the prose of the maidens makes me believe that it was a religious and the most promise that they produced promise. us slap sanctions on syria's political leaders the brutal crackdown on protesters in the country continues and some analysts say washington's policies are only aggravating the situation. russian activists sound the alarm over a vicious policing in the 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 for petty crimes.

when you news around the clock from around the world i'm at seven pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t as eyewitness reports of more deaths in syria as army troops backed by tanks and helicopters try to regain control over to the siege southern city of daraa at least four people have been killed there as of this morning just a day after the biggest anti regime rally ended with more than sixty killed across the country government troops allegedly opened fire using tear gas against demonstrators with snipers and officers in plain clothes shopping crackdown on the opposition u.n. human rights council condemning the bloodshed in the u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation. washington meanwhile is going a step further preparing sanctions against the syrian political elite and freezing their assets iran's revolutionary guard also said to be penalized for allegedly giving material support to damascus for more on this we go live to caring for.

retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel to talk about the u.s. policy in the region thank you for joining us so as far back as two thousand and seven you were writing that the u.s. was getting ready to instigate an attack on iran and now washington is accusing to iran of supporting damascus in this bloody crackdown do you think the us preparing for another operation in the region well i'm not sure we're pretty tied down with the three operations that we have already but certainly keeping on we seem to change types of approaches in clay certainly with regard to syria and iran has been a long term united states or at least washington d.c. policy. the u.s. is still in iraq and afghanistan is also at the forefront of the campaign in libya do you think it could manage or afford another offensive in the region well we can't afford the three that we have so in some ways in the old sensibility of what you can pay for doesn't really apply to the united states we are running on get

we're printing money to the federal reserve we are funding these operations we can't afford them now so in some ways we have to be a little bit concerned that financial strain is not going to limit what the united states can do and certainly we have a great belief in the technical capabilities you know we use drones we like to use the air force in the navy from from afar so there is capability we could bring to bear and unfortunately. and not sure that a lack of money to continue will really restrain the united states and in order call you wrote you call syria israel's second phase target and iran a third phase target explain that and i do think it influences u.s. foreign policy. well israel as it as it sees itself is surrounded by enemies and the alliance between syria and iran are is part of that little syria as a kind of a transit point iran is the larger target wesley clark general wesley clark retired general gave a talk some years ago where he mentioned six or seven countries across the middle

east that were the united states slat israel enemy all it needed needed in the united states of the e.u. and certainly possibly in israel's need to make a speaker israel but in the united states he needed to have regime change and certainly iraq was on the list going to libya was on that list we see there. you know syria and iran are on those those lists so it's a long term agenda regime change is not a secret it's not a secret that's u.s. policy. switching our attention now to libya gadhafi has called on the middle led coalition to stop bombing the country and to hold talks about nato says i talk you must first start attacking the rebels is there a danger of this turning into another long term campaign for nato or for the u.s. as in iraq and afghanistan. i hope not but i think the potential is there in there seems to be no real restraint or common sense really coming from washington

or from the military institutions that are in the united states that are prosecuting and supporting these military actions i really think that the chances of us being involved militarily in libya for a long time i think that's a high possibility i don't know i hope i'm wrong but that's that's what i think now you're in the military for a number of years you also worked in the pentagon based on the experience what is in your opinion the military apparatus is for the middle east. well it's been a long term goal the goal that it's been pursuing for for many many years even before the iraq invasion and thousand and three and before the afghanistan and beijing is to have a network of military bases. throughout the middle east certainly focused on what we consider to be what the united states government considers to be a long term threat and that is the iran the network of bases from which we can

operate from at will without having to asked for permission from whatever the regime commander is you know we had problems inside arabia before we invaded iraq and the problem was we had to ask permission from the royal family as a side when we could fly when we couldn't fly in that type of restraint is intolerable to the united states military it is intolerable to ashington d.c. so what we wanted was to expand our capability to move freely militarily across the region are why we want to do that two reasons for oil and israel these are the two reasons that we are interested in in this area and i want to add one thing you know we are putting sanctions i don't know syria on the leadership the family of the side who are putting sanctions in continuing expanding sanctions on iran we are protesting at the u.n. for actions that these governments are taking or allegedly taking against their

people unfortunately we are showing our hypocrisy because we are not doing that in saudi arabia we're not doing that in bahrain we did not do that in yemen even though the yemenis guy stepped down thank goodness we supported the guys that supported us we backed the guys that back us if they wanted to do what we want we will hold or look any city and those governments will do and i think it's becoming very obvious not just to the rest of the world i think it's going to washington is but even to americans these operations are unpopular in the united states americans do not understand what we are doing over there right karen kwiatkowski retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel thanks for. still to come here on the program a new way to balance the books new york city authorities come up with a simple solution to their budget problems by creating a new set of rules and fines for minor offenses. first though military

service isn't an easy task in russia young recruits often face horrific bullying in hazing a part entrance into the army human rights organizations have been a lobbying in an attempt to help eradicate the problem but authorities jake agree with reports in some cases it's just too late we must warn you that this report contains graphic footage. it's a disturbing site the one that's on the rise in the russian army. it's called hazing ability or it's all too familiar with its consequences here in the us in the reports about thirty thousand rank is a killer and mentally are coming in every day. she runs the committee of 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 the new governor there from protection rackets one a boy have to pay and now the soldiers say seventy dollars a month to be able to serve normally to be freed from boiling

a fortunately as we met will more cases added to her workload civilian killed died at age twenty in suspicious circumstances the military claims it was a road accident but his family wants one forty minutes passed before medical attention was sought his loved ones now join the list of other brief families awaiting out says over a year ago parents he was attention was turned to that of circles sure because he died just a week into his service is a loss his mother still follows hard to bear. which. is. do you. think that. 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 skilfully skin it was so cynical still unresolved sergei's is a rare case common of those who receive beatings that leave them hospitalized and with lasting injuries soldiers such as dmitri after serving just six months he was little 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 create a web page where families can post personalize the celts of what happened to soldiers missing anything for their rank and years of service to how they died today they received over four thousand three hundred quests for every family members wanting their story told. the 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 who feel it's left wanting nonetheless hazing is no longer an issue russia can ignore the army is looking to more learns to leeway for mass conscription 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 artsy. turning to new york now where authorities have come up with another way of dealing with a budget deficit a string of new regulations and skyrocketing fines for petty offenses bringing in

much needed revenue as art is more important has been finding out locals say officials are violating their freedom of expression and cashing in in the process. partially 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 park 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 hang to dry before silk shreds and smokes her 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 plaza like this one in times square violators blowing smoke can be slapped with a fifty dollars fine. if that's so dangerous why do so probably make the law because they want to hear morning america. it's like we socialists are bad because can't smoke officials say the ban 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 waste baskets and taking something from the garbage is also a violation costing up to three hundred bucks this winter the new road rule was born drivers caught in bus lanes face one hundred fifteen dollars fines this

diverse melting pot ponies are ninety four different vehicle in parking violations arguably the bread and butter for big revenue in said 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. and snowstorms and 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 doing 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 says you know it's a good it's i mean i don't know since the city has tried to make money in a way over to get people to you know sort of soon. you know bicycle in the city two hundred thirty tickets at two hundred seventy bucks each have reportedly been issued to cyclists in central park this year compare that with just eleven tickets issued in all of twenty time we just had just got on the sidewalk and some can start yelling out that it's you know it's legal you can get arrested and we weren't even cycling we were just standing over our plate meanwhile our drew silk may eventually be the last smoker left standing these are the remnants of last year's crop here in a liberal city with dad and a rising tide finds. new york we have more complaints of official heavy handedness to come this way this time of the london police are blamed for making a controversial arrest that he protesters out of sight of the royal wedding. was

paying for a date or is it paying for sex and it websites controversy over whether people are looking for love or loss. but first leaving your homeland in search of a better job is a basic human ambition and with a big demand for foreign labor israel seems like a perfect option for thousands of chinese but first some current but some criminal israeli employment agencies offering the world for a fee only deliver a life of hardship. 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 or. twelve thousand dollars i would have made more than that in china in those years for many years is well

welcome chinese laborers with open arms they and other foreign workers provided a much needed workforce replacing palestinians who are finding it one more difficult to work in israel amid a deteriorating security situation today most of the nearly eleven thousand chinese laborers work in construction many are illegal and will not hear about the big promises of fly by night increment agencies this is one of the employment agencies ed says 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 deformed unsuspecting foreign workers mr zuma paid thirty one thousand dollars for a five year work visa but it turned out to be fake and after a year he found himself illegal 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 lodging in this caravan we don't even have

a conditioning we cannot sleep and in some of these small rooms there are four of us in that the conditions of baghdad. 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 some people will tell me if they go back now i can go back because they lose their houses they lose their parents as they owe money said to so many people that is they just can't sell their faces and i know of people when they're in town and didn't return to their. i'm town might also got caught she'd only just stepped off the plane when she was fired for not speaking english will keep she's not only was it about the money shows back home she also fears for the future of his son who was born in israel and news new of in life she doesn't like speaking chinese overall he understands cheney's he speaks here group at least friends are here and he has to be deported she won't see them in recent years the israeli government has been trying to stop the flow of fund

move because it wants them and it doesn't want them heaving many in the cracks point c r t tel aviv turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe massive cleanup operations started after a tornado outbreak that caused devastation across seven u.s. states at least three hundred forty people now confirmed to have been killed making it the second deadliest drug catastrophe 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 also blown away including an emergency center. cambodian troops have exchanged fire across the disputed border for the ninth day running breaking a truce just hours after it was agreed fighting happen you're one of three temples claimed by both countries at least sixteen people have been killed in the latest series of clashes now and has been in dispute for more than half a century each side accuses the other of starting the conflict. one of egypt's most

powerful political forces the muslim brotherhood ouster set up has set up a party to contest up to half the seats and september's parliamentary election the head 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 in the country . tens of thousands of people from poland are heading to rome on cars trains and airplanes from for the beatification of pope john paul the second many more are expected to fill squares in towns across poland following the ceremony on the large screens pope benedict the sixteenth will be at a fire his predecessor in a special ceremony sunday that's the last formal step before the possibility of seeing. millions watched a new royal couple tie the knot in london but there are

a few dozen other likely to have caught the ceremony on t.v. they're the ones arrested preemptively by police across britain to keep them from causing trouble during the wedding for more of my five officer says the approach was far too heavy handed they have to take measures to protect the event from any such terrorist groups irish republican dissidents or middle eastern terrorists groups and i don't think anyone complains about that the fact that they're trying to stop and did stop protestors x. right exercising their right to freedom of expression around the world wedding is of much greater concern because the police were talking about snap squads raids and there's the sort of measures that are indeed used in countries like syria but we used against u.k. protests including notably leading peace activists charlie reached out yesterday as printed measure and is apparently 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 cafe respray and i think it's dangerous dangerous path because this man hasn't done anything he might even suspect he might want to 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 there's not as much money flowing through the web of opportunity these days but it's still ending up in the hands of the same wealthy few web journalists or. people on the streets of new york with. 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 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 know if i'm also 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 i don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got. bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars rightists 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 had a home so you think it's their responsibility i do 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 him even at the expense of other people i would suppose of other people well people are losing their homes because of bum 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 to 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 out as to what they are profiting. not saying that. but i think it's. generations perhaps. that 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. and say money can't buy you love but it might score you were first to eat

a new website in the us seems to put together couples based on one person agreeing to pay for a date and the other one agreeing to take that cash critics say it doesn't sound like a new kind of transaction instead of my just going to start to target records. remember the d.s. when real life courtship was the ticket to romance if you do websites like this we feed those memories fast what's your price dot com it's a new dating service launched in las vegas where intelligence or a sense of humor apparently don't invite a deed 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 to cash and a 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 nor response brandon wade founder and see your website as well as the self leave attractive

member so as a business transaction lures in the girl of your dreams and ensures she would stand you up but critics ask is 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 professor. and i don't mean a paralegal or gun repair expert the web 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 three you're paying perhaps for the chance that you might use a trach and potentially have sex on the road as they can reasonably you want to keep 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 about it because men are attracted to that if their value themselves and who 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 so money's on me just becomes a component of showing how serious a person really yes but the seriousness of a potential relationship is somewhat disputed but i remember 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 and come here 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 already negotiated this leaves one wondering if this new is stealing trend could become a symbol of american free market consumerism taken to the extreme and stacy archie . surely we need a man on a mission a british photographer whose arctic images aim to help keep the frozen landscape untouched coming your way after a good line stay with us. thank

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