u.n. arab envoys attempts to bring about peace talks in syria clashed with calls for military action from some opposition groups. but test of will russia's opposition looks to regain its momentum at a rally in central moscow but internal fractures and draining public interest to leave but many on the sidelines also. maybe. around the world it should be iran could be us be poised to embark on a new war as a constant raft of enemies leads to a bulge in defense budget. and

a fierce exchange of fire on the israeli palestinian border moves into its second day with dozens of rockets fired and civilians hurt on both sides it follows the killing of a garza resistance leader. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. the syrian president bashar assad has said he would like to make what he called quote any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart however he admitted it would be impossible while terrorist groups continue spreading chaos and statements come after his meeting with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan in damascus head of his make or break diplomatic mission call for an immediate cease fire involving both rebels and

government forces in order to let talks begin and that was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition it enjoys the support of some western and arab states including cutter which has called for international forces to be deployed to help and the conflict parties where if an. in a courtroom too much. they didn't 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 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 are being massacred every day here in the country but hunger you has also said but any political solution will only work in syria it was accompanied 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

part 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 radicals an excellent one who recently heard a lot about foreign weapons says 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 coffee anon has been warning that further militarization would only make things worse for expressing 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 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 did drew out military intervention as an option the u.n. estimates that the around seven thousand people have been killed in the clashes

between the subtleties and your position 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 have been suppressing syrian people civilians innocent people while official. the damascus has always been insisting that it's spice and against armed terror groups operating in the country this 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 theory any provocations and terror attacks. from optional reporting calls for political dialogue between both sides in the syrian conflict have also been voiced out of meeting with the arab league in cairo but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who joined the gathering it stressed again that any interference in syria's an internal affairs is

unacceptable but for more of the for what he's standing by in cairo hello to you so what else of the foreign minister have to say. well it was a joint conference by russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and secretary general of the league of arab states which which began two hours later that was supposed to begin and this is the atmosphere was very and downs in the past room were journalists were expecting a breakthrough after such a long haul behind closed doors now at a press conference russian foreign minister it said once again the that's a new our u.n. security council's resolution on syria can all be succeed if it's not driven by the desire to let the rebels wean street battles and bridges that russia has already the don't. to or the u.n. security council resolution own syria however there was there was a breakthrough during this meeting as the russian league of arab states read agreed

on a road map a five point roadmap regarding syria a first of all it's immediate cease fire and stopping violence coming from all sides over conflicts impartial and free monitoring of the situation in strained syria's number two number three's probably one of the most important points for russia no external interference something that russia has been saying for a little over a long time now that's even though russia doesn't support the syrian regime it supports the people's right to thought of the issues the mess to issues over its country on their own another important one is humanitarian corridor for all who needs aid in syria for all who suffered during this long lasting battle and both russian's foreign minister and the secretary general of the league of arab states phrased on the air for example of course he and i always currently in syria on establishing dialogue between president assad and his government and opposition

groups of which there are more than one in syria saying that this is the message this roadmap is a message to all syrian people who wants peace in their country and for all those points out there are no use in the folly of a cover that live in cairo thank you. and that coming up a few later this hour here are see the uprising hailed as a win for democracy turns into a grab for power at any cost the memories of two violent revolutions are still fresh in people's minds in kyrgyzstan politicians stoked up ethnic divisions for personal gain. learning the hard way we report on the first lessons of life being taught arab children in israel as their homes are outlawed and their basic right to education denied. officials claim ten thousand people gathered in moscow today to protest against sunday's presidential

poll which returned to the kremlin for a third time attendance however fell far short of expectations with blame being put on internal conflicts among opposition leaders and a general lack of direction for the movement you could have just gone off was up today's demonstration. but it's fair to say that much less people came to this rally than initially expected by the organizers they were waiting for up to fifty thousand people while police said only around ten thousand people gathered here on the way out about today in moscow 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 also this morning accusing the liberal course of the oppositional for driving the momentum of the protest movement into a dead end the movement he started in december after the fall and then she will

actually i mean the accusations of ballot fraud it led to a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential election and indeed unprecedented steps were made to ensure that i'm talking about the web cameras installed the over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers were monitoring the vote at these polling stations as well but the opposition says that while lesions happens both during the voting and during campaigning although a 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 civil activists were detained during the previous rally they didn't 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 morse toward postmistress square the same square i guess which sort of again shows how divided the opposition is

dividing both slow mostly into the peaceful part and to the i guess more radical court as well so it's clear the opposition needs a new face it needs a leader it needs to find a direction to attract more supporters and constructive and concrete demands. commenting on the low turnout blogger writer and analyst. says that he believes the opposition today has alienated the public but continues to court the media spotlight. demonstrated in december they were industry. because they wanted more fair elections the demonstrations. hold the political power in russia to. change the law for parties and so on and in this case it's very positive again most of the people who are industry. and those who stained a street know days in russia they know they do will never take over legally so they

can only gauging somebody's connections to him to make them appear on the political scene but the majority of these people who are in the street they do not recognize themselves and. political leaders like. this is why most of these people today. journalist and political activists. however is that today's protest was much more constructive than the last opposition . you know i'm no good mood today was so much more constructive than it was at the end he didn't really all march the fifth which was downright hysterical if that hysteria that irritation integration continues it would have alienated the public no one here wants a revolution it will not stop going with police the people who come to these protests only want change they don't want bloodshed or violence which is what can

scare them away. you're watching r.t. later in the program we take a look at the latest twist in the saga of the ongoing greek debt crisis what would like light at the end of the tunnel for greece's wrecked economy has turned into a downgrade nightmare but more on that in just a few minutes. a palestinian militant group has announced its truce with israel is over and a series of rocket strikes was the reaction to a circle israeli air raids that took the lives of fourteen palestinians as assays reports fears are running high that the escalation may lead to even more victims. more than a dozen palestinians have been killed and dozens more have been injured many of them children in this latest israeli strikes over the gaza strip now the most high profiled palestinian should be killed by the israelis as the leader of the popular resistance committee who heart casey who publicly went on record and acknowledge

his ties to the kidnapping of israeli soldier gilad shalit who was held for more than five years in captivity in gaza and released late last year the israeli said in addition to this they had evidence that he was involved in the planning the finding and the directing of a d.b. cross a border raid from the sinai peninsula into israel last august now these raids have also been targeting a number of in t. training camps across the gaza strip and this afternoon saturday it's really fishes are holding an emergency meeting to deal with the situation cairo has criticized tel aviv for breaking a tacit ceasefire that has been in place between israel and gaza and the palestinian authority says that it is israel to blame for creating a negative environment there only siege and its collation of violence in the last twenty four hours there have also been some eighty rockets and mortars that have been fired by palestinian militants from gaza into southern israel and a number of israelis have been injured one of them is in

a serious condition now in addition to this physical manifestation of violence on the ground we have been investigating a different type of warfare a much more subtle type of warfare taking place here in israel and that is over the question of the white to education of israeli children that as we've been finding out and that right is someone who voted down when it comes to arab children. in the lessons of life come early to there are literally hours before the rest of the country wakes up these young arabs are preparing for a 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 ones helping the younger ones with their bags but the road is dangerous and just a few days ago one of the children and the little 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 they still an hour more of walking they were late

every day and exhausted even before the first place and scarfs the youngest is just three years old this. it's because we aren't open because our religion is one hundred. asked why everything is like this. 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 help educate the bursar growth. both internationally and also in israel children should have access to education at a reasonable distance from their home. proper education. is really a profession for them. day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to help the children he's one of the families gone where is the day before

this house stood here we come back and find this. our children hate the police speak the jews and you ask from why is this hate israel calls itself a democracy what kind of democracy does this to its children that are now coming from the now since 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 real plan which means that every construction is around the legal. good 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 christianity through from junction israel. still having a program here r.t.o. we ask how far the u.s. government can go in funding of contraception. i think that the government should subsidize these kind of birth control to women but if it wasn't right

a woman's choice there are other ways to market right. here but it is worth it viagra is also included and the government is paying for it a wide range of opinions as usual from the streets of new york state for the full version of the resident in just a few minutes here on alt. 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 that a strike is in the planning stages and could involve the type of bomb that's never been seen before and it's arteries and i see a truck in the reports it looks as though history may be poised to repeat itself. water for fish are popular pet among us war veterans like mathis sure wrote something 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 of 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 one enemy after the other from the soviet union in the choppiness threat was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we're pleased fantastical it was always available as a global conspiracy against which to justify anything to smaller and sadness out of the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait airstrikes against syrian forces our war on terror. begins without striking selected targets or military importance undermine saddam

hussein's ability to wage war we should get off his 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 in and out 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 a number of enemies last there would be rushed. sense of mission frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i wrote europe was a 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

threaten iran how this is a 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 embed seen the nation of iran as an enemy of the united states says it is this or of nuclear weapons it is not. nation that has not attacked another in literally century center has no capability or desire to attack ours to be the way for my sort of. iran iran is the word iran should be iran the u.s. has been picking and choosing which countries to intervene in for centuries and 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 as i say a trip and i personally. and i don't hesitate to log on to our website altie talk

com if you've missed any of our stories here are some of what so waiting for you there right now from compassion to action as presuming in beachgoers fight for the lives of thousands of stranded dolphins dragging the helpless mammals are back out to sea. heaven's conspiracy of the iceberg seal the titanic's fate of might have literally been help from above as a group of scientists claim the moon was its accomplice and sinking in history's most famous cruise line. athens may hope to have escaped the gallows but it seems the noose may have only been tightened further around its neck but that's after the movies 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 equipment to be the end of greece's economic woes however another ratings group fritsch slammed the year across efforts and showed no mercy to the struggling greek economy by downgrading athens to quote restricted to four nineteen thirty g.m.t. max keiser and stacy herbert looking back decades driffield a scheme which helped greece and join the euro zone i'm asking it's massive debt and how it's orchestrate a tidy profit. secret to sinners as client unravels on the day their 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 euro is that power owed by then the price of the transaction a derivative that disguise the loan and that goldman sachs persuaded greece not to test with competitors had almost doubled to five point one billion euros but 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 bernal is no martinis yes. but from moscow this is are to be signs of nationwide on the rest are still clearly visible in. this central asian country saw two bloody revolutions in less than a decade with some loving them as the march of democracy all the time it claims politicians were manipulating people to grow power. travel to the region to learn the lessons of the past. it's election time in kyrgyzstan second largest city candidates for the local legislature peered down from posters striving to projects the village and trustworthiness you have the streets are silent and empty and

uncertainty isn't there the road provoke a jurors who would use any chance to undermine peace. biggest on a former soviet republic in central asia is a poster child for revolutionary fever two of its previous presidents rousted by enraged crowds each uprising was perpetrated by the west as a people's democratic awakening despite numerous casualties and widespread looting so much so that some could these people are now taking pride in that ability to settle political disagreements by force. is that we curious care wait for a while but once you get on 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 city in the south of the country in june of two thousand and ten vine political in leeds instigated fierce clashes between

communities more than one hundred great killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here. the second neighborhoods that were burned and looted a year and a half ago are now being rebuilt. but many locals fear that politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their ends is the ex and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurdish majority and their professed reading this to fight for their interests democratic procedures are no longer just about the country's future in many ways becks in l'arche it's quite literally about life and death and. various. 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 is due to avoid any anger from their side while the sound of voltaire's soon could be streaming to the polling stations many respects

made arrangements to leave town one son i in the mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past three 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 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 our interest. in a few moments as our interview shows spotlight are but for now government involvement in people's private lives as a means of increasing concern to americans for some time and right now it's reaching all the way to birth control the issue has resurfaced with the presidential campaigning heating up ahead of november's poll so world order

finished went on to the streets of new york so you hear what people there think about it. do you believe contraception coverage should be mandated by a government this week let's talk about oh i think that contraception is. something that will protect kids from a unborn or unwanted child and wanted brain and so used to it based prevent tooth decay should that be covered too oh that's a good question probably 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 own your own personal nutrition weight and so what's the difference of contraception that's your own lifestyle choice to have i'm protected that. 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 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 yet but they are great also include it and the government is paying for it still stuck on government mandated i do believe that that should be available to us we are paying high for these insurance. high end 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 the actual lifestyle choice so let's just hope any government considers that before treating contraception as

a health care concern. now in a couple of minutes it is spotlight i'll be off to a recap of the headlines with me war research showing serious.