election fever grips 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 round with the rand saying it alone will decide whether to launch a strike on the islamic republic. hello it's eleven pm here in moscow right now you're watching r t live with me kevin zero in on the top story this hour this thursday night the u.n. seeking to send its humanitarian chief now 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 artie's correspondent damascus moved when he went 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 cease fire agreements 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 hard 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 amid 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. 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 for the foreign military solution to the country's crisis 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 very 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 is not just. a war we are losing we are losing buddies and even in this engine. you really didn't give me a very who gave up and 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 to 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 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 the rule interests of 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 marcus papadopoulos now analyst for britain's politics first online magazine told us attempts by western states to stir up rebels in syria may 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 governments are

implicitly encourage in the syrian opposition it's only making things worse in syria and it's only groups without any more casualties and more tragedies the way in which western mages betraying the conflict in syria could 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 to from the head of

russia's foreign affairs committee who's been meeting with opposition groups in damascus he spoke to us as well as r.t. about the syrian conflict only and more about that we've got full interview for your next hour. the streets of moscow were flooded with people gathered to show their support for the candidates running for the upcoming presidency tens of thousands turned up for mass rallies and a spike of political activity ahead of next month's election correspondent peter oliver attended the largest demonstration. both thursday seeing a date of rallies in support of various political candidates for president across moscow and out today is a public holiday meaning that lots of people are off work and able to come out on 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 no 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 but it's just too many people to have right in the center of downtown moscow it 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 in 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 there are people over there will mass pre-election rallies in russia coming on the defender of the fatherland as it is today on our website we've got video of the massive firework display that marked the holiday here in the capital just now you can enjoy the spectacle in full at r.t. dot com. coming up a little later on r t with me in a statistical nightmare europe's financial troubles are now predicted to get even worse since the blog prepares to flood that means with more taxpayer money intent of course to repay previous e.u. loves we investigate the man behind one of the largest leaks of u.s. army data is set to go on trial we look at the fate of whistle blows in a country whose laws could soon make it impossible to expose government secrets.

next that television says deciding whether to strike iran is israel's decision alone dismissing international warnings of the military attack would be disastrous for the region israel strong rhetoric grew louder after the latest to an atomic watchdog mission to the islamic republic fails to isa western concerns tel aviv accuses to round of trying to create nuclear weapons and says a day to wipe out a rounds atomic facilities before they can pose a threat to israel's security this is the u.s. and its allies stress the tough economic sanctions imposed on to round need more time to work however result is previous through the reports now there are many factors that could impede the progress the message is clear if iran's intransigence continues it will face increasing pressure and isolation the left 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 for india to do you need to. use the. you don. just a goodly. amount 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 one thing since. and it's not just india ignoring the west's wishes with four asian countries collectively buying two thirds of iran's oil while the e.u. buys just twenty percent whether the sanctions work or not is not india's concern

these are sanctions imposed by the united states the european union they didn't consult us with impose these sanctions so it's that's the american problem not ours are the issues the welfare of our people and their energy needs that's why many theta think sions will be totally ineffective if the asian giants won't play ball 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. questionable remember a website or two dot com the press place to find a lot of answers to the day's news stories or coverage on the news and video analysis as well just a taste of some of the stories waiting for you there online it's not about to go home. more charges fighting for his life once again it seems the venezuelan

president wants to go for the surgery his battle against cancer got the latest on what's going on with him right now wish him all the best mutating blizzard scientists sound the alarm hear him on. votes way through included me on a walk to work it seems tons of toxic snow poisoned by chemical agents supposed to get rid of the blanket conditions which. zero growth continued recession and more austerity the latest economic forecast for the e.u. as predicted by the european commission itself the latest figures are especially worrying given growing skepticism over the impact of the second bailout for greece major financial players have already come out and said it simply won't stop a great gift. lawmakers in athens of also passed a debt swap law with private investors now that's a raise dunford seven billion euros off the country's debt the parliament is now set to pass further motions to as protesters gather outside costers dizziness

professor of law at birkbeck university of london says that these cuts will only drain grease for. the course of the. mining and live their lives which could destroy or. push people on what they found the liver cancer. for the obvious fix as that was. the method we have is going to do percent unemployment fifty percent unemployment over here was a huge increase in hong kong to the did not have such a phenomenon of course a huge increase in troops like this how much more born and where the food is where is it going to be one hundred example of these measures which have been implemented in order to date for all the germans and the fruits people to give them to the journal of the credit there's nothing to. the people who designed of these measures

is precisely. sure it is a small bed with these problems. coming up a bit later on the channel max kaiser and stacy herbert of franklin conventional discussion on the messy state of the world's finances right now the kaiser report on air then in fifteen minutes time. mayor of london candidate ken livingstone has sparked a new outrage after telling an audience hang a baker oh week until the others. heard the news is nature's way of taking care of the banker overpopulation they're a cancer they're a parasite ken livingstone is correct hang a banker a week until they get the fricken message. more top news stories now a u.s. soldier accused of the largest leak of state secrets in american history has been officially charged in court among the data he's suspected of releasing this footage

of u.s. soldiers firing on civilians as artist christine for azhar reports next the system behind the trial is 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 years employees of 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 conversation he said he hoped his putting 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 know 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 referred 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. 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 have been is sexually assaulted or abused 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 whistleblower 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. joseph from the socialist equality party told us the action against bradley manning is an attempt to get at the wiki leaks founder julian assange along with the thought of the obama administration side. the 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 waking leaks for the release of the documents and there really must be stress 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. staying with the topic of free speech at all the e.u. gives a result of no censorship to power to the net brussels giving in to continent wide protests over the controversial internet criticised being

a stepping stone to web censorship more of that ahead also focusing on egypt too few were a good post mubarak military rule has made the iron grip on 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 it's following the burning of copies of the koran by american troops it comes after two nato servicemen were killed by an afghan soldier following days of protests and left nine dead now 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 and this is how it believes incidents like this undermine the whole american mission. this is the worst possible nightmare for the americans that so far they have been facing the resistance from the bush to one 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 fallout of this which the americans fear and became 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 vote now depend on events like these they have been triggered and the fallout the domino effect is going to be intense as we said could not be more happier then the evens that have happened in afghanistan if taliban could not defeat the. the american marines have themselves dug big grave. and for more on that story and many others just for a mother to watch videos now you choose channel also free video dought t.

dot com to. critique free. free. free. free. free. free blog to mediocre for your media projects freebie audio down to r t dot com. i mentioned just now the new post mubarak era in egypt's history has been marked by the rise of islam is a politician something that comes at the expense of the secular movement which now finds itself increasingly cornered critics say the growing trend is being ignored by washington middle east expert wildfire as comments now on the shrinking liberal movement in the arabic country. it is unfortunate that after a year and one month from the beginning of the spring education arab spring that

the current situation is one suppression of demonstrators civil society minorities and one also a suppression of international n.g.o.s so that is not something that one can consider as a positive outcome first few days and weeks of the revolt clash here we clearly saw that these were used secular laptop people facebook people women minorities middle class white ones to have you square was consolidated than the regular full of the forces came in including the muslim brotherhood the difference was that the muslim brotherhood have support from the goal for two dollars 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 or 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 there would be in line with the interest of the muslim

brotherhood in egypt in the islamist in libya and in tunisia and against the secular and liberal forces in the region around the world in brief more top news stories now a wave of attacks across a dozen of iraqi cities is left at least sixty dead the violence started with a drive by shooting in baghdad and that was then followed by blasts both inside and outside the capital claimed responsibility for the attacks which mostly targeted security offices in shia areas the violence comes just months after u.s. combat troops left the country. scores of demonstrators have been clashing with police in southern chile demanding a dialogue with authorities protestors have been trying to draw the government's attention to social problems such as soaring gas prices and poor infrastructure the country's energy ministers reacted to the unrest with the promise of producing fuel costs more boots. and. the fires tore through a camp housing refugees in western thailand in just ninety minutes the blaze destroyed over a thousand bamboo shacks

a fifth of the entire camp which shows this seventeen thousand people was indeed wiped out no deaths reported though authorities say the initial cause of the fire is unknown. 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 law of a fear that it would trample rights and freedoms the suspension follows continent wide protests against the treaty with allegations that actor would lead to a net wide censorship they originally conceived as the brainchild of japanese and american politicians and media lobbyists the bill this road of total secrecy from the onset the tree has compatibility with evolution is said to be decided by the blocks court of justice. from the online magazine and blog beyond beyond believes the law if passed would only punish those innocent of wrongdoing. the problem is is that the censorship of the involved in these things is always vicarious when

a 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. thanks guys report coming away very soon as promised straight after a very short break and a recap of our top stories you're watching from moscow with me kevin i would tonight and it's very good to have your company.

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