also. let's see the grips of russia as thousands of people come out on the streets of moscow to show their support for the various presidential candidates. and israel dismisses global concerns over a potential military escalation in the ground with the rand saying it alone will decide whether to launch a strike on the islamic republic. hello it's nine pm here in moscow right now you're watching r.t. live with me kevin now in on the top story that this thursday night this hour the u.n. is seeking descended to monetary and chief to syria to try to secure a delivery to civilians caught up in the fighting the international bodies also preparing to investigate the country's officials over allegations that they've committed crimes against humanity is correspondent in damascus marie for national

has been keeping across developments on the ground. according to r.t. sources here in syria the fighting in the besieged city of homs is now over with the army taking control of the city we've been hearing initial reports from our sources here that there has been ceasefire agreement between the free syrian army and governmental forces in the area but it hasn't been confirmed of course we are receiving are the reports from other sources such as opposition groups opposition activists or london based syrian observatory for human rise about resume challen about clashes continuing in the city of homs this report a very hot to be very far out and it's also very hard to find out exactly who is behind these reports and all these people on the ground all they are reporting from abroad while these conflicting reports about what's going on here come and made a rise in exile and rising pressure from the international community to the regime of president bashar assad we with this question is resumed about possible military

intervention as a solution to the country's ongoing crisis is. time to change tactics with fighting in homes on its third week the 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 might now become a realistic scenario we are really close to seeing this 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 with the with the syrian the syrian people the. core of this can be manipulated mujahid 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 there's not just this not just. a war we are losing we are losing buddies. in this engine. you really give me a very who can vote and who are waiting for the for the promises but not everyone is ready to compromise with the death of two journalists and homes an american war reporter and a french photographer pressure from overseas has become more tangible we need to the international community needs to do more to help the syrian people but there are fears that this helping hand may also be carrying our friends we should consider every option ranging from sanctuaries to seeing that weapons are brought to the hands of those who are resisting us so they can defend

themselves look here in syria the home of position 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 their own 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 many here is certain any military intervention will derail the political process aimed at ending the crisis refinishing r.t. damascus syria. dr marcos papadopoulos an analyst from britain's politics first online magazine told us attempts by western states to stir up rebels in syria may he thinks cause the middle east powder keg to finally explode. political dialogue is the only solution to the conflict in syria any conflict in the middle east has the potential to turn the entire region into

a vast firestorm and the fact that the american and british government are implicitly encouraging the syrian opposition is only making things worse in syria and it's only groups all to more casualties and more tragedies the brain which western media is portraying the conflict in syria could this could be mistakenly taken for a hollywood film whereby it's good versus evil in the real world however we know that no conflict is ever black and white and what we're seeing is a concerted efforts by western governments and western media to bring down president assad and what we need to bear in mind is that this is not the first time we've seen this happen this but the way the western media portrayed conflicts in the past clearly establishes a relationship between western governments and western major they work very closely together we saw this in the wars in the former yugoslavia we saw this leading up to

the invasion of iraq and we also saw it last year in libya and the head of russia's foreign affairs committee has been meeting with opposition groups in damascus he spoke to us at r.t. about the syrian conflict you can watch that interview after eight pm g.m.t. tonight. the streets of moscow are flooded with people on thursday all gathered to show their support for the various candidates running for the upcoming presidency tens of thousands turned up for mass rallies in a spike of political activity ahead of next month's election peter oliver attended the largest demonstration. oh thursday seeing a day of rallies in support of various political candidates for president across moscow today is a public holiday meaning that lots of people are off work and able to come out onto the streets largest rally taking place this is amongst the pro vladimir putin for president supporters many thousands of people gathered here inside the luzhniki

stadium this is the usually the the home of top level football matches today it's been taken over by politics though originally the organizers had wanted to hold this event. which is right next door to the kremlin however they said that around one hundred thousand people could turn up and that's just too many people to have it right in the center of downtown moscow would have brought the city to a standstill so they put they've held it here somewhere that's used to hosting this type of capacity of people but this wasn't the only event taking place today you know we also saw the supporters of. the well veteran firebrand politician and the leader of the liberal democratic party now there was also a demonstration a rally from the supporters of the communist party as well as other smaller groups as well now since the parliamentary elections in december of last year we've seen a real spike in political activism here in russia following those elections there

was mass protests here in moscow as well as elsewhere around the country and that's really continued through lots of things going on ahead of those elections that are taking place on the fourth of march just over a weeks ago as i say political activism very much at fever pitch here in russia and of course with the press station to give you all the coverage on the build up to that vote as well now still to come on the program tonight a statistical nightmare we're reporting on your of financial troubles are predicted to get england was worse as the block proposed to flood athens with more that taxpayer intended of course now to repay previous. what details and. the man behind one of the largest leagues of u.s. army data is set to go on trial we look at the fate of whistleblowers in a country whose laws could soon make it impossible to expose government secrets. tel aviv says deciding whether to strike iran is israel's decision alone dismissing

international warnings that a military attack would be disastrous for the region israel strong rhetoric grew louder after the latest u.n. atomic watchdog mission to the islamic republic failed to ease some western concerns television cues is to round of trying to create nuclear weapons and aims to wipe out iran's atomic facilities before they could pose a threat to israel's security this is the u.s. and its allies stress that tough economic sanctions imposed on to round the more time to work however as artie's previous trader reports now there are many factors that could impede their progress 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 it is not possible to do you need to. use the. you don.

just to get. a good member of them are doing a former u.s. state department official said that india's failure to stand with the west on the oil embargo is a slap in the face for the united states and raises questions about india's ability to lead but despite all that indian officials won't budge 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 western think sions. and it's not just india ignoring the last wishes with four asian countries collectively buying two thirds of iran's oil while the e.u. is just twenty percent whether the sanctions work or not is brought in gas consent these are sanctions imposed by the united states of the european union they didn't consult us when the impose the sanctions so that's the american problem not ours

issues the welfare of our people and their energy needs that's why many say they think since will be totally ineffective if the asian giants won't play ball the countries which are sort of for holding out of the future are india and china sanctions would not bite iran sufficiently enough to achieve restraint country is objective if india and china were not to come on board either 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 is a story we've been following closely remember on our website it's the blessed best place to get up to date in the more on that one plus all the latest news and videos and analysis from us it takes a couple of other stories on there tonight you might learn. more on the part of the venezuelan president hugo chavez is going through right now undergoing surgery in his battle against cancer we've got the update for you if you're interested on that

one. and also here in moscow mutating blizzard what's this will scientists to all of us be olivea to as moscow waves through tons of toxic snow they say poisoned by chemical agents are supposed to rid of these blanket conditions but it's not good to find out more on line. zero growth continued recession and more austerity the latest economic forecast for the you as predicted by the european commission itself the latest figures are especially boring given growing skepticism over the impact of the second bailout for greece major financial players already come out and said it's. simply one stop a greek default lawmakers in athens of also passed a debt swap them all with private investors that raised one hundred seventy billion euros of the country's debt the parliament's no set to pass further measures to as protesters gather outside costas does enoughs professor of law at birkbeck university of london says that these cuts will only drain who thinks greece further

. mining and live out their lives which could destroy or. push people on that way they live a culture if they can what they look for the obvious feels as though what it did that the mess we have is going to do percent unemployment fifty percent unemployment over here was a huge increase in holland mostly counter that did not have such a phenomenon of course a huge increase in troops like this how much more worn and where if will this resolution because of the awful example of these measures which have been implemented do in order to date my only for all the germans and the froze people to give them to the german the french it's nothing to do. that greek people who is under these measures is precisely. or essentially it is a small bed that is prone to. cover

a bit later on the program makes kaiser stacy herbert in a frank given conventional discussion on the messy state of the world's finances latest edition of the kaiser report on here i can promise you at nineteen thirty g.m.t. . mayor of london candidate ken livingstone has sparked a new outrage after telling an audience hang up baker oh week until the others. the news is nature's way of taking care of the banker overpopulation there are a cancer there a parasite ken livingstone is correct hang a banker a week until they get the fricken message. exactly moscow time a u.s. soldier accused of the largest leak of state secrets in american history set to go on trial wow after nearly two years in prison among the data he's suspected of releasing his footage of u.s. soldiers firing on civilians and his art is christine for reports the system behind

the trials being blamed for covering up crimes and punishing those who speak out. nearly two years in waiting much of it in solitary confinement and private first class bradley manning stride 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 to avoid hers employees a video that had been classified by the u.s. military though the government accountability project just a little raid 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 war crime a sentiment manning seems to agree with in an online chat over station he said he hoped the information out there would prompt worldwide discussion i want people to see the truth regardless of who they are because without information you cannot make informed decisions as public 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 report 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 no doubt was the justice department whistleblower 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 where further to the state. there are some which i'm licensed as a lawyer 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 girls were. what he revealed to the public is 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 effort one man is sexually assaulted or abuse or even rate she's supposed to go through the chain of command which will actually harm her and stead 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 would actually harm whistleblowers requiring them to report misconduct to their employer first before going to any regulatory agencies it would also remove any incentives to do so our government and. businesses are so intricately linked as hard to tell them apart both now working harder than ever to keep their secrets out of the public eye in washington christine for zero r.t. so secure shills from the socialist equality party and says the action against bradley manning's an attempt to get at the wiki leaks founder julian assange whose longer the fall of the obama administration's side. treatment of manning as a whole is. brutal inhumane according to amnesty international amounting to torture according to many top us legal scholars i mean there's many reasons behind this but

i think the u.s. government certainly sees the treatment of manning from the beginning both as an example to anyone who would seek to expose the crimes of american militarism abroad as well as a fairly transparent attempt to get out it's on the founder of wiki leaks they are you know the u.s. government is seeking to eventually extradite a saw and they're certainly trying to trying to go after wiki leaks for the release of the documents are and they're really must be stressed that this is really devastating exposure of the obama administration the treatment of this young man for all the talk of democratic rights and freedom abroad this is how the united states treats opposition here. here at home. well stay on the subject of free speech the gives the resigning no dissent and ship bowing to the net brussels giving in those continent wide protests we witnessed over the controversial internet law that's been criticized for being a stepping stone to web censorship more that in

a few minutes we're also focusing too on egypt where a year of post mubarak military rule has made the iron grip of the liberal movement there even stronger while failing to mend the country's battered economy. hundreds of protesters have tried to storm a u.s. air base in eastern afghanistan following the burning of copies of the qur'an by american troops it comes after two nato servicemen were killed by an afghan soldier following days of protests that night dead barack obama's apologized to the country's president hamid karzai saying the religious materials were destroyed by mistake nato says those responsible will have a fair and public trial defense unless they told us he believes incidents like this and the mind the american mission this is the worst possible nightmare for the americans that so far they have been facing the resistance from the pashtun elements but incidents like these are actually galvanizing the nonprofit to not let . us and these books who are supposedly allowed to be american so far are turning

hostile this is basically the fall out of this which the americans fear and which in reality would happen 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 be our disaster that the americans could have at this moment when they are the most wonderful is he not just the safety the entire outcome of the war of what now depend on events like these they have been triggered and the fallout the domino effect is going to be intense as we said live on could not be more happier then the even stuff that have happened in afghanistan if taliban could not defeat the americans the american marines have themselves dug dig graves. and how made of him or the story of many others watch our teaser videos on you tube channel also free video daughter r t v dot com.

critic three. three. three. three. three. three brought video for your media project a free video done to r.t. dot com. the new post to mubarak era in egypt's history is pretty marked by the rise of islam is politicians something that comes in at the expense of the secular movement which finds itself increasingly cornered critics say the growing trend is being ignored though by washington middle east expert comments on the string king liberal movement in the arabic country. it is unfortunate that after a year and one month from the beginning of the sprinker egyptian 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 last year we clearly saw that these were used secular laptop people facebook people women minorities middle class but once to have you square was consolidated than the regular physical forces came in including the muslim brotherhood the difference was that the muslim brotherhood have support from the gulf petrodollars they have satellite support they are well organized when election will come those most organized 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 now of course the last three to four years of the obama administration what is happening is that the trying to influence the administration so that they would be in line with the interests of the muslim brotherhood in egypt and the islamists in libya and in tunisia and against the secular and liberal forces in the region turkey run the world in brief for

a headline update a waiver talks across a dozen iraqi cities is left at least sixty dead the violence started with a drive by shooting in baghdad that was followed by blast side and outside the capital no woodchip claimed responsibility for those attacks which mostly targeted security offices and. violence comes just months after u.s. combat troops left the country. argentina has declared a two day mourning period now after the country witnessed the deadliest railway accident in decades up to fifty being killed almost seven hundred injured as a train slammed into a downtown station one as there is on wednesday rescues the news helicopters to fly the wounded to hospital tragedy was supposedly caused by brake failure. a fire is told through a camp housing refugees in western thailand in just ninety minutes the blaze destroyed over a thousand bamboo shacks that's a fifth of the entire camp which houses seventeen thousand people white it no

deaths were reported authorities say the initial cause of the fire zone. the future of one of the most controversial web regulation bills to date the act of treaty lies in limbo tonight the e.u. suspended ratification of the proposed lore of affairs that were trampled rights and freedoms the suspension follows continent wide protests against the treaty with allegations that would lead to a net wide censorship originally conceived as the brainchild of japanese and american politicians and media in the midst of the total secrecy from the onset the treaty is compatibility with e.u. values is no set to be decided by the blocks court of justice. from the online magazine and blog boy boy believes the law if passed would only punish those who were innocent of wrongdoing. the problem is is that the censorship of the involved in these things is always vicarious when something is targeted because people are

using it to break the law 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 will see is when those laws are passed there will be all these social harm and they'll be no actual prevention of piracy so the companies that want them will be back at the legislative trough a few months later. well that's the news rather from r.t. so far this hour in a couple of moments time we delve into the latest peculiar dealings of wall street in laura lister's latest edition of capital account lauren here then on air with you after a short break an update of the top stories with me kevin. oh

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