regime change versus a peaceful resolution in syria the opposition is getting ready for some tough talking in moscow. u.k.'s double dip recession leaves many struggling to make ends meet with soaring daily kos made worse by wage and benefit cuts. but the some of britain's really things could be said to get even was we've got all the latest poll not just eleven. and it's refinances deteriorate it's the country's national is that are reading the benefits of race hate crimes on the rise.

eleven am in the russian gavel you're watching tough negotiations are beginning now in moscow between the main syrian opposition alliance and russia's top diplomat the syrian national council hopes to persuade foreign minister sergei lavrov the russia should have them oust president bashar asad a moscow wants to hear whether rebel forces are committed to a peaceful solution here's our off them. the position of the syrian national council which again we have to keep in mind as the largest opposition group involved here is that no talks no negotiations over a transitional government can take place without assad stepping down from office first this was reiterated by the delegates in moscow yesterday when they said no negotiations with assad are possible on of their agenda the problem is how do you put together a diplomatic solution how do you put together talks when one side is essentially digging in its skills and saying no talks before action takes place moscow's

actually put together a draft resolution that was circulated yesterday that essentially suggests extending the u.n. observer to british mission for another three months and shifting that observer mission from monitoring a cease fire which is clearly has has not done very much to date to sort of focusing on some sort of a political transition and a political solution to the situation in syria unfortunately of course leading up opposition from a certain powers western powers within the security council who are now pushing for a different author of authorization under chapter seven of the u.n. security council which would authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and military the sanctions to military intervention as situation that nobody of course wants it's not just divisions within the u.n. security council we also have to keep in mind that this confidence syria isn't something that can be decided by outside powers alone especially western powers and two very critical players are missing from these stocks that namely iran and saudi

arabia and now we know that moscow's actually proposed new talks new international talks that would include both the arabians and the saudis in these discussions this isn't something that's been a very positively received by the us and in fact we've also sort of seen a preemptive dismissal of a wrongs role in these talks from the syrian national council when the delegate yesterday told reporters that essentially they see. iran is big and just as responsible for the violence that's been ongoing in syria they don't see any credibility from the iranian role in this and so at the moment it seems like all sides sort of dug in their heels and aren't really budging from their positions. of reporting their political writer and activist their flatterers violence will only stop if foreign supports to the rebels stops first if the syrian opposition was no longer funded by the us by saudi arabia and the

arab league countries by nato in order to really form a criminal conspiracy against the government their participation in genuine talks would be a step forward if they were at the same time seeking an all out destabilization of the country by flooding it with weapons with marson ari's and without salut destruction when you look at the very creation of the friends of syria which is really an effort an all out effort orchestrated regime change coming from the west against the government of syria. actually criminal act but no matter where you look at it in any international law the support for a group of pirates and mercenaries to. tear down a government and then that's treated as something that sewage adamant and demand that other countries around the world go along with it with this criminal effort regime change i think it's extremely extremely dangerous. moscow's

mediation efforts and the syria crisis are important because it's pushing for a peaceful solution as one opposition leader. that is a crisis cannot be resolved in this through international consensus on the way it should be a resort in the way that would take city its democracy through a transition period as five powers including russia have agreed to in geneva this is why russia's rule is very important to russia calm help resolve the city of conflict democratically what is happening today benefits israel and closer to the u.s. if this destruction goes on the ruling regime wins it will rule over ruin and suffer a strategic defeat if the opposition wins it will inherit the country and an unmanageable condition. catch the full interview with one of the leaders of the syrian opposition in just over an hour here on r.t. . better off british pensioners could will soon lose their free prescriptions boss

passes and winter full fuel payments a close ally of the prime minister has proposed making benefits dependent on wealth from twenty fifteen make bowls believes london should only support spending that increases competitiveness but everyone agrees as a teaser for now reports. it's no fun being in the midst of a double dip recession in the hay with soaring costs in almost every area of daily life that's a time when ages and benefits of being cut less right and center affecting people from pretty much every walk of life if you want to the pensioners in the cape the sun things could be said to get even worse with calls for some the pension is to lose their benefits t.v. licenses a winter fuel payment free bus passes all the states to go to some of. you right. now this controversial call comes from conservative

m.p. nick bowles the place of prime minister david cameron the same prime minister you are a member he promised in his twenty ten campaign to retain the benefit of this latest school is seen as yet another sign that cutting universal benefits to some of the better off pension is in the u.k. is going to be a key point of a government wide spending with the next year it's a good example of again politicians not keeping their word the democrats of course to school tuition for sure it was a bad signal to the public going politicians should keep the promises now this new clear idea of exactly what a better off pensioner how that would be to find something that could come down to the tax threshold clearly people claiming benefits to entitle to them choose an argument for god to to reduce benefits because the economy often group priorities.

but announcing tax cuts on some of the elderly kid be a big political gamble not least because the election turnout is highest amongst christians twelve million elderly and the. to kid to be back to would argue as well that they deserved a better having spent their lives paying national insurance and taxes well. still to come this hour america. but the war hillary clinton makes a historic stop and last most bombed country in the world. by your language brain cracks down santana neck this is jailed for making comments online. violent clashes have shaken the city of a greenie or in western greece supporters of the far right golden dawn party fought with artists leaving cars and shop windows smashed and one person injured golden

dawn's influence is rising again around seven percent of the vote in the recent general election. takes a look at is it a phobia in today's greece. all round a country crumbles some parts of greece seeing firm foundations take root. we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet for public anger that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of jake suffer from those going to foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land. this racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians. the party

still secured around seventy percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and incendiary pledge as having dark consequences as greece and in particular athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes i have seen almost they are that's the part that's by organized moves ahead by five thirty and savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and therefore ever doesn't integrate by people who are often for debt and armed with clubs. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens not much if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia from what happened to you when you're. there beat me to the ground and ran over my leg with

a bike his case is by no means unique the mother of these children was also assaulted while pregnant the perpetrators remain at large as in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilante groups and discourage taunting minorities. victims say there's little point turn to the police but just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics anything that with their lives why only the here are the eventual groups minute hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice without going to

agreement what happens is once one you're going to go and has been caught. in the other place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe and ups that means they end up in greece after his pleas for more use of the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from for the fun of extremism the entering thank you greece athens. human rights watch is urging athens to take action against race hate crimes in the country they say nationalists are being spurred on by and to immigration rhetoric from the very top economist yanis varoufakis agrees that social going to collapse brains hate we've seen it in the thirty seventh when there were people lose hope this begins to acts and out of it nothing good can. we there are no we

those social economic implosion like they want to have in greece not the class class warfare where you know the gains of capital come of the expense of labor advice and also you know we have just holes in the moves that we were the only people other ones matter of. it should act as a warning for all of us that whenever a social economy loads as opposed to just going through a recession. scapegoating becomes the order of the problem is that the authorities themselves are big infinitary to take by them in fact that we have folks not the unix thing that goes to make such a big neo nazis in the police and we have new units in parliament and we have the breakdown effect the consensus seems the second world war and greets where fascism and that says we're simply not on. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on a tour of southeast asia this week hoping to make some friends and some money she's

currently making the highest profile visit in fifty seven years to a nation suffering the legacy of america's presence in the region are she's got it she can has the details. the u.s. secretary of state is on a busy eight nation tour in asia it's seen as part of the obama administration's asia pacific pivot policy and for the first time since one thousand nine hundred fifty five the us secretary of state visits laos one of the poorest nations in south asia we still can't get over the dire consequences of the u.s. attacks during the vietnam war even though laos was officially a neutral country at the time between nine hundred sixty seven and nine hundred seventy three the us dropped two hundred sixty million cluster bomb submunitions on it more than was dropped on germany and japan combined during world war two he was bombed laos so hard that it became the most bombed nation per capita in history an average of one ton of bombs was dropped for every man woman and child in laos now

the grave part is that it's not over yet a third of the bombs did not explode and still continue to kill since the end of the war some twenty thousand people have been killed or maimed by those unexploded bombs but not only do the u.s. bombs continue to kill the people of laos they also effectively prevent the farmers from cultivating hundreds of thousands of hectares of fur thailand and it's a very poor country the u.s. has cleaned up only zero point three percent of the land it contaminated washington is that considering a long term commitment to spend ten million dollars a year to clean up laos from those unexploded american bombs it was estimated at that rate it will take over a thousand years for laos to be decontaminated about why ten million why not more i spoke with author and activist fred branson take a listen you're spending one hundred two million dollars on the members when only

two million dollars so i'm saving people. and use the new. units and loose your solutions walsh you know again i'm the only thing that. they don't regard lotion people as human beings all they don't hate to have nothing against them. tell us in the merkin by very well from your poll commissioned what both orders including secretary clinton talking about personal responsibility take years while she bore your actions but that's something that leaders in the issue to their people they themselves take no responsibility whatsoever for their. own killed and actions and as mr brafman may note how generous the us is when spending will bomb countries and how frugal it proves to be when it comes to cleaning up the mess in washington i'm going to check on all our stories and much more are in line for you so here's

a taste of what else we've got to offer the white house can now legally eavesdrop on private conversations as president obama quietly anx an order allowing him full control in the name of national security. less than a week after a controversial antipiracy of bill was defeated in the european parliament internet freedom activists now have a new battle brewing lawmakers are trying to drag the treaties through the back door to find out more at r t v dot com. voicing your opinions online could land you in trouble at least if you're in bahrain a human rights activists there has been jailed for three months for criticizing the prime minister on twitter and just before that a prominent islamist party was banned over its role in anti-government protests azer an academic calling cavil's says a crackdown on the stand a strange given bahrain's vocal criticism of what's happening in syria. it's

a blow to the regime it shows the weakness of the regime and it shows that the al khalifa are continuing to be very scared of this pro-democracy opposition that is a quarter mile with three quarters of the population that is out on the streets on a daily basis manning democracy demanding their rights and the regime is banning a model. which is a political party that has a long history in bahrain. a respectable party and they what a republic they want a democracy and. that is why they're being targeted here they're firing tear gas canisters. that are injuring many of the protesters and killing some of the older people just in the protest because this is deadly to. and of course the tortures continue to jail and continue. and whole areas to many observers of

international politics that the so-called friends of syria are being backed by the most autocratic monarch in the world saudi arabia. bahrain regimes that have no history of democracy and all. this free syrian army bunch of mercenaries have no legitimacy. emergency workers have an id rescue efforts in russia's southern cross in dar region which was ravaged by heavy floods last friday revised figures suggest one hundred sixty two people were killed some thirty thousand people have lost their homes in the disaster and rebuilding fact the town is now the main priority a first emergency workers need to drain the water still in lower areas they warn the devastated region now faces danger of landslides and urged people to be careful sorties have set up shelters and hospitals while aid is pouring in from across the

country people are sending in basic necessities while volunteer workers travel to the area to help rebuild. on just a few moments on our team no need for americans to have for vegas anymore as san cities grow across the country and hope down worsen drinkers can pull the economy out of trouble. which is hard to live from moscow let's now take a look at some other news stories to edge of first and in cairo thousands have gathered on the iconic to hear square to protest against the top court's decision to block the president's order to restore carlota demonstrators call the decision illegitimate and accused the military council of not handing power a bad country is a legislative body was dissolved last month by the military which later to control saying many lawmakers were elected. to

fisherman have clashed with police in northern chile over and new law demonstrators burned tires and threw stones at officers who responded with water cannons and tear gas protesters say the legislation restrict their fishing quotas but he says those are large scale companies they're also angry about rising fuel prices. spasso meyers have been joined by sounds of supporters in madrid to protest against massive cuts to their industry a much bigger demonstration against one mobile of subsidies is scheduled for wednesday comes as the spanish prime minister prepares to unveil fresh cuts to social security and unemployment benefits that's a return for thirty billion euro bailout package from the euro zone by the end of this month. now some u.s. states struggling with a tough economy have come up with a solution booze and blackjack they want to offer a more drinking and gambling to fill the coffers but as our liz wahl reports that may cause more trouble ahead. las vegas

the brake lights entice an influx of people looking for a good time. but if some cities and states across the country get their way what happens in vegas won't stay in vegas struggling to raise revenue and close the deficit some governments want to bring a piece of sin city home and marilyn marilyn ly recently opened its doors more than three football fields long the massive adult playground is welcomed by some great employers put a lot of people to work great tax revenue great entertainment venue i think it's going to be a real plus for the area but despised by others it brings a lot more people on gambling i don't know how great that is for like the kid in the mall isn't really a family place now. and on the d.c. maryland border lies a national harbor a picture arrested development along the water. a proposed because you know would

bring vegas to the potomac it's really nice here in vegas they i mean even on the streets they hand you cards for prostitution what impact that would have environmentally on this area because you don't have to push out neighborhoods in order to build it. and beyond gambling cities and states across the country are banking on booze. here in d.c. the mayor wants to extend bar hours so they can keep those drinks flowing later into the night. it would take effect in october and bring in over five million dollars in two thousand and thirteen it's a short term gain for a big long term loss dr david jernigan warns of the dangers of encouraging people to drink up he says when alcohol consumption goes up so do alcohol related problems things like hospital room emergency emergency room admissions that's a more sensitive indicator interesting lee liver cirrhosis. are fairly sensitive to

changes in availability and it's not just d.c. from connecticut that bill clears the way for package store sales and beer sales at supermarkets every day of the year except thanksgiving christmas or new year's to georgia supporters say the sunday cereal could bring in millions of dollars in additional tax revenue since the recession sparked in two thousand and eight dozens of cities and states have eased liquor laws as a way to balance their budgets some say the answer instead is taxes whether it's taxing booze the best way is to raise an alcohol tax in this country alcohol taxes do not keep up with inflation they are flat taxes based on the volume of the beverage or taxing the rich. tax a tax hike for the super rich wouldn't be bad because i'm not super rich but you know i think that would probably be a better idea well america during the government leave the cap and drinking away

our sorrows may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r t. well danielle high there. is business news this hour let's see what's happening at all disney confirms that strict reputation for inforcing the company was north korea's performance of mickey mouse and when you get all through as it comes off the youthful leader kim jong un go to a special disney showing in fuel with both know what the freeze in the fall is because news also on children's gravestone showing their character is kinda goal to draw many males pictures. because. it is issuing a profit warning of a slowdown fuel prices its shares are down two percent and beijing is cutting prices at the pump for a third. fall into more of the fourth. cult is hope to get drivers buying fuel

again but refineries fear more cuts will hit their profits europe has just opened. as investors yesterday's gains in fact across the board the ruble has made significant gains on other currencies in the first trade the euro's still flat on the greenback brings on the rebound off the heavy early losses yesterday is some reports that china is importing less crude oil markets have opened lower in the first minutes of trade that follows yesterday's good performance on the back of your once again and futures confirmed a negative long term outlook for the united states as u.s. politicians continue to pick up on how to reduce the deficit but the rating agency america's aaa rating was confirmed sighting low risk in the financial sector the agency says weak u.s. recovery reflects a stabilizing economy rather than falling growth the economy will accelerate next year and expand at an average of two and

a half percent and europe today will have more for you know we certainly are they all thanks very much. and shortly project or cause instability project rather peace and stability kill about puts this question to his guests in this after headline.

culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mandating it is a shiny new hot people at area monitoring the future of the north atlantic treaty organization isn't in alliance in search of a mission does it project peace and stability as it claims. there hasn't been a thing good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. wealthy british style holds. on to the title of.

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