of course the situation in syria continues to be extremely violent acts it is claimed that hundreds of people were killed in the country just over the past week and this is what syrian the deputy foreign minister has to say on the matter those people who have been killed are people who should pull the government. people who were kidnapped by the two groups and they were mr good on the. evening of to the. or during the the exact time of the meeting go the security council and you syrian government insisted that that the rebels in the country are met managing to survive and carry out their violence because of the foreign at least at least financial support from from abroad but they are also saying that there are insurgents coming in from various arab countries who also provide military and human support to the rebels in the country rosco housing has

repeatedly insisted on the fact that the situation in syria needs to bring results instantly and by diplomatic solutions and time and time again reminded that it should be syrian matter that is opposing sides in the conflict in syria should. discuss the situation should sit down at the talks between them without any foreign intervention let's have a listen to rush is on voice to the united nations. as the morning during mission of that i believe was the as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. quarters of the city is that it was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue. at the same time you have increasingly no interest rate from washington or other host of artwork from washington who say they're not going to sit down for any talks with assad or insist that the syrian president step

down and that is the situation in which the league of the arab states is meeting in order to discuss what is going to happen with the country and how the situation there should be solved hearing reporting there from cairo now the u.s. and its allies criticize countries who so. military hardware to damascus but a group of republican lawmakers in washington is now calling on the white house to arm the opposition in syria and as art is worried about now reports the middle east is already awash with five power 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 they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the store equally more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can 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 here are so you're ok and there are 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. 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 rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey who was 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 they're a 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. new york. well you know always find more news and the latest updates on the situation in syria on our website which is actually dot com and here's what else is waiting for you there right now the day of rage against new anti-piracy laws has rocked the world with protests. taking place and dozens of cities across the planet also on line a south atlantic. military threats around the disputed islands. in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against a young going military rule exactly a year after president obama stepped down demonstrators want the supreme council of the armed forces to cede power to a civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the

country with the reforms made and escalated repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the past months in the clashes with police across the country and you parliament's been elected and is drawing up a constitution while the military says it won't step down before the end of june but freelance journalist bill truce has a gyptian expect the deadline to be broken. unsure about whether the transfer. so you follow the military and the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is short and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police as it exemplified by the. disaster a few weeks ago which saw 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 a new dictatorship i think most people here would post i would say they do say that the revolution never end but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year that being continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet and in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general the fan of the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered the probe into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country reports from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want 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 blaming skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that according people they are working. they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the rhetoric of 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 finds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with women the people about the

rights of the scaf looking for inge all. subdivisions against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not had a son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been quick to condemn the car one in the days of blank checks are over or the condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of that the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in 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 sharing the council's concerns about being genomes 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 takes 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 last so 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 is a very colorful the armed forces are 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. in cairo.

and still to come this hour here in our t.v. shooting itself in the food some member states expressed concerns doubt that you could end up at the losing end of its embargo on arabian oil. saint or sinner the man accused of being with you the source of american secrets is branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the grief . of war and 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 a hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without ads 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 in 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 eight hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret bovary of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes that a new bailout will merely delayed 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 deep balls or it will be all 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 which frankly i think the markets have been calling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or third option i think what your first point is the much like rick economists have been saying is the shrinking the economy who are just by percent this year think about what that means for a country already on the brink you know social not necessarily collapse we definitely definitely instability and economic not ruined but certainly you. no

it's certainly not growing it things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of war to fight for signs of growth combined with the measures combined the political pressures of the european union will definitely does europe disrupt raise significantly in two thousand and twelve. parties financial analyst max kaiser believes greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries. the credit service 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 and it originated in these other countries that have used

greece because a toxic debt don't turn to don't they're dead. i would love to know your opinion on the situation in greece a log on to a website or to come to have your say in our latest poll well today we are asking what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy let's take a look now at the side vote so 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 third think it will mean only more hardship for the greek people bond nine percent of you think the want a lot of greece's economy to collapse and the minority who are now believes the bailouts are the only way the country can survive so those are the figures for now but all that could change of course so do log on to our website r.t. dot com and let us know what you think. and disagrees struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program here kenya has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop already raining oil from

july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the 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 to iran 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 based journalist make yani of morocco says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the us. but what we're seeing here is not the solution 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 i mean it's not just displaying the need for me also greece for its loss of oil from iran it could be hard hit in a way that would bring the bomb drops in the coming future that would be

a complete disaster for the european union for the euro. and that can 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 cut all the strait of hormuz or even if they now of 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. and unmanned u.s. official has said israel's intelligence agency mossad trained and finance 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 the islamic republic has blamed israel and the us for their deaths international relations expert says the murderers are part

of a secret war being waged against iran. over what war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of you know any and scientists this is tracking because the un did release a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released a statement condemning the assassination from scientists but there's been no word from the atlantic followers condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of their own and according to my sources so i think this in iran are no theo full of going out say conducting the every day of business after all one of the scientists was shot sitting in his we didn't do because of news daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become daily following you scientists. consider society stepping into the front line of russian politics with the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading

figures and members of the public are joining forces and most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates as well as the voters are going 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 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 when. 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 mean tedious leg t.v. host and now activist one of the ladies asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger liz idea that bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha cordoning are of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone for smoothness 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 pledging middleton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck

a deal with the leak you have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to. together 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 the mutations not to teach science in the political process. the league's 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'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 the 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. so take a look at some other stories from around the world israeli air strikes on the gaza strip 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 niece the israeli army confirmed the strike saying they had targeted sites belonging to terrorist organizations. police in bahrain have fired 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 a country has to work the first anniversary of a brutally crushed protest against king mobs 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 is committed to keeping the tabloid newspaper the sun running investigation as part of the country's phone hacking scandal that came to light last year it revealed that for some journalists it was common practice to monitor the private voicemail 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 third rehab last year authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of houston's death. now a u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing government secrets to weeklies has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by an icelandic parliamentary group which said he should be recognized for exposing the war crimes

the twenty four year old to spend more than a year behind bars awaiting trial in the us clark stokley an activist for manning's cause thinks the accused deserves a prize no 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 at the why should he obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraq 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 did the 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. and that brings us up to date here on r t for moral going to our website r.t. dot com i do actually without data our top stories. from

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welcome are you watching from moscow these are the top stories of the week now 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 alice thing with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the 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 cards as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due debated drabbed bill on the spirit of measures demanded by the and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with back from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to ensure a fair and transparent election. but now it's time for part two of our special report american paramedics known as doctors in a box who treat everything from strains and pains to broken bones and heart attacks . the orange dots show hospitals that are no longer here and the green dots represent those hospitals that are still in existence here what you don't see is any new hospitals because there are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you.