from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. france will ask the u.n. to open up syria skies for western bombers and other broadside on our sides regime kiters number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister walk in the woods with an infuriated general on opposition journalists claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing my feelings. and egyptian relief of the end of thirty year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians at the presidential election runoff country's women who fear the worst.

around the world around the clock here watching r.t. france could ask the united nations to our no fly zone over syria the country's foreign minister also says he hopes the u.n. will authorize the use of force in order to bring about peace within syria the rebels have received the blessing of a second in command a video of. the u.s. says was killed in the pakistan drone strike shows him calling on this list worldwide to go to syria and join the uprising against president assad 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 you kind of global terrorist organization is taken inside 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 to earlier in february we heard al qaida is leader calling on all muslims to. port 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 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're ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support that everything they need be it money over weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in volumes over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and the u.n. has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and bank one has called an old countries with influence on both rebels the syrian government to call

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

money to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in. what american secretary of state hillary clinton has sparked a war of words with her russian counterpart rove alter accusing moscow sending attack helicopters to president assad something that even the president seems to know anything about. the content of has more on the diplomat so far 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 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 syria and i've just not seen how washington was left to sort out his confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations that years ago we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contracts for all of these contracts related to only exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else for anything that could be used against peaceful demonstration because you believe 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 u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made and my seven teens on behalf of the afghan air force. well keeping a sensitive secret seems to be tough for washington mandarins as we report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle with claims of trading national security for political gain by the under leak of classified data. that some drugs in ardent financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction that the government is pulling funds from rehab. trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top a criminal investigator he reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading

reporters over an article alleging that he took part in a criminal conspiracy the high profile gag more from artie's peter out of an. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of has published a editorial in which he says one of his journalists surrogates was taken to woods on the orders of colleagues on that the strike and the chairman of the investigative committee and threatened with his life now this all stems from an opinion piece that was written by circle of which he made a series of very serious allegations about mistaken concerning links to all crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two in russia's south following which sokoloff issued a formal apology now the journalist has left russia and his editors says that cycle of safety is the only concern of the newspaper and that maybe it is yet it is not on a witch hunt. or that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want

our journalists 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 employee well the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper under its journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations now as it stands no formal charges being brought against the investigative committee or its chairman alexander striken we've also heard you know this statement from the investigative committee regarding these allegations the investigative committee was established in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev and reported directly to the presidents of russia so we now have to wait and see what the response to these allegations will be from the committee. and sort of at what r.t. dot com we've got the well is your fingertips here's what some online videos today

a full game turns into an ugly event as russian fans at euro two thousand and twelve in warsaw. are attacked by polish elegance. most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote and one texan city it seems to throw the dice maybe enough . egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule off the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the move would allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election but one group domination even more than egyptian women believe it or send the country back to the dark ages as policy reports. are she's young and ambitious and

planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turned forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winning the 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 evolution 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's 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 to proceed 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 to. so moment of fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse afaf other l. cream 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 whatever deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me our children any money and he treats me bury badly. after a bit 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 country. to the role of women. the full equality of women. living in the

under my door. and that is the evidence. in the road to progress to foot the bill and so why dolly 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 normal people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in 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 lacks a constitution and next hour here in r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we're told 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 demography procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. rajan tina's the president cristina fernandez de kirchner where they are countries came to the falkland islands at the un meeting in new york this thursday it takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory ended decades on the ownership dispute has not died down islanders hold a referendum next year to decide their future rajan sr says the british illegally occupied the falklands but it calls them out venus almost two hundred years ago

nine hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred two conflict and islander say they've been forgotten among all the high level posturing but colonist martin of course says it's the lucrative oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. it's if you like signal to. that the focus is always argentineans call them last month venus which just a part of britain and don't wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is the argentinian government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands have been claimed by. britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. do claim. a very thin one but argentina is concerned about structure.

under the water there the idea to you to discover the. possible extent right through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting for. the falklands so if they find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . in the us several classified documents revealing a bomber administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media has put the white house in the firing line jeopardizing national security for the sake of political gain one former foreign service officer the state department believes america could end up paying a high price for leaks. leaking information that paper's you is not unique to obama i think what's unique you are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran bush the raid

that killed bin a lot of information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was known to very few people and 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 this information that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and its popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he will in turn means right or wrong he alone can decide what information may be amateur united states and what information he needs to brag about his old purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones when other u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan of the four militants have been killed in north west in the latest attack security officials say the drone fired two missiles at a vehicle 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 al qaida after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country's south but it's took control of several areas a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventeen members were killed in the latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success for yemen's we president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern nevada that took the death of a sixty two year old woman a hot dry weather and strong winds are hampering their efforts and scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened then emergency crews are expected to be fighting the place for weeks to come. now times are tough in ireland and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say this war addicts coming

through their doors because nora smith reports the cash strapped government is not so keen to pay for their rehab. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon 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. when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find no. more recourse. you know turned. on people. between drugs and

crime and no not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction here's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community when i was single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been 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 isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of adding death threats against a drug and rehab center to seeing that government funding for 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. . now that it's time to join katie on the business desk for the latest this hour so russia is set to help cyprus predict it what's the situation now that yeah that's

right carol we have been following the story and it's because cyprus is the latest country the european country just feeling the pain right now and it's very much russia to the rescue so let me give you the details on this one now as you say russia says it is indeed ready to help cyprus out and it is a debt stricken country right now and it's going to be lending an emergency loan of five billion dollars now the request came after top cypriot banks were downgraded due to their high exposure to the troubled greek economy in the last year russia provided the republic with two point five billion euros and that's equivalent to ten percent of the cypriot g.d.p.'s it's not the first time that they've asked russia for a little bit of help to help them out of a sticky situation a lot of their banks are exposed to grace as i say so with that in mind that have a look at the european markets because they have actually recently opened in the

last twenty minutes or so to see the figures and see what the sentiment is really looking like that the phone is a relatively flat as is the dax just one based. points there in germany so we see how the situation of poles polish and sea of news going on there today we got in a town in poland spain is set to be left alive perhaps today and it's all about italy taking the limelight they did have a bond auction yesterday and we did see bring costs really surging today is the big one so we're going to be following that very much and of course italy is the third biggest economy in the eurozone so the question is will they be the next one that needs a bailout that's the concern today we're going to be watching the situation as it unfolds let's go to the common currency and see how all those sentiments are playing into the traders favorite past you can see it's demonstrating some resilience right now one twenty five seventy five the trade is a favorite pair just that the ruble go it's a losing out against the euro and the u.s.

dollar this hour on the russian market as they are in the second hour of trade just now so that see what's happening now. traders very much playing catch up because yesterday their returns their deaths after two day public holidays and now they're just digesting all the news events that have been going you also want to mention that wall street closed on the back to retail sales so it's kind of been a domino effect we had asia closing down as well as as you can see the artistic sense of dissent down around a third for the myself as brings us on to the blue chips so let's have a look at my sex and see who's moving. i've got the energy major gas from there around half a percent in negative territory v.t. frank the second biggest lender hit around half a percent down as well just two basis points in negative territory that has oil has recently resumes gaining activity actually but prices remain for maybe all right let's move on or take

a look at the agent session i did mention they finished on the back foot this morning others plenty of new sentiments going on there the make a in japan has actually colos a two tenths of a percent. down now we did have some forecasts come out from credit suisse and deutsche bank they've now reduced their forecasts for the chinese economy size saying a low patch so we've got eight percent of growth come down to seven point seven percent right now if we look at the ore prices are different and they are indeed gaining ever such a fraction but they still hold around those eight month lows today is a big day for the or market because we've got opec meeting they're going to be talking about how much output how much production they're going to be producing for the second half of this year that will immediately impact those prices all right so that's how the markets are looking right now be back in fifteen minutes with the latest update kerry if you look at it with you later as you say. well are coming our party's cars a reporter pulls no punches on the world of bankers but first be back with

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