long. israeli tear gas and stun grenades meet protestors across the palestinian territories with clashes or checkpoints escalating. at least one protester has been killed as palestinians mark landay remembering six people who were killed during a land confiscation one hundred fifty years ago i'm joined me in a few moments for a live update from the ramallah border. the french presidential hopefuls around pop anti immigrant well raids against islamist radicals see some twenty people detained all in the wake of the recent to lose killings. and despite officially backing

a u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria nato countries are seen funding the rebels with britain sending in aid worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and. it's good to have you with us that today this is live from moscow with me rory soup shy at least one person is reported killed israeli police used tear gas and water cannons against palestinian protesters as they mark the annual event called land day there remembering the death of six arabs killed by police in demonstrations against a land grab by israel back in the one nine hundred seventy six they're also being arrested of various checkpoints in the west bank. is standing by one of them paula we've seen the armored cars the tear gas water cannons being used now reports about

two hundred thirty people wounded across the west bank now the latest update from your location now. well i'm standing at the jerusalem ramallah trip point known as cologne due and in the last hour or so events here have started to quieten down as you see behind me these really police have pushed further into the palestinian city of ramallah they've managed to push back protesters and they formed a cordon to stop protesters coming any closer to the checkpoint where i'm standing in the last few minutes there haven't been any ambulances but proper day we were witnessing ambulances firing into people forward and backwards and now as i speak there is an ambulance so that certainly is an indication that the violence is ongoing we are hearing hearing reports of injured we also know that one high profile palestinian legislator has been hurt in the clashes here at kalandia now the army and the police have been using water cannons and they've also been using

a vehicle when it sprays of water and all false smelling in the quit and that was in an effort to try and disperse the crowds at the same time there is a. bit of machinery that they've been using that emits a very high frequency to sounds and that too was to try to get the demonstrators to leave from here elsewhere we know that the clashes are continuing in jerusalem the police there are on high alert the highest alert have been policemen on horseback as well in the west bank at various checkpoints as well as in several cities there we're hearing reports of injured we know of one eight year old boy who allegedly was run over by and his radio vehicle but as you can well imagine these reports are coming through they difficult to verify independently at the moment although we are hearing from palestinian sources that at least one person has been killed along the israel gaza border areas and that five people there have been injured the international red cross puts the number of injured at more than

a hundred and thirty. today's demonstrations are just limited to the area surrounding you but we understand here at r.t. that it has much broader geographical implications. certainly the whole purpose of today's demonstrations is to coincide with land day which happened back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when six palestinians were killed in an israeli land confiscation program and since then this annual event has been supported not only by palestinians but by international activists around the world today we are witnessing some eighty two countries who many of whom have seen caravans of support and we know that some of those caravans come from as far afield as india pakistan tajikistan and these are supporters coming here either to the palestinian territories or to israel's northern borders northern and southern borders along the israeli jordanian border there are some twenty thousand

people who've gathered now we're not hearing any reports of violence so far but i can tell you that one of the groups who is there is a jewish group that's calling itself jews myself against zionism and they've been holding up palestinian flags and showing their support for the palestinian struggle along the israeli lebanon border there are at least three thousand people who have gathered the lebanese army is on high alert the there are no reports of violence there in fact there are people who have turned up with their families and at the moment the mood there is quite cheerful but as i say all of this is an attempt to highlight the plight of the palestinian people and get a slogan of the global march to jerusalem or authorities are calling a life for the checkpoint between ramallah. thank you very much. we've got are the live pictures streaming from a checkpoint on the israeli or israeli syrian border on our web site r.t. dot com you can head there to see what's happening right now. this is our to our french police have netted around twenty suspected is the mists in

a series of raids in several cities across the country the arrests come just a week after an algerian frenchman mohammad killed seven people in soon as police have been hunting morass accomplices but no direct links with him have been confirmed as of yet meanwhile the president nicolas sarkozy vowed a crackdown on radical islam ism after the toulouse massacre said he was inspired by al qaeda circles he is running for the second term for france's top job next month as artists are cilia reports cases become a key tool to score political points. mohammed naira was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure into 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

meraz background should be for anyone who regularly insults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to cycles these policy of stripping of 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 but clearly advocating the political change in extreme is you it's not a crime we have the freedom of speech in france and they don't see it all restricted to. the french citizen kane east 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 nation as 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 call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes of a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants and how america is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war on this and the mentalists political religious groups who are killing our children if threat of islamic fundamentalism has been under arrest. i think all that's been announced

after these tragic events are proposals put forward solely for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would 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 and politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic and are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is a tribute if you can do to create because what is the called out of the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus and that either does or sylvia r.t. paris it isn't ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still ahead of you in this program that are tightening their belts. spain implements both being budget cuts deemed to be the toughest in almost four decades like i was just

a day after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest. the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it to your driver's license for a little and say all right marina was on the corner of forty circling. three o'clock last saturday not so private life anymore and even your home appliances could soon start spying on you we were real u.s. surveillance plans shortly here on r.t. . nato states may be supporting a u.n. peace plan for a cease fire from all sides in syria but for u.s. and its allies are firmly backing the rebels as well britain's promised to funnel additional aid to the opposition worth hundreds of thousands of pounds amid reports they're already getting weapons from abroad. smith reports from. this money that the u.k.

has pledged amounts to eight hundred thousand dollars and represents a doubling of the funding that's being given to the opposition we're expecting other countries to follow suit including the u.s. a seventy one nation meeting on sunday it's a group that calls itself the friends of syria this is the second meeting that they . in fact it seems from their agenda that they are not in fact friends of syria they're in fact friends of the syrian opposition and the goals of the meeting that they're holding on sunday includes you know i said what we really focus on you know i saying this this famously disparate opposition that we see in syria and whilst at the same time thinking up new measures to increase pressure on the regime so it's a very one sided strategy that they've got going on there has also said recently that he's looking at borrowing u.n. peacekeeping troops from various regions to try to enforce a peace that doesn't actually exist yet we've seen in the last couple of days an

upsurge in the amount of violence from the opposition are reported to have kidnapped a high ranking military pilots and also assassinated two colonels from the army on thursday so that looks like the opposition is stepping up its attacks in fact the opposition says that it won't contemplate even negotiating on anything which would allow for assad to stay in power meanwhile assad is very angry about this support that's being provided to the opposition from the international community he says that countries have to stop providing money and weapons the opposition immediately if this plan is to succeed he's calling the opposition terrorists of course himself has come out and said that the deadline for a cease fire is now old and that the regime in syria should and a gesture of good faith to be the first to step down of course in a bilateral cease fire it's very difficult to time these things it's very unlikely that assad will volunteer to be the first to step down so we're really not any any

further forward but if the situation develops any further. laura smith reporting right the un is publicly pushing with its peace plan for syria and washington and saudi arabia are pursuing their own means to solve the conflict the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is right now in riyadh to work out a unified strategy this set of friends of syria meeting this weekend more on this we can now talk to our martin walker a member of the syrian social club are joining us live from london oh good to see you today do you actually think that saudi arabia is the right country to work out a united strategy on syria. well we need to understand that probably secretary clinton is in saudi arabia to talk only about syria perhaps there to talk about the entire region israel perhaps the saudis the chances that of hitting iran before the presidential elections in america pretty much slim. also they have proved to the americans this kofi annan. mission and the saudis are immediately afterwards said

well we need to arm the syrian rebels and i don't know if hillary clinton secretary clinton is there to negotiate with the saudis were to step down from that sort of commitment or actually negotiate how they are getting help to get help but perhaps perhaps it's a good move by the u.s. secretary of state to go to riyadh so it's a meet with the saudis to talk about a unified approach to pacifying syria i was just some in the world it might be seen that that america is the world's peacemaker when it comes to acquiring certain worldwide conflicts what we need to remember as well the first conference of the so-called friends of syria where the saudis didn't like what they heard during the conference and they actually put the decision to stay out of the hall so probably it is needed to coordinate positions before they go into the. conference hall in turkey and actually reduce the expectations of the saudis

a little bit now we need to understand that with the british pledging about half a billion pounds half a million pounds to the syrian rebels the west isn't really backing down from making or storing the conflict a little bit more. so i would say that it probably secretary clinton is also talking about to the saudis about how to. play it so to support for those people is probably covered but it would ok well understandably probably not on as you say but when it comes to saudi arabia. being being used to help get a unified peace plan for syria some might say the saudi arabia is hardly democratic but the un accuses the kingdom of torture and almost three fold increase in executions last year i would you think anyone is going to take its views on syria seriously. well i think a lot of hypocrisy is going on in the world at the moment obviously you mention the

certain countries who publicly support a democratic. transition in syria have no sense of democracy at all including saudi arabia but what this only these are interested in is actually a more sympathetic government in damascus to their struggle rivalry with iran and they've seized only opportunity that there is a term with syria and they would want to have a friendly government over there you know nobody conspiracy at all that you know the saudis really want democracy at their doorstep because you know syria and saudi arabia are pretty much close together and there is a real democracy in syria they probably can screw over the border as well while it's interesting how you bring in. iran here because the collapse of the syrian regime would surely be a devastating blow to iran leaving it extremely isolated is this possibly the aim for the un see nations do you think. it is very much the regional context is very much on the cards has been on the cards really from day one so there has been

a certain turmoil in syria started by a certain group of peaceful perhaps them as traitors but immediately the regional stakeholders really jumped into this thing and started arming and with all the propaganda to support people to go against the government in syria and that has caused a huge delay in solving the problem and still it does but everyone feels that they should benefit from the situation and you know to their towards their own interests and obviously saudi arabia not happy at all with that with the rivalry in iran and this has been going on for decades really probably they think he will here's an opportunity so let's grab it i'm out of work after a member of the syrian social club live from london thank you very much thank you very much. spain has passed and the priest budget cuts yet i made loud public discontent hundreds of thousands spilled onto the streets across the country on thursday well demonstrators clashed with police and broke windows in barcelona.

reports from the trade. twenty seven billion euro has been slashed that's the equivalent of thirty six billion dollars that's aimed at reducing the deficit g. five point three percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and twelve some fees already raised about this figure to resume billion euros with these credit rating agencies they say that she about forty billion euro needs to be cut from the budget what they are doing is sashing same team sent from all budgets from all the ministries so that throughout the whole of the ministries it is plain that includes some of those people think should be ring fenced the life of education and health care as well they want to bring in some of the protesters and unions in order for development in the future that hasn't occurred in this case and what may lay some face it seems that tensions have been kept as have. salaries in some areas civil servants salaries have been kept as well

now this isn't just a problem to do with spain when it comes to bed deficits and specious dressed a lot recently we've seen a sense of the today in denmark that's where all the european finance ministers have met and they've agreed a far will and eight hundred billion euros by will go to safeguard against any future bailout and spain has really been able as mind when they're talking about that people think it's too big to fail but has the teetering on the brink from being here the real pressure get from the people who are in the unions who sells if they don't mind austerity understand that there has to be austerity in these tough times but they think certainly there should be bring paint they should take a cut should be made if they can absolutely everywhere in the world of about health care education and also it will rejoin a lot of people down the street yes there's a labor pool this is going to make it easier to sell equal and easier to reduce their wages in an environment where unemployment is starting in spain is twenty

three percent of the population the highs in any developed nation and even higher among the. those below the age of twenty five was there's a bit deeper say in terms of unemployment that's what we saw all of the young people were out in the streets yes they've now the police biggest estimate is about eighty thousand people in the trip alone the uni's places as high as eight hundred thousand the worst similar protests and demonstrations take place in valencia also in barcelona and there we saw clashes with police parts of the city set ablaze and windows being smashed. in a few minutes here an r.t. it's the world of it for you but for now if you bear in mind always more stories news and analysis and artsy dot com here's just a little of what line up for you there on the website this hour prayers are not porn egypt bans sex sites for destroying religious feelings and moral values liberal activists say it's a step towards shari'a law. and going to extremes all red terror and the russian

orthodox church plans to check the work of vulture big leaders for signs of extremism to find out more on that at r.t. dot com. all right as i said time now for the world update some other international headlines for you in brief the rebels in mali have captured a strategic northern town just a week after the military seized power saying the president had failed to fight the insurgents they moved in on kiddle with heavy weapons and these are the same rebel forces who fought in libya for colonel gadhafi before returning to their homeland better armed than battle a battle hardened rather that the coup leaders have called the situation critical and pleading for outside help. japan has vowed to shoot down a north korean rocket shell jeweled for launch next month if it threatens its territory an order was issued to the country's defense forces to prepare measures

satellite images indicate the work at the launch pad is underway going insists it's only setting up a satellite for scientific purposes and other nations suspect it's a cover for long range weapons practice. an afghan policeman has killed nine of his colleagues as they slipped inside their post in the eastern a paktika province where he then escaped seizing their arms and a truck among those killed was his commander and two sons the motive for the attack was not known but police in the area did blame the taliban right shorty is daniel with the markets but for now in the not too distant future even if your dishwasher could be spying on you because well technology aims to make life easier it could also give big brother a peephole into the lives of almost anyone in new york is are these were important tracking the trend. ken years ago bio metrics robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of

a side by flick starring tom cruise sober from the room today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report however arguably the calm and american 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 were all the photo of your mug shot maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty second and . 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 by christina gonzales 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 that only the help of what there are clearly use it with their larger purposes of using it is words iris scans are like a high tech fingerprint but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who's unique scan is on the database the 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 i'm not in his 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 tell you can compare it or i can even put it into a database. database or you are using that information finding every other post you ever get 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 the complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and store all forms of personal communication including online purchases cell calls google searches and yes private messages but 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.m.

correct that data and remove any protection a chicken 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 freezer for an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all home 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 of secrecy will change forever we're not out partying.

and off we go to the world of big money artie's don't you put your eye there don't you we've seen how the markets fared in the east and central europe but what about wall street house i'd open the door for the first thing for it seems to be opening higher in the let's check the latest news that u.s. consumer spending rose for february is pushing the. crisis of black berry make a research in motion deepens shares of slump seventy four percent over the year for android and i phone competition is no one else to two hundred sixty seven million dollars its loss for the fourth quarter of spain's i books is a percent of the country and build a twenty seven billion euro thirty package of frauds also off the rails of a small than expected project deficit russia's following europe into the black despite losses earlier this week emerging markets stocks should have the best first quarter in twenty years major movers on the most six electricity produce a recent hydros just revealed strong results for last year says gas produce an overtrick where net profit jumped seventy six percent russia's biggest lenders also gaining to burberry chief home in gross is this year's mit profit will be twenty

eleventh's record ten billion dollars oil is up or through its biggest decline in a week on record u.s. ventry so short of the euro is higher against the u.s. dollar after the e.u. bailout fund increase we've been talking about the ruble is gaining you gives the dollar bill losing to the euro and global i.p.o. activity slumped almost seventy percent in the first quarter year on year he was the young report says fourteen billion dollars is the lowest in two years over euro zone and global uncertainty emerging markets all still be on your leaders with china topping the list and you're up to date more stories on. this side daniel thanks very much for that we will see you next hour well you know just a few minutes or an r.t. other bringing you the latest news headlines are there to be followed by the fun filled edition of must go out with none other than our very own martin. thanks for.

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