you know it's an r t the first u.s. marines reach the strayer as america's military moves in on the asia pacific region to challenge china's growing influence. deadly debt burden the greek pensioner shoots him selfe in front of parliament in athens amid a soaring suicide rate and growing financial desperation across the e.u. . and russia was against arming the syrian rebels with peace efforts underway saying they can't topple president assad and it will only lead to carnage.

welcome it's eight pm wednesday evening here in moscow this is a scene my name's kevin know it all top story than the first u.s. marines have arrived in australia as america boosts its military presence in asia pacific region more than two thousand personnel are said to be deployed there over the next few years and it adds to the america's military footprint in such countries as the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard let's get across this moving story tonight our team. has got the details in new york hi there how far are these american military deployments going to go what do we know. well they are just beginning now but it seems to be going in the plans are for to go further and further into australia kevin as you mentioned the first american troops the first group of these two hundred of them have arrived in australia but a total of twenty five hundred american troops are expected to arrive in australia

by twenty sixteen that this part of a bilateral defense agreement the two countries and now it's. part of that agreement also includes an increased presence of u.s. warships and military aircraft including the fifty two bombers to operate from australia's bases but of course this is part of a bigger plan that you was president barack obama announced in january in which he said the u.s. has a new strategy of hitting its defense to the asia pacific mr obama said the plan is aimed at countering china's growing military and economic influence he also said it would also counter potential attempts by beijing to block u.s. capabilities and areas such as south china china sea now there are forty seven thousand u.s. troops stationed in japan twenty thousand american troops stationed in south korea

with the u.s. maintains bases in both of those areas additionally washington recently announced plans to build a military defense shield in asia and the middle east clearly none of this news is making china any happy because as you mentioned all of this defense from the u.s. is being built up in its backyard now back in january after president obama announced his quote unquote defense pivot plan china released a statement basically telling warning the u.s. to be careful with its words and its actions in a statement released by the ministry ministry of defense china called america's accusations baseless and said it would close. sleep served the impact of america's military in the asia pacific so this latest step is not going to make china happy the very least we'll see what their response is bite as we're reporting now on how thin reporting the u.s.

is moving forward with building up its military presence in china's backyard a correspondent in new york thanks for a preview sub today will asia times rather correspond pepe escobar told us that to beijing is well aware of what's going on in his backyard and won't put up with it there's only one thing about this whole thing which is he certainly if not for arresting china or the other way around rather caressing but it chinese know if they know this is a american cultural off the western pacific in the south china sea india will have their countermeasures in place of course china doesn't have an expansionist strategy in the south china sea now they're facing a you where expansionist strategy in their own backyard so they're countermeasures being basically defensive measures but it's not that the trainees needed them or is going to start attacking boats in the south china sea but this is what some of the

o.t.s. of freaks of the rhetoric on their wishful thinking actually their thoughts are probably escobar james call but we times editor of the colbert report news website he explained to us that r t why the asia pacific nations is siding with the us and not china. it's a case of real politic and i think that there are certain governments that believe that they can they can benefit from this and they are likely to side with whoever is going to be in the big picture really perceived to be is going to be eventual winner in this type of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has a clear superiority when it comes to conventional. assets for example little on cyber weapons and all of the other tools of warfare that are being deployed in unmanned aerial vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously the dominant player here and a lot of governments will shake hands with the devil as it were even if they don't agree with all of us policies they'll certainly go along with it in order to get certain kickbacks on the diplomatic side. and watching r.t.

insurable casting live from moscow thanks for your company the head the hague projection of public figures requests to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on the territory throwing doubt over the court's impartiality we've got a report on that also reporting to you from britain where how they get to pull it is proving terminal but opinion swaying over how to call time on the country's lethal binge drinking culture of the. next those struggling with money has proven to be unbearable burden for one great pension and shot himself dead in a square in central athens is just one of a string of suicides indeed across the e.u. caused by financial desperation and the continuing. measures. for a set of reports from brussels. on the bigger picture it is a symbol of the just a ration on the street of the ordinary people across the e.u. who is suffering from all the a steady cuts in the financial difficulties other countries are going through at

the moment the seventy seven year old man before shooting himself in front of parliament office has that he would be leaving so as not to leave debt with his children and this is a sentiment that is echoed by a lot of people may be suffering a silently or they may not be protesting out of the streets or are killing themselves but it is certainly a sentiment that is reflected across the e.u. and it's not just in greece this country is seeing a rise in the suicide rates but also in italy there have been a string of recent to suicides directly linked to their financial problems we've seen a seventy eight year old woman who threw herself off of the balcony of her third floor flat and she said this was because she had said before that that this was because of the cuts in her pension this was the reason that her son had given to those who had been asking and this is again the interesting thing happening here is these suicides are directly linked to the financial crisis and this is a message that they're trying to get their leaders to understand those who are trying who are making these decisions for them and again austerity cuts are still

being tried to push being pushed through by leaders of these countries in order to get their accounts in accordance with what the e.u. wants it to end the cycle of the sovereign debt crisis however you know greece is the latest target had received bailout with eyes are still on the trees like italy and spain portugal the question being asked of them is my eyes this is the next to receive another bailout which country is going to go downwards spiral again and there were reports from the european commission of a showing of the possibility of a stagnation or another recession coming this year or in the near future and so it's very it's clearly not the end of seeing the cycle of the spill. enough years and unfortunately this time around peace and suicides is one. of the. well there are more details for you of this extremely sad and very public suicide in greece on our web site r.t. dot com with accounts from the scene where money pressures just became too much for

this elderly man have been talking about where shop on book is wonder what it says about the country it's on our website. russia is accusing a group of western and arab states who 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 armed to the teeth a middle east correspondent paula sleep brings you up to date. these comments by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov come just as the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has restraints to the united states position that they want the syrian president bashar assad to step down immediately against the backdrop of the ongoing peace talks which in turn say that they do waste trying to decide whether to step down in any situation and the sooner the better now at the same time we are witnessing getting support for the opposition inside syria with the brains of syria iraq many of the aging commitment and support to rebel

fighters we carry from the gulf nations on qatar and saudi arabia that they are willing to pay several million dollars each month in salaries to rebel fighters the pashtun 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 are not in the process that they are hampering the peace if it's because they're encouraging the parties to engage in fighting and not engage in peace in response to the gulf nations court for the rebel fighters to arm themselves so good rob had this to say yes. it's clear as day that if the opposition is armed to the chief it will not defeat the syrian armed forces but instead will be slaughtered killings for many many years we've moved from the syrian government that they have actually started implementing the conversations for the scorpion and peace plan that there has begun with green day troops from their volatile cities with the

unity to the perimeter and encourage 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 pretty tense the armed opposition will have forty eight hours in which they will have to cease their own hostilities and what we're hearing from the syrian regime is that while they are committed they needs to be the same kind of commitment coming forth from the opposition in terms of wanting to see this violence and. well apart from the hostilities on the ground there's also a media war too over syria fed by reports of bloodshed that are difficult to verify let's talk more about this new delhi high she's a former al-jazeera television correspondent joining us on the line live from beirut there you claimed to witness covert efforts by your former network to support the opposition in syria we have reported on this before bring us up to date briefly what did you mean by that remind of you. actually.

no it was not i know i resigned like a month ago and that was because of the channel's way of covering the whole lot of spring criticize the situation in syria and back again each side of the channel was taking a certain stance on and one on one side it was supporting meddling into into each detail and being the syrian revolution and all at the same time it was kind of gobbling up what's going on in factoring in not showing really what's what's happening here also we can differentiate between the arabic and the english channels because each one was speaking to a kind of a different approach what this was in general there was the reasons why i left because there was kind of a lack of professionalism and at the same time i felt as a as a journalist i really pushed to do my job for the sake of certain states agenda which is gotta get ugly as

a seasoned journalist you surprised by the scale of what appears to be happening and how what how widespread were these efforts that you're talking about. actually being i joined al jazeera by begin the beginning of two thousand and eleven the first thing i did was going to libya and covering lucia probably getting you know things were going on smoothly and normally you know it was the first experience of such and such places i mean revolutions because i've covered wars before but not a revolution well you know when we came back from libya after all a lot resolder there it was you know covering the syrian crisis and here things started to be clearer and more you know a lot of so you know we went through the borders between lebanon and syria and it was normal that we should say what we are seeing. it was. obvious that there was

militants firing from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that was actually a way from the borders like three kilometers about time we were able to spot this militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the china refused to pictures. while i was asked to forget about these militants i was asked to leave the whole area back to beirut and ali the channel was also please correct me if i'm wrong was also helping the. rebels the opposition get their message back to the station how are they doing that. i'm actually you know there are several ways and means by the way i'm going to one who has his own agenda have the right to do whatever he wants as far as he's saying that he's serving this gender you're not going to say i'm really a professional. impartial frogs of whatever objective and of the same time you are serving an agenda what happened that you know they were helping be those it's what

the government wants it what it's like cut that was. you know those began soem satellite. communication tools are put out this is so they were entering them snuggling them into the into syria from the borders from lebanon as i knew from you know people with. the organization what i used to work in the media outlet i used to work for. one of the people who was given like fifty thousand dollars at the beginning of the who are going to smuggle. so-called you know they called it began which is used for satellite communication in order to show the picture from inside so this is one of the things that the channel you know how did the beginning got there before lucia's of lucian and i said it's their right to do whatever they want well you know i was right i was never saying that they are serving or something i joined our we've heard your allegations there but generally more generally what

what effect does media coverage have. we've seen unfolding in syria how is it affecting the syria conflict has it helping it unfold or not. let me be clear regarding media coverage of city of the media the media coverage of syria you know showed in a very clear way that the arab media precised later on will talk about the worst of all the other media precisely is divided it's kind of a farce is a media heechee each party have his own media that is showing part of the reality i can see it's not a matter of be lying to people rather than showing half of the reality and then leaving the order how and this is you know this is what our gender agendas want so the problem is people are being misled by media only we are not there on both sides are not saying on one side on both sides people are being misled by media and one side you know it's kind of concentrating on showing that the army as killing people

on civilians on innocent people etc etc etc without showing that there are militants also fighting the army and killing civilians from garden sides lot of those who support the syrian regime at the same pound the. media are also lost trying to show that they are only militants who are fighting the regime and they were not people who are asking for freedom and reforms in the country ali thanks for taking the time to build a program journalist and from across the border with syria television thank you. egypt's the islamist muslim brotherhood snowfield is presidential candidate despite widespread condemnation artist cross-talk program later tonight i guess whether it could put a damper on the country's drive for freedom here's what's ahead for you at seven pm g.m.t. . in the wake of america's so-called war on terror which effectively put the muslim brotherhood push the muslim brotherhood underground and. close to

the part of being banned except in officially in the political landscape nonetheless around. i. no no no no first the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the era of. so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the below he's getting his getting these facts. the decision not to d.i.'s russian passenger plane is now considered the most likely cause of monday's deadly crash in western siberia that aircraft came just minutes after takeoff killing thirty one of the forty three on board 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 the three day period of mourning for the victims has now become the first funerals taking place today. and of course we'll keep you across all the latest

developments into that plane crash as the investigation continues in western siberia on our website at dot com also got more stories online including the handle presidential prying. it was a pleasure to speak to all of you. and to have a microphone that i can see. feel free to transmit to. those pesky microphone. laughs off last week's incident when a rather sensitive conversation to him and president it was caught on a hot mike. and pepper sprayed for protesting online we were appalled so on a heavy handed crackdown on american students demonstrating against skyrocketing education costs the footage of four again the dot com. international criminal court turned palestinian request to best to get alleged israeli war crimes on the land as the official cause for the rejection is the

palestine is not a un recognized state just helper a co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions says curse the shadow over the whole international justice system. 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 un 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 on the other hand the international community doesn't accept its responsibility to a fourth affection for the palestinians the problem with the palestinians is that occupation was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting lawn 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 defense or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. three top world news stories in brief somalia's top sports officials are among at least ten killed during a bombing at the reopening ceremony for the country's national theater the president of the somali olympic committee and the head of the national football federation both died in the attack by the islamist al-shabaab group which says it plans of explosives the militants were pushed out of mogadishu by african union troops last year but of continued to carry out bomb attacks. a passenger vans exploded in pakistan killing at least six people and wounded nine others three of

the injured are in critical condition officials say a device was planted inside the van in the khyber district which is known to be an al qaeda and taliban hub. ten suspected militants have been seized in several police raids in france a day after the charges were filed against thirteen other alleged islamist terrorists president sarkozy pledged to take a tougher line after last month's shooting death of four people of the school and the murder of three french soldiers although there's a large over the radical anti immigration policies being promoted right now by french leaders britain suffering a nasty hangover from a nationwide bargain basement binge low cost alcohol is being blamed for a spike in drink related deaths and lawmakers think tackling supermarket sales is the only solution but both the industry and drinkers say price won't put them off as i would bennett explains.

this is your average friday night now in britain it's not yet midnight but many people have already drunk well over the limit it was considered binge drinking from now on i just think about the line. yeah take pipes yeah. maybe a couple shots or. maybe fifty sixty it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of for a liver disease in the u.k. eleven in the 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 are down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points and be that even if you drink in the night so. we binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health even lease

is nothing compared to what many get free come last orders for a very. good job and you can quote an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol advice critics well there is a very great deal to address the al cardenas use 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 rock bottom prices just twenty. the 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 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 cheapest 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 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 punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the government claims ending bargain boozing will instantly cut crime and messily reduce alcohol related deaths but with the bulk of binge drinkers already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not

the tamp it will pardon from having another destructive night on the tiles michael bennet r t. twenty six minutes past. the day's business and dmitri are they retreats all sell sell their day on the market. because investors are worried about the state of the global economy notably what's going on in europe in the united states lack of stimulus in russia the mood is also dampened by the latest capita outflow figures that we've received and they show that. doubled in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve compared to the same period last year around thirty five billion dollars almost half of what we've seen for the whole of the previous year central bank hopes the trend will reverse as soon as may after the new government is formed in the end the markets really did correctly with the r.t.s. . down almost three percent of my sex down two and a half percent now responder was one of the biggest losers only my sexless take

a look at those figures down no more than three and a half percent on rumors that it's two billion dollars sale of shares to ve state bank would be postponed t.n. cavies be declined just slightly much better than the market after reporting their profits increased forty one percent for the previous year and after the us was one of the sole gain as it was up one percent on the release of its new model the log house now an assembly line for this new car was launched by prime minister vladimir putin after vast plans to produce twenty seven thousand of the car this year and put forward new measures to support domestic carmakers including a recommendation that the government should only be buying cars made in the customs union of russia belarus and stuff. elsewhere in the world the dow jones is down more than one percent the nasdaq even more so pressured by yahoo shares down as the

company announced that it would be cutting two thousand people of its staff and san disk is also one of the biggest losers on the mast and over in europe trading is over also on the negative notes second bad session in a row was pretty down two percent of x. two point eight interest rates remain the same no stimulus inflation stands around two percent for the year the forecast and g.d.p. is to the line point one percent and spain's bond auction didn't go well either so this is all piling up. therefore a lot of money is moving into the dollar and out of the euro and in line with that trend the russian ruble weakened one million one percent versus the greenback and strengthened around half a percent versus the year. and that's the way the markets look this is our last and last thing to mention is of course commodities they're down more than two dollars as the dollar is gaining weight and therefore all dome of gold nominated to the. most of these are going down and back. thank you note if you got your brains in

your life dimitri. but i look forward to catching up with you in an hour's time it was good to see you know very soon so i would talk to one of the u.s. presidential candidates about why americans two party systems strangling real democracy that's right after the headlines next year on our team or scope.