bia that's how great continues to compromise leaving local serbs in the disputed region under pressure from the albanian majority. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm. moscow says that the u.n. resolution to put forward to try and end the bloodshed in syria is being manipulated in order to force regime change the russian plan calls for damascus and rebel forces to abandon the fighting in return to talks but as assays that you go to prison off reports it seems that some other countries are working to a very different agenda. the amendments proposed to the russian draft resolution on syria at the u.n. security council are aimed at toppling president assad's regime while moscow has a different approach to the situation is calling for both sides of the conflict in

syria to put their weapons down and negotiate and it's to address a solution rules out any possible military intervention all this supporting to the russian foreign ministry which says that despite the differences in approaches it's still ready for dialogue on this matter with the western reporters but stresses that the libyan scenario can not be repeated in syria meanwhile the secretary of russia's security council has said there's reasons to believe that operation is already being prepared by some western states including possibly some countries in the persian gulf and possibly even syria's former ally turkey the secretary of the security council has also said that he sees there are reasons behind the international tensions around syria don't lie within the human rights situation in the country and issues around the syrian opposition but are dealing directly linked

with president assad unwilling to cut relations with iran the tensions around which are continuing to rise as well. as going off reporting well meantime a burn from the lebanese based conflicts forum told us earlier that western interests are more focused on their own agenda than the syrian aspirations for democracy. this is actually a project very much about regime change and the aim of it is that it's part of the war on iran which has effectively started and there were comments by the national security advisor from the us tom donilon and by jeffrey feltman in his testimony to congress which has basically been very explicit about the regime change agenda of the u.s. they've been very careful up till now to acknowledge any kind of violence that's being perpetrated by any others apart from. the government forces in syria but i

think just a few days ago the u.s. ambassador met that actually there is violence there is there are. actors active who are not government forces so i think what's been very clear is that this is a project about regime change and it's within this context the narrative of sort of pro-democracy movement. can text realize this is the cover for their regime change project. i know one of the biggest disagreements in the u.n. over how to proceed with syria stems from the west's stance on holding personally responsible for all bloodshed it's a position that's drawing accusations of bias in tension or ignorance as artists are explaining. no midnight made son to man was an activist 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 left home and never returned we found his body in the morning and his research mutilated and 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 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 their school rights are 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 government so much less dependent on a single. station or single state newspaper the between a regime under pressure and an increasingly miniaturized 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 that 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 enough speaking the floor many

of whom were young supporters president this week once again repeated his promises of reform that was not with skepticism from the opposition and meanwhile on all sides of this conflict young politically motivated syrians remain committed to fighting for the political future if they country despite the fact that so many liked him and that fight could end up costing them their lives so r.t. . and the people of illinois crossed all guests discuss the influences at work inside syria from the arab league monitors to the protesters themselves to the lobbyist state side of the program coming your way at fifteen thirty g.m.t. for now here's the. consistence policy towards syria and i think they took this side of the civilians inside syria and they have. sorry we can actually get interrupted 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 our side in a civil war would you agree or disagree with that. you're watching are to your life from moscow our british prime minister david cameron has arrived in saudi arabia the u.k.'s biggest trade partner and arms market in the middle east the gulf kingdom has been rattled by recent unrest in the arab world and how suppressed protests on home soil as well as elsewhere with a ruthless force that's now across to our correspondent laura smith for more details on this so laura what so what's the trip all about. well this is david cameron's first trip as prime minister he's going to be meeting with king abdullah and also crown prince naïf while he's that it's a there'll be discussing a huge range of issues really including the global economy energy security

counterterrorism obviously the situation in syria and the situation in iran at the moment and this is an important relationship really for both parties saudi arabia is obviously the world's biggest oil exporter it's also got ninety five billion dollars or thereabouts invested in the u.k. and the u.k. and the middle east do about twenty three billion dollars worth of trade every year so a very very big partnership on both sides strong relationships with the saudis is very important to britain for advancing the u.k. so interests in the region and of course as you mentioned saudi arabia has recently been hugely roiled and rattled by various developments in the region including the overthrow of longtime ally hosni mubarak and these recent tensions with iran and in fact iran has threatened to block the strait of hormuz which is the biggest.

export through which most of the middle east oil go through so it's very important to saudi arabia and indeed to britain that those issues are resolved with iran. so laure you talk about these massive multi-billion dollar economic interests between saudi arabia and the united kingdom where you touched on it just moments ago about the issue of the arab spring for most of two thousand and eleven we heard about the arab spring in many various countries in the region very little being said about saudi arabia who according to some reports you can send tanks out onto the streets to suppress protesters are curious would you sign. well that's right and there is a certain amount of a lot of powerful opposition to this visit here in the u.k. a group of very powerful members of parliament the committee on arms export controls have questioned why licenses to saudi arabia for arms exports from the u.k. haven't been revoked in the wake of that trouble they have submitted questions and then publish those questions to the government on licensing of various equipment

including bombs and components of vehicles and helicopters and also communications equipment and they're saying why given the unrest that we did see in saudi arabia as you say was very very little reported on what happened that license being revoked why would the u.k. government trust. the saudi the saudi powers have given them that about the end use of the weapons that they're being sold we saw violence last year during the arab spring brutal suppression of protestors particularly from this shiite minority saudi arabia of course is a sunni majority country there's a shiite minority they came out on the streets and were brutally suppressed and indeed just as late as thursday night we saw one process to killed and three wounded when the security forces opened fire with live ammunition on. protesters the saudis blame the violence on iran iran has

a shiite majority and in the region they represent the interests of minorities in other sunni majority countries like saudi arabia so wrongs accusing them of meddling there's also an accusation by the u.s. that iran plotted to have the saudi ambassador to washington assassinated in october so there's all sorts of tension between saudi arabia and iran very worrying but nevertheless the british government is looking at carrying on selling arms to saudi arabia and even in those arms contracts there's a huge order you're a fighter jet setter. already on order and some people are saying that possibly the contract will be expanded to include forty eight more. amounts of money at stake for the u.k. government also reputation according to this powerful group of lobbyists within the government all right i live in london thank you. willow still ahead of you on the program here on r.t. sending iran's oil up in flames. in every instance all the speculation

falls on those who want to see a continued. school ation of hostility look at who benefits from destabilizing the islamic state that analysis coming your way in just a few minutes here on our. political hardliners and cause a. block serbian trucks border crossings this weekend it comes despite belgrade's ongoing steps towards compromising the border issue as the country strives for edu membership and ethnic serbs in kosovo so they're finding themselves under more pressure from the albanian majority. 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 a summer e.u. backed kosovo albanians have tried to take control of the border between serbia and

kosovo the serb minority erected barricades in response they don't recognize qassam independence saying that the albanian dominated province is still part of serbia now both sides have fire new agreed that the border will be jointly policed. anyone can now freely pass through this checkpoint when you're trumpeting there as a happy resolution that a standoff and what life here has become easier 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 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 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 the egg near asked serbian militia many here have been engaged in conflict with albanian since nine hundred ninety nine when an ethnic war divided their territory into they have been coming to this roadblocks in july and say they will carry on despite a border deal alone is for 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's and friends have been injured in this conflict for the past twelve years. those who gain the most from. border compromise are ordinary serbs. 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. living in kosovo for twelve years while opening the roads is a step forward the serb state is in and do not consider their own and that does not appear to want them remains as uncertain as ever you go girl of nerve. and i coming up just a little bit later for you in the program here a pharmaceutical plant manager. know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious look at the alarming death rate from pill popping in the united states drugs companies are accused of overstating the scale of depression all around the country. the u.s. has reportedly used a secret channel of communication to issue a direct warning to iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei washington says that

any move by tehran to trade through the crucial strait of hormuz would be met with an immediate response inspectors from the un's nuclear watchdog meantime a show you want to come to iran in two weeks to see if its nuclear program is aimed at developing a weapons capability meanwhile the war of words between washington and tehran has also been heated up by wednesday's assassination of a top iranian nuclear scientist. from the national iranian american council all things isolating iran was the main purpose of the killing. the fact the matter is that hardliners on all sides who don't want to see any kind of negotiated resolution who don't want to see iran brought some way in. the fold and want to see this tension escalate want to keep iran sort of outside of the security status quo in the middle east are supportive of these actions and that's why you have speculation that perhaps israel was behind this perhaps the iranian. terrorist

organization that is dedicated to overthrowing the iranian government and preventing between the u.s. and iran are behind this or you've been happy who think that perhaps hardliners in the iranian government were behind this because they're more interested in preventing any kind of talks and be able to create a security environment within iran where they can crack down on on dissidents and use the threat of an external you know a war with the united states or external threats to actually consolidate their control so in every instance all the speculation falls on those who want to see a continued escalation of hostilities. and i robot naman from the us based n.g.o.s just foreign policy says the iranian threat is being played by american politicians and even the highest officials silenced if they question that defense secretary. will not be our defense or was on face the nation and he said they were

trying to build to develop a nuclear weapon. and the very next night p.b.s. news hour and you know they have steam. and then used his remarks to try and argue the opposite as fairness and accuracy and already noted we didn't alert p.b.s. received any response so this part of the pattern in the us media it's certainly part of a pattern in the presidential campaign with republican presidential candidates. if you have more on that story just head over to our web site our two daughters comment plenty more news analysis and i was in scuse me and the videos to be found there as well let's have a look and see what's waiting for you now at r.t. dot com see the video that stirred up such a scandal over the actions of u.s. forces in afghanistan comments and reaction from around the world plus a seventy six year old millionaire finds himself in hot water after he broke

waiters at a swanky restaurant in florida find out how it happened and artie dot com. and now to the united states in the story of a deadly passion for pills but today more americans die from prescription drugs than car accidents it's shocking data coming from the national center for health statistics and as i reports there's concern that pharmaceutical firms are more focused on profit than that of people's lives. 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 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 therapeutic 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 brand this commercial for so long in new york 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 apply doctors with gives cash kickbacks and research funding in exchange for endorsing or purse crybaby 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 eminem last year per script and drug abuse became the number one cause of accidental death with more than thirty thousand americans overdosing can consume you 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 lacks are in 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 or illegal drugs is a very dangerous now one is a little safer but you're just not sure 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 where the charity happened 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 form a giant p two point three billion 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 be aided by u.s.

drug companies that being said the money reportedly amounted to less than three weeks more of wiser 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. before we get to the business with daniel let's check out some other news in brief from around the world this hour in the r.t. world update a powerful union my dear you have threatened to shut down all oil and natural gas production in the country this sunday and this comes with a suspended nationwide protests against spiraling gas and food prices after four consecutive days as demonstrations the dispute has already been felt in the world

oil markets but the price of crude has already jumped. at least reported by the cia and other intelligence agencies has painted a gloomy picture of the situation in afghanistan the document says the country is in stalemate it warns that attempts to improve security have been undermined by corruption bad local government and taliban attacks from neighboring pakistan several senior military commanders have filed a written objection to the findings saying that based on flawed assumptions and a lack of understanding about taliban and tactics. still ahead for you this hour we've got the latest action from the world's second strongest hockey league the k h l that's about to enter a crucial playoff stage and i will be along with the rest of the sports news though the business now with daniel. welcome to business the european union wants to step into the escalating conflict

between russia and ukraine energy commission a. key of most taken to a killed agreement already saw and with the e.u. ukraine says it cannot stand why gas prices to cut its purchases boy home of russia's energy joined goes from says q of could have reduced its order by up to twenty percent but six months notice is clear what kind of support the e.u. can offer to ukraine what we do know is that the next round of negotiations should rule for tuesday. couple hours capital outflow is concerned i don't see any break in the trend here so i expect that the flight will pick up the outflow private capital outflow will stay with us not only in the course of the whole world but also throughout the whole year it will be more. it will be more moderate than in two thousand and eleven but unfortunately i expect a double digit fee if you go into thousand and twelve two you can. look at the markets first oil which is trying to reverse the biggest weekly drop of the year reports that the iranian border will be delayed by six months of providing

a boost the extra time is to allow struggling economies like greece italy and spain to find alternative supplies. european stocks are gaining this deal boy both successful spanish and italian bond auctions. eased worries for the single currency italy the e.u. the largest economy is gearing up to sell another four point seven five billion euro in debt this friday. the r.t.s. has edged into the black in the last few minutes after another tough day and week in fact the positive news coming out now is that you're being tipped to improve the appeal of riskier assets in russia. have a look at the share movers on the my six today blue chips. is a bit higher after laying down the law over gas supplies to ukraine while all major is in the red on the week a crude price growth telecoms flat to negative reports it will boil armenian operated g n c l for over twenty two million dollars. now turnover in russian trade

with countries rose by a third in the first eleven months of last year reaching six hundred thirty two billion dollars fuel and energy goods accounted for three quarters of exports while machinery and equipment imports russia's top three trading partners for the period with china germany the netherlands. that's the business this hour headlines are next.

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