i reports the region has been flooded with american arms for years. at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporter is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that is a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the story quickly more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously that it's made the

region any more stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s. weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are are so you know ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity and apocrypha of american foreign policy is painfully. evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with . bunker buster bombs experts say this strategic arming of middle eastern countries

is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. is going on. your own. you know human rights. geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria and it's not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing this arms nobody's asking in the u.s. media well these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this is the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on

capitol hill arms manufacturers or some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make it so for the defense department around the world their federal contractor and many other levels are going to vote in elections this statue outside the u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point i r.t. new york. russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months and wants to host talks between the warring sides but one middle east expert told r.t. that negotiations will be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition is rallying for regime change. the meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed his readiness however the other side is not expressing its readiness there are some members of the syrian opposition who are expressing

regina's however there are other sides a lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the go show actions of setting preconditions are sitting in a little off center negotiations last fall and i think that is part of. the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a poet all of. which washington or which some western states western powers want to get rid of including israel also wants to get rid of the. greek politicians last minute agreement on fresh plans hasn't exactly been greeted with open arms a forty eight hour strike has been called by the country's two major labor unions and eurozone member states say they will put even more conditions on greece before handing over a second bailout after struggling athens did manage to broker a multiparty yesterday deal which has been demanded by creditors and it was in place just a matter of hours before you were ministers met in brussels but there is still i'm

happy and willing to hand over one hundred thirty billion euros the greek parliament now has to pass a package of cuts and reforms by sunday the journalist giuliana sgrena says to me he says the situation in the country is deteriorating and the consequences could be dangerous. what we get from all these measures. if we have all had to be fought then we are in this situation where we have to face a slow death from starvation in greece the situation in greece you see extreme at the moment we have children playing pink in their school because they don't have proper breakfast and because they don't they don't have enough food so you realize that the she traced is getting worse and worse we have a lot of people as i told you that they are hungry at the moment first of all they demand the election which i have to tell you here and now they want elections they want the situation to be changed second they have been wondering whose recipe are

we following at the moment increases i mean the greek government recipe comes from the i.m.f. and the recipe simply doesn't work. it's going to do three each old view of the troika gives their main. orders and you know that we get more and more see in the last two years so far as they say and i agree with them easier to see this time to morrow rice from the west than to see all these orders and all these measures bring us to growth and bring us back to normal life. robert oulds chair of the london based think tank group believes that it's the european currency itself pushing greece to the at. greece is in severe economic difficulties and it's failed to meet many of the targets that the euro zone in 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 debt 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 kept people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro and coming your way later in the program in a sense lost in afghanistan find out why the latest air strike has left afghanistan present and damning foreign troops. and separated spouses why israel is stopping sounds and the palestinians from currently living with israeli families.

civil society in russia is moving to the forefront of politics with a mission to keep the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent a group of leading public and proactive figures are joining forces and crucially they seem to have the support of the candidates and the vote. has more. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough since scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections with marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go they want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is

not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made in tedious plague t.v. host and now activists. have already asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger who does any of the dmca also known as dr lisa. cordoning of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone or is more honest our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters

have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including prime minister and presidential candidate bloody middleton we fully share your view on the necessity to hold a fair election of the president of russia march fourth we are thankful for your offer. we're sure by uniting our efforts will be able to ensure. that we accept your proposal to interact another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep track of the election protocols according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's clearly important not to cross the line and observers not only are

positioned it is serious so if limitations not to take sides in the political process. the league's founders say they'll shut the organization down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming there are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promise from candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going off r t moscow. well you can get you can always get all the latest news and updates online by logging on to our website at www dot com here's what's there a way to free. iran returns to argue one hundred seventy drone dollars down in december last year to the united states only now it's paying and about and its

reach it's. also online spoke too soon germany was forced to switch back to nuclear energy just one year after declaring it was giving it out find out why when our top. just over a month before we're out of the presidential vote in south the city one of the candidates is in hospital alan joyce is recovering from a stroke she suffered on thursday when prosecutors arrived to take her in for questioning and she's being cold as a witness to a raid on government offices last year joy of claim victory in november as disputed presidential election which was an all blindly essentially in supreme court the country's capital was gripped by protests for weeks after the vote joyfull was

planning to stage her own inauguration as president this friday which the acting head of the republic hold an attempted coup on a boy who has the latest from south sudanese. in the remember last year held its first post war presidential elections the results of which were later counselled by the central election commission of violations of the new elections and now scheduled to take place on march twenty fifth earlier on thursday police security services have raided george's house in the capital of south sudan during that three . herself fell unconscious and she is now in a host jill being treated for a minor according to the. interim authorities she is the main reason for these unexpected a raid of george's house was bring her in for questioning to the prosecutor's office. reporting there eight afghan children have been killed by nato airstrike

according to the country's president in a statement on a karzai can down the aerial bombing by foreign troops the afghan leader has ordered an investigation into the bombing and the province of keep on wednesday just a week ago the united states announced it could hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could worsen an already strained relationship between karzai and washington and a mounting afghan civilian deaths help documentary filmmaker clay clare born things that despite condemnation civilian casualties will continue to rise. he had to put on a certain pretenses to have any viability is a legitimate see as an afghan woman or something like this happens but he is basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demands to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happens in

the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed by french troops on ports and i think because the us is planning to pull out of the movie next day for him because of the injured are moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven eight percent of two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they know that they have to pull out safely because they noted again this. now to some other stories from around the world germany's finance minister has been caught on tape saying portugal's bailout plan may need to be revised once a second bailout for greece has been finalized the comments came at a meeting with other eurozone ministers and are the first acknowledgement from a high level euro fishel that portugal may need more time and money to get its economy back on track the country received

a seventy eight billion euro bailout last april and has since fallen into a deep recession. that of human rights judge bolitho saw garson has been convicted for ordering the illegal recording of corruption suspects talking to their lawyers and has now been barred from practicing for eleven years with no chance of appeal against the decision the spaniard gained international fame for his attempts to extradite chile's former dictator augusto pinochet in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. stranded cruise ships off the ukrainian coast have had to be airlifted to safety after their vessels became trapped in path ukraine's emergency services say one hundred twenty six ships on the sea of are currently stranded temperatures are fluctuating between minus eleven and why it is seventy degrees celsius the severe weather is part of a cold snap in europe to has caused dozens of deaths. a dossier on apple founder steve jobs released by the f.b.i.

includes allegations of drug use and former friends describing him as deceptive and not honest the previously classified files were put together when jobs was being considered for a sensitive job as a consultant to president george w. bush the computing pioneer who died in october last year after a long struggle with cancer had also received bomb threats according to the report . now israeli citizenship law is denying sauza of palestinians the right to permanently sell down with their israeli spouses and children the government says the law was designed for security reasons but as opposed to reports it seems the battle against terror could be doing more harm than good tearing apart families. this is the document that's ruining lana's life it makes no mention of a university degree a husband or two children it simply states she's palestinian and therefore illegal and wanted in israel i have. just agreed.

it and drink and for me it's not the law. but long it chooses the non-life because it's where her husband and children live by law they're israeli whereas the rest of her family live across the border in janine palestine. during. what. i have to walk. until now known as move between the two worlds with temporary visas issued by television but she's afraid there could stop at the government tightens its grip on an eight year old law denying permanent citizenship to palestinians married to israelis but strain to limit the graphic. growth of the arab citizens encourage.

citizens who marry palestinians from the west bank in gaza or from jordan to actually immigrate to actually leave israel israel says the law is for security purposes and it's trying to prevent palestinians from taking advantage of being able to get an israeli id through marriage and then carry out attacks on israeli citizens but human rights groups don't buy that they petitioned the law arguing that in the last fourteen years more than one hundred fifty thousand palestinians entered israel because of family ties with israelis only fifty four of them were ever found to be a security risk. in upholding the so-called citizenship law the israeli supreme court president said it was one of the most difficult questions in the state's history the battle against terror while at the same time maintaining the nation's democratic nature we are talking about thousands of family that as a result of the decision of the supreme court that validated upheld the law they are now living under the can shabelle threat of being forcibly separated from their

spouses from their children from their parents so we are indeed talking about a huge issue with a huge effect of thousands of people this law is thinking about it. i mean one. last degree before having your very pure jewish state but in the meantime it threatens to tear families apart as lawn intestate now face the very real danger that they might not be able to continue living together. israel. well when winter comes to town moscow can look like a fairy tale city albeit a cold one so our moscow team went to try selling winter themed activities on the outskirts of the russian capital for magical forests and husky dogs to snowplows and tiny villages here's a preview. well

kareena is next was a business news here on r.t. . it's twenty three past nine am here in moscow welcome to business here and some of

russia's richest people may soon find themselves subject to one off tax prime minister putin says a way must be found to close the subject of unfair privatizations in the ninety's he suggests that tycoons who took control of the country's resources should pay something back and acknowledges that the process of privatization after the collapse of the soviet union was designed as a pair of one hundred fourteen billionaires in russia may have made their fortunes from a commodity alexei mortar shell of a steel magnate says his idea will be difficult to combat. but. it's very important to understand how this idea can be implemented in reality who should pay the tax current all the ones who tried to toast the assets back in the ninety's plus many login surprises will prove it was by millions of people this issue must be addressed the question is though how exactly this can be done. companies operating in russia may get a new tax benefits the finance ministry has suggested abolishing

a tax on movable assets this would make it more profitable for enterprises to buy new equipment as part of russia's modernization drive legal costs the russian budget and the annual full point seven billion dollars however finance minister in one of says state might compensate by raising real estate tax. let's take a look at the markets now well first crude is falling for three weeks high as concerns about europe's debt crisis way signs of an economic recovery in the u.s. grand blend is trading at over one hundred eighteen dollars the bow wow. is it over ninety nine dollars a barrel. asian markets dipped down after greece approved a long awaited all staring bans make is losing nearly point three percent wall and sank is down half a percent financials are broadly lower carmakers are also losing ground in tokyo is on the rise after the u.s. approved construction of its first new nuclear plant in three decades with all she

was set to build. its one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian market saw some profit taking on thursday with both indices ending in the red the odds he has lost around a third of a percent from isaac's was down almost a percent. slowing growth in asia and europe is threatening to weaken the core of the russian economy standard bank expects no recovery in demand for all materials until late two thousand and thirteen when the bulk of china's stimulus policy should be felt the chairman of the board of russia's biggest mine an oil slick mikhail is aware of the problem but says his company is well set. i should know but you know we expect no significant drop in the price of nickel the cost of nickel production is now at twenty thousand per tonne if the price is lower it will not be profitable to produce it so plans to develop output will definitely be frozen or somebody's auction lines may even become talk closed however inventories are not rising in london we've sold almost our entire outlook for this year the amount

we're setting to china hasn't changed we also aren't seeing a decline in demand from europe and america. well that's all for this out the back about the. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough earth emergency department beds and not enough nurses commandos to take care of all the people who

are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be around so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem is medical i've had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for it i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in the emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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welcome back to what you want to live from moscow these are the top stories american gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime directly as u.s. weapons were reportedly find their way to the forces with no agreement reached on syria the u.n. america and its allies are piling pressure on damascus while supporting the opposition. greek labor unions staged a two day strike in response to the latest wave of which they say is pushing workers and the economy towards a financial abyss the measures where your course will step toward securing a desperately needed one hundred thirty billion euro bailout package. and a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather widespread support on

their quest to keep the presidential elections fair and transparent after succeeding in establishing ties with both the authorities and the opposition they're planning to monitor the vote in march. those are the outlines of next the first part of a special report on the american paramedics known as doctors in a box who treat everything from heart attacks to stomach aches. because the part of. the work. interest that. says it's. ok to find a partner has been this patch on their on the way are you are you with her now all this shit. ok is she conscious.