a change of tone in syria the arab league backs the international envoy has called for both sides to lay down their arms and start talking by the opposition once again reject the idea of talking to us or. could alvey forces and rebel fighters are accuse of your crimes of crimes against humanity by u.n. report on the libyan conflict with investigators also looking into nato airstrikes . also optimism about the greek debt write down proves premature as athens suffers a fresh downgrade from fitch ratings agency with moody's going even further and declaring greece and default. going to be one of my concerns were

around you run is he wanted to. accuse of stoking fear or to get the american public in the mood for a new war a military strike so to ron are firmly back on the table. it is eleven am in the russian capital thank you for watching r t joshing the man having the international efforts to and violence in syria wanted 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. who were meeting ahead of allan's mission to damascus but also spoke out against any move toward sleepiest all foreign intervention but as maria financial reports from syria their forces out work to hold the opposite view. i heard of his

visit to syria kofi annan who's traveling to the country as the joint u. and arab league envoy has announced that his mission's main goal will be to end the violence by persuading the war in size to speak to each other he's also said that he believes that a solution to the country's long run crisis lies in a political settlement that hopes are fading already that this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council in turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as a legitimate representative of the syrian people has said that alan's comments and his idea to find their way out of crisis through dialogue are disappointing while syrian people he said have 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 homs

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 we recently heard a lot about foreign weapons system in syria and foreign volunteers and security officers captured in homes 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 he expressed in his hope that no one is very seriously thinking of using force in this situation but it seems that some are considering this as an option because 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 did rule out military intervention as an option the u.n. estimates that around seven thousand people have been killed in the clashes between

the three. 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 because extract of that kofi annan 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. reporting there well once after washington sided with the rebels senior u.s. intelligence officials have acknowledged he can't say with confidence the opposition represents a majority of the syrian people lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university says some of president asad opponents reject talks

because their 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 it will just die 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 when it gets the government. the government is attempting to co-opt the moderate but moderate protestors with you know promises of weist widespread reforms which if implemented would go a long way to satisfying to your original demands of the opposition if implemented so the armed groups now really. don't

have a good position i mean i don't think they are backed by the majority of the people in syria even the protesters. commission looking into last year's linea conflict has found both forces loyal to the lately in the air monica davi and opposition fighters committed war crimes and also recommended more investigation into nato air campaign which killed and wounded dozens robert naiman from the u.s. based just foreign policy group but he's foreign powers should have been held accountable long about. in all these conflicts we have a pattern of a kind of victor's justice the in examining the war crimes. also for the conflict include not just a libyan flag of the conflict but also the foreign sides of the conflict nato has never been held to account for the deaths of civilians or strikes in libya and

many people said this western in a military intervention is dangerous among other things to kill civilians it could lead to a breakup you could go no no we were told no that i could never 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 the conflict has helped bring us to this point. now coming up later this hour here in our team the uprising hailed as a win of democracy turns into a grab for power at any cost in kyrgyzstan violence has become an integral part of the democratic process with politicians exploiting ethnic divisions to achieve their goals. and few were poured on palestinian children learning their first tough lessons in life thanks to long and hard danger to school. us president obama's quest for the policy 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 as are reports for us as a strong record of persuading the public war is the way. water for a fish are popular among us war veterans like not the sure 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 you'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 in the chabi in this thread was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we are completely fantastical it was always available as able conspiracy against which to justify any smaller untag it is after the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait air strikes against saudi and forces our war on terror. begins when i try to select a target of 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 and 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 the military industrial complex worth billions of dollars is largely america's driving force. deeply rooted in the system and it would serve no purpose if there was no one to fight if there were no more enemies left we would be ross served. a sense of mission frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i wrote here was a country when there are no enemies trying to put together the evil empire again do in a syria what we're doing now in libya we've got to overthrow this guy the threat that iran poses us year in and year out americans are convinced that the u.s. has to remain on the defense or 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 in. the nation of iran as an enemy as a threat to the united states as

a sister of nuclear weapons it is not exist nation that has not attacked or not there are literally centuries and has no capability or desire to attack ours we're going to be the one might start to work with iran iran is the word 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 is also an option seems to have been forgotten just as it sure can i. guess conflicts raged across the world have left a trail of military bases in their wake often now even in the countries involved in the fighting and i look at the role of the global web of bases and how they affect host nations at a special documentary coming up on r.t. later today 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 as i'm

pro-choice on the part. of the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around forms the belief empire that the united states is trying to insist on machines 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 them. we don't have a problem bases on 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 crossed our bases of i it or the noises our north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two d. spaces have been for. we're here

to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else you get everything you needed. success for some default for others greece is experiencing it's the latest slap in the face from our ratings agency with moody's clearing athens default on its debt that's after the country finally seemed to deal with private investors which is considered to be the biggest dad write down in history they green it reduces their green burden by over one hundred billion euros the first voice doubts about the deal was fitch ratings agency which downgraded athens to restricted to slow willingness in associate professor at frostburg state university believes there are many reasons capital. here how systematic it is or how complicated the debt swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows just because sir cosy claims that it isn't

a do you call it means absolutely nothing it's a problem i don't believe the markets are going to reflect the reality is personally care of the situation i think because these folks are the ones who actually have money to gain or to lose and so they're going to make decisions based . upon which would be best for their financial future if you'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. the taking of assets that are worthless and you have a central bank tending that these assets mean so i 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 they've actually made it worse because they won't admit what is going on or. economic analysts next record says there are still a lot of questions greece needs to deal with aside from the doubts what. because

a lot of moving parts here but the vehicle is the first but then we have structural reforms which frankly had made it for forty years a private size i should 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 wages the first thing you need is a little bit of the military and visibility in the sense that people are afraid to invest here 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 the the ring from european union leaders and we also have to take some responsibility and put together a medium to economic plan so we know how to climb out of these very still despite all the peace one hundred thirty billion bailout package coming and despite the heck out of close to one hundred billion still or should full of seven billion you don't want to make that up with taxes later today maximizer and stays herbert

revealed the scheme which helped greece mask its massive debt to join the e.u. over ten years ago and how it's orchestrator bank at type profit. gold and secret grease alone shows two centers as client unravels on the day the two thousand and one deal was struck the government of greece owes the bank about six hundred million euros more than that two point eight billion euros of power 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 which was greece's nine eleven the day they met goldman sachs it was them packing the sovereignty and the future of a nation of greece. no martinis yes.

along dangerous track to school and back and that's a daily slog for a group of arab children in israel forced to watch their classmates enjoy the luxury of provided transportation as artie's policy or explains the uphill climb isn't just on the way to class. the lessons of life come only to abdul up to children hours before the rest of the country wakes up these young arabs are preparing for the long trip 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 ones help the younger ones with their bags but the road is dangerous and just a few days ago one of the children and missed being knocked over by a car. the children have to walk along the paths and cross many busy streets part of the journey is on a bus but after they get off early still an hour or more of walking they are late

every day and exhausted even before the first listen starts the youngest is just three years old. it's because we arabs because our religion is muhammad not moses that's why everything is like this when the word. is radio law says 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. a vote for growth. internationally and also in israel children should have access to education at a reasonable distance from their. proper occurred. and for them. a day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to help the children you thought he's one of the families gone where is the day before this house stood here we come back and find this little of our children the

police the hate the jews and you ask for my is this strange calls itself a democracy what kind of democracy does this to its children. now come of them being now since the founding of the steve 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. and so within homes up for demolition and they dream to be injured 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. surfin junction israel. well you can explore all the stories we're covering online and here is what's available at r.t. dot com. poland releases its file record on the air crash that killed the country's president and most of political you almost two years ago in russia so discovered the details on our website. unveiling freedom were

a new balance strip bar for a calendar to promote their fight against sexual aggression by the out how to use the words respondents to their block of steps at r.t. dot com. now the central asian country of kyrgyzstan experience popular unrest long before the arab spring with two aleutians 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 some boy girl went to city that saw brutal scenes just two years ago. it's so much an 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 at sea and uncertainty isn't there a provocateur as who would use any chance john to my piece that we have now. done 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 pretreated by the west as a people's democratic awakening despite numerous casualties and widespread looting so much so that some critics people are now taking pride in their ability to settle political disagreements by force. we curate is carried away for a while but once you get in our nerves you better run for your life. but nowhere has this trigger happy political awakening cause more pain and suffering than an arch and ethnically divided seating in the south of the country in june of two

thousand and ten vying political elites instigated fierce clashes between communities more than four hundred were killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here. respect 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 hands as becks and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurds majority and their professed readiness to fight for their interests democratic procedures are no longer just a doll of the country's future in many ways best in it's quite literally about life and death. those books are very afraid that they will. can be used to scapegoats in political games many have left the city on the eve of the election for fears of

riots i verge those who stay to vote like her it is due to avoid any anger from the site while the sun devotes her syncrude to streaming to the polling stations many respects made arrangements to leave town on some i in the mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past few years their words of 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 mini in full political dialogue and this kurdistan's example shows once violence is introduced into the political process very soon it becomes the first rather than the last option to resort to it's not going to artsy reporting from posh in kurdistan. now is a good look at some other stories from around the globe about one hundred protesters clashed with soldiers outside the american embassy in cairo demanding expulsion of the u.s. ambassador people were outraged by egypt's decision to lift

a travel ban on foreigners involved in a crackdown on foreign n.g.o.s which allowed thirteen defendants including six americans to leave the country and on profit organizations are accused of using foreign funds to you under arrest in the country. for worried international a lot of the refund achieve dominic straus guard was met with angry protest when he visited cambridge university in the u.k. over one hundred students most of them one is rights activist rally outside the building where he was speaking french economist left the i.m.f. after me and queues of sexual assault by a new york hotel maid last may well the criminal charges against him were later dropped. in mexico multiple arson attacks by drug gangs have shaken the city of wattle dozens of vehicles were set on fire at least one man was burned to death but region a center for drug related violence bodies of twenty six young man were found abandoned on an expressway there last november. the debate over whether birth

control should be subsidized by the u.s. government has resurfaced as presidential campaigns heat up before november's election is a riot or a personal decision our resident is on the 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 well i think that contraception is. something that will protect kids from unborn or unwanted child or unwanted pregnancies toothpaste or brands to take a should that be covered to oh that's a good question i don't think those are the same category why what's the difference between a contraceptive but with a diet that's more of a health concern in terms of your own nutritional. your and your own personal

nutrition weight 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 religion so you think it's a religious issue only no i think it's a women's rights 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 yet viagra is also included and the government is paying for it i still stuck on government mandated i do believe that birth control should be available to us we are paying high for these insurance. for insurance premiums and if that is the kind of health care that i

need i think it should be available to me 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 for treating contraception as a health care concern. our brings us up to date and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

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