a lot. united nations voice is concerned that the rebel free syrian army may be using child soldiers in a battle against president assad since national police in broad hoofy other says it's up to syrians to decide that there. are two cases of a kingdom saudi arabia is democratic rhetoric at odds with reality and so people running to escape rulings that make protests to sit on the case of forty absolute. u.s. seeks to unseemly south shields in asia and the middle east along side its european project but its involvement in korean affairs is seen as an attempt to expand

american influence in the region. and with washington showing no let up on its pursuit of wish to go it's not journalists feel forced to sacrifice for truth fearing for their future. international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r t i'm kerry johnston the free syrian army may be sending child soldiers to fight against government forces according to a report received by the united nations but he says it on the ground best matter is kofi annan the international peace envoy declares it's not for the people of syria alone to decide on the president assad to rule when the envoy who's now in china stressed that the bloodshed must end but also said it could be harmful to set unrealistic deadlines to any of the sites that talks with god is the only way to

end the bitter conflict of the syrian national council has invited for no opposition groups to a meeting in istanbul and want to heal divisions fearing the loss of western support into a professor of international law i would rather it's their own people they should be turning to. is. and it is a linkage to the principle of sovereignty it's the right of the people. to truth whatever regime they won't be in so many countries you have internal turmoil then. it could become something more serious but unless it is an international threat to international peace and security their security council should not intervene would not intervene and definitely no individual country could or should be in the internal affairs of another country this is a general rule in international law. when u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton is traveling to saudi arabia the sweet discuss with king abdullah how best to deal with the syrian crisis human rights movements however point out irony of discussing freedom in a country where protesting can be considered an act punishable by death. brings us this report on two faces of the saudi kingdom. a coronation bank made in beirut to spain for its refreshing breeze and its breezy ways it's a place where headscarves in minutes kurds don't come into conflict even when beyond once. with a reputation as the most liberal arab society lebanon is only becoming a refuge for the citizens of the region's most restrictive country thousands of saudis come to beirut every month what some call a free implication i was born in care say 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 indulge themselves in 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 and says they're part of saudi heritage and therefore should be respected but prescribing this restrictive last fall for its citizens some members of saudi really don't seem to think these rules apply to themselves. when it comes to cutting lose abroad some of the style the establishment don't exactly present a picture of religious trying to sow 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 feeling public has been turned that over the past year has been repeatedly met with live rounds. who are protestors have been killed in rio. 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 pressed harshly and we have heard and seen many reports by and dependent reporters and human rights organizations verifying the. demonstrations and so they are simply illegal yet despite harsh treatment of its own protesters saudi arabia has

been very supportive of revolt elsewhere. was among the first to push for international intervention in libya while in syria it's believed to be the main financier of the rebels when things did not expect main the of the. chinese vehicles and. i think they decided to measure growth by announcing even publicly. only threat care tax at home and abroad here fate is never scolded by the u.s. . and washington are currently negotiating ethics p. billion dollar sale of advanced american weapons brothers in arms conveniently they're still nark each other's keepers. aren't fi beirut lebanon. watching r.t. or coming up allegations peace could stand to benefit u.k.

health reforms. they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready to pounce. yes well now some people have been left wondering if free health care will be lost to profit some interest. free the opinion of an internet activist. the risk. because have to face the media does have to be the message of social unrest. washington says it's planning to build shields in both asia and the middle east in addition to a controversial project that sounds president obama continues to push u.s. interest. rates in the south korean capital seoul which is in its second day you know these are nicholas kristof supporters. of 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 to change that for the united states is to create more. all over the world there are plans for such shield in eastern europe and now the united states is going to be working closely with south korea australia and japan in order to build such bases and they're saying this is to confront possible threats from north korea or iran north korea is going to want satellite next month and that's something which has been seen by the united states by japan and south korea is a missile test and they are adamantly against it. grated the country that by probations and threats the country isn't going to win any realized he called on china to try something but by looks at what the united states is really trying to do is to heighten its presence in the region particularly in the asia pacific region and

they're also fears that such plans will not go down well with china and russia who see it as a threat to their security or also course reminder that moscow is already unpopular with the u.s. plans to build a missile shield in eastern europe and that was one of the marines markets of discussion between president obama on the first date. off the summit and there was of course the now infamous remark which was that off thread created by 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 today there is getting a statement that he is saying again on the matter of american specialists and that area will be working closely together with the russians over the next nine to ten months in order to solve the issue of missile defense that bases in europe by twenty eight thirteen we're very close here of kin the co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war but the u.s. involvement in military games in the korean peninsula is aimed at spreading its

influence in the asia pacific region the u.s. has its eyes on china and has its eyes on 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 flex the muscles and 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 the base issues let's look at getting a peace treaty then the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues want to run. well arty's

a live stream on twitter is it keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day they can find the latest updates of inches from nuclear security summit in song along with the relevance of the new stores. is. the. washington's relentless pursuit of wiki leaks founder julian assange on the whistleblower bradley manning is no secret but now authorities are now reports their fate has gotten us journalists worried that he too much news that interesting . he's an australian citizen in the custody of britain fighting extradition to

sweden julian assange on his feet plays out like a game of chats and no one wants the king of wiki leaks more than america with the leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks since january two thousand and eleven washington has had plans for a song i was secret uncovered earlier this month after a five million confidential in males 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'll see all the charging document the indictment they will ask 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 in sweden wants to question him over sex related allegations the u.s. meanwhile is determined to punish the forty year old boy different than 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 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 a songe under the espionage act we're going to continue to go after. but we're told we're not going to let anybody. 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 on. it get them to cooperate with the u.s. government 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 u.s. 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 war crimes anybody who challenges the official narrative of the lives 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 the supposed to be about protecting the national security the united states but that is not the journalism industry will you would they will be i was being something that is a message to be handy careful you talk to be careful when you write because of what you write because you could be next and i think a number of reporters are going to say i'm not risking critics say the obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers that alternately deliver i death sentence to freedom of the press if people or publishers could 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 or enough

work on our party. by doing the science and other whistle blows could become a powerful tool for genuine democracy that's according to social sciences expert professor threw out a ninety. the disclosure is made by a weakening aimed to reveal the secrets that the truly belong to the people which have elected also for it is which are abusing power by not turning to truth and we can see is a huge favorite true democracy in my opinion. and beliefs actually you send the ball it to democracy. and the democratic society is. being thankful for that effort but that full interview is coming up next our. very own program of journalism and freedom of information is coming soon here lotty

. hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism we. we want to present. something. by the mainstream media has been largely neglected in the occupy wall street movement since it spilled into american streets in september and is into an activist who believes the situation has seen it as the protests mean. 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 arms 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 anonymous 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 they made sure that there was electricity provided you know they did a lot of interesting technical stuff that the movie needed. dates and other global development so always available to our t dot com let's take a look now at some stories which might touch your attention. too much to say in life that the n.c.c. uprising in libya tells us he's not going to have them shown some surviving this many countries want to bury them in the secrets also. facebook friends or enemies and you end up well as most popular social network that would seem to enemies and chinese stocks including.

the. controversial national health service reforms in the u.k. if you have someone in your free health care it could become a thing of the past and this to the woods and then peace and those yes to the bill has raised concerns that private interests and profits for the welfare of the public will change that will smith said it's a health system in need of 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 plumb's up by profit is the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism that it can't cope if

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. to succeed on. the shares in the companies and yet they with these vested interests are allowed to vote on health and social care with these private health interests which is a conflict of interest. institutional corruption at worst friends with benefits david cameron the prime minister received two hundred ten thousand pounds to his party from nursing and care home tycoon parts 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 joe nash is the chairman of k u

k which already gets ninety six percent of its business from the n.h.s. the list is long and illustrious it runs to nearly one hundred fifty names all 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 . through investments patronage board membership and parties in power the conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health care interests following the legislation those companies are circling the red he was starting to see a number of private health interests starting to look very seriously at 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 the m.p.'s did declare their interest they should have been banned from both saying local government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in a position that affects 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 banged the table in jubilation when the reforms passed out cite the bell tolls for free health care. r.t.e. . in the us. health reforms the supreme court justice for

and against the bill without some way. proposed. mandatory fused penalty when a key issue in this year's presidential campaign. polished the reform passed. severed its ties with the u.n. human rights panel saying her brother's body from the first gate an israeli settlements in the west bank and countries accuse the counsellor being hypocritical biased co-ordinates focus on israeli policy towards the palestinians disproportionate israel has had an easy relations with anyone for decades believing its approach is pro palestinian. in the u.s. continue it seems the victims are getting younger. max keiser says an extra ration of becoming slaves to get trapped by what he calls banks to. understanding them to

the front line in afghanistan or iraq you could own one of these products there are now conscripted there in this bind where they're giving their life essentially for the glory of the banks or the cultural revolution the banks are glorious let us let us revel in the glory of the banks first you too can give away your life gets sucked into it when they sell these are products of the same kind of pretense you know a byproduct of we're going to fight al-qaeda by an advertising dollar called. total nonsense it's immoral it's illegal this poor person is now going to be facing a lifetime onerous debts but it's all for the glory of the glorious pranksters as part of the cultural revolution. persaud take a look at the world of business now with the reader and this time the european markets are broken and how are they doing holding up after yesterday's gains yes care they

are there actually extending monday's gains and what we're seeing is yesterday of what we had was that the german the business climate and eggs grew more than expected and this boosted and vaster confidence and we're seeing that pretty much continuing and since then let's take a look at the latest figures now there we go we can see that the foot sea point three percent of the german dax is adding have focused on the south probably won't get a clearer picture next hour let's move on to russia for an hour into trading and we can see that the markets are now minimizing earlier against let's take a look at the individual fare moves on the my six most of the blue chips are still higher with financials and all of the main gate we have russia's biggest lenders which is adding more than a half a percent this hour and then we have another by. c.b.e. which is adding point four percent this hour and the bank is reportedly negotiating to buy a forty percent stake in one of the country's top insurance companies and finally

we have metal miner k k n n as well and because of the reports it's january to february rolls through output strong by six percent ok let's move on to asian markets that are still on the rise of us following gains on wall street we'll have more on that a little bit later. supporting japanese exporters with car maker honda percent this hour and stronger metal futures providing a nice boost for asian miners the aluminum corporation of china has added over three percent this hours well now over to the u.s. markets they're closed at the moment but as i mentioned earlier we saw a very strong performance on monday and i came after a report stating that unemployment rates came down since also we had hints that the u.s. federal reserve saying that the u.s. central bank would keep its support of monetary policy in place now if we move on to well prices crude is still in the red and that's after trading near the highest level in days in new york they support factor for there was hopes that fuel demand

will increase after the u.s. federal reserve think that it will stimulate the u.s. economy now the exchange rates the euro is a bit lower against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's makes the guns the main current season was that it's again against the dollar but against the euro now to other news precisely b.m.w. is having robles the german luxury car maker 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 for two thousand and eleven and its profits by fifty one percent last year so over six million dollars in sales rose fourteen percent. the roughest of reckless mind has more than a rare and. that crisis may result and the slump in prices will

many analysts believe that chinese demand will cover the. year but. without a lesson. that will happen. there are currently significant new contracts and steel especially in the building industry we can talk long and hard about the reason. and will in case supplies europe with its rolling steel and prices will be bull child this year china won't compensate for that. we do expect this year is china. of throwing steel products into the market. that's a promise or carol have another update in about thirty five minutes from now for. more business updates later. to finance. it.