to get. u.n. arab envoys attempts to bring about peace talks in syria cash with calls for military action from some opposition groups. to test the will russia's opposition hopes to regain its momentum and a rally in central moscow internal fractions and draining public interest leave many on the sidelines also. because if you think the weather might turn to the ribbon around the rhine is the war in iran it should be iran. could the us be about to fall for the new war to consider wrotham enemies leads to a bulging defense structure. physics change of far on the israeli palestinian

border moves into its second day thousands of rockets fought and civilians hurt on both sides if one is the killing of a cause a resistance to meet the top stories this hour of. international news in comments live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he would like to make what he called any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart the statement comes after his meeting with the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria kofi annan who is on a make or break diplomatic mission in damascus last summer finishing has been keeping across the militants there. following his meeting with the joint u. and arab league envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria

is ready to make any onus to step through and the crisis here in the country but he has stressed that it would be impossible while terrorist groups are continuing to spread violence and chaos across the country the conflict between the opposition and 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 blackman's against peaceful protesters against innocent civilians while officially damascus has been arguing that it's frightening against terrorists against armed groups operating in the country in order to dust of allies 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 dollars insistent that talks are essential to end the violence of the crisis and warning

that further militarization may worsen things here on the ground he's also expected to meet opposition here in the country the roster doubts that diplomatic or political solution could be around the corner because the syrian opposition based the broad the syrian national council that was recognized by the as a legitimate representative for the syrian people seeking 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 to support to welcome this measure solution to the crisis here in syria because 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're become especially louder after the rebel . we draw from the baba amr neighborhood so as we can see many many countries many sides been involved in this conflict and all of them have different opinions and

different views on how to and this conflict here in syria so it's clear agreement is not easy at all to be reached at this stage calls for political dialogue between both sides in the syrian conflict have also been voiced at a meeting of the arab league in cairo russia's foreign minister so you lavrov who joined the gathering stressed again any interference in serious internal affairs is unacceptable but is the telling of it was there. the joint statement declared russia the league of arab states finally agreed on a road map that has been suggesting for quite a while now a five point roadmap for number one is immediate cease fire and stop the violence coming from all sides of the conflict that it's impartial and free monitoring all the situation in the country point number three which is probably the most important one that russia has been making all this time is no external interference as a lover of once again stressed that's russia does not support the syrian regime but

rather the people's rights of choosing the faith poor of their own country installed in their domestic issues on their own also they talked about the needs of humanitarian corridor for all the people of syria who need aid and. praised for the f. word so of coffee and then who is currently in syria trying to establish dialogue between president bashar assad's 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 un 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 un security council resolutions on syria in october and february because those resolutions in russia as you were only putting pressure on assad and his government

rather than on both sides of the conflict. a little later in the program here in r.t. we take a look at the latest twist in the saga of the greek debt crisis what seemed like the right at the end of the tunnel for greece's wrecked economy has turned into a downgrade nightmare more on that in just a few minutes. officials claimed ten thousand people gathered in moscow today to protest against sunday's presidential poll which saw plenty of putin 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 towards a europe is what was at the demonstration. 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 we are but today in moscow this protest 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 party of the opposition often driving the momentum of the protest movement into a dead end to the movement really started in december after the fall and then she will actually i mean it's accusations on 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 what cameras installed the over ninety thousand polling stations a million observers were monitoring the vote at these polling stations as well but the opposition says that violations 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 a non-sentient more toward postmistress square the same square again which sort of again shows how divided the opposition is dividing both mostly into the peaceful part and to the i guess more radical far as well so it's clear the opposition needs a new phase it needs a leader it needs to find a direction to attract more supporters and constructive and concrete demands. that's like a little more perspective on the russian presidential race from abroad professor stephan shack is an austrian m.p. and also an independent observer who monitored the polls on election day here in russia. so you were an observer here what was your impression of this year's

presidential race. the force of march. for russian the most democratic and fair election in the history of russia and and in my opinion is. really. that it was fear election day and we have to do. what was the complaining before and and what was on the election the election day was on the high standard. and it was really if both if syria election bit a lot of organizations of course don't share that point of view we've course of reported their views here on r.t. they certainly came to a very difficult conclusion so why do you think they had a different perception of what went on that day and they always see is not

a boy choir it's a political organisation i was observing georgia and i saw what was. election in georgia it was really cruel and it always easy sergt. not reading any any comments of from service that election was ok. for me i was really wondering i was really wondering when i heard the breath of relief from you always see i fit in austria it must be completely different countries in two completely different election because the election day and i spoke with a lot of observers observers from england observers from finland observers project and they all say the same in all the planning stage. we observers from the u. come from of europe made our. mission there was ok and

fair and on a really high also if we could stand so what is the motivation from the heart of the organization the o.s.c. which is of course the organization for security cooperation in europe why would they say it was a different outcome but what's the motivation. their motivation is maybe. that. they made a big mistake letting go they mix the campaign before the election day and we have to criticize that that you still didn't lead up to seventy percent of the state t.v. . news the splits not in the right balance but what's happened since the demonstration in december in january it's

a kleinman of free opinions. do you use the internet do news new media develop bloggers. but. always see me the mistake only may only have a look on the campaign for not be freer to say what's happened on their lection they let me quickly ask me if they're equally ignorant about the way the election though the major argument was that used by some observers that the election was that the winner was known in advance now isn't that something we have on your car already chairman is that fair criticism or sorry we had as a president elections. some years ago everybody knew who we will be the next president and germany we all know in europe who will be the next president in germany the question is new not to know what will be the next president the

question is how and this was very important how and then we have to say fear is fear of. the election was really fear and on high democratic stump professor stephan shellacked great to hear your point of view thank you very much indeed austrian m.p. and pace observer who observe the causational here in russia thank you very much going to. palestinian militant groups as its truce with israel is over that in a series of rocket strikes was the reaction to several israeli air raids which took the lives 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 profile of the palestinians killed by the israelis is the leader of the popular

resistance committee as 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 israeli said in addition to this they have evidence that he was involved in the planning of finding and the directing of a deeply cross border raid from the sinai peninsula into israel last august and now the israelis have also been targeting a number of training camps across the gaza strip and this afternoon saturday is 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 that it is all to blame for creating a negative environment that 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 the latest series of strikes in the gaza strip shows israel isn't interested in a peace deal with palestine that's according to political analyst dr honey. i think the consequences are for the bee supporters which has been suspended for the past weeks now i think the israeli government and israeli cabinet has announced that all the the palestinian. initiatives for peace they did not want to have any kind of a truce was just fired for the boss it twenty years now the pm on the palestinian authority have negotiated who dares release right and we can see clearly that the israeli military is using its power. in the gaza strip i think in the palestinian people everywhere this is an indication that the israeli occupation forces will not want peace 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 war never seen before and the saudis are stuck in shock and reports it looks as if history may be repeating itself. a fish are a popular pet among us war veterans like map a sure row something 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 and each represent wars when you compare that to the one and 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 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 conspiracy against which to justify anything smaller untag it is after the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait air strikes against saudi forces are more on target. begins striking selected targets some military importance undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should get out these air defenses with a defense budget that surpasses the military expenditure of all other countries combined. no other nation drums up war as consistently as america and while people are still responding in recovering from the violence that's committed in one place or even in the same place we're launching new operations and more atrocities in

different parts of the world play 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 war enemies last there would be a raw sort of a sense of my. a frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home in europe but the country when there are no enemies who try 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 here in and year out for 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're invented in the nation of iran as an enemy as a threat to the united states says a sister of nuclear weapons it is not just

a nation that has not attacked or not there are literally centuries and has no capability or desire to attack ours to be one of my sort of. iran iran is the one iran should be iran the us has been picking and choosing which countries to intervene in for centuries as the list of nations that america loves to hate expands the concept that no war or is also an option seems to have been forgotten. don't hesitate to log on to our website call me if you missed any of our stories here on screen here's some of what's there for you at the moment. from compassion to action as brazilian goes fight for the lives of thousands of stranded dolphins dragging the helpless metals back into the sea remarkable footage that. you haven't conspiracy the iceberg but still the titanic fate might have literally

been help from afar as a group of scientists claim the moon was its accomplice and sinking history's most famous cruise liner. pulled out of a double r.t. dot com athens may have hoped to have discreetly gallows but it seems the noose may have been tightened further around its neck. that's part of 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 moody's reaction runs counter to battered e.u. leaders who held agreement to be the end of greece's economic woes however another rating group fitch slammed the year kratz efforts and showed no mercy to the struggling greek economy by downgrading athens to restricted different christophe's detritus and athens based journalist told me earlier that he believes the bailout plan will collapse unless the government finally starts to look into the core issue of attracting investment into the country i think that the greek government and the group would clearly shows as the model. that this lot of all these folks

who saw the piece go if you go this other group who i think we call because people are sort of the most crucial question how investments will come there is how it works for you is there a bailout it's not gone right vestment spiritual then we'll call absolutely later on tonight today here in r.t. max kaiser and stacy herbert look back at decade to reveal the scheme which aren't greece joined the euro zone it's massive debt and how it's orchestrated banked a tidy profit. when secret greece alone shows two centers 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 rode 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 but this was greece is nine eleven the day they met goldman sachs it was them hacking the sovereignty and the future of a nation of greece. no martinis yes. because report from you were added later here in r.t. signs of nation modern rissa still clearly visible and couldn't stand the central asian countries or to the revolutions in less than a decade the sun lording them is the march of democracy all the time it claims politicians were manipulating people to grab power these are some of what can 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 appear down from posters striving to projects to belittle and trustworthiness. yes the streets are silent and empty and uncertainty isn't there there are provocateurs who would use any chance to undermine peace that we have known. biggest on a former soviet republic in central asia is a promise to a child a revolutionary fever two of its previous presidents were ousted by enraged crowds each uprising was pre-trained 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 that ability to settle political disagreements by force. we curious can wait for a while but once you get a little 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 than as their 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 locals fear that politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their ends. the specs and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurdish majority and their professed readiness to fight for their interests in the credit procedures are no longer just about the country's future the many is backs in are quite literally about life and death. are 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 advise those who stay to vote like her it is due to avoid any anger from the side while the sunday vote has seen could be streaming to the polling stations many respects made arrangements to leave town once some 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 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 some of boycott artsy reporting from our inquiries. government involvement in people's private lives has been 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 campaign heating up or head of november's poll or healthiness went on to the streets of new york to hear what people think about it. do you believe contraception coverage should be mandated by a government this week let's talk about that i think that contraception is. something that will protect kids from unborn or unwanted child or unwanted pregnancies toothpaste prevents to pick a should that be covered to oh that's a good question i don't think. 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 saks 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 you know i think it's a women's right issue as well but i don't think you could have a government mandate 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 for women but is it women's right or women's choices because there are other ways to not get pregnant yeah but they are great is also included and the government is paying for it i'm still stuck on government mandated i do believe that birth control should be available to us we're paying high for these insurance. and 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 help any government considers that for treating contraception as a health care concern. well a recap of our top stories is only a couple of minutes away stay with us for that so this is our team not him in most .

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