it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie well western nations want to change russian proposed u.n. resolution so it pushes syria towards regime change and that's according to russia's deputy foreign minister the west lays the blame for the bloodshed in syria squarely was the government but as our sara first found out the changing society there suggests the problem is much deeper. no midnight needs son to man was an activist he say sure networking sites such as facebook to call for peace in syria he phoned his family to tell them to watch him doing an interview on lake very famous but i saw him on to the and he looked well but it was to be one of the last times the family saw him alive and soon after that he was kidnapped he left home and never returned we found his body in the morning and his face was mutilated it's too painful for me to remember that moment it remains unclear who killed him and

his family thinks it may have been militants he thought he was working for the security forces after seeing him speak on television but in reality he'd worked at a sugar mill and was training to become a computer specialist like so many of the young educated people in syria right now he felt the need to be involved in the changing reality in his country syria in fact has one of the youngest populations in the arab world is schools like this in a generation studying the fact an increasing number of arabs have become better educated and better informed them that parents or grandparents were that they're not any more aware that the school writes the more able to demand them as well. many young opposition supporters have taken their campaign online relying heavily on social media like facebook and twitter that have helped topple regimes like these in egypt and libya people's literacy and also media literacy has been

enormously harvested recent decades by both education technology called trained but i think we should remember this can cut both ways opposition sides can try to get out their message and can mobilize people but also even supporters of governments are much less dependent on a single new station or single state newspaper between a regime under pressure and an increasingly militarized opposition many syrians have been left trapped in the middle so our degraded museum as. i have only one question what did they kill my son for my son was a politician or a public figure various movements national and local exist in this country i don't understand when my son was killed you know you know the last speaking before a crowd many of whom were young suppose this president this week once again repeated his promises of reform that was met with skepticism from the opposition meanwhile on all sides of this poem thinks young politically motivated syrians remain committed to fighting for the peace who feature if they country despite the

fact that so many like them and that fight could end up costing them their lives sara. all serious vowing to investigate the death of a french t.v. reporter he was killed along with eight syrians when a mortar shell hit a crowd gathered for a pro-government rally and his job there a director of the center for middle east studies and doubts the government is to blame they blame each other but that is out of question and the government. have any interest you're not short a journalist among the demonstration that pro-government. accuse the syrian government about this and he was killed by snipers. from their orders from the opposition. and my opinion but the position that it was the government it's a part of their side going to go to warfare but it's not it's not acceptable it's not good because if you eat out of this the nation about five thousand victims and

c.d.i. science then monsanto to go. but it's not a member of dogmeat and i think that's not the way to see the government that's a video. next hour on r t pittel of l. and he's crossed our guest discuss the influences of war in syria from the arab league monitors to the protesters themselves and here's a preview. they have consistence policies towards syria and i think they took this side of their civilians inside syria and they have clearly i mean sorry if i get interrupt here i mean these are i don't understand when we use the term protesters civilians i mean a lot of these people are armed and they're no longer civilians or protesters they're come back now and this is turned into a civil war and some western powers are supporting certain elements within syria

taking a side in the civil war would you agree or disagree with that. still i had for you now serving as hopes to join the e.u. are one step closer to realization lawmakers have called on the european council to grant belgrade belong in dissipative candidate status at a session in march but it's cost so that remains the main obstacle to accession and local serbs living in the disputed region say concessions for membership aren't helping them as are teasing or on the reports. the checkpoint in northern kosovo may not look like an obvious triumph of peace but here is the same spot just two weeks ago since the summer the uber kosovar albanians have tried to take control of the border between serbia and kosovo the serb minority erected barricades in response they don't recognize course of independence so into the old bailey and dominated province is still part of serbia now both sides are for

a new agreed that the border will be jointly policed up. very cold belonging to anyone can now freely pass through this checkpoint when you're trumpeting this as a happy resolution that a standoff and while life here has become easier a lot of serbs are saying that once again they've given up too much for the compromise and have received no rasho answers about their long term future belgrade tried to talk serbs in kosovo down from the barricades so it was to join the e.u. which made a peaceful solution to the border issue a precondition but despite progress on the border belgrade's application for candidate status has been stalled in the latest round of talks with brussels some countries which did recognize corso and they feel that serbia is a week just before they are getting the kind of a status that's why they are squeezing serbia exacta trying to achieve something more than than usually are asking the candidates. just meters from the soldiers in . our serbian militia many here have been engaged in conflict with albanian since

one thousand nine hundred nine when an ethnic war divided the territory into they have been coming to this road block since july and say they will carry on despite the border deal alone is that why should we be happy to see you soldiers give us permission to use this road we never used to need permission to use it at all we do not trust the e.u. or old binion's when i relatives and friends have been injured in this conflict for the past twelve years. those who gain the most from the border compromise are ordinary serbs blocked prevented many children from coming to school and their parents from buying even basic foodstuffs but normality is some distance away. so. there are constant warning sirens during the lessons these children are not growing up normally their lives are defined by the conflict and this is true not just for children but for all have been living in kosovo for twelve years while opening the

roads is a step forward the serb state is an independent kosovo they do not consider their own and that does not appear to want them remains as uncertain as ever you go girl didn't have. kosovo still had very last hour the consequences of america's finest for pharmaceuticals. if a patient comes in with a knee injury and says. are you depressed ok write prescriptions. they're given out like him and you will gather his health risks from the increasing use of and a psychotic and the us. plus an expert explains why you think they are any a threat is purposely being blown out of proportion by the media and politicians just a few minutes here on r.t. . the pentagon has identified the you're it. on a video which appears to show u.s. marines here in a on the corpses of the taliban fighters is just the latest count on valving the

u.s. military they its wants an author and campaigner at section dot org says behavior like this stems from the way people are motivated to fight a war the fact that these soldiers have apparently referred these people and the scandal is that they are urinating on them and i mean do they hate sure it is necessary to get people to do such a thing is necessary to motivate soldiers to fight in a war that has no other credible rationale for the war itself is an atrocity and so we pick out these particular atrocities and we get outraged but we don't look at the underlying fact and we end up with this incredibly bizarre phenomenon of being upset that someone is peanut on a body that he has killed. and got to stand a war of at or in jag deliberateness has this latest scandal coupled with previous abuses committed by the u.s. military is very good news for terrorist recruiters. just to remind people of

a few incidents that occurred a while back there was the the burning of the koran that happened with. terry jones as then there was the abu ghraib incident and before then there was the decision to invade iraq that had nothing to do with nine eleven so all of these these situations pile on and they add up and what happens is al qaeda and other terrorist organizations and then using this video and they put it in their recruiting videos end up on you tube and across the jihad of web channels and they end up reading anti-american sentiment this is the hugest recruitment for al qaida that we can do that anybody can do nobody in the united states military is trained to pee on dead people this is the behavior of ill disciplined soldiers under my opinion are probably also suffering from a severe amount of p.t.s.d. from long ended war and what happens when you suffer from p.t.s.d.

and the dehumanizing other human beings in the in the battlefield and it's it's an it's a un's fathomable how pathetic this is become because the war hasn't been brought to an end like obama said he was going to do and what we're seeing abu ghraib happened twice now in afghanistan. explore all our stories in doubt on line had r t v dot com and there's much more lined up for you there. so don't try this at home thrill seekers travel from moscow to st petersburg on the roof of russia's fastest train see more of that nerve jangling video on our website. and here's another server this snowboarding pro was caught enjoying the pleasures of the ski season played in the live past so check out this footage in full at r.t. dot com.

talks between the u.s. nuclear watchdog and iran over its nuclear program are scheduled for two weeks' time they will fall under the shadow of an escalating verbal conflict between tehran and washington it's been made worse by naval posturing in the persian gulf and the assassination of an iranian nuclear scientist on wednesday but lives in germany from the stop the war coalition says iran's atomic ambitions are in the only reason for the buildup of pressure. if you look at the recent report from the atomic energy authority it said quite categorically there is there is not evidence of iran developing a nuclear weapon it seems to me that the. things in america in britain and

elsewhere are ignoring this report and they are definitely stepping up the pressure the assassination of the latent. scientist who the nuclear scientists who worked in the science will be seeing quite rightly as a provocation that will be seen as the work of the israelis backed by the americans and the troop movements the ships in the gulf all of this points to more and more pressure. robert naiman a policy director of u.s. based ngo jast foreign policy says the iranian threat is being overblown by american politicians with even the highest official silence if they dare question it defense secretary. will not be our defense or was our face the nation on sunday when he said what are you trying to build to develop a nuclear weapon. ourselves and the very next night p.b.s. news hour. they have steam. and then used his remarks to try and

argue the opposite as fairness and accuracy of this morning know why didn't alert p.b.s. and received any response to this part of the pattern. of the u.s. media and it's certainly part of the pattern in the presidential campaign of publishing the presidential candidates long. remember we're always came to know what you think about our stories and your opinion is welcome and we're website vote where we're asking what's next for iran let's take a look at what's happening there on the side almost half of the voters believe the u.s. will push iran towards a live military conflict about a third of respondents are convinced america will strike first the rest of your almost evenly split between whether iran will claim to have nuclear capabilities for the west to back off or it will protect itself by setting up an anti us alliance and south america will do let us know if you haven't done so yet what you think on this issue by logging on to our website r.t.

dot com. the united states has a passion for pills americans reportedly consume sixty percent of the world's drugs used to control mental behavior and explains pharmaceutical firms plan to keep cashing in even if it cost people their health. america is regarded as a country with a ravenous appetite for consumption today a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the u.s. into a nation of still popper's bipolar depression doesn't have to consume you here's me and here's my depression you know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious according to the u.s. government anti-depressant use among americans has increased nearly four hundred percent in the past two decades published reports find that one in five adults take at least one drug for mental health disorders with over fourteen billion dollars in

annual sales anti-psychotics remain america's top selling their reputed class of prescription drugs this is a medical journal dr harriet fraud believes big pharma has manufactured a climate of insanity by manipulating and even creating illness for capital gains the advertising strategy is to have a big big noses and then find wiggle room so that they apply to everybody prescription nexium the u.s. is the only western country that allows direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs this ad for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder warns that untreated patients will likely end up divorced brand this commercial for so long and we'll learn this is to make you happier but side effects may include dry mouth insomnia sexual side effects diarrhea nausea and sleepiness critics also say big pharma uses its financial muscle to provide doctors with gives cash kickbacks and

research funding in exchange for endorsing or purse cry being the latest and most lucrative drugs what you have is a whole network of doctors who are hustling these drugs if a patient comes in with a knee injury and says i'm so sad oh are you depressed hey write a prescription. they're given out like m. and m's last year per script and drug abuse became the number one cause of accidental death with more than thirty thousand americans overdosing can consume sarah quell a bipolar medication generated four point four billion dollars in sales last year listing all its side effects requires forty nine seconds of air time blood sugar has been reported missing or highlights are and medicines like it and in extreme cases can lead to come down the number of children consuming anti-psychotic medication doubled in the past decade millions of american adolescents are taking

drugs like adderall doled out by doctors to treat hyperactivity only drugs are very very similar to illicit room legal drugs is a very dangerous now one is a little safer but kids have no choice i mean they're being forced on me. but doctors you know who are telling parents this is the best thing for them when often it's not and so you have a lot of angry resentful just growing up in america here it's already happening because pfizer america's most profitable pharmaceutical company makes anti-depressants not only for people but also for adam and in two thousand i the pharma giant paid two point three million dollars to settle civil and criminal allegations over illegally marketing one of its drugs it was the largest health care fraud settlement in the middle line to ever been paid by a u.s. drug company that being said the money reportedly amounted to less than three weeks

more of a prize or drug sales the money is so huge that the fines are immaterial and they're not thinking about the social effects of what they're doing or thinking about the profits they accrue the pharmaceutical industry remains the most profitable business in the u.s. more success and financial gain for the companies will always remain possible as long as more americans are encouraged to take drugs in a fortnight artsy new york. every flick now at some other news making headlines across the globe and we started in nigeria were well workers issued an ultimatum to the government and threaten to hold the oil and gas production on sunday over a decision to eliminate fuel subsidies which prices in a day and nationwide strike is and are its fifth day and talks between the unions and the president have made no breakthrough the tension comes amid a wave of sectarian violence started by attacks on christians which has left over eighty people dead since christmas. japan's prime minister has dismissed five

cabinet ministers in a bid to appease the opposition and push for major tax and social security reforms but opposition parties are still refusing to join talks in are pushing for an early general election instead they actually go no that was only a point of premier four months ago on a pledge to curb the country's budget deficit by increasing sales tax. marks two years since a devastating earthquake killed around three hundred thousand people nationwide religious services have been held with people all over the country gathering in makeshift churches to pay tribute to those who died the disaster displaced one million and a half people was most of them still living in temporary camps. well that brings us up to date here on r.t. let's take a look at what's happening in business with katie. i. welcome to the business program the gas dispute

between russia and ukraine continues to build the russian gas monopoly gas from says kiev could only have reduced the gas it bore by a maximum of twenty percent and then only if agreed hoffa a year in advance ukraine signed a contract to receive fifty two billion cubic meters of gas from russia but made the surprise announcement that it would only take a slightly more than hoff of that this year the countries egypt says it's struggling a quantum aid can't afford to pay the full amount but gas from assist the deal must be met on the take or pay bases ukraine's energy minister is expected to report to the parliament about the russian gas talks laves out on friday. capital flight was one of the key responses by the russian economy last year around eighty four billion dollars has left the country that's the biggest outflow in three years you've met ocean from a of cases stem up believes the nasty trend is likely to keep pace albeit in a small amount.

as far as capital outflow is prime so i don't see any break in the trend here so i expect that the flight will look at that i will flow with other private capital outflow will stay with the not only in the close top of the whole the world but also through the whole year it will be more. it will be more moderate than in two thousand and eleven but unfortunately i expect to double digits if you get two thousand and twelve two. because they are all is performing at the moment although for the second running according to the official view. on imports already well it's now expected to be delayed for six months to let countries such as greece italy and spain find alternative supplies and the asian in just says. that by top of the by the follow on from modest gains made in the u.s. positive news from europe has helped to boost the market was successful bond

auctions provided instantly on spike and a decision by the european central bank to leave the euro zone's he enters the one percent also added to that is the reassuring comments from e.c.b. president mario. all of this is helping to boost the sense there by now. see how the russian market is a pencil. positive. but i'm not positive that after closing mixed on does that market alexander with can't see that you probably use the russian exit or european markets on friday. but. i hope that the trend will continue we had quite a positive there yesterday we had quite a. roller coaster growth and some of them and thursday i'm hopeful we will see the growing trend continuing today definitely one of the things which will affect that will be the trade balance data from european union from european countries and from

us later depending on those dates probably we should try to hold will go to the end of the day but again general. mood seems to be quite positive from that to continue for some time. two thousand and eleven left many traders paying a day to day trading guy to europe's sovereign debt mess latham a version costly from no capital says that global markets will be hyping the problems in order to boost markets starved of longer time investments and once we see the end of the european drama for the stock markets for all of the global markets it will be much easier they will know the rules of the game and that's where the real before the investment starts people are very much hungry for make him a long term or at least medium term bet the current market does not perform their

managers to make medium term bet they need to work on a daily basis and this is a very unpleasant experience everyone is very much interested to see this unfortunate picture of the global markets. and that so for now be talking about fifty five minutes just to the headlines right now.

if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be shot by sebastian is a war ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave iran. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got him on my site camera one of my many objects above the boy. shooting merciless shooting on our t.v.

. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we breathe we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a free. man. you . have very motivated out for us the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge then. we are closing in property drowning and i think it's threatened by

it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is you know far below the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. worth someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but in the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beason up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only needs of

earning a living i have gone to the original sit on the papers so we are then legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. what about here with r.t. here is a look at the top stories russia's has western proposals for changes to u.n. draft resolution put forward by moscow are aimed at regime change in syria russia is against outside interference in the country and calls on both sides to end violence. solving a border dispute with cost of a bring serbia closer to long desired a membership with the candidate status likely to be granted to belgrade a march but local serbs living near a troubled chap.