here in russia by the l.c.s. of the my state opens up today's trading session in the black hole details in the business bulletin in twenty minutes time. eleven am in the russian gavel you're watching r t with me were in josh. western nations wants to change a russian proposed u.n. resolution so it pushes syria towards regime change that's according to russia's deputy foreign minister the west lays the blame for the bloodshed in syria squarely with the government but as r.t. sarah first found out the changes society there suggests the problem is much deeper . nana nag made 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 during an interview on lake who t.v. so i mean i saw him on t.v.

and he looked well i mean but it was to be one of the last times the family saw him alive and soon after that he was kidnapped he lived to a woman never returned we found his body in the morning and as recently 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 was working for the security forces after seeing him speak on television but in reality he had 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 feels 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 a new generation studying in fact an increasing number of areas of the club better educated and better informed them that parents or grandparents were there not any more aware that the school writes that 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 enormous in harms to recent decades by both education technology called trains 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 from supporters of government so much less dependent on a single new station or single state newspaper the between a regime under pressure and an increasingly militarized opposition many syrians have been left trapped in the middle so our degraded museum. 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 in 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 police who feature if they country despite the fact that so many like them and that fight could end up costing them their lives. syria's vowing to investigate the death of a french t.v. reporter he was killed along with eight syrians what a mortar shell hit a crowd gathered for a pro-government rally and his job there the rector of the center for middle east is in beirut doubts the government is to blame they blame each other but that is so out of question that the government. have any interest you're not short a journalist among demonstration at pro-government it's silly to accuse the syrian government about this and he was killed by snipers. from

their orders from the opposition it's a clear and my opinion but the position that it was the government it's a part of their side going to go to war for but it's not it's not acceptable it's not going to be if you eat out of this the nation about five thousand victims and she sounds down monsanto to them what if i'm a member of dogmeat and i think that's not the way that see the government that's a video. about twenty five minutes on r.t. peter lavelle and he has crossed our guest discuss the influence doesn't work in syria from the arab league monitors to the protesters themselves 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 could interrupt here i mean these are sort of 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. serbia's hopes to join the e.u. are one step closer to really zation lawmakers have called on the european council to ground belgrade a long anticipated canaday status at a session in march but it's kosovo that remains their main obstacle to accession and local serbs living in the disputed region say concessions for membership aren't helping them as art using a rod in their 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. anyone can now freely pass through this checkpoint when you're trumpeting this as a happy resolution that a standoff and what life here has become a lot of serbs are saying that once again they have given up too much for the compromise and have received no rush owen says about the long term future belgrade try 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 application for candidate status has been stalled in the latest round of talks with brussels some countries which did recognize and they feel that serbia is

a weak just before they are getting the kind of a status that is why they are squeezing serbia exacta trying to achieve something more than usually are asking the candidates. just meters from the e.u. soldiers. are serbian militia many here have been engaged in conflict with albanians since one thousand nine hundred nine when an ethnic war divided their territory into they have been coming to this road block since july and say they will carry on despite the border deal along with 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 albanians wanted it when a relative some 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 roads 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 serbs have been living in kosovo for twelve years while opening the roads is a step forward to serve status in. the. consider. the. remains as over. the. course of the. still have for this hour of the consequences of america's fondness for pharmaceuticals. is a patient comes in with the injury and says. oh are you depressed ok write a prescription. they're given out like him and then. we'll look at the hidden health risks from the increasing use of anti-psychotics in the us. plus an expert explains why he thinks the rainy and threat is purposely being blown out

of proportion by the media and politicians just a few minutes here on r t. the patent on says it's identified the unit seen on a video which appears to show u.s. marines urinating on the courses off taliban fighters it's just the latest valving the u.s. military they were swanson author andrew a campaigner at its roots action dot org says behavior like that stems from the way people are motivated to fight a war. the fact that these soldiers have apparently referred to these people and the scandal is that they are urinating on their prey i mean the hatred that 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. afghanistan war veteran jake deliberateness as this latest scandal coupled with previous abuse us 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 an across the jihad a web channel 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 a long ended war and what happens when you suffer the meatiest see you and the dehumanizing other human beings in the in the battlefield and it's it's an well done 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. i'll explore all our stories in depth on energy dot com and there's much more lined up on our website so don't try this sad home thrill seekers travel from moscow just a bit of earth on the roof of russia's fastest train see more of that nerve jangling video on our website. and here's another roof surfer this snowboarding pro was caught enjoying the pleasures of the ski season well he didn't

need a lift pass as you can see so check out this photo shoot for at our team dot com. it's the. talks between the un's nuclear watchdog and iran or its nuclear program have been scheduled for two weeks time they will fall under the shadow of an escalating verbal conflict between washington and tehran the u.s. is said to have directly warned iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini that will respond if around blocks a key while transit routes in the persian gulf tensions have also been made worse

by the assassination of an iranian nuclear scientist on wednesday but lives a german from the stop the war coalition says iran's atomic inhibitions aren't the only reason for the build up of pressure. if you look at the recent report from the atomic as you with already said quite categorically there is not evidence of iran developing nuclear weapons it seems to me that the. things in america and britain and elsewhere are ignoring this report and they have definitely stepping up . the pressure the assassination of the late since you saw into the nucleus on this we were in the science we'll be seeing quite rightly as a provocation that will be seen as the work of the israelis but by the americans and the troop movements the ships in the gulf all of this points to more more pressure. robert naiman policy director of u.s.

based ngo just foreign policy says the iranian threat is being overblown by american politicians with even the highest officials silenced if they dare question it defense secretary. will not be our defense or was on face the nation on sunday when he said what are you trying to build to develop a nuclear weapon. in the very next night. and you know they have steam. and then used to try and argue the opposite as fairness and accuracy you know why didn't i learn p.b.s. and received any response just part of the pattern. of us media certainly part of the pattern in the presidential campaign the presidential candidates. well remember we always came to know what you think about our stories and your opinion is welcome in our web site vote where we're asking what's next for iran. almost half of voters

believe the u.s. will push iran towards olav military conflict about a third are convinced america will strike first and the rest are split between whether iran all claim to have nuclear capabilities to urge the west of that cough or will or task itself by setting up an anti us aligned and south america to log on to our seat at home to cast your vote. united states has a passion for pills americans reportedly consume sixty percent of the world's drugs used to control mental behavior and searches marina fortnight explains pharmaceutical firms plan to keep cashing in 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 us into a nation of hill poppers 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 diagnoses 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 friend this commercial for so long and me a lot of this is assuming you have to be alone but side effects may include dry mouth insomnia sexual side effects diarrhea nausea and sleepiness the critics also say big pharma uses its financial muscle to provide doctors with gives cash kickbacks and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribe the 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 name injury and says i'm so sad oh are you depressed hey write a prescription. they're given out like eminem'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 like 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 really good drugs if you're dangerous now one is a little safer but you're just not sure i mean they are 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 the charity 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 u.s. drug companies 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 they're 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 need. and a quick look now at the other stories from around the world to begin with nigeria world oil workers issued an ultimatum to the government and threaten to hold or oil

and gas production on sunday over a decision to eliminate fuel subsidies which doubled prices in a day a nationwide strike is and its fifth day of talks between unions and the president have made no breakthrough the tension comes amid a wave of sectarian violence started by attacks on christians which left over eighty people dead since christmas. haiti marks to 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 in the disaster displaced one million and a half people with most of them still living in temporary camps. apple's decision to delay the launch of the i phone four s. at its flagship store in beijing caused outrage customers to attack the shop a crowd have been camped outside in freezing temperatures all night and started throwing eggs at the store average downstate would not open at seven am as planned

it is thought staff were concerned about the number of people queuing and police were forced to cordon off the area at its second beating store apple's new phone sold out in less than an hour. all right we're up to date let's see what's happening in business here's katie. hello there welcome to the program the gas dispute between russia and ukraine continues to build russian gas monopoly gas from says kiev could only have reduced the gas it bought by a maximum of twenty percent and then only is a great call for a year in advance ukraine side a contract to receive fifty two billion cubic meters of gas from russia but made the surprise announcement that it only takes slightly more than half of. the country's leadership says its struggling economy can't afford to pay the full amount but gas from insists a deal must be met and the take all paid bases ukraine's energy minister is

expected to report to the parliament about the russian gas told late on friday. russia and decision to swap the us dollar in favor of the ruble our reale for bilateral trade is following a global trend recently both china and japan said they would switch their local currencies to bruise ties about see iran and you can you know what gen from systemise says emerging markets will only benefit from such moves. because rich used to be the strongest far beyond their competitors in the world when you were a dollar a pound of sterling was a restraint doesn't matter so now they are they all have their obvious weakness business and most of the national government is national money to risk the richest they are not interested in the stability of college or straight gold radio but would like to see their colleges weaker actually than they are no intention makes them uncomfortable for bilateral trade relations of those countries which do not

have you as do all the other cars this is their national currency the others saw the third world that treat them all before the countries of the third world the most because. i was enjoying the relations because it's more profitable it's more predictable and this makes contracts. better to understand and easier to fulfill. plus now have a look at the markets crude prices are up according to an official the european union involved i want to pause in her right hand on is now expected to be delays to six months to let can't just such as greece italy and spain find alternative supplies on the asian indices heading up following on from modest gains made over the last positive news from europe has helped the market with successful bond auctions for both is late by a decision by european central bank to leave the euro zone's he enters right at one percent reassuring comments from the e.c.b.

president mario draghi all of this is helping sentiment right now and as for the russian markets this is taking a look at what's happening now they are both down both in the reds. let's have a look at some news on the mises makes this hour on this side the high of it a new lease of disputes over gas supply to crying. major new callers almost half a percent in the red and some of the provider telecom is flat snow. the company is reportedly buying a seventy five percent stake in all me and i'll try to do and say alpha for twenty two and a half million dollars i saw the rest came from i have seen much as investors should pay close attention to the latest news likely to influence market movements . the most general condition would be to pay attention to the shares which react strongly usually. to the news current leading news flow is quite positive from

those shares will be probably the biggest gainers of those for example you can still names which are usually the most reaction from this kind of things you can sell financials as well as one of the first proxies on global growth and then also you should definitely track the story about u.s. and iran and see how the oil price action is what's going on on that side two thousand and eleven left many traders playing a day to day trading i'm lost due to europe's sovereign debt mess. and costly from no capsule says global markets will be hoping the e.u. commision over its problems and oldest bismark is starved of longer term 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 bets with the current market does not perform their managers to make medium term bets 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. so the business news for now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes to join me that if you count.

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three. three stooges freezing. cold free blow your load videos for your media projects a free mediocre dog our t.v. dot com. welcome back your weather team here's a look at the top stories russia says a western proposals for changes to a u.n. draft resolution put forward by moscow are aimed at regime change in syria russia is against outside interference in syria and calls on both sides to end violence. solving a border dispute will cause or bring serbia closer to a long desired year membership with a candidate status likely to be granted to belgrade in march but local serbs living near trouble checkpoints say they remit is not helping to make their lives easier.