is there going to be another bailout what would this entailed once again and who's going to be bearing the brunt of it would it be the taxpayers once again that would be a previously a spanish ministers had said that spain can come up with the money on its own but already some ministers are saying that in fact they won't need some international help and because of that there's a lot of skepticism jittery markets reacting to this now certainly what has been consistent in this whole crisis is that one statement today of confidence changes at the next day a complete turnaround and therefore there really is no sense of stability a sense of confidence in any of the statements coming from the country what has been consistent is that there is no solution until now found to get out of this euro zone crisis. and investment advisor patrick jiang says the german downgrade has been a long time coming. we've really heard the truth that i think many in finance knew all along but i'm such as commerce spying they build themselves up

a huge portfolio where they thought they were being very very clever by buying themselves bourne's of places such as greece italy spain in other words all the places where not only are they can't possibly sell their debt because the governments are effectively in huge problems so therefore what's happened is once more another little layer of the onion let us say because we are way and that's examining and showing us that ultimately the euro has no clothes the european union is inane total mess due to its three years of denial of its economic problems all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spin went into denial mode from the ball and they came into office and six months later they've suddenly realized what anybody who was remotely financially literate could work out six months ago or two years ago even spanish banks are thoughts and

ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them but the conventional be alike mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro as a currency because it's a disastrous political scheme rather than an economic engine of prosperity rather it's the opposite it's printing people out of work for work rather than putting them in jobs. russia and china are boosting their military partnership including holding more joint drills president putin's currently on a state visit to beijing to forge closer ties with the asian giant china's growing influence is causing worries for the u.s. which is shifting more of its warships to the asian pacific let's hear the chinese capital. not only the diplomatic and economic ties seem to be very strong between moscow and beijing but now we have it confirmed by vladimir putin and this is something he stressed in particular that the military partnership between the two

countries will also expand now it's already been very strong i mean here that russia and china have already conducted very successful joint military exercises in the past and certainly the weapon exports from russia to china is also massive but now we understand according to put in that this cooperation will expand suddenly this is some kind of news which would hardly be very welcome in the west in the united states in particular which have been growing a very much war with china's growing military might and the recent visit by the u.s. secretary of defense mr panetta to the asian pacific region basically confirmed all these worries with producing statements like the united states must be vigilant in the face of. china's growing military power but beijing is also growing very impatient and very irritated with the actions of the united states which particular this visit often they're saying that the growing military presence in the region may destabilize the whole situation we certainly are waiting to see whether there

will be any reaction coming from washington on these statements coming from beijing but definitely the fact that russia and china are growing their military ties certainly adds a very interesting spin to global geopolitics. meanwhile the on pain that day is wrapping up his asian charm offensive with the last stop in india buying back or from the antiwar answer coalition says america's military focus on the region could have dangerous implications it's because the united states wants to exercise had gemini in the asia pacific when it says it's pivoting towards asia which president obama announced in australia in january that should be considered a dangerous thing for asia the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred it invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution during world war two it's what most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people

of the continent china is seeking to defend itself it does not have a global ambitions with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states plans their pivot towards asia something very threatening. and later this hour on r t a deadly wedding tragedy in afghanistan a fresh nato airstrike killed more than a dozen afghans at a marriage ceremony we'll look at the huge toll the u.s. led war is taking on civilians. but first reaching rules while organizing or participating in public protests may now cost a pretty penny in russia as the parliament has approved a new law supporting tougher punishment for violations now it's yet to get signed off by the president but the bill's already caused a storm among opposition groups setting

a new part of the mentoring record for the time it took to be passed start. has the details. the draft aims that significantly increasing the fines for violating the rules of taking part in mass rallies from the current seventy year olds up to a maximum of seventy thousand euros for average citizens or around two hundred hours of community service so that's why it's caused such a wee fierce criticism and anger both from the official and unofficial opposition many of whom are calling this draft draconian but its supporters say that it corresponds with western european standards and actually if we compare the figures to the penalties in some western european states are often much more severe and the flying could be much higher as well reaching seventy five thousand euros the draft was initiated after a launch protest rally ended in clashes between some of the protesters and the

police we've seen pieces of concrete flying around small grenades and injuries on both sides it was more of a mouthful last night when it took eleven hours for the chamber of parliament the state duma to work through the draft because of a new tactic which is being taken on by the opposition which is new for russia but it's a practice which is similar to filibuster ring in the united states when some deputies try to be as abstract as possible to do real the vote but by around midnight it still ended up being passed to despite this fierce debate. the attention of wiki leaks supporters has now shifted to an american military court where a series of pretty child hearings have started for u.s. army private bradley manning he's accused of the biggest leak of government documents in u.s. history a charge his lawyers hope to see dismissed however as argues medina course never explains there are some leaks that will always go unpunished. from

a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has waste an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash loss than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for the times when it suits them to do so one of those with what was written with a book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bible bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of gun laws last year at this time the film in question which is titled asked zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding. the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood filmmakers

were given access to precisely undisclosed information about the operation oscar winning director kathryn bigelow and screenwriter mark boal were even granted at tour around the volt as cia building where tactical planning for the raid took place the film is out in december but was initially due to be released just weeks before november's presidential elections jab facts or some flak fly the administration's way while the entire project has raised concerns over the way intelligence is being used it's best that this kind of information particularly as it revolves around what's surrounding this movie remains classified it absolutely has to it's very unfortunate that it's coming out to be used for political purposes for a congressional election however there's nothing unusual about the defense department collaborating with the makers of hollywood blockbusters it's

a partnership that dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and it has proved effective the pentagon has what hollywood filmmakers one access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pentagon wants the insolence to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals biber and to valor how for shift official assistance veteran hollywood reporter david robb says the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better lot and the american people. are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more heroic than it really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some x.

will get true walk trot others are trying to project patrick tales and propaganda on to the silver screen but my integration r.t. reporting from las angeles california. and the so-called war on whistleblowers is just the beginning of an all out campaign against freedom of speech says sibel edmonds founder and president of the national security whistleblowers coalition. is going beyond just that in your example by accomplishment this is also precedence and this is what the american public and actually people around the world need to understand you are seen as elation and each case where there is bradley manning or julian assigned or the recent whistleblowers who have faced indictments you are seeing escalation u.s. government is waiting to see what kind of reaction they are going to get from the

public this is just the cascades and if we as part make fail to not support this case that they are in supporting and getting outraged and supporting these whistleblowers we are going to see a war war situation not only with governments whistleblowers but also with journalists that bloggers and activists. all morning nato airstrike in eastern afghanistan has left at least eighteen people dead including women and children according to local officials are people living nearby say all those killed were celebrating a wedding nato denies that claiming they took out eight military commanders in the strike doesn't mention civilian casualties in their statement must pay for investigative journalist and editor of who what why dot com now joins me from new york via broadband for some analysis mr baker president karzai to clear recently that he will put strict controls on how u.s. troops conduct themselves in the country however now another strike causing many

civilian deaths could this bring the alliance in direct conflict with the afghan government and how do you think the situation will play out there certainly a growing problem of foot and i think we need to distinguish between the bomb. by the drones in those by manned aircraft the incident that early wednesday morning involved manned aircraft the. western forces working with afghan forces were attacking a house where they believed taliban commanders were meeting. and when they encountered resistance gunfire they called in air strikes now. the obvious danger of that is that you can have imprecise information of course in those areas there are people living there there are women and children and non competence and of course it's extremely dangerous we'll have to wait to see what happened in this

situation but we've had quite a few last week there was another bombing where a large number of civilians are said to have been killed and another two weeks before the u.s. ambassador was called. in by the afghan leaders and brought on the carpet about this it's a huge problem of course because it's entirely disproportionate when you receive a small amount of arms fire to send did airstrikes and i think there's going to have to be much more of a discussion about how a proper this is and also the consequences of alienating afghans even more and provoking more suicide bombings and seems like it would be for a lot of afghan people that what it comes down to is people are dying we've seen an increased number of protests against nato forces in the country could these attacks give the taliban an opportunity to recruit more and more people i mean that's what critics are saying is going to happen yes i mean the taliban is very effective at

recruiting and today we just saw another attack which should be mentioned this was by the taliban suicide attacks near kandahar where trucks with civilians were queuing up waiting to move supply. eyes into the the nato base there and one suicide bomber went in and killed a lot of people and all civilians and then we saw more civilians came to try to rescue them another bomber then unleashed his bomb so it's an enormous problem this tit for tat this back and forth clearly it's not getting any better it's probably going to get a lot worse and if anybody thinks they're winning the hearts and minds of that country either the taliban or the west i think they are sadly mistaken you had twenty two civilians killed in that terror act that you were just talking about i want to touch on pakistan they have also demanded that nato stops drone strikes on its territory what's the real impact nato is having in the region as

a whole. well again it's very very complicated and in pakistan much more murky the pakistani government has said in and more so increasingly that they would like to be running that program themselves i don't know that they're entirely against drone strikes but they would like to be handling them they see right away the issue of foreign powers being able to order those strikes without necessarily coordination or permission from the pakistani government as as threatening their sovereignty so i think that's an issue with the military itself but again alienating people killing civilians particularly in the border regions and it's just difficult to see how this benefits anybody how this advances world peace how this really significantly sets back the taliban i think an entirely different solution is going to have to be conceived of in it it does not involve bombs nato also being blamed

in no there were people putting in other words as breaking international law with actions in that region there and then we see the coalition pushing quite strongly for military intervention in syria can the alliance continue to what to do. south as as that as an advocate for world democracy here how long can this go on the syrian situation fascinates me on who what why dot com we've been writing about it taking a look at what seems to be a fair amount of of murky reporting and i would say even some just information reminds us a lot of libya where we are getting very much a one sided account of a government that is clamping down without any indication at all of the tremendous amount of involvement of foreign powers in supplying the opposition and that kind of reporting strikes us as reckless because we are we are seeing these kind of mop operation mop up operations of one country after another certainly of the west is

going to be be able to prevail i think much more easily over the long term in syria as they did in libya and much less in a country like afghanistan which has never take it kindly to foreign invaders whether they were russians or americans or anybody else. banker or live from new york for a broadband editor of who what why dot com very interesting comments about the situation afghanistan and the mideast and general thanks for that thank you. up next our teens interview with syria's minister of information oblon mahmud he tells r t his views about the so-called information war ross baker was just talking about that a bit more coming up on r t stay with us. then

the arab league council has asked satellite operators are upside. down the broadcast of sirius satellite channels what do you think about this decision. this decision is an attack on free media and freedom of expression that it's an attack on syrian media the purpose is to hide the truth about what is really going on in syria from people both inside and outside the country this is part of the smear campaign launched by certain satellite channels and supported by the gulf nations

behind it the decision contradicts fundamental moral and professional standards for mass media in the arab world and globally it contradicts the rules and regulations for satellite broadcasting as agreed by the council of the arab ministers of information and this decision was made by foreign ministers which means it was politically motivated it's part of the anti syrian political agenda we all understand that these plans are being implemented on political and economic levels the main purpose of this decision is to silence syrian channels can uncover the role of some of these countries providing support to terrorists in syria helping them financially and smuggling weapons into the country and they're all surface. rate of serial channels disclosing the truth about terrorist connections of some media outlets financed and supported by these outside players we have had a situation where terrorists acted as correspondents in foreign media that would at

the very people or sponsible for the deaths filmed their crimes and sent a footage to the media blaming my government for the atrocities of the syrian people and the ministry of information condemning this decision the ministry considers it as its responsibility to provide satellite broadcasting of the syrian satellite channels. since arab states and other countries as you say are waging an information war against syria does the syrian government media still provide balanced and unbiased coverage do they provide an accurate picture of the situation in syria especially considering that they were not prepared for this information war. and first of all it should be said that everything about the mass media is in fact down to the audience if we take polls around inside and outside syria we shall see that the audience of the syrian satellite channels has grown and so has the number of viewers who perceive these channels as the source to turn to

a live news coverage on syrian satellite channels provide live coverage sixteen hours a day and this includes both the official channels and the specialized and private . thus we can say that the official syrian media has taken a firm lead in the coverage of the barack war syria has been forced into them and in exposing the plans to undermine the strength of spirits by the syrian people i'm deeply convinced that the recent sanctions against our mass media came as a response to its increased impact and there be no such impact it would be no need to introduce sanctions against on mass media the american and european sanctions followed by those experienced by some gulf states the recent arab league. meeting only confirmed that the influence of the syrian media has grown and because of all that we will have to develop our informational policy and improve the structure of the syrian media. the arab league sees to shut down some of the

syrian channels but the annan plan actually calls for as many channels as possible to cover the events in syria. of course it's very strange we ask oceana and the un security council who will protect freedom of speech democratic principles and liberties how can you shut down syrian national media when the annan plan calls for free accreditation for foreign media coming to syria to cover the situation here and we have one hundred eighty media outlets from all over the world represented in syria well in that and over one hundred accredited foreign reporters permanently working here traveling freely across the country to cover the event that we have how can you shut down syrian satellite channels and at the same time allow foreign news services operate freely this will result in i asked coverage of all this is part of the information more

ways to get syria we know that eighty percent of the satellite channels dedicate thirty minutes of their news hour to syria today and a recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage on syria has nothing to do with the actual situation in the country it's all lies and fabrications and this again proves that there's a real information more waged against syria with real facts being substituted by fabrications these lies and the only way for them to achieve their objectives in their war against syria and that the have the houla massacre is a good example of that as soon as the first pictures of a massacre were released everybody started accusing the series. an army and security forces but we all know who was really behind this crime or not i know the atrocities used against the syrian people as well as the sanctions introduced against the syrian government media that have revealed the true nature of those

waging war against syria today the people of syria a targeted by terrorists who are armed and sponsored by regional powers like qatar saudi arabia and turkey. as well as by western nations such as the us the how those who often talk about fighting terrorism have joined their forces today to support terrorists attacking syria have been. going to thank you very much for being with us today mr adelman what syrian minister of information. culture is that so much to play a huge musician by. syria because it is going on with a violent crisis in syria continuing to deepen and spread can lebanon remain on the sidelines much longer.

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there and see a line from the russian capital the headlines creeping contagion. euro zone champion germany in-doors ratings downgrade the fears the crisis is heading the monetary union the biggest economy. military maneuvering russia plans closer ties with china while america promises to move most of its warships into the asia pacific in coming years. and protest peacefully or pay a fortune lawmakers passed a bill that sparked some of the most heated debate and set a new parliamentary backyard. next year on our t.v. peter the balun his gas debate the syrian conflict and how it's reaching beyond the country's borders cross-talk is up on archie.

if you. want to. go in and welcome to cross talk about syria go so does lebanon with the violent crisis in syria continuing to deepen and spread can lebanon remain on the sidelines much longer and many other questions abound is syria intentionally destabilizing lebanon and or there are elements in lebanon being used to force regime change in damascus. and. to crosstalk.