a change of tone in syria the arab league backs the international envoys call for both sides to lay down their arms and start talking but the opposition once again rejects the idea of talking to asa. gadhafi forces and rebel fighters are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by u.n. report on the libyan conflict with investigators also looking into nato airstrikes . also optimism about the grim death write down proves premature as it happened suffers a fresh downgrade from vigil ratings agency with moody's going even further declaring grazing the fault and. if you think the west might start to work with iran.

it should be. used of soaking fear to get the american public in the mood for a new war a military strikes on iran are firmly back on the table. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with the rain and joshing the man having the international effort to and violence in syria want an immediate cease fire involving both rebels and government forces and open talks the call comes from the chief of the arab league and the u.n. arab and boy kofi annan who were meeting ahead of allan's mission to damascus both also spoke out against any move towards media style foreign intervention but there's more you can often are reports from syria there are forces at work who hold the opposite view. ahead of his visit to syria kofi annan who's traveling to the

country as the joint arab league envoy has announced that his mission's main goal will be to end the violence by persuading the warring sides to speak to each other he's also said that he believes that a solution to the country's long running crisis lies in a political settlement but hopes are fading already that this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council a turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as a legitimate representative of the syrian people has said that anon's comments and his idea to find their way out of crisis through dialogue are disappointing while syrian people he's been massacred every day here in the country but hunger you has also said that any political solution will only work in syria if it's a company by military pressure on the regime of bashar al assad calls to give more weapons to the rebels and to provide them with any help they need have become especially loud after the rebels withdraw from the baba amr neighborhood in hopes

heart of the conflict following the army's operation there saudi arabia and carter have been among the most active supporters of the militarization of the conflict in syria calling the idea to on the rebels an excellent one who recently heard a lot about foreign weapons system here in syria and foreign volunteers and security officers captured in hopes following claims by the free syrian army that it's already received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from the west meanwhile kofi annan has been warning that further militarization would only make things worse express in his hope there's no one is very seriously thinking of using force in this situation but it seems that some are considering this as an option figure as former presidential candidate and senator john mccain has called on air strikes on syria to save innocent lives here in the country although official washington d. drew out military intervention as an option the u.n. estimates that around seven thousand people have been killed in the clashes between the two. and the opposition here in syria the clashes that's been lost and for

a year now already the opposition activists have been saying all the time that the regime of bashar al assad has been suppressing syrian people civilians innocent people while officially damascus has always been insisting that it's fighting against armed terror groups operating in the country which is expected of coffee and then will spend two days here in syria will meet president bashar al assad and some members of the syrian opposition within the country it's not yet clear whether he will travel outside damascus security forces on high alert fearing any provocations and terror attacks. one month after washington sided with the rebels senior u.s. intelligence officials have acknowledged and say with confidence that the opposition represents a majority of the syrian people lawrence davidson a professor of middle east history at west chester university says some of president opponents reject talks because they are position is steadily weakening.

perhaps they have talked to the this saudis and the americans and the brits and and they've come to the conclusion that these these groups will continue to back them and therefore they'll just bide their time they're in a very weak position. they're out of the country their numbers of armed men under their command are limited they cannot win against the government militarily win against the government. the government is attempting to co-opt the moderate the moderate protesters with you know promises of widespread reforms which if implemented would go a long way to satisfy your regional demands of the opposition if implemented so the armed groups now really. don't have

a concession i mean i don't think they are backed by the majority of the people in syria even the protesters they and commission looking into last year's levy of conflict has found both forces loyal to the lately new leader monocle dopy and opposition fires committed war crimes and also recommend a more investigation into nato air campaign which killed and wounded thousands robert naiman from the u.s. base just a foreign policy group believes foreign powers should have been held accountable long ago. in all these conflicts we have a pattern of a kind of victor's justice the in examining the war crimes on all sides of the conflicts include not just libyan sides of the conflict but also all foreign sides of the conflict nato has never been held to account for the deaths of civilians in air strikes in libya and many people say this western in a military intervention is dangerous among other things to kill civilians it could

lead to a breakup you know no no or a true although that could never happen there would never be a breakup of the country well you know no no what we see and that you know the army . the arming of the external our new army. help bring us to this point. coming up later in the program they uprising hailed as a when a democracy turns into a grab for power. here the symbolic symbol part of the democratic process with politicians exploiting ethnic divisions to achieve their goals. we report on palestinian children learning their first tough lessons of life thanks so long and hard again the journey to school. us president obama's quest for diplomacy with iran over its nuclear program has failed to quell talks of a pending military confrontation statements from america's top defense officials suggest a strike on iran is in the planning stage and could use

a type of bomb that has never been seen before and which is as they say it's working on reports the u.s. has a strong record of persuading the public that war is the way. fish are a popular pet i'm on he was more veterans like map a sure row so the nerves of some of the roughly one hundred seventy thousand american soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder the u.s. army flag has one hundred eighty three campaign ribbons on those one hundred eighty three ribbons each represent wars when you compare that to the way the two hundred thirty six years that we've actually been around as a country we're talking about you know a war on average once every year and three months serving americans are on permanent standby to deploy to carry out warfare on command as the u.s. has a bone to pick with one enemy after the other from the soviet union and the chabi

in this thread was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we are completely fantastical it was always available as a global conspiracy against which to justify any smaller untag it is out of the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait air strikes against saudi and forces our war on terror. begins when i try to select a target some military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should get out these air defenses with a defense budget that surpasses the military expenditure of all other countries combined. no other nation drums up war as consistently as america and while people are still responding in recovering from the violence that's committed in one place or even in the same place we're launching new operations and more atrocities in different parts of the world a military industrial complex worth billions of dollars is largely america's

driving force. deeply rooted in the system it would serve no purpose if there was no one to fight if there were another war enemies last there would be raw sort of a sense of. mission frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i brought here by the country when there are no enemies trying to put together the evil empire again and do in a syria what we're doing now in libya we've got to overthrow this guy threat that iran poses us year in and year out americans are convinced that the u.s. has to remain on the defense were petrified of death by terrorism so should i don't think i think a lot of americans wish we spent more money on war finding the next target is never difficult we are inventing the nation of iran as an enemy as a threat to the united states as a sister of nuclear weapons it is not exist

a nation that has not attacked another thirty in literally centuries and has no capability or desire to attack ours the g.d.p. the west might turn to iran iran is the one iran it should be iran the us has been picking and choosing which countries to intervene in for centuries as the list of nations that america loves to hate expands the concept that no war or is also an option seems to have been forgotten just as it sure can i. guess conflicts ways across the world have left a trail of military bases in their wake often not even in the countries involved in fighting i look at the role of the global web of bases and how they affect host nations special documentary coming up on r.t. later this hour. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is a protein that. the early twenty first

century military bases the network of military bases all around the forms the empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases of our of the noises our northeast of those of all the us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these few. since the into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide

a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals to get everything you needed. success for some default for others greece is experiencing its latest slap in the face from a ratings agency with moody declaring athens in default on its debt that's after the country finally seal the deal with private investors which is considered to be the biggest debt write down in history the agreement reduces it reported by over one hundred billion euros and the first to voice doubts about the deal was fitch ratings agency which downgraded athens to restricted to full willing andersen associate professor at frostburg state university believes manny reasons to remain skeptical. here how systematic it is or how complicated it swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows that just because serco z. claims that it isn't a do fault means absolutely nothing it's

a politician 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 would be best for their financial future they're not looking at it politically the european leaders are trying to put a political spin on this but what you have in the end is it for the taking of assets that are worthless and you have a central bank tending that these assets mean so think 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 solved the problem they've solved nothing to have actually made it worse because they won't admit what is going. to get out of dallas nick practice as there are still a lot of questions greece needs to deal with aside from the debt swap deal. because

a lot of moving parts here the but the vehicle is the first part then we have structural reforms which frankly have been made for forty years the privatization process which hasn't really begun with any great momentum and then the worst part of it is the tax hikes and of course the cuts in wage the first thing you need is a little bit as the bill would be and visibility in the sense that people are afraid to in this steve because we may return to a drachma sometime soon and that could mean a devastating devaluation and a loss of money so we need some stability in the eurozone we need the list these are in from the european union leaders and we ourselves here have to take some responsibility and put together a medium term economic plan so we know how to climb out of these very still despite all of these hundred and thirty billion by i think it's going to have the spike behavior of close to one hundred billion still a shortfall of seven billion you don't want to make that up with taxes later today makes keyser in states herbert revealed

a scheme which have the grace mask its massive debt to join the e.u. over ten years ago and how it's orchestrator banks a tidy profit. goldman secret greece loan shows to sinners as client unravels on the day the two thousand and one deal was struck the government of greece owed the bank about six hundred million euros more than that two point eight billion euros of our owed by then the price of the transaction a derivative that disguised the loan and that goldman sachs persuaded greece not to test with competitors had almost doubled to five point one billion euros well this was greece is nine eleven the day they met goldman sachs it was them packing the sovereignty and the future of the nation of greece penalties no my paintings yes.

a long and dangerous practice call him back that's the daily slog for a group of arab children in israel forced to watch their classmates enjoy the luxury provided transportation as are these poles here explains the uphill climb isn't just on the way to class. the lessons of life come early to the children hours before the rest of the country wakes up these young arabs are preparing for the long trek to school it's a twelve kilometer walk there and back tiring difficult and more than a little hair raising it takes the children about two hours to get to school the older one is hoping the younger ones with their bags but the road is dangerous and just a few days ago one of the children missed being knocked over by. the truth and have to walk on good parts and cross many busy streets part of the journey is on a bus but after they get off he still an hour more of walking their elated every

day and exhausted even before the first listen starts the youngest is just three years old. it's because we aren't open because our religion is muhammad not moses that's why everything is like this. is radio losses transport must be provided for children living far from school but because the local authorities say the families are squatting illegally on privately owned land they refuse to hold. their growth. internationally and also remember. children should have a true education at a reasonable distance from the. proper occurred of education reform their very educational system. a day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to help the children bill thought he's one for families gone where is the day before this hospital here we come back and find this for the group you know our

children the police the hate the jews and you ask from when is the state of israel calls itself a democracy what kind of democracy does this to its children. yeah come at them the founding of the city not a single you out of a village was built and for most of those already in existence there is no overall plan which means that every construction is around the legal limit and so with their homes up for demolition and they dream to be educated a daily trudge these children are learning the hard way that some of life's most important lessons happened outside the classroom policy r t three from junction israel. explore all the stories were occurring online here is what's available at r.t. dot com. poland releases its final report on the air crash that killed the country's president and most of political elite almost two years ago in russia discover the. lives. of the ling freedom or any of them in a strip bar for

a calendar to promote their fight against sexual aggression find out how the authorities responded to their provocative steps at r.t. dot com. the central asian congo if you're just an experience or unrest long before the arab spring with two revolutions shaking the country in less than ten years some hail the uprisings as a triumph of democracy but others see that phrase as dangerous justification for the use of violence to gain power at any cost or go into a city that saw a brutal scenes just two years ago. it's so much in time in kyrgyzstan second largest city candidates for the local legislature appear down from posters striving to project stability and trustworthiness yet the streets are silent and

empty and uncertainty isn't there. provocateurs who would use any chance to undermine. just on a former soviet republic in central asia is a poster child for revolutionary fever two of its previous presidents were ousted by enraged crowds each uprising was perpetrated by the west as a people's democratic awakening spite of numerous casualties and widespread looting so much so that some could be as people are now taking pride in that ability to settle political disagreements by force. is that a weak europe is can wait for a while but once you get a little nervous you better run for your life. but nowhere has this trigger happy political awakening cause more pain and suffering than in an ethnically divided city in the south of the country in june of two thousand and ten vine political

elites instigated fierce clashes between communities more than four hundred great killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here. because back neighborhoods that were burned and looted a year and a half ago are now being rebuild. but many locals fear that politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their ans expects and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurdish majority and their professed readiness to fight for their interests the mccrary procedures are no longer just about the country's future the many was becks in arse but literally about life and death. very of. but they will again be used to scapegoats in political games many have left the city on the eve of the election for fears of riots i advise those who states a vote like kirk is due to avoid any anger from their side while the sunday vote

has simply would be streaming to the polling stations many as they actually made arrangements to leave town one summer i in the mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past two years their words a revolution and democracy have become almost synonymous but they couldn't be further apart because overrides the strongest of arguments and it always puts an end to any minute full political dialogue and this kurdistan's example shows one spy learns is introduced into the political process very soon it becomes the first rather than the last option to resort to at some point artsy reporting from osh in kurdistan. now take a look at some other stories from around the world around one hundred protesters clashed with soldiers outside the american embassy in cairo demanding the expulsion of the u.s. ambassador people were outraged by egypt's decision to lift travel ban of foreigners involved in a crackdown on foreign n.g.o.s which allowed thirteen defendants including six

americans to leave the country the nonprofit organizations are accused of using foreign funds to fuel on rest in the country. former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn was met with angry protests when he visited cambridge university in the u.k. over one hundred students most of the women's rights activists rallied outside the building were speaking french economists left the i.m.f. after being accused of sexual assault by a new york hotel maid last may all the federal charges against him were later dropped. in colombia mass demonstrators demanding reforms to the public transport system clashed with police security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse rock throwing protesters as well as students rallying for the same cause one police officer was injured and dozens of demonstrators were reportedly arrested demonstrators want cheap robust fares and better services in the capital. but the data over whether birth control should be subsidized by the

u.s. government has resurfaced as presidential campaigns heat up before november's election is it a riot or personal decision our resident is on a streets of new york to hear the opinions of people there. do you believe contraception coverage should be mandated by a government this week let's talk about that i think that contraception is. something that will protect kids from unborn or unwanted trial or unwanted pregnancies toothpaste prevent tooth decay should that be covered to oh that's a good question probably not i don't think. are the same category why what's the difference between a contraceptive. that's more of a health concern in terms of your own nutritional. your own your own personal

nutrition right and so what's the difference of contraception that's your own lifestyle choice to have unprotected sex some people like it better than others and i do believe in the separation of a state and terri religion so you think it's a religious issue only no i think it's a women's right issue as well but i don't think you can have a government mandate that providing something that somebody may not believe in so i do believe there is a separation i think it's women's rights i mean i think that the government should subsidize these kind of birth control to women but is it women's right or women's choice because there are other ways to not get pregnant here but they are great is also included and the government is paying for it still stuck on government mandated i do believe that birth control should be available to us we are paying high for these insurance i am for insurance premiums and if that is the kind of

health care that i need i think it should be available to make whether a government has to mandate that or not i don't know the bottom line is any kind of pharmaceutical contraception is a sexual lifestyle choice so let's just help any government considers that before treating contraception as a health care concern. well a breeze update here on r.t. i'll be back shortly with a recap of our top story stay with us. to .

get all sometimes to see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then even something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with. you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all away but she's from the german oh you clearly like the upper crust.

of the dumpster at one am this morning i'm three pm this afternoon on the grill take take just made from one dozen dumpster egg whites. and delicious breakfast for the family make some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.