stunts on t.v. don't succumb. to the. patients are supporting syria's revolution it meet in turkey to thrash out plans to help the opposition while supporters of bashar al assad of 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 entitle russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend moscow has condemned as cold war hollywood cliché. dozens of arrests and riots follow spain's approval of its severest austerity measures yet that sees a twenty seven billion euro slashed from the budget. and poland comes closer to

acknowledging of the existence of secret cia run prisons for terror suspects on its territory prosecutors launched an investigation against before more head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up the covert signs. from broadcasting live in iraq from our studios in moscow this is our team and we start with breaking news this hour all people onboard a small passenger plane are believed to be dead after a crash near to main airport in russia's your old region local rescue services say four crew members and thirty nine passengers were on board at the time and some of the victims are said to be children the a.t.r. seventy two twin engine turboprop airliner is reported to have crashed shortly after takeoff some thirty kilometer. from the airport emergency services at the

scene say the aircraft burst into flames when it hit the ground the plane was headed to the city of surreal good a criminal investigation has been launched into the tragedy the type of aircraft involved in the crash was designed to carry up to seventy four passengers over a medium distance. so earlier rabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime 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 the power to blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it's riding armed extremists are been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying of the friends of syria against the providing all possible assistance to the syrian opposition that's 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

style aris t. the syrian army defectors and to the free syrian army as well we know 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 the state is clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest we went to find out what's going on there and the turkish riot police far outnumbered the amounts of the pro-government demonstrations the cecils the sort of scale six being sprayed by that conference the friends of syria already coming on so many criticisms from both the this pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well who really they feel that they represent all of the forty that they're supporting the syrian national council a representative of the syrian people russia and china absent from that conference

the criticisms that have come from the mosque a certain they have seen 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 there is. a professor. of zeitoun a university in jordan believe some gulf nations spearheading the anti assad campaign are in no position to do so. the record of the so there may be a 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 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 so they are able to do not elections and so there would be and

certainly you do not have a rotation of power and everything is decided the small clique of royals who procreate the wealth of the country which which contains some of the rich oil deposits in the world the bottom line is ready as pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that pendant from the west and this is a 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 more devastated country six months after the uprising against moammar gadhafi libya is flooded with weapons and the potential power vacuum for former prime minister to lead the fight against the current i believe the country is now at risk of being taken over by

extremists djibril also says it's the result of nato abandoning the libya after the former regime was tough. for many parties who have interests and that it doesn't talk and should be silenced for ever with it who was killed by the foreign entity or police by libyans or libyans and they are from others after that is filled out most of the with some countries feel that their mission. has been accomplished they need to look for that libya is a state this. can be filled by anybody in the world and it's. going to put it seem as an integral. guarantees or an arms race president medvedev delivered a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe perhaps as the u.s.

also announced 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 accidently went public was. cool. but. the two leaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word and it 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 and land on the anti russian bandwagon are he's got a chicken and reports 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 prime enemy while its president elect you should recover. i think represents a real threat to the. stability of the world but that's in 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 stereotypes and take a look at the calendar. and you can go i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements and you can do them any harm

to do so and such if they will choose it's the year two thousand and twelve midnight and seventy's and 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 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. the china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and it ended up at both ends and looking for ways to do it to want to harness the course should take military action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what that trigger happy candidate 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 as world is depicted in a sketch it's some kind of mythical and very unreal do it world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it'll be a much more dangerous world a bill 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 many americans disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that there were a damn bit 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 from washington our team. and getting back to our breaking news story

this hour thirty seven people are believed to have been killed in a small passenger plane crash near from an airport in russia's ural region local rescue services say four crew members and thirty nine passengers were on board at the time some of the victims are said to be children six people have a survived the incident and are now being transported and treated in hospital the a.t.r. seventy two twin engine turboprop airliner is reported to have crashed shortly after takeoff some thirty kilometers from the airport emergency services at the scene say the aircraft burst into flames and when it hit the ground the plane was headed to the city of sirte goot a criminal investigation has been launched into the try. judy the type of aircraft involved in the crash was designed to carry up to seventy four passengers over medium distances. now is it us republicans take a hardline stance on a foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on

investigation still ahead. in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil candidates push unconstitutional change with threats of arrests and deportation plus fed up with street demonstrations some muscovites launched their own protests against them because we report on the market demo rally in the center of the russian. some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week 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 elected 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 it's one of the toughest budgets spring has introduced in decades which includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers but economic analyst michael morales

thinks that ultimately the measure is what worked. if you ever heard of a politician whose commerces came through other came we're latina future me not and what i consider is that what this plane want to make this spanish government is not only visited his bill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt where you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government also mahler's bankrupt how can you implemented authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see that this will this won't work i got 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 interaction 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 if us are considering releasing oil reserves onto the market to drive down crude costs jamaluddin from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with the rather questions only being felt now. the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these on president saying without a real strategy or understanding of what comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that essentially 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 lie. 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. and french police have carried out a series of raids against the suspected islamic terrorists throughout the country on friday arresting nineteen people a crackdown comes just a week after mohamed merah a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to loose after he murdered seven people. are silly explains a fear of terrorism is playing a role in the nation's presidential race. marmot never 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 narrow background shit to do anything 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 adoption nation in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to sarkozy's policy of stripping foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france are clearly advocating political change in extremist view it's not a crime we have the freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restricted

. was a french citizen an 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 the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from the 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 how did memorize perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war on this and the mentalist

political religious groups who are killing our children if 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 election 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 with our 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 but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic or addressing an actual problem or simply because a quote says of something more fundamental the core of the problem is a tribute if you can put through it because what is the goal of all the problem it doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t. paris. protesting the protests april the first boston as ever fools day so yet

another rally in the heart of moscow this time it was at the turn of the journalists to take a tongue in cheek poke at the recent wave of demonstrations that swept the country . or went along for the break. 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 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 holes lined up to come to a spot in moscow and protest the protest understanding that hungry journalist is something you never want to deal with the broad kuki 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 gone leagues they want to see them as much as possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold and snow listening to people voicing their concerns about something which they cannot really define that was their main point of the rally which went 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. and you are with r k still ahead for you this hour real demonstrations are. really security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian when thousands took to the streets to mark the land day we look at how about protesting turned to freedom. and north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a plan that satellite launch intensifies. this week saw

a revival of the scandal surrounding the alleged a cia secret prison in poland something that countries 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 arraignment in a government and says it's time for officials to be held accountable. these high high value suspects were to be given enhanced interrogation techniques and a course meant that he 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 now our we came to be of course it is probably some money to pakistan's i would 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 call it for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is announced 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. back to our breaking news story this hour it has been reported that twelve out of the forty three passengers on board of a small passenger plane that has crashed near truman airport in russia's ural region are believed to have survived local rescue services say four crew members and thirty nine passengers were on board at the time some are said to be children the a.t.r. seventy two twin engine turboprop airliner is reported to have crashed shortly

after takeoff some thirty kilometers from the airport and i can see services at the scene say the aircraft burst into flames when it hit the ground the plane was headed to the city of three groot a criminal investigation has been launched into the tragedy the type of aircraft involved in. in the crash it was designed to carry up to seventy four passengers over distances. now reports say the u.s. and north korea have held informal talks in germany and a growing tension over plan yang'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 stuff and nuclear and missile tests but washington recently announced it will suspend the program if the launch goes ahead. called the decision an overreaction the argument

erik's who wrote co-founder of the 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 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 day and the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues one iraq. now on to some other news making headlines around the world free of the sour. 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 comes as relations between the two countries had their lowest point in decades as one else erisa threatens legal action against companies involved in oil exploration on the south atlantic archipelago. me and mars opposition leader on sun 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 long anticipated political reforms in mars' hoping the election 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 the leaders have pleaded for foreign help to tackle the insurgency had reinstated the one thousand nine hundred three constitution they initially dissolved. a twenty year old palestinian was killed when the land today protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday it comes a fortnight after an egyptian mediated to truce to stop the violence between the two sides was broken party's policy or its rights. this year the annual landay 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 thousand nine hundred six of the six palestinians during a man confiscation policy of the when israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab land and used it for building israeli settlements and since

then this an event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this year occurring sided with what is dubbed the global march to jerusalem and it's 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 all good day new border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even certain highlighted the palestinian struggle. recap of the week's top stories coming up and just a few moments.

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