in the. nations supporting syria's revolution need in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition while supporters of the shar all assad protesting against the dogs are dispersed by turkish police. also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend in moscow has condemned as a cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and riots are followed spain's approval of its severest austerity measures yet that sees it twenty seven billion

euro zone slashed from the budget. and poland comes closer to acknowledging the existence of secret cia run prisons for terrorist suspects on its territory prosecutors launched an investigation against the former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up the covert sides. and recapping the week's top stories and a look at today's headlines this is r t with the weekly glad to have you with us. so the arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision came as around sixty nations harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad the powers that blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it's fighting armed extremists are actually sarah

furthur 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 still there is going to be some sort of multi-million dollar fund possibly will be used to then provide salaries to the syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army as well we know a number of the gulf states already pledged large amounts of money. outside the conference and 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 to be perfectly honest. find out what's going on there in the turkish riot police far outnumber the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators the cecils and sort of chaotic scenes great get outside that conference the friends of syria already coming under many criticisms from. the.

pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well he really they feel that their representative all that the party that they're supporting the syrian national council a representative of the syrian people of russia and china absent from that conference the criticisms that have come from. me have been that this is very one sided and that there are concerns that the exclusion of the government of the syrian government really. rather than helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis. and a professor. of twenty university in jordan believe some both nations spearheading the campaign are in no position to do so. the record of the so the iranian regime as probably with probably one of the worst in the reeds and when they start talking about freedom and human rights and syria or libya just this this is just so

preposterous that radio would have the nerve to to speak allegedly against the human rights violations and in syria and what have you that you do not how political parties in saudi arabia we do not elect friends and so the area and certainly you do not have aerospace some 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 royal deposits in the world the bottom line is. pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that are funded from the west and this is the common theme between iraq libya. and syria right now. a new cease fire agreement has been brokered between the new libyan government and

opposition forces this after some one hundred fifty people are killed and four hundred wounded this week alone following tribal clashes in the war devastated country six months after the uprising against moammar gadhafi libya is flooded with weapons and faces a potential power vacuum a former prime minister if he led the fight against the colonel believes the country is now at risk of being taken over by extremists mahmoud jibril also says it's the result of nato abandoning olivia after the former regime was toppled. too many parties who have interests. he doesn't talk that he should be silenced for ever with that he was killed by the sword invented by libyan sort of libyans and they are from others after. most of the with some. answer is that their mission has been accomplished they need to look for that libya is a stateless site the. political vacuum can be filled by anybody in there and it's

tied solely illegal photographs to music to google. and you can watch that full interview with mahmoud jibril there have passed the hour right here on r.t. . guarantees or an arms race president medvedev delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe but as the u.s. also announced a similar systems for asia and the middle east i mean if you had a band of barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidently went public. the 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 as america's number one enemy but as more hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon or he's going to church account reports their war cries aren't 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 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 i mean. i think the president represents a real threat to the. stability of the world. 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 made of it if they devised him to stop reverting to holden days hollywood spirit types and take a look at the calendar. but it could mean that we would avoid all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it didn't do them any home to do so they will choose it's the twenty twelve sims he said even 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 iran's 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 be china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and india and stand and look for ways to do. it to want to harm us of course you take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy 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 the future sketch it's some kind of mythic cool and very real view of the world if america takes a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be

a much more dangerous world ability 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 leave them out of leeway in 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 . 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. in the wake of radical islam. monica terrorism on home soil candidates push unconstitutional changes with threats of arrests and deportation. was fed up with street demonstrations some muscovites launching their own protests against them we report on the amount anti demo rally in the center of

the russian capital. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week mass rallies by a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more austerity dozens of people were injured in the ensuing clashes and almost sixty enlisted by police or government remained adamant at reassuring the rest of europe the country will not be a candidate for a bailout and announce a twenty seven billion euro cup one of the toughest budgets spain has introduced in decades which includes tax hikes and salary freezes for public sector workers but economic analyst michael morales thinks the bad alternately the measure is not work . therefore ever heard of a politician whose promises came true overcame we are latina future we not and what i can see is that what this plane want to make the spanish government is not only

visited his it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt bankrupt when you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also mourner's bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in these circumstances so everybody will see this won't work but what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin brain 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 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 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 following the west's 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 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 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 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 their french police carried out a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country on friday arresting nineteen people the crackdown comes just a week after mohamed merah a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and too loose after he murdered seven people as our teams are silly explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. mom of narrow 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 mary background should really need from 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 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 ok only advocating the political change in extreme is you it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restrictive. while a french citizen. 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 important 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 on a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants mohammed merah is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to breed you on this and the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children the threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think although it's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the

elections 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 our now the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures our 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 a fairly difficult to recruit because what is the goal of the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris. on our website archie dot com we want to hear what you think about the french crackdown on domestic islamists so far taking a look at more than half of you believe it's president sarkozy's pre-election move to pander to voters and nearly one fourth think it's the start of an anti muslim

witch hunt less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the salutes shootings while thirteen percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil you can still have your say at our teen dot com. well protesting the protests tired of the never ending tale of russian politics journalists in moscow have come out to rally in voicing their objections to the recent wave of demonstrations that's what a country with a rising political activity came as the country hit an election season with parliamentary and presidential elections coming one after another parties you know went along to the uk you know. 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 unlike other protesters they couldn't just say no they had to be there they had to spend hours in the freezing weather and they had to listen to the sounds of people who had been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized this facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours old signed up 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 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 done 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 the main point of the rally which went 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. imagine protesting during your job and beer with r t still ahead for you this hour demonstration. of. israeli security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian went thousands took to the streets to mark landed a look at how that protest turned free. and in north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a plan a satellite launch intensifies. this week saw a revival of the scandal surrounding the alleged cia secret prison in poland something the country as officials have always strongly denied that existed in the first place the first charges have reportedly been brought against the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the covert signed former cia officer ran

into mcgovern says it's time for officials to be held accountable. these high high value suspects were to be given and hands carry asian techniques and that of course meant that it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago but not it so now i have the poles pretty much it made it that a small site up there was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials know how it came to be eight of course it is probably some moneyed past hands i want to be very interested in the results of this investigation to see how much the head of intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing my hat is off to the polls i have to see kudos to paula for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is

a noun and it has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a puzzle the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and cheney bush regime are kate cheney wing anywhere else in the world. playing young has criticised the u.s. over its 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 plan for launch a satellite in mid 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 aaron seraphim co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war says that washington is acting against international law involving food aid in a political standoff. just

a week or two before we heard the. ministration 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 to end the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues . there's plenty more for you on our website our team dot com twenty four hours. what we've got there for you right now these are video of a chilly rescue in russia's far east as hundreds of fishermen are pulled from the

drifting chunk of ice. the millions across the world to switch the lights off for her power and the event aimed at raising global environmental awareness about more spectacular pictures on our web site. these are the images current and seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are older than. the official. pulled from the. geology of life on the good. video. in mind the old girls. are

a sense for you in the palm of your. cold some other news making headlines around the world this hour. the u.k. and argentina are marking the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the falklands war memorials are being held to remember the conflict that claimed the lives of six hundred forty nine argentines and two hundred fifty five british soldiers the anniversary comes as relations between the two countries hit their lowest point in decades as one of the areas threatens legal action against companies involved in oil exploration on the south atlantic archipelago. myanmar's opposition leader aung san suu kyi has won a landmark parliamentary election according to preliminary results the vote is considered to be a turning point in the country's history and could lead to long anticipated political reforms are is hoping that the election in may bring an end to

international economic sanctions on the nation which was ruled by the military for decades. in mali toward rebels in the north of the country say they have captured the historic town of timbuktu tim buck two excuse me has come visit just a week after the military took over the country claiming the president wasn't doing enough to fight the rebellion coup leaders have included four or four and how to tackle the insurgents and reinstated in one thousand nine hundred two constitution and they initially dissolved. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when a way of great protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday it comes a fortnight after in the egyptian mediated truce to stop the violence between the two sides was broken. parties costlier explains. and this year the annual land day demonstrations turned violent with one protester killed in gaza several dozen

injured across the west bank and at least thirty four people arrested and the event in marks the killing back in one nine hundred seventy six of the six palestinians during a land confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab learned and used it the building israeli settlements and since then an 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 even thirty highlighted the palestinian struggle. and i'll be back with recap of this week's top stories in just a couple minutes here on our team don't go away.

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