america's involvement in syria is not off the table u.s. military officials are reviewing their options in case the diplomatic isolation regime fails. russia criticizes nato a u.n. security council for failing to fully investigate. libya last year and expresses outrage at the training camps for syrian revolution is discovered in libya plus. a member of parliament might go into the bar and have a few drinks instead of having to buy one or two o'clock in the morning it's a good idea to go into the house of commons and try and take part in the debate.

lining on in parliament u.k. m.p.'s are under fire for often being under the influence even costing important votes. will cost a lot from this is out. the white house may be claiming it wants a diplomatic solution in syria but it seems it may not have faith in its own convictions the pentagon has been ordered to review its potential options according to officials call sense of a no fly zone. and its defense secretary leon panetta also warned that a known term a sustained campaign would pose a challenge to serious defects most sophisticated in the. russian reports foreign interference in the syrian conflict is raising fears of an even bigger crisis. as the syrian conflict stretches down to time it has also spread

geographically i case of the uprising belt of the country's borders what's happening in syria is heartbreaking. rages and what you've seen is the international community mobilize against the assad regime strategic analyst dr salinas says one thing is clear though it's certainly gone far beyond the words of sympathy and according to those on the ground in syria that mobilisation has many more forms than officially stated. during the operation and armor of the syrian army arrest the fighters from gulf countries and of the western iraq and some european states where their work was coordinated by qatar and saudi intelligence officers as well as ca mossad and blackwater it is also she's an israeli weapon especially antitank missiles and israeli drones the us defense contractor formerly known as blackwater and now called academy was notorious for its heavy handed

tactics during operations in iraq and pakistan while the us and many other countries have admitted al qaeda linked extremists groups fighting alongside beyond opposition in syria dr salim says some countries are using those groups to further their own interests even if they get local players involved in order to hide their involvement this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iran countries going to have democracy at home of course they cannot ask yourself in syria they have another job i'm sure. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail take a look and holocaust blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for newbold in a serious crisis since last year but she says this is a story with three main chapters weapons smuggled across the border overseas contractors and foreign cash. when you see

a lot of money in syria then you really believe that this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you will find that the governor book about how there is no balance or something nobody would kill him so. now you will see now this is happening. here in syria with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to arm the opposition getting louder even for those at the grassroots of the uprising the initial euphoria is turning bitter. i can say we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go that far but it turned so much militarized globalize on boil and we never wanted and don't want intervention now but fears are of lizzie's says that this could be too late to stop this older current flames of conflict raif an option r t damascus syria. the publisher of the

transit journal says there are forces in washington interested in using instability in the region to dominate the oil rich middle east. when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over you see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to be calm we need him and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict in syria gee i mean is aren't the people in damascus and aleppo and the major cities they're not a revolt and why not because a number of them are very concerned about a sunni takeover and of course the arab league is mostly sunni so there's a lot more going on of the here than meets the ah i and of course the the major

issue is that the united states does not want to have china or russia to have access to the middle east oil and i think they're with. what syria has also been for the u.n. security council but russia accused libya of training the syrian with the fighting government forces it was part of a broader discussion of the situation in countries with moscow also demanding nato apologize for causing civilian casualties during last year's day rates and once he's been following the meeting in new york. a new report that was quietly released by the united nations on friday that report was an investigation that found in part that nato has not since sufficiently investigated the air raids that conducted on libya in two thousand and eleven that killed at least sixty civilians and injured at least fifty five more people despite the findings of

this two hundred twenty page report nato officials have refused so far to further investigate the state's holidays or because he's got this report was referring to now the russian ambassador to the united nations batali churkin also went on to say that water has not yet been established nearly or more than a year after nato carried out its airstrikes to allegedly bring a more peace a peaceful and secure circumstance to libya this situation is still very dangerous of my capital doesn't it if you will we have expressed concern about gun control proliferation of libyans arms in the region however it is not just the weapons that are going abroad we have received information that in libya with the support from their authorities there is a special training center for the syrian revolutionaries and the people are sent to

syria so it's hard to legal government this is completely unacceptable according to all the legal basis this excitability undermines the stability of the middle east we think that it isn't syria and therefore there is an issue as transporting the revolution now turning into transporting of terrorism to me off the mouth of what happened in libya one year later the situation on the ground many critics say is not safe for by any means. still ahead in a program a closer look at life in a post gadhafi in libya explore what women in the two were hoping to gain from the revolution and whether they're happy with the outcome. while they're there to solve the u.k.'s pressing problem but it seems m.p.'s need some help to the recent arrest of a labor m.p. after a late night brule in the house of commons bar is the latest in a string of alcohol fuelled scandals martinis at the recent reports on how some parliamentarians said to be drinking their way through the. thank you yes i

hope this behavior by members of parliament now not uncommon sights on our t.v.'s ever since the late eighty's when cameras were allowed to exonerate but are they trudged on power or simply a truck you have heard about stories of everyday that you think physically carried through the voting lobbies which. mind boggles me it would be any other. job where you could get that drunk work not the sax thirteen year parliamentary veteran lembit pick has seen the seedier underbelly of life in the house of commons where m.p.'s have a no need to vote on matters of national and international importance under the influence a member of parliament might go into the bar and have a few drinks instead of having dinner by one or two o'clock in the morning they thought it was a good idea to go into the house of commons and try to take part in the debate i see another least one time it was very funny but i'm not sure quite how

professional it was given the parliamentary state there are nine separate bars for the use of the people who work here and they guessed there was no tourists among them is a stranger as far away and he's from rival parties often clashed so much drunken revelry goes on there that it's said they used to be a little arrow nails about fifteen centimeters from the floor which indicated the exits to those who were crawling out on their hands and knees outside the rarefied atmosphere of westminster in towns and cities around the u.k. binge drinking is a huge problem inside it seems is no different no serious sero will as m.p. and he said some parliamentarians are too drunk to stand up in debates and have no idea what they're voting for turi m.p. mark reckless admits he was too drunk to vote on the two thousand and ten budget and it says he doesn't remember pulling over and. paul farrelly wrestling

a newspaper near a parliament bar although he maintains he wasn't drunk recently and he eric joyce is being charged with assault following a late night punch in a parliament and all that thing is subsidized by the taxpayer subsidies are a thousand pounds per three. it's about stripping quid first remember the public servant. why should probably be subsidising. m.p.'s defend the culture part of the job high pressure long stretches away from the i was a long people spend a lot of time together and the building is old fashioned that doesn't mean you have to drink a lot but i guess that was part of the club atmosphere probably still is. the tax payer wondering whether this is an appeal for kong or a trip through. your assessment. i know

you're watching r t live from moscow still ahead in the program washington's pain is beijing's game strict domestic regulations paved the way for chinese firms to cash in on america's crumbling infrastructure. we report on the response to the volatile the rest of the online because that's ahead for you this hour. iran has warned that coming nuclear talks with world powers will fail if the west continues to pressure tehran. public says the policy of piling up sanctions is not the way to win concessions over its nuclear activities which it insists are entirely peaceful. came after international leaders agreed to resume face to face negotiations with iran have been stored for more than a year. said it would let inspectors visit a key military facility western officials suspect nuclear work is underway this comes against the backdrop of heightened tensions between iran and israel signaling

it won't wait much longer for diplomacy and sanctions to work. the only thing we know for sure that iran is working on nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and everything else are just assumptions or to put it in other words accusations from major israeli and u.s. officials it seems to be some kind of israeli and american officials are playing because obama seems to try to convince. the diplomacy would be the better way but in fact obama's soft power that he is using to meddle into iranians iran's in syria affairs they probably will not succeed not with economic sanctions because although it will be iran still countries like

china india even japan and south korea and others who are still important so probably. the american administration. really tried everything israel. course. but we also discussed that i could heard of an attack on iran's nuclear facility the country's a deputy foreign minister. next hour party. but with infrastructure in the u.s. said to be crumbling critics say strict regulations and political bickering in washington is preventing domestic firms from fixing the streets as our teams are longer than their expects chinese companies and i'm going to cash in on it because it's. los angeles has rolled out the red carpet for the man who was likely the future leader of china last president xi jinping took a tour of the china shipping terminal where the company just completed

a forty seven million dollar expansion at the port of los angeles more than one hundred twenty billion dollars of chinese goods pass through here just last year but trade he isn't the only item on the agenda l.a. mayor antonio via right goes is also hoping that the chinese invest in the city's infrastructure including public transportation and ports we used to be number one and infrastructure spending on the quality of our our infrastructure and now we're down to number thirty two three hundred five bales behind spain one hundred lots of different countries where the infrastructure has been crumbling chinese investment maven helped ease some of this l.a. traffic the mayor's certainly hopes that it helps to bring jobs to the city has received federal dollars become more scarce for projects such as road improvement and risk construction it's increasingly likely there will be some china and other foreign investors fixing our infrastructure how do we sit back and watch china and

europe big build the best bridges and high speed rail roads and gleaming new airports the white house has said infrastructure improvements are a top priority but the u.s. lags behind europe and china when it comes to infrastructure investment yet ministration has said that chinese firms will play a role in financing infrastructure throughout the u.s. while some welcome the foreign investors some people in los angeles we spoke to aren't so sure we should be so eager for chinese money think president reagan is probably rolling over in his grave somewhere around. it's uncomfortable a lot of people feel. is the you know and all be all you know so that's what is bad it will create more jobs and if that's what we were this country's in so much that so. chinese firms are already working on huge bridge projects in california new york and alaska political leaders defended the contracts claiming chinese

companies would be more efficient but their spirit criticism over china's work conditions and the devaluation of their currency we can't compete with that now because they're better engineers or because we don't know how to manufacture but because it's not a level playing field we need to get a level playing field here in the u.s. some blame excessive environmental regulations and political bickering in d.c. for our inability to invest more in infrastructure and investment many see as the key to economic recovery may keep in the u.s. competitive and what it seems the chinese are willing to make a los angeles. r t. but forget you can always log on to r.t. dot com for more nice stories and comments. right now start spreading the news about misdeeds today people in west virginia in the u.s. can now inform police i think suspicious using a smartphone. plus the man he reveals the truth about forty billion dollars airport

scanners. actually anything. more. the hacker movement anonymous temporary take down the website of one of the largest antivirus companies in the world panda security comes after senior members of the hacking with the taint and charged with cyber crimes by the f.b.i. but also famous for attacking websites about others the cia fox news and credit card companies its leader is said to have working for the u.s. government rested last year and then his colleagues commentator example here's the government's heavy handed approach today is 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 in paris 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 forward 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 that is 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 and you know the rest are taking place just represent a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no broader project on what the western governments are doing in this situation it's kind of a knee jerk reaction with absolutely no content whatsoever. with latest arrests

challenge the freedoms of the entire internet community that's according to the human rights lawyer jean schmidt a bitch. i'm sure there will be a serious dispute a. second how should we figure actually create that purely criminal actions or arrest something that is bound for for the society as a whole there was no simple answer here but i think that they not only elects a very difficult to do it in the society it is in poland we see that it's a society wait for introduce aleutian and wait for people to help them do their revolt against old fashioned regimes including the media regimes while the other feel frightened by what is happening after g.t.t. mounds of pressure decided as we met and then he made the profits really became a topic that we all should care about because the game is not over it has stopped at the level of immediate it will come back next year our income to the justice gives and we all have to be very much aware of this process. we're taking

a look at some other nice around the world now this up for five hundred days in a status to the streets of istanbul angry of the burning of the koran it's a u.s. military base in afghanistan some demonstrators vowed revenge over disclosed local muslim holy books as they said they turn american flags ablaze washington has apologized for instance which sparked protests and deadly attacks against and troops serving in afghanistan. tens of thousands of workers have marched in south africa records from rote tolls and short term contracts with no pay last rallies with the congress of south african trade unions and it took place in thirty two cities across the country unions fear the new system will have a negative impact on all of the protests we will ensure that. we're turning to one of our top stories now the situation in libya and its post revolution struggles

many women in the nation were hopeful the vote would have bring greater freedoms than they had in the gadhafi era results he's on the brink of doubt many are now questioning whether what was achieved was worth the effort. it was a very special way to celebrate international women's day amal a university professor from them ghazi and two of her sisters were a cleaning toilets in a building operated by i believe is the national transitional council of and then there are in fact i'm proud to have been actively involved in the revolutionary movement from the very beginning after forty two years of gadhafi regime we just couldn't stand it anymore i want to be part of that i'm open to any work i can put on the streets or the buildings i just want to be around people who are still early days a believe in revolution before the nature intervention and women were every bit as enthusiastic about the ag of liberation as there has been zero brothers they

volunteered in the kitchens in hospitals they took to the streets and social media sites they stood by the cause doing work demanded wouldn't. but how did they leave the end of women's union says the arab spring was the single most important step toward gender equality in this largely patriarchal society where women how they were evolution and there were pollution how there were several women in the new government and we need to hold on to these achievements we can give them back at this conference and violence against women attracted hundreds of delegates from across three beer one of the issues discussed was whether air has been forcing himself upon his wife constituted rape perfume and who were present kept quiet and some even laughed in its session the topic libyan man a far more eager to discuss isn't the opals its side of the gender debate the country's interim leader brought to power by the revolution has already promised to legalize polygamy. it's limited the number of wives to go on as again and it should

be beyond. the proposal is seen as an attempt to curry favor of old powerful militia and to encourage down settled back into peaceful life taking multiple wives takes a good bit groom expected to pay down the average brights family and provide each woman with a comfortable lifestyle you have the rebel seemed undeterred. opinion about having not one wife but two or three i think this is right because sharia law says so but what seems to be giving most credence to the polygamy initiative is not so much was for it but rather who was against it oh it is despotic right and sells more market if it was also a firm believer in the mancipation of women held polygamy i'm glad all the divorce playing field by giving women equal rights and mandated the quality of play and interviews that efforts to encourage women to continue working after childbirth.

unlike in other arab countries leaving has been under gadhafi were banned from restricting their wives an ability ice two thousand and six more than a quarter of we've been women of work much so much so that susan who moved to tripoli from england dziedzic years ago after marrying a levy and says she never felt constrained here women's rights of changed over the last twenty three years family situation a change they now encourage their daughters their wives to work to drive and to finish their education it is now her daughter's turn to get married and well susan firmly believes that her grown up little girl should be the one and only she asked us not to film her face just in case the groom's family doesn't like it it's not going to artsy tripoli. by the other headline says just a few minutes away stay with us.

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