could happen should happen some sources even saying british sure special forces already in the ground so maybe there is already foreign intervention we know there is some kinds of foreign intervention but it's there under the guise of a peacekeeping mission wouldn't it create peace and therefore create an environment for negotiations. look i think bill there is a role for the u.n. and if it can get past it paymasters as it were on monday we are human rights chief is delivering a talk about human rights at the u.n. general assembly this is carefully timed as other other announcements have been telling the u.n. could have a role i mean we have heard about al-qaeda al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing you could do all the borders are notorious. forty seven's were nine hundred fifty two hundred dollars a gun in iraq few months ago the now one of the two thousand dollars a gun which is the demand for weapons by these al qaeda insurgents going to support

american and british interests in syria who is much questioning over the makeup of the opposition you just mentioned al qaida in effect are we not seeing. washington and it's an ice actually supporting al qaida that in effect. yes once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven will they never learn it is shocking to hear a american statesman like john mccain calling for intervention presumably u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and nor european union leaders our very statement to back any attacks we saw with lethal consequence in

a letter twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus. this is getting out of hand is getting dangerous let's hope that turkey which refused to operate it called all senators could have happened they see sense countries like turkey and of course qatar using soft power at the moment to great effect to give a distorted view of what's happening in syria today talking about the effectiveness of the u.n. security council a week ago a resolution was vetoed there over concerns of impartiality we're now seeing the friends of syria group forming which includes the u.s. and its allies is this in fact a way of bypassing the u.n. and international law to push forward the agenda from the west point of view. what an incredibly dangerous group the friends of syria will be presumably will have hillary clinton and british foreign secretary of the foreign secretaries and i don't know mr harry him self all in all meeting together as friends of syria this

is a determined attempt at. it is it is i think going to fail because. perhaps president obama election even his policy advisers are telling him this could rapidly spiral out of control and one only has to see the president. from where he sits can see that his allies iraq iran lebanon these countries will trade with syria so there's not going to be any sanctions but what is saudi arabia up to what is qatar up through. the real test of the united nations it's rapidly getting more and more serious this is interesting you mentioned the allies of syria some analysts we've talked to believe that washington actually wants to use this conflict along with the arab and other nato allies as a means of targeting iran and hezbollah in lebanon you see this clearly as an implication here it's obviously reverberating in the background all the time there are reports now that television studios like a b c news the graphics rooms are

already preparing the graphics and so forth and training the senior correspondent strew cover a war against iran i think i think at the moment what seems likely to happen is that people will start to back down from this but just personally u.s. foreign policy just very briefly after we see that iran actively getting physically involved in syria itself if we saw foreign intervention just briefly from nato and the west and arab allies just briefly. that there have been erroneous reports that iran is sending in people into syria it certainly isn't getting involved in that way at the moment in fact iran has made critical statements against the assad regime as to how it has been treating its people into spoke to reform so i don't think iran before any full scale war would get involved of course if there really was a military attack on syria we can expect to see white spread widespread disaster in

the middle east and blowback in the united states al qaeda must be thinking well will follow again will work with us yet again and in a couple years time another nine eleven in america and again what al qaeda and what sunni extremism and salafi as a means action we'll be talking about this again no doubt in the near future thank you in the meantime for your thoughts there live in london afshin rattansi joining me well now we can go to cairo to get the latest from our she is there where the pan arab arab league has been meeting arena why is the league calling for this action this peacekeeping mission along with the u.n. and what would it actually mean for the situation now in syria. well by the looks of it the arab league is running out of options as a matter of fact they have at one point postponed their official statements and there are some rumors saying that the reason for that is because l's year and lebanon have actually come out saying that they are against a u.n. peacekeeping mission that they do want syrians to sort things out on their own

without any foreign intervention however by looks of it the arab league is going to call for u.n. peacekeepers to enter the country they're also going to call for tougher sanctions on syria and they're also going to abort the observers mission which was a hold to last month of course all of this is coming amongst the growing violence in the country which has been escalating by weeks essentially of course that the president of syria bashar al assad is saying that there is foreign intervention already playing at hand here and he did say that there were some. that there was some military support coming from all qaeda fighters and mostly only on the outer regions of syria and there was some of the rock intelligence which did support those claims they did say that some. of the iraqi at the that the al qaeda fighters were of were flying into syria or or coming into syria from its border with iraq of

course all of this is also coming right when washington is pressing hard on assad to step down and it's railing for anybody willing to join the coalition the so-called friends of syria who are going to meet in tunisia on the twenty fourth of february and that was also one of the main points which was discussed at the arab league on sunday is meeting in cairo so again the situation in syria remains very tense the observers will be the observers mission will be pulled out what exactly will happen with the country and the mission keeping mission or the observers mission is not really quite clear it over every means and in this remains to be seen of course. both sides to hold talks is there any chance of any sort of negotiation happening. well most go again that was one of the one of the two countries until now they were saying that syrians need to sort things out

on the their own mosco of russia and china have vetoed the un resolution which was very very adamantly position against syria at last at least that's how russia saw it russia did supports the arab league play and for the observer mission but they did believe that sometimes the mission was not entirely successful let's have a listen to russia's ambassador to the united nations and how the chicken had something to say on the matter. as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was of warming everybody saw the the government troops were pulling out of certain homes or sort of quarters and it is that door to door he was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and. a russian delegation was in damascus for talks with president assad just on tuesday and after those talks

president assad has emerged saying that he's willing to come into to come and join the dialogue with the opposition the unfortunate thing being of course the opposition is not willing to carry out any talks with the current syrian government russia insists that syrians should should sort things out on their own without any foreign intervention. however unfortunately by looks of it the the rest of the world community isn't. isn't all of the same opinion and the meeting of the arab league in cairo on sunday proves that point once again irina thanks for that. reporting live from cairo. 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 or an imminent default which the country's prime minister says would lead to chaos the creditors want an unpopular new a sturdy bill passed in return for the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue package the cabinet has cleared the plan but lost six ministers or deputies in the process some coalition m.p.'s have 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 investment advisor patrick young has told me earlier that eurozone leaders could now be prepared to expel greece from the currency union. in every possible respect greek if greece is not a tragedy and it is doomed the reason for that is simply because there is no way that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking about this weekend against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that not only we have to basically prepared to defend the whole

integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors this week in the euro zone and indeed from the summit you can see there's a spirit that you know what we may have to do three so we may even have to end up ditching portugal from the euro zone but we're we have to defend i is it really and that's really going to fall on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti and this is going to be our how to close make a bent during the course of at the later see a problem does the euro survive at the moment i think probably a shrunken euro it's sixty forty it can do but ultimately we're going to see swinge in recession even worse of the recession read out of we've already been receiving for the course of this week through why do european union and that's bad for everybody in the world regardless of what happens today regardless of what the vote is ultimately within the next maybe it weeks greece is going to be forced to default and that's going to be quite cataclysmic. patrick young talking

a little earlier with these are live pictures now from the center of athens we bring them to you here on our team we can see thousands of protesters have gathered outside the greek parliament we've seen protests there all week and now we're seeing them today because this is the day when parliament is debating more deep cuts and we can bring you all these events live for you all our web site of the moment just head to our t.v. dot com will stream the live developments there from athens throughout the night. well still ahead here on r.t. a year since the toppling in the barracks but instead of celebrating the german people feel betrayed by the military rulers and want change that still hasn't come . to grief it's politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands organizing voters lead. sort of come first iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the thirty third anniversary of the islamic revolution present. would

never stop enriching uranium iran says its nuclear program has to serve its domestic energy needs not its states and. israel suspect tehran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against iran but i mean didn't you know that europe's planned on embargo will backfire political analysts says washington and brussels want to weaken the islamic republic but fail to see the danger 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 big 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 weaponized their system

this point they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation. 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 justifying or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against iran. well the first anniversary of the ousting 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 that blocking reforms the military said it would accept any ultimatum to transfer. presidential elections as many

people fear they will remain in power beyond this thing called a generous build true says 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 they 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 birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police is it exemplified 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 it will just slip into a new a new dictatorship i think most people here would would say or do you say when the

revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or 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 that they haven't seen yet. with r.t. still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths and planned early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing we explain why in a few moments. and here over some villain for others the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason received a nomination for the nobel peace prize. but first fair and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with web cams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens as decided using technology alone is not enough even

to 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 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 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 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 statements radius leg t.v.

host and now activist. and lady addict or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr elisa. or other school math of coordinating 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 it's 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 put together a unified database to keep. from 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 of the political process. the league's founders say those shut the organisation 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. 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 armed 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 western backers over a mounting death toll and this kind of porter thinks that foreign actions are 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 worse 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 taliban has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. and nato troops and part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of that response has been to lay more and more i e d's this is the primary way that the taliban has been able to find to kill u.s. and nato troops and even more so to wound seriously u.s. and nato troops. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is on our web site at the moment dot com also there you can find out about america's massive defense costs the u.s. congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting super bomb with the order from the pentagon marked urgent.

and the year of rebuilding is pulled japan from the rubble these pictures show the streets immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami and what may look like today personal stories of survivors and more of these images for you but r.t. dot com. time now for some other international news in brief for you this hour israeli air strikes on the gaza strip and left one civilian dead and four others injured a man killed was a guard at the farm the israeli army confirmed the bombings say they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. relations the border the young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter the journalist sparked outrage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet mohammed clerics condemned his thoughts as blasphemous 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 her career was marred by turbulent marriage and drug abuse the forces 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 out of his club stokley 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 their 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 goal 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. to bring jobs at the moment a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments with me stay with us life in moscow this is a team. from

los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand superdome is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandoes that 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 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 bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis and liam with her for 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 an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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. here moscow time talk to you and i'm a news stories this is r.t. the arab league is expected to call on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as a group pains to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. police in greece to gas into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside the parliament lawmakers a set for a tough choice of 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 to iran would never stop enriching

uranium iran insists it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the list of western sanctions imposed against it. about with more news stories more developments for you in full in less than half an hour from now on the meantime it's part two of a special report on how los angeles fighters have had to adapt their skill set to become paramedics as well that's next week. the orange dots show hospitals that are no longer here in the green dots represent those hospitals that are still in existence here what you don't see is a new os was because there are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. the medical desert is a. bag .