lead. singer made for syria with the once a pulse of peace plan on the rocks the hours ahead of a state sponsored by. demolish the guarantees they lay down weapons before the mascot's will cause its own suits more details in just a few moments. to the deadline to register her place in nature first natural raise costs about twenty hopefuls have not been complications to run for the bacon seeds and left my answer to that nobody. else recalls a case of big supposed politically motivated and violence to bring the alleged russian arms dealer code after a u.s. court sentenced him to twenty five years of conspiring to kill him.

this is all she's a weekly welcome to the program first the you are back peace plan for syria have been deadlocked 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 our middle east correspondent paula severe has that he has and she tells. the commander 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 hours after the syrians look forward to request for such explanations what the syrian regime is asking for is confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they withdraw

a tense and the troops from population centers now this does threaten to derail the peace process just two days before the cease fire and 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 behind and along the 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 an international community can fill that what world powers 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 simple gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey pledging increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries in the washer is that far from actually helping to resolve the conflict these kinds of systems of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is threatening to take what it's calling service steps against the masters if it does not fit with for its troops by next week's two. state but certainly increasingly the sense is that many in the international community by meaning they support to the opposition fighters by actually do little to help resolve the syrian conflict party's policy talks that needle cabaletta former syrian ambassador explains why it's vital for damascus to get the guarantees it wants from the rebels syria has

learnt a very hard lesson from the arab league observers be armed gangs. truly used the existence of legal observers on the ground. and multiple. cities. and it has cost the syrian army and security forces the innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives does not want to see the same thing to happen again during the existence of any international law on the ground that syria has demanded. from main supporters of the. free syrian army i agree with there too we need to do for right to remain true for . civilized. harbors who have been butchering men women and children in syrian cities and towns

the deadline has passed for egypt's presidential hopeful selfishly register for the poll next month about twenty candidates are hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak was ousted last year election commission is expected to announce the full list of approved candidates in the next couple of weeks are going to cover looking at who's standing at the top. you can divide because it gets 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 those are good moves former foreign minister in egypt got 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 of egypt omar still a man and finally you have the third group who probably have the loudest the most

rowdy supporters in egypt and they are the islamist parties the muslim brotherhood who from the get go from the first days of the revolution said that they're not going to put forth a candidate for the presidential race here leader not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also saying they have also submitted applications then there's this party who also have a very staunch very radical islamist person running 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 was a preacher who inside 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 getting alcohol for

everyone including tourists for arresting tourists for wearing to these sort of suits for sake of getting schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been out on the streets of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution 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 says freelance journalist troopers in cairo for us the muslim brotherhood have not been one suiter push social training so i imagine it'll be quite difficult for women or for minority groups including coptic christians who obviously important in this country i think it will receive it have shown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council of the armed forces so i think this is where there may be some issues of 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 and those still a lot more waiting for you in the program we'll take a look at the grain with security forces guys here it's under water cannons against protesters who marched in support of a jail human rights activist many say the man's case will help to pressure the government. a retired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's astaire's he measures disk week after his seventy seven year old man shot himself dead in front of parliament and that the suicide knows that playing the cards for destroying his livelihood some two thousand people came to pay their final respects to demetrius christoulas on saturday some comparing his death to murder he says sites are rife with and he was to protest this clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs officers responded with tear gas has been

ramping up its spending cuts since twenty tend to secure vital e.u. and i.m.f. bailouts economic analyst and extract it says because policy needs a major thing. at this point inside we have about a third of the population in greece living on the labor poverty line we've got about a million people employed and probably half a million kids really don't we very well at all all we need is something like this to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts that all is awful to pensions public sector wages tax increases are absolute nightmare it's like putting it out of. 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 get the very rich to pay their share as well because at the moment it's the unemployed people it's

the pensioners and it's the middle classes that are suffering while the people that have stashed away close to a trillion overseas have gotten away with it russia has pledged to bring home victims after the businessman was sentenced in the garage for twenty five years behind bars if he's the case as political so he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence they just trust there was no proof it would have committed any crime but what a sting operation that set up his arrests all seasons the situation reports. here is spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash who are 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 four to forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood that's one of our favorite. records. are we on the other or. who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion 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 got him in your hair spray 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 name any 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 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 the trouble to extradite him or i should say kidnap and 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 there's someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive 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 glutes extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the us lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court would stiffen 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 the use of imaginary crimes when in fact that jurisdiction and manufactured evidence can always george map has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of us judicial power play feel that victor. to take the 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 writable or troy davis to be you know sentence of life or of a crime and it didn't commit it to good is the second. russian citizen for the new year to face sentencing on american certainly for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases a major precedence and represents a problem worrying the right strategy to simply override the legal system stop other countries just as it should all parts. of its case is now the only extradition to the us which has sparked controversy american lawyer douglas not

enough believes washington regularly uses legal loopholes to track suspects and its own judicial system the federal government the u.s. government takes a very aggressive approach extraterritorial like if someone is in london and wire transfers a sum of money to an individual and barely on and on but i'm still beyond the money kings through citibank in new york that paying that touching of u.s. jurisdiction is sufficient jurisdiction for the united states government to charge both of those individuals with money laundering but both facing extradition proceedings if they both lose they're looking at twenty years without parole hazaras placing a federal judge in manhattan u.s. government decided they wanted him they were able to manufacture a ny do you jurisdiction not illegally a form of entrapment where they were able to pull mr boot into the jurisdiction of the u.s. court i placed him in you know in extradition proceedings by way of. thailand and

having extradited to the united states he must file a properly prepared notice of appeal and probably in about a year or so we'll know what the second circuit court of appeal says with regard to mr boots appeal. and over again there's plenty more for your on our website logon to our to talk with nor analysis of that to boots imprisonments is a quick look at what else we have in store for you that north korea already has moved its long range rocket into position for the controversial satellite launch but that's not all that's ramping up international tensions around the communist state goes on to the conflict i don't know. that forced a chance or new groups the six party talks on iran's nuclear program may be in trouble to get the details of life. if you survive is from a plane crash in russia's two main region monday remain in hospital but their

conditions are said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport killing such a one people investigators have identified failure to devise the plane as the possible primary cause of the tragedy jake agrees reports now 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 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 when we took him to hospital he said but he was shaking he said he was very cool appeared on our screens turn the heater on even though it already was on thirty one people lost their lives in a tragedy this shocked the country twelve survivors remain in

a critical condition the investigation here continues but for a brief moment those involved stopped their work that's bereaved family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones but the charts the pay their respects as a farewell word out still through the calls of lights. 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 feel to be the queen you know whenever you're flying anytime after hostile conditions. very bad weather is very hostile conditions and it's incumbent upon the captain of.

the frosting. for the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and largely intact cockpits may provide answers team scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to cold to play their loss degrees c. . security forces in bahrain fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters as thousands marched in support of a job human rights activist on friday his serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising and has been on hunger strike for two months middle east expert early risk in man's case will help put more pressure on the ruling regime. these hunger strikes i think they do contribute though you do achieve their goal because what they do is they reveal

the real tactics which are being pursued by the regime in order to clamp down on the protestors shows so more and more such acts i think call for that exposing the truth all the truth clerics which the regime use using and what they are that the homes laws he puts more pressure on certain western countries also in european powers in order to change their stance because of be visibly in the regime and the train the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria of course setting aside the train are we all know that the fifth fleet in bahrain does exist we also know and i think this is the main issue here that bahrain is a very close ally of saudi arabia and saudi arabia hence is one of the allies of the u.s. so when we speak about the blackout being put on the train i think first and foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because a saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from bahrain and then spreading the spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still

focused on world also i think that all contributes to the anger which we're witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals and that let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a second ball of explosion in central nigeria just a few hours after an early explosion blew out windows and tore up roots in the northern city of kids ynet killing thirty eight people and injuring many more these are the latest series of violent attacks in nigeria most of which have been claimed by the militant group buckle up around. minus president has officially resigned as part of the deal to end a political crisis in the country the military staged a coup last month and toppled him from power and today agreements mediated by west african countries an interim president and a transitional government will rule and elections are held include leaders agreed to. step down was the president quit in your source is all i have to deal with i hope rising in the north where tall red tribes declared independence on friday.

people have been injured and fifteen detained as protesters clashed with police in serbia in the suburbs over grade locals have been protesting for two days against the decision of the city authorities to move the gypsy come site from the city center to the southern outskirts officials say the romany incumbent had to be relocated because their regional site has become on site tree. and afghanistan under two hours have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by an american forces it means missions will now be controlled by local leaders that liberates help fields tension between the afghan government and the glass with president hamid karzai condemning aerial bombings that's all ahead of nato as planned withdrawal of the country by the end of twenty four. and while enough to understand the u.s. is decreasing its influence that's posing kopassus rather to the story playing out in the asia pacific region as the first part 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 eventually reach two thousand five hundred the south america's military footprint in the region which morocco obama has called a priority the u.s. is also in housing alliances with japan south korea the philippines and singapore all in china's dockyard new zealand based asia specialist team wants to host hospitality could backfire on the host nations. on the sea the united states has a wire about the rise of china and is taking moves to change the counter that now we haven't really is going into starbucks this is in effect an american base it's may not have the legal status of the base and might have had to change occurs years ago it was actually what it is we have just fundamental problem of the declining united states unwise in china and then we had all these subordinate country. lanes

. on australia new zealand want to move they have to work out how to cope and rest these countries are all usually getting themselves into this relationship deteriorating long term to hear it english in the united states and china and in really need to think more seriously about. alcohol of has long been a challenge and you came up with a number of deaths from liver disease growing almost every year the british government's power to injecting a minimum price for our hold up where his other three to address the problem are single the planet has more. this is your average friday night now in prison it's not yet midnight many people have already drunk well over the limit it was considered binge drinking the now i

drink the wine. glasses me. yeah i take pipes yeah. maybe a couple shots. maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of deaths from liver disease in the u.k. i live 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 alcohol abuse so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is for use of alcohol so around two points of even if you drink in the night so. we've been string came in according to experts seriously damaging your health even lease is nothing compared to what many get free come last orders a very. few

shots example. and you can quote an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol and by screwfix where there is a very great need to address the alcohol misuse 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 right heart disease cancer liver disease the government claims supermarkets selling booze 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 ticket agent problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred from drinking by price rises one for the minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers and if there is a section of society likely to be holistic it's the cause 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 the 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 term that will bar them from having another destructive night on the tiles either bennett's. number. that's have a nice legs this hour back with the headlines in just

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