disaster for syria. united states and european allies are interested in regime change in syria and they won't stop at anything. that does not deliver a differing government that they hope will be more sympathetic to western interests which is quite naive really when you think about it because the people in syria are likely not going to be more sympathetic to american and israeli aggression throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition it's conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and you know innocent syrians i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate you know an outside exile group arming and training these people and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next if an externally force power is suddenly implanted in syria is not at all representative of the people and syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now

the way things are progressing damascus as it's conducting an anti terror operation in the city of homs aimed at rooting out what it calls armed gangs opposition activists disagree and say the army is shelling residential areas indiscriminately but serious deputy foreign minister alleges that the massacre is actually being orchestrated by opposition groups to once international opinion. believe it or not i mean those people who are who have been killed are people who supported the government. people who were kidnapped by the armed groups and they were massacred i believe that i'm damn sure that the instructions were given to these armed groups to commit this massacre. to mobilize. the international public opinion and to encourage those counters to use such

a thing in their statements before the security council because everybody in the world or those who are at least interested in following the developments in the region could listen to them the u.s. and its allies criticize countries who supply military hardware to damascus bought a group of republican lawmakers in washington is now calling on the white house to arm the opposition in syria and authorities marine up ordinary ports the middle east is already awash with firepower made in the usa. 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 u.s. is a hugely difficult in this regard because we've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons that the u.s. sold the story clearly more than four hundred billion dollars worth since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to. the middle east and you can argue. seriously that it's really that region anymore stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of us 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. you're ok friends they're thugs you're not mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity and. 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. against 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 but it's not some kind of. simultaneously

op risings situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing this arms nobody is asking in the us media well these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this as the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby. it's interest on capitol hill arms manufacturers or some of the biggest companies in america there are some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they making so much for the defense department around the world there are federal contractor and many other levels there 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. new york and i can always find more news and await us updates on

the situation in syria on our website here's what else is waiting for you there. the day of rage against new anti-piracy laws has rocked the world with protests taking place in dozens of cities across the planet. also online a salvage blanik rao why argentina's u.s. military threats from the u.k. around the disputed islands. in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the ongoing military rule exactly a year after president obama stepped down demonstrators want the supreme council of the armed forces to see power to a civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the country with few reforms made and escalated repression position dozens of

protesters were killed over the past month and clashes with police across the country and you parliament's been elected and drawing up a constitution while the military says it won't step down before the end of june but freelance journalist bell truce has egyptians expect the deadline to be broken . people are unsure about whether the transfer. so far the military really minute you count so has yet to fulfill any of its promises also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters were people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is shots i'm aiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police is employed by the. a few weeks ago seventy four people die so essentially we seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people basically anxious that nothing will change and that will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post i would say they do say

that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even off to mubarak step down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes in egypt security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt senior general defended the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations and the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered a probe into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country for its from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many of which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak 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 is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership layman skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that according people they are working. they're the ones that evolution they have their tactics and they're when the radicals live there this is very much a dangerous for the radicals this is especially led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarfs reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scaf looking for inge all. subdivisions against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of u.s.

transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. wasn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. so this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been a week to condemn car one in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned. the end of the day it continued on flowing that the poor mother support also continued we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy getting the middle east washington wants to stop and always 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 share the council's concerns about the

n.g.o.s 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 of your story to cairo wanted to send washington and message that's it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last for the rate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces called no 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. in cairo so what imus our shooting itself in the food some member states expressed that you could end up at the losing out of a time bargain on

a rainy you know well. saint or center the man accused of being weaken the source of american secret his brand of a terrorist by some while others nominated him for the nobel peace price. the greek pm locust puppet demas has warned of uncontrollable economic chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek cabinet to secure one hundred and thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new cuts package and some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against it and parliament the draft bill suggest firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage greece's two biggest trade unions have held a forty hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret bergen raef of the financial advisory firm a.c.m.

partners in chicago believes that a new bailout will merely delay a greek economic collapse. greece is either going to commit to last year or the measures which i and many economists argue still is not it now to guarantee that recent deep balls or it will default just sooner rather than later a lot of people are talking about disorderly default i don't think the european union nor greece is going to allow that to occur but frankly i think the markets have been fooling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or option i think what you're first going to see much like greek economists have been saying is a shrinking the economy poor to buy percent this year think about what that means for a country already on the brink of you know social not necessarily collapse we definitely definitely instability and economic not ruined but certainly you know it's certainly not growing and things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of more to five percent of growth combined with the measures combined

with the political pressures of the european union will definitely distort disrupt raise significantly in two thousand and twelve. artie's financial analyst max kaiser believes greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries the creditors who are going to take a haircut on their debt already have that fully insured in the credit default swap market and they're going to make money no matter what they don't take any risk that's why greece is in this problem to begin with all of the toxic debt that has been accumulated on banks' balance sheets around the world in germany and the u.k. and the u.s. have been put onto the balance sheet of greece and now the government of greece wants the people of greece to pay for this toxic debt the debt in greece did not originate in greece it originated in these other countries that have used greece as a toxic debt don't don't they're dead. i would love to know your opinion on the situation in greece so why don't you log on to our website r.t.

dot com to have your say in our latest poll today we're asking what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy but here are the votes so far exactly half of you believe that the new measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already doomed and over a third think it will only mean further hardship for the greek people all nine percent of you think the e.u. won't allow the greek economy to collapse and the minority for now believes bailouts are the only way reese will survive those are the figures for now but all that can change just add your thoughts to the debate. now is greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that islamic republic would soon reveal major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe

was playing a risky game by cutting off trade with tehran because e.u. consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the spanish ambassador to iran said that sanctions will hurt his country more than any other european state and madrid based journalist may go on the rado says that even barges serve only the interests of the u.s. . what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union and he's not just displaying a need to also greece imports lots of oil from iran it could be hard hitting away that would bring them bundled up in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that's going to happen because of the. political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to

say told the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe an unnamed u.s. official has said israel's intelligence agency mossad trained and financed a terrorist group that carried out a series of assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists four have been killed in bomb attacks over the past two years and these logic republic has blamed israel and the u.s. for their deaths and a national relations expert the job for shaad says the murders are part of a secret war being waged against iran. the kook war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of iranian scientists this is tricky because the un did release

a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released a statement condemning the assassination of the scientists but there's been no word from the atlantic condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of tehran and according to my sources scientists in iran are now feel full of going outside conducting the every day of business after one of the scientists was shot sitting in his car we didn't do because his daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become defying you scientists . civil society stepping into the front line of russian politics where the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading figures and members of the public are joining forces most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates as well as the voters that he's a corpus cut off has the details. 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 the years 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 votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters league is not meant the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists orders writers and other public figures and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activists. have already asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr lisa.

corden a tour of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone . 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 broad. jact is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging bill clinton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak yet to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers was also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election through two cols 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 teach sides in the political process. the leagues founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they are keen to work with all candidates equally there is 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. and so we're only using brief for you this hour israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have left one person dead and

four others wounded warplanes fired missiles at three different areas just after midnight on saturday the first field east of gaza city with another landing near the israeli border and a third near the city of new knees the israeli army confirmed the strike saying they had targeted sites belonging to terrorist organizations. police in the rain of fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital manama no injuries were reported but witnesses say at least one protester was detained violence has been on the rise over the past few weeks as the country heads towards the first anniversary of a brutally crushed protest against king hamas rule. in britain five newspaper journalists have been arrested over alleged payments made to police and public officials rupert murdoch the owner of news international says he's committed to keeping the tabloid newspaper the sun running investigation as part of the country's phone hacking scandal came to light last year it revealed that for some

journalists it was common practice to monitor the private boys' mail messages of celebrities. legendary pop singer whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the six time grammy award winner was found in a beverly hills hotel room on saturday the performer struggled with drugs and alcohol problems later in her career and angered rehab last year sorties have yet to determine the exact cause of houston's death. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing government secrets to weaken leaks has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by a slender parliamentary group which said he should be recognized for exposing war crimes the twenty four year old has spent more than a year behind bars awaiting trial in the u.s. starts clark stokley an activist for manning's cause things he accused deserves the price now less than the current u.s. president did. bradley manning is accused of the greatest act of civil disobedience

least in my lifetime and what he is accused of is leaking documents and video. that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets of the why shouldn't he obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama has also taken credit for ending the iraqi war when actually that's not the truth and the iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason that they didn't last immunity is because of what they saw in the cables and the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s.

government. well that brings us up to date here in r.t. i'll be back shortly with a recap of our top stories. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to man those deaths to take care of all the people who are 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 ask i started out i want to just do firefighting 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 i've waited sometimes three hours and i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. wealthy british style. sometimes it's class. act.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories of the week the arab league is set to decide its future efforts on serious violence escalates and the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus hundreds of people have reportedly been killed across syria over the past week. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's ousting with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council but the generals are clinging on to power which they refused to give up until at least june. the people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over

a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to debate a draft bill monastery the measures demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of public figures steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league astute sure a fair and transparent election. up next the first part of a special report of american paramedics known as doctors in a box who treat everything from heart attacks to stomach aches. because the forty. three. says. it's ok i wasn't a part of burma has been this much younger on the way are you are you with her now all the. time.