stalemate for syria with the u.n. sponsored peace plan on the rocks of powers ahead of a cease fire deadlock. the syrian rebels the seas the busines the mons the barren seas they lay down weapons before the mass this the course it's a coincidence movie tells in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have submitted their applications to duke it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. rosco values to return values to secure the return of victor boot after a u.s. judge sentenced the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans.

ten pm in moscow why not try to bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t the un back please a peace plan for syria could be an deadlocked hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline rebels have refused to give damascus any guarantees they'll lay down arms before the government troops pull back or if he's middle east correspondent paula sneer has the latest. c'mon the role of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of guarantees that he plans to meet on arms and this is just all was after the series of forward a request for such explanations what the syrian regime is awesome for is confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before with cool they tense and the

troops some population the same says now this does to a certain to derail the peace purse is just two days before the peace plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into the sake'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 for all security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last few days there has been an enormous increase environments in risk syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say a continuing to carry out of wind and there are many an international community can fill that what columns are doing is actually moving the two sides so they're away from each other we sort of the some friends of syria meeting which has

effectively now become known as the friends of the syrian opposition and missile 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 far from actually helping to resolve the conflict these kinds of situations of support on near the syrian crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is threatening to take what it's calling service states against the masters if it does not work for its troops by next week's show. state suki increasingly the sense is that maybe an international community i mean do they support to the opposition fighters i have seen this whole thing to help with the syrian conflict. porter from artie's polis leader dr needle kabal i know former syrian ambassador explains why it's vital for damascus to get guarantees before they can get the guarantees it wants from the rebels

syria has learnt a very hard lesson from the arab league observers say the armed gangs have actually used the existence of arab league observers on the ground. now to play a fast that ensued in cities and towns and it has cost the syrian army and security forces and innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives so soon as next month is the same thing to happen again during the existence of any international observers on the ground that says syria has demanded root in god and these are from main handlers and supporters of the. free syrian army i agree with that we need to do family family is right we went through for. a peaceful and civilized manner and that did bennett's. because there have been butchering men women and children ensued in cities and towns the deadline has passed for

egypt's presidential hopefuls to officially register for next month's race about twenty candidates hoping to fill the shoes of housing mubarak who was ousted from power last year the electoral commission is expected to announce in the next couple of weeks the list of approved candidates are things really collusion or reports from cairo. 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 all good moves former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league is also whine for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence service of egypt and was still a man and finally we 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 here leader not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also they have also submitted applications for then there's the style of the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam the person running for it and you finally have a third radical islamist party to my knowledge let me which have also put forth their candidate who is actually very from traveling in france because according to the french authorities he is a preacher 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 betting alcohol for everyone including tourist for

a resting tourist for wearing these sort of suits for sake of eating schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to 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. whether this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that means for the egyptian people to decide how the list frank salvato doesn't think washington should be teaming up with undemocratic arab political groups 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 over 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 so 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 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 were to come you see a lot of these distractions 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 she wanted so antithetical to our us constitution. the coin is truly in the air and that still to come here on our team greece in a rage after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity marder anger boils over into riots this week after the retired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament his suicide note had said he had no more means to live. and the twelve

survivors of the team and plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to get treatment in the hospital as failure to d.i.'s the plane is named as the primary cause of the tragedy. but first russia's pledge to bring. victor boot after the businessman was sentenced to a quarter century behind bars moscow says it sees the case as political who was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting operation that led up to his arrest or he's out of stock futures in a reports from new york. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed flown to the u.s. and placed 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 an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the park forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our. requests. are we on the other or rather who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kept 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 right 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 far members

a colombian group to terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the un met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts and u.s. reportedly plea dirty 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 extradited marshall kidnapping boots family also called u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept the possibility that boots might have some information that's might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves there's someone who has 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 boots 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 members and all he was trying to do was sell to all the cargo planes leaders of imaginary crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play a field of victor and is there to take the charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. and says america who are to be you know sentence right or wrong because we're trying to put in commit to good is the second. since it is in any year since the sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases the major precedents and represents a worrying us trying to simply override the legal systems of other countries as this issue cannot artsy. but it's not the only

a foreigner to undergo high pressure extradition to the us britain is also handed over citizens euro m.p. gerard biden says that when someone sent to the us it's almost impossible to escape the american legal system. but there maybe some cases where it's it's permissible if somebody organized crime is the only way of getting out of the thing has to be created with great caution and what we also have in under the american system is once people have been entrapped and taken to a court you have this plea bargain system where people off ice with you know sixty five years in prison unless they plead guilty to a lesser offense and get a few years i mean this isn't in my view this isn't a legal system this is a this is a system of oppression where people are forced into admitting some kind of people very often in order to get a less that same sense and then you know longer even they would otherwise in america's barbaric prison system who could resist that kind of clay were arrested and taken to the u.s. you know it's it's an unbelievable question and the things that you know our court

we should be protecting our own people from that and not surrendering people unless we think there's a cost going case against them that they should have to answer in a foreign country or a tired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week after a seventy seven year old shot himself dead in front of parliament he left a suicide note blaming the cuts for destroying his livelihood some two thousand came out to pay final respects to demetrius christoulas saturday some comparing his death with murder his suicide sparked riots with protesters clashing with police and hurling petrol bombs officers responded with tear gas greece has been stepping up spending cuts since twenty tend to get vital i.m.f. cash but financial analyst patrick young says of athens wants to survive it needs to thought out its debts and leave the euro. the greek government is going corrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must

the fault ultimately not may be a terrible problem for a great many financier's and investors but at the same time i have to say any bank that bought greek debt in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must have thought on it it probably needs to leave your room egypt lee it must be played its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the marker is when you do get to this sort of extreme only this sort of extreme measure is going to be possible to resolve your situation and ultimately it really beggars belief that we have a greek politician the most highly paid politicians in the whole of the european union turning round and going oh well that's very sad one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen dollars in euros per month

without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and he which is enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month in new austerity greece the survivors from a plane crash in russia's two man region are non-gay were made in the hospital but their conditions are said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one people failure to the wings has been named as the primary cause of the tragedy or he greets reports. with four i heard an explosion then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes yuri realized something was wrong but the magnitude of the situation had been quite some kin among the first firefighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one of the three survivors the first thing we see. it was the clean debris on fire and we started putting the sleeves eight there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then which you can to

a hospital he spoke ok but he was shooting he said use very cool kid on our skins turn the heater on even though it already was on thirty one people lost their lives in a tragedy this shot the country twelve survivors remain in a critical condition the investigation continues but for a brief moment those involved their work as a review family members arriving at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones as a chance to pay their respects and say well i doubt still to rule the cause of flights. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause and if it's true it's a tragedy that could be diverted. you hear. the plane you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions. very

bad weather is a hostile condition and it's incumbent upon the the captain of the aircraft to take precaution before taking off and necessarily include the frosting. but the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding inclusions black box flight data and i launched tatts cockpits may provide answers but once teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to call the plate their last degrees c. . stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour weapons from abroad fail why corruption could hinder india's military. modernisation is the country ready to spend billions on new arms . for security forces in bahrain fired tear gas and water cannons of protesters as

thousands marched in support of a jailed human rights activist friday he's serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's ente government uprising in his but on hunger strike for two months middle east expert ari risk says the man's case well put more pressure on the ruling regime these hunger strikes i think they do contribute do you do achieve that goal because what they do is they reveal the real tactics which are being pursued by the regime but also to clamp down on the protesters still so more and more such acts i think will follow that exposing the truth nature of all the true clock ticks which the regime use using a lot there that the hunts cause it puts more pressure on certain western countries also the european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly the regime in the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria are setting aside but by and we all know that the fifth fleet in bahrain does exist we also know and i think this is the main issue here that the rain has

a very close ally of saudi arabia and saudi arabia hands as one of the allies of the u.s. so when we speak about the blackouts being put on the plane i think first and foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because the saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from the holiday inn and then spreading spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still focused somewhere else so i think that will contribute to the anger which are we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals. go deeper into our stories at our teeth dot com there you'll find this one a major victory for online sharers as we report online a california judge making an extra special ruling when he says one an x. rated movie is ok for free downloading plus. a global day for a friendly bashing thousands all over the world in dorset in pillow fighting leaving the streets covered with betters you can watch it on our you tube channel.

india's army is getting stuck in the trenches beset by dodgy weapons makers and multibillion dollar corruption but now some of the flaky foreign firms are being hounded out while russian military manufacturers say they're on guard to help the world's largest importer of arms soldier on previous freedom has more. rampant corruption and an army falling to pieces the current state of the indian military according to the country's top general himself he recently revealed he was offered a bribe of almost three billion dollars by a lobbyist to buy substandard defense equipment he turned down the bribe but the scandal has rocked the country and caused the ministry of defense to suspend six defense firms for ten years over their lobbying tactics as you have long believed you have this is sometimes is that the bureaucratic level you have in decision which is sometimes at the level of the politicians so that incentive

is huge problem but we're joris of clothes first some they've opened for others many foreign defense firms are now eyeing the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge defense pai india is the world's largest importer of arms that is set to spend one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years to modernize its military equipment russia is at the forefront of the battle to win some of those contracts moscow says it can provide three billion dollars worth of weapons to india every year. bangs. their defense systems there's also very intense competition for. grading new submarines. these are the electric submarines to india. and russia also hopes to do so india also appears keen on the opportunity to let

russia help modernize its defense systems and says a partnership with the country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined in joint development or for military hardware one of the classic example is the most. the other example is the. support that. good old so would can to get it on the fifth generation for it to be approved so india string of military scandals is providing a shake up and its military suppliers the competition to fill the full weight will be fierce among the russian and international firms aim to bring india's armed forces up to the preassure either r t new delhi india turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe or a huge car bomb exploded near a church in central nigeria ustream sunday thirty eight people were killed many more injured no groups claimed responsibility for the attacks so far hundreds of

nigerians have died in religious and ethnic violence in recent years with most of the attacks blamed on radical islamists. 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 raid so fuel tension between the afghan government and the u.s. with president karzai condemning aerial bombings this all ahead of nato as planned withdrawal from the country by the end of two thousand and fourteen. nobel prize winning german author has been banned from visiting israel this after the publication of one of his poems in which he described the jewish state as a threat to world peace grosse also condemned germany for weapon sales to israel jewish state banned him under a new law barring former nazis from entering the country ross admitted in two thousand and six he'd served in the often s.s. during the second world war. a new bill for internet security finding greater support among u.s. lawmakers it would allow enhanced information gathering to combat cyber attacks and

terrorism but freedom activists say you could lead to wiretapping of private communications by the state or he's got a report from washington. the u.s. government continue spending millions of dollars to support freedom of the internet around the war but is it freedom for all we keep leaks which to many has become the symbol of honor now freed him has been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because we teach publish documents which embarrass the american government in many ways we can make it consciously an enemy the u.s. has reportedly issued a secret indictment against julian assange the head of the website which leapt hundreds 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 he leads by blocking donations to the web site until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer at the state department that he says he was fired over

the book and the blog that he wrote about the failure of u.s. policies in iraq and the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars all received 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 that money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we q leaks and it's work just as hard and spent probably more money trying to shut down free speech that it opposes while supporting free speech that it 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 has embarked on an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers but in this culture with 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 am really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to. as a journalist the course national security i'm talking all the time was people that work in the intelligence and the military community it is a shockwave through the community while trying to stifle inconveniently said home the u.s. perceives the internet as social networking platforms as major tools for spreading democracy and spends millions of dollars to help people in the middle east and china and get around iran and blocking firewalls at the same time ironically enough american companies provide bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites a lot of the tools of control that are used by so-called repressive governments are provided by american company the differences are corporations for better or worse talk about profit as their motivation the government over however the american government part about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many

ways you can see in the opposite direction some argue that left uncontrolled the export of surveyors and cite blocking tools by american companies could undermine here in everything the same way as arms exports undermine peace initiatives as far as the us government ever is to securing 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 as too freedoms and panic stricken reporting from washington r.t. . and coming up the unhealthy mix of euro crisis bellows and austerity that's in our interview but first i'll be back with a recap of the headlines stay with us. the

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