we wanted. something no. regime change or a peaceful resolution. of the syrian opposition. many struggling to make ends meet with. the sun. to get even what we've. just been. crimes on the rise in greece as nationalists reap the benefits of the country's financial.

around the world around the clock with me will receive. tough negotiations have been held in moscow up between the main syrian opposition alliance and russia's top diplomat the syrian national council was hoping to persuade foreign minister that russia should help them president bashar al assad want to hear whether rebel forces are committed to a peaceful solution let's get more now. from. quite crucial talks between both sides a. very common anything to come out of the meeting so far. but. that the russians have some sort of proposal for the. opposition group it's not

clear what the proposal will be but they will continue to discuss this in a subsequent talks we also heard that the head of the syrian national council said that an intervention by the un security council a deep deep best solution to the syrian crisis in a short position of this opposition group the main one in syria means that more or less the same they want the removal of assad a before a dialogue takes place he's the chair of that council reiterated that statement again especially calling for talks with people who are not responsible in his words for the killings and crimes of president assad so again the position has not changed thus far as we have a sound of a russia is also working to extend the u.n. observer mission in syria what one of the proposals being put forth by moscow. right whatever that mission is supposed to run alex around judge ally twentieth twenty first and of course the mission was to oversee

a cease fire that has largely ceased to exist there has not been a ceasefire in syria and so what the russians are proposing is that the u.n. monitors focus reshift their efforts on looking for a political solution political transition to syria as opposed to laundering and to the fighting that has been taking place as of yet. as we know the conflict has been going on for roughly roughly seventeen months president assad several times has invited the opposition to come to talk to negotiation told the peace table u.n. and arab envoy kofi annan he's been trying as well many saying the u.n. mission is just failing that i mean let's get down to brass tacks here lucy what are the prospects for the international mediation efforts ever succeeding at this point certainly washington seems absolutely hell bent on getting assad out of government. well not only that they're now discussing the possibility of a new resolution in the u.n. security council that would authorize the use of either new diplomatic and economic sanctions to even put. the use of force which is of course extremely complicate the

situation we'll have to keep in mind that the u.n. security council isn't the only party here interest to these talks we have regional players like iran and saudi arabia the russians have actually called for a new proposal that would hold talks here in russia bringing saudi arabia bringing iran to the table but even that prospect was again dismissed by the opposition groups the syrian national council here and moscow say again it really just seems to be like a difficult difficult diplomatic situation with no resolution in the immediate fight you know if you come from thank you. thank you meantime political writer and activist sara flounders says violence will only stall for foreign support for the rebels. 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 salute destruction when you look at the very creation of the friends of syria which is really in an effort an all out effort orchestrated regime change coming from the west against the government of syria. and 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 apart to tear down a government and then that's treated as something that's which to them and a demand other countries around the world go along with it with this criminal effort regime change i think it's extremely extremely dangerous. you're watching r t it's good to have you with us today better off british

pensioners could soon lose their free prescriptions bus passes and a winter fuel payment a close ally of the prime minister has proposed making benefits dependent on wealth from two thousand and fifteen and bowles believes london should only support spending that increases competitiveness but not everyone agrees as artie's center for three ports now. it's no fun being in the midst of a double dip recession in the k. 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 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. the . very.

controversial cool 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 putting 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 are not keeping their word the democrats of course. school tuition fees church. is about shrinking to the public going politicians should keep their 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 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 among christians twelve million elderly and the. so you can't be affected would argue as well that they deserve they spend it having spent their lives paying national insurance and taxes. to surf earth reporting right there while i still to come this hour here on our teeth out of america in asia i would just from the war hillary clinton makes a historic stop in laos the most important country in the world. band of my job which bought her a new crackdown on dissent as an activist is jailed for making critical comments online. coal mine is joined by thousands of supporters are

marching in protest across madrid they're angry at government cuts spain is facing austerity across the board in return for thirty billion euros to rescue would say the year's grace to reduce its deficit the prime minister is slashing social security and unemployment benefits all the while raising taxes let's not talk to journalist and writer and the other two of them live on r.t. thank you for coming on the program today it's good to see you sir as you were hearing right there when the bank bailout was announced madrid insisted it wasn't handing control to brussels in return isn't that not exactly what we're seeing right now well absolutely obviously that was in part serves to do should i mean an attempt to damage control which was effectively putting spain's economy under the control of brussels and we're seeing that now of course and in fact these measures are taken against what the government had been promised promised it would be

promising during the electoral campaign they said they would not raise taxes they would not raise to be a t. they would not touch the holidays and the salaries of public workers well they are doing that now so it's obviously yes we are under the control of brussels where we go another edition in history of politicians going back on their word not exactly shocking i must say now the miners are protesting cuts to their. the trade unions say the cuts threaten thirty thousand mining jobs and could destroy the entire industry do you think it is prepared for this fall. where they think they are they think they can cope with this protests partly because. mining regions are of course very localized in certain areas of the country this are a small area. so they think that this will not affect the rest of the country the truth is that the miners are getting a lot of solidarity because many people relate to them and sees their problems as

their own problems so well maybe the government is in for a surprise in that sense now that spain is being forced to give up most of the control of its bangs to brussels while imposing losses on local investors some might say the kia is actually worse than the disease. if you have well these this is the conundrum we need to save the banks of course we need the banking system but the problem is that if to save the banking system we have to put in danger all of this funny said kaname i have to remind you that spain didn't have a huge debt actually it was one of the lowest in europe now it is it will go up to ninety percent of the g.d.p. and this is because of the banks so people are angry about that but also what you mentioned the fact that investors are going to take a loss in their investments well the problem is not just investors the problem is that many people actually had to supply absence of people were deceived into buying

a certain form of shares a certain financial products that now means that they will lose their money asked if they were investors when that interest they were savers this is a huge problem in spain there are lots of protests and this decision by brussels will go down very very badly in spain for many people so it's more trouble ahead so the control of the. in spain essentially goes to brussels all the while the spanish government is cutting pensions raising taxes putting a lot of the cost of shouldering it to the small town or local investors it might seem to some that brussels best interests for spain well they're not exactly forefront. well i think we have to understand this crisis a crisis of the banks in the rich countries which have lent money to the let's call them the poor concept of the periphery and they want their investment back now in capitalist logic so to speak they should also take some losses but they don't want

to take any so they are transferring these private there but they have with private banks to the states so that is why we are now basically destroyed our welfare state and even our state because what you say the local the local administration well is going to take a he told a certain percent. to the local councils so if we're talking about phenomenal figures and we're talking about a policy which is quite controversial controversial is certainly a diplomatic way of putting it but there are many the put much harsher words to that description i'm a journalist and writer many thanks for coming on r.t. today. well greece for the meantime is also in turmoil violent clashes have shaken the city of green you know in the west are supporters of the far right golden dawn party fought with anarchists leaving carson shop windows smashed at least one person injured a golden dawn's influence though is on the rise again around seven percent of the

vote in the recent general election. greaves takes a look at xenophobia in today's greece. all round the country crumbles some parts of greece acing firm foundations take root. in that 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 in greece but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of greeks suffer from by those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land. despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured around seven percent of the vote in

the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and then send three 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 bad things that they are going to i suppose by and sad very seeming that these attacks are happening at night and therefore ever doesn't integrate by people who are often for debt and armed with clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish 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 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. it's in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilante groups in discrete targeting ethnic 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 where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge into europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think. that the here are the groups minutes hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with agreement

what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he ended in europe and ups. that means the end up in greece well athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. griese r.t. athens and r.t. is coming to life in the heart of moscow u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on a tour of southeast asia this week hoping to make some front friends end up in iraq some money as well she's made the highest profile visit in fifty seven years to a nation suffering the legacy of america's presence in the region artie's guy nature can. 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 u.s. secretary of state visit 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 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 sure you people. use the new. units and to see your solutions walsh you know again i'm the only thing on. they do . people as human beings all they don't hate him we have nothing against them but.

they just don't regard them as human beings and i tell you as an american i very often hear politicians of both parties including secretary clinton talking about personal responsibility taking responsibility for your actions but that's something that leaders lecture to their people they themselves take no responsibility whatsoever for their murderous and kill interactions and as mr brafman may note how generous the u.s. is when spending told 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 what i will of our stories and always have so much more for you on line let's see what else is waiting for you there at the moment for example the white house can now legally eavesdrop on private conversations president obama quietly being sent order allowing him full control in the name of national security. less than a week after

a controversial and so you piracy bill it was defeated in the european parliament internet freedom activists now have a new battle brewing lawmakers could be trying to drag the treaty right through the back door those details waiting for you at r.t. dot com is just a click away. voicing your opinions online could land you in trouble well at least if you're in rain a human rights activist 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 says a crackdown on dissent is strange given by rains vocal criticism of what's ongoing 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 a quarter mile with three quarters of the population that is out on the streets on

a daily basis demanding 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 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 who just been in the protests because this is a deadly. 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 at all and it puts the lie to this free syrian army bunch of mercenaries have no legitimacy. you're watching r.t. just a moment on the world update for now though emergency workers of ended rescue efforts in russia's southern crescent are region which was ravaged by heavy floods last friday i revised figures suggest one hundred sixty two people were killed some thirty thousand people have lost homes in the disaster now rebuilding the affected towns is the main priority but first emergency workers need to drain the water still in some areas they warn the devastated region that now faces a danger from landslides there urging locals to be careful authorities have set up shelters and hospitals while aid continues to pour in from all across the country people are sending in basic necessities volunteer workers traveled to the area to help. all right so we'll see daniel with the business for now go straight to cairo

for the r.t. world operators where thousands are gathered once again on the iconic surgery has spread to protest against the talk of course decision to block the president's order to her school holiday demonstrators called the decision to choose the military council of not handing power back the country's legislative body was dissolved last month by the military which later took control saying many lawmakers were fortunately elected. hundreds of fishermen have clashed with police in northern chile over a new law of demonstrators burning tires and threw stones at officers who then responded in kind with water cannons and tear gas protesters say that i just ration of restricts their fishing quotas but increases those for large scale companies that are also angry about rising fuel prices. londoners have lost a high court battle to stop surface to air missiles being placed on the roof of

their residential block during the olympic games or the tenants of seventeen story tower fear the weapons could make them the focus for a terror attack recently britain's spy chief said al qaeda may pose a threat to the london olympics with term all following the arab spring allowing extremists to gain a foothold. as promised there is daniel good to see you today are brussels spending cuts will lose millions more jobs oh joy do tell us more four and a half million more if the international labor organization is right will be lost if the e.u. continues to enforce all stirred see the ilo called for job creation policies instead its director general says unless measures are taken to increase real economy investments the economic crisis will deepen and the employment recovery will never take of. madrid's top performer in europe or the brussels approve more cash for its crippled but h.s.b.c. shares are sliding in london after reuters reports that it will acknowledge and

apologize for letting clients launder money the u.s. senate is expected to question executives as part of its hearing called vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing it comes off the eggs. for the bank consistently rigging interest rates the ruble is making significant gains on other currencies in the off the noon here as the crude price jumps a dollar today russian markets now this slipping. further though of the yesterday's good performance several blue chips have profits british tax haven gibraltar is targeting rich people in emerging markets the routes financial services minister says he's willing force growing russia as well as brazil india and china. it is apparent that gibraltar is futurist with high end private clients in the tiny enclave off the spanish coast the rich complain just twenty five thousand pounds on the global income has the world's most billionaires and many of its wealthy hold

the fortunes of broad and drove to rory will have more for you next hour i don't know many thanks indeed just a moment of the headlines here on r.t. that as you probably know if you saw earlier in the newscast syrian opposition members are meeting here in moscow to try and bring to an end the crisis there we have one of them in a close up interview in just a moment. download

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