diplomatic attention over the syrian conflict rises after a deadly bomb attack in the capital with the country's rebel movement a seemingly on the brink of war with hezbollah in london lebanon we've got live reaction coming up. russia wants the younger brother of a russian adoptive child who died in the u.s. to return home while there is still a little clarity in the case which is sparked media controversy. and leading from the fence new figures that suggest david cameron is britain's most indecisive prime minister in recent times having backtracked on more decisions than his predecessors.

top news in commentary live from moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now russia has accused of the u.s. of attempting to justify terrorism in syria moscow criticized washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning a string of bomb attacks in the syrian capital the blasts on thursday killed at least fifty three people and wounded two hundred while also damaging the russian embassy moscow says it is unacceptable to make excuses for terror specially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries this is as the conflict in syria could well spill into neighboring lebanon the rebel free syrian army threatened to attack hezbollah bases demanding that it stops shelling insurgent held areas in syria there has been no response yet to that deadline which expired on thursday let's get more on this now from activist and journalist. he joins us live from london now first of all thank you very much for being with us. but let's

get right to it now and basically. why do you think there's been no response to this ultimatum from the syrian rebels so far. wyatt well i don't know if in his will i want to. and dignify themselves by replying to a bunch of ragtag terrorists supported by the gulf monarchies and their western rulers really but really what's happening in syria is not contained to syria everyone knows this the interview with mr brahimi that russia today took took place earlier today also he said himself very clearly this is that internationalize conflict and syria itself was attached to lebanon it was one land below the ocean which was only divided by the british and french in one nine hundred sixteen in the sykes pact which has which really laid the seeds to all the problems that the region has seen subsequent to that so obviously what i mean moammar gadhafi said last summer that his resistance sort in twenty eleven some of his resistance was

also defending syria in iran and in the defense of syria obviously defending what would historically greater syria which is present day lebanon as well and including jordan and palestine it's one and the same issue so obviously what support what the what imperialism has been trying to orchestrate in syria is also trying to impact on his blog which is a historical revenge act especially seeing that the resistance movement hizbullah expelled the israeli occupation in two thousand and. two thousand and six you mentioned earlier one sixth of what's going on you mentioned all of these different areas do you the syrian rebels have enough capacity for that as they have to deal with different entities outside of their homeland. i don't i don't think in terms of i think the grand puppet masters here is the western states particularly london who is really trying to get the americans to the serial terrorists for good part of two years but really the agenda is to get revenge on his blog now and open

confrontation with hizbollah by means of nato or particularly the white settlers in any state will probably is not the ideal situation the ideal situation is to get brown skinned people to do it themselves like like they they developed in the in the lebanese civil civil war so for the west it's an ideal situation doesn't matter how much what capacity f.s.a. and the other terrorist have got in syria it's the ideal situation for them to ratchet up tensions against hezbollah and to really not divide and rule but divide and destroy it which is the name of the imperialist game currently well you just mentioned that divide and destroy a concept lebanon itself is divided over the civil war in syria what could the consequences be if the large scale civil war in syria spills over into lebanon. i think and my colleague i'm crazy because mention this in russia before but i think the name of the game now is not only divide and rule because there's no real root stable rule is that the west can have because economically the global south is

moving forward so like with libya like with iraq like with afghanistan like with syria now and like the doing for mali they need to totally knock out these countries totally to devastate these countries to really kind of stuff merge them into ethnic and civil strife and so they can get the security contracts the military contracts and the essential hydrocarbon and natural resources that they can from these areas so really that's what's going to be visited upon lebanon and everyone in the region knows this very clearly now with dozens killed in the latest bomb attack in damascus. basically do you think syrians will have to suffer even more violence. absolutely but i think the battle is shifting somewhat and i think the reasons it's shifting is that the west was relying upon most of the syrian people being sonny's in the syrian army defecting across to the terrorists which they have not done but also i think not small contribution to the development of the diplomatic process going on syria was the major military naval exercise done by

the russians led by the russian chief of staff of the syrian coast which was a clear in the. they really need to think twice and back off any any talk or ratcheting up of military tensions against the syrian government all right pressure your thoughts on this activist and journalist chandan thank you very much live from london. all right r.t. has spoken exclusively to the main and mediator in the syrian conflict who had some barbed comments for the opposition the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said their reluctance to make any concessions to the assad government is one of the major roadblocks to peace. we think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down a lot of people who are opposed to or who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and they depict youth every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't

matter what i believe doesn't matter what your body of what you're saying you may be talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man. himself the problem is that the opposition is saying every five minutes they don't want to talk about. this is the problem it's his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hand. i'm talking about. i don't want to talk about that. and you can see that full exclusive interview with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria at eight o'clock pm g.m.t. it is also available on our website r.t. dot com. now the death of a three year old adopted russian child in the u.s. last month has become an emotionally charged international incident moscow is

demanding of the return of maxine's younger brother with the police investigation still ongoing or he's you got a piece going off as the details. the death of three year old much mean has caused definitely an emotional reaction from russian authorities but first let's look at the facts the boy died over a month ago the exact cause of his that still haven't been established there are reports that american of the bodies have we received to the preliminary results of his autopsy but haven't disclosed them yet his adoptive mother as she described what happened said that she was in there all the while he was playing outside with his brother where she caught him unresponsive immediately call for help with this brings us to the second sticking point yourself towards themselves mitt that to be investigation into much seems that was not started immediately unfortunately we get these kind of this particular kind of calls for. every day we don't put

a press release at all that unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it was until a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that lived there it just took a little more time for us to develop. adoption is a major stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths of russian children after they were adopted and brought to the united states that's why shortly after the news of maxime's that came out several russian officials including were just children's alderman's men were quick to point the finger of blame at his american adoptive mother also because of reports from us of gordie's that be found bruises on the kid's body we have information that the. boy had been severely beaten. before birth or. led

to a conclusion that. possibly he had been killed now officials. in moscow do acknowledge that the investigation is still ongoing and it hasn't established the exact person to blame for months seems that but another issue fueling anger here in russia is that mark seems that game less than a month after russia introduced a general ban for all americans to adopt russian children not only because of the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths but because of a lack of a proper legal reaction from u.s. authorities including the lack of a proper follow up which apparently we're seeing now again david cameron may be the most indecisive prime minister in a recent british history new figures are calculated by the guardian newspaper show he's made more u. turns since taking office in two thousand and ten than his two predecessors archies

for its try to find out why they've been changing their mind so often at number ten . it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime minister say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus and old children even past these the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that someone this is the most indecisive british government ever this kind of difficult to get the data i see partly because people change what we call them so after modifier to talk about you turn a load you stop turning your everybody's where do you turn for up top are quine downs or park downs or whatever back then the words you turn carry negative connotations you turn if you want to i

thank the ladies not for turning into the warmest thirty might not have been for turning this prime minister is certainly is his coalition's clocks are pig getting thirty five you turned so far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like i can pass around fifty two days for gordon brown and tony blair was much more wrong was less likely to change ration he was one of the himself and margaret thatcher you know u. turns i took around four hundred days to go to change direction of tony blair's government go back to the coalition then when it comes to why do you think we have seen this government have so many say many more than previous government i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for

them do you think i mean it's been difficult for the leadership point of view but i think it's something that. has been accepted going in and during the coalition agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government is clear that what they say might not always be exactly as i think it is the fact that they clocked up so many times a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well both it's not good it's not a good thing you know here. if you vote for a government in aspects of what they say it's going to be a good few times actually going to be. profitable so yeah well i don't know i think if it's an issue to obviously people are worried about that it will interest them if it's something. where bill with the quality you turn about turn climbdown will back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many think it's a case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well be recorded as

being indecisive but he was being indecisive it be attacked for the opposite for being. so ultimately and this is something which i often used to say you take your money you pays your money you takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind. london and still to come here on our team licensed to drill a us company when permission from israel to search for oil in the occupied golan heights despite the region being considered syrian territory we've got the details a little later in the program. also had online of off limits iceland is considering becoming the first western democracy to introduce web is censorship under proposals to block off internet porn we'll be discussing it live

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doesn't this contradict the ideas of internet. openness and freedom of speech. very much so of course i do understand that all parents want to protect their children from violent pornography which can be easily accessible on the internet but there are two arguments against this the first one being as you mentioned the chinese government tried to crack down on the internet and even their geeks in hacktivist always find a way to tunnel around whatever control they can put in so trying to implement censorship of this nature simply won't work practically especially when you're up against the the might of the porn industry which has always been one of the leading innovators with internet technology but the second one is a more moral point of view which may sound surprising when we're talking about trying to censor board but it's a very slippery slope to start going down the path of any sort of isn't censorship for whatever reason because of course once you're in a position where authorities can look into what is being passed down the wires and then choose to block whatever they want violent porn to begin with then of course

they have the tools to look into other communications and blocked other things in the future so it's a very slippery slope on the civil liberties front to begin to go down now about that slippery slope let's go down the rabbit hole if you will if iceland does introduce this ban what effect will this have on the rest of the world. i think it's unlikely that they will introduce it but if they do then i think it's very very quickly going to be seen to have failed as i said people will find a way to tunnel around it they will be up against the innovation of the porn industry and so it probably would be a failed experiment within a year or two but i think if a western country is seen to be doing it it'll be justification other more to tell terry to say well you know iceland's doing it so we can do it too and of course it might well encourage ill thought out policies in other western democracies but it's interesting the maquis in iceland at the moment i'm doing a speaking in media tour for an organization called more important against prohibition elite and this is the whole issue of censorship is very much

a hot topic here. but everything is very hot topic here because post the financial crash they've had a rethink in iceland about the nature of their democracy whether or not they need to draft a constitution and they are very open about the whole idea of media freedoms and also very open about the idea of pornography so the only issue they really have here is that they are concerned about the increasing violence that they see in very easily accessible who are trying to ban porn will stop it's a very open very liberal society now critics are not just critics you actually touched on this just a bit ago they're saying that these censorship technologies are blended with surveillance technologies as well how can we be sure that this is just going to be used to protect children as they say well we absolutely can't i mean the issue of the issue of poor and the issue of terrorism has always been used to justify any sort of attempt at censorship in a crackdown on freedom of the internet and this is crucial for the development of

the global society as soon as you start allowing certain technologies to be important to the internet to stop and censor certain nations they will be misused by our police state by our intelligence agency and as soon as we are aware that the internet is being censored then we might be being watched or monitored at all times then we start to sell sensors well we will not download books or information as freely as we might in case it might be deemed to be radical or subverted we go into some domestic extremist hit list and then of course we sell since what we say on the internet well be very quick to slide into some sort of orwellian big brother dystopia i mean we probably slide down that rabbit hole faster than any of us could say oh and while the personal thoughts on the subject interesting from your perspective as well being in iceland are you very much an american former agent for m i five. now israel has awarded the first license for oil exploration in the golan heights to a u.s. based company the region was seized by force from syria over forty years ago and is

still occupied by israel even though it is considered a syrian territory by the international community and as artie's policy or explains the drilling permit could raise serious concerns especially from the u.s. . israel has awarded its first ever license to drill for oil in the golan heights to an american energy company this is according to sources in the energy sector who say that offer is all decided last year to allow for oil and gas exploration in the golan djimi energy was awarded the license to drill but the new jersey based company still needs further work permits for drilling to commence and this is a process that could still take several years the company is headed by none other than the golan heights residents and a former i.d.f. general and it could cabinet minister the company's shareholders reportedly also include rupert murdoch and one of the company's advisors is former u.s.

vice president dick cheney geological tastes have indicated the potential for oil and foreign oil discovery in the golan heights which is all captured from syria back in the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war in one nine hundred eighty israel and mixed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally in the strategic area has seen exciting extensive israeli settlement construction it is also the signs of a major israeli wind turbine a project the golan stymies has has been at the heart of previous talks between israeli and syrian leaders damascus is demanding its full return and there is concern that as the syrian revolt threatens the president bashar assad's rule israel is digging in its heels on the golan heights it was also an observation that on the eve of almost every high level visit to israel by american officials the israeli government has without fail angered the americans by coming up for example with announcements of settlement expansion in the west bank president obama is due

to visit israel at the end of march and modahl the state department is likely to criticize this permit as they do not recognize the area as being part of israel. the french president will receive a peace prize from the u.n. for his military intervention in mali you know asco cultural organization says francois hollande should be rewarded for his valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa this as violence in the war torn nation shows no signs of slowing down leading rights groups have condemned the french led operation saying that the conflict has seen serious human rights violations including the killing of children french and mali and troops are meanwhile struggling to keep islamist militants out of galway there's been another wave of fighting the latest on rush comes as france plans to start withdrawing some of its four thousand troops next month editor at pan african newswire only of the keyway says that the french leader doesn't deserve such an award given what's actually happening in the west african

nation. he has not been in office that long his political career since being in office as president of france has been marked by this intervention in mali something that was done you know latterly it was totally unjustified there's been reports of gross human rights violations that have taken place since the french intervention in mali they've admitted the defense ministry in paris that they killed hundreds of people and the operation overall is not turning out the way in which that france had initially planned this is developments in mali do not bode well for someone who is being offered such a prestigious award for peace of course this is a big deal bobby overall economic crisis that exists in france they have the highest unemployment rate that they've had in many many years that's almost eleven

percent they have a huge deficit which they're trying to deal with this tension is not a humanitarian one it's based upon the economic and political interest. france as well as the other countries in nato is also including the united states as well because the united states is actually transporting troops into mali not just on your t.v. screens we're keeping you updated online with more stories and videos that are dot com here's what's waiting for you at the moment. staying silent on drone warfare barack obama refuses to reveal the legal justification for america's secretive aerial assaults on people in pakistan afghanistan and yemen. plus drug deadline sentencing for georgia state prison inmates now depends on the expiration date of a new lethal medicine used for execution the full story at r.t. dot com. now let's a look around the world for some news making headlines this hour israeli forces are

showing showering palestinian protesters with rubber bullets water cannons and tear downs in an attempt to quell demonstrations in the west bank violent clashes broke out this morning in support of hunger strikers detained in israeli jails the detainees are said to be in a critical condition. police have killed two press pro protesters during violent clashes across bangladesh forty people including twelve journalists have been injured as two separate protests emerged in the capital activists angered by what they see as lenient courts entrances are demanding the death penalty for recently convicted war criminals the second protest accuses the government of plotting to ban islamic political party. indian police have revealed that they were warned in advance about two blasts that ripped through the city of. on thursday two simultaneous explosions killed at least fifteen people and wounded

over one hundred fifteen open militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. oscar pistorius has been granted bail by a south african court he's accused of fatally shooting his actress girlfriend. than valentine's day after a heated argument in the early hours of the morning the paralympic athlete claims he mistook her for an intruder pistorius will appear in court on charges of premeditated murder in june. now with the start of the two. thousand and fourteen winter olympics less than a year away technology update reveals the secrets behind the brand new torch design for the games that's after a short break right here on r.t. . if you have a business that you need customers right this is.