was. france would ask the u.n. to open up syria skies for western bombers and another broadside on our side regime by outsiders number two endorses the rebellion. scary walk in the woods with an infuriating general town opposition journalists turning counter with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of not felix. and the gyptian with the five b.n. different thirty year marriage and see who the short lived support is again allow the army to take a civilian out of the presidential election runoff but it's the country's women who fear the worst.

very latest well these twenty four hours a day or a nutty france could ask the united nations to allow a no fly zone over syria the country's foreign minister also says he hopes the u.n. will authorize the use of force they want to bring about peace and within syria the rebels have received the blessing of the second in command video of living in the u.s. says was killed in a pakistan drone strike shows him calling on is an asst worldwide to go to syria and join the uprising against the president i said that's made for national reports it's further evidence that extremists might be taking advantage of the country's civil war. this video is a clear indicator that in the conflict in syria al qaida global terrorist organization has taken saeed and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and they are tending their presence in the country it's not the first message of its kind earlier in february. we heard al qaeda is leader

calling on all muslims to support the syrian rebels president assad has been blaming militant groups and international terrorists for violence of his country since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took a year for the international community to start admitting that too it's only last tuesday that british foreign secretary william hague has also knowledge that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all visibly a battle on the side of the rebels and fuel in the conflict and violence here in the country we've also been hearing a lot and many times from u.n. members and from. members that they are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support with everything they need the money or weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in violence all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and u.n. has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and banking moon

has called on all countries with influence on both rebels of the syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. name and from the american campaign group just a foreign policy believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support of the rebels and its recognition that there is a fighting among them. but i already know that the and even according to the us. they are concerned for example. like groups in iraq. syria. are you know likely believed by the us to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they are concerned about the armed opposition and their links to. jihad is on the other hand you have us providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed

opposition in and basically giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. but american secular state hillary clinton sparked a war of words with her russian counterpart sergey lavrov after accusing moscow of sending attack helicopters to present asset machines that not even the pentagon seem to know anything about parties at least half enough has more on the diplomats foreign exchange. while the top top u.n. official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria take a look we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms

shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington seem to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks in which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen how washington was left to sort out its confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations that yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting and paid for contracts all of these contracts are related to only exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used

against peaceful demonstration that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently one such shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state but for some reason the u.s. considers this normal when you're now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now that's because the us pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seven teens on behalf of the afghan air force. but keeping a sensitive secret seems to be tough for washington mandarins and there are reports that later this hour it's natural president obama's inner circle the claims of trading national security for political gain that leak of classified data. and that drugs and alcohol and financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. the trouble is brewing between

a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top criminal investigative reporter they threatened one of the paper's leading reporters and one article of edging that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang let's get more on this now from our peter. peter the word is that a newspaper is known for its controversial anti government publications or was it trying to hone in on the. well known. editorial in which he. says that one of his journalist surrogates sokoloff was abducted on the olders of alexander of a strike in the chairman of the investigative committee here in russia taken to woods in moscow and where his life was threatened now these events are supposed to have taken place a few weeks ago it all stems but to an opinion piece that was written by sokolov in which he made a series of very serious allegations against us that i can as well as other senior figures in russia for what she later apologized now sokoloff has since left the

country. has yet to says it's the journalist safety as all that the newspaper care about and they aren't on any kind of witch hunt against the investigative committee all of us that i can. look at this we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalist safety to be assured not distracting to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of our employees it may well be because of emotions due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation and face to face meetings that's why we delayed publishing this letter for so long we wanted to settle this thing peacefully in a human way obviously we're also prone to emotions things happen all over we apologized for that if sickle of his able to come home with safety guarantees from f.s.b. colonel general must think you know we're happy with that i don't fight for anything

else not some kind of public benefit but if the response to my letter doesn't come within a deadline specified by law we can cross no response charges. well the editorial prompted protests from journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee and the jailed journalist union here in russia has also given its support to the newspaper whatever the outcome comes of this. as it stands neither the investigative committee nor. had any formal charges leveled against them neither the investigative committee released any statement regarding these allegations now the committee itself was formed in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev just a similar role as the the f.b.i. does in the united states and the committee report directly to the president here in russia. thanks for.

what r.t. dot com we've got the world at your fingertips has what some online videos today. game turns into an ugly event with russian fans at euro twenty twelve in warsaw are attacked by polish hardcore hooligans. and the risks of using your mobile phone are exposed as a dangerous dating application gets taken down. egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the move without the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election one group fears is in his control even more egypt's women believe it will send the

country back to the dark ages reports. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turn forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winnings a seat or so but for the sake of proving that egyptian women can do it but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify our it wilson is for the equality for the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some

fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse afaf crème has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who has me died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me very badly after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future over the recent stay poor all over.

the full equality of women. and anything that undermined that for. him that it is the handedness. in the road to progress to the real and so why don't we and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution more and more people are asking if it's possible that the revolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just land i've been slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. cairo. egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still that's a constitution in about fifteen minutes here in r.t. we'll hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we were told oh no just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen and look at what is happening now so we have even people

saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime they should be how come and be still here where they were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you cannot come with this because it's not in the constitution and constitution is going to be written after the election it's a mess it's not there is no transparency and how can you speak about the margaret procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. argentina's a president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands the un meeting in new york this thursday takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory ended with decades on the dispute has not died down u.k. spending referendum on it next year argentina says the british illegally occupied

lands it calls about business and most two hundred years ago one hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred conflict say they're being forgotten among the high level posturing of political analysts martin mccauley says it's the the. oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. if you like signal to. that the focus of the argentinians call them last move in this part of britain and the wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is the argentina government is using very very strong language and some people might say threads about this security of the falkland islands the falklands have been claimed by train britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. do claim is a very thin one but argentina is concerned about structure it's got so.

under the water there the idea to you to discover. you know just you know it is possible right through to the falklands and british companies. prospecting for us. so we find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . in the u.s. several classified documents revealing the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media has put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security the sake of the president's political gain one former foreign service officer at the state department believes america could pay a very high price for the. leaking information it papers you is not unique to obama

i think what's unique your two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran because the raid that killed bin ladin information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was known to bury people that's something new coupled with the almost aggressive persecution of whistleblowers his use of the espionage act that's the other side of this story and that's the other thing that's unique in this case obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out the super mation that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he will determine is right or wrong he alone can decide what information may damage the united states and what information he needs to brag about his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones when another u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan for militants have reportedly been killed in

northwest in the latest. eye witnesses say the drone fired two missile and have local markets but it's no word on any civilian casualties trouble villages are now searching for survivors ten days ago an air strike in the same region which is seen as a town about stronghold left fifteen al qaeda terrorists dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third town from out after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country's south when it since took control of several areas a year ago that the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventeen al qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success for them and the president. robert gates are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado that's killed a sixty two year old woman in the hot dry weather and changing winds are in their

efforts and scores of people are being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and firefighters are expected to battle the blaze for certain weeks. times are tough in ireland and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse senses end up in say they're seeing more people come through their doors but snore smith reports the cash strapped government is not so keen to pay up to get them clean. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people

a week happens is when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you know turned. on people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and no not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community when. two sisters are. over there. is just more left to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state work isn't

getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in arlen's drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for like every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less and less likely to get to become tomorrow's to say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it. having access to treatment programs to my mind is fatal if in this fight against drugs. programs in ireland or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession boy even harder they won't get any better with

disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . that story katie on the business and more pain for spain and even cyprus now yeah exactly that's all because of mood is a slashed its rating on spain firstly by three notches that happened on wednesday leaving at just one notch above junk status now the rating agency says that the new e.u. plan worth up to one hundred billion euros will indeed shore up the banks but it will increase the country's debt burden and that's the reason behind it and it's not the bottom because spain's raising could dive even deeper and that's as concerns are mounting that the economy has troubles raising cash on the international debt markets now moody's has also cut its rating on cyprus as i say to not much is so i said regrets that rest of fiscal problems in the country are

let's see how the asian markets are responding to all of this and they already retracing retreating to the ice and a lot of that is on the downgrade news also credit suisse has it reduces outlook for the chinese economy as well on a one of the biggest losers as well is the spirit is a clothing company and it gets most itself from europe you say and it's plunged eleven percent that's its biggest fall in fifteen years as you can see the nikkei around seven times a percent down the hang. six tenths of a percent in negative territory this is good to u.s. markets me see that retreat took place there as well on wall street and that was after we. came out domestically international data was taking its toll well we had an italian born. yesterday that didn't go well of toll also industrial production for the whole euro area was a real disappointment and it was led by germany the biggest manufacturer in europe we've also got another as well later on today that investors really focusing their

attentions on now so that was a close in figures for wall street as you can see the dow jones six tenths of a percent down and seven up for the nasdaq let's have a look at how the dollar is getting on with all those sentiments playing in to the common current state as it's one twenty five cents you know is gaining because of those poor data releases coming out of the u.s. but the situation in europe is keeping it from a rally and investors over my bearish towards the path also looking at the ruble that was a close in the figures for yesterday it will start moving and shaking in just under two hours time when the russian markets and that brings us on to the closing figures for the russian markets we'll check those out. there you are if i didn't know much of that is because the investors here are playing catch up because they returned to their deaths from a two day public holiday so they will perhaps see some pain today they are anticipating also want to mention oil because it's now heading towards an eight

month low and that directly affects the russian markets also wanted to mention comments made by the deputy prime minister. yesterday saying that they're going to plan to ease up on these tax burdens on the oil and gas companies of good will be international pressure is taking that all right let's say the oil prices and shall we see how the i guess you know we must say as well that natural gas accounts for fifty percent of for two thousand. and the eleven and a wife or the revenue. how important is. meeting today as well that could be talking about the quotas for production for the rest of the year is believed to be unchanged but all eyes will focus on that today we'll see if the prices have an impact as you can see they are indeed gaining but look at the prices they remain all right that's the markets now carry out about fifteen minutes with an update ok many thanks for that casey. now in just a couple minutes he will take another look at this hour's headlines stay with us.

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