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u.n. arab envoys 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 that in turn fractures and training partner interest lead many on the sidelines also. might try to work around the world iran it should be iran could the us be about to embark on a new war as a constant raft of enemies leads to a bulging defense budget. and a fierce exchange of fire on the israeli palestinian border moves into its second
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day with dozens of rockets fired in civilians from both sides it follows the killing of a resistance leader our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is would you twenty four hours a day these 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 the statement comes after his meeting with the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria kofi annan who's on the make or break diplomatic mission in damascus. has been keeping across developments there. puller in his meeting with the joint to an arab league envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria is ready to make any onus to step to the crisis here in the country but he has stressed that it would be impossible while terrorist groups
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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 fighting 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 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 met here in the country the roster doubts that
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diplomatic or political solution could be around the corner because the syrian opposition based the role of the syrian national council that was recognized by the as a legitimate representative of 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 to support to welcome this measure 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 are all from the baba amr neighborhood homes so as we can see many many countries many sighs been involved in this conflict and all of them have different opinions and different views on how to end this conflict here in syria so it's clear
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agreement is not easy at all to be reached at this stage professor of middle east history of west chester university lawrence davidson believes some major international players are behind the refusal of syria's exxon opposition to engage in dialogue with the assad regime the united states britain. and the gulf. countries i don't think that they're they're looking for a negotiated peace i think they're looking for a long. episode for a civil war i don't think it's that they don't have any influence i think they don't want to see these people. because they're 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 win against the
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government militarily win against the government. the government is attempting to corrupt the moderate the moderate protesters with you know promises of 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 protest. 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 join the gathering stressed again any interference in syria's internal affairs is unacceptable artie's the tally nothing was there. the joint statement declared that's 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 violence coming from all sides of the conflict that it's impartial and free monitoring of
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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 sergei lavrov 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 will praised for the afterwards of course the annan 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 a lover of also russia thinks that's a new un security council resolution on syria i can only succeed if it's not driven
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by the desire to let's rebels. street battles russia has previously the told 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 both the conflict. coming up later this hour the uprising held as a win for democracy turned into a grab for power at any cost memories of tuvalu revolutions are still fresh in people's minds encourages. ethnic divisions for personal gain. and i think the hard way we're reporting the first lessons of life being taught arab children in israel as their homes are outlawed and their basic right to education denied. the country but first officials claim ten thousand people gathered in moscow today to protest against last sunday's presidential poll which saw the return to the kremlin for
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a third term attendance however fell far short of expectations with blame being put on internal conflicts among opposition leaders and what seen as the movement's general lack of direction. was at the demonstration. much less people came to this rally than initially expected by the organizers the waiting for up to fifty thousand people while police said only around ten thousand people gathered here on the we are about to be 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 force of the opposition of driving the momentum of the protest movement into bed with me starting in december after the fall and she actually made accusations on ballot
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fraud to a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential election and indeed unprecedented steps were made to shoot down i'm talking about the web cameras installed over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers monitoring the most peaceful solution does well with the opposition says that one. lesions happened both during the voting and during campaigning although society is put on the results of the presidential polls in mass rallies both in support and i guess 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 and in fact we're we've got reports that the same people tried calling in and saying should more toward close to square the scenes where again it was sort of again shows how divided the opposition is dividing both mostly into the peaceful part and to the i guess more
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radical court as well so it's clear the opposition needs a new fees it needs a leader it needs to find a direction to attract more supporters and constructive and concrete demands. the opinion of journalists and political activists legalized however is that the latest protest was much more constructive than the one held in march the fifth when some activists were arrested for allegedly breaking protest regulations. are no good mood today was so much more constructive than it was at the end he putin rally on march the fifth which was downright hysterical if that hysteria that irritation integration had 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 steer them away. a little later in the program we take a look at the latest twist in the greek debt saga it seems like light at the end of
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the tunnel for greece's wrecked economy has turned into a downgrade nightmare more on that point in just a few minutes. as push for diplomacy with iran over its nuclear program has failed to quell talk about ending a military confrontation statements from america's top defense officials suggest a strike is in the planning stages and could use a type of ball never seen before and as artie's understudy churkin reports it looks as if history may be repeating itself. the water for a fish are a 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 what two hundred thirty six years that we've actually been around as
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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 with one enemy after the other in the soviet union in the choppiness threat was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we are completely fantastical it was always available as a global conspiracy against which to justify anything smaller and 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 and forces our war on terror. begins with striking selected targets some will occur important that undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should get off his air defenses and the defense budget that surpasses the military expenditure of all other countries
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combined. no other nation drums up war as consistently as america and while people are still responding in recovering from the violence that is committed in one place or even in the same place we're launching new operations and more atrocities in different parts of the world the military industrial complex worth billions of dollars is largely america's driving force. deeply rooted in the system it would serve no purpose if there was no one to fight if there were no war enemies left there would be raw sort of a sense of my. a frightening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home i thought here was a country when there are no enemies to try to put together the evil empire again do in a 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 or petrified of death by terrorism so should i don't
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think i think a lot of americans wish we spent more money on war finding the next target is never difficult we're inventing the nation of iran as an enemy of the united states says sister of nuclear weapons it does not exist nation that has not attacked another in literally century center has no capability or desire to attack ours g.d.p. with my part of the world with iran iran is the one iran it 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 is also an option seems to have been for about decisive churkin i don't see. a 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 fifteen palestinians but of his policy reports fears are
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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 should be killed by the israelis as the leader of the popular resistance committee as 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 said in addition to this they have evidence that he was involved in the planning of finding any directing of a deeply cross 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 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
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a make it environment there would only siege and 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 and 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 right to education of israeli children and as we've been finding out that white is the most up to down when it comes to arab children in the lessons of life come early to the children hours before the rest of the country wakes up 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 older ones hop more younger ones with their bags but the road is dangerous and just
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a few days ago when. the children now do 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 or more of walking there later if we gauge and exhausted even before the first place and starts the youngest is just three years old. it's because we aren't open because our religion is one hundred not a moses and that's why everything is like this the cinema. is radio losses transport must be provided for children living far from school but because the local authorities say the families are squatting illegally on privately owned land they refuse to hope. for growth. internationally and also in israel children should have our first. at a reasonable distance from their. proper.
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education system. a day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to help the children thought he's one of the families gone where is the day before this house here we come back and find this. our children hate the police the hate the jews and you ask from where is this strange israel calls itself a democracy what kind of democracy does this to its children that bombs put up there come up on me now since the founding of the state not a single you out of a village was built and for most of this already in existence there is no real plan which means that every construction is around the legal. and so with the homes up for demolition and the dream to be educated a daily trudge these children are learning the hard way that some of life's most important lessons happened outside the classroom police say r.t. surfin junction israel. the latest series of strikes in the gaza strip shows israel
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isn't interested in a peace deal with palestine that's according to political analyst dr honey. i think the consequences are for the b. supporters which has been suspended for all the boston weeks now i think the israeli government and the israeli cabinet has announced that it did not accept that all the the false union. initiatives for peace they did not want to have any kind of for trees or just fire for the past it twenty years now the piano on the policy front to have the surety deseret sat on it and can see clearly that the israeli military is using its oil. and my hands attacking the gaza strip i think and the palestinian people everywhere this is an indication that the israeli occupation forces do not want peace. by the way don't hesitate to log onto our website harty dot com if you missed any of our stories on screen here's some of
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what's there for you at the moments from compassion to action as brazilian beachgoers fight for the minds of dozens of stranded dolphins dragging the helpless mammals back into the sea remarkable footage they're made of between r.t. dot com it's a conspiracy on the iceberg that seal the titanic fate might literally have help from above as a group of scientists say the moon became its accomplice in sinking history's most notorious cruise liner moral nationalities got caught. athens may have hoped to have the state the gallows but it seems the noose may have been tightened further around its neck that's after the moody's credit rating agency declared greece in the fourth of its debt it comes in response to the country carving out
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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 held the agreement to be the end of greece's economic woes and whether another rating group fitch slammed the euro kratz efforts and showed no mercy to the struggling greek economy quite downgrading athens to restricted default christophe's and try lists and athens based journalist told me anything he believes the bailout plan will collapse and the government finally starts to look into the core issue of attracting investment into the country. i think that the greek government. clearly shows logs the market. is that this is not of all the whole. of the fiscal because these are the group. because of the absolute of the most crucial question. is. if they really loud loud it's not right vestment spiritual they will call
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absolutely absolutely. now a look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update clashes have erupted between demonstrators and police in the lebanese capital against the proposal of a new history curriculum in schools the christian french party says it emits key events in the country's recent past it claims schools will boycott the syllabus in its current form if it is a change an arab brokered pact signed imagination i stipulates textbooks must be unified when talking about the country's history. crowds have gathered in soldier proof test against the use of nuclear power one year on from the fukushima disaster a demonstration comes ahead of a summit being held in the city to discuss the use of atomic power fifty world leaders are expected to attend a large scale leak at the japanese plant last march is expected to dominate the tool. in kenya at least four people have been killed and more than forty injured in
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an attack on one of the capital's main bus terminals but this is a free grenades were thrown at the station from a passing car explosions are the latest in a string of incidents that began in october the country sent troops into neighboring some money. and airstrikes in central yemen have killed eighteen militants linked to al qaeda and so the country's military struck back after an attack on the last week claimed the lives of two hundred troops and some local residents a u.s. forces are behind the strikes that has a lot of presence in the country especially in the self one hundred fifty thousand people have fled their homes in the los angeles. signs of nation modern rest are still clearly visible in kyrgyzstan the central asian countries for two bloody revolutions in less than a decade with some lauding them as the march of democracy all that amid claims politicians were manipulating people to grab power. point travel to the region to learn the lessons of the past. it's election time in kyrgyzstan second largest city
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candidates with a local legislature appear down from posters striving to projects that believes he and trustworthiness. yeah the streets are silent and. an uncertainty isn't there there are provocateurs who would use any chance to undermine peace that we have. biggest on a former soviet republic in central asia is a poster child for revolutionary fever two over its previous presidents were ousted 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 their ability to settle political disagreements by force. is that we curious can 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
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arch and ethnically divided city in the south of the country in june of two thousand and ten vine political elites instigated fierce clashes between a clear reason as their communities more than four hundred killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here. because they can leave or who is 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 i think divisions to achieve their ends is becks and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurds my curiosity and their professed read in this to fight for their interests democratic procedures are no longer just about the country's future for many years backs in are quite literally about life and death. because books are very afraid that they will again be used to
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scapegoats in political games many have left the city on the eve of the election for fears of riots i verge those who stay to vote like two to avoid any anger from the side while the sun. the vote has been could be streaming to the polling stations menus decks made arrangements to leave town over the past two 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 he always puts a noun to any mini in 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 it's not going to artsy reporting from washington in kurdistan well that's the way the news looks the stuff from russia's capital because a report is coming your way in just a few moments but before that i'll be back up with a look at one stay with us from. wealthy
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