claiming widespread fraud elections are united russia when the majority in the

state do mumble with a very sharp fall in support. more world news now and the search for a missing people on the capsized italian cruise liner has been suspended after the vessel shifted slightly it was to protect the divers who are desperately searching for the twenty four people who are still unaccounted for hopes of finding anyone else alive all but faded eleven bodies have been recovered since the costa concordia sank five days ago captains under house arrest accused of selling too close to the shore and abandoning ship before it had been evacuated. israel has launched an air strike on northern gaza killing at least one person i was the new security sources say the raid hit a field used by hamas and was accompanied by tank fire tension between the coastal territory and israel have been calm in recent days following an increase in rocket fire attacks in december. u.s.

says the pattern is over and for north korea to return to talks about its nuclear program along with south korea and japan the three countries renewed their commitment to a two thousand and five deal calling on the country to end its nuclear project in exchange for aid it's part of a rush of world diplomatic efforts as north korea rallies to bolster the image of its mostly unknown and new leader kim jong un. and greece is at another standstill with a mass strike underway just as the country's global paymasters pay a nother visit e.u. european central bank and i.m.f. delegates are there to try and beat a dead one for greece to get vital funds to slash its almost unserviceable debt but thousands of workers hit the streets to voice how destructive the cuts and ready are and more may be needed. but the world's financial forecast for this year was grim enough why even matz taking another knock in most countries including russia. the world bank has indeed loaded his outlook on new russia

all over the russian economy is expected to go fall so the most of the country has reached three and a halt to said all have more details on this topic in ten minutes time in the business bulletin boy a. first several hundred occupy activists rallied in washington d.c. on tuesday marking the movement's four month anniversary but the protest which stretched from capitol hill to the white house failed to attract the thousands that organizers anticipated you can join the demonstration. the protesters have shifted their focus from wall street to capitol hill and here they are hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the u.s. capitol building they have a permit to protest on this lawn but we have already seen several people arrested and. protesters say when the interests of big corporations are at stake their voice their interests no longer count and they're angry at the fact that the

influence of money is only set to grow in u.s. politics supreme court's decision now allows corporations to funnel as much money as they wanted to candidates and protesters say it's legalized corruption. the cozy relationship between big businesses on lawmakers here ledge to the complete lack of oversight over wall street which brought about the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and not just americans were affected but the whole world so people here want money out of politics but it's easier said than done and a lot of people especially outside the movement are very much skeptical about whether the protests can actually change something some say that the tents and the banners you know won't change anything what do you say to that i think the tents in the banners are crucial part of being publicized and being public about it because it's so easy to ignore movement unless it's in your face do you think the movement has any impact i mean it's been there for four months right on the movement has

a huge impact in that a lot of things that are not even talked about in the political agenda usually are now being talked about there is in the news on a constant basis talking about income inequality the fact that corporations are running our government have stolen our elections on so many times with all the legalized bribery in the campaign finance system and other things that are most legal moving into the night hundreds more you not thousands joined the protest and they marched all the way from capitol hill to the white house. here they are hundreds of people standing right outside the white house. the movement has certainly if paul i mean you see the last of the tents across the country because authorities under different pretenses and that is they have

a victory of the protesters out of their occupied locations but you see more of these one time actions one day rallies like this one which started on capitol hill and fourteen you know all the way to all the white house right here these people are here to get their message across all a lot of young people around but again whether or not these protests will bring any result that that still remains very much on clear. ok my movement is keen to keep up the momentum as the protest to kong but maybe it's time for new tactics later this hour a former u.s. llambias says perhaps they should try their hand at politics. i think they are by wall street movement had behind it some good instincts the problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party movement did which was politically tea party movement had a dramatic impact on the last election and probably will spill in this election and i spoke to the occupy people quite

a lot and told them that until they get themselves organized politically they're not going to be meaningful because in america street protests don't really mean people don't like street protests in america first of all the destructive vandalising the unsanitary things that go on in most american repelled by that what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left for all the right. to tunisia now and a region rich in natural resources huge expect people there to be reaping the rewards a year after the revolution to get them out of poverty but the reality is very different as a recluse discovered. this is a region where things are run a little differently from the rest of tunisia you have a with. my father worked in the mine for twenty five years my two brothers worked and died in the mine we live in the mining region and our days are arranged by the sound of the horn from the mine not by calls to prayer view. the gas a-basin is

home to tunisia's phosphate mines one of the key exports in the country which ranks fifth in the world for phosphate production yet for the past three years the workers and their families have been involved in a bitter struggle with their employer gaffes of phosphates that we never took anything from the authorities have always forgotten about us this year the gaffes are phosphates company c. f. g. conducted a competition for jobs just like they did in two thousand and eight we hope their choices will be based on a different criteria this time but they weren't. shares involvement in supporting action for the miners during the authoritarian rule of president ben ali resulted in a prison term. in two thousand and eight we went on strike with the miners and were arrested all those who supported them lawyers teachers professors we were told we were an organized gang who wanted to overthrow the regime. the government has been

gone since then but the problems remained so the strikes continue unemployment in the region is a staggering fifty five percent and while local residents believe they should be given priority when it comes to filling jobs at the mine the c.g.s. has been employing people from other regions there are no jobs for those whose parents died or were injured in the mines their families never received any compensation for their losses so i've been protesting here for six months will stay here for a year. however long it takes to resolve this problem. though many tunisians hope the ousting of autocratic ben ali will improve situation in the country the reality is rather bleak. evolution hasn't solved the economic issues which have been happening for months now the provisional government hasn't even begun looking at ways of working in poverty. for these workers any delay in solving this crisis cost lives

a lot of people are killing themselves others are leaving. the country and some have done it because they were too poor to afford medical help. after the tunisian revolution and the new provisional government has brought a life of prosperity and better employment opportunities for workers in this mining town wants passed by the miners say the situation has only got worse the region's location far from the political center of the country means their plight is as a visible to the new government as it was to the old one in the coast guard tunisia . katie is here next why is this update stay with our. follow that welcome to the business program your is in debt problems have made the world bank cut its two thousand and twelve global economy growth forecast to two and a half percent the bank also lowered its outlook on the russia however is economy is expected to grow faster than most countries and reached three and

a half percent to discuss this i'm joined by jacob now chief economist at morgan stanley russia. and ok on the back of that then what what is the growth outlook for russia so i think is pretty good and in fact only think it's better than the world bank does i think growth which was four point two percent on the preliminary estimate last year will accelerate in russia next year the world bank thinks it will slow down the three reasons for this the first is that russia had a very deep recession in two thousand to know him and a slow recovery and i think that we really entered. kind of blooded recovery from a succession recession with a cyclical upturn in the middle of last year with consumption and investment growing strongly so the economy has some underlying momentum the second thing is last year russia ran a fiscal surplus this year the government is going to run a small for school deficit and it's spending money to cut payroll taxes to increase

public sector wages and increase military pensions that will support consumption in the first or for the here then in the second hole for the here i think we'll see a pick up investment investment in russia's been a week since the crisis in two thousand and eight and there's a lot of political uncertainty at the moment following the protests and with the presidential elections coming up once we're over that i think the new government is formed and the policy direction is clear but i think we'll see a big pickup of investment so that's one even more than the ball is from russia this year ok then so you are definitely optimistic there let's talk about challenges there you touched upon. and just then what do you think all the main challenges for the russian economy in two thousand so the big challenge last year was the capital outflows eighty four eighty falling billion dollars flowing out of the country russia supposed to grow faster than other countries so should attract capital and here it is leaving so i think there's a couple of drivers for that one driver is european banks are trying to improve

their capital asset ratio that means that they're trying to send funds resources back to the. head offices and that's response to flow from sources from russia and the second driver is political uncertainty russian investors feeling unsure about their sets and moving some of it approved i think that european banks will complete t.v. viewing point june when they're supposed to get to a new capital asset ratio and after the new government is formed that's one certainty in russia will diminish their boy interests or a second driver of capital outflows but that's a big uncertainty little outflows and that could hit the group called sentiment and other things the other big challenge for russia as always is the it's. a great sports car photographing just all close close then russia will be disproportionately affected the world bank says it could shave forty four percent of g.d.p. growth so that would turn growth negative in russia however i think all prices

currently look we should be well supported and saudi arabia has just said that one hundred dollars a barrel is their target price that is the blushing government's forecast oil prices in twenty twelve so i think that opec take action just for the oil price if it is still for so that some comfort for the short little prosper. i can well i can't let you go without talking about the year as i'm not going to ruin the peace and so all this world bank report what's your outlook for that region well it's actually it's very close to our own view and stanley the first sentence of the world bank report says. the world is in a dangerous place. and all the language in the report is about what there was so it risks the risks that european policymakers fail to come up with a convincing solution to the european debt problems and we have some deepening of the crisis they talk about a layman event and extended period. of growth similar to what we

saw in two thousand so the message from the report is. there's a big risk or if there is a crisis and that's what we think. so miss may ok thank you very much indeed thank you for inside that was a joke you know chief economist at morgan stanley a russia you have time to so have a look at the market see what's going on how all of this news is affecting the stocks in the europe a region i carry while stocks are higher actually that's despite the world bank news that we've just been discussing here and that's when i was showering reports that greece is nearing a debt deal with private creditors and here in moscow is take a look at how these us stocks are fairing ok we're covering some losses right now it's got all the shockley day of trade here in the russian capital but my thoughts on the i'll just lay off an hour in the black and take a look at how some of those individual getting on russia's top company rolls nast

has now it's back into the red despite those strong prizes russia's largest lender spat bike is in the black it's going to change your fortunes that because it was in days in the red is in the black now and let's also take a look at the on a russia that is firmly in the black as a well. i can say phenomenal business news in an hour's time.

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you. will the forensic technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've dumped a few jerks covered. here with our to you live from moscow our top stories moscow reaffirms its push for talks to solve syria rejecting any military intervention and pledging to ensure the u.s. doesn't authorize any use as america and some allies mount calls against the syrian regime with counter are opposing to send in troops. millions of with a preview users are hitting this brick wall right now the world's most popular online encyclopedia is on a twenty four hour shutdown that's in pro.