series defined president vows to keep foreign forces out of the country as washington dismisses of military attack and other countries pull out in protest of the violence. as president obama makes a move for peaceful foreign policy several war hungry politicians stick to their guns to calling for military action against iran and the massacres plus. blimey a putin says the forty five million vote siegel's in sunday's election is all the proof he needs after an independent group of observers criticized sunday's poll.

a load live from moscow at midnight you're watching r t with me kevin now in our top story tonight president obama has ruled out an attack against syria saying it would be a mistake after leading u.s. politician john mccain called for airstrikes meantime syria's president assad responded by saying he's determined to continue fighting what he calls foreign backed terrorism the u.n. humanitarian chief is in syria to visiting sites devastated by weeks of fighting between government forces and opposition rebels but enough's enough for some countries spain has closed its embassy while china has withdrawn most of its workers there before he is for the safety and the u.n. is considering a u.s. proposed resolution demanding an end to the bloodshed this claimed thousands of lives yet there's one corner of syria that so far beyond touched by the troubles of much from where art. rufenacht ports next day though mostly blow.

away from the battles in this long running conflict time feels like it has almost stopped even the children here an ancient almost forgotten language. as well all our nations share now they realize the while knowing fun for theory is a unique way it's well known in the world has the only place on earth where people speak aramaic the language of business christ it has troubled neighbors and nobody would be abroad a friend of smuggling here in syria is a twenty minutes away home and a hundred kilometers away but this place is one of few in the country that has not been any trouble a while and since the uprising began home to end of the strine of fourth century catholic church and dozens of mosques these towers religious heritage is solid its residence the legacy is keepers have a specific explanation of this lark. 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 you carefully over this christian dominated community mostly moved in area in homes still we feel sad because the people don't speak they're covered it means a lot we are afraid to come here to try to disturb us and destroy our peaceful life as they did in the homes of 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 are always sacked has protected the interests of ten percent of the country's population who are christians trying to force in it's strictly secular program and baker being the influence of radical east and the cycle of the we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were free people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy disunity assad became more than just the head of. state hughes

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 circle and want to street says the people here didn't join the uprising not because they were scared of the regime but because they were scared to lose this regime sort of over 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 side he didn't want to protect the state and make it strong fears mount though that these are phrases will not be enough but increasing calls for foreign intervention and the arming of the opposition i know 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 we want to rule in

this country. now that the leaders words are record by the towers in man with the i remember last april there were several men after friday prayers they tried 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 and the mom says they've never seen most of those people before and never saw them again after that friday. we're not talking about normal people the people with an extremist way of thinking. in the towns charge the children continue to pray in aramaic arabic greek french but it's clear the prayers of the people of this unique town are understood in any language. brief in. syria. there are conflicting details of the syrian struggle on the. and on our

website out there a security operation in holmes revealing the cia mossad and the notorious group formally known as blackwater are involved in the ongoing military violence even though american says it condemns the fighting is an interesting read from us online tonight for not calling already also if you go to get it online libyan leaders say they'll use necessary force now to keep the country from splitting apart as the eastern region declares seventy autonomy as we were reporting yesterday for more that go to our also don't forget to check out our you choose channel two. israel is cautiously welcoming the newly agreed resumption of nuclear talks between iran and world powers to run earlier said it would allow the clear inspectors to visit a secret military facility which is yet to be arranged the move follows israeli threats of a preemptive strike on two rounds nuclear sites the western allies suspect around maybe building an atomic bomb which he denies saying its programs and for peaceful energy previous visits by un atomic officials could not conclude the existence of

weapons because they were denied access to the key facilities but investigative journalist gareth porter told me he's sure the watchdog in washington are in for disappointment. 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. 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 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 cry is the reigning over in the us as we hear a little bit later in the program. we use military action against iran we should not only go after their nuclear facilities we should just avoid their ability to make conditional. they should have no planes they can fly in no ships they can float a trigger happy crew of american politicians continue to push the conflict over diplomacy when it comes to iran and syria even as president obama refused to set a peaceful. refuted allegations by a group of election observers who said his presidential big three was tainted the league of voters except see one

a majority vote claims there are multiple violations during the poll the country's central election commission is now officially confirmed putin as president elect our correspondent peter olivers in central moscow with the latest. a league of voters already group of public figures in in russia bloggers as well who are independent electoral group of observers prime minister vladimir putin who said well ok that's your opinion i'm not too fussed by what you have to say really he did say that the eight knew that there was always going to be criticism from the league of voters they already condemned this election before it actually taken place what they were basing these claims on saying that they wouldn't recognize the elections is that the four thousand five hundred reported problems there were reported to them only one hundred of those related to votes being fraudulent and added on to come to the polls these claims by the illegal voters also backed up by the similar claims from the u.s.

n.g.o.s as well so there have been no saying that they don't recognize these elections however the man who won that election vladimir putin saying well look i put my faith in the forty five million people that voted for me when it comes to determining the legitimacy of the vote but to me if we can still got lots of work to do of course it is role as prime minister he was asked would he be taking a holiday between now and taking over as president he he left that one off saying he did take a holiday isn't really remember what they're like it's been not long since he had one now when he takes over as president because he'll be assembling a new cabinet no teammate yet if it seems buoyantly will be taking over as prime minister but those other positions in the cabinet will have to be filled by some new faces and perhaps the newest face in russian politics mikhail prokhorov the man who actually beat in sunday's election the billionaire owner of the new jersey nets n.b.a. basketball team made his billions in the in the metals markets he isn't affiliated

to any political party at the moment he did say he would be looking to start his own party it seems to me it has left the door open for. perhaps joy in his govern. place in the cabinet there so that's all going to rely on the talks that happen between now and taking over as president who's going to fill those crucial spots in the cabinet there eventually comes the takeover in the top seat as president peed all over of moscow so despite the fact that more than forty five million russians voted for printed this show of support still being dismissed by some countries two former top british diplomat david miliband didn't mince his words when it came to the election results criticism some political commentators describe as ironic at best ideas of a bennett's got the story. a ruthless dictator who's 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 cassie's aspersions even before

russians cast their vote while david miliband is using the sort of expressions dictatorship they 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 december after the parliament parliamentary elections and we've seen this. sort of moments 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 but has a vested interests the 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 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 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 congratulated putin on winning he has indorse the result it's clear the election has delivered a decisive result evenly and your polling data could put in 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 you know it's not that the no electoral 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 an isolated free landslide election victory tony blair's one thousand nine hundred seventy landslide election victory the pair from 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 it's toward by those in favor and 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. take you around the world in brief or double bombing in northern iraq has left at least thirteen people dead the first blast up. when a car exploded outside a crowded restaurant there as people rushed to the scene to try to help a suicide bomber detonated his belt that was filled with explosives twelve others were injured in what is suspected to be al qaeda attacks. in france the president says the country has too many foreigners a list of the integrated name is failing in a t.v. debate nicolas sarkozy defended his campaign promise to reduce the number of annual immigrants and place tighter control on welfare benefits sarkozy's trailing behind the socialist party candidate in the elections and is competing for conservative voters with the country's far right nominee. the man who confessed to the massacre of the norwegian island of you toy last july has been formally charged with terrorism anders breivik dressed as a policeman and planted a bomb in oslo that killed eight before travelling on to the island and shooting

dead sixty nine more people at the youth camp his trial starts on april sixteenth whether or not he's diagnosed as insane. giving peace a chance in tackling syria and iran may be on president obama's mind right now but that's not the case for some of his signature compatriots in congress john mccain's call for airstrikes against assad isn't the first time a veteran senate has chosen troops over talks but as artie's christine freezer reports next he's not alone either. 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 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 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 while on 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. or greece tend to work together as a walk through kind of an axis and world of policy kind of her getting back to that old axis of evil that we heard about that foreign policy is not just limited to bush's wars 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 i wanted him gone but if you want to duffy go in one of the steps among many would be to establish a no fly zone over the world stand by a leader like that of the slaughter is on people an 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 they can fly and no ships they can float we can point the gun we haven't pulled a single trigger yet and it's about time that we did the two years on and that lack of immediate military action hasn't resulted in armageddon or anything like it still the calls for action expand now across the globe iranian nuclear program is a threat to the entire world fine military intervention. is now the necessary factor to reinforce this option assad needs to know that he will not when you know we find ourselves in virtually the same identical to be your later syria what's going on in syria what's happening and how should we respond to it and once again i mean almost with kind of lluvia response these guys 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 compared to a lot before 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 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. senior members of the notorious computer hacker group with ties to anonymous movement have been arrested and charged with cyber crimes by the f.b.i. the group's famous for attacking the web sites of the cia fox news that credit card companies among others the leader of the movement however has reportedly now work

for the u.s. government after his arrest last year this believed to evade the arrest of his former colleagues political commentator luke samuel told me just last hour the government's getting heavy handed with these disproportionate. anonymous is a group that genuinely sees itself involved in a kind of cyber war where they play the part of the self-appointed protectors of internet liberty of course it's worth bearing in mind that the most this group actually managed to achieve a shutting down master card for a couple of hours so this kind of jittery response on behalf of western governments is really an interesting and it really does show that this is a set of governments that completely run out of ideas and the only real response they can come up with is using the law in this kind of all for a tarion way which in the end of the day is completely pointless it's not going to prevent these ideas from spreading around i think there's a legitimate question to be asked about how the law needs to get involved if at all in these situations but the point is that the moment anonymous you know the arrest taking place just represent

a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no broader project to harm what the western governments are doing in this situation it's kind of a knee jerk reaction with absolutely no content whatsoever so the story next while western intelligence agencies held the rest of the web is a triumph over cyber crime the head of britain's pirate party tells us next why such moves are more designed of clamping down on people's freedom.

joining me is laws leader of the pirate party in the u.k. laws thanks for the r.t. now you've been a prominent voice in the protests here against actor but why do you oppose it surely you'll be stopping copyright infringement what to start with the act treaty has become just another lightning rod for people's dissatisfaction and public anger about attempts to crack down on the internets we've seen that recently recently for example in the united states with the soap of bill and of course a huge outcry because essentially it was draconian anti internet legislation when it comes to talking about copyright infringement and intellectual property more broadly one of the things the entertainment industry would have us believe there is some kind of crime crisis of piracy well there is no crisis the

truth of it is that in the united states more music was sold ever before in the last year here in the united kingdom box office receipts hit billion pound mark for the first time so there is no crisis and surely something needs to be done and surely. downloading music and videos for free is unlikely right infringement royalties go to the artist would be one of the one of the things that's really interesting is that we're seeing how the free web is in fact pushing growth for artists but we're seeing that the growth in music sales is being pushed by digital it's being pushed by the fact that there is free and open functioning one ip the e.u. was supposedly involved in the drawing up of act a given that a key member state german is now stalling on signing the agreement what does that

say about the negotiations i think what's shown and what's. really cannot is that the comments from governments have been actually where we now have serious and misgivings because actually once we are being really looking at the details that actually where as concerned as our citizens are i think this also think about seems extraordinary that even parliaments. have felt that they've been left out of the loop and this is a serious failing in terms of the democratic debate is ratified and goes to. countries like china and russia are part of one of the reasons why this treaty is in fact not really worth the paper it's written on it's because russia china india and brazil are not part of think arraignment and haven't been party to the negotiations it's simply not credible to have any agreement which is

supposedly about trains are not to have china russia in it it's simply no longer acceptable for western governments to negotiate a significant international agreement and just expect the rest of the world to to join in a century like it all none pit in particular as it has huge implications for the developing world whose responsibility is it to regulate the internet because that seems to imply that it's everyone's uses what we've seen is that there's a narrative at the moment something that president sarkozy's very fond of describing the internet as the wild west in this like this territory that needs to be civil war is what's happening at the moment is incredibly unpleasant to play it is beginning to rage and also frankly a lot of people are very angry and it feels like the internet is under siege. we've

seen all sorts of different types of legislation and entreaties like act which essentially have the have the potential to trample on people's fundamental rights to expression a lot of anger there from a person of the same three simply that they will be in a download music and films for free what gives them the right to do that in first but it's a fundamental mistake to saying that it's this extraordinary wave of protests right across europe is just about wanting free stuff that is fundamentally understands the nature of the protests the moment it's not about free stuff it's about free people and free expression that's what's driving people out onto the streets because we're constantly told by governments when it suits them how important the and it's for it's our local quick western governments of brains

appraise the use of social media in the arab spring but suddenly when it comes to home territory they don't seem to be a like to be challenged now what we've always been saying at the pirate party is that what it is it's not simply about that it's about culture and this particular arena it's about saying what are the tools that we're giving to guard governments that's what we need to be concerned about we are giving our governments tools to censor the internet it's however good intentions may be from some people they are simply not the tools that we should be handing to our governments and that is what the anger is about that's not bridge that's what's bringing people out on the streets in the hundreds of thousands across europe. thank you you thank

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