fueling the fire you when mediators struggle to get the warring sides in syria to negotiate london values to keep cash flowing to the rebels in their fight against damascus. the recent shooting rampage carried out by a french gunmen in toulouse draws presidential candidates into a fierce pre-election rhetoric over extremism and immigration and. spain's prime minister is set to announce a new wave of austerity measures a day after a nationwide strike leads to violence between protesters and police.

ten am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story despite officially supporting a u.n. appeal for a cease fire by all sides in syria the u.s. and its allies are still backing the opposition unconditionally britain's promise to funnel additional aid to the rebels worth hundreds of thousands of dollars amid reports they're already getting weapons from abroad laura smith reports from london . the u.s. we understand is expected to make a similar pledge this weekend at a seventeen nations summit whose expressed goal is to unite this position in syria which is hugely fragmented as we know and consist of at least four main factions and the foreign secretary william hague says that he hopes this will help the opposition to you know use as a as a credible force against the u.k. this represents a doubling of aid to the country they've already given seven hundred fifty thousand

dollars which was being used in areas like training for media skills and also to help the opposition to gather information on human rights abuses now it's not clear how useful that money has actually been. receiving a lot of conflicting information on casualties from the opposition including from here in london the syrian observatory for human rights which has been hugely inflating the number of casualties lots of conflicting figures but now this money is planning to widen the scope of the help it's destined towards buying equipment including we understand. secure phones to help the opposition to communicate secretly and effectively and there are several main points really here firstly how secure is this money how does the british government know that it's not going to buy weapons and it is going to be channeled into these more sort of peaceful measures and the answer is possibly they don't secondly who is this the opposition

it doesn't seem that we're any further forward in determining exactly who makes up this factional opposition in syria we do know that a part of it is the free syrian army which is a hugely dangerous group known to have killed a number of people and also believed through includes a number of possible islamic extremists firstly how useful is it in diplomatic terms to support one side with a view to attaining a different. solution we know that present ourselves is very displeased by these gifts of money he's already said that countries must stop providing both money and weapons to the opposition they have to stop immediately if kofi annan six point plan for peace in syria is going to work that suggests that if countries carry on giving money he may just pull out of the talks altogether we're seeing austerity cuts we're seeing strikes and demonstrations literally almost every week here in this country and it's against that backdrop that the british government is sending

more and more money to syria to cover more and more things and who knows where this intervention on this scale is going to end the only way to help the syrian people for negotiation instead of just supporting one side in a conflict if you are in for wars and always patrick earnings are. it's unbelievable how it's got to this point where it seems ok to fund the opposition whatever form it is and let's not kid ourselves the u.s. and the u.k. have been backing guerrilla forces in syria for the last year ok and we can't erase that from the history books that has been happening that's been admitted by the u.s. state department it's been admitted by the u.k. foreign office and all the sudden you're backpedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear

president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know he's already been caught through proxy smuggling on xp over the border in jordan but also his arms going over the border eleven on where these coming from ok we know these are coming for sure coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region and doing this through a third party. coming your way in a little more than an hour cross talk with peter lavelle opinions on the program collide over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syrian and arrests take a listen. there was not the international or the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two it was the united states navy if you're talking about the relative peace that we've had in the world we've had relative peace because of u.s. intervention you might call it imperialism i would call it a part of a role that the united states is playing and maintaining

a balance on the we will see you know where he's not in these women it's also true that the same thing with your friends in the least the united states plays a very significant role in maintaining the kind of peace that you would like to see even in iraq because as you look at this is really. going to be the reason for a little easily herbert opened up a can of worms here and. still ahead this hour here on r t fuel frenzy drivers in the u.k. rushing to the promises they're warned of a possible fuel tanker strike across. it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machines in your face that you have no idea not only the health of the fact of it but what they're actually using with their larger purpose you think it is or how soon may your dishwasher start spying on you we track big brother's plans for the privacy of americans. but first the gunman who killed seven

people including three school children in one of france's worst terror attacks has been buried outside the city of toulouse has after days of debate on what to do with the body of mohamed merah a frenchman with algerian roots but as well as being a figure of public hatred morales also becoming a game changer in the country's upcoming election or his tests are so your reports from paris. the mom of mira was killed by police after a thirty two hour seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is mary background she continually from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promotes terry violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purpose of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally

punished. so that's in addition to sarkozy's policy of stripping a foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france and promising to bar radical muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an islamic conference next month the clearly advocating the british culture it's from his view it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restricted. while the french citizen twenty his family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism. from inside friends of society it's not just something that is imported from the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from a french nationals this is not allowed under the french constitution and then

there's marine le pen the far right national front party candidate having long pushed a more radical anti immigration line called for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes on a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohamed merah was in the quotes and planes and rife in france full of immigrants. mohamed merah is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war in this fundamentalist political religious groups i kill him now when children who threaten was slimy fundamentalism has been underestimated. and i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which we aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with our now the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call

solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is that it's pretty difficult to to create what is the goal of the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either this or sylvia r.t. paris planet of the palms in the u.k. were threatened strike by fuel delivery drivers has already seen stations running dry there have been fears the army may be deployed to help keep the country moving this at a time of wallet emptying oil prices that have governments of london paris and washington considering flooding the market with their own reserves fred says there's a good chance the u.s. and europe will agree to release oil stocks into the market to drive down crude costs last year as the war in libya tightened supplies countries belonging to the paris peace international energy agency released sixteen billion barrels of crude

into the market to cool down prices now new sanctions over iran have also been in full was in the cost to you from the national iranian american council says the west can only blame itself for the spike in prices. the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the same that we put in place to try to restrict iran from profiting off of oil sales is really actually backfiring on us and that iran has tremendous leverage against us if we're going to take this confrontation to one. to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this president obama has even said a number of economists have said that the fear of a war with iran has actually added about twenty dollars to the price of a barrel of oil so there's concern that israel may strike iran or that the united

states may end up in a war with iran is one of the driving factors of why it's so expensive and simply addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate that. i can always find more news videos and analysis online that r.t. dot com is what's a click away right now. wall street versus main street two thirds of americans are now happy with the direction of the u.s. economy as they continue paying for the mistakes of financial fat cats. and taking a hit in cyberspace the f.b.i. admits it's fighting a losing battle as it continues to be a target of activists find out more by logging on to. police in spain if clash with demonstrators during

a general strike against labor reforms and further economic belt tightening this is prime minister mariano rajoy is set to announce a new austerity measures for the country aimed at saving tens of billions of euros and making it easier for employers to fire workers or t.j. could produce has more from madrid. the laws of people gathered here goes as far as the eye can see that's the pulling power of this cause and this protest in particular is targeting labor reform the government is aiming to make it easier for workers to be fired and easier to reduce their wages in the future raising this is being causing so much popcorn anger around the whole country is owing to the high unemployment crisis face startling high if not the most in any developed country has twenty three percent of the population there's also a lot of young people out and about the reason behind that lot of goes on in lloyd's over over on those under twenty five it's about fifty percent who are still

unemployed so it's a cools that really concerns them but has the pressure mounting from the e.u. from the eurozone leaders to implement smores their seat to tops the deficit that's meant the italian prime minister's speech recently saying this is a condition that could include of the eurozone members well first let the spanish prime minister come out quite tough when it comes to the future budget to be decided on friday he said it will be very very austere but something doesn't really have an appetite in this crowd even though they recognize there's a need for cuts the place i don't think it should be on their watch i don't think the impact should be felt by them. i was already correspondent jake agrees reporting from madrid crisis strategist gonzalo lira says saving spain will be a task easier said than done. because it's forty percent the size of germany you cannot save a country that size you cannot bail him out like you would be allowed greece or

ireland or portugal spain is a big country is one trillion euros g.d.p. per year. that's simply too big for any country or any group of countries in the european and the euro zone to bail out france and germany cannot be allowed spain so the only solution and i think of this is inevitable is for spain to exit the euro zone and go back to the process devalue and start rebuilding its economy and that i think will likely happen in the next government after north korea who are who i think unfortunately is going to fail and the government after that will be left wing government and they will probably exit the eurozone and go back to the and devalue and do what has to be done because this government unfortunately the have the best of intentions and i have no doubt that they are very capable and competent but they just don't have what it takes to do what's necessary which is exit the euro. turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe north korea started preparations for a rocket launch scheduled for april according to satellite images taken by

a private u.s. based for washington says the exercise may actually be a long range missile test and is in breach of u.n. resolutions with the head saying it was ready to shoot down a north korean rocket if necessary and says it's intended to send a satellite into space for scientific purposes and meanwhile north korea fired two short range missile missiles off its western coast thursday. west african nations have issued an ultimatum to the leaders of a military coup in mali to relinquish power within seventy two hours or face sanctions proposed measures would include shutting off land borders with the country and freezing mollies assets last week's coup was led by soldiers unhappy with president obama due to money tories policies and self declared leaders have since unveiled a new constitution and announced elections in which one to participants would be barred from standing. a suspected u.s. drone fired two missiles at a house in northwest pakistan killing three alleged militants the attack happened

early friday in the town of miran shah an area known as a sanctuary for taliban and al qaeda insurgents foreigners believed to be among the group of those hit the strike comes at a time when pakistan is demanding an end to u.s. drone attacks in the country read brother could be slowly creeping into americans rives with even the cie cia chief joking about spying on people through their dishwashers according to recent polls people knew us aren't seeing the funny side though fear of big government has soared amid expanding unchecked security measures are very important i attract the trend from new york. can years ago by all metrics robotic spies and state surveillance through the makings of a quick starring tom cruise sort of from the control room today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report how about arguably a calm and they know can reality with life ominously imitating art your walking

down the street and the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license photo or some other photo. maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty second. had three o'clock last saturday in addition to facial recognition new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody. in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street activists placed under arrest like christina and solace they really don't so you why they just say it's another form of identification and it's really creepy to have someone holding up a machine to your phrase and you have no idea not only the health of facts of it

but there are truly use it with their larger purposes of using it is for iris scans are like a high tech fingerprint but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who's unique scan is on the database technology is becoming increasingly useful as a tracking tool in the u.s. in the virtual world of tweets. facebook posts and search engines every internet user is defined by a data footprint if you think anonymous comments and blogs are protected think again through the use of what's called forensic linguistics. u.s. investigators can now uncover whose fingers are behind every single keystroke if i have a good in a large enough sample of your writing and your postal card can take it and compare it i can import it into a database. database. using that information finding

every other post you ever do the digital data trail of every american will soon be connected to a massive building in utah a two billion dollar data center is reportedly being constructed for the u.s. national security agency complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and store all forms of personal communication including online purchases so calls google searches and yes private messages they're actually looking at de encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g. mail your all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you this service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. center is designed around building systems that will d. encrypt that data and remove any protection that you can put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian freefall when describing the emergence of the

internet of things the first refers to an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all who electronics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty up to one hundred billion ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that bottomless pit of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says. very idea that secrecy will change forever. archie new york. time now for the business news with hurried across syria during the russian markets are now open is it a positive start to the trading session hi matt it's actually a very positive start to the trading session just to remind you yes there was no the artsy as over two percent and so they were making a comeback let's take

a look at the latest figures now we can see that the arts yes there we go the i.d.s. is at an over about one of the half percent although my sense is slowly climbing out there it's out of over one percent but just to mention the r.t.s. has so far this year at seventeen percent one of them my six has added seven percent in itself are being quite a successful quarter for the stock markets in russia and i'm going to say that was mainly due to gains on wall street as well as stronger crisis and analysts do say that we might suffer those it's twenty percent this year ok let's move on to asia it's a different picture there and see red and that's because investors are reacting suit a number of different they first of all in japan we have a new report that says that industrial output fell unexpectedly in february and that was due to lower overseas the mad for electronic goods as well as cars production fell by one point supersize compared to january and in hong kong we had

different news making the headlines there and basically we had a real estate's shares plunging and that's because of the arrest of billionaire brothers and there it's haikus in the property of this today in case you're wondering very suspect the whole grew ibrary let's move on to it well which is raising some of its losses after seeing its biggest decline in the week and what's effect on prices they're all basically we have a rise in u.s. stockpiles as well as western countries discussing the possibility of releasing their emergency reserves and finally lesson one to currencies the euro is slightly lower leg. and the u.s. dollar and that's ahead of the e.u. minister of finance ministers are meeting and they're expected to discuss expanding the euro zone's emergency intervention fun when it comes to the ruble when our updated figures again against the dollar and lose there against the euro notes other news and the have a new report that claims phone companies are losing

a staggering fifty eight billion dollars a year worldwide that's due to billing errors as well as fraud and in africa and the middle east that accounts for fifteen percent of revenue in europe it's one percent and in north america it's two point eight percent but when you consider the fact that last year the industry made nine hundred twenty billion dollars the last doesn't sound that big a comparison. now global i.p.o. activity has seventy percent in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve compared to the same period last year now the report by accounts and from ernst and young says the also amounts are roughly fourteen billion dollars so far and that's the lowest level in three years the uncertainty in the euro zone in a smaller number of large less than strong states on forms created these unfavorable conditions for i.p.o.'s emerging markets now are still the i.p.o. leaders with china topping the list and the number of deals and when it comes to

russia it's pretty much out of the league and the last time it hosted i.p.o.'s was last summer. now emerging economies are joining forces to protect themselves from the global financial risks at the annual break summit five nations brazil russia india china and south africa all the side of super basically provide each other with loans and local currencies and what this will do is boost trade between the countries and also avoid dollar fluctuations and we spoke to an exam received from v. to be capital and he said that this will significantly boost trade between russia and china but more in work will have to be done. when. russian makes a russian conditioned office can freely invest in chinese. security then the market will increase and so the stage russia china trade a little trade in the next in the local currencies will probably reach the target we should use both three percent. or even know the. trading between russia and

china any local currency is only both one percent which is very low compared to many other countries where the share of his words you wish to exceed ten percent so russia has a lot to do even been existing currency regime and china. are about well next hour i'll have a breakdown of the main movers on the my sets for you also. see what's happening there all right thanks very much maria will be checking back in with you in the next hour to hear more about the russian market see how it all goes before the weekend well recap of the headlines coming up here on r t and latest addition of an oscar after that stay with us.

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