the latest news on the week's top stories at the previously divided u.n. security council sends a strong and united message to both sides of the syrian conflict and while foreign arms in rebel hands are still considered one of the main road blocks to peace. it's a lose gunman who murdered seven people including three children is killed in a standoff with police intelligence services are criticizing for failing to stop him despite tracking him for years. and no one is of the strike in egypt fresh football riots erupted reports as raging friends bent their frustrations with the suspension of their club.

here's uncommon broadcasting to live from the heart of moscow on carriage karachi u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan is in moscow the task ahead in the coming hours is to work out with russia's leaders how to solve syria's long and deadly conflict moscow backs and mediation efforts with president medvedev expected to stress that peace is not possible while arms supplies flow to the opposition fighters were in the snow from peter all over peter with fighting in syria showing no sign of abating a solution to the lingering crisis seems to be far reaching what can we expect from a knowledge of visits in moscow. well kofi annan has already met with foreign minister sergei lavrov in a little later he sitting down with president dmitri mate get a know we understand from president may get it i want to present

a good foreign policy advisors this. stance will be that they don't believe this peace is a table in syria as long as weapons are finding their way into the hands of the rebels they going to say that that needs to stop if peace is to be to be open to change and also to call for a swift halt to the violence in russia and say that both sides have to sit down have to discuss a deal could bring about a peaceful solution and we're also expecting to hear this president believes that it's unlikely that the group the friends of syria containing countries like the united states and some gulf states as well that they will be able to to bring about some peaceful solution namely the stumble on the first of april also skeptical of their chances. in moscow before he heads off to china china of course the other nation that vetoed the u.n. resolutions on syria previously did go on to the security council he'll be in

beijing for talks next week no kofi annan has laid out a six point plan to come to a peaceful solution in syria now some of those points include a cease fire for both sides also humanitarian aid being able to to get to those parts of the country that need it most the dialogue must take place between the two sides now we've seen the u.n. and the but this plan that's been put forward by kofi anon in fact they released a strong statement in support of the and non plan to try and come around to a peaceful solution in syria so the u.n. putting their full backing behind this plan put forward for me before that the former head of that body how have the two sides of the syrian conflict reacted to these peace efforts so far. well the assad government has said that they they

welcomed the plan saying that they willing to sit down and talk however the syrian national council the body that's been recognized by some countries as a as the voice of the opposition forces have said this well they are extremely unhappy with this plan they don't recognize the plan they also have spoken out against the un's decision to release a statement in support of that plan saying that they are they are willing basically to sit down and hold talks now. the group of rebels they are fragmented there's no real unifying leadership there. we heard also from the human rights watch group the. cases of a kidnapping torture and executions have taken place well of being acted out by that group by those rebels and they continue calling for the assad government to fight against government forces within syria now this.

comes after increasing sanctions have been placed been placed on syria those sanctions of the new sanctions from the e.u. have been leveled against the the family and close members of the assad government so close members of his government as well as his family including his wife she's been restricted from traveling to the e.u. apart from her native united kingdom so things are progressing throughout this week on syria we've seen further sanctions in place and that's the way it is at the moment right artie's here all of our reporting and moscow well east expert and activist franklin lamb believes the fragmented nature of syria's opposition groups makes it hard to identify exactly where foreign help is going. it's somebody you should know we all know twenty nine reasons to distinguish this case from us from libya but in one respect the opposition is similar it is not united it is

fractionalized is seemingly by by the day course in syria are in libya you had the nato doing the work of the opposition and then they fell apart and they're falling apart even today in syria they've never got it together so i think that i think that's a major or you know a major problem and as human rights says there are serious human rights violations that i don't think the american people or the american government is going to be able to identify with some of those groups as you know it's already an issue in the american presidential campaign asking the question now why did obama go after osama and now we're arming you know his people. meanwhile reverberations from the syrian conflict are being felt across the border in lebanon as arch as oksana boyko reports divisions there are worryingly similar to the conflict that story. it's an

air of c.t. on the mediterranean with attention for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like it's libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's home to sizeable alawite and sunni communities and with the syrian border just half an hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road separating the alawite and sunni communities here in tripoli is up to the serious street and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese and more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor cannot approve of that came just a few weeks ago when one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes claimed the lives of two people and pushed the rest deeper into their ideological trenches residents of these. raise money to put out this impromptu memorial to the leader and the countries they consider their protectors but you

must thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider that an enemy america's freedom is a euphemism for american interests we don't kill a great democracy human rights for freedom. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event in his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria is from we're about half an hour and the everything in our. going from. the syria we're going from. here from jordan from there from. across the street in a hospital. run by

a sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like muhammad don't hide their affiliation of a different syrian army he staked on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people if they don't change they will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory would you still have time to make the right choice. hospitals administrator shows us some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. allegedly committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity but when i ask him whether there gravel lucian is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian we have many destruction we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand we hear.

i think. evolution has to pay some. something. with. changing. with of life to keep the two warring communities apart eleven his government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd in all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario that's not going to see tripoli lebanon on. but the main international focus still on syria unrest elsewhere in the arab world is going largely i know this. peaceful anti regime demonstrations are part of the past but crane has been met with rubber bullets and tear gas by security forces leading to more civilian casualties the details in the next hour in our program. french police this week

a shot dead the gunman into luser killed seven people including four add a jewish school and three soldiers mohammad marandi was killed after a thirty two hour siege of his apartment he refused to surrender and try to escape through the window french intelligence has been criticized for not acting earlier as he'd been under surveillance for some time was a frenchman are valid theory and dissent he said he had ties with al qaida and underwent training in afghanistan his brother who said he was proud of his actions is being charged as a terror accomplice political analyst alex korbel says french policies in attitudes towards migrants may result in a descent into violence there that the french arabs in france are really illegal is related because. they don't feel like french thing that the french and when they go back to jail you for example there are these parties by the

local population because they don't speak and because it will move the culture so you know wait there really are mediated on both sides and turn to. religion as a subsidiary for. in france because of sarkozy's perced police sees it can be policies that the group doesn't exist so you have a lot of people saying the presence of the immigrants and immigrants feel that they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions. coming up here on r t protesting the propaganda hundreds of in. israelis rally in the country's economic capital against what they see as the government's goal of the war in iraq. just as a lawyer is warning of the long court battle over the american soldier accused of executing seventeen afghans as authorities begin to piece together evidence from

the bloody rampage. hundreds of people have rallied in tel aviv to protest what they see as a frenzied drive for war against iran by their own government campaigners fear the mounting pressure could escalate into all out conflict the facts of which would be disastrous our correspondent colas leader has been watching the protest unfold. this has been a demonstration of its kind and it comes after months of increasing war rhetoric by the israeli leadership what protesters here are saying is that israeli prime minister kept his own election campaign at heart and that is what is motivating him on this. if you. sincerely believe in good. point and then. destroy the iranian nuclear program yes maybe some totally crazy in this direction and recent poll suggested that some fifty eight percent of israelis are against a military strike now the medicine for this demonstration began about

a week ago when an israeli couple launched a campaign on line in which they posted messages of support and love for a range of ordinary iranians responded with the only way to do so if you look at facebook and other social network sites you see it's just like it's raw nerves in iran we are not at war with your country any reigning in saying we love israel we are not a war with anyone demonstrators are in talking to say that this call by the israeli leadership is irresponsible if you need to large numbers of people being injured and hurt and it's not clear how or when any kind of military strike with iran will end but whether or not the israeli government will listen to the voice on the street remains to be seen policy r t. the us has threatened to use sanctions against any nation that doesn't join america's embargo of iranian oil among those nations are india turkey and china which reacted with astonishment the now also what it says is effectively blackmail the sanctions however wouldn't

affect u.s. allies such as japan or the u. which depend on iranian oil francis lui managing director of land sea and holdings ltd thinks that's not really surprising. this is the u.s. taking the foreign policy be global agenda for everybody i was. there you are with me or against me this is this is really what us diplomat is policies of having if you apply it to judicially and if you're not undecided you suffer for its allies like head and the e.u. is one set of rules for other countries like china which is there not on such friendly terms with the u.s. there is another set of rules so a piece of you create a huge improvement expected between china and the u.s. . regardless of the justification behind them they you and us sanctions against iran and its oil are certainly making an impact just not where they were intended

to. as petrol prices in britain hit new highs and the country's government prepares for another rise in the tax on fuel dealing a major blow to small business in just a few minutes here on our team. one teenager dead and sixty eight others injured the aftermath of another riot in egypt between the military and football fans enraged over the suspension of their club for two years and all happened in the city. where i am going crowd clock streets were burning tires the military fired warning shots and tear gas the suspension itself follows fatal fighting at a football match last month that saw seventy four people killed a number of police officers are already standing trial for that disaster many egyptians blame them for complicity with rampaging mobs lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university says the country is truly on the

break. t.j. you guys know when i was standing law and order actually. that is beings are sexual you know the government is not in control bihari is. not going to come out of its barracks unless controlled to. very very large way and so the populace is essentially on its own and that means that unpopular decisions are really you're going to get the sort of spontaneous kind of outburst of anger and there is no can you control it nowhere is there any capacity to actually prevent the reasons for going there is no central control in egypt now. egypt turns and well the law of the line up of a long awaited government panel tasked with creating

a modern democratic and inclusive constitution the west as dominated by islamists something more liberal groups have warned against and just over a year since the revolution there are fears that not all that much has changed how dilema could be posed to boys 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. rule against mubarak as a person we were against little system against oppression and injustice a lot of scarcity will prove their actions should reply you seem to me used by you . 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 scabs policies unveiled the situation eerily similar if not worse well you get caught us that are suspended with live ammunition in a sort of rubber bullets as was the case in the past you get the war strikers who get referred to little bureaus other then go do it records in the past here 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 this thirty years of war of the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their evolution are now considered an see 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 done the revolution so they're not going there and there are other work where they don't care about

what happens and the deliberately neglecting their 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 south a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and sort of leading deals in forty coalitions we've given more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political lead and rule looking at fixing things not changing that. 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 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 families these people are really there are going to leave this. new wave of revolution if you kind of 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 to the nearest sellers idle youth and if you would say 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 talk a little better cuisine say their job is far from over and the revolution continues and then goes quiet see cairo. evidence has emerged that the american soldier charged with one of the bloodiest massacres in the decade long afghan war carried out his rampage into two parts and investigators say a staff sergeant robert bales returned to his units base at least once between has shooting spree and that he acted alone but lawyers representing the accused say their five remembers nothing of it the afghan government is also skeptical saying

bales chrono back to the loan and not stop had outside hope but war veteran and activist michael person are what's important now is a fair and just trial. i think the question there is you know of fear to whom if we look at the have cases where of massacres have taken place in iraq and afghanistan look at the deeper massacre in the source square where blackwater guards massacred dozens of people and these cases of people got off with no deals and so one could argue that these were fair to the people that were indicted but they weren't think we thrown under the bus and made examples of they absolutely were not fair to the victims and their families and so the first asked surgeon baled whatever his trial is for it to be really fair to the afghan people most truly take the lives and consideration so we want to talk about fear we have to talk about the fairness of the afghan people who are now mourning the loss of their family and the interesting thing is you know we hear the name stuff sergeant bales quite a bit we're not really hearing the name of his victims of the children who are

going to see their parents again of the people he killed in their beds in the middle of the night if i say that fear trials should be spared for the afghan people who are the real victims. petrol prices in britain have hit another record high that comes after the country's government unveiled its latest budget which was long criticized for serving the interests of the rich and as artist laura smith reports the changes could have for small businesses seen as a key driver of the u.k. as a commie. creates tens of thousands of jobs at no cost what government could say no biggie case coalition government apparently as it sticks to another rise in the tax on fuel to take effect in august small business owners are feeling the pinch fuel over the last few years has really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to the fair fuel campaign cutting the tax on fuel by just four cents would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand

people back in work the creation of the jobs will take off. and these jobs will be created more tracks going out spending more money etc they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty p. top rate of income tax for the rich people meanwhile small business is found so and ward chapman run a company which sells an install spence's to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs full vans in which engineers deliver bits and train pets to use the fences the guys can work in hand share one day and then the next day depends on when the customer wants us first of all we have the increase in the ha which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty is well you can't keep being a screen at all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on firms like to rebuild it but growth

and development is out of the question according to sam he says the price of fuel is throttling them the price at the pump has already hit one pound fifty five a liter in some places that's two dollars forty six and although some of it is due to the geopolitical situation including an oil embargo a staggering sixty percent is tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money is actually a very convenient tax for governments because it's actually. very difficult to avoid i mean one of the approaches on labor mobility so how easy it is for people to travel to work or to actually get jobs that might be traveling distance from home so it actually increase unemployment quite markedly if you will to choose to it's a problem that bill says down into the entire economy ninety percent of everything we have in our homes offices and shops is delivered by lorry with fuel do you see so hot i call it's companies are forced to pass those costs on to consumers

resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods piling gets more pressure old recession hits british consumers nora smith altie. don't forget to log on to her website r t dot com for the latest news video and analysis here's some of the timeline from now on. the crackdown continues occupy wall street activists march to protest police brutality with fourteen of rusted on a new weekend of heavy police intervention. and a hollywood style getaway a big money and helicopter all part of a real life prison break scenario in the middle of rush hour seymour at archie dot com.

thanks for joining us for twenty six past the hour on tuesday iraq was rocked about a wave of native car bombings and roadside blasts killing our pathetic think people and injuring about two hundred fifty al-qaeda has claimed responsibility for the violence saying it proved that iraq's security is ahead of next week's arab league summit in baghdad a catchall for served as a reminder of the past as they can nine years after after the u.s. led invasion of iraq. international lawyer and peace activists courtesy doubler believes nato troops helped terrorism gain a foothold in the country. a lot of iraqis still see their country as occupied by foreign forces there are the correct is from many different. parts of society that are trying to remove those foreign forces so that this is a ongoing situation that is part of something that started to ten years ago with the invasion and occupation of iraq but since that time because the government has

not been able to exercise control over many parts of the country it's very fertile territory for different types of terrorist organizations to them settle in and to be able to carry out a crime aren't attacks don't create the mistaken there are still thousands of outside foreign forces particularly american soldiers on iraqi soil that are contributing they would say to security i would suggest to the situation of insecurity. or a copy of the headlines as next after paris or break. well

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