really issues of poverty and unemployment in favor of spreading a radical religious agenda. international news live from moscow this is all say with me thanks for joining us countess says it will support sending our troops to syria if violence in which over a five thousand seven s have died during the last ten months it does not stop the country's army or has become the finest hour of needed to the bottom of the chain to version of a sickness trying to six people have been killed across the country during protests and support for the opposition group the free syrian army and our native zevon 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 terrorist groups orchestrated from abroad and particularly from an associate editor for in four wars dot com says curteis not independent on shaping

it starts off syria. could target they do have an alliance with nato there are 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 is ok the united states is not with to see 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 libyan

rebel army that was backed by nato so this is this is a rigged game and i think syria is if they keep the pressure on like they did with libya and in other parts of the world we've seen the same thing eventually the regime will be so. it's engineered beginning and then it becomes a real crisis the u.s. allies are really wagering on this case. more head to our web site home where we're asking all tears saying go of qatar support for military intervention in syria this is hard the results of the site but look right now have to six percent of those responding thing that can tie represents the u.s. position on syria and thirty five percent think that there's now a greater risk of war which will be a disaster seven percent claim that qatar stands shows that are of states no longer support president assad's politics and the rest say that military intervention is the only solution in the ongoing crisis so what's your opinion had to r.t.

dot com to cast your vote. and also and i produce trade confrontation and find out 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 is shit. internees are thousands have taken to the streets of the country's capital the popular uprising brought an end to president ben ali is wrong and triggered the arab spring they call for press freedom and more democratic values while chanting revolutionary slogans many believe little has changed since ben ali was ousted to me this still plagued by unemployment and crippling economic problems the country has seen a wave of suicide protests septembers with people setting themselves alight and the space of just

a week and of course many say the only real change since they revolution has been a sudden a radical religious idea. 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 nada and islamist party which now firmly holds the majority of seats in the new parliament. 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 non muslims. if you. go but western tourists need to have nothing to fear the party's leaders see beer and bikini's irregular steeples of tunisia's full of these hot spots are here just

a year to recent events university one of the largest in the country show the tunisian ways are indeed changing major protests that erupted right here at the amman they were going to versity several female students came in wearing and which is the traditional islamic headdress which covers most of the face leaving just the eyes open they're going 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 by the majority of students were against the strike. 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 believe he 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 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 head dress i'm afraid you may be used to their vocab the problems the parliamentary opposition meanwhile fears this bad news for the democracy. you're worried that we may slim down to a new head to head a 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. 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. made me start

terry connelly told us he that they knew is the misleaders are indulging in emotional populism instead of real solutions to the country's was. way in which the young operating that we. do is extremely unintelligent president mark. bingham has been operating. the way in which the new justice will is. minister going social and moral. 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 third country which are social and economic problems a look that only needs to be implemented or 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 in general is a sign of bankruptcy it's because they've gone out of the people leaping out so

they are proceeding along. this is our see. 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. the pentagon's top official says the u.s. is doing well in afghanistan and the taliban is losing ground while a cia report says the campaign is mired in a stalemate. there's a nervous wait for investors reaction when world stock markets open on monday after nine years own countries have their credit rating cut including france and austria losing their prized aaa status e.u. leaders hit by a get a ratings agency standard and poor's calling its decision incomprehensible germany remains the only eurozone country with a top aaa status chancellor angela merkel's that there's a long road for europe to regain investor confidence while french prime minister brown saw three young has promised more story see the country john locke and of the

institute for democracy and cooperation in paris has said the downgrade could help crumble the franco german alliance seeking to. 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 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 that 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 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 this day this announcement that downgrading of france or 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 el baradei have been seen by many as one of the front running liberal candidates but one egyptian commentator says he never really is to the chance of losing the country. brothers stance 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 sky 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. and coming up in

a few minutes the latest of our past find it serious right now see. this woman created the most profitable recruitment agency in russia and now she's ready to shut it secrets of success while some of them. relating to water america says it's good nutritious food for children find out why pizza is classified as a vegetable in american schools one of three children are dangerously low weight. u.s. 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 the cia report presented to the white house which cast 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 an understanding of time but attack take sunday's based on the evidence the cia report

concludes that's true but reinforcements have been ineffective because of corruption incompetent governance and at times by a ton of been finances hiding out in neighboring pakistan this may result in an even longer stay by american troops beyond the blonde twenty fourteen according to . 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 with 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 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 more say no basically the pentagon good military is the one that's calling up that same to know we should not

really rush in fast as we can. do with popular disapproval of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan on the rise americans will soon have to challenge the chance to vote for change here was a broad pressing issues at home so that among the most popular demands for americans all the presidential candidates in our health and its takes to the streets of new york asking whether a change they can be red. 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. trade unions in nigeria have failed to reach a compromise with the government and destroy exposed by there was joy of state subsidies which has sent fuel and food prices soaring unions are threatening to shut down oil and gas prices saying a talks plan to someday fail the episode the pan african newswire told all say that the crisis could have global economic impact if it was serious we have to keep in mind that right now as far as the united states it's are some twenty five percent of the all that's being in order to right now going to the united states is coming from the african continent nigeria is the number one that's what it is the internet

is number two in fact. all of that is let's do it from africa into united states now see. a lot of this is that is not 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 little part of a part of all that's being imported from nigeria into the united states. and there's some other stories making headlines around the world a mother and a woman have been rescued from inside a cruise ship a day after it ran aground off the northwest coast of italy the vassal with four thousand two hundred board ended up on its side after hitting a sand bar near the island of really oh two french tourists and the peruvian crew member have been confirmed dead and over forty people are still missing the ship's captain is being held on suspicion of manslaughter abandoning the ship with four others and causing a ship wreck. fifty three people are reported dead and over one hundred wounded in

a bomb attack on shear 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 sheer believers are making their way to a shrine in the city of karbala to mark a religious festival scores of programs have reportedly been killed in sectarian violence in the past few weeks despite stepped up security. government and suicide bombers have attacked a police station 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 bombers were detonated during the battle no one has claimed responsibility for that time though the time about how the base in the neighboring region until the military operation to thousand and nine. there have been violent scenes in the rumanian capital good between police and protesters demonstrating of the health service cuts nine people

were injured as officers used tear gas while some in the crowd threw petrol bombs thousands have been taking to the streets across the country and grab more government austerity measures needed to get new financial help from the international monetary fund opponents say they already outdated medical system will be further worsened and living standards. voting is underway in kazakhstan's parliamentary elections with the government. time party of present time there's a dr expected to win a landslide his party won all one hundred seven seats in the last polls in two thousand and seven other parties are expected to win some seize this time though foreign observers doubt the vote will lead to real political pluralism in the oil rich country the ballot comes less than a month after violence between striking all workers and security forces left at least sixteen people dead. right now time to feature more trailblazers among russia's acts on top earners as they share their stories of success.

so here russian foreign job seekers have often been preferred over local talent but this bug who created the start well recruitment agency took many of the country's homegrown and gifted candidates out of the shadows 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 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 stafford 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 come on. really heavily engaged in sports here in russia so i i do taekwondo i played 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 is fantastic and 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 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 i'm 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 want. obesity has long been a major problem for many children across america and they needed it for solutions the government stars accused of turning a blind eye to a trend that's causing diabetes and heart disease but profit for giant food corporations. tastes of course on the menu in the 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 kudos for stirring the how problem her food 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 to staple foods 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 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 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. compromise 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 it wrecks to national security.

our short but quite totally unscientific poll found americans picking logical 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. it'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 me 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 mouths in a port in iowa r.t. new york top of on with the main headlines just a few minutes and a little later reports the billionaires to possy about their protest movement which emerged in opposition to brock obama threatening to derail his promises of hope and

change stay with us. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or 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 go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but it was a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beason 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 and i have the gall to originals of all the papers to be out there little ice-t. ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just a stage prop.

to much brighter than a few new movements from phones to. knees for instance on t.v. dot com. welcome back to this is ask you to headline its council becomes the first state to ban military intervention in syria in the bloodshed that's left over five thousand civilians dead continues as counted as president assad blames terrorist groups sponsored by the west for the turmoil which is now in its arse months. mixed reactions france says it's not panicking in the wake of losing its top credit rating stages while germany wins europe that's it has a long way to restore investor trust this.