antigovernment fury flares after the assassination of a prominent opposition figure which some are blaming on the ruling party. one of the german chancellor's main political rivals of tax policies claiming they've been simply too hard on the euro zone's weakest members to find out why greece could be the key battleground states in this year's german general election. and on the start as orders russia gets set to mark exactly a year to that stage is what's become the most expensive a limpid games in history we report from the host city of sochi.

from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day with international news and comment. in tunisia police have clashed with protesters and fired tear gas after angry mobs attacked the offices of the ruling islam is party thousands of taking to the streets across the country to protest against the government the public fury followed the assassination of the leading opposition figure chokri belaid with some holding the power elite responsible the opposition has called for a general strike and four parties are suspending their membership in the country's lawmaking body international relations professor mark almond says that the government will be hard pressed to survive until the upcoming elections in june. tension between the opposition the ruling. has been growing more elections in

a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and unity has taken a nosedive i was there in january and in addition to the tourist businesses being dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to supply components to european companies shot unemployment is rising to see it had been presented as the nearest thing to a success story there had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these disappointments with the failure to make life better life has got worse and the sense that there is a check true that takes many people in trinity away from what they wanted and to lose big tension about the coming elections and whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps changing of our one problem the poor ocean is here is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so its regimes fall the colony is now in the nosedive and it's surrounded by

recently tense hours to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the law this is if you were trying to position which engines fifty four countries help washington detain transfer and sometimes even torture terror suspects in secret cia prisons that's according to a top american in g.a.o. which has released the most detailed account yet of in the taurus rendition program u.s. journalist and historian douglas valentine says washington's anti terror measures are overzealously taking advantage of public fears and staking them even further. it's worth arise by the u.s. congress by certain very important congress people who believe that they are reflecting the will of the american people in the wake of nine eleven there was a huge outcry in america for vengeance for the united states to prove for the government to prove that it was more terrible than the people who launched the nine eleven attack and so the congress believing that it reflects the will of the

american people authorize the cia to do this since nine eleven the government has been able to maintain this attitude that it's required for security to commit crimes this is never been necessary before what it illustrates is that the government is more capable of propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government is able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the planet earth and some of the person that's been bully. the truth is exactly the opposite. it's predicted the outcome of this is general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis and america's main challenge of the country's former finance minister says she's being simply too harsh on athens one of the reports. the main

contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat party's peacetime brooke has said this his vision for how to deal with the greek problem is to give greece a little bit more time and for everybody else around the world to be essentially willing to spend a little bit more money now that includes germany of course this goes up against what has been angola merkel's message all the way which is that it's all by austerity and by a sturdy alone and cutting that deficit. that greece can get itself financially back on its feet now what is interesting is that in the german elections we're seeing the key battleground becoming greece. and now one of the reasons that we've seen the s.t.p. . jump on this is because essentially they smell blood he said himself after the most recent local elections which took place last month that's change was possible this year and in order and one of the reasons he can say that is his party is

absolutely killing angle merkel's coalition when it comes to domestic issues if you speak to the german people one thing they will all tell you is what the vast majority will tell you is that they do support angola merkel's view when it comes to dealing with the euro crisis what we're now seeing is peacetime saying i'm going to challenge angle a merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with greece after years of preparation sleepless nights and hard work russia has something to celebrate tomorrow the official count down to the twenty fourteen winter olympics begins the games have already broken the record books becoming the most expensive ever staged. a report on the changing face of the host city of sochi. piece by piece sort she's a limp dick dream is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction

has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in italy in peak history they've cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping

which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this past hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stay to the under eighteen world championships in april when a dozen international events that will test all in the venue before the games begin the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool because the limbic park is down by the blacks in case their uncle because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine. in skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bumps like track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the

mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men and the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed infrastructure but the city mayor believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the

transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year and. a soft cheek. ten minutes past the hour in the russian capital coming up in a couple of minutes a lack of medical care a public inquiry britain's health care system and a massive negligence and abuse scandal we'll bring you the details on the with the accounts of witnesses shortly that and other stories after the break.

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party live here in moscow back to our top story now antigovernment protests continue in tunisia in response to the killing of one of the country's prominent opposition leaders let's not get more from adnan pachachi he's a journalist and media analyst joining us live now from chinnis the country's president has warned that the confrontation between islamists and those who want a secular society could lead to a civil war is that what's happening now. that's probably one of the. of this and. we'll discover in the coming days the problem is the fact that. it was not only a lawyer but one of the. fierce opposition leaders here is one of the fiercest

secular opposition leader in the country just yesterday and the tunisian media he was warning against possible threats against chile and. he said that target. would be targeted in the coming days as one of the opposition leaders there if there's one possible scenario. excuse. the. this is a shame sorry about this this is the problem is admitting. we got a bad communication you just get it just get a couple more minutes we can't what we were just talking about there were accusations that the ruling party were behind this assassination are they fair. i think we have to leave it there i'm sorry we'll try to get back to you if we can

a little later that again just because of the culture and between the dream. now we'll have to leave it there. we'll try and get back to you in a while in the next hour if we can adnan apologies but we got really poor sound communication journalism media and it's live from tunis sorry about that we'll try again haters are saying. british prime minister david cameron has formally apologized for the health care scandal surrounding a major hospital that's after a public inquiry on earth swades of negligence and abuse cases at the facility involving hundreds of patients and reports claims of the ruthless mistreatment of those in need are increasingly being heard right across the country. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight to disaster to have total chaos when you walk through the wall you can smell it. from

very little. that was left. on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line in a row for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term from the now notorious stuff that hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of their dignity so much evil that sandy would describe people not just in not long. in the most horrible city seems. to. be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with

a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages. health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s.

functions they sold the story. as a bit of stuff but everybody that got it makes a you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month that emerged that a four month old baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at stars to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r

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to find out more visit or a big dog or t.v. dog called. the u.k. government is said to be considering the use of special black boxes to record people's internet activities all in the name of national security but the plans of got pretty advocates up at all most of the deputy director of big brother watch organization says the proposal must be further studied before being applied to the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture. the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty horowitz assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this

information and will react to this information if they saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fantasy full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. the last militant believed to be behind the deadly attacks on the moscow metro has been killed he was tracked down by special forces in dagestan in southern russia thirty six year old began shooting when there was an attempt to detain him he was killed when officers returned fire officials say the man had accompanied one of the two suicide bombers onto moscow's metro back in march two thousand and ten twin blasts hit two over crowded central stations during the morning rush hour thirty nine people were killed and almost ninety were injured . now time to check out some other news from around the world in our

world update this hour a severe magnitude eight earthquake has struck near the solomon islands one of the half meter tsunami waves were triggered by the quake these five people have reportedly been killed and several villages destroyed but tsunami warnings issued elsewhere in the south pacific have now been cancelled governments had a lot of people to flee to higher ground as a precaution. the french military assisted by local militia has taken control over a kid dell that is the last major city in mali to be held by islamist militants paracetamol it's that several hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive began in the country last month but while the advance has been swift some reports suggest the french led liberation campaign as an obstacle was melting at civilian casualties the french foreign minister has hinted the operation may be over by this

coming march. turbulence exploding engines a lack of fuel all of them a threat to a smooth flight and increasingly it seems drunk russian passengers canal be added to that list in the last few days alone a number of planes have been forced to make emergency landings because of boozed up travelers putting people's lives at risk when others talk of a possible prohibition in the skies as a reporter artes in a glasgow has discovered. please make sure your seat belts are fastened the tray table is securely stowed and the passenger next to you is not intoxicated out of his mind passport ticket and alcohol of course there's a lot of there wasn't for heavy drinking on board but that doesn't stop many passengers if there is a will there is always a way to sneak that bottle on the plane. recently cases of unruly drunks have been springing up one after another one man attacked

a police officer in the v.i.p.'s zone in the moscow airport thinking he was still in another country a different man if the four year old businessman on his way to the egyptian resort of god lit up a cigarette and literally hit back at a flight attendant who tried to stop him the confrontation spiraled into an all out brawl on board should anybody have known table long pretty much he was demanding something crazy he was forcing himself into a cockpit everyone was trying to hold him back and he was yelling let me and forcing his way into the pilot's seat. here's the catch though the resume normal in russia that would allow airlines to restrain much less to punish unruly customers in fact flight attendants technically are not even allowed to physically subdue anyone having a fit of rage on their plane and that doesn't fly over well with the country's main airline but that used. them once our crews on board to be able to restrain such

passengers we need a law for that and we also an amendment to the current code which would allow not just their flag but all air carriers to be able to refuse service to bassan jurors who have created a problem on board passengers like that and the leg honeymooners who sourced a plane heading for thailand to land in his decca stand it was after their festive mood quickly soured and turned into a fight when a flight attendant told them to cut down on the liquor consumption. they stated two reasons for drinking fear following and celebrating their marriage this type of emotional travel drinking has gotten russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so we not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow it in an r.t. . well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with the news team with more for in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime coming up after a short break peter noel and his guest focus on the future of the syrian issue stay

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health. science technology innovation all the list of elements from the round russia we've got the future covered. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said you know things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification

for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. as a.

fellow and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered on peter lavelle syria a country going from bad to worse with israel's air strike against syria and more expected it would appear. there are forces in the region and in washington that now see military intervention as a means to and syria's civil war given past military interventions in the region is there any reason to believe that this time it will be any different. to cross-talk the syrian crisis i'm joined by joshua landis and norman he is an associate professor and director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma in washington we have rafi shakti she is an english spokesperson for the local coordinating committees in syria and the director of the foundation to restore equality in education in syria and in jerusalem across the he

is a former director general of the israeli ministry of foreign affairs and an international relations lecturer at tel aviv university all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want let's go to joshua in norman joshua what do you make of the israeli air strike against syria and the possibility of more coming very soon well i think it's you know israel is moaning along and as we say they're taking advantage of this time of weakness and syrian infighting to get rid of large weapons systems perhaps centers of research for both nuclear and chemical weapons they can reset the clock and move syria backwards this is this is been done in two thousand and seven with the bombing of the nuclear site up near darrow's or and a periodic bombings of both hamas and hizbullah alone in jerusalem how do you read it do you agree which atia. agree.