filmmaker syria with the new website answered peace plan on the rocks hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline. syrian rebels the peace that receives the monster guarantees they made on weapons before damascus that calls its own troops he tells him just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls submit their obligations to duke it out for the vacated seat of housing the bar. last moscow calls the case of a third group politically motivated that was to bring the alleged russian arms dealer home after the u.s. court said this is ended twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans.

one am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on our team as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news and un back peace 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 correspondent in the middle east policy has more. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just hours after the syrian forward of a crazed force such explanations what the syrian regime is asking for is confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they withdraw their tanks

and the troops of some population centers now this does threaten to derail the peace process 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 what they once stood 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 alarming increase in violence in numerous syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say are continuing to carry out of wind and there are many in the international community can fill that what powers are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other we saw a recent friends of syria meeting which has effectively now become known as the

friends of the syrian opposition and this whole country is not the united states and its allies as well as simple gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey religion increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that far from actually hoping to resolve the conflict these kinds of situations of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is threatened to take what its clearly service states against the mascot's if it does not with for its troops by next week's issue. state but certainly increasingly the sense is that many in the international community by meaning they support to the opposition fighters i have seen do little to help us solve the syrian conflict so it is powerless here according michel chossudovsky from the center for research on globalization think syrian rebels fed with weapons from outside aren't interested in giving up the fight syria has learnt

a very hard lesson from the arab league observers say the armed gangs. really used the existence of arab league observers on the ground. and i could play a festival in syrian cities and towns and it has cost the syrian army and security forces and innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives so syria does not want to see the same thing to happen again during the existence of any international observers on the ground that are as syria has demanded. is 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 not under bill bennett's. hobbies who have been butchering men women and children in syrian cities and towns. the deadlines passed for egypt's presidential

hopefuls to officially register for next month's race about twenty candidates hoping to fill the shoes of howe's new mubarak was ousted last year the electoral commission expected to announce in the next couple of weeks the approved list of candidates or teaser in english to reports from cairo. but you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are those who have the support of 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 those are good moves former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league is also vying for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence service of egypt almost 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 here leader not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also saying they have also submitted applications for then there's the cell of people already who also have a very staunch very radical islam the person running for it and you finally have a third radical islamist party. which have also put forth their candidate who is actually banned from carolyn 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 is 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 getting alcohol for everyone including tourist for arresting tourists or into the sort of suits for

sake of getting schools and making girls go to separate stands 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 here 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 remains for the egyptian people to decide. well the muslim brothers influence on egypt's political life could have a negative impact on the country according to freelance journalist bel true who is also in cairo. but he said not being one seat to push social change so i mention it will be quite difficult for women for minority creaks think christians who obviously have been quite important in this country i think even with some of that have said very strange relationship with the ruling military council the supreme council the armed forces i think this is where they maybe some issues in the revolutionary creeps in which they paid to have been deals with the heinz kerry's

tour which could basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the mauri for the rest of the future of egypt still to come here on r t greece in a rage after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity martyr anger boiled over in the riots this week after the retired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament to suicide note said he had no boar means to stay alive. and twelve survivors from the two men plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to get treated in the hospital as failure to the ice the plane named the primary cause of the tragedy. or first russia's pledge to bring home victor boot after the businessman was said 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 stressed there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting

operation that set up his arrest or he's on a stasi churkin reports. here is 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 out from a third country alleged arms dealer victor was handcuffed known to us and placed in solitary confinement for months before a trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals to inspire him to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for inspiring to provide material support to the for the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood are several. requests. are we on the other or. lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion one before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of

his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death. 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 so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group team terrorist in the u.s. but not by name he 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 the west reportedly played dirty arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flawed every international law to get what they want and that means doing always you legal things in the case of the trouble to extradite him or should say kidnapping groups family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that boots might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries

don't just think to themselves if there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just dry based people into 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 defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real far members and all he was trying to do was to all cargo planes we use of imaginary crimes and in fact that jurisdiction 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 and i feel that richter in this particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. russian citizen worker who are truly believe this to be you know

sentence right or cry and it didn't commit it to boot is the second. russian citizen in the new year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases that need to precedence and represents a worrying u.s. trends to simply override the legal systems of the other countries as this intricate parts. are a tired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week after the seventy seven year old man 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 pay final respects to give me trees christine was saturday some comparing his death with murder suicide sparked riots with fantastic era the protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs officers responded with tear gas reserves been stepping up spending had since two thousand and ten to end this year to a secure a vital new when i am after bailouts financial analyst patrick young says if his

wants to survive it needs to default on pets and leave the eurozone. at this point inside we have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the poverty line and we've got about a million people employed and probably half a million kids he really does very well with all all we need to do something like use to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more will stay with the cuts that follows on to cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rate secret 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 gets in the very rich to pay their share as well because at the moment it's the unemployed people it's the pensioners hand it's the middle classes that are suffering while the people that if that's the way close to a trillion overseas have got no right with it. a few survivors of

a plane crash in russia's two men region monday remain in the hospital their condition said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one people failure to d.s. the plane's been named as the primary cause of the tragedy or he could breeze reports from the scene. i heard an explosion and 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 firefighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one of the 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 the hospital he said but he was shaking he said he was very cool kid and asking to turn the heater on even the already was on thirty one people lost their lives in

a tragedy that shocked the country twelve survivors remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but for a brief moment those involved stop their work that's the review family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones and the charts their pay their respects to say a well heard out still through wrought concert plates. 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 have been averted. you hear. a plane you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft hostile conditions are. very bad weather is a condition and it's incumbent upon the captain of. the

frosting. but the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and a largely intact cockpit may. provide says it wants teams scoured the flight's final minutes looking for clues but it is of the victims left to cultivate that loss greece see. stay with us here on r.t. still to come how much do the british dream of the average i doubt. that you cannot see the lines on the buses need be said no is fifty six out of the u.k. is traveling with a growing binge drinking problem that's costing the country millions of pounds. but first a new political parties in russia are rapidly taking root president bet is initiative

to ease the registration process has already seen pensioners and monarchists creating their own party's former finance minister alexei kudrin set to form an alternative to the current government by the start he's a nice and now reports there could soon be too many wanting to get into the game. politics in russia may never be the same protest have become a common sight and new parties are registering left and right as political reform starts reason and fall former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. dinner right here don't you know him so he was one 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 crush only buy your ticket is that so but my proposal is for any party with five hundred

members there isn't any less than fifty percent of russia's regions should be registered is something that you all of us that only the nympho want pushing for easy party registration is already seen thoughts there's it was a resurgence and now there will be hundreds of part just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and it's down there be a lot of has been trying to officially get into politics for years there are. known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric and love could now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has a plan and. there will be many nationalist parties registered so our first goal will be to get together on one ballot as one party readings and use already popular aspects of a movement to win seats nationalists will have tough competition not least from

a new face who has already proved himself billionaire broker of a sensation in the presidential vote announcing his candidacy just a month before and coming in third now promising to work hard for the middle class . more than five and a half million people voted for me just to me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong core of the. it seems everyone wants to join the party and start want. and want to grease a good result in london and me for no good show of 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 subtropics or a party of friends of allianz 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 and he's now a r t moscow take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe thirty eight people killed many more injured in a suicide car bombing in the nigerian city of could do into the explosion blew out windows and tore off roofs and was supposedly aimed at nearby churches holding easter services this is the latest in a series of attacks in nigeria targeting churches on a holy days most of which have been claimed by the militant group boko haram. dolly's president has officially resigned as part of a 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 nations an interim leader and a transitional government will rule until elections are held who leaders agreed to step down once the president quit you authorities will have to look out for rising in the north more torrid tribes declared independence friday.

fourteen people injured fifty detained as protesters clashed with police in serbia in the suburbs of belgrade locals have been protesting for two days against the decision by city authorities to move a gypsy camp site from the city center to the southern outskirts officials say the romanian cabinet had to be relocated because the original site became on the sanitarium. afghanistan and the u.s. have signed a deal concerning a controversial night raids by u.s. forces this means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly raids feel tension between the afghan government and the u.s. president hamid karzai condemning aerial bombings this all ahead of nato is playing with a draw from the country by the end of twenty four twenty. while the u.s. the afghanistan well in afghanistan the u.s. is increasing decreasing its influence the opposite story is playing out in the asia pacific as the first batch of a new deployment of u.s.

marines has arrived in australia more than two hundred will be based in the north but that number could eventually reach twenty five hundred this adds to the u.s. military footprint in the region an area president obama has called a priority america's also enhancing alliances with japan south korea the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard where some experts predicting a conflict could flare up soon journalist james corbett explains why easier pacific countries are choosing to side with the u.s. . 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're likely to side with whoever is going to be. everything 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 medieval assets for example little insider 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 dominant player here and 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 with it in order to get back some of the diplomatic sort of. alcohol abuse has long been a social scourge in the u.k. with the number of deaths from liver disease growing almost every year the british government now wants to introduce a minimum price for alcohol but will this really address the problem for better reports. this is your average friday night now in britain it's not yet midnight but many people have already drunk well over the limit of what's considered binge drinking the now. the line on the classics we know is. yeah take bites. maybe a couple shots or. maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy

drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths. in the u.k. eleven and a half thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths a down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two pints of beer but even if you drink. nights so pints of beer every binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health even lease is nothing compared to what many get free come last what is already a very. good job and you can quote an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol price critics well there is

a very great need to address the are called misuse of sugar in the united kingdom short of long term side of is 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 selling booze rock bottom prices just twenty. pounds can buy you as many as forty cans of strong cider now wants to ban these multi buy discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence pay units 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 rain caused people to drink problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred from drinking but price rises in france a minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers

and if there is a section of society like it's because that is the ports those are lowest income so it seems very unfair in a policy that is not actually going to be successful in tackling the problem drinkers at the moment that falls to the police but punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the government claims ending bargain boozing would instantly cut crime and massively reduce alcohol related deaths but with the bulk of binge drinkers already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the tam for the bar them from having another destructive nights on the tiles rather bennett's. as there is news on the back with headlines in a few moments and right after barrett special report out a man who spent his life behind bars in the us before his death he says was overturned by the supreme court stay with us.

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