my. international news life for most this is us here with me here masha thanks for jogging it's council says it would support a sending our troops to syria violence in which of the five thousand civilians have died during the last ten months does not stop the countries and their has become the finest hour be needed to back military intervention at least twenty six people have been killed across the country during protests in support of the armed opposition group the free syrian army and our breakup said the mission has 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 all terrorist groups orchestrated from abroad by particle and so on and so i said at the top of the four walls dot com says cursor is not independent and sharing if instead of its

stance on syria. guitar 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 will be lockstep with the us this is not an organic . color revolution we're witnessing in syria libya has sent fighters to join the free syrian army that's reported in the mainstream news ok the united states is not with this security an opposition group hillary clinton in geneva a few months ago. being financially supported to being materially supported by turkey ok this is a rogue militia a paramilitary army comprised of foreign fighters ok these are not all syrians but kate as we saw in libya we had a lot of guys who are from other arab countries so who are involved in the libyans . i mean it was. this is this is

a rigged game and i think syria is if they keep the pressure like they did with libya. it will be seen the same single benchley the regime. is engineered beginning and then it becomes a real crisis the u.s. allies are really wagering on this being the case. anderson more head to our web sites are to go cold where we're asking what she is saying that can't support for military intervention in syria and this is how the results of the site vote look right now fifty nine percent of those responding think that current time represents the u.s. position on syria and twenty eight percent saying that there is now a greater risk of war which will be a disaster seven percent claim that military intervention is the only solution in the ongoing crisis and the rest say that qatar stance shows that arab states no longer support president assad politics and what's your opinion had tarted up home

to cost you about. and also now see find out the latest developments in this trade of hormuz and of iran threats to close the crucial route through which a large part of the world's oil is shipped. and internees it thousands have taken to the streets of the countries count as the popular uprising brought an end to president ben ali's rule and triggered the arab spring they called for press freedom and more domestic values while charting revolutionary slogans many believe little has changed since then ali was ousted sneezes plagued by unemployment and crippling economic problems become tree has seen a wave of suicide protests the towns with food people setting themselves in light in the space of just a week. reports many say the only real revolution has been

a surge in radical religious i. think 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 nod 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. hotspots are here to stay yet recent events at the

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 versus the 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 there was 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 acknowledge the students right to wear whatever they please after all she says this is the essence of freedom but. 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 one. rights in

the country believe the underlying political tendencies are filling veiled by the strikes at the new beginning versity. but whether one wears any cop or whatever else this thing this 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 born tunisian democracy because. you're worried that we may slim 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. are tunisia sounds of a sex that terry connelly told us here that the new is the misleaders are indulging

in emotional populism instead of real solutions to the country's words. way in which the army operating the way. it is extremely unintelligent president mark. in your has been operating. the way in which the new justice minister mr social and moral greater to decide what can go on and what can even go on joe not shouldn't go on television is awarding the real problems of photogrammetry which are social and economic problems and look i don't need to be implemented to the goal of the people who are treatable to do it just goes back to be so-called morgridge islamists are basically concentrating on moral censorship and what people should do it shouldn't do is a sign of 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 candidates is pulling out find out why in just a few moments. also the pentagon's top official says the u.s. is doing well in afghanistan and the taliban is losing ground while at the 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 own countries had their credit rating cut including france and austria losing their prized aaa status the leaders had by as ratings agency standard and poor's calling a decision in comprehensible germany remains the only eurozone country with the top aaa status chancellor angela merkel said there is a long road for europe to regain investor confidence while french foreign minister france are the young has promised more starting the country john locke then told

the institute for democracy and cooperation of paris says that 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 a turn of all proposition what we see in the euros are those 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 we will see just a this announcement downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments. powerful as it is in nigeria planning to resume talks with the government after five consecutive days of nationwide cries has to kind of rockets or kill and third prices in this comes after the you know threatens to stop all crude and natural gas production this sunday there are fears that the total shutdown of our exports from the country could deal a major blow to the world's economy added tell the pan-african newswire has told r.t. that the west has every reason to because sound we have to keep it man are there

right now as far as nice things is concerned some twenty five percent. or listening in. right now going to the united states is coming from the african continent nigeria is the number one export to the united states and is number two in fact. all of that is export from africa into united states now exceeds. all of the basics that exported from the entire arabian peninsula so the u.s. is very much concerned about maintaining stability in nigeria for the simple fact that it is so heavily little water a part of all that's being imported from nigeria into the united states. and to egypt now whether former head of the un's nuclear watchdog mohamed el baradei has called off his bid for presidency he says is not going to run as the old regime has never really gone away baradei had been seen for many as one of the front running liberal candidates but one egyptian commentator says he never really stood at

chance of leading the country. stands to 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 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 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. everything they've said so far and their brutality against egyptians so that there

is is been more dissent in one year against the military than mubarak has garnered over thirty years. coming up in a few minutes the latest of our part find it series right here on our sea and. this woman who created the most profitable recruitment agency in russia is ready to share the secrets of her success well some of them. look into war america says is good nutritious food for children find out why pizza is classified as a vegetable in american schools one in three children are dangerously i'll wait. here as defense secretary leon panetta. it says the american campaign in afghanistan is suppressing time they've been actively and. heading in the right direction and that's in direct contradiction to the leaks cia report presented to the white house which caused doubt on the optimistic rhetoric suggesting that the us operation has sent him to stay in late so several top commentators have signed

in that dissent in response to the paper saying it doesn't show an understanding of taliban top takes and is based on a fluid evidence this report concludes that troop reinforcements have been ineffective because of corruption incompetent governance and the tug's by taliban finances finding out in neighboring pakistan this may result in an even longer stay by american troops beyond the blonde was told in twenty fourteen according to the new wall strategies cognition. it has been twenty years that has not unified the country i said should have been it looks like there's no chance with americans to see your 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 if 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 or say no basically the pentagon good military is the one that's calling up that say don't know we should not really rush in pull out fast as we can. but popular disapproval of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan on the rise americans will soon have the chance to vote for change fuel wars abroad and more action on pressing issues at home. the most popular demands from americans all the presidential candidates who are hoffa is takes to the streets of new york asking why 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 i think we'll 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. and now to some other stories making headlines around the world fifty three people are reported dead and one hundred wounded in a bomb or tired on ship pogroms in southern 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 are making their way to shine in the city of karbala to mark a religious festival scores of pilgrims have reportedly been killed in sectarian

violence in the past few weeks despite the 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 they confirmed victims were two french tourists and a proven crew member most of the four thousand people on board the costa concordia were evacuated on lifeboats or swam ashore the vessel haters sand bar near the island of giulio wash according to the captain wasn't marked on my apps. gunmen and suicide bombers her target a police station in northwest pakistan sparking a firefight that left at least three officers dead after ten attackers dressed in police uniforms the siege the building and two suicide bombs were detonated during the battle no one has claimed responsibility for that at the time about how the base in the neighboring region until the military operation in two thousand and nine. there had been

a violent scenes in the romanian capital bucharest between police and protesters demonstrating over health service cuts nine people were injured as officers used tear gas while some in the choir threw petrol bombs thousands have been taking to the streets across the country angry at nor government austerity measures needed to get new financial help from the international monetary fund opponents say the already outdated medical system will be a further blow us and our living standards reduced. and right now it's time to look for to feature more trailblazers among russia's x. part entrepreneurs are that share their stories of success. in russia foreign job seekers have often been preferred of local talent but terry linda bug who created the stuff well recruitment agency took many of the country's home grown 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 southall in two thousand and that was still during a time when it was a little bit of a crisis here after the ninety 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 crate 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 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 when i come on. so really heavily engaged in sports here in russia

so i do take one 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 in the focus that a lot of it brings is really great like the type mondo 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 has kept me 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 lots. of this is see as doing been

a major problem for many children across america and while many look for solutions the government star is accused of turning a blind eye to trends that's causing diabetes and heart disease that spells profit for giant food corporations are enough work not tests at all some of the main u.s. 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 her efforts 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

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 serving in november u.s. congress rejected a request from the department that would have changed requirements and ultimately removed from school menus congress is really showing 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 ok we're going to publish 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 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 telling unscientific poll found americans picking logic over the world of their lawmakers like pizza. it doesn't go to mean a. grill with your table so to be served it's. belt's not

nothing like this much made of beer at all that's what. that's what the nutritional value in that. period whatever it is i don't but whatever you're feeding in treme about the cheese is terrible knowing that u.s. leaders have a hand in cooking up the radiance can also leave a bad taste in many melts in a port in iowa r.t. new york. in just a few minutes max kaiser says they tough times of austerity are affecting italy is so badly that even the mafia having to tighten their belts because reporters on the way after a quick break and a recap of the headlines here on alt. when

an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. where it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but from

a 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 when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only nene's if i mean anything i have gone to the original sit all the papers that got them legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. welcome

back this is the headline it's. canceled because of the fast i have stated bach military intervention in syria is a black church that's left over five thousand civilians dead continues is counted as president assad blames terrorist groups sponsored by the west for the turmoil which is now in its tariff modify. mixed reactions france says it's not punishing in the wake of losing its top credit rating stages while germany warns europe that has a long way to restore investor trust.