western and arab supporters of the syrian revolution meeting in turkey to pressure the assad regime some of the members pushing for further militarization of the conflict. to mike a moment between leaders of an obama sees us republican hawks swoop with a volley of anti russia rhetoric slammed by moscow as cold war folly would cliché. the austerity riots and protests broke out across spain the government pushes through a wave of cuts unseen this is the dictatorship of general franks. this

is the weekly on our team with our top stories of the week and all of today. 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 the country but the summit is being held for the second time and is aimed at putting more pressure on the regime and bolstering the opposition. reports from the meeting in istanbul. well the conference has gotten underway here in istanbul we had 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 you've actually got 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 pledges of both humanitarian and financial aid as well now the opposition body to the first time of course for the neighboring countries to allow the free syrian army to be arms we heard the saudis saudi arabia saying after the 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 the opposition we know that there are a lot of concerns in the international community about that happening faeces but that fuel sectarian violence so unlikely that you're going to see that today come

out of the conference well this is the second friends of syria conference mosco was in attendance at the first and again it has been attended today there are concerns really about the fact that the friends of syria is seen as being quite one sided in question so whether or not they're really going to be pushing for dialogue and of course talks of arming opposition is certainly not going to help that approach from the syrian government and the international community right now has signed us to case you know peace plan. whatever the conference does it cannot speak charge the implementation of casey knows his plan it can't speak on behalf of the international community all be a replacement for the security council. trotty certifying that i mean time professor stephen at the university of san francisco believes that to not proceed in syria is unachievable if the rebels bolstered by states such as saudi arabia come to power. or more hands are you maybe an hour or so and the reason.

obvious are saudi arabia's clearly. proxy or syria or anywhere else saudi arabia is strongest backer of other autocratic regimes is almost across a readings on products and hearings i only hear months requesting looking to see how 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 where is in power simply because. this is this is weaker century who worsening like it happened really would be who are these outside countries to getting the ball especially going into the support we are we. think of the most hard lines the most forces.

are come to power well it is not going to be. able is not going to make things in syria. syria holders on the brink of civil war we look back at one of the most controversial events of the arab spring so far. so many parties who have interests. in there isn't true that he should be silenced voted for the man who engineered the libyan regime's downfall says the grisly end of moammar gadhafi may have been about more than just a bloody repair. america's missile shield plans emerged again this week to form a stumbling block which when russia and the u.s. the pentagon now wants to expand its defense system to asia and the middle east it comes as president of year their friend president obama held a key top seven international nuclear security summit in seoul.

a microphone accord obama's private remark asking for space until november u.s. election has passed his republican rivals immediately pounced using him of secretly plotting with moscow but is more hawks in jump on the and he russian bandwagon artists garniture cattle reports war cries france necessarily resonating with the american voter. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . the 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 its president elect you should recover.

i think 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 medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take a look at the calendar. but it would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements if you can do them any home to do so and to chip who will choose it's the year two thousand and twelve look at 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 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 strategies they put forward warming arming isolating threatening. i want to lead china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and in and out of it and looking for ways to do it to want to harm a stock or should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of the trigger happy candidates suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the world in which romney became president because i think he would adopt

a more militaristic foreign policy his worldview is depicted in a sketch it's some kind of mystical and very kind of the real deal with the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world 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 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 for us and our team. has come to you live from moscow still to come for you this hour france for the french ideological arrests in prison and deportation the country's presidential

campaign turns into a hardline competition with the politicians on realistic solutions to very real problems. decides to leave north korea hungry having it out there will suspend food aid to the country in response to pyongyang's plans to launch an observation satellite the u.s. however calls it a missile test. so ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this. with mass protests coinciding with a nationwide general strike over more austerity dozens of people were injured in the ensuing clashes almost sixty being arrested by the police but the government remained under wanted analysing twenty seven billion a year rose worth of cuts the very next day spending on education social safety nets and every public sector will be slashed by almost a fifth furthermore tax hikes are being introduced across the spectrum and state

workers will be hit with a pay freeze but economic analyst michael ross thinks that ultimately at the end of the day other measures will both work. what i can see is that the what has been 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 get more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also known as bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in these circumstances so everybody will see this won't work i 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 interaction and this would could also trigger more problems in the other southern countries in europe. meanwhile the prices are rather worlds continue to soar amid growing tensions over the west's sanctions and rhetoric against iran especially worrying the e.u. which is being weakened by austerity and is now at the mercy of market mandated prices jamal are betting from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were a need jerk reaction with the cost only now being felt 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 sages 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 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 is so expensive and simply addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate that. this is our still to come for you in this hour violence erupts again in the middle east a brutal classrooms modern day commemorated by palestinians who see it as a symbol of the struggle against israeli occupation. of the state's uprising one of the technology in the u.s. that could leave the public with nowhere to hide. french police

have carried out a series of nationwide arresting nineteen suspected islam ists and seizing caches of weapons the operation comes just a week after one hundred frenchmen about jury in origin was shot dead by police and to lose this after the gunned down seven people last month and as are things that are similar reports some fear that this case has pushed the rates for the country's presidency into a dangerous direction marmot narrow was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure into loose 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 narrow background should you really need from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote or trade 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 sarkozy's policy of stripping a foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france the clearly a good thing the political change in extreme is you it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. restricted. was a french citizen in the east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism now 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 national 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 and the 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 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 breed you on this and the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children the threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think all of it's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the elections it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would m. supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper. and the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as

a problem by some prominent figures i call attentions are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic or addressing an actual problem are simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is pretty difficult to recruit because what is the goal of the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either just are still here r t paris. and of course we have all the latest stories and videos on our website on what's he told column i don't hesitate to log on if you have the chance some of the items are standing by for you there right now included a threat of a devastating thirty meters tsunami it looms over japan as a panel of experts in the in the country should prepare for a new point. plan the world goes dark for earth hour as millions around the world sacrifice a modern day conveniences all in the name of fire and mental awareness.

thousands of protesters clashed with israeli security forces at a palestinian israeli border checkpoints on friday this were they were marking the annual event of land day it sees palestinians commemorating the deaths of six hours killed by police and demonstrations against the land confiscations by israel that was back in one thousand seven hundred six. was following the events. this year the annual land day 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 thousand nine hundred six of the six palestinians during a land confiscation policy of the ben israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab land and used it for building israeli settlements and since then an event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this year occurring sided with what is dubbed the global march to jerusalem and its

source 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 is all good day new border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even certainly 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 israeli slogans at the columbia chip point which is the main checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah there was violence starting from as early as midday friday here the israeli police were using rubber bullets and tear gas to push back protesters who were burning tires and also throwing stones at israeli border police. not his policy of an hour twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow where one hundred fifty killed more than four hundred

injured how the result of the latest throes of violence sweeping libya as former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power the nation's government has now brokered a ceasefire but in reality it has little power over the vast number of armed groups leftover from the revolution and that the violence across the country continues there's a growing sense among critics that last year's uprising has produced little real change coming up for you this hour here on r.t. an exclusive interview with the architect of kid africa's down for a frank look at the cost and reasoning behind or about. too many parties who have interests that he doesn't talk that he should be silenced voted for. who is trying to buy time. he sent to leave the miscue one of the most bush was sent to france. providing some sense of. what he called win win solution with that he was killed by

a foreign entity or libyans who are libyans and they are from others i really don't know but what i'm saying is that too many parties who have real interests at their feet just keep silent for that. this is artsy increasing use of monitoring technology in the united states has left many wondering if big brother is more practical than fiction now through the use of forensics and even tracking online data it seems soon nowhere will be safe from prying eyes with this story as our teams were reporting on. well ten years ago biometrics robotics spies and state surveillance were the makings of a side by flick starring tom cruise from the summer of today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report arguably become 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 maybe a 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 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 anonymous 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 can compare it i can put it into a data. 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 us

national security agency the 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 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 do you encourage 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 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 the very idea of secrecy will change forever. archy new

york florida starting with it was because stardust gets in the world up it has some other international headlines in brief and it's. being rocked after two powerful explosions at a petrol station in the center of the city according to witnesses reports several people were injured in the accident so i thought it was blocked the roads around the fuel pumps are right after the first explosion to avoid more casualties so we get further details we will bring it to you immediately. well a state of emergency has now been declared in fiji following a severe case of flooding at least two people have been killed and more than five thousand have been forced to leave their homes flights in and out of the country have been disrupted with hundreds of passengers stranded at fiji's main the latest floods come after a six day deluge in january and that claimed eleven lives. now

political activity and people among russians during the past few months rallies following the duma and presidential elections saw tens of thousands brandished banners and pour into the streets but some are actually sick and tired of all the hype so much though they are actually decided to protest against it i think it's a really good listen to go to the mines. 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 unlike other protesters they couldn't just say no they had to be there they had to spend hours in the freezing weather and they had to listen to demands of people who have been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized 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 there and understanding that hungry journalist is something you never want to deal with the broad kooky is the broad flowery 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 ran 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. but i want to stay with us here i'll tell you coming up in a few moments the libyan uprising through the eyes of its former. top stories in just.

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