it starts on t.v. dot com. the syrians have their say people in the war torn country choosing their new constitution to potentially and by decades of single party rule. and obama in iran sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence to iran is building nuclear weapons but israel steps up the pressure with continued threats of a military strike. and locking moscow in a human circle auction fever escalates as russia's presidential ballot throws me here with boughs it was holding hands in a flash mob for a vote. three

pm in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's headlines here on r t starting in syria where millions of people across the country are expected to have their say on a new draft constitution the referendum that promises a multi-party system comes amid ongoing violence with most opposition groups vowing to boycott the ballot as artie's were if emotional reports when i'm asked some hope the vote could bring about an end to the conflict. ballots instead of bullets musta missed traces and violent protests have been rolling across syria for almost a year by. the syrian government does a call in full to people to shape the future together by taking part in a referendum on the country's and you cost you should fulfill its pledge to a full. of those who is very excited that he'll be able to decide his own tomorrow. it's a completely new era it is good for everybody even opposition can take part it's

for all. amendments to the country's number one law have been among the key demands of the opposition since the uprising began and the draft seems to cover the most pressing issues it starts with eliminating baath party supremacy which have ruled the country for the last fifty years introduces a multi-party system and sets a two term limit on any future president however even these reforms a cause in controversy to harden his friend odin flower shop in damascus he says this new document draws a line between him and his muslim business partner. there's a big contradiction article thirty three says all equal rights number three says remove can be a president what about the other ten percent we're not here temporarily we've been living together for ages we want to be counted. now maybe ten percent of the people

they speak about this. ok but maybe if we was removing this article from the new constitution the ninety percent who said well why you take this article out public debate on the draft constitution have been organized to bring the people and the authors of the new document together they don't trust me they don't se the sailors are supposed to meet you work for the fire if you leave your city as well you see this becoming but some say the resteal a long way to go to that new syria and they don't believe the government will follow through with their reforms i'm afraid if i were a goes the constitution somebody will in the world will shoot me clashes and protests almost every day but some hope that the referendum will not only breed and you constitution it might even be able to stop the bloodshed. there are people who

want to improve and develop but also others who want to divide syria we shouldn't help them we should go and vote for a future of. the draft of syria's new constitution has been made public ten days before the national referendum fourteen new and forty seven amended articles are all here with comments and details the baser also on t.v. and the internet never in the country's modern history for its residents so close to policy making but many here on the ground fear that the ongoing violence could bury any hope of reform. altie damascus syria washington could start supplying arms to the syrian rebels despite previously shying away from further militarizing the conflict us administration says if a political solution isn't found to the crisis it might consider other options this amid warning that america's anti assad stance sees them siding with al qaeda fighters or he's got

a chicky on reports from washington. amid bloodshed in syria more extremists are penetrating the country to help bring down a sot that's according to u.s. intelligence which says all current affiliated fighters were responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings in damascus and aleppo targeted at syrian military and intelligence facilities be seen evidence of. extremist sunni extremists i'm not can't label them specifically as al qaeda but certainly the similar ilk who are infiltrating the opposition's groups. while fighting in syria continues the violence in neighboring iraq has dropped in some areas by as much as fifty percent in the last few months this as an al-qaeda leader iman al-zawahiri as called on his supporters around the world to back the uprising in syria. is that these men who call

themselves the mujahideen say they're on their way to fight a holy war against our song. in washington senators asked the head of america's intelligence james clapper what happens if assad falls are we prepared for the situation of a possible failed state were ok or enjoys a safe harbor and refuge and from which to coordinate attacks his response bears no optimism there would be kind of a vacuum i think that. would lend it so. of two. extremists operating in syria which is particularly troublesome some ask a different question is the us on the same side as all qaida in syria and whether its policies are indirectly aiding the terrorists are american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's

good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing on but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state this is why i'm against putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state and syria even for many of those syrians who are not supportive of their president the fear of the alternative is far greater why are they sitting on the fence or why they are not in the streets with that if that is supporting the movement and they are often too fierce is that one is that pushed aside they'd be this. and pushed aside that would be the careless the opposition in syria is very fractured they don't seem to be under anybody's control this spite concerns voiced

by top u.s. intelligence officials about anti psychotics treatments washington has failed to widen its calls to include armed opposition and therefore basically ignoring the fears of a huge part of the syrian population who don't want radicals gaining momentum and directing the country into chaos i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team u.s. intelligence community dealt a fresh blow to washington suspicions that iran is pursuing nuclear weapons an assessment by the u.s. sixteen spy agencies and just there is no evidence to iran has decided to. build a nuclear bomb meanwhile view when nuclear agency says tehran has expanded its uranium enrichment work in recent months the i.a.e.a. also criticized iran for not allowing inspectors into a key military site the country is facing tough u.s. and e.u. sanctions and threats of an attack from israel over its nuclear program which it insists is peaceful conn hallinan afore a columnist in foreign policy in focus magazine says the west concern over iran's

nuclear program may be a pretext to take control of its energy resources. i think a nuclear bomb is really in many ways a smokescreen this is not about nuclear weapons even if iran were to develop nuclear weapons that would make little difference if iran were to use a nuclear weapon say for against israel it would be an act of national suicide israel has between two and three hundred nuclear weapons they could literally exterminate iran this country here one is not a nuclear threat i think this has a lot more to do with the politics of the middle east and the politics of the control of energy resources than nine hundred seventy nine revolution in iran essentially removed the second largest oil resources and the third largest natural gas resources from direct control by western oil and gas companies and centrally made it independent now the west would love to get those resources back and they

would love to also not have that kind of independent force in the middle east that's also in the israeli's interest as well israel has repeatedly threatened to strike iran's nuclear sites couple with accusations that the islamic republic is behind attacks on its diplomats abroad israel could already be committed to military action as artie's arena delusional reports from tel aviv. israel's leaders are actively drumming up the military rhetoric. iran is the biggest terror exporter in the world the israeli government and its security forces will continue to act forcefully systematically and calmly against international terrorism anything from iran. a potential israeli rocket clash looks more likely than ever there is speculation a preemptive strike against iran's nuclear sites could happen as early as spring or summer although that's not causing undue concern in israel i think possibly people

you know they make their plans for a vacation you know past or vacation summer vacation possibly people are beginning to have wondered well is there going to be a war is something going to mess it up or i think they're probably going ahead with it with sort of a thought we're back tomorrow it would be nice if we could get a flight that we could cancel you know you know it's that sort of thing israel has previous experience when it comes to putting an end to nuclear ambitions which pose a potential threat in one thousand nine hundred one is jets wiped out reactors in iraq they struck again in two thousand and seven hitting sites in syria but with iran's nuclear program things may not be so simple if if israel attacks iran it will not stop iran forever from getting nuclear weapons the only postpone it for a relatively brief amount of time the. installations are too diverse and far flung to destroy a fact of lee israel does not have us poor white house secretary adviser was in

israel warning against a move on iran saying it was better to wait for tougher sanctions to take effect in the coming months but mines mail ready be made up i think one of the things that to create this aura of inevitability is to shut them up to shut up opposition at home and of course to convince the united states and europe that this is an inevitability it's going to happen don't oppose it in fact why don't you help us out there is a question mark however over whether israel has what it takes to carry out the mission i dog with the we have the capability. of creating damage is to the extent of the mediating the program and even if israel's military prowess will allow it to carry out a strike on underground facilities in iran chances are it won't and there are as you know saddam hussein and bashar assad by the time they knew what was happening was over and could just you know grumble without having to fight back you imagine

iran sitting still you know all day day after day day after day what israel was really trickle back i think any any sane person realizes that there were almost guaranteed to be missiles falling on israel and considering iran for one of the twentieth centuries longest wars against iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. the consequences could be far reaching and destructive. israel has been suffering some bad weather as of late but it's likely that even the strongest winds will blow the country's foreign policy off its course and when it comes to israel's forecast for iran the storm clouds seem to be growing ever darker in tel aviv r.t. . still ahead this hour seeking justice and afghan police man hunted for killing american officials during wide scale violent protests after u.s. soldiers burn copies of the koran. and two weeks after being nominated for the nobel peace prize bradley manning appears at his first court hearing when you look at the suspect in whistleblowers case in

a few minutes. but first thousands of people are set to encircle moscow in a massive mob for fair elections by holding hands the people are plotting to complete the city's gardener our correspondent peter oliver is in the midst of the action he joins us live with the latest so peter you're on the gardening itself tells us going on right now well what you're seeing where i am right now is something of a standoff between the originals and people taking place in this protest which was those campaigning full fair elections in russia they were going to hold hands around the garden ring in asking people to come wearing white and to stand in quiet solidarity for their movement now they were joined by a quite large group of very young pro vladimir putin for president supporters who have been very vocal so we have seen some. small standoff between people putting across their various various opinions and positions on what they see the political future of russia being but all in all very it's all very very calm just a few

a few little arguments break out but not much there now in terms of how many people are involved in these protests this demonstration across the city official figures are saying around eleven thousand people however we are hearing from some media sources that the m. the garden ring may have been and circled now this golden ring is a ring road that goes around the downtown area. of central moscow it's around sixteen kilometers fifteen sixteen kilometers to go all the way around it was estimated that it would take around thirty four thousand people to complete that now so we're waiting to find out confirmations on just how many people of have actually taken part in this today. and how many people. whether they were able to fully enclosed that garden ring that ring road around the center of the city now a lot of the opposition leaders that we've seen come out over the past few months following the parliamentary elections here in russia are taking part in this

demonstration to say to hold hands and form a human chain around the garden ring. will be waiting to find out just how many people have taken part but yes as a standoff really where i am at the moment between those who want to see putin to be the next president of russia and those who don't and over the past couple of months we've seen a huge spike in political political activity in moscow haven't we huge rallies both pro and anti establishment tell us more well that's right since the parliamentary elections that were held in december of last year well following those we saw mass protests on the streets of moscow and other towns and cities across russia we've not really continued in the forms of rallies and demonstrations even in the last week we've seen the largest rally to date supporters of lot of mir putin for president taking over the luzhniki arena the luzhniki stadium here in moscow stadium usually used by the russian national football team so that's a center top level sport so they were able to cram thousands and thousands of

people in there we've also seen. we've also seen rallies around carlie's around the garden ring here to celebrate by those in favor of putin for president and those opposed to it and today well we're one week away from the presidential elections these type of demonstrations i think we're only going to see more and more of them these type of rallies as people try to put forward their support for the various political candidates going for that top position next week right here are a live for us from south from moscow thanks for that update. at the presidential elections next sunday the media is abuzz with candidates promos but the front runner vladimir putin has been keeping a low profile it's another story outside russia. but argy dot com find out how bruton is taking over britain i'll be it in book form after interest in russia's top politician reaches a fever pitch abroad. and a shocking religare as in brazil witness what they say is a u.f.o. is a fifty kilogram of metal ball falls from the sky in front of

a suspect unsuspecting residents can reveal an earthly story at r.t. done. cash strapped spanish students and teachers packing the streets of valencia angry at the government's education cuts they also accuse police of heavy handed tactics at previous rallies where protesters were charged down and beaten several were hurt more than forty arrested some of the minors are teens sarah for reports. i think the land here in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people . in this. conflict and i think education i. see being telling us. that all. of this is the job of.

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hold. of the one bright. red flag. massive budget cuts still dominating greece which avoided a painful default this week leaders have. left athens hanging on for a month as they piled up new conditions before finally clearing one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but the cost of the rescue was weighing heavily on the greek people who paid the price with huge cuts and job losses economists rodney shakespeare says the whole system needs to be completely overhauled. the plain fact of the matter is these are manipulations to justify the banking occupation of greece the greece people revolts because they are being smashed into the ground and their suffering t. is being destroyed their property. assets being sold off that being put into

poverty and debt pay and each not just for the rest of their lives but for their children and their grand children's lives the whole thing is a fraud all that they need in fact it is a new policy that policy must stop by controlling the banks which create money out of nothing put it at compound interest and do not put it into the real economy and in particular to the spreading of the real economy unless you're but then you open up an interest free supply from your own national bank but to do that greece must get out of the euro and take its own destiny forward in the same way as iceland is now doing and doing very successfully and afghan police officer is being sought over the killing of two u.s. military advisors at the interior ministry in kabul nato has withdrawn all its personnel from afghan ministries to avoid further attacks and time merican protests

continued for almost a week in afghanistan with violence by the burning of copies of the koran at a nato air base dozens of people have been killed and wounded in the clashes protesters also set fire to the u.n. office in the northeast ward northwestern city of couldn't do president obama and nato officials apologized for the incident saying the desecration was unintentional but i meant caray she director of a political think tank in neighboring pakistan says the us led alliance will be hard pressed to restore its reputation. in the decade that the u.s. military has been in the but is done by the first time even in smaller places and provinces in towns wherever there is u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places until now the americans were facing the very surges of resistance by the of the taliban but now after this incident we're seeing the ordinary dance of force pitched against the the u.s. will be present but also u.s. trained police men and he was training soldiers now an ordinary american working

you know what he's done today he doesn't know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban and al gun policeman or enough gun soldier whom he might have trained earlier even after ten years it seems the americans don't know who they're dealing with they don't know the get on this very well u.s. military are increasingly trained into what i would call anti islamists and they're constantly sort of indoctrinated into into into treating islam disrespectfully i sailed to see how the u.s. military personnel and the of the east end of gun army personnel would be able to restore the level of trust that existed let's say five days or six days ago. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bomber launched an attack on a church in the city of jos in central nigeria three were killed several more

injured in the bombing the church was packed with worshippers at the time hundreds have died in the city as a result of ethnic and religious violence in the last few years jos has also been a regular target of the extremist group boko haram which hadley has been blamed for killing more than three hundred people nationwide this year alone. senegal's president abdoulaye wade is seeking a reelection for a third term sunday after he defied the opposition efforts to block him from taking part in the vote six people attending an anti wade protest were already killed in clashes ahead of the polls demonstrators say his candidacy is illegal due to the term restrictions on the constitution but eighty five but the eighty five year old president argues the limits were brought in when he was in power so they don't apply to him. pakistan has started demolishing osama bin laden's hideout where he lived for years before his assassination the compound was located not far from the country's elite military academy in the north west town of about a bad there was concern the house could become

a shrine to supporters of the deceased al qaeda leader bin laden was killed last may by u.s. special forces. the trial in egypt of forty three pro-democracy activists including sixteen from the u.s. is due to start in cairo later today they're accused of illegally using foreign funds to incite anti regime demonstrations the case of badly damaged relations between egypt and the u.s. with threats from the u.s. that it could cut its annual aid package to the country. bradley manning using who is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret military files to wiki leaks deferred his plea at a first court hearing thursday he's already spent nineteen months in custody without formal charges manning is facing life in prison if found guilty for aiding the enemy but many americans consider him a hero he's even been nominated for the nobel peace prize by an icelandic group there are doubts that he'll get a fair trial after president obama said the whistleblower broke the law attorney kevin zeese says manning standing trial for telling the truth well this is

a case of very low level classified documents in fact there's questions as to whether they should be classified at all we have to also realize that when. we released the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets and even those we're not releasing any national security information that should have been kept secret all we're finding out from even the highest little secret of the pentagon papers in the lowest level secrets that meetings accused of is. an ethical behavior misbehavior by the u.s. far by u.s. foreign policy we're showing our corporations and the government work closely together the support of corporate profit rather than public interest we're showing all sorts of inappropriate behavior by people like secretary say clinton who ordered us to mass to spied on u.n. officials when they came to meetings in the united nations that's illegal yet she's not being prosecuted manning who is accused of the century telling the truth is being prosecuted facing life in prison while people who commit war crimes and other

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