the. nation supporting syria's revolution needs in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition while supporters of bashar protesting against the talks are dispersed by turkish police. also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and harry truman bedeviled leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates trying to moscow's condemned as cold war hollywood cliche. and spain adopts it's the toughest budget cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike of massive protests that resulted in volatile clashes with police and dozens of arrests. plus further up the street demos sun

muscovites roars the rain protests against the report on the mock anti rallies rally in the center of the russian capital. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. saudi arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision came as around sixteen nations all harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad powers blame assad for violence whereas the damascus says it's fighting on extremists further has been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying that the friends of syria against me providing all possible assistance to the syrian opposition that's

a technical assistance and direct assistance is going to be some sort of multi million dollar fund that possibly will be used to then provide salaries t. the syrian army to thank his and to the free syrian army flowing to a number of the gulf states has already pledged large amounts of money to that now outside the conference and today we actually saw a small gathering of trade government demonstrators clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest as these we went to find out what's going on there and the turkish rightly so far outnumbered the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators it's a source of sort of chaotic scenes breaking out outside that conference the friends of syria to already coming under many criticisms from both the this government syrians and also the opposition as well he really don't feel that they're representative all of the body that they're supporting the syrian national

council a representative of the syrian people russia and china absent from that conference the criticisms that have come from and 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 helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis. so for us reporting there a professor. at a new university in jordan believe some gulf nations spearheading the use of campaign are in no position to do so. the record of the so there may be a regime as probably probably one of the worst in the reeds and when they start talking about the freedom and human rights and syria or libya just this this is so preposterous that so their radio would have the nerve to speak allegedly against human rights violations and in syria and what have you you do not have political

parties and so they are a bia you do not how elections and so their abia and certainly you do not have a rotation of power and everything is decided the small clique of royals who. create the wealth of the country which which contains some of the rich all deposits in the world the bottom line is. pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that end up and down from the west and this is the common theme between iraq libya. and syria right now. hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result of clashes in libya in the past six days alone as former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power a nation's government is now brokered a ceasefire but in reality it has little power in the vast number of armed groups left over from the revolution and libya's former prime minister who let the

uprising against moammar gadhafi believes there's a risk libya might be taken over by extremists bill also says it's the result of nato abandoning the country after the former regime was toppled leasure the saudi's exclusive interview with sharing his view on that after his death as well as the future of libya. to many parties who have interests the it doesn't talk that he should be silenced forever for that he was killed by a foreign entity or by libyans or libyans and they are from others after that he killed them most of the with. since the mission has been accomplished they need to look at the fact that libya is a stateless. political you can be felt in it. and it's for the little foot excuse and good or.

you can watch a full interview with bill in about twenty five minutes here on. counties or nolens race president could have delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe and says the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east we could move it and barack obama discussed the issue it's an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidentally went public. for two leaders 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 is america's number one enemy but as more land on the anti russian bandwagon is going to come on reports there was cries are not reserved resonating with american voters. 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 and. 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 every. type of person who represents a real threat to the. ability of peace in the world. that. seeing 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 their doubt romney's comments president

medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. at a commune that would avoid all u.s. presidential candidates to make a reasonable sleep and it wouldn't do them any harm to do so and suggest they will choose it's the year twenty twelve look the mid one nine hundred seventy s. and 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 interest in the end of it and

look for ways to get it to work to harness the 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 world. they became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy views to sketch. some kind of him 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 also 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 inevitably 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. as u.s. republicans take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on domestic issues so still ahead this hour and all to you in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil candidates push on constitutional change with threats of a rests and deportation. and foden comes closer than ever to acknowledging the cia did run a secret interrogation facility for terror suspects on its territory to get live analysis on that story shortly here and take. the first some of the biggest routes in decades swept across spain this week mass rallies back to nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more austerity thousands of people were injured in the ensuing clashes and only sixty

arrested by police and the government remains under wanted announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day on the toughest budget springs introducing decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael moore thinks that ultimately the measures won't work. if you have a bit of a politician who was promises came true or became reality in your future i mean up and what i consider is the waters but i don't want to make the spanish government is no. only because it is pill is also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt mahler's bankrupt when you look at the banks over there been quite central bank bank for government also mahler's bankrupt implemented as torah to package in these circumstances so everybody will see this

rule this won't work but what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin when politicians are talking about adjustment adjustment is such a nice word what it means in reality that people there have to become poorer when you are in government and you have to tell it to the people of the people are feeling we're becoming poorer you are in a big big difficulty this could easily lead to a domestic reaction 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 us are considering releasing oil reserves on to the market to drive down crude costs from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction the repercussions only being felt now. the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u.

have passed these on president saying 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 as 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 that. french police carried out a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country on friday

arresting nineteen people crackdown comes just a week after one hundred min a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to lose after united seven people as aunties to syria explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in that nation's presidential race. why mcnair was killed by police after a thirty two hour 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 made it to the foreground of the discourse is marriage as background. from anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence would be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to psychos east policy of stripping of foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control

saying there are too many foreigners in france who clearly advocating the political change in extreme is you use of the crying we have do freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restricted to secure. was a french citizen kane his family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism. from inside friends of society it's not just something that is imported from the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from a french nation or this is not allowed under the french constitution and then there's money in the pen a 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 at

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 grade you. on these fundamentalist political religious groups and we're 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 solely for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which will aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with 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 of politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration are 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 very

difficult to get through it because what is the goal of all the problem it doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either just are still here r t paris. on a website r.t. dot com we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on domestic business so far more than half of you believe its presence or causes pre-election move to pander to voters need one fourth think it's the start of an anti and wisdom witch hunt less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the solution is well twelve percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on the french soil and still have your say on r.t. dot com good to hear from you. 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 taken place all of these are went along to 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 want it around like other protesters they couldn't just say no they had to be there they have to spend hours in the freezing weather and we have 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. 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 they brought cookies 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 have families they want to see them as much as possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold in the snow and listening to people voicing their concerns about something which they cannot really define that was their main point out the rally which ran down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of it to sell 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 do they. so have you this demonstration of death through the security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian when thousands took to the streets to mark a. protest and fatal. career accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellite launch intensifies. this week to revive the scandal surrounding an alleged cia secret prison and opponents

something the country's officials of always strongly denied existed the first charges reported to be brought against the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the site before mourners joined by jason she's news editor and she was brought calm when the investigation started back in two thousand and eight why do you think these first reported charges are being brought only no. well it's been sort of a poorly kept secret what went on in poland and of course other nations like romania but. the change in governance in poland most of the people that were involved in this were not in power any more really put this sort of on the back burner for a lot of people and we saw the same thing in the united states of course president obama has been completely unwilling to cooperate with these investigations saying that they're old news and he considers the matter closed and there's there's just been considerable resistance in and digging up the past that

a geisha is of torture any idea what exactly went on inside that prison. not entirely but we do have indications that waterboarding was at least one of the things that was practiced basing their evidence is to suggest that that interrogation center amongst those was in fact a necessary evil and did prevent further terrorist attacks. i don't think there's good evidence to support that at all i think the. these sort of black sites that operated entirely outside the law and not only violated the. un convention on torture but they. probably did more in radicalizing people than they ever prevented would you make of the promise to donal talks reaction to this a strong reaction is he in fact admitting that this did exist the sentence it seems like he is and i think that's probably

a positive sign i'm not sure why it took him so long now except of course that he wasn't the prime minister when this was going on and it's possible although i would say on likely that he simply didn't know that it was actually going on for all these years when the polish it government had been denying it. we're going to get in return in hosting this secret prison on its soil. from the u.s. what would it have been rewarded with a lot of it is certainly. the close ties of the u.s. have. been involved in some. programs that were seen as favorable to the polish government and those people locating missile defense bases and things like that in poland were something that the polish government has as long been keen on having. and we know that to poland isn't the only european country allegedly involved in

the sort of sentence. though to what extent does the u.s. use all the countries for its extraordinary rendition programs that's it's a difficult question and unfortunately we only find out about them after stock so i would say this particular program in northern poland certainly you that you gives up on it and it stopped but we we don't know how many other places this might still be going on but in fact what's been happening in poland these revelations do you think it will be beneficial in any way do you think it would put a stop to these sort of programs don't want to say this sort of thing cannot be hidden on the table anymore. i would hope so but i think there's always going to be that. interested in keeping these things secret prosecution charges against officials that were involved could be very important because otherwise these sort of after the after the older ministrations out of power

revelations really don't need all that much jason could hear thoughts thank you very much indeed jason that's the news editor at antiwar dot com joining us live from the usa thank you. pyongyang is criticize the u.s. over its decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction beyond limit provisions were promised in return for the common stopping communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests with career is refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite in mid april and is 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. co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international law but involving food aid in its political standoff. just a week or two before we heard the administration in washington saying if 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 be militarized let's look at a base issues let's look at getting a peace treaty to end the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues want to. just remind you can always log on to r.t. dot com lots of other stories news and comment millions across the world for example switching off the lights for earth hour event aimed at raising global environmental awareness you can find more spectacular pictures on the website. plus correctness or craziness new york there are fifty words from school essays with

dinosaurs dancing in perth they are making a black list to see that list in full log on to our thing dot com. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when landay protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday comes a fortnight after an egyptian mediated truce to stop the violence between the two sides was broken paula snare explains. and that's where the and not mandate demonstrations turned 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 the six palestinians enjoying a man confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took our blend 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 the numerous palestinian cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and israeli borders along the israel jordanian border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence the very uncertain highlighted the palestinian struggle. back in about three minutes from well i'm going to get you on our main news stories this is the weekly live in moscow stay with us.

there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact felt. before source material is what helps feed journalism honest we. we wanted to present. something else if. you will for the future of science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've dumped a few jerks covered. the.

lines in russia would be soon which bryson if you knew about sun from phones to pressure. me for instance odds he don't come.