three broke years closing below the four year media project free media. western and arab supporters of the syrian revolution meeting turkey to press the assad regime with some of the members pushing for further militarization of the conflict. michael moment between leaders made bit of an obama sees us republican hawks swoop with a volley of anti russia rhetoric slammed by moscow as a cold war hollywood cliche. and anti austerity riots and protests break out across spain as the government announces massive new cuts paralleled since that a computer chip general.

ten am in moscow i met treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team calls for more arms to the syrian rebels growing louder with saudi arabia saying supplying weapons is a duty this is one of the major opposition groups appealed to syria's neighboring states to allow the transit their request comes ahead of the seventy nation friends of syria meeting in turkey which as r.t. sara further reports could prove a stern test for the host nation. taiki the heart of the activity at the moment is it prepares the play has to the friends the syria meeting the country's once again found itself at the center stage of the push to pressure the assad regime it has a history common history that syria saw certainly it feels justified that it is going to interfere to a certain extent polluted as long as was contained despite having fully built up place economic ties to syria and sharing more than one hundred kilometers of border

with its neighbor distance between the two countries is now a gulf with take a stance seemingly closely aligned that of arab countries such as guitar and saudi arabia and their strong calls for regime change or checchi told very early in the case of syria we must remember. very quickly and very confrontational attitude towards. the struggle against him and second when. the syrian national council themselves at battling their own face divides in fact the great lost a number of members recently that is ations now that they're not representative of the interests of the syrian people. and seen as he. also i've not been slow here. i'm only one who by his communist muslim brotherhood.

members look forward to vote. also if the syrian opposition desperately trying to bridge their own divisions turkish governments now left in a difficult situation toward his more after these things that we all deserve the only team that can push is a regime change otherwise it is capacity to the arab world through syria will be very very you know constrained and as take he gears up for the meeting. when it comes to understanding the complex syrian crisis and take his role in it it's still left to guess what's really going on behind closed. it's a key to once again emerge as a major regional power as syria is certainly free to. take very much the way in applying pressure. that an end to the violence that many here in the turkish government. now could lead to

a confrontation with the syrian army and the escalation of an already incredibly volatile regional situation. professor from universities things democracy in syria is unachievable if the rebels. are. or more hands are you going to use our course and the reason or course the obvious are you sorry readers clearly you are going to. syria or anywhere else saudi arabia is going strong. other autocratic regimes it is the most repressive resumes on the chronics. every time i hear monsoonal questioning the legitimacy of the syrian regime and i agree. there were questions like i think it's a legitimate question look at. this point how can you call up a government like saudi arabia those in power simply because they want. to be like

some of the previous kenya or previous king or this is this is twenty first century and worsening like you know out. early with the who are these also icons used to getting the ball especially we're going to court we are we. think this is the minister of hard lines you must have the democratic forces. come to power. it's not going to be democracy was not going to. syria. as syria hovers on the brink of civil war we revisit one of the most controversial events of the arab spring. to leave any of his who have interests that are that he doesn't feel that they should be silenced for the. man who engineered the libyan regime downfall says the grisly end of moammar gadhafi may have been about more than just revenge what's. washington

decides to leave north korea hungry having it out for the suspended food aid to the families country in response to john yang's plans to launch an earth observation satellite that the u.s. calls it a missile test. but first america's missile shield plans emerged again this week to form a stumbling block between russia and the u.s. the pentagon now wants to expand their defense system to asia and the middle east this is president medvedev and president obama held key talks at an international nuclear security summit in seoul. a microphone card obama's private remark asking for a space on till november as u.s. election has passed his republican rivals powerless to using him and secretly plotting with moscow what is more hard to jump on the anti russian bandwagon artie's guy reports the war cries are resonating with the american voters.

the run up to the presidential election in the us. a perfect time to drag down the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should read i mean. i think this represents a real threat to the. stability of the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments president made it

advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take a look at the calendar but you're good at it is all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do so and such if they will choose it's the year two thousand and twelve not the mid one nine hundred seventy s. anymore the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too good to like boy to return to those cold war simple days. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the rich. public and presidential hopefuls are capitalizing on the list also includes china iran's syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward warming charming isolating threatening i want to be china i want to go to war with china these guys are

ranchers and it and looking for ways to do it to want to harness a course should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidate suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about a world in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy is depicted in a sketch it's some kind of mythical and very real do it world if america takes a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world ability to be dangerous for america because we can't afford to do that mitt romney will most likely win the republican nomination and america will face a choice between him and president obama polls show the majority of americans

disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that he will lead them to really win the election because too many americans are just plain stared at having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to check our reporting that our team. still to come this hour france for the french ideological rest of imprisonment and deportation the country's presidential campaign turns into a hardline competition as politicians copartner realistic solutions to very real problems. but first some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week with mass protests coinciding with a nationwide general strike over austerity the government remained under. announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the next day spending on education social safety nets and every other sector slashed by about seventeen percent or more furthermore tax hikes introduced across the spectrum and state workers will be hit with a pay freeze critics call the cuts the most draconian since the dictatorship of

francisco franco three decades ago economic analyst michael moss things are intimately the measures may fail. but i can see is that what this plane want to make the spanish government is not only is it if pill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over bit more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks although they're bankrupt central bank the government also manas bankrupt how can you implement in authority package in these circumstances so everybody will see this won't work you got i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin and pollutants are talking about adjustment adjustment is such a nice word but it means in reality that people there have to become poorer they have to become poorer this is the adjustment so again this could easily lead to

a domestic action and this could also trigger more problems in the other seven countries here in europe. we well prices around the world continue rising amid growing tensions over the west sanctions and a rhetoric against iran especially worrying for the e.u. which has been weakened by austerity and now at the mercy of market mandated prices from the national iranian american council thinks that the sanctions were just a costly kneejerk reaction. 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 it's sanctions 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 a line to the 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 in 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 this 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 well stay with us here on r t still to come this hour violence erupts again in the middle east brutal clockers mark the land day commemorated by palestinians who see it as a symbol of their struggle against israeli occupation. and the state's prying eyes monitoring technology in the u.s. could leave the public with an order. but first french police have carried out a series of nationwide to raids arresting nineteen suspected is limits and seizing caches of weapons here just

a week after mohamed merah fragment of algerian origin was shot dead by police and will lose after he gunned down seven people last month as he says or so he reports from paris the case is dominating the race for the country's presidency. from ahmed near a 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 meraz background. from anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence would be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished that's in addition to psychos east policy of stripping of

foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france the clearly advocating the political change in it 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 any 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 or 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 law i 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 mohamed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants mohammed merah is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wait. the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children the threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think although it'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 of 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 the tribute if you can do to create because what is the goal over the world and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either yes or sylvia r t paris. but all the stories and videos on our website r t dot com so log on and click around there's plenty of life for you right now including the threat of a devastating thirty meter of tsunami of the over japan as a panel of experts warn of the country should prepare for a new and better way. and the world goes dark for earth hour as millions around the world sacrifice modern day conveniences for a short time and enable the environmental awareness. but first thousands of protesters clashed with israeli security forces of palestinian israeli border points friday while marking a land day event sees palestinians commemorating the deaths of six arabs killed by police in demonstrations against

a land conversations by israel back in one thousand seventy six or his policy or has the latest. this year the and not mandate demonstrations turn violent with one protester killed in gaza several dozen injured across the west bank and at least thirty four people arrested in the event marks the killing back in one nine hundred seventy six of six palestinians enjoying a land confiscation policy of the bin israeli government palestinians complain that these ladies took arab learned and used it for building israeli settlements and since then and the event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this year occurring sided with what was dubbed the global march to jerusalem and its all some eighty two countries participating the attention was focused on numerous palestinian cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and israeli borders along the. border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were

no reports of violence even certain highlighted the palestinian struggle among the groups there was a jewish group calling itself jews united against zionism and they were waving palestinian flags and chanting anti israel slogans at the columbia chip point which is the main checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah he was violent starting from as early as may day friday here the israeli police are using rubber bullets and tear gas to push back which instance who were burning tires and also throwing stones at israeli border police. hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result the latest throes of violence sweeping syria as former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power but asians governments brokered a cease fire but in reality as little power over the vast number of order groups left over from the revolution as violence across the country continues there is a growing sense among critics that are fears are rising is produced little change

coming up later this hour of his exclusive interview with the architect of gadhafi is gone for ever frank look at the cost and reasoning for why the rebellion for. too many protein is who have interests and the he doesn't talk that he should be silenced photo of. who is trying to go to who he sent to leave the room it's. one of them was bush who saw that was sent to france and. providing some sense who . what he called would win the solution for that who was killed by who for whom entity or killed by the libyans who are libyans and from others they really don't know but let them see is the tool many. who have read into this that there's he just keep silent for the. you know stephen libyan leader didn't only carry closely guarded secret secrets but

was viewed by some as a stabilizing figure in a wider continent mali now finds itself in the grip of violence or to arrest the direct result of the influx of former pro gadhafi fighters from libya and ultimatum set by west african countries demanding mali's military junta had power back to the country civilian leadership expires monday military commanders seize power last week angry at the government's handling of a tribal rebellion in the country's north but the crisis is far from being solved with rebels still in control of some key northern cities political analyst lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review thanks nato bears responsibility for fighting as the arms are coming from libya. the this was an area that us put a lot of military backing into and they were trying to fight the various forces no one is al-qaeda mcgregor and you had a military low level officer carry out a coup so you have to wonder how strong was the government this is a continuation of the arab spring into sub-saharan africa one factor though is in

the zealous nature of president obama and president sarkozy and prime minister cameron in their intent the carrier regime change in libya and kill gadhafi when it was not necessary there actually help peace process because many of these rebels are coming back from libya very well on. increasing use of monitoring technology in the u.s. has lost the wonder of big brother is more fact and fiction and the use of forensics and even tracking on line dated seems know will be safe from prying eyes or if he's very important i reports from new york. ken years ago bio metrics robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a side by flick starring tom cruise performance of today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report however arguably an american we ality with

life ominously imitating art your walking down the street of 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 be a mug shot maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty circuit in a. three o'clock. 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 the machine to your phrase and you have no idea not only the health of

facts of it but what there are clearly use it with their larger purposes of using it is for 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 us. 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 and compare it i can even put it into a database. database they use in that information. every other post you ever do a 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 us

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 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 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 he sees and cell phones are now that i don't list of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says the very idea of secrecy will change forever. arche new

york. there are new ideas slam the us over if this isn't just a spend food aid to north korea blaming washington for breaching february's humanitarian agreement two hundred forty thousand tons of provisions were promised in return for the communist state hoping nuclear and missile tests north korea announced this week it refuses to hold or. north korea this week or refuses to hold back plans to launch an earth observation satellite image a for all but the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test john yang claims it's sending a satellite into space for peaceful purposes and is reportedly invited outside experts to prove its sincerity seraphim co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international law by involving food aid in a political stand up. just on week or two before we heard the administration in washington saying if this was a good deal it was going to get food to the neediest people in north korea and now

we're playing politics with food food as a weapon of war under international law has always been illegal to use and we really need to find a way back to the table not seen individual acts as a provocation they certainly have 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 to end the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues . we're back with a recap of our top stories in a couple of minutes stay with us here on r.t. .

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