syrian rebels squeeze more out of their foreign patrons in a diplomatic standoff with the new be appointed u.s. secretary of state john kerry promising aid in return for just getting them to talk . grinding to hold the euro zone's fears of a deadlocked italian government could become reality with early election results pointing to hug parliament. once world powers play good cop bad cold weather run juggling sanctions and group walls in a bid to cause the islamic republic into abandoning nuclear enrichment. international news and comment live this is the with me hello and welcome to the program. the new u.s.

secretary of state's first assignment has seen him give in to pressure from the sea were in opposition he pledged to more aid in return for the rebels agreeing to talk john kerry along with his british counterpart william hague has made concessions in order to drive the syrian national coalition to the upcoming friends of see where the group initially refused to go to the gathering of its global supporters accusing them of not doing enough to overthrow the assad regime of i. feel that western powers are being blackmailed by the group they helped create. both countries pledged more aid so now they're coming and i think it's sort of outrageous that they just expect people to give them aid you know they want more they want lethal aid and i think they're really clamoring for that and united states is really bad luck funneling arms into conflicts everything from the soviet period in afghanistan to what happened when they attacked libya and gadhafi is arms ended up in mali and i think it's better to get with this negotiating process they

had to bribe them to get to get him to do that i don't think they want any negotiations and i think they'll probably try to block at this point because i think they think they're winning and when you're winning a war at least you think you're winning it i'm not saying they're really winning it but they're going to be intransigent and i want to see how it plays out on the battlefield. the pledges that led to the syrian rebels came amid the secretary of state's visit to the u.k. this us top on a diplomatic marson and during his talks in london john kerry praised the woman relations with some politicians donald whether they bring anything positive. tony blair formed a very close relationship with george bush took a straight into the war in afghanistan and later on accepted all the arguments bush used about iraq and britain was then deeply committed in iraq and as a result we've been involved in two major wars we lost

a very large number of soldiers spent a vast amount of money and made the world an infinitely more in secure place we've also damaged civil liberties which is the united states house with its department of homeland security and all the controls that go with that and i think we need to examine the whole strategy of the west involving itself in iraq then later libya and now syria to some extent and wonder if we're not really heading off in a completely wrong direction as if all this isn't enough a new adventure is broken out in north africa where britain and this time france are involved in the deployment of forces or the process araa. khomeini relations between washington and moscow will provide to john kerry's meeting with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov in the cheese day he's a nice analogy records to have a little talk about conflict in syria miss out on defense and u.s.

expansion of projects in eastern europe plus iran and north korea's nuclear programs amid test and escalating rhetoric these issues have been on the table for years now let's take a closer look at some of them syria ripped apart by violence for two years now a militant opposition there trying to force out president also that russia from the beginning has pushed for a diplomatic solution and avoiding intervention at all costs while saying that time is limited moscow still believes negotiations are the way to go the u.s. has constantly called for to step down while supporting rebels despite them not being able to unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solution although recently the obama administration has taken a more distant tone on syria perhaps thanks to fallout from other arab spring countries like libya and egypt the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again

while both russia and the u.s. condemn any unregulated nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them russia's against threats of more sanctions or further isolation while the u.s. has gone as far as saying military intervention it's not off the table especially in the case of iran in europe and u.s. plans to expand on missile defense systems and russia's concerns over its national security are considered the number one issue to have sidetracked a so-called reset but a shadow over bilateral relations is now russian children adopted by american parents. the latest russian child to die might seem mean three years old only moscow was informed of the tragedy a month after month seems death his legs head and internal organs of the edge of the severely bruised maxie was adopted by a u.s. family from the same orphanage as dimitri yakovlev who died of heat stroke in two

thousand and eight after being left inside an overheated car you have good lives name is now the title of a rush limbaugh that prohibits the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens well critics say the law it's too harsh while supporters claim it's the only thing to be done until the u.s. can assure the safety of russian adoptees and adequate justice for violent crimes against children. and not obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up later in the program the report when chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region and the details in just a few months for the. italians are waking up today to deadlocks

political system and all the votes are still being counted no single political group has enough support to take the reins of the debt ridden nation so this time the rise of candidates and former comedian but the green though has taken many by surprise after voters turned out in that droves to make his this strong this past week in a silly but is the center left coalition led by pier luigi bersani that has won control of the lower house and it also claimed the most seats in the senate but not enough to be able to govern and political on its own restfulness says struggling attorney and feel let down by that point insurance people need to be out of the measures which are not produced the structural reforms of the society in order to have a trust the future for those who are already working and for those with land to do the work force people are dying of promises which have not been fulfilled the second left is. getting what it was already seen

in the polls. but certainly many people are wondering why they didn't make the reforms in the previous the stations where they had the majority so this is usually a very chaotic at the moment it is not certain that the government can be forged it's not a coalition government involved in almost all the major body. forces that are present in the bond. markets lose ground sharply at the prospect of a hung parliament because a reporter turns its attention to the fixing of interest rates that's coming up next hour. in this case there were thousands of e-mails between thousands of traders or actually a few dozen traders saying set the library at a rate that is not true rig it for me and they're saying about this is somehow complicated that we can't do anything about it because there are signs of innocence outside this circle of the actual writers of any sort out being committed somewhere

in the universe should we apply a standard of guilt to this admission of guilt by a just yet i just recently admitted that there was water and fires are generous but somebody somewhere there is a back something in a parallel universe perhaps so can we call it just. give you say oh oh wow there are stories out of mexicans headless because we've got a lot of good i just created a better start but should we care because after all somebody made it is it actually where. having tried the steak it's reported to be the carrot for iran today as well as meet with tehran's nuclear representatives in kazakhstan according to sources these lawmakers public will even be offered and that's an awful sanctions that is if tehran shuts down a fortified nuclear science buried in a mountain and hold some of its enrichment activities in return according to reports sanctions on the trade in gold and precious metals could be lifted the

measures along with an oil embargo have put tremendous pressure on iran but there's oceans maria's emotional reports now they've also prepared the ground for some of the country's exports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the country around forty billion dollars in two thousand and twelve according to the u. but despite these huge gap in iran's income officials have some good news to meet harsh sanctions normal. express have increased by at least thirty percent from ego . what may look like a bad thing may actually play a positive role we've been asking our government for many years to decrease dependence on oil to at least fifty percent it was too high up around eighty percent making our economy too vulnerable some say today is a historical opportunity to finally get rid of this dangerous oil dependence and iran actually has a lot of alternative resources to feed from from well known copper it's to dates

via minerals and stones but wanting this tree in particular appears to be thriving these days iran's famous discussions have been going through tough times in the last couple of years heavy frosts and terrible droughts have been damaging large parts of the harvest but this year with the country under tough economic sanctions the stoushes are doing better than ever. our currency rio fell by almost forty percent in october but i sell the statues both at home and abroad and i've benefited from price rises i saw a three hundred percent increase in profits comparing over the previous year. iranian discussions are exposed to more than one hundred countries worldwide but even if farmers cannot send them the broad confident business move them a race every iranian can consume two kilograms per day exactly that much our country produces so we'll be ok we can eat our own nuts ourselves. thousands of industry workers also benefit which has them overcome the country's highest ever

inflation. the amount of production and price of priest the shares affect our salaries every year the ed ten to twenty percent of my salary these year i have some bonus to my daily payments. but producers seem to be more productive than exporters while international sanctions don't directly target the food industry current measures affect the banking system making financial transactions a hard nut to crack. sanctions don't affect pistachios at all but we have problems with getting our money back it takes more time and effort but this is the reality they also penalize the banks that. are not in u.s. and europe maybe in china or south america they penalize them for dealing with iraq that that's the main that's the main problem which is actually illegal internationally iranian producers say a good stuff here is

a smiling one it's shall should be have opened but now the ad a good to stash here is the one that manages to earn some cash for its country if oil is a black gold the vista shows must be a green one at least for iran locals say these small knots have great how benefits especially for the man well to the country it also gives strength iran's biggest mall expert has always been a significant source of revenue and as the latest round of sanctions poshest ever bites it's also something iran may have to rely on even more than before brave nationality from iran. bradley manning faces pretrial hearings the alleged whistleblower is supposed to be supported by accidents worldwide if say who staged the rallies to mark one thousand days of his attention which they say is an no for that's coming out. and also one well fact is unfair

u.k. unemployment benefits need to generations giving up on going to walk because that smaller person to take government handouts that and much more possible right. deals i would live. in turn know silence to the. point where they're invisible to everyone. every day is a struggle. for our children sleep soundly at night. we are palestinian women working in the israel we've done more for our kids than our husbands know we are phantoms in this life.

download the. application. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you can watch r t any time anywhere. this is also your life from moscow welcome back after a long pause and he also stunned obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on today chuck hagel drew the republicans from the outset largely due to a number of his unorthodox style says class a performance at his initial confirmation hearing didn't help either also his gun that such account expands. a number of republican senators including john mccain

say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over charles confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this repenting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he had taken before for the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator the congress effectively showed their readiness to destroy anyone who would allow themselves to descend from washington's core foreign policy belief so despite all the apologizing that mr hague old has done one senator said that he almost had tears in his eyes as he apologized for his earlier statement about the

israeli about the influence of these really a lobby so despite all the repentance chuck hagel has still been under attack in some point the conservative media got so carried away that they misinterpreted someone's joke about charles association with a group of friends of hamas and they were in such a rush to break this story that they failed to check whether the group even exists and it doesn't so chuck hagel has been under attack not just for his previous statements but also for what he had never said and done. so the next defense secretary will have to deal with the one notorious company long accused of manipulating its cozy relationship with the government to get out of trouble private contract to fund a kind to me the new name of blackwater escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist of a new on smuggling stunt and michael o'brien also out of the cold america's failing the wrong things it's essentially immune to prosecution. they're just follow on charges after the the debacle at mr square in baghdad september of two thousand and

seven. course that was where the seventeen iraqis were were killed you can say they were you know murdered needlessly killed whatever the case may be these are follow on charges that were. pushed against blackwater course that's the old name the company technically doesn't exist that way they can you know technically legally will sever the relationship it seems like it was. the that a deal was struck with the prosecution they dropped the charges three people were just to walk to the charges were reduced to five thousand dollar fine slap on the wrist i think it also there's house arrest for four months or so. and the other thing too is they they claim that they were buying these weapons for the cia and the cia said we don't know what they're talking about and the thing about it is who knows i mean maybe they were but it seems to me that the cia has ways of you know

killing their own weapons i mean it just doesn't make a lot of sense and the cia just if they if it was true the cia left them hanging. eleven people dead millions of barrels of oil poured into the sea and three years on from the environmental catastrophe b.p. is going to court on charges of gross negligence find out just how much the energy giant could be forced to shell out and done which is on our web site. and his to good house go to all to dot com for the details on the new nor signed by president putin the danes to save the lungs of a nation. the

african peacekeeping force to be based in mali will cause donations twice the previous estimate according to ivory coast foreign minister the prize has risen to almost a billion dollars and france could be planning to keep its own rapid reaction force in western africa after its military operation that ends so a move that will only further destabilize the region says lawrence freeman head of the african desk at executive intelligence review magazine. what's going to happen now is that you can rely on science special forces from the french the or swedish you know support it's going to come from the united states probably wasn't from great britain and the african troops are going to be then left with the task of actually carrying out the a little rooting out the jihad it's extreme it's and this is going to be very coarsely so france will stay there as a expected in various ways u.s. and britain will stay there and expand their operations and the african soldiers

are going to be the ones who are going to be dying card carrying out this attack on the islam system and this is all not going to lead to any positive solution north africa the section where the hell they're all going to be. these countries as a result of this policy and that's exactly what tony blair announced on very very he said north africa is where we're going to be for the next generation. britain's unemployment benefits and to provide a safety net for anyone between jobs and looking for the next career opportunity only plus some of the payout such sorrow attractive getting out of bed to go to work doesn't seem worth it all he's pointed boyko explains i couldn't really believe my luck to be honest i mean it was just a dream i thought this is the means saying you know british government is helping me out you know i needed somewhere to live and i don't have a job not the what do you expect to have from someone who's fallen on hard times

housing benefits allowed stephanie to rent a flat in this sport block in london's glitzy may fat by myself i could always barely afford a studio in central london when i was working and here i am looking for a job and central in the spacious flat it just makes you really lazy it's a sprawling and complicated system but one that allows a fair. four to claim up to thirty five thousand pounds a year from housing to child care and unemployment benefits i've known people on benefits and they've been able to afford new cars to be able to afford to go abroad on holiday i've never actually been abroad on hundred people for in my life so how can they afford a good quality when they're on benefits and. for it to do that. that's what makes me angry. is the growth and growth before we

start to do things for. there's no doubt but for a certain segment of society we basically have communities imbedded in wealth for generations of people who have not worked the welfare state was all the idea of a man who might well be turning in his grave william beverages an idea of the five giant evils of society squalor ignorance want idleness and disease some of the very qualities that critics say the system encourages beverage was arctic wealth should only provide you with subsistence levels of support and it should only do so for a short period of top seventy years down the line and welfare spending is the biggest item of government expenditure milking it is so widespread it's become a source of satire you know the way we've been on the disability allowance i

told her he worked at docklands. so be sure. you think you can get me on is just ability allowance he's got a bone to see which call. westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job center a year in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get no money no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for work. artsy london. that's not what else is happening around the world police say a rocket fired from gaza has caused damage in the south of the zero there were no injuries reported following orders they fast attacks is november ceasefire twenty twelve so a major conflict between the palestinians and israel with more than one hundred

people killed in gaza mostly civilians. hundreds of demonstrators in uruguay as capital montevideo held protests against a new law they see as and human rights on friday the supreme court ruled that crimes committed by the military dictatorship are not allowed to be investigated the judge said the government that came to power in the seventy's have been granted amnesty by two referendums which so called legal power. and also the somalian army is supported by an african union mission that has stepped up and offensive against the bases of an al qaeda linked rebel group they plan to secure more key towns having already seized six the teacher positions in the last ten days the operation against the al-shabaab militia started way back in october twenty seventh. u.s. army private bradley manning is about to face a new round of pretrial hearings manning faces

a number of charges for allegedly handing classified data to the week of leaks website the most serious is a using the enemy which could land him behind bars for life so mass rallies have been held in over seventy cities across the globe to mark one thousand days of his detention and attorney kevin zeese explains why many believe his treatment is unlawful. the judge did recognize in the motion dismissed for the solitary confinement that manning was treated improperly and did take a one hundred days off word of his whatever sentence of any he ends up with so the judge has recognized the government did leave the law and went to bars that's a positive it is and i hope that the judge will recognize that delaying this trial where they have is enough reason to dismiss the case a certain point all of the government's outages add up and the outrageous government conduct me recognizing the case that is the reason he's missed especially shoes he should not have served in one of the handlers if you will of ford you've got to first look back and recognize when the crimes were committed and

hold people accountable who did it and unfortunately president obama did not do that and so he's only was a war that you know he's used the espionage act more than every other president combined it's a disgrace it's a nontransparent administration is ever to stop people from coming forward and reporting crimes of the united states and its activities abroad. and that's the news for now no coming your way home phenolic up next his news documentary to stay with us. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using search or targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot at people on the battlefield.