nations of supporting syria's revolution meet in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition while 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 dmitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates are trying to moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and of riots probably spain's approval of its severe style sturdy measures yet that see twenty seven billion euro slashed from the budget. and poland comes closer to acknowledging the existence of secret cia run prisons for terror suspects on its territory

prosecutors launching an investigation against the former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up a covert sites. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow recapping the week's top stories this is our team with the week. saudi arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime and the 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 assad but powers blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it is fighting armed extremists ok sarah ferguson 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 technical assistance and direct assistance still there's going to be some sort of multi-million dollar fund that possibly will be used to then provide style aris to the syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army flowing 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 for a government that the space is clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest as the we went to find out what's going on there in the turkish rightly so far outnumbers the advance of the pro-government demonstrators is a source of sort of scale sixteen's breakouts like that conference the friends of syria that already coming on so many criticisms from both the. government syrians and also the opposition as well we really don't feel that

they're represented all that 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 the from mosque a certain they have been this is very one sided and that there are concerns that the exclusion of the government of the syrian government really is rather than helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis. professor. of zite own a university in jordan believes some gulf nations spearheading the anti assad campaign are in no position to do so. a record of the stood at regular seem as broadly 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 radio would have the nerve to to speak allegedly against the human rights

violations and in syria and what have you or you do not how political qualities in saudi arabia do not allege things and so that 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 source royal deposits in the world the bottom line is the arab u.s. pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that. 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 troubled clashes in the war devastated country six months after the uprising against gadhafi and libya is flooded with

weapons and faces a potential for power back to the former prime minister led the fight against the colonel believes the country is now at risk of being taken over by extremists djibril also says it's the result of nato abandoning libya after the former regime was toppled. it's too many parties who have interests there he doesn't talk that he should be silenced photo over with that he was killed by the foreign entity or libyans who are libyans and they are from others after that he seemed filled most of the western countries the mission has been accomplished they need to look at the fact that libya is a stateless. political but you can be felt by anybody in the world and it's. good or. and you can watch the full interview with mahmoud jibril next hour here on our team. guarantees

or an arms race president of the i've delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe that as the u.s. also announced a similar systems for asia and the middle east dmitri medvedev and barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidentally went public. well it's just. two meters exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word that it was seized by barack obama republican bibles with mitt romney even declaring russia as america's number one enemy but as more hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon he's gonna turn can the comments there were cries are 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. 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. by the president represents a real threat to the. ability of the world but 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 about romney's comments president made of it advise them to stop reverting to olden days hollywood styria types and take

a look at the calendar. and you can go who would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do so and to trip they will choose it's the year twenty twelve. the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to press but first . 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 trying out 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 beat china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and india and looking

for ways to do it to want to harm a ship or should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidate suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the world from the became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world view is depicted in your sketch it's some kind of the mythical 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'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 poll shows a 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 strike our reporting. our team. as u.s. republicans and take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls and friends are coming down hard on a stick if you're still ahead. in the wake of radical islamic terrorism. on home soil candidates push unconstitutional change with threats of arrests and people. plus fed up with street demonstrations and some muscovites launched their own protests against them we report on the mob and tried to hold rallies in the center of the russian town. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week mass rallies back a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more austerity. dozens of people were injured in the ensuing crashes and almost sixty arrested by police but the government remained adamant that rationing the rest of

europe with the country will not be a candidate for a bailout announced twenty seven billion euros in cuts it's one of the toughest budgets spain's introduced in decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael moore writes thinks that ultimately the measure is not work. if you haven't heard of a politician who's promises came true overcame we're latina future i mean not and what i can see is that what this plane want to make the spanish 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 when you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also mourners bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in these circumstances so everybody will

see it is will this won't work but what i 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 but it means in reality that people there have to become poorer when you are a government and you have to tell it to the people the people are feeling that they are becoming poorer you are in a big big difficulty this could easily lead to a domestic interaction and this would could also trigger more problems in the other seven countries here in europe. in addition to the deepening debt crisis in the u. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices following the west's sanctions against iran france britain and the u.s. 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 rapper questions only being felt now. the real

problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented saying sions 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

arresting one thousand people in the crackdown comes just a week after mohamed merah a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to lose after he murdered seven people are actually his ties are silly explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. for mom of marrow 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 a background she can you 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 are clearly advocating the political change in it's from his view it's not a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restrict it's. while the french citizen any 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 important 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 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 of 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. on this from the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children a threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. and i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward solely for the elections it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with all of 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 the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences

of something more fundamental the core of the problem is it's pretty difficult to put through it 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. on our website r.t. dot com we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on the mustard as well as its so far more than half of you believe it is the president sarkozy's pre-election to pander to voters and nearly one fourth think it's the start of an anti muslim which less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response that will to lose shootings now thirteen percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil you can still have your say on the cartoon on. the.

protesting the protests april the first otherwise known as april fool's day saw yet another rally in the heart of moscow this time it was the turn of journalists to take a tongue in cheek poke at the recent wave of demonstrations that swept the country and he's you know when i want to mock them. 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 masses of people who have been basically saying down with everything there is so they organize their facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours old signed up to conk to a spot in moscow and protest the protest and understanding that hunger journalist is something you never want to deal with they brought 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 is not just 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 write it out and i'm going to head home and do what i wanted to do all these weekends i have a lot of things to catch up on as today. foolish indeed you are with r t still ahead for you this hour the demonstration of. israeli security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian powers in the streets to mark land today we look at how about protests turned fatal. and north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellite launch. this week you saw

a revival of the scandal surrounding the alleged cia secret prison in poland it's something of a country officials have always strongly denied the first charges have reportedly been brought against the country's former intelligence chief for allowing a covert site 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 enhanced interrogation techniques and that of course meant that it needed a secure place to do that the story broke in a crash many years ago put out its own out of the polls pretty much it made it that a small say that there was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials you know how it came to be eight of course it is probably some money that passed hands i would 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 and my hat is off to the poles i have to say kudos to college for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability isn't now and it has been missing from local cab delivery of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a possible u.s. administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and that cheney bush regime arcade cheney wing anywhere else in the world can yang has criticized 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 communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests north korea has refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite in mid april and has reportedly invited outside experts to prove it is

that doing so for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile tests erica surat kim co-founder of the campaign to end of the korean war says washington is acting against international law by involving food aid in its political standoff. just a week or two before we heard the administration in washington say 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

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video. of my old girls. or a sense for each. of you want to. call now on to some other news making headlines around the world. the u.k. and our june teen are marking the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the franklins war memorials are being held to remember the conflict a bit claimed the lives of six hundred forty nine argentinians and the two hundred fifty five british soldiers the anniversary comes as relations between the two countries had their lowest point in decades as well as areas threatened legal action against companies involved in the oil exploration on the south atlantic archipelago. myanmar's opposition leader aung san suu kyi has won

a landmark parliamentary by election according to preliminary results the vote is considered to be a turning point in the country's history and could lead to two long anticipated political reforms a.m.r. is hoping that the election it may bring an end to international economic sanctions on the nation which was a 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 this comes just a week after the military took over the country claiming the president wasn't doing enough to fight the rebellion coup leaders have pleaded for foreign help to tackle the insurgents and reinstated the one thousand nine hundred two constitution that they initially had dissolved. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when the protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday it cloggs a fortnight after an egyptian mediated truce to stop the violence between the two sides was broken. sports. 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 in the event 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 would be learned and used it for building israeli settlements and since then this is an event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people the syrian 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 the israeli borders along the is all day near the border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence the events certainly highlighted the palestinian struggle. i've read your recap of our top stories in

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