they. from the world wide web to a nationwide war extremist opposition groups in syria turn to the internet to encourage a bloody battle in the country while the u.n. arab envoy six a diplomatic solution. but oracle's call for an overhaul of the electoral system ahead of this year's presidential poll following reports from millions of deceased and in the logical voters. in the future credit rating agency downgrade greece to restrict a different chapter in the booming optimism of e.u. leaders following the deal pushed through by athens our top stories this hour.

international news in coming live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day syria's exiled opposition has once again rejected a call for donald with the assad regime saying the crisis requires a minute treat solution that diplomatic appeal for talks this time came from the u.n. arab envoy kofi annan who's set to arrive in damascus this weekend and all the battle on the ground continues the war has moved online notion of reports i. once purely a day of prayer writing has become one of the finds 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 because they reflect the opinion of the

street or of the syrian people and to the osce or send a message to the external world of all of the syrian situation. opinions of sane 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 becoming the main message from those protesting against the regime so a lot of torture people saw a lot of killing people and their families are being killed in the front of their eyes so i mean this is just natural to ask. the president coming many however argue that these hostile messages are going to to provoke more foreigners in the steering the country toward civil war and i way to. effect. people might. think. this is the way to prove syria syrians were going to. violence.

or symbolically from the history of syria and of course. all the government protests here in syria have very. few things that they usually know before the day friday the place last time also the prayer and even the clothes they're gathering for and the slogans they're chanting i usually made public. and this thing changes although with. so exactly who is behind these messages. it is now a common subject among people in general not just on t.v. but i don't know specific source human being heard from the people around me my friends but actually television. some yes something well intimate i don't know there are some people who name every friday but it doesn't interest me i think you should ask about your go ahead 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 voted for it it said it represents all of physicians groups strangely enough the syrian national coalition committee the opposition within the country say they have nothing to do with this site oh and other place where voting is carried out cannot be accessed from syria of course the water is electronic what. you've got to be sure 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 just an agenda that's not looking to compromise on seek a peaceful solution to the conflict political was once freely called syrian national council represents a try to change people's mentality friday. on people themselves

it's become a day for romance now as it eventually league so people down the street week. with the rhetoric growing stronger every friday many here are starting to question who is really pulling the strings trying to escalate the violence raphael sheltie damascus. the syrian national council based outside the country says it's receiving financial support and weapons from arab arab states to wage war against assad's forces mark almond visiting professor of international relations from turkey breast milk at university talk a little earlier that he thinks arming the rebels results in more civilian casualties. both money is essential to any we were certain it was a war weapons of course are absolutely vital and one problem for the. persons who have not enough sold those are weapons left the barracks will be turned on so we

need. some little cause this also increases the casualties and creates so much to pitter bloody who are the folks sides are also makes it possible for those of moderation attempts compromise but it's also dangerous for the region because if it still has a saudi arabia and qatar it will broaden our army the rebels in syria what if countries are quite sober and corrupt also perhaps or source loose a source with. the shiites who says no who are looking for work or it's a very dangerous. to libya now and the country's interim prime minister is in washington appealing for u.s. help to drive out remnants of the old regime that's as the new libyan authorities face challenges in holding the country together powerful tribal leaders already declaring something tommy from the capital tripoli political analyst pepe escobar however thinks that washington is no longer interested in the country's political future could we have

a nato puppet in tripoli. for up the needle as we call it not will stuff. he say that is going to intervene in so he's going to be what you know brits will come after two point zero is going to intervene against the people of syria lack of all over again because they are splintering the tribes in eastern libya have been antagonizing the central government tripoli for decades if not centuries and this is a second what's happening because of a sprinter nato doesn't care of course the u.s. the brits and the french don't care as long as they have contracts which ripley the alliance between especially against between a washington. in paris and the g.c.c. they want to take over and then distribute the spoils and who cares about the future of libya as if marcus it is going to be war warring shoots tribal feuds this is going to go on for ever. carty live here in moscow coming up in the

program this is nowhere to hide the case citizens are being watched by big brother as the government aims to snoop on the private lives of the british public like never before. us is reportedly offered israel heavy weaponry in exchange for holding back from attacking iran television signals it's running out of patience with iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. a story still to come but first with eight months to go the race for america's presidency is already in full swing with republican rivals locked in a struggle for nomination alongside smear campaigns and dirty politics is another problem that some of our cake voting system that disregards millions of votes and authorities report now reports there's a growing demand for a revamped election process. one of these men could be president just eleven months from now this present even if i'm president as president i'd say you 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 due 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 a rooney is 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 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 eight turmel lections resulted in a reported sixty eight thousand votes being tossed out not county officials 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'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 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 and. everywhere deserve their rights 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 for r.t. new york the u.s. reportedly proposed giving israel advanced weaponry in return for tel aviv to laying a potential strike on iran bunker buster bombs and long range refueling planes were allegedly on offer during his latest visit to washington the israeli prime minister said his country hasn't decided to attack yet it signaled that patience with iran was wearing thin. in turn stressed the need to let the economic sanctions run their course this comes following an agreement between iran and several international powers to restart for walks on iran's alleged nuclear weapons program reza marashi from the national iranian american council says it's crucial for regional stability that israel's warlike cries. after three decades of little or no communication between iran and the united states there's no question that it's going to be a very challenging path that all sides are facing and you know i think being on the

precipice of war has to really focus the attention of the various decision makers in various capitals and focus them specifically on the need for all parties to compromise that there's a difference between what the united states and the international community are asking for and what the israelis would prefer and these negotiations are going to be an opportunity to figure out how to try and square that circle i think it's safe to say that any honest objective analyst would agree that iran will not give up its nuclear program in its entirety but it will agree to limitations that are monitored and verified by the international atomic energy agency diplomacy isn't supposed to produce instant success you're supposed to invest in a process over a sustained period of time where confidence building measures that are reached in the interim can facilitate trust building even when i was serving in the u.s. government the israelis were one of a handful of countries that were never really interested in giving diplomacy a fair shake and that's one of the many reasons why is really ensure the dawn of wine with the obama administration they've done a very good job of trying to take actions that would lessen the possibility of diplomacy being successful but the obama administration understands better than

anyone right now what's at stake is taken not people steps publicly and privately to push back and i'm hoping that we're going to see more of that continue because if it doesn't they're going to continue to try to bully you have to feel like someone is watching you well if you're a u.k. citizen the government is attempting to step up its public surveillance policy even snooping on your personal e-mails despite c.c.t.v. cameras already a major fact of u.k. life there now plans to store personal data including information from social networking sites and those of these are the been reports it's the taxpayer who could be footing the bill. 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 their 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 campaign is condemned this is the first step towards the government taking control of it the only place in the world has got that kind of regulation is china i'm sorry but britain is not child of 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 see in 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 and security services will have real time access at the click of a button secretly living your life with you there digital rights groups say it will leave people living in fear of big brother but the problem here is really that it

is intrusive and the sort of places where you can see that might be useful could be either it could be anything could be tax it could be to force it could be copyright infringement. terrorism and serious crime are 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. absolute security is an idiot and if you're leaving with information which might be required at short notice by law enforcement then that means that quite a lot of people need to be involved or i suspect most of the time is going to be quote unquote secure. there also it's highly likely that there will be large scale failures as well if you're typing into things private but now the legislation still

has to go through parliament the previous government's wish for its surveillance where it was fought off in two thousand and eight pieces of data safety the greater fear this time we're told is this threat to national security events like the olympics the government's justification so it may not be long before what you thought was personal reaches a much wider audience i've given it r.t. london. on a website you can find plenty more news from the u.k. clearly while the country's politicians may need some looking after themselves british m.p. seem to be drunk not only on the power with alcohol related scandals in westminster become regular topics in the tabloid press. plus russia's president elect and renowned sports lover let him be uprooted and joins me to meet bill evans silvio berlusconi to check out one of the most difficult bobsled tracks of the venue for the next winter olympics all that after trying his luck in the by

a small. e.u. leaders have been dealt a painful slap in the face off of the credit rating agency fitch that just done great increases raising to restrict today from the second lowest level on the scale just hours earlier french president nicolas sarkozy had claimed the greek debt crisis had been solved in front of athens critical what to do with private creditors that allowed the country to narrowly escaped default but william anderson associate professor at frostburg state university told me to lead it that he believes there are many reasons to remain skeptical i don't care how systematic it is or how complicated these debt swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows that just because sir cosy claims that it isn't

a deep throat means absolutely nothing he's a politician i don't believe the markets are going to reflect the reality is best they can of the situation i think because these folks are the ones that actually have money to gain or to lose and so they're going to make decisions based. on which going to be best for their financial future if they're not looking at a politically the european leaders are trying to put a political spin on this but what you have in the end is that. the taking of assets that are worthless and you have a central by tending that these assets mean something that these assets really are valuable when in fact they're not and then they try to monetize the whole thing and then pretend as though they've solved the problem they've solved nothing they've actually made it worse because they won't admit what is going or. the eurozone members were quick to rejoice the deal calling it a breakthrough in rescuing the debt ridden country but the parachute provides

little optimism for the greeks whose financial woes continue to freefall as 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 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 role and prosy who worked for this organization tried to provide housing support for people on low incomes over 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 a 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 to put all our

families will be all employed if we 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 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 leno picked up from another standing on the fifth floor of a building threatening to jump said a family member had sowed with their it was handicapped and received the benefit and this benefit benefit was about to be cuts and he was about to lose it all and said there's not a nickel to what can i do to help me what can i do to help myself it's in there that all the suffering what the charity to is short of money it's volunteers 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 now is the planning strategy because this one is that the one thing it's like killing people it's a cycle for the economy of the life of the house for 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 tom watson r.t. . and as a thin struggles to put a halter on its runaway debt sunbelt the methods it's employing in achieving that among them is economic analyst strake us who says the benefit of austerity in greece was wrong dry long ago. but employment is skyrocketing and a problem that we face of our economy our society years the fact that there's been a lot of instability and the like of this ability i think the great people have really reached the age and it's the end of the envelope for more austerity kalki

more of that what we really need to see here is a trick there are tax evasion we need a marshall plan to stabilize the economy and get started a little bit and we also need to attract foreign investment and start exporting our way out of this place. and then from one country in the grip of austerity measures to italy's capital where thousands of gallons a test against government cuts general strike was proposed by a metal workers union against plans to scale back rules giving staff more job security becomes a part of a raft of measures to overhaul italian economy changes to labor market conditions expected to be passed later this month. the forces in south korea are conducting security drills ahead of a two day summit on the use of nuclear power around the world and even some fifty countries are expected to attend with last year's focus human disaster likely to dominate the talks discussions will focus on how to strengthen atomic safety and prevent acts of nuclear terrorism. overcrowding in public hospitals is just one

of many ailments the indian health care system is suffering with no sign of a cure the huge gap between rich and poor forces scores of people to queue for months to get affordable treatment all that amid growing discontent the government is encouraging medical tourism and forgetting about patients at home as r.t. reports. 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. 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 they were going to. be in coming to me in hospital costs three months early in the morning with an empty stomach for different kinds of tests are used to come in the morning to get an appointment and we had food in 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 without leave as many indians who are technically above the poverty line but still extremely for with no affordable health care. there is a severe shortage of doctors in india would stun study indicating that there could be as few as point six doctors for every thousand people in india compared to two point six million ited states that means dr that private hospitals can charge a premium for their services. on the other side of the sidewalk outside this private hospital are clear of one. who needs for rides recovering from his operation and paid thirty dollars a day for a bed in this private hospital he says the extra cost isn't worth it it's easier to

you treated here and also i get the medicine on time on many things the indian government is actually widening the gap between rich and poor in their at philippi to accept health care by offering tax incentives and subsidized plan to private hospitals in the hope of attracting medical tourists from oprah many indians believe however the government should focus on getting health care to its own people birthed no particular state or government has really succeeded in putting in the i think we're number of doctors there is there is no doubt that far more resources are required significant capacities in translating those resources into action. as noonish more 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 thigh but as long as the country's public health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind preassure either new delhi india. also you know if you must go up next the students are in

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