intervention. we're also covering washington's intelligence services reportedly concluding that iran is not building a nuclear weapon but america's main news outlets refused to drop the anti arabian scaremongering. putin says the u.s. is playing up security threats as an excuse to beef up its european missile shield adding that russia's response will match. hello it's midnight here in moscow right now you're watching r t live with me kevin oh in the top story this early saturday morning calls for tougher economic sanctions against syria have got louder as the seventeen nation friends of syria group met in chewed his ear on friday the e.u. is already preparing to freeze the syrian central bank assets next week it's among the new measures to try to cripple the assad regime being proposed by the u.s.

and its allies as they gather to hammer out the syrian crisis it is rare for national joins us live from damascus in a few minutes with the latest but first here's a report explaining the feeling inside syria. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment. if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect the syrian people and a negative way for minimal out of i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government. the u.n. estimates about six thousand deaths in fierce clashes between the government forces and the armed opposition with the humanitarian situation described as a catastrophe allowing aid to get in and immediate cease fire are key points of the

friends of syria ultimatum tak age but some claim the friends have an ulterior motive so this meeting serves as a media campaign to cover up the frequent setbacks with western countries held by the us have suffered in the intervention in the syrian issues it is trying to find a new way of intervention from the outside. to force assad to go is on the agenda of the friends gathering and as with all of them want to start a war against syria known as yet ready they only cyber could do this is nato and they are not ready the syrian national council is not ready they gather to unify pressure and efforts to get justification for an operation in a mosque at a younger one we saw in tunisia is that anything other than a friend is surprisingly enough an internet search of the friends of syria reveals a totally different community this website claims to reveal the truth and collects evidence of and to government activity among syria's enemies are the country's name

in themselves friends friends of syria get together across the sea to thrash out their solution to the conflict many here wonder if their own service will really benefit the people on the ground or is it a case of with friends like these who needs enemies. r t the mascot's syria. the rushes got its own position on syria of it insist moscow will bend of foreign pressure there's another sharp statements indeed were directed westward by the russian prime ministers amid the country's top military experts but earlier r.t. jacob greaves outlines putin's key point really here he was building upon what he said just a number of days ago and dressing tens of thousands of people in mass to show support for the prime minister what we're hearing is a bit of a snippet of what we might expect if you take the presidency on the fourth of march with words certainly growing in strength and sharpness as well when dressing international relations in general said that russia won't dance the tune of any

other nation and europe on three key policy areas one being syria defending russia's role in the u.n. security council and the right to wield the veto he also touched upon that of the missile defense shield a sticking point with the u.s. relations expressing even though every nation has a right to defense is defend itself against any national security threats but the current policy is really into a problem of a security threat because the stress that the u.s. on this issue of proving quite allusive and not very serious when it comes to negotiating with russia but maintained that russia has enough of an arsenal enough clout to bring the u.s. to negotiations on the issue you have to touch upon that of iran and economic sanctions there the uranium enrichment program even though when the in this area the russia russia and the west have seen some similar ideas they also differ as well and that in the future he says he fears that some of these nonproliferation

based economic sanctions may be aimed at toppling the regime in tehran. greaves there was focus back on syria now the main news this hour the seven nation friends of syria group meeting in chin is it a bit earlier that meeting is no broken up but across it very much for us our correspondent. is joining us live from damascus bring us up to date on the outcome what was achieved around that table. well kevin more than seventeen nations arab and western countries that took part in the meeting of so-called friends of syria have urged more sanctions against the regime of bashar al assad have condemned the violations of human rights here in syria and have called for an immediate bolivar's happening here on the ground the members of this mission have also come out saying that the supports the idea of sending a joint u. and arab league peacekeeping troops to syria to move into the situation and to implement. the cease fire this idea has been pushed forward earlier

by the arab league and has been rejected by russia actually because i doubt that any peacekeeping force needed in the region where is no peace actually to be kept so first dialogue first peace to be restored and then there will be able to talk about any peacekeeping force to be sent to the region to mourn each of these peace women hear it on friday number of strong statements from the member of this group of friends of syria the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said that bashar al assad will pay the high price for violations against its people and america has cooled for. more economic sanctions against bashar assad particular is to avoid at all from the country and to free syrian asses and this is something the french foreign minister has already confirmed the european union will do the u.s.

has also sat in this meeting that it will give ten million dollars to scale up humanitarian efforts in syria and it's actually really remains unclear exactly what they've been talking about what kind of after it's but they've been speculations and fear growing in. that it may be about a military action because because just recently white house didn't rule out the possibility of arming the rebels there's been some surprises in this meeting as well sounded and again walked out saying it will not support the action that will not lead to the quick protection of the syrian people and the saudi foreign minister has also said that very strong theory actually that arming the syrian opposition is and that solent idea so even though the members of this

meeting have come out saying that they don't welcome they don't support military intervention still the possibility of that and he is this solution this possible option remains strong here. here on the ground also in this meeting france and great britain have said that they are ready and they probably most likely will recognize this is a real national council as official representative legitimate representatives of the syrian people second for changes and this is something the home opposition here in syria the national college a nation committee strongly opposed to saying that this opposition based in a base of roles in turkey actually syrian national council. is not representing the syrian people does not want what they need and what they want so we can see that the station is remains quite tense even following this meeting with people

ordinary people here in syria divided and even opposition divided coming back to you. today. toi police have declared they found no link between a spate of bombings in kolkata terms on the lives of israeli diplomats in georgia and here it complicates matters for television which found a media frenzy by accusing iran of being behind all three of turks skeptics accuse israel of using your turgid to bolster support for a military strike on iran's nuclear assets our correspondent really got the latest from tel aviv. the statement means that they have that they have a looks into possibility or whether or not the iranian nationals which they have in custody right now whether or not they weren't is connected to what seemed to be for a while this extensive terror plot which sought of course to attack israeli diplomats abroad and according to type at least indeed of the two or any nationals who were arrested in bangkok just earlier this month are actually not connected to

the terror plots in india and in georgia now the two men were arrested following a small explosion in a residential part of the city of bangkok they were apprehended and in fact the iranian government has condemned the terror attacks but there are some ways which are saying that this was in fact in large part and the attempts by the israeli government to draw as much media attention as possible to the events in fact there was a media frenzy because the israeli government was going out of their way in order to make it look like all of their nationals world over are going to be under attack from iran and in fact they tried their utmost to paint iran as this ultimate evil power which is on the brink of just literally steps away from creating a nuclear bomb and of course the until now we still have no evidence of that being the case iran insists that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes and

indeed there is no evidence to contradict that statement so of course this statement from the thai police only shows only goes to show that in fact israel may have been pushing the whole iran is going to attack every israeli citizen in the world and that is steps away from creating the nuclear bomb in fact those statements may not have that much basis in reality. america's intelligence community is ruling out suggestions that iran is creating a nuclear bomb the l.a. times reports that sixty special service agencies will reach the same conclusion though it is making an impact on america's. explains next when the rain hope. is a. in the u.s. capital of media and message it one particular story a unilateral strike spinning round and round iran could attack the united states in a much more fearsome way iran a hypothetical national security threat growing more dangerous by the day that new

york could eventually be on iran's hit list we have to assume that hezbollah will be the proxy for iran and will carry out the attack as assumptions about iran's potential plans of mass destruction or us mainstream media more cops in automatic weapons are flooding specific areas of the big apple the new york city police department increased security around israeli government facilities and synagogues last week amid growing tension over tehran's nuclear program however the n.y.p.d. says it has not received any specific threat related to iraq upping the ante a u.s. senator has called on federal agents to quote increase scrutiny and vigorously monitor the iranian mission to united nations but as politicians police officers and most mainstream journalists perpetuate a terrifying scenario for new york city officials in washington have thrown a wrench in this armageddon theme type news narrative by stating the facts about

iran or surrogates will revelations of a much less threatening tehran was recently disclosed during intelligence briefings the agency assesses iran isn't likely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict they continue to develop their enrichment capability but the intelligence does not show that they've made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon. many experts have labeled iran america's new iraq critics then and now say washington paves the path and corporate media plugs the message was iraq. you know. again it doesn't matter if you are used by some of the bush administration it's the same strategy it's all well there might be things but all new york no no the intelligence so well no it's not really credible then of course it's making

a manager jack up is what always goes well when you combine characters together that you get is a meeting with everyone to impede the march to. critical scrutiny as a but instead feel that engine by the bandwagon you see the time and time again and we're seeing it again there with the way according to recent polls americans consider tehran to be the us is top enemy and nearly half of all citizens support a military strike against iran. when factor in human beings it's necessary for the evolution of those accords with these new reports and this constant drumbeat of the designs upon him afterward to tell them if you dare question really i mean we're clear sure marina porter r.t. new york. a shame but i describe to the british justice system the final words of christopher tuffin before he was handcuffed and put on board a plane to america accompanied by his wife was visibly upset the pension and now hopes he'll live long enough to return home set some point. i look to.

mr cameron to look off my rights but he's failed to do so i have no right that we could start a movie the streets of london today we couldn't fix a diet here. he has more rights to go if. i was a terrorist i would go to a birthday. while the sixty five year old former golf club president's been handed over to the u.s. to face accusations he was planning to sell commercial batteries to iran for which he stood to make a profit of a mere five hundred dollars nonetheless he faces decades in jail now but the case says that the fuel to iran about the why the u.s. u.k. extradition treaty with many britons fieri us over how one sided it appears to be attorney douglas mcnabb specializes in cases like this he told me he believes the green is actually being used just as it was always intended from what i understand

the significant majority of those individuals that have been extradited from u.k. the u.s. are not terrorists. two thousand and three extradition which was an act passed by the u.k. parliament lower the standard that the u.s. must meet to seek extradition basically reasonable suspicion something analogous in the u.s. to a police officer stopping someone for a ticket on the other hand if the u.k. were to seek to have someone extradited from the u.s. there were much higher legal burden probable cause u.k. would be required to show that the individual probably committed the crime so there is an imbalance you know the extradition treaty between the two countries you're watching out is coming up now to seventeen minutes past midnight moscow time coming up shortly it's the weekend though early saturday morning here so moscow out on the air this weekend exploring the capital's fast food venues looking for the balance between cheap fast and healthy food is the one we're about to find out.

hello and welcome in this week's moscow out south where we're taking a look at fast food culture from the arrival of those famous golden arches over twenty years ago today various international brands and companies are popping up here every week donuts. there's no wider range of such food here than ever

before but is that a good thing is it unhealthy i want to find is think of russian fast food banks find out. thanking baskin robbins subway papa johns the list of foreign imports is impressively building up here perhaps to boot abroad coffee also lobby sandwich has had its day as the international chains make their mark one thing is clear everyday food alongside popular culture in russia has changed forever those dishes union fast food restaurant the cheaper the nurse school canteen for example that is why i go to mcdonald's even though in our current team food is more tasty muslim's mother do most of the you going to mcdonald's sushi places in venues like that is god taste it's disgusting people should be proper food there is a lot of fast food. much more than friends so. good morning star approximately the same price. russia's first domestic fast food venture was raw steaks fried chicken

restaurant as a major player against someone old macdonald and his burgers and chicken joint proved very popular several years ago the company went it's a polish with the u.s. chain k.f.c. which eventually gained control of the company. so clipboard and markings in hand let's see how. to find out what foreigners think of the fast food scene here we've asked for guests to take part in the program the shanker pizza ella and blessing. they will evaluate the food menu appeal taste value for money and overall experience of each location. and pushing to blake is a well known t.v. and stage actress from london with her grandmother originally from the moscow region she has finally achieved her dream of the same russia departing the

glamorous five star park hyatt hotel it's into the car and off for lunch shanker has longed to try the authentic russian food she ate as a child will she be disappointed leaving expensive restaurants out of the equation we want to give our guests the typical tourist experience. to a first russian chain and along the glamorous but we arrived at the popular low key eatery. opening its first site in the russian capital in one to ninety six its name translates to thirty trees and sticks in english and the traditional countryside interiors and quirky stuff costumes give some idea of the food here. has settled upon the all you can eat pasta salad bar option which allows you to choose from a buffet of both hot and cold meals and salads a great idea if you want a chance to sample different dishes just try it all and hope the bag. carrot salad beetroot potatoes with an adding

a gloss of more to complement it's time to try. to look impressed. and obviously sometimes as. great as it's. great. ten pounds. let's take a look at some price comparisons now ascended big macand. comes in and just two and a half dollars in london they charge the equivalent of three point eight dollars a little more price a treat in new york it comes in at four dollars twenty by the way the cheapest country to buy a big mac in the world is in india and the price comparison of one point six two dollars feeling hungry at quite

a difference depending where you live. the prizes mean here is the standard and quality one of the. ok. food whether he likes it or not take a role in his life on a daily basis he needs quick reliable healthy fuel to assist with his hours at the office q so popular chain restaurants with a variety of pizzas past is salads. last year. it is fifty fifth anniversary worldwide so this concept of food is popular with

people who care about their health and looks in our menus constantly update it but we still stay true to our traditional italian recipes of high quality. hungry peter has opted for salon because owning a slice of vegetarian pizza carbon are a paper and iced tea is italian food fresh in fabulous or that tortured here with salt poisoning and plastic cheese time will tell he seems to be quite satisfied and the pieces don't look too bad either let's find out what our guest thinks. being a businessman usually i don't know much fun to go for luxury but being so close to places like here. is good. in case noise doesn't take that long and is really good value for money. but looking straight at the bolshoi theater everything here is time and cool mated to perfection and he spoke in the

wheel that doesn't work means disaster for the management and food production people but. there. it is most people's food. back to our guests and we welcome alex she was born in the philippines and has lived in moscow three years elah lives here with her canadian husband and studies russian time university is full of students of all ages and for those on budgets fast food can be their main meal the moscow team have to try out the popular chain crush the car tosca the no frills hanging out which is an over to the humble potato looking at the menu what will alice decide on there's plenty of choice here you can get your share in the classical style baked with a choice of fillings such as better cheese crab bacon soft creme stew to name a few. as alex heart. you have to take to saw filipino guests look happy to fully

able to light and fluffy out to the filling actually tastes. being very delicious for a russian mass. i will recommend. to eat here and it's a good very delicious and it's a very. the recipe of eleven hubs and spices used by kasey in preparation of the chicken remains a trade secret ok in time for the operation now the safety and food hygiene is very important that all stop a given street straining my attention is given to all freshness of the project there was. no additives a point to any of the dishes here a k.f.c. . for my greens health. preparation tick tick tick. a final guess and let's meet a blessing lesson was born in nigeria and she's lived in moscow since two thousand

and nine after coming here to complete a mouse's program we poor a blessing to a fast food outlet telemark a popular chain in russia that specializes in russian pancakes or police as they're known here sites also offers various other versions issues such as buckwheat a kind of powerage or soup and the fast and all menus are available in english blessing has a wide range of choice here savory pancakes served with meat ham cheese or caviar fillings and sweet alternatives with various fruits berries jams and chocolate fillings. blissing has decided on a been on a pancake with a chocolate drink she sits down and tastes her russian flavored fast food. because to much evaluation from blessing please. i just went to take a walk right now i knew was fantastic and actually recalled mancuso each to try to

pancakes which is god's green tea. and out in this called my dad also recommended to try jihad sharply. but say the drop in comes during the recent crisis was a big factor in increasing the demand for fast food in russia and as moscow's aspiring middle class find that feat perhaps western style food is something more cultural and socially symbolic than the actual tasty treat that is served the bold advertisements that come with such imported brands almost always seem to feature foreign life styles recipes fashion and behavior it soon catches on and crisis or not twenty first century russia is literally eating it up spending a day behind the scenes here i'm really surprised at the at the goes into making simple fast food i didn't know such care was put into making such products very

good bread enjoying real just about. well unfortunately that's what how we have left on this program on fast food culture here in the russian capital i'll see you again at the same time next week until then for me and the rest of the crew all right. well into the. week a piece of the looking glass at what will be the homes of the future where the walls my. just be smarter than the residents every day trash protects you from the

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