the. street. you want. to. call. a moratorium on camera sing and debate in russia presidential poll a day before voters the saddam hussein to leave the country after weeks of election campaigning marred by vibrant rallies and protests today. the syrian army reportedly captures dozens of foreign mercenaries some of them from france during the fighting and the rebellious city of homs r.t. gets a firsthand account from an eyewitness to the horrors of war plus. some of the really really clear message to the week from the school misses the world so what makes them powerful israeli lobby seeks president obama's blunt answer on whether the u.s. would support a military strike on iran. coming

here live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program now it's a so-called day of silence in russia had of sunday's presidential election there's a blanket moratorium on all campaigning and political advertising giving voters breathing space to make their final decision on who to cast their ballots for as archie's a group is going off now reports the upcoming vote clearly stands out from others in previous years. this election is going to be quite different compared to all the other presidential head is being held in the wake of a series of being held in the country and a spike in social and political activity among the public in general it started after the. election early in the summer scores of people have been digging through the streets amid accusations of ballot fraud russians seem to be taking

a far greater interest in politics than they used to the degree of political life in the country looks to be the highest since i would say probably the ninety's but also seem very rallies in some. of. being transparent presidential and indeed what a lot of effort has been need in order to make this poll transparent as possible over ninety thousand polling stations have been a good with web cameras was heaving videos of how the vote is conducted at these polling stations on to work for any internet user to be able to watch online and several hundred thousand. have been invited to these social activity a high voter turnout is expected as well according to some polls it could be over seventy percent just to remind you five seeking ports in this election the winner

will need to secure fifty percent plus one if neither candidate has managed to achieve a second round will be introduced in which two most popular candidates will compete for a simple majority vote. now we are going to have special coverage of russia's president here on r.g.p. so starting at one am able to bring you live results reaction from the candidates as well. join us for that of campaign in the meantime though you can find more information on the ballot by logging on to our web site r t v dot com and we have a special so. they're devoted to the election and so you will find it contenders profiles as well as answers to questions such as what russians would value the most their future leader so all this and much more is available. to other stories now over a hundred foreign mercenaries happened poorly been captured by syrian government troops after regaining control of rebel held areas and the city of homs sources say

the majority of them are french with a rest from several arab countries syrian authorities claim that life in the city that's been under siege for almost a month is getting back to normal but as our national reports there are serious fears the fighting is far from over. two days after the rebel fighters pulled out from bardwell neighborhood in homes things remain chaotic on the ground fears are growing on revenge attacks by the rebels the chief of the free syrian army has claimed it withdrew tactically shortly after that the opposition syrian national council has warned on massacre claiming they would provide leadership to disagree ised fighters and to give them workarounds arming the rebels has earlier been considered as a good idea by qatar and saudi arabia the twenty two nation arab league hasn't ruled out this option either humanitarian organizations have appealed to president bashar al assad to agree on a daily two hour ceasefire to allow emergency aid to be brought to the areas with the fighting still continues the rock insurgence that's the foreign supporters of

the opposition leader use these to green weapons to the rebels we're hearing about killings in homes still happening but reports are conflicted on who's behind it the residents we've managed to speak to by the phone say gun molecularly people in the area known as the media many christian families leave opposition activists report about exact style killings and burning homes by the army but these reports are very hard to be very far in the international red cross and the syrian red crescent have reached the city of homs badly damaged all over and almost months from siege really an emergency aid food water and medical supplies but they couldn't and baba amr area the area that's been taken by the rebels for weeks and that scene is clashes between them and the authorities but they are staying in homes providing help to people in the cities are the areas reports in the situation on the ground remains catastrophic refinishing reporting area residents of homs and eyewitnesses say

horrific scenes of carnage have become a part of everyday life there are two spoke russian woman who spent over a week in the embattled city and says the picture painted by the media does not always match their reality. i spent nine days in the homes with the syrian red crescent and saw with my own eyes the killing the bloodshed and the bodies on the streets but the media often brings the numbers out of thin air the rush to record school of the victims while it's simply impossible to tell how many people were killed when the building collapses and it takes several days to retrieve the bodies of most of the media also i said i'm blaming the army for all the violence and i thought my exact opposition fighters are no less responsible for killing people and committing atrocities many rebels in homs used german made rockets you can get army guys and kill soldiers all in all the humanitarian situation in the city is dire with no water no power and little food and the most terrible thing is that people

there are becoming used to these conditions actually learned has a project coordinator for the beirut based conflicts forum says crimes committed by rebels and han's must not be underestimated. think there's a growing recognition that some of the very the fundamentalist islamist groups who probably make up about thirty percent of the armed insurgents they've been guilty of as much sort of brutality terrible action some of the accusations against the syrian army these have been documented in various reports we need to be careful of some of the mainstream media coverage in fact the i.c.r.c. and its local the syrian red crescent have been distributing humanitarian aid medical supplies water for some days and how much in homes and for example they did get ambulances through to take the injured journalists out of homs there are a lot of on the ground reports including from al jazeera who have confirmed that it

was actually the free syrian army who stopped ambulances going in to to evacuate both injured syrian civilians and insurgents but also the foreign journalists who were there and still have for you on the program internet crackdown in the u.k. already organized crime police squad targets file sharing websites with the threat of prison for months usually reserved for only the most violent of criminals. in the park a crackdown on widespread child trafficking results in a ban on international adoption just by the smiling faces the decision has proven costly. the world's largest pro israeli lobby aipac is gathering in washington this weekend to put more pressure on iraq obama over attacking iran with a jewish state intensifying war rather weak threatening military action against the islamic republic the u.s.

has been accused of being ambiguous on the matter is that if she can reports on the conflicting pressures on obama from those for and against war. president obama's walking on a razor's edge on one hand members of his administration keep saying the war with iran would be a mistake u.s. military i think or. it's. attack on iraq on iran not only would be premature but on the other hand president obama keeps saying a war with iran is still an option and that he is not called unquote blocking the powerful israeli lobby which president obama will be addressing shortly expects to hear a blunt answer to the question is the u.s. ready for war with iran and will washington back israel should it decide to attack first the only way to. release. a very very clear message within

a week from. the war. and we say president obama's failure to go along with this really plans on iran might hurt him in the election the president carried you know the overwhelming majority of the jewish vote and fighting back in two thousand and eight and if he is perceived as an enemy of. enemy of israel or. the issues. for community here in this country it could have. adverse impact on the funding and so it's. really prime minister netanyahu speech in the u.s. congress last year was greeted with innovation many u.s. lawmakers slammed the rhetoric of the obama administration which the just that there is still room for diplomacy with iran many in israel believe that if we wait too long we'll be at the point of no return it seems to me to be painfully obvious that this administration's policy is not only the same but that it's failed to

achieve a core objective but both those who would back a strike against the random. those who wouldn't seem to be tired of the administration's ambiguity are ambiguous it could end up very very badly we don't need to go to war and we have to make that very clear to our israeli friends we're not going to go to war they're not going to go to war by flying over our airspace over iraq we're not under support they do it they will be on their own the consequences will be theirs because the price will pay if they started a massive war. interpret. connivance would be disastrous for us in afghanistan in iraq in terms of. stability in the middle east more generally this post was paid for by the merge you see committee for israel you've come across many bus stops in washington they campaigned very obviously

pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on his readiness to go to war with iran in the run up to this year's elections he might want to. make those but maybe it would make a mockery of diplomacy in their words and president obama's nobel peace prize as well for that matter. of reporting from washington or. running back or from the answer coalition says israel not iran which should be considered a major threat in the middle east. i don't think israel's assertions are real at all i think it's part of the game plan it's part of a coordinated assault iran does not have a nuclear weapon israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons around subscribes to the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency its nuclear program is monitored israel won't sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty israel routinely invades its neighbors as it has over the past four decades iran has never started a war so when you look at all of these actual facts i would say the real menace to

peace in the middle east is israel iran is not a menace is targeted and i think this is part of the israeli high arrogating to itself the right to straight hasn't been in iraq in one thousand you want to gets nuclear facilities as it did in syria in two thousand and seven as it would like to do in iran but the united states government is somewhat afraid that if israel carries out a unilateral strait within the middle east this will play out as a paradigm by the israelis against a middle eastern country and those lines all of the middle east will unite against israel and so the united states as i was concerned israel to promptly in terms of unilateral military aggression still had with some believing us decision making is influenced by forces outside governments our resident or on the streets of new york finds out what people think about state or media backing or promoting certain ideologies. probably propaganda is the people that saw it want you to believe

something bad one else follows like she feels out their own personality and look at the facts of the details their own opinion that's what they should do. what is right is the agency has again spoil the party for you as it's downgraded greece to their lowest rating on its bonds right after a summit in brussels on the states except britain and the czech republic have signed up to the so-called fiscal path supposed to keep the country's deficit within limits with tough new budget rules but an answer alice karl denninger doesn't believe it will be. talk is cheap and we've seen you round after round of this but the truth. you have nations over in europe in here in the united states for that matter but seem to think that they can spend more than a change in taxes and you can't do this people say that austerity is going to

collapse economic demand well the truth is the governments have been borrowing money and spending what they don't have so they've been falsely representing economic came in perth three decades and now it's time to pay the check so to speak if we have to eat our broccoli or is so fond of those eat our peas. i don't believe that it's going to actually be implemented i believe that the greeks will continue to say they'll do it but when you really get down to it it's not going to happen in the same things likely to occur places like spain where you have terrible one point of problems i think it's inevitable that greece is going to default i don't see how they can get out of this mess other than by defaulting they spent their money they don't have it they chant contracts their government spending an economy you know be able to pay it back and so the obvious thing to do is to walk away and say so sorry so sad we're not going to pay you the knock on effects here depending on what other nations decide to go down the same road could be extraordinarily severe and some

countries are forced to go over the top to cope with the economic crisis has nothing that asked our viewers to get caught by ranting land and association growing cabbies and marring want to discover how they're stating prices five financial hardships on line. and the policy for the year brings ballet little lamb line training at you tube challenge which is already sort of top one hundred list comedy and find out when some odd guy just the first life trast. britain's organized crime police have shut down another file sharing website raising concerns over a complete government order crackdown of the internet for anyone who has downloaded content from r. and b. exclusive dot com the crime unit is threatening prosecution with jail sentences

mostly reserved for violent offenses artie's or smith has more from london. if you downloaded this song through the website or and be exclusive it's not just the prisoner of love you got to be afraid of instead of finding the usual blog comment tree and links to r. and b. and hip hop music recent uses of the site was shocked to find their online activity was under police scrutiny and they could be jailed for ten years more than the usual penalty for many violent crimes and a ten year prison sentence you would expect that to be handed own for very serious offenses serious sexual assaults and rape manslaughter very violent offenses. and you would normally expect it to be handed to own respective downloading music illegally the u.k.

government serious organized crime agency or soka confirmed it arrested this site but wouldn't talk to us about why it's threatening users with a decade behind bars instead they sent this statement secret orders organized criminal enterprises profiting from the exploitation of the u.k. public and legitimate businesses much of the music offered for download by the r. and b. exclusive dot com website was illegally obtained from artists leaving the industry two hundred lawsuits on approximately fifteen million pounds per year through this site activity that's raised questions about how the police became the personnel in force through the recording industry standing guard to protect corporate profits and it's also given those concerned with internet freedoms and unpleasant glimpse into a more regulated each a treaty to protect against online copyright infringement and piracy goes ahead pick claims that your ip address was being monitored so you could be monitored and

tracked again this was. a move which seems quite unprecedented in the united kingdom i'm afraid that we're going to see this kind of abuse on the scale if back to comes to pass after a shocked response from internet campaigners the government agency has now taken down the harsh message and replaced it with this simpler one which just says they've taken control of the main but it's already caused much worry and distress on twitter many users the pair not even to have known they were visiting a dodgy site and certainly didn't think they'd be liable to time for it internet campaigners say the notice was meant to frighten and in reality severe penalties couldn't be applied to casual downloads they also say there's nothing to link the current be exclusive with criminal gangs so why. even involved if this is what

they're really pulling serious organized crime what the show serious organised crime is as most people understand it the morgue the mafia drug dealing as far as i think the public concern that crime still happening on our streets opposition to act out in force around europe this month centers on fears that cyberspace will fall under strict government control and while the serious organized crime agency focuses its efforts on r. and b. and hip hop fans many worry that serious organized criminals are getting away with it. r.t. . as we bring you other major news stories from across the globe now u.n. reports as libyan rebels committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting market obviously oceans are still targeting former loyalists of the dead leader published on the un human rights council website also points out that nato has insufficiently investigated air raid which killed civilians three member

commission which carried out the inquiry blames that office forces for abuses too but they knew we'd get authorities did not provide information on how the former leader was killed for capture and that further investigation was needed and still. the rain government says there has been a high turnout in elections for the country's two hundred ninety seat parliaments with results due later on saturday however preliminary returns suggest that the conservative rivals of president ahmadinejad resistance front party won in many electoral districts the current leadership's main competitor is the united front of prince was backing ayatollah ali i mean a it's the first nationwide vote since the presidential election of two thousand and nine which was followed by violence and a crackdown after allegations of vote rigging. a series of tornadoes have been tearing through the northeastern u.s. already leaving at least twenty people dat officials warn the death toll could rise as rescue workers continue to search for victims states of emergency have been

declared in five states twisters claimed almost six hundred lives in america last year alone. while the date rages in the u.s. over religion and politics during the presidential campaign there we've been on the streets of new york asking people if they think it's proper for governments or media to support a particular ideology is our resident reporter in the big apple ranch to find out. when is it ok for a government or the media to support an ideology this week let's talk about that i don't think it ever should. i think that the government is that serve the people of the media is there to report the news not. directional on any of the record i don't think it's right that they can come out and say they support it they can do it in different ways so if you support more subversive ways. that's probably what they do anyway right. probably you think people are choosy about who

is supporting their cause. absolutely their. people are too easily swayed from improper candor is the people that want you to believe something bad one else follows like sheep peels out their own personality and look at the own facts and the details make their own opinion that's what they should do and i just followed everybody else here's a pretty great principle in psychology that you you start and finish where you are so you like what you like and you don't like the other guy for liking something different but that's just human nature but i mean that the principle of democracy it's unusual it's a kind of a crazy idea you can get wacky people like your answer your crazy sister and you just a line them up by the millions and you somehow assume that all these crazy people acting together will have a wisdom greater than the keep do you think governments try to impose will through propaganda without a doubt yes so why do some people when they hear their point of view being spouted

think it's justice being time but then if they don't agree with it they call it propaganda. well. that's just the nature of that's is the nature of rhetoric in general your your opinion is always right and everyone else's opinion is always propaganda in the in that circumstance whether or not you believe it's ever ok for a government or the media to support an ideology the bottom line is we should all remember it's all too easy to become hypocritical when it comes to the support of our own police. the last two after on child trafficking and all have had a catastrophic effect on the country's orphanages and many in the country are running out of cash after a ban on international adoption trader explores the controversy. today

fifteen year old chen mohan child areas all smiles but it wasn't that long ago that the teenager was living in an illegal orphanage in a policy capital katmandu you know is that the homes would be given russians for the children the caretakers would take half the food for themselves well giving those over to a small section of it what it would also get drunk. moment is now living in a home run by the umbrella foundation an irish angio working with nepal's government to keep track of katmandu activated it tina thousand children living in orphanages. investigations have uncovered that around eighty percent of these kids actually have a pair oftentimes families living in rural parts of me will sell their children to traffickers who they believe will give them a better life if you have a trafficker says very poor people people. know it's a case and they're told if you give us your children you will receive

a small amount of money from an international family or an individual in return we will bring them to help when do we have an excellent education. traffickers are known to buy in a poly child around fifteen dollars and then sell them to orphanages that are not monitored by the government they are then sold on for up to twenty five thousand dollars to families from abroad while they're living in the orphanages many of the children are reportedly abused and forced to work some are even sexually assaulted who forced to work on the feelings would be woken up early every morning to clean the house and also to look after the child the nepali government admitted that almost half of the country's orphanages were involved in illegal international adoption but since then things have changed. in paul has been an international adoption while child advocates believe that this will help prevent the trafficking of children organizers. orphanages are worried about how they're going to continue

to ride without money from abroad we're made me work for nepal children's organization which runs eleven legal orphanages across the country he says that before the ban on international adoption his organization katmandu made five thousand dollars for every child that got adopted by a foreign family. which has been difficult for us to run the home so after those as you mentioned the international adoption because we still have to provide for the daily necessities of every child in the home and to count of the medical ability to today many who are going to are trying to reunite track of children with their family but many election moment and barely remember their real siblings and parents anymore korea shrader archie katmandu nick hopper. and a few minutes i'll be back with a roundup of our headlines don't go away. russia

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