video on demand. an. accusation so who is behind the weekend bombings in syria fly between rebels and the government. claiming the saudi arabia and. traces of their involvement at the crime scene. post revolution in the old ways are still dominate in egypt with critics accusing the new islamist strong parliament of turning the constitutional assembly into a. surface over america's cherished democratic past in washington gets even tougher and the silence home grown protests.

the business is. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at moscow i'm sure the syrian regime has pointed the finger at saudi arabia and qatar saying the arab states were involved in the chain of terrible lost in syria's largest cities the gulf nations have been accused by assad's government of arming whoever carried out the attacks which left around thirty people dead and dozens injured the boy who is in the region now reports with the latest. the two sides involved in this conflict the opposition and the syrian government obviously blaming each other for the queen suicide bombings that took place in damascus and syria second largest city often left over the weekend now opposition says that everything has been staged by the

syrian government to sort of you know deflect that time ssion from its own crackdown on its people oh god the syrian government obviously disagrees with that and understands that the latest and samples of violence is yet another agadez 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 and qatar a high profile arab diplomat suggested over the weekend that saudi arabia has being sending ammunition to the syrian rebels mainly through jordan just this morning major clashes between gunmen armed gunmen and the syrian army took place in damascus in a pretty obvious cayle a neighborhood that houses many embassies and this is really a new development because up until now it damascus was pretty much spared all of those open clashes he took on a worker reporting that i want to meantime the syrian opposition claims of the

assad government it could be responsible for terror attacks in damascus and aleppo groundless and this according to vienna based political research of the german chef on the contrary he could actually play into rebel hands. this that i'm going to. increase up the terror and violence in syria is not so much in the interest of us thought more in the interest of the insurgents in order to. cause reactions from the syrian government troops but. provoke foreign intervention it's possible that there. has been support from from the outside and we know that qatar and saudi arabia support insurgents in syria because syria is an ally of iran and iran is only in the region i mean time. researcher from syracuse university so is that the syrian people are falling victim to saudi arabia or qatar

as brutal tactics to push forward their political agenda. these are two states that are very autocratic they have a strong relationships with the west and they get a lot of funding militarily from the worst so perhaps it suits them to. have this cord not only in syria but you know it's spilling into iraq it's spilling into jordan and of course it's spilling out here into lebanon and so they've made it very clear over the past several months that the wind the assad regime to topple that they're willing to do anything that they can to make it happen whether it's bullying diplomatic arena as or whether it's funding the militant groups in syria and unfortunately the biggest losers of those are the syrian people. china sees eye to eye with russia when it comes to the ongoing syrian crisis calling on the opposition trying gauging talks with the regime professor from the chinese academy of social sciences believes it's sometimes difficult to figure out exactly who the

opposition is. coming your way next hour here on r.g.p. for a preview. of that these are the sectors. also being absolutely essential to because also. penetrated nowadays the sole cause for the freedom army of the syria now is not longer the pure syrian people. are afraid of the army i think. their forces has also involved in the rebellion army so now all those fighting groups i think they're wrong must become more complicated much much more complicated than before. and that interview is in about an hour and a half there are too often although egypt has unveiled a line up of a long awaited government panel tasked with creating a modern democratic and inclusive constitution but who really human rights groups

are unhappy claiming that islamic factions of banded together in order to dictate just who gets to write the document and are just a year since the revolution hopes for change of all but evaporated as items are going to go to school reports how diliman could be a poster 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 result. we were only given some of barak as a person we were against a little system against oppression and injustice a lot of scarcity would prove lucian their actions should be replying to seem to me used here. the ruling military council or staff replaced hosni mubarak who regions accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights

abuse but a thorough look at scouts policies unveiled a situation eerily similar if not worse well you get protestant that suspended would like of your mission in a sort of rubber bullets as was the case on the course you get the more strikers who get referred to when it's likely you balance of them to go to the courts in the past two years you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who got processed all military wants that's where you more than what most of the during this thirty years of war with the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their evolution are now considered and see even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can find them the police in 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 have done the revolution so they're not doing their or their work they don't care about what happens and the

deliberately neglecting their every single crime that is happening and they just their choice to turn their back and some believe revolutionary parties to see turned their backs on the military council's questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and so a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and start looking deals in forty collisions which give them more ground and ignore the main demands of the revolution most of the political lead and rule lucian are looking at fixing things not changing them. a real possibility now is the revolution entering a 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 economic 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 their families and these

people are really they are going to lead this guy. in a wave of revolution if you can. like us i can read of evolution but it's going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that are serious where it's filled with vendors to be near sellers idle youth 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 barack regime say their job is far from over and the revolution continues to go as courts hear cairo. dr jamal from the center for political studies in cairo says there are still a lot of uncertainty in the future for egypt. the nineteenth of march. i think it was a big mistake there as richard people have been denied the pain of a clear roadmap to democracies have been a lot of political manipulation i think the scale of the military council ruling

the country break out smart to everybody manipulating the different political forces not the irony of it here i'm on the losing end of the revolutionary more democratic forces also came with the looting into this and only the muslim brothers and the seller is. the winning side but on the other hand there is still a strong forces and voices within the military itself who have doubts or proud as rendering power to the muslim brotherhood as a seller fees but they are not certain about what kind of moves could be taken at this point so there is still a lot of us have pity you a lot of road bumps are waiting for us here. watching our to you it's good to have your company today still to come on the program here the academics questioning the right to life professors far in the u.k. for advocating the use of what they call after birth abortion. the use of

silent killer of the use of us bus stops in the country's homes poses the threat of disease which can cost lives. now or ten minutes past the hour here in moscow u.s. police are investigating death threats they received via twitter after hundreds of protesters marking occupy wall street six month anniversary clashed with offices in new york are scenes of police brutality towards peaceful demonstrators made it many question america's image shows the guardian of democratic values and freedoms and as our teams are in a corner explains recently expanded restrictions on the protests are only fueling the criticism. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty on light 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 but it's made people realize it's because of devastating states oh our ability to compete in a place to send their marriage and how to challenge that and how press that is and i think people thought they were freer to dissent and creates it 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 sea. what service may be visiting is considered a felony punishable with hefty fines and up to ten 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 that force we represent people who are charged with felony offenses solely 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 and charged with felonies with nato and 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 to sort of the fear that we are actually going to have and you know like. transforming the political landscape katie davison was arrested twice last year while taking core in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york a few like we're living in an authoritarian 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 that we actually don't buy new reality where it's here that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted i mean sound it ranges front to civil liberties and the first amendment and i have my personal personally have been arrested several times protesting there have been misdemeanors and now would be a felony and it's just unconscionable that the congress passed this on korea's leader for its victory i want to clean reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only three of the elected officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests while u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and. they're on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability. r.t.

new york. steven political communications strategist believes the occupy movement needs to start to address the needs of ordinary americans took a moment. how do you really gel there's either a piece for an economic approach innocence or anything else i think they have to decide what they want to go after you know my opinion they should be. moving in congress is a number of issues the number of different people in israel now there's no leadership there's no definable leadership really standing out and leading the movement you know if they're not reaching the average american they're not going to succeed unless they straighten terrifying there needs to end in addressing. it's a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital do head to our web site on the top com for any features you may have missed of course you can get the latest world top stories there as well right here at some of the items we are find out for you there right now at art's dot com nato failed to investigate schools of civilian

deaths during its military campaign in libya human rights group amnesty international dissatisfied by endless apologies from the. bus chaos and violence erupted in greece once again though this time it's not about the economy rather enraged football fans setting fire to a stadium you can see that exclusive footage and artsy talk. all right in a few moments as the world update here on r.t. but now two professors have created a public storm in the u.k. over an article advocating the use of so-called abortions they say it's merely an academic discussion with a medical journal which published the article defending the debate but for some

with the idea is a step too far. surely through pas 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 say and i was treated as something that is something that. abnormality actually i was treated as if i wished it but it's stupid. and it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice they're not as they have a duty to everyone may take an eye to preserve life and they don't a lot of them might i failed a field out children aware preserving they're not worth saving they're not that

happening and that really isn't the case that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue 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 say killing them snow different to normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide it was a speculative case and this that 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 sort of 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 on non medical grounds during the first twenty four weeks of a pregnancy the authors have now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion they refused to give an interview but it's a line the journals editors defend our progress to publish arguments for. issues so that. in the long run i'm so. these issues are very complex and personally for example i don't agree with. the conclusions of the paper or i would like to defend people's right to express the views and other people's right 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 we declined the option of abortion it was a horrific massacre it was horrible they definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that in a piece children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine it doesn't mean it's not something fantastic because having famine i think 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 could say his life will be a burden after bennett see london. kind of starting with france let's go to the arctic world update now a man has opened fire outside a jewish school in the french city of toulouse just before lessons were due to begin he killed four people three of them children and injured one teenager but the gunman then fled the scene on a scooter just days ago three paratroopers were killed in two separate incidents

the same gun was used in those attacks according to police. evacuation centers have opened in northern parts of new zealand ready to react to heavy flooding in the region more than two months worth of rain has fallen there in just two days cutting off communications and covering roads and farmlands with muddy water several stranded residents have already been rescued more rain and strong winds are expected within the next twenty four hours locals being advised to stay indoors. no matter what is done you'll with the markets but for now india could have a silent epidemic on its hands because of the use of a dangerous chemical in people's homes and store by the way used in the country with foreign importers quick to offer supplies of the substance and it's not he's a pretty shrewd reports the consequences can be deadly. the residents of this common south delhi have no idea that their roots they live out there are contaminated with a toxic mineral called as

a stove once widely used in building projects for insulation against heat and fire today the substance is banned in fifty two countries around the world because if it's proven dangerous as both tools by border. cause. lung diseases make as worthless the missile could your lung cancer in fact royal but it isn't as listless disease if you don't make. but it's still being used in india and studies show that it could kill as many as one million people in developing countries in the next eight years the indian government has banned the mining of a spot but the importing and manufacturing of it is still legal and he is growing economy has led to a construction boom and alternatives to a spot cost almost double that's why many indians believe it's worth despite the health risks for those of us that they prakash price three is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollar

a year business in india he's been selling its best to its roofing for twenty five years and says he's aware that it could become one of the country's biggest killers were given i knew it was harmful to those two soon because enough to support my family while activists campaigning to bannister in india acknowledged the government needs to do more to stop it they say blame also has to lie with their biggest importer of the toxic fiber canada the north american country is one of the world's largest export as it has passed those even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. the standards is quite many for this one the one hundred to be going to be a house of commons. yes and. because of causing what you did was vague india this is a human grade what issue. activists are trying to inform indians about the danger is that it's passed those but even the ones who have heard about it feel like they have no option but to live with it but the. government should pay attention to the

way poor people are leaving whether we're living in a healthy safe environment. using the toxic chemicals shipped from the west to make their livelihoods even though it might cost them their lives preassure either r t new delhi india. and over to daniel we go at the business desk of the hourly update here at our house was. today it's pretty mixed at the moment some traders are waiting for quarterly earnings results from the likes of fed ex and that's really holding off on making a decision is how to look at this here's a struggling for direction at the moment stocks in united parcel service or u.k.'s are on the rise though often it's agreed to by european royalty ante for over six billion dollars meanwhile apple has confirmed it will pay a quarterly dividend in the fourth quarter of this year its shares are up over one percent over in the e.u. markets are still slightly down from the eight months highs we saw last week b.m.w.

has lost almost two percent of goldman sachs to the auto giant of its help perform list of the german car makers all suffering in turn russian indices they finished in the rid of for a good start this morning but trading was pretty light on the first day of the week . movers in the last hole four percent off its head but rumors of a privatization road show in april as a result of yours plunged off the revealing of worse than expected net profit last year we will come as is the top again on the my six layers of the anti monopoly watchdog. to buy another ten percent plus one share in the russian truck maker crude prices there mixed after worrying start to the day of production hike announcement from saudi arabia is being balanced by growing fears of a u.s. military strike on iran and a quick check on the currency rates the euro's a bit higher against the dollar and the ruble strengthened against both the greenback and the euro you know the news goes terms expanding partnerships with

e.u. companies the energy join plans to swap russian energy assets with germany's top oil and gas producer winters while in return gaining us this to the north sea deposits on the turn it has more. on top of germany and they give all deposit on me to try to plan for me in the north sea. the developer of this field is germany leads in the oil and gas producer winces hall which is planning an asset swap with russia's castro. get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the summer with options for fifty per cent while castro wire and i share in the polls all share a project like this one. which . is very interested. in russia.

with. the two companies have been talking raising for decades they jointly build the world's trade and now intensifying efforts to construct the south stream routes they turn central real gas transports which distributes the russian gas in europe has just been made in the pantaloons and renamed cascade in old it's a comply with the current energy charter this break here is a producer from also holding the means of supply gas from which invests billions of dollars in pipelines loans to keep control of the rapidly changing rules mean that try outs with local operators may be the best way for gas problem to access customers in europe's new liberalize gas markets. this artsy from the north sea. in fifteen minutes you can for more stories on our website.

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