more than one hundred thousand demonstrators expected to gather in moscow in pro-government and opposition rallies. and concern over the effectiveness of sanctions targeting iran's nuclear program grows restaurants biggest partners in asia resist western pressure to join the economic warfare. or casting life from moscow you're watching r.t. on character the humanitarian u.n. humanitarian chief is to head to syria the access of aid to the conflict one country comes amid reports of increasing bloodshed in fears of a humanitarian disaster and the latest incident opposition activists claim more than seventy people were killed across the country as the army escalates its assault on a global basis the authorities blame the violence on terrorists for carrying out

attacks on security forces and civil institutions meanwhile the leaders of an influential opposition group based outside syria will raise their voices in support of foreign military intervention any way to stop the bloodshed inside the country it's certain that such calls many deep in the crisis is new for national explains. time to change tactics with fighting in homes entering its third week as syrian opposition based abroad and its foreign supporters seem to have run out of patience the foreign military solution to the country's crisis is always considered as a last resort right now become a realistic scenario where really close to think that a military intervention as the only solution there are two evils military intervention a protracted civil war the opposition outside they have contact with the external powers and they don't have contact with the would be with the syrian syrian people

. want to head not his real name has been fighting the assad regime for months he went to all protests and spent many days in jail but now he says the crisis has gone too far. as for me i give up actually because the just because not just war we are losing we are losing buddies. in this engine i started to you really didn't give up yeah i'm very ok about. waiting for the for the promises but not everyone is ready to compromise with the death of two journalists and holmes an american war reporter and a french photographer pressure from overseas has become more tangible we need to be international community needs to do more to help the syrian people but the raf

fears that his helping hand we'll also be caring to our friends we should consider every option ranging from sanctuaries to seeing the weapons are brought to the hands of those who are resisting us so they can defend themselves here in syria a home opposition seems to strongly oppose the idea of foreign help. we don't want any interference from abroad these countries may think that they can use this for the ruling interests but the syrian people will not allow that but to be able to resist strong political reforms are needed and with a vote on constitutional reform around the corner may here certainly any military intervention will derail the political process aimed at ending the crisis more than two r.t. sources here in syria the fight in homes is now over the army taken control of the city if it's confirmed many agree the political discussion between the authorities

and the opposition will become more realistic but only if foreign intervention can be kept at bay. refinish now r.t. damascus syria. where the director of international studies at hartford trinity college in the u.s. meeting pressured claims that peace hold out in syria have frequently been hijacked by those seeking foreign military help the syrian national council always wanted foreign intervention you know they had followed the script of libya in other words you have a rising in a city and then you call for the cruise missiles in f. sixteen zero the united states the need to give you air cover so they've been you can right into damascus on the back of a cruise missile that was always in a sense the strategy for the syrian national council but it was not necessarily the strategy for the mass of people who were gathering in the streets and for whom you

know where they're really in was peaceful nor it was certainly militarized very quickly by the free syrian army not to bring in militarization is going to create further destruction. but the head of the foreign affairs committee russia's and the house of parliament has been meeting with opposition groups in damascus and spoke to r.t. about the syrian conflict and you can watch the interview in full stop. egypt's ousted president was on trial for complicity in killing protesters during the asters revolt we find out the verdict in his case on july second was the barack had been in power for thirty years faces the death penalty if found guilty but experts say whatever the sentence was for did not bring the desired change but revolution hijacked by islamists he with help from within the us it is unfortunate that

after a year and one month from the beginning of the spring if you can arab spring that the current situation is one suppression of demonstrators civil society minorities and one also the suppression of international n.g.o.s so that is not something that one can consider as a positive outcome the first few days and weeks of the revolt we clearly saw the deals were used secular lots of people facebook people women minorities middle class but once to have you square was consolidated then the regular full of the forces came in including the muslim brotherhood the difference was that the muslim brotherhood have support from the goals of the two dollars that satellite support they are well organized when the election will combos not organize and better funded will take over so the advocacy groups that are influenced by or linked to the muslim brotherhood or the salafist is an old story it was also under the last two years of the bush administration and of course the last three or four years of

the obama administration what is happening is that you're trying to influence the administration so that there would be in line with the interest of the muslim brotherhood in egypt in the islamic in libya and in tunisia and i gained the secular and liberal forces in the region. well coming up later in the program silence the truth or go on trial we'll the tough choices facing u.s. whistleblowers as a new set of standards aimed to classify crimes in the guise of national security. plus protests turned deadly in afghanistan controversial so-called arab spring u.s. their troops used to fan the flames of conflict. now tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of moscow today supporting opposing candidate coming race for the presidency the capital is bracing itself for secretary reich of political activity next month's elections across now

two artes it's all about who's in central moscow with more so peter what's the message coming from these rallies as they hit the streets. well the perhaps the largest of those rallies is just got underway as you can probably see behind me this is a rally in favor of the candidacy of blood to be a putin for presidents now this is expected to be the largest it's actually going to be a march down the river bank here before ending in a large rally at the luzhniki stadium now that's the major football stadium here up to one hundred thousand people could be expected to turn out there the organizers have permission for one hundred thousand people to to attend that no originally they had wanted to hold it square right next to the kremlin but due to the amount of people expected to turn out there that would bring the center of downtown moscow to a halt so they decided to put it somewhere they can handle the amount of crowds now . the say isn't the only demonstration it's taking place today now there's also

going to be a rally in favor of let me as you know ski the the veteran firebrand politician of the liberal democratic candidates for presidency his supporters. holding a rally for him they'll also be a rally for canaries or gun of the communist party leader as well as a rally for well nobody in particular and all we're going to see a demonstration by people opposed to everybody and everything that's going on at the moment so. well put moscow and russia really gripped by a spike in political activism over the past few months following the the parliamentary elections that were held in december of last year. because just over a week until the presidential elections are being held that's why we're seeing people coming out in support of the various candidates or not and supporters it as it sometimes is now over the last weekend we saw a car rallies taking place on saturday and sunday on saturday in favor of prime

minister putin for president on sunday against prime minister putin for president and coming up in a few days' time we'll see a no the protest by the group groups of people who are complaining for free and fair elections as well as who are against the current political system in russia now that protest will take the form of. people holding hands in a chain around the garden ring which is a central ring road that goes around downtown moscow it's the conference around sixteen kilometers so thousands of people expected to turn out and hold hands in silence there in solidarity for what they believe in but yes really a spike in political activism we've seen many we expect to see many people come out on the streets this thursday is a public holiday here in russia so many people off work and able to come out in support of their particular political causes. to write to

keep us updated its owner. well israel has rebuffed all warnings against striking iran which are been consistently coming from the international community the country's foreign minister says it's israel's. korea in the time the iranian rhetoric was again intensified after the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission and iran brought those thoughts telegrams the straits iran's atomic activities have military purposes incident saying there's a need for a preemptive strike but its western allies are saying tough economic sanctions against iran the time to work however there are growing doubts of the effectiveness of pendleton's the message is clear if iran's intransigence continues it will face increasing pressure and isolation the west is branding up the pressure on new delhi to follow its lead in stopping imports of iranian oil and dealing with its central

bank but india refuses to follow suit does not. need. to see. you aren't. there more do you need a former u.s. state department official said the india failure to stand with the glass on the oil embargo is a slap in the face pretty united states and raises questions about india's ability to lead but despite all that indian officials of lot but on the issue india is there on the largest oil customer with an annual trade of twelve billion dollars officials here in new delhi are negotiating with their counterparts in tehran to continue that trade using rupees instead of dollars to get around the one thing. and it's not just india ignoring the west's wishes with four asian countries collectively buying two thirds of our odds of oil while the e.u.

buys just twenty per cent whether the sanctions work or not has brought in guest concern these are sanctions imposed by the united states and the european union they didn't consult us from the imposed these sanctions so it's that's the american problem not ours issues the welfare of our people and that energy needs that's why many feta think sions will be totally ineffective if asian giants won't play ball countries which are sort of out of the future already or germany sanctions would not by sufficiently enough to achieve this objective if india and china were not on board the you us think they're designed to isolate iran but if asia won't play that game the question arises what will or can the west do next preassure either r t new delhi india. well it's the people in one western country who are already feeling the effects of the ground with iran petrol prices in the u.k. it's a record high creasing ten percent year on year after tehran locked up world exports

to the country as part of its reaction to financial sanctions from the e.u. . website r t v dot com to find out what. they have that may have opened up over the greek capital the weather failed to dampen the spirits of thousands who gathered for the protest. because of some. changes that would clear the way for this restructuring of the latest. means more sacrifices for the country with almost a decade of painful cuts head. also on the part. tens of thousands of students protesting against education cuts in spain. kaiser stacy herbert examples of. things like. brings debt forgiveness and best recovery story icelanders you pelted parliament

with rocks in two thousand and nine demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country's economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger now there are operated by these red against these there are growing unlikely further economies like greece about window of opportunity that iceland faced because the people have the intestinal fortitude to stand up for their sovereignty that was presented to greece and they failed the test you look at the take the test again you failed the test now you're back we'll stay and start eating dinner that's all because. it's all over let's talk a. worst. a u.s. soldier thought to be behind the largest leak of state secrets in american history and set to go on trial bradley manning spent almost two years in prison waiting for the official process against him to begin and among the documents claimed to have

been released by it was a video footage of u.s. forces firing on unarmed iraqi civilians critics say the trial is part of a sister not hides an edge to crimes and punishes those who speak out as artie's christine for sarah ports. nearly two years in waiting much of it in solitary confinement and private first class bradley manning struggle is finally set to begin. among the twenty two charges filed against him aiding the enemy violating the espionage act and illegally transferring classified data to an unauthorized source wiki leaks. part of that was this video showing u.s. army pilots killing unarmed civilians including from voyager's employees a video that had been classified by the u.s. military though the government accountability project just will and great access it

never should have been you can also cannot go around classifying criminal activity that is not proper classification and i haven't heard a single person claim that what the collateral murder video showed was not work on a sentiment manning seems to agree with in an online chat conversation he said he hoped his putting the information out there would prompt worldwide discussion that he wants people to see the truth a short time later bradley manning was arrested in the process becoming one of the clearest symbols to date of a new set of standards a system that now works against those who were port wrongdoing and protects those doing the wrong quite often in the name of national security the pendulum right now is still very much a post nine eleven time national hysteria and limited civil rights and liberties and she would note was the justice department received lower in the case of the so-called american taliban john walker lindh i had advised not to interrogate him

without an attorney and not to torture him and when i blew the whistle i ended up being put under criminal investigation referred to a state bar or some which i'm licensed as a warrior and put on the no fly list but it. wasn't always this way in two thousand and two the time magazine person of the year was the whistleblowers and although the government tried to have him put away for life daniel ellsberg was hailed as a hero by the public for leaking information that became known as the pentagon papers classified documents he helped author that revealed what was actually happening in vietnam. what he revealed to the public what the public should have known from the government itself. important knowledge important knowledge now often stifled both on and off the battlefield and the military is sexually assaulted or abused or even raped she's supposed to go through the chain of command much well

actually her instead of helping her outside of the military policies are also being drawn up to protect corporations the so-called whistle blower improvement act if passed will actually harm with blowers requiring them to report misconduct to their employer first before going to any regulatory agency it would also remove any incentives to do so our government. businesses are so intricately it's hard to tell them apart both now working harder than ever to keep their secrets out of the public eye in washington christine for is now our. aren't we kitty lifted the lid on yet another piece of classified information as we reported our time dot com a spy scandal unfolding whistleblower just a review of documents came in to expose the swedish foreign minister was not all that's. going to last lunch the first class passengers menu from the titanic is up

for sale by that much and to fall for it. at least nine people have been killed and dozens more injured in protests over the burning of the koran by u.s. led troops in afghanistan senior commanders apologized for controversy saying the religious materials were destroyed by mistake deadly rallies prompted the u.s. to knock down its embassy in four but it's far from traveling the parents are listening. to the cyclists on the my condition this is the worst possible nightmare for the americans that far they have been facing the resistance from the bush to no limits but incidents like these. actually galvanizing the nonprofit to not open for tajiks the house and use books who are supposedly allied to the american so far are turning hostile this is basically the fallout of this which the americans fear and

we can reality of what happened is that it will extend and expand the base of the resistance against the americans apologies are not going to work this is the worst p.r. disaster that the americans could have this moment when they are the most wonderful is he not just the safety the entire outcome of the war would now depend on events like these they have been triggered and the fallout the domino effect is going to be intense as we said public one could not be more happier then the even stuff that have happened in afghanistan if the taliban could not defeat the americans the american marines have themselves dug their grave. well. prepared for the provocation they did today on our team we explore the misuse of music to promote violence as a preview of our special report. designed

to keep you close in your. world as a prison. you know you'll be somebody in there for a couple hours like in stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown and the stress sort of building and. seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer two songs would be angel reading. those who were coming up here into iraq. the rock n roll. job we were doing. the e.u. has suspended the ratification of

a controversial plan to computer piracy agreements questioning its legality be investigated seen if the document is compatible with human rights and freedoms though there's an actor has been really criticized by freedom activists sparking multiple protests across europe if passed legislation without customs officers in airports to examine the devices that may contain or to date a report is also going on that it access to private digital information so far twenty two e.u. countries have signed up to the deal which was negotiated in secret. online magazine one boy believes the law punishes those who use sources legally failing to battle online piracy. the problem is is that the censorship the really involved in these things is always vicarious when what's assuming is targeted because those people are using it to break the law or to pirate files or something it always

brings down all sorts of other people who might be using the same service for perfectly legitimate reasons these laws never actually do anything to stop piracy the way the internet works as long as two computers can connect to each other people are going to find a way to share files the internet works by copying data so what we see is when news laws are passed there will be all these social harm and will be no actual prevention of piracy so the companies that want them will be back at the legislative trough a few months later. but at some other stories from across the world this hour the iraqi capital of baghdad has been rocked by multiple attacks with a claim that thirty one lives their thoughts appeared to mostly targets acutely of . the drive by shooting at least five bombings from a company afterwards insults come several months of u.s. troops left the country. a train crash in argentina has left.

dead almost seven hundred injured a crowded commuter train slammed into the central terminal capital one is hours after reportedly suffering brake failure as crews hundred for hours to prove trapped passengers from the wreckage it's the worst train accident in the country in decades. divers searching the wrecked costa concordia cruise ship and found bodies including you know. the seven people missing . the vessel capsized with these winds rain most ships operators currently under investigation of the tragic sudden officials facing charges of manslaughter. i believe is the governor has declared a state of emergency after severe flooding and mudslides that disaster has already left knowing people dead several thousand with the country's president to examine

the damage and sell for a visit to the affected areas the rainy season is expected to continue region into march. without that payback could headline shockley to step aside i'm not saying. the.

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