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

winding down in parliament u k m p's are under fire from being under the influence even while costing important votes. international news and comments twenty four hours a day this is out of the white house maybe claiming it once 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 these are too good for sort of a no fly zone and military and its defense secretary leon panetta also. sustained a campaign to pose a challenge to serious offenses the most sophisticated in the. darkness one for national reports growing up foreign interference in the syrian conflict is raising

fears of an even bigger crisis. as the syrian conflict stretches i think it has also spread geographically i case the prize it felt far from 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 says one thing is clear though it's certainly gun fabio in the words of sympathy and the cotton to those on the ground in syria that mobilisation has many more forms than officially stated. during the operation of the syrian army arrested fighters from gulf countries in afghanistan iraq libya and some european states their work was coordinated by kotori and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia mossad and blackwater agents but it's also seized it's really weapons especially in taking 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 the armed opposition in syria dr salim says some countries are using those groups to further their own interests. to get local players involved in order to hide their involvement and this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iraq and these countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot as a first step was seeing it in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and hardcore shivah blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for 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 will i believe this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you'll find that they're going to talk about hundreds of dollars or something nobody would killing so. now you would see now this is a big. here in syria with more and more recruits 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 peter. they can say we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go that far but it turned so much militarized globalized and blow and we never wanted and don't go into a bunch noun but fears are says that it could be too late to stop this cult of fire

and flames of conflict raif an option r t damascus syria. publisher of the trends attorney. says washington rightly contemplating a military operation because bringing down the syrian regime with weaken iran. when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over and see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to because we need time and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for iran and it's only now law i hear is on the ropes we have to quiet it down

a little bit well syria has also been very close at the u.n. security council but russia accused libya of training the syrian militia currently farts and government forces and this part of a broader discussion of the situation there are countries that most certainly running mates were put in cars which was an accident casualty history not seen as a rains in the area well it's these were important lawyers and putting a 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 sufficiently investigated the air raids that conducted on libya in two thousand and eleven that killed at least sixty civilians and injured at least sixty 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 how these or the

casualties this report was referring to another russian passenger to the united nations for tali 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 on more peace a peaceful and secure circumstance to libya and says situation is still very dangerous when you have my group when i was going to tell you what we have expressed concern about gun control proliferation of libyan arms in the region however it is not just the workmen's that are going abroad we have received information that in libya with the support from their authorities there's a special training center for the syrian revolutionaries and the people are sent to syria so it's hard to legal government but this is completely unacceptable according to all the legal basis for the six to very undermines disability on the middle east we think that it isn't skeered and therefore there's an issue it's

transporting the revolution now turning into transporting terrorism in the aftermath of what happened in libya one year later the situation on the ground many critics say is not safer by any means. so it has been in the program a closer look at life in the post gadhafi in libya we explore what women in the country can gain from the revolution whether they're happy with the outcome. they're there to solve the u.k. suppressing problems but it seems in payson it's an help to the recent arrest. brule in the house of commons bar is just the latest in a string of alcohol fueled scandals that he's us with reports on how some parliamentarian's are said to be drinking their way through and i thought westminster. answer is yes i hope this behavior by members of parliament now results in our common sights on our t.v.'s ever since the late eighty's when

cameras were allowed to exonerate but are they trod on power well simply truck you have heard about stories of. physically carried through the voting lobbies which. mind boggles me it would be any other. job where you could get that drunk work and not the sax thirteen year parliamentary veteran lembit pick has seen the seedier underbelly of life in the house of commons where ed piece have been known to vote on matters of national and international importance under the influence of 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 and take part in the debate i see another least from the time it was very funny but i'm not sure quite how professional it was here in the parliamentary state there are nine separate parts for the use of the people who work here and guests there is no tourists among them it's a strange it's bar where unpeaceful rival parties are from plus so much drunken revelry

goes on that it's used to be a little arrows nailed about fifteen centimeters from the floor which indicated the exits to those he will cooling out on their hands and knees. well cites 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 last year sarah willis m.p. and he said some parliamentarians are too drunk to stand up in debates and have no idea what they're voting for tory 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 m.p. paul farrelly admitted wrestling a newspaper sell a narrow parliament bar although he maintains he wasn't drunk most recently and he eric joyce has been charged with assault following a late night punch up in

a parliament bar and all that boozing is subsidized by the taxpayer the sobs he wants out of five thousand pounds peremptory it's it's a mark of about stroking good first i can judge if you remember the public or. watch the probably be subsidising the drinking culture m.p.'s defend the culture as part of the job high pressure long stretches away from home the i was a long people spend a lot of time together on the building's old fashioned doesn't mean you have to drink a lot but i guess that was part of the club atmosphere and the probably still is. all of which leaves the taxpayer wondering whether this is an appeal for calm or atrix require your assessment altie. he watches he live from moscow still ahead in the program washington's pay is beijing's again strict domestic regulations pave the way for chinese firms to cash

in on america's crumbling infrastructure. first cyber crackdown reports on the response to the political arrests of online because they had to do this out. iran has warned that upcoming nuclear talks with world powers will fail if the west continues to apply pressure islamic republic says the policy of piling up sanctions is not the way to win concessions of its nuclear activities which is still insists are entirely peaceful remarks came after international leaders agreed to resume face to face negotiations with iran but been stalled for more than a year to iran meanwhile the said it would let inspectors visit a key military facility western officials suspect nuclear work is underway all this comes against the backdrop of heightened tensions between iran and israel reverse signaling much longer for diplomacy and sanctions to work. the only thing we know for sure i would say is that iran is working on nuclear technology for peaceful

purposes and everything else are just assumptions or to put it another accusation strum made israeli and u.s. officials it seems to be some kind of theater of israeli and american officials are playing because obama seems to try to convince. diplomacy would be the better way but in fact obama's soft power that he is using to meddle into iranians iran's interior affairs probably will not succeed not with economic sanctions because although it will. still countries like china india japan and south korea and others who are still importing your own you know so probably. the american administration.

well we tried everything is. important. but our team has also discussed the likelihood of an attack on iran's nuclear facility with the country's deputy foreign minister you can watch his interview. with infrastructure in the u.s. said to be crumbling critics say strict regulations and political bickering in washington is preventing to mystic firms from fixing the streets as artie's wanted india explains chinese companies and i waited cash because rocky roads. los angeles has rolled out the red carpet for the met it was likely the future leader of china president g.g. 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 up. chinese goods passed through here just last year

but trade isn't the only item on the agenda l.a. mayor antonio bia right is also hoping that the chinese and best in the city's infrastructure people in public transportation and ports we need to be number one in infrastructure spending and equality for our infrastructure and now we're down to number thirty two behind barbadoes behind spain behind lots of different countries where the infrastructure is crumbling chinese investment grade and help ease some of this l.a. traffic the mayor's certainly hopes that it helps to bring jobs to the city as we see federal dollars become more scarce for projects such as road improvement and risk destruction it's increasingly likely they'll be sitting tight 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 that infrastructure improvements are a top priority but the u.s. lags behind europe and china when it comes to infrastructure investment the

administration has said that chinese firms will play a role in finance and 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 i think president reagan is probably rolling over in his grave somewhere around. there as uncomfortable a lot of people figure. as the you know and deal you know so testimonies that it will create more jobs and potentially but. the stuff isn't so much that so he's about chinese firms are already working on a huge base projects in california new york and alaska political leaders defended the contracts claiming chinese companies would be more efficient but there has been criticism over china's work conditions and of devaluation of their currency we can't compete with that now because they are better engineers or because we are. manufacturer 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. inability to invest more in infrastructure and investment many see as the key to economic recovery they keep in the u.s. competitive and what it seems the chinese are willing to make a los angeles. r t. don't forget you can always log on to r.t. dot com for more news and comments online for you right now start spreading the news misdeeds today people in west virginia in the u.s. can now inform these of anything suspicious using a new smartphone. plus the man who reveals the truth about multimillion dollar airport scanners claiming virtually anything class then find out more.

substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is a protein of liberty. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleep empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have fallen bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in crossed our bases of odd. noises our dogs it doesn't bother us at all because there are all bases for other

people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two these places i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions here because she did everything you needed. the hacker movement anonymous managed to temporarily take down the websites of one hundred are just antivirus companies in the world and the security comes off to senior members of another hacking group sex with a taint and charged with cyber crimes the f.b.i. well seconds famous for attacking the websites of among others the cia fox news and credit card companies and its leaders to plan what complete u.s.

government's offer being arrested last year and since its. and in his him colleagues of political commentator. he was the government's heavy handed approach to the hackers is this notion that. anonymous is a group that genuinely sees itself involved in a kind of cyber war where they played a self-appointed protectors of internet liberty of course it's worth bearing in mind that the most this group actually managed to achieve their master card for a couple of hours so this kind of jittery response on behalf of western governments is really an embarrassment it really does show that this is a set of governments that completely run out of ideas i mean only response they can come up with is using the law in this kind of war for 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 nor needs to get involved if at all in these situations but the point is a moment anonymous and you know the arrest taking place just represent

a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no broader project at home what the western governments are doing in this situation it's kind of a knee jerk reaction with absolutely no confidence whatsoever. the latest arrests challenge the freedoms of the entire internet community that's according to the human rights lawyer. i'm sure there will be mysteries at all to roll up to second how should we be actually as it could be recreated elections or s. the thing that is done for this estate is a whole series no simple answer here but i think that they know it reflects very difficult to reach into society it is all and i think this is the easy it wait for introduce pollution and wait for people to help them to get rebuilt it against old fashioned regimes including the media regimes while the other or if you look at them i don't have an opportunity to mount the pressure just time to be made and then he made the profits really became

a big topic that we all should care about it goes big game is not over it has to be stopped at the level of immediate that it will come back next year after the incomplete justice gives its opinion and we all have to be very much aware of this process. but are taking a look at some other news from around the world now for the five hundred is the us that to vist took to the streets of istanbul angry over the burning of the qur'an on u.s. military base in afghanistan some demonstrators vowed revenge or dispersal of the muslim holy books and set nato and american flags ablaze washington has apologized for the incident which sparked protests and deadly attacks against nato troops serving in afghanistan. tens of thousands of workers have marched in south africa against me and tolls and short term contracts with low paid us. by the congress of south african trade unions took place in thirty two cities across the country where unions fear the new system will have

a negative impact on the poor and the protests were warning shots of the government's. return to one of our top stories now the situation in libya and its post revolution struggles many women in a nation where hope for the revolt would bring greater freedoms than there was in the gadhafi era was out on a board who discovered 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 is university professor from going to ghazi and two of her sisters were cleaning toilets in a building operated by village b s national transitional council of and then. i am proud to have been actively involved in the revolutionary movement from the very beginning after forty two years of gadhafi regime i just couldn't stand it anymore i want to be part of that i'm open to any work i can count the streets or the buildings i just want to be around people who are still early days and believed in

the revolution before the nato intervention and women were every bit as enthusiastic about the ag of liberation as there has been so brothers they volunteered in the kitchens and hospitals they took to the streets and social media sites they stood by the cause doing work demanded would and. they had of the libi and women's union says the arab spring was the single most important step toward gender equality in this largely patriarchal society women helped their evolution and they 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. this conference of violence against women attracted hundreds of delegates from across three bear one of the issues discussed was whether air has been forcing himself upon his wife constituted rape the few men who were present kept quiet and some even left in its session the coptic libyan men 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 illegal me with either the zero zero. limited the number of wives two dollars again and it should be banned. the proposal is seen as an attempt to curry favor of it all powerful militia and encourage down settle back into a peaceful life taking multiple wives takes a good income but it groom expected to pay a dollar into every bride's family and provide each woman with a constable lifestyle you have the rebel seemed undeterred. opinion about having not one wife but two or three i think this is right because cherie a little sense of what seems to be giving most credence to the collegium initiative is not so much who is for it but rather who was against it oh it is despotic right and sells more market it was also a firm believer in the non-spatial of women held not polygamy and leveled the

divorce playing field by giving women equal rights for mandated the quality of play and interviews benefits to encourage women to continue working after childbirth. unlike in other arab countries libyan has been under gadhafi were banned from restricting their wives and ability by sea thousand and thinks more than a quarter of we've been women of work. so much so that susan who moved to tripoli from england to go after marrying a leave be a chance she never felt constrained here women's rights of changed over the last twenty three years family situation of 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. or see tripoli. covered

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