sanctions on syria they will also recall is stop their mission their observer mission to the country and most importantly as we have mentioned they will ask for a joint for a un peacekeeping force to enter the country now all of this is happening in midst of reports of growing violence in the country with at this point hundreds of people being claimed to be being killed there on a weekly basis and all of this also comes as there was washington continues to stress the importance of severe and old ties with president assad and they have the have green not so much created as they have assembled a sort of a sort of a coalition which they call friends of syria basically anybody who wants can enter washington and its allies primarily france and the united kingdom and their calls for assad to step down and to hand power over to civil authority know whether or not the whether or not they will succeed in their endeavors there

remains of course to be seen what what is also important to mention is the fact that right now looks like it is actually going to be on the same side as as washington and its allies because the head of al qaida has just issued a statement saying that he supports the rebels the armed rebels in syria and he has also called on the muslims in the entire world. to support syrian rebels as well in fact there are reports from iraqi intelligence who say. armed fighters have been are being transported from iraq to syria as often now but it doesn't seem to be any sign of any call for negotiations at the moment moscow's long be merging both sides to hold talks do you think that's any chance of that happening. well russia has been repeatedly saying the syrians are the only people who can solve the situation. in the country they have said the diplomatic solution is the only

possible solution and they are very vehemently against involving outside armed forces in this endeavor in fact they do support the previous plan by the arab league they do support the arab league observers mission there but unfortunately russia did have some reservations as to whether or not the the arab league observers were really quite all that successful in their mission let's have a listen to russia's to the united nations vitaly churkin on the matter. as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw the the government troops were pulling out of certain dollars or sort of quarters in the city is that he was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and

escalate. of course the russian delegation was in damascus earlier this week they have entered talks with president assad who seemed to be more than willing to start to start reforms in the country in fact just on sunday. good day new constitution is under way that there are talks being discussed and he also said that he is willing to sit down for a dialogue with the syrian opposition primarily with the syrian national council and unfortunately the syrian opposition isn't all that all that keen to enter any sort of negotiations with president assad so again the situation in syria remains remains tense as the arab league here in cairo is looking to find a solution to this ever growing problem arena thanks so much for about the update live there from colorado are going to. well dr from the center for middle east studies says washington fighting against

a common enemy in syria. it seems that.

but everybody. in greece police have fired tear gas and stun grenades into crowds of protesters who throwing stones and far bombs at them have been reports of several injuries during the scuffles outside parliament in athens lawmakers are debating a choice between tough new cuts all and imminent default which the country's prime minister says would lead to chaos while we bring you live pictures of the events unfolding there in athens as they're discussing those are starting measures in parliament at the moment and we're also seeing a little earlier clashes between the police and protesters but at the moment many protesters they're gathering outside parliament in greece live pictures there from athens where the creditors want an unpopular new a sturdy bill passed in return for the one hundred thirty eight billion euro rescue

package the cabinet has cleared the plan but lost six ministers or deputies in the process some coalition and piece of threatened to vote against it if it goes ahead though fifteen thousand civil servants will lose their jobs and the minimum wage will be slashed thousands of greeks have been protesting the deal throughout the week and as we can see they continue to protest there in athens as that debate continues in parliament economists yanis varoufakis says e.u. leaders are only looking to secure their own financial stability. this government was always expendable the point of putting it in place was to ensure that this deal goes through. it's my prediction that it will go through and that is governing. the it is done these measures are part of a loan package the purpose of which is to delay. the steady this is the gratian of the euro zone and give more time to germany's politicians to find out what they're

going to do with their with the german and the french banks which are insolvent so greece is being sacrificed on the altar of the european procrastination well whoever is doing it is creating a very severe. a medical issue by means of course. what is happening here is that greeks are being threatened less they keep borrowing money from germany from france from the i.m.f. from the e.c.b. we needed to keep northern european and greek banks they're going to be through another years some of this is of course an empty threat here we have people of euros a month who would have to believe one hundred fifty euros a month while at the same time inflation is increasing and taxation is going through the roof. and we can return to those live pictures from the center of athens if you just joined us just to remind you that thousands of protesters have gathered outside the greek parliament today they've been protesting all week but now we know that the more makers are debating the austerity measures at the moment in parliament and we're seeing those events developing there in athens by the way

we're actually streaming the events in greece at the moment all website you can see continual coverage of the events there in athens by simply going to r.t. dot com. well still ahead this hour here on r.t. a year since the toppling of barack but instead of celebrations across egypt a general strike people feel betrayed by the military rulers and want change that still hasn't come. also still to come a group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing the voters league. but first iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the thirty third anniversary of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad's said tehran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs but the united states and its allies the e.u.

and israel suspect around could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against iran but warns that europe's planned oil embargo will backfire political analyst says the. washington and brussels want to weaken the islamic republic and fail to see the danger their actions are creating. they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election parliamentary election probably the thing this is kind of backfire in terms of the population of iran against. america and the european going very far because this is kind of an implication for the world economy especially this escalate to a military showdown and everything is going to be on the table all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize ing their their system their reign in this point they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement

there is no violation to that and they ran said very clearly they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community at this point and what the american one at that point and as i said there's a lot of politics in it no matter what they say coming at iran no matter what they are just a fine or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against iran. on the first anniversary of the el sting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they are blocking reforms the military said it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power in june when the presidential elections but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date. truce as egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people

are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer power in jean and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters 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 and i was fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are 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 after mubarak stepped down this time last year

they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. the crackdown on western funded pro-democracy pro-democracy groups in caro has been discussed by the u.s. is top general with egypt's martial turn over for doesn't foreigners have been arrested and are now facing trial for funding unrest in the country but as if an ocean reports it's the timing of the clampdown that is raising questions. egypt's new government crackdown on nigerians has raised many questions and it may want is why now the groups many 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 laman scaf for the slow pace of

reform some of them are used by the other. that according people they are working. and they are the ones that evolution they have their tactics now when the radicals live there this is very much a dangerous war the rhetoric 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 how one would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scaf looking before enjoy. some agent against the regime and old mind the round up of activists has also not a sign of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo and washington. simply because. of them in

a sort of plans for. i don't. think. 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 is a big week to condemn this car when in the days of mind tanks are over or they condemned. the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provides support also continued. or washington's so-called support for democracy get in the middle east washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to get in to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car chanda councils concerns about the engineers motives the usa has had a hand into its 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 right any outside interference some doubts though they really minutes the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there this isn't callous of the armed forces or scholars now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. we've. seen cairo. do you live here moscow with you twenty four hours a day still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths some plans for an early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing we explain why in a few moments. and hero for so villain for others the u.s.

army private accused by washington of treason received a nomination for. nobel peace price. story start a company first fair and transparent that's help people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country have been equipped with web cams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough you know this kind of explains how they're planning to secure honest voting. 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 years of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts 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

where. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media forming 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 all artists writers and other public figures and statements made in tedious leg t.v. host and now activist. the lady. or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr lisa. or other school martha ordinator 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. 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 auld everyone has so far agreed including pledging little to another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with elite you could go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep track of the election points because 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 really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if the mutations are not to teach science in the political process. the league's founders say those shut the organisation down if it

ever starts turning into a political movement 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 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. the afghan president hamid karzai accused nato of killing eight children in an airstrike on wednesday officials launched an investigation later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that all men were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could stoke already strained

relations between karzai and his western backers over a mounting death toll journalist gareth porter thinks that foreign expansion is to blame for the growing number of casualties. 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 at worst simply lack of fundamental knowledge of local situations and mistakes that are made which will result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily the numbers are growing clearly because the tele band has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. nato troops and part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of the 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.

nato troops and even more so to wound seriously u.s. and nato troops. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is on our website for you r.t. dot com and there you can also find out about america's massive defense costs the u.s. congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bulk up busting super bomb with the order from pentagon marked urgent. and brussels farland poor cold water on plans to raise their retirement age as they soak policeman in front of the prime minister's office more on that story in plenty of others it on t.v. dot com and be sure to catch all our best videos on you tube channel. is.

down the official t. application to your i phone i pod touch from the. lights on the. video on demand. live broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com or some other international news in brief e this aerator very nearly twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital israeli airstrikes on me gaza strip of left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a guard at the farm the israeli army confirmed the bombing saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were a response to

a short range rocket attack from gaza. but asia has deported a young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter the journalist outrage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet muhammad clerics condemned his thoughts as a blast from this the twenty three year old could now face execution. pop legend an actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the performer was found in the beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles a career was marred by a turbulent marriage and drug abuse authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of

war crimes to wiki leaks has been nominated for the nobel peace prize he's been put forward by a peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic parliamentary group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison activist clark stokely believes that manning would be a much worthier recipient of the prize than the current u.s. president. 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 receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets a go why shouldn't he almost has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama has also taken credit for ending the iraq war when actually that's not the truth the truth is 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 in the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s. government. don't miss our special report on the multi-skilled is in los angeles known as doctors in a box that will be coming your way in just a few minutes from now before that's i'll be back with headlines stay with us here on tape where life.

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time to update you on our main news stories here in r.t. the arab league is expected to call on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as a group aims to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. police in greece far to gas into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside parliament lawmakers a set for a tough choice some more public cuts to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout. and iran's president promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program saying tehran would never stop enriching

uranium it insists it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. brings up today for the most i'll be back with more news stories and other developments in half an hour from now in the meantime it's the first part of a special report on how los angeles fighters of firefighters i should say have had to adapt their skill set to become paramedics as well. because the part of. the world. to say 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.