regime change versus a peaceful resolution tough talking in moscow as the syrian opposition is in the russian capital. the 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 overly things could be said to get even worse we've got all the late the still not just begun. and grace hate crimes on the rise in greece as nationalist are reaping the benefits of the country's financial turmoil.

this is already coming to life from moscow tough negotiations are underway in moscow between the main syrian opposition aligns and russia's top diplomat the syrian national council hopes to persuade foreign minister sergey lavrov that russia should help them oust president bashar the loss of a moscow wants to hear whether rebel forces are committed to peaceful solution here's our. the position of the syrian national council which again we have to keep in mind is the largest opposition group involved here is that 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 the 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 and 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 terry much to date to sort of focusing on some sort of a political transition in a political solution to the situation in syria unfortunately of course we have 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 in a 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 conflict in syria isn't something that can be decided by outside powers alone especially western powers and to very critical players are missing from the a stop such namely iran and saudi arabia 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 very positively received by the us and in fact we've also sort of seen a preemptive dismissal overruns 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 are sort of dug in their heels and aren't really budging from their positions because of reporting their political writer and activist sara flounders sounds violence will only stop if foreign supporters of rebel stops first if the syrian opposition was no longer funded by the u.s. by saudi arabia and the arab league countries by nato in

order to really form a criminal conspiracy against the government their participation and 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 some 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. absolutely criminal act no matter where you look at it and if 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 because mediation

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

soon lose their free prescriptions bus passes and winter fuel payments a close ally of the prime minister has proposed making benefits dependent on wealth from twenty fifteen made bowls believes london should only supports banning that increases competitiveness but i everyone agrees as artists are for us in our 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 left 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 pension is to lose their benefits t.v. licenses and weeks of fuel payments free bus passes all the states to go to some of . you think it's very.

controversial call comes from conservative and the polls 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 review next year it's a good example of politicians are keeping their. school tuition free. to the public going politicians should keep their promises now this new clear idea of exactly what a better off pension how that would be to find something that could come down to the tax threshold clearly people claiming benefits that entitle to them choose an

argument for god to to reduce benefits because the economy i think. that 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. so you could be back to would argue as well that they deserve better having spent their lives paying us insurance and taxes well. still to come this hour here on r.t. america in asia but don't mention the war hillary clinton makes a historic stop in la the most bombed country in the world. and find your language bahrain price down dissent as an activist says jailed for making critical comments online. violent clashes have shaken the city of a greenie in the western greece supporters of the far right goal 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 argues j. the worry is takes a look at in today's greece. what will round the 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 get that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence and 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. for this spell to end racism from the podium of scandals including physically assaulting

a politician of. 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 the hospital beds and then send three pledge as having dark consequences as greece and input. athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes i have seen. almost they are that the bad times by organized groups headed by certain savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and therefore whatever doesn't integrate by people who are often four dead and armed with clouds. 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 tribal have to when you're attacked . they 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 times are taking place the so-called vigilante groups in disk are told to make minorities. victims say there's little point turn to police they're just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that's circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. good here are the groups minutes hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice we've heard that

going to agreement what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught. in that in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe and ups that means they end up in greece well after his pleas for more support of refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism but entering thank you greece athens and human rights watch is urging athens to take action against race hate crimes in the country they say nationalists are being spurred on by anti immigration rhetoric from the very top economist yanis varoufakis agrees that so should not a collapse brains hate we've seen it in the thirty seventh when there were people lose hope this begins to action and out of it nothing good can.

we there are no we. cannot make an implosion like they want to have in greece simply class class warfare where you know the gains of capital come of the expense of labor advice and also it would have just holes the moves as they were the only people who are there once was a 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 being infiltrated by them and that little we have folks must be an extremely close who makes them by the neo nazis and the police and we have. and we have the breakdown effect of the consensus seems the second world war and greets where fascism and that's is 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 just get it she can with 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 nineteen fifty five u.s. secretary of state visits 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 u.s. dropped two hundred sixty million cluster bomb submunitions on it more than was dropped on germany and japan combined during world war two the u.s. bombed laos so hard that it became the most bombed nation per capita in history and 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 us 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 us 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 one and only two million dollars so i'm saving people. and use the media to.

use them to see your solutions walsh you know again i'm the only thing i use the joins us. they don't regard lotion people as human beings all they don't hate we have nothing against them. tell us an american i very often hear politicians of both parties including secretary clinton talking about personal responsibility take irresponsibility for your actions but that's something that leaders look shoot to their people they themselves take no responsibility whatsoever for their well and kill actions and as mr brafman may note how generous the u.s. is when spending tool 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 online for you so here's a taste of what else we've got to. the white house can now legally eavesdrop on private conversations as president obama quietly nks an order allowing him full control in the name of national security. in less than a week after a controversial anti-piracy bill was defeated in the european parliament internet freedom activists now have a new battle brewing lawmakers could be trying to drag the treaty through the back door find out more at r.t. dot com. voicing your opinions on line could land you in trouble at least if you are in bahrain 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 author and academic conca val says a crackdown on the sand a strange given the reins vocal criticism of what's happening in syria. it's blown to the regime it shows the weakness of the regime it shows that the al khalifa

are continuing to be very scared of this pro-democracy opposition that is supported by a with three quarters of the population that is out on the streets on a daily basis and demanding democracy demanding their rights and the regime is banning. which is a political party that has a long history in bahrain. a respectable party and they want 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 in the protests because this is a deadly. and of course the tortures continue to jail and continue. and how 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 at all and it puts the lie to this free syrian army bunch of mercenaries have no legitimacy. emergency workers have and rescue efforts in russia's southern cross nadar 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 the fact that towns is now the main priority but first emergency workers need to drain the water still in lower areas a war in the devastated region now faces danger from landslides and urged people to be careful authorities 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. if you moments are no need for americans to have for vegas and anymore in cities grow across the country and hope gamblers and drinkers schedule the economy out of trouble. some more the national news in brief for you now to egypt first and in cairo thousands have gathered on the iconic top three year square to protest against the top court's decision to block the president's order to restore parliament demonstrators call the decision illegitimate and accuse the military council of not handing power back to the country's legislative body was dissolved last month by the military which later to control saying matty lawmakers were fraudulent elected. hundreds of fisherman have clashed with police in northern chile over a new law but as traitors burned tires and threw stones at officers who responded

with water cannon and tear gas protesters say the legislation restricts their fishing boat was spotted who says those four large scale companies are also angry about rising fuel prices. for the spanish prime minister has unveiled more staring measureless targeting social security and unemployment benefits and raising taxes or a thirty billion euro bailout package from the euro zone by the end of this month the decision comes as coal miners joined by styles of supporters arrived in madrid to protest against government cuts a massive demonstration against the removal of mining subsidies will take place later on wednesday. now some u.s. states struggling with a tough economy have come up with a solution booze and blackjack they want to offer more drinking and gambling to fill the coffers but as liz wall reports that may cause more trouble ahead. of the las vegas

a break to see you know 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 maryland maryland lie 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 and 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 picturesque development along the water. a proposed to see 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 p. well 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 tests 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 and new years 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 a super rich but you know i think that would probably be a better idea well america during the government if 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 our team. of british tax haven gibraltar is targeting russia's rich daniels out of business das was always just right there in the rocks financial services minister says he's. also brazil india and china. it's a power of the. wrist with oil and private clients in the twenty enclave office by this coast you see that the rich can pay just twenty five thousand pounds on their global income the world's most believe it is many of its wealthy hold their fortunes over. time for markets with china southern airlines issuing a profit warning of a slow demand and high fuel prices its shares are down two percent in china and beijing slashing prices at the pump for a third time in two months over falling demand a five percent cultist hope to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries fear

more cuts will hit their profits the e.u. has opened on the back of wall street's disappointment yesterday only madrid five big cities in the black off the brussels approve more cash for its banks the rubles making strong gains on other currencies though in the opening hours the euro's still light on the greenback markets all slipping further in europe where exactly that follows yesterday's strong gains and fitch has confirmed the negative long term outlook for the states as u.s. politicians all view on how to reduce the deficit but the critical agency confirmed america's aaa rating citing low risks in the financial sector fitch says weak u.s. recovery reflects a stabilizing economy rather than falling growth it adds the economy will accelerate next year and expand its an average of two and a half percent and europe today will have. absolutely thanks very much indeed and shortly want of syria's opposition figures shares his views on how to bring

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