america's armed involvement in syria is not off the table u.s. military officials are reviewing their options in case the diplomatic isolation of assad's regime fails. russia criticizes nato op the un security council for refusing to fully investigate civilian deaths during the alliance's air raids in libya last year and expresses outrage over training camps for syrian revolutionaries discovered in libya plus. a member of the we might go into the ball and have a few drinks instead of having dinner on by will chew it up in the morning because it was a good idea to go into the house of commons and try to take part in the debate.

winding on in parliament u.k. and these are under fire from often being under the influence even while passing important votes. mary warm welcome to you on karan taraji two o'clock here in moscow and with your top story 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 about saddam has been ordered to review its potential options according to officials and these include the enforcement of a no fly zone and humanitarian airlifts but defense secretary leon panetta also warns that a long term a sustained to air campaign what poses a challenge because syria's air defenses are more sophisticated than libya's but as archie's maria finn lost. the reports growing foreign interference in the syrian

conflict is raising fears of an even bigger crisis. as the syrian conflict stresses sounds in time it has also spread geographically i case of the uprising belt far from the country's borders what's happening in syria is heartbreaking. and what you've seen is the international community mobilize against the assad regime strategic analyst talk to somebody who says one thing is clear though it's certainly gone far beyond the words of sympathy and the cotton to those on the ground in syria that mobilisation has many more than officially stated. during the operation in baba amr the syrian army arrested fighters from gulf countries in afghanistan iraq libya and some european states their work was coordinated by tori and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia mossad and blackwater agents but it's also seized israeli weapons especially employed take

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 all kind of linked extremists groups fighting alongside beyond 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 and this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iraq these countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot ask for establishing it in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and how to coach never blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for an important and serious crisis since last year she says this is a story with three main chapters were often smuggled across the border overseas

contractors and foreign cash. when you see a lot of money in syria then i believe that this is comparable to what happened in secret war in lebanon there were plenty of one then you will find not they're going to talk about how close the bellows or something nobody would killing them now you would see now this is happening here in syria with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to the opposition getting louder even for those at the grassroots of the uprising the initial euphoria is turning. they can say we regret what we did but we don't want things to go back well it turned so much militarized globalized and blow and we never want to and don't want intervention now but fears are. that it could be too late to stop this older

fire and flames of conflict raif an option r t damascus syria. publisher of trans journal. says washington might be contemplating a military operation because bringing down the syrian regime would 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 this same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up for 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. syria has also been and focus at the u.n. security council where russia accused libya of training necessary and militia currently fighting government forces it was part of a broader discussion of the situation in the arab countries with moscow also demanding nato apologize for causing civilian casualties during last year's air raids in libya artie's marina husband 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 sufficiently investigated the air raids have conducted on libyan 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 states how these war because you will see these that this report was referring to now the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly 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. we have expressed concern about gun control proliferation of libyan 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 revolution areas and the people are sent to syria so it's hard to legal government this is completely unacceptable according

to polls legal basis this activity 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 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 ahead for you in the program a closer look at life in post after. we explore what women in the country were hoping to gain from the revolution i am whether they are happy with the outcome. and they are there to solve the u.k.'s processing problems but it seems need some help to the recent arrest of a labor m.p. after a late night brawl in the house of commons bar is just the latest in a string of alcohol fuelled scandals artie's laura smith reports on how some parliamentarians are said to be drinking their way through life westminster. trees

yes i rule chris behavior by members of parliament now not an uncommon sight on our t.v.'s ever since the late eighties when cameras were allowed inside but are they drugged on power all simply drunk we have heard about stories of free physically carried through voting lobbies which. mind boggles me it would have done me any other. job where you could get that drunk work not the sax thirteen year parliamentary veteran lembit you pick has seen the seedier underbelly of life in the house of commons where m.p.'s 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 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 their guests the most notorious among them is a stranger as far away unpeaceful rival parties often clash so much drunken revelry goes on that it's used to be a little arrow nailed 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 last year sarah willis to an m.p. and dee 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 insists he doesn't remember pulling over and m.p.'s. paul farrelly admitted

wrestling a newspaper seller near a parliament bar although he maintains he was a drunk most recently m.p. 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 subsidized brown's peremptory it's a work of about fifteen quid for a stricken judge if you remember the public will. be watching probably do subsidising the. m.p.'s defend the culture is part of the job high pressure long stretches away from who i was a long people spend a lot of time together on the building is old fashioned doesn't mean you have to drink a lot but i guess that was part of the club atmosphere and it probably still is. all of which needs the taxpayer wondering whether this is an appeal for calm tricks request numerous me altie. well in minutes

past the hour you're watching our team live from moscow still ahead in the program . washington spain is praising the game as strict domestic regulations paved the way for chinese firms to cash in on america's crumbling infrastructure. while cyber crime down we report on the response to the multiple arrests out online that's ahead for you just this hour. iran has warned that our coming nuclear talks with world powers will fail if the west continues to apply pressure the islamic republic says the policy of piling up sanctions is not the way to win concessions over its nuclear activities which it still insists are entirely peaceful the remarks came after international leaders agreed to resume face to face negotiations with iran that have been stalled for more than a year meanwhile has said it would let inspectors visit

a key military facility where western officials suspect nuclear work is underway all this comes against the backdrop of heightened tensions between iran and israel with signaling it won't wait much longer for diplomacy and sanctions to work. the only thing we know for sure. is working on nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and. to put it another way it's accusations from major israeli and u.s. officials it seems to be some kind of theater that israeli and american officials are playing because obama seems to try to convince. diplomacy would be the better way but in fact. soft power that he is using to. they probably

will not succeed not with the economic sanctions because although they will. still countries like china india even japan and south korea and others who are still. so probably. the american administration will. provide everything. support and. actually has also just passed the likelihood of an attack on iran's nuclear facility with the country's deputy foreign minister you can watch his interview later on this hour. right now infrastructure in the u.s. so to be crumbling critics say strict regulations and political bickering in washington is preventing domestic firms from fixing streets and as i said i'm on the explains chinese companies are now ready to pass in on america.

los angeles has rolled out the red carpet for the man who was likely the future leader of china but its 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 isn't the only item on the agenda l.a. mayor antonio via right goes is also hoping that the chinese and best in the city's infrastructure including public transportation and ports we used to be number one in infrastructure spending and the quality of our our infrastructure and now we're down to number thirty two three hundred five photos nice main one lots of different countries really infrastructure is crumbling chinese investment begun to help ease some of this l.a. traffic the mayor's certainly hopes that it helps to bring jobs to the city and receive federal dollars become more spears for projects such as road improvement

and risk destruction it's increasingly likely there will be some time to 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 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 i think president reagan is probably rolling over in his grave somewhere around. i'd say it's uncomfortable a lot of people figure america is the you know and all bill you know soft asteroid that it will create more jobs i mean potentially but where would this country isn't so much that so. it's about that chinese firms are already working on huge bridge

projects in california new york and alaska political leaders depended the contracts claiming chinese companies would be more efficient but they had spurred criticism over china's work conditions and the devaluation of their currency we can't compete with that now because they are 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 a key to economic recovery and keeping the us competitive and what it seems the chinese are willing to make a los angeles ramon valley in the r.t.e. . don't forget you can always log on to archie dot com for more names and comment on line for you right now start spreading the news about misdeeds today people in west virginia in the u.s.

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a movement anonymous managed to temporarily take down the website of one of the largest anti-virus companies in the world and the security it comes after senior members of another hacking group were detained and charged with cyber crimes by the us also is famous for attacking the websites of among the c.i. a fox news and credit card companies just name a few its leader is said to have been working for the u.s. government after being arrested last year and has since turned in on his own colleagues political commentator luke samuel feels the government's heavy handed approach to the harker's is disproportionate. anonymous is a group that genuinely sees itself involved in a kind of cyber war where they play the part of self-appointed protectors of internet liberty of course it's worth bearing in mind that the most this could actually manage 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 are 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 at the moment enormous and you know the rest taken place just represent a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no water project at home what the western governments are doing in this situation it's kind of a knee jerk reaction with absolutely no content whatsoever. her latest arrests challenge the freedoms of the entire internet community that's according to the human rights lawyer. i'm sure there will be a series of. second how should we be directions as creepy clearly criminal actions or as something that is done for forty society as a whole then we snow simple answer here but i think that they know it reflects

a very difficult to do it in the society it is in poland we ceded to society wait for interest or pollution and wait for people to help them do their revolt against old fashioned regimes including the media regimes while the other feel threatened by always having acted yesterday amount of pressure to sign that agreement and then him out of prague this really became the topic we all should care about because the game is not over it has to be stopped at the level of european union but 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. and now taking a look at some other news from around the world more than five hundred islamised activists took to the streets of istanbul angry over the burning of the koran at a u.s. military base in afghanistan some demonstrators vowed revenge over the disposal of the muslim holy books and set nato and american flags a blaze 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 new. short term contracts with lower pay and mass rallies were organized by the congress of south african trade unions and took place in thirty two cities across the country union spirit the new system will have a negative impact on the poor and so the protests were a warning shot to the government. floodwaters have displaced thousands of residents across southeastern australia several towns in new south wales have been completely inundated with water with some being declared disaster zones further south in victoria the murky water is beginning to overtake makeshift levees designed to keep the area of water australia's largest city sydney has seen its highest rating fall in five years. returning to one of our top stories now the

situation in libya and its post revolution struggles many women in the nation were hopeful the revolt would bring greater freedoms than they had in the gadhafi era but as our own a boy 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 a university professor from going to ghazi and shared her sister's work cleaning toilets in a building operated by believe is the national transitional council of and then there were in fact i'm proud to have been actively involved in the revolutionary movement from the very beginning after forty two years of gadhafi his regime we just couldn't stand him anymore i want to be part of that i'm open to any work i can count on the streets or the boardings i just want to be around people who are still early days and believe in revolution before the nature intervention and women were every bit as enthusiastic about the gear of liberation as there has been so

brothers they volunteered in the kitchens in hospitals they took to the streets and social media sites they stood by the cause doing the work of a man of wood and. they had of the levy and 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 bear one of the issues discussed was whether air has been forcing himself upon his wife constituted rape a few men who were present kept quiet and some even left them in session topically even then after more eager to discuss isn't the opposite side of the gender debate the country's interim leader brought to power by the revolution has already

promised to legalize polygamy. it's a limited number of wives to go on is again true and it should be banned. the proposal is seen as an attempt to curry favor with old powerful militia and to encourage down settled back into a peaceful life taking multiple wives takes a good income that groom expected to pay into every bride's 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 police commissioner to is not so much who is for it but rather who was against it all his despotic credentials more market after was also a firm believer in the mancipation of women held no polygamy and love all the divorce playing field by giving women equal rights to mandated the quality of play

and interviews that efforts to encourage women to continue working after childbirth unlike in other arab countries leading has been under gadhafi were banned from restricting their wives and ability. thousand and six more than a quarter of we've been women of work. so much so that susan who moved to tripoli from england two decades 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 dickens family doesn't like it. artsy tripoli. back with the headlines shortly.

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