from homes are difficult at this point to verify but it seems like the situation hamas has been asked to wait for the last five days with fear for fierce fighting between now what they call themselves the free syrian army and the military forces by the syrian government the syrian government has cording to its official sources has reported many casualties on the ground that have fallen in the last two days the most it's really hard to determine what's really going on on the ground there because of safety issues to reach the place and confirm the. definite numbers. according to that's what according to activists say that the syrian military has basically. some parts of the city the government has completely refuted any type of involvement that they have actually. shelled on its own people in the city of the

most they blame it on the terrorist groups that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties the government also has issued a statement today that the security forces were able to kill tens of terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground well powell should use the clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their being gauge and talks rushers foreign ministers such efforts a needed to help solve the country's crisis so to go after him was commenting on his recent trip to damascus and to use a really good. right on the heels of the recent visit of the russians allegation to syria president bashar last that has said that he is willing to go to great plains

in order to bring still peace in the country he has promised to go through with major reforms among them a referendum on constitution which should take place some time in march he's also but he's also said that he's more than willing to sit down for talks with the with the syrian opposition on their part that the syrian national council which until now has been refusing a negotiations with the current syrian government saying that it is illegitimate now the syrian opposition has said that they are willing to sit down and and carry out a dialogue with the syrian government but they have said that russia must provide a road map for those negotiations in fact both sides in the syrian conflict both the government and the opposition are saying that russia must perform a mediating duty in order to resolve this conflict all russia has stressed the importance of putting pressure not just on the current on the current government in syria but on the opposition as well russia's foreign minister has expressed that

thought in damascus and he has reiterated that third earlier today that it was really if we have suggested that certain parties capable of influencing the opposition groups especially those based outside syria will try to convince those groups to begin negotiations parties with influence on damascus have been trying to convince the authorities to do the same as i have mentioned the syrian authorities confirm they are ready to begin negotiations without putting forward any conditions . but instead of putting pressure on the opposition most of the world community seems to be pulling out its envoys of from syria france italy and spain are among the latest countries to have recalled their ambassadors to syria they're also the gulf nations which have not just recalled their own voice to the country but have sent out syrian ambassadors from their respective countries there by effectively. and in diplomatic relations with damascus and of course there is the the. unbending

rhetoric from a the from washington the white house it seems determined that the president bashar al assad's days are numbered there is saying there there is no they cannot imagine they cannot imagine any negotiations with the current syrian government and the message that particularly the western countries seem to be sending to the armed rebels in the country is a green light for them to intensify the fighting. it's ridiculous your reporting there and in light of the recent security council fall out of the moscow and beijing blocked a draft resolution on syria we spoke to russia's envoy to the un for tony to explain that one of the main reasons for not letting the text pass through was that it put pressure only on the syrian government while russia believes the rebels must also be held accountable for the escalation of violence. the latest round of military confrontation in syria started a couple of days before that resolution draft resolution was put to vote and the

reason i'm here i'm not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the money during mission of that i believe was there and that as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain towns or certain quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and escalate and that was the reason for which were brought our amendments to the text of the draft resolution which would not only require the government to pull out its forces from from the city is what would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military quote that was in fact the key issue over which our efforts to have a consensus and as aleutian of the security council fail. or let's get more details

on this now ahmed joined live by a. professor at university in jordan thank you for coming on r.t. today the u.s. is looking for ways to help the syrian people but barack obama said america is not going to arm the opposition do you think a helping hand offering weapons could be extended by other countries the gulf states for example. well i think that this pretty clear the rebels have been received receiving arms from abroad and syrian television has been showing almost daily shipments of arms being smuggled into syria via lebanon turkey and other border crossings so where is all of these weapons coming from these weapons are coming from all over the place and since the rebels are being supported by the g.c.c. and by nato it is safe to assume that they are getting their financing and their

weaponry from the same sources that are offering them political cover and financial backing so as you're saying if weapons really are indeed coming in across the border from lead but on and turkey then those barhai in these weapons shipments what are their motives here are all they striving for the assad regime to be toppled if so how can they benefit. well i think after so many months of military operations by the rebels in syria at this pretty clear that what we are dealing with here is definitely not a peaceful protest but an armed rebellion supported from abroad by the same powers that invade that iraq and libya so basically what we are dealing with here is an armed rebellion that does not express the will of the syrian people

we are dealing with western military political and security and filtration and to syria and what what what was mentioned a little while ago from new york it is exactly the case when there is a syrian army withdrew from any town or city it was taken over by armed rebels we did not see a mouse of demonstrations and the neighborhoods or towns that the syrian army pulled out of on the contrary what we saw was an armed and question why armed gangs that terrorize the people and wreak pay book on the area so of course what they want to do is stop with the syrian regime and why do they want to topple the syrian regime do they stand for freedom or democracy as they claim on the contrary what they want is to have

a puppet regime and the moscow says that would obey the dictates of washington and the nato let me just add very quickly that the syrian opposition so far has been refusing vehemently to speak to the syrian government so it is not the syrian government that has been refusing to speak to the opposition on the contrary the syrian government has been calling for dialogue over and over again for the last few months. but we have seen that kinds of opposition in the media from i mean i do apologize for interrupting you here but if you as you say the opposition has been reluctant if not defined in joining us with the sort of the opposition not coming to the negotiating table with the government moscow has been trying to bring both sides to the negotiating table in the theory both sides said well hypothetically that might work do you think is it possible that both sides could come together and

talk to resolve this bloody crisis. i think that both russia and china have created the butler conditions for the opposition to accept dialogue with the government the veto is helping peace more than anything because at the sterling the forum by the opposition that cannot count on the foreign intervention as happened in libya and iraq to topple of the regime and therefore and fuck the veto is creating better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense the vehicle is fostering peace and helping put an end to the bloodshed in syria so i agree completely with the solution as dialogue and at the same time it is very important to focus the light on the armed operations of the syrian opposition and here let me remind you that even the

so-called peaceful opposition that is located within syria and i'm not talking about the syrian national council here even those of listen to some of those spokespersons agree and support the operations of the rebels so what we have here is there is a full scale insurgency but it has military as well as political scales and we have to pay attention to both scales not just one of them so i think you have to watch for as you say to i'm sorry to interrupt you again as you say we have a we have a basically a rebel insurgency here many are calling it civil war also many say that it's not just a domestic issue but there are massive regional implications with external players to evolution i wish we had more time for this a professor at university in jordan thank you for joining us on r.t. today thank you thank you very much. well we also have an entire section dedicated

to syria on our website on seat dot com also online we're asking for your thoughts about the outcome of russia's efforts to unravel the complex situation there let's bring up the numbers from our web site see how you're voting out this hour more than half of you believe the west will find a way to remove assad regardless of peace talks while a fifth think that even if an agreement is reached the opposition will not on a written or the rest of you split it almost evenly between where the talks between us and the opposition will fail although both parties will reach a much needed compromise of this hour do cause your vote we're standing by at odd sea dog com. now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital as outrage sweeps britain after the european court of human rights blocked the deportation of qatada dubbed osama bin laden's right hand man in europe it's the latest in a string of questionable judgments that have a over ruled domestic decisions as aussies laura smith explains now patience with

the e.u. continues to run things. a silver in land with its queen its own currency and its own parliament was made by someone else this building houses what we in the u.k. call list supremum court but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is gone or you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in strasburg could the rule any may taya the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's been de railed that it was never never anticipated of the second world war after the holocaust off the terrors perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments

but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim which delays in control of a sea have dogged the european court in stroudsburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided judgments are written bizarre in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the rights to vote petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill it would probably mean to give the vote to anyone who is in prison aside it could also cost of the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments on the european convention of human rights was about two point one billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight

billion in assume seated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate preacher abu qatada dubbed bin laden's right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan where he's now g. to be released onto the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is and stands for and yet we can't get recent him because of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each country so far so fair except none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country it's worked for many many years for the seats or the mother why do we need brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do

the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights all together are demanding reforms to stop strides making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court process to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system and in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weak a human rights protections entirely vulnerable. r.t. . r.t. is coming to you live from moscow now the pakistani army has met with nato and afghan forces in an effort to improve coordination along the pakistan afghanistan

border the talks come just hours after u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan killed ten suspected militants that washington has been criticized for its cia led aerial strikes with some allegedly targeting pakistani civilians and funerals chris woods a senior reporter at the bureau of investigative journalism thinks it won't be long before the legality of the strikes is tested in court. the cia has been saying for some time now that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least may two thousand and ten every news agency in pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is finding that that's not the case we know that civilians are being killed in pakistan with these drone strikes and in fact the bureau of investigative journalism has provided the cia with the names of more than one hundred civilians that have been killed in recent in recent months and the last couple of years so to say that civilians are dying is simply untrue pakistan is clearly very unhappy with these strikes there's

an interview in a british newspaper today with the pakistan high commissioner to london describing the drone strikes as in effect extra due to show executions state sanctioned executions does seem to be an indication here that these drone strikes are happening despite what pakistan wants not because of what pakistan wants as are causing huge problems within pakistan united states court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time a case has been brought in the united states that is attempted to look at whether these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege that that's where they say actually this is a covert operation and we can't discuss it well that's somewhat been blown out of the water by the president himself going on google recently and talking long wave to americans about the existence of this so-called covert program really does need to be an accounting here and an examination by the u.s.

courts about the legality of these drone strikes and the various additional legal questions that they raise and that time i suspect is coming quite close given the pressure in the u.s. right now. this is r.t. if you remember we always have more stories and news and comment on our website on scene dot com and standing by feel and still right now for example when i was calling us to not. it was a group of actors oakland city officials and publishers their personal day for online is comes in retaliation for the violent crackdown on occupy protests. plus it's reported that the british government is to sanction the use of nerve gas by riot police despite the chemical agents and in war for. an egyptian military delegation has roughly pulled out of a visit to washington in the latest sign of rising tensions between the two countries nineteen americans are among forty three ngo activists banned from

leaving egypt and accused of illegally using foreign funds to fuel the year of unrest in the country washington has already called the scandal quote a slap in the face and threaten to withdraw its military aid to egypt. financial reports egypt's new government crackdown on ninety knows has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while we were at the vanguard of the uprising against the barak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that isn't to lead our we have to take criticism to the new military leadership may mean scaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other because they don't. they are quoting people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution they have.

won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the radicals this is especially led to prosecutors really seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and arrest in the post mubarak country activists how one would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights the scaf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the sun if you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this was and there it was military aid to egypt to reduce one point three

billion dollars annually has been very serious there is a big week to condemn this car when in the days of mind tanks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of that the aid continued on flowing the diplomatic support also continued. or washington's so-called support for democracy in the middle east and washington wants to stop annoys the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car sharing the council's concerns are being whose motives the usa has had a hand in tips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story to cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will law to liberate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end

to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there is a very callous all the armed forces or scaf now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. we've. seen cairo. while many believe that egypt's regime change is also damaged the previously well established ties between cairo and television in just over five minutes here on our to a former top israeli diplomat shares his views on his country's foreign policy as i do so for that first let's head over to katie she's next here with the business. thank you very welcome to the business program this hour walt renowned scientists

futurist and unshaven as are in moscow discussing the russian economy and its prospects of becoming a global financial hub most of them believe russia has the results says to six days as marina calls her vote reports not without reform. the auditorium was jam packed with business owners and experts hungry to get an outside view on russia's investment climate a walk can be done to improve it all the foreign specialists agreed on the one thing and that is that russia has a lot of potential but the problem is how to realize that more investors are in the merge an economy like russia right now because they receive us the best place to support cash given the economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. at the moment of russia locks the global competitive edge in many of the russian experts here today said that the country has many internal problems which need to be fixed and a symbol of the government should join forces with the business elite to make the changes required that believe that it's important to convince local businessmen to

invest in russia rather than the broad and keep specialists in the country as well as create an atmosphere where unsupplied yours are appreciated another one of the main points they will see in the vacation russian state companies have significantly increased investment to ward stands the foreign specialists here say that russia has all the potential to produce the next generation of bonds or for the worse and become the next silicon valley but it needs to act fast and start implementing the changes required now. thanks very much alex get over to the markets now we're going to start with exchange rates the euro is high against both the dollar on the roof investors are keeping an eye on the talks in greece agreements from athens to impose new spending cuts were allowed to receive the next installment of the rescue funds other rebel. how did fall to its highest level in five months against the dollar that's on the back of strong oil prices we're going to get over to europe now as i was saying greece is in the spotlight the footsie is

flat they're not too confident that the dax is faring better over half a percent. here in moscow the markets will be closing at free surely in days right now banking and energy stocks are lifting up those prices. thank you paulson just percent the flat to positive. let's have a look at some individual on the my sex most blue chips are gaining this hour is up almost two percent that is also higher supported by those stronger crude prices bucking the trend though is food seven continents the company made an offer to buy back shares at a discount to the market price i'm going to have those closing figures in the next but a ten in fifty five minutes to join me then and also the new figures for the u.s. .

the closer has been to the bar of screen. where the country's middle starts its way across the ocean. now our t.v. goes to the area. looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. that's where the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the. russia close up.

if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you. headlines. both the syrian government and opposition to lay down their arms and an end to the bloody conflict. countries keep up that regime change rhetoric and recall there are those from damascus. few really in the u.k. as a notorious terrorist suspect. spiritual leader in europe and allowed to roam the streets of london. deportation to jordan very sentenced to life in prison has been forbidden by the european court of human rights. questions over legality of u.s.

drone attacks on pakistani soil resurface within a fresh strike just days after a report revealed evidence that dozens of civilians were killed by the continued unmanned aircraft attacks. and a growing tensions between egypt and the u.s. triggered by cairo's crackdown on western n.g.o.s lead to an egyptian military delegation cutting short a visit to washington nineteen americans are among the activists banned from leaving egypt and accused of illegally using foreign cash to fuel unrest. next here in r.t. we meet a former senior israeli diplomat to discuss in depth his country's foreign policy and where things will say. what they are. who recently resigned from the government on grounds of.