little. league. or. little league he. when the words and actions don't top u.s. officials say the pentagon's considering military options on syria despite president obama's dismissal of unilateral airstrikes. exporting revolutionaries to libya's used for running a lot of training camps for foreign militants as nato comes under fire at the u.n. for refusing to investigate civilian deaths during its air raids against gadhafi. a member of parliament might go into the ball and have a few drinks instead of having dinner by one true cop 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.

great britain's drunk democracy and he's come under fire for drinking too much with allegations that have gotten votes are being cast for the influence. thanks for being with us on parents who are actually six o'clock here in moscow a top u.s. defense official i have admitted that president obama asked the pentagon to set out military options on syria but defense secretary leon panetta and army general martin dempsey said a no fly zone similar to libya's would be a challenge had stooped to the syrian army's higher competence and military capabilities u.s. lawmakers are also trying to push through a fresh bunch of financial sanctions against syria and are calling for president assad to be referred to the war crimes tribunal but experts inside syria believe

the more foreign powers intervene the more violent the crisis becomes as maria findlaw simone reports from damascus. as the syrian conflict stretches sounds like 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 dr something 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 in baba amr the syrian army arrested fighters from gulf countries in afghanistan iraq libya and some european states their work was coordinated by qatari and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia mossad and blackwater agents but it's also

sees israeli weapons especially in take tank 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 u.s. and many other countries have admitted al qaeda linked extremists groups fighting alongside beyond a position 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 this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iraq and these countries don't have democracy and of course they cannot as a first ever seen it in syria they have another agenda and. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail dated and had of course 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 weapons smuggled across the border overseas contractors and foreign cash. when you see a lot of money in syria then i believe this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you will find the government talk about hundreds of belo doing something nobody would kill him so. now you would see now this is. here in syria with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to arm the opposition get louder even for those at the grassroots for the uprising the initial euphoria is turning return. we can say we regret what we did but we don't want things to go back could be turned so much militarized and blow and we never wanted and don't want

intervention now but fears are. it's could be too late to stop this all to tyrant claims of conflict grief and often r t damascus syria reports that the pentagon is writing its forces come after president obama setting a lateral air strike against syria would be a mistake he was opposing cause by veteran senator john mccain who is urging military action against assad's troops transport caster terrell sunday says washington's not interest said enter plumber. 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 because we need to and we have to use the pole in the sea 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 ron and it's only now law i hear is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. the syrian conflict is also dominating talks at the u.n. security council where libya has been accused of training and preparing syria bound militants discussions also touched on nato bombing campaign over libya last year during which more than a hundred civilians fell thick time to alliance air rates and students the organization refuses to investigate archies marina is in new york with more on the meeting. 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 it 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 how these or the casualties that this will for the boys will soar into another russian passenger 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 a more peace a peaceful and secure circumstance to libya the situation is still very dangerous but what 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 weapons that

are going abroad we have received information that of 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 the legal government this is completely unacceptable according to all the will be useless this is too pretty 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. and over libya's interim government has threatened to use force to bring powerful tribal leaders to heal after they declared autonomy for an oil rich region in the east the leader of the national transitional council went on to claim that for traitors were behind them oh patrick hayes from the on line world affairs magazine spiked says he only sees our prosy he

almost couldn't make it up to. you now the head of the national transitional council there a former gadhafi truly himself the minister of justice under gadhafi for assuming to use force against the will of the eastern region. and about its head because they decided to it's autonomously i think that's very worrying. this is an unelected representative saying this and how can you justify this you know how can we actually say any better than gadhafi if i'm going to use brutal force apply i'm going to use coercion to try and keep my country together so it meets with my will which is not the will of the people because i haven't been voted it's. really his hypocrisy that is just there for everyone to see and i think it really speaks to the national transitional council in libya which was largely put in place as a result of being granted permission to rule from the west really has no legitimacy

to rule in libya and has not got the mandate of the libyan people at the moment and that's why very sadly we're seeing pockets of libya effectively just splinter off into sixty states and go back you know they go back to the kind of tribal divisions they had before libya was kind of unified as the states in the fifty's. still ahead for you in the program a new showdown in libya. women's rights movement and a mobilize a nationwide as libya's interim leader is a desperate for support pounder the powerful islamic factions. and iran nuclear talks are due for a fresh round but while barack obama hopes they will drown out his saber rattling senators israel still supports a strike. representing the british people in parliament can be thirsty work and it seems some m.p.'s are enjoying the perks all the commons

a bit too much with a late night brawl just one of a number of alcohol induced episodes our london correspondent laura smith books and why the word order is more likely to be heard in the bar than in the chamber. actually yes. because they hate you by members of parliament now not an uncommon sight on our t.v.'s ever since the late eighty's when congress were allowed inside but are they trunk on power or simply truck you have heard about stories of employees that you from physically carried through the voting lobbies which. mind boggles me if i read any of the. joke where you can get that drunk work not your sax thirteen year parliamentary veteran lembit 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 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 one time it was very funny but i'm not sure quite how professional it palls here in the parliamentary state there are nine separate bars for the use of the people who work here and guests there is no tourists among them it's a strange it's barwell and he's been rival parties often clash so much drunken revelry goes on there that it's said they 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 p. and d. 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 insists he doesn't remember pulling over and. he pull fairly muted wrestling a nice paper cell a narrow column and bar although he maintains he wasn't drunk recently m.p. eric joyce is being charged with assault following a late night punch up in a parliament bar and that bruising is subsidized by the taxpayer subsidized under about thousand pounds per employee and its its mark of about stripping quid for a steak and chips every member of the public or so. why should people be subsidizing the drinking culture and peace to spend the culture is 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 and probably still is i will

of which means the taxpayer wondering whether this is an appeal for calm or atrix requests your assessment r.t. . and later on in the program we'll report on why on america's plane could be beijing's game. strictly mastic regulations prevent u.s. companies from her parent road some transport but pave the way for tiny these firms to collapse and on america's crumbling infrastructure. group anonymous takes out the website of an internet security giant after the activist community suffers a betrayal by one of its own. iran is warning that any talks on its nuclear program will fail if the west continues to hit it with sanctions international leaders have agreed to restart the international negotiations which have stalled for over a year as well as the chawl agreeing to let u.n.

inspectors inside a military facility that suspected of atomic weapons work and efforts to prove its nuclear program is peaceful u.s. president barack obama says he hopes the new talks will help silence washington's hawkish voices but there are worrying reports from an ex israeli intelligence officer that tel of the four won't rely on diplomacy for much longer global affairs researcher benjamin shirt believes the u.s. could also be waiting for an excuse to attack. the only thing we know for sure that iran is working on nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and everything. just shien's so put it another way so accusations from major israeli and u.s. officials it seems to be some kind of theater that the 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 iranian iran's interior affairs they probably will not succeed not with economic sanctions because although they will. still countries like china india japan and south korea and others who are still importing iranian oil so probably. the american administration will say well we tried everything and israel attacks they will cause support and how likely is an attack on iran that's just one of the questions r.t. asked the country's deputy foreign minister his interviews coming up in a little over fifteen minutes. fractured freeways and rotting railroads america's

transport infrastructure is in a jam as budget cuts bite surprisingly no solution appears to be all roads lead to china as our. explorers. los angeles has rolled out the red carpet for the man who was likely the future leader of china rice president g. jean king 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 rate goes is also hoping that the chinese invest in the city's infrastructure including public transportation and ports we used to be number one in infrastructure spending and the quality for our infrastructure and now we're down to number thirty two three hundred five photos behind spain one hundred lots of different countries where the infrastructure is crumbling chinese investment

wavin to 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 construction it's increasingly likely there will be some tied up 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 look 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. and it's uncomfortable

a lot of people figure america is the you know and all be all you know sort of testimony is that it will create more jobs i mean potentially but with this country's in so much that so. it's about that chinese firms are already working on the huge bridge projects in california new york and alaska political leaders defended the contracts claiming chinese companies would be more efficient but they have spurred criticism over china's work conditions and a deep valley we know 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 lot of playing field back here in the u.s. so my lame excess of environmental regulations and political bickering in d.c. inability to invest more in infrastructure and investment many see as a key to economic recovery may keep in the u.s. competitive and what it seems the chinese are willing to make a los angeles problem galindo our t.v.

and had online to get more of all of our stories plenty more on our t.v. dot com here's what we thought for you right now. a very different kind of candidate for the russian army it's the military's new high tech airdropped church designed to give that happen send more around boost for soldiers. and as the women's day celebrations head full throttle in russia the country's formula one team a point s. burns for no racer as their tester for the two thousand and twelve season. notorious hacker group anonymous has taken down several websites belonging to internet that has company panda security firm is best known for its widely used

anti-virus software a move is seen as retaliation over the arrests of hackers from another group but well sac who's a legit ringleader turned informant for the f.b.i. and twenty eight year old man had been working with the u.s. government since his arrest last summer the group is known for carrying out several high profile attacks such as breaching defense systems other websites allowing cia fox news and sony political commentator luke samuel also arresting hackers not to achieve anything 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 embarrassment 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 there's a legitimate question to be asked about how the norm needs to get involved if at all in these situations but the point is that the moment anonymous and you know the rest taken place just represent a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no water project behind what the western governments are doing in this situation it's kind of a knee jerk reaction with absolutely no concern whatsoever human rights lawyer should we live it to believe so we're witnessing a wide scale internet revolution. i'm sure there will be a serious dispute about their role what you say and how should we treat you actually as. you know actions or arrest something don't down for the society as a whole reads no simple answer here but i think that reflects a very difficult situation in a society that is whole and easy to just take a deep wait for introduce lucian and wait for people to help them do to rebuild

against old fashioned regimes including the media regimes while the other feel they want happening octo due to the mantle pressure to sign an agreement and then the mouth of crocus really became the talking that we all should care about because the game is not over it has been stopped in union but it will come back next year up to do you justice gives its opinion and we all have to be very much aware of this process now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world thousands of taiwanese farmers have staged a protest in the country's capital against government plans to import u.s. beef containing a growth drug the newly reelected president ma ying has said new us to strengthen ties with america by resolving the dispute which had stalled trade talks taiwan currently has a ban on u.s. beef containing traces of. its washington ancestors saves.

floodwaters in southeastern australia have left thousands of people displaced with river levels continuing to rise in new south wales the several towns have been completely inundated with water some being declared disaster zones further south in victoria over six hundred homes are at risk of flooding as surging water threatens to breach makeshift levees. and crowds of homeowners have marched in western romania on work using to work day because of low salaries and working conditions the stoppage comes after negotiations with government officials. several thousand demonstrators want their state owned company to honor an agreement made in january giving them. a ride. back to one of our top stories now the situation in libya as the state struggles to return to a normality another conflict is taking steps across the country

a battle of wills is well underway between an increasingly theocratic government but a freshly reborn women's rights artie's that son of god has a support. it was a very special way to celebrate international women's day amal a university professor from going to ghazi and two of her sisters were cleaning toilets in a building operated by i believe is the national transitional council of the number one for her i'm proud to have been actively involved in the revolutionary movement from the very beginning after forty two years of good of his regime i just couldn't stand it anymore i want to be part of back but i'm open to any work i can to the streets or the buildings i just want to be around people who are still early days who believed in the revolution before the nature intervention and women were every bit as enthusiastic about the gear of liberation as there has been zero brothers volunteered indications in hospitals they could do this treats and social media

sites they stood by because doing work demanded wouldn't. 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 women helped their evolution and there were pollution help 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 if you man who were present kept quiet and some even last minute session the topic leave in men are 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 without. limits of the number of wives to gamers again and it should be banned. the proposal

is seen as an attempt to curry favor of italy base all powerful militia and to encourage down settled back into peaceful life taking multiple wives takes a good income group expected to pay a dowry to every bride's family and provide each woman with a comfortable lifestyle you have the rebel seemed undeterred. jewels of peanuts 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 is this particular downsize more market after it was also a firm believer in the mancipation of women health polygamy i'm glad all the divorce playing field by giving women equal rights for mandated the quality of play and introduce benefits to encourage women to continue working after childbirth.

unlike in other arab countries leading haskins 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. so much so that susan who moved to tripoli from england she jakey to go after marrying a levy and says she never felt constrained here women's rights of change over the last twenty three years family 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. art see. her a cap of the top stories is coming up in just a few moments stay with us. you

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