eleven months the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which i 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 the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed on a weekly basis at 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 you know what it's to 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 weaken sow 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 a peace talks but unfortunately even bill 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 except listen to russians invested or to the united nations it's not a chicken on the matter as the mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was appalling everybody saw that the government groups were pulling out of certain. quarters and it is that was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and escalate 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 enchanted stuff hansei told us that the u.s. and all kinds outfighting find by side in syria to protect. the arab league is being used presumably as some kind of proxy because we know the united states and the european union have. ventured. could happen should happen from sources even saying british just question forces already in the ground or maybe there is already foreign intervention we have heard about al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing we could do all the tourist once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al-qaeda they did in afghanistan prior to nine

eleven u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly the americans are up to the north 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 ousted is 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 said it won't accept any ultimatum and well transfer power in june when the presidential elections are scheduled but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date and kyra based journalist about truth says egyptians have every right now to not to trust

the military. people are unsure about whether i actually transferred 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 i was provided by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since the barak step down and people are a basically anxious that nothing will change and they will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would posit would say or do you say 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 the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt senior general defended the clampdown on international non governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces wants to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered an investigation into their contacts claiming that some are working to destabilize the country rescue notion reports now from. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want is right 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 the baraka 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 lehmann scaff for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that are 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 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 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 for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not a sign of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between

cairo in washington. wasn't 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 to reduce one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there is a big week to condemns car one in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned. the end of the day continued on flowing but the provide the support also continued. all washington's so-called support for democracy in the middle east and washington wants to study law as 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 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 country's new authority 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 tolerate 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 vision 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. cairo. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on this as a sudden of us are all days glum accreditation president ahmadinejad said tehran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program has to serve

its domestic energy needs but the united states and its allies on a zero suspect iran could be pursuing nuclear weapon. they've been piling up sanctions against iran. ones that europe's planned oil embargo will backfire and spain one of the biggest e.u. consumers ever raney an oil sanctions we've had it more than any other european state madrid based journalist miguel. believes the embargo has been forced. 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 tanami foreign policy decisions and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from from iran it could be hard hit in

a way that would 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 your opinion actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connection of that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to this new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. the greek parliament has approved tough austerity measures ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. in return for a hundred and thirty billion euro bailout the vote came amid must see us writing greek journalist. joining us now live from athens irony thank you so much for time so the parliament has approved this controversial austerity deal what's the reaction on the streets to the news now from. the greek hello make yours

finally passed this austerity package it was a crucial vote and during the whole day from very early today i always have seen violence hard violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we had the in two thousand and eight we have seen i guess young people who did who did the youth breaking marbles throwing molotov cocktails and then their police men answering or throwing tear gases we have seen fires all in the streets are around the scene that must wear our own greek parliament they have also looted many many stores around around the streets and according to information about till now we have got about fifteen fires on the fifteen stores had been on fire and. least fifty people are injured we don't know if they're seriously injured according to the information

fifteen have been injured because of the violence and now this situation is comber me me in front of the parliament of the police men today it's about five thousand policemen had been deployed because everybody was afraid of this kind of violence now the masers. that we expect to be exact numbers for all are from the parliament but on the other part. people are really angry and we expect more violence yes and really after the deals approval what is now going to change for ordinary greeks in terms of everyday life. first of all these harsh measures include even lowering the minimum wage by twenty percent this is very hard because of the net amount of the net wage that. somebody

will receive it's four hundred euros. a very small small amount of money my family is very difficult to live with with a four hundred euros and they're with unemployment being being much higher than twenty percent so the people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react they will continue to demonstrate today they have come even people from. from around from regions are around that it's not only athens before this demonstration become become violent of course it was a peaceful demonstration with thousands of people more than ten thousand people had been here reacting but to be honest maybe we'll have to put the blame on our politicians because they should have reacted much earlier they should have implemented some of the measures that. europeans and officials had

demanded yes right at talking about politics so considering how unpopular these measures are how likely do you think is the collapse of another greek government bearing in mind too that elections are due in april. even though even though twenty some are as the leader of conservatives said that he's in favor of elections. from now on what we expect at first from on monday it's a result of the government at first it is some more are likely to see every cell phone and then we are going to see it when the elections are going to take place. ringing journalists in athens thank you so much indeed airing. under former senior belch of a load over news told us here that the e.u.

is trying to save the euro not to solve greece's woes but they're trying to do in brussels to me is not saving greece but they're trying to do is saving 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 eurozone but remember the e.u. so far 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 the e.u. is not imposing on your own solution is social democracy. also investment advisor patrick young says euro zone leaders could now be prepared to expel greece from the currency union. 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 be 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 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 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. it was on c.n.n. still to come this hour. despite mounting civilian deaths and while it was drawled the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing and we explain what i mean in just a few bob. around here of this town but then thought is army private accused the washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace prize. 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 pro active citizens has decided to using technology alone is not enough

is going off explains how they're planning to secure honest. 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 and scores 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 with so many different 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 and bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and stayed its way tedious like t.v. host and now activist. the latest advocate or the head of

a charity fund and blogger it is the idea of the bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha cordoning or 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 the better the leagues 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 was also arranged to. together unified database to keep track of the election 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 an observer is not only a position it is serious so if limitations not to teach sides 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 we just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its

neutrality you've got this kind of r t moscow afghan president hamid karzai accused nato of killing eight children and i strike on wednesday officials launched an investigation they say 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 it's child could start over ready strained relations between cause i and his western backers a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker label things that despite the condemnation seven casualties in the country will continue to rise. here. do you have any viability is a legitimacy as an afghan woman or something like this happens but he is basically

a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demand he change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happened in the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed french troops on ports and i think because the u.s. is playing a pull out the movie next day for him because of the injured are moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven eight 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 this up because on a private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to weakening this has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put

forward by pace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic poetry group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison and doctors to clock struck believes manning would be a much welfare recipient of the prize than the current u.s. president. what he was accused of. and video that has led to the end of their iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and great things all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets the ball i should obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraq war well actually that's not the truth the truth is the iraqi government did not want to get well legal immunity from the real u.s. troops after january first and the reason that they didn't was 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. and some other international news and briefly this sounds as rated as try some of the gaza strip one seven and dad and four others injured their mind killed was a god at a farm israeli army confirms the farming say they were aiming at five belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. it's have put 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 cos of a official say she was found buried under ten metres of snow after officers heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing the avalanche hit the village of record sound sunday just trying several houses rescue efforts continue missing.

population downed actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the performer that was found in the above in a hotel hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles his career was marred by a turbulent marriage and drug abuse authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of death. and up awkward to recap our top stories in just a few moments stay with us. culture

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welcome back this is the wiki on all she the headline is. the arab league is calling on the yuan to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as the group reins to mount pressure on president assad to. the greek parliament to give the green life's a new set of harsh austerity cuts demanded by the view on the i.m.f. for they are about one hundred and such a billion euro bailout that's despite mass protests in the center of athens bush saw dozens of clashes with police as a bride says torched buildings and looted shelves. and iran promises to

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