western and arab supporters of the syrian revolution meeting in turkey to press the assad regime with some of the members pushing for further militarization of the conflict. hot mike moment between leaders made better but obama sees us republican hawks schooled with a volley of bad tie russian rhetoric slammed by moscow was a cold war hollywood cliche. and geraghty riots and protests break out across spain as the government pushes through a wave of cuts on the scene says the dictatorship of general franco.

one pm in moscow match reza good to have you with us here on r t as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news the head of syria's national council has called on the friends of syria group members to provide support for the rebels fighting the army inside syria the summit being held for the second time in india putting more pressure on the assad regime and bolstering the opposition party sorry for ports from istanbul. well the conference is going underway here in istanbul we have the turkish prime minister giving the aping address now in that he said that the country doesn't interfere with any other country's internal policies but he said the syrian government continues to oppress the legitimate demands of the syrian people now as the conference is going on inside actually caught a demonstration of the syrian people just outside the building the turkish prime minister also saying that twenty thousand syrian people now inside turkey who were forced to flee from the violence now the friends of syria conference today is going

to aim to provide support to the main opposition body the syrian national council and they're going to be looking to make that body stronger and also you can expect to see today probably play it is a great humanitarian and financial aid as well now the opposition body for the first time have called for the neighboring countries to allow the free syrian army to be armed we heard the saudi saudi arabia saying after meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton that it was a duty to supply these arms now while some of the gulf countries such as saudi arabia and qatar have been pushing for that for quite a long time to arm the opposition we know that there are a lot of concerns in the international community about that happening with fuel sectarian violence unlikely that you're going to see that today come out of the conference this is the second friends of syria conference moscow was in in attendance at the first and again it has been attended today there are concerns really about the fact that the friends of syria seen as being quite one sided in

question say whether or not they're really going to be pushing for dialogue and of course talks of arming the opposition is certainly not going to help that approach many of the syrian government and the international community right now has signed up to k. financed peace plan moscow has said that this whatever the conference does they cannot speak charge the implementation of kafeel as his plan it can't speak on behalf of the international community all be a replacement for the security council. the u.s. is one of the countries that supported special envoy kofi iran's peace plan but still continues to push for a team change is a stance that's not helping end the war those as dr going to meyer from the center for research on the arab world it is the main goal of washington actually to oust the government of bashar assad so after the very positive response which kofi annan splendid has received they could not do anything else but

support it also but the latest comments are still we are very skeptical. the syrian government has to immediately they have to stop the fighting immediately again it's the same position they take they blame all the responsibility for the fighting to syrian government whereas the kofi annan plan pioli says just as russia and china have always said both sides have to stop fighting. as syria hovers on the brink of civil war we'll look back on one of the most controversial events so far of the arab spring. protests his who have interests in the dozen to the he said these. men who engineered the libyan regime downfall says the grisly end of moammar gadhafi may have been about more than just revenge it was the report on the military coup in mali the country that with gadhafi now

viewed by some as a stabilizing figure it out for a dog finds itself in the grip of violent unrest. 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 hopes to expand the defense system to asia and the middle east this is president's medvedev and obama held key talks at an international security summit in seoul. a microphone caught obama's private remark asking for a space until november as u.s. elections passed his republican challengers immediately pounced accusing him of secretly plotting with moscow it was more hawks and jump on the anti russian bandwagon artie's guy nature should be on reports of the war cries aren't resonating with american voters. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s.

a perfect time to drag out 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 it's president elect you should remember this. place. represents a real threat to. the stability and peace 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 many of it advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take

a look at the calendar you. would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do so and to chip away which is which the year twenty twelve midnight and seventy's anymore the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to rest but for some it's just too good to like girl boy to return to those cold war simple days. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the republican 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 arming isolating threatening i want to be. china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and end of it and look for ways to do it to want to harm

a sick or should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidates suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the worlds in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as who is to do it your sketch it's some kind of hidden if it's cool and very unreal view of the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world a bill also 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 leave them out of leeway in the election because too many americans are just plain scared of

having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to check our reporting process that our team. stay with us here on r t still to come this hour france for the french idealogical writes the prism of deportation the country's presidential race turns into a hardline politician whose politicians tell unrealistic solutions with 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 more austerity dozens were injured in the ensuing clashes although sixty people were arrested by police the government remained on bought it announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the next day spending on education social safety nets and every public sector would be slashed by almost a further more tax hikes being introduced across the spectrum state workers waltz. he hit with a pay freeze economic analyst my former boss things in the end the measures won't

even work. what 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 that more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there at central bank then for government also miners bankrupt how can you implement in a store to pick a church in these circumstances so everybody will see it visible this won't work and what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin and pollutants are talking about adjustment adjustment in 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 that i mean so again this could easily lead to a domestic reaction and this would could also trigger more problems in the other

southern countries here in europe meanwhile our prices around the world continue soaring amid growing tension over the west sanctions and rhetoric against iran it's especially worrying for the e.u. which has been weakened by austerity and is now at the mercy of market mandated prices. from the national iranian american council thinks the sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with a cost already being felt now. 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 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 one to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this 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 there so to come this hour violence erupts again in the middle east clashes more and day commemorated by palestinians who see it as a symbol of their struggle against israeli occupation. and new h.s. reforms in the u.k. of what many run during a free health care will be lost to profiteer who could stand to make millions from the changes. but first the french police have carried out a series of nationwide raids arresting nineteen suspected is limits and seizing caches of weapons the operation comes a week after mohamed merah a frenchman of algerian origin was shot dead by police in toulouse after he gunned down seven people last month as

a key test or so he reports from paris some fear his case has pushed the race for the country's presidency in a dangerous direction. mohamed merah was killed by police after a thirty two hour siege in toulouse his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with every more radicals metric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is narrow background shit. 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 adoption nation in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to psychos east policy of stripping foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france are clearly advocating the political

change and it's really as you started crying we have do freedom of speech in france and i don't see. the restricted. while a french citizen any east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes 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 line call 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 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 wage war on this from the mentalists political religious groups who are killing our children a threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think all of it's been announced after these tragic events our proposals put forward so rich. elections 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 what are 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 are simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the pull of musical tribute if you can do creates because what is the goal that was the problem there doesn't

seem to be much consensus on that either this or still here r t paris we have all the latest stories and videos on our website r t you've got problems remember to click on over there and here's what's online for you right now. the threat of a devastating thirty meter a tsunami looms over japan as a title of the experts warns the country should her pair for a new negative way. the world goes dark for earth hour as millions around the world sacrificed modern day conveniences in the name of environmental awareness . thousands of protesters of clash with israeli security forces a 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 land confiscations by israel back in one nine hundred seventy six or his policy or hostile. and this year the annual 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 the six palestinians injuring a man confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that these ladies took i would be learned and use it for building israeli settlements and since they are an event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this year it coincided with what was dubbed the global march to jerusalem and its all some eighty two countries participating the attention was focused on numerous posting in cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and the israeli borders along the israel jordanian 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 raiding palestinian flags and chanting anti israeli slogans at the columbia chip point

which is the main checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah it was violence starting from as early as new day friday here the israeli police were using rubber bullets and tear gas to push back protesters who were burning tires and also throwing stones eppy israeli border police. hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result of the latest throes of violence we've been libya's former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power but nations governments now brokered the cease fire but in reality there's little power over the vast number of armed groups left over from the revolution as the violence across the country continues there is a growing sense among critics the rioters are rising produce the real change in the next hour of his exclusive interview with the architect of could offer his downfall had a frank look at the cost and reasoning behind the rebellion for. too many protein is who have interests in the it doesn't to that he should be silenced photo of you

who is trying to bite you he sent to me neither and that's when you do one of them was bush who was sent to france in. providing some sense of the what he called would win as a solution for that who was killed before him in to tea or killed by libyans who were libyans and they are from others who really don't know him but he is the cool many. who have real interests that their feet just keep silent for him and. he has to the libyan leader did not only carry closely guarded secrets but was viewed by some as a stabilizing figure in the african continent mali now finds itself in the grip of violence under arrest as a direct result of the influx of former pro khadafi fighters from libya and ultimatum set by west african countries demanding mali's military hunta had back

power to the country civilian leadership expires monday military commanders seized power last week agri of the government's handling of a tribal rebellion in the north but the crisis is far from being resolved with the rebels still in control of some key northern cities political analyst lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review thanks nato bears some responsibility for the fighting is the arms are coming from libya. molly this was an area that u.s. put a lot of military backing into and they were trying to fight the various forces no one is. in the grid 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 that is in the zealous nature of president obama and president sarkozy and prime minister can run in there and can't think carry out regime change in libya and think killed

could nafi when it was not necessary there actually help peace process because many of these rebels are coming back from libya very well on britain's health system is set for a controversial overhaul after new reforms were passed critics think the bill could spell the end of free health care with allegations that some lords and m.p.'s who voted for the changes put profits first are he's laura smith reports on a system is needed to check a. 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 plumbed by profit is the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism but it can't cope the government says private sector involvement is the only but some say it's not those in need of care but rather those in power who are set to benefit the rest.

of the shares in the company and yet with these vested interests are allowed to vote on the health and social care bill with these private health care interests which is a conflict of interest. institutional corruption at worst friends with benefits david cameron prime minister received two hundred ten thousand pounds to his party from nursing and care home tycoon pockets and made him a lot part of 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 who's 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 merely a hundred and fifty names all sent 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 britain's house of lords have links with private health care provider. as through investments patronage membership and the parties in power conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health care interests following the legislation those companies are circling poll ready was starting to see a number of private health interest starting to look very seriously cherry picking some of the best most profitable parts of the national health service they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready

to pounce the changes have been highly controversial and these people think they'll damage the quality of care many feel that while m.p.'s did declare their interests they should have been banned from voting local government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in this is the fact that their interest issues told were 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 outside the bell tolls the free health care smith r.t. london. political activity used to model russians in a few months rallies following the presidential vote saw tens of thousands of british banners and pour into the streets some are sick and tired of the hype so much so they've decided to protest against our teaser in evolution go is in moscow with more. soaring to one of the demonstrators demands here. well you have to

understand they're angry tired cold hungry and they are mostly journalists who have spent the last goodness knows how many weekends covering the protests in moscow and whether or not they wanted to on like other protesters they couldn't just say no they had to be there they had to spend hours in the freezing weather and we had to listen to demands of people who had been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized a facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours who all signed up to come to our spot in moscow and protest the protests understanding that hungry journalist is something you never want to deal with a broad kuki is the bright flowers seeds and they didn't last very long because you know journalists do have families and that was one of the main slogans at the rally they would have gotten leads they want to see them as much as possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold in the snow or listening to people voicing

their concerns about something which they cannot really define that was their main point of the rally which went down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of it too so let's wrap it up and i'm going to head home and do what i wanted to do all these weekends i have a lot of things to catch up on as do they. first is there some significance to the timing. i do believe that that was partly the reason for it very light hearted rally you know lots of actually singing dancing the how you had singing and dancing riot police saying well how often do you see that anywhere in the world well you can come to moscow the first and see for yourself basically that's what we got very good or in a delusional joining us right from central moscow. couple of minutes we'll take a look at the week's top stories stay with us here on our quiz.

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