international peace envoy kofi annan says it's up to syrians alone to decide on who rules their country as the battle for leadership among the syrian rebels spreads to turkey. the two faces of the kingdom saudi arabia stance on syria comes under scrutiny as its own people travel to beirut to escape the oppression of their homeland. the u.s. seeks to plant anti missile shields in asia and middle east along side its european project on its involvement corrina tensions is seen as an attempt to expand american influence in the region. and washington showing no let up on its pursuit

of whistle blows or journalists feel forced to sacrifice the truth there for their future. world news and comments twenty four hours a day this is out. president assad's fate can be decided only by the will of the syrian people see opinion of u.n. and arab league peace envoy kofi annan as he heads east to secure chinese support for his peace plan envoy also stressed that the bloodshed must end but also said it could be harmful to set unrealistic deadlines again he emphasized that talks all guns only way to end the conflict and while the syrian national council has invited opposition groups to a meeting in istanbul in order to heal divisions for the. so just in support. of

international and it's their own people that should be telling some. version. of a linkage to look principle of. it's the right of the people. to truly whatever regime they all and in so many countries you have internal turmoil. you can from thing more serious but. i mean face threat to international peace and security their security council should not intervene would not intervene and definitely no individual country could or should intervene in the internal affairs of another country this is a general rule in international law. where u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is traveling to saudi arabia this week to discuss with king abdullah how best to deal with the syrian crisis human rights

movements i point out the irony of discussing freedom in a country where protesting travel considered an act punishable by death some of like a brings us this report on the two faces of the saudi kingdom. the coronation bank meant in beirut the spain for its refreshing griese and its breezy ways it's a place where headscarves in minutes kurds don't come into conflict even when beyond all at once. with a reputation as the most liberal arab society lebanon is largely becoming a refuge for the citizens of the region's most restrictive country thousands of saudis come to beirut every month and what some call afraid implication i was born here said i suffered a lot there because it's it's too too too limited i have to cover my face my eyes my whole body what i'm hearing being over here please look at me it is here where many saudi women get a chance to walk the streets all by themselves and saudi man can and gold

themselves in a gambling in beirut's mainly casinos something that would be absolutely off limits at home saudi arabia is the most conservative country in the world where women are still banned from driving and need permission from that male guardian be a father a husband or son to simply get a job the royal family that's been keeping these rules in place since is that part of saudi heritage and therefore should be respected but while prescribing the trip to florida for its citizens some members of saudi elite don't seem to think these rules apply to themselves. when it comes to cutting lose abroad some of the saudi establishment don't exactly present a picture of religious piety so differences have been seen reigning hundreds of thousands of dollars and women in nightclubs ready cash for their sides. the excesses of the select few and restrictions for everybody else has not gone

unnoticed public and turned over the past year has been repeatedly met with live rounds. who are protestors have been killed in. they say you're alone with up to fifty arrested. in march the country's religious council issued a fatwa that equated demonstrations to a scene punishable by death once you have a demonstration and so the plea that demonstration would be oppressed harshly and we have heard and seen many reports by independent reporters and human rights organizations verifying this. place and so they are simply illegal yet despite harsh treatment of its own protesters saudi arabia has been very supportive of crippled elsewhere. was among the first to push for international intervention in libya while in syria it is believed to be the main

financier of the rebels when things did not move as expected to mean the because of the russian and chinese vetoes a year and. i think they decided to play a measure. by announcing you know publicly. their plan to answer those in syria. only threat tactics at home and abroad here say he's never scolded by the u.s. a. and washington that currently negotiating ethics the billion dollar sale of advanced chemical weapons brothers in arms conveniently they're still knocking each other's keepers. fee beirut lebanon. you're watching r t well coming up friends with benefits. they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready to pounce. reforms are considered in the u.k.

allegations that some of the nords named peace and voted on the bill will be set to profit from the changes. in the mainstream media mostly reflecting the wall street movement that has become the ravings of even the protestors message. washington's relentless pursuit of wiki leaks founder julian assange. bradley manning his new secret but now as. the reports the fate of the two men has gotten us journalists worried that they too can soon find themselves behind bars. he's an australian citizen in the custody of britain fighting extradition to sweden julian assange just faith plays out like a game of chess and no one wants the king of wiki leaks more than america with the leaks wiki leaks we keep lake's which believes since january two thousand and eleven washington has had plans for a songe secret uncovered earlier this month after five million confidential e-mails

from the global intelligence company strafford were published by guess who we are in a defendant is outside of the us they'll get an indictment which is secret they will see all the charging document the indictment they will ask the corner arrest warrant and that matter will also be sealed that way the u.s. stands behind a big large boulder it will and then jumps out from that boulder and arrest someone under house arrest for more than a year assigned has not been charged with any crime in any country though sweden wants to question him over sex related allegations the u.s. meanwhile is determined to punish the forty year old wouldn't get payback for exposing confidential cables repeatedly shaming america by shining a spotlight on illegality in overseas military operations and some embarrassing

tactics and opinions from the state department and washington says publishing the documents has created a national security risk the justice department has reportedly mounted in unprecedented investigation into wiki leaks aimed at prosecuting asuncion under the espionage act we're going to continue to go after. that we're tough and we're not going to let anybody or whether it's al qaeda or whether it's an australian national and some say they'll go to any lengths. to make a point u.s. government within the federal criminal arena likes to charge others who are either aided and abetted assisted or were full blown coconspirators likes to go after those in an effort to flip them. to get them to cooperate with the u.s. got remote against the major players in this case. sources tell r.t.

that the u.s. is now working on flipping none other than private bradley manning the us soldier is facing twenty two federal charges for allegedly leaking seven hundred thousand documents and video to wiki leaks he's one of six americans obama's administration has charged with espionage if one of those cases makes it to the supreme court and the supreme court upholds the espionage act as an act which essentially criminalizes any whistleblower anybody who exposes work crimes anybody who challenges the official narrative of the lies of the state. then that's it because that would mean that any leaker can automatically be sent to prison for life and at that point any idea of freedom of information is over we will only know what the state wants us to know supposed to be so that protecting the national security of

the united states but that is not the journalism industry will if you would there will be as being something that is a message to him be careful you talk to. them you're right because what you write because you could be you know i think a number of reporters are going to say i'm not risking critics say the obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers could ultimately deliver i death sentence to freedom of the press if people or publishers would be criminally convicted and jailed for exposing the truth more and more journalists may prefer to abandon first amendment privileges and reserve the right to remain silent arena work i r t v. well to the stars and other whistleblowers could become a powerful tool for genuine democracy that's according to social science and sex that some are so frightened of me the full interview with him is coming up in about twenty minutes time with here's a preview for you. the daughter is made by

a weakening. to. reveal the secrets that truly belong to the people who should have elected those oath or it is which are abusive by not to admit the truth and with that we can exist in a huge favorite to democracy in my youth you know. i shouldn't be sending and i want to democracy and did more correctly so i would instead being thankful for that if that. of the mainstream media has been largely neglecting the occupy wall street movement since it fills american streets in september as internet service believes situation has seen and all of this is as opposed to me. when you look at adbusters first putting out the call for this protest in wall street there wasn't much pick up very

few news organizations actually covered it and then someone on found it and the second anonymous decided to talk about it everyone in the news out there decided oh this is news we have to cover it and then thousands of people showed up you know i think about imus played an interesting role almost as the p.r. agent for it you know that they brought a lot of the eyeballs and they helped get the internet up and operational and they made sure that there was a white person who provided you know they did a lot of interesting technical stuff that the movie needed. updates about a global developments are always available r.t. dot com let's take a look at some stories which might catch your attention there today you need to much to stay alive. and to see uprising in libya those are to die for her chance of surviving so many countries wanting the very secrets. last summer daring proposals militants in the russian capital from which the black

sea closer to moscow designs lines dot com. washington says it's planning to build anti missile shields in both asia and the middle east in addition to a controversial east european project such as president obama continues to push in u.s. interests for the nuclear security summit in the south korean capital seoul presented its second day now let's get more details on this from watching these arena good who's there live for us. at the summit so far a strong statements. well not particularly very strong statements but it does look like president obama is taking the center stage on almost every single corner when

it comes to this summit he did say that the nuclear weapons continue to be a threat to the world faces today and it's one of the most imminent threats and then apparently the way for that to change that for the united states is to create more. fields all over the world now we're already know that there is that their clients or in. eastern europe and now the united states are hoping to hoping to build more of them in there and in the far east washington is going to be working close. with south korea and japan in order to build more of such bases there saying this is to confront possible threats from north korea or iran but also their own fears that such plans will not go down well with china and russia who might see it as a threat to their security of course the united states spokespeople already said that of that it is and so. i think fears from beijing remain they're also course

reminder that there's a ready i'm happy with the u.s. plans to build a missile shield in eastern europe and that was one of the main topics of discussion between president medvedev and obama on the first day of the summit and there was of course the now infamous remark which was overheard by reporters which was that all president obama who seemed to say that he cannot deal with the issue of missile defense at the moment because of the elections here and they are getting a statement that he's saying again on the matter. on the on the defense he's saying he did not he's not trying to hide the ball from moscow that he does one's work closely with russia and there's also a statement saying that. american specialists in that area will be working closely together with russians over the next ten months in order to solve the. bases

in europe by twenty eight thirteen so i know you touched on north korea very briefly benefits north korea is not officially on the agenda the new clues to how much has been discussed on the sidelines but. i would say that so far north korea has been probably the main a topic of discussions and missions on the sidelines when barack obama arrives here at day early before the summit began that was the first thing that he mentioned as . north korea is playing satellites next month and that's something which is seen by. by the united states by japan and south korea is a missile test and they are adamantly against a. country. saying that it's. threats the country isn't going to win any new allies he called on china to press

them because according to. north korea's only ally and influence in that regard and of course there were a lot of very harsh words. about north korea in fact there is a ready information regarding. defense shields which are apparently standing at the ready if the satellite. and the satellite launch by north korea it looks like. by south korean military. they leave it there for the ridiculousness thank you for that. she wrote in the co-founder of the campaign to end the korean war these u.s. involvement and games in the korean peninsula is aimed at spreading its influence in the asia pacific region. they has its eyes on china it has its eyes

and maintaining its military superiority in the region you have to remember that south korea is the largest purchaser of conventional weapons from the united states than any other country in the world there's a lot of money involved in this process and there is an eye on china to kind of flats the muscles that show that the u.s. still has. hope for a role in the region and we really need to find a way back to the table not see individual acts as a provocation north korea has a right to put a satellite into space as other nations do but let's demilitarized let's look at face issues let's look at getting the peace treaty to end the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues warner ottens aussies live a stream on twitter is keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day where you can find all the latest updates opinions and images from the feel security summit in so. that once on often.

it's. controversial n.h.s. reforms in the u.k. have left some wondering if free health care could become a thing of the past the list of those and then pains yes to the bill as well as concerns that private interests and profits are put before the well of the public. health system in the have some care. it's a merry go round of self interest along for the ride members of parliament the

house of lords and health care companies opening up britain's national health service to plunder by profiteers the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism that it can't cope the government says private sector involvement is the only but some say it's not those in need of care but rather those in power who are set to benefit. the shares in the company. and yet these vested interests are allowed to vote on a health and social care bill with these private health interests which is a conflict of interest. and is an institutional corruption at worst friends with benefits david cameron prime minister received two hundred ten thousand pounds to his party for nursing and care home tycoon part and made him

a lot gave the party twenty five thousand pounds just a week after the health reforms were announced andrew lansley health secretary got twenty one thousand pounds to fund his office from joel nash who's the chairman of k u k which already gets ninety six percent of its business from the n.h.s. belief days long and illustrious it runs to nearly one hundred fifty names all the logs and m.p.'s who voted yes to opening up health care to competition and stand to gain from the results there may be more the research isn't finished yet and now that the bill has passed its detractors are powerless to stop private companies stepping in and making health care about profits not healing investigation show a number of westminster m.p.'s and a quarter of britain's house of lords have links with private health care provider . it is through investments patronage board membership and the parties in power

conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health care interests following the legislation those companies are circling already we're starting to see a number of private health interests starting to look very seriously cherry picking some of the best most profitable parts of the national health service they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready to pounce the changes have been highly controversial and these people think they'll damage the quality of care many feel while m.p.'s did declare their interest they should have been banned from the local government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in the film their interest this is dog driven it's to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly banned the table in

jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell tolls for free health care. top stories from around the world television has severed its ties with u.n. human rights panel. the country's accuse the council. passed its disproportionate israel on the easy relations with for decades. french court has placed the international. investigation of alleged involvement in the institution. questioning was released on you. resigned from the i.m.f. last night you know being arrested but at least there was

a mediation of central souls and charges and. ok time now to check in with the business this very hikari ball goes to the markets the asian markets are the only ones trading right now and they're on the rise and that's following gains on wall street i'll tell you a little bit about later on but let's stick to the asian markets a weaker yen is supporting japanese exporters carmaker holland is actually up to three percent and stronger metal features growth among asian miners we have aluminum corporation of china which is gaining almost four percent and hong kong moving on to the us markets there are close but we saw a very strong performance on monday and that was followed ever or the unemployment rate has fallen since now there are also hints from the u.s. federal reserve their u.s. central bank will continue its support of monetary policy in place. prices they

are in the red and that's after trading near the highest level in three days a new york now we saw the growth that was supported by hopes that fuel demand rise and rise after signs from the u.s. federal reserve that. the u.s. economy now moving on to the exchange rate. just a bit lower against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's among other currencies but would give you more. when the russian markets open let's take a look at the closing picture on monday the markets will open in about two hours time here but you see right now the figures that we saw a very close in time yesterday. and what we saw the markets close wrongly in the. over two and a half per cent now in other he's hard to be precise for those of you who own a b.m.w. there might travel in the horizon that german luxury carmaker is recalling some one point three million cars worldwide and that's because of potential battery problems

earlier this month the company reported record profit margins fourteen thousand and eleven its profits jumped by fifty one percent last year to over six million dollars and sales rose fourteen percent. now russia's richest man has said in a rare and see that that crisis will resorts and a slump in prices for steel now many analysts say that chinese and i will cover in a short pause about the tycoon vladimir lesson told r.t. that that won't happen he just says that there are currently significant pulls in europe contracts to steel especially in the building industry we can look long and hard about the reason we will. and will in case supplies europe with its ruling steel prices will be seeing china won't compensate for that at all but we do expect this year is china to look at dumping practices of throwing in the market. and

that's how business works this hour kerry back like a marine across the reporting from the business there that next hour recap our top stories for you just a few moments stay. so for us is influential the race of. the race if you came in for example surgery on its own. breast cancers more than sends on shows cancers

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