students read that people in their classrooms think strong sturdy as protest at what they see as their country's lucian bute. and the wrongs nuclear program must be tolerated in the military. record is really intelligence following u.n. inspections not playlets result the deadline. is uncommon broadcasting to launch from the heart of moscow on karen taraji washington says it isn't ruling out what it calls additional measures in syria that's seen as a hint it could soon be ready to harden anti-government militia the shift in roderigo by the obama administration a previously excluded this possibility comes despite reports that al qaeda has

joined the opposition that could put the u.s. out of the terrorist group it haunts around the world on the same side. i meet bloodshed in syria more extremists are panicked trading the country to help bring down our start that's according to u.s. intelligence which says all current affiliated fighters were responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings in damascus and aleppo targeted at syrian military and intelligence facilities and seen evidence of. extremist sunni extremists i'm not can't label them specifically as al qaida but sorra some more will cool or infiltrating the opposition's groups. while fighting in syria continues the violence in neighboring iraq has dropped in some areas by as much as fifty percent in the last few months this as an al-qaeda

leader iman al zawahiri has called on his supporters around the world to back the uprising in syria this. is that these men who call themselves the mujahideen say they're on their way to fight a holy war against us on. in washington senators asked the head of america's intelligence james clapper i think what happens if our faults are we prepared for the situation of a possible failed state we're ok to enjoy it's a safe harbor and refuge. from which to coordinate attacks his response there is no optimism there would be kind of a vacuum i think that. would lend itself to. extremists operating in syria which is particularly troublesome some has different question is the u.s. on the same side as all kartik in syria and whether its policies are indirectly aiding the terrorists are american strategists would have to be fools not to see

what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for. can it be good for us and not to look at it and say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing put what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state this is why i'm against putting reckons in and aiding the anti resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state and syria even for many of those syrians who are not supportive of their president the fear of the alternative is far greater why are they sitting on the fence or why they are nothing in the streets with that it was supporting the process movement and are often too fierce is that one is the process of the.

and posts of that would be think it was the opposition in syria is very fractured they don't seem to be under anybody's control despite concerns voiced by top u.s. intelligence officials about anti assad extremists washington has failed to widen its calls to include armed opposition therefore basically ignoring the fears of a huge part of the syrian population who don't want radicals gaining momentum and driving the country into chaos i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. iraq has admitted that weapons and fighters are seeping across that six hundred kilometer border with syria to fight the assad regime their army of free iraqis which once fought u.s. troops in iraq is now heading to syria the massed gunmen claim their aim is to monitor the border for any sign iraqi government is helping the beleaguered syrian regime baghdad has tightened security along the area which has become a center for armed smothers horan stated some professor of middle east history at

west chester university says this fits with the theories that the uprising is true of and from the outside. i think that the the people were picked up the gun and syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact deserted errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitution no document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters who have seemed to be in co-opted now who are just placed by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to

essentially get those people off the streets and accepting of their of the government's scenario where solution to this but the other is they're going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured you because they're not going to surrender the friends of syria group set up by america and its allies meets internees on friday there are openly seeking president assad's downfall has dismissed the gathering as a bias effort to resolve the conflict crisis the head of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament told r.t. the meeting won't paint an accurate picture. yeah. judging by the statements we have been hearing in the form out of the so-called friends of syria club the sole purpose of our conference is not afraid that we have the current situation to promote the idea that the conflict can only be resolved if assad leaves us way more school refused to take part in the future i have met with mr assad and with representatives of two opposition organizations i did not get the impression that

it is the people versus assad in this conflict the situation is different faction of the people is opposing the regime while another part of it supports mr assad well yet another faction does not want syria to fall into chaos be support the regime possibly they do not support gay people plates are going to feel it is not black and white it is not a scenario where the whole nation rises up to overthrow a government they don't like they believe that the situation cannot be resolved without the regime in representatives of the governments which do not have a single democratic institution start complaining about assad's regime being undemocratic or i believe that that undermines the political and moral legitimacy of the friends of syria group is a club with serious friends or a club of people who want to show assad gone that's a question you have to ask for so you. and you can see that full interview right here on r t of this thursday remember to

check out our website for the latest updates on allows us it's our t. dot com here's some of what's lined up there for you now. a legend wiki leaks whistleblower and nobel prize nominee bradley manning finally gets a trial after spending the night in custody. killing six sets of russian scientists revive a break the story plant at sea and cry after thirty thousand years locked in burma . the enemy the term used by spanish police to justify their most brutal crackdown yet on thousands of protesters angry at government cuts ongoing for five days now it all came to a head in the city of violence here where baton wielding riot cops charged at

crowds of teachers students and even schoolchildren beating and arresting as they went archie sarah ferguson madrid with more on the unrest. scenes of the stares he hangs on the streets especially in valencia clashes broke out between riot police and university students and young protesters as they demonstrated against education budget cuts which they claim have left many closely and without even basic piecing the scenes of riot police chasing dragging and hitting the protesters in claims of arrests being made in some cases involving minors the spokes widespread criticism here in madrid a small group of protesters turned out by the education ministry in support of the protesters in philadelphia but this is just part of why did demonstrations we've seen taking place across the country in recent days the new conservative government's been in power just a few miles to space with the first must've union a for the weekend the government

had introduced tough measures they say were necessary to both the spain's economy but it hit the public sector hard including health and education the full largest yuri's a member that has the highest unemployment rate shockingly more than to see knowing the said strains are now unemployed that sixty to twenty four age group finding it extremely hard to get kills the adults know very much better twenty two percent unemployment amongst the adults in space of people here in the country in increasingly desperate situations i left asking really just how much worse the situation can get. to greece now where the schedule for the next few days looks like more protests and more austerity the government is rushing through its most punishing package of cuts yet their precondition for the next one hundred thirty

billion euro bailout which will be handed over once happens to the last of the e.u.'s demands but unions are wary of years of austerity are already mobilizing for new rallies today and tomorrow it's expected that thousands will surround the greek parliament. there's no question that the greeks are going to be falling at some way down the road the problem is the europeans the rest of the euro zone is not quite ready for a disorderly default right now and so another hundred thirty billion is being poured into their country so there isn't a disorderly default so it doesn't spill over into countries exactly next spain and italy so what you're going to end up seeing is some very very poor countries which have been put into dire straits and because of the fiscal austerity measures that we've just agreed upon the problem is when the elections happen for example in greece in april you know with a new government followed through with such harsh measures i mean their own place

now what happens are able is anyone's guess now is dr assure her as roman from the e.u. research center in our france. israel's intelligence service has reportedly said that iran's nuclear program is beyond the point of no return and must now be start through military action that after an i.a.e.a. mission to the islamic republic failed to resolve any of the controversy surrounding a legit atomic weapons ambition the experts report they were not allowed to visit a key military site suspected of hosting nuke related activities tucker and insisting on the purely peaceful nature of its atomic program says the i.a.e.a. visit was for the purpose of talks not inspections the islamic state has stressed its readiness to return to the negotiating table the failed mission may well lead to more sanctions against iran but as our bennett reports those penalties can

easily backfire on the countries imposing them. pulling up or throwing these two years ago but of course me around seventy five pounds you think that's a lot well it now costs over a hundred because really britain's never been more. expensive the average for a liter of diesel soared to over one pound forty three two dollars twenty five cents the previous peak was during the libyan conflict last may and its people at the pumps who are paying the price again this is a disaster again for motorists and not only are they being stoned month after month now by these fuel price rises but there's also a concern that this is going to spread to the cost of everyday items such as food because those transportation costs to get the food to store will be passed on to businesses and then the consumer it's a result britain hadn't banked on when threatening to block iran's oil exports to the e.u. although the box

a major customer individual members aren't britain imported just eleven thousand barrels last year not even one percent of its total imports but in practice the tough talking is back fired iran struck first by freezing deliveries to british and french companies a move not harmful in itself but one that stoked fears in an already nervous market that iran's saber rattling could be for real it's already threatened to block the straits of hormuz a vital trading route iranis is trying at the moment before these sanctions come into effect to the tune do what it can to talk up the price of oil without actually sacrificing any production so it's seeking to to benefit from maintaining its exports part of learning a higher price four inch barrel that it sells the timing of sanctions could be worse a loss of production in south sudan yemen and the north already driving prices higher

with iranian crude still in demand in asia it's the u.k. and it's motorists that are the hardest hit i bought a company pay for it. if i was paid for it myself. local which is that you can buy picture. people driving this think how much you know yes i think it probably does i think that's why don't you hold your. it's hope the threat of sanctions will bring iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear program but so long as the numbers are rising here in may not be iran is the first to buckle in what's become a dangerous game of brinkmanship experts predict the ongoing tensions could twenty five percent so oil prices by easter i burn it r t london fears of a military confrontation involving iran are becoming ever more prominent with a top general threatening a preemptive strike if its national interests are threatened but christopher

chambers journalism professor from georgetown university told r.t. the rhetoric is being hyped by the american media. you have to have a symbol of fear you have of you have a presidential campaign now that is definitely a soap opera. worst you know just a fun to watch at best people are searching for issues integrity issues and red meat issues that they can feed their constituency with mainstream media and i'm here i mean television i mean what it is is they're not cut they don't do nuance terribly well they do the fear factor kind of shows very well and this is a great item for fear you know and what you have here is is people ginning up. coverage of of nuclear people understand nukes people understand military exercises in the gulf i don't understand us responding to it and then i'm going to call in

the military exercises guards vengeance that gets people crazy what we aren't talking about are the you know the assassinations the covert war the drones if cetera any intrigue that might be going on with israel they don't do that particularly well and that's the devil in the details it could get us in trouble. about the ability of an attack on iran and how justified it would be is the focus of our cross talk to beit coming up fifteen thirty g.m.t. here's a taste of what's ahead for. the united states and the european union and its allies over launching what is in effect an economic war against iran saying to the iranian leadership look you can either have your nuclear weapon or you can stay in power you get to choose i think patrick kind of put it really out there very openly it's all about regime change that's what this is about it's not about the nuclear program there's a debate in the united states foreign policy community that is all on one line only and that is can we do it it is based on ethical see. yours truly the question of

should we do it or what would the consequences be of doing it. now look at some other news making headlines around the world. at least six people have been killed and twenty injured after police opened fire during a second day of protests outside the u.s. military base in the op capital demonstrators angered by the annan verdant burning of the koran by u.s. troops have been throwing rocks and petrol bombs a senior commander apologized for the destruction of the muslim holy books and the u.s. embassy in kabul has been put on lockdown while an investigation is being held. police in senegal have used tear gas to break up protests against the president's decision to run for a third term of the lie was days run polls want him to step down saying his bid to stay on as head of the state is illegal the constitution limits leaders to just two

terms six people have already been killed in weeks of violent demonstrations the leading up to the election it's. between rival tribes in south eastern libya have no claim for more than one hundred thirty rockets mortars and gunfire have been heard after fighting broke out in a residential towns and. ago the national transitional council is struggling to secure full control of the country following the fall of colonel gadhafi libya's government forces say they may have to step in. lawyers for egypt's former president hosni mubarak could have just one more day to outline his defense as the hearings come to an end a judge is expected to set a date for the verdict to be announced prosecutors want the death penalty for mubarak who is accused of being behind the deaths of eight hundred protesters during last year's uprising that ended his three decade rule baling former leader denies the allegations. and up next it's business and take

on europe and its new carbon tax on airline flights it seems battle lines are being drawn katie that is taking place in moscow diplomats from countries opposes tax all need saying. he is facing resistance to its plans to introduce a carbon tax on all flights inside all to the region diplomats from opposing countries are here to discuss that countermeasures possible retaliation business. of the day looks at what's at stake. a trade war is brewing in the skies over europe like many conflicts before this is over both ideology and money forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the lateral move to charge airlines for carbon emissions the international air transport association

which unites all major passenger and cargo airlines says the system is unfair and that should be imposed globally not region the airline industry already has enormous taxes in europe that were supposed to be to cover the environment that's the airline perspective but there's also another perspective which is that outside of the airline industry a number of states say this is an infringement on their sovereignty because they need to us try to cover the entire flight not just the flight it takes place over a year where space to encourage airlines to reduce greenhouse gases the e.u. will oblige them to effectively pay a tax on fifteen percent of their carbon emissions this will be done by purchasing quotas on the emissions trading system the other eighty five percent is free of charge by twenty twenty the chargeable amount will rise to eighteen percent to you're a strong there's two year or so or five year is from additional here as they try to give their fuel prices are higher to your is off then you are in for. quite

a significant amount ten percent maybe even ten percent so once this all into gear is there given that the airline business is very unprofitable east to you is actually quite important the e.u. is showing no signs of backing down this raises the prospect of nations outside the block refusing to pay or introducing their own punitive taxes in retaliation this will make travel even less affordable there will be fewer flights and airlines will go out of business but pollution will decrease we should have a day go business r.t. . live eels. the market in the year is slightly down against the dollar also one hundred seventy two billion dollars bailout has been a great morning and a good night's sleep most of us been minister as always pushing the ruble higher against both the u.s. and european condensates will move on so oil crude is down to speculation the

prices which are nearing nine months i will cut them on does europe continues to struggle with its debt klein says that's also against the backdrop of rising food still falls in the u.s. the world's biggest consumer of oil of course and the european markets have raised a. good safe is losing around half of the sand while the tax is point one percent in negative territory. in march so the markets are expanding previously also they'd be all just on my six zero down over the one percent this hour. and to be take a look at the individual news on the mises most big jets are trading in the red this hour is one percent down lupul is too much call for a cent and lock out financials also under pressure so it beats and p. also losing i've got one and a half percent looking ahead to the coming of trading at sessions before pio from an old result says some of the stocks he thought he was. my first choice would be

a domestic stores like banks and retailers maybe some operators then thing. but for example there's four guys from i think incoming fuel which will see very good in florida and russia in general and just film as a russia proxy will be a very good month so building position for. three weeks ahead. even lukoil as russia approach is probably a good choice of. a run is struggling to find guys was oil in southeast asia under pressure from western sanctions islamic republic has been pinning its hopes on increased sells to china despite securing a substantial discount beijing is still cutting purchases. that china is negotiation tactics and has the rest of the well over

a barrel over it used to be when nations wanted to trade they had to go to washington but that trend is changing china is now at the facto economic superpower and put this is tremendous negotiating strength meaning the likes of the role of falling over themselves to do a deal but it drives a hard bargain it keeps political rivals out of business and trades in the national interest showing who's in charge china's turned away several times from tehran to saudi arabia for supply the same with russia with beijing repeatedly on the playing a diva refusing to pay for oil received toiling pressure almost go to lower prices china has a different approach to doing business from the united states but it's showing every sign of success and that's all the business and i'll be back about fifty five minutes say without it headlines up next and carol.

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