around the clock around the world this is r.t. live in moscow at least eleven people including a french journalist have reportedly been killed by security forces across syria on wednesday this is bashar al assad has spoken to supporters in damascus for the second time in twenty four hours reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down journalist lucy feel and has the latest from the syrian capital. some reports have put the figures that hundreds of thousands of people who attended at least many tens of thousands of people that course. addressed the crowd amongst the people there was a huge jump forward of the people towards the president in his speech he mentioned that he very much wanted to be amongst the people. and when i was there speaking to people people were very keen to express to me support for the president during

this time of crisis and there were many young people that and. also in that case a strong level of support amongst the younger generations who are seen to comprise a lot of the. protesters all the parts of that have been reported by other media and there was a large mix of different ethnic and religious backgrounds of course. syrian government has been accused by media organizations and others being unfair regime because it is led by. a religious minority inside syria. and today there were many different religious and ethnic groups of people represented including so means kristie. meaning many different people so that there was really an impressive actually show of unity amongst the syrian people from all different walks of life one of the five things

that people seem very keen to express here is that outrage in particular. and that. news channels of which is of course funded by qatar like there are they are accused of fabricating. news reports of what is happening inside the country and they also express a lot of anger so was the u.s. president barack obama for president sarkozy who they choose. supporting the stabilization of their country i think they see this countries such as russia who have been much more neutral during this conflict condemning all five. for any violence though that may sound like russia and china. i viewed much more favorably by a lot of the people that i have come across. some of syria's neighbors have their own view on the crisis turkey's warned of a looming civil war and its troops standing by for orders to intervene if an ocean

has more now from istanbul. the bloodiest day to school in the syrian crisis maintained for months she is a growing and finest may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor turkey once a close friend too but now a harsh critic of damascus. serious first priority should be to listen to its people and meet the demands not to denounce others sort of massacring its people we should listen to them. so to call it a glue is a harsh critic himself but he's criticizing the turkish government and korea is on the side with the free syrian army and the syrian national council and military and diplomatic forces and overthrowing the regime of bashar al assad it supports a buffer zone and a humanitarian corridor which some fear could bring turkish troops to syrian soil what does that mean according to international law it means aggression against

a country it means war but any intervention would be different from the one in libya since russia and china have made it clear no more no fly zone resolutions which means the role of regional players like turkey increases dramatically but for who claims ankara's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has a larger implications beyond the context of turkey syria as such the situation in syria must be handled with great care by all powers and fortunately i don't see that. separation. especially the part of our government or hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in ankara it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear bridgie

or syria is killing their own people or not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria for over here it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be an accurate one the technology changing you know when you look at the progress or the videos coming from these governorates you can easily see that there is something going on with the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled or get a false picture of what's really happening but there does. researchers from coming to firm conclusions military operations this is the last option which turkey does not want to see but this is an option it may have declared doesn't welcome a military solution to the syrian crisis but turkey hasn't ruled it out either plain and even if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and. it wants peace and stability in the

region its troops are ready to school on matters from the border with syria. r.t. turkey still have. suspects. i think is most of the stereotyping the stereotype of the seamy traction. just for you know well let's just talk about. why police in britain are under fire for stopping and searching you deem suspicious. still to come but first iran's top nuclear scientist has one of iran's top nuclear scientists has been killed in a car bombing in the capital tehran. reportedly supervised a department at the iranian enrichment plant the authorities have pointed the finger at israel and the u.s. he's the fourth scientist to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten almost

two years ago another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program died in a similar explosion let's talk more on this with dr some of the universal peace federation i should say in beirut dr saloon good to have you with us here on r.t. this is the latest in a series of attacks against iran's nuclear industry and tehran is blaming israel and the u.s. is that a fair accusation. it is a fair accusation after consecutive actually has us nations against nuclear scientists inside iran and this is a to my own understanding maybe the fourth as a nation inside the head on over and around i mean inside iran this will lead to an example how the west actually and the us specifically through the mossad or through the cia will always engineer or handle such as us nations inside as you say the fourth assassination what impact could this have on iran's nuclear industry well what impact can this or assessment if we can meet we need to evaluate such as

a situation on the whole regional actually tense and incredible. i mean the movements by iran threatening to close down to her most and the us and the brits actually they are threatening to get back with more ships around such a canal to shore the superpowers actually they're all power and strength in submitting iran to their own agenda to the international community that has been pressuring iran so far and sanctions sanctioning iran economically and can effect actually its own financial situation in such jeopardy situation according not only to the iranian independent analyst says or international committee but the european actually as such so clearly this is a concerted effort to derail the nuclear program i mean could this actually work. this could actually work i mean in the short term but in the long term i don't

think so the iranians have prevailed so far in building the recent comments really nuclear power plant they have built. in other major cities inside the in an actual certain nuclear power plants and this will lead to a stronger iran regionally and super power could be in the next decade or so tensions are extremely high as we know between iran and the west with their sanctions of course on terror on iran's recent military exercises also the american cia agent who's recently been sentenced to death just how dangerous is this situation now bearing in light bearing in mind what's just happened with this latest assassination well bill and the threats actually behind this lead for god's sake i mean god forbid they actually this will lead to a regional or an international war in the region which is the who was going on i am predicting certain regional war in the area in case tension grows dined by time and

accidents actually consecutively they grow like a snowball as if in the in the gulf region as specifically in the hair was going to where iran has shown its military actually power and has actually we have seen that on t.v. and we are seeing it right now on the borders of the waterfront actually on its own and they have they have got a certain important intellectual plane when they electronically handle it through the air and then they down down it on the on the air go on the air facilities actually through the area for sale it is to the grounds of any republic inside you know so this will automatically all eventually upload you know escalate the situation inside the gulf and specifically in there was going to be predicting a strike from israel or the u.s. . well i'm predicting there's a certain plan or an agenda by the west is it will not engineered it will not exit

q that it could be the brits and the us but this will benefit is that for sure this is really strategic interest in the middle east and the threat of iran through their nuclear power programs and just briefly no way you think that talks will take place to iran has offered to conduct some talks with the west the us any chance of talks to to diffuse the situation now just briefly. unfortunately bill the enemy is they have offered such a dialogue but the west so far has neglected that and they are not ready to sit down with iran and discuss certain diplomatic measures i advise peace i mean has a piece of brass or the to invest in a dialogue between both nations iran in the us and specifically the european union you know as as a middleman between both stuck to mars alone great to hear from you thank you very much for your time here on r.t. and i said the universal peace federation base there barry thank you thank you very much. today marks ten years since the first prisoners were sent to america's most

notorious prison in cuba quantum obey and after a decade the detention center remains on the wrong side of the law with his harsh interrogation processes and use of torture barack obama promised to close it but instead the president has now signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects. as more. the promise is made i've said repeatedly but i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that promise is broken it is ministration policy to try to close guantanamo we have certainly run into opposition if the problem is he doesn't have a plan to do that or at least what to do with terror suspects they are suspects like moroc or not captured in pakistan in two thousand and one while working for an ngo that helps young people get off drugs he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years. after i had seen a couple things got the couple a couple of people got killed and some of them got just keep on his head through

until he died. he was hanging on saying until he was forced to confess he was a member of al qaeda and he told them time and time again he was not was reason called was during winter. and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days and when the answer came he pulled me back down. and. going to sign on every time when i said no he just made like this and. it's stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful the democracies is behaving with promoting you know illegal practices and abusing human rights that undermines the cause of human rights everywhere on the planet and it is this hypocrisy that others say leads us enemies to more action not less i think the number one recruiting tool for zawahiri and bin laden before he

was killed. and colonel morris davis former prosecutor out guantanamo bay resigned after being ordered to use information obtained during torture he said he was hopeful things would change under president obama he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them many believe the prospect of closing one. ana mowbray will now be much more difficult thanks to the passage of the national defense authorization act by congress it was signed into law by president obama on december thirty first now within our bill provisions that allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it considers to be a terrorism suspect without charge or trial and with this increased leniency no doubt increased space to hold those prisoners will be needed but the n.b.a. clearly you know there's a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think was president obama will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law even applying it

to american citizens no person and military uniform ever volunteer the rooms are listed on to the military for the purpose of taking action against american citizens it's to protect american citizens protecting american citizens the reason given for guantanamo bay in the first place but ten years later it is having the opposite effect still the once temporary solution now looking more and more like a permanent fixture in washington christine for sound r t. by the way was all always interested to know what you think and today we're asking you. what a voice your opinion column and participate in our latest poll results on the screen so far sixty percent of those who responded believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down this is a tie between only happen when washington builds

a new prison elsewhere and those convinced that. the u.s. can no longer afford to run it just two percent we can see there think we'll have to be defeated first go to cast your vote and while you're there check out our news coverage including. group. protests across the globe is calling for the nation to rise up against a controversial national defense and protect the american constitution. and also online for you at the moment money well spent defense ministry pays a million dollars to create its own computer games to promote pictures of them among young.

british police have been accused of crossing the line when it comes to upholding law and order by stopping and searching people they deem in any way suspicious those who are most often considered to be up to no good by authorities believe there is one reason behind it and that is skin color. i this is supposed to prevent terrorism police in britain have free rein to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious but what constitutes suspicious is hugely controversial no stopped a young black men and police still can't escape accusations of racism even from inside parliament. police will argue it's because the people are typically looking for comfort six social economic backgrounds that starts to look very much like racial profiling and it's certainly true that these people are often massively disproportionately stopped all the boys at this youth club in north london have

been stopped and searched some on several occasions all for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and they say for having the wrong skin color. or stop because of the type of car. was when they stopped us to explain is. this terrible because big news in recent attacks it's about was this big issue stopping the car. and the reality was the kid. who was in the car i think is mostly the stereotyping the stereotype that if he made traction with it a lot of politicking going on with it just for you know well it's just something grabs and it was stabbings a frequent in this part of london carte blanche for police to stop and search whoever they want they can be in public sometimes physical poorly explained and often humiliating suppressive it was in the middle of the streets are found.

they were passed these things. about. when the law came into force in two thousand and one police didn't even need a reason to stop and search europe finally ruled this illegal early last year forcing concessions from the government since then stop and searches have decreased by ninety percent but problems still exist. in theory there are strict limitations to stop and search the powers can only be used in a specific area fourteen days before he was twenty eight but in practice all that means nothing the powers can simply be renewed on expiring which is why the whole of london has been a stop and search zone for the last ten years police now don't even need to record the suspects name any injury they suffer all the outcome of the search the government says it will reduce paperwork but it leaves it wide open for a p. targeting and physical abuse kyle runs the youth center he too has been stopped

repeatedly suspects are entitled to a receipt but few know this and kyle says police are often reluctant to make any record and most of those searches. kind of crime refuse to give to sleep. and if they are to survive we don't have no we have to go to the station to get it and if i still start to argue the case someone i don't know part of can give me a form in the end of it but if they do target young people police used to have similar powers in the one nine hundred eighty s. but they were scrapped after racial targeting provoked massive riots some saw the august riots as history repeating itself one of the things that caused it was a nice thing by the place to. stop and. an instance of a place certainly institutionally against the people and the probably institutionally racist as well. eighty five percent of writers cited anger of

police as their reason for violence in a recent study by the guardian newspaper a fact the government can no longer ignore its prompted home secretary theresa may to launch or a view of how stop and search powers a used either when it r.t. london. a us drone attack has killed at least four islamic militants in pakistan the missiles which struck late long. tonight an insurgent compound in north waziristan on the afghan border this comes just two months after an american a strike killed two dozen pakistani troops adding to the already tense relationship between washington and islamabad white house said the november attack was an error but rejected the findings saying the strike was deliberate meanwhile pakistan's prime minister has fired his defense secretary as tensions between the government and the military grow this words a senior reporter at the bureau of in journalism at the city university in london says islam about its reliance on american aid means it will continue to tolerate drone attacks. i think relations remain fraught between

pakistan and the government i think the drone strike issue. been significantly. more about and washington. about a new good moment on drone strikes and i think that's what it reflects i mean obviously the united states has a very deep relationship with pakistan in particular with pakistan's military and we're talking about billions of dollars a year being spent on pakistan's military by the u.s. going back almost a decade there so yes that money is important to pakistan and i think that's an important aspect of leverage for the u.s. drone strikes continues to cry but it hasn't killed a single civilian in pakistan since two thousand and ten euros research on the shows quite the opposite so we've got to mention a minimum of fifty three civilians were killed in pakistan where you were struck in

the first few number maybe as high as one hundred twenty six it is fair to say it was civilians do get killed war the question here is. war in the tribal areas of pakistan and what kind of authority does it have to actually carry out these drone strikes. not some news making headlines around the world. first to nigeria in the world update the government has warned that the nation's fuel strike could lead to anarchy as demonstrations enter the third day people have been killed since monday in what has become the longest nationwide strike in nigeria's history comes after the government ended a popular fuel subsidy leading to an increase in gas and transportation costs throughout the nation unions are about to keep up the indefinite strike until the subsidy is restored. u.s. occupy wall street protesters have moved back into new york's zuccotti park after barricades were lifted this comes after civil liberties groups sent letters to the city saying the barriers broke zoning laws blockades were put in place after

demonstrators were evicted from the area two months ago movement has been marred by accusations of police brutality since it began last september. telling prime minister mario monti says his country no longer poses a threat of control huge and to the rest of the eurozone. vital chremes he's met with german chancellor angela merkel who gave up praise to italy imposing austerity measures to avert a debt disaster yeah monti wanted protests breaking out in italy if its reforms were not acknowledged as successful he has agreed on a new tax on financial transactions pushed by merkel but only if it's applied to the entire european union this comes as the e.u. struggles to contain its debt crisis with many states believed to be back in recession. so that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with the some of our main news stories in about four and half minutes from now in the meantime. with the business update.

welcome to business russia's big state has been postponed according to comments from the country's deputy prime minister says they won't get a fair price for firms like trans left. in the current world economic turmoil the privatization will be put off up to three years according to government. newspaper . from deutsche bank thinks markets will on the move. but there was certainly hopes in the market there would be significant impetus to privatisation this year but my sense was that certainly there was no strong expectation that a word pro see with aggressive privatizations ahead of the presidential elections and if anything if there weren't to be a significant pipeline of privatizations coming up you could also have a negative effect of some sort. of market in terms of the saturation of the supply

negatively affecting the price dynamic but currently we clearly see that the market conditions are challenging that the global scene is quite challenging and this is something that makes. the strategic asset somewhat more problematic. which is losing yesterday's gains but it's been up and down day all day today with the wrong tension boosting the price of the new germany's economy contributed in the fourth quarter has brought fears the crude to more bull bull market stateside rules are down as investors cash the rally the source stocks hit their highest since july contagion from the e.u. crisis is on the traders coca-cola is down two percent of the approved downgrade. and europe has edged into the red losing this morning roy's food and energy sic just talking delmas pharmaceuticals also suffering unilever. is losing over two percent also all over

a good downgrade investors are also nervous ahead of the results of a big german group. and the russian markets now they close as you can see there the all ts lost over one percent for the most six finished almost point eight percent in the red now the biggest movers almost six today we call oil was weighing on energy majors guess for the last point eight percent the company supplies to europe job number sent in twenty eleven but there are new tensions with ukraine over energy supplies retailer magnets rose almost four percent it's reported a full two percent increase in earnings for last year although those results were lower than the company expected and after vice finished among the main gainers on reports we listened the lawyers plans to increase the share in the russian comic up to fifty percent in the first quarter of this year as for the business news i'll be back in about fifty five minutes here on r.t. .

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four hours a day this is. the syrian president claims he's still in control of. a foreign funded insurgency but international pressure on assad to step down is mounting. calls for intervention and gives up its forces. the controversial stop and search policy bad in most of europe but still used by british police as black community leaders of screaming racism is what most folks have been suspicious by the authorities believe they are being.