please. stick around we will see real with you on schools of peace plan on the roads hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline. syrian rebels this news that was used to monitor the guarantees they made on witnesses before damascus will cause its own some more details in just a few moments. with a deadline to register pro plays in egypt's presidential race cost about twenty hopefuls of an hour hundred in the obligations to run with a vacant seat left by answer to the polls they will bark. and. that is the case of a big debate politically motivated and vows to bring damage to russian arms dealer code after a u.s. court sentenced him to twenty five years of conspiring to kill americans.

this is all she's weekly review hello and welcome to the program fires the peace plan for syria could be in deadlock hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline the rebels have refused to give damascus any guarantees they will lay down arms before the government troops pull back i'll make this correspondent here has the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of a gruesome guarantees that he plans to lay down arms and this is just hours after the syrian war and i request support such explanations what the syrian regime is often for is written confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they with full they tense and the troops some population centers well 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 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 a continuing to carry out of wind and there are many an international community if you fill that what columns 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 now become known as the friends of the syrian opposition and the small countries like the united states and its allies as well as the civil gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey pledging increased support for the rebel fighters but we've heard some countries from the washer is that far from actually hoping to resolve the conflict these kinds of searches of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations has threatened to take what its morning service states against the masters if it does not work for its troops by next week's show. state deadline but certainly increasingly the sense is that many in the international community by lending their support to the opposition fighters i have seen do little to help us solve the syrian conflict. and. a form it syrian ambassador explains why it's vital for damascus to get the guarantees it wants from the gravels syria has learnt

a very hard lesson from the arab league observers say ago the armed gangs. really used the existence of arab league observers on the ground. in multiple. cities and towns and it has cost me and security forces and innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives syria does not want to see this same thing to happen again during the existence of any international observers on the ground that syria has demanded britain. from. supporters of the. free syrian army i agree with there too we need to do for me is right we went through for. peaceful and civilized. than it. is you have been butchering men women and children in syrian cities and towns.

the deadline has passed for egypt's presidential hopeful stuff officially registered for the poor next month about twenty plans that are hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak was ousted last year the electoral commission is expected to announce the full list of approved candidates in the next couple of weeks. kyra looking at who's standing for the top job. you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are those who have the support of mostly young educated people and 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 former foreign minister in egypt i 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 a model a man and finally you have the third group who probably have the loudest the most

rowdy supporters in egypt and there 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 then there's the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam the person writing board and you finally have a third radical islamist party. which have also put forth their candidate who is actually banned from traveling in france because according to the french authorities he is a preacher who inside spillage is 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 true respect for wearing to these sort of suits for sake of dating schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to about twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been 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 remains for the egyptian people to decide. so the muslim brotherhood's influence on egypt's political life could have a negative impact on the country's that's freelance journalist true and. emerging robert gates have not been one suit to push social training so i imagine it'll be quite difficult for women and minority groups including coptic christians who obviously important in this country i think is a missing woman have shown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council of the armed forces i think this is where they maybe some issues in the

revolutionary groups because they appeared to have been doing deals with discussed behind closed doors which could basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the worry for the rest of the future of egypt this is our see and coming up later in the program greece enraged after an elderly man becomes the people's hostility martyr world of a surprise this week after the retired farmer says to kill himself in front of him and his suicide note said he had no more means to lead. the twelve survivors from the two main plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to receive treatment in hospital as the player to diaz the plane is named as the primary cause of the tragedy. russia has pledged to bring home big to boot after the businessman was sentenced in the u.s. to twenty five years behind bars moscow says it is the case as a political he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof would have committed any crime but

for the sting operation that set up his arrests are seasoned. here is 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 out 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 fark the forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood star for a. record. and only army of the rubber

boot lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns about the fairness of his trial this is the award of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands when he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars a so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as forked members a colombian group team 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 flawed every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of ritual to extradite him or kidnap them boots 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 but there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive these 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 lutes 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 fark members and all he was trying to do was sell to all cargo planes we use of imaginary crimes and in fact that 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 that i feel that. and in particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man

whether it be russian citizen writable or troy davis to be you know sentence right or crying and pleading commit which are good is the second. russian citizen every year to face sentencing on american territory for legit crimes committed in the third nation he says a major precedence and represents a worrying he was stretched to simply override the legal systems of other countries as those who triggered our part see. don't forget there's plenty role for you in our website we're going to r.t. dot com for more on this is the big debates imprisonment and here's a quick look at what's also in store there beginning with the international community already alarmed developments imminent a rocket launch what other bombs could north korea drop on the world but also our to dot com. and since the jump three new groups basics policy talks on iran's nuclear program may be in jeopardy get the details on live from.

every time the pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's astaire risky measures this week after the seventy seven year old man shot himself in front of parliament he left a suicide note that blames the cuts for destroying his livelihood some two thousand people came to pay their final respects to demetrius crease to let some saturday some campaigning comparing rather his death with murder he says science party rhymes with tears the protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs officers responded with tear gas has been ramping up its spending cuts since twenty ten to secure a vital e.u. and i.m.f. bailout its financial analyst patrick young says if affluence wants to survive it needs to default on its debts and the euro. the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must default ultimately that 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 riis must of thought on its side it probably needs to leave the euro and regionally it was deflated its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the matter is that 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 fison euro's armaan we're going any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher money which is enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every

month in new austerity greece. if he survives for a plane crash he rushes to mend region on monday remain in hospital but their friends are said to be able their craft runs out soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport calling said one people saying it's of diaz the plane has been named as the primary cause of the tragedy trait a great support from the city. 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 as a magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first firefighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one with few survivors of 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 spoke ok but he was shaking he said he was very cool kid and ask him to turn the heater on even though it already

was on. people lost their lives in a tragedy that shot the country twelve survivors remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but for a brief moment. their work that's a relief family members arriving at the crash site sites where they lost their loved ones in the charts the pay their respects it's a well thought out still to rule the cause of. the. 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. here for you to be a plane you know whenever you're flying any type of. hostile condition. very. very hostile condition then it's incumbent upon the captain of

the aircraft. but the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and largely intact cockpit may. provide says teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to cold to play their loss degrees c. . still ahead in the program how much to the british drink on an average night. i drink to follow that line around the classics. fifty six. find out how the u.k. is fighting the growing problem of drinking which is costing the country as a. new political parties in russia are rapidly taking over it president's

made that as initiative to ease their frustration has a reddit saying groups from pensioners to the markets creating their own movements as and he said now or course they could soon be too many trying to get into politics. 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 very slim slow former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. are. 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 pressure only but other could just about see my proposal is for any party with five

hundred members the president's no less than fifty percent of russia's regions should be registered something that you on the state only but now wants pushing for easy party registration is already seen faults. now there will be hundreds of just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and it's going to be a lot of has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are there are you. know 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. for war so there will be many nationalist parties registered sore first goal will be to get together on one ballot is one party to bring up a readings and use already popular aspects of a movement to win seats. nationalists will have tough competition not least from

a new face who is already proved to south billionaire brokers a sensation in the presidential vote announcing his candidacy just months before and coming in third now promising to work hard for the middle class. more than five and a half a million people voted for me trust me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong party. it seems everyone wants to join the party and start want. and want to greece berezovsky in london and me i'll go to church 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 subtopic russia 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 and he's now a r.t. moscow. and let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a global exploded in central nigeria causing casualties the details of numbers have not been confirmed this happened just a few hours after a nearly explosion blew out windows and tore off roofs in the northern city of killing thirty eight people and injuring many more these are the latest in a series of violent attacks in nigeria most of which have been claimed by the militant group. president has officially resigned as part of a deal to end the political price isn't country the military staged a coup last month and toppled him from power under the agreement mediated by a lot of west african countries an interim president and a transitional government will rule and to elections are held the coup leaders and they agreed to step down once the president quit and your supporters will have to deal with an uprising in the north what to read tribes declared independence on

friday. fourteen people have been injured and fifteen detained as protesters clashed with police in serbia in the suburbs of new grade locals have been protesting for two days against the decision of the city authorities to move gypsy campsite from the city center to the southern outskirts officials say the romanian company had to be relocated because the original sites become unsanitary. afghanistan and the u.s. have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by american forces it means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly raids have killed tension between the out and government ambiguously president hamid karzai deming aerial bombings that's all the head of nato has planned withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen. but while it afghanistan the you are says decreasing its influence that's opposite to the story playing out in the asia pacific region in the first batch of a new as a new branch of a new deployment of u.s.

marines has arrived in australia more than two hundred will be based in the north while that number could event. reached two thousand five hundred this adds to america's military footprint in the region as an area barack obama has called it a priority the u.s. is also harnessing allies of japan south korea if it is that simple all in china's backyard are some experts predicting a conflict a flare up soon as james corbett explains why actual pacific nations are choosing to side with the u.s. and not china it's a case of realpolitik and i think that there are certain governments that believe that they can benefit from this and they are likely to side with whoever is going to be. perceived to be is going to be an eventual winner in this type of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has a clear superiority when it comes to conventional. assets for example let alone cyber weapons and all of the other tools in warfare that are being deployed on into real vehicles so i think the u.s.

is going to be obviously the dominant player here and that a lot of governments will. have a 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 back some kind of diplomatic so it seems . 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 about well this read address the problem. has none. this is your average friday night now in britain it's not yet midnight many people have already drunk well over the limit that was considered binge drinking and now i just think about people that line. because you know it's. yeah take pipes. maybe a couple shops or. maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy

drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths from live at the scenes in the u.k. i live in the half thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths are down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points of being but even if you drink. nights so points of beer that we binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health but even this is nothing compared to what many get free can last orders for a very. few shots. and you can cope an amount six times more than what's considered

safe by alcohol price critics where there is a very great trust the are called misuse issue in the united kingdom the short and long term side of his or the short term issues around getting weight getting in trouble potentially putting yourself in physical risk or your violence or something or one of 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 price is 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 rain caused people to drink problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred by price rises one in five minimum unit price would

do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers living as a section of society like it's because it is the ports the lowest income so seems very unfair in a policy that's not actually going to be successful in tackling the problem drinkers at the moment that falls to the police punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the government claims ending dog and boozing will instantly cut crime and massively reduce alcohol related deaths so with the bulk of binge drinkers already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the term for the bar them from having another destructive night on the tiles either bennett's r.t. . and that's how many days later this hour we're back with the headlines in just a few moments and right after that our special report on one man has spent his life behind bars in the u.s. before his death penalty sentence was overturned by the supreme court.

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