tonight with the words and actions to match top u.s. officials say the pentagon is considering military options on syria despite president obama's dismissal of unilateral airstrikes. exporting revolutionaries libby is accused of running killer training camps for foreign militants as nato comes under fire at the u.n. for refusing to investigate civilian deaths during its raids against gadhafi. a member of parliament might go into the bar and have a few drinks instead of having dinner and buy 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 . was drugged democracy and peace come under fire for drinking too much of their

locations but important votes at the cars while under the influence. live from moscow a big night you're watching r t with me kevin oh in a warm welcome to you just joined us our top story the leading u.s. defense officials have admitted that president obama asked the pentagon to set out military options on syria but defense secretary leon panetta an army general martin dempsey said a no fly zone similar to libya's would be a challenge but speakers the syrian army's higher competence and military capabilities u.s. lawmakers are also trying to push through a fresh bunch of financial sanctions too against syria and a 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

will become as artie's me. in a report from damascus. as the syrian conflict stretches out in time it has also spread geographically i case of the uprising belt far from the country's borders but what's happening in syria is hard work. 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 far beyond the words of sympathy and the cotton to those on the ground in syria that mobilisation has many more force 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 kotori and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia mossad and blackwater agents but it's also seized as 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 is countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot ask for establishing in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and had a question of a blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for a new cold 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 you believe i believe this or all these this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you will find that the governor talked about hundreds of dollars or something nobody would kill him so. now what you will see now this is a bidding war here in syria with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to arm the opposition getting louder even for those at the grassroots for the uprising the initial euphoria is turning the tide had been. i can say we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go back for a while we turned so much militarized globalized and blow and we never wanted and don't want intervention now but fears are says that it could be too late to stop

this altar fire and flames of conflict raif an option r t damascus syria. more on this with us right now fergus hodgson who's a policy adviser with the future of free nations joins us on the line from around the u.s.a. thanks for being with us fergus reports that the pentagon is reading its forces come after president for pardon as we've been reporting all week said strikes in syria would be a mistake by the contradiction do you think. he was to be. so he's not willing to make. near future but he is basically making make an appearance that he is all conscious of this problem and at least. not not not being seen to be ignoring it even if he knows that he's in a no win situation it's for a little he can do to resolve it he wants make it clear it is at least considering it not it not ignoring it i want to what it is that they're actually considering

what military options are there do you think that's a very question at this point if you've ruled out if strikes and you're a no fly zone and you're not going to have a direct invasion because you think that's just a question right now you're once in a stalemate and. you're so diplomatic relations always come to an end it looks as if it is a stalemate it depends really a lot more almost more on what happens in the states and what happens in syria because given the upcoming u.s. elections they will have a strong impact on the calculation. as a suggest then as you just alluded to know us defense officials admit that this no fly zone some of what they did in libya would be a challenge the saying because of the syrian army strength it would require additional military force is it simply the cost and manpower that's holding washington back or is there more to it that we're not thinking about here. well i just think it's unpredictable alchemy i think it could be very unpopular this is that even if the u.s. were to bring in airstrikes and get involved it doesn't seem to be

a very good outcome no matter what you do you know even if you were to overthrow the regime assad is a stable situation so it's a follow up and i'm not sure that obama's is willing to have a long term occupation again at least not right away like i said until there's a great a public support for that kind of venture the u.s. is about to start for the sanctions on syria now targeting the energy sector who will that undermine first the assad regime all the syrian people who are the syrian people of course this is this has been having for a long time now and they've just been ratcheting up the negative impact it's just a very unfortunate and counterproductive exercise trade sanctions because of course it makes people poorer we trade to increase our prosperity or wealth and the more you read these are the more you hurt the people who who are most in most in need and so this is this has been done before you know it's been done in iraq thirteen years and it was a failure the translations are very poor track record and so they really just. get

even more concerning if the americans are you know thinking straight is that why haven't trade sanctions often used to bring the people on board with the leader as though these foreigners are hurting us why did they did this stifling of our opportunities they call us getting our ass if we don't like this intervention it's a can't productive intervention and i read a poll saying that a majority of syrians support assad staying in power which well you know we don't much of the western press i've also discovered also seen of large rallies in favor of him which follows that line as well and as you say you don't see a lot of western press just broadly. we've heard so much about the city of homs completely devastated so says as well the humanitarian chief you say it's a terrible situation there how is it possible. humanitarian corridors without foreign interference like we saw in libya right what this is this is what we want

it will be saying that the syrians i would like to negotiate on the margins a jury have arab. people be people really people in the observers even if they're being very critical even of this and it is looking at a group i want on the fringes that will go is there some of the things you're going to be invaded then like basically stop there are so. good push especially candidate direction of getting you know aid in the ear even if it seems like a little. bit ugly to work even with on the fringes or i think for your thoughts to be on the program focused on the policy advisor the future of freedom foundation thank you for the syrian conflict also dominating talks at the u.n. security council where libya has been accused of training in preparing syrian militants discussions also touched on nato bombing campaign over libya last year during which more than one hundred civilians fell victim to a lions air raid instance the organization is refusing to investigate these reports

in new york covering anything. a new report out 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 libyan 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 fates how these or the casualties that this report was referring to another russian bastard to the united nations batali churkin also went on to say that water has not yet been established nearly or more than a year after a nato carried out its airstrikes to allegedly bring on more peace a peaceful and secure circumstance to libya says situation is still very dangerous

when you're the one i was going to tell you 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 revolutionaries and the people are sent to syria so it's hard to legal government this is completely unacceptable according to all legal basis the security undermines the stability of the middle east we think there isn't syria and therefore there is an issue is 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 safe for by any means. that of libya's interim government threaten to use force to bring powerful tribal leaders to heal after they declared autonomy from oil rich region in the east and leader of the national transitional council went on to claim that

progress. if you feel traitors were behind the move but patrick hayes from the online or world affairs magazine spiked says he only sees hypocrisy almost couldn't make it ultimate stuff. now the head of the national transitional council there i thought only himself to the minister of justice under gadhafi himself threatening to use force against you know the kind of the eastern region. because they decided to act autonomous lee i think that's very worrying. this is an unelected representative saying this and you know how can you justify this you know how can he actually say i'm any better than gadhafi if i'm going to use brutal force if 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 staggering i mean really here the hypocrisy there is just there for everyone to see and that's

why very sadly we're seeing pockets of libya practically just splinter off into sixty states and go back to you know go back to the kind of tribal divisions that they had before libya was kind of unified as a state in the fifty's well commenting on the situation in libya. beirut based research for the syracuse university says that what's happening in libya right now is what caused an intervention in the first place. 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 thinkers 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 libya and there is 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 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 representing the british people in parliament prefers to work at it seems someone please rejoin the perks of the commons a bit too much with the late brawl just one of a number of alcohol induced episodes correspondent laura smith looks that why the word order is much more likely to be heard in the bar of the chamber. actually yes rukus 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 drugged on power all simply truck we have heard about stories of from physical

carriage through the virgin lookers which. would find me any other job where you could get that drunk work an obvious x. thirteen year parliamentary veteran lembit pic 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 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 parts for the use of the people who work here and the guests the most notorious among them is a stranger as far away and he's been rival parties often clashed 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 will is still an m.p. and m.d.c. 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. . pull farrelly admitted wrestling a newspaper seller near a parliament bar although he maintains he wasn't drunk mitri simply 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

under a nine thousand pounds per employee and it's it's a work of about stripping quid for a steak and chips every member of the public or seven we watched probably be subsidising the nitrogen vulture m.p.'s defend the culture is part of the job high pressure long stretches away from home the hours along people spend a lot of time together on 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. all of which nice the taxpayer wondering whether this is an appeal for calm or atrix request norris made r.t. . had to a website out to stay on top of all our main stories and found plenty of other reports and great videos there as well these stories we've got for you tonight a very different kind of candidate for the russian army it is the military's new high tech broad church in the right zone because they haven't sent morale boost to

soldiers. and international women's day celebrations at full throttle here in russia the country's formula one table pointer spanish female racer says the twenty twelve season. let's take a look at some a world view stories in brief thousands of taiwanese farmers have staged a protest the country's capital against government plans to import u.s. we've been telling a growth drug a newly reelected president some margin joel said he wants to strengthen ties with america by solving which school. i want currently has a ban on us. traces of the controversial attitude which washington says is safe. flooding in southeastern australia has left thousands of people displaced with river levels continuing to rise tonight in new south wales several towns have been declared disaster zones with sydney being hit by the city's heaviest rainfall five

years further south in victoria over six hundred homes are at risk is the deluge threatens the breach makeshift levels. iran's one of the only talks about its nuclear program will fail if the west continues to hit it with sanctions world leaders have agreed to restart international go see oceans which have stalled for over a year now as well as the talks to rands agree to let you inspectors inside a military facility that suspected of atomic weapons work in efforts to try to prove its nuclear program is peaceful u.s. president barack obama for his part 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 eve won't rely on diplomacy much longer i suppose to resume rashi's from the national radio american council who thinks the u.s. administration understands what it will take to keep war from breaking out. and we have seen the situation between iran and the international community be it such a fever pitch we've never been so close to the precipice of war as we are now and i

think that's focused the attention of decision makers not only in washington and tehran but throughout the international community on and investing in a process of sustainable she actions and letting all parties know they need to compromise rather than exchanging ultimatums i think unequivocal statements from the president of the united states some of which we've seen over the last forty eight to seventy two hours is really the only thing that can cause the israeli government back and not issue threats of military action you know the israeli population has been recently pulled in and close to sixty percent are not in favor of a military strike on iran if the united states is not supportive or it's not done with the united states and that's significant leverage for barack obama and perhaps that's one of many reasons why he's come out in recent days and push back against the voices calling for not only our amongst israelis but also within his own congress on the way fear the likelihood of a military confrontation over iran's nuclear program is explored as we talk to the country's deputy foreign minister next.

again we're witnessing increased tension between the u.s. attorneys are really against around us your assessment of the recent statements by president obama and he's really prime minister netanyahu all. of us israeli threats against iran a not new that's a repeating scenario involving the u.s. i'm a zionist country what's important is that we understand the terms and conditions

to which the u.s. president is in an election cycle these threats are for domestic consumption and are intended to influence election results on some of these threats relate to changes taking place in the middle east north africa as well as the arab revolutions which will lead rather peacefully and quietly by the muslim peoples and we currently witnessing political and security changes which of come as a response to popular demand we could america's presence in the region and empowered resistance against zionism and against repressive regimes to live eve is in a very bad situation and netanyahu is incapable of taking decisions or seriously thinking of attacking iran should this unlikely attack ever happen israel would face dire consequences they know this well and netanyahu statements reflect his fears because they are very weak now iran is much stronger than man even in the current circumstances. what are the consequences of

a possible attack by his or. around him you know. we have different retaliation reactions come every we're not convinced that israel has the capability to launch a military attack on iran and we see it as unrealistic if any move against us would be strongly responded to and they would regret it but now there is another but how do you perceive the situation in syria you are accused of sending weapons and elements from the rain army and their revolutionary guard to syria is this true or well that and more with what we have are we have strategic relations with syria which we see as an important state in the resistance access of historical ties with the people and government of syria give us a good insight into the nature of the syrian people who because of their resistance to us israeli domination possess a deep sense of national unity that contrary to what some parties say we do not need to send weapons to syria we are simply articulating our support for the syrian people and the reforms of president bashar al assad we have also said clearly that

we recognize and understand the objectives of the u.s. and zionists and it's vitally important middle east country and we would not allow america to use underestimate country to install new power structures that would upset the balance of power in the region certainly not without the demand and will of the syrian people since america cares only for its own interests on the contrary we've received accurate intelligence from our allies and the tens of us israeli backed trucks loaded with weapons have crossed syria's borders bringing more danger to syria but fortunately syria and the syrian people have been able to face off foreign intervention over the past few months i was rather funny how do you think the situation in syria will end and worst syria heading public at one moment i don't think over the past three months we believe syria has gone through three basic phases first it managed to overcome the security chaos. ase into which

america the zionist regime western states and unfortunately some arab states invested their knowledge intelligence and mass media in an attempt to pushy lare interest but syria managed to overcome this almost two months ago in the second phase before a constitutional referendum syria managed to solve its security problems for the syrian people and government succeeded is evidenced by the constitutional poll. the third phase marks the completion of assad's reforms that we should soon witness parliamentary elections for syria heads towards stability and peace which we're seeing across the country the other parties played all their cards but could make it work for their goal centered on creating chaos in syria what i say is confirmed by the results of the conference held by the so-called friends of syria in june is boy they came out with nothing but we are optimistic and confident that the syrian people and president bashar al assad will succeed and will continue reforms while

facing down foreign interventions and terrorism if for these reasons the national dialogue process should look forward with confidence. about. the foreign troops getting to syria would you be willing to defend it what about hezbollah's feet. that if they're going as the internationally orchestrated crisis began in syria some spoke of foreign intervention but once they saw the reality on the ground they ceased such rhetoric that we strongly reject any foreign intervention in syria and we do believe that syria is capable of defending itself against any such intervention given the constructive and positive steps taken by the regime and the supported perceives from the syrian people in the case of a decision to militarily intervene in syria the region would face a serious crisis of in a very different parties would enter the conflict serving neither syria's nor the

syrian people's purposes nor the stability and security of the region of the world and yet at the moment. there's you know soon as you know i'm banned i'm not on this is not cold those are not patriotic americans or don't like the american flag but this song tells it otherwise. their words through song it says we will stand forever as a nation under the flag. meaning the red white and blue stripes. race today is a salute to the trying to be the coats on the outside. but their heart disease is full of anger. the heart. of all kinds of struggles and they allow the truce. to allow these things to stay there they choose alcohol or the jews drown.

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