anti-government fury flares into news here after the assassination of a prominent opposition figure which some are blaming on the ruling party. as clashes continue across syria reports emerge that rebel groups are again fighting each other despite western calls for them to unite to bring the syrian regime down . and under starters orders russia gets set to mark exactly a year to late stages what's become the most expensive and limpid games in history the report from the host city of sochi. from a 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 government 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 ullman says the government will be hard pressed to survive until the upcoming elections in june. tension between the opposition the ruling. has been growing or elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and unity has taken a nosedive i was january and in addition to the tourist businesses you dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to supply components to your parent company is shot unemployment is rising trinity has been presented as the

nearest thing to a success story that had. been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these disappointments with the failure to make life better life we got worse and the sense that the research directory that takes many people in trinity away from what they wanted and so was big tension about the coming elections or whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps changing the government i want problem the poor option 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 it's regimes fall the colony is now in the nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense errors to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the law this is as we were trying to position between engines. for more analysis i'm not joined by political analyst danny makki he's on the line now from london where the country's president he's warned that the

confrontation between islam is and those who want a secular state could actually lead to a civil war is that what we're seeing now. well i really think that this could act as a calculus for more violence and war and. of course to see where the heart of the arab spring the one of the most fundamental confidence in holding to change a democracy but what we see now is that clear a lot of the leadership from his the brotherhood they don't really have a social program or an economic program and the failure of recent economic policies have really created a situation of fragmentation within fuses and this is an issue which probably will continue in the very near future. the assassination of the opposition figure. but essentially a continuation of the political differences which have been present in thousand and throughout the recent years we were considered to see would be one of the most stable our countries seeing in the arab spring i mean. this is essentially a manifestation of the greater start within the hour of woe and what is happening

within the region is magnified in communities where you have a muslim brotherhood regime which do not have the support of the majority of the people but if i think mainly secular and liberal opposition which will now be more united off of this recent assassination so you're talking about a lack of governance from the muslim brotherhood but it's only been two years since the uprising surely they should be given more time people are saying the same about egypt patience is needed after all rome wasn't built in a day as i say. but especially in that within the shadow of the arab spring and the recent changes with social through changes within the structure of our society it's not really an issue which can be given to any government or any regime because we know anything area where you have the arab street is so politicized that any small political change up and quit you can create contempt and hatred within society and this is essentially conveyed with museum out where you have mass protests and you get the government we have many calls for the government to resign and you have

outrage public outrage against its escalation which has been deemed has been committed by people who have postings with the government these have been denied but this is important but this really shows our spring has not necessarily been a force the change is good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more back with policies and they show that the muslim brotherhood they really have no tangible policies what they are and what they have done essentially replace the regime which they have supposedly overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by their predecessors all right so what next then as you say there's clearly massive opposition now from liberalist and secularists all we're going to see another round of revolutions. well this is very interesting in fact this should be more social change and that is you could argue that there is a fraction of elements of society where you have decided to place on kind of adventure you have liberalist secularist muslim brotherhood and you have to come

here and even though another basement be a moderate islamist group it is supported by the front if you have to think that all that is the brotherhood regimes in the region so i think the media could really be news. for political stability in violence and one which would have repercussions all over the arab world we understand that the council has a very big power because you can use yeah has been funding the government very clearly look at the current president he's very advocate of jihad in syria i'm the advocates that make regimes all over the arab world so now we this and i these are the sources which is intensifying between brotherhood leaders in the arab world and the governments even if we're the secular opposition just very important that that tension if now we have a coalition of liberal and secular opposition to really form a majority status quo through the minority within brotherhood regime but what is interesting just reading on the was now that the tunisian prime minister is going to dissolve the government and form a national unity cabinet we're seeing

a response there which we're not seeing a response of that like in egypt the moment all we what what does that tell you of how the tunisian authorities are responding to this latest crisis. i think this is more of a reaction to what they've been happening recently they want to kind of stem the flow of public outrage. in regard to whether it will work or not i think that remains to be seen there is a problem because the british there is a stigma attached to the government it is the muslim brotherhood government it has very conservative policies one which is in its incompatible with community a secular and kind of outgoing liberal nature so this is a problem within it so there can be really no forward policy which. is old kind of public outrage will they change the government or not the stigma of the extremist muslim brotherhood will always be attached to the current using government and this is an issue which they really have to address but i think this won't be enough for the people who are protesting in the streets today and they show that they are street and especially the secular more liberal street which has been overlooked

throughout the crisis throughout the arab spring by the west most people should really now be a force for change and this should be really be. a forward looking major too with democracy in the arab world where you have a loyal opposition but an opposition based on liberal lists and secularists and not muslim brotherhood extremist governments danny thank you very much dave your thoughts danny makki political analyst live from london grow. heavy clashes have erupted in syria's capital damascus rebels launched attacks on army checkpoints in the regime controlled part of one of its neighborhoods in the reports of surface again the fighting among the rebels themselves in chief of the syria tribune online blog dr ali mohammed has told me earlier that the western backed opposition is fooling themselves if they think they'll be able to control all the rebel militias but it's just funny it's just like all of this will be lighter and the sun will be nicer once defendant is down and it's likely that he had a t.v.

he cannot actually control victims and they try even when the u.s. listed the facet on its a blacklist the will not of defending it. because they know they cannot control it so nor be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the group talk to the top leader division in the arts inning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they are well if you created people that are not full of the shows they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do that they had they will lose this financing it would lose the support so they have to do this and say i'm glad they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same if you will so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. it's predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be

majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis and the merkel's main challenge of the country's former finance minister says she's being simply too harsh on athens. 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. 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 of merkel's coalition when it comes to domestic issues if you speak to the german people one thing they will all tell you 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 angola merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with greece of the years of preparations sleepless nights and hard work russia has something to celebrate tomorrow the official countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics begins the games have already broken the record books becoming the most expensive ever stage or he's under farm reports 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 personnel 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 olympic park 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 vast hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stay to the under eighteen world championships in april when the team doesn't international events that will test. before the games begin the slogan for thought you twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limping park is down by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place. forty kilometers away. it is a similar story there not much was here before but there are also couture resorts

has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of help. in skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the pope's 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 on 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 salt cheese infrastructure that the city met 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 against remember this time next year and. a subject. coming up in a couple of minutes here on r.t. a lack of. britain's health care system and a massive negligence and abuse scandal will bring you details along with the

witnesses shortly. after the break. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images both world and seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day .

he continues here naughty britain's prime minister david cameron has formally apologized for the health care scandal surrounding a major hospital republican swathes of negligence and abuse cases at the facility involving hundreds of patients and there are reports claims of the ruthless mistreatment of those in need are increasingly being right across the country. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight to disaster to

total chaos when you walk through the doors of the war you smell a. crime no staff available. to those who is left and the rich. are in two months new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on . the. line right for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories to match 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. song. in the most horrible circumstances. 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 so much 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. since 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 is soul destroying. that's a bit of stuff and everybody got to make say 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 it emerged that a former fold 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 star 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 t stafford. by the way you can stay up to speed with all the news from around the world by logging on to our website r.t. dot com now here are some of the stories that are waiting for you there right now the ever watchful social network a new application is being developed by facebook which is able to track a user's location even when it's switched off and to boldly go a group of russian scientists plunging into a frozen siberian lake escaping from the current outside temperatures in the region of minus fifty degrees celsius the footage and much more for you where to be right now at r.t. dot com. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world

talks of the ip interview true story are you. trying. 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 god privacy advocates up it almost never caught the deputy director of big brother or watch organization says the proposal must be further started before being applied 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 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. adam other news from around the world at this stage today in spain students of stage a second day of a general strike against the massive cuts in education announced by the government the prime minister mariano rajoy is facing corruption allegations while the opposition is calling for him to step down spain the fourth largest economy in the euro zone is struggling to deal with the financial crisis with unemployment levels now standing at an unprecedented twenty six percent. the french military assisted

by local militia has taken control of over kid dial that's the last major city in ma need to be held by islamist militants paras says to me it's that several hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive began in the country last month and while the advance has been swift some reports suggest the french led liberation campaign has also caused mounting civilian casualties the french foreign minister has hinted the operation may be over by march. turbulence exploding engines a lack of fuel all of them a threat to a smooth flight and increasingly it seems drunk russian passengers can now be added to that list in the last few days alone a number of planes have been forced to make emergency landings because a boozed up travelers putting people's lives at risk now there's talk of a possible prohibition in the skies that is. discovered. 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 have a drink 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 that 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 accountable and 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 that used the bottom ones 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 air 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 the t. on the leg honeymooners chris forced 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 to. the reasons for drinking fear following and celebrating their marriage this type of

emotional travel drinking has gotten the russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so we're not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow even ghost our team. so that brings up to day from n.p.r. not a coming up piece of the bell and his guests focus on the future of embattled syria stay with us for that let's off the break. speak your language.