i'm positive toward the hotel points pushers and i would print certainly the splined entire windsor tell me touch your pizza and google would. flood the cheese every green little for til. the latest on the unrest in syria the army reportedly kills six protesters as it takes control of a mosque in central iraq the focal point of anti-government resistance in the city . fighting for the soldiers activists demanding an end to the severe bullying in the russian army that sees many young recruits falling victim to their own comrades. and authorities in new york are accused of chasing of the bug right out of people's pockets into the city coffers with heavy penalties for petty offenses.

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is we're certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at our top stories in syria six people have been killed as the pro-government forces stormed a mosque in the southern city of tehran meanwhile the country continues to bury its dead following a day of rage on friday when tens of thousands took to the streets demanding change according to the opposition more than five hundred sixty people have been killed in fighting with government forces since the unrest began in march the u.n. human rights council of the bloodshed in the u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation that the violence continues washington has imposed a new set of sanctions targeting high level officials in the syrian government but has also set an arms embargo on president bashar al assad's government.

washington claims that iran's revolutionary guard is aiding the crackdown across syria and a blogger steve in lebanon says it's tehran that's the real endgame for u.s. operations in the region i think iran is the end target and again he too do you really think countries in iran's orbit what's going on in syria right now is regime change if it can be enough to save it is free to give the syrian people they have and it leads to a new regime in syria and their american care could accomplish its objective a regime change rather than go to war but if it doesn't work then what you're going to reinstate come in maybe the idea is that change what's going on and it isn't working too well in new faces but don't be wastin friendly policies in syria so you can be separated. do you links from the other.

experiment could be. nato together with the libyan rebels have dismissed an offer from tripoli for a cease fire and the staging of peace negotiations the coalition insists there will be no tolerance until colonel gadhafi stops the bloodshed the libyan opposition says it's too late now for any talk of compromise khadafi earlier warned rebels in the besieged city of misrata to lay down their arms or face a full scale offensive during his speech nato bombs struck a governmental building in the capital tripoli libyan officials claim the strike was meant to kill their leader the unrest which started in. through the rubble. and of course we're keeping you up to date on the latest from the middle east to rival palestinian groups fatah and hamas agreed earlier in the week to unite their governments in the west bank and gaza and the move comes ahead

of a u.n. vote on palestinian state kember the palestinian foreign affairs minister told r.t. that he'd prefer to negotiate independence directly with israel but is finding that difficult since less of them with. israelis had been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused the request of the international community to seize the stalled person from an. international. political mission for the resumption of negotiation and since then you know we did not have any kind of negotiations with release so our position is that by september we should have a policy of state as was promised to us by prison but up obama by the international community by the court date everybody else says we will be ready as palestinians in

building the institutions and so you know september 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. you under commission. that was riyadh a lot more likely the palestinian foreign affairs minister there will be much more from him in an in-depth interview he gave to us and that is early next week. military service isn't an easy task but in russia young recruits often face horrific walling when they join the army human rights organizations have been lobbying in an attempt to help eradicate the problem but as artie's jacob grieves reports in some cases it's simply too late we must warn you that this report contains that footage of a graphic violence it's a disturbing site 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 that in that the new reports about thought is that frank 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 family are there for protection rackets going to boy have to be and now the soldiers say seventy dollars a month to be able to serve normally to be freed from boiling unfortunately as we met one more cases added to our workload so of ink of died at age twenty in 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 the list of other brief families awaiting out says over a year ago very until his attention was turned to that of circulation because of it

died just a week into his service it's a loss his mother still finds hard to bear but it is that which. you. know you. get this just. gives. 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 he was so cynical still unresolved so gays 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 literally 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 there followed a long and tedious we had dilatation 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 personalized accounts of what happened to soldiers listing everything for their rank and years of service to how they died today there are seat of a four thousand three hundred quests for every family members wanting their story told. the peace 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 days mistakes of individual commanders. last year the energy initiation to thousand military hearings is

a response many will feel is left wanting the less hazing is no longer an issue russia. the army is looking to modernize turning away from ask the scription for the specialized 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. greaves see. still to come on the program a new way into slavery thousands of chinese workers to israel in the hope of finding a better life but for many of the reality in the jewish state is far from their dream 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 other people one spends of other people people losing their homes because of bum mortgages all 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 help my nose is going into foreclosure 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 my part. and we'll hear more from more harshness and continuing with the streets of the big apple where authorities have come up with a novel way of dealing with their budget deficit a string of the new regulations and skyrocketing fines for petty offenses are bringing in much needed revenue but as marina important has 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 small pay 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 the law because they want to their morning america. like we so so much the

bad guy coming can smoke i think should 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 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 faced one hundred fifteen dollars fines this diverse melting pot ninety four different vehicle and parking violations arguably the bread and butter for big revenue instead be wary of 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 from new york city but the 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 doing is this why we have a polish 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 going to get us over here i don't know so this city will try to make money wherever they can get people to. see it as soon. as 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 ten we just had just got on the sidewalk and some guy started yelling at us you know you can get arrested and we weren't even cycling we were just standing over our bike meanwhile our three 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 finance. new york israel's demand for foreign labor attracts thousands of chinese people looking for a better job abroad but some criminal employment agencies offering the world for a free for a fee excuse me deliver only a life of hardship archies policy or taxable. in china mr levy was a big shot he owned a textile business there 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 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 as well 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 amid 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 fire by night employment agencies this is one of the employment agencies that says that process is visas for foreign workers but it stands accused of keeping at least seventy percent of the fee of 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 forward 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 he's always afraid of being picked up by the authorities on life 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 blood. 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 because they lose their houses they lose their parents as they owe money said to so many people that this they just can't sell their faces and i know of people went back in time and didn't return to their home to. my also got caught she don't you just get 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 her son who was born in israel and knows no other life she doesn't

like speaking chinese although she understands journeys 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 it wants them and it doesn't want them leaving many caught in the cracks points here r t tel aviv. in a few minutes can money buy you happiness a dating website sparks controversy in the u.s. over whether people are looking for lunch or just for lust. and there is a sense of romance in the air in moscow as warm weather brings with it the big switch on of the city's spectacular fountain. and taking a look at some of your world headlines for you right now. seven people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the city of mosul in northern iraq the attack that took place near an army checkpoint with four of the dead believed to be iraqi

troops sunni militants often target soldiers in the area accusing them of being collaborators. a massive cleanup operation is started after a tornado outbreak which caused the path 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 storm 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 were also blown away including an emergency center. one of egypt's most powerful political forces that the muslim brotherhood has set up a party to contest up to half the seats in september's parliamentary election the head of the group says it will not be religion based and women in coptic christians can become members the election that 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 over five decades. tens of thousands of people from poland are heading to rome for the beautification of pope john paul the second many more are expected to fill squares and towns across but i want to follow the ceremony on the. video screens pope benedict the sixteenth will beautified his predecessor in a special ceremony on sunday it's the last formal step before possible saint. there's not as much money flowing through the land of opportunity these days but it is still ending up in the hands of the same wealthy few web journalist laurie harvest is in new york 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 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 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 right i disagree i disagree with the bail out 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 can afford to buy the 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 once bonds of other people well people are losing their homes because of buying mortgages all 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 help my house is going into foreclosure too but guess what i don't blame the rich or being rich that's why they're here so you blame yourself for that yeah right michael would you be ok with profiting off of someone else's loss. i what. i think some of these people don't think it has to with a profit. i don't see a. choice 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. or they say money can't buy you love but it may score you a first day a new website in the u.s. aims to put together couples are based on one person agreeing to pay for a day and the other agreeing to take the money critics say that doesn't sound like a new kind of transaction but the oldest one go in artie's a mr see a trick about reports. 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 decent big fat buck does members are split into categories generous and attractive the generous ones are for the money the attractive ones get big 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 i think i have high standards and i would get nor response brandon wade founder and see your website as well as a self labeled attractive member says a business transaction lures a new girl of your dreams and ensures she will stand you up but critics ask isn't this prostitution this generous entrepreneur has provided us with an ego way for hawkers i think the chances of this girl not actually being a hooker are moving 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 day you're paying for her for the chance that you might save you a truck and potentially have sex on the road as they can recently make keeping prices for that chance generally range from twenty to one hundred dollars to make finding the one easier personal profiles are billable 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 they have value themselves and they value their time they're going to join as an attractive member and one of them on if you're serious sure me how serious you are so money's on me just incomes of component of showing how serious a person really years and the seriousness of a potential relationship is somewhat disputed by member nicknames double trouble

venus in furs and stephanie be among hundreds of others when i'm looking for a serious relationship i don't initially introduce myself by nicknames like kooky fair 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 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 and r.t.e. new york. and that story is also online. give us your take while you're there you'll also find out some other stories these are getting a lot of well. more than a cricket after posting evidence of his little road rage on you tube. they may be almost extinct in the wild but. now has

a four of them check out these are right. you can find out all of our stories that are. usually. it's the. signs of summer are already trickling across the capitol this weekend it sees the launch of the season of. the city so.

spring has been india a moscow for more than a week old ready the temperatures are warm for some astronomy as you can see down that's the time usually visitors many fountains it's an amazing and impressive and spectacular display imagine five hundred sixty watercraft plates are being switched on similar obviously through all of the capital many of them with law and some music with streams of different colors and sights listening to the african classics side and most boys love they fall into the very macho every year they found in season opening ceremony roles in many people especially families with children some of the most fascinating fountains are here but in hot exhibition sunset in the sun to most right where we are now it's home to this time flower always in for instance the colossus the biggest of them all is they want it you can see behind me now the friendship of the people spawn ten let me give you some stats the size of baseball

and his pacing is about four thousand square metres which is often a stunt of google ph used there was issues from eight hundred sprouts with the hottest region trying to pull me just but it's just a breathtaking shire when it starts blowing all these phones is here our dividend is admission funds are in moscow were erected in the nineteen fifties and all appalled soviet symbols this one as you can see is the crater where fact is representing the different nationalities under probably fold the soviet union symbolizing their friendship it's interesting but most those first functions appeared in the palatial residences of the far and menorah states that pose a past time of private privilege but not only by using nineteenth boxes but fountains started to be used to decorate the city most to function so it can be more than just an huntsman's when the heat gets to march they've been. and

unofficial fifty five tons for according to as we saw it during last summer's full stickery he played on all those also gets to enjoy a five month long collinson season. chong's for some time socializing leaving the winter chill for a distant memory. for reporting there now coming up sunday morning sport with richard is just about twenty minutes away but i'll be back with a look at our top headlines in just a few.