three. videos for your media project free media. the syrian authorities accuse saudi arabia over a series of deadly suicide attacks in president assad's strongholds that's us reports emerge the saudis may have been arming syrian rebels. the new egyptian constitution is not yet written but it's already in the center of a scandal a year after people voted for a change in referendum. i think people thought they were very. chilly. lawmakers in washington the legal lines when it comes to america's freedom of assembly making it now easier to throw protesters behind bars.

it is a good to have you with us here today on our. recent show live in moscow the syrian government is blaming qatar and saudi arabia which both back the arming of opposition rebels being involved in a series of deadly blasts in syrian cities suicide bombings and government strongholds on the weekend that claimed the lives of thirty people and left dozens injured let's not talk to our correspondent in the middle east live on the program ochs on a violence in syria seems to be spiraling out of control despite international peace efforts so what more are the authorities saying about this link to foreign involvement in the attacks. well you know rory you just said. serious parling out of control despite international efforts while some syrian officials it's quarreling out of control because of some international efforts

particularly the involvement of saudi arabia and qatar several high profile arab diplomats have suggested over the weekend that saudi arabia has being son being ammunition to the syrian rebels mainly through jordan and doing everything in its power to make sure that the any modest peace afterwards that have been happening over the past two weeks namely that the. mission to syria and do something else to really try to bring peace to syria. it's been alleged is doing everything in its to spoil that now you mentioned the security situation in syria remains very tense just this morning major clashes between gunmen armed gunmen and the syrian army took place in damascus in

a pretty neighborhood got houses namely ambushes and the basis really in new development because up until now it didn't ask us was pretty much spared all of those open clashes that it has witnessed a number of suicide car bombings the latest one coming on saturday but so far we haven't seen any major clashes in damascus similar to the ones that we saw today now local residents report hearing gunfire automatic rifles major explosions early in the morning between two and four am in the morning and the sides involved in this conflict the opposition and the syrian government obviously blaming each other for these later latest violence as well as for the. when suicide bombings that took place in damascus and syria second largest media off aleppo over the weekend now opposition sours that everything has been staged by the syrian

government to sort of. you know defrocked attention to its own crackdown on its people while the syrian government obviously disagrees with that and the latest example out violence is yet another out of a dance that armed gangs terrorist groups are indeed present in the country that they're being financed and supplied by major world powers particularly saudi arabia in qatar and got these countries in particular have been doing everything they can to really stop all the peace process is that the government is very interested in seeing it in its own country right how things are going to work out i live in beirut thank you. tony and such an out of out of egypt where the parliament has just agreed on a panel which will write the country's new constitution but it's already embroiled in controversy human rights activists are reportedly calling on the military rulers to dissolve the newly elected commission saying the muslim brotherhood are trying

to use the process as a power grab and he's agreed that half of the panel will be chosen from within parliament where the muslim brotherhood has a majority of seats it's all happening exactly a year after an historic referendum which paved the way for a reshuffle of power in the country but it's always a ridiculous to report it hasn't changed or produced a change rather that egyptians have long been hoping for. khalid to lima could be opposed to boy for egypt's revolution young educated a t.v. talk show host and politically active he was among those whose protests on the two square toppled the regime of president mubarak last year but like many others who were on the streets with him he doesn't feel things in egypt have changed for the best that. we were and against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and justice a lot of scare so they were programmed aleutian their actions sure they are

applying the same techniques used by him. the ruling military council or staff replaced hosni mubarak who is accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at scarce policies unveiled a situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proper suspended with live ammunition in a sort of rubber bullets as was that his on the course you get the war strikers who get referred to belittle bureaus of them who were doing records in the past year you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who got processed on military orders that's where you more than what one of the during his thirty years of war the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before the revolution are now considered on sci fi even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can find the police in the street and even if they're there they don't

really help and you know it's like a kind of they are punishing the people because they are the of the revolution so they're not doing their or their work they don't care about what happens and the deliberately neglecting. every single crime that is happening and they just did choose to turn their back and some believe revolutionary parties choose to turn their backs on the military council's questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and so her a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started making deals in four evolutions which give them more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political elite and revolutionaries are looking at fixing things not changing. a real possibility now is the revolution entering the second stage this time prompted not just by the young and the educated but by the poor and the unemployed whose numbers have been steadily rising since the military

council came to power and the situation is really getting worse and i believe that these people who are really suffering nowadays because they can't even. afford to work to feed their or there are families these people are really there are going to leave because this. new wave of russian if you can what you want to call it like a second wave of. what is going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that are serious where it's filled with vendors to bring your sellers i will you and if you would sense but from time to time things get heated up again those who have spent their days and nights here just a little over a year ago when they all barrack regime see their job is far from over and the revolution continues but it goes quiet here cairo. part of what you thought was no way egypt's thousands more than a year after the revolution are now joined here on the program by dr jones from the center of political and strategic studies in cairo good to see you today so the

islamist dominated parliament agreed that its own lawmakers will make up a heart of those tasked with writing the country's new constitution is that proportion not really fair if you think the divvying up of the numbers. actually it's much more than the fifty percent i mean the muslim brotherhood. but his injury a majority in the parliament and the the fifty percent of the members of the constitution are simply will be saluted from the parliament and in addition to their the other fifty that it meaning fifty percent of the muslim brothers and the seller for his will have a meal and see. who said look to the other half meaning that they will enjoy a majority of this which. i am afraid will really put us in a very difficult situation where you can a situation would be written in think essentially one view which is likely to extend as a current power struggle and political conflict and the stability of the country as

you forecast as the rocket goes ahead when it comes to the ongoing political process in egypt but as many would think there is now every chance that egypt will turn into an islamic state with strict sharia law do you think the west will be happy with the results of that after supporting such a long weapon lucian. i believe that if the if the islamic government in egypt will be able to provide the governance system and won't be a cause for. instability of the region to live. some sort of a constructive one did it. at all in the region or larry now perhaps so wistful will at least will remain silent if there are things that they might not like and there was of civil liberties or human rights and still in their country it is the name of the game is not this is not actually human rights it's ascension of governance and the stability the problem with the mubarak regime that wasn't is

that if if given providing for this system in the end i think if a dissenting government would do it i think the whist would live with that i was also in the west maybe maybe more happy to live with that if indeed the issue of democracy comes to fruition as we were saying earlier it's exactly a year after egyptians voted for amendments to the constitution if it rained in a referendum seen at the time was a major test of the transition to democracy has to not receive arrived. not yet and i think that is a long time we have to wait a long time before we land on a democracy i think the nineteenth of march. i think it was a big mistake there is a tribute would have been denied that kind of a clear roadmap to democracy has it been a lot of political manipulation and i think the this half of the military council in the entire country try to outsmart everybody many people think that different

political forces but the irony of it here i'm on the losing end of the evolutionary more democratic forces also came with the moving into this and only the muslim brothers and the seller is. the winning side sort of. a lot of. incidents in is a failed attempt to manipulate them to call. me out and now when i was leaving i certainly largely no one no one expected such a transition to democracy to go absolutely smoothly but if i may i do apologize i'm running low on time here there's still a lot of anger in egypt over the continued military rule do you think they will really step away after the new president is elected. well this is a big question mark i mean it is. at the moment the military looks quite. silent trying to open it with a different political forces but it clearly was

a muslim brotherhood apparently there is some sort of strategic understanding between the two sides and. of tradition because the other hand there is still a strong of forces and voices within the military itself who have though it's had power to surrender power to the muslim brothers as a seller fees but they have not said anything about what kind of moves would be taken at this point so that is a lot of uncertainty about this issue of whether the issue of the transition of government from the military council from scared to an elected government made this in philly by the muslim brotherhood so there is still a lot of uncertainty a lot of sorrow within us all right i dr jamal sultan from the center of political studies in cairo thank you for coming on r.t. today. well this is all true it's good to have you with us i still have you on the program the right to life as i go to academics in the u.k.

who argue in favor of after birth abortion in a leading medical journal. but new york city police are investigating threats made against star through the phone and on twitter this after officers forcibly arrested more than seventy people during an occupy wall street protest since the start of the movement nationwide protests of that numerous cases of police brutality of the patterns and tear gas often used to disperse crowds and as the movement continues so too does washington's desire to silence the american public as it is more important explains. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty unlike no water. since september some six thousand seven hundred americans protesting against economic inequality and corporate greed have been arrested and silence. a police offensive aimed at

crushing occupy wall street has succeeded in shattering america's globally marketed brand of freedom for its made people realise it's the kind of devastating states or our ability to be in a place of dissent america and how to challenge that press that is and i think people thought they were freer to dissent until it's right here. in america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech and advance deemed nationally significant such as presidential conventions and to be. protesting in areas where the u.s. president or anyone protected by the secret service may be visiting is considered a felony punishable with fifty fines cannot contain years in jail. the federal restricted buildings and grounds improvement act known as h r three four seven is a law most americans don't know about but you don't have to do

a lot to feel its force we represent people who are charged with felony offenses soley because they put up posters they put up signs asking people to join in demonstrations and they've been arrested by the police detained held on twenty five thousand dollars bail in charge of felonies with nato n g protest posters popping up nationwide u.s. lawmakers are tightening up recent active men's include prohibiting protests around the white house and broader language to make arrests and prosecution easier i think this is a specific response sort of the fear that we are actually going to active and you know like. transforming the political landscape katie davison was arrested twice last year want to employ in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york i feel like we are living in earthworks american government here we sort of like sprinkled democratic you know like words all over everything as if you know like we

have all these freedoms are actually down by new reality where each year that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted unsound wages are front to civil liberties and the first amendment and. i have my personal personally have been arrested several times protesting. have been misdemeanors and now would be a felony and it's just unconscionable that the congress passed this on or is legal for it's bickering i want it we reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only elected officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests all u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and homelessness there on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability. artsy new york. i don't know if you get some are

going to watch it or calling to see the latest footage on the occupy crowd. lots more in store for you there as well for example the american soldier suspected of slaughtering sixteen afghan civilians may already have had a criminal record the scope of the charges against him in the past on our web site . plus outrage and dismay among christians in the middle east as the grand mufti of saudi arabia demands the destruction of all churches of the region for the details on that about si dot com. all right in a moment we'll get to the world update her on r.t. before now a public storm is raging in britain after

a controversial article where two academics advocated the use of after birth abortions the authors have received death threats but say their arguments were just an academic discussion however as r.t. as i bennett reports it's left many wondering whether such views should be voiced at all. course was eight months pregnant when she found out her son would be born with down syndrome even as late as that the only advice she got was to have an abortion doctors tried to persuade her sam's condition would be a struggle not worth living but six years on the only struggle mother and child have had was ignoring that advice i could start all over again and i was choosing not to take and i was treated as something something. ality actually i was cheated . it's stupid say. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice. they have a duty to everyone

a take and i like and they don't a lot of them might i failed a field our children aware preserving they're not worth saving they're not worth having and that really is the case but stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue that it's ok to kill babies even after the born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a leading british medical journal they dismiss newborns as potential and not actual persons they see killing them so no different to a normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide it was a speculative case and this article has been defended on the grounds of free speech but would we accept for example an article advocating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be killed ask the question is

a newborn child any less of equal member of the human family than a member of a certain race or of one gender or the other what really is the difference the authors of stoped unethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases even if the babies are not disabled abortions are only permitted in britain or non medical grounds during the first twenty four weeks of a pregnancy the authors of now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion they refused to give an interview but it's a lie in the journals editors defend our drug use to publish arguments for. issues so that people commit crimes in the long run so. these issues are very complex. for example i looked agree with. the conclusions of the pit or i would like to defend people's right to express the

views and other people's rights to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prompted outrage not only amongst pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities who declined the option of abortion it was a hit because it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that you need these children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine doesn't mean it's not something fantastic because having sam and i life is amazing absolutely amazing sam's a member of his local swimming club and plays football to seeing him here it's hard to believe how doctors can say his life would be a burden i've been it r t london. before we get to know tasha with a business most of the arty world update for you some of international headlines in brief but opened fire outside a jewish school in the french city of toulouse killing four people three of them

children the gunman then fled or fled the scene on a motorbike the tragedy comes just days after two uniformed soldiers and a paratrooper were shot dead in separate incidents in the same area. in libya two british journalists initially accused of espionage have been freed it comes almost a month since the country's militia detain the men who were working for an iranian broadcaster last week the two apologized for illegally entering the country. thanks patrick day celebrations turned violent in the canadian town of london crowd of around a thousand started a fire a battle with police and the revelers flipped over a t.v. news van and threw rocks and bottles of security forces when they arrived at the scene but at least eleven arrests were made. into the world of finance so there's a touch of hello to you on the good news for us this well the short answer is no.

it's pretty much all doom and gloom out there and everything is losing value but the thing we're watching this hour is all well it's down after being quite quite upbeat earlier in the day mainly on concerns about u.s. economic recovery data released on friday showed that consumer confidence index dropped and expectedly in march experts say mainly on concerns about high gasoline prices also saudi arabia the world's biggest oil exporter boosted its production essentially easing concerns about tight supplies from iran as the country faces tough economic sanctions over its nuclear program and let's now see how the equity markets are reacting first to europe and it's pretty much a sea of red cross the board there the footsie is shedding value this hour the only thing that's managing to buck the trend is beautiful and it's a stock on the docks is also down and now on to the currency market the dollar is

gaining value against the euro and the russian currency the group will is gaining to the dollar and the euro and naturally brings us to the russian equity markets and they are in the red as well as you can see pretty have two losses there almost two percent for the my sense but it's pretty hard to withstand that pressure when everything is down all over the place that negative sentiment is quite strong now the biggest movers on my sex is this hour is that gazprom is shedding value as you can see there russia's biggest lender is bear bank is also down but not as much mainly because it's settled to put on its plan to offer shares to the public in april and saul is also shedding value as you can see and dusters of punishing and. first of all for reporting worse than expected two thousand and eleven results and for naming a very chilling as board chairman to replace victor effects silver and who quit

last week apparently investors don't think he'll be as effective russia's gazprom is expanding its partnership with european companies it plans an asset swap with the biggest oil and gas company in germany so people has all the details. we don't talk about terminus big oil deposit on me to plot the plot for me in the north sea the developer of this field is german is leeds evil oil and gas producer with his whole wish is planning and assets more with russia castro says hold will get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the old peninsula with an option for fifty per cent while the castro fire and we are shares in the reserves holds all sure a project like this one gets from. the more seas which of the.

british i think us call them is very interesting to broaden its production base to russia. today. actually also jointly with the two companies have been talking racing for decades they jointly build the world trade and now are intensifying their efforts to construct the south trade routes they turn central real gas transport to reach distributes the russian gas in europe has just been made in the pantaloons and renamed cascade in older to comply with these third energy charter this brave is a producer from also owning the means of supply gasper which invests billions of dollars in pipelines wants to keep control but the rapidly changing rules mean they're tying up local operate as may be the best way for gas problem to access customers in europe's new liberalize gas markets that's in the political book

business artsy from the north sea. and staying with the energy sector ukraine is reportedly in talks with turkey romania and germany to import scouts he has been in a long running dispute with russia's gal's problem for prices and is looking to diversify its supply base according to commerce on daily or wants to buy up to eleven billion cubic meters from the new sources that's roughly one quarter of what it annually imports from russia. and that's the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes. if. you. go to. the.

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