it's midnight this is r.t. live from moscow welcome if you just joined us my name is kevin now in our top story for you moscow is vowing to do everything it can to make sure the u.n. security council doesn't sanction military intervention in syria that pledge from russia's top diplomat as he wrapped up a briefing about twenty eleventh's foreign policy paper all of us at the foreign ministry. russia blames both the assad government and the opposition for fighting continuing in the country and moscow wants to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there now what was new that was said by sergey lavrov on wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo sergey lavrov said should they break down should they not come to fruition then russia was willing to

step in to mediate and broker a peace in it both the opposition and the syrian government were welcome to come here to russia to try and sort out their proper sort out their problems now one thing that sergey lavrov was. there was very strong on was reiterating russia's put stance that they will not tolerate any form of international interference international military interference into syria now he pointed a finger towards the united states accusing washington of having led from behind when it came to the crisis that we saw in twenty eleven in in libya. saying that said the level of and the russian government did not want to see a similar situation of foreign military intervention happening in syria warning the u.s. not to try this lead from behind tactic as he poses when it comes to syria saying that international military intervention of that kind can have huge ramifications

saying that it can spread beyond the borders and become a major international incident. of course leading countries and closely watching the situation in the region the changes they're far from over it's only the beginning we have to understand that if we want nations to seoul their own issues that we mustn't interfere especially militarily that we must support dialogue between the conflicting signs we have to explain to the opposition forces that they have to find an agreement not. owsley regime this is a way to world wide scale war those that will affect not just the creatures but countries are beyond. gay lover of their saying that russia supports dialogue in bringing about peace in syria and warns other nations against attempting any kind of forward military intervention. so the un security council is mulling over russia's latest draft resolution on syria that was put forward this week the kremlin says it's balanced in aims to appease all sides in the conflict while the

u.s. is continuing to garner course to get president assad to go in syria itself the warring sides have agreed to a cease fire in a city near the capital but a government crackdown reportedly grinds on nonetheless in the flashpoint city of homs later this week arab league observers will deliver their verdict on whether the regime is complying with the peace plan it will then decide if it should extend its mission or asking u.n. to invade qatar's already proposed sending in troops and even turkey syria's neighbor and former allies turned its back on a sad part is rare for national looks at the fallout. handshake kisses embraces as close friends do in february when this was filmed to fish prime minister and syria's president where indeed considered friends back in the ninety's the neighbors were not doing that well together serious support of kurdish separatists drove a wedge between the two but by two thousand and three when turkey refused to provide its territory for the u.s.

invasion to iraq a golden era in turkey syria relations began with free trade agreement the visa regime dropped and several presidential visits to blues areas became especially close families living in both sides held they shared a common home the turkish lira was even accepted at markets in the syrian city of aleppo but the honeymoon didn't last long on following libya's revolution in two thousand and eleven turkey switched sides support in syria's a positions and aligned with the country's harsh enemy the us enduring thought. they have antagonized iran prevent taken out iraq. because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by hizbollah has also been very very critical of turkey to switch from a zero problem policy with your neighbors to a problem cretin position you need good reason turkey seems to have one america

needs another actor otherwise this gap can be fulfilled by you want maybe by russia so there's a kind of let's see. cohabitation between america and talking so turkey is helping this in exchange for some kind of stuff and through this channel talk is profile is becoming more and more influential some of those who doubt the benefit will be equal for both sides to the turkish economy suffers a lot from the sanctions it supported against syria especially as syria is turkey's expurgated the world for this reason turkey is endeavoring to establish a new exporting of routes to lebanon and through iraq to the gulf states turkey is policy should be more autonomous should not be identical to that of washington or brussels to graphically politically and religiously took has always been the crossing point of decidedly different worlds so what's in it for them the people who calculate that the only question of cart before the syrian government goes and

therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding the wave ok put on the crest of the way the quest for the wave of reform and change in the middle east and to be seen as the leader of this movement in turkey believes that it is set in the middle and long term turkey has no chance to to to get the benefits of the region if our side goes ok then so we're tough but if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. well there are those is going to be gone from one faith you know and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had created and actually is not really terrible any longer you've got to deal with a couple you like it or not the rude to keys no fooling me with slippery it no matter how dangerous it's choice may be this seems to be. without a u.n. security council resolution it will be vetoed by russia and china believe in style intervention will definitely fail in syria change in tactics the western powers

turns to this region's countries to get them involved this take isn't turkey which has started to play a very important role in this conflict some fear it's perhaps gone too far. r.t. turkey it is media briefing in moscow on wednesday foreign minister lavrov also stressed the kremlin's stepping up its efforts to prevent war in the persian gulf russia thinks a western attack on iran would be catastrophic for the entire region to round says is ready to resume international discussion on its nuclear program but that won't come easy the six party talks broke down a year ago with the west suspecting a round of developing a nuclear bomb a tougher you and bargain iranian oil is already in the pipeline and to rahm's threatening to block a vital fuel trance it rude if restriction prove harmful but the u.s. says it will use force to keep it open something american middle east policy analyst for old it told me believes could spark world war three. if iran even makes

an attempt to block the straits of hormuz oil prices will probably double or treble this saying is that the real danger here is that it could produce a shooting war if the united states does follow through on its resolve to keep the straits open which will be that easy and i think that it virtually guarantees that iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict the worst case scenario is world war three i'm afraid the problem is that iran is is surrounded by a number of countries that are essentially hostile to it and some of them are nuclear armed and this is a perfect cauldron for for starting something with a very minor relatively minor incident that escalates and escalates and escalates and winds up as a as a major war. more opinion on this is from the run in just over an hour's time when the people of debate show debates the country's nuclear program indeed on the effectiveness of these current western sanctions. we had tim geitner going around

the world trying to get countries not to import a rainy and oil i mean from trans perspective that's basically an act of war you're going to choke off their economy why should be why and why should these people be punished. when it's punishing them to use between when he cannot make sanctions and military action one is who within the realm of. peaceful measures the other is something that could spark a war but this can. spark a war in itself to go to you know go back to you and go ahead. in fact many make the mistake of implying the sanctions are just peaceful means they're not they are coersion they kill the innocent and for the latest round of sanctions i mean you go back to iraq half a million children die the future of iraq was destroyed and madeleine albright turned around and said it was worth it now you're plies sanctions because you don't

want to expend the military expenses you cannot iran and have to sit back and have no casualties and then the war would definitely be depleted so sanctions are imposed hoping the iranian people would get so fed up they would overthrow their own regime and it hasn't worked for two years so they're trying other ways other means of making this happen. every day millions of people turn to one website as a one stop shop for their encyclopedic research but right now if they do it seeing this kapadia deliberately blocking out its english language website why well it's two hundred twenty four protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through the us congress if passed they'd allow the government to block links to any website which could take what's perceived as copyright material the laws are designed to protect people's work from being shared without permission or payment but internet

campaigners say that would go way too far the foundation groundwork a p.d.f. says the laws would make it impossible for information sites like theirs to operate in the future. what we've achieved already is getting the debate going we've been talking about this for weeks and weeks and weeks in america in congress trying to get people to understand that this may have some good intentions in the bill but the actual effects of it will be to crush sites like wikipedia and so the fact that in the end the community we decided to take the english version down for a day has meant that people are listening to us at last and talking and already in america we're beginning to see people say well hang on this is probably not the right way to go about fighting piracy because look at what it's going to do to sites like wikipedia so we're not happy we've done it but we think that it's a very important thing to do just to make sure that people realize the threat to the liberty of the freedom of speech and information that these two bills in

american congress pose because peter's not the only side to take itself down for a day artie's been hearing from others who agree that the bill could jeopardize any website our fear is that the law would have unintended consequences now it could be used to threaten innocent websites like ours the law is badly written it's full of descriptions of technical stuff and it creates censorship was right out of your storage aren't playbook very aggressive libel laws people because everything is published ever on the internet people will shop for the venue in london and they want to sue someone for libel and the same could be true for copyright infringement when this kind of thing goes through the basic problem is that us body been given control of fundamental parts of the internet like the domain name system and the more us politicians try to interfere with our works the bigger problem it becomes the rest of the world. sure you've got a view on this which side of the fence so you are we're asking what the anti-piracy bills mean to you you can tell us about this is what you have been saying so far

he's voted so far the vast majority of voted two thirds that believe it is the it's a conspiracy to kill freedom of speech of the sixty seven percent of the twenty two percent of you there think it's a cash grab by greedy entertainment giant six percent see it is overstated bid the world start it is a noble cause you say i just got a lot of five percent of those who believe it's only harm to piracy dr madhumati why paranoid techies or you techies or that i'm sure you'd love to be called that odyssey dot com is the place to have your course while you're there as well you might be destroyed in these stories too where would you turn like today in a world without work kapadia will twitter users are almost put in the gap with a few fun facts of their own just taking a pinch of soap of course. and the right of again stripping to make a statement while members of this controversial ukrainian women's group are displaying their anger at india at the start of the sex trafficking you can read more of our teen dot com we've plenty more online video reports on our you tube channel to.

these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. it's less than two months until russians choose their next president in front of libya putin's reiterated his readiness to talk with the opposition but the premier voiced his confusion over the newly formed league of electors after those in charge of the independent body failed to show up for a meeting with him putin says their claim about the power elites not listening isn't clear given that they don't come when invited to meet the prime minister the league was formed by celebrities and social activists who want to monitor the presidential vote six candidates have filed requests to run against putin a couple of whom don't belong to a party including mccall prokhorov one of russia's richest people the election commission now has a little over a week to review the applications and draw

a final shortlist before the nation votes on march the fourth. greece suffered another standstill during wednesday with a mass strike just as the country's global paymasters pay another visit thousands of workers hit the streets to voice her destructive they think the cuts even though more may be needed a u. european central bank and i.m.f. delegates are there to try and beat a deadline for greece to get vital funds to slash its almost unserviceable that economists professor yanis varoufakis says but if the deal is approved the banks will be the only winners. nothing that happens in greece makes any difference because the only gotten decisions i reached in brussels in frankfurt in paris in berlin where the goose we default or not will depend ultimately on the official sector of the european union be with it they're prepared to fork out the money that is necessary in order to meet its repayment of the late last the latest the bond issue which is maturing in march whatever money greece will receive from now on

from today hundreds it will be used in order to repaid the banks to the greek state what any money deceives it will get behind one pocket real exit from the other front and it will go back to the banks so that the big state sector the public sector the five five or six are not going to see a penny of it so this is called. a set of shenanigans consistent yet the now the installment in the agonizingly slow process to default which in the end is inevitable. more world news in brief a woman listed among the missing from that italian cruise line a disaster a little bit of good news coming so much bad has been found alive in germany therefore means that now twenty one people are still unaccounted for but the search for them has been suspended after the vessel shifted slightly they're worried it would fall into deeper water hopes of finding anyone else alive all but faded

though eleven bodies have been recovered since the costa concordia sank five days ago the captains under house arrest he's accused of sailing too close to the shore and abandoning ship before it had been evacuated. as a suicide bomb attack in southern afghanistan killed twelve and left twenty three injured in a motorcycle bomber detonated his explosives at a bridge that was under construction in the could jackie area of the rest of helmand province earlier a blast in neighboring district killed an afghan intelligence official and his two bodyguards as they left his house. israel also ministry got more than guards there on wednesday it killed two one of them a teenager palestinian security sources say the raid hit an area used by some as accompanied by tank fire tension between the coastal territory and israel's been carmi in recent days following an increase in rocket fire attacks into. or will use me a moral position leader aung sang suu kyi will run for parliament in april it will

mark the nobel peace prize with his return to official politics since her release from gears of house arrest in twenty ten but with only forty eight seats up for grabs the elections unlikely to change the political landscape in the military dominated country. coming up when it comes to big money in america's politics lobbyists are the people who know exactly how that works and jack abramoff used to be one of them he no tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core.

i. am sitting down with jack abraham off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of ripping off his clients jack abramoff served three and a half years in prison guilty of conspiracy fraud and tax evasion mr abrams thank you very much for coming since your release from jail you've been very vocal about corruption in washington i read your book and i got a sense of your frustration about the fact that while you were sent to jail people involved in the same corrupt practices are sitting pretty in their offices on capitol hill well i'm a mom is frustrated that their people didn't go to jail or prison and prison is not fun and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but i guess what i'm frustrated about

is that when they had my hearings and trials and when i was sent off there was a big exclamation and celebration here that they cleaned up on. but in fact it in clean up washington and so when i came out after rethinking my life and what i was involved in i decided that if they want to clean up washington and i would help them figure out exactly how to do it during that senate hearing when you were publicly bashed by the senate is what were you thinking what were you a soft as you faced the distinguished panel well i probably was thinking they were a little less distinguished and then others were thinking i was reminded continually by every word out of their mouth that they were among the many who participated in some of the corruption that they were accusing me of when one of the senators a senator campbell was accusing me of corruption and wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the breakfast i had with him

a couple years before where i handed him checks for my clients contributions and he said that they would never have a problem with his committee so i was thinking that basically about each of them i didn't know a lot of them personally because i had people working for me i had a staff of about forty lobbyists and some of them knew the people who worked for me but. i found the whole thing to be hypocritical it was a kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were in a tory it seems your ability to buy members of congress how did you do that i don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here and what's unfortunate in which what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressman give money to congressman in terms of political contributions by meals for them take them golfing take them on

trips take them the sporting events and i probably did more of it than most did and i pushed over certain lines that are in the sand and broke the law but it says something that goes on far too often in washington you want to set and i found it very very. interesting that that once you just the moment you offered a job to a congressional staffer you own them right there was no greater control that people could have over congressional offices than to have the head of that office know that they're going to come in a few months to come work for a lobbying firm from that minute on those people are focused on that lobbying from their clients and it's not just me i saw it all over tell me it's not something i bet it it's something i noticed and something that i propose now to get rid of by banning people who work on capitol hill who are members of congress from ever joining the lobbying industry or the influence industry in america what did your clients want by investing in politics by investing in you well mostly my clients want to the federal government not to. get all over the back and tax them in fact

their businesses most of the lobbying is deep that's keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and likely going to help them avoid to paying their taxes and i will when i got presented in a bunch of indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry is what's interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also you cheated your clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid them aliens and what i did was what i did was where we're what i pled guilty to was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in their states worst to stop their competition from taking away their markets so you would crush their competition yes we would attack their competition and we would do everything we could to keep them from invading the market of our client and that's normal in america fortunately for better or for worse that's not something we we made up we're going to have any

regrets about doing that well at the end of the day i regret using the political process as a weapon against competitors because at the end of the day i don't think the government should be used like that i didn't have a problem with it then and i shouldn't even if we're talk. about millions of dollars in contributions it's still peanuts for any big corporation it's a tiny fraction of what they make did you get a sense of how powerless average americans are when the interest so big guys like that are at stake on capitol hill well americans have a very tough time competing with these special interests special interests come in with a lot of money and you're right it's miniscule amounts of money compared to what they could do and some of them do a lot of money but it's still a small amount the problems the average citizen is not engaged politically and when they're able to bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with a special interest is pushing on it that's where the problem starts so what i

propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in since i've got the prison is a way to separate money out of politics here and basically to say that if you're a lobbyist or you're somebody who's trying to get something from the government here you may not give a dollar politically of any kind and that's one of the four things that i've proposed to clean up the system i think is very important because the end of the day political contributions if i give you something if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold abroad but it is abroad at the end of the day thank you.

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