embattled president founds to find foreign militia and keep up reforms while r t travels to an ancient city where support for the regime is on wavering despite the nationwide protests. global powers agree on new talks with iran over its nuclear program after tampon says inspectors are welcome to visit its military sites but israel's threat of a strike it still stands. and despite the overwhelming support of the russians who are coming return to the kremlin it is grating on some western politicians as the u.k.'s former top diplomat calls him a dictator in the tabloid press. thanks

for being with us three o'clock here in moscow on charon's karachi well the syrian president has pledged to continue fighting what he calls a foreign backed terrorism in the country but charsadda says the people will be able to build a new syria through reforms it was his latest response to international pressure and the year long crackdown against an uprising archies maria finn though she is in syria. a the most lethal of a girl army year and we fought the battles in this long running conflict time feels like it has almost start even the children here speak in ancient almost language. as well all our nation out there were why don't plan for syria is a unique place it's well known in the world has the only place on earth where

people speak aramaic the language of jesus christ it has troubled neighbors i know have you and your group a friend of smuggling here in syria is this twenty minutes away home one hundred kilometers away but this place is one of few in the country that has not seen any trouble or violence since the uprising began home to end of the strine and fourth century catholic church and dozens of mosques these towers religious heritage is solid its residence like this is keepers have a specific explanation of this luck good saves us this tragedy didn't come to us because god loves the city but it seems that god is not the only one to watch carefully over this christian dominated community in a mostly moves area in home still we feel sad because the people you don't respect their coverage mean we are afraid that these people will come here to try to destroy us and destroy our peaceful life as they did in

a home so many cities but we trust the army and security and state. for decades the government of president bashar al assad who is himself from the shia islam minority alawi sect has protected the interests of ten percent of the country's population who are christians by enforcing its strictly secular program and they curbing the influence of radicalism and the cycle of the we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were afraid people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy disunity assad became more than just a head of state he is a kind of international symbol of this fight for our life here. when the time came the people returned good for good mother plagal the same thecla monastery says that people here didn't join the uprising not because they were scared of the regime but because they were scared to lose this regime so that all of that there were people here he wanted to push against the government because it and the army if you hear

the army enter the city and kill people believe me this is a mistake the army is here to protect people god bless our side he didn't want to protect the state and make it strong he is mounted though that these aphoristic will not be enough with increasing calls for foreign intervention and the army of the opposition and no we'd fight would be tragic. our country before the crisis was developing now we are all losing jesus said any kingdom that splits will die fast these people are receiving money and listening to the orders they want to rule in this country. mother believed his words i reckon towns him arm them with if i remember last april there were several men after friday prayers try to persuade people to protest against the government encouraging them to go and meet trouble we had a meeting with residents and the people then agreed to support the leadership the mom says they'd never seen most of those people before and never saw them again

after that friday. we're not talking about normal people but people with an extremist way of thinking. in the towns charge the children continue to pray in iran make arabic greek french but it's clear the prayers of the people of this unique town are understood in any language. or syria. president obama has dismissed calls from some senior lawmakers to start bombing syria he says the conflict is more complicated than libya and that diplomacy as the solution the u.n. security council is debating a new draft resolution proposed by the u.s. . is in washington for us. with regards to syria president obama said we can't resolve every issue by deploying the military we have to look at the consequences there was a suggestion from senator mccain that made

a splash who said the u.s. should launch an attack on syria no matter what the u.n. security council thinks about it president obama's response basically was that such talk comes from people who don't consider the consequences the president said a unilateral action against syria would be a mistake and that the situation in syria is more complicated than it was in libya in the meantime violence there continues russian trying to call for both the government and the armed opposition groups to cease fire and start a dialogue with washington so far has been addressing their sistar cost a little but that may change we're getting reports that a new draft u.n. security council resolution put forward by the u.s. that would address calls first to syrian government and then to the armed opposition groups the resolution is being discussed behind closed doors as of now it's very much unclear whether the wording of the new draft will satisfy china and russia which calls for a more balanced approach for that reason they vetoed the previous syria resolution because it lacked that balance that probe lawrence freeman from the intelligence

review magazine says despite president obama's diplomatic words it's too early to think the threat of foreign intervention in syria has passed. for right now the only thing that's kept us out of a war with syria has been essentially the us military and intelligence community have completely opposed any kind of military action so obama himself is really not completely in charge and events are being manipulated around him which could lead him to take a very dangerous actually and quite so far the us military has prevented that from occurring the situation inside syria has been there many outside forces including al qaeda including forces from libya that we supported including forces from iraq have moved in and the power seems to try to force

a regime change in syria and forced the russians would be clinical or to submit to that and if the russians don't submit to that then you could have a car for occasional but there's no real intention by the obama administration or the west for a constructive policy. coming up later in the program we explore why america's involvement in wars abroad comes down to its own personal axis of. at least that's how some are describing the three u.s. senators who are pushing strong us for military interventions that story is coming your way in just a few minutes. and the people's choice for a ruthless dictator cold war rhetoric is back in britain as a former foreign minister has a go at russia's president elect you know putin and his sunday tabloid. world powers have agreed to a new round of talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program that follows

an earlier green light from the country to allow inspectors to visit a secret military complex move comes amid fresh speculation of a preemptive military strike by israel against iran's nuclear facilities israel and the u.s. suspect iran of developing nuclear weapons but the islamic republic says its program is purely peaceful political analyst gareth porter believes that the un's only inspectors have become politicized and are following washington's lead. so the. i.a.e.a. has made a great deal in its november two thousand and eleven report about the alleged existence of a bomb containment chamber a cylinder. they were told by an unnamed member state which i am quite confident it was israel exists or did exist at some time. out the parchin military base. it was constructed supposedly in two thousand but the fact is that

the i.a.e.a. has no confirming evidence physical evidence of any kind that this containment chamber even exists let alone that it was ever used to test a nuclear weapons design so if in fact they go to parchin and find there's nothing there as i'm quite certain will be the case how will be i.a.e.a. respond to the situation i have a feeling that they will move on to the next piece of alleged evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program or a previous one and that the show will continue and the reason i say that is because for many years now since two thousand and six the i.a.e.a. has been committed to a line political line if you will that assumes that the iranians have to prove a negative that the iranians have to prove that they're innocent of these suspicions that they have

a covert nuclear weapons program i don't think that's going to end anytime soon because that is in fact the official position of the united states and the western alliance alice political analyst gareth porter sharing his views on the situation in iraq. let me read a quote and will formally formerly return a queue of the kremlin and may fourth very paranoid for almost sixty four percent of russians tells him to become their next president some western politicians however don't support their decision even before the first polling station opened the u.k.'s former foreign minister david miliband had some strong words for the leader he thinks won't last out his next term in power artie's ivor bennett reports . a ruthless dictator whose days are numbered not exactly the language of international diplomacy but that's what britain's former foreign secretary thinks of russia's president elect casting his aspersions even before russians cast their

vote while david miliband is using the sort of expressions dictatorship but don't conform to reality in a dictatorship people are not allowed to protest people are not allowed to walk around publicly with placards in the face of the leader of the country with derogatory terms written across the placards we've seen this in russia we saw this last. parliamentary elections and we've seen this with him is that the moment after sunday's presidential elections david miliband comments appeared in a british tabloid the morning of russia's presidential poll long before it finished the m.p. accusing putin of reversing russia's reforms because of vested interests and sort of claim some experts say typifies the perception here of putin and russia one of the big criticisms i've had for a long time is that the coverage has been very stereotyped so that when bad things happen in russia then they get huge coverage and then when good things are progress

like genuine economic progress that tends not to get reported david miliband may not be in government now but he's widely expected to feature again should labor return to power should that happen he'll face a tough job repairing relations with russia after such a venomous attack talk about getting off on the wrong foot as miliband asserts that to a vital partners when it comes to foreign policy security and economic issues david cameron's reaction to putin's elections been far more measured until now the prime minister's haven't exactly been close didn't even make it on to cameron's extensive christmas card list last year but while cameron may not have congrats. non-winning has indorse the result it's clear the election has delivered a decisive result evenly and your polling data put putin above the fifty percent needed to win in the first round the same can be said of britain according to the

electoral reform society two thirds of m.p.'s elected in two thousand and ten lacked a clear majority thanks to the ballot method of first past the post is russia's electoral system perfect no it's not elect all system in the world is perfect let's not forget in britain no british prime minister ever achieves anywhere near fifty percent of the votes if you have a look at margaret thatcher's nine hundred eighty three landslide election victory tony blair's nine hundred ninety seven landslide election victory the purple never got anywhere near fifty percent of the votes a protest movement against putin's return to the presidency is certainly loud but according to official election results it's to war by those in favor putin received almost sixty four percent of the vote miliband predicts that support won't last for long but while it does britain will have to like it or lump it if it wants to do business i have been its artsy. arrest an independent watchdog called the league

of voters has refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of a country's presidential election the group brought together by a prominent public figures cited irregularities but says would have still won in the first round let's now talk to peter all over peter what is the league saying about the irregularities during the vote. well first off let's have a look at who the league of voters are now this is a group that's made up of public figures bloggers the likes here in russia refused to recognize the legitimacy of the presidential ballot that was held on sunday no they basing this on the fact that they received four thousand five hundred reports of violations during the elections where one hundred of those dealing with false occasions of the number of votes now the also say that in moscow alone they have observed one hundred sixty eight cases where votes were added on to the total of

blood to be a pollutant now this comes after the u.s. backed n.g.o.s olaf's. said that they also use that scene infringements in the elections however they did also say they would have according to their figures that any of putin did get over the fifty percent that was needed to elect him as president now but they did say they also it's seen many infringements but they base their they said holy text messages that were sent to. polling stations without looking at any of the official data that comes out of there so well for observers who've been watching these elections have referred to them as the freest and fairest elections that have been held in russia's history citing the introduction of a transparent ballot boxes and cameras being installed in polling stations is a great step forward to be of putin the president elect of course the the man who

was elected in those let in in a poll on sunday has said that all allegations of vote rigging will be investigated and anybody found guilty of being involved in ice will be prosecuted. thank you peter. we have plenty of stories to grab your attention at r.t.e. dot com including a hands off approach british athletes did traditional greetings for the olympic games in london in the summer as their advisor that shakes to hamper their chances of olympic gold. also on line up walling on a live t.v. show watch our member of a well known and normally mute campaign took out her frustration on a ukrainian m.p. for more go to our tea dot com or our you tube channel. there's been a serious blow to the international hacking group after five of its key members were allegedly turned in by their own boss it's reported the group's leader has

been working for the f.b.i. for months his former colleagues have now been charged with cyber crimes and they're awaiting trial in new york the group is most famous for its support of wiki leaks and its attacks on websites belonging to the cia fox news and credit card companies well governments can't wait to get their hands on what they call online offenders the head of the u.k.'s pirate party says the authorities are following the interests of corporations. one of the one of things that's really interesting is that we're seeing how the free is in fact pushing growth for artists that we're seeing that the growth in music sells is being pushed by digital it's being pushed on it is free and open functioning what it now what we have to realize is it's a copyright it's a kind of law. from the tiny difference sets of circumstances it's really not that

controversial to say that it is no longer fit for purpose in the digital age one of the things that's really interesting is the time industry for me now wrote group of lobbyists has made this nice trick of saying that they represent artists really they represent no one else other than their own interests i'm actually trying to preserve these myths models that are frankly out the dates. and you can watch the full interview with the leader of the u.k. pirate party laws in over an hour here on our team. some of the world's other main news stories in brief for you now six pritish soldiers are missing and believed dead in afghanistan at the start they were on security patrol on tuesday when their vehicle was hit by an explosion over four hundred british military personnel have been killed in the country since two thousand and one in

a separate incident four civilians died when a hidden in a parked motorcycle exploded at a market on the border with pakistan on wednesday there's no immediate claim of responsibility. french president nicolas sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in his country he defended his plan to cut the number of new arrivals and if he is reelected next month sarkozy also believes interpreting people into france's culture and society become paralyzed he is often made controversial comments on immigration but minorities say they're being used to scream conservative conservative support in the presidential campaign. in south africa turns of thousands marched in a nationwide protest against new tolls for road upgrades in johannesburg labor unions say the new measures will hit the poor hardest protesters also drew attention to so-called labor brokering the practice of hiring workers for short

short terms on low wages. as polls closed in ten states on super tuesday in america mitt romney has squeezed out only him in the crucial ohio primary and capture five other states that's likely to prove decisive in the contest to be the republican party's presidential candidate but romney had to share part of the. break santorum who countered with strong wins in three states the eventual winner will challenge barack obama in the november sixth battle for the. whoever takes the top job in the u.s. after the election will inherit a number of foreign wars funded by america's huge defense budget pressure on iran is also mounting with former presidential candidate senator john mccain even calling for a military strike christine for a look said why he and two other u.s. senators never backed down from

a fight. they stick together through thick and thin from the queensland to the holy land from the ball field to the battlefield they are senators joseph lieberman and c. graham and john mccain seen frequently side by side both physically and politically to call for more war a song almost on repeat for them three haven't met a war they don't like they led the charge to end up afghanistan we need more troops there are american troops by the attacks by the enemy have gone up about a thousand percent in the words of and one time was not on our side and they've been called everything from the three amigos the three blind mice and the axis of error by the website downsize d.c. dot org based in to work together as a block there to access and well the policy kind of hearkening back so that all axis of evil that we heard about that foreign policy is not just limited to bush's wars but here they are meeting with libyan president nor margaret duffy in august

of two thousand and nine at a time when it was in the u.s. interest to call him friend mccain later tweeted this calling him interesting but a year later wanted him gone but if you want gadhafi to go in one of the steps among many would be to establish a no fly zone over the world stand by and allow a leader like could obviously out of his own people and ongoing target for them iran will use military action against iran we should not only go after their nuclear facilities we should just store their ability to make conventional war they should have no planes that can fly and no ships they can float we keep pointing the gun we haven't pulled a single trigger yet and it's about time that we did the two years on that lack of immediate military action hasn't resulted in armageddon anything like it still the calls for action expand now across the globe the iranian nuclear program is a threat to the entire world fine military intervention. is now the necessary

factor to reinforce the suction assad needs to know that he will not win you know we find ourselves in virtually the same identical debate your way or syria what's going on in syria what's happening and so should we respond to it and once again i'm i mean almost with the response these guys from and say well we've got to go to war the mood of the american people may have shifted to ending the wars but the perpetual lobby for war does have its supporters there very popular with the military industrial complex which season every new adventure every new invasion every new occupation every new major bombing campaign as an investment but at that investment fewer and fewer americans are willing to make as they've already lived through the consequences of the previous military adventures in fact critics say those who continue to follow senators mccain lieberman and graham are blind themselves they may hear the drumbeat for war but they fail to see the bigger

picture the very real possibility of pitfalls ahead in washington christine for our team. we've been reporting about the presidential election here in russia but let's take a look at what investors think of the i'll come in as a business desk for us marina what kind of reaction are you seeing. well carol basically we're seeing lots of ups and downs and terms of the russian stock markets and that's because investors are pretty much taken the side that possessions towards the local stocks and many analysts believe that the future of all of the markets the pants on what sort of changes the newly elected president will bring with her a lot of the promises he's made so far that we spoke to here wes and from at some capital he outlined two possible scenarios in his opinion. well the best case scenario would obviously be that we have a very fair minded person coming in and that he also gets a cabinet that is filled with sort of liberal minded individuals like could really

be profitable have a role in the government as well and that the focus of structure is just the reforms also they look at the state owned companies improving transparency that would be a major countries that would be tremendously positive for the markets but a return to a police state would be the absolute worst scenario i think that's a very unlikely scenario but that would mean that the rest of the difference there with russia or let's take a look at the latest figures also with the russian market since we're on the topic as the analysts had predicted pretty much a flat picture there and alice also said that you don't see any drastic movements because there's they end friday the markets will be close and buses don't want to make any rash movements right now and that's because of course the country will be marking ensor national women's day now let's move on europe we're seeing that the markets have finally recovered from tuesday's losses and we saw losses there were for more than the three months now we're seeing gains and most of them are from banking and mind inside there's movement on two currencies are saying that the euro is adding a value against the dollar and that's despite the additional concerns over greece

that we've seen in the euro zone when it comes to the ruble it's losing value both against the greenback and the euro and alison on some other stories the first company of russia skolkovo innovation help is on its offer and i know sources close to business groups say its currency missed on the russian stock market and the company may raise around forty million dollars now this group is developing information systems and mining energy and solar communications actors and finally good news for gates with extra money apple is expected to unveil a new i pads happily that's later in the day and this third version will reportedly be slightly thicker have improved cameras and the sleigh as well as have a more powerful processor but those who think apple is expensive there are rumors suggest that the company will come up with a cheaper i pad suit soon i tracked penny pinching consumers that have opted for the cheaper it's happy. satisfied all it's hi sarah well that's all i have for you

the sour and all that all day and the fifty five minutes the headlines are next with time. to. culture is that so much given to each musician on the market in the case of the dog this is how some would characterize the current drumbeat for war against iran

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