hello and welcome to our t twenty four hour news live from moscow of all a top story now curtis says it will support sending our troops to syria of finance in which thousands have died does not stop the country's emea has become the first arab leader to back military intervention if the bloodshed continues acts of it said at least twenty six people have been killed across the country during protests in support of the armed opposition group the free syrian army says a fire thousand civilians have died at the hands of security forces during a ten month crime down against anti-government protests lab really gets out a mission that started almost three weeks ago has so far failed to broker peace president bashar al assad has declared that the violence in the country has been organized by armed terrorist groups orchestrated from abroad and patrick hansen and

as i said director for in for was out cold believes the west is instigating the revolt. this is a really murky area this issue defecting military defectors and so forth. to the united states and britain only what they do when they destabilize the country is what we saw in iraq 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 perspectives 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. 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 guitar they do have an alliance with nato they're aligned with the us as you know toward. us centcom central command so there's definitely synergy there with whatever america's agenda is with regards to syria which will be lockstep with us. and from or had to our website cole where we're asking more tears saying can't support mooching to mention in syria and this is how the results of this site vote right now thirty seven percent of those responding the thing that counts have represents the u.s. position on syria exactly the same number thirty seven percent saying that there is now a greater risk of war which will be a disaster fourteen percent claim that military intervention is the only solution

in the ongoing crisis and the rest say that causes stands shows that arab states no longer support president axons politics and what's your opinion had to home to cast your vote. internees it thousands have taken to the streets of the country's capital a good since the popular uprising brought an end to president ben ali's rule and triggered the arab spring they called for president press freedom and more democratic values while chanting revolutionary slogans many believe little has changed since ben ali was ousted things is still plagued by unemployment and crippling economic problems the country has seen a wave of suicide protests at times with food people setting themselves alight and the space of just a week and. reports many say the only real chance of the revolution has been

a surge in radical really just. 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 another and islamist party which now firmly holds the majority of seats in the new parliament. for the first experience. making the choice between. political programs and towards hard. pushed people either with muslims and muslims. but western tourists need to have nothing to fear the party's leaders say beer and bikini's irregular. 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 their protests erupted right here we're going to versity several female students came in wearing what is the traditional islamic head dress which covers most of the face leaving just the eyes open they're going to first of a authorities have prohibited such head dress from being worn on campus so the students went on strike saying their freedom was being oppressed by 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 and professor believe he acknowledged the students right to wear whatever they please after all she says this is the essence of freedom but in the niqab she felt a different from the simple issue of dress code since usually had a dress serves to protect the woman from possible unwanted advances and activist.

women's rights in the country believe the underlying political tendencies are thinly veiled by the strikes at the new beginning versity. whether one wears any cop and whatever else this thing an important i'm not afraid of women's desire to wear a 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 democracy because. you're worried that we may slump down to a new head to rule 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. not a leaders have made numerous assurances that they're not going to turn into a strict sharia law state but many in the country are already saying that the worrying signs are here. r t tunisia. and middle east

expert terry connelly told us here that the new is a misleading downturn in emotional populism instead of real solutions to the country's was. the way in which the. operating that we're. extremely unintelligent president marc. has been operating. the way in which the new justice will is to be slow mr klein social and moral greater to decide what can go on and more can even go on to know more shouldn't go on television is awarding the real problems of photogrammetry which are social and economic problems and apply only to be implemented rid of the ball of the people who are treetop and a dictator just goes back to the so-called morgridge islamists of basically concentrating on moral censorship and what people should do it shouldn't do is a sign of beyond bankruptcy it's because they've gone out of the people leaping out

so they are receding along. so coming out the corrupt legacy of hosni mubarak influences the presidential race in egypt one of the main liberal candidate this polling out to find out why in just a few marmot. pentagon's top official says the u.s. is doing well in afghanistan and the taliban is losing ground while at cia report says the campaign is mired in a stalemate. there's a nervous wait for investors reaction one world stock markets open on monday after nine years and countries had their credit rating current including for some dos trim losing their prized aaa status the leaders had back at ratings agency standard and poor's calling it decision incomprehensible germany remains the only eurozone country with a top aaa status turns langar merkel said there's a long road for europe to regain investor confidence while french prime minister from south y'all has promised more stereotype of the country trouble auckland for

democracy and cooperation in paris said the downgrade could help crumble the franco german alliance seeking to leave the. 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 eurozone there 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 you know i mean it's true that these agencies are not above reproach they've made a lot of mistakes in the past and good 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 that we will see just a this announcement downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments to. have again is in nigeria plan to resume talks with the government after five consecutive days of nationwide process the skyrocketing fuel and food prices the move comes after the unions threatens to stop all crude and natural gas production this sunday and there are fears that the total shut down of oil exports from the country could deal a major blow to the world a commie and bad cell the pan-african news wire has told r.t. that the west has every reason to be concerned that we have to keep in mind are

that right now as far as nice things as some to what you. are listening. and right now going to the united states is coming from the african continent nigeria is the number one export it to the united states and is number two in fact. all that is that's the word from africa into united states now see the amount of a lot of this is that exported from the entire living and not in the u.s. is very much concerned about maintaining stability in nigeria for the simple fact that it is so heavily reliant upon the ball that's being imported from nigeria into the united states and to egypt now where the former head of the yarns nuclear watchdog mohamed el baradei as cold off his bid for presidency and he says he's not going to run as the old regime has never really gone away had been seen by many as one of the front running liberal candidates but one egyptian commentator says he

never really stood a chance of leading the country. brothers stance two to not run for the 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 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 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 because a boon which means liars which shows how the military are lying actually about.

everything they've said so far and their brutality against egyptians so that there's been more dissent in one year against the military than mubarak has garnered over thirty years. and coming up in a few minutes analyse will look into what america says is good nutritious food for children to find out why pizza is classified as a vegetable in american schools one of three children dangerously away. has defense secretary leon panetta says the american campaign in afghanistan is suppressing taliban activity and heading in the right direction that's in direct contradiction to their leaked cia report presented to the white house and it would cause doubt on the optimistic rhetoric suggesting that the u.s. operation has sunk into stalemate several top commanders have signed a letter of dissent in response to the paper saying it doesn't show the standing of taliban tactics and is based on flawed evidence the cia report concludes that troop

reinforcements have been ineffective because of corruption income. it into governance and attacks by tata but fight is hiding out in neighboring pakistan and this may result in an even longer stay by merican troops beyond the planned withdrawal in twenty fourteen according to how little nearly all the new wall strategies coalition. it has been ten years that has not unified the country i said should have been it looks like there's no chance for the americans to see a government standing on its feet however this could prolong americans be on a stone 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 cannot function in the way that it is right now the fact is that there is a friction in the white house right now that some more say no basically the pentagon good military is the one that's calling up that same to you know we should

not really here rush in fast as we can with disapproval of the u.s. can paint afghanistan on the rise americans will soon have the chance to vote for change fuel was aboard and more pressing issues that have there among the most popular demands from americans on that presidential candidates and now we often it's takes to the streets of new york costing what they change they can believe it . 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 i 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 nuff you look at 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. some other stories making headlines around the world fifty three people are reported dead and over one hundred wounded in a bomb or tired on sheer pilgrims in southern iraq according to local officials a terrorist in police uniform approached a checkpoint and blew himself up in the middle of the passing crowd hundreds of thousands of shia believers are making their way to a shrine in the city of karbala to mark of a religious festival scores of pilgrims have reportedly been killed in sectarian violence in the past few weeks despite stepped up security. three people have been confirmed dead after a cruise ship ran aground off italy's northwest coast but around seventy are still

missing the confirmed victims were two french tourists and a peruvian crew member most of the four thousand four thousand people on board the costa concordia were evacuated on live boats or swam ashore the vessel hate a sound bar near the island of giulio which according to the captain was and marked on mobs. the gunmen and suicide bombers have a target a police station northwest pakistan sparking a firefight that left at least three officers dead after time attackers dressed in police uniforms besieged the building and two suicide bombs were detonated during the battle no one has claimed responsibility for that time though the taliban had a base in the neighboring region until a military operation in two thousand and nine. and now it's time to be sure true blazers among russia's x. part entrepreneurs as they share their stories of success.

just. before and drug seekers have often been preferred over local talent but terry lindeberg who created the style recruitment agency took many of the country's homegrown and gifted candidates out of the shadows and 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 good 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 i mean right now i mean we're still in an upswing at staffel which means that recruitment is moving along nicely we just need to get through the election period and then 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 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 well come on. so really heavily engaged in sports here in russia so i do take one do i play broom ball i would go bowling i play softball so a lot of different sports i'm involved with a metal really helps the first of all networking in the focus that a lot of it brings is really great like the taekwondo 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 it's 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 laugh. has long been a major problem for many children across america and while many look for solutions the government accused of turning a blind eye to trend that's causing these hasn't heart disease but spells profit for german food corporations and of course not tested also on the menu in us politics school. it's a super sized crisis impossible for america to disguise an insatiable love for food and big portions has served up a nation wide majority of overweight children none of us wants 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 her efforts which i applaud in a single woman feel will go nowhere given the allure of the. recent decision by the congress to send pizza was a vegetable you heard correctly a 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 two 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

swans 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 come. as the 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.

our short but quite totally unscientific poll found americans picking logic over the world of their lawmakers like pizza. he doesn't want it to mean a. group which are too small to be service but that's not just like the smarts made over beer at all that's what. that's what the nutritional value in that. area whatever it is i don't but whatever you're feeding in the cheese is terrible knowing that u.s. leaders have a hand in cooking up the greedy and can also leave a bad taste in many mouths during a port in iowa r.t. new york. and that's the way the news is this song up next our special report takes a look at the courageous a war correspondents killed while working in iraq but i'll be back with the

headlines. this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that won't we breathe the 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 of free. i'm free. you . have very motivated out cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is rights for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge. was. was we are drowning in property drowning and i think it's spread by it's cutting our heart. it's making real democracy. all but impossible.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all over the day. for. it.

welcome bob this is actually the headline. consol becomes the first state to back military intervention in syria that left over five thousand civilians dead continues this comes as president assad blames terrorist groups sponsored by the west for the turmoil which is now in its towns month. defines despite the downgrade of france says it's not panicking in the wake of losing its top credit rating stated standard and poor's deane's the eurozone increasingly unfit to deal with its debt crisis.