president obama arrives in the west bank against the backdrop of a protest and rocket strikes from gaza into israel where he earlier reaffirmed washington's on breakable blogs with television. a bull in a china shop or russia's prime minister's labs edu over its handling of the secret economic crisis and a coup will come as a brussels officials arrive in moscow attempting to calm the financial storm. and syria's government and opposition both demanded the international probe into it alleged deadly chemical attack the both sides are blaming on each other.

a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on r.g.p. i'm to bomb would say what the ages international news for rockets have reportedly been fired from gaza into israel where u.s. president barack obama has been on his first foreign visit since relex and the strikes that didn't prevent the american leader from arriving in the west bank a few hours ago where he's now meeting with the palestinian leadership all correspondent policia is there and brings us more on what did preceded the visit. there were four rockets that were fired from the northern gaza and town of beit hanoun as israel two landed inside gaza but one landed in the back yard of a residential home in the southern israeli town of store water now there were no injuries although there was some damage to the backyard this coming on the second day of the american president barack obama's visit to the region and just hours before he will arrive here in the palestinian city of ramallah so he obama so far is speaking primarily to the israeli public and he admitted as much last night

after he met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he said that his goal is to talk to the israelis he's spoken about the importance of israeli security and he's also committed american financial assistance to israel particularly in terms of military programs beyond two thousand and seventeen when the current contracts expire now there's been very little mention so far of the palestinians of the peace process of the continued israeli settlement expansion and this is in stark contrast to the speech the president gave back in two thousand and nine in cairo when he said that one of his priorities in terms of his foreign policy was resolving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between obama and netanyahu there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of iraq and here we have mr yahoo continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table

and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact that netanyahu still holds firm to israeli commitment even if it means turning his back on his close allies we here in this clip israel can never see the road to different persons to others even to the greatest of our friends there's already been a handful of demonstrations against the american president here in the west bank and certainly today the police are in full. force on the streets there's a strong security presence and people are expected to come to the streets to protest against the american prison president's arrival here no real information that we have at this stage in terms of what will be presented during those talks but we do think that the american president is likely to ask the palestinian leadership to resume talks without preconditions now this is an israeli position the palestinian position is that there needs to be a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders there needs to be

a halt in construction of settlements and in this respect the anticipation and at least the analysis on the ground is that obama is not going to push the israelis but rather push the palestinians to meet the israeli demands policia in a role model where she is a following barack obama's visit and keeping us updated on twitter check out her latest pain from the protests against the u.s. and leaders visit a policy underscore r.t. political analyst abraham allusions says the palestinians are angry over an apparent leg of desire on the border of israel and the you as a to bring peace to the region. there is nothing substantial to be expected from this visit the primary goal of this visit is to embellish obama's image as an unsigned matanya whole personality and so this is mainly a public relations visit that is meant to improve the status of the democratic

party in the united states visibly the israeli lobby and the u.s. congress of all the things that are supposed to be discussed during obama's visit to occupied palestine i think the question of iran being attacked is probably the most important one on the list obviously we have different agendas here but at the same time let's not forget that the prominence of iran and the gulf area and across the other broods on the view has also upsetting nato's balance of power and that is on us far as this so-called peace process. there's nothing on the table really all that is being asked of the palestinian authorities so for this to accept unconditional surrender so is the end of terms. and as always we want to hear your views on the stories we cover today in our online poll well asking what do you see

as the real agenda behind president obama's visit so let's take a look at how opinion is divided safe and overwhelming majority things it's just a p.r. stunt of. no real change a quarter of you believe obama is there to win some time for diplomacy and to keep israel from striking iran eight percent say obama is cozying up to israel and should have given more time to palestine and just four percent believe the us president is really determined to revive the peace process go to argue dot com and cast your vote. big talks over a tiny country moscow has become the focal point in the efforts to solve the cyprus debt crisis. in the russian capital joining the scene for a finance minister the struggling eurozone state is running out of time to avoid bankruptcy after the parliament rejected the preconditions for an easy loan artes

you got a piece going off reports. the cypriot finance minister has explained that the country is not asking russia for a new loan but for investment in exchange for shares in its banking and energy sector the minister has been negotiating with russian officials in moscow for the past couple of days he said that no official proposal has been made so far but he stressed that he is not leaving the russian capital until an agreement is reached in the meantime several senior e.u. officials are clearly also want to tap it all including the head of the european commission joins them and all the rosell also discussing the crisis in the size of earlier russia's prime minister due to the need of has a really strong words to say about the situation but so far the e.u. together with the cyprus parliament have unfortunately acted like a bull in a china shop i think all possible mistakes which could have been made in this situation have been made that the prime minister didn't stop there if your sole

compared to the approach with which european union officials are dealing with the private bank accounts to how suck it up that he's dealt with the private funds of soviet citizens meaning expropriation of private property and now earlier the problems of cyprus rejected to the european union's bailout plan which included introducing a tax for private bank accounts in the country yeah and cyprus is still on the verge of bankruptcy time is running out for the country and its president said that a decision must be made before the end of the day. the european central bank is increasing the pressure on prison warning it will cut the country's funding starting from next week if the no e.u. i.m.f. rescue plan is agreed meanwhile banks are still paralyzed across the country amid widespread public anxiety over the deadlock. we're hearing we could see here in cyprus where the central bank had announced that the banks will be closed

until at least next weekend until politicians figure out a way to get cyprus out of this predicament that it's in whether it gets help from the e.u. from russia or another source that is still what the politicians are trying to scramble to put together in the meantime you have residents trying to get some money from their cash machines now we've talked to some of them and they say they were still able to get some cash has gone down from let's say four hundred to two hundred euros each time we take some money and the problem really comes when we talk to some of the shopkeepers there simply is no cash flow they have no change to give to some of the customers or there's simply no one going into their shop everybody. and. and when we talk to some of the citizens asking them what they think should be a solution for their country there's really a lot of uncertainty a lot of doubt on what that answer could be and

a lot of distrust as well when it comes to their partners in europe they felt that they had been cornered into a position where they have to accept something rather difficult for the country as well as for the people but in the meantime all they can do now really is try to get as much cash hold on to as much cash as they can at least until banks reopen whenever that may be. next hour it is a. unique take on the cyprus crisis. just keep blowing this. chunks of vomit in people's face the people in cyprus are being knocked down with projectile vomit coming out of the mouth of of the e.c.b. in the i.m.f. christine lagarde projectile vomiting into the face of the people of cyprus and saying that she and they're saying i'm not eating vomit and america proper just either kristie and then the new york times all right what's the big deal america ross sorkin i don't see anything wrong here meanwhile he's sucking christie's vomit down as fast as he can.

so there is a government and rebels up was demanding an international probe into an alleged deadly chemical attack they've traded accusations as who was behind the assault me the northern city of aleppo that killed up to thirty one people and wounded dozens of others. is following the developments. reports indicate chemical weapons have been used in the. area of the aleppo province this is are not clear at the moment people were rushed to hospital after the attack few had visible wounds to their bodies but some of them were clearly suffering from some breathing difficulties now the exams of the assaults were saying that they saw other people falling to the floor dying witnesses have confirmed to r.t. that people have been suffering from effects of what seems to be some sort of guess

. who. are. you here. where you're. over. now who could be behind this attack both assad's forces and rebels are pointing the finger of blame at each other but the rockets reportedly fell in areas controlled by the government the syrian rebels have long tried to overrun the weapons plant located in the very same area you can see on the map right there aleppo and then also fear that is the place where some of the country's chemical stockpile is said to be stored in fact the syrian government said in december that rebel forces plundered supply of chlorine gas and some time ago this video was posted online showing animals purportedly being killed with chemicals those behind this footage affiliated themselves with assad's opponents and threaten to do the same with those who support the syrian president yet all of this evidence doesn't seem to convince

president obama deeply skeptical. any claim that in fact it was the opposition that used chemical weapons and interesting use of the word skeptical with the stakes being so high one of the biggest concerns for all is the scenario where syria's chemical arsenal falls into the hands of extremists fighters among opposition forces as history has shown there are examples when fighters supported by the west have eventually turned their arms against their backers now let's for just a moment imagine that extremists among the rebel fighters could get hold of chemical weapons how bad could the longer the tags for example of two thousand and five have been if that was the case we've already seen images of a chemical attack on a subway in a huge city in one thousand nine hundred five in tokyo by religious sect now imagine a similar scenario was staged by people who work throughout the cold six in syria initially supported by the west. coming up later this hour paula's and hopeless

condition of one of them a bay prison rates as they continue their hunger strike with the first official reaction coming off them all that a month of signs that and more. technology . developments. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you. hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought. was a big. news

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporation to rule the day. thanks was a with this. top the u.s. generals as the hunger strike among one tumbled bay prisoners shows their frustration with the government's failure to close the facility rejecting reports of mistreatment and the desecration of the koran the number of all the participants acknowledged by the pentagon has now risen to twenty five but detainees a law is maintained it's malden one hundred r.t.s. ganesh again brings us the latest. what we see here is

a small protest in front of the white house one told him oh he's been out of the media spotlight for a while now you don't see much coverage on major u.s. news channels even with the hunger strike going on there right now so these people are trying to draw attention to the detainees more than fifty lawyers representing the president sent a letter to defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help in that letter they said the participants health had deteriorated alarmingly and that some had lost more than twenty or thirty pounds that is nine to fourteen kilograms medical experts say by day forty five participants can experience potential blindness and potential loss of hearing so what prompted these people to resort to such a desperate move i was a consultant if you were in that case. those men would tell their. basic i don't want to talk with you know what's the point of talking with you i don't want to know the date i'm going to get out of here but there are. people all.

oh as many of the detainees have come to believe in this what they say we heard this from their lawyers that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in january a state department shut down the office that was working to close guantanamo more than half of those detainees are sitting there with papers from the u.s. government clearing them for with yet with no hope that they're ever going to be free again the officials are certainly trying to downplay the hunger strike but they're pressed for answers and they sure know what's going on and what caused the strike in the first place marine corps general john kelly and it's his command that oversees kuantan most he was testifying in congress this wednesday he said the prisoners had launched the hunger strike because they're frustrated take a listen they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to get this thing turned you don't get it back in the media. on our part will continue

to press officials for answers as the strike continues and involves more people in washington i'm going to check out. while the mainstream media plays down the issue you are a geezer been following the story from the beginning we've got a timeline of events on our website where we've also gathered comments by the un prison officials detainees lawyers and activists to give you a full picture of what's going on and head to our d. dot com for that and here's what you also find while you're online the voyage of space bob to may have just become the first manmade object to exit the solar system find out all the details online plus. meet the road into that almost close yet another meltdown of japan's fukushima nuclear plant find out how close the country came to disaster all because of one red you know we threw a few wires on that are.

striking a civil servants have buddha the british chancellor george osborne as he announced his intention to stick with those terry t. more than two hundred fifty thousand people were involved in the strike as the chancellor delivered his twenty thirteen budget to parliament despite three years of spending cuts and tax highs the country is still on the brink of a triple dip recession richard wellings of from the institute of economic affairs a says of the chancellor is suffocating the economy with his strategy. other people are pretty pessimistic about their long term outlook they don't think there's going to be this two or three percent growth that the government predicts in a couple of years' time obviously the big question mark is over what happens in the eurozone which accounts for around forty percent of u.k. exports and if they are just goes from crisis to crisis as we've seen recently in cyprus that's going to really have a very good name effect on growth you know u.k. so it's completely unpredictable this huge uncertainty in this context a cautious chance that would have actually made some greater spending actually put the public promises on a more prudent for turning to what we didn't see was

a massive program of t.v. regulation and this is really the way for him to get out of his current fix instead we store even more tax complexity and more red tape being piled on the office to have top of all the stuff coming from the european union which is very very harmful to the u.k. . a selected group of u.k. world war two veterans have been awarded by prime minister david cameron for this service a dream the acting convoys the convoys borders supplies to the soviet union in the fight against nazi germany last year london was criticized for rejecting moscow's offer to grant the bridges rhetoricians a special award and as a party boyko reports of feelings of gratitude are tinged with sadness and anger. a quarter of a million men took part in the arctic convoys over seventy years ago sadly today just a handful of those brave men still survived after decades of campaigning the case that convoy veterans are at downing street to pick up their new limited medals at

launch a lot of brits will be worth it it's been a long war he'd. been a wonderful day long time coming i tried to center on one little bit a sadness as oh all my shit nights has crossed the bow. on full time during the war ninety two year old vic bashford served in the royal air force as an electrical engineer he was part of a secret operation that travelled on board the first arctic convoy to russia back in one thousand nine hundred forty one stalin was urging mr jute you to start a second front to go back into the frog to the pressure. on the russians. we were certain you some arab allies show you the way the flow of them so move them into buying time and going to a moost unusual point so that's where we kind of been in russia during

world war two british ships transported around four million tons of supplies food and munitions for the save the union more than three thousand sailors didn't survive the journey west subzero temperatures and german air raids were a fact of life almost no moment on the rig on the water but. you got the squash of. a much much smaller from of course rama die off to die off to die yes yes it can be a bit from. last year the british government came under fire for blocking veterans from receiving us. commemorative award from the russian government that medal was to be awarded as a symbol of gratitude for all that british veterans did to help the soviet union during the darkest days of the war and we now know we went through. yet despite the

opposition of m.p.'s the foreign office blocked the move saying the fight against nazi germany happened too long ago for the men to be recognized effectively leaving some veterans to die without recognition for their service and the thanks they deserved i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful that. we would know the commode rooms. are those that. voted though being a war movie served one of us normally the russians he was with us. this arctic star is. a little bit of. a soft. you know. not with the pride that i would. the russians. for those who braved the arctic waters and served their country all those years ago

it's a day of celebration shaking hands with the prime minister followed by a reception on the h.m.s. belfast with their arctic stars in tow but for many it's a celebration that's left a bitter aftertaste for the owner that's come too late for those who could still wear at. r.t. london. by head to the mall on president obama's a visit to his a key ally israel in every mountains of breaking of the set do stay with us.

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the fellow long folks i'm having a heart was breaking the set so president obama arrived in israel today what is now the most well documented trip the president has ever made along with a new mobile app that will let you track obama during his visit the israeli government is helping local contacts that finally trademarks they need a relationship. in the two countries this is the official logo of baraki and b.b. twenty thirteen as part of this big publicity stunt a bizarre video recently surfaced on the internet check out. thoroughly welcome president obama to express our appreciation for what is done for the fon between the united states and israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the united states to the security of israel is not going to.

believe it or not because this isn't a parody it was actually uploaded by the israeli embassy in washington you know their marketing campaign is so good that it almost makes me forget about all that warmongering about iran and the apartheid being practiced against palestinians almost but not quite so well the corporate media continues to fixate on obama's holy land voyage i'll break in the set. a little more of the ever seen anything like that. i'm really excited right now to introduce one of the few politicians that i actually admire and talking about congressman dennis to finish one of the most honest credible politicians who ever served a man who spent his eighteen year tenure fighting for the issue.