french officers are reportedly detained at the heart of the uprising in syria while the u.k. withdraws its entire embassy staff all that amid a rising international chorus calling for the rebels to be are. massive protests and rallies across the e.u. about the cuts affecting millions it's putting a question mark over brussels forceful demands for continued austerity. israel faces international criticism over its policy of detaining suspected palestinian militants indefinitely and without the chance of a trial. also as russia's presidential vote nears we take to the streets of moscow

to gauge the mood of the people in a restless country recently awoken from a political slump. and in business the russian markets closed up today's trading session in the rest with stocks falling from a fervent month high for the facts they did put out since that time. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in our team sky reception syrian opposition forces say they've withdrawn from a key neighborhood in the embattled city of homs the government forces have been trying to take over the area saying it's used as a base by militants all this while the country waits for the arrival of kofi annan now the new u.n. and arab league envoy who's about to stop the killing and start a dialogue here in damascus as r.t. as more if an option. we are hearing that the army has entered homes in order to

regain control over the city which has been seen to civic clashes between the opposition and the authorities for months now syrian media reports that during this operation french officers have been detained reports say that the americans passed they were captured by the opposition fighters but failed to clarify why they were in syria we're also hearing that france has already reacted to the claims by returning some back to damascus these reports follow the free syrian army members claims that it's already received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from u.s. and french sources earlier the arab league has refused to rule out giving to the opposition here in syria if the violence and the killing doesn't stop this in contrast to the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who admitted that arming the rebels here in syria could be very dangerous as weapons and are potentially in the hands of al qaeda while this is issue here on the ground is very tense and complicated the u.k.

says it is now it recreated its embassy here in damascus citing security concerns but meanwhile peaceful efforts are also taken place here joins us and boy to syria coffee and none has said that he will be heading to the conflict on country very soon trying to negotiate a military an access to the affected areas kofi annan has also voted to frustrate the opposition and the authorities from the warring sides claiming that the talks are a friend and the violence here in syria. reporting right there will i mean time kamil or truck she contributing editor with the online magazine syria comment the desire of some foreign states to push for president assad's departure could at the end of the day kofi annan mediating. bison the coffee and. accepted by is almost a friend to us early in the negotiators on many things they are trying to be

a little bit more friendly than they've been until now. we'll see if that opens the door for anything but i think i know they're not straight yet you have qatar and saudi arabia still wanting to arm the opposition rather than just talk to the present us ups at the end of the day syria is too big to fail it's not a lebanon because they cannot afford to have chaos and thirty years too i cannot imagine them being able to live with scales in syria so they would try to increase the temperature for the regime that would send more arms even if it goes to said if it's not missed for a while i think it's right. we have discussed the intricacies of america's relations with syria with the former u.s. attorney general but of ramsey clark the full interview coming your way with him next hour here on our team also to come a little bit later in the program but of the fierce and see iranian rhetoric coming from the israeli government is finding little support from the people the latest opinion polls suggest that the idea of an s.

strikes on the islamic republic is extremely unpopular with less than twenty percent of israelis saying yes to. a second day of strikes across europe as walkouts paralyzed transport from athens to rome they are some of the biggest public demonstrations in recent history protesting against desperate government cuts to budgets are designed to appease international paymasters but the measures are taking their toll and as a tease tom bottom reports and the austerity sentiment is reverberating all across europe. in belgium protests saying austerity cuts have gone too far in cities all across france and especially big demonstration in paris with the same message thousands of students on the streets in spain wanting to reverse cuts in education spending there and huge demonstrations in portugal spain and portugal people there who are really feeling the pinch here as their governments try to balance budgets

and cut spending that's left them it really exposed to this debt crisis and no more so than here in greece in the parliament behind me lawmakers have once again sat late into the night having to really make savage cuts to their spending all across the sectors of the economy a twenty two percent cuts in the minimum wage has been made thirty two percent if you're under twenty five in greece and half of greeks under twenty five are employed we've seen doctors coming out in a twenty four hour walkout massive cuts made to health care spending and to pharmaceutical spending there's many more examples everywhere you look in the economy nor makers having to take very painful steps to try and force greek government spending down all of this linked to the one hundred thirty billion euros second bailout that's being dangled in front of greece's nose here there's

a real human impact to all of these economic measures greeks are being forced onto the streets just like people in spain in portugal in italy in france in belgium all with the same message these austerity measures are having a really harsh human cost no it's not a right there but i mean time lawyer and professor of constitutional law george says that the greece government response to the crisis is turning the country into a third world nation. unfortunately the weaker of the of the greek society are suffering most fifty percent of the gaggle generation is unemployed it's just imagine that this sort of the official data actually things are much much worse my wife states or other public school. who kids that are going. obviously. cannot feed themselves so just imagine that we are a country in europe and with images of

a third world the only certain feeling is that the existing political system cannot anymore express their will of the people i think that this force or and these latest protests come as the e.u. prepares for yet another summit that is ongoing today but our presence correspondent has more on the trials and tribulations still ahead for the elite of europe today is the start of that summit yet another one african leaders still discussing the same old thing but today the main thing they go they're going to do is to the signing of that fiscal treaty that they've been talking about for months and this essentially means a new budgetary rules that countries are required to strictly adhere to and no excuses this time and if they if they don't follow those rules there will be automatic sanctions so it's expected that about twenty five of the twenty seven in the nations are going to sign on to this fiscal compact with two countries that are not going to do so or the u.k.

and the czech republic if i heard prime minister david cameron said in the past that he's going to be watching very closely to make sure that this does not undermine the single market problem for signing this treaty is not going to quell the string of questions as well guys and still are rising with the introduction of this agreement as well as other issues that still need to be dealt with here is more of that. if previously you summits are anything to go by the bickering among leaders is usually long and painful so the supremum council should be. you never know but. we're glad. then those will last summits. i'm sure you agree a little less drama will do no one and the heart of. the main agenda signing the fiscal compact agreed in december last year putting into place tough new budgetary rules and automatic sanctions to get everyone to clean up their act

all but two countries are expected to give it the go ahead if then needs to be ratified by at least twelve years old nations before it can come into effect something seen as a done deal but the main question is is it going to work and what we have to see now to which extent member states i able to respect it because it's easy to convene come here and agree on all those principles of the only country that is life you do have a balanced budget through this germany this balancing act will not be easy to pull off we do sing deaf assisted three percent level required by the e.u. means having to squeeze already dry public coffers in several countries. and this is what could keep happening in big and small numbers. in this miniature that. it might take time but also carry these rallies

because while workers demand pro growth policies international observers have another approach to the crisis beefing up of the euro zone's financial firewalls mainly increasing the permanent fund the e.s.m. from its cap of five hundred billion euros with germany has opposed such a move yet another euro deadlock they don't feel the urgency anymore and that's because of the success of the. injections. of liquidity from the european central bank as economists were really reluctant that the e.c.b. the central bank operates too much because down markets east's and there is the politicians don't feel the urgency anymore for real reform for now the e.u.'s plan is to impose these structural reforms and watch like

a hawk will they may see such fiscal consolidation as a necessity in fixing the root of one problem another one may really it's head further down the road and these member states will lose sovereignty in the field of budgetary policy i'm not so sure that all the dutch only happy about it although not french i'm very sure the french are going to be unhappy about this at this point one may be hard pressed to find anyone who isn't. just our cilia r.t. brussels. from the onset of the euro crisis keeping greece afloat has been trumpeted as a communal effort by the e.u. in the spirit of one hundred and sixty german tax collectors of volunteered to help athens in tax collection in about twenty minutes time because a report looks into word just what kind of help really me so. the german government is prepared to send one hundred sixty financial experts to greece to help

the country overhaul its tax collection well actually this is the british method of imperialism they would send people to help the poor indians they would send people in to missionize and help kenyans you know this is the method of colonization it's one method it's you don't have to send in the tanks there are no tanks because this is a financial war and the credit default swap and the derivatives are the blitz they just royd greece with naked credit default swaps and paulson lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs big they've destroyed it and the others carving up and serving it up to the germans who were their local raj we're going to be managing these poor schmucks down there in athens while they get ready to invade spain various tenderizing spain they're going to help oh excuse me they're getting ready to help spain.

how do you stay with us working for the cause reporting about fifteen minutes time for now israel is looking up suspected palestinian militants giving them no idea how long they will be held or even what they are accused of the international concern piqued when one prisoner came close to death following sixty six days on a hunger strike he's going to go to school when i meet his family. hundred lines wife wishes she could forget the day she was arrested but it's a memory that just won't fade but. the soldiers came to her house around two am and took my husband out of the bathroom and led him away who were many of them all of darkness they all acted like animals. israeli authorities have already arrested hundred eighty times before believing him to be active within the palestinian islamic jihad a group israel regards as terrorist hundred nine was put under administrative

detention meaning trial and no charges being brought a practice widely used by israel in prisons like this one that hundreds of palestinians are being held suspected of terrorism by accused of not doing their prison can last for years with no formal charges being brought against them the detention can last up to six months but there is no limit on how many times it can be renewed at the moment more than three hundred palestinians are in administrative detention during the height of the second intifada uprising just over a decade ago thousands were put in jail without trial many of the youths spoke of their aziz who was just sixteen when he was arrested. or used to frighten us terrified by screaming banging on tables pushing us and forcing us to the ground they keep us in cells for two or three months in order to take confessions by force we were so frightened. of three young person suddenly finds himself in jail israel

insists it's doing nothing wrong and that it's necessary to protect informers identities but human rights groups both here and abroad beg to differ slightly not only is extreme but also because israeli authorities applied all too liberally towards palestinians it's one of the basic moral principles that we you know that our society is founded on but if you deny a person's right to freedom you have to have a very good case and you have to have a trial and you have to defend themselves against these accusations. when palestinians are placed under administrative detention they're not told what they're suspected of there is no charge sheet and there's no trial as long as family now awaits his really silly. you never know what it's like with hunger strikes it could end well but at the same time you cannot explain to your children why their father looks though one may see it when they saw him on his hospital bed crying to. cover the onset of his sixty sixty strike was not in self interest but

to draw attention to other palestinians in similar circumstances he's in hospital at the moment unable to walk and it's been fed intravenously but there is already talk of moving him back to prison where he recovers the stories stay there at least his shackles had been taken off even if only for the time the illegals carty israel and the west bank. less than a fifth of israeli supporter unilateral military strike on iran and the vast majority are against an attack simply in fear of consequences but it's the result of a poll taken a hell of a crucial set of meetings between u.s. and israeli officials about iran's nuclear program a film director sean stone the son of all of us stone and recent islamic convert shows the concerns of most israelis. also points to prevent or stop what i think is we are walking into world war three at the moment between syria being destabilized and iran it's on this border being threatened by israel or america to me it's very

dangerous time and we don't recognize what the crisis consequences will be not only not only regionally but so the world what's happening is we are now in a state martial law and war globally everything is now it could bring conditions for a total war state i mean mccain called for the whole america becoming part of the so-called battlefield that america is about to feel the whole earth is about to field so we're already at war with iraq you can't engage people diplomatically if you're already trying to isolate them and what do you basically creating is more radicalism on their part because you're trying to push them into a corner you with r.t. live from moscow and if you've missed any of our stories just look on to our website our two dot com they bring yourself up to date twenty four hours a day some of the items standing by for you there right now including stirring up the past the latvian president sparks outrage saying the world war two veterans who fought alongside nazi troops are not criminals and they deserve respect and more reaction to that on line also. the occupy wall street movement heads out of the

bullied quinta months as hundreds take to the streets to stage yet more protests. we'll get to the world update in just a moment but for now russia is gearing up for its big election day when the people choose their next president but this year's race has already bought huge changes in the political life of the country that has seen some of the biggest demonstrations in recent history jacob greaves also took to the streets of moscow here now to check the pre-election temperament. well simpler time there was a notion that russians weren't all that well that about politics but now that seems to have changed this year's race for the presidency has caused intrigue and fire

ever since then to be uprooted and now has to be running different words to be splashed about characterize it can change so fast and here are some of the most distinctive he is for public we've seen increasing number of people take to the streets both for and against the government this knocking a growing sense of civil activism face rarely is this flash mob sansa a powerful signal not only to what the report and the russian politicians present in a sense that they have to understand that the site has a vacant political law is. oh it stands for reform on the back of them astray sions president medvedev has put forward a number of electoral changes searching as far as how parties are registered and who can be on the ballots over is oligarch crawford's gone advance media coverage and is the only candidate not read back by a party in the duma owner of n.b.a.

team the new jersey nets and netting and estimated eighteen billion dollars these are by far the most cash to splash on his campaign is message is business orientated but he's often stood out for his riches a murky past struggling to resonate with public twitter it and other social media have been crucial for organizing demonstrations embodies the very public and spontaneous nature of some of the opera felt around russia he stands for election commission the ruling body overseeing voting day is headed by the nature of has been in the spotlight after allegations of electoral fraud were met with an action this is force the pair with the a buzzword for primaries the air pollutants campaign so far deemed by many a soul who restored economic order of the years of hardship the power of this was resonates just have popular man still is. testing despite his

popularity has been difficult here for bradley approach in a two term president not used to such discontent. in moscow and st petersburg in the big cities that million icky but these are not really his territory anymore and he i mean maybe he'll get them back but it seems to me that he's sort of thinking that he has to rely on almost the other russia strange face of putin the russia of the region why he would probably manage to win with you know a recent majority at this election is that one of the best slogans from appropriate in camp is if not putin who. three of the candidates are seasoned political questions struggling to convince voters they can deliver change and although. the most the worst so far. by mass there are straight protests regardless of the winner of the results on the fourth of march these guys

have had their say impact on russia's future do you agree the most. nearly time for casey and the markets but for now the arts he brought up some of the global news for you in brief will start with turkey's remote control bombs exploded in. fifteen police officers and one civilian it was mounted on a motorcycle and went off close to the headquarters of the country's ruling party as a police vehicle passed by and the blast comes amid calls from turkish kurds for autonomy and a crackdown on kurdish rebel group the p.k. k. . the best next aisles of protesting in new delhi is the indian government prepares to meet with the chinese foreign minister to improve ties demonstrators say discussions between the two countries should be held until beijing gives freedom to tibet ongoing unrest in the region is expected to feature amid the choice. let's go to a. study by the business desk with the latest on the markets hello to you so bad news

ben has stopped the money process what so paul wall street trader today who were that is the question absolutely he's not very popular that's for sure. of the federal reserve ben bernanke of course and he's still sort of announcing a new house and he also said that the u.s. economic growth is bump a and that the jobless rate remains an exceptionally high more parsons from national australia bank and so he had. yes i think the u.s. economy is very much in recovery mode and let's not forget that it's because of that fact that mr bernanke he was able to announce yesterday that the prospects for a third round of course that of easing were less than they might previously had seemed so it's not that the absence of q.e. is going to choke off the recovery it's rather that the fracture of recovery is

going to choke off q.e. . i list see how the u.s. market is opens up they are indeed open up for business right now says the how the day they are and even positive territory as the labor market continues to improve that as for brush with now. and they closed up in the red as you can see the artist and the my six both in negative territory so we'll see how the stocks got on gas prom closed in the red blue color was down after reporting the net income rose fifteen percent to ten billion dollars on the back of high prices but the result came. this fall car so that's why they're in there bit of a territory and agricultural. it was one of the best performers of the day but they are indeed in the red as you can see there let's head over to europe and see how they're faring at the moment well they had some disappointing news because the jobless rate hit another high temp point seven percent now but as you can see investors remain optimistic we're going to take out those currency rates. as you

can see the year is fun because the draw on profit taking after that huge cash injection by the european central bank of variable is there any value against european currency but it's retreating against the dollar and as for gold gold has further into the black list after pulling back from a fall of families percent in the previous session and silver is also fairing rather way while the other after a choppy day as for oil in those all important oil prices they do indeed this hour remains strong a saudi arabia deploying saudi arabia deploy the most all rigs in four years as they prepare for shortages caused by tensions with iran i should be like you and friends in the uk ok moving on with a stick with all these u.s. exported more gasoline diesel and other fuels on it's important in twenty eleven for the first time in six decades the country's refiners exported record amounts of

gasoline heating all and diesel to meet higher global we will demand more u.s. few consumption sank and sticking with us please for this our six year state hillary clinton says congress should lift the jackson ban it amendment in regards to russia joining the w t o is a moment in certain trade discrimination roles and now may disadvantage u.s. companies dealing with russia clinton says should be done a.s.a.p. . ok that's so from may our have the latest market figures for you in about fifty five minutes time to join me that i would love to have guns.

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