canada. china operation. france will ask the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers another broadside on assad regime well al qaida is number two endorses the rebellion. egyptian relief over the end of thirty year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election run off country's women who fear the worst. and the sinister walk in the woods with infuriated general opposition journalists claims to a showdown russia's top investigator of an article accusing him of my feelings.

broke are saying live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm carrie johnson 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 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 a second in command a video of maybe the u.s. as was killed in a pakistan drone strike shows him according on is the mists worldwide to go to syria and join the fight against president assad has been 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 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 terrorist 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 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 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 an old countries with influence on both rebels and syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. of a daemon from the american campaign group or just foreign policy believes there is a contradiction between u.s. support to the rebels and its recognition that there is fighting amongst them. they already know that the and even according to the us. 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 the armed opposition and their links to.

jihad is on the other hand you have u.s. providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition and be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. but american secretary of state hillary clinton a spark a war of words with her russian counterpart sergey lavrov after accusing moscow of setting a new attack helicopters to president assad something not even the pentagon seems to know anything about what is this a carefully off has more to diplomats 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 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 that 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 yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contracts for one of these contracts are related

to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used against peaceful demonstrators 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 for some reason the u.s. considers this normal and we knew it was now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now and that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. well keeping a sensitive secret seems to be tough for washington mandarins as we report later this out there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of trading national security for political gain by the hundred leak of classified data. that send drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction if the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. and we could be sliding

back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to be army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the movement now the military a tighter group on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election one group fears is missed on the nation even more many egyptians women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages and 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 with 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 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 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 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 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 wherever did 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 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 weekend. to the role of women. the full equality of women. under my. is the handler's. in the road to progress to develop and so why delhi 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 up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . related to say about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks

a constitution and next hour here r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. and we were told for 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 regime they should be how come can be still be 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 president cristina fernandez de kirchner world lay out her country's

claim to the falkland islands and he went meeting in new york state takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory ended with decades on of the ownership dispute has now died down. hold a referendum next year to decide their future argentina says the british occupied the falklands calls them out venus two hundred years ago when one hundred people died in the one thousand nine hundred two conflict now say they're being forgotten among all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. if you like signal. that the focus is argentinians call the last movie in this 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 using very very strong language and some people

might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. do claim. one but argentina is concerned about structure. under the water that. you do to discover. you know. possible right through to the falklands. british companies. prospecting for the ground. so we find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . one of the u.s. several a classified documents revealing the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media and put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security for the sake of political

gain but one former foreign service officer at the state department but he's america could end up paying a high price for the. leaking information that 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 a lot of information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was known to very few people 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'll moral terms right from 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. but ati dot com we've got the well the thing that it says what some mana online videos today from the beautiful game turns into an ugly event as russian fans that you are twenty twelve and also attacked football hooligans. most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote but in one texan city it seems a throw of the dice may be enough. russia's top investigator has denied allegations he threatened one of the country's opposition journalists over a newspaper article controversial reports claim that

a high ranking official took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang a move from marty's piece on of a now. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of his published day editorial and which he says one of his journalists surrogates 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 sokolove in 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 sokolove 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 is not on a witch hunt. 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 it may well be because of emotions due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation in face to face meetings obviously we're also prone to emotions things happen we apologize for that if circle of is able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general bust thinking we're happy with that but the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper and its journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations. but in a most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that her country's strength is not endless is urging greater political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of their sovereign powers to the e.u.

where earlier that year it was again pounded by credit downgrades moody's rating agency slashed the schools of spain and cyprus citing burgeoning debt and uncertainty head of the next greek elections to also warn 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 bailout terms to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects a growing consensus that spatters claps might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all the. more well known the other and they they know that con artists like the european technocrats know that the victims of the con the europeans were the greeks or the spanish or the irish they are the instinct they're too polite to question the con artists because they're sort of talking they wear suits they have nice hats you

know they come in there and they talk a good game and they thought well maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and they can artist walk out the door with their money step get their pockets picked but to big to fail banks don't waste your time a good lively gentle look. let's take a look at some of the international headlines in brief now up to four militants have been killed in northwestern pakistan in the latest u.s. air strike security officials say an unmanned drone fired two missiles at the vehicle ten days ago an air strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold left fifteen arcata terrorists dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third town from al qaeda after days of air strikes and she's in the country so it's took control of several areas a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some of strongholds seventeen al

qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success yemen's new president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in colorado that the death of a sixty two year old woman for the hot dry weather and strong winds are hunkering their efforts with schools of people being evacuated from the area thousands of. rooms are still threatened and 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 they're seeing more addicts coming through their doors but as long as smith now 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 a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and

drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin twenty 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 no. 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 he says 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 work 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 addict desperate to get a drug and rehab center to seeing their 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 the 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's joined kate on the business desk for the latest in all things finance i care it's here when the standard big meetings on the cars today for all investors for us and what's happening yes a big day for the oil investors and a big day for russia as well because we're all holding tight for the organization of petroleum exporting countries. meeting happening in vienna later on today now the group is so important because they account for over forty percent of the world's oil production so therefore they have an impact on those prices so let's

see the prices for now and i do believe they're dropping ever so slightly and they're really hobbling around those eight month lows just now that's ahead of the meeting now what happens in the meeting is the ministers all get together and they talk about production and supply and what's expected is going to be unchanged for the second half of this year now we have comments coming out in recent weeks from the saudi arabia minister he wants to see them increase to help out the fragile state of the global economy but it is believed by analysts that they're going to agree to disagree and keep them as they are so we'll be watching the situation got a few hours to go just now and that brings us on to the russian markets as they say they're holding tight for the meeting as you can see that your thing in anticipation of the. i'll test around one percent down the my so it's not so shortly behind nine tenths of a cent in negative territory this season movers and shakers we've got gas from there it's still remains in your head territory it is

a major energy major hey we've got one percent down there the second biggest lender nine tenths of a percent down as well third a percent holding on to that negative impact that holding on to the meeting i would imagine all right let's move on and see how the exchange rates are getting on the ruble performance remains unchanged it's lower against the euro and the u.s. dollar for the common currency one thirty five or seventy five is just a fraction that's a bearish response from investors as a way the greek election on sunday the seventeenth to see if they will indeed the euro zone that's what investors are holding out for now also want to talk about cyprus if i may as well because it's very much a case of russia to the rescue you know russia says it is willing to loan five billion dollars to the troubled economy and the us off to a request was put forward because of may just cypriot banks being downgraded due to the exposure to the greek economy now i saw the first time the two countries have

been late last year russia provided the republic two point five billion euros not project movement to ten percent of cypriot g.d.p. a they said that the european markets and see what their response is to all of this because there's what's going on we've got the italian bond you know as well we know the spanish bond yields and borrowing costs. they are the third biggest economy in the eurozone and they're going to be the next country is going to need a bailout they're going to be hoping to prove today with us as you can see the footsie there is nearly a percent in negative territory now b. sky b. the british stuff is down around six percent of i just want a big brouhaha one hundred fifty four football matches for the season of twenty thousand i thought give that imagine because it's the year. championship right now and apparently the pros are going to get a wage increase on the labor of those have a look at the asian markets and we'll see that they finished on the back foot today as you can see the make a around two tenths of

a percent down and the hindsight even was so lousy because they had some credit downgrades by credit suisse and banks so i think a lot of growth in the world's second biggest economy all right that's all the markets that care back back about fifteen minutes ok thanks records. well in a few minutes saw special reports gives us peshawar guides the galaxy of hitchhiking that's after a recap of the headlines. if

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