western and arab support. revolution a meeting in turkey to pressure the assad regime with some of the members pushing for further militarization of the conflict. a hot mike moment between leaders and obama sees us republican holds sway with a volley of anti russia rhetoric. by moscow as cold war hollywood cliche. riots and protests are breaking last spring the government pushes through a wave of cuts.

this is the weekly on r.t. with the top stories of the week. 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 the summit is being held for the second time and it's aimed at putting more pressure on the regime and bolstering the opposition . further 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 of actually got

a demonstration of 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 have called for the neighboring countries to allow the free syrian army to be arms we heard the saudi saudi arabia saying after a 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 piece of 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 was in in attendance at the first and again it has been attended today there are concerns really about the fact the friends of syria spin is 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 opposition is certainly not going to help that approach going to the syrian government and the international community right now has signed us take a finance piece moscow has said that this whatever the conference i think how don't speak charge the implement. ok you know the planet can speak on behalf of the international community albeit placement for the security council. and serve for porting for an hour for us is one of the countries that supported special envoy kofi annan is peace plan but still continues to push for regime change but it's a stance that is not helping to end the war dr good to maya from the center for research on the arab world it is the

main goal of washington actually to our the government of bashar assad's so after the very positive response which kofi annan plan has received they could not do anything else but support it also but their latest comments are still we are very skeptical. the syrian government has to act immediately they have to stop the fighting immediately again it's the same position they take blame all the responsibility for the fighting to syrian government kofi annan plan clearly says just as russia and china have always said both sides have to stop fighting. syria is on the brink of civil war we look back at one of the most controversial events of the arab spring so far. too many

parties who have interests lived through that he doesn't to the he should be silenced photo of the man who engineered the libyan regime's downfall says the grisly end of moammar gadhafi. about rather more than just a bloody river. and a look at the daughter of the conflicts resurfacing after the downfall of the libyan leader seen as a stabilizing figure for africa we reported from a mali which now finds itself in the grip of violent unrest. 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 its defense system to asia and the middle east comes as president if you had a friend president obama held a key talks of an international nuclear security summit in seoul. let's.

talk like. a microphone caught obama as a private asking for space until november's u.s. election has passed his republican rivals immediately pounced accusing him of secretly profiting with moscow but is more jump on the russian bandwagon if he's got any kind of record so the war cries necessarily resonating with the american voter. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . 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. this. letter. i think

president putin represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world. 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 spirit types and take a look at the calendar. but it could mean that we would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it didn't do them any home to do so and. it's the year two thousand and twelve little mid ninety's seventy's and even 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 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 it ended up in a stand and looking for ways to go to war to harness the course 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 as world is depicted in a sketch it's some kind of you know it's a 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 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 really never to really win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their leader i'm going to check our reporting colossal article. about ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come for you in the program france for the french idealogical arrests in prison for deportation. country's presidential campaign turns into

a hardline competition as politicians and realistic solutions are bearing real problems. in washington decides to leave north korea hungry having announced it will suspend the food aid to the country this in response to john young's plans to launch an observation satellite which the u.s. calls a missile test. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week with mass protests coinciding with a nationwide general strike over more austerity thousands of people injured indians suing plashers almost sixty or arrested by police but the government remained under wanted analysing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day spending on education social safety nets and every public sector will be slashed by fifty further tax hikes are being introduced across the spectrum in state workers will be hit with a pay freeze but economic analyst michael ross thinks that ultimately the measure

is just. what i can see is that what this plane want to make the spanish government is not only is it a diff 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 although they're bankrupt central bank the government also known as bankrupt how can you implemented 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 crew and this is the adjustment so again this could easily lead to a domestic interaction and this could also trigger more problems in the other

southern countries here in europe. you're watching our team still to come for you this hour violence erupts again in the middle east brutal clashes marked land day commemorated by palestinians to see it as a symbol of their struggle against israeli occupation. new n.h.s. reforms in the u.k. have left many wondering if free health care will be lost to profiteers could stand to make millions from changes. french police have carried out a series of nationwide rates arresting nineteen suspected islamists and seizing caches of weapons the operation comes just 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 i thought these attacks are silly a report some fear that is cases pushed the race for the country's presidency ensued dangerous territory mohamed merah was killed by police after thirty two

hours seizure it's a 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 isn't there as background shit to nearly from now on anyone who regularly consults 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 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 the clearly advocating 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 an east family came from france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes from inside french 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 mohammed 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 reach you on this from 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 solely for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would end supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with our of the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic and are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is a third if you can look through it because what is the goal of all the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t.

paris. we have all the latest stories and videos on our website of course advancing toward home but hesitate to log on if you get the chance some of the items are waiting for you there right now include a threat of a devastating thirty metres tsunami looms over japan this is a panel of experts warns the country should prepare for the next major quake. and the world goes dark. as millions around the world sacrifice modern day conveniences all in the name of environmental awareness. thousands of protesters clashed with israeli security forces at palestinian israeli border checkpoints on friday while marking the land day sees palestinians commemorating the deaths of six arabs killed by police in demonstrations against the land confiscation is by israel back in one hundred seventy six counties paullus leader 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 the event and marks the killing back in one nine hundred seventy six of six palestinians during a man confiscation policy of the venezuelan government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab learned 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 coincide 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 we israeli borders along the it's all good damien border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence 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 checkpoint which is the main checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah it was violence starting from as early as may 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 at the israeli border police. now one hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result of the latest throes of violent sweeping libya as former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power the nation's government has now broken it since fire but in reality it has little power over the vast number of armed groups left over from the revolution and as 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 next hour here on r.t. an exclusive interview with the architect of gadhafi is down four and

a frank look at the cost stand reasoning behind the rebellion there are too many. who have interests there he doesn't to and should be silenced for a view who is trying to buy it. he sent to leave and that's. one of them was which he was sent to france. providing some sense of the. world would win the solution with it who was killed by a foreign entity or libyans who were libyans in the air for the others they really don't know what. is the. real interests. just keep silent for a living. this is our see the ousted libyan leader who not only carried closely guarded secrets

but was viewed by some as a stabilizing figure in the wider african continent mali now finds itself in the grip of violent crime arrest of a direct result of an influx of former pro kidnapping fighters from libya and ultimatum set up by west african countries are demanding mali's military junta hands back power to the country's civilian leadership expires on monday but military commanders seized power last week angry at the government's handling of a tribal rebellion in the country's north over the crisis is far from being solved with the rebels still in control over some key northern cities political analyst lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine believes that nato bears the responsibility for the fighting as well as because the arms are tending to come from libya. mali 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 in the grip 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 and their intent the carrier we. in libya kill gadhafi it was not necessary they're actually how this process because many of these rebels are coming back from libya very well aren't. it's good to have you with us here and i have here today britain's health system is set for a controversial overhaul after new reforms were passed critics think the bill could spell the end for free health care allegations also that some lords and painting a vote on the changes put profits first assays at last with reports on a system in need of a check up. 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 plunder by profiteers the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism that 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 rich sitting on the. shares in the company. and yet these vested interests are allowed to vote on health and social care with these private health interests which is a conflict of interest best 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 parts and made him

a broad 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 john nash who is 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 nearly one hundred fifty names all lords and 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 a quarter of britain's house of lords have links with private health care provider . through investments patronage or board membership and the parties in power the

conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health care interests following the legislation those companies are circling already starting to see a number of private health interests 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 liberal government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in a position to fix her 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 bangs the table in jubilation when the reforms

passed outside the bell tolls for free health care laura smith r.t. london. pyongyang has slammed the u.s. soberest decision to suspend food aid to north korea blaming washington for breaching february's humanitarian agreement two hundred and forty thousand tons of provisions were promised in return for the communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests north korea announced this week that it refuses to hold back its plans to launch an earth cooperation satellite in mid april however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test john yang claims that sending a satellite into space for purely peaceful purposes is reportedly invited outside experts to prove its sincerity america's co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war says that washington is acting against international more by involving food aid and a political standoff. just

a week or two before we heard the administration in washington saying 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 see individual acts as a provocation they certainly have a right to put a satellite into space as other nations too but let's demilitarized let's look at the peace issues let's look at getting a peace treaty and the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues one right. but from moscow this is artsy political activity picked among russians during the past few months rallies following the duma and presidential elections sora tens of thousands of brandished banners and pour into the streets but some are

sick and tired of all the hype so much so that they have decided to protest against it now things are going to go to school reports. 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 or like 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 a facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours hold signed up to come to our spot in moscow and protest the protest and understanding that hungry journalist is something you never want to deal with they brought coup keys the broad flower 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 were hot down leads they want to see them is not just possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold

and snow listening to people voicing their concerns about something which they cannot really define that was the 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 rock it out 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 how are they coming up here and i'll tell you just a year on now we look at the prodigious imprint the arab spring has already made on the balance of history after a quick recap of the week's top stories here on. the

. some people view what is happening on streets no is there you go fast to fight you for a while parts of the town however i totally disagree i don't even think the party began. we are still waiting for that actually resolution to happen. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . used to get the maximum political impact possible. before the source material is hope.