the prospect of years of war and mutual destruction russia's foreign minister warns against arming syrian rebels saying it wouldn't talk to president assad only retracted and bloody conflict. the beauty of this is security the u.s. congress examines a new talking cyber terrorists the freedom activists want it could become an arson support wiretapping by the state. and the calls for lost all the song cheap supermarket out u.k. with binge drinking on the rise the government grounds to ban all to buy discounts if it hurt the growing problem. capital outflow doubled in the past quarter twenty

twelve compared to last year join in about twenty minutes the biggest more detail. well news twenty four hours a day you're watching the t.v. but friends of syria group is actively harming kofi annan says efforts to resolve the syrian conflict and peaceful way so says russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he believes the group's plans and that is only encourage violence and that persuading the rebels not to join peace talks this means the regime in damascus to x. its forces back to base in preparation for an april tenth cease fire. a team of united nations personnel have started arriving in syria and this is to pave the way for monitors that would be there to oversee and april tenth cease fire

agreement now that agreement was brokered by the former u.n. chief kofi annan into some six points and among those points are the withdrawal of syrian troops from cities elaine down of arms on both sides and also the establishment of humanitarian corridors we have heard from the syrian government that they've begun a troop withdrawal there in the more volatile cities they troops have moved to the perimeter and in the palace cities the troops have actually moved back to their bases and all of that coming to leak ahead of this april tenth agreement but at the same time fighting does continue in several syrian cities fighting on both sides so it is raising alarm bells in terms of just how effective these preliminary reaves will be and we haven't yet heard any word from the opposition they will have some forty eight hours to lay down arms and of course the syrian government is making the point that if the opposition do not come to the party and here to this side of the green and they make can be no real peace in syria we've heard from the united

states a base threatening the regime with security council action the american ambassador to the united nations used words such as urgent and serious consequences and here the referrals to the syrian government if they don't appear to be a part of the cease fire agreement there was no mention made of what would happen to the rebels and to the opposition this comes just days after a friends of syria conference was held and that saw the united states and other western and arab countries pledging their support to the opposition we've heard from countries like saudi arabia and qatar pledging some one hundred million dollars and it was talk of this money being used to pay salaries to provide equipment as well as other support for the rebels in their opposition fighters this has received lots of criticism in the international community. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said these moves were detrimental and would not lead to any kind of peace plan he said that even if the opposition were armed to the teeth they

would not succeed in overthrowing the syrian regime of bashar assad and that result would only be fully fledged civil war we've also said that these international bodies were pushing the opposition away from peace and discouraging negotiations again making the point that they would be no peaceful resolution but only more violence by moves such as these by the friends of syria. most of them from the universal peace federation is skeptical about the decision to fund the rebels just gains or potential cease fire. said the money as much as millions of dollars to the rebels or to the opposition is today inside syria will help a lot i mean they will help them in military not just thinks military. artillery and this will not act as a support to the united nations regional powers such as turkey but saudi arabia they want to see in or stop for this i'm sorry to say this because it has been so

far in action since here they want to hear that much pressure on the regime of president bashar assad in order for him to leave the country let them have their new president as a lawyer for the saudis or the countries and even the west because i mean no such nation has stood up and back the resistance inside lebanon and even healthy and a new regime or the islamic republic of iran and such like. and in the few years that he was president since two thousand until now. but turning to egypt could the muslim brotherhood's attempts to install their own man as president put it down there on the country's drive for freedom that he's people of the challenges he's cross-talk guests on islam and democracy can co-exist full program is on their thirty g.m.t. . in the wake of america's so-called war on terror which effectively put the muslim brotherhood push the muslim brotherhood on the ground and. to the

party. and officially in the political landscape. i would be. no no no no no no reason for the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the idea of going to all of the nasa so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the view is getting is going is fact. and you bill. for internet security is finding great support among us law makers of our enhanced information gathering to combat cyber attacks and terrorism but freedom activists say could lead to wiretapping of private communication by the state that is going to expose washington's selective support of internet freedom. the u.s. government continue spending millions of dollars to support freedom of the internet

around the war but is it freedom for all we can leak switch to many has become the symbol of fear now freedom has been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because week each of the shocking news which embarrassed the american government in many ways we can leaks it comes to the enemy the u.s. has reportedly issued a secret indictment against julian assange the head of the website which leave hundreds of thousands of documents revealing an affair same details about wars in iraq and afghanistan five major u.s. financial institutions the seven master card pay pal western union and the bank of america have tried to economically strangle weak elites by blocking donations to the web site until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer in the state department he says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote but a feeler of u.s. policies in iraq the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars overseas on internet freedom giving tools and support

bloggers and journalists and online people around the world particularly in countries that we have difficulties with at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all that money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we can leaks i just work just as hard and spend probably more money trying to shut down free speech that it opposes was supporting free speech but it feels furthers america's own political goals overseas we call that a partnership but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also their sources critics say this administration has embarked on an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers in this culture with this administration is going after whistleblowers in a president a way we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i write self i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to. as a journalist the conversational security i'm talking all the hard work and

intelligence and the military community use of shock waves through the community while trying to stifle inconveniently said home the u.s. perceives the internet and social networking platforms as major tools for spreading democracy and spends millions of dollars to help people in the middle east and trying to get around iran and blocking firewalls at the same time ironically enough american companies provide bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites a lot of the tools you control that are used by so-called repressive governments are provided by american company but given citizens or corporations for better or worse talk about profit as their motivation the government however the american government thought about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many ways you can see in the uk with direction some argue that left uncontrolled the export of surveillance inside blocking tools by american companies could undermine beer in everything the same way as arms exports undermine peace

initiatives as far as u.s. government efforts to secure an air freedom there seem to be true kinds of freedoms freedom that they encourage and freedom that they punish but is there such a thing is true freedom and dentistry their reporting from washington r.t. . well the plan that cybersecurity and the work on his harley heels of the stop online piracy act and protect i.p.s. which both failed because of public outrage kendall berman from the center for democracy and technology he's the new bill they share their fate so it's a basic infringement of privacy. essentially what the bill does is it creates a structure whereby private companies are encouraged to monitor for cyber threat information that goes across their networks and then share that information with the government doesn't specify to whom in the government that information should be shared but the structure of the bill all likelihood would be that it would be shared primarily with the national security agency or another component of the

department of defense so we have a number of concerns with something like this bill that creates sort of a vast hole in the privacy laws to allow government to receive this kinds of information i think one of the lessons that we learned in the reaction. is that when congress tries to legislate on the things that are going to be a fact internet users experience the internet users are going to pay attention and bills you know like congressman rogers information on congress definitely could affect in a very serious way the internet experience and so you know people are starting to notice. still to come for you this are more accusations of pentagon meddling this time in yemen where the u.s. military runs itself being dragged into another bloody and escalating conflict. us an energy black hole in iraq that's bad that accuses the country from engine of

smuggling crude only abroad. now a group of two hundred u.s. marines have arrived in australia win a six month training deployment since their country's goal string its military influence in the asia pacific washington is to establish a rotational presence about two hundred thousand personnel in the country in the coming years and to talk more about this we're joined live now by new zealand based research in asia specialist tim beal thank you for joining us here on out here today why does the us believe it needs a greater military presence in the region do you think. not because of china i want to see the nicest faces right about the rise of china and is taking moves to change account of that. to some extent also influenced by the american national presence. but should reject play which is all to do with the rise of china that was trailing

its prime minister has said there are no u.s. military bases in australia and this will not change do you think there's any chance this stance might one day change. no i don't think so because all bases nowadays are not what they were in the past and she's probably. legally speaking quite right no american bases in fact there are american bases i'm bases you know so communication satellites nations and now we haven't really is going into dialogue this is in effect american base its name not have the legal status of the base in mind a pensioner twenty thirty years ago but substantially what it is so how will australia's role in helping the us to strengthen its military presence in the region affect its ties with other states in the asia pacific such as china for example china of course is a big one now i mean it's it's australia shares

a problem with all of the states in the region we have this fundamental problem all declining united states and winds in china and then we have all these football a country. ends. on australia new zealand what how do they have to work out how to cope with the australians what does moscow and governance is doing is wrong stupid i think. there's people in australia who are very worried about what is happening to australia is getting at. necessarily in conflict with china and you shine not militarizing car but china is a major economic partner so it can add all sorts of consequence. that washington has recently announced plans to build and cbus out skills in asia pacific on middle east into the european project really which is already opposed by russia will

countries in both of those regions welcome this thing. well they'll be pressured into it again they're very polish and the. host. is going to miss some places and you can become target in korea in case of conflict so again it's the same thing you see. these countries are coalition he getting themselves into this. relationship material long term deteriorating relationship in the united states and china and they really need to think more seriously about it. so where do you think this is going to lead ultimately then. well. who knows i mean. conflict in the future i think and so that is. going to be increasing likely the united states. war anxious about its position united states.

house is going to car which will which will fade away over time but for the next twenty thirty years he is going to be. an angel think the americans may feel that. they need to take military action in a certain stumble into that will walk into that. front line and in great distress at all the countries in the region. the other countries which are. close we think. you will get i think what is quite interesting is the the indian. standing clear of it now. all sorts of very complicated things going on ok we'll have to leave it there for there are

a certain age especially bill thank you for that. government is acquiring for a dentist a cheap deals on alcohol an effort to curb binge drinking it's a bargain prices in supermarkets are encouraging people to drink while but others saying prices won't help authorities either bend it now reports for some the consequences could be fatal. this is your average friday night now in britain is not yet midnight many people have already drunk well over the limit of what's considered binge drinking and now i joined the line. yeah take bites yeah. maybe a couple shots. fired maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of their liver disease in the

u.k. eleven and a half thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much well the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points of beer but even if you drink. nights so points that beer binge drinking according to experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get free come last orders for a very. few shots. an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol and by screwfix well there is a very great need to address they are called misuse issue in the united kingdom but

short of long term side effects on the short term there are issues around getting weight getting in trouble potentially putting yourself at physical risk or you know violence or something along those lines those are all short term issues that need to be addressed then you have the longer term health issues which are issues around heart disease cancer liver disease the government blamed supermarkets for selling booze rock bottom prices just twenty. pounds can buy you as many as forty cans of strong cider it now wants to ban these multi buy discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will force supermarkets to effectively double their prices on the cheap drinks but the industry's adamant it's not cost that's causing the trouble the heaviest rain because people drink problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred from drinking by price rises in france a minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers

and if there is a section of society likely to be polished it is the poor lowest income so it seems very unfair in a policy that's not actually going to be successful in tackling the problem drinkers at the moment that falls to the police that punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time a government claims ending bargain boozing would instantly cut crime and massively reduce alcohol related deaths but with the bulk of binge drinkers already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the town for the bar them from having another destructive night on the tiles either bennett's party number. one and that we have more stories that by catch your eye on our website at r.t. dot com hey sister look at what's lined up few there right now today and arms stand in india and leaked letter reveals the country's defense a two week despite billions of dollars spent on weaponry. dodging

honeytrap russian agent and. chapman is getting close to a member of president obama's cabinet more. the iraqi government has accused its sort on the scourge of meeting of illegally siphoning off billions of dollars worth of oil and smuggling it's abroad kurds have denied the allegations there which first surfaced when fuel to the central government halted due to a dock of payment and might rally from the antiwar groups because the village where he's there now is the legacy of the u.s. invasion the other producers in the north which is actually the easiest oil to extract in the country are not getting paid the southern oil fields richer are

still in disarray after the u.s. u.k. invasion in the billions hundreds of billions of pounds worth of infrastructure improvements gravel to extract that readily years before the troops pulled out they were talking then escalating this rhetoric up for civil war the country wasn't divided before but it is really divided now and this is not another one of those divisive tactics to split the country to two the problem with the two regions in iraq is they're actually affectively no four in amongst each other about all revenues this is the chaos there is the post-war plan for iraq it's the most laissez faire economy on the planet and this is exactly what the corporations want is its political disputes amongst the amongst the regions but no one's actually looking at the bigger picture which is the pillage of iraq by western private corporations. but our data from the flight recorders of the plane which crashed in western siberia on monday reportedly show that the pilot's decision to spray the

aircraft with antifreeze was the main cause of the accident according to a russian newspaper the ice forming inside moving parts of the phoenix aircraft hit the ground just minutes after takeoff nearly twelve hours and forty three on my mission to. rescue some of the plane's engines were functioning to the last moment an official three day period of mourning for the victims has been the first funerals expected to take place later today. three days of nonstop u.s. backed the hobbit in south yemen is left at least forty three suspected al qaeda militants dead last month washington intensified its support for yemeni government yes trikes killed both insurgents and civilians charles schmitz institute on human studies believes the u.s. is playing with fire but getting involved in yet another conflict what is the determination of who is the legitimate target. and you know it is because the

united states is the. military target how you determine where you are. right i think you know the danger is that the united states will be drawn into a counterinsurgency operation and i think that's where we're headed. you know distinction between you know somebody who is that i've got a terrorist are united states. and you know somebody who is this is not participating in a counterinsurgency inside of yemen is a very dangerous president. there are some other top stories from around the world . serbian president where is target has announced he is to step down to pave the way for early elections next month and she said to run again he's seen as a means of boosting these chances of returning to office. utada each in his life

and face a strong challenge russians can acknowledge six that date of the poll. six people have been killed after a bomb went off and northwest pakistan afghan border government officials said the device was planted inside of civilians in the library. targeted by militants in recent years. friendship police have launched a new wave of raids across the country resting ten new suspects someone orders from president nicolas sarkozy it follows the killing of seven people died. right extremists because he is currently engaged in a bitter presidential campaign was about to crack down radicalism in a country. well it's now join the occasion find out what's happening in the financial markets. actually it's this hour from the business there are loads you well buy orange is still selling and when i say about the global i could see the

markets and i was off of the us federal reserve signals less of a need to enforce. it easing super look at the russian markets we'll see how they're faring for this hour it's been a very disappointing day they haven't managed to see any green action all day and as far as the question mark is concerned kept throughout. the day and we've seen it double in the first quarter of twenty twelve and that as compared with the same period last year to put it in perspective for you it reached around thirty five billion dollars that's around the country so for the whole of twenty eleventh's is still a big biggest of the big problem the central banks are hoping that this problem will be resolved once a new government is formed in certainly be gone to watch as you can see biase s m i six and found this let's see how the stocks are also news in the world of the russian stocks today we've got ross hydro still strong in there around two and a half percent in negative territory this hour is where of course the two billion

dollars. to the states and to the bank has been. in there as they were up down up down about the price today we've also got after us is one this is all very exciting the company is subtle. and that's the first offer from the joint venture with reynolds in the sun so we want to watch this see how the variable is fairing that is still quite a mixed reaction in its performance against the u.s. dollar and the euro there is up against the year right down against the u.s. dollar we've got the euro zone but still down one thirty one seventy one five cards at this hour movements in the european markets and they've got their own set of agenda happening today they're awaiting an e.c.v. meeting that's going to be happening to see if there's going to be any more stimulus. in force by mario draghi the president as you can see the foot. well the dash really is a traction one point seven percent in negative territory is based on all we see how it is doing is still declining it's not moved so much it will actually be a bit of

a for the global market is that we know it's been taking center stage race that they keep on the topic of natural resources not despite all the efforts by the russian government to cut natural resource tendency local business days are getting even more addicted to the will to keep the late pope was a natural agency for financial studies this was seen among small and medium sized businesses the agency has poll people from around two thousand and fifty two percent said prices were the most important of all their companies and that's compared to forty seven percent a year ago and i was in on something completely different which took about barclay for a minute or two now i probably i.p.o. could take place in the russian market. because his top spot to my maker also says that they are prepared to offer up to ten percent of their shares the company estimates itself around one hundred million dollars. so that's

a long visit but this hour give you the latest update in about fifteen minutes time terry ok thanks very much that's the business is up next large. wealthy british style but it's not i'm not surprised to find.