ditto iraq conflict wars washington and invisible cyber war between the u.s. and china rages on some security professionals say america is losing badly. day two of the tide in parliamentary elections a sex scandal survivability scaly gets a topless reception of the ballot while the forward funny man channels the country's rage ovals to proceed. and most has the latest talks on the syrian civil conflict as russia struggles to bring voters the opposition and government to the negotiating table with the rebels reluctant. international news and comment live from moscow this is also here with me hello and welcome to the program big competition between the u.s.

and china has gone digital and the western superpowers and feeling confident intelligence figures think america is already in losing a major cyber war after accusing beijing of hacking into washington security. now reports. in january it is my pleasure to welcome president hu to the white house washington and beijing were the a list couple of geopolitics the positive constructive cooperative u.s. china relationship is good for the united states in february america's feelings are fleeting china unleashing its full spy power let's return to the alleged link between china's military and a prolific hacking group most cyber attacks are being carried out by teams inside the chinese military china is officially out of control because don't look now but prove today our sugar daddy is a thief beijing became an overnight security threat last week after the american

information security firm mandiant identified a secretive chinese military unit as the likely source of hacking against u.s. corporations a charge china vehemently denies however as the u.s. refocuses its military might from the middle east to china's backyard critics say it's no coincidence that beijing is suddenly morphing into america's virtual al-qaeda i think this is part of what oh mamma calls the asian of it which is really a china and this cyber thing is is fits right into that pattern i think what we're looking at is art of this obama pivot to focus on china and to paint china is the new military threat to the world it's a demonization china earlier this month u.s. president barack obama signed an executive order aimed at strengthening america's defenses when you know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private

e-mails we know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid our financial institutions our traffic control systems we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our comp but according to reports washington is all too familiar with the offensive side of cyber war it's the u.s. who launches things like stuxnet that together with israel to to cripple certain iranian technology capabilities in two thousand and ten a computer virus known as stuxnet infected tehran's enrichment facilities destroying nearly one thousand of iran's six thousand centrifuges according to reports the virus made entirely out of code was a joint collaboration between the us and israel in terms of a pandora's box i think it will be slightly harder for the united states to adopt

a position of purely beaton's we've sort of made it clear that we're willing to use cyber in advance of our national interest while reports about china's a legit cyber attacks have dominated u.s. mainstream media much less is being said about the pentagon's decision to double down on its cyber war workforce expanding from nine hundred to more than forty five hundred employees experts say the move is indicative of washington's evolving military strategy every commander. is going to be is the next major war will include cyber component it will just be a traditional insurgency bombing from where the central ground troops the next floor almost certainly will include the cyber component and the edge of cyber war france could become foes by the click of a mouse and some say in

a very short time relations between the u.s. and china over virtual espionage can resemble the long stalemate that took place with the soviet union during the cold war we're in a port i.r.t. new york. and on aunty dot com you can have you also and express your opinion on what's going on between the u.s. and china in our online poll so let's now have a look at how you've been voting so far so well done a whole lot of you actually extra five percent of you think this is part of obama's p.r. campaign a bit more of you will than fifteen percent actually believe that the so-called half of all scandal is all about espionage almost the same number of voters saying this is a glimpse of the next world war and finally just six percent of you see this as a warning to china so do had to ask dot com and have your say that.

so today is the second and final day of voting in a silly and apollo entry compared with baseball rhetoric and tough questions about austerity yesterday so most major party leaders caused their ballots with the vote of c.e.o.'s counted also by silvio berlusconi targeted by first hester's talk this from an activist crashed his photo opportunity counting and not with bogus kone before being swarmed by police and just pointed out the strong functions include the democrats and the new until stars he party fronted by a fine of brown did no good and what comedian she's really going to reports now on a vote that is shaping intimacy which are. the streets of rome along with posters from various political parties and candidates all smiles and bright colors offering the best future possible for italian voters. it seems like.

a lot because it's become a bit like oh my. gosh. was apparently as if i was he was. the program low is not the leader but the face of a movement whose plan is simple to do away with the politics that italy has been used to for the past couple of decades and bring about a new type of rule the number saved on my part i don't feel protected by the state i want to stay there is visible there is no more state in this country just the bureaucracy of laws that has replaced democracy there isn't anything left among the crowds disillusioned with italy's politics is done nearly a lesson he started small by successfully challenging politicians in his small hometown in the south like many talents he does not trust the current political

system if it was obviously a lot easier because there will be no wall ok i think the big thing right here is that each of the all of it but it is time for a change at least one hundred thousand people showed up to support great lows movement in the center of rome the biggest political gathering in half a century people say popular because it speaks clearly and they say it's one of the main thing to say so they have to go or home or home with their finished and this right because they're the political class as lost in the in the influence on the landrieu part of the population especially young people. the crisis we have a political class. i'm able to cope with and the situation is a desperate one the longest recession in twenty years more than one third of the

country's youth are without a job corruption that feeds organized crime and manages to siphon off as much as sixty billion euros a year by some estimates and declaring wealth divide between various a tally and regions basically italy's huge or parliament will have a mouthful to chew to avoid choking on the problems which have accumulated over the years perhaps doing away with the old men in suits no matter how respectable they may appear in favor of a foul mouth but seemingly honest comedian may be just the thing to put an end to italy's political drama in rome in a ghost. so they were officially closes at fourteen hundred g.m.t. today with exit polls made available shortly after but already political analyst elizondo polity downs any of the kind deliver on their promise to rein in his finances. well the problem of europe is not the problem of public debts this is a financial assault that has been concerted by private entities to milk money from

the eurozone that said of course berlusconi is not really the best choice. to drive around difficult obstacles to the moment you wasn't really so much better despite being well connected with the financial world has a wonderful work. but very little continent and this is a bit worrying because as soon as you get in it gets in parliament it's not just italian politics of politics in the world and frankly for the moment they don't feel he is really well equipped i hope he will make up because anyhow he will come up with a sizeable number of problem and carry us further really to study very hard very fast to come up with something credible chancellor merkel brings new hope to germany calls for a restart to still talks on korea's ascension to the e.u.

despite serious human rights and economic concerns known data coming out. until so late in the program america's new foreign secretary is on his first foreign tour syria and iran are among the main topics but no significant announcements are in store in a few minutes we'll go to opinion on why he's being so cautious. and the latest attempts to find a breakthrough in syria's painful civil conflicts the country's foreign minister is holding negotiations here in moscow the peace process has suffered a new blow after the western backed opposition with a jerk from all international talks complaining of a lot of pressure on the assad regime. brings us the details. the visit comes amid widespread uncertainty over whether or not any dialogue it's possible between the syrian authorities and the opposition dhamaka says it's ready to talk last week there were dim hopes that the rebels would do the same as the leader for the first

time said they were willing to negotiate with the government but now it seems the opposition is returning to its traditional line and going going a bit further first of all it will jacketed the invitation to come to moscow for talks of using it of supporting president assad even though russia since the beginning of the conflict has been saying that it's not taking sides but if that was more or less predictable then the opposition's refusal to go to washington and to rome to take part in the upcoming meeting of the so-called friends of syria group that was a major surprise since this group initially was formed to support the rebels and this is a sign of a growing divide between the syrian opposition and their outside supporters the rebels say that they are doing this to protest against the lack of an international reaction to what they call atrocities committed allegedly by syrian authorities and washington tried persuading them to change their mind and hold talks with the

government openly saying that it will provide further support despite russia's calls on the international community to apply equal pressure on both the rebels and the authorities for a political process to finally begin in syria but judging by the situation now frankly the chances of this process beginning now are not very big. powerful activist what kind of says western powers could be losing their grip on the rebels who are pursuing the goals. they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all their strategy based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of already on the ground we also have at least for the rebel east rather than the political elite that are called the national council to see the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to fall they know that the western societies of western countries have invested

a lot in them both in money and time and so on been organizing them and they think that they could probably make a stand here with regards to what they see policy this is a bit funny because now if they choose to get out of this sort of international friends of syria meeting then the western communities really will have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis u.s. special forces are kicked out of a crucial are going to province involvement in the torture and the locals has sparked outrage but the bond threatens to leave a key area next to kabul without protection that story is coming up after the break . technology innovation. developments around russia. the future

covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images world world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today.

you're watching on c coming to you live from moscow welcome back then you know appointed to us secretary of state john kerry's in london on his first official foreign toll after meeting top officials that he will head to berlin all together the trip will include nine states check in on america's nato allies as well its key friends in the middle east kerry is expected to talk about iran's nuclear program the french intervention in mali and the civil war in syria and italy hopes to meet members of the syrian opposition and their allies however he said this would mostly be a listening tour and no significant change in america's stance is expected this might mean that washington just wants to shift the burden of foreign wars to its nato allies that's as john reason expert on american foreign policy it's always been very important for the americans to keep the nato alliance together but they always wanted to keep it together on their own terms it's always been the case for instance that the senior commanding officer in nato is from the american armed

forces what the americans constantly want to do is to shift the burden of military intervention on to the european powers but to keep political control all the process and i think that we've seen that a number of times recently especially since the american focus is now beginning to shift towards the pacific to deal with the rising threat of china we are going to the europeans now have to take on a greater share of burden in respect to policing the arab world and north africa what we're seeing here is an attempt to convince the nato allies that they should pay more but have no more implodes. i'm gonna stones president hamid karzai has ordered us special forces out of a crucial province the americans will link to they torture and murder of local villagers an area is seen as vital for defending the competence of kabul the move comes as nato prepares to hunter responsibility for security to local forces by twenty fourteen and politics professor patricia to get now wrote says i've got this

done will struggle on his side of the work probably this is you know the family is strong the places where the ball is how i think they're kind of tired as well as most apt having u.s. forces going in and out of people's houses that are and comment cards that president karzai needs to take care of his own situation but seeds definitely president karzai is trying to make a statement in fact they haven't come to an agreement yet you know there is there's still a little i'm sure power play going on between the u.s. and the president as to who's going to stay who's going to be in charge you know what kind of numbers they want and how they're going to work but absolutely you know afghan leader is going to have to show that he has a little bit more support throughout the nation and just his region and within the south there iran has announced it's found thousands of tons worth and you were in the reserves that says it will use them to expand its nuclear infrastructure and build more power reactors at home find out what we think you want. to do about it.

and internet freedom north korea style become trip plans to make mobile internet its main tourist attraction giving foreigners full online access all that online. german chancellor merkel's calls to stay in turkey by calling for talks on korea's ascension to the un to to the e.u. rather to be a restart said she is currently on a trip better starting with a visit to german troops on the border with syria but her support for tech has aspirations to join the e.u. owned being echoed at home concern over on chris human rights record especially strong with more journalists reportedly jailed in tech and then in iran and china

combined delays and talks have caused great annoyance than with pam as a one calling the holdouts unforgivable and money else to write a political analyst and journalist says that the current economic situation and the e.u. needs tech are citizens without any desire to enter the blow we have to see that european union is no democratic pro-choice political approach a sort of ideological approach because when you ask the people in germany if they wanted to have the euro for example fifteen years ago a huge majority of the people who were against getting that europe ask the people if they want to send troops to the turkish syrian border they say no the european union is a construct with out the democratic base it's an ideological based and so maybe hopefully we can hope for for the turkish people that they will have the right to take part in the referendum of zero to two of the turkish new membership because i

can imagine that for the turkish citizen to see how the european the whole of the european union develops now in the states is doesn't seem very attractive to become a member of that club. and after some other international news in brief thousands turned out across ball garrett to show their anger at rising utility costs and corruption in the energy sector ten thousand were in the capital alone waving national flags and shouting out to government slogans and all that is just a week after countrywide falls the conservative party to resign from power. raul castro has told the national assembly he will stand down as cuban president when his current in twenty eight seen the eighty one year rule took over from his older brother fidel castro five years ago and miguel diaz can now voted in as vice president at the same assembly meeting is widely viewed as cost her success. south korea's first female president paul gauguin hair has been sworn in at

a ceremony attended by turns of thousands the door told the nation's autocratic founder faces among other challenges the question of how to deal with a nuclear armed north korea. you know here you go into tail into as the little the day as south korea's most famous singer site while the crowd with his signature moves. in the you are some governors have warned automatic spending cuts due to kick can next months will lead to huge job losses eighty five billion dollars will be slashed across sectors funded by public money of democrats and republicans failed to reach a compromise on tax increases some states like texas and the dream here with large military budgets who was affected and others less reliant on money from washington . they can only trials facing america stretch far beyond its borders and coming up next hour for you cross talk looks at the risk posed by countries turning to the risky business of printing money. at least in the

case of the united states you're seeing the private sector in the act you're seeing a gradual improvement of the economy a much more while the about the european situation where you have been go ahead and go ahead we're do you see an improvement in the united states what do you see that and also do you think a monetary policy is going to get you anywhere while you have to balance sheets of every country and the printing of money is destroying it is doing the complete opposite of what you wanted to do the united states economy he's definitely on an improving bad housing sector is coming bag name on a boy would. put thousands of consumers that housing is going through my confit consumer confidence is not a measure of economic activity. we've seen. as a. hero

today itself next to this bull someday with kate. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law

enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women you know law enforcement targets in coffers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school.

moldovan no permits when you are. other local what's national but there's a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g. motion will be used. you've just gone for a match up artist i was fired i must fight so. i'll fight. the fight right. hello welcome to the r.t.s. boat show with me coming up this half an hour of sporting action from russia on the

round the world and these are the top stories. top of the class after a week when old three russian sides reached the last sixteen of the europa league we look at an option time coach helping raise the next generation of staff at a spa. while top of the bulldozer russian smoke border stanislav did cool find he could use his maiden world cup victory to the delight of the capitol crowd in the parallel solid. and top gear formula for wheel on world champion keep your icon and makes a guest appearance in the lineup for the annual race of stars here in moscow. but let's kick off with football west three russian sides have reached the last sixteen of the europa league after benefiting from warm weather camps in the mediterranean but there's been no such luxury for the use sides they're richer than portly did braved the cold to.