one of the videos for your media project a free media gun party dot com. a moratorium on towers the end of bait in russia's presidential poll a day before voters decide on whose to leave the country after weeks of election campaign marked by vibrant rallies and protests too. the syrian army reportedly captures dozens of foreign mercenaries some of them from france during fighting in the rebellious city of homes marty gets a firsthand account from an eyewitness to the horrors of war plus. send them a very very clear message to putin a week from disappointed most of the world still more than. a powerful israeli lobby seeks president obama's want answers on whereas the u.s.

would support that military strike on iran. is one pm the russian capital you're with r.t. out the so-called day of silence in russia ahead of sunday's presidential election and there is a blanket moratorium on all campaigning and political advertising giving voters breathing space to make their final decision on who cast their ballot for an artistic work is going on 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 polls washes head is being held in the wake of a series of mass rallies being held in the country and a spike in social and political activity among the public in general it started after the parliamentary election and early in december scores of people have been

taking to the streets amid accusations of ballot fraud russians seem to be taking for a greater interest in politics than they used to and the degree of political life in the country looks to be the highest since i would say probably the ninety's we've also seen various rallies in support and against the candidates there's also been a massive social counting for a transparent presidential poll in indeed what a lot of effort has been to me in order to make this poll. as possible over ninety thousand polling stations had been a good because you were there was the city's eating videos of how the vote was conducted police stations on one portals the internet those are to be able to watch it online and several hundred thousand observers have been invited to the spike in 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 candidates are taking chords in this

election the winner will need to secure fifty percent plus one was told to leave is neither a candidate israel manages to achieve that a second round will be introduced in wishing most popular candidates will compete for a simple majority also what. am i going to have special coverage of russia's presidential election here on r t so starting at one am g.m.t. monday will bring your wife the latest results reaction from the candidates as well as in-depth analysis so do join us for it if you can in the meantime though you can find more information on the belt by logging on to our website our team dot com so we have a special section there devoted to the election. you'll find the contenders profiles as well as answers to questions such as what russians would value most of their future leader while all this and much more is available at r.t. dot com. now over one hundred foreign mercenaries have reportedly been captured by syrian government troops after regaining control of rebel held areas in the sea your homes sources say the majority of them are french was at 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 if it off now reports there are serious fears the fighting is far from over. two days after the rebel fighters pulled out from gargamel neighborhood in homes things remain chaotic on the ground fears a growing revenge attacks by the rebels the chief of the free syrian army has claimed it was through tactically shortly after the opposition syrian national council has warned on massacre claiming it would provide leadership to disagree ised fighters and give them friends 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 where fighting still continues the raw concern starts the foreign supporters of the

opposition we use these to green weapons to the rebels we're hearing about killings in homes to happen in the reports are conflicting on who's behind it the residents we've managed to speak to by phone say gunman and killing people in the area known as how media many christian families leave opposition activists report about exit and style killings and burning homes by the army but these reports are very hard to be very far and the international red cross and the syrian red crescent have reached the city of homs but the damage following an almost month one siege bringing emergency aid food water and medical supplies but they couldn't and problem or 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 reporting that the situation on the ground remains catastrophic. residents of homs and eye witnesses say horrific

scenes of carnage have become a part of everyday life there he spoke to a russian woman who spent over a week in the embattled city who says the picture painted by the media does not always match the reality. i spent nine days of the homes with the syrian red crescent and saw with my own eyes the killing the bloodshed under bodies on the streets that the media often spends the numbers out of thin air they rushed through the schools the victims while it's simply impossible to tell how many people were killed when a building collapses i did take several days to retrieve the bodies of most of the media also i thought on blaming the army for all the violence and it's not like that opposition fighters are no less responsible for killing people and committing atrocities many rebels in homs used german made rockets to target army sides 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. ashleigh anger and has

a project coordinator for the bearer of base cards for him says crimes committed by rebels in homs must not be underestimated. i think there's a growing recognition that some of the very fundamentalist islamist groups would probably make up about thirty percent of the armed insurgents that they've been guilty of as much sort of brutality terrible. 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 and 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've 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. so i have for you on the program down in the u.k. were organized crime detectives targets file sharing websites with the threat of prison terms usually reserved for the most violent of criminals. plus in the party crackdown on widespread child trafficking resulting in a ban on international adoptions but despite these smiley faces the decision has risen costly. the world's largest pros really lobby aipac is gathering in washington this weekend to put more pressure on barack obama over attacking iran where the jewish state and towns are fine war rhetoric threatening military action against the islamic republic the us has been accused of being ambiguous on the matter she's got it she can report on the conflicting pressures on a bar from those for and against war. president obama's walking on

a razor's edge on one hand members of his administration keep seeing the war with iran would be a mistake. or something it's. going to iraq on iran not only would be premature but crazy on the other hand president obama keeps saying a war with iran is still an option and that he is not quote unquote bluffing 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 stop the. place. is a very very clear message that we've seen a week from. the war. and we say president obama's failure to go along with this really plans on iran might hurt him india larch it's the

president carried you know with the overwhelming majority of the jewish vote and flooding back in two thousand and if he is perceived as an enemy of. enemy of israel or. the issues. for community here in this country it could have an adverse impact on the funding of votes. 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 suggested there is still room for diplomacy with iran and 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 the core objective but both those who would back a strike against iran and those who wouldn't seem to be tired of the

administration's ambiguity and that. it could end up very very badly we don't need to go to war. and we have to make 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. if they do it it will be on their own it consequences will be theirs because the price. interpret. the disastrous for. terms of. this post that was paid for by the urgency committee for israel you. see in washington the campaign very obviously pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on the readiness to go to war. in the run up to this year's elections he might want to. make. many he would make

a mockery of diplomacy in their words and president obama's nobel peace prize as well. our. prime backer from the answer coalition says it is wrong 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 iran 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 you would say the real menace to the peace in the middle east is israel iran is not a menace is iran is being targeted and i think this is part of the israeli hype

arrogating to itself the right to strike as it did in iraq in one thousand nine hundred one it gets nuclear facilities as it did in syria in two thousand and seven as it would like to do now in iran but united states government is somewhat afraid that if israel carries out a unilateral strait within the middle east this will play out as a kurd dying by the israelis minus government against the middle eastern country and those lines all of the middle east will unite against israel and so the united states is as concerned that israel might be too promptly in terms of carrying out unilateral military aggression. still have for you this hour here in r t with some believing u.s. decision making is influenced by forces outside government our resident reporter on the street of your finds out what people think about state or media backing or promoting certain ideologies. probably propaganda or is the people that talk well used to believe something else follows like sheep. the road personality and look at

the own facts and the details but their own opinion that's what they should do. movies ratings agency has again spoil the party for years as a downgrade agrees to the lowest rating on a sponsor right after a summit in brussels almost all states except britain and the czech republic have signed up to the so-called fiscal pact supposed to keep the country's deficits within limits with tough new budget rules but financial analyst carl deng there doesn't believe the agreements will be implemented. talk is cheap and we've seen who round after round of this but the truth is you have nations over in europe and here in the united states for that matter that 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 co-ops economic demand well the truth is that governments have been borrowing money and spending what they don't have so they've been falsely representing economic

demand for three decades and now it's time to pay the check so to speak if we have to get our broccoli or as obama says the turkeys. 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 in places like spain where you have term 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 the money they don't have it they can't contract their government spending an economy you know the 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 again 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 a small spanish town refuses to go to pot by renting the land to an association

growing counties and mari want to discover how other states and prizes fight financial hardships online. the bolshoi theatre brings ballet to the web launching a you tube channel which has already sorted into the top one hundred list you can find out when to log on to see the first live transmission. britain's organized crime of bullies have shut down another file sharing website raising concerns over a complete government order crackdown on 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 archies 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 commentary 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'd expect that to be handy going for very serious offenses serious sexual assault rape manslaughter very violent offenses. and you would normally expect it to be handy to own respective don't want musically the u.k. government serious organized crime agency or soccer confirmed it arrested the site's owner but wouldn't talk to us about why it's threatening users with

a decade behind bars instead they sent this statement secret audience organized criminal enterprises profiting from the exploitation of the u.k. public in legitimate businesses much of the music offered for download by the are in being exclusive dot com website was illegally obtained from artists leaving the industry to attribute approximately a few million pounds per year to the site's activity that's raised questions about how the police became the personal enforcer of 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 to claim your ip address monitored so you could be monitored and tracked again this was. move which is seems quite unprecedented in the united kingdom i'm

afraid that we can see this kind of abuse on the scale if actor comes to pass after a shock response from internet campaigners the government agency has now taken down the harsh message and replaced it with this simpler one which just taken control of the domain but it's already caused much worry and distress on twitter many users are paired not even to have known they were visiting a dodgy site and certainly didn't think they'd be liable to do 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 labeling serious organized crime or to traditional serious organized crime as as most people understand the model for drug dealing as far as i think the

public are concerned 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. fourteen. and next we'll bring you major news stories from across the globe a u.n. report says rebels committed war crimes and crimes against humanity but are fighting market out these forces and are still trying for a lawless of the day the report published on the un human rights council website also point out that nato hasn't officially investigated air raids which killed civilians three member commission which carried out the inquiry blind could up its forces for abuses too but they said the new we've been a thorn. did not provide information to help the former leader was killed shortly

after capture at the furthest a geisha was needed into his day. the iranian government says there's been a high turnout in elections for the country's two hundred ninety six parliament with results due later on saturday however a preliminary returns suggest that the conservative rivals of president ahmadinejad's resistance from party one in many electoral districts the current leadership's main competitor is a united front of prince was backing ayatollah ali khamenei it's the first nationwide vote since the presidential election of two thousand and nine which was followed by violence 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 dead and 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 debate rages in the u.s.

over religion and politics during a presidential campaign there we've been on the streets of new york asking people if they think it's proper for government or media to support particular ideologist resident reported in the big apple went 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 there to serve the people of the media is that a report that moves like editorial direction on any of the report i don't think it's right to take them out and say they support it i think they can do different things though if you support morris is the first of ways. that's probably what they do anyway right. probably people are choosy about who is supporting their cause.

absolutely their. people are too easily swayed probably propaganda is the people that want you to believe something bad one else follows like she feels about their own personality and look at the own facts and the details make their own opinion that's what they should do and not just followed everybody else there'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 that you can get wacky people like your enter your crazy sister and you just of the line them up by the millions and you somehow assume that all these crazy people acting together will have a wisdom greater than the key do you think governments try to impose a will through propaganda without a doubt so why do some people when they hear their point of view being spouted think it's just the time but then if they don't agree with it they call it

propaganda. well. that's just the nature of this is the nature of rhetoric in general your your opinion is always. right and everyone else's opinion is always propaganda and. yes 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 beliefs. new last act and child trafficking in nepal has had a catastrophic effect on the country's orphanages many in the country are running out of cash after a ban on international adoption explores the controversy. today fifteen year old chen mohan child the result is fine but it wasn't that long ago that the teenager with living in an illegal orphanage in

a pulse capital katmandu you know was to. be given rations for the children but it would take half the food for themselves well giving those only a small bit they would get drunk beaters. moment is now living in a home run by the umbrella foundation and irish angio working with nepal's government to keep track of kathmandu after me to fifteen thousand children living in orphanages. investigations have uncovered that around eighty percent of the kids actually have pair oftentimes families living in rural parts of nepal will sell their children to traffickers who they believe will give them a better life if you have a traveller who goes to a village and says very poor people people illiteracy north occasion and they're told if you give us your children you will receive a small amount of money from an international family or in return we will bring

them home with you where 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 or potentially. as many of the children are reportedly abused and forced to work some are even sexually assaulted and who forced to work in the fields to be woken up early every morning to clean the house and also to look after the cats and because infant trials the nepali government admitted that almost half of the country's orphanages were involved in illegal international adoptions but since then things have changed. now paul has been an international adoption wild child advocates believe that this will help prevent the trafficking of children organizers of orphanages are worried about how they're going to continue to run without money from abroad remains the only works for nepal children's organization which runs eleven legal or and edges across

the country he says that before the ban on international adoption is orphanage in katmandu made by thousand dollars for every child that got adopted by a foreign family. it has been difficult for us to run the home after the suspension of international adoption because we still have to provide for the daily necessities of every child in the home and to care of the medical ability to today when your kids are trying to reunite trafficked children with their family but many lection mohanned barely remember their real siblings and parents anymore preassure either archie kathmandu nepal. oh a reminder of hours of sorious it is only through his way so stay with us for that .

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