video on demand keys my old girls. are in a sense feed in the palm of your. nation supporting syria's a revolution in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition build pressure on russia all of us subs regime of this world turkish police it dispersed supporters of the syrian leader outside. also in the week's top stories on our t.v. a hot nike exchange between barack obama and dmitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend that moscow has slammed as cold war hollywood cliché. and spain adopts its toughest budget cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike and massive protests the result would involve clashes with

police dozens of arrests. with the top stories all today and all this week this is the weekly here i see around sixty nations all harsh critics of the syrian regime and now meeting in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition the so-called friends of syria group. saying about the u.s. and its allies are also seeking how to intensify sanctions against president assad some western and arab states blame him entirely for violence in the country damascus says it's fighting armed extremists things are surface following the talks in istanbul. the main syrian opposition body the syrian national council have called for the arming of opposition fighters in the country some of the gulf countries notably guitar in saudi arabia has certainly been very supportive of that

it's unlikely that you're going to see that agreed upon here to talk today has been a vision of a multi-million dollar fund is to that possibly could be used to provide salaries to syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army fighters possibly delivered in some kind of trust this is the second friends of syria conference wasn't in attendance at the person again it has been attended today there are concerns really about the friends of syria seen as being quite one sided in questions over 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 to the syrian government and the international community right now has signed up to casey and. whatever conference had all street charged the implementation of peace plan it can't speak on behalf of the international community all be

a replacement for the security council plus they've actually seen outside the conference for a government demonstration not met with a run in with some of the opposition groups we saw first by the riot police believe a strange situation actually a huge number of the riot police there in scenes getting a little bit chaotic certainly that's not going to be a welcome distraction a tool for more staying in on an inside the conference. that will be inside political analyst patrick nixon says that the group of friends of syria's backing of the opposition is not. only making things worse on the ground. it's unbelievable how it's got to this point where it seems ok to fund the opposition whatever form it is and let's not kid ourselves the u.s. and the u.k. have been backing guerrilla forces in syria for the last year that has been happening that's been admitted by the u.s. state department it's been admitted by the u.k.

foreign office and all the sudden they're backpedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring underlip terry intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear that president assad is not going to. you know except the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition to charge it's already been caught through proxy smuggling on xp over the border in jordan and also there's poems going over the border in lebanon coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region they're doing this through third party trying to turning attention out of out of libya one hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured that either result of clashes in the past six days on line that's for more rebels on tribesmen battle it out for power the nation's government has now for a cease fire but in reality has little power over the last number of the fruits

left over from the revolution and libya's former prime minister who led the uprising against moammar gadhafi believes that there's a risk that libya might be taken over by extremists from also says it's the result of nato abandoning the country off of the former regime was toppled in the next hour here on r.t. our exclusive interview with gibril offering a frank look at the cost on the reasoning behind the about. too many parties who have interests that it doesn't should be silenced photo of. who is trying to buy time. he sent to lead us into. one of them was bush who was central for. providing some sense who. would win when was this who should be with it who was killed by. the libyans who are the libyans of the other well that is

a little know what i'm saying is that too many. who have interests that just keep silent for the. currency or an arms race for president if you have a deliberate a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe about the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east to retreat maybe if i'm barack obama discussed he wouldn't international nuclear security summit in seoul part of a private conversation accidentally went public but it's . good to see this exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word and it was seized on by barack obama's republican rivals with mitt romney even declaring russia america's number one enemy but as more hawks land

on the and the russian bandwagon has gone a chicken reports their war cries aren't exactly 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. i think the president 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 advise them to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take a look at the calendar. and it could mean that i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make a reasonable statement it wouldn't do them any home to do so and the chicken will choose its the year twenty twelve midnight hundred seventy s. and you know 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 the 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 he ran 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 interest and and and and looking for ways to. to or to harm us of course you 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 the world in which from the became president because i think he would. adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted and get your sketch it's some kind of a mystery cool and very high material 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 to be dangerous for america because we can 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 scared of having someone like romney as their leader i'm going to start our boarding. party. and it's us republicans take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in frogs are coming down hard on domestic issues still ahead for you here in the program or i'll see in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil kind of it's a push and of course additional change with threats of arrests. plus fed up with street demos some muscovites launched their own protests against them we report on the walk and see rallies rally in the center of the russian capital.

some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week last rallies backed by a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more austerity dozens of people were injured in suing clashes and almost sixty arrested by police but the government remained under water announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day it's one of the toughest budgets that spain has introduced in decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael gross thinks that ultimately the measures just right work. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came true overcame reality and a future i mean not and what i can see is that what has been want to make this kind of government is not only visited his peril it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over that more or

less bankrupt or you look at the banks although they're bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also mourner's bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in these circumstances so everybody will see it is will this won't work but what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin bring politicians are talking about adjustment adjustment is such a nice word but it means in reality that people there have to become poorer when you are a government and you have to tell it to the people the people are feeling that they are becoming poorer you are in a big big difficulty this could easily lead to a domestic interaction and this could also trigger more problems in the other southern countries here in europe. and in addition to the deepening debt crisis in the e.u. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices following the west's sanctions against iran france britain and the us all considering releasing oil

reserves onto the market to drive down the costs jamal i believe from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were a knee jerk reaction with the repercussions are only now being felt the real problem here is that the us and the e.u. have passed these on president 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 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 whine to the 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 going to 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. lie from moscow this is our city of french police carried out a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country nothing at least nineteen arrests the crackdown comes just a week after mohamed a frenchman of algerian just sent was shot dead by police and to lose this after he murdered seven people. sillier explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. oh mama never was killed by police after thirty two hours 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 needed to the foreground of the discourse is

america's background should they need from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison any person of going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's the additional to psychosis policy of stripping foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france and clearly advocating the political change and it's from his view it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restrict it's. while a french citizen and he's family came to 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.

release. and you cannot. take away french nationality from the 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 how did memorize 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 that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at

solving the problem of the problem is much deeper what was 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 and politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic and are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is it's pretty difficult to create 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 and i would love it when you get involved with our stories here on r.t. if you are going to our web site r.t. dot com to get involved with our question or we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on domestic islamists or let's bring up the numbers for this hour here from the web site so far more than half of you believe it's president sarkozy's pre-election move to pander to voters nearly one fourth think it's the

start of an unseen muslim which. just now ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the truce shootings twelve twelve percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil you can still have your say that on t.v. dot com. this is the weekly you want to see young has slammed the u.s. over its decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction and beyond that provisions were promised in return for the communist state holding nuclear missile tests north korea has refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite a bit april has reportedly invited outside experts to prove it's doing it for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s.

and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test pericope several of the co-founder of the campaign and the korean war says the washington is acting against international law by involving food aid in its political standoff just a week or two before we heard the administration in washington saying that 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 do but let's demilitarized let's look at the base issues let's look at getting the peace treaty day and the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues one runs. a

twenty year old palestinian was killed when he landed a protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday it comes a fortnight after an interruption we needed a truce to hold the violence between the two sides was broken assays poulos near explains this year the annual land day demonstrations turn violent with one protest killed in gaza several dozen injured across the west bank and at least thirty four people have wasted the event marks the killing back in one thousand nine hundred six of six palestinians doing a land confiscation on the state of the ben israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab learned and used it for building israeli settlements and since they made this an event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this really 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 israeli borders along the israel two day new border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even certainly highlighted the palestinian struggle. policy reporting there now wealth before health i can see action against britain's government after the parliament voted in favor of controversial medical care reforms and many lawmakers who voted yes have links to private suppliers which the benefit leaving physicians and patients fearing for the future of free health care in the u.k. are things laura smith has more on a system in dire need of a check. 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 profiteer is 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. and yet they have these vested interests are allowed to vote on a health and social care bill with these private health 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 for nothing and care home tycoon pop out and made him a lot packed gave 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 he's the chairman of care 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 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 also poll

where people 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 don't damage the quality of care many feel the m.p.'s did declare their interests they should have been banned from local government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in the solution to sectarian interests this is a dog very driven it's to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with snow inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly bangs the table in jubilation when the reforms passed out cite the bell tolls for three health care. london thank you. for lots of

other stories news for example millions across the world would switch the lights off our. raising global environmental awareness see more incredible pictures of our team. plus correctness or just craziness new york fans over fifty words from school essays for example the dinosaur dancing around birthday all making the black. fall on the hot seat dot com. in recent months russia has witnessed all kinds of rallies from protests against the parliamentary and presidential election results to those in support of the earth already is but the sunday a whole new type of demonstration has taken place as these are really went along protester that is actually staged against protests. 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 the sounds of people who had been basically saying down with everything there is so they organize this facebook initiative group and things on more than two hundred people in just under twenty four hours. to come to office as spot in moscow and protest the protest and understanding that hunger journalist is something you never want to deal with a broad kuki is 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 would have 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 their main point on the rally which ran down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of

it too so let's write 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 as today. just a few minutes here out so you know we travel to the heart of an iraqi city that became a battlefield eight years ago for lucia a special report after a recap of the brain stores.

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