france will ask the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers and another broadside on assets regime number two endorsers the rebellion. egyptian relief over the end of a thirty year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election runoff it's the country's women who feared the worst. and the sinister walk in the woods with infuriated general and opposition journalists claims led to a showdown russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of my feeling.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. 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. would authorize the use of force in order to bring about peace and within syria a blast has injured two people near a hospital in damascus just days after the rebellion was given the blessing of the second in command a video of a libya in the u.s. as was killed in pakistan a drone strike one on this list worldwide to go to syria and join the fight against president assad has been a financial 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 here in serial kind global terrorist organization is taken solid and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and their eggs 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 in 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 acknowledged 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 are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support with everything they need be it money or weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in violence 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 an old 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. robert naiman from the american campaign group just foreign policy but if there's a contradiction between u.s. support for the rebels and its recognition that al qaeda is fighting amongst them. they already know that the and even according to the u.s. . they're concerned for example. like groups in iraq. syria. are you know likely believed by the u.s. 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 verbs in the armed opposition and their links to. them on the other hand you have u.s.

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. american secretary of state hillary clinton has sparked a war of words with russian counterpart sergei lavrov after accusing moscow of selling attack helicopters to president assad something not even the pentagon seems to know anything about. has more on the tip of that fiery 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 the syrians i have just not seen it now while 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 years ago we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contracts for all of these contracts related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else or 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. well keeping a sensitive secret seems to be tough for washington mandarins as we reported later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of training national security for political gain allowing the leak of classified data. that some drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction that the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. or 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 would allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election but one group is the most dominating even more than egyptian women believe it or send the country back to the dark ages parsley 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 deal with 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 states or 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 wise 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 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 recently 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 they're mean 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. ovine canty stated to the role of women and the full equality of women. and anything that undermined that for. them that it is the handedness. in the road to progress to develop 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 more people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land i've been slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . but egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution and later this hour here in our tale we hear from an expert on how

that's affecting the path to democracy. we were 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. here 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 president cristina fernandez de kirchner on lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands at a un meeting in new york state 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 will hold a referendum next year to decide their future project tina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls them our business almost two hundred years ago one hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred two conflicts now and to say they have been forgotten among all the high level posturing or political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative oil. off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. if you like signal to start is that the focus is or is the argentinians 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 argentina 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 spain 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 good so. under the water there the idea to you to discover. you know didn't you know it was possible right through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting for years around the falklands so if they find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . when the us several classified documents are putting the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media it's put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security for the sake of political gain one former foreign service officer at the state

department believes america could end up paying a high price for the leaks. leaking information it papers you is not unique to obama i think what's unique here are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran this raid that killed bin ladin 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 obama's 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 his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he won't turn is right or wrong he alone can decide what information may be amateur united states and what information he needs to brag

about for his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones. i thought he dot com we've got the well that your fingertips has worked some on our online videos today because the game turns into an ugly event as russian fans that you are twenty twelve and also are attacked by polish football he comes. across most americans agree that the best way to annex authorities is a direct democratic vote in one texan city it seems and throw the dice may be enough. trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top criminal investigative he reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading journalists i want to call that saying that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with

a high profile gang from artie's people on a. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of his published a editorial and which he says one of his journalists sergey saw was taken towards on the orders of alexander 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 cycle of which he made a series of very serious allegations about mistaken concerning links to organized crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two in russia's south following which cycle of 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. that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured not be stripping 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 meeting obviously we're also prone to emotion because things happen we apologize for that if circle of his able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general of us that he can clear 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 the deadline specified by law i can process no response charges according to 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 steichen we've also heard no

statement from. the investigative committee regarding these allegations the investigative committee was established in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev reported directly to the president of russia so we now have to wait and see what the response to these allegations will be from the committee. it's all over there now in her most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that her country's strength is not endless and is urging a political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of their sovereign powers to the well of the union was again pounded by a credit downgrade rating agency slashed the scores of spain and cyprus citing more uncertainty ahead of elections in greece and also warned that spanish debt could yet be relegated to junk status we're focusing on the latest trials and tribulations in the e.u. the kaiser report is here at eleven thirty g.m.t. . spain's bailout terms to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects

a growing consensus that spatters clouts might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro yes so what we see is the quick change debt for a quick change a kind game where the indebtedness actually increases and the austerity measures are only going to have to be more severe because they're increasing the debt and they every time they introduce a new fund whether it's the exchange rate stabilization fund or the emergency fund the emergency fund be these are all meant to just create more legs of the con game to create more fees for the con artists and to bankrupt the poor suckers like the europeans who are getting caught by the unmerciful confiscation of well. we'll take a look at some other international headlines in brief you know up to four militants have been killed in northwestern pakistan in the latest drone 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 time about stronghold left a fifteen al qaeda terrorists dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third term from al qaeda after days of airstrikes crashes in a country south but it's took control of several there is a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventeen or kind of members were killed in latest reason the operation which is seen as a major success for yemen's president. it's a far far it is a battling a massive wildfire in colorado the death of a sixty two. hot dry weather and changing winds from their efforts to schools of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and emergency crews are expected to be fighting the blaze from weeks to come. well

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 they're seeing more addicts coming through their doors but laura 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 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 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 knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction his is 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 around. 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 addicts desperate to get the 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 than less likely to get the become tomorrow's the say no point 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 w. well. being for the business of haiti it's all about oil then for russian

investors today it is indeed a we know how reliant the markets are here almost all important prices carry and today even more so we've got trading floors really fixated on it and that's because we've got a meeting between the organization of petroleum exporting countries is happening later on today another group accounts for over forty percent of the world oil production as you can see why it's so important so let's see those or prices for now just see what the situation is you can say they all rebounding out from the lowest close in eight months and that's ahead of that meeting now alice is saying that it's likely they're going to keep the output ceilings of the amount they produce the same so it's not expected to change parts we're going to be monitoring the situation and we'll certainly see and whatever comes out of that meeting we're expecting those prices to respond to them so let's see how the russian markets are anticipating all of this action the saf today you can see we got the r.t.s.

eight tenths of a percent in negative territory and it's around the same for the mice it's just us is following on from the lower close we saw in the asian session earlier on today ok let's see the stocks you see who's a loser here we go we got. from the six tents over cern down to the bank as well the second biggest lens in here in russia seven times will be sent in negative territory lukewarm as well nineteen basis points that company will certainly be holding out for the results of the meeting later on in. the exchange rates we see how the ruble is performing and i believe it's still losing out with the u.s. dollar and the euro this hour now as we look at the euro dollar though investors they remain bearish towards a common currency now that can be put down to the fact that we did have some weak u.s. data coming out. and that combined with all the eurozone turmoil as well as leaving

it relatively flat right now ok talking of europe i'm going to go out cyprus. now russia is ready to provide the debt stricken russia with ski's may let me start again russia says it's ready to provide the debt stricken cyprus with an emergency loan of five billion dollars now there were questions after the top secret banks were downgraded and that was due to their high exposure to the troubled economy the last two boss of the family did they recover it with two point five billion euros and that is equivalent to ten percent of cyprus is g.d. paid so that leads us on to the european markets we see how they're performing right now we can see they are indeed dropping just lots going on in the region today for the footsie point seven percent down for the data drawn up and we've got another a tally and bond auction happening today is the third biggest economy in the eurozone and they are going to want to prove that they're not the next country to get

a bailout so all eyes on europe will once again what is the spain situation as well i know you would have about yourself carry the downgrades from may days as well as cyprus received a downgrade as well all right asia i mentioned they did close up on the back foot china got of a bad rap today they were downgraded by credit suisse and banks fighting slower growth for the second biggest economy in the world the nikkei as well they finished on the back but a lot of exports is in the region fair exposed to europe or that's how the markets are looking as i say we're focusing on oil a softening kerry ok it's certainly all happening casey thanks for that. kind of outer twenty minutes or sports around we'll tell you who's in the running to get out of the group of death row twenty twelve football championship quest a recap of our top stories in just a few much. please

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