u.n. arab envoys attempts to bring about peace talks in syria clash with calls for military action from a position of groups. a test of wills 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. g.d.p. one third of the world around you is that one parent should be iran. could the us be about to embark on a new war as a constant draft of enemies leads to a bulging defense budget. and the physics changes far on the israeli palestinian

border moves into its second day with thousands of rockets fired and civilians hurt on both sides it follows the killing of a kills a resistance leader all top stories. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he had liked 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. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan who's been a make or break diplomatic mission in damascus but he's more of a notion has been keeping across developments that. puller in his smitten with the joint you and i are oblique envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria is ready to make any onus step to end 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 knowledge the opposition activists have been accusing president bashar assad and the regime of using force. 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 justify 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 being involved in this conflict to start dollars insistent that talks are essential to the violence and the crisis and warning that

further militarization made things here on the ground he's also expected to meet opposition there here in the country the roster doubts that diplomatic or political solution could be around the corner because the syrian opposition based abroad the syrian national council that was recognized by the as a legitimate representative for the syrian people speaking 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 militia solution to the crisis here in syria the calls to give more reference to the rebels and to provide them with any how they need we've been hearing a lot of these calls recently and they become especially louder after the rebel. we draw from the baba amr neighborhood it holds so as we can see many many countries many sys been involved in this conflict and all of them have different opinions and

different views on how to answer 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 sergei lavrov who joined the governor stressed again any interference in serious internal affairs is unacceptable the talent of god was there. the joint statement declared that's russia 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 point number one is immediate cease fire and stop violence coming from all sides of the conflict event 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 once again stressed that russia does not support the syrian regime but rather

the people's rights of choosing their faith for 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 course the man who is currently in syria trying to is that 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 version the 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 relax rebels. street battles russia has previously the told the un security council resolutions on syria in acts over and february because those resolutions in russia as you were all it would seem pressure on assad and his

government rather than on both sides of the conflict. hearty here in moscow and coming up later this hour the uprising hailed as a win for democracy turns into a grab for power at any cost the memories of true violent revolutions are still fresh in people's minds in kurdistan politicians ethnic divisions for personal gain . and 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 tonight. officials claim ten thousand people gathered in moscow today to protest against sunday's presidential poll which saw that amir 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 going off was a demonstration. oh 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 of this march accusing the liberal course of the opposition often driving the momentum of the protest movement into a deadhead movement me starting in december after the fall and then she actually i mean it's accusations on ballot fraud it went 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 over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers were monitoring the vote at the school stations as well but the

opposition says that violations happened both during the voting and during campaigning although a society is split on the results of the presidential poll we've seen mass rallies both in support and i guess 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 are we've got reports that the same people tried holding a non-sentient more toward pushkin square square the same square again which sort of again shows how divided the opposition is dividing both were 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 watch track more supporters and constructive and concrete demands. the opinion of journalist and put political activist nicholas fatted 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 end he putin really on march the fifth which was downright hysterical if that his theory of that irritation integration continues it would have alienated the public no one here wants a revolution no one wants quite 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 one way to lose. a little later in the program we'll take a look at the latest twist in the saga of the greek debt crisis it seems like the light 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. but first the palestinian militant group says it's 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 ati's policy reports fears are

running high that the escalation made 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 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 the israeli 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 him t. 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 make it environment that would only see and escalation 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 now in addition to this physical manifestation of violence on the ground we have been investigating a different type of warfare and 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 but as we've been finding out that white is someone who voted down when it comes to arab children if the lessons of life come. to children hours before the rest of the country wakes up with 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 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 their little missed being knocked over by a car. the children have to walk along the parks and cross many busy streets part of the journey is on a bus but after they get off they still an hour or more who came there late every day and exhausted even before the first listen starts the youngest is just three years old little hate it's because we aren't open because our religion is mohamad not moses asked why everything is like this the son of a. is radio losses transport must be provided for children living far from school because the local authorities say the families are squatting illegally on privately owned land they refuse to hold. the vote for growth. both internationally and also in israel children should have our first persian at

a reasonable distance from their home. proper occurred over persian with their very incursion for them. and they often revisit the bulldozers arrived because far from wanting to help the children you thought he's one of the families gone where is the day before this house stood here we come back and find this. our children hate the police the hate with jews and you ask from why is this change a national cause it's over democracy kind of democracy does this to its children back home now come of them being out since the founding of the state not a single you out of there which was built in for most of this already in existence there is no her old plan which means that every construction is around the legal action that so little and so with homes up for demolition and a 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. surfin junction israel. the latest series of air strikes in the gaza strip shows israel isn't interested in a peace deal with palestine according to political analysts dr honey. i think the consequences are for the peace of process which has been suspended for the past weeks now i think the israeli government is really kind of feeling. that all the the policy. initiatives for peace they did not want to have any kind of a truce with this fire for the boss it twenty years now on the palestinian authority. and we can see clearly that the israeli military is using its power. in the gaza strip i think and the palestinian people over this is an indication that the israeli occupation forces do 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 official suggest a strike is in the planning stages and could use a type of ball never seen before on his own he's honest does it show it in the reports of that history may be repeating itself. the fellow was a short fish are popular pet among u.s. war veterans like mathis show so the nerves of some of the roughly one hundred seventy thousand american soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder the u.s. army fragged has one hundred eighty three campaign ribbons on those one hundred eighty three ribbons each represent wars when you compare that to the work but two hundred thirty six years that we've actually been around as a country you're talking about you know a war on average once every year and three months serving americans are on

permanent standby to deploy to carry out warfare on command as the u.s. has a bone to pick one enemy after the other from the soviet union in the chabi in this threat was the most. enemy where we are legitimate and we are currently fantastical it was always available. as as a global conspiracy against which to justify anything to smaller in sadness after the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait air strikes against saudi forces our war on terror. begins with al qaida striking selected targets and will in turn importance and undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should cut off 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 in recovering from the violence that's going 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 a number or enemies left there would be raw sort of a sense of mission but frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i wrote here why the 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 were petrified of death by terrorism so should i don't think i think a lot of americans wish we'd spent more money on war finding the next target is never difficult we are inventing the nation of iran is an enemy of the united

states says it is this or a nuclear weapons it does not exist nation that has not attacked another in literally century center has no capability or desire to attack ours maybe even my target or. it should be 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 is also an option seems to have been forgotten. and i. wouldn't hesitate to log onto our website harty dot com if you missed any of our stories here on the screen it's a quick look at what's there at the moment on the website remarkable pictures here from compassion to action as brazilian peach goes fight for the lives of dozens of stranded dolphins dragging the helpless mammals back into the sea.

heavens conspiracy the iceberg that sealed the titanic fate might have literally been helped from above as a group of scientists claim the moon was its accomplice and sinking history's most famous cruise line. all available free and. athens may have hoped to de-list skate 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 would probably creditors that will write off over one hundred billion euros moody's reaction runs counter to that of e.u. leaders who held the agreement to be the end of greece's economic woes however another rating group fitch slammed the euro kratz efforts and showed no mercy to the struggling greek economy by downgrading athens to restricted default christophe's from travis in athens placed journalist told me earlier that he believes the bailout plan will collapse unless

a government finally starts to look into the core issue of attracting investment into the country. and the group. has laws. because these are the group. i think because of the lawsuit that was going to school. the rest of us will come as congress voted to do it if. it's not. first moves then we will call absolutely still ahead this hour next kaiser and stacy herbert looked back a decade to reveal the scheme which helped greece join the euro zone by moscow its massive debt and how it's orchestrated packed a tidy profit. called in 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 that 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 this was greece as nine eleven the day they met goldman sachs it was them packing the sovereignty and the future of a nation of greece penalties no martinis yes. signs of measure more than rest are still clearly visible until you can stand the central asian countries or to the revolutions in less than a decade with some law in them is the much of the more prosy all that it claims politicians what we need policing people to grab power on

a boycott travel to the region to learn the lessons of the past. it's election time in previous town second largest city candidates for the local legislature peered down from posters striving to project stability and trustworthiness you have the streets are silent and empty and uncertainty is in the air there are provocateurs who would use any chance to undermine peace that we have. to stand for most of which are public in central asia is a poster child for 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 by universe casualties and widespread looting so much so that some progress people are now taking pride in their ability to settle political disagreements by force. is that a weak europe is can wait for a while but once you get on your nerves you better run for your life. but nowhere

has the trigger happy political awakening cause more pain and suffering than ours ethnically divided 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 great killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here at. the back neighborhoods that were burned and looted a year and a half ago are now being rebuild. but many locals fear that politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their answer. was vexed and courteous have. different political preferences but given the current his maturity and their professed readiness to fight for their interests democratic procedures are no longer just about the country's future and many his bets in are quite literally

about life and death. are very afraid 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 kirk is due to avoid any anger from their side while the sound they vote has seen could be streaming to the polling stations many respects made arrangements to leave town on some i in the mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past 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 it's going to stand example shows once beilenson is introduced into the political process very soon it becomes the first rather than the last option to resort to at some point the artsy reporting from osh in kurdistan. now look at some of the stories making headlines around the

world the clashes have erupted between demonstrators and police in the lebanese capital against the proposal of a new history curriculum in schools the christian party says it admits key events in the country's recent past it claimed schools will boycott the syllabus in its current form if it isn't changed and our broken pact signed in one stipulates textbooks must be unified when talking about the country's history. crowds are gathered in seoul to protest against the use of nuclear power one year on from the focus shima disaster the demonstration comes ahead of a summit being held in the city to discuss the use of atomic power fifty eight world leaders are expected to attend a large scale leak of the japanese plant last march is expected to dominate the two . best strikes in central yemen have killed eighteen militants linked to al qaeda it's thought the country's military struck back after an attack by the group last week claimed the lives of two hundred troops but some local residents say u.s. forces are behind today's strikes got a long presence in the country especially in the self are one hundred fifty

thousand people have fled their homes in the last year so that the. government involvement in people's private lives is being of increasing concern to americans for some time and right now it's reaching all the way to birth control issues resurface with the presidential campaign heating up ahead of movement was pole and or health and this went on to the streets of new york to hear people think about it . do you believe contraception coverage should be mandated by the government this week let's talk about that i think that contraception is. something that will protect kids from adding unborn or unwanted child or unwanted pregnancies toothpaste prevent tooth decay should that be covered too oh that's a good question probably no i don't think those are the same category why what's

the difference between well at a contraceptive but 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 fat. 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 right issue as well but i don't think you can 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 to women but is it women's right or women's choice because there are other ways to not get pregnant yet. they are gross also included 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. 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. for the moment coming up next a frank discussion on the latest in the murky world of finance that's in the cards report that's coming your way after a brief recap of our top stories in a couple of minutes from.

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