of poverty and unemployment in a boat spreading a radical religious agenda. hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news live from moscow of our top story now qatar says it will support sending our troops to syria if violence in which over by a thousand civilians have died during the last ten months does not stop the country's emir has become the first arab leader to back military intervention 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 and arab league observers mission started almost three weeks ago has so far failed to broker peace president bashar assad has declared that the violence in the country has been organized by armed terrorist groups orchestrated from a group called patrick harris and i so said at a job for influence dot com says qatar is not independent in shaping it stance on

syria. are they do have an alliance with nato they're aligned with the us as you know qatar doha hosts u.s. centcom central command so there's definitely synergy there with whatever america's agenda is with regards to syria could fall will be in 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 securing opposition group hillary clinton in geneva a few months ago. they're being financially supported they're being materially supported by turkey ok this is a rogue militia paramilitary army comprised of foreign fighters ok these are not all syrians ok as we saw in libya we had a lot of guys who are from other arab countries so who are involved in the libyan

rebel army that was backed by nato so this is this is a rigged game and i think syria if they keep the pressure on like they did with libya and in other parts of the world we've seen the same thing eventual the regime will fold it's engineered in the beginning and then it becomes a real crisis the u.s. and their allies are really wagering on this being the case. the more head to our web site where we're asking what she is saying support for military intervention in syria this is the result of the side road look right now fifty six percent of those responding thing that current time represents the u.s. position on syria and such as the percent think that there's now a greater risk of war which will be a disaster playing that card stance shows that arab states no longer support president assad politics and the rest say that military intervention is the only solution in the ongoing crisis what's your opinion had to alter your claim to cost

your blood. also line for you this hour as trade confrontation wind down the latest developments in the persian gulf as iran threatens to close the crucial route through which a large part of the world's oil image. internees and thousands have taken to the streets of the country's capital yet says the popular uprising brought an end to president rule and triggered the arab spring they called for press freedom and more democratic values while chanting revolutionary slogans many believe stands behind. they're still plagued by unemployment and crippling economic problems the country has seen a wave of suicide protests the tamest people setting themselves on light in the

space of just a week and there's arena of course many say the only real change in their revolution has been a surge in radical religious ideas. 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. political culture. new for the first experience. making the choice between political programs it was hard. political campaign. that pushed people to choose either with muslims and then muslims. if you. don't believe in god but western tourists need to have nothing to fear the party's leaders see beer in bikini's irregular steeples of tunisia's follow these hot spots are here just

yet recent events at the university one of the largest in the country show the tunisian ways are indeed changing lives abroad as the rapid right here on the we're going to verse thirty several female students came in wearing any god which is the this in the islamic headdress which covers most of the face leaving does the eyes open and begin to verses the authorities have prohibited such head dress from being worn on campus so the students went on strike saying their freedom was being oppressed almost but the majority of students were against the strike but there was threatened. those in the minority we held out on principle we are against girls wearing headdress in their journals and during the exams it's a question of security and of trust and professor be acknowledged 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 a woman wears any cop or whatever else this thing's an important i'm not afraid of women's desire 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 because. we're worried that we may slump down to a new head to rule by one of the representative parties and not i received 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 only theirs have made numerous assurances that they are not going to turn to media interest sharia law states but many in the country are already saying that the worrying signs are here. r t tunisia. and terry connelly

told us here that the new it is going to bring dodging an emotional populism instead of real solutions to the country's work. eve way in which the young me speed operating the way in which this extremely unintelligent president market was he has been operating and the way in which the new justice minister than the slum is start applying 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 fair country which are social and economic problems and the plan needs to be implemented to help the poor the people who actually toppled the dictator the fact that the 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 can offer the people anything

else so they are proceeding along these lines. this is are coming out the they corrupt legacy of hosni mubarak influences the presidential race in egypt while they mainly vote counted it is pulling out find out and while just a few moments. the pentagon's top official says the u.s. is doing well in afghanistan and the taliban is losing ground while i see i report said the campaign is mired in a stalemate. there's a nervous wait for investors reaction when world stock markets open in monday after nine years on countries to have their credit rating cuts including france and australia using their prized aaa status leaders who back at ratings agency standard and poor's corneas the citron in comprehensible germany remains the only eurozone country with a top aaa status chancellor angela merkel said there's a long road for europe to regain investor confidence while french prime minister the young has promised an austerity in the country john laughlin of the institute

for democracy and cooperation of paris says that the downgrade could help crumble the franco german allies. and. 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 euro is 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 look 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. in europe the fact is there's been a low in the crisis but that was really to do with the christmas or new year holidays they have assessed the situation and they have come to the conclusion so 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 and as having been one of the decisive moments to egypt now where the former head of the un's nuclear watchdog mohamed el baradei has called off his bid for presidency he says he is not going to run as the old regime has never really gone away baradei has been seen by many as one of the frontrunners front running liberal candidates that are safe but one egyptian commentator says he never really is to the chance of releasing the country. brothers stands 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 skaf are mubarak's extension and that the regime is extremely corrupt as though 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 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 that liars which shows how the military are lying actually about their. 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. this is r.c. and coming up in a few minutes the latest of our past find it series right here in our city. so this woman creator of the most profitable recruitment agency in russia and now she's ready to share that secret of her success well some of that perhaps. also we're going to hold america says it's good nutritious food for children find out why pizza is classified as a vegetable in american schools one in three children are dangerously overweight. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is the american campaign in afghanistan is suppressing taliban activity and heading in the right direction that's in direct contradiction to the league cia report presented to the white house which calls dot on the optimistic rhetoric suggesting that the u.s. operation has sunk into a 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 this year

a report concludes that troop reinforcements have been ineffective because of corruption incompetent governance and attacks by taliban fighters are hiding out in neighboring pakistan this may result in an even longer stay by american troops beyond the planned withdrawal in twenty fourteen according to a little new real the new world 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 it could government standing on its feet however this could prolong americans be on a stone for a 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 is a corrupt government cannot function in a way that it is right now the fact is that there is a friction in the white house right now get some more say no basically the pentagon

good military is the one that's calling up that same to know we should not really her rush in play out fast as we can. with popular disapproval of the us campaign in afghanistan on the rise americans will soon have the chance to vote for change feel wars abroad and more pressing issues at home the most popular demands from markings on the presidential candidates so no health as takes to the streets of new york asking why they've changed. 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 will employ no employee 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. trade unions in nigeria have failed to reach a compromise with the government to end a strike sponsored by there was joy at state subsidies which has sent fuel and food prices soaring unions are threatening to shut down oil and gas prices saying talks planned for sunday failed they did so the pan african newswire told r.t. that the crisis could have global economic impact if it wasn't we have to keep in mind that right now as far as the united states is some. of the all that's being aborted right now going to be known as the it's coming from

the after nigeria is the number one that's one of the united states and that is number two. all of that is. from africa and nine states now see. all of this is that exported from the entire weaving and that's in the us is very much concerned about maintaining stability in nigeria. that. are part of all of this imported from nigeria. and let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a man and a woman have been found safe inside a cruise ship which ran aground off leaves northwest coast with four thousand two hundred onboard two french tourists and a peruvian crew member have been confirmed dead and over forty are still missing most on board of costa. concordia were evacuated on live boats or swam ashore vacillator sound about any of the island of gilio the captain's been arrested.

fifty three people are reported dead and over one hundred wounded in a bomb attack on show programs in southern iraq according to local officials a terrorist in police uniform approached a truck point 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 kabul are to mark a religious festival scores of programs have reportedly been killed in sectarian violence in the past few weeks despite stepped up security. gunmen and suicide bombers have a tighter police station in northwest pakistan sparty a firefight that left at least three officers dead after ten attackers dressed in police uniforms the siege of the building and two suicide bombs were detonated during the battle no one has claimed responsibility for the time that the taliban had a base in the neighboring region until a military operation in two thousand and nine. and violent scenes in the remaining

capital bucharest between police and protesters demonstrating all the health service cuts nine people were injured as officers used tear gas well some of the crowds were petrol bombs thousands have been taking to the streets across the country and great more government austerity measures needed to get new financial help from being too national monetary fund opponents say they're already outdated medical system will go further worsened and living standards reduced. and right now time to feature more trailblazers among russia's ex-parte entrepreneurs as they share their stories of success. just in russia foreign job seekers have often been preferred over local talent but terribly and about the graders the style well recruitment agency took many of the country's homegrown and gifted candidates out of the shadows and they have never had it. i am really fortunate that i've had

a really good run with our business in russia i started softball 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 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 i do tae kwon 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'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. of this is she has long been

a major problem for many children across america and while many look for solutions the government son is accused of turning stars accused of turning a blind eye to a trend that's causing diabetes and heart disease but spells profit for the giant food corporations. tasted also in the main 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 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 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 comp. mys 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 we're going to mean a regular grilling with your table so to be served it's

a bedsit belts not nothing would like this much tomato beer and all that from. that stuff to what the nutritional value of. the tearing up whatever it is i don't but whatever you're feeding in charlie 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. the other back with the headlines in just a few minutes underlay south special reports that billionaires tea party about a citizens' protest movement which emerged in the u.s. as barack obama swept supposed with them.

now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over.

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more xeno fogging. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out but when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but for a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beeston 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 and living i have gone to the original six all the papers. got them legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies

freedom becomes just a stage prop. it's technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got those huge earth covered. this is all seekers here live from moscow the headline. because of the. military intervention in syria is the left has left out of five thousand civilians dead continues this comes as president doesn't blaine's terrorist groups sponsored by the west or the town oil which is now in its tariff month. also mixed reactions of france says it's not gonna change in the wake of losing its top credit rating status while germany warns europe has a long way to.