before a roots of serious internal conflict competence from abroad become part of the war on the government's attempts to solve the crisis of firmly rejected in the west. war of words over the falklands the rhetoric between argentina and the u.k. escalates as david cameron says he is ready to fight for the audience could there be a repeat of the bloodshed thirty years ago. freedom security and judy ring hollow was a suicide epidemic sweeps three u.s. military ranks more troops and veterans now taking their own lives and die fighting .

internationally using common life from a studio here in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day hypocritical and detached from reality that's how a peace plan proposed by syrian president bashar al assad was described in washington and london while syria's cure opposition group which enjoys the overwhelming support of western states has once again called for immediate regime change in a rare t.v. address to the nation president assad offered a political roadmap to ending almost two years of bloody civil conflict the proposal includes a constitutional referendum and calls on outside powers to stop funding what he described as terrorism in syria political analyst marcus papadopoulos believes there are elements within the syrian opposition that will continue fighting despite any concessions from the government. very important to make this clear in

particular for western audiences who are unfortunately not. 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 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 terrorist acts in the last couple of peace in syria but ultimately it's got to be america turkey saudi arabian cut off they've got to stop supporting the militants people who are ideologically speaking the same people who talked about the terrible attacks in new york washington london madrid and bali. damascus is constant insisted that what's taking place in syria is not a genuine revolution but simply mercenaries fueling unrest obvious i mean takes a closer look at how the standoff is attracting competence 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 you 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. that further proof came with a syrian t.v. report in which sami was controlled amol the capture example fighters he talked about coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still 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 notice all they do have said was. a year ago sami began to pray 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 the mosque and heard something that made him to go off to syria i think reports claim some four hundred out of the five thousand mosques controlled by radical islamists and their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries the exact number of 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 ready one to. poor 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 closely but relatives that the government's silence is as good as

a green light for the impressionable youngsters. it's known that of 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 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 syria most of them are sudanese hailing from neighboring countries but some have come to syria from this far away as america and europe they get called in for a 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 i dare them to bring me

a single arab who got injured and treated in a field hospital we are being treated as cannon fodder we have the grease used to using the 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 it only goes cool r.t. in tunisia. mean one in egypt ruling in god's name reportedly doesn't come cheap the muslim brotherhood is accused of writing to power in washington scandals and using the money to incite violence a protest that later we hear from one of the lawyers that brought those charges to bear. plus the head of internet giant google is visiting north korea we ask an expert whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic fall. argentina has told the british prime minister to rein in his colonial ambitions and concentrate on his country's internal problems response follows

a warning from david cameron that the u.k. would fight to keep control of the falkland islands the two nations fought a war over the territory in one hundred eighty two. here with our says 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 if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the falkland islands that military treats would be the three by person so absolutely very clear on that very strong westerly coming from the prime minister is that issuing this comes on the back of argentina as president re making these accusations that the analysis 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 he's very much focused on in the course of the interview this is some of the strongest statements of course perhaps avis are doing 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 rate cuts to trial. coming in this week it's tuesday that i'll go 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 when actually was fighting our own class warfare 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 result make a call for 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 to tween britain and argentina really heating up again it doesn't look like it's going away this david cameron loses popularity at home some analysts say the renewed debate over the falkland

islands could be used to distract attention 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 in britain austerity is really biting people are very unhappy with what he's doing and so i think. it's very much. that we're looking back the average of ninety two and the people's attentions here from the very popular things that he's doing but this issue to come up now is very timely because the government is well down to the opinion polls a government is really unpopular i can't recall him becoming so popular so quickly and so i think that he will want to keep this in the news headlines he's why he's reacting in such a sort of strong way. a flag dispute in northern ireland causes fresh lawless violence coming up there a few nights in belfast city more as the city has played with rioting over a decision not to fly the union flag over city hall. and still to come

first to well known americans the former governor of new mexico bill richardson and google chief eric schmidt flown into north korea the visit has drawn criticism from washington which is looking to penalize pyongyang over its recent rocket tests meanwhile a german newspaper claims north korea has been inviting german economists to the secretive country to pave the way for foreign investment however the west's own sanctions in pyongyang of the main stumbling block in front of economic development so says dr rebecca frank from the university of vienna. the big problem is actually not north korean willingness to receive investors it is the reluctance of western investors to actually go to north korea the north korean western environment is not the least cure although the state has been trying a lot still the do have reports of investors who have difficulties groove the red tape and also changing attitude of the government you know about investors

especially chinese investors who have left the country frustration the biggest problem i think for less and less this however is less than sanctions and this is easy actually it's almost impossible not to while it in your section if you deal with north korea because almost anything is dual use and do you have procedures of the checking ready you are not while lifting sanctions are very complicated very costly and there's also a great deal of of unknown and insecurity about what the actual rules are and my freshman is that this is keeping away best and investors in particular big ones. there's a medical emergency in madrid thousands of health care workers from the streets angrily protesting against plans to privatizing number of local hospitals fearing this will ruin their already slim employment opportunities.

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these continues here in r.t. already hauled press five. and a resurgent al qaida the us military is now facing a new battle against suicides almost five hundred american troops and veterans killed themselves last year under the missing the number that died in action on he's got to come reports on the grim statistics i thought i told tonight. another feel good moral boosting son of ghana that is the us president has delivered many of those workers trying to convince the american people that the war was worth it when you're missing a birthday or your message a soccer game or or what you're missing out of verse three and those of us back

home are able to enjoy it because you know if you 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 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 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. 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 were killed in active service in afghanistan staggering statistics that's almost want to

day when you were i think. i can't go anymore like a lot of guys and so they don't think america in fact your. 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 get to put lipstick on a pig or cancer to speak they take real you and me to be ready for the mainstream media in the u.s. with their all of everything military there 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 this test would be perpetuated that the ends justify the means while those ends are often identified in abstract terms like freedom and security what have we

we that. yeah 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 towns 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 is 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 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 success story on t.v. but there was another war the war on terror continues to 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. at nineteen thirty g.m.t. ortiz cross-talk guess what we're debating just how justified criticism of america's foreign policy is and how that very policy shapes molds our world. well 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 it it institutionalize forcing its ways on other nations and international who are very clear of the mindless cliches are just silly aren't they i mean i want to add

a 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. but so cross talk of you were a little later today here on r.t. thousands of health care workers in spain's capital madrid have been venting their anger cuts to the health care system they were running against plans to privatized several hospitals and nearly thirty health centers well for more on madrid's desperate attempts to cut spending is patrick young was a natural expert an executive director at divi advisors joins me live from poland

patrick madrid is clearly in desperate need of money and indeed in need to save it so it is time is it not for the private health care companies to step in and help. well that's the problem there there's really obsolete nothing that can be done about the current spanish situation the government is affectively running a deficit around the bike nine percent of g.d.p. and three year that's a huge number then has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any country and effectively it's hemorrhaging money at the moment because the budgets were made in the good old days when property markets were going through the roof not days nobody can sell a property nobody can manage to get a job and obviously the government simply doesn't have the money even for essential facilities like health care the private sector have the money to help them well i think this course comes down to a big government versus private sector argument clearly there is a concern amongst the doctors that you're going to see an incredible mind about

religious profiteering being made by the private health sector but i think actually the truth is that ultimately governments are hideously inefficient when they do large scale health provision and therefore one it's obviously a concern particularly for the many junior doctors who are protesting today it's a situation that actually there is new choice for the government and ultimately privately deployed capital tends to be deployed in a way that is more efficient both for the user and indeed the provider of the capital you talked about the concerns of those don't have health care workers but surely they could actually benefit from this. but they've got a great opportunity to make a great deal more money i mean part of the whole problem is ultimately the fabric of space and is more or less tearing apart at the seams here ultimately these were

people who were used to the idea of being government employees they were going to be government employees for like not they're being told that actually they're going to have all their issues they're going to have targets they're going to actually have to do certain kinds of services perhaps work all the hard stuff they weren't previously willing to do and those are things that actually you get an incredible push back in all the way through the world seeing the same sort of thing and for example the u.k. health service suddenly trying to get doctors in at the weekends to perform all sorts of operations can be very difficult that's probably a lot of what's going on underneath the scene here and also of course it's the pure on certainty spaniards are not sure whether their economy tom survive in its current creaking status or not just as concerns from those providing the health care but what about those receiving it would the government seriously put people's lives at risk by this proposal oh look i really think that ultimately the government is in a terrible situation it's got to go private but is it going to endanger the health

care of the population of course they're ultimately trying to provide the best possible care they can and what they've identified is the fact that as we know knots of government care systems can be trying credibly inefficient where you've got losing fish and efficient the government can't afford them ultimately what we're looking at here is the idea that the cradle to the grave socialist methodology that has been popular in post-war western europe particularly in mediterranean nations simply is on affordable and therefore not like we have to go private we have to have that better provision and government is going to do its best to safeguard the services are actually of good as they were before and probably better patrick young good to hear from you thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on. hundreds of protesters in belfast threw bricks and bottles of police in a fourth consecutive night of protests ever decision to flight the british flag on city hall only on designated days more than and has been witnessing more or less

violence for more than two months now jason walsh from the christian science monitor says there are deeper social reasons and the flag decision was merely a catalyst but first it's traditionally throughout its history been a predominantly protestant and unionist city and their latest census results show that's not really the case any longer it's not slightly it's like a republican. majority or we can refer the decision itself to fly the flag only concept do you disagree that this is your ticket on december third. reflects this change and that seems to be what's troubling loyalists it so because in fact. they simply bring it into line with other british government on civic duty. well folks christians have been celebrating christmas the world over and you can catch more than lips of all the colors of those millions gathered to celebrate go to our web site right now for

a closer look at that. that is the most expensive in the world sold for recalled one point eight million dollars discover who netted the precious catch at all to dot com. from 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 as led a group of egyptian lawyers to file charges against the government and yes a site ahmed who had lots of complaints but leaves the alleged u.s. payments were 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 arm are 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 active member who quit the brotherhood spoke of such groups which carried out operations for the muslim brotherhood benefit. in bahrain the highest appeals court there is up held long jail sentences for thirteen activists and bars for taking part in massive demonstrations in favor of greater rights they really want to keep vanity put down the protests for the help of troops from neighboring arab states more than sixty people have been killed and thousands jailed in the last two years of nationwide protests. firefighters in northern china are managed to put out a massive fire that engulfed a shopping mall took three and a half hours to the two for the blaze to sweep through an area of almost ten thousand square meters and it's still unclear what started the fire some officials appointed to welding work being carried out of the site. rockmelon for

protesters have been wounded by security forces they took part in a rally against the shia prime minister nuri al maliki troops fired into the air to disperse the crowd several thousand people have demonstrated in a number of sunni strongholds in recent weeks threatening the fragile balance between religious groups in the country. so that to bring it up state for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more from thirty five minutes from now in the meantime the sports news with kate is next that's after a brief break. you

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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. that the new year has brought the new leaders. game with sixteen so the element victorious in course of their games scoring nine goals overall. with two shows for them that mind there are some. st pete side went top of the legal friday after freshman locomotive corneal on home ice. with. an empty netter and his crew to the point in time for game four and really. after all classy live to him a little the way to score a no four points clear of cup holders now in moscow.