the first us marines reach australia as america's military moves in the asia pacific region to challenge time does growing influence. russia warns against arming the syrian rebels with peace efforts underway saying they kept topple president also and it will only lead to carnage. and the hague's rejection of palestinian requests to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on their territory throws doubt over the court's partiality.

live from our studios in the central moscow you're watching r t with me and he sonali our top story the first u.s. marines have arrived in australia as america boost its military presence in the asia pacific region more than two thousand personnel will be deployed there over the next few years and adds to america's military footprint in such countries as the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard a new zealand based tim beal says hospitality may backfire on the nations. of the sea the united states and this is why about china and taking. into account that now we have canary is going into. place it's may not have leading season. finale pagination several years ago but. you have this fundamental problem all declining united states and rising china and

then you had all these countries. red lens. on australia new zealand what to do they have to work out how to cope in this country is our foolishly getting themselves into this. relationship material long term generating nation shipped in the united states and china and then really need to think more seriously about it. well russia is accusing a group of western and arab states who are supporting the syrian opposition of undermining peace efforts gulf nations are calling for weapons to be given to the rebels but moscow says the opposition will never defeat the army even if it's arms to the teeth i mean he's correspondent polls here to tell us more she now joins us live from tel aviv paula the comments made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov what exactly triggered the. movies

comments by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov coming just as the u.s. secretive state hillary clinton has restraints to the united states position that they want the syrian president bashar assad to step down and step down immediately against the backdrop ongoing peace talks clinton say that the u.s. would want to decide to step down in any situation and the sooner the better now at the same time we are witnessing increasing support for the opposition inside syria with the friends of syria replating commitment and support to cripple fighters we hearing from the gulf nations from qatar and saudi arabia that they are willing to pay several million dollars each month in salaries to rebel fighters at the same time the united states says it is prepaid she supplied communications equipment to these whistle fighters the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says one of this undermines peace efforts on the go those peace efforts of course initiated by the

former u.n. chief kofi annan the process is that they are hampering efforts because they are encouraging the parties to engage in fighting and not engage in and not engage in peace at the same time we witnessing people ignoring the course of talks and rather focusing on the costs of war in response to the gulf nations who are for the rebel fighters to arm themselves so good rob had this to say. the eat it's clear as day that if the opposite. arm to the chief he will not defeat the syrian armed forces but instead the slaughter mutual killings for many many years. told these comments coming while the clock ticks towards the agreed april tenth deadline to start a ceasefire process how is that implementation progressing. what we've heard from the syrian government that they have actually started implementing the conditions for the scorpion and peace plan that they have begun with bringing

the troops from more volatile cities where the troops are moving to the perimeter and yukon the cities we've actually seen some of the troops returning to the army bases but according to this cease fire implementation off to a full details beyond the opposition will have forty eight hours in which they will have to cease their own hostilities might be hearing from the syrian regime is that while they are committed they need to be the same kind of commitment coming forth from the opposition in terms of wanting to see this violence and at the same time though proper day to day when say we are seeing violence unstable syrian cities so we do have violence being perpetrated by both sides against the backdrop of these moves towards some kind of peace deal. right i mean his her spawn a whole series forty miles from my photography thanks for that update. now benjamin sat from the center of research in globalization believes the price is the syrian opposition gas from foreign supporters is

a strong to not lay down arms. getting so many singles. so many forces from the outside are on their side why would they have an interest to make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the violence they will. come to actions. to cause foreign intervention we saw what happened in afghanistan after the us intervention we saw what happened to iraq we saw what happened to libya state that is falling apart now. if. syrian national council of so-called free syrian army will actually succeed to take over the. most likely face. very seriously with syria with all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood

salafi extremists representatives of certain minorities. in egypt the islamists the muslim brotherhood is now feeling its presidential candidate spite widespread condemnation. later argues whether it could put a damper on the country's dr prager years but ahead at three pm g.m.t. . in the wake of america's so-called war on terror which. the muslim brotherhood push the muslim brotherhood. part of. an official political landscape. i would. no no no no. but the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the era of the nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the bill is going is going it's fact. well the international

criminal court has turned down palestinian request to investigate a lesser israeli war crimes on their lands official reason for the rejection is that palestine is not a un recognized state let's go live now to jerusalem and jeff however who's a co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions thanks for being with us mr helper i'd like to begin with asking you this the palestinian authority has relations with over a hundred and thirty governments and was granted observer entity status by the un why should a lack of statehood recognition be enough reason to not investigate what could be serious crimes here. well that's exactly the problem the palestinians exist in a kind of a limbo because they're not a state they don't have access to all the instruments of international law or of the u.n. system but at the same time. international law that doesn't apply to the occupied

territories it's intended to protect them especially the fourth geneva convention is not enforced by the international community so on the one hand they don't have the instruments to protect themselves and the other hand the international community doesn't accept its responsibility to a for protection for the palestinians and it's the cutest problem we have an international law and human rights and that is that the instruments of law exist the courts exist the institutions exist but the ability or the will to implement international on governments like israel in occupation is completely missing and then you get peoples like the palestinians because they don't have a state are locked in a situation where they're completely the pendent on their own oppressors in order to try to protect in advance themselves. but there are worries that this is

a victim here the big problem here yes i just want to touch on one thing while you're mentioning the courts i want to talk about their impartiality obviously this decision is going to cast some kind of sato over the war crimes court's independence and the way they conduct their cases so you think its credibility might really be under threat here. well i think it's credibility certainly under threat look in a way it's also paul because the way the international system is structured only states have a status now the palestinians last september went to the united nations to ask for a status membership as a state and the united states. declared that it would veto bad in the security council nevertheless are still a chance because if they go back to the general assembly they could conceivably get a new verb for status it's upgraded from what they have to be it might give them access to the international courts but probably the palestinians is that occupation

was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting one to three years until it's over this is a forty five year occupation and international law simply isn't geared towards dealing with it so the fact that the palestinians aren't a state i think. completely destroys their chance to use international law and if in fact these millions of people are left without any to france or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. and then also when we saw the polish time voted into your nasca which of course isn't. some might say as important as the security council they were literally part of this by the united states for all their funding called out how does that play into this. not only were

they punished but unesco was. a program that deals with millions of needy people all over the world was cut off financially by the united states i think that the palestinians have a very key role in the international system and they're the ones that are the test case of whether or not international law really has any relevance if it can really address the needs of oppressed people whether or not the big powers that really have the military power like the united states can be made to do to protect the interests of the weak. and in a sense if the palestinians lose this if the op your patient wins and the international community is powerless to defend him or the implemented national law i think it sends a chilling message to oppressed peoples everywhere in the world not only to the

palestinians the palestinians are the epitome of this problem but i think it's a problem that's facing the international community and not only the palestinian right of how far co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions thank you very much for your analysis very interesting off there live from to receive them. well american lawmakers are having another crack at regulating the internet despite the recent embarrassing climbdown when public outrage saw piracy clan sells a cyber security bill aims now to combat hacker attacks like those which have plagued governments and financial websites but is going it's to clam reports privacy activists are worried that their fears over piracy privacy are now being realized. the u.s. government continues spending millions of dollars to support freedom of year and around the war but is it freedom for all we keep leaks which to many has become the

symbol of fear now freedom has been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because we can each publish documents which embarrass the american government in many ways we can fix it comes the enemy the u.s. has reportedly issued a secret indictment against julian assange the head of the website which leaves hundreds of thousands of documents revealing embarrassing 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 weiqi least 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 about those failure 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 the money supporting bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we can leak so just we're just as hard and spent probably more money trying to shut down free speech that it opposes what's supporting free speech but it feels furthers america's own political. 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 where this administration is going after whistleblowers in an unprecedented 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 of course national security i'm talking all the time with people that work in the intelligence but the military community has sent shock waves through the community while trying to stifle inconvenient beliefs 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 fire was 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 the giver and citizens of corporations for better or worse talk about profit as their motivation the government oh however the american government talks about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many ways you can go in the opposite 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 the us government efforts to secure a air 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 too freedoms and panic stricken reporting from washington r.t. . cando berman from the center for democracy and technology explain to our t. how loopholes in the new bill make it a threat to privacy and internet freedom. essentially what the bill does is it creates a structure whereby private companies are encouraged to monitor first 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 this kinds of information i think one of the lessons that we learned in the reactions of sopa and

pipa is that when congress tries to legislate on the things that are going to a fact internet users experience the internet users are going to pay attention and bills you know like congressman rogers bill in information sharing bells on congress definitely could affect in a very serious way the internet experience and so you know we know people are starting to notice. why from moscow soon report for you from britain where there is having a temple that's proving terminal against weighing over how to call time on the country's legal brains drinking culture as we discovered during the night on the tiles in the u.k. . the decision not to do ice a russian passenger plane is now considered the most likely cause of the crash in western siberia their craft came down just minutes after takeoff killing thirty one

of the forty three people including all the crew doctors are fighting to save the twelve critically ill survivors investigators say the plane's engines were functioning when the plane hit the ground. i three day period of mourning for the victims has begun with the first funeral taking place today. and we will continue to keep across developments into the plane crash in western siberia for you and we have more stories on line including how to handle the president trying. to speak to all of you. and to have a microphone that i can see. to look for the transcript of this to let me know if you see him. last week incidentally when a rather extensive conversation between him and russia's president jimmy carter.

and the american ambassadors are again russia's foreign minister rounds on the u.s. envoy in moscow for saying european missile plans on regardless of what other nations think. and enough is enough for a seventy seven year old greek pensioner who kills himself in an apparent financial desperation this tragic story is on our t.v. dot com and later we'll also hear from our correspondent for more on this story. when suffering a nasty hangover from a nationwide bargain basement binge low cost booze is being blamed for a spike in alcohol related deaths and lawmakers think tackling supermarkets sales is the solution but both the industry and drinkers say price won't put them on the side of bennett explains. the zero bridge brought you know in which he's not yet but many people have already

drawn one would believe it was considered binge drinking in the now i drink about that one time because you know it's been six a m. . yeah checkpoints yeah maybe a couple shops just about. fires maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of their from a 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 a down to alcoholism 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 in the nights so four points of beer that we binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get

three can last orders for a very. gender africom or. the parts. you shop for example. and you can quote an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol by screwfix where there is a very great need to address the 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 blames supermarkets for selling booze that rock bottom prices just twenty pounds can buy you as many as forty cans of strong cider it now wants to ban these multi by discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will pull supermarkets to effectively

double their prices on the cheap piece drinks at the industry's adamant it's not cost that's causing the trouble the heaviest rain because people who drink problematic level. a least likely to be to chitral drinking but price rises would infer that the minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers live there is a section of society likely to be holistic it's the poor it's 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 for the bar them from having another destructive knowledge of the tiles

either bennett's. own brief look now at some other world headlines having clashes between gunmen in the western libyan city the war or have killed at least four people and injured several others a member of the national transitional council says the situation is critical in the city which has been hit by rockets from nearby towns in the past week one hundred fifty people have died almost four hundred others wounded in clashes between rival in the south. transfers back to militants have been seized in several police raids in france a day after charges were filed against thirteen other alleged terrorists president sarkozy pledged to take a tougher line to laugh shooting dead four people at a school and the murder of three french soldiers although there's a lot over the radical and team of gratian policies being promoted by french leaders. and there's twister terror in taxes as this vicious

tornado ripped through the state causing more than a dozen injuries it's like right homes as well as overturning and crushing vehicles in its path april is the peak of the storm season in the u.s. a chance to. get the latest now from the media the business ask and it's all cell today on the markets isn't it and that is absolutely true and so after minutes were released on the latest fed meeting which basically suggested that there won't be any good more quantitative easing no more monetary stimulus in russia the mood is dampened by the latest figures on capital outflow so you look at them russia has seen double in the first quarter of twenty twelve compared to the same period last year now reached around thirty five billion dollars that's almost half of what the country saw for the whole year of two thousand and eleven so it will bank hopes that the trend will reverse as soon as may after the new government

is formed. also look at how the markets really are taking this news from the fed and from the russian government of course will describe the outflow as you can see in the very bearish mood down two point nine percent of my sixty two point six percent signal what's moving the my six rows hydro the hydro power plant giant is down three point seven percent on news that it's two billion dollars share transferred to b.b. is. postponed now m.k. the mind has reversed the earlier games it's now down one percent one of the few gainers and a very slim gain of just a third of a percent that's after visors a preferred shares the russian carmaker here is releasing its first new model since its team up with revenues. over in europe the picture is pretty much the same but we're looking at currencies right now and we are seeing that the euro is weakening versus the dollar whereas the ruble has lost

a lot around one percent even more than that against the greenback and it's gaining around half a percent versus the here. and now as take a look at those european markets figures that pussy is down one percent the dax one point seven percent gloomy mood still a selling over after the fed meeting because everyone hopes were of course that we would see some kind of monetary stimulus coming from the united states although the last three or four meetings really suggested otherwise also european central bank has kept the key benchmark rates stable at one percent. and now it's moved to commodities light sweet and brant are continuing to decline and this is also not providing any support neither to the russian currency nor the russian market. i despite all the efforts of the russian government to cut natural resource dependency local businesses say it's only

getting worse according to a poll of around two thousand small and medium sized businesses fifty two percent said the rule material prices were the most important factor to their companies not impaired to forty seven percent a year ago. and it probably i.p.o. could take place in the russian market as soon as this month's country's top sparkling wine make up but i will do source says it's preparing to offer up to ten percent of its shares the company's estimates itself to be worth around one hundred maybe a little so. that's the way the markets look the saudis are right many thanks me three of you of course we're back this time next hour with mark looking forward to that when take a short break here in artsy and i'll be back with the have nots stay with.

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