or your media projects a free video god r.t. dot com. the. exit over who's behind a weekend of bombings in syria fly between rebels and the government with damascus claiming saudi arabian cattle left traces of their involvement at the crime scenes . post revolution the old ways still domination egypt with critics accusing the new islam a strong parliament of turning the constitutional assembly into a farce. and doubt surface of america's cherished image as a democratic bastion as washington gets even tougher in a bid to silence home grown protests.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. the syrian regime has pointed the finger at saudi arabia and qatar saying the arab states were involved in the chain of weekend terrible loss in syria's largest cities the gulf nations have been accused by assad's government of whoever carried out the attacks with which left around thirty people dead and dozens injured out is a kind of boy who's in the region as the latest. the two sides involved in this conflict the opposition and the syrian government obviously blaming each other for the twin suicide bombings that took place in damascus and syria second largest city off aleppo over the weekend now opposition says that everything has been staged by the syrian government to sort of deflect that time ssion from its own crackdown on its people while the syrian government obviously disagrees with that and the latest example of violence is yet another added and 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 said just to build whether we can got 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 two place in damascus and they're pretty out of scale a neighborhood that houses many embassies and this is really a new development because up until now a democracy was pretty much spared all those open clashes. with you know as michael hughes is a journalist for policy strategies for the u.s. based new world strategies coalition. has claimed saudi arabia and qatar have backed those terror attacks in syria's major cities with financial support what is

assad's government basing these accusations. i think some of that is probably certain manfully from the battle between sunni and shiite now i'm going to . you know you can see we're going on between saudi and iran and i don't know what hard evidence. it's not unreasonable for me to be attacked. in the fact that it's coming closer to damascus. which is not unlike what the opposition and they are so intelligent. where the hallmark of. so there's some reasonable doubt. eventually because that well it's not really being free of the violence we've seen recently but of course now we're seeing those scenes that the capital the scene of a lot of bloodshed recently how significant is it that was saying that sort of on it's not happening in the capital i think any major turning point. either

extremists or syrian army trying. to make government there is there some speculation merely because free syrian army has some syrian intelligence officers better this because of the nature of it. well what i think it is i think that the opposition if they're able to take you know the right to damascus the downside is one million people in the atmosphere opposition much that way mad. at something they have clearly that developments made on the military all the military bases that is as we're talking about the syrian free army making those gains in damascus but what about in terms of the opposition politically i mean what we know that a number of groups are full of the new political coalition to act independently of the syrian national council this fractured nature of the opposition but what can

that do for that overall goal. i think it's i don't think it's positive at all a couple weeks ago i worked with someone on the syrian national council i was. and they claim a lot of the activists say on the ground as you said look terribly the opposition is united but abroad it is between sectarian lines syrian national council you know you wouldn't majority sunni and people here the minority spirit if they're going to come in and dominate and. you know implemented ramat law you know recently minorities you know put together yet another coalition that. groups together christian and other minority groups to offer syrian national council that they don't think is going to represent their government future which is going to be very interesting to see what the major downside is the international community rather legitimate or not they're using that is going to he was riding a lot of back the opposition at least the u.s.

and i talked with kurdish human rights activists who think the u.s. is using that as an excuse and a lot of opposition you know the opposition is always right in these situations that what the international community is you know they're still waiting for a unified voice in order to push a military intervention speaking of the international community to understand the serious part to host new monitors shortly with a team of international experts that are already in damascus to get this mission underway i mean what would a note of monitoring mission achieve the arab league mission absent a change i think happened. no the question is this i'm going to let you actually. you know do some honest observing or you know is going to be biased so the only thing i can think of really worry that there are legitimate extremists in the opposition actually getting beaten right violations for him and maybe who can bring

in some honest objector monitor what he said otherwise you know i don't want to be given just briefly on a subject of monitoring was dismissed wasn't it because the arab league blamed equally both sides of the opposition and was seemingly dismissed over the report by the north just briefly. right so you know the question is maybe she's. gone or maybe you know. convince them you know try again as a first step towards. what i think the challenge here is going to disarm you know russia and a lot of. our u.n. resolution are saying the opposition. in the opposition think they want no part of syria they're going to be stand up until they get over who are out firing. we remember michael thanks your thoughts good to hear what you have to say thanks for joining us there live in the states michael he's there thank you. well still to

come on the program this the academics questioning the right to life the two professors coming to the u.k. for advocating the use of what they call the birth abortions and. threats in council threats fly over iran's nuclear program as israel's intelligence service admits to iran hasn't decided to develop atomic weapons. stores to become the first egypt is unveiled a lot of a lot of the way the government panel talks with creating a modern democratic and inclusive constitution but already human rights groups are unhappy claiming islamic factions have banded together in order to dictate just to gets to write the document just a year since the revolution hopes for a change of all but evaporated and in english as this report. khalid to lima 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 down to 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. we were against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and just a little scarcer 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 rejections 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 now you get protests that are suspended with live ammunition instead of rubber bullets as was the case in the past you get labeled strikers will get referred to military three bureaus other than what it accords in the polls to here you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens

who got processed through military tribunal notes that's where you more than what we've all been doing this thirty years of rule the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their evolution are now considered on sea even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives each can find the police in the street and even if they are there they don't really help and. you know it's like a kind of they are punishing the people because they're done the revolution so they're not doing their or their work the they don't care about what happens and deliberately neglecting. every single crime that is happening and they just a choice to turn their back and some believe revolutionary parties choose to turn their backs on the military council policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and sad a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and start making

deals and for evolutions given more ground and ignore them in the demands of the revolution most of the political elite. are looking at fixing things not changing. 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 the economic and situation is really getting worse and i believe that these people who are really suffering nowadays because they can't even . they can't afford to work to feed their or their families these people are really there are going to leave the sky. you know wave of revolution if you can what you want to call it like a second wave 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 in your cellars i don't know you and the food sales 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. say their job is far from over and the revolution continues in those courts here cairo. trus a professor of political science at one university told me a little earlier that the power grab with nell seeing in egypt as a sort of things to come. the political parties political movements especially religious try to dominate the political arena through the political system these are symptoms of what's going to happen again when there is a president all the parties are struggling to get up a larger portion of the week so the kick is not the great baked and the started struggling over it and the cake is not very tasty because the economy is suffering from a big crisis no economic this economic crisis might be a curse for do sort of going to war and the beginning so it's going to agree the the the bad situation. us police are investigating death threats they receive on

twitter after hundreds of protesters mocking occupy wall street's six month anniversary clash with offices in new york scenes of police brutality towards peaceful demonstrations made many question america's image as the garden of democratic values and freedoms and as a marina portnoy explains recently expanded restrictions on the protests are only fueling the criticism. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty unlike no other in the beginning. but 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 grant of freedom where it's made people realize it's the kind of devastating states or our ability to be in

a place of dissent in america and how to challenge that press that it i think people thought they were free air in a sense and great until they tried. in america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech and advance deemed nationally so. nitpicking such as presidential conventions and debates. 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 and up to ten years in jail the federal 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 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 in charge of felons with nato and protest posters popping up nationwide u.s. lawmakers are tightening up recent acts in men's include prohibiting protests around the white house and broader language to make arrests and prosecution easier i think that this is a specific response to your sort of the fear that we are actually going to be a factor and you know like. transforming the circle landscape key davison was arrested twice last year while taking paul in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york i feel like we're living in 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 in gauging in political protests. can be prosecuted unsound it ranges from two 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 amount on that score is legal or it's a victory i wonder if we 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 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. and of course i had to a website all to you don't come for any features you may have missed on screen plus the latest on the world's top stories here's some of what we call few right now

nato fail to investigate schools of civilian deaths during its military campaign in libya says human rights group amnesty international dissatisfied by and disappointed jews from violence. plus scales involved interrupting greece once again this time it's not about the economy i was enraged football fans set fire to a stadium you can watch the full footage but all too you don't come. reacting to being cut off by the swift banking system iran is now threatening to block the strait of hormuz a major artery in global oil shipping that warning comes as u.s. and israeli intelligence agencies the cia and mossad admit that iran hasn't yet decided to develop nuclear weapons and peter rushton political analyst and

historian has told me that he thinks it's ideology not facts driving talk of war against iran but it was an extraordinary development particularly in a very detailed story that appeared in the new york times on sunday now those stories don't appear by accident and i think what that reflects is the reaction of professionals in the intelligence community diplomatic and intelligence professionals who once again are having their reports having for would be used for political and ideological reasons there's a political ideological agenda in washington and tel aviv to an extent here in london as well to willfully misinterpret intelligence just slant or to spin to use the term that's become used recently to spin intelligence in a direction that forces people on the path to war we saw it in iraq where they were they were they were absolutely disastrous consequences from in charge the intelligence process being abused and i think we're seeing it now here in iran the

culmination of a one term effort by iran's owners to force the iranian government into a corner of force them into a position where they're left with an invidious choice between on the one having to steer a course on the one hand seeming to be bullied and giving in and appearing weak and on the other hand alone themselves to be provoked and allowing themselves to be forced into a confrontational position. now to some other stories making international headlines now in our world update 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 threw them children and injured one teenager become and 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 the police. evacuation centers of open in northern parts of new zealand really to react to heavy flooding in the region more than two months worth of rain has fallen there

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 wind is expected within the next twenty four hours and locals are advised to stay indoors and avoid traveling. to purposes of creating the public storm in the u.k. over an article advocating the use of so-called after birth abortions this is merely an academic discussion with the medical journal which published the article defending the debate but for some the idea is a step too far as artie's other but reports. actually three pos 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 sam's condition it would be a struggle not worth living and 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 was something to perk up manatee actually i was treated as if i was just a bit stupid. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice their mothers they have a duty to everyone a tape when i tip is act like and they day in a lot of them i i felt hate filled out children aware because they're big they're not worth saving and that were happening and that really isn't the case that 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 not actual persons they say 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 sort of asked 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 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 lie in the journals editors defend our job is to publish arguments for.

issues so that people can if in the long run some of these issues are very complex and personally for example i don't agree with. the conclusions of the paper i would like to defend people's right to express that you use 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 who declined the option of abortion it was a horrific article it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now it to state it. in these 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 family now life is amazing absolutely amazing sam's a member of this local swimming club and plays football to seeing him here it's

hard to believe how doctors could say his life would be a burden i think bennett see london. almost twenty four minutes past the hour in russian capital time to check stock markets oil prices and currency rates daniels our man is having a close look at all those numbers but the business that's so when you're trading in the u.s. is in full swing so what is the sentiment well wall street has bells but for more than losses it's no in the black let's check out exactly how the u.s. markets are doing the moment those edging up while the nasdaq's gained almost two percent sells stocks in you know to apostles. for u.p.s. are on the rise after it agreed to buy european rival t.n.t. for over six billion dollars meanwhile apple has confirmed you'll pay a quarterly dividend in the fourth quarter of this year stocks are all over one percent e.u. markets they age slightly down breaking eight month highs we saw last week b.m.w. lost one and a half percent off to goldman sachs took the auto giants off its outperform list and other german car makers followed in its wake crude prices

a mixed production hike announcement by saudi arabia is being balanced by growing fears of a u.s. military strike on iran a quick check on the currency rates now the euro's a bit higher against the dollar and the ruble strengthened against both the greenback and the euro. markets finished in the rid of the a good start this morning with trading was pretty light on the first day of the week let's check on someone six movers lost half a percent of its head denied rumors of a privatisation road show in april all deals in roussel plunged off revealed worse than expected net profit for last year comerford was the top gainer on the my six hours of the monopoly watchdog allowed to buy another ten percent plus one share in the russian truck make up most of the top gold mine in there meanwhile polis has suspended plans to join the footsie one hundred index but this is it comes off the delays in receiving approval from russia's foreign investment commission the company had planned to listen in a half percent in london raising

a potential seven hundred million dollars. meanwhile ukraine is reportedly in talks with turkey remain here and germany to import ski of has been in a long running dispute with russia's gazprom over prices and it's now looking to diversify supplies. and that's the business will be back in fifteen minutes the headlines are next to an article.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to cope for a shelter on the day. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people

thought that nuclear weapons disappeared at the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake specially of sound of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of the victims to use it as a threat all as an actor when you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or will be. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalence of fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

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