market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r.t. . nation supporting syria's revolution meet in turkey to fresh out plans to help the opposition supporters of prussia protesting against the talks dispersed by turkish police. also in this week's top stories a horse mike exchange between barack obama dimitri medvedev heats the ante russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood cliche. and spain adopts its toughest project cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike of mass protests that resulted in clashes with police and dozens of arrests. plus fed up with street demos some russkie rights laws the room

protests against them with report on the 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 team the saudi arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime a decision came as around sixty nations all harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president is that the palace play in a sense of violence whereas damascus says it's fighting armed extremists officer firth has been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying that the friends of syria going to be 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 and then provide salaries t. the syrian army defectors 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 center today we actually saw a small gathering of trade government demonstrators clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary because the onus of the. find out was going on there in the turkish rightly so far outnumbered the announce of the pro-government demonstrators is a source of sort of scale sixteen's break out by that conference the friends of syria already coming on so many criticisms from both the. government syrians and also the opposition as well he really don't feel that they're representative 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 to quit assistance at a conference from a mosque a certainly have been 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 professor aleutian of desire to meet university in jordan believe some gulf nations spearheading the anti assad campaign. position to do so. the record of the so the air raid in regime as problem with probably one of the worst in the region and they start talking about freedom and human rights and syria or libya just this this is just so preposterous that so their radio would have the nerve to to speak allegedly against the human rights violations and in syria

and iraq have you do not have political parties and some of their abs we do not have elections and so that rabia 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 point deposits in the world the bottom line 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 syria right now. one 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 the nation's government has now broken a ceasefire. in reality it has little power of the last number of armed groups and

if they do form the revolution and if it is former prime minister who led the uprising against moammar gadhafi believes there's a risk libya might be taken over by extremists not rigid rule said it's the result of nato abandoning the country or former regime is toppled well in the next hour artie's exclusive interview with sharing his view on it after his death as well as the future of libya. tool many parties who have interests that it doesn't talk that he should be silenced for ever for that he was killed by the foot and into libya as sort of libyans and they are for others after that he killed though most of the western countries feel that their mission has been accomplished they neglect the fact that libya is a stateless. political vacuum can be filled by anybody in the world and it's a fertile soil legal footing soon isn't a good or. only

commercial full interview with mahmoud jibril in the next hour here on r.t. . guarantees or an arms race president medvedev delivered a clear choice to washington this week everest missile shield plans in europe as the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia in the middle east and between if you live and barack obama discussed the issue with an international nuclear security summit in seoul and public private conversation accidently went public. the cheerleaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras would and it was seized on by the record bombs republican rivals with even declaring russia was america's number one enemy is more the hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon what he's got to come on reports their war cries resonating with

american voters. 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 its president elect you should remember me. by 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 holden days hollywood steering types and take a look at the calendar. but it is all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any harm to do so and they will choose it's the twenty twelve midnight and seventy's and you know 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 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 warming arming isolating threatening i want to lead china i want to go to war with china these guys are interest and an end of it and looking for ways to get it to work to harness of course should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but it would give 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 has some kind of hidden if it 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 to be dangerous for america because we can't afford to do that mitt romney will most likely win the republican nomination and america will

face a choice between him and president obama polls show the majority of americans disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that he 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 our reporting from washington r.t. . as u.s. republicans take a hardline stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france coming down hard on the list of issues just ahead in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil kansas the. pushed constitutional change with threats of arrests and deportation. and north korea accuses the us of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellite launch intensifies. those stories to accompany but first some of the biggest riots in tech a swept across spain this week mass rallies back to a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more

sturdy dozens of people were injured in the ensuing clashes and almost sixty arrested by police but the government remains under announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day is one of the toughest budget spain's introduce in decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael ross thinks that ultimately the measures won't work. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came true otherkin we're latina future mean not and what i can see is the waters when want to make this government is not only visited his pill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt where you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also manas bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see this

won't work and what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the eurozone coffin when politicians are courting about adjustment adjustment is 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 the people are feeling that they're 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 countries here in europe. in addition to the deepening debt crisis in the e.u. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices following the west sanctions against iran france britain and the u.s. are considering releasing all reserves on to the market to drive down crude costs should all of the from the national iranian american council believe 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 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 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 that french police carried out a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country on

friday and arresting nineteen people a crackdown comes just a week after one hundred men and a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to lose after he murdered seven people as cilia explains the fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. mohamed merah 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 narrow as a background. for anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purpose is a good option ation a 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 are 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 that. it's. while the french citizen any 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 nationals 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 into 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 break on this from the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children a threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated pretty careful i think although it's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward story for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would end supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with are a 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 are simply the

consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is that it's pretty difficult to recruit 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. but what sort of a moment if you don't call in we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on domestic business and so far more than hall for you believe it is president sarkozy's pre-election move to pander to voters nearly one in four nearly one fourth think it's the start of an anti muslim witch hunt and less than ten percent we can see so it's a kneejerk response. to the to the shooting people twenty percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil what do you still have your sanity will come the result so far.

in recent months russia has witnessed all kinds of rallies from protests against parliamentary and presidential election results to those in support of the authorities but there's something a whole new type of demonstration has been taking place but he's really not going to want to go into 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 won it like other protesters they couldn't just say no they have to be there they have to spend hours in the freezing weather and they have to listen to demands 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 our spot in moscow and protest the protests down understanding that hunger journalist is something you

never want to deal with they brought kooky 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 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 on the rally which ran down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of it too so lots record 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. it with r.t. still ahead for you this demonstration of death israeli security forces killed a thirty year old palestinian thousands took to the streets to mark a land day where you could have that protest turned fatal. and the political fit is breeding britain's health service dry u.k. lawmakers vote for reforms paving the way for firms to make millions from medical

care. the first pyongyang's criticize the u.s. said his decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction beyond the limit provisions were promised in return for the communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests north korea has refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite image april has reportedly invited outside experts to prove it's doing it for purely peaceful purposes whatever the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test very serious can co-founder of the campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international law 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 be militarized let's look at the 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 rock. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when land they protest has 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 bodies paula slip he explains. this year the annual 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 marks the killing back in one nine hundred seventy six six palestinians enjoying 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 and only then it has been used to highlight the right of the palestinian people to syria coincided with 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 the israeli borders along the israel damien border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even thirty highlighted the palestinian struggle pull their remember you can always log on to watch you don't com our web site for lots of other stories news and comment for example they can find out about the story concerning millions across the world switching the lights off for earth hour event and raising global environmental awareness and for more spectacular pictures on our website at the moment. plus correctness will present its

new york times over fifty words from school essays with dinosaurs. birthday making the black list you can see the list in full simply don't want to or. wealth for health are accusations against britain's government this week after the parliament voted in favor of controversial medical care reforms million or makers who voted yes have links to private supplies which stand to benefit leaving doctors and patients fearing for the future of free health care in the u.k. . or smith has more on the system in need of a check up. it's a merry go round of self interest along for the ride members of parliament the house of lords and health care companies opening up britain's national health service to plumbed 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 with the

government says private sector involvement is the answer but some say it's not those in need of care but rather those in power who are set to benefit the rest. of the shares in the company. and yet they use western interests are allowed to vote on a 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 to his party from nursing and care home tycoon pockets and made him a lot 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

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 the lords and m.p.'s who voted yes to opening up health care to competition and stand to gain from the results there may be more the research isn't finished yet and now that the bill has passed its detractors are powerless to stop private companies stepping in and making health care about profit 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 . 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 also poll ready to 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 they should have been banned from voting level government code of conduct as anybody with an interest must never take part in this affects their interest this is all good driven it's to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly banned the table in jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell told the free health care. forty nine to. coming up to twenty seven minutes past the i have russian capital i'll be back in three minutes with

a recap of our main stories which they're with us live here in moscow this is r.t. .

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