still. u.s. officials say the pentagon is considering military options on syria despite president obama's just missile alabi lateral airstrikes. exporting revolutionary libya is accused of running through a training camps for foreign militants as nato comes under fire at the un for refusing to investigate civilian deaths during its air raids against gadhafi. a member of parliament might go into the ballroom of the few drinks instead of having dinner on 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.

and strong democracy employees come under fire for drinking too much with allegations that important votes are being cast fall under the influence. has in common broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow and karen. top u.s. defense officials have admitted that president obama asked the pentagon to set out military options on syria but the front secretary leon panetta and army general martin dempsey said a no fly zone similar to libya's would be a challenge that's too to the syrians are 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. the war crimes tribunal but experts inside syria believe the

more foreign powers intervening the more violent the crisis becomes as maria from the arsenal reports from damascus. as the syrian conflict stretches sounds fine it has also spread geographically a case of the uprising felt 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 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 motor isolation has many more forms than officially stated. during the raid 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 anti-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 us and many other countries had admitted al qaeda linked extremists groups fighting alongside the armed opposition in syria dr salinas says some countries are using those groups to further their own interests. to get local players involved in order to hide their involvement but 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 ask first they're pushing it in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and how the coach never blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for a new and serious crisis since last year she says this is

a story with three main chapters often smuggled across the border overseas contractors and foreign cash. when you see a lot of money in syria i believe that 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 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 the opposition getting louder even for those at the grassroots for the uprising the initial euphoria is turning bitter. they can say we regret what we did but we don't want things to go down. so much militarized globalized and blow and we never want to and don't want intervention.

but fears are. the could be too late to stop this older fire and flames of conflict . in our teeth damascus syria. reports that the pentagon is reading its forces come after president obama said a unilateral air strike against syria would be a mistake he was opposing calls by a veteran senator john mccain has urging military action against assad's troops transport cancer gerald celente says washington's not interested in diplomacy. 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 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 why because syria 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's bombing campaign over libya last year during which more than one hundred civilians fell victim to alliance air raids and students of the organization refuses to investigate archie's marina is anyone 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 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 states how these war because you'll see these that this reform was before into now the russians asked her 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 this 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 and libya will do support from

their authorities there is a special training center for the syrian revolution and the people are sent to syria so it's hard to legal government but this is completely unacceptable according to all the will be useless to pretty undermines this is the villain in the middle east. business here and therefore there is an issue as 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 safe for by any means. the head of libya's interim government has threatened to use force to bring powerful tribal leaders to heal after they've declared autonomy for an all over its region in the east the leader of the national transitional council went on to claim that pro golf infiltrators were behind move joining me now to discuss what path may lie ahead for libya is a researcher set up my two sick from the syracuse university in beirut mrs motu

sick thanks for being with us given how the m.d.c. is standing on wobbly feet and support for it is draining away is this the opportunity it needs to demonstrate its power and resolve. well it absolutely is about time that the m.d.c. demonstrate some power and resolve but the problem is that it doesn't really willed enough control to assert any kind of power the country is in chaos right now it's heartbreaking and outrageous as president obama said about the situation in syria no the situation in libya is that way we hear about militias torturing people who are suspected of supporting qaddafi in the past and there was a hideous story today about someone's thinker's getting cut off because he was horsewhipped on the hand repeatedly over and over again until his fingers were severed these are crimes against humanity that are happening in the here and there's no outcry by the international community the same international community

that called for a no fly zone in libya to save civilians to save people's lives all this no fly zone actually consisted of many bombs that attacked civilians as well as gadhafi supporters but they wreak havoc so it's no surprise that justice right now is it is it is not happening in libya because the president the nato forces so by creating so much horrible damage and death without any sort of. any sort of overstay any sort of inquiry and refusing inquiry now really sets a bad example for those militias who want to take law and order in their own hands and in very violent and unjust ways in libya so right now the n.c.c. government really doesn't have any control or some of the morality of threatening violence aside can we and do you see really afford to lose such an oil rich region even before the elections have taken place in june in the country. of course not with the nato campaign you know and the rebels fighting the infrastructure in libya

is in tatters you know especially in particular cities like sirte where there's not a lot of services right now in some places no running water no electricity and this is going to create resentment the country has to stay united they have to be fair and equitable with all people otherwise new angers are going to emerge a lot of these angers were managed by khadafi and he was by no means like a democratic person or a fair and just person himself but he did understand his country unlike the internationals who came in interfering so right now there is potential chaos. emerging with the regions declaring they want to be autonomous for example and obviously the oil resources are equally valid throughout the earth so the central government has to be strong enough to make sure that there are institutions in place who equally distribute the oil profits and right now it's looking very very shaky what about the m.t.c. allegations that gadhafi loyalists are behind the east declaring autonomy if that's

true isn't it doubly urgent to stop them. well of course there are going to be accusations coming from all sides and the east has long felt marginalized by the west they haven't been treated as well in the past for many decades and they're scared with the way that the new representational system is coming up that they don't have enough seats in government to actually make any impact and of course the m.d.c. now is based in the west so this is going to further marginalize the east as well because they feel like they're no longer a center of power even though they were at the heart of the revolution so really these issues have to be negotiated very carefully and there's some sort of. development that changes the dynamic is looking very very pessimistic for the status of peace and prosperity for libyans the it really will take the many years to come out of this crisis and it just shows that the international community does not learn its lessons from afghanistan does not learn its lessons from iraq and you

know there are also places like somalia many people are drawing parallels saying perhaps libya could become the next somalia and you know in somalia several years back there actually was. some progress some development but it was under a regime that the west didn't like so they sent in the ethiopian forces in now somalia people are suffering people are dying of starvation and people you know those against the west are becoming more radicalized and creating more enemies so really the international community has to rethink before it assesses situations like libya and syria and future and very briefly i just want to draw attention to the complicated tribal structure in libya is there a danger about a show of force might alienate regional leaders. oh absolutely and the big problem right now in libya is that there are the militias nobody there is no regional or national power structure that can actually manage the control of soldiers as well as the flow of weapons so really it's

a very dangerous situation we don't know who has what capacity right now to attack other people in other tribes and so it's very difficult political solution is required for this certainly not a military one ceremony circle researcher at the beirut based syracuse university thank you. so are you in the program a new showdown looms in libya. women's rights movement around the and mobilizing nationwide as libya's interim leader is a desperate for support of powerful islamic factions. also iran and nuclear talks are due for a fresh round of well brought up obama hopes they will drown out his saber rattling senators israel still looks poised to strike. representing the british people in parliament can be thirsty work and it seems some m.p.'s are enjoying the perks of the commons

a bit too much but the late night brawl just one of a number of alcohol induced episodes our london correspondent laura smith book said why the word order is more likely to be heard in the bar than in the chamber. answers yes i behavior by members of parliament now not an uncommon sight on our t.v.'s ever since the late eighty's when cameras were allowed inside but are they trying on power well simply truck you have heard about the stories of three physically carried through the voting lobbies which. mind boggles me what if i mean 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 a 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 as you know the least one 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 i guess the most notorious among them is the strangers' bar where m.p.'s from rival parties often clash so much drunken revelry goes on there that it's used to be a little arrow nailed about fifteen centimeters from the floor which indicated the access to those who were crawling out on their hands and means 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's sero p. and d. 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's this he doesn't remember pulling over and. he pulled fairly muted wrestling a nice paper salad near a parliament car although he maintains he wasn't drunk with recently m.p. eric joyce is being charged with assault following a late night punch up in a parliament bar and all that boozing is subsidized by the taxpayer subsidies out of five thousand pounds per employee. it's more careful about sticking quick first they can ship if you're a member of the public seven hundred for the watch the public be subsidizing the drinking age and peace defend the culture is part of the job high pressure long stretches away from home the hours along people spent 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 it probably still is.

one of which nice the tax payer wondering whether this is an appeal for calm or atrix require us may not. all right and then a few minutes on the program the happy birthday by fun. we are now in the midst movement takes out the website of an internet security giant after the community suffers a betrayal by one of its own. iran is warning that any talks on its nuclear program will fail if the u.s. continues to hit it with sanctions international leaders have agreed to restart the international negotiations which have stalled for over a year in addition to the child star crowns agreeing to let u.n. inspectors inside a military facility that suspected of atomic weapons work in 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 aviv or won't rely on diplomacy for much longer global affairs researcher benjamin shuts it 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 else are just. 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 meddle into iranians iran's interior affairs they

probably will not succeed not with economic sanctions because although will they hit the iran hard still countries like china india even japan and south korea and are those who are still importing iranian oil so probably. the american administration will say well we tried everything israel attacks they will. support them. how likely is an attack on iran it's just one of the questions r.t. asked the country's deputy foreign minister his interview is coming up next hour. they're notorious hacker group anonymous has taken down several websites belonging to internet defense company panda security firm is best known for its widely used anti-virus software the move is seen as retaliation for the arrest of hackers from another group lulz sec whose alleged ringleader turned informant for the f.b.i.

that twenty 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 of the web sites belonging to the cia fox news and sony political commentator a luke sammy also arresting her person wrong 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 because it's worth bearing in mind that the most this group actually managed to achieve a shutting down master card for a couple of i was so this kind of jittery response on behalf of western governments is really interesting and it really does show that this is a set of governments that completely run out of ideas and the only real response they can come up with is using the law in this kind of all 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 is

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 of it taking place just represent a kind of hysterical response there's no sort of there's no project at home 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. believes we are witnessing a live scale internet revolution. i'm sure it will be good for you this. second how should we review actually. clearly criminal actions or arrest something that. for this is a whole there is no simple answer here but i think reflects a very difficult to do it in a society that is full and you see that i could just. wait for interactive aleutian and wait for people to help them do their rebuttal against the old fashioned

regimes including the media regimes while the other feel threatened by what is happening mark told you to do you mantle pressure you signed that agreement and then the amount of profits really became big because we all should care about because the game is not over it has prompted the level of your opinion that it will come back next year are going to be just as gives each opinion and we all have to be very much aware of this process twenty three minutes past the hour now a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. thousands of taiwanese farmers have staged protests in the country's capital against government plans to import lusby containing a growth drug the newly reelected president general has said he wants to strengthen ties with america by resolving the dispute which has a song to trade talks on currently has a ban on u.s. beef containing traces of a feeder theirs which washington insists is safe. floodwaters in

southeastern australia have left thousands of people displaced with river of levels continuing to rise in new south wales several towns have been completely inundated with water with some being declared disaster zones further south in victoria over six hundred homes are at risk of flooding surge in water threatens to breach makeshift levees. and crowds of coal miners have more interest in western romania refusing to work for a fourth day because of the low salaries and poor working conditions the stoppage comes after negotiations with government officials broke down several thousand demonstrators want their state owned company to honor an agreement made in january giving them a ten percent pay rise. now back to one of our top stories of the situation in libya as the state struggles to return to normality in another conflict is taking shape across the country a battle of wills is well underway between an increasingly theocratic government

and a freshly reborn women's rights movement. has this report. it was a very special way to celebrate the international women's day amal a university professor from gazi and two of her sisters were cleaning toilets in a building operated by believed this national transitional council but. i'm 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 but i'm open to any work i can count on the streets or the gold rings i just want to be around people who are still early days and believe in the revolution before the nature intervention and women were every bit as enthusiastic about be a gear for liberation as there has been zero brothers they volunteered in the kitchens and hospitals they kicked to the streets and social media sites they stood by the cause 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 where women helped their evolution and they were pollution how they were several women in the new government and we need to hold on to these achievements we can give them back. this conference in 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 the few men who were present kept quiet and some even laughed amid session topically binmen are far more eager to discuss isn't the opals its side of the gender debate. interim leader brought to power by the revolution has already promised to legalize polygamy makai the desert rats the limited number of wives to give them is against. the proposal

is seen as an attempt to curry favor of italy base 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 it down to every bride's family and provide each woman with a comfortable lifestyle yet the rebel seemed undeterred. opinion about having not one wife but two or three i think this is right because sharia law says that what seems to be giving most credence to the only game in this shift is not so much who is for it but rather who was against it oh it is this particular band sells more market off it was also a firm believer in the nonsense of women held polygamy and club of the divorce playing field by giving women equal rights for mandated the quality of play and interviews bad efforts to encourage women to continue working after childbirth unlike in other arab countries leaving has been sounded off you were banned from

restricting down wives inability. thousand and six more than a quarter of we've been women of work alone. so much so that susan who moved to tripoli from england to j.k. to go after marrying a levy of sas she never felt constrained here women's rights of changed over the last twenty three years family situation the 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 somebody could see tripoli. although mr manners behind the weeks financial headlines is coming up in a few moments in the cause a report that's after an update of the top stories stay with us.