our top stories this week here in our teeth four more years brock obama's new term kicks off with a tougher foreign policy slapping new sanctions on iran and authorizing drone strikes in yemen. syrian president bashar asad pledges to stay in his more and more homeland no matter why at the top exclusively to our team. protests in greece turned violent as the country's parliament backs a new round of stained spending cuts. and china's current leadership are here to step down to let younger lead to develop the country's powerhouse economy and a once in a decade power transfer. not

am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.i. marina joshie welcome to the program and today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news now after the most expensive election campaign in u.s. history brock obama was reelected this week as u.s. president beating his republican rival mitt romney and the man he picked obama over romney because of his softer talk on foreign policy he doesn't quite walk the walk as our team is going and she can now reports. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are on the american family and we run or fall together as one. fiscal cliff where doing for him right after

reelection is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff was probably not the first issue addressed by the president he also rise the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes that you too reported heavy civilian casualties on lack of transparency on the u.s. part we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones this week the administration imposed financial sanctions against iranian officials so the u.s. planes but jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking internet access when you read that comes on top of a whole lot of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy the goal is not to change the iranian government's decision making it's actually leverage ordinary civilians

against the iranian government and to threaten to topple the government by inciting you know food riots or you know people who are on happy because they can you know their grandparents are dying and can't get medicine and on friday despite president obama's claims the u.s. should move away from the cold war thinking in the laces with russia the white house launched its first permanent military presence on polish soil the issue has been a constant sorting this side of relations between moscow and washington as the u.s. also plans to install. missile interceptors in poland but the president every other democrat that i'm aware also made it clear that if we need russia still opposed to it still sees it as a we're just going to go on. the president's actions so far have shown while he may be talking soft he's acting tough looking at all is president obama's first moves after realizing one could say he puts the idea of america being the wall police

very seriously but the question is who can hold that world police itself accountable in washington i'm going to check on. america's foreign policy remains consistent no matter who is at the helm says london based author and journalist see that be very little difference between a republican or a democrat as we can see from president obama's policy of covertly funding syrian rebels and do you know about assassinations in tehran on terror on the streets of academics we don't know what is obama promising except this kind of vague idea of constructive engagement while all the time supporting i mean it's the terrorists we know president obama has been actively courting along with his secretary of state we. in the rebellion in syria and of course supporting roles with developments in libya so how so many people will be hoodwinked into thinking that president obama

or president romney would be different when it came to foreign policy i don't know where they get that from. now here is president insists he will not leave his country in an exclusive interview with r.t. bashar last and said only the ballot box can determine his future he also said western powers have picked him as one of their bogeyman and warned against foreign intervention in syria r.t. so be sure nancy met with the embattled leader in damascus. we had a chance to speak about fifteen minutes before the interview very educated very down to end earth definitely not make a man iack but contrary to what people like people train him in the media very well informed he feels like i think that this whole thing that's happening is like a cancer that either he has to beat or he has to die of it but there is no other way out when one would talk about his western leaders telling him to step down it

sounds ridiculous because he really has no where to go like you and he were to step down to where would you go and we ask in that interview with broad vision if you've been going. two week old would came before because if you have a problem with your drug flow through. her ability in the region and coexistence. it will have to mean. the pacific you know because you know. it's going. to go but. nobody can hear what's next i think is very well aware that he definitely isn't in a position in which he was like two years ago and a half ago it's more about the fact that he knows that he has no choice he has made a choice of having no choice and. he has no other way than to fly till the end i believe it's not about staying in power for him and i do believe in start about.

for his family because his kids still go to public school in damascus and his wife is still there and he told me you know i'm a younger man i love sports i love life i could have just picked up and left like been a leader for example the thing that really marked me the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside series that from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided but even the people who didn't like us before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to par fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that i mean this is like the only secular are that had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether it's sunni or shia or always or christians so they're really scared that if our side goes the army will fall apart and then you know you'd have this extra missed muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them so it's not

just about assad i think people feel like whether he goes or stays. it's only can get worse if it goes because it will get i mean that the terror attacks will continue and the funding. this will come to power so they're very scared of that bashar al assad did in our two exclusive friday through sunday. dot com while deadly bombings ripped through the syrian city of durand saturday killing twenty soldiers the opposition was locked in talks in a qatar trying to consolidate its alliance against president awesome it comes after the syrian national council the main opposition group came under western pressure to accept a unity plan and a growing frustration from other dissident groups are both near has the details. this essentially is a meeting that has been called because many of the international backers of the syrian opposition particularly the united states are unhappy with the deep divisions within the syrian opposition and at this stage it seems as if those divisions are going to prevent the syrian opposition from coming forward with any kind of a viable new opposition body the whole idea of being this meeting in doha was

essentially to establish some kind of group within the syrian opposition in exile that would have more direction links with the opposition with inside the country that would be able to distribute aid and funding that the group is being accused of not being representative enough this despite the fact that the main opposition by the the syrian national council did elect a new head and they are also critics who complain that the new legislative body being put forward is not representative enough or does not have enough women and it's just not have enough minorities between syrian army which is the main armed opposition group in the country meanwhile has threatened the syrian president bashar assad that he'll follow the fate of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi the first as assad said in an exclusive interview to r.t. that he has no plans to leave office the state media department had said that assad is doomed. to your channel he said he would not leave syria we know this very well

because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people not managed to leave the country for free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria and you'll be lucky if you use the same fate as mark. so what we're witnessing is an increase on the ground in terms of the violence inside syria while the syrian opposition really struggling to try and force for united group to try and deal with the situation meanwhile the opposition's a local coordination committees in syria have announced they are withdrawing from the syrian national council activists room turkmani says the opposition based abroad has nelse way over the fight on the front line. i don't see it was critical to for the syrian national council as a body but i'm not against many of the people who formed this carol so yes it was formed with lots of external support maybe external. but for me they don't matter

a lot to what matter is the people inside syria people who are posing with the regime inside the country everybody is asking the opposition to come in one correlation and coalitions are always weak by any sort they fall apart in front of the challenges and we are in front of a very very tough crisis i can sit here in london and talk rationally about political solutions but i have an eighteen year old who have seen his mother being killed or his house being demolished i can't take that he has no excuse to use our arms and i do also blame any external player who exploited those young people and put their arms in their hands and send them money and weapons. this week anger and violence once again spilled over into the streets of athens police used tear gas and water cannons against greeks protesting further a budget cuts demonstrators hurled petrol bombs and stun grenades with more than one hundred detained as the country's parliament passed its terry package aimed at securing latest bailout a new package which includes tax rises and panshin cards is said to be the worst so

far in three years of the greek debt crisis and that is right is from the london school of economics says the spite the government helps the new bailout and want to help to improve the situation in the country. it's not just the four stared back at it's all children full time that we have at least back it is going to be the last one but it is like in every preceding single previous time there is a huge problem the problem is at least baggage is the root moving into bit entirely different entirely wrong direction from those that initial intranet according to its insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is what's happening right now you have a new product after which the country's g.d.p. is going to go but it actually it could be countries national debt is going to go up from one hundred seventy five percent to one hundred nine ninety percent it's a fundamental question of who this government and they struck at the troika interested in serving this is one of the most kind of times of all examples and

true for this government is not going to serve the purpose of the people and it's not going to work in very favor instead of just bringing down the minimum wage or the bringing down the minimum wage to a community. of the five hundred you know the monthly unemployment is already up from eighteen point four percent in august last year two thousand and eleven it's gone up to twenty five percent this year it's projected to go to the photo five percent by which time next year and people in this country have to become more self-sufficient and they have to stop depending on the supranational organizations kind of dictating rules from a lot of. every ski place to spend a holiday or honeymoon just south during the week joe bani walid tour operators and by tourists to travel to media details just. a once in

a decade power transfer is underway in china where the communist party congress now reviewing the list of candidates the new leadership will have to tackle the growing challenges of the world's second largest economy and as our teams lose a couple of reports beijing is promising to increase its global influence. lighting the flame on the international stage building to new heights on this world. and soaring beyond its limits whether it outer space the arctic outer continental shelf or on your local store shelves china is making its ambitions known let's see this is made in china. made in china china where cheap economic goods have translated into massive profits for china as well as criticism now list comes amid growing concern that china is using its economic clout for political leverage. different. try not is a very promising country i'm sure you pointed your top but you have twenty try less

than five the i.m.f. says china could surpass the us economically in real terms by twenty sixteen it may not help the countless chinese who live in poverty but it sure makes rivals nervous china's economic clout has grown it is now the second largest economy in the world it's the second largest manufacturing exporter in the rimini the trainees currency is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy so there is a shift in relative economic might in the world that might have been threatened by the economic slowdown and it will be up to china's new leaders to try to reverse the trend for now they seem to be getting their way china is inching into europe to snap up ailing businesses this french vineyard is just one of the casualties. that these people they come here leave i learned just like the castle in the jewelry on iran u.s.

sanctions against oil trading with the islamic republic don't apply when you're america's largest banker. in africa china is using cash to buy clout beating western rivals in the race to exploit the continent's vast resources in its efforts . by influence through investments have been met with an intense public backlash in countries like pakistan building infrastructure instead of military bases has made china the preferred superpower among locals. born into fear ok. other countries that does not like. it or that like america. still it has abandoned its military the country's new leaders are expected to continue to pour billions into its defense budget the second largest in the world this may worry pentagon planners and beijing's asian neighbors but so far china's economic might has proven more powerful than the sword the other two nations which

are fighting in their words what is america what is china so america is using which is water and there is a lot of losses and china is using up peacefully and civilized with the it is no loss and if the strategy is working why change it time use meters understand the importance of soft power. and yet understand. to some extent and has made it a certain to be studied if not to be followed completely for now a growing red dragon means that china's version of a new world order is here to stay you see captain of r.t.e. moscow. the senior fellow and the. way the chinese model has proved successful and more resistant to financial turmoil. china has a successfully avoided the major crises like the one nine hundred ninety seven

asian financial crisis is or two thousand and eight a wall street united states fund a show. me. china's economy has been growing for three decades running roughly ten percent a year so i think this leadership world segment. ascend to a leading power. ten years from now and the world you are largely called the united states economy. well north. of. all three laws we have been largely successful or more do which is working for us but i think if this more there is a really success its impact well beyond the china's border. should not worry that much china's rise being a lot of opportunities for the united states as well. meanwhile the country is also

looking to rise above the stratosphere this summer. on the one more about china's manned space mission for takeoff. and trigger happy president obama's reelection america stock up on guns and ammunition find out why on line. iraq's defense minister denies the country has canceled their four billion dollar arms deal with russia reports on saturday suggesting baghdad pulled the contract but the minister says the sale has been put under review and that concerns of internal corruption government and business consultant christopher. complications are a sign of pressure from washington. if this deal head gone through that would have meant for the iraqi people a kind of you know starting a balanced situation of dealing with east and west so to say and that would be

healthy for the iraqi people because this is in line with a geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that means that the u.s. are insisting on a monopole in the region it is it is very clear you know it is not mr maliki was calling the shots an iraqi policy is that is the u.s. right now and that they are not able you know to allow a little competition just a little that that is a very sad story for for washington and it doesn't bear good signs for the future. and alice to go get some other stories from around the world. israeli tank fire has killed four palestinians and injured at least thirty six in the gaza strip all of them civilians officials claim the attack comes as a response to militants blowing up an israeli border patrol jeep with an anti-tank missile a mosque is promised to retail for the violence. in pakistan

a series of violent attacks across karachi have claimed the lives of seventeen people and injured dozens of others on motorcycles carried out several targeted killings with a magazine editor and five seven are students said to be among the victims the motives for the attacks are not yet known sectarian political and ethnic violence in the city has resulted in nearly two thousand deaths this year. saudi arabia's top spiritual leader has issued an addict's which prohibits any contact with foreign media and ongoing waves of pro-democracy protests denouncing the regime urged worshipers during friday prayers in the capital riyadh tell there are worries directly to thor he's the most he said that the international media was unreliable and wanted to destroy their nation's unity. the b.b.c.'s reputation has taken a huge hit while the reporting scandal forcing its head george was told to resign

the broadcasters flagship programme newsnight has accused a conservative lord of child sexual abuse that forced and whistle to admit he could no longer hold the position admitting ignorance of the broadcast and the media reaction to the false report his fifty four day tenure as b.b.c. chief was the shortest in company's history. now while the libyan town of bani walid is still struggling to heal the scars of the siege which took place less than a month ago may be astounding itself as a new travel hotspot artists are for earth visitor the world travel market in london to find out why two operators remain silent on the tragedy we're here at the world travel market a trade taking place in london or people can consulates their holiday inspiration all that scouts exotic spot for a honeymoon one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the

site is a political sideshow it's completely safe like a reminder for anybody to come dear i can guarantee you that's got to be saved more than even dollars big towns like london or new york but there's somewhere that's not mentioned in the guide book bani walid a desert town this remain loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination chipley but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the. us he ran the story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being

showcased it seems that bernie will lead has once again being conveniently left out of the conversation when i saw this then it was a goes surprise and i came. back of the situation of the moment. and if we have so many people it means situations they could be coming most and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we can. what about what's happening in bani walid at the moment when you were lead do or do you mean was hacked was being happening there there's been fighting do you know about that no. you haven't heard about i haven't heard that you work for a travel company. and they haven't told you what's happening in bani walid you know but what happens and when a lot of fighting in the past couple of weeks now we went to confront the tour operator your promoting tourism in libya. and i saw you speaking some people each telling them about what's been happening in bani walid at the moment. this is

a club. that's coming for the future. because of the silence on the subjects perhaps not surprising for tour operator trying to drum up much needed business the sites of bodies and homes burnt to the ground in a selling points was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations he came media and government remain resolutely silent they've got to sort of package nish as a success it's very important for nato wherever nato intervened somewhat the reality is they've got to promote as a success so we have the speed of these countries have been liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of the travel information pack then you'll be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's

a concerning silence in a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like bani walid the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the deep divides that remain in the country the numbers that you're going to read about in across the. surface r.t. london. while tour operators may help people from all over the world had to leave there are some who see the country from the inside and relatives of those trapped in bani walid told r.t. in what conditions they have to live he asked us to shield his identity for his own safety and nobody nobody can. nobody can do anything because i knew what he and. i want to. be able to leave and got it without that it's risky without coolant without anything it is no if the city can leave you know guy. out of the

do group's many. many kilometers they. don't know what. it's. going to. do but he's going to have it is going to. violence has continued on the streets of bahrain's capital manama this week national guard troops have been sent to support police and their ballot dance protesters in an attempt to stop the rising political unrest the latest wave of protests started on friday after security forces used tear gas against thousands of shiite worshipers trying to reach a mosque for prayers a sixteen year old boy was killed and a traffic and student during the clashes but the fresh wave of violence returned during his funeral on saturday public gatherings for a band last week to quell almost two years of ongoing anti-government actions

geopolitical allostatic can sense as the west supports the ruling families attempt to gag the violence of the opposition. if you look at you know william hague and hillary clinton gallivanting around with the friends of syria meetings accusing the assad government of crimes against humanity you only have to look at bahrain to look at a litany of crimes there revoking nationality of protesters right now there are they blaming the latest bombing on hezbollah as if it's hizbollah has any any connection with bahrain so why not be a rajab he's going to have his appeal denied next week by the the all talk we see in bahrain so you know the europe's loves bahrain they go down there for loads of money in that country formula one grand prix every year and loads of oil coming out of the country there's absolutely zero chance of any democratic reform in this country and this is a country that absolutely needs it washington and london have more or less given

the boot the go ahead for the bahraini roll family and that and that government that autocracy to really go hard and fast and drop the hammer down on any pro reform movements and that's exactly what we've seen dadley and dangerous feared for its effect of this week's pour of the secrets behind the caution of assault rifle up next here on our team. download the official ati application so far choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from atsushi now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time.