the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military deaths alongside civilian one that's both sites claim they're the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake cites casualty figures the consequence a very different perspective of the crisis the original cites latest figures showed just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is the just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is

a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how got arab league monitor the original observatory strictly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming they're the impostors as are we and his figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political of the is censored by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear i sit on their victory for human rights. original organization is that we are i guess

an interventional we are against no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as always and as group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report. these awful for government troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stopped counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but its human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real

observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter either bennett r.t. london. and israeli website reports that british and qatar is special forces are already in syria assisting the rebels and risk a middle east expert says if the claims prove to be true well how bring peace to the region. but this will probably mean more escalation on the ground some more covert military operations and on the political level we've also heard that some arab league countries all the arab league very little is intending on the officially recognizing the syrians are additional council leader syrian political opposition body so i think it has something which is widely expected and of course really i see that more violence will be in the making however we also do hear that the russians for example are providing the most assistance is possible they can to the syrians to deal with this issue now don't forget that the russian side has

cautioned time and i had again the roys of is the most fundamental so the presence of islamic fundamentalists inside syria those who oppose a syrian regime and syria has also spoken all of them as well the son of a sudden the members of al qaida and the syrian ambassador to lebanon made it very clear one week ago when he said that most of the weapons and most of even filtration most of the smuggling is coming in from the level and unfortunately as the escalation from opponents into the increases i think that we are going to discover more and more smuggling and more and more of a negative role from some lebanese in the syrian issue. middle east expert talking to us from. moving on a year as a member states have refused to give their immediate backing to a second bailout for greece there despite athens brokering a multi-party last minute deal honestly really matters demanded by credit says the blocks finance ministers say they will only be able to decide on the one hundred

thirty billion euro rescue plan next week or the french austerity plans have already triggered a general strike increase the last time the country was bailed out the outcry over public sector cuts led to violent riots and brought down the government and robert oulds chaldea think tank a british group in london says the new deal might in fact of ruin the greek economy . greece is in severe economic difficulties and it's failed to meet many of the targets that the eurozone and the i.m.f. has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on

average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro. really the poor what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the. greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro and they're throwing good money after bad really any further buyouts of greece will only just temporarily a. reckoning which is a default and of course exiting the euro so they're calling me can become competitive. and you can always find more news online just log on to ours who don't hold he is also waiting to be there right now the u.s. is getting down to trode back from tehran and it's not the real cause so this one is an eighteen of their original size and is being sold as a toy in the ground. in british actor and comedian stephen

fry voice his concern of a doctorate in st petersburg banning the promotional game lifestyles and russia so for more on this and fries response struggle to arms heal. you. i've been president hamid karzai has strongly condemned a nato as trying that killed a children in the north east of the country and this comes as un figures reveal that her record number of civilians were killed in twenty eleven the vast majority by roadside bombs and earlier the us announced that it may bring in our lands to combat operations in afghanistan more than a hundred thousand of civilians have died since the two thousand and one invasion gareth porter has more. this is the price that afghanistan pays

for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and it worse simply lack of fundamental knowledge of the local situations and mistakes that are that are often made. which really result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily the numbers are growing clearly because the telephone has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. and nato troops and part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of that response has been to lay more and more i e d's this is the primary way that the taliban has been able to find to kill u.s. and nato troops and even more so to wound seriously u.s.

and nato troops so really that is the primary form of military pressure they have on u.s. nato forces they're not going to give it up and that has grown because the war itself has grown as u.s. and nato troops have increased in the country. this is us here and so to come to you this hour looking for a legal high tide of hard truths if you are america's campaign dependency and sometimes with tragic results that story coming your way this later here on our. wealthy british sign. the time to. go. to. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. saw the session presidential candidate as joy has been hospitalized after police tried to escort her to a prosecutor's office for questioning she is being called as a witness on a case brought after a time when the country's central election commission last year joya was one of the frontrunners of last november's disputed election which was an old by that a second supreme court jews had a number of violations have been planning to hold up inauguration on friday despite the find that fresh elections are due to be held next month so they actually had over the republic called her action an attempted coup south ossetia is a former georgian republic that gained independence in two thousand and eight following a briefing with georgia on

a boycott to meet us. in the rumble last year the city held its first post war presidential elections the results of which were later canceled by the central election commission of violations now the new elections are now scheduled to take place on march twenty fifth and earlier on thursday police. security services have raided sure of his house in the capital of south sudan during that three driver herself conscious and she's now in the hospital being treated for a minor stroke and she is now according to the. interim authorities she is the main reason for these unexpected a raid of george's house was to bring her in for questioning to the prosecutor's office. so world news in very few this hour in the dooars the government has struck a deal with five of the country's largest banks to settle claims of a pool but a home seizure is the banks have agreed to pay out twenty five billion dollars to

clients who have either had their houses repast or are in danger of losing them millions of people in america lost their homes in the mortgage crisis that sparks the two thousand and eight global financial meltdown. a. cargo ship cruise off the ukrainian coast have had to be airlifted to safety after their vessels became trapped in part by ukraine's emergency services say that one hundred twenty six ships on the sea over a zone of are currently stranded temperatures are fluctuating between minus eleven and minus seventeen degrees celsius the severe weather is part of a cold snap that is affecting europe has caused dozens of deaths across the continent. spanish human rights judge baltazar guards sana has been convicted as part of all wiretapping case he was found guilty of altering the illegal recording of corruption suspects talking to their law was garcia on a has now been barred from practicing for eleven years with no chance to appeal

against the decision this tiny and gained international fame for his attempts to extradite chile's former dictator at least of pinochet in nineteen ninety eight. in the u.s. when the economy needs a fix so do the people the country is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and this addiction to katherine is being exploited by some unscrupulous producers who are looking to bruise their profit. as more. in the city that never sleeps or perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every live hat and street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers copying their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting ip. like you know i get it again probably. so i just have to are both of these real yes actually yes i don't know if i could give a i love. it five or six cups

a day yes but i'm not good to much of anything i was going to drink three cups definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily maximum recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high. unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work imperative in america are working really long hours people are

chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid ongoing economic instability u.s. energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven. the newest stimulant hitting the market is a slim a plastic inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth one country ordering. a caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective is to create repeat customers to get people to their product. is clearly an addictive

substance and by creating all these products they're definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is you know happy over consumption of coke in a can because while going after new consumers one u.s. company really did national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them caffeine and a butt load of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who say four loko killed their son police say dozens of students had been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink. but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains on compromise with more and more americans looking for their legal high. r.t. . that brings you up to date for now all the five going to run ten minutes time

with more headlines feet first they're all she's interview with pakistan's foreign minister robin eco are on the challenges facing the country. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all but has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r.t.

thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have in this region and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than for law sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been replaced

there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's or all. involvement in afghanistan from the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing that what is crucial to is solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular case not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter because pakistan continues to lose pakistan continues to lose in terms of economic costs in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in

many many ways but some times the rule that is that is put on pakistan is rule which is understandable which defies logic so to speak because if the first country to benefit from is stable one stands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable on the stand is also pakistan i think seeing that pakistan is cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is in the imaginary blame it is an imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions the real problems have to be faced you know on the ground president obama said a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the pakistani authorities allegedly. are not in control of that own land. and my question is. why pakistan

tolerating the use of military technology that are hitting targets on pakistani land that alter. they often times late the loss of life among the pakistani citizens this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our successes in our view drones are not only completely illegal and under full and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets or ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks we

are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences of what you know many other powers of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of. a challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of one star not in trying to deal with that we have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody. so again do we want to repeat the mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has got to go to that it is illegal. counterproductive just last week. and i've heard reports was like to the media that pakistani security forces and maintaining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was it when. an allegation that they're supporting them

financially. is this true first of all this is not a need to report we were told by need to at least that this is a. single person not report but is being the country and the single person. pretty much. all the border because this is not a new accusation or allegation which have been made and the specific context of the mention where with the taliban of alter intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in of on some indian style with one group or the other and all of them at some level and these does are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about that so i think just creating you know this is this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly thank you very much for a time minister thank you.

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welcome back and this is a quick check of the headlines at half past the hour. the u.n. and arab league plan to join souless to enter the bloodshed in syria as critics claim disinformation on the number of deaths is being used to cloud the proper understanding of the situation and this comes as the opposition accuses the government of a massacre in homes while damascus maintains its conducting and on to terror operation. also a euro zone ministers postponed a decision on a second financial bailout package from greece this despite the coalition in athens closing a last minute deal and reforms and austerity measures union leaders have announced a general strike for friday and saturday protest over the costs that creditors are

demanding before they approve the one hundred thirty billion dollar loan. and often president hamid karzai lashes out after a children are killed in a nato air strike this as the u.n. confirms twenty eleven as the deadliest here at the civilians since the start of the and meanwhile the u.s. announced it could hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected. his guest about these stock market flotation on the walls the biggest social media site facebook cross-talk is up next. hello and welcome to crossfire can you talk about the fate of and the battle for syria the international community is.