nations of 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 might be changed between broadwell bamma and jimmy trying to get out leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates are trying to moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood clout cliche. dozens of arrests and the riots follow spain's approval of its severest austerity measures yet it sees 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 launched an investigation against the former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up a covert side. 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 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 powers of blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it's fighting armed extremists largely sarah ferguson following the talks and its number. final statement saying of the friends of syria against 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 to then provide styler east t. the syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army flowing to 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 demonstrators clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest as the we went out see find out what's going on there and the turkish riot police far outnumbered the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators the cecils the sort of scale sixteen's break out fight that conference the friends of syria that we've already coming under many criticisms from both the. pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well he really they feel that their representative all of that the party that they're supporting the syrian national council a representative of the syrian people russia and china absent from that conference

the criticisms that have come from and certainly have been 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 professor. tony university in jordan believe some gulf nations spearheading the anti assad campaign are you know positioned to do so. the record of the saudi arabian regime as probably 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 what have you you do not have political parties and.

elections and so that and certainly you do not have a rotation of power and everything is decided that a small fleet of royals who appropriate the wealth of the country which is which contains some of the oil deposits in the world the bottom line is sudha area is 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 ceasefire 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 the former prime minister who 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 libya after the former regime was toppled. too many parties who have interests that could have it doesn't talk he should be silenced forever for that he was killed by the foreign entity or by libyans or libyans and they are from others. most of the western countries feel that the mission has been caught. they may be that they be this site. put it. can be filled by anybody in there and it's. not excluded. and you can watch that full interview with mark would be later 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 that says the us also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east dmitri medvedev added barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidently went public what. 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 landed on the anti russian bandwagon parties going to church and reports that their war cries are 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 crime enemy while its president elect you should recovery. i think represents a real threat. to stability and peace in the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america but 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 inventive advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and

take a look at the calendar. but it is all u.s. presidential candidates to make a reasonable statement it wouldn't do them any home to do so and such if there were cheers it's the year twenty twelve look at midnight in seventy's and the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too good to like the 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 be. china i want to go to war with china these guys around us and in and out of it and looking for ways to do it to want to harm

a sick or should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidates suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the worlds in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy it's really because you do get a sketch it's some kind of mystical and very unreal view of the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of soaring trying trieste 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 as

having someone like romney as their future leader i'm going to check our reporting that are taking. us republicans take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls and france are coming down hard on domestic issues still ahead. in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil candidates push unconstitutional change with threats arrests and deportations. plus fed up with street demonstrations that some muscovites have launched their own protest against a report on the march and take them a rally in the center of the russian. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week a mass rallies back to 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 arrested by police but the government remained adamant at reassuring the rest of

europe that the country will not be a candidate for a bailout announced twenty seven billion euros in cuts one of the toughest projects has introduced in decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael morris thinks that ultimately the measures won't work. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came true order came we are latina future me not and what i can see is that what has been want to make this government is not only because it is pill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt or you look at the banks over there banquet central bank bankrupt government also mahler's bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see this will 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 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 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. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices following the west's sanctions against iran france and britain and the us are considering releasing oil reserves on to the market to drive down crude costs jamal i'm doing from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with the wrapper questions only being felt now. the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these on president 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 arresting one thousand people a crackdown comes just a week after mohamed merah

a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to lose after him murdered seven people are silly explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. the mom of mira 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 she too new 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 a 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. restricted. while a french citizen kane east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes now from inside french society it's not just something that is imported from and also every gulden 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 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. would you go on this and the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children a threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward solely for the elections it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which we aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper what was are 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 of politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic or addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is

a pretty difficult to recruit because what is the goal of all the poor and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris. our web site r t dot com we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on domestic islamists so far. more than that about half of you believe it's president sarkozy's pre-election a move to pander to voters and nearly one fourth thinks it's the start of an anti muslim which are about less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the police shootings while thirteen percent believes it's an attempt to finally address the threat of terrorism on french soil and so have your say about you dot com.

now protesting the protests in 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 the journalists to take a tongue in cheek poke at the recent wave of demonstrations that swept the country r t as if you know glasgow went along with the april fool's day prank. they're angry tired cold hungry and they are mostly journalists who have spent the last goodness knows how many weekends covering the protests and moscow and whether or not they wanted to or like other protesters and they couldn't just say no they had to be there they had to spend hours in the freezing weather and we had to listen to the sounds of people who have been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized a facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours all signed up to come to a spot in moscow and protest the protests then understanding that hungry journalist

is something you never want to deal with they brought cookies the broad flower seeds and it didn't last very long because you know journalists do have families and that was one of the main slogans at the rally they would have families they want to see them as much as possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold and snow listening to people voicing their concerns about something which they cannot really define that was the new 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 get up on as today. you are with r t still ahead for you this hour demonstration of that. israeli security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian women thousands took to the streets to mark blanda day we'll look at how that protest turned fatal. north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over

a planned satellite launch intense. this week saw a revival of the scandal surrounding an alleged a cia secret prison in poland something the country's officials have always strongly denied the first charges have reportedly been brought against the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the covert site former cia officer raymond mcgovern says it's time for officials to be held accountable. these high high values so specs were to be given enhanced interrogation 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 till now and at the polls pretty much it meant it that a small say that there was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials know aout came to be aid of course it is probably some moneyed past hands i would do it it's 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 poles i have to say kudos to all of for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is a now and it has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials they need interests 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 at cheney bush regime arcade cheney wing anywhere else in the world. reports save us out of north korea have held informal talks in germany amid growing tension over pyongyang's of plans to launch a satellite in mid april the north says it has invited outside experts to prove its peaceful intentions however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really

a long range missile test earlier the u.s. promised it would supply the communist state with food aid in return for it stopping nuclear missile plants but washington recently announced it will suspend of the program if the launch goes ahead call the decision an overreaction on the women. co-founder of the campaign the end of the korean war says washington is wrong in its handling of the situation. 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 and 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 web site twenty four hours a day r.t. dot com here's what we got there for you right now. video of a chilly rescue in russia's far east as hundreds of fishermen are pulled from a gruesome chunk of. millions across the world switch the lights off for earth hour the event aimed at raising global environmental awareness find out its credit tackler pictures of the web site. and these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all today.

down to you for sure. i pod touch from the. lights on the good. video. smiling old girls and a sense feed in the palm of your. comb . now on to 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 of it claimed the lives of six hundred forty nine argentinians and two hundred fifty five british soldiers the anniversary comes as relations between the two countries hit their lowest point in decades as one us airways threatens legal action against companies involved in oil exploration on the south atlantic archipelago. the opposition

leader aung san suu kyi has won a landmark parliamentary byelection 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 b.m.r. is hoping the election it may bring an end to international economic sanctions on the nation which was ruled by the military for decades. in mali 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 insurgency had reinstated the one thousand nine hundred two constitution and they initially had dissolved. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when they 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 our principle its leader explains. this year the and not mandate

given stretches 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 thousand nine hundred eighty six of the six palestinians enjoying a land confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took i would lend and used it for building israeli settlements and since then this and the event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people the so it 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 it's all jordanian border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even so highlighted the

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