she would be soo much brazen if you. assume from feinstein gratian. who flew stunts on t.v. don't. stalemate for syria but the u.n. sponsored peace plan on the ropes just days ahead of a ceasefire that the. syrian rebels the fuse the busines demands the guarantees they made on weapons before damascus the pulls its own since more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have now submitted their applications to fight it out for the vacated seats of. bad moscow valves to secure the return of victor boot that's after a u.s. judge sentenced the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans.

but the headlines of today and of this week you're watching the weekly with me roll research but you are not backed peace plan for syria could be in that well just days ahead of a cease fire that line that the rebels have refused to give the mascot's any guarantees they will lay down arms before the government troops pull back our middle east correspondent paula sweer has the latest on this. the commode of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of gruesome guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just hours after the syrians look forward at a crazed force such explanations what the syrian regime is awesome for is written confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they with pool they tense

and the troops some population centers and all this does to a certain to do rail the keys purse is just two days before the cease fire and that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi amount goes into we say it's what we know is that the rebels are saying that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the syrian president bashar assad's regime and as such they will not be giving any kind of guarantees what they want is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and put all security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last few days because and they're launching increased environments in risk syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition race they are continuing to carry out of wind and there are many an international community can still feel that what was are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other and we saw

a recent friends of syria meeting which has effectively now become known as the friends of the syrian opposition and this whole countries like the united states and its allies as well as simple gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey pledging increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that thoughts from actually helping to dissolve the called take these kinds of sources of support are merely steering the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is waiting to take what it's calling for service states against a mascot's if it does not with to which troops by next meets to. state certainly increasingly the sense is that many of the international community i mean they support city opposition fighters i actually do miss one to help with the syrian conflict party's policy reporting right meantime dr needle cover on a former syrian ambassador explains why it's vital for damascus to get the guarantees it wants from the rebels syria has very hard lesson

from the arab league observers said the armed gangs have actually used the existence of arab league observers on the ground. multiple festered in syrian cities and towns and it has cost the syrian army and security forces and innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives does not want this the same thing to happen again during the existence of any international observers on the ground that's where syria has demanded. from main handlers and supporters of the so-called free syrian army i agree with that we need to do family family is right we went through for. a peaceful and civilized manner not under the banner it's. hard because there have been butchering men women and children in syrian

cities and towns. this is r.t. but always of egypt electoral commission have closed for presidential hopefuls to submit their applications just ahead of the first round of the vote next month several candidates are hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak was ousted more than a year ago in cairo reporting as our teams are going to go. you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are those who have the support mostly the young educated people then you have the second group who are essentially hailing from the camp of hosni mubarak the ousted president we have his former prime minister running for president as well as. former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league he's also whine for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence service of egypt omar still a man and finally you have the third group who probably have the loudest the most

rowdy supporters in egypt and they are the islamist parties the muslim brotherhood who from the get go from the first days of the revolution said that they're not going to put forth a candidate for the presidential race a year later not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also sick they have also submitted applications for then there's the cell of the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam the person running for and you finally have a third radical islamist party demolish the media which have also put forth their candidate who is actually very from traveling in france because according to the french authorities he is a creature coincides religious intolerance and hatred the muslim brotherhood have just recently been in washington d.c. insisting that radical islamist groups have been misrepresented says that they actually seek nothing more than to install a sharia law in place of the constitutional law some of the things which they have proposed to be put forth in egypt as the law is for example banning alcohol for

everyone including tourists for arresting tourists for wearing she's the swimsuits for sick or bathing schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been out on the streets of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution. this is exactly what they had to lie when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that means for the egyptian people to decide how he's going to go to school reporting meantime analyst frank salvato says that washington shouldn't be teaming up with democratic power of political crepes the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming of and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al

qaeda a when you're talking about trying to divide the islamic world in the arab world it's a very hard thing to do. you won't see ready allies for the west especially in some of the i'm going to use the road for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in and in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring they're not friendly to to western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that would come you see a lot of these the factions leaning towards the installation of sharia law is something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting shari'a law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our u.s. constitution. requires twirling in the air on their. they're watching our t.v. it's good to have your company today still to come in the program here that of greece enraged after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity monster. boiled

into riots this week after the retired pharmacist killed himself directly in front of parliament his death no sir he had no more means to live. by the twelve survivors from the two men the plane crash that killed thirty one and continuing to receive treatment in hospital as a failure to d.i.'s the plane is named as the primary cause of the tragedy. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and russia has pledged to bring home victor boot after the businessman who was sentenced in the u.s. to twenty five years behind bars moscow says it views the case as political he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed that there was no proof that booth would have committed any crime or at least except for the sting operation that set up his arrest with this story as artie's honest last year charkha. years spent by the u.s.

to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a state operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer victor boot was handcuffed to the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before a trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the saarc the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our own ritual. requests. are we on the other eleven booed lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of

his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands spread he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as fark members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u. when met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly play dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the trouble to extradite him or should say kidnap and boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping but i could accept the possibility that you might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to

themselves there's someone in some interest in information and why don't those governments just drag those people onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boot extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court roots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark remembers this and all he was trying to do was to all the cargo planes get to the magic crimes when in fact there is stiction and manufactured evidence journalist george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play feel that victor and in particular charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man or whether it be russian citizen very poor troy davis to be you know sentence right

for america or prior to even commit it to good is the city. since it is in any year since the sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in the third nation both cases major precedents and represents a worrying us trend to simply the legal systems of other countries as this is shrinking our hearts and. you can always go deeper into our stories just by heading over to dot com there you can investigate this one for example gambling in the u.k. becomes a game of russian roulette for many i will report online lady luck is merciless to thousands of alec's who throw their dice hoping to get their money back because they really do. find a discovery worthy of indiana jones the construction of an olympic site in sochi unearths an ancient of byzantine temple i read about the precious find an r.t. dot com. the few survivors from a plane crash in russia region on monday remain in hospital but the conditions are

said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one failure to d.i.'s the plane has been named as the primary cause of the tragedy from the crash site is our groups with this report. i heard an explosion then we got a call in my commander ordered us to go to the scene in d.c. b. it is you realize something is wrong there's a magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk kid among the first fighters on the scene yuri immediately spots it will list you survivors the first thing we saw was the plane debris on fire and we started putting the sleeves it there was this one man standing alone and he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then we took him to hospital. but he was shaking he said he was very cool to get on asking still in the he told even though it already was thirty people lost their lives in a tragedy this shocked the country swirls survivors remain in

a critical condition the investigation. he continues but for a brief moment those involved stopped their work as a review family members arrived at the crash sites sites where they lost their loved ones for the chance to pay their respects say well no doubt still to rule called the plates. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause if it's true it's a tragedy that could have been averted. you hear. the plane you know whenever you're flying any type of hostile conditions. very bad weather. condition then it's incumbent upon the captain of the aircraft. before taking off would necessarily include the frosting.

believe this case is far from over hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and largely intact cockpits provide says it was team scoured the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to call the plate their loss degrees c. . tears coming to life in the heart of moscow a retired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week after the seventy seven year old man shot himself right in front of parliament he left a suicide note that blamed the cuts for destroying his livelihood now some two thousand people came to pay their final respects to demetrius crystal us on saturday some comparing his death with murder and suicide sparked riots with answer your stare at the protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs.

officers then responded with tear gas greece has been ramping up its spending cuts since two thousand and ten to secure the vital e.u. and i.m.f. belt's economic analyst an extract our says the cuts policy needs a major overhaul. but this point inside we have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the poverty line we've got about a million people employed and probably half a million kids who really don't we very well at all all we need is something like these to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts horizontal cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rate sitting on a very strict diet it's going to backfire well we really need here is more structural reforms some sensible privatizations to clamp down on waste and

corruption and actually get the very rich to pay their share as well because at the moment it's the unemployed people it's the pensioners and it's the middle classes that are suffering while the people that have stashed away close to a trillion overseas have gotten away with it. gloomy in money class of governor over much of europe residents of a province in northern italy have decided they're not going to sit and wait for the storm to reach them or they want to break away from being control of their own destiny and as our. reports this desire as being there for decorates. lost in translation between the alps and the need to reign the population of half a million people and a lot of to become independent one day the south to roll a probe into northern italy all these has never been italian says claude's is showing off her native town of. just spent thirty years of your life fighting for independence. the of only see where to rule the ins languages german were taken

from the rest of to rule but for so last a hundred years ago we have seen crashes which has affected our language closed our schools and our sons and now changes our regional rain into. enough. ever close refers to how these german speaking territory was occupied by eataly at the end of the first world war and was an extent nine hundred ninety after world war two the allies decided that the province would remain a part of easily but would be granted a certain level of self-government goes on already enjoys the status of an autonomy for example ninety percent of the tax revenue from these coffee will stay in the region while the other turn of all go to rome but when economic crisis is taking grip over the country every single sound seems to wake nationalist feelings and

this is the situation the politicians are all too ready to take advantage of we asked me chairman of the popular libertarians party how she would answer an italian from a poor region of the country who wanted to know why so she rolled doesn't want to halt right. that. is so. i don't know him a cup of coffee and we'll then have a long discussion softer all is not in charge of saving easily and couldn't have done so even if it wanted to h.l.a. is a bad housekeeper and lots of debts we're not paying for their debts with our money theirs and ours are the two words which we hear very often and sell to rubble and money is at the core of the dispute the time is expected to contribute one hundred twenty million euros to cleaning up the italian national budget to do so it will have to raise rules state the eighty and income taxes as well as these paid by farmers instead the south to roll economics minister it wants to buy its freedom

from easily once and for all he even names a concrete purchase price keen billion euros knows that the best we can stay part of italy but we want full financial freedom we're ready to pay a solidarity tax of three percent we'll pay our foreign policy fiscal and euro policy otherwise we'll do the rest on our own we build our roads and several months before it happens we wait for permission from rome for years. rose in infrastructure in this rich province of easily are indeed very non italian so too is unemployment which stands at only two percent compared to almost ten nationwide when a product of local government has to keep pushing with the idea of independence that's for sure because we can go on like this there's no way we can progress this way to the. exclusion of our children our t.v. goes on and eaten. well from moscow this is r.t. in just a few minutes here we report on america's first to secure the world wide web i

think u.s. congress examines a new architecture aimed at tackling cyber terror freedom activists want it could become a license for wiretapping by the state. court. very first because some of the international headlines for your time for the r.t. world update huge car bombers exploded near a church in central nigeria the sapping on easter sunday thirty eight have been killed many more injured at this point no no one has claimed responsibility for the attack hundreds of nigerians have died in religious and ethnic violence in recent years with most of the attacks blamed on radical islamists the nobel prize winning german author grass has been banned from visiting israel it follows the publication of one of his poems in which he described the jewish state as a threat to world peace grass also condemned germany for weapons sales to israel and he vowed to prevent any military attack against iran israel banned him under

a law which bars former nazis from entering the country grass did admit in two thousand and six that he had served in the waffen s.s. during world war two. afghanistan and the us have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by american forces it means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly rates of fuel tension between the afghan government and the u.s. president hamid karzai condemning aerial bombings it's all ahead of nato as planned withdrawal from the country by the end of two thousand and fourteen. but while in afghanistan the u.s. is decreasing its influence that's the opposite to the story being played out in the asia pacific region as the first batch of a new deployment of u.s. marines has now arrived in australia more than two hundred will be based in the north while that number could eventually reach two thousand five hundred starts to

america's military footprint in the region an area barack obama has called a priority the u.s. is also enhancing alliances with japan south korea the philippines and singapore all all of which stand in china's backyard but some experts predicting a cold. the flare up soon journalist james corbett explains why asia pacific nations are choosing to side with the us and not with china. it's a case of realpolitik and i think that there are certain governments the believe that they can they can benefit from this and they're likely to side with whoever is going to be the eventual or they perceived to be is going to be a wrench a winner in this type of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has a clear superiority when it comes to conventional naval assets for example let alone cyber weapons and all of the other tools of warfare that are being deployed in the real vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously dominant player here and a lot of governments will. be cute with the devil as it were even if they don't

agree with all of the u.s. policies they'll certainly go along with with it in order to get back some of the diplomatic sort of. this is artsy new bill for internet security is finding greater support among u.s. lawmakers and it would allow with hans the information gathering to combat cyber attacks on terrorism afraid of activists saying it could lead to the wiretapping of private communication by the state. reports. the u.s. government continue spending millions of dollars to support freedom of your net 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 as we age published documents which embarrass the american government in many ways we can reach becomes 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 we said master card pay pal western union and the bank of america have tried to economically strangle we here leaks by blocking donations to the web. sight until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer the state department he says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote for but the feeling of u.s. policies in iraq the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars all received on internet freedom healing tools in support of 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 q 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 that it feels furthers america's own political goals

overseas we call that hypocrisy 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 in an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers but in this culture where this administration is going after whistleblowers in a president away 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 that covers national security i'm talking all the time with people that work in the intelligence but the military community has said shockwave through a community while trying to stifle inconvenient beliefs at 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 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 of control that are used by so-called repressive governments are provided by american companies the differences are corporations for better or worse talk about profit as their motivation become. oh however the american government talks about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many ways it changed the act 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 u.s. government efforts to securing our freedom there seem to the two kinds of freedoms freedom that they encourage and freedom that they punish but is there such a thing is to freedoms i'm going to stick our reporting from washington parties. are we back and just a moment with a recap of our top stories and a special documentary about a man who continues to escape death while living on just around.

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