we are being treated as cannon fodder where the grease used to love syrian blood. more heavily involved in the syrian conflict where the opposition carry on fighting the old and rejection no question a new piece. of. around the world.

around the world around the clock this is. the syrian opposition and western leaders have rejected a peace plan proposed by president assad and demanding that he should go in a. referendum to. civil conflict but he pledged to continue fighting what he called terrorist violence to foreign nations to stop funding his enemies assad's speech was punctuated with support but he's a. hypocritical political analyst. elements within the syrian opposition that will continue fighting despite any. it's very important to

make this clear in particular for western audiences who are unfortunately not fed the full picture when 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 street free syrian army is of course backed by certain countries in the west and certain countries in the region and the free syrian army has been responsible for. terrorist attacks in the last couple of years in syria but ultimately it's got to be america turkey saudi arabia qatar they've got to stop supporting the militants people who are ideologically speaking the same people who brought about the terrible attacks in new york washington london madrid and bali. for questions have arisen even in a western nation supporting the rebels as to how and who exactly is fighting in the syrian conflict parties are going to go and i'll take

a closer look at how the standoff is attracting combatants are from far beyond the country's borders. she keeps her son's room exactly the way he left it last spring his clothes and art supplies are the only reminders she has of twenty one year old son and the only sunny told his mother he was going to a conference in libya he wouldn't stay more than one week to ten days he went in for the whole week that he stayed there he called home every day he called in the twenty second of march and said he's coming back to tunisia but never arrived at the beginning of april i got a skype call telling me my son was captured on the border as he was crossing from turkey to syria in a group of fighters. further proof came with a syrian t.v. report in which sami was featured among the captured rebel fighters he talked about coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still the explanation wasn't enough to ease the minds of his parents if anything it made matters worse they

simply can't understand how intimidating man transformed into a jihadist noticing when they do have some coups. a year ago sami began praying and i was very happy because i'm a muslim and i thought it was a good thing. maybe after that he started going to a mosque and heard something that made him go off to syria. official reports claim some four hundred out of the five thousand mosques in tunisia are controlled by radical islamists who call their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries the exact number of tunisians fighting in syria or libya or rock is not known but the families and friends of those who went off to fight in a foreign land are saying that even one death is already one too many especially for those who are fighting a foreign leader in a different country the government says that they're watching the situation closely

but relatives of those who have died are not convinced they believe that the government's silence is as good as a green light for the impressionable youngsters. it's known that for the last ten years most terrorist groups have tunisians in their midst the officials know about these things but don't say anything these fighters went to libya then they went to syria by way of turkey we're talking about more than one hundred tunisians already killed in fighting in syria. this statement is supported by united nations human rights investigators whose report published at the end of two thousand and twelve warned of an increasing number of fighters pouring into syria investigator said people from at least twenty nine different countries are fighting alongside syrian rebels most of them are sunni's hailing from neighboring countries but some have come to syria from this far away as america and europe they get called in for supposedly higher purpose but once they're on the ground the situation proves far more mundane. it's impossible for any arab convert from fighting in syria to get

treated whoever gets injured dies i dare them to worry me a single arab who got injured and treated in a field hospital we are being treated as cannon fodder we are the grease used to love brigade that using syrian blood for the messiah he got this despite his warnings many young men in tunisia still choose to go abroad to battle infidels in the name of allah it only goes go r.t. in tunisia. now argentina has told the british prime minister to make jobs not war this in a robust response to his comments about the focal and islands david cameron said the u.k. military is ready to fight for the disputed territory sparking concerns there could be a repeat of the armed conflict between the two nations thirty years ago sarah ferguson story. here with our says question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the folks in the islands and prime minister david cameron saying of course we

would say he made his position there extremely clear if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the folk and violence that military treats would be the fly by person so absolutely very clear on that very strong westerly coming from the prime minister is that if she comes on the back of argentina as president we making at least accusations that the falkland islands stolen from argentina by britain i think she called it nineteenth century colonialism and i think some concern for 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 statements of course perhaps a disheartening a little bit some of the other very important issues that are happening on a national level at the moment here in the country we've got the cuts to trial. coming in this week it's cheese day that goes to the house of commons so as a very important issues here at home at the moment of course a lot of people say we're talking about fighting a war somewhere else when it when actually was fighting our own battles fear in the country on the screen nearly thirty years since we saw the end of the focus war it

definitely has a very strong resonance with people here in britain but we've seen this this old me kick off again as i said we've had 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 the tween britain and argentina really heating up again it doesn't look like it's going away. party surface reporting and as david cameron's popularity at home is dropping some analysts say the renewed debate over the falkland islands could be used to destruct attention away from issues the government is failing to address. but david cameron it's a great issue that it's come up again because the economy here is in dire straits and austerity is really biting people are very unhappy with what he's doing and so

i think that david cameron is very much open. to the greenback the and reserve ninety two and the people's attentions here from the very popular things that he's doing at home but this issue to come up now is very timely because the government is well down in the opinion polls and government is really unpopular i can't recall him becoming so on populous so quickly and so i think that he will want to keep this in the news headlines he's why he's reacted in such a sort of strong way. and i saw ahead for you here on the program on r t it's not only enemy fire taking its toll on u.s. troops but also mourning their own misery of war forcing more and more american soldiers to take their own lives. across violence has once again spread through the northern irish capital raising tensions between pro british loyalists and irish republicans more than in just a little. egypt's muslim brotherhood is accused

of illegally accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from the u.s. government before even coming to power a group of adoption lawyers has triggered an investigation also saying that the brotherhood funded cells that sparked violence at protests lawyer. who filed the complaint says the alleged u.s. payments were all about preserving particular interests. you're going to marseille that much started this money might have been beneficial for both the merican 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 to form an active member who quit the

brotherhood spoke of such groups and carried out operations for the muslim brotherhood benefit. how much more news to come after the short break. mission in free credit patient free store charges free. range month free. three. time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media hearty dot com. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

it's good to have you with us here and i'll tell you today i'm a rover sushi and life and most going the suicide rate in the united states on the has rocketed the number of those taking their own lives now higher than those who perished in battle so he's going to finds out while the government trumpets its military success stories they come at a very high price for individuals. so quickly it's on.

another feel good moral boosting john of the us president has delivered many of those rockers trying to convince the american people that the war was worth it when you're missing a birthday or you're missing a soccer game or or what you're missing out of her story and those of us back home or able to enjoy it it's because you. told us come back home they missed much more than that their own selves once you go into combat you know once you once you spent a year and an environment you are not to see first team kenny came back severely wounded from a tour in afghanistan two years ago having spent ten months in combat the vehicle on which he was a goner was blown up nine times when i got crushed by p.t.s.d. i mean. i was suicidal. but married with four kids

and i just couldn't find a way to kill myself with some kind of accident that my family would have to suffer. able to step back from the brink but many of his fellow servicemen were not so fortunate. more american soldiers committed suicide last year than work killed in active service in afghanistan staggering statistics that's almost one a day when you were i think this is i can't go anymore. like i. don't think america is back. to. normal society. officials in washington seem to be trying to present afghanistan as a success story while for those coming home it looks anything but that. they do put lipstick on a pig or cancer to speak they take real you're in. for the mainstream media in the

us with their everything military their questioning of the cause of the war usually comes down to this sort of makes you the most proud about what you've done here a mindset is testily perpetuated that the ends justify the means while those ends are often identified in abstract terms like freedom and security what have we got us we've got quite a bit i mean honestly the afghan people even from when i was a ploy in iraq and all three during the invasion you could see the iraqi people and the afghan people starting to do stuff on their own having more freedoms and stuff like that stuff like that also includes almost twenty thousand afghan civilian deaths and drug production which has gone through the roof since coalition troops have been in the country accounts like this never make it to mainstream airwaves everyone that we blame for nine eleven is dead or in jail. there is no justification for this war. there's no reason that our brothers and sisters should

die in the sand there is no reason that their children should go to sleep every night terrified of the next drone strike or the next move kicking down their door neither do major u.s. news channels dwell on the subject of the afghans overwhelming desire to see american troops out of their country instead another six. story on t.v. but there was another war the war on terror continues and go somewhere else would you still go without it without a doubt yes these are paintings by a soldier's mother who was petrified her son would be deployed he never was and she counter self lucky but the fear caught up with her and inspired this series of paintings her reflections on those who have returned wounded physically or emotionally reflections that clash with the mindset that human suffering should be the price you have to pay for a cause in washington i'm going to check out. the next hour or two years across all guests to try to figure out how u.s. policy is to find the perception of the west in general and what the term cold war

means nowadays. drones are killing innocent people as well as the guilty you know there was a time when warriors story each other face to face them was never a good thing sometimes it's inevitable i don't blame the west for using drones it's an exclusive the west of course all people use them only two percent two percent of those killed are what america calls high level military targets nearly all the others who are civilians you talk about drone wars killing civilians the pentagon denies it the cia deny me the cia absolutely denied but those are the core hard facts new york university and stand for you over a city don't play me talk to them. right across talk was a bit later in the day here on the finale he ditched france and switched to russia

and iran over tax with many branding him a traitor but some predict that movie stars are had departed is only leading where others could follow him with criticism of the french policies or driving out the super rich earlier i spoke to r.t. sean thomas about what russia the world's second most popular destination for migrants has to offer a new car so. let's look at the taxes and that's the question at hand right now if you look at russia at the current laws we have a flat tax rate here of thirteen percent in fact france and germany they both have complicated tax codes if you look at france forty one percent right now up to forty one percent in germany up to forty five percent as opposed to russia's thirteen percent but if this new law comes into effect in france that. market for france goes up to seventy five percent certainly though 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 if

a 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 come into 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 the united nations is actually taking a moment to appraise russia's immigration policies and what's what's that 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 i think that the real reason people come here is that you get two christmases and you get two new year's. more reasons to. do so. for. the pope. and.

one hundred. for the week. all over the. majority. but most of us traditionally throughout its history been a predominantly protestant unionist city and their latest census results show that's not really the case any longer it's not like a republican nationalist

a majority or where the decision itself to fly the flag only on seventeen designated days a year taken on december third. reflects this change and that seems to be what's troubling loyalists like it so because in fact flying the flag one day simply brings it into line with other british government and civic buildings i don't let's get started here with the aussie wild update now some other global news for you in brief starting with an attack by two suicide bombers claimed that five lives in southern afghanistan the taliban militants breached a government compound shot the god dead and then detonated their explosives they were reportedly targeting local officials it happened in kandahar province that's one of the most violent areas in the country it's also believed to be a smuggling corridor to pakistan. five men accused of the brutal gang rape of an indian student that led to

a death appeared in court for the first time for pretrial hearings and they've been charged with murder and abduction as the suspect aged seventeen is expected to be tried separately in a juvenile court for the right case of massive protests over the rising number of crimes against women in india. australian authorities have started up to one hundred people missing in areas hit by a wildfire as thousands more have been evacuated to safety winds and very high temperatures nationwide provided optimal conditions for bushfires to break out the authorities warned of the extremely hot and dry weather is likely to continue throughout the week. now as christmas celebrations in western countries are now over for the followers of the orthodox church around the world the seventh of january marks the biggest day of celebration and that includes many millions in russia the country's main cathedral has been packed to mark the occasion artists on bart and went to report. here at the christ the savior cathedral the main cathedral

in the russian capital in churches and cathedrals both here across russia and in all three docs communities across the world it isn't fact christmas it would be awful lot church in the in the crisis a few cathedral worshippers have packed in to take part in to listen to the liturgy chanted and to feel the presence of of the spirit of christmas eve which is here celebrated on the sixth to the seventh of january not the twenty fifth of december because of the use of the julian calendar here but the or russian orthodox church rather than the gregorian calendar in other countries after the soviet union which is just over the end of the soviet union just over twenty years ago there was a a large gap in the number of believers after that long atheist period and even today most russians don't strictly observe the russian orthodox christmas for most

russians new year is the real celebration but there is a significant number of of strict religious observance of the russian orthodox faith and for them this is an immensely special night indeed for them just as for most russians on new year's eve at large banquet is held many big dinners held and it's also a time for them to go to their church to take part in what is one of the longest services in the russian orthodox calendar but also. in the view of many believers and observers of russian orthodox faith one of the most beautiful services. right there are just a moment it's part which and the sporting news. actually

. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. please speak or language you. will programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in troy

arabic to find out more visit our big don't teach dog called. hello welcome to the r.t.e. sports show thank you for joining me capon trades and this just a taste of the stories to come. out tricare i would be and i shall walk out finally looking set to end yet any melting scores his second the trouble and i think some of the alleged can is also on target in the chel. while all growing up we turn to russian tennis player but i close knit soft as the former wimbledon boys champion gets his neighborhood tree on the growing a.t.p. tour. from poor to school after winning every available title record breaking synchronised anastasio above you that moves on to trying to

the next generation of russia's stance. but let's start on the ice where the n.h.l. lockout could be over after owners and players reached a tentative deal on sunday some of russia's biggest stars then may soon return overseas but still produce key performances in this week's as robert rather neon reports. the new year has brought the. sixteenth victorious in their games scoring. with. their six. st pete side when top of the league on friday a fresh. on home ice. with. an empty netter and peace point in killing four games. and.

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