un arab and boy's attempts to bring about peace talks in syria clashed with calls for military action from some opposition groups. a test of will russia's opposition hopes to regain its momentum at a rally in central moscow but internal fractures and draining public interest leave many on the sidelines also. if you think the way from a majority of the orbit around the run is the war in iran it should be iran could the us be about to embark on a new war as a constant barrage of enemies leads to a bulging defense budget. and also 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 gaza resistance leader. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. we do twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he'd like to make what he called any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart and whether he admitted it would be impossible while terrorist groups continue spreading chaos the statements come after his meeting with the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria kofi annan in damascus headed his make or break hypnotic mission and then called for an immediate cease fire involving both revel's and government forces so talks could begin that was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition it enjoys the support of some western and arab states including

cata which is call for international forces to be deployed to help end the conflict however the russian foreign minister stressed that again any interference in syria's internal affairs is unacceptable i teased a town in africa has been following lavrov is meeting with the arab league in carro . the joint statement declared that's russian the league of arab states finally agreed on a road map that russia has been suggesting for quite a while now a five point roadmap for number one is immediate cease fire and stop of violence coming from all sides of the conflict that it's impartial and free monitoring of the situation in the country point number three which is probably the most important one it russia has been meeting all this time is no external interference as a lot of once again stressed that russia does not support the syrian regime but rather the people's rights of choosing the state for their own country installed in their domestic issues on their own also they talked about the need of humanitarian

corridor for all the people of syria who need aid and will also praised for the f words of coffee and then who is currently in syria trying to establish dialogue between president bashar assad and opposition groups of which there are more than one in syria he stressed that all sides of the conflict have to sit together and talk russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also said that russia thinks that a new u.n. security council resolution on syria can only succeed if it's not driven by the desire to let's rebels. street battles russia has previously vetoed the u.n. security council resolutions on syria in october and february because those resolutions in russia as you were all the putting pressure on assad and his government rather than on both sides of the conflict. well a little later we'll be joined by our correspondent in the syrian capital. and

she'll bring us the latest on the u.n. arab envoy kofi annan visit to the country professor of middle east history at west chester university lawrence davidson believes some major international players are behind the refusal of syria's exiled opposition to engage in dialogue with the assad regime. the united states britain. and the growth we've got countries i don't think they're in there they're looking for a negotiated peace i think they're looking for a whole long. episode of. grade 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 who. hate because again 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 it win against

the government militarily when it gets the government. the government is attempting to call rocked the moderate the moderate protestors with you know promises of was 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 a little later in the program we take a look at the latest twist in the saga or the greek that crisis seems like light at the end of the tunnel for greece is wrecked economy has turned into a downgrade nightmare more and that with live analysis from greece in just a few minutes from now here in. the first officials claim ten thousand people gathered last go today to protest against sunday's presidential poll which saw a living approach and return to the kremlin for a third term 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. of was at the demonstration. well 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 but today in moscow this protest movement is showing that the figures all 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 often driving the momentum of the protest movement into i did in the movement really started in december after the fall and then she actually i made accusations on ballot fraud it went to a massive social campaign for

a transparent presidential election and indeed unprecedented steps were me to ensure that i'm talking about the web cameras install that over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers were monitoring devote at these polling stations as well but the opposition says that violations happens both during the voting and during campaigning although society is blitz on the results of the presidential poll we see in mass rallies both in support and against its results several members of the oppositions and the 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're we've got reports that the same people tried holding on the same should more toward pushkin square square the same square i guess it was sort of again shows how divided the opposition is dividing both mostly into the peaceful part and to the i guess more radical part as well so it is 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 of blogger writer and analysts alexander says that he believes the opposition today has alienated the public but continues to court the media spotlight but when the people are demonstrated in december they were industry . because they wanted more fair elections the demonstrations pushed in somehow the political power in russia too to do some life forms like her to change the law for creating political parties and so on and in this case i think it's a very positive thing but those are dangerous street nowadays in russia they know that they will never take the power legally so they can only in gauging somebody's collections to him to make them appear on the political scene and saw. this is what most of these people didn't show up today the opinion of journalists

and political activists. however is that today's protest was much more constructive than the last opposition rally. today was somewhat more constructive than it was at the anti putin rally on march the fifth which was downright hysterical if that hysteria that irritation in aggression continues it would have alienated the public no one here wants to revolution no one wants to fight with police people who come to these protests only want change they don't want bloodshed or violence which is what can scare them away. 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 officials suggest a strike is in the planning stages and could use a type of bomb never seen before and as a teaser started check in a report it looks as if history may be repeating itself.

fish are a popular pet among us more veterans like math sure wrote in 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 that 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 with one enemy after the other from the soviet union and the choppiness threat was the most useful enemy we are 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 after the cold

war the list keeps expanding allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait airstrikes against serbian forces our war on terror. begins in our strike you selected targets on military importance and undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage a war we did without these air defenses and 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 and recovering from the violence that is committed in one place or even in the same place we're launching new operations in more atrocities in different parts of the world the military industrial complex worth millions 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 raw service so. submission 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 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 us has to remain on the defense are petrified of death by terrorism so sure i don't think i think a lot of americans wish we'd spent more money on the 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 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 likely to be one of my thirty or the around the round is the war in iran it should be iran the us 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 decisive churkin artsy. the palestinian militant group says its truce with israel is over that in a series of rocket strikes was the reaction to several israeli air raids which took the minds of at least fourteen palestinians as artie's policy 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 to be killed by the israelis as the leader of the popular resistance committee out casey who publicly went on record and acknowledged his ties to the kidnapping of the israeli soldier gilad shalit who was held for more than five years in captivity in gaza and released late last year these really say

that in addition to this they have evidence that he was involved in the planning of finding and the directing of a did he cross a border raid from the sinai peninsula into israel last august now the israelis have also been targeting a number of empty training camps across the gaza strip and this afternoon saturday it's really officials 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 it is all to blame for creating a negative environment there would only see and it's collation of violence in the last twenty four hours they 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. for an overview of the situation we're joined by political analyst dr seuss' who is in gaza this escalation of tension comes just days after

rival palestinian groups agreed to try and preserve the truce with israel so what do you make of the timing of all of this. yes this comes amid circumstances in which the palestinian factions ceasefire with israeli society in which for the boss many weeks there was troughton cease fire no clashes. and no attacks and suddenly the israeli side had to take the girls or strip killing one of the most popular leaders of the palestinian resistance and killed. fourteen palestinians and had wounded many others i think such an inspiration comes as we're after the israeli prime minister netanyahu came from the united states taking the green light from the from obama to i wrote the palestinians after the failed iran and now i think they're trying to use their own power and might against the palestinian people the people in gaza is a weak society and even policy resistant fakirs will not have the pretty horse porn

to the israeli side so this would make life so bad miserable for most of the policy in the gaza strip and what about what is hard to quantify then what about the consequences the overall consequences for the peace process. i think the consequences are for the peace of course which has been suspended for the past weeks now and he does not want to meet his radio side does not want to negotiate with i think the peace of process is there. any more i think the israeli government and the israeli cabinet has announced the own. did not see it that all the palestinian. initiatives for peace did not want to have any kind of a truce or cease fire i think there is no peace with the israeli side for the past twenty years now. on the palestinian authority have negotiated with the israeli

side and we can see clearly that the israeli military is using its power. thanks for taking the gaza strip i think in the palestinian people everywhere this is an indication that the israeli occupation first is do not want peace this is the period of peace treaty also. this was a retaliation for those rocket attacks which the islamic jihad in the popular resistance committee actually claimed responsibility for. does this suggest that they're actually operating independently. implying there is a lack of unity and the hopes for peace from the hamas side could be at stake here to. no i think all policy and political military fetches in the gaza strip they want to or sprint to the israeli side but they don't have the power under my team to respond to this really so you can see. that hamas is in its charge in the

goes astray leading the having it all thought here if you want to keep the ceasefire they want to keep the troops and they doing their best but at the same time the israeli side taking four for the positive one to four hours we had many attacks on the gaza strip deceived prime i think there are many palestinian factions like it's only been are those who are trying to launch rockets in response to the israeli on the gaza strip have. we had enough. of that in just a everything section five of us just very very briefly but no i think hamas is does not want to intervene in such a situation at this time right hamas want to keep the situation peaceful i would see him climb the trying to communicate would be a good show to have a cease fire really interesting here thought thank you very much indeed political analyst dr honey of the suits joining us live there in gaza well let's return now

to our top story in the syrian president's meeting with the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria kofi annan financial has been keeping across developments there she joins us now live from damascus so what else has being said today as coffee and his make or break mission to syria. well bill following his meeting with the joint you and i are oblique envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria is ready to make any almost step to and the crisis here in the country but he has stressed that it would be impossible while terrorist groups up in teaching to spread violence and chaos across the country the conflict between the opposition in the authorities here in syria is about to enter its second year and since the beginning of the uprising last march the opposition activists have been accusing president bashar assad and the regime of using force using weapons against peaceful protesters against innocent civilians while officially damascus has been arguing that it's fighting

against terrorists against armed groups operating in the country in order to just of lies the situation here on the ground coffee on and ahead of his visit to syria has announced that he will travel to the country to try to persuade the two sides been involved in this conflict to start all of insistent that talks are essential to the violence of the crisis and warning that further militarization may worsen things here on the ground he's also expected to meet opposition and here in the country syrian opposition within the country later on sunday so let's see how these negotiations will go. throwing signals it's ready to make concessions does it in any way look like a diplomatic solution could be just around the corner. well well unfortunately the real big concerns about that the ross tooth out starts diplomatic or political

solution could be around the corner because the syrian opposition based the grol of the syrian national council that was recognized by the you as a legitimate representative for the syrian people sticking for democratic changes has made it clear talks are not enough they've been calling on military pressure on the regime of bashar assad as well and they're not alone supports to welcome this measure solution to the crisis here in syria the calls to give more weapons to the rebels and to provide them with anyhow they need we've been hearing a lot of these calls recently and they become especially louder after the rebels we drove from the baba amr neighborhood it helps with the center of the heart of the conflict between the opposition the difficulties here in the country and we've been hearing a lot about foreign backed one seized here in syria four in volunteers and security

intelligence offices a win for an intelligence officer is captured in. so we've been hearing a lot recently about the involvement of other many countries in this crisis so with so many sides been exposed of course it's clear agreement is not at all easy to be rich rewards thanks very much indeed briffa notion of life in damascus in syria. athens may have hoped it escaped the gallows but it seems the noose may have been tightened further around its neck that's after the movie's 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 in a move his reaction runs counter to that of e.u. leaders who hailed the agreement to end the greece's economic woes however another rating group fitch slammed the euro kratz efforts and showed no mercy to be struggling greek economy by downgrading atkins too restricted to form well let's

get some first hand analysis from the greek capital from athens based journalist christophe try to sue joins me live now well since greece struck its deal with now had the word default used twice from two credit rating agencies that's quite a psychological blow for athens isn't it can we sort of announcements make the greeks plight even worse it's. i think the or if it is it well lord as agreement. with all of the kids. who are the world at war because of the greek above it will be or is that what is important this is not something you fought for greece. all of these the fall i know as well as for. all the other agencies. deval is president the group is it is great to use your life is extremely takes as we now

understand for so many greeks now as a result of the austerity measures but the old stereotype measures is that the right policy and if so is there any painless way of doing it. and my question or opinion on this is no this will shock of course there are certain measure so be it that i crucial for their for the betterment of economy but investment measures are of course i was were at the core of the league and the greed of both male and to create your little capital in the men and simple measure for the first one and then i think that this is the most crucial question to be asked of how do you how do you encourage investors when to put their money into greece at the moment how do you really boost that investment time and migration up in your lower targets for the point where those two dollars bucks for the best course for the oppressed force to make a more impersonal just frankly economy. to lower the power of the drink to you and

your stock to read the last year's worth of the dollar. or that we go into the bill and the group political system. do you agree with the way the government's been handling the so far there in athens are until it going yes but i think that the greek government and the group political elite has lost the most crucial point of the grace that is not only how cool and sober the peace girl is the difficulties of the quick over the hood i think we go because i brought us into the most crucial question will power and placements will come in threes congress voted it will govern greece and the forces lugar not only the greek government ok we will do the copilot this whole the correct answer our service questions they may they may be amended or split the measures or they both have ulcers of the most simple but i think what the kids of the said probably get that by the simple and the same pair question of how to best answer do you agree that the bailout plan

which looks as if it's going to be excepted now do you think that really is the answer to greece and that investment can build and as a result of that in injection of money i think the do it wrong yes but they think that this has a bed and i was where i think that that all these bailout funds are dead there are the while the years after that after a few years or i think the european union or are we head into green color red house for us are the similar questions after the paid the bailout or. is there going to directly then we're going to go with it we're going to first let's you. i think this is that was george street christophe's thanks so much for your perception on all of this chris cox detritus joining us live there from the very heart of it all in athens thank you and now let's have a quick look at some other headlines now making. the news across the world at the

moment in our world updates is of a rupture between demonstrators and police in the lebanese capital against the proposal of a new history curriculum in schools the christian financial party says it admits key events in the country's recent past claim schools will boycott the syllabus in its current form if it isn't changed and are broke a pact signed in one nine hundred eighty nine stipulates textbooks must be unified when talking about the country's history. crowds have gathered in seoul to protest against the use of nuclear power one year on from the for pushing the disaster the demonstration comes ahead of a summit being held in the city discussed the use of atomic power fifty world leaders are expected to attend a large scale leak at the japanese plant last notch is expected to dominate the two . brings up to date wrap up of the headlines coming your way in just two or three minutes from now here on us.

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