giotto seductive to go and. run this in a kennel was her job as used to retreat. in the home. on r t the small in the u.s. slapped sanctions on syria's political elite as the brutal crackdown on protesters in the country continues but some analysts say washington's policies are only aggravating the situation we assess. also russian activists sound the alarm of a vicious bullying in the army it's claiming more and more young lives. and new york authorities cash in by policing the people thanks to a series of new regulations and fine petty crimes.

this is r t the international news channel from moscow very good morning it's just after one am here on this sunday morning i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and at least four people have reportedly been killed the syrian troops reinforce their attempts to take over the perceived city of daraa eye witnesses say the southern hub of the unrest was a target of heavy shelling and gunfire it came as residents began burying casualties after a friday of rage that saw more than sixty civilians killed across the country it was the biggest anti regime rally yet you and human rights council condemned the bloodshed in a u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation. and washington is going even further to preparing sanctions now against the syrian political elite and a freeze of their assets plus iran's revolutionary guard is also said to be penalized for allegedly providing material support to damascus i spoke to american

blogger stephen leatherman who says that iran is the end game as he sees it of the u.s. operation in the region. i think it really is the end in the game he'd be too eagerly coteries in. what's going on in syria right now is a regime change if you're not saving lives free to give the syrian people we have and still a new regime in syria. could accomplish your objectives by regime change really go into war but if it doesn't work then watch for the greens to come in baby the idea is to change what's going on and it isn't working we'll get new faces. being waged in friendly peace in syria to. be separated. nor do you links from the other.

nato together with libyan rebels have dismissed an offer from tripoli for a ceasefire in the staging of peace negotiations the coalition insists that we no talks until colonel gadhafi stops the bloodshed the libyan opposition says it's too late now for any talk of compromise gadhafi earlier warned rebels in the besieged city of misrata to lay down their arms or face a full scale offensive during a speech nato bombs struck a governmental building in the capital tripoli and libyan officials said the strike was meant to kill their leader the unrest which started in mid february is already claimed more than ten thousand lives according to the rebels and we're keeping you up to date with all the latest from across the middle east two rival palestinian groups fatah and hamas agreed earlier in the week to unite their governments in the west bank and gaza and that move comes ahead of the u.n. vote on palestinian statehood in september the palestinian front affairs minister spoke to us at r.t. saying that he'd prefer to negotiate independence directly with israel but is

fighting hard going right now. since less of the. israelis have been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused the quest of the international community to seize and to stop settlement activities as international political the. political mission for those option for negotiation and since then you know we did not have any kind of negotiations with the israelis so our position is. by septum bush we should have a policy of state as was promised to us by president barack obama by the international community by the court date everybody else is the we will be ready as palestinians in building or want to see you sions and so you know support should yield to the palestinian state either through. negotiation with israelis and this

is really our preferred choice or if that's not the case you know we should seek. the commission. to some of the thoughts that read out maliki the palestinian foreign affairs minister who spoke to be much more from him as promised and in the interview that he gave us early next week on this channel from ask. military service isn't an easy task the best of times but in russia young recruits often face horrific bullying when they join the army and he writes organizations have been lobbying in an attempt to relegate the problem results is jacob graves reports next in some cases it's simply too late i must warn you this report contains footage of a graphic nature. it's a disturbing sight one that's on the horizon of russia not only. it's called hazing a village ina is all too familiar with its consequences. in that in these 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. that near the fire protection rackets when it would 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 one more cases added to her workload surveying kind of died at age twenty is suspicious the star says 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 the list of other brief families awaiting elsa's over a year ago variant he was attention was turned to that of circulation because of it died just a week into his service is a loss as a mother still for as heart there. is that. it.

isn't. just. you. there. the official explanation was pneumonia the pictures of his body appear to tell a different story you know my son's body was covered with bruises all over it and the bruises were skillfully cut out of his skin he 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 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 as lead 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 from their rank and years of service to how they died today they received over four thousand three hundred quests for the family members wanting their story told. the piece 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 more learning 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. . coming up on the program a new way in the slavery thousand chinese workers in the hope of finding a better life but for many the reality of the jewish state is far from a dream job to report on that plus. the rich keep getting richer are you ok with that i'm not ok with the rich are getting richer but guess what this is america more power to even than of other people i would expose of other people people losing their homes because of 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 provide help their cause is going to report closure too but guess what i don't blame the rich for being rich that's why

they're here you blame yourself for that yeah right my part. of the street so they go to next because their authorities have 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 but as art is more important than finding out local say officials are simply violating their freedom of expression and cashing in at the same time. argue 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 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 are nicotine and 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 caught blowing smoke can be slapped with a fifty dollars fine. if that's so dangerous why do so probably make a lot of them because they want to morning america. like we show the bad guy how come we can smoke in public officials say they've been instilled 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 buy of the costing up to three hundred bucks this winter a new road rule was born drivers caught in bus lanes fees one hundred fifteen dollars fines this very first melting pot ponies up ninety four different vehicle and parking violations arguably the bread and butter for big revenue in february the big apple broke records by issuing ten thousand parking violations in just one day i take it let's that generated a reported five hundred thousand dollars for new york city for the 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 going is this why we have a poll. 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 is going to get it's i mean i don't know so this 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 take it 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 ten we just had just got on the sidewalk and sometimes. it's you know you can get arrested and we weren't even cycling we were just standing over our bike meanwhile our two silk may eventually be the last

smoker left standing these are the remnants of last year's crop hearing a liberal city filled with debt and a rising tide of finance. new york. israel's tomorrow for foreign labor attracts thousands of chinese people looking for a job abroad but some criminal employment agencies offering the world for free to live 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 to suit twelve dollars i would have made more than that in china in those years for many years israel will come chinese laborers with open arms they and other foreign

workers provided a much needed workforce replacing palestinians who are finding it more and 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 were lured here by the big promises of fly by night employment agencies this is one of the employment agencies that there's a process as reasons 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 these really government says it can do nothing to stop these companies that are set up to purposely to for unsuspecting foreign workers let's presume 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 a country you know works fourteen hour shifts pockets less than half the israeli average salary and he's always afraid of being picked up by the authorities at large what the good 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 good. 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 they can go back because they lose their house they lose their parents as they owe money so to so many people that this they just can't sell their faces and i know of people who went back to china and didn't return. their hometown might also got caught she'd only just kicked 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 she understands trainees she speaks here group all these friends are here and if 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. in a few minutes here on our two you asked the big question come money for you happiness well are you dating website sparked controversy in the u.s. right now over whether people looking for love or just lust. is a bit of a sense of romance of the air in moscow as warm weather brings with it a big switch on of the city's spectacular founded our cameras of the. one seventeen year moscow time let me take you around the world some top stories making headlines seven people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the city of mosul in northern iraq the attack took place near army checkpoint with four of the dead believed to be iraqi troops so the militants often target soldiers in the area accusing collaborators. a massive cleanup operation started after a tornado outbreak the cost of part of devastation across seven u.s.

states at least three hundred forty people are now confirmed to have been killed making it the second deadliest school in catastrophe in u.s. history and only 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 clothing emergency center. one of egypt's most powerful political forces the newsroom brotherhood has several part of the contest but half the seats in september's parliamentary election the head of the group says it will not be religion based and women and coptic christians can become members election followers of 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 over five decades. in the thousands of people from poland heading to rome for the beatification of pope john paul the second many more are expected to fill squares in towns across poland to follow the ceremony on large video screens

sixty four beatified predecessor of a special ceremony on somebody is the last formal step before a possible second. there's not money flowing through the land of opportunity these days but that that is is ending up in the hands of the same wealthy few journalists or half of this is in new york for us to ask people there 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. a year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd that 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 get the

above also you know working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. so do they deserve money for that young 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 security 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 to buy a home so you think it's their responsibility i do they pay 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 was a sponsor of other people well people are losing their homes because of all 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

built my house was going into foreclosure too but guess what i don't blame the rich for 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 would. and i think some of these people don't think as to what they are profiting. i'm not saying. intentionally set but i think it's. elides generations perhaps. inherited 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 service saves for next story to this say money can't buy you love but it may score you a first date as we're about to report

a new web site in the usa to put together couples based on one person agreeing to pay for a date the other agreed to take the money could have said that doesn't sound like a new kind of transaction but one of the all the professions in the world he's an assistant church scott this story for you. remember the days 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 mahdi 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 called beautiful girls if you know i 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 won't stand you are but critics ask isn't this prostitution generous entrepreneur has provided us with an event 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 they don't mean a paralegal or gun repair expert the website mastermind disagrees how is this the same for 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 for health for the chance that you might so do you a trap and potentially have sex on the road as you can reasonably you can pay 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 river flows 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 their value themselves and they value their time they're going to draw him as an attractive member and they're going to demand that if you're serious sure me how serious you are so money's 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 these are some first and stephanie be among hundreds arbiters 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 but 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 to the extreme and party. that stores online as world's largest recommended to anyone so the company was one man in a bogus run it's more than a particular after posting evidence of this is road rage in the war on you know it but certain i also. may almost make students in the wilds of belgrade zoo is no good for one of these lovely rare white line culture so you've got to find out more about it r t v dot com and also what are you trying.

sort of a couple of weeks is moscow's winter snow was melted away but signs of summer already trickling across the capital quite literally this weekend sees the launch of the season the fountains as it's called of the roof national what's the city soak it all. spraying has been in the air hey moscow for more than a week old ready the temperatures are warm the sun that's trying as you can see now that's the time usually two three trying to save as many fountains as an amazing and impressive and spectacular display imagine five hundred sixty water cascades are being switched on similar time is me through all of the capital many of them with law it's a music with streams of different colors and trades listening to the african sussex

side and most boys love the continent very macho every year to fall into the season opening ceremony roles in many people's specially families with children some of the most fascinating fountains out here but in hawk exhibition center in the sun to most right where we are now it's home to this time for our followers and for instance the colossus that's the biggest of them all is the one that you can see behind me now the friendship of the people's fountain let me give you some stats the size of a stones is facing is about four thousand square metres which is off the stunt of google ph huge there was issues from eight hundred sprouts to the highest rate in twenty four meters that's just a breathtaking when it starts blowing all of this fungus here they didn't have exhibited fun for in most they were erected in the nineteen fifties and all of

paul's soviet symbols this one as you can see is the curator with patsy's for presenting the different nationalities and republish the soviet union symbolizing their friendship it's interesting but most goes first fountains appears in the palatial residence of the heart and menorah a state that was at the time a private privilege because only by the nineteenth is the fall into started to be used decorate the city but more to fall into insert can be more than just an huntsman's when he gets to march facing. and unofficial fifty five dollars for according to as we saw during last summer's decree his place now that moscow gets to enjoy a five month long fountain season good chance for some alfresco socializing leaving their winter chills a distant memory. now france is an export a call just ahead though on our team is club zone warm coats fastened as they head

to the top of the world we follow teams their adventure to the subzero temperatures of the arctic circle adventurer had been to recover top stories in a few minutes with me kevin owen thanks bill.