nations supporting syria's revolution afresh our plans to help the opposition supporters of bashar al assad of protesting against the talks are dispersed by turkish police. also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri least anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend in moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood cliche. and as tough as budget cuts in decades this project nationwide strike a mass protest that resulted in violent clashes with police and dozens of arrests.

a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. saudi arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision was around sixteen nations all harsh critics of the syrian government turkey to discuss health of balls to the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad the u.s. and its allies blame the sound for violence in the country whereas damascus says it's fighting extremists. has been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying that the friends of syria are going to be providing all possible assistance to the syrian opposition that's a technical assistance and direct assistance there's going to be some sort of multi million dollar fund possibly will be used to them provide styler east see the

syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army as well we know a number of the gulf states have already pledged large amounts of money to outside the comp and said today we actually saw a small gathering for a government that's faces clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary for the perfectly honest of these we went to see find out what's going on there in the turkish why at least far outnumbers the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators the cecils and sort of chaotic scenes break out by that conference the friends of syria already coming under many criticisms from both the. pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well he really they feel that their represents all the forty diversify the syrian national council represents all of the syrian people russia and china absent from. the criticisms that have come through and most certainly have been that this is very one sided and

that there are concerns that the exclusion of the government of the syrian government really hampers rather than help the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis. and journalist political analyst christopher still says it's not financial help for syrian opposition forces that will determine the wellcome of this conflict. to be clear on these so-called salaries they are being paid since a long time since the beginning syrian look with this opposition those who are right now in a phase before the next to the first free election of a long time who take up arms now they are not more than fifty fifteen one five percent of the population and then there's another group. i love this doctor hates them who wants to be president who are several times in prison in syria and now it's rise to you know have his life's dream fulfilled their group as i was already

killed in the military field and they may be representing three four five percent and that is the real situation not very good for the west right now but let's see what happens after obama has you know finished his election campaign and let's face it this battle will be a lot more lost in the western media and syria very badly positioned to deal with his media feud they have little experience and little expertise to deal with the spinning of the western media that's a problem hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured a result of clashes in libya in the past six days alone as former rebels and tries to 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 left over from the revolution and libya's former prime minister who led the uprising against moammar gadhafi believes there's a risk libya might be taken over by extremists not would you bill also says it's the result of nato abandoning the country after the former regime was toppled he

said the sorority's exclusive interview with as you grow sharing his view on gadhafi is death as well as the future of libya. there are too many parties who have interest. he doesn't talk that he should be silenced for over whether he was killed by a foreign entity or by libyans who are libyans and they are from others after the regime fell down. most of the western countries failed their their mission has been accomplished and they neglect the fact that libya is a stateless cycle any. political vacuum can be filled by anybody in the know and it's a for the you know for the extremism to grow. and you can see that interview in full of about twenty five minutes from now here on r.t. but guarantees or an arms race president didn't deliver a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe that's as the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east and we did it and

barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidentally went public. well let's just. say. cheerleaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras wood fire wood and it was seized on by the rocket bombers republican rivals and mitt romney even declaring russia as america's number one enemy but a small man on the anti russian bandwagon he's going to take on reports their war cries listening with american voices. in. 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. i think president putin represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world but that's seen 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 stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. but he couldn't believe it would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements because it didn't do them any

harm to do so and to choose it's the year twenty two a little midnight in seventy's and you know the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to. 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 he ran syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward by arming arming isolating threatening i want to beat china i want to go to war with china these cancer interests and the end of it and looking for ways to get it to or to harness of course 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 world is depicted in a sketch it says some kind of hidden if it cool and very real 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 they'll 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 we were regrettably win 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 from washington r.t. . as u.s.

republicans take a hardline stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on domestic issues still ahead this hour on t.v. in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil can. is that pushed unconstitutional change with threats of a rests and deportation. class for up the street demos some muscovites launched their own protest against them a report on the naacp and the rallies rally in the center of the russian capital. well that's still to come but first some of the biggest riots and decades swept across spain this week mass rallies backed a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more sturdy thousands of people were injured in the ensuing clashes only sixty arrested by police but the government remains undaunted announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day as one of the toughest budget strains introduced in decades she claims tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers economic analyst michael ross thinks that

ultimately the measures well. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came through other came we'll it in your future i mean not and what i consider is that the waters by and want to make this kind of government is not only deserted his pale 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 bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also known as bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see it is will this won't work i got i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin brain politicians are talking about adjustment of just when there's 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. in addition to the deepening debt crisis in the e.u. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices falling the west sanctions against iran france britain and the u.s. are considering releasing all results of the market to troy down crude costs she must be from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with the repercussions only being filled now the real problem here is that the us and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of what comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the stations 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 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 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 the. french police karen on a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country nineteen nineteen arrests the crackdown comes just a week after one hundred million frenchmen of algeria descent shortbread by police and to lose he murdered seven people soltys to cecilia explains the fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. mama never was killed by police after

thirty two hours seizure him to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is where as a background should do you really need 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 so that's in addition to psychosis policy of stripping a foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france a clearly a good thing the political change in extremist view is not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see the restraint the

it's. a french citizen and he's family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this guy and of terrorism. from inside french society it's not just something that is important for. release. and you cannot. take away french nationality from the french nationals this is not. the french constitution and then there's money in the 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 out of 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 wage war on this from the mentalist but it's overlooked as groups who are killing our children if threat of

islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated locally i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward solely for the 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 was our ever growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures a politician's are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic that are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the call a musical tribute if you can put through it because what is the goal of all the poor and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris. a website dot com we want to know what you think about the french crackdown

on domestic islamists so far let's look at the screen you can see that more than hold for the believe it's president sarkozy's pre-election move to pander to voters really running for think it's the start of the anti museum and witch hunt less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the to lose shootings well you can see that only twelve percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on a functional sort still if you say naughty don't come if you're from. in recent months russia's witnessed all kinds of rallies from protests against the parliamentary and presidential election results to those in support of the authorities but this sunday a whole new type of demonstration has been taking place and in a going to go under

a protest 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 have been basically saying down with everything there is so they organize this facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours. to come to this spot in moscow and protest the protest and understanding that hunger journalist is something you never want to deal with the broad kuki is the broad flower seeds and it 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 hop down least they want to see them as much as 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 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 as today. live here in moscow still ahead for you this demonstration of deaf israeli security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian with thousands took to the streets to mark a land day weekend how not a protest turned fatal. in the private profit is pleading britain's health service dry you can only because very few reforms paving the way for plans to make millions from medical care. condemned the u.s. service decision to split suspend food aid to north korea according it's an overreaction beyond limits provisions were promised in return for the communist talking nuclear and missile tests north korea has refused to hold back its plans to launch

a satellite image april i'm reported invited out some experts to prove it's doing it for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s. and south korea believe the moment is really on long range missile test every co-founder of the campaign to end the korean war says 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. but let's demilitarized let's look at the base issues let's look at getting a peace treaty day and

a korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues one arise. try to your old palestinian was killed when land the protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday it comes a fortnight after an egyptian mediated truce to stop the violence between the two sides was broken ortiz pulis lyrics planes and this are 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 and marks the killing back in one thousand nine hundred six of six palestinians during a land confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab land and used it for building israeli settlements and since then this and the 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 palestinian cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and israeli borders along the is well damien border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence the blame certainly highlighted the palestinian struggle. remember you can always log on to watch the whole com for lots of other stories news and comment in addition to the you see here on the screen millions across the world switch the lights off the earth hour event and it raising global environmental awareness you can find more spectacular pictures on our website there are a million. plus correctness all the craziness new york times over fifty words from school essays with darkness or dancing and plus they are making the blacklist sit in full blown to altie dot com. wealth for health and ickes action against britain's government after the parliament voted in favor

of controversial medical care reforms when he lawmakers who voted yes have links to private supplies which stand to benefit leaving physicians and patients fearing for the future of free health care in the u.k. for smith is more in a system in need of a check up. it's a merry go round of self interest along for the rise members of parliament the house of lords and health care companies opening up britain's national health service to plum duff by profiteers 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 companies and yet they didn't interest or 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 for his party from nothing and care home tycoon pat and made him a lords 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 joel nash who'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 logs 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 profit not feeling 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 . 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 already we're 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 interest they should have been banned from local government code of conduct as anybody with

an interest must never take part in this decision the secretary has issues. driven it's to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly bans the table in jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell tolls the free health care. planted. a recap of this week's headlines coming up very shortly for you that's in about four hundred minutes from now stay with us life in those.

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