stalemate for syria with the u.n. sponsored peace plan on the rocks hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline. to syrian rebels that gives the busines dumond's the baton seize they may down weapons before the mass this will cause its own troops movie tells in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have submitted their applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. and moscow vows the six to secure the return of victor boot after a u.s. judge said this is the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans. and.

eleven pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.n. backed peace plan for syria could be in deadlock hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline rebels have refused to give damascus guarantees they'll lay down arms before the government troops pull back our 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 mate on arms and this is just always after the serious look forward of a crazed school such explanations what the syrian regime is awesome for is confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they with cool they tense and the troops from population centers and all this does threaten to derail the

peace persis just two days before the peace plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into effect 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 and 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 in violence in numerous 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 in the international community can fill that what will cause are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other we sort of the some friends of syria meeting which has effectively val 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 need to increase support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that thoughts from actually helping to resolve the conflict these kinds of search those of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is threatening to take what its doing so the states against the masters if it does not look for its troops by next week's show. state dept i need a sense is that many in the international community i mean do they support to the opposition fighters by absentee rissho to help with the syrian conflict i was artie's parsley reporting michel chossudovsky director of the center for globalization research on globalization says the syrian rebels fed with weapons from the outside aren't interested in giving up the fight the free syrian army are the foot soldiers of the western military alliance and they are advised by the

before and military handlers we know that special forces on the ground french military officers were arrested indeed late february the thing was hushed up but the big truth is that the western military alliance has been waging because during war using the free syrian army. for all of a year no. this free syrian army doesn't represent anybody in syria the opposition is not an opposition is a bunch of thoughts and terrorists and that made by the western military alliance and the patrol cities which are blamed on the government up a bit by the free syrian army and ultimately the free syrian army is on the payroll of the western military alliance so that you can have a ceasefire called by the so-called international community when the members of the international community are in fact involved in the conflict the deadline has passed for egypt's presidential hopefuls to officially register for the race in the race next month about twenty candidates hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak

was ousted last year he let the commission is expected to announce in the next couple of weeks the list of approved candidates or he's really in lucia 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 i'm going to move 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 services egypt's almost 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 biggest in those 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 there are also some you have also submitted applications then there's the cell of the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam is the person running for it and you finally have a third radical islamist party. which have also put forth their candidates who is actually banned from charlie in france because according to the french authorities he's 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 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 arresting tourists or where into these sort of suits for sake of getting schools and making girls go to separate states 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. whether this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice and of course that remains for the egyptian people to decide the muslim brotherhood's influence on egypt's political life could have a negative impact on the country according to freelance journalist bill true. the muslim brotherhood have not been one suit to push social trains so i imagine it will be particle for women with a minority groups including cultic christians who obviously are not quite important in this country i think you have so you know a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces so i think this is where it may be some issues for the revolutionary groups how much they paid to have been doing deals with the scaf behind closed doors which could basically mean if there isn't revolutionary change this i think will be the worry for the rest in the future of egypt. stay with us

here on r.t. still to come with greece in a rage after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity marder anger boiled over into riots this week after a tired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament his suicide note said he had no more means to live plus. twelve survivors from the two men plane crash that killed thirty one continuing to get treatment in a hospital as a failure to di ice the plane name is the primary cause of the tragedy. but first russia's pledge to bring home victor boot after the businessman was said this in the u.s. to twenty five years in prison moscow says it sees the case as political who was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stress there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting operation leading up to his arrest or his other stasi church in iraq courts for 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 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 them acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood that's one of our original. requests. and only on the other eleven who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial caped 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 part members of colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u.n. 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 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 to extradite him or should say kidnap and boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping i could accept it was ability that might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is 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 but it can mean 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 far members and all he was trying to do was sell to all the cargo planes get the magic crimes manufactured tourist action 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 in this particular charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be russian citizen richard who are truly they will still be you know sentence life or recover pride if they didn't commit victim hood is the second. since it isn't any year to face sentencing an american stared summary for little crimes committed in

a third nation book cases that major presidents and represents a wary u.s. trend to simply override the legal systems of other countries as they see it sure cannot artsy. or a tired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week after the 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 people came to a final respects to demetrius christoulas saturday some comparing his death with murder his suicide sparked riots with anti stary protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bought officers responded with tear gas greece has been stepping up spending cuts since two thousand and ten to get vital and i am a bell its economic analyst next critique is says the cuts policy needs a major rethink. at 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 unemployed and probably half

a million kids who really don't live 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 and how responsible cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rake sic on a very strict diet it's going to backfire what we really need here is more structural reforms some sensible privatizations to clamp down on waste and corruption and actually did so in 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. if you survivors of a plane crash in russia is to man region monday remain in the hospital but conditions said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff with just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one people failure to d.s.

the wings has been name is the primary cause of the tragedy or he's jacob greets us . i heard an explosion then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes you realize something was wrong but the magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first fighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one with few survivors the first thing we saw was the plane debris on fire and we started putting the flames out there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him and we took him to horse middle east but he was shaking he said he was very cool kid don't ask him to turn the heater or even though it already was a personal vehicle loss the lies and the charges shocked the country twelve survivors remain in a critical condition the investigation continues but for a brief moment those involved stopped their work that's

a relief family members arrive at the crash site sites where they lost their loved ones there's a chance to pay their respects to say a farewell doubts 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 history is a charge it could be diverted. here for you to. you know whenever you're flying any type of. hostile condition. very bad weather is a hostile condition when it's incumbent upon the captain of the aircraft. before taking off. before. but the investigation is far from over hasn't reached any binding lesions black box

flight data and i largely intact cockpits. provide says it wants teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues where it is of the victims are left to cold to play their loss jake agrees see. stay with us here on earth he still ahead this hour how much do the british dream on the average and i doubt. that line gun and classic t.v. show is big business. but the u.k. is battling a growing problem of binge drinking costing the country billions of pounds. but first security forces in bahrain fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters as thousands marched in support of a jail human rights activists friday he's serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising and has been on

a hunger strike for the last two months middle east expert allie risk says the man's case will help put more pressure on the ruling regime. these hunger strikes i think they do contribute now you do it she goal because what they do is they reveal the rule tactics which are being pursued by the regime in order to clamp down on the protesters show so more and more such acts i think will follow that exposing the truth all the truth tactics which the regime use using and what that that the hence the laws it puts more pressure on certain western countries also the european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly the regime and behind the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria is setting aside bach-y. in we all know that the fifth leave behind 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 blackout being put on the high end i think first and

foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because the saudi arabians also fear that there might be a blow. no effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from behind and then spreading to spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still focused somewhere else so i think that will contributes to the anger which we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals . go deeper into our stories by clicking over to our t. dot com gambling in the u.k. becomes a game of russian roulette for many as we report online lady luck a merciless to thousands of addicts who throw dice hoping to get their money back but rarely do. they had a discovery worthy of indiana jones the construction of an a limp excited in sochi other it's an ancient this in team temple read about the precious five but our team does come from a new political parties in russia rapidly taking root president medvedev has initiated to ease the registration process already is seen pensioners and markets

creating their own movements former finance minister alexey kruger it is said to form an alternative to the current government but authorities in eastern hour reports there could soon be too many watching to get into the game. politics in russia may never be the same protests have become a common sight and new parties are registering left and right as political reform starts reason them so former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house here. you are right here you heard him talk was long off the political radar until a sudden mass protest movement picked up after vast fraud claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back in the game for pressure only but other critics that say part proviso is for any team with five hundred members that it doesn't snow less than three percent of russia's regions

should be registered some of you in the stomach but none so once pushing for easy party registration is already seen falls. now there will be hundreds of part just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and it's time to reload has been trying to officially get into politics for years there are a lot. known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric they love could now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has a plan and. there will be many nationalist parties registered sore first goal will be to get together on one ballot as one party with a ratings in the us already popular aspects of a movement to win seats. nationalist will have tough competition not least from a new face who has already proved himself billionaire proof of

a sensation in the presidential vote announcing his candidacy just months before coming in third now promising to work hard for the middle class. more than five and a half million people voted for me just of me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong party. it seems everyone wants to do in the party and start one so i examined and wanted greece berezovsky in london and me feel good about stove have both said they have plans to launch political forces for those looking for a lighter choice they may well be able to vote for a party of love subtopic or a party of friends of elliott's but if before there were complaints of too few parties it may now well be too many perhaps putting the days of a so-called technical russian parliament behind but a new russian political system that works still some way off he's now

a r t moscow. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe a huge car bombs exploded near a church in central nigeria on easter sunday thirty eight were killed many more injured no group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far hundreds of nigerians have died in religious and ethnic violence in recent years most of the attacks blamed on a radical islamists. mali's president has officially resigned as part of the deal to end the political crisis in the country the military staged a coup last month toppling him from power under the agreement mediated by a bloc of west african countries an interim president and a transitional government will rule until our elections are held coup leaders earlier agreed to step down once the president quit new authorities lot to deal with an uprising in the north were touring tribes have declared independence friday . afghanistan and the u.s.

have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by u.s. forces this means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly raids have fueled tension between the afghan government and the u.s. with president hamid karzai condemning aerial bombings this ahead of nato as planned withdrawal from the country by the end of two thousand and fourteen. while in afghanistan the u.s. is decreasing its influence the opposite story playing out in the asia pacific region so the first batch of new deployment of u.s. marines has arrived in australia more than two hundred will be based in the north while the number could bench really reach some twenty five hundred is adds to the u.s. military footprint in the region an area barack obama has called a priority u.s. also is stepping up alliances with japan south korea the philippines and singapore all countries in china's backyard some experts predicting a conflict could flare up soon journalist james corbett explains why asia pacific countries are choosing to side with the us and not china. it's a case of realpolitik and i think that there are certain governments that believe

that they can they can benefit from this and they are they're likely to side with whoever is going to be the whoever took over they perceived to be is going to be the eventual 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 to unnamed aerial vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously the dominant player here and a lot of governments will 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. finally on this news what gets from liver disease soaring in the u.k. and binge drinking among the main causes the british government will soon introduce a minimum price for alcohol an effort to curb this ever but it joined a bar crawl to gauge the extent of the problem.

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 family now i drink about people in the line on the classics maybe. fifty six yeah checkpoints yeah. maybe a couple shops just about. fires for the maybe fifteen sixty it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths for a liver disease in the u.k. eleven in the heart thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths are down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much well the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points of b. but even if you drink. nights so points appear to be binge drinking according to

experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get three daughters greg a very. gentle often more. than you can quite an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol and by screwfix well there is a very great the to address the alcohol disuse 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 buy discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will force supermarkets to effectively double their prices on the cheapest drinks but the industry's adamant it's not cost that's causing the trouble the heaviest drinkers tickle drink problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred 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 the 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 go with the bulk

of binge drink is already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the tam that will bar them from having another destructive night on the tiles on the bennetts artsy london. in a few minutes our special report exploring freezing outdoor pursuits in russia after a recap of the week's top stories stay with us here on early. the

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