so it's all simpler a grand uncle compass if you could tell by remembering who told bangkok closer than even called a rule in the region. on r.t. tonight the u.s. sanctions on syria's political elite as the brutal crackdown on protesters in the country contain the fire but some analysts say washington's policies really aggravating the situation as we report. russian activists sound the alarm of a vicious bullying in the army that's claiming more and more young lives. plus new york authorities cashing in what policing the painful thanks to a series of new regulations and fines for petty crime.

hello this is r t from moscow it's now ten pm saturday night my name's kevin zero in on the top story for you there eyewitness reports of more deaths in syria today as army troops backed by tanks and helicopters try to regain control over the besieged southern city of daraa at least four were killed there this morning and that's just a day after the biggest anti regime rally ended with woman sixty killed across the country government troops allegedly opened fire and used tear gas against demonstrators with snipers nothis is in plain clothes helping to crackdown on the opposition the u.n. human rights council condemned the bloodshed in a u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation. and indeed washington's going even further preparing sanctions against the syrian political elite and a freeze of their assets iran's revolutionary guards also said to be penalized for

allegedly providing material support to damascus and another development let's bring into the conversation american radio host stephen leatherman is joining us. live from chicago to discuss these latest developments in the arab world and the u.s. role maybe in the place of being on the program i mean if this news about these imminent sanctions proves to be correct it does bring. the theory that washington is getting increasingly involved in what's happening in syria and it's also targeting iran now crucially. absolutely. in syria going back. to know what are. you is intervention in syria. was. recruiting u.s. recruiting. i think you're always free across syria. oh it's

so course the syrian regime which is not a free regime. regime but even if you don't think is very likely so the response the syrian government response has been very robust this year the city of chicago the risk for its own history would be just as robust right sure has the chicago police with us thrown in can be just as militant just brutal is what's going on by the syrian government to the role people across the country. ok let's look again so let's go back to this theory we're putting forward earlier on about maybe targeting iran i mean if there is the target here how far do you think washington will push its. well i think iran is the end target and the game may be to the link the countries in her

hands all of it you've got a sort of core mission amongst syria has a lot who are no running the lebanese government i'm not saying. it's not it's just a unity of sorts we need to wait to see how many police are oh i just well i'm a little dubious about it but if there is an official unity but apparently the t.'s and dotted the i's are dotted and t's are crossed the i think we need to see what will happen instead. so you can be separated. oh no one dealings from the other. star he could be a rich man the first thing i'm going to get well i'm still what that baby i'm sorry how much of a collar work is what a ram baby. how problematic would it be what sort of problem if if the u.s.

went to war with iran and pushed. well i think war is always a way of starvation for america so what's going on in syria right now is regime change if they can be enough incitement to give the syrian people they have well the syrian government is supposedly so that in changes the merge and the laws you can. cancel or suspended or would. incremental changes it leads to a new regime in syria. very good a card which is objective by regime change really go into war but if it doesn't work then watch for the marines to come in and baby the same things that happen in yemen the idea is that change what's going on and it isn't working too well get new faces him to continue the same color cease in friendly policies are given a new regime by john king western friendly policies in syria the linking for

to go to work on his home in syria in the. us in. if you can completely isolate iran in stocks free violence clear again for regime change there's nothing worse the last option is war and i was libya fit into the picture of me get a game to. me has been calling for peace talks. led coalition to stop bombing the country they instead of said the only thing that i mean stops attacking the rebels to go around in circles doesn't it what is the coalition really doing enough at all apples to bring peace to libya any time soon do you think really well. the resurgence in the insurgents they do absolutely is a pricing is partner up or i seems serious. across the entire region with the theory there uprisings they're not revolutions syria is different from all over at

the time sorry libya is different from all the rest it's an insurgency it's a western inspired insurgency this this is this is this is arising you is serious well you get the same scenario on a smaller scale go a lot in syria but this is a western instigated works that inspired western funded intervention has nothing to do with human rights. for libya. oh it's a bad prognosis and i think the war will continue until. the ideal is to have one of these missiles. destroyed and be able to kill gadhafi they absolutely want to get rid of him if you will him up against the other regional disputes he is life the best if you want to live in this foreign country you want to be because gadhafi has given the libyan people so wonderful social benefits if you

don't funding countries like syria or yemen or of egypt but most of the other countries. if he goes even we can't keep it dark forces in libya well you're in there for him there just the way the iraqis. he goes he gave the iraqi people wonderful social bennett has created a should prevail here because nothing has been losing thing and what are your article stephen lately about america's thirst for waging so-called this is the crucial bit war for pace of it's a question that's been well why aren't we seeing washington doing exactly the same thing in bahrain saudi arabia where protesters have also been brutally put down why . it kind of gives the word park which get their name i mean there is brutality of the streets the arena it's very country about one point two million people.

fairly arrow two articles i mean i mean shooting people in the streets there arresting people here targeting hospitals here arresting doctors nurses and medical spare years earlier brutality us. giving has already used to do the saudis want to do it as well because what happens in rain may happen if the ricoh there already has saudi arabia to a much lesser extent and if you look at that you don't see any reports of there's. been a protest inside the streets so he's a very very crucial and it will do to. a degree. in what he believes saying the word of the u.s. media you hear nothing but the brutality in growing well you certainly hear about all we actually been for years doing a talk about it. but how stable lebanon those could have been a program how your thoughts from chicago tonight thank you.

military service isn't an easy task but here in russia young recruits often face a writhing bullying when they join the army human rights organizations have been lobbying in an attempt to help eradicate the problem is taking grease reports in some cases they simply too late must warn you in this report there is some footage of graphic violence it's a disturbing sign it's one that's on the rise in the russian. it's called hazing valentino is 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 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 and you have their protection rackets one of why i have to pay and now the

soldiers say seventy dollars a month to be able to serve normally to be freed from boiling unfortunately as we met will more cases added to her workload serving of 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 arts as over a year ago veteran tears attention return to that of circulation because he died just a week into a service it's a loss his mother still for is hard to bear. which. is. do you. think. 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 then the bruises were skillfully cut out of a skin 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 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 and next there 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 the most right fund is one such group they create 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 sort of a four thousand three hundred quests for every family members wanting their story told. the piece is acknowledged by the militia to fence 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 as a response many will feel is left wanting nonetheless hazing is no longer an issue russia can ignore the army's 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 r.t. . the new york now refers to come up with

a novel way of dealing with the budget deficit a string of new regulations and skyrocketing fines for petty offenses of bringing in much needed revenue because that is where the port now has been filing a local say officials of violating the freedom of expression and cashing in at the same time. archery silk is something of a smoker's rights champion. living in a city where a pack of cigarettes costs 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 of garden of rebellion this guard is about reacting and defying their attempts to control my behavior hundreds of home grown tobacco leaves hang to dry before silk shreds and smokes are nicotine we're talking about products here to back it was legal if they don't want people to smoke they should go to congress and lobby the haven't 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 stream causes 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 they probably make a lot of because they want to morning america. we show so much about good becoming can smoke and official 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 spend skits and taking something from the garbage is also a buy of the costing up to three hundred bucks this winter the new road rule was

born drivers caught in bus lanes these one hundred and fifteen dollars fines this diverse melting pot ponies up ninety four different vehicle and parking violations are you plea the bread and butter for big revenue instead the big apple broke records by issuing. one thousand parking violations in just one day i think a blitz that generated a reported five hundred thousand dollars for new york city but the crackdown on working class americans followed weeks of 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 telling 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 this is getting ridiculous i mean i don't know since the city will try to make money wherever they can get people to pay you know it's interesting. you know bicycle in the city two hundred thirty tickets 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've just had just got on the sidewalk and somebody started yelling at. you know if you can get arrested and we weren't even cycling we were just standing over our bike meanwhile our two still 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 finance. new york. i just feel it is time of the program

we are scared money but you have. websites controversy in the us over whether people are looking for love or just. before the israel's demand for foreign labor attracts thousands of chinese people looking for a better job abroad with some criminal employment agencies offering the world for a free liver only a life of hardship. in china mr lee 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 full his pocket. it was more than worth it for me because four years old i've only managed 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 were 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 a big promises of fly by night employment agencies this is one of the employment agencies ed says the process is visas for foreign workers but it stands accused of keeping at least seventy percent of the field 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 to for 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 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 and the logic was good 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 that. 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 tell me if they go back now i can go back because they lose their houses they lose their parents is how they o'malley's it to so many people that is they just can't tell their faces and i know people went back to thailand into. into the home town my also got caught chile just kicked off the plane when she was fired for not speaking english. she's not only worried about the money shows back home she also fears for the future of his son who was born in israel and knows no other life as she doesn't like speaking chinese although she understands janie's she speaks hebrew all these 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 foreign workers if once them and it

doesn't want them leaving many caught in the cracks policy r.t. tel aviv. around the world tonight seven people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the city of northern iraq the attack took place near army checkpoint with four of the iraqi troops so the militants often target soldiers in the area accusing the big collaborators. in war world views of massive cleanup operations started after a tornado outbreak because the path of their frustration across seven u.s. states at least three hundred forty people most of firms have been killed making it the second deadliest storm catastrophe in u.s. history nearly a million homes and businesses are still without power in alabama alone many buildings that what is being used as rescue shelter is also glowed away including an emergency center. one of egypt's most powerful political forces the muslim brotherhood is set apart in a contest but the hot seat in september's parliamentary election the head of the group says it will not be religion based and will and coptic christians can become

members election follows the removal of president hosni mubarak in february after his thirty year rule was ended by massive protests the muslim brotherhood is officially banned for over five decades. since the thousands of people from poland heading to rome for the beatification of pope john paul two the second many more are expected to fill squares in terms of course poland before the serbian video screens pope benedict the sixteenth will be out of ties predecessor in a special ceremony on sunday it's the last full step for possible center. oh this is that was money throwing through the land of opportunity but it's still ending up there is in the hands of the same wealthy few where journalist or half of this is in new york to ask people where why. 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 dealing 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 i don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got. bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars and a super e i disagree with the bailout completely they knew that they were betting against tormes homes being foreclosed on and mortgages were kind of bomb and people started losing their homes is that still ok people who can afford to buy homes so 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 but one spends 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 into foreclosure too but guess what i don't win the rich for being rich that's why they're here so you blame yourself for that yeah 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. it is character 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 it may just score you a first date it seems a new website of the united states aims to put together couples based on one person agreeing to pay for a date the other agreeing to take their money. critics say that doesn't sound like a new kind of transaction but the oldest one going out his innocence in a report. 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 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 does the numbers are split into categories generous and attractive but

generous ones are for the money the 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 like match dot com i would write all four girls a few more have high standards and i would get nor response brandon wade founder and see your website as well as a self leave old 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 moving negative five thousand percent this girl is a professional and i don't mean a paralegal or gun repair expert the website 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 thing you're paying perhaps for the chance that you might save you a trap and potentially have sex on the road as the recently where you want 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 because. if they have value themselves and they value their time they're going to drawing on a perk of a member and they're going to demand that if you're serious show me how serious you are just becomes a component of showing how serious

a person really years 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 fare 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 dating trend could become a symbol of american free market consumerism tikkun to the extreme as they feature archie. so tonight i spoke with richard just over twenty minutes time tonight not to settle they just football results from the russian and english premier league just a couple of minutes i wanted kevin i will update the headlines for you on this channel and a very short one. this

time it's silent for decades. twenty five years ago retire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town pretty hard to what the market wanted within three hours. plus now it wants to be heard recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post.