nation supporting syria's revolution meet in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition supporters and push are all 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 to me from the good that leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's a republican presidential candidates moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and 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 launch an investigation against the former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up a covert sides. and broadcasting live from direct from our studios in central moscow recapping this week's top stories this is r.t. with the weekly you're with us. saudi arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision came as a round of 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 but powers blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it is fighting armed extremists sara furth has been following the talks and. 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 there is going to be some sort of multi-million dollar fund possibly will be used to then provide salaries to feed the syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army as well we know a number of vehicles states already pledged large amounts of money. outside the conference and today we actually saw a small gathering for a government demonstrates is clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary see perfectly understood these events find out what's going on there and the turkish rightly so far outnumber the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators as a source of sort of chaotic scenes breaking out outside that conference the friends of syria that were already coming under many criticisms from both the oh this

pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well he really they feel that they're represented all the forty that they're supporting the syrian national council a representative of the syrian people russia and china absent from that conference the criticisms that have come from and from 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. rather than helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis professor ibrahim aleutian of. university in jordan believes some gulf nations spearheading the assad campaign are in no position to do so. the record of the sword the aerial regime as probably probably one of the worst in the reads and when they start talking about freedom and human rights and syria or libya exist

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 you do not how political parties and. you do not how elections and so the area and certainly you do not have a rotation of power and everything is decided by a small clique of royals who appropriate the wealth of the country which which contains some of the rich oil deposits in the world the bottom line is the already as pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that dependent 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 a war devastated country six months after the uprising against moammar gadhafi in libya is flooded with problems that face a potential power vacuum for the former prime minister who led the fight against the colonel believes the country is now at risk of being taken over by extremists. djibril also says it is the result of nato abandoning libya after the former regime was toppled. from too many parties who have interests that it doesn't talk that he should be silenced for and for that he was killed by the fire and then to feel the libyans who are libyans and from others after that he seemed. most of the with some countries feel that their mission has been accomplished. they need to look at the fact that libya is a stateless site. put it. can be filled by anybody you know and it's a full tide so all the little foot exclusivism to google.

and you can watch that full interview with mahmoud jibril later here on r.t. . guarantees or an arms race president delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe that as the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east dimitri medvedev and barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and a part of their private conversation accidently went public. let's. watch. the two leaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word that was seized on by barack obama the republican rivals with mitt romney even declaring russia as america's number one enemy but as more hawks

land on the anti russian bandwagon are please comment if you can comments that there is a prize worth 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. to 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 recovery. i think the president represents a real threat to the. stability and peace 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 advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood's theory of 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 they will choose it's the twenty twelve seventies and even the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to. yes 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 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 be china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and in and out of it and looking for ways to work with it to want to harness a 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 world in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy this world is if you're doing your sketch it's some kind of him if it's cool then very kind of a 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 poll shows many americans disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that he really got a lot 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 for us and get our take. as u.s. republicans take a hard line stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on domestic issues still ahead. in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil. candidates push unconstitutionally changed with threats of arrest and deportation. plus fed up with some street demonstrations some muscovites launched their own protests against them we were put on the market and tried demo rally in the center of the russian capital. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week as rallies backed

a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more austerity dozens of people were injured in the ensuing classic clashes and almost sixty arrested by police but the government remained adamant at reassuring the rest of europe that the country will not be accountable for a bailout and announced twenty seven billion euros in profits it's one of the toughest budgets spain has introduced 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 ever heard of a politician whose promises came true otherkin we're latina future we not and what i can see is that the world has been want to make this kind of government is not only because it is it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over

there central bank bankrupt government also manas bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in these circumstances so everybody will see this rule 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 what it means in reality that people there have to become poor 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 concerns growing 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

being from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just i mean jerk reaction with the represents only being felt now. real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of what comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the sanctions that we put in place to try to restrict braun 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 there's 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 is so expensive and simply

addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate their french police carried out a series of raids against a suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country on friday arresting nineteen people the crackdown comes just a week after mohamed merah name frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police into loose after he murdered seven people as artie's has arsole explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. mohamed merah was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's needed to the foreground of the discourse is marriage as a background should we need for anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence would be sentenced to prison any person

going abroad for the purposes of adoption nation of terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to psychosis policy of stripping of foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france will 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 restricted. while a french citizen and east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes from inside french society it's not just something that is imported from the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from a french nation or this is not allowed and have

a 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 in a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants how did marriage is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war on this from the mentalists political religious groups who are killing our children if threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated locally i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with 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 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 pretty difficult to treat because what is the god of all the problem there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris on our website argue dot com we want to think what we want to know excuse me what you think about the french prime minister. so far more than half of you believe its president sarkozy's creel actually move to pander to voters and the only one for the think it's the start of the mccann time muslim which are three plus then ten percent of you say it's a new. the jerk response to the police shootings was thirteen percent believe it's an attempt to find the address of the threat of terrorism on french soil and you

can still have your say on our sheet of. protesting the protests april solve or 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 artes you know ghoulish girl went along with the 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 in moscow and whether or not they wanted to or like other protesters they couldn't just say no they had to be there they have to spend hours in the freezing weather and we 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 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 down leads 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 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. oh you're with r t is still ahead for you this hour real demonstrations. really security forces killed

a twenty year old palestinian when thousands took to the streets to mark a landing day we look at how that protest turned fatal. and north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellite launch intensifying. 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 but first charges have reportedly been brought against of the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the covert side former cia officer raymond my government says it's time for officials to be held accountable. these high high values so suspects were to be given enhanced interrogation techniques and that a course meant it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago put out its own now and at the polls pretty much it made it

that a small site at air was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials you know how it came to be of course it is probably some money to pass hands i would put it 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 say kudos to all of for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable for accountability he said now 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 at cheney bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the world and reports say the u.s.

and north korea have held informal talks in germany amid growing tension over pyongyang's 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 its stopping nuclear and missile tests but washington recently announced it will suspend the program if the launch goes ahead and called the decision an overreaction beyond limits it's a rough co-founder of a campaign to end 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 if 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 want to arrive. and we are getting word that a plane has crashed in russia we are following that story we'll get you more information as it becomes available closer to the end of this bulletin but right now there's plenty more for you on our website our team dot com twenty four hours a day. putting video of a chilly rescue in russia's far east as hundreds of fishermen are pulled from a drifting chunk of ice. and of millions across the world switching the lights off for earth hour movie event aimed at raising a global of the mental awareness find more spectacular pictures on our web site.

and more on this breaking news that we are receiving just in reports that a small passenger jet has crashed at an airport in the city of two men in russia's ural region thirty nine passengers and two crew members are believed to have been on board the report says that the aircraft was attempting to take off in route to the city of sort of good of course we will bring you more information as we get it and it becomes available. all right 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 that claimed the lives of six hundred forty nine argentinians and two hundred fifty five british soldiers the anniversary cobs as relations between the two countries hit their lowest point in decades as well as areas threatened legal action against companies involved in oil

exploration on the south atlantic archipelago. myanmar's opposition leader aung sun suu kyi has won a landmark parliamentary byelection by according to its preliminary results the vote is considered to be a turning point in the country's history and could lead to long anticipated political reforms maher is hoping that the election may bring an end to international economic sanctions on the nations which was ruled by the military for decades. in mali rebels in the north of the country say they have captured of the historic town of timbuktu is comes just a week after the military took over the country claiming of the president wasn't doing enough to fight to the rebellion coup leaders have pleaded for foreign help to tackle the insurgents and reinstated the one nine hundred ninety two constitution that they initially dissolved. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when it landed a 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 his policy experts. this year the and not mandate demonstrations turn violent with one protester killed in gaza several dozen injured across the west bank and at least thirty four people arrested in the event marks the killing back in one nine hundred seventy six six palestinians during a round confiscation policy of the bin israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took our blend 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 this year it coincided with what is 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. border some twenty thousand people gathered and

while there were no reports of violence the events thirty highlighted the palestinian struggle. i'll be back with the recap of this week's main headlines in just a few moments. in the. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money meant ization is maybe just

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