response to the situation in the country which has seen a lot of bloodshed over the past eleven months we started in march and of course the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which have already been imposed on syria they aborted the observers program which was halted in january of this year bridling said the country has been escalating very soon for its coming very conflicting numbers as to how many people have been killed or missing on whom you ask really the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed and weekly basis of the same time the authorities saying that around two thousand syrian military officers have been killed since the unrest have begun also you have the mounting pressure from washington from the white house who have put together a sort of a coalition of the so-called friends of syria who are going to meet in february twenty fourth to be precise in tunisia which is part of the arab league in order to

figure out further details about what exactly they're going to do about the bloodshed that's going on in syria russia has been adamant about the fact that it's up to syrians in order to. put it all together in order to reconcile their differences they were trying to do their best to get the opposition and the syrian authorities to. lay down their arms and come together and sit down for peace talks but unfortunately even though the. syrian president bashar bashar assad actually did say that he was ready for talks especially following his meeting on tuesday with russian delegation unfortunately the opposition isn't so keen on those that negotiations let's have a listen to the u.n. about the two russians in basad or to the united nations we can on the matter. as the mission of that i believe as the situation was evolving over. he saw that the

government troops were pulling out of certain towns or sort of quarters in city is that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and those armed rebel groups which you. just mentioned have actually provided to be a lot of concern for the syrian authorities they claim that those groups are supported by unknown until now and from abroad you end up with a very volatile situation which really is incredibly hard to solve so again right now all we can do is observe and also a journalist should return see told us how the u.s. and al qaida find side by side in syria to protect common interests. the arab league is being used presumably as some kind of proxy because we know the united states and the european union have all but. eventually. could

happen should happen from sources even saying british just question forces already in the ground maybe there is already foreign intervention we have heard about in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing the u.n. could do. once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven u.s. troops side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly the americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and or european union leaders i would hear a statement to back any attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. on the first anniversary of the ousting of former

president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for generals try to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms the military is 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 and journalist says egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether actually transfer power in june 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 birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was simply

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 basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post it would say or do you say with a 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 citizens and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defenders the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces to his tricks the work of n.g.o.s and how all of an investigation into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country maria thing notion reports now from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on nigerians has

raised many questions and they 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 because. they had a quote in people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous war there are two goals this is fishy 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 and arrest in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for inge all. sob isn't against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not had a son and you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything. so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt to reduce one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there is a big week to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provide that support also continue flowing when you don't order

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 share the council's concerns about the engineers motives the usa has had a hand in chips 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 celebrate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces or 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. teen cairo. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the session said another sphere of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said tehran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to save its domestic energy but the united states and its allies. suspect iran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against iran but then shot and warns that europe's planned all in bongo will backfire spain one of the biggest are you consumers of a grain or else as the sanctions would hurt it more than any other european state based journalist. believes has been forced upon europe. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to go

to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union so it calls into question spain's. foreign policy decisions and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from the me from iran it could be hard hit you know where you could bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the political move and union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was in the last twenty years the connection that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. you know without trying to count the sound despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for an early withdrawal of the number of

nato as tribes in afghanistan creasing so explain why interest. and hear of herself as well as on a product seized by washington of treason they say is a nomination for the nobel peace prize. and transparent that's how people russia want to see that coming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with webcams void any wrongdoing but a group of pro acts of civil has decided using technology alone is not enough the corpus going off explains how the planning to secure. 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 of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court thousands of people

have been taking to the street 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 villages go they want political competition independent courts and media fooling the voters league is not meant to be a deal it was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists writers and other public figures i started it's really g.d.'s like t.v. host and now activist. or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr lisa. or other school ordinator 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 similar position there are just better the leagues 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 to look into another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election for you to post 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 for the mutations not to take sides in the political process. the leads founders say those shut the organization down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming there are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the voters league 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 greek parliament to the debating tough austerity measures ordered by the un and method return four hundred thirty billion euro bailout took leave the country afloat thousands of angry demonstrators have flocked to the streets of athens with seventeen buildings set of

five rioting and looting clashes with police have fired tear gas and stun grenades the prime minister has appealed for calm great journalist tyrannize arkadi has latest from athens for us until now the lawmakers we have the debate of lawmakers inside the greek parliament. started out in the afternoon it is likely their vote to pass. with a simple matter their simple majority is needed and according to this they may show you this by the defections of far some lawmakers of enough lawmakers we could say this could. right we do have some technical problems of course we'll bring her later. next hour hopefully a really good deal but now thought scene about him and payload bay news told r.t. that the u.s. is trying to save the euro not solve greece's workers but they're trying to do in brussels to me is not saving greece but they're trying to do is save the euro zone

which is not exactly the same now i think they're all some of them must have already made up their mind and greece is going to have to leave the euro zone but remember the e.u. should follow the european commission this is not a social democratic. organization this is a neo liberal economic organization they have older. than the people of the e.u. than the ordinary people in ordinary working mand or people who live from a salary the only real solution is not to what to you is not imposing on your own solution it should democracy. and arrest her advisor patrick says eurozone leaders could now be prepared to greece from the currency. in every possible respect greek greece is not a tragedy and it is due and the reason for that is simply because the reason 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 of 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 is italy and that's really going to fall on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti government and this is going to be our cataclysmic event during the course of the latest april 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 the 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 eight weeks greece is going to be forced to default and that's going to be quite cataclysmic. afghan president hamid karzai accused nato of killing a stroll down and asked truck on wednesday officials launched an investigation after claiming foreign forces are wrongly tang's had savannah's after receiving an incorrect report that all the men who were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the united states announced its might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but the strike was called already strong stucco readies craned relations between karzai and his west in the pockets of a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker craik label things that despite being called the nation's civil casualties in the country will continue tomorrow. he has to put on a certain pretense this have any viability any legitimacy as an afghan will or something like this happens but he is basically

a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demand to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happened in the same area were afghan soldiers killed french troops on ports and i think because the u.s. is planning to pull out of the movie next day for him because there are movie or troops out we can expect more airstrikes in most of the casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven percent. of two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they know that they have to pull out safely because they know that again it's up. figures are there private bradley manning a closed of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to wiki leaks has

been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic parliamentary group they twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. i say says like a prison and people get a young star to leave the icelandic nomination says exposing crimes shouldn't be regarded as one bradley manning. because the. criminal most who are longest on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle on cramps or to blow the whistle on any crime and. we feel that. by these leaks for example the new york hello motor. the war. people who have. put their may to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to now we're going to going on there and by knowing what was going on there then we

citizen can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the clones thought have been put in our names we do not. lower the bradley manning case be the person who is in just treatment be look or as part of silencing of people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes who are roots. or or military. so other international news in brief for you this sounds israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have left the one civilian dead and for those injured in my code was a guard at a farm israeli army continued and confirmed the bombings they were aimed at sunny's belonging to terror groups and were supposed to short range rocket attacks from gaza. rescuers have pulled a five year old girl alive from the rubble of

a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed at least nine people in southern consular officials say she was found buried under ten meters of snow after officers heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing avalanche hit the village of rest let's say on saturday destroying several houses rescue efforts continue one person missing. legend trace whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the four was found in they've beverly hilton hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles her career was marred by turbulent marriage and drug abuse authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of death. just as. you can get.

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for. me. welcome back this is aussie's weekend because of the headlines. the arab league is calling on be to create a joint peacekeeping assistance for syria as a group or aims to mount pressure on president assad. also as the greek parliament debates austerity constant mandated by the u.s. method of return for one hundred thirty billion euro bailout vast protests in the center of athens seize thirty people attend classes with seventy new buildings have also been set on fire during the rioting and looting and you're seeing live

pictures from parliament what they lawmakers are debating the measures would be crucial vote expected shortly. under rubble and promises to reveal major advance of the im its nuclear program which is for peaceful and then shipped out says despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. up next hour she talks to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why should things that u.s. drone strikes in her country are only making things worse instead of helping fight insurgency. she's the youngest foreign minister in the world but has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on our t.v. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right things.