nation supporting syria's revolution meet in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition supporters of bashar al assad 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 medvedev leads the anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend moscow's condemned as clear what it would cliché. and spain adopts its toughest budget cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike of mass protests that resulted in violent clashes with police and dozens of arrests. last fed up with street demos some muscovites small step on

protests against them report on the mock anti rallies rally in the center of the russian capital our top stories this hour. 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 afford 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 the power is playing a sound for violence whereas damascus says it's fighting armed extremists earth has been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying of the friends of syria against the providing all possible assistance to the syrian opposition that's

a technical assistance and direct assistance still there is going to be some sort of multi-million dollar fund that possibly will be used to then provide salaries to the syrian army to thank his and to the free syrian army a. number of the gulf states have already pledged large amounts of money to do that now outside the conference center today we actually saw a small gathering for a government demonstrators clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary for the onus of these we went to find out what's going on there in the turkish rightly so far outnumbered the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators they saw some sort of scale sixteen's breaking out outside that conference the friends of syria that already coming under many criticisms from both the this government syrians and also the opposition as well he really don't feel that they represent all of the forty 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 from 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 helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis this. professor who should university in jordan believes some gulf nations spearheading the campaign for new position to do so. the record of the so there may be an regime as problem with probably one of the worst in the region when they start talking about freedom and human rights and syria or libya just this this is just so preposterous that sudha arabia would have the nerve to to speak allegedly against the human rights

violations and in syria and what have you that you do not have political parties in some of their abs you do not house the elections and so the area and certainly you do not have a rotation of power and everything is decided by a small clique of royals who appropriate the wealth of the country which which contains some of the rich those royal deposits in the world the bottomline is sudha arabia is pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that end the pendent from the west and this is the common theme between iraq libya and 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 tribes and battle it out for power the nation's government has now broken the ceasefire but in reality itself the vast number of armed groups left over from the revolution and libya's former prime

minister who led the uprising against moammar gadhafi i believe there is a risk that the country might be taken over by extremists when jubal's also says it's the result of nato abandoning their country after the former regime was toppled from what is exclusive interview with general sharing his view on get out his death as well as the future of libya. there are too many quarters who have interest. it doesn't talk that he should be silenced photo over there that he was killed by the fourteenth into the libyans or the libyans and they are for the others after it is filled though most of the with some countries feel that their mission has been accomplished they neglect that libya is a. political vacuum can be filled by anybody in there and it's a full tide saw in the you know photographs him isn't good or.

and you can watch a full interview with mahmoud jibril in twenty five minutes here on our team. guarantees or race present a video of delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe as the u.s. also not similar systems for asia and the middle east and we're very over barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidentally went public. but. but it's. so. it's too late as the exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word and it was seized on barack obama's republican rivals with mitt romney he's retiring russia as america's number one enemy bottas more hawks

than only and the russian bandwagon got to take on reports there was cries 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. that. i think represents a real threat to the. stability 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 it vies them to stop reverting to olden days hollywood styria types and take a look at the calendar. and you can go that would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make more reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do some of the chip who will choose it's the year twenty twelve little midnight in seventy's and you know the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war two with us 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 he ran syria each candidate except ron paul

trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward forming arming isolating threatening i want to be. china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and in and out of it and looking for ways to. get 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 a world in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted in the picture sketch it's some kind of mythical and very unreal dream 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 will also be dangerous for america because we can afford it it made me 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 eventually win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to start there reporting for us and our team. as u.s. republicans take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on domestic issues still ahead in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil candidates push on constitutional change with threats of a rest and deportation. career accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellite launch intensifies. a story still to come before some of the biggest rights 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 measures dozens of people were injured in the ensuing clashes and only sixty arrested by police but the government remained undaunted. announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day one of the toughest budget strains introduced a decade which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers. mike ross thinks that ultimately the measures will not work. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came true or became we are latina future i mean up and what i can see is that what has been want to make this government is not only because it is it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also mahler's bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see this

rule this won't work and what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin when politicians are talking about adjustment i just wonder such a nice word what 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 of 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 would could also trigger more problems in the other southern countries here in europe in addition to the deepening debt crisis in the e.u. that are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices falling the sanctions against iran france britain and the u.s. are considering releasing all reserves on to the market to drive down crude costs jim update from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with the repercussions only being felt now. the real problem

here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of what 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 one to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this the fear of a war with iran has actually added about twenty dollars to the price of a barrel of oil so this concern that israel may strike iran or that the united states may end up in a war with iran is one of the driving factors of why it'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 rusty nineteen people the crackdown comes just a week off the mohammed minute frenchwomen of algerian descent was shot dead by police in toulouse after he murdered seven people as a silly explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. mohamed merah 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 made it to the foreground of the discourse is narrow as a background. 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 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 it's from his view it's not a crime to freedom of speech in france and they don't see. restrictive. while the french citizen any east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes from inside from 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 in 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 marriage is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to. would you go on these fundamentalist political religious groups who are killing our children the threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated but. 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 but the problem is much deeper with the 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 the third id if you can go through it because what is the god of all the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either. sylvia r.t. paris. and i website article called we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on the mystic is missed so far more than people even president sarkozy's crew election to pander to voters anyone for a gets the start of it and even muslim which doesn't have some say it's a knee jerk response to the solutions he's twelve percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil good to hear from you just simply we're going to have your say a multi dot com. in

recent months russia's witness all kinds of rallies from protests against the parliamentary and presidential election results to those in support of the authorities and this sunday a whole new type of demonstration has taken place in a coalition i 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 wanted to go on like other protesters and they couldn't just say no they had to be there they have to spend hours in the freezing weather and they have to listen to the sounds of people who have been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized just facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours old signed up to come to a spot in moscow and protest the protests understanding that hungry journalists are

something you never want to deal with a broad kooky 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 families 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 of the rally which ran down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of it too so let's wrap it up and i'm going to head home and do what i wanted to do all these weekends i have a lot of things to catch up on as today. here with r.t. so have you this demonstration of death israeli security forces killed twenty year old palestinian when thousands took to the streets to mark bland day we look at how that protest turned fatal. private property is bleeding britain's health service draw a u.k. lawmakers vote for reforms paving the way for firms to make millions from medical

care. pyongyang is criticize the u.s. service decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction beyond limits provisions were promised in return for the communist stopping communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests north korea's refuse to hold back its plans to launch a satellite image april and 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 erik's rock and co-founder of the campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international more 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 a peace treaty day and the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues. twenty year old palestinian was killed when land they 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 hearted paula slinger explains this to be and not mandate 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 ninety six of the six palestinians enjoying

a man confiscation policy of the venezuelan government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab land and used it for building israeli settlements and since then this and one event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people the circle inside of what was dubbed the global march to jerusalem and it saw 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 world today near the border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even certain highlighted the palestinian struggle. remember you can always log onto article conflicts of other stories news and comment for example where you can find out about the millions across the world switching the lights off the earth and the event aimed at raising global environmental awareness. you can find more spectacular pictures on our website dot

com. plus correct us all craziness new york bands over fifty words from school lessees with dinosaurs dancing and birthday making the brackets to see that list in full hold on to our team thought. wealth for health that accusation against britain's government this week after the parliament voted in favor of controversial medical care reforms many lawmakers who voted yes have links to private suppliers which stand to benefit they even doctors and patients fearing for the future of free health care in the u.k. laura smith has more on the system in need of a checkup. 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 plumb's up by profit 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. the shares in the company and yet these vested interests are allowed to vote on the health and social care bill with these private health care interests which is a conflict of interest. and 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 pots and made him a lot put that 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 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 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 . it is true investment patronage board 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 poll ready was 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'll damage the quality of care many feel while m.p.'s did declare their interest and should have been banned from both state level government code of contact as anybody with an interest must never take part in a position that affects their interest this is dog driven it's to do with private enterprise or use. profit says to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly banged the table in jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell tolls for three health care lower smith london. well that brings you up to date for my money back with a summary all the main stories of the week very shortly here in our three don't go

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