kempinski really good switching to look you. know so it's in. the u.s. sanctions on syria's political elite is the brutal crackdown on protesters in the country continues some analysts say washington's policies are only aggravating the situation. russian activists sound the alarm over a vicious bullying and hazing in the army that's claiming more and more young lives . plus new york authorities cash in by policing the people thanks to a series of new regulations and fines fines for petty crimes.

six pm in moscow by matt trezeguet good to have you with us here on r t our top story there eyewitness reports of more deaths in syria as army troops backed by tanks and helicopters try to regain control over the besieged southern city of at least four people were killed there just this morning and it's a day after the biggest and a regime rally ended with more than sixty people dead across the country government troops allegedly opened fire and used tear gas against demonstrators with snipers and officials and officers in plain clothes shopping crackdown on the opposition to the u.n. human rights council has condemned the bloodshed in the u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation washington's gone a step further preparing sanctions against syria's political elite and freezing their assets but political writer john burton long tells r t the west is now playing a role of human rights advocate while the violence is the result of his failed policies in the region. what is collapsing in the us is the western potency the

western policy has been to demonize certain county that you hand to quote other counties like saudi arabia. the mubarak regime banally and other hazim which were not better on monday more cutting than. you planned but this you quoted them because they were friendly to the west or friendly to israel or friendly to our own interests or whatever and also to wage war being hyped i would only say that once you start doing this probably see it's going to backfire and now it's backfiring and the whole police is collapsing yanking the only way we can do is to stay out of that theater no matter how bad the events are just one thing we can't we are able to fix what's going to happen because what's happening is to some extent the result of focus produces the united states as i think we did itself a unique high can intervene everywhere in the world so if you hand intervenes in syria you can see that as an acceptable they didn't seem it in the wrong with them

intervening everywhere in the world including in the in the nafeek area in riyadh in your hand it's a cause and of course having rules going on right now there is a column of syria and potentially a hand the problem is that those enemies i'm much bigger and stronger than libya so i think the other fate of intervening in syria and the hand because they were already had enough problems in iraq and afghanistan and so on the logic of their intervention in libya is that they should intervene in syria also in every way and potentially we would be led into a general rule in the middle east. and a lady or a colonel gadhafi has called on nato to stop bombing the country and hold official peace talks but nato says gadhafi must first stop attacking the rebels he would have us and initially led last month's assault on libya but artie's military contributor says washington has failed to justify its intervention. barack hussein obama passionately logged it and many people waited world public opinion

that illegal the only way to prevent the looming humanitarian disaster was a humanitarian intervention despite or contrary to that an absence of the hard core evidence or even if you've now dispatching fact finding mission for only you and us or the european union the reason no doubt that obama was a very successful lawyer and maybe some critics are prone to call him a liar but one thing is for sure until american president will realize the growing gap between his lip service to wanted principles and he's actions based on political exemption cities and conveniences and american feelings will only become stronger all across the world stay with us here on r.t.

still to come a new way to balance the books the york city authorities about with a simple solution for budget problems by creating a new set of rules and fines for minor offenses. first the military service isn't an easy task in russia young recruits often face horrific hazing and bullying about entrance to the army human rights organizations have been lobbying in an attempt to help eradicate the problem but as artie's jacob riis reports in some cases it's just too late we must warn you that this report contains footage of graphic violence. it's a disturbing so it's one that's on the rise in the bush anomaly. it's called hazing ability and it's all too familiar with its consequences you can hear that in the reports about thought is suffering physically and mentally are coming in every day . she runs the committee as soldiers mothers an organization partly funded by the

government on a day to day basis her job is to protect soldiers from the harsh realities of service. protection rackets when a boy has to pay another fallujah say seventy dollars a month to be able to serve normally to be freed from bolling unfortunately as we met one more cases added to our workload serving cove died at age twenty is a suspicious circumstances the military claims it was a road accident but his family want to know why forty minutes passed before medical attention was sought his loved ones now join a list of other brief families awaiting out says over a year ago very until his attention returned to that of circulation because of he died just a week into a service is a loss his mother still for is hard to bear. which. is just. to let. you.

the official explanation was pneumonia but pictures of his body appear to tell a different story you know my son's body was covered with bruises all over and the bruises were skillfully cut out of his skin it was so cynical still unresolved sergei's is a rare case common of those who receive beatings that lead and hospitalized and with lasting injuries soldiers such as dmitri after serving just six months he was left in a coma for three months following a run in with the senior squad member. of i can't remember what happened but when i woke up i had a severe head injury next that followed a long and tedious rehabilitation process which is not yet over. the rise of such crimes has led some to find new ways to raise awareness and those right fund is one such group they've created

a web page where families can post personalized accounts of what happened to soldiers missing everything for their rank and years of service to how they died today there are seat of a four thousand three hundred quests for very family members wanting their story told. he views is acknowledged by the militia defense after asking them to comment on the situation they gave us this response. the two major reasons behind the phenomenon of hazing and bullying in the russian army are the following an increase in the number of draftees mistakes of individual commanders. last year the energy initiated two thousand military hearings is a response many will feel is left wanting nonetheless hazing is no longer an issue russia can ignore the army is looking to modernize to turn away from ask ascription to professionalize force to do this they were lie on new recruits meaning in the future the health of individual soldiers may be central to that of the nation's

armed forces she grieves party. turning to new york where authorities of come out with a novel way of dealing with the city's budget deficit a string of new regulations and skyrocketing fines for petty offenses are bringing in much needed cash but is our he's a marine a port nies been finding out locals say officials are violating their freedom of expression and cashing in in the process. marjorie silk is something of a smoker's rights champion. living in a city where a pack of cigarettes cost thirteen bucks and the freedom to puff where you please grows ever more limited. down in our basement this retired new york city police officer nurtures our garden of rebellion this garden is about reacting and defying their attempt to control my behavior hundreds of home grown tobacco leaves hanging to dry before silk shreds and smokes for nicotine we're talking about

products here so back it was legal if they don't want people to smoke they should go to congress and lobby to have it criminalized the big apple's new smoking ban comes a bit close very soon it will be illegal to light up in new york city's parks beaches and pedestrian plazas like this one in times square violators caught blowing smoke can be slapped with a fifty dollar fine. if that's so dangerous drug so they probably make a lot because they want to morning america. it's like we socialists are bad good how come you can't smoke in public officials say the band aims to limit harmful public exposure to second hand smoke this is the latest avalanche of restrictions rules and prohibitions being aggressively enforced under a shrinking economy among them a one hundred dollar fine for putting too much personal rubbish in public we

spassky it's and taking something from the garbage is also a violation costing up to three hundred bucks this winter a new road rule was born drivers caught in bus lanes one hundred fifteen dollars fines this diverse melting pot ponies up ninety four different vehicle and parking violations arguably the bread and butter for big revenue inside the big apple broke records by issuing. ten thousand parking violations in just one day i think a blitz that generated a reported five hundred thousand dollars for new york city with a crackdown on working class americans followed weeks of snowstorms in which parking rules were suspended and a means of income for new york city was brought to a halt critics like gerald celente say policing the people is becoming a means for city and states to deal with budget deficits and economic hardship what are these cops still going is this why we have

a police force to check on every minor infraction that we make they become goon squads they have to bring in revenue to keep their jobs. every day thousands of cash strapped new yorkers visit manhattan's finance office to pay the city for forgiveness he's going to give us i mean i don't know since the city will try to make money wherever they can get people to you know it's interesting. you know bicycle in the city two hundred thirty tickets two hundred fifty bucks each have reportedly been issued to cyclists in central park this year compare that with just eleven tickets issued in all of twenty ten we just had just got on the sidewalk and sometimes started yelling out it's you know it's legal you can get arrested and we weren't even cycling we were just standing over our bike meanwhile marjorie silk may eventually be the last smoker left standing these are the remnants of last year's crop here in a liberal city crippled with debt and

a rising tide of finds. new york but more complaints of official heavy handedness coming your way this hour this time in london where police are waiting for me controversial arrest the protesters out of sight of the world waiting. was paying for a date for paying for sex a new web site sparking controversy in the u.s. over whether people are looking for love. or lust. but first leaving your homeland in search of a better job is a basic human ambition and with big demand for foreign labor israel may seem like the perfect option for thousands of chinese but some criminal israeli employment agencies offering the world for a theory are delivering only a life of hardship or she's policy clear takes a look. in china mr li was a big shot he owned a textile business had bought in thousands of dollars a year but he gave it up on the advice of a friend and forked out

a small fortune to travel to israel hoping that the promised land would fill his pocket. it was not worth it for me because four years old i've only managed to save twelve thousand dollars i would have made more than that in china in those years for many years israel welcome chinese laborers with open arms they and other foreign workers provided a much needed workforce replacing palestinians who were finding it more and more difficult to work in israel and a deteriorating security situation today most of the nearly eleven thousand chinese laborers working construction many are illegal and were lured here by the big promises of fly by night employment agencies this is one of the employment agencies that is a process is reserved for foreign workers but it stands accused of keeping at least seventy percent of the fia charges we asked a few times for an interview but they refused the israeli government says it can do nothing to stop these companies that are set up to purposely defraud unsuspecting foreign workers mr zuma paid thirty one thousand dollars for five year work visa

but it turned out to be fake and after a year he found himself a legal in the country he now works fourteen hour shifts pockets less than half the israeli average salary and is always afraid of being picked up by the authorities and the logic in this caravan we don't even have a conditioning we cannot sleep in some of these small rooms there are four of us in that the conditions are bad. many of the employment agencies have since closed down but the money people borrow to pay the fees has made returning home to china not an option i've heard of many times when people told me if they go back now i can go back home because they lose their house they lose their parents as they owe money said to so many people that this they just can't tell their faces and i know of people went back to china and didn't return. for their hometown might also got court should only just stepped off the plane when she was fired for not speaking english or hebrew she's not only worried about the money shows back home she also

fears for the future of her son who was born in israel and knows no other life is a she doesn't like speaking chinese although he understands trainees he speaks your group all these friends are here and he has to be deported he won't see them in recent years the israeli government has been trying to stop the flow of foreign workers if once and it doesn't want them leaving many caught in the cracks policy r.t. tel aviv. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a massive cleanup operation is started after a tornado outbreak that caused a pattern of devastation across seven u.s. states at least three hundred forty people now confirmed killed making it the second deadliest or good times for fear in u.s. history nearly a million homes and businesses are still without power in alabama alone many buildings that would have been used as rescue shelters were also blown away including an emergency center. for. one of egypt's most

powerful forces the muslim brotherhood has set up a party to contest up to half the seats in september's parliamentary election ahead of the group says it will not be religion based and women and coptic christians can become members the election follows the removal of president hosni mubarak in february after his thirty year rule was ended by massive protests the muslim brotherhood was officially banned for more than five decades. a senior nuclear advisor to the japanese prime minister is stepping down alleging the government ignored his safety advice toshi soco sako says the wrong radiation limits were set for schools near the crippled fukushima plant endangering children's lives and japanese government denies the claims insisting it followed expert advice the plant has been releasing radioactivity since being hit by an earthquake and tsunami in march. tens of thousands of people from poland are heading to rome on trains planes and by car for the day out of a creation of pope john paul the second many more expecting to fill squares and

towns across poland following the ceremony of large video screens pope benedict the sixteenth will bad if i his predecessor in a special ceremony sunday it's the last formal step before a possible sainthood. millions watched the new royal highland large library but there were a few dozen or more likely to have caught the ceremony on t.v. they're the ones arrested preemptively by police across was written to keep them from causing trouble during the wedding or about a five officer in so as the approach was far too heavy handed they have to take measures to protect the event problem any such terrorist groups particularly irish republican dissidents or middle eastern terrorist groups and i don't think anyone complains about the fact that they're trying to stop and did stop protestors x. right exercising their right to freedom of expression around the world waiting is of a much greater concern because the police are talking about such squads and during raids and there's the sort of measures that are you do you think countries like

syria but we used against u.k. protest including notably leading peace activists charlie veach who was talking yesterday as a preventive measure and his apparent just disappeared into the system his family his girlfriend can't trace him they're being blocked tonight by the police even his lawyers can't find him so he seems to have sort of been disappeared in a rather cath caressed grave and i think it's dangerous dangerous path because this man hasn't done anything he might even suspect he might want to go and protest but you haven't done anything so effectively what we're looking at is an orwellian thought crime within what is a notional u.k. democracy is not as much money flowing through the web of opportunity these days but it's still ending up in the hands of you web journalists or people in new york . economy continues to cause a lot of people a lot of difficulties and yet the rich keep getting richer are you ok with that

this week let's talk about that well i mean we have to talk about what is actually defined rich i mean for people to say that families making two hundred fifty k. year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd absurd lower middle class although we don't see it there's a lot of work they have to do you don't get rich overnight you think do you think the people on wall street are working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. so do they deserve money for that. millions of dollars of your taxpayer dollars but i don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got. bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars and just agree i disagree with the bailout completely they knew that they were betting against homes being foreclosed on and mortgages were kind of bomb and people started losing their homes is that still ok people who couldn't afford it i hope that you think it's their responsibility i do but they should have read the fine print when you

borrow three or five hundred thousand dollars you need to understand what you're doing i'm not ok with the rich are getting richer but guess what this is america more power to even at the expense of other people i would sponsor of other people well people are losing their homes because of bomb mortgages lost their homes because they bought mortgages that they couldn't afford the mortgage companies didn't do anything about it you have no doubt i do i have my house is going into foreclosure too but guess what i don't when the rich are being rich that's why they're here so you blame yourself for that yeah right i thought would you be ok with profiting off of someone else's loss. i want. and i think some of these people don't think it is true what they are profiting. i'm not saying that they. intentionally set out but i think it's. generations perhaps. in heritage or accumulated wealth whether or not you think the

rich deserve to keep getting richer the bottom line is it's going to continue to happen unless something drastically changes. they say money can't buy you love but i'm a screamer first date a new website based in the us seems to put together based on one person greedy for pay for the date and another agreeing to take the cash critics say that doesn't sound like a new kind of transaction it may just one going. to work. remember the days when real life courtship was the ticket to romance if you do websites like this may feed those memories fast what's your price dot com is a new dating service launched in las vegas where intelligence or a sense of humor apparently don't invite a date but a big fat book does members are split into categories generous and attractive but generous ones are for the money be attractive ones get the cash and the deal is

sealed the idea came about from my own frustrations of online dating i would join a website. for girls as you know i have high standards and i would get in or response grounds and we'd founder and see your website as well as a sofa attractive member so as a business transaction lures a new girl of your dreams and ensures she would stand you up but critics ask isn't this prostitution this generous entrepreneur has provided us with an e-book a four hawkers i think the chances of this girl not actually being a hooker are. negative five thousand percent this girl is. a professional and i don't mean a paralegal or gun repair expert the work site mastermind disagrees how is this the same from prostitution it's completely different you're paying for the

chance of falling in love you're not paying for sex on the first day you're paying perhaps for the chance that you might say do you attract and potentially have sex on the road as the theories make me prices for that chance generally range from twenty to one hundred dollars to make finding the one easier personal profiles are available i'm down to earth outgoing very funny i consider myself as being a nice conversation. as well as in a real photos leaving very little to the imagination it's true the girls are scantily clad but there's a reason for that because men are attracted to that if you have value themselves and they value their time they're going to join as an attractive member and they're going to demand that if you're serious show me how serious you are for months on me just becomes a component of showing how serious a person really yours but the seriousness of a potential relationship is somewhat disputed by member nicknames double trouble

venus in furs and steffi be among hundreds of others when i'm looking for a serious relationship i don't initially introduce myself by nicknames like kooky fed and come get it i generally say hi my name is sarah it's nice to meet you some twenty thousand people have signed up to the website with two thousand deeds for cash over ready negotiated this leaves one wondering if this new is dating trend could become a symbol of american free market consumerism tikkun to the extreme and say see r t . are those any more of you on line at r.t. dot com everything from science and technology to analysis even a recipe there are some recommendations for you today. russia turning orange and why it had a victory day celebrations find out why on our website. was in presents fashion the moscow museum of fine art plays host to the french fry from the house of your retrospective looks back at decades of style history and also

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