syria's defiant president found to keep foreign forces out of the country as washington dismisses a military attack and other countries pull out in protest at the violence. as president obama makes a move for a peaceful foreign policy itself pro-war hungry politician stick to their guns calling for military action against a problem damascus whilst. i depended group of russian observers cry foul over the presidential election but except the blood to be in one of a george you both join me in a few moments ago on this. thanks

for being with us here at our team at six o'clock here in moscow and karen tara president obama has ruled out an attack against syria saying it would be a mistake after a leading u.s. politician john mccain called for airstrikes syria's president assad responded by saying he is determined to continue fighting what he calls foreign backed terrorism the pressure is piling on both spain has closed its embassy in damascus while china has withdrawn most of its workers over fears for their safety and the u.n. is considering a u.s. proposed resolution demanding that both government forces and opposition fighters and the bloodshed be your long uprisings plains of thousands of lives and forced many to seek shelter abroad but there's one corner of syria that so far been untouched by the troubles or if the notion of reports that the days are mostly.

away from the battles in this long running conflict time feels like it has almost stopped even the children here speak an ancient almost because language. how did she know. for syria is a unique place it's well known in the world as the only place on earth where people speak aramaic the language of jesus christ it has troubled neighbors another view of your group of friends of swahili here is the one to the way home a hundred kilometers away but this place is one of few in the country that has not been any trouble or violence since the uprising began home to and of the strine a 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 lark. saying just as tragedy didn't come to us because god loves the city but it seems that god is not the only one carefully over

this christian dominated community mostly whose area in huntsville we feel sad because they. don't respect their cover me alone we are afraid the people will come here to try to destroy us and destroy our peaceful life as they did in holmes and many cities but which asked the army and security and state. for decades the government of president bashar assad who is himself from the shia islam minority allawi sect has protected the interests of ten percent of the country's population who are christians by enforcing it strictly secular program and by curbing the influence of radicalism and a cycle of the we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were afraid that people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy this unity assad became more than just the head of state he is a kind of international symbol of this fight for our life here that. when the time

came the temple turned good looking at mother plagal the same secular one astri says the people here didn't enjoy the uprising not because they were scared of the regime but because they were still. head to lose this regime so that a lot of there were people here he wanted to push against the government the president 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 so we didn't want to protect the state and make it strong these mounds though that these afterwards will not be enough but increasing calls for foreign intervention and the arming of the opposition and nobody'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 but we want to rule in this country. now that the leaders words are record low the towers in mom. i

remember last year there were several men after friday prayers trying to persuade people to protest against the government encouraging them to go and make trouble we had a meeting with residents and the people then agreed to support the leadership the mom says they've never seen most of those people before and never saw them again after that friday. but we're not talking about normal people people with an extremist we're thinking. in the towns charge the children continued to pray in aramaic arabic greek french but it's clear the prayers of the people of this unique town are listed in any language. or syria. while intelligence experts told us that despite president obama's lane towards diplomacy is not the one calling the shots and trying to remove the regime

. well 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 and self is really not completely in charge and events are being manipulated around him which could lead him to take a very dangerous action but so far the u.s. military has prevented from occurring the situation inside syria has been there many outside forces including al qaeda including forces from libya where we supported including forces from iraq have moved in and the power is to try to force a regime change in syria and force the russians in particular to submit to that and if the russians don't submit to that then you could have a confrontation but there's no real intention by the obama administration or the

west for a constructive policy. there are conflicting tales of the syrian struggle on line of power to calm. the security operation in homes reveals the cia and the notorious lock water group are involved in the ongoing military violence even though america says a kind of fighting. and libyan leaders say velo use necessary force to keep the country from splitting apart as the eastern region declares some real ptolemy for more go to artsy dot com or check our you tube channel. israel is cautiously welcoming the newly a resumption of nuclear talks between iran and world powers talk around earlier said it would also allow nuclear inspectors to visit a secret military facility which has yet to be arranged the move follows israeli threats of a preemptive strike on nuclear sites the western allies suspect iran may be

building an atomic bomb which it did nine is saying its program is only for peaceful energy previous visits by un atomic officials could not conclude on the existence of weapons because they were denied access to facilities political analyst gareth porter is sure that the watchdog and washington are in for a disappointment. 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 that they were told by an unnamed member state which i am quite confident it was israel exists or did exist at some time. at 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 the 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. but the battle cries are running over and the last as we'll hear a little later. we use military action against iran and we should not only go after their nuclear facilities we should destroy their ability to make and vision a war they should have no planes it can fly and no ships that can float a trigger happy trio of american politicians continue to push the conflict over diplomacy when it comes to iran and syria even as president obama aims to set

a peaceful agenda. and the ruthless reaction to russia's choice of the u.k.'s former top diplomat slabs of blood cement food since victory but we assess why british voters are left with leaders and they didn't choose. a group of russian election observers says the idea that perhaps in clinched a dirty victory the league of voters except he won the majority of the vote but claims there were multiple violations during the cold and president elect has dismissed the allegations saying the opposition should accept the people's choice peter all over has more from central moscow. the league of voters is an independent body made up of public think is people like bloggers here in russia and they've basically today refused to accept the legitimacy of the presidential ballots from sunday now. one of the reasons they if they just cited for this is they received

four thousand five hundred of the complaints of electoral irregularities during the ballots one hundred of those only one hundred out of the four thousand five hundred referred to the number of ballots that had been cast. they also cited this. one hundred and sixty eight votes in moscow had been added on to the eventual total for the blood only of putin's now it has been pointed out that's one hundred sixty eight out of the millions of voters here in moscow it is really a drop in the ocean but it does follow on from words that we heard from goal offs the us backed. who also cited problems with the with the election but said ultimately that. putin would it was legitimately a recollected as president that it even if they counted in the well they say that

he would have received less percent each less than he actually did. even if you factor that in they still have him winning the fifty percent the all important fifty percent margin they would have seen him elected president the first hurdle now we're waiting we should hear from the central election committee later on today they'll put forward their findings but let me have putin has said that any alec all these allegations of irregularities occurring during the election will be investigated anybody found guilty will be prosecuted but we have heard from western and for the foreign observateur referred to these elections this presidential vote on sunday as the most free and most fair elections we've seen in russia yet. despite the fact that more than forty five million russians voted for putin out of their show of support is still being dismissed by some countries former top british diplomat david miliband didn't mince is words when it came to the election results criticism of some political commentators describe as ironic best archies ever

bennett has more. 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 these 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 black cause we've seen this in russia we saw this last december after the parliamentary elections and we've seen this in this at the moment after sunday's presidential elections they did 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 the sort

of claim some experts say typifies the perception here but 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 as it were good things or 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 the two of 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 ministers 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 been grants. person on winning has endorsed the results 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't 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 but then no let's 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 fractures nine hundred eighty three landslide election victory tony blair's nine hundred ninety seven landslide election victory the paper never got anywhere near fifty percent of the votes the protest movement against putin's

return to the presidency is certainly loud but according to official election results 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 either bennett r.t. the. coming up on the way the crackdown on cyber crime. allegedly activists face the music on both sides of you have led to put their supporters say this will only fuel the fight for a more democratic way. by police officers have been killed in a suicide bombing at a police post in russia's republic a female bomber blew herself up when she was prevented from entering the station reports identify her as a widow of a terrorist recently killed in the region and a separate incident elsewhere in the republic two gunmen opened fire on a police station killing one officer and

a local resident russia's north caucasus suffers from regular attacks from islamist militants. and now for a look at some other news from around the world france's president says the country has too many foreigners and the system for integrating them is failing and it's debate so cozy a defended his campaign promise to reduce the number of annual immigrants and place tighter controls on welfare benefits sarkozy's a trailing behind the socialist party candidate in the elections and is competing for conservative voters countries are right now many people. the man who confessed to the massacre on the norwegian island of oil last july house been formally charged with terrorism and there's a brave address does a policeman and planted a bomb in all slow that killed eight before travelling to the island and shooting a sixty nine dead at a youth camp his trial starts on april sixteenth whether or not he's diagnosed as

and saying. american north korean officials are meeting in beijing to discuss the resumption of food aid to the north last week agreed to freeze its nuclear and missile tests and recently decided to let u.n. nuclear inspectors back into the country the united states says it will provide two hundred forty thousand metric tons of food to last us food handouts ended in two thousand and nine when north korea expelled u.s. food monitors there's just a day left of greece's crucial bond swap deal with private investors for the country to reduce its massive debt load investors have only until eight pm g.m.t. on thursday to agree on the swap it's a condition for greece's new bailout and may determine if it will stay or leave the euro seventy five percent of creditors of most agree on the deal for it to go through or that could result in a default for aphids the chief strategist at investment firm troika dialog says

a bond swap failure will be disastrous for europe's banking system. we get a technical be for that matter how i would stress but frankly this is no longer about greece greece and secured the bailout and very tough terms from the e.u. leaders and c b this is now the second part of it if you get down one way or the other it's on your question of what the cold but what's at stake here is the bigger picture in europe is that if there is a technical default if it that's what it's called then put at risk the whole basis of the c.d.s. market the c.b.s. market is essentially a compound insurance scheme that banks use when they take out to invest in bones in one country. affectively paid insurance premium reflecting the risk of default and country so the c.d.s. rate is working sure it's pretty moving up and down it's what kids is

a measure of how risky one country's debt is relative to another so if there's a technical default in greece it means that the c.d.s. spread didn't work and therefore there's no question about whether or not you like to see the spread of the insurance premium everywhere else is also and that's almost two trillion dollars business globally if that starts to give confidence in that system is undermined then you're looking at potentially catastrophic consequences for western banks and therefore the western economy so that's really what's at stake it really is that serious allegedly members are. tied to the taurus anonymous movements are being charged with cyber crimes by stop and guard the f.b.i. the group is suspected of attacking the websites of the cia oxalis and credit card companies just to name a few now robert harris from the u.k. is already believes about the authorities should be reforming the internet not

arresting those trying to change it. these are people who resort to direct action because. that would dissipate the men are being prosecuted and a lot of them are. actually caught and significant damage is only going to make it worse and encourage more. i think it's a good thing about what's the. dollar gonna be on one population. as well as a. good digital now you are going to see the government in the u.k. especially but all over the world and gauging with the public and you're not unity to ensure the online media shape the internet is not just. manage a little. later this hour watch our special interview with the head of the u.k. pirate party a to get his views on limiting people's freedom online. giving peace a chance and tackling syria and iran may be on president obama's mind but that's

not the case for some of his senior compatriots in congress john mccain's call for air strikes against assad is not the first time the veteran senator has chosen troops over talks and as cricinfo as our reports he's not alone. 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 lindsey graham and john mccain seen frequently side by side both physically and politically the call for more war a song almost on repeat for them three have a matter of war they don't like they lead 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 is 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. org they started to work together as a block there kind of an axis and global foreign policy could avert that all axis of evil we heard about that foreign policy is not just limited to bush's wars what here they are meeting with libyan president moammar gadhafi in august of two thousand and nine at a time when it was in the u.s. interests to call him friend mccain later tweeted this calling him interesting but a year later wanted him gone 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 the dolphin slaughter is on people and i'm going target for them iran if we use military action against iran we should not only go after their nuclear facilities we should just store their ability to make an additional 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 but two years on and that lack

of the media and military action hasn't resulted in armageddon anything like it so the calls for action expand now across the globe iranian nuclear program is a threat to the entire world so our own military it intervention. is now the necessary factor to reinforce this option assad needs to know that he will not win and now we find ourselves in virtually the same identical debate your leader about syria what's going on in syria what's happening in the ocean we respond to it and once again i mean almost with a response he's going to come 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 money for war does have its supporters they're very popular with the military industrial complex which sees every new adventure every new invasion every new occupation every new major bombing campaign as an investment but it's an 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 coming up in our sports of all eternal roiling defeated. learn how britain's prince harry beat the world's fastest man to the finish line that's coming up in just about twenty minutes here on r.t. . time now for the business news with demetrius so the bounce back on the markets continues right and that's absolutely true in russia it's now up two point seven percent of a bounce back on the market still not enough for a complete comeback after yesterday's sharp drop of around four percent but i must say the future of the market the plans on the initiatives taken up by the new

president by the reelected president bloody mcpherson of course and peter weston for months on capitol looks at two possible scenarios. well the best case scenario would obviously be that we have a very formal to put in coming in and that he also gets a cabinet that is filled with sort of liberal minded individuals like to dream may be profitable have a role in the government as well and that they focus on structure is just reforms also they look at the state owned companies improving transparency that will be a major companies that will be tremendously positive for the market but their return to a police state would be the absolute worst scenario i think that's a very unlikely scenario but that obviously would mean that the rest of the deficit away from russia. higher secular to what's happening on the markets this hour the r.t.s. has managed to come back it was down a bit last hour now around point three percent my six point seven percent and trading is actually pretty thin with out of see big volumes ahead of women's day

which means two days off three days off actually in a row that's the first day friday and saturday and sunday is going to be a working day very complicated but that's how the system holds all the words in russia catch up on sunday and move into cash on wednesday as you can see there people are not really trading that much as the just the do or normal like this second of what's moving the my sex right now or basically was never is one of the top gainers among blue chips it's up four point eight percent on high world prices above and here is weaker than the market it was a pretty much butchered in the previous day losing five percent now i just point two percent in this session and after that as one of the biggest gainers the russian carmakers up three percent this hour. in europe are also seeing a recovery would have to see and the dax up around half a percent and among the biggest gainers we see some of the stocks which were among the top losers in the previous session these are banks and mining stocks and in

currencies the euro is regaining a slightly its positions versus the u.s. dollar which it lost in the previous session whereas the ruble continues its decline against. now turns out the year of the fall that we saw yesterday with the dow declining just one point six percent mazz meant a lot of losses to the richest people in the world actually the twenty richest people turns out of lost more than eleven billion dollars worth of their company's assets. first company from russia skolkovo innovation hard business planning to offer an i.p.o. sources close to vist group says it is going to list on the russian stock market and is planning to raise around fourteen million dollars sounds like not that much but still it's one of a kind this group is developing information systems in mining energy and telecommunications. and good news for high tech geeks with extra money

the new version of the i pad is expected to be unveiled later today some say this will be the first version of a i pad three in the will reportedly be slightly thicker have improved cameras and display as well as more powerful processors but other speculate that it will be just another version a cheaper version of the i pad two some call it the i pad age. that's all we have for you for now it will be back around fifty five hundred some an update to sales.