ation going on there's a funeral procession going on at the same time as well so we were able to speak to the people who were living in this area to speak to some of the free syrian army members as well because of course a very little is known about who exactly these people are really have made it very very clear to us just how divided the country is now becoming whilst we were there there was sort of a moment of confusion we did hear gunshots in the background some of the crowd got nervous and started running which point we we were all sort of told to it was ever safer to leave and we've then left that area a very tense situation certainly a very dangerous situation for the civilians in this area as well you gave these suburbs you can see bullet holes in the walls it's not really clarence so much of the country now who exactly has control of the fact that this is now happening in a suburb just fifteen minutes will say from the city center here in damascus where he goes to show you just how much the situation here is now deteriorating for

russia has made its position extremely clear that they're not going to back the western resolution whilst it doesn't rule out of the sanctions the military intervention they've put their own proposal forward and eve had this sort of back and forth with neither sides really being able to come to some form of agreement i mean the big sticking point here really is a military intervention because so many different factions in the country it is even more still here in the country very very hard to really understand who exactly is in charge where he was the voice of the people because this is a originally a peaceful protest movement even now got increasingly armed opposition groups and there's reports today that saudi arabia that could have said that they're going to be backing the opposition and providing funding and arms as well and the last thing that anyone wants to see here at the moment is that this conflicts of become even more armed even more violent because the daily death toll is you know just devastatingly high at the moment talking to the people in this suburb today they

were extremely emotional you know the people here in this country have lost all sense of safety all sense of security. so first reporting from damascus there let's cross now to late neighboring jordan get a view from there i'm joined by political analyst dr abraham from state to the university dr thanks for being on the program we heard from our correspondent damascus there how saudi arabia and cats have agreed to fund the syrian opposition what strain is that likely to put on solving the conflict now well in short this is going to these stabilize syria further and by the way before that science published this news about so the area in qatar is sponsoring this syrian opposition which has an armed opposition as we have seen through your and other of course we have known all along on the arab street that rabia and qatar have been sponsoring all kinds of military action around the region and not just in syria so this is really public

knowledge nothing new here that is obvious that both arabia and qatar are harboring and agenda of overthrowing the syrian regime because it all poses was stern political military and cultural intervention and the bridge and and that's all there is do it it's interesting to know doctor isn't it that carter also played an important role in funding weapons advisors libya helping the overthrow of colonel gadhafi to yeah. absolutely and this is no secret that is obvious that both qatar and other arab states as well as turkey and i dish and two in one thousand states have overseen the funding and the arming of nato rebels and libya and now they are doing the same and syria so this is basically what took place and libya with only one exception that russia so far has prevented

nato from having its way of having no fly zones buffer zones and all kinds of zones that infringe on the sovereignty of syria which at the same time help materialize nato political objectives and syria which is to turn that place until april western regime and let me add one thing and just to comment on your previous report on libya that the object of these stabilize the institutions of any some close state and this is what we have seen and somalia and libya and. the point is to implode the country even socially so the there won't be anymore and the son pro-government that is able to fend off and protect the sovereignty of the country and that's what they're doing in syria right now what you are seeing on the streets in syria is the result of intervention both

from nato and from the arab gulf states that there are put dollars at work and there are smuggling rings that are helping bring in the cash the weapons and even some of the insurgents from outside syria into syria to create this kind of situation that is going to end up in a full scale civil war what we have here that's exactly what i did what i wanted to . next to many is some of the latest violence thirty people including children are being killed in the city we've heard about so much the so-called flashpoint city of homs the opposition claims that loyalist forces are responsible yet the free syrian army are taking armed control of parts of the capital is this finally tipping now into civil war is being talked about a lot is this now happening yes that's that's what we have said on this program before more than once and let me remind you that so four we have heard about two

thousand troops both from the regular syrian army and the security troops they have been killed and these exchanges so this is not a civil war i don't know what a civil war is given that about half of those who have been reported killed in this conflict belong to government. months so definitely we have a. civil war unfolding right now before our briefly as you see it who are the free syrian army is it is it easy to sub them up as to who the kind of people are in that army or is it or is it more difficult and do you think. i don't think it's very difficult to tell who those people are talking about their political affiliation most of them and come from islam as groups be they

with the muslim brothers or the seller fees there are also and this is this is confirmed by many friends in syria there's a considerable number of criminal outlaws who have joined the free syrian army and these people are being used as stooges by the. people funding this kind of uprising quote unquote because what we are seeing here is a foreign at gender unfolding in syria yes there are some grievances but the people who have been opposing the syrian regime throughout the last two or three that they are departing we want to got ten seconds i want to ask you in that ten seconds who are the people you think funding them driving them i think that this pretty obvious that they're funding and arming comes mainly from the arab gulf states so the area qatar and from turkey and nato thank you very much for your thoughts political analyst and professor at city university in jordan my louche thank you.

libya's new government speak accused of torture and abuse in detention centers based on some french is suspending its mission in misrata saying it's repeatedly treating patients for injuries that have been sustained during interrogation with thousands of gadhafi loyalist still behind bars it's raising key questions about the people nato helped bring to power as artie's. found out. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but in n t c iran libya the group has encountered a formidable obstacle they couldn't overcome burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all this evidence of the continued torture of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from the beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest patients were

brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further interrogation this is an acceptable our rule is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions the news comes amidst rising anger with libya's interim government demonstrations in benghazi last week ended with the resignation of a high ranking member of the m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out a transitional council forces claiming systematic abuse it started with the very beginning of the rebellion very beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion on eighteenth of february the african migrants were rounded up locked in a detention center and burnt to death and the n.p.c. expressed support for this time and this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule and that was given the green light of the torture and execution that we're seeing now so this is

a recipe for civil war meanwhile the nato operation that brought the m.t.c. to power is by itself raising question is. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave to investigate some of make sure that it bears entity of. were with. the throngs. there were being the air raids. and court of debating. if you are baited to protect. that. it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of my eyes i saw the killing go fifty one people in front of my eyes being dissed was fifteen years old and while all sides and believe in conflict are to blame for violence and

violations of human rights activists claim not all of them have been held responsible for their wrongdoings investigating what happened during libya's seven months civil war and the nato campaign to protect civilians this fact finding mission discovered again crimes against humanity but the goal was not to judge but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat the mistakes in recent united nations report has reviewed that up to eight thousand supporters have been held by militia groups in libya right now and with numerous occasions of torture and revenge killings throughout the country hopes of a new beginning for libya are fading quickly. r.t. . protesters are gathering in front of the presidential palace in warsaw it's part of a week of rallies after the government signed up to retore its international web piracy pact earlier pays their dong the anonymous hacker group masks to show their

contempt what elsewhere a french army peace quit calling react. and actually cesky reports from warsaw. i. i down with censorship at the end so i can interview trade agreement known as act which poland signed on thursday has upset many internet users across the country in the small town of lupul in alone several thousand people hit the streets fearing the treaty would allow corporations to crackdown on the freedom of speech online the idea of funding. for publishing the it's a trademark material with somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody like that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email jockeying for a form of self-expression this was yet another rally in

a whole string of protests held in poland since tuesday large crowds in several cities voiced their anger at the government for signing the document most of the country's government websites were hijacked by the anonymous group they had cursed threatened to reveal sensitive information about the authorities should they go ahead with the act there are certain countries which are very interested in art. this is this is a former this is a job. and because they were strong businesses. or property and they want to enforce it all over the world but this doesn't mean that this is good for the people and this is why would we have this protest in poland because people feel. praised by that essentially actor is about protecting intellectual property from music and books to pharmaceuticals and clothes similar in form to the stalled u.s. bill sober and people that also sparked widespread protests however critics say

actor was in jr in complete secrecy bypassing government procedures and the criminal punishment it allows alerted many in the legislation must be founded in the public opinion of what's right and wrong when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition does something useful murder and genocide does this is such an abuse of power. think its time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling out just terrorists. if you doubt this will happen given that prime minister's party holds a majority say the government says the treatment is not a threat to freedom but maintains the internet should not be

a space of legal in the space of just three days protests unfold have managed to gather tens of thousands of people and while this is still little chance that this bill would not make it through parliament the rallies unlikely to die down. the r.t. reporting from poland. a few minutes from now the euro undergoes financial forensics in switzerland. the house and have nots gather in the swiss alps at the davos world economic forum to try to sort out the highs and lows of the global economy deeply in trouble and the future of the eurozone we'll have more coming up. iran could cut off its all supplies to europe as early as next week on a rainy damp a signal to when they could flick a switch with prepare parliament. debate on sunday is to preempt the e.u. were set to start in july which is designed to force around into talks over its nuclear work to run for peter said in recent weeks that it's ready to do just that but the u.s.

first once around to prove its atomic program is peaceful nuclear respect as a junior in the coming days is pretty sure and show for you from a campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran who said that europe and the u.s. it seems are really interested in talk. the grace period that the vision for six months for it is going to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hands another issue is that it shows a complex city our feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to the national. the wrong to issues really an excuse for the deepening confrontation between iran and the list i see as the same time that is imposing does involve those on iran and you see it as some european countries are selling more arms to the countries the arab countries of the

persian gulf so they are benefiting from this iran the phobia of the start creating in the region so why solve the problem with negotiations by some countries are cashing in by deepening the conflict already now we're keeping an eye on developments around and around the world with a flash point. many other stories there too of course like these russia's political playing field we're talking about online tonight the elections of course refuting claims of parliamentary poll violations while the short this is announced as to who is running for president you keep cross all developments in the politics section of our web site www dot com. he was no way i'd like to remember well look at that but i could enjoy the show with what the most spectacular northern lights displays in a long time it was after. the. grace from the sun of iran last week a look at the effect they're brilliant party dot com great pictures for you that's my you tube channel as well. the delegates in davos have got their money on the table today as the world economic forum assesses the dollar you are whether you are

the struggling eurozone and the future of heavily indebted greece is inevitably on the cards with cautious optimism and sharp criticism alike artie's loyalist is in doubles. we heard from a number of. also from vice president economic and monetary affairs for the european commission we heard them all speak today in a panel and strike an optimistic note that they believe that things will be resolved now many people would disagree with that but as far as the people on stage . and was confident that the greek bondholders will come to an agreement on greek debt write downs and haircuts this week and that's kind of what made the major headlines and also believing that the fiscal compact the tighter fiscal compact for the eurozone will come together and a meeting on monday and that would impose of course fines for people that are countries rather break the deficit and debt ceiling rules we saw today that spain

their unemployment rate came out a seventeen year high of twenty two point eighty five percent the finance minister from spain says that this is the biggest issue facing the spanish economy and we know spain is one of the largest economies in europe also a lot of disagreement over euro zone solutions we've seen george soros we've seen david cameron we've seen some finance ministers to timothy geithner say a larger fire wall is needed basically saying more bailout funds need to be committed from angela merkel's remarks we heard earlier this week she was trying to convince people that europe would be fine without pledging more money timothy geitner we did hear from today the u.s. treasury secretary i thought was pretty interesting he said that the two biggest issues facing the u.s. economy that will determine its outcome are what happens in the euro zone and whether or not the u.s. congress can agree on some short term solutions for the u.s. economy i thought this was quite interesting because although yes the eurozone economy very much weighs on the united states i've heard from italian economists for example that year and the u.s. they're much more pessimistic about europe and maybe part of that is coming from

the fact that it is an easy scapegoat for u.s. politicians to say oh what's going on in the u.s. is dependent on europe when in reality the u.s. has some major problems of its own a major debt overhang both private and. the state has been very active in trying to restate the economy but unaffected unaffected does bar high unemployment more than sixty percent for people that either don't have work or want more work you know these are some real issues there euro zone has nothing to do it and a congress that is bitterly divided in an election year is not likely to pass much so some real concerns that aren't being addressed here laura lister world news headlines in brief blasts a city funeral procession inside baghdad killing at least thirty two wounding sixty five the explosions struck as mourners gathered to bury a person that was killed earlier on in the day a bit more than two hundred deaths since the beginning of the year with increasing sectarian attacks since american troops left in december. the firm that owns the capsized cruise ship of italy's coast is offering passengers fourteen thousand dollars each in compensation it also promises to refund medical and transport

expenses the cost of the holiday sixteen people are confirmed dead while over a dozen remain missing the ship ran aground off tuscany two weeks ago with more than four thousand aboard. sixteen kilos of cocaine being seized at the u.n. headquarters in new york turned up last week marked with a fake you insignia and came from mexico the global body insists neither it nor its staff were the intended recipients it's thought to be no bungled attempt by traffickers to get drugs into the u.s. . where the most notorious terrorists in russia's north caucasus has been killed in a counter terror operate in the republican. general level to lay off was behind the market bombing of logic of cuts in september twenty ten which killed nineteen what the left was head of the largest terrorist network at the republicans as well as one of the leaders of the international terror group cuts to other go member also killed in the shoot which lasted for several hours apparently an explosive device

an arms cache and a suicide belt were all found in the building where the terrorists were hiding. well we're heading into the weekend moscow out here shortly then tonight barton finds a piece of russia in florence of all places another sport to in the next half hour you can see it's tense times in tennis with all the a straight open finalist now no talk in a tense times you haven't always had the business to be trees here. with. thanks kevin the devil's economic forum is displaying signs of a split personality this year the likes of the i.m.f. david cameron and george soros warning of potential catastrophe as well on the other side a number of heavyweight industrious who think much of the rescue work has already been done among them is under the cost in the head of russia's second largest bank . there is a practical discussions on for example the introduction of new regulations for.

banks and financial sector. on the way the quiz on derivatives of course it will take maybe two to three years to implement it but at least there's not just a general debate some very practical things which now being discussed though there's still debate on the future of europe. a lot has been done as a lot of discussions already happen between the politicians and it looks now of the common solution in a much closer that was one or two years ago the russian government is mulling raising taxes for business first deputy prime minister you could shoot vial of says it should be done in a way that will boost regional development while having a minimum impact on corporate graph. you know all in shipping say please don't do this because you know. each person if you raise them it slows down the economy so we speak and be there. so there is no you know the best recipe

we need to find the programs for the system possibly we could raise. and to split and maybe. we're there we collect from you know increase tax we would provide for original purposes. move over to the market screwed his couldn't do anything its gains is heading for weekly gaming three on the signs of economic recovery in the us might be recovering the international monetary fund warns of the twenty to thirty percent oil price spike t.v. radio disrupted bread is that thirty cents below one hundred twelve dollars per barrel light sweet is that one hundred thirty. u.s. stocks are mixed this hour the dow jones pressured down point four percent by the latest g.d.p. figures which are showing that the u.s. economy grew two point eight percent last three months of twenty eleven which was

a bit short of verde expected three percent nasdaq however is up two point three now this these g.d.p. figures over having their toll on the footsie and the dax in europe the footsies down one percent it's way down by bags barclays one of the biggest losers also mining stocks and you shares not really feeling well with b.p. shedding more than one half a percent. here's a close in russia despite the united nations on friday with the audience in my sights last point four percent overall the week was very strong the r.t.s. gaining four point seven percent in the five sessions now on the final sessions burbank among them was among the few again as one of my stocks up point four percent gazprom among other energy shares was down despite high oil prices and still make a m.k. was down for out most of the session of the market unimpressed with a seven percent. increase of production in twenty that. the market was generally pretty flat after quite a strong day yesterday the market in general is up about two and

a half percent this week from monday almost as if four and a half percent in the last two weeks things look pretty healthy of the moment underneath the general strengthening the market is some security asian people who are investors appear to be selling oil and gas names and they're buying more banking names with names like a sperm bank and also in particular or even second tier of banks finally to currencies the ruble is lowered to the dollar amid weakening bo will demand risk and some profits you had of the weekend with russian pouncey is gaining by just a little notch versus the euro at the end of friday story in the my sax and the well the year on the dollar pretty much the same as they were at the beginning of this. the headlines are next with kevin stay with us.

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the top stories from our team or sco exclusive footage of syrian opposition fighters have taken control of a town just outside damascus that says the un's juicer closed door talks in a few i was about a resolution which backs out of the calls to get the president just said to go. ahead launch from us tonight's. cherries. borders pull out of a key city saying the saying patients keep returning but with new interrogation is

raising key questions among human rights groups about the people need to help bring to. the public politicians of the hackers lash out against international online piracy act a french pays quits over act which rallies a rallies rather continue in poland stop the secret appeal to take regular internet users like you with me. next moscow out continues its italian twist the next fifteen minutes. absolutely beautiful welcome to florence and the famous to.