the foreign roots of syrian conflict combatants from abroad become part of the war on the government's attempt to solve the crisis. in the west. war of words over the the rhetoric between. cameron says he's ready to fight for the island. of the bloodshed thirty years ago . security. for suicide epidemic sweeps through the u.s. military with more troops and veterans now taking their own lives.

just after five pm on monday here in moscow this is life with me welcome to the program. hypocritical detached from reality a peace plan proposed by syrian president bashar al assad was described in washington and london of syria's opposition group which enjoys the overwhelming support of western states once again called for immediate regime change. to the nation president offered a political roadmap to two years of bloody civil conflict the proposal includes a constitutional reform and calls on outside powers to stop funding what he described as terrorism in syria

a political analyst. believes there are elements within the syrian opposition that will continue fighting despite any concessions from the cup. 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 leaf or cocktail or various groups including many islamist groups and many groups linked to al qaida and the free 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 heinous rial terrorist acts in the last couple of peace in syria but ultimately it's got to be america turkey saudi arabia cut off 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. constantly insisted that what's taking place in syria is not

a genuine revolution rather a bunch of mercenaries fueling unrest. takes a closer look at how the standoff is attracting combatants 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. sami 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 the syrian t.v. report in which sami was betrayed him all the capture example fighters he talked about coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still explanation wasn't

enough to lose the minds of his parents if anything it made matters worse these simply can't understand how intimidating man transformed into a jihadist notice how well they do have this. a year ago suddenly began training 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 me go off to syria i think reports claim some four hundred out of the five thousand mosques in tunisia are controlled by radical islamists who call on their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries the exact number of tunisians fighting in syria or libya or iraq 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 this report published at the end of two thousand and twelve more 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 combat some fighting in syria to get treated whoever gets injured dies i dare them to bring me a single arab who got injured and treated in the field hospital we are being treated as cannon fodder we have the grease used to love that using syrian blood for them a city got to see despite such warnings many young men in tunisia still choose to go abroad to battle infidels in the name of allah. meanwhile in egypt. the muslim brotherhood is accusing. washington. insider of protests. but argentina has told the british prime minister to rein in his colonial ambitions

and concentrate on his country's internal problems the hardline response follows a warning from david cameron that the u.k. would fight to keep control of the focalin diamonds and the two nations afford a war over the territory back in one thousand nine hundred two more on the story now to our correspondent sara. here with asked this question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the falkland 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 falkland islands that military treats would be the fluid by birth and so absolutely very clear on that very strong rhetoric coming from the prime minister a view that issuing this comes on the back of argentina as a president really making these accusations that the falkland islands stolen from argentina by britain i think she called it a 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 was some of the strongest statements over the course perhaps save the shattering 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 custer trial senate coming in this week really it's cheese day that i'll go to the house of commons as a very important issues here at home at the moment of course a lot of people say which will be about fighting a war somewhere else when when i actually was fighting our own battles here 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 that we seeing this result may kick off again as i said we've had very strong comments from the president in argentina is also of course commenting 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 to tween britain and argentina really heating up again it doesn't look like it's going away. of course want to

surf earth right now and as david cameron loses popularity at home some analysts say there were a new debate over the falkland islands could just be used to distract attention from the 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 a guy streets in britain austerity is really biting people are very unhappy with what he's doing and so i think. cameron is very much open. to the greenback the average of 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 the government is really unpopular i can't recall him becoming so on popular 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. this is r.t.

and the flag dispute in northern ireland causes fresh loyalist violence the coming on the program there are a few quiet nights in belfast anymore as the city is plagued with rioting over a decision not to fly the union flag over city hall. one scandal to another egypt's muslim brotherhood is now accused of taking more than a billion dollars from the u.s. to pursue its quest for power a paper trail of under the table transactions has led a group of egyptian lawyers to file charges against the government and yes i say that a man who lodged the complaint believes the alleged to us payments were all about preserving particular interests. and you know most of that much thought of this money might have been beneficial for both the american side from sea 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

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from moscow this is on t.v. with me will receive shine. i think off a belligerent taliban and a resurgent al qaeda the u.s. military is now facing a new battle against suicides almost five hundred american troops on veterans killed themselves last year that's dwarfing the number that died in action has gone h.-a kind reports on the grim statistics i thought i told tonight. another feel good moral boosting john again to stand with us president is 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 verse three and those of us back home or able to enjoy it it's because are you so sure when soldiers come back home

they missed much more than that their own selves once you go into combat you know once you kill people and once you spend a year and an environment you are not seen first team kenny came back severely wounded from a tour in afghanistan two years ago having spent ten months in combat the vehicle in which he was a gunner was blown up nine times when i got crushed by p.t.s.d. i mean. i was suicidal you know i mean i'm married with four kids and i just couldn't find a way to kill myself in some kind i actually did that my family wouldn't have to suffer. he was 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 want to day with two hundred i think is. i can't go anymore

like a lot of guys and so they 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 lipstick on a pig or cancer to speak they take really 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 thing she's the most proud about what you've done here a mind set is testily perpetuated that the ends justify the means while those ends are often identified in abstract terms like freedom and security what have you got us we've gotten 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 taking 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 because somewhere else would you start out with howard without a doubt yes these are painting spinal soldiers 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 and then fifteen thirty g.m.t. to use across to debate just how justified criticism of america's foreign policy years and very policy shapes and molds our world. i don't think any nation has the right to force any system on another nation in america of course me makes a practice of that it institutionalize forcing its ways on other nations and international law is very clear and it's just mindless cliches just silly out there i mean i want to narrow conversation here but if we're just going to if we're going to speak in

cliches we're not going to get anywhere first of all historically this is just in front of the founding fathers believe very much in democracy no democracy involved of course but this idea that somehow america imposing its values across the world is the norm that's not true. it's good to have you with us here today. do you has spent his first day as a russian citizen touring his new homeland and flaunting his freshly stomach possible probably much to the ire of french leaders traitor at home he's far from the only wealthy french person to flee the country over exorbitant new taxes and one of the destinations they've been heading for it's russia 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 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 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 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 that 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 years. rather rapidly.

hundreds of protesters threw bricks bottles at police. protests. to fly the city hall. and all that has been witnessing loyalist

violence for more than two months now. from the christian science monitor says there are social reasons and the decision was. but justice traditionally throughout its history been a predominantly at protestant on unionist city and that latest census results show that's not really the case that any longer it's not it's likely it's like a republican nationalist a majority or we can through 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 and designate it they simply brings it into line with other at british government and civic buildings. well let's get into it here on r.t. time now for the world update will start with bahrain where the highest appeals court there has held long jail sentences for thirteen activists they were put

behind bars for taking part in massive demonstrations in favor of greater rights the ruling monarchy violently put down the protests with the help of troops from a burning arab states more than sixty people have been killed and thousands jailed in the last two years of nationwide protests. five men accused of raping a young student who later died in hospital have appeared in a new delhi called a shouting and scenes in the courtroom delayed the pretrial hearings six suspects who were seventeen years old will go before a juvenile court where the maximum sentence is three years in a reform center and the rapes protests all across india. and to iraq where four protesters have been wounded by security forces as they took part in a rally against the sheer prime minister nuri al maliki troops fired into the air to disperse the crowd of several thousand people have demonstrated in a number of sunni stronghold in recent weeks threatening the fragile balance

between religious groups in the country. and two well known americans the former governor of new mexico bill richardson and google's head eric schmidt both flown into north korea the controversial visit has drawn criticism from washington which is looking to penalize pyongyang over its recent rocket tests. has said that he hopes to meet an american citizen recently detained by the authorities there the google c.e.o. has said little about why he's traveled to the secretive nation. now millions of orthodox christians are taking their turn to join the christmas cheer all around the world in the very heart of moscow the country's main cathedral absolutely packed for the celebration so we sent on bottom the gun have a look. here are the course to save you cathedral the main cathedral in the russian capital in churches and cathedrals both here across russia and in all three docks

communities across the world it isn't fact christmas eve or the awful ox 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. that a correspondent to martin right there where you can stay with us just for a sec i will take a trip to the heart of russia's corridors of power the grand r.t. tour of the kremlin in just a moment. admission

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from a bird's eye view the oddly shaped triangle formed by moscow's kremlin could be seen as the heart of. a small state within a state these red walls have been protecting moscow's kremlin for more than five centuries so to even idea of its size so we decided to actually go around it before going inside we must start right here at the tower time your watch. extended over the kremlin walls is over two kilometers and if you want to go around it you better go real fast because the winters in russia are.