live from moscow you're watching out table welcome change my name is kevin now in our top story of what i am here qatar says it would support sending our of troops to syria if violence in which thousands have died doesn't stop the country's enemies become the first terribly needed to back military intervention if the bloodshed continues activists say at least twenty six people i think killed across the country during protests in support of beyond the opposition free syrian army the u.n. says over five thousand civilians have died at the hands of security forces during the ten month crackdown against antigovernment protests and arab league observers mission ended after failing to broker peace with violence continuing president bashar assad's declared that the violence in the country has been organized by armed terrorist groups orchestrated from abroad take having sent an associate

editor of in for war talk on believes the west is instigating the revolt but this is a really murky area this is this issue of defecting military defectors and so forth with regards to the united states and britain normally what they do when they're destabilizing the country was what we saw in iraq but the main incentive was financial ok they shipped in a lot of dollars and they managed to buy off in this is admitted by dick cheney oh huge portion of the iraqis national guard revolutionary guard with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council respective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in the new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in the new syrian regime let's look back at libya. torre played

a crucial role in the destabilization of libya and actually provided one thousand five hundred one thousand six hundred troops on the ground during the libyan uprising so i think with qatar they do have an alliance with nato they're aligned with the u.s. as you know toward doha hosts u.s. centcom central command so there's definitely synergy there with whatever america's agenda is with regards to syria qatar will be lockstep with the u.s. . it is the other country where the arab spring began thousands of taking to the streets of the country's capital a year since the popular uprising put an end to president ben ali's rule they call for press freedom or democratic values while chanting revolution reese logans many believe it'll change things but now he was ousted to see still plagued by unemployment crippling economic problems the country seen a wave of suicide protest a tense week for people said of him cells of light in a space of just a week that is a ridiculous reports now many say the only real change since the revolution has

been a surge in radical religious ideas. it may have looked like a successful revolution getting rid of authoritarian regime while retaining its westernized facade. but in parliamentary elections that followed tunisians voted for a naga and islamist party which now firmly holds the majority of seats in the new parliament. of political culture. the first experience. making the choice between. political programs it was hard. political campaign. that pushed people to choose either with muslims and non muslims. but western tourists need to have nothing to fear the party's leaders say beer and bikini's irregular staples of. hot spots are here to stay yet recent events at the

maneuver university one of the largest in the country show the tunisian ways are indeed changing lives or protests that erupted right here we're going to verse three several female students came in wearing. the islamic headdress which covers most of the face leaving does the eyes open they're going to verses the authorities have evidence that's had. so the students went on strike saying their freedom was being oppressed. the majority of students were against the strike but they were threatened by those in the minority we held out on principle we are against girls wearing head dress and during the exams it's a question of security and of trust professor bleby acknowledge the students right to wear whatever they please after all she says this is the essence of freedom but in the case with niqab she felt a different from the simple issue of dress code since usually head dress serves to protect the woman from possible unwanted advances and activists for women's rights in the country believe the underlying political tendencies are thinly veiled by the

strikes at maneuver university. whether on one where as an example whatever else this thing's an important i'm not afraid of women's does. had to wear head dress i'm afraid that this issue may be used to provoke other problems the parliamentary opposition meanwhile fears this may mean bad news for the newly born tunisian democracy you know because i've had the kovco look we're worried that we may slump down to a new hedge monye ruled by one of the representative parties and not to receive forty percent of the seats in the assembly the post of prime minister is also there's every tunisian is afraid that confrontations and riots may occur are. they not a leaders have made numerous this or and says that they're not going to turn to nisa interesting sharia law states but meaning the country already saying that the worrying signs are here if it goes r t tunisia mideast expert tara kelly told r.t. that the new islam is leaders are indulging in emotional populism instead of real

solutions to the country's woes the way in which the army's been operating that we're in which is extremely unintelligent president mark will see who has been operating and the way in which the new justice minister than the slow minister of blind social and moral pressure to decide what can go on and what can even go on and what shouldn't go on television is awarding the real problems of photogrammetry which are social and economic problems and the plan needs to be implemented to help the boy of the people who outreach aapl dictators go fact to be so-called moderate islamists are basically concentrating on moral censorship and what people should do in general is a sign of the on the bankruptcy it's because they are not of the people anything else so they are receding along these lines. still ahead the corrupt legacy of

hosni mubarak influences the presidential race in egypt where the main candidates is pulling out find out why in just a few moments. the pentagon's top official says the u.s. is doing well in afghanistan the taliban is losing ground while the ca report says the campaign is mired in a stalemate we've got back online to. there's a nervous wait before world stock markets open on monday for investor reaction after nine euros on countries had their credit scores cut including france and austria losing their price aaa status elaters hit back at standard and poor's the agency behind the move calling the decision incomprehensible at the moment germany remains the only eurozone country with the safest top credit rating german chancellor angela merkel said there's a long road for europe to get back the investor confidence in his turn french prime minister francois fillon was promised more austerity in the country john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that the downgrade

could crumble the franco german alliance. the downgrading of france but not of germany obviously means that the franco german axis is no longer tenable proposition what we see in the euro zone is that there's only one country calling the shots not two and that's germany there's no doubt that it will strike a terrible blow for sarkozy is only real chance of winning the election was to show himself as a safe pair of hands as the devil you know in a crisis now it's clear that france has both a crisis and the devil they know i mean it's true that these agencies are not above reproach they've made a lot of mistakes in the past and goodness knows the financial services industry including the ratings agencies is far from perfect but i think that european leaders are being completely paranoid when they blame the ratings agencies for their problems any fool can see that there is

a massive debt problem in europe the fact is there's been a lull in the crisis but that was really to do with the christmas and new year holidays they have assessed the situation and they have come to the conclusion as have many other people that the situation in the eurozone is untenable and i think when the euro finally collapses as it will do surely within i would think probably the next year we will see this day this announcement that downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments. it's really the economy too big to fail is also being dropped two notches by s. and p. many they're adjusting to the reality of hysterically and among them is the country's notorious mathie i got more on that in the cards report coming your way it twenty one thirty g.m.t. . by now italy's number one bank as crisis bites this guy mariel monti is now running italy. a leg breaker with ties to goldman sachs goes back years already so he's at the capital capital you know he's of

course he's asking the go more and of course i know from the south to come on up north baby we got a lot of people here you can financially rape with your predatory loads mario monti says the three card monte you know it's a global aspiration to be a gang step on a wall street make predatory loans extort money. powerful you need to nigeria plan to resume talks with the government after five consecutive days of nationwide protests against skyrocketing fuel and food prices the move comes after the unions threat to stop all crude and natural gas production this sunday there are fears that the total shutdown of oil exports from the country could deal a major blow to the world's bubbling economy already the editor of the pan-african newswire told me that the west has every reason to be concerned we have to keep in mind that right now as far as the united states is concerned some twenty five

percent of the all that's being imported right now into the united states is coming from the african continent nigeria is the number one export of the united states and poland is number two in fact. all of that is it's poor form africa into united states now see the role of this is that exported from the internal review and so the u.s. is very much concerned about maintaining stability in nigeria for the simple fact that it is heavily reliant upon the all that's being imported from nigeria into the united states. the tensions of the middle east and all fears dominating the world stage of most people today with the latest on a website r.t.d. or kong there as well to party dignitaries often find it clear to when they leave office and ask for russia's former envoy to nato want to do the alliance headquarters but he failed to mention the trees that what the trees he had in mind share their name with russia's newest nuclear missile chill that made sense but

later as reaction you can visit our web site also the iphone craze turns out early in china discount called crowd pelt one of apple's flagship stores of eggs prompting the tech giant to shut down its operation in beijing just a couple of stories tonight you might like it r.t. dot com. to egypt now where the former head of the un's nuclear watchdog the hamad al baradei has called off his bid for presidency says he's not going to run as the old regime has never really gone away el baradei i have been seen by many as one of the front running liberal candidates but what egyptian commentator says he never really stood a chance of leading the country. a brother's stance to to not run for for

presidency and withdrawing his candidacy is an extension to stance during the mubarak rule where he refused to be a presidential candidate in light of corruption so what he actually means by withdrawing his candidacy is to send a message out that the regime has still not fallen and that the scaf are mubarak's extension and that the regime is extremely corrupt and so he hopes to bring light to the fact that nothing has changed in the regime he didn't have much of a chance under the current regime because it's was still the same chances as he had during the mubarak regime the military wanted to maintain control over every aspect of egypt's political life there's a campaign called has a boon which means liars which shows how the military are lying actually about the . everything they've said so far and their brutality against egyptians so that there is says been more dissent in one year against the military than mubarak has garnered over thirty years. caught up in a few minutes on our t.v.

look into what america says is good nutritious food for children fun of what's been classified as a vegetable in american schools where one in three children are dangerously overweight. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the american campaign in afghanistan is suppressing taliban activity and heading in the right direction but that since the wreck contradiction to the leaked cia report presented to the white house which cast doubt on the optimistic rhetoric suggesting that the u.s. operation is something to stalemate several top commanders have signed a letter of dissent in response to the paper saying it doesn't show an understanding of taliban tactics and is based on flawed evidence the cia report concludes the troop reinforcements a bit ineffective because of corruption incompetent governance and attacks by taliban fighters who are hiding out in neighboring pakistan this may now result in the longest day by american troops beyond the planned withdrawal in twenty fourteen according to khalil nuri of the new world strategies coalition. it has been ten

years that has now unified the country i said should have been it looks like there is no chance for the americans to see your government standing on its feet however this could prolong americans be on a stand for quite a number of years i would say and the years are unknown at this time but it looks like it's going to be a long time because there's a corrupt government and i function in a way that it is right now the fact is that there's a friction in the white house right now that some more say no basically the pentagon going to a treaty is the one calling up that same to you know we should not really rush in fast as we can. this popular disapproval of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan on the rise of americans will soon or the chance to vote for change fuel was a broader more action on pressing issues though and they're among the most popular

demands from americans of the presidential candidates the rafters takes the streets of new york asking whether it's change they can believe in. this year the us has the opportunity to elect a new president are they ready for radical change this week let's talk about that changing that much i just don't think is realistic at all we don't move that quickly it's not the way our system works and it will move in different directions over time but i don't think it's going to happen do you think that's a detriment to us that everything takes so long. maybe but it's the way the system works and i think that those checks and balances in the way that it moves slowly actually is good in the long run well they thought they were ready four years ago for radical change do you think they had radical change so far i feel like they had a radical change in the wrong direction so what direction do you think it should go in the way of the people which is what which is when the government actually works

for us not for themselves the change i would like to see would be probably they would be complimentary because there are some libertarian ideas that are great but you just can't pull the social fabric out from the folks that need it you can't do it i'm a really hard time with the fed and i think we should be out of all countries you know we should be occupying anything but we need to take care of our own i think you need somebody who is prepared to stick his head out and do big changes like to say do you think that the u.s. people would get behind a leader that did that if they get desperate enough because of the split that's happening with people who are employed not employed to have money and no money they desperately nuffield get it whether or not the u.s. needs radical change the bottom line is it remains to be seen whether or not they'll vote for it.

or take it around the world news in brief fifty three reporters said over one hundred wounded in a bomb attack on shia pilgrims in some. in iraq according to local officials a terrorist in police uniform approached a checkpoint and blew himself up in the middle of a passing crowd hundreds of thousands of shia believers of making their way to a swine in the city of karbala michael ijaz festival scores of pilgrims have already been killed in sectarian violence in the past few weeks despite stepped up security. people being confirmed dead after a cruise ship run aground off italy's northwest coast but around seventy is still missing the confirmed victims were two french tourists and a peruvian crew member most of the four thousand people on board the costa concordia were evacuated on lifeboats or swam ashore the vessel hit a sandbar near the end of gilia which according to the captain wasn't marked on maps. millon suicide bombers attacked a police station in northwest pakistan sparking a firefight that left at least three officers dead up to ten attackers dressed in

police uniforms besieged the building and two suicide bombs were detonated during the battle no one's claimed responsibility for the attack though the taliban had a base in the neighboring region until a military operation there in two thousand and nine. now let's feature again small trailblazers among russia's expert on it as they share their stories of success. in russia for a job seekers have often been preferred over local talent but terry lynn the burger created the staff well recruitment agency took many of the country's homegrown ungifted candidates out of the shadows and she says she and they have never regretted it. i am really fortunate that i've had a really good run with our business in russia i started sefl in two thousand and that was still during a time when it was a little bit of a crisis here after the ninety eight financial crisis and i think the key to our

being successful one of them a very big one and we had an excellent chief accountant who really helped us set up the whole financial side of this business and that to me for going to set up any company in russia you have to have a good finance team we have one competitor here who set up their business right at the beginning of the actually right before the crisis so they came in about two thousand and seven and they really i mean they did not survive i mean they're here but they've had to downscale their offices like a skeleton crew and that's because they i mean some of the things that they did you know they did wrong they had management that was not successful they had huge huge expenses right now i mean we're still in an upswing at stafford which means that recruitment is moving along nicely we just need to get through the election period and things will probably go very smoothly with any business for it to be successful you've got to constantly be on top of it and constantly motivate everyone to just keep going if you want to succeed no matter what the market environment is i think

there's a lot of opportunities here you have to have the you have to have the drive to do that you know and that's what i think you know naturally in the world russia as well as anywhere else sometimes there's a fear of putting that drive into place or there's there are some you know barriers maybe but but anything can be done here if you just put your mind to it i mean look at me i open my company and it's you know one of the strongest recruiting firms in russia and who was i you know i don't have the big education or the big experience but i had the drive and i had the will and i had a love of what i did and i wanted to succeed and i just pushed myself and i worked extremely hard day and night nonstop and i loved every single minute of it so that's the key come on. so really heavily engaged in sports here in russia so i i do take on do i play broom i will go bowling i play softball so a lot of different sports i'm involved with the metal really helps the first of all

networking is fantastic and the focus that a lot of it brings is really great like the type i do for instance for me it takes away a lot of the stress that i may have sometimes on different things and i can bring it in here and just be much more focused and i am i'm always accomplishing it i think my family is you know it's extremely important to me and that's one of the things that is kept to be here obviously is we're here they're very happy here and now i get a lot of support from them in terms of i mean everything i do is for them really you know the love of my life my little boys are just incredible and i really have a great family and very close and that's why you do everything i think you know in life so it's very positive place to be and that makes me happy i think it makes a lot of people. obesity has long been a major problem for many children across america when you look for solutions the government stands accused of turning a blind eye to a trend that's causing diabetes and heart disease but spells profit of course for the food corporations one of. the menu in us public schools.

it's a super sized crisis impossible for america to disguise an insatiable love for food and big portions has served up a nationwide majority of overweight children none of us want this future for our kids as first lady michelle obama attempts to tackle the epidemic by advocating more exercise healthy eating and penning a book about the white house garden u.s. lawmakers are getting kudo's first stirring the health problem which i applaud in a single woman tension fear will go nowhere given the allure of the. recent decision by the congress to send pizza was a vegetable you heard correctly the greasy cheesy cheap meal known as pizza is served as a lunch vegetable to thirty two million public school children how because u.s. department of agriculture guidelines qualify to tablespoons of tomato paste as an

official veggie survey in november u.s. congress rejected a request from the department that would have changed requirements and ultimately removed from school menus congress has really shown who controls them and that's the big corporations and the big food corporations companies like con agra and she wants these are the makers of the frozen pizza and they have huge financial interests in that obviously according to published reports food companies spend five point six billion dollars this year lobbying specifically to keep pizza friendly u.s.d.a. guidelines in place the social consequence of overweight kids has millions currently battling diabetes and millions more vulnerable to heart disease and shortened life expectancy granted issues such as corporate control and obesity are not new problems for america but over the years the hunger for profits has

compromised. health of an entire generation the u.s. department of defense says twenty five percent of young americans are too overweight to join the military and epidemic so bad experts say threats to national security for. our short but quite telling unscientific poll found americans picking logic over the world of their lawmakers like pizza. he doesn't want it to mean are. we trying to it's serious or it's. belt's not just what it's like it's much made of beer at all that's what. that's what the nutritional value in this. period whatever it is i don't think whatever they're feeding in the cheese is

terrible knowing that u.s. leaders have a hand in cooking up the ingredients can also leave a bad taste in many mouths in a port in iowa r.t. new york. just a few minutes max kaiser says the tough times of austerity are afraid to get lee so bad leave them out of fear having to tighten their belts cause report is on the way after a quick break and a recap of the headlines on r.t. .

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards who is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. where it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three if you put it in the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be seen up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to the original sit all the papers yes we are the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just

a stage prop. lose . sleep. more news today violence is once again flared up.

these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corporations are. cool. your faulty from moscow on top stories qatar becomes the first arab state to back a military intervention in syria if bloodshed continues but president assad remains to find a terrorist group sponsored by the west for the turmoil the snow into his tenth month and defiance despite the downgrade from says it's not panicking in the wake of losing its top credit rating status a study from paul's deems the eurozone increasingly unfit to deal with this debt crisis. and thus a year since he is president ben ali was ousted the new was the.