the end of foreign backing for terrorism and the formation of a new government president's. views on how syria could finally be. a last ditch deal prevents the us from plunging over the fiscal cliff is of. raising taxes on wealthy americans already preventing a nationwide financial disaster. the f.b.i. is forced into revealing it knew about a plan to assassinate the leaders of occupy wall street. and also reporting this movie superstar gets a fresh russian passport after falling out with the government in france over taxes

on the super rich. back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly here on t.v. the syrian leader has outlined his vision on how to end almost two years of continued civil conflict one of the key conditions for peace according to president bashar assad is for a regional and international powers to stop supporting armed groups. was following what he said. well there has certainly been rather interesting quotes coming from the syrian president he in fact called to hold an international reconciliation conference. and the violence and the military conflict which is going on be going

on for almost two years now in syria and this initiative according to assad will lead to a national wide referendum and fair election which is the only way according to the syrian president that the political landscape in this country can be changed but this initiative can only be possible according to assad if the western countries and some regional countries as he put it stop investing into terrorist groups which are fighting to overthrow his his regime has been again pretty much a defined tone thing that the only way that syria will listen to the outside world is through a device not through a dictating well this speech of the syrian president comes amid very serious concerns about the safety of journalists working in syria the year has only just started but already we have a syrian a pro governmental journalist killed this week he was wounded and then taken to the hospital where he later died also my own colleagues from r.t. arabic station he got injured among

a group of other journalists who were covering the movement of a governmental convoy through the country. says that they were shot at by the rebels despite wearing special jackets with the word press on them there also has been an ongoing story of a ukrainian journalist on how to question about who's been missing and nobody knows where she is and whether she's actually alive but the reports that she was kidnapped by the rebels and there was a ransom demand that for her release outraged many organizations with the reports that syria has already been named as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists to work at certainly things are not looking any better at the moment. president assad has said that his government is not willing to negotiate with these opposition groups which he considers to be the puppets of the west and i spoke to political analyst marcus papadopoulos who believes that assad will have a hard job finding any that aren't when president assad says he's not going to talk

to the opposition. to the armed opposition the so-called free syrian army and his political wing of the syrian national council which is a form based opposition movement and it's very important to make this clear in particular for western audiences who are unfortunately not fed for picture it comes to syria the free syrian army is a lethal cocktail or various groups including many islamist groups and many groups linked to al qaida and the free syrian army or the f.s.a. it's more commonly referred to has been responsible for heinous vial terrorist attacks in the last couple of years in syria so it's it's it's pretty clear why president assad will not talk to the armed opposition and its political wing and the political wing being the syrian national coalition which of course is influenced by the e.u. and the u.s. so who is there left to talk to then much of the opposition is influenced by the

west who does it talk to next then this is another important point to clarify if there is a domestic opposition. parties which want to see political change in syria but they do not extremist groups islamist groups for example which reside in the syrian national council and also in the free syrian army. almost two years of anti-government protest changed little in bahrain fresh pro-forma demonstrations shatter against the wall of a police crackdown some experts say it's their brutality that is fueling the uprising more on that coming up. the first earlier this week barack obama signed a last minute deal that increases taxes on the wealthiest americans prevented the country falling over the so-called fiscal cliff the nation was on the brink of a financial nosedive with billions of dollars in tax hikes automatically coming into effect if the law hadn't been passed john mcgrath from wide awake news thinks

the fate of americans has never been a top priority for the u.s. government is an enemy when the cameras are off and it's time to pass a trillion dollar nearly trillion dollar defense bill they have no problem whatsoever coming to coming together and holding hands or put that kind of a deal together since two thousand and one namely we've been covering this nation by proxy the world by crisis and it doesn't matter who gets hurt was good who gets left by the wayside as long as a special interest is served so long as it's always under the shadow of a crisis they will act when it's only when it has to do with acting in behalf of the people of this nation it seems like the people always take a backseat. party's economics expert max kaiser thinks the deal might bring short term relief but the big problems didn't go anywhere. the fiscal cliff is just more theater. trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe.

for manipulating the system. the strong economy. grow more theater it doesn't really focus on the true underlying problems and we're going to see more of this going forward in two thousand and thirteen anything. from the mob what they're pitchforks and torches coming after these people they want to just delay that day of reckoning for as many months as they can but that day's reckoning twenty it's comic. and hotties because a report has more financial analysis and full cost for the new year available right now on a website i don't. recently leaked f.b.i. documents shows the bureau knew of a plan to assassinate occupy wall street leaders but gave them no warning instead it chose to keep spying on the movement which it branded a domestic terrorist group. reports. well it's not clear yet why the f.b.i.

would neglect to tell activists that there was a potential assassination plot surrounding them what we do know is that new documents obtained by the partnership for the civil justice fund a u.s. human human and civil rights advocacy organization have revealed that the u.s. the f.b.i. the department of homeland security the u.s. military and private corporations all cooperated together to monitor and investigate occupy wall street protesters as quote domestic terrorists and quote criminals now the more shocking revelation the headline of this story is that reportedly buried deep within the government. mentions of a plan to use snipers to assassinate occupy protesters and the movement's leaders in various cities throughout the country these alleged plans were supposed to be taking place in the fall of two thousand and eleven now the names of the groups or individuals involved in the alleged plot are redacted from the f.b.i.

documents but what critics say is clear is that the f.b.i. never a learned any one of the potential any of the potential victims that their lives could possibly be in danger or that there's any threat surrounding them the partnership for civil justice fund received the f.b.i. documents on december twenty second so this is fairly new information and this was after they filed a request under the freedom of information after now many civil rights attorneys previously have accused the f.b.i. of functioning as a de facto intelligence arm for u.s. corporations during the occupy wall street movement and especially as it grew bigger however some critics say they never ever suspected that the f.b.i. would neglect to tell occupy protesters u.s. citizens about an assassination plot surrounding them. well we got more about the f.b.i. documents on occupy wall street including the exact wording for you right now at all t. dot com. protests calls for reform and police van at least

anti government run is it's a picture that's been haunting bahrain for almost two years now with demonstrators still urging a transition to a democratically elected government darwish from the european bahraini organization for human rights claims even the most innocent people falling victim to the police crackdown by security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and the hey are practicing a lot of by intense and a lot of violations to human rights when confronting when pro-democracy protests and behind the protestors here in although they are those radical protestors they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent their violent security forces from entering their their their religious and attacking on our civilians and children like we witnessed the big you off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with here gas canisters.

british prime minister david cameron says he's willing to fight to keep control of the falkland islands it comes after the argentinian prime minister once again called for negotiations over the disputed territory which the two nations fought a war over in ninety two a lot is sort of joins me now live from london with more details on this so what exactly did cameron say then about fighting on teena. well this is where here with ask this question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the falkland islands and prime minister david cameron saying of course he would say he made his position there extremely clear he was talking on the b.b.c. that you must say and said that if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the falkland islands that military troops would be the fluid by birth and so absolutely very clear on that very strong rhetoric coming from the prime minister. why would you make such an attention grabbing statement like that well this comes on the back

of argentina as president we making these accusations that the falkland islands were stolen from argentina by greece and i think she called it a nineteenth century colonialism but of course you know this is really ramped up recently the issue has come once again back into fakers in the context of this interview there were a lot of other issues that were raised and i think some concern from people here today that you know this is something that is very much focused on in the course of the interview this is some of the strongest statement that of course perhaps save this adding a little bit some of the other very important issues that are happening on a national level at the moment here in the country tomorrow we've got there.

yes as we saw the end of the focus war it definitely has a very strong resonance with people here in britain that we've seen this this ultimate kick off again as i said you have very strong comments from the president in argentina is also of course come in much more recent argument again because it's been discovered that there are large oil reserves of course i think that's really going to play a big part in seeing this contest over the islands between britain and argentina really heating up again it doesn't look like it's going away and a major consideration in all of this just finally is the on the do themselves don't get a certain list absolutely i think the prime minister has reiterated time and again he said it again since he makes it very clear that was britain's one hundred percent behind. stopping any re invasion biology in tina what he has said

to the folk an audience belongs with the folks and by the residents themselves and on that note we're going to see a referendum i think happening sometime in march and david cameron has said today that it's their choice but if they cheese remain part britain that will be behind them one hundred percent so be interesting to see what happens when a referendum comes along in a couple of months so thanks for that good to see them and sort of reporting line for you on the tube. the u.s. military is now allowed to hold terror suspects for as long as the us this applies to both americans and foreigners thanks to the new national defense authorization act more on that for you shortly or not so you plus. union flag protests and all the non-interest second month of people arrested for allegedly shooting at police full details of the arrest after the break.

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thousand loyalist protesters have been wreaking havoc over the weekend in the northern irish capital belfast with reports of shots fired at police lines the city's been witnessing unrest since a decision by the local authorities in december to fly the british union flag only on designated occasions rather than year round jason walsh from the christian science monitor thinks there are deeper reasons for the unrest than a flag being taken down. this traditionally throughout its history in a predominantly protestant i don't you know city and the latest census results show that's not really the case set any longer it's not likely it's like a republican irish nationalists

a majority or the fair the decision itself to fly the flag only on seventeen designated daisy or taken on december third. reflects this change and that seems to be what's troubling loyalists rather than the flag itself because in fact flying the flag day simply brings it into line with other british government and civic buildings. a natural catalyst for this code it's no easy thing getting immigration rights but russia is among the four nations that have that's according to the un and later we report on what it is that makes a country. you hopefuls. so the origins of the brotherhood's billions egypt's ruling islam is stand accused of taking some news from the u.s. government and using the money to provoke violence protests. for us this week president obama signed a law allowing the indefinite detention of u.s. terror suspects without charge or trial the national defense authorization act also

delays the closure of the prison for another year veteran congressman dennis kucinich thinks the move is part of undermining democracy but right now we're much more of a garrison and garrison plus. a powerful military which keeps asserting itself globally and it doesn't make america any safer and frankly doesn't make the world safer we're spending upwards of six hundred billion dollars for an expanded pentagon presence for more war in afghanistan and for proliferation of war in in yemen and somalia and other places we have a lot of problems here at home that we're not taking care of we have massive unemployment people are losing their homes people are losing their retirement security and i continue to say that we have to start emphasizing taking care of things here at home instead of developing a bigger footprint around the world as far as our military presence. big screen superstars here our producer liberating in his new home and after being handed his

very own russian passport for dinner with vladimir putin the movie icon left his native france over what he called a punishing tax rates pushed on the rich by the new president radio station in paris has claimed five thousand french citizens of fled the country since francois hollande took office in part thanks to his tax policies and just like the produce one of the countries they be moving to is russia really and my colleague researcher spoke to r.t. sean thomas about what the largest country on earth has to offer new migrants let's look at the taxes and that's the question at hand right now if you look at russia the current laws we have a flat tax rate here. in fact france and germany they both have complicated tax code if you look at france the forty one percent right now up to forty one percent in germany up to forty five percent as opposed to russia thirteen percent so you. to russia but if this new law comes into effect in france that mark for france goes

up to seventy five percent making russia even more attractive so you know why the super rich would be wanting to move over here and stand certainly there when it comes to the global meltdown that we've been seeing for years particularly twenty twelve was not a good year for the eurozone or for much of the world indeed but somehow russia managed to avoid the global economic crisis and that is certainly the case in fact it is one of the brics countries which means it is one of the emerging markets in the world but if you look at what's been happening around europe in fact in the past year we've been seeing austerity protests we've been seeing people coming to the streets who are looking for jobs and in fact the unemployment rate's if you look at greece twenty six percent if you look at the e.u. in general the average there eleven percent if you look at the unemployment rate in russia only six point four percent so you can see there are more jobs to be had here less people looking for work less of a dire situation but it's also an emerging market it is a diversifying market in things here relatively much more stable than in the rest

of europe certainly a lot of people saying there's an awful lot of opportunity here right here in russia the biggest country on the planet interesting that the united nations is actually taking a moment to appraise russia's immigration policies and what's what about well certainly if you look at the numbers the most recent numbers in fact show that russia is the second most desirable country for immigrants to come to only second to the united states in fact in fact it can be a little bit confusing because people look at the numbers about moscow being one of the most expensive cities for ex-pats to live with that's for ex-pats and it is true things here it is a big city it can be expensive but if you look at average cost of food it's cheaper than the rest of europe much cheaper to live here for gas prices as well now keep in mind moscow russia you know this is the biggest city in the countries of course things are going to be a little bit more expensive here but russian general things cheaper than in europe regardless of that it's just a fun place to be and certainly is in fact the arts in the culture of the entertainment here moscow is famous for its nightlife but if you look past that we have famous musicians. coming from russia a famous artist famous history architecture all of that here but i'm going to say

russia has always had this balance between east and west right so if you look at the orthodox culture and the western cultures i think that the real reason people come here is that you get two christmases and you get two new years. the high price of x. rated diplomacy headline for that one i said to colombia loses his job after christmas hostages held in the embassy even though it's reported he wasn't even there for the fun. and i mean the statue of hitler erected in the form of warsaw ghetto sparked outrage from locals who say it's an insult to all nazi victims the full story on that at r.t. . egypt's muslim brotherhood is under investigation for taking billions of dollars from the u.s. before even coming to power it's also alleged the brotherhood used the money to fund souls involved in sparking violence or protests one of the lawyers that filed

the complaint yes society ahmad says the money was all about preserving interests. what started this money might have been beneficial for both the american side promises support for the muslim brotherhood while they in turn promised to secure american interests in egypt namely a u.s. air force base in the province of. dealing with the brotherhood as a political authority is permissible for funding it before it had even come to power is not we also believe that the brotherhood run cells tasked with provoking public unrest and violence are protests a form active member who quit the brotherhood spoke of such groups who carried out operations. seems everyone wants a piece of tibet while beijing was the regions with region with riches the western media focuses on human rights abuses. went to gauge the feeling there.

of a look at our midst wadi of china a slogan so widespread in tibet it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion. double israeli six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communist. party is breathing new life into our nation and the margins your time in the capital where shops and businesses sit beneath the monasteries on the hills businesses beneath the monasteries on the hills this is quite a normal city centers of prayer right outside the borders traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poor in every building as a constant reminder which country tibet is a part of. and for decades china has been

accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organizations report numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to basically stop place protests commence a two cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot legal authorities denial of geishas of human rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china the united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and says the truman administration co-opted to fight communism

and they will continue this because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations over the years china's spent over sixty billion euros dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops. outside the capital in one of tibet's most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks of the exile of their spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was it's not easy even on the ground it's hard to see what's true and what's being deliberately shown to foreigners but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions can pay off.

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