with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines cars a report on. the prospects of years of war and mutual destruction russia's foreign minister warns against arming syrian rebels saying it would topple president assad but only lead to a protracted and bloody conflict. flexing its military muscle the first contingent of u.s. troops not in australia as america looks to establish its dominance across the asia pacific and keep tabs on china. and calls for last orders on cheap supermarket alcohol in the u.k. been streaking on the rise the government vows to ban multi by discounts and enough for it to curb the growing problem.

it's three pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you via phone use now wait with our top story good to have you with us we begin with the friends of syria group which is actively harming kofi annan its efforts to resolve the syrian conflict in a peaceful way so says russian foreign minister circular profe he believes the group's plans and the pledges only encourages violence center aimed at persuading the rebels not to join peace talks but that as the regime in damascus directs its forces back to base in preparation for an april tenth cease fire polis here now reports a team of united nations personnel has songs of arriving in syria and this is to pave the way for monitors that will be they took over the sea on april tenth ceasefire agreement now that agreement was brokered by the former u.n. . coffee and and it includes some six points and among those points are the

withdrawal of syrian troops from cities the laying 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 that in the more volatile cities the troops have moved to the perimeter and in the palace at least the troops have actually moved back to their bases and all of that coming to leak a head 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 review 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 it here today side of the green meant they may can be in a real peace in syria we've heard from the united states of a threatening the regime with the u.n. security council action the american ambassador to the united nations used words

such as urgent and serious consequences and here the referral was to the syrian government is greater and here today 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's all 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 and 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. and that the result

would only be fully fledged civil war in iraq 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 move violence vine moves such as these by the friends of syria. independent researcher believes to friends of syria a blank check for rebels but only wipe out any desire they might have to resolve the conflict peacefully. how could we expect that the armed insurgents know put down their arms and they get so much support from from the outside from saudi arabia from qatar from turkey us and so on getting so many signals. so many forces from the outside are on their side they have an interest to make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the violence there will be silence and counter actions in order to to cause

harm to mention what happened to libya state that is falling apart. if the syrian national council or the so-called free syrian army. actually succeed to take over then we will most likely face a very serious series of or in syria overthe all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood salafi extremists representatives of certain minorities etc. now turning to egypt the muslim brotherhood attempts to install their own man as president dampener on the country's drive for freedom or she's peter the veldt challenges his cross talk on whether islam and democracy can coexist thought program later this hour for you at what's happening. in the wake of america's so-called war on courier which effectively the muslim brotherhood pushed the muslim brotherhood underground and. part of.

an official in the political landscape. no no no no no no raise over 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 bill is going is going the facts. right. american marines have arrived in australia on a six month training deployment as the u.s. goal soars its military influence in the asia pacific once and it is established rotational presence of up to twenty five hundred personnel there in the coming years and although australia's government says they'll be no military bases set up on the contrary some analysts claim the current training hobbs' are not much different this. may not have the legal.

basis as you might imagine and security has to go socially what is the suv united states is going about right now and is taking moves. to counter that the danger is i think that the americans may feel. a need to take military action and maybe some can stumble into their people. and call the countries in the region australia. countries. if those. bases will get. and while america expands its worldwide presence it's also trying to secure the world wide web the us congress examines a new aimed at tackling cyber terror back to its warn it could become a license for snooping by the state. first u.k.

government is calling for an end to deals on alcohol an effort to curb in strange thing they say bargain prices and supermarkets are encouraging people to drink more others say increasing prices won't help surtees ivor bennett now reports her son consequences could be fatal. this is your average friday night out in britain is not yet midnight but many people have already joy. well over the limit it was considered to be drinking the money now i drink about people in the buying on time because he's maybe. fifty six yeah take bites. maybe a couple shots at about. clients maybe fifty sixty it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths for a liver disease in the u.k. eleven in the heart 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 being but even if you drink well you know it's so points appear to be pains drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get three can last what is already a very. gender. fifty points. almost a few shops example. that you can cut an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol price critics well there is a very great need to address the alcohol misuse issue in the united kingdom the short and long term side of his on the short term you know the 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 to 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 multiparty discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will force super. markets to effectively double their prices on the cheap drinks but the industry's adamant it's not cost that's causing the trouble to have your strongest people drink problematic levels was called a least likely to be to children killed by price rises would in fact the new needed plus would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers and if there is a section of society likely to be harvested it's the poor it's those are the 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 the punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the 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 term that will bar them from having another destructive night on the tiles either bennett artsy london. there or member we have many more stories that might catch your eye on line at our team dot com here's a taste of what find out for you there today america's ambassador to brussels is slammed as arrogant for saying the u.s. will accept no limits to its missile defense shield spryte objections from moscow. doesn't arm scandal in india as a little earner reveals the country's defenses are too weak that's despite billions

of dollars spent on weaponry and out more at r t. a new bill for internet security is finding greater support among u.s. lawmakers that would allow it to enhance information gathering to combat cyber attacks and terrorism but. activists say it could lead to wiretapping of private communication by the state party is going to can explore its washington selective support of internet freedom. the us government continues spending millions of dollars to support freedom of your net around the world but is it freedom for all week he leaks which to many has become the symbol of fear now freedom has been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because we teach published documents which embarrass the

american government in many ways we can expect comes the enemy the u.s. has reportedly issued a secret indictment against julian a songe the head of the website we should leave tunbridge of thousands of documents revealing embarrassing details about wars in iraq and afghanistan five major u.s. financial institutions he said master card pay pal western union and the bank of america have tried to economically strangle we here lease by blocking donations to the web site until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer in the state department that he says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote about the 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 to 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 the money supporting those bloggers it has found

internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of weekly leaks i just work just as hard and spend probably more money trying to shut down for a speech that it opposes while supporting free speech that 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 is involved going to an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers in this culture where this administration is going after. lowers in a president a way we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i myself i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to as a journalist to call this national security i'm talking all the time with people that work in the intelligence that the military community has said shockwave through the community while trying to stifle inconvenient belief 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 here and block the 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 in control that are used by so-called repressive governments are provided by american company big differences or corporations for better or worse talk about profit as their motivation the government of however the american government talks about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many ways he changed in the opposite direction some argue that left uncontrolled the export of surveillance and side blocking tools by american companies could undermine their everyday in the same way as arms exports undermine peace initiatives as far as u.s. government efforts to secure our freedom there seem to be two kinds of freedoms freedom that they encourage and freedom that they punish but is there such a thing is to freedoms and panic stricken reporting from washington party. of the

plan cybersecurity law comes hard on the heels of the stop online piracy act and protect ip act which both failed because of public outrage candle berman from the center for democracy and technology believes the new bill may share their fate as 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 law to allow government to receive those kinds of information i think one of the lessons that we learned in their reaction to it. 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 bills on congress definitely could act in a very serious way the internet experience and so you know we know what people are starting to notice looks decision not to spray which are playing with antifreeze was the most probable cause of monday's air crash in western siberia that's the belief of investigators who are examining down from the black box flight recorders the aircraft hit the ground just minutes after takeoff with only twelve of the forty three on board managing to survive it was also revealed that the plane's engines were functioning up until the last moment an official three day period of mourning for the victims has begun the first few rolls taking place today. but more than three days of nonstop u.s.

backed air bombardment in south yemen has left at least forty three suspected al qaeda militants dead last month washington intensified its support for yemeni government airstrikes that killed both insurgents and civilians smith the american institution and given the saudis believes the u.s. is playing with fire by getting involved in yet another conflict. what is the determination of who is the legitimate target and not. just because the united states is that what it. is a military target you know you determine what you are going to hear a few issues the. truth. and 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. he noticed engine between you know somebody who's a terrorist or united states. and you know somebody who is this is what is being in a counterinsurgency inside of you know there's

a very dangerous president. looking now at some other world news for you this hour six people have been killed after a bomb went off in northwest pakistan near the afghan border the government officials said the devices planted inside of that civilians and. then repeatedly targeted by militants in recent years. serbian president party status has announced he's just stepped down to pave the way for early elections next month in which he's set to run again but who is seen as a means of bolstering his chances of returning to office pro e.u. tabish is likely to face a strong challenge from nationalist candidate thomas new college which may have a sixth probability. french police have launched a new wave of raids across the country arresting ten is the most suspects acting on orders from president nicolas sarkozy it follows the killing of seven people

mohamed merah an al qaeda inspired extremist sarkozy is currently engaged in a bitter presidential campaign and has found a crackdown on radicalism in the country. and in seoul a protest against north korea's pursuit of military might has turned into a clash with police a skirmish broke out after demonstrators attempted to burn the door national flag which. instantly ists was a single instantly extinguished by also search wise an anti north korean sentiment in the south. bronx controversial satellite launch expected next week north claims it will serve purely peaceful purposes on nato and its allies view it as described missile test. israel as prime minister benjamin netanyahu has criticized economic sanctions as an ineffective tool against your branch nuclear program but follows comments from russia's foreign ministry that the lengthy i.a.e.a. inspections showed no evidence that iran breached the nonproliferation agreement

sure of five problems school of oriental and african studies in london says the case against iran is built on software logic. c i e concerned as it is stated in all it's too poor since two thousand and three is that i cannot confirm that iran does not have any intention to build nuclear weapons and that is basically trying to prove a negative which is logically impossible you cannot prove that somebody does not want to do something and you to case of iran iran has allowed. time and again in the country a problem with iran seems to be its uranium enrichment program which is iran's inalienable right to nonproliferation treaty article thought and that seems to be the basis of all the problems that the us has. a us once iran to give up

its uranium enrichment program altogether and only import nuclear fuel which is something that iran cannot accept and should not accept and i don't think that will accept in the future. well spring is traditionally the time of year when the weather he'd so the sun comes out and start a number of places are finding themselves hit by arctic conditions including russia's far eastern region where a powerful snow psycho has caused travel chaos airports have been closed very scarce old and road shot speeds have reached up to thirty meters per second but cars have been getting stuck in the snow forecasters say the extreme weather is expected to continue for the next few days and earlier this week almost seven hundred first sermon had to be rescued from waters to the east of san jose and after becoming stranded on ice for. drawing cady and find out

what's happening on the world's markets cady's howard indices looking for a nice day you know what with still saying a lot of it really is the theme of the day started off in asia we've got europe down now u.s. stock futures are also pointing downwards. this all came after the u.s. federal reserve signaled less of a need to stimulate the economy with the pointed easing of bankers in the region just did not think the economy needed it now the problem with this is that it is affecting the globe's appetite for risk and therefore affecting the russian market so let's see how they're faring this hour i can tell you they are. into negative territory now as well is that we're seeing capital outflow doubling in the first quarter of twenty twelve and that's compared to the same period last year now it reached around thirty five billion dollars that's almost half of what the country saw for the whole of twenty and eleven now the central bank is hoping that the trend will reverse once the government is put into place a new government may have

a look at the stocks and see who's really suffering at this hour. but also again is that as you can see it is this sea of bread is no surprise it's we've got down. so reports they're going to be selling two billion dollars of it share with the b. now that deal has actually been postponed that's affecting investors as well and. also down to announce the new. with the new stand as well that's exciting stuff occurrences see how the euro dollar is performing it's no surprise that is down it's been down for much of the trading day want to seven say we've got mixed reviews for the ruble this loosing against the us dollar and gaining against the euro right now the european markets they cut their own set of news coming out today the e.c.b. is set to me and it's not expected that they're going to be setting any kind of

agenda for more stimulus and it's expected that the interest rates will remain at a record low of one percent so as you can see investors lackluster. then down boyle is also declining the latest news i've been hearing about is coming from abu dhabi they've actually raised their official selling price for the march oil prices by flies this sounds a bit of a concern as you can see oil prices are down this hour but if you look at the prices per hour that's still very high in. the markets let's talk about that year was those days because you know the russian government very much dependent on these and we're focusing on a local business that actually because they're partly getting more of a kid would you believe now this is all come from a poll from the national agency for financial studies now they say small and medium sized businesses are really addicted the agency has told people from around two

thousand and fifty two percent said that war material prices were the most important factor for their companies and that's compared to forty seven percent last year so even further out even the. the government is that the guy called this problem. all play for him and it was a everyone loves that and the set to be an ip i come into play in the russian market soon as. the country's top sparkling wine maker also preparing to tempt. the company estimates is at around one hundred million dollars so as much as i love buckley i can't really fault that kind of money and my mother's need for today i'm done and dusted off about tomorrow dimitris going to keep me informed denise and the next fifteen minutes all right katie thanks for about today. we're going to take a short break here on our t. and i'll be back with today's top stories don't go away.

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