issues that so much of. which are called on it. is the republicans on along this march to november is very likely former massachusetts governor mitt romney will eventually capture the. salary voices in syria call for an all out war against the regime and international envoys seeks to negotiate peace talks between the government and opposition. there was a lateral system is under scrutiny as experts claim serious flaws in florida registration but the integrity of coming presidential both into myself. and at that rate increase staggered with prospering distance of the series on the rescue can't afford to slide race into the public is already bearing the brunt of.

it watching our live from moscow where it's two pm our top story this hour the joint u.n. arab league envoy to syria kofi annan will seek talks between syria's opposition and the government when he travels to damascus on saturday and data leader bashar al assad has signaled his willingness to talk but some of his key opponents have angrily dismissed the idea out of hand calls to fight on against the regime aren't going away from those new reports from syria it's not always clear where these calls are coming from. i thought. once purely a day of prayer friday has become one of the pines across the arab spring countries in syria this new tradition has gone even further with activists online giving every friday its own very special name it martha reflect the union of the street of

the syrian people and to send a message to the external world of all of the syrian situation and all the opinions of seeing people but the days of names like to see and from last march have come to an end with calls to arm the rebels and kill the president they come in the main message from those protesting against the regime so a lot of torture people saw a lot of killing people and saw their families are being killed in front of their eyes so i mean this is just natural to ask for is accusing the president but coming up many however argue that these hostile messages are a tool to provoke more violence and the steering the country towards simple rule is a way of trying to. affect. people of my own people think. this is the way to syrians to kill syrians.

and violence what noble thing some atheist. or symbolically in the history of syria and of course to read some political purposes over and to government protests here in syria have a very spontaneous nature the raw few things that they usually don't before the day friday the place last time also the prayers and even because they're gathering for the slogans they're chanting i usually make public in advance and this thing changes although with the basis. so exactly who is behind these messages but it is now the common subject among people in general not just on t.v. but i don't know specific source him and then i heard from the people around me my friends are actually television. some yes on t.v. well and i'm like i don't know there are some people can name every friday but it

doesn't interest me i think you should ask them. i think i heard something on t.v. . the trail led us to a website called syrian revolution it is here that the name of the coming friday is usually published supposedly after people vote for it it said it represents all of positions groups strangely enough the syrian national called a nation committee the opposition within the country say they have nothing to do with this site oh another place where voting is carried out cannot be accessed from syria of course the water is electronic what. about the sure it is real or not it's honest or not while it's not clear who really stands behind the idea some names like china is killing us or no veto to just an agenda that's not looking to compromise on seek a peaceful solution to the conflict political rules once very cold syrian national

council represents me to try to change peoples and prolly friday before. when people feel themselves has become would be for a moment and eventually reach their people and the weak and the wider with the rhetoric growing stronger every friday many here are starting to question what is really pulling the strings trying to escalate the violence. damascus. but to libya now where the interim prime minister thank you asked for what he called member support and overthrow moammar gadhafi. but the new army in authorities are facing an uprising on their own from a group of powerful tribal leaders who've declared partial or pommy in the east of the country political analysts pepe escobar told r.t. that washington is likely to take no interest in political developments and post a death in the. we have a little puppet in tripoli. but need to as we call him not will stuff up the whole

show you he's saying that he's going to intervene and so he's going to be what kind of you know where to look at that the two point zero is going to intervene against the people of syria and i go all over again because they are splintering the tribes in eastern libya have been antagonizing a central government tripoli for decades if not centuries and this is a second what's happening because of the sprinter nato doesn't care of course the u.s. and the brits and the french don't care as long as they have contracts with tripoli alliance between especially against between washington. and paris and the g.c.c. they want to people over in this tribute the spoils and who cares about the future of libya as a democracy is going to be war warning shoots tribal feuds that is going to go on for ever. and sarah marusek a beirut based researcher for syracuse university says that what's happening in

libya now under a while back government is exactly what prompted foreign military 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 this is a true ation in libya is the 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 fingers 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 and other tribes and so it's very difficult and

a political solution is required for this certainly not a military one. your authority advice from moscow still had for you know over time high risk parties to the online activity of the nation find out just how much the players off enough to spy on. pray for health medical tourists are given the red carpet treatment in india has been sick and that's to look on help with the report on that later this hour. but first the u.s. is rarely slow to criticize the election process and other countries including russia as presidential vote last week but in a few months america will have to work using a voting system which has a few flaws of its own or it is really important to explain. one of these men could be president just eleven months from now this present even if i'm president as president of state so you've got is somebody who can actually get it done in washington as americans head to the polls in two thousand and twelve determine to

take part in democracy millions of votes may end up rejected or thrown away com election night point two million votes were lost in two thousand and eight do voter registration problems david bakker is the director of elections initiatives at the pew center on the states he says america's nineteenth century paper based voter registration system has left the nation's registration rolls pleaded by errors we found roughly forty four million records that are no longer up to date mostly because people have moved in some cases because people have died and we found fifty one million eligible voters who aren't on the rolls but one for of the citizens united states a new report on america's quote inaccurate costly and inefficient voting system also found nearly two million dead individuals listed as eligible u.s. voters and nearly three million citizens registered in more than one state we're

seeing voting problems during the two thousand and nine term elections resulted in a record sixty thousand votes being tossed out not counted i fish will say the misuse of new electronic optical scan machines was to blame yet again the biggest prize would likely be the integrity of america's free and fair elections we should assume that every citizen that is eligible to vote can vote and if there's some problem on election day there should be some way that they can correct so that they're not told i don't see you in the book even though you are a citizen even though you are eighteen your vote isn't going to count. back in december u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said the same thing following russia's parliament reelection the russian people like people are. everywhere is served their right to have their voices heard and their votes counted and come this november it all starts with you american citizens will be counting on us leaders to

stand by their words. r.t. new york. but the outcome of the u.s. presidential election is also the made focus of debate in cross talk coming up in just over an hour here an artsy bitter little grills his cast about the prospects of republican party nominees rivaling crocker and how important the state of the u.s. economy will be to the final outcome. republicans have more money than god but they can't produce anyone that is even mildly attractive i mean obama looks to looks like a rock star next to these guys. i think a lot of the really strong viable republican candidates are waiting for the next election cycle i think twenty sixteen you're going to be see some really good candidates but right now the economy is such a mess that no matter who is elected in two thousand and twelve is going to have a very hard fight on their hands and could be committing political suicide everybody wants to. use it

a couple times focus on the economy focus on the economy the economy is a mess it's a rich again it's worth noting that the economy is picking up there is an uptick obviously it's no if you're seeing through the to just agree with you there i mean when we have sixteen trillion dollars and that is the economy is not recovering sixteen trillion dollars in debt is not acceptable. in the u.k. the chances you're being watched and chances are i should say you're being watched is more c.c.t.v. cameras per person than almost any other nation on earth and now the government is planning to cast its interest of i over online activity phone calls and text messages all under the guise of an anti terror law sorties either bennett reports that the taxpayer pay in more ways than one. soon you could be watched everywhere you go in the u.k. even where the cameras can't see you all your emails texts and phone calls will be

monitored under a new anti terrorist spy plan the government will know which websites you visit it will even snoop on your private facebook messages no matter who you are all your personal data will be stored for a year in a massive surveillance operation privacy campaigners condemn this is the first step toward the government taking control of these events you know the only place in the world has got that kind of regulation is china i'm sorry but britain is not china britain's already one of the most watched societies in the world the number of c.c.t.v. cameras is estimated at nearly two million now the government wants to monitor all electronic communication as well including social media taking surveillance to a level never seen before just what you sane calls and messages won't be kept but the government will know exactly who you speak to when you do it and where you are

it'll be stored by broadband and mobile companies and security services will have real time access at the click of a button secretly living your life with you digital rights groups say it will leave people living in fear of big brother but the problem here is really that diddy's intrusive and the sort of places where you can see that might be useful could be good or it could be anything could be tax it could be to force it could be copyright infringement. and terrorism and serious crime nor a tiny subset of the possibilities that you could use this information for it's the ones being watched who are paying for it to cybersecurity experts predict it'll cost taxpayers over a billion dollars to be spied on even then there's no guarantee they'll be safe from other prying eyes any person who guarantees. you absolutely curity is an idiot and if you're dealing with information which might be required short motives by law

enforcement then that means that quite a lot of people need to be involved although i suspect most of the time is going to be quote unquote secure they're all thorough it's highly likely that there will be large scale failures as well if you're typing into eatings private for now the legislation still has to go through parliament previous governments wish for a surveillance where it was fought off in two thousand and eight over fears of data safety the greater fear this time we're told is a threat to national security with events like the olympics and governments justification so it may not be long before what you thought was personal reaches a much wider audience either bennett's artsy london. remember you can always log onto our to dot com to check out more news stories i'm calling on all mine for you right now occupy wall street protests occupy computer screens thanks to

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for each day. here with our to you live from moscow it's eighteen minutes past two pm here in the russian capital israel has lasted you asked for what happens like could be crucial in a strike on iran's underground nuclear facilities a shopping list including bunker buster bombs and refueling planes was handed over by binyamin netanyahu during his visit to washington earlier this week the israeli prime minister said no decision on military action has been made but this signal he was running out of patience for other measures to work drunk obama stress the need

for diplomacy and the chance of high level uclear talks with the wrong u.s. defense secretary however admitted washington is still considering military action saying america has a better chance of striking the wrong successfully former reagan administration official dr cried roberts says amid all this ramped up war rhetoric politicians have forgotten there's no actual proof iran is seeking to build a bomb. it's not clear if it really is used in an. the combined intelligence estimate of united states government that is the analysis opinion of all sixteen intelligence agencies is that iran abandon its nuclear weapons program i think they said in two thousand and three that would be man years ago but the united states is a man it is a rare give up its rights as a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty if you sat in the nonproliferation

treaty and agree to inspectors you or you have the right to. nuclear energy and the united states is insisting that a red has to be excluded from having nuclear energy because united states says it's unfair and iran might decide to make a box so that old saying it is just made up this contrived we've got. three or four nuclear armed characters they didn't sign the treaty they didn't pull it for eight and they're all in good standing with united states they receive all kinds of eighty eight we have israel. and india. meanwhile some reports of the u.s. has already offered israel advanced weaponry only to persuade it's not to attack until after america's next presidential election that i think that contradicts expert opinion on this.

will. greece has finally agreed to deal with private investors which will allow it to stave off default on its debts agreement as part of a broader package needed to release well out money from the e.u. but even if the worst case scenario has been avoided greeks still have to live with the financial sacrifice that's been forced on them or just tom barton reports. curriculum brucey threatens to throw herself from her office window in downtown athens she and her husband have had their salaries cut out of debts and a mortgage they can't pay and now they've just learned their jobs are under threat she was a venture he talked down after many hours on the ledge. this is where her all and

proceed work and this organization tried to provide housing support for people on low incomes or they did until two weeks ago when the government announced this place was closing all over seven hundred staff here couldn't lose their jobs because of frantic meetings in corridors and offices distressed workers try to find out what will happen to them based organisation has been going strong for sixty years and it's not fair to send their money to other departments they want to take our money to cover other holes they want to take money for other necessities put all our families will be unemployed if we could save greece ok but there is no way that money will fill the gap with the old so stacked against them some desperate greeks even contemplate ending it all. and this is the only phone line in the country dedicated to stopping a line ten eighteen is greece's single volunteer run charity suicide prevention line in two thousand and eleven calls here doubled calls like one the to learn or

picked up from a mother standing on the fifth floor of a building threatening to jump said a family member or with it was hand the cards and receive the benefit and this benefit then if it was about the cards and she was about to those who had sold and said there's nothing i can do what can i do to help me what can i do to help myself it's a they don't. want the charity to is short of money it's gone tears unsure of their future although many greeks grudgingly accept the need for austerity they're adamant that m.p.'s should combine compassion. with the cuts the main problem is the funding is throughout the city because this one is the working it's like killing people it's a suicidal for the problem of the market and the house or everyone agrees that greece is road to recovery will be long and painful but greater and greater numbers of greeks worry that the country is in could cost their families much more than

just money. on. some international news for you this hour a british and italian hostage killed during a failed joint rescue attempt in nigeria u.k. and nigerian special forces say that she had been executed before they reached them the men who'd been working on a construction project in the country's north were doctored last may the kidnappers claim to have links with al qaeda. pakistani authorities have charged osama bin laden's widows with legally entering and living in the country one of the women is reported to be from yemen another from saudi arabia the nationality of the third unknown the women face up to five years in prison if convicted some of bin laden was killed last may when u.s. forces raided his residence in the pakistani city. about. it's an effort is a part of dolphins stranded on a brazilian beach has become an internet hit about thirty dolphins caught in strong

currents were washed up on shore locals and tourists came to the aid of the mountains turning them around and funding them back out to see incidents like this are described. there. appears outside india's hospitals are just one sign of the huge gap between rich and poor and many accuse the government of being more worried about attracting medical tourists and helping patients out hope archies british reader takes a look. it's lunchtime at its government hospital in delhi and hundreds of indians are camped outside the medical facility waiting hoping and praying that they might get let inside. pulse thing hasn't been working for three months and claims that he was supposed to have an operation for his hernia today but now doctors are telling him that his operation will cost almost three times more than he initially thought i remember. i've been coming to

a hospital post three months early in the morning with an empty stomach for different kinds of tests i used to come in the morning to get an appointment for five in the evening now i go and get it done it's impossible. things story is that you need every year millions of indians wait outside of government hospitals hoping to get the treatment they need according to the supreme court indians below the poverty line are supposed to get access to free health care and government hospitals but that leaves many indians who are technically above the poverty line but still extremely poor with no affordable health care. there is a severe shortage of doctors in india with some study indicating that there could be as few as point six doctors for every thousand people in india compared to two point six in the united states that means dr that private hospitals can charge a premium for their services on the other side of jelly the sidewalks outside this private hospital are clear of one. recovering from his operation and pay

thirty dollars a day for a bed in its private hospital he says he extra cost it's worth it it's easier to get treated here and also i get the medicine on time many think the indian government is actually widening the gap between rich and poor in their ability to act that health care by offering tax incentives and some of the atlanta private hospitals in the hope of attracting medical tourists promote brought many indians believe how operate the government should focus on getting health care to with own people birth nor to go to a state or government has really succeeded in putting in the adequate number of doctors there is there is no i won't go that far more resources are required significant and capacities in translating those resources and direction. as money shore ra is well on his way to a full recovery go paul thing is losing hope experts say it's down to the government to take care of the poor in india but as long as the country's public

health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind pressure either r t new delhi india for example of our top stories coming your way after the short break stay with r.t. . you're.

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