shadowy voices in syria out front all around bloody war against the regime as an international envoy seeks to negotiate peace talks between the government and business of. the us electoral system is under scrutiny as experts claim serious false info to read stray scent of the integrity of the upcoming presidential vote question. as debt ridden greece congress retained grasping distance of the eurozone rescue council saw the suicide rates just the public has already bearing the brunt of cuts.

it's three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live on and he said no way with 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 battled neither 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 but as real some notional reports from syria it's not always clear where these calls are coming from. i think. once purely a day of prayer friday has become one of the fines cross the arab spring countries in syria this new tradition has gone even further with activists online giving every friday its own very special name to reflect the union of the street or of

the syrian people and to send a message to the external world of all of the syrian situation and the opinions of same people but the days of names like dignity and honor from last march have come to an end with calls to arm the rebels and the president to come in the main message from those protesting against the regime so a lot of torture people saw a lot of killing people who 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 welcoming many however argue that these hostile messages are a tool to provoke more violence and the steering the country towards civil war is a way of trying to. affect. people might. think. this is the way to prove syrians to go syrians.

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

think you should ask them go ahead i think i heard something on t.v. the 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 physicians groups strangely enough the syrian national carbonation committee the opposition within the country say they have nothing to do with this site so another place where voting is carried out cannot be accessed from syria of course the water is electronic what. to be 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 sic a peaceful solution to the conflict a little bit rules once very called syrian national council represents men who try

to change people's unfairly friday before prayers and god when people feel unity with themselves has become a day for violence around it eventually makes their people on the street weak and the wider with the rhetoric growing stronger every friday many here are starting to question who is really pulling the strings trying to escalate the violence and reflection r.t. damascus. well to libya now where the internal prime minister has thank you as for what he called for men to support in overthrowing or market daffy but the new libyan authorities are facing it on prising of their own from a group of powerful tribal leaders who have declared partial autonomy in the east of the country political analyst pascoe part told r.t. that washington is my point is a little interest in political developments in post in that. we have a little puppet in tripoli. but need to as we call it not will stuff.

he say that is going to intervene in so he's going to be what are the few number to look after two point zero is going to intervene because the people of syria and i got all over again because they are splintering the tragedy in eastern libya has been antagonizing a central government tripoli for decades if not centuries and this is a second what's happening because of its strength or nato doesn't care of course the u.s. the brits and the french don't care as long as they have contracts with tripoli the alliance between especially against between a washington a in paris and the g.c.c. they want to take over and they don't distribute the spoils and who cares about the future of libya is are there marcus is going to be war warring shoots tribal feuds this is going to cool for ever. but sarah marusek a beirut based researcher for syracuse university says that's not happening in

libya now and our western bank government is exactly what prompted foreign military intervention in the first place. 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 when you 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 in other tribes and so it's very difficult on a political solution and it is required for the certainly not a military one. but from moscow you're with artie's still have nowhere to hide british peek into the online activity of the nation but not just how much the taxpayer offering up the spying on. us pray for how medical pora start given the red carpet treatment in india as the sick and destitute helpless. the u.s. is rarely slow to criticize the election process in other countries including graph shows presidential vote last week but in a few months america will have to elect a new leader using a voting system which has a few flaws of its own. it's. one of these men could be president just eleven months from as president if i'm president this president you get 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 calm election night two point three million votes were lost interest. thousand and eight to 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 plagued by rooney as errors we found roughly twenty 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 in four of the old 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 time eternal lections resulted in a record sixty thousand votes being tossed out not counted i think still say the misuse of new electronic optical scan machines was to blame yet again that because price 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 is some problem on election day there should be some way that they can correct so if 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 concerning russia back in december u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said the same thing following russia's parliament reelection the russian people like people everywhere deserve the 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. the upcoming presidential election is also the main focus of debate in crosstalk coming up later this hour peter the bell girls his cast about the prospects of the republican party nominees rivaling proc obama 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 look still 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 of times focus on the economy focus on the economy the economy is a mess it's sort of again it's worth noting that the economy is picking up there is an uptick. no if you say you can ruin your story with you there i mean when we have sixteen trillion dollars in debt that is the economy is not recovering sixteen trillion dollars in debt is not acceptable. the chances are you're being watched it has more c.c.t.v. cameras per person than almost any other nation on earth and now the government is planning to cast its intrusive eye over online activity phone calls and text messages all under the guise of an anti terror law and sorties are better reports it's the taxpayer who may well 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 e-mails texts and phone calls will be

monitored under a new anti terrorist spy plan they 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 towards the government taking control of these are the only place in the world that's got that kind of regulation is china i'm sorry but britain is not sure that 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 little never seen before just what you seem 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 will be stored by broadband and mobile companies but security services will have

real time access at the click of a button secretly living your life with you digital rights groups say believe people living in fear of big brother the problem here is really that good is intrusive and the sort of places where you can see that might be useful could be either it could be a it could be tax it could be to force it could be copyright infringement. and terrorism and serious crime are a tiny subset of the possibilities that you could use information for it's the ones being watched who are paying for it to cybersecurity experts predict it will 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. absolute security isn't it if you're dealing with information which might be required at short notice by law

enforcement and that means that quite a lot of people need to be and. i suspect most of the time is going to be quote unquote secure. also it's highly likely that there will be large scale failures as well if you're typing into eatings private the now the legislation still has to go through parliament the 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 the threat to national security events like the olympics the government's justification so may not be long before what you thought was personal reaches a much wider audience i didn't it london. remember you can always log on to our to check out more news stories in canada on line for you right now i think my wall street protests i took my computer screen thanks to a new video game developer programmers in california cover how you can play are to

the. group of grannies of say. the next year of his and. find out more about the band on our website. there's you know soon as you know i'm going to i know. this is not cold those are not patriotic people like the american flag but this song tells it otherwise. their words through the song it says we will stand forever as a nation under the flag. meaning the red white and blue stripes. is a salute to the trying to be the clips on the outside. but their heart is the scream of anger. the heart. of all kinds of struggles and they allow the

truce. to allow these things to stay there we choose alcohol or the choose drought . this is that people buy at a local store here and they. they open it and they fill it with water over there from that spigot and then and then i think they drink it because it has to because it has alcohol in it and so that into the drink it is actually hairspray. i could leave to live here now you want. nobody could not. know my family. doc. book well those who try nobody could stay here of course i too want.

welcome back if you just joined us it's eighteen minutes past the hour you're watching our israel has asked the u.s. for what happens that could be crucial in a strike on iran's underground nuclear facilities well the something lists including bunker buster bombs and refueling planes that's handed over by benyamin netanyahu during his visit to washington earlier this week the israeli prime minister said no decision on military action has been made but signaled he was running out of patience for other measures to work rocco palmo stressed the need

for diplomacy and the chance of high level nuclear talks with the wrong but the u.s. defense secretary admitted washington is still considering military action saying america has a better chance of striking iran successfully former reagan administration official dr craig roberts says amid all this red hot war rhetoric politicians have forgotten there's no actual proof iran is seeking to build a bomb this is meant to be rare and it is. the combined intelligence estimate of united states government that is genetics opinion of all sixteen intelligence agencies is that i read the ground in nuclear weapons program i think they said in two thousand and three that would be man years ago what the united states has command him is that the red give up its rights as a signature as to the nonproliferation treaty if you sat on the nonproliferation treaty and agree to inspectors you or you have the right to have

nuclear energy and the united states is insisting that iran has to be excluded. by having nuclear energy because united states says that sometime iran might decide to make a dark so the whole thing is just made up this contrived we've got up through four nuclear armed troops they didn't sign the treaty they didn't pull up the rate they were all in good standing with their own states they receive all kinds of aid even you. and india. well some reports suggest to you as has already offered israel advanced weaponry but i want to persuade it not to attack until after america's next president's all accept as our guy conference details an expert opinion on the yourself.

from. well greece has finally agreed a deal with the private investors which will allow it to stave off a default on its debts but the agreement as part of a broader package is needed to read these valid money from the e.u. even if the worst case scenario has been avoided the greeks still have to live with the financial sacrifice that's been forced on them or it is time barred reports. curriculum brucey threatens to throw herself from her office window in downtown athens she and her husband have had their salaries cut have debts and a mortgage they can't pay and now they've just learned their jobs are under threat she was eventually talked down after many hours on the ledge. this is where her own unperceived worked for this organization trying 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 could lose their jobs because of frantic meetings in corridors and offices distressed workers trying 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 you could save greece ok but there's 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 that's dedicated to stopping them line ten eighteen is greece's single volunteer run charity suicide prevention line in two thousand and eleven calls here doubled calls like one that a learner picked up from

a mother standing on the fifth floor of a building threatening to jump she had a family member with it it was hand and receive the benefit and this benefit then if it was about to become outs and she was about to lose her job and said there's nothing i can to what can i do to help what can i do to help myself it's a little bit. more to charity to is short of money it's gone spears 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 program is the funding is throughout the thing because this one is the one thing it's like to leave people so they exist for the problem of the market of the household everyone agrees that greece's road to recovery will be long and painful but greater and greater numbers of greeks worry that the debt the country is in could cost their families much more than just money from boxing actually. look at some other news

from around the world this hour a british an italian hostage has been killed during a failed short rescue attempt in nigeria u.k. nigerian special forces say the two were been executed before they breached that the man who had been working on a construction project in the country's north were abducted last may their kidnappers claim to have links with al qaeda. pakistani authorities have charged some of them on and weirdoes with legally entering and living in the country one of the women is reported to be from yemen another from saudi arabia one of the nationality of the third and they are unknown the women face up to five years in prison if convicted some of bin laden was. last may when u.s. forces raided his residence in the pakistani city of about about. internet footage of a pod of dolphins stranded on a brazilian beach will become an internet hit about thirty dolphins caught in

strong currents aloft up on shore locals and tourists came to the aid of the mountains turning them around and back out to sea incidents like this are just prime extremely rare. well the queues 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 than helping patients at home for your street or takes a look. it's lunchtime at this government hospital in delhi and hundreds of indians are camped outside the medical facility waiting hoping and praying that they might get let inside. go paul 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've been coming to a hospital for the past 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 even the evening now i can't get it done it's impossible. things story isn't unique 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 a skew with point six doctors for every thousand people in india compared to two point six in the united states that means doctors that private hospitals can charge a premium for their services on the other side of delhi at the sidewalk outside this private hospital are clear of one. who needs for a rise recovering from his operation and pay thirty dollars a day for

a bed in this private hospital he says the extra cost is worth it it's easier to you treated here and also i get the medicine on time and many think the indian government is actually widening the gap between rich and poor in their ability to access health care by offering tax incentives and subsidized plans to private hospitals in the hope of attracting medical tourists from abroad many indians believe however the government should focus on getting health care to its own people birthed nor to go to a state or government has succeeded in putting in the number of doctors there is there is no won't go that far more resources are required significant in their best abuse in translating those resources into action. as a nation are raw is well on his way to a full recovery paul thing is losing hope experts say it's down to the government to take care of the poor in india society but as long as the country's public

health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is doomed to live behind preassure either r t new delhi india. coming up here in our t. after this break stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse

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