the u.n. arab envoy is in damascus seeking a diplomatic solution to the syrian crisis something some of those issues groups really reject foreign supporters stepping up calls for military action. a test of will russia's opposition looks to regain its momentum at a rally in central moscow but internal fractures and draining public interest leave many on the sidelines. also. believe the women might return to. iran and iran it should be iran could be us be about to embark on a new war a constant iraq leads to a bulging defense budget. and

a fierce exchange of fire on the israeli palestinian border moves into its second day with dozens of rockets fired on civilian casualties on both sides follows the killing of a gaza resistance leader. worldwide news live from moscow this is artsy with me rule research showing a very well. the u.n. arab league envoy to syria has launched his make or break diplomatic mission meeting with president assad in damascus head of the trip kofi annan called for an immediate cease fire involving both rebels and government forces and so talks could begin but that was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition enjoys the support of some western and arab states including. call for international military

forces to be deployed to help them however russian foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed again that any interference in serious internal affairs is unacceptable this is written off as more than one hundred years meaningful someone who just hopes are fading already but this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council a turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as a legitimate for presence of the syrian people has said that's anons comments and his idea to find their way out of crisis through dialogue disappointing well syrian people he said are being massacred every day here in the country but hunger 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 pub 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 too on the rebels and the excellent one who recently heard a lot about foreign weapons is here in syria the 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 corsair none has been warning that further militarization would only make things worse expressing his hopeless no one is. very seriously thinking of using force in this situation but it seems that some are considering this as an option to gas 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 saudis 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 spies and against armed terrorist groups operating in the country 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. reporting meantime a professor or released history of west chester university lawrence davidson believes that some major international players are behind the refusal of syria's exiled opposition to engage in dialogue with the assad regime united states.

and they'll go for the gulf countries i don't think that they're they're looking for a negotiated peace i think they're looking for a long. episode. you agree civil war i don't think it's bad they don't have any influence i think they don't want to see these people negotiate because again they're in a very weak position. they're out of a country where the 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 cool rocks the moderate the moderate protestors with you know promises of weist widespread reforms which if implemented would go a long way to satisfy your original demands of the opposition i don't think they

are backed by the majority of the people in syria even the protests and of still to come for you later this hour here on the uprising hailed as a win for democracy turns into a grab for power at any cost but the memories of two violent revolutions are still fresh in people's minds and can take a stand when politicians start top of ethnic divisions for personal gain. and what looks like the light at the end of the tunnel for greece is a wreck the economy has turned into a downgrade nightmare more on that in just a few minutes. roughly ten thousand people gathered in moscow today to protest against sunday's presidential poll which saw flooding they put in returning to the kremlin for its. attendance however fell far short of expectations with blame being put on internal conflicts among opposition leaders and i general lack of direction for the movement nazis and you got this going off was another

demonstration and now joins us live here on the program good to see you the rally should be joined to a close now what's the latest where you are. most of the protesters of laughter the rallies finished and it's fair to say that much less people came to vent initially expected by the organizers who waiting for up to fifty thousand people while police said only around ten thousand people gathered here on the way on board today in moscow so this process movement is showing that the figures of those people willing to take part in these rallies are obviously obviously dropping which means that the time of tests has come for the opposition there's still no clear leader in fact a group of nationalists walked out of this march accusing the liberal course of the opposition all for driving the momentum of the protest movement into a dead end to the movement really started in december after the fall and then she you know actually i mean accusations on ballot fraud it led to

a massive social company for a transparent presidential election and indeed unprecedented steps were need to ensure that i'm talking about the web cameras installed over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers were monitoring the vote at these stations as well but the opposition says that while lesions happened both during the voting and during campaigning although our society is split on the results of the presidential poll we see in mass rallies both in support and against its results several members of the opposition some more activists were detained during the previous rally due. we want to leave after the time agreed with the authorities ended and in fact we are we've got reports that the same people tried holding an unsanctioned more toward pushkin square square the scenes where i guess was sort of again shows how divided the opposition is dividing both were mostly into the peaceful part and to the yes more radical part as well so it is clear the opposition needs a new fees it needs

a leader it needs to find a direction to attract more supporters and constructive and concrete demands all right r.t. if you're going to is going to live in central moscow i thank you very much well i mean time political analyst alexander office says the protests are becoming smaller because there is no unity among opposition leaders and it's therefore time for them to rethink their direction this is a clear sign of protest plainly and i think that's because the non-systemic opposition they need to show more transparency about their leaders their own leaders we are now witnessing that their slogans leads to be change there is a need for a new agent a while there is no new agenda i believe that the majority of those people will not support because the slogan of unfair election has obviously sound into the so-called weasel playing with the majority of the global powers acknowledging that

the elections were fair and that put please the right felicia so unless there's a new agenda from the not systemic opposition there will be this tendency for waiting it was a for justice in the streets. you're watching our t.v. and still to come for you on the program battle of learning the hard way poured on the first lessons of life being taught to arab children in israel as their homes their own more than their basic right to education is denied. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow barack obama's push for diplomacy with iran over its nuclear program has failed to quell talk of a pending military confrontation statements from america's top defense official suggest a strike is in the planning stages and could use a type of bomb never seen before and as artie's anastasio checking our reports it looks as though history may be poised to repeat itself. hello.

fish are a popular pet among us war veterans like mathis sure wrote some of the nerves of some of the roughly one hundred seventy thousand american soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder the u.s. army frag 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 of once every year and three months serving americans are permanent standby to deploy to carry out warfare on command as the u.s. has a bone to pick one enemy after the other from the soviet union and the choppiness threat was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we are completely fantastical it was always available and this conspiracy against which to justify

anything to small or untag it is after the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait airstrikes against serbian forces our war on terror. begins with striking selected targets for military importance gondor mind saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should develop these air defenses well the 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 the 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 no more enemies left there would be a rush of

a sense of. mission frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i throw europe by the country when there are no enemies putin trying to put together the evil empire again do in 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 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're seen in the nation of iran as an enemy as a threat to the united states says it is sister of nuclear weapons it is not. a nation that has not attacked another in literally centuries and has no capability or desire to attack ours g.d.p. away from a third of the world with iran iran is the one that 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 for about just as in turkey i don't see. us conflicts waged across the world of left a trail of military bases in the way that often and countries never even volved in the fighting when a special documentary on our team we look at the history of the sites and how their host nations are affected by them coming away a little bit later today here on say. 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 an approaching upon all of. the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the former sleep 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 more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases alitalia. we don't have a problem bases of 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 cross bases afai there are the noises i would often doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals you get everything you needed. watching r.t.

live from moscow now a palestinian militant group has announced it's ending a truce with israel this following a targeted air strike on friday which killed a key resistance leader in gaza it triggered a response and an exchange of air raids and rocket attacks across the border which at least twelve palestinians were killed tel aviv claims most of the dead are terrorists number of wounded on both sides up as up to about thirty the majority being civilians and while rockets fly a war against arabs continues on a different level than israel has fall asleep. at the lessons of life come only to the children hours before the rest of the country wakes up to these young arabs are preparing for the long trek to school it's a twelve kilometer walk there and back tire in difficult and more than a little hair raising it takes the children about to always to get to school the

older ones helping the younger ones with their bags but the road is dangerous and just a few days ago one of the children now do missed being knocked over by a car. the children have to walk along dirt parks and cross many busy streets part of the journey is on a bus but after they get off he still an hour or more of walking. there later every day and exhausted even before the first lesson starts the youngest is just three years old. it's because we aren't open because our religion is one hundred not moses that's why everything is light because the sun will. his 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 hope education is a basic right. both internationally and also in israel children should have access to education at a reasonable distance from their home. proper type of education within the israeli

education system. a day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to help the children your thought is one for families gone where is the day before this house here we come back and find. our children hate the police we keep 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 but on the outcome of them the now since the founding of the state not a single you out of a village was built and for most of those already in existence there is no real plan which means that every construction is around the legal. and so with the homes up for demolition and the 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. still ahead for you are in the program here we ask how far the u.s. government can go in funding birth control. i think that the government should subsidize these kind of birth control to women but if that woman's right or woman's choice there are other ways the market right now yeah but this is what viagra is also included in the government is being for it abide range of opinions as usual from the streets of new york if you said to you for the full version of the residence and just a few minutes here on arts. athens may have hoped it had escaped the gallows but it seems the noose may have been tightened further around its neck it's after the movie's a credit rating agency declared greece in default of its debt it comes in response to the country carving out a deal with private creditors that will write off over one hundred billion euros moody's reaction runs counter to that of e.u.

leaders who hailed the agreement to be the end of greece's economic woes however another ratings group fitch sly. the year across efforts and showed no mercy to the struggling economy by downgrading athens to quote restricted to four in the next hour here at r.t. boxcars and stacy herbert look back a decade to reveal the scheme which helped greece join the euro zone by masking its massive debt and how its orchestrator banked 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 their 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 this was

greece's nine eleven the day they met goldman sachs it was them hacking the sovereignty and the future of the nation of greece penalties no martinis yes. because reporters are later today here in artsy for now though signs of nationwide unrest a still clearly visible in kyrgyzstan the central asian country soared to bloody revolutions in less than a decade with some a lot in them as the march of democracy all that amid claims politicians were manipulating people to grab power on a boycott to travel to the region to learn the lessons of the past it's election time in kyrgyzstan second largest city candidates for the local it just a true period down from pollsters striving to project stability and trustworthiness. you

have the streets as silent and empty and uncertainty isn't there there are provocateurs who would use any chance to undermine peace that we have no. good just on a former soviet republic in central asia as opposed to charles for revolutionary fever two of its previous presidents were ousted by enraged crowds each uprising was pre-trained by the west as the people's democratic awakening type of humor is casualties and widespread looting so much so that some could these people are now taking pride that ability to settle political disagreements by force. is the weak euro this can wait for a while but once you get in our nerves you better run for your life. but nowhere has the trigger happy political awakening cause more pain and suffering than ours ethnically divided seating in the south of the country in june of two thousand and ten vine political elites instigated fierce clashes between communities more than

one hundred were 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 rebuilt. but many local spirit politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their ends expects and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurdish majority and their professed reading this to fight for their interests democratic procedures are normal and are just about the country's future and many is that sin are quite literally about life and death and. very afraid that 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 version those who stay to vote like it is do to avoid any anger from the site while

the. sound to vote could be streaming to the polling stations in many respects me to arrangements to leave town once some i in the mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past few years their words a revolution and democracy have become almost synonymous but they couldn't be further apart because opera is the strongest of arguments and it always puts a noun to any mini in full political dialogue and this kurdistan's example shows once pylos 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 caracas. and i don't hesitate to a log on to our website r.t. dot com if you've missed any of our stories some of the items are stunning wife you there right now include from the compassionate to action brazilian beachgoers fight for the lives of dozens of stranded dolphins are driving the helpless mammals back

out to sea. conspiracy of the ice seal the titanic's fate might have literally been help from above as a group of scientists claim the moon was its accomplice in sinking history's most famous cruise line. now a twenty five minutes past the hour in moscow government involvement in people's private lives has been increasing concern to americans for some time but right now it's reaching all the way to birth control and the issue has resurfaced with a presidential campaigning heating up ahead of november's poll laurie half a nest went onto the streets of new york to hear what people think about.

do you believe contraception coverage should be mandated by a government this week let's talk about that thing that contraception is. something that will protect kids from adding unborn or unwanted child or unwanted pregnancies toothpaste prevents 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 well at a contraceptive well with a diet that's more of a health concern in terms of your own nutritional. you're in your own personal nutrition right and so what's the difference of contraception it's your own lifestyle choice to have unprotected sex some people like it better than others and i do believe in the separation of 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 choices because there are other ways to not get pregnant yet but they are gross also include it 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 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 special lifestyle choice so let's just hope any government considers that before treating contraception as a health care concern. all

right i'll be back with the headlines and moscow out in just a few moments.