unlike many other armies, it's not a fractionalized army, it is not an army that would willingly go out of its way and make a point to undermine the constitution and law of the land. now, the exceptions are, of course, there, and there's a military coup that happens. but in general the army, actually, from my understanding takes pride in the fact that it will still remain part of the legal framework of pakistan and work within that. so it has a very civilized dimension to this. you won't find an army chief get up, make a public statement and say i don't care what experts are saying, i'll do what i feel like. that would never happen. the institution of the army if you look at how they're brought up, the law, the framework of law is very much part of their -- [inaudible] and this comes directly from, i would argue, british india and the tradition that the british left. and i think that's also one of the reasons that the army has remained as coherent, as professional and as organized as it has. because it truly from an army, from a military perspective truly believes that it is the ultimat

army retired. you may avert he answered my an acronym but it was not familiar, so i apologize if that's true. it concerns electronic manning direct it to all the panelists. the question is, how vulnerable is a four hub to electronic jamming? a four hub remains of client area vehicle without a human being aboard. >> how vulnerable is that? very. it would be very misrepresented to me to say that we were targeted against electronic warfare. i will value that most systems, not all, most systems have what we call either a rally point for emergency mission in that it doesn't hear from the operator. it has computer and sometimes the flight plan is continuing with your mission. if i don't hear from you i'm going to continue to not have my targets, but go to my target and surveilled and then come home. so there are ways of capturing data without communication, but as we've all brought up, communication link is key to electronic jamming is a challenge. >> i guess to add on to that though, the biggest worry o

the war is being fought as army versus army without touching toe basic infrastructure of the south,i.e. slavery. and it becomes clear that shave ri must become a target. second of all, many northerners feared that britain and france might intervene on the side of the confederacy. lincoln was receiving messages from the ambassadors in europe saying, look, as long as we say this war's not about slavery, why should they care who wins? we've got to turn it into a war for emancipation and then britain will not be able to assist the confederacy. slavery was already disintegrating, this is very important. wherever the union army went, slaves began running away to union lines. now, a at the very beginning of the war the army started returning them. the fugitive slave act was still in effect. they said, no, no, we're not here to give freedom to slaves. but very early on in hampton, virginia, benjamin f. butler n command there, well, what happened was a few slaves turned up, i think three slaves at first. they turned up at butler's fort. and butler said, well, what are you guys doing here? and t

when things are broken in the army, the army needs to fix the issues that happened in the past and then, you know, the decision once it's fixed then we can make the decision on if, you know, arlington should remain under d.o.d. which i agree with mr. hallinan because of the uniqueness of all of the things we do at arlington that it should be a d.o.d.-run cemetery. >> very good. i thank you for your answers. this committee takes this issue of getting things right at arlington very seriously and does every member of congress and we are going to continue to provide aggressive oversight. mr. chairman, i want to thank you again for holding this hearing and my colleagues in participating in the hearing and the folks at the table and as i said, i know you're new in your positions and charged with getting things right at arlington and look forward to continuing to work with you. there's no greater sign of respect of how we treat your soldiers at the end of the life and internment and want to provide the ultimate respect. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. we appreciate you joining us today

not a real army. qaddafi, as you know, did not trust his army because he went by the army and he was always afraid to be kicked off by the army. so he has a weak army with a strong body of mercenaries. >> rose: you were on the ground there, you wrote a piece in the "new york times" that said there is division among the leadership. characterize how you see it in the context of what bernard just said and the context of what you wrote today. >> well, in my article today i focused on some of the divisions in the military leadership. the rebel military leadership. there seems to be a risk, some confusion about who actually leads the rebel army and that's sort of a strong term has... you know, as we've heard this isn't a proper army, it's a... it's a group of regular citizens who are joined by some soldiers commanded by former military men. and so one of the issues is who's organizing these people. and in the weeks i've been here, we've seen very little organization of the rebel fighters. the implications o

it tells the stories of army and navy nurses who were caught during the bombing of manila in the philippines by the japanese and their establishment of the jungle hospital for the numerous casualties. this lasts about an hour. c-span: elizabeth m. norman, author of "we band of angels," who are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about the army and navy nurses who were in the philippines when world war ii began, who surrendered to the japanese and are the largest group of american women pows in the history of our country. c-span: where's this picture from? >> guest: that's the picture taken of the army nurses when they were liberated from santo tomas interment camp in manila. they're on their way out of camp. c-span: and where did you get the idea for this book? >> guest: it grew out of two sources. my mother served in the spars in world war ii. and i was always very interested in her time in uniform. everybody's dads served in world war ii, but not too many mothers. so i had that interest. and i'm a nurse. i had done a book about nurses who'd served in the vietnam war

can you update us on where the army is? obviously the inspector general is doing something, hopefully he's doing something, maybe he's not, maybe that's why he's not here today. maybe you can give ussen update to make sure that folks are held accountable for the mistakes of the past. >> the frustrating thing about that, i'm sure it's frustrating for the committee, it's frustrating to us, the superintendent and the deputy superintendent as soon as the report, right after the report was delivered to the secretary, retired. and our jurisdiction to take any adverse action against them evaporated the day that they retired. >> well, i understand that the retirement was not necessarily a voluntary retirement. but anyway, that being said, it is perplexing i think to both the committee, subcommittee, and the public that a letter reprimand was in the file to be removed six months later and that's the extent of how folks in the past have been held accountable, and i would want to know from you where is the progress with the inspector

there was an army nurse there named ruby bradley. and the first bombs fell in the philippines about six hours after they first started to drop on pearl harbor, so it was almost immediate. c-span: what did they do? >> guest: well, ruby bradley was up that morning getting ready for a routine surgical case. she said she was scrubbing in the operating room for a hysterectomy. and a -- a soldier came to the door and said, 'stop. there's not going to be any surgery today.' she couldn't figure out what was going on. he said, 'go to the surgeon's office.' she went over to meet the surgeon whom she'd worked with, and he said, 'look, i've just been notified they've bombed pearl harbor. they may bomb us at any time.' she said at that moment, they heard the drone of the planes. they went to the window, 'cause they didn't know, looked out, and there was a whole squad of japanese zer -- zeroes coming in on the base dropping bombs. c-span: what happened next? >> guest: well, the first thing -- and it's actually one of my favorite stories in the boo

it was an army telegraph. and finally, they heard in washington that he was, there was a reporter here at this army stationed and he knew where grant was. and so dana ordered him to be arrested and that isn't what he wanted to hear. so he finally said he was going to cut a deal that if he was allowed to send 150 words or 200 words, whatever it was, he would to his own paper, he would come to washington and report on what he knew. and lincoln heard about it. and lincoln heard about it and finally said none of this arresting him, we will send a train down. they couldn't -- you could. you send a train and a tender and a few soldiers to read this and a train and picked him up and brought him back to the white house. at this time he's just a -- he's just covered with dirt and grime. and he noticed someone -- lincoln's whole cabinet is sitting there and he walks in the room and he knows most of these people, but he is just disreputable appearance that they don't recognize that he finally tells the story. when it's a

you need in order to have an army comes amity who supply a new. and the pakistanis now i given it to them with a thimble, doing just enough to keep things stirred up. i don't believe they want to suffer america's wrath by really seeing here, you can how bout this. i don't think it's ever going to happen again. >> so, general petraeus has been fighting the last war. should he go or is he doing the right thing? >> i don't like to get into personalities. >> i was thinking the strategy. >> i think our strategy is evolving as we speak. notice that the lack six months petraeus emphasizes more with our special operations forces have been doing in order to take up the global cadre on the taliban side. i would hope that gradually -- gradually everyone kind of shifts. but again i get back to my philosophy of history. my philosophy of history is in the general do as much as they think they are doing. it has to do an awful lot more with what young men are doing on the ground. and once we send a signal you no longer have to do nationbuilding, they're going to

army announced a big change today. in a statement from washington posted on the web, the largest branch of the armed forces said the official head gear of the army will now be the stetson. they say it will replace the now standard black beret and the casual camouflage cap for the entire force of 1.1 million soldiers. the press release says it's a symbolic return to the tumultuous days of the horse cavalry. they feel stetsons will be popular with the troops. they call them functional and downright american. it was only when we noticed this photo on the web and then remembered today's date that we realized we'd been had. it turns out the army has a good sense of humor and celebrates april fool's day. >>> up next, stepping up and stepping into the lives of high school students at a critical time and making a difference that then carries them through life. >>> it's time for our friday "making a difference" report. first the bad news. as you may know too well, many american high schools have a shortage of guidance counselor

the army has started to take condescends of this for the simple reason that the army will suffer if the economy shrinks. the costs and operation of the army have increased and it cannot function unless their support for within pakistan's economy. it cannot rely entirely on foreign assistance and given the debate going on in the united states, i think the days of unfettered u.s. military assistance or even coalition support funds are likely to be numbered. secondly, the army itself is a very major economic factor in pakistan. over time, the military has, in order to support the wrong people as well as department retirees, has created a fairly large impression on the pakistan economic landscape. it is involved in different activities such as real estate, banking, different conflicts. in addition, the army house a very large military production complex which follows a policy of import substitution. now, for those of us who have had encounters with economics, import substitution is normally followed by the worried that they will lose their ability to produce for their own selves because the

they have been seized by the rebels and the army has a solution, but it doesn't work. with the air strikes, it doesn't work. we'll aleve it for the tribes around misrata and the people to deal with the situation. >> misrata has seen some of the heaviest clashes. there rebel fighters are already claiming a significant victory clearing a section of the city. our correspondent is in the city and sent this report. >> free to walk their own streets, now colonel gaddafi's forces are gone. the rebels fought long and hard here. they told us they lost 100 men just to capture one devastated district. but the rebels had a key target here. omar took me to see it. this office block where insurance was sold before snipers moved in. >> this area is downtown. >> so the snipers were killing people from here? >> yeah, yeah. killing so easy. like they get people so easy because it's the highest building and you can see all the area in downtown, all of the downtown and uptown, too. >> how good does it feel to stand here now? >> so happy because my brother gets shot from this building. tha

the army's blessing and often without the army's blessing. there was a natural competition give-and-take between vote reporters and the generals that you still see a little bit of today. a couple of examples, since 1863 after ambrose burnside conducted in his failed offensive in the last weeks of 1862. he then tried a march around robert tv's army and it began to rain. the army got bogged down. burnside decided to boost their routes by issuing whiskey and the army was both drunk and bog down and it deteriorated into an absolute mess. became known to historians as the mud march. the reason is a new york times reporter sent back a story. burnside was helpless. they were bogged down and drunk. burnside wanted to have him arrested and shot. here we have a first confrontation between generals in the field and the reporters who are there to watch what is going on. there is that tension that continues to exist throughout the war. sherman in particular was very in tolerant of reporters in his ranks. grant much more tolerant. there was an occasion in

these people were out of the army and they got paid officers wages in this army. you had the shadow military force being erected in america. it does get investigated and there are problems that lead to its operations, if you will. but this is what homer lea was doing. the emperor of china and the empress both died in late 1908 within two days of each other. the empress is expected to have poisoned the emperor. homer lea had no affiliation or ties to restore the empire. in late 1908 he hooked up with doctor yung wing who was a very esteemed scholar, the first yale graduate in china from america and believe in reform. they put together a conspiracy called the red dragon conspiracy where homer lea was going to lead a military venture on behalf of yung wing and some americans. they're going to bring in a conspiracy and take over the provinces in southern china, carve them out of the empire and start their own republic. that's pretty audacious. well, homer lea became an author as i said and one of his books and going to talk about is the valor of ignorance which got hi

i think american soldiers and the iraqi army should provide security. we're talking about helicopters, a fleet of helicopters so they can get around to the four consulates spread throughout iraq. we're talking about mine resistant vehicles bought by the state department. a mini-state department army. we've never done that before. that will fail. i'm urging the obama administration to work with the malaki administration in iraq to make sure that we have enough troops, 10,000-15,000 beginning in 2012, to secure the gains we've achieved, to make sure iran doesn't interfere with the iraqi sovereignty, and to develop this country. we can't do it with a state department army. i will not support that. this is a defining moment in the future of iraq. and the obama administration has the wrong strategy in libya, and in my view, they're going down the wrong road when it comes to iraq. >> schieffer: well, i find all of it hard to believe. we have about 20 seconds, senator. i want to go back to make sure i understand what you said about libya. you're ready to give

and the army is the backbone of power and the army is still in power i mean what you have in egypt is very clearly the army ruling i mean it's not behind the scenes it's very very officially so. since countries like libya or syria or the ruling families in the gulf countries and you could use the same formula off ruling family to for libya and syria actually. i mean you have. these elites if one could call them like that i mean owning this thing. you can hardly hardly see see them leaving the scene you know and leaving behind something very optimistic about the future is going to be potentially has more violence and i do what do you think about that i mean if we have assad in people like this have they learned from the. mistakes let's say of their fellow dictators in the region. well i agree with what you've said of course but the other side of this coin is that what's happening in all these countries is one single phenomenon caused by the fall of an idea the idea that a family a dictator a. sort of a dynasty can rule a country using security services and the army and basically. raisi

fighting for the soldiers activists demanding an end to the severe bullying in the russian army that sees many young recruits falling victim to their own comrades. and authorities in new york are accused of chasing of the bug right out of people's pockets into the city coffers with heavy penalties for petty offenses. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is we're certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at our top stories in syria six people have been killed as the pro-government forces stormed a mosque in the southern city of tehran meanwhile the country continues to bury its dead following a day of rage on friday when tens of thousands took to the streets demanding change according to the opposition more than five hundred sixty people have been killed in fighting with government forces since the unrest began in march the u.n. human rights council of the bloodshed in the u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation that the violence continues washington has imposed a new set of sanctions targeting high level officials in the syrian g

army. even so he had fierce fights with the british intelligence and special operations over turf , where the were going despite overseas. he launched spy operations against churchill. if you read the british records, they launch spy operations and kept tabs on donovan to make sure they knew what he was up to. in china our other allies, donovan set up a paper, founded it through a publisher. he planted his agents in there to serve as a reporter, but also to file intelligence reports on the side, not only on with the japanese were doing, but also he was doing in china. the soviets were our ally in world war ii. donovan paid the finish intelligence services to 2,000 $500 for 1500 pages of soviet military and in kgb documents which included codes. the state department was horrified. they complained to roosevelt. roosevelt ordered dominant to turn the cut back over to the soviets. in fact, donovan had his men taken to andre gromyko in washington who did not believe for a new york minute that do

army i mean it's not work or it wouldn't work it hasn't worked in a lot of places in the world is not going to work here and and third the real argument at the time was whether or not we should have standing armies during time of peace thomas jefferson in seven hundred eighty seven when james madison his protege the father of the constitution the united states constitution and seven hundred eighty seven when the u.s. constitution was written madison mailed it jefferson was in france at the time he was the u.s. envoy to france and mailed it to his his mentor promise jefferson said what do you think you know what he thought and jefferson in a long list of well i like this in this in this and then he said and now i'll tell you what i do not like it here it is i'll tell you what i don't like first the omission of the bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sop ism for freedom of religion freedom of the press protection against standing armies restriction of monopolies jefferson although we didn't get the restriction monopolies just look around you of corporate america and

why don't we start with the army? >> i love our army, my army. and one of the great joys of wearing the uniform for this long. and part of the reasons i have been privileged to literally do that is offering me an opportunity to grow in every single job and certainly this job has afforded me this opportunity and i don't think i've learned more than any single subject than our army, who i didn't know well. i knew more about the marine corps because of the navy/marine corps relationship and -- but again i learned a lot more about our ground forces and so -- they truly have been a heroic force and both the marine corps and the army. and i've watched the army change. i've watched them go through this counterinsurgency develop its capability in a way and speed i could not have anticipated. when we get -- what do i worry about, when we get in this environment, there are an awful lot of old saw that people have pulled off the show. we went through it before. we went through it in the '90s. i think as we move forward we recognize that we're living in a di

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so the army is the most important way to measure this question. and i do think that there's a lot of hedging going on and a lot of use of international investment in the ana to try to prepare against the possibility of being back in a civil conflict. and there the recruitment of pastuns of the officer corps, especially a general officer corps is a concern for the -- those leaders of the northern groups that are thinking about the possibility of having to fight another civil war against the taliban, which would be serving again as a proxy for the pakistan army. and that is that they don't want to build a coup in the army in advance of such a conflict so they're going to be very cautious about which pastun officers they allow to rise up inside the army and to build internal networks among officers. and i think -- that doesn't mean no pastun. if you're them, you want the broadest possible front to defend against a second war against pakistan essentially which would be one way to think of it structurally. they're going to have partners in that war. in

the salvation army here in san francisco tells us it delivered more than 33,000 meals last year.hat's more than double the previous year. it also reports a 20% increase in the number of food boxes it handed out last year compared to the previous year. >> since the major economic downturn, we've really seen a change in the people that we're serving. not only those that are low income or underprivileged, but those folks that maybe those middle class people that were laid off. >> reporter: the rising cost of gasoline, foreclosures and the unemployment situation, they all remain factors in the equation. some economists argue the middle class is shrinking. they point to figures that show the gap between the rich and the poor widening significantly between the past 30 years. and at the same time donations are down. so organizations such as the salvation army, they're forced to help more people with fewer resource. live in san francisco, monte francis, nbc bay area news. >> all right, thank you, monte. >>> representative gabby giffords' condition continues to improve every day, accordin

this is still a largely ill disciplined and poorly equipped rebel army.in and again they were forced backwards towards the relative safety. in the rebel controlled city of benghazi, efforts are being made to train and equip the ragtag rebel army. without the protected cover of nato air strikes which are less frequent than they once were would certainly be overcome by colonel qaddafi's superior forces. but for now a rather fluid situation prevails on the front line between brega and astabia. heavy fighting continued here all day. shells and mother arlanding very close to our position, forcing us and the rebel army into a hasty retreat. on the evidence of today's fighting, it would seem colonel qaddafi's army is the one making ground. bbc news, brega. >> colonel qaddafi supporters have good reason to celebrate. coalition air strikes have only been a partial success. rebel advances have slowed. the battle for libya has settled into stalemate. and what of the colonel himself? the bbc program has been speaking to one man who knows him well. he used to be libya

a ground army, a large land army into asia or the middle east or africa. people are not arguing about putting u.s. ground troops into libya. at least not yet. the big argument that's happening right now is over the question of whether or not the civilians that are fighting this war in libya but who still really look like civilians while doing it, whether these ragtag libyan rebels should get weapons shipments from us or somefrom some other country. secretary gates was asked today to what extent the u.s. should help the rebels. his response i think was important. listen. >> i think that what the opposition needs as much as anything right now is some training, some command and control, and some organization. it's pretty much a pickup ball game at this point. in terms of providing that training, in terms of providing assistance to them, frankly there are many countries that can do that. that's not a unique capability for the united states. and as far as i'm concerned, somebody else should do that. >> somebody else should do that. again, he earns that award i

the more things change the more they stay the same certainly that's how it seems in egypt where the army is clearing qarase tahrir square of demonstrators to show everything's back to. and they're not wrong after months of up evil it's very much the same people in charge as before this is a concern that they may have already the dictator they haven't been to the dictatorship or deep concerns as to whether the reforms have gone far enough whether the restrictions on the role the military is still too great for true freedom to emerge in egypt and that is the debate this can only polarizing society but without the army a power vacuum and poised to step into that vacuum the muslim brotherhood links to al-qaeda the brotherhood is understood to be multiplying and organizing from the mosques according to their spokesperson they expect to win seventy five percent of the electoral seats they contest in september's election sun expect something more

and that that bill of rights would in part ban a standing army because he had seen over and over and over again that governments have been brought down by military coups think pakistan for example general wilders that was actually the whole circus that so so. the second amendment was originally founded and that language in pennsylvania is constitution that ben franklin signed in seven hundred seventy six that said standing armies there in times of peace are the route to liberty. but in the debates that part got dropped off so they simply said well it will have regular a well regulated wall called militia and that's why the second amendment says that the right to bear arms as is all part of the necessity of a rather regulated militia so the bottom line is it was never intended overthrow the government the chilling phrase of the world the militia movements are simply wrong and what's going on here is the national rifle association and smith and wesson these other weapons manufacturers they're making enormous profits and they're making those profits at the expense of people like you hav

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it's a disturbing sight one that's on the rise in the russian army. it's called hazing and valentino is all too familiar with its consequences you can hear that in the reports about thought is that frank physically and mentally are coming in every day . she runs the committee of soldiers mothers an organization partly funded by the government on a day to day basis her job is to protect soldiers from the harsh realities of service. there the flood protection rackets when it would have to pay and now the soldiers say seventy dollars a month to be able to serve normally to be freed from morning unfortunately as we met one more cases added to the workload serving cove died at age twenty in suspicious circumstances the military claims it was a road accident but his family want to know why forty minutes passed before medical attention was sought his loved ones now join a list of other brief families awaiting out says over a year ago valentino's attention was turned to that of circulation because of died just a week into a service is a loss as a mother still

the latest on of the unrest in syria the army reportedly kills a six protesters as it takes control of a mosque in central iraq the focal point of anti-government resistance in the city . fighting for the soldiers and activists demanding an end to the severe bullying of the russian army it sees many young recruits falling victim to their own comrades. and authorities in new york are accused of chasing of the bought right out of people's pockets into the city coffers it with heavy penalties for petty offenses. bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world this is our teacher out from the heart of moscow to have you with us in syria six people have been killed as the pro-government forces stormed a mosque in the southern city of the rock meanwhile the country continues to bury its dead following a day of rage on friday when tens of thousands took to the streets demanding change according to the opposition more than five hundred sixty people have been killed in fighting with government forces since the unrest began in march the u.n. human rights council condemned the blood

why don't we start with the army? >> i love our army, my army. and one of the great joys of wearing the uniform for this long. and part of the reaso i have been privileged to literally do that is offering me an opportunity to grow in every single job and certainly this job has afforded me this opportunity and i don't think i've learned more than any single subject than our army, who i didn't know well. i knew more about the marine corps because of the navy/marine corps relationship and -- but again i learned a lot more about our ground forces and so -- they truly have been a heroic force and both the marine corps and the army. and i've watched the army change. i've watched them go through this counterinsurgency develop its capability in a way and speed i could not have anticipated. when we get -- what do i worry about, when we get in this environment, there are an awful lot of old saw that people have pulled off the show. we went through it before. we went through it in the '90s. i think as we move forward we recognize that we're living in a diff

a hundred fifty thousand afghan army personnel. supported to train almost one hundred twenty thousand policemen or the minister of interior of a million devices you know the number of costs about one pound throughout a quantity of things look. like ok but quit what is a question a problem is a quality. army did so once on a point of time on the soviet union and in the partnership was a soviet union was one of the most capable and strongest army of the retirement now doesn't have air force i can on the random that any army in the world to be capable of fighting because our car which was run on the second are gone out of me as well as police in north korea will use not. with a weapons and other things i why not talking about more them straight off weaponry but steel they should be capable. of bishops have access to these weapons. not so you give them all these things that will be difficult to imagine for them to stand on their own feet alone and the one thing you know there are a lot from other countries for a successful army. three

and some news about 4,000 soldiers from the army are in the streets. >> narrator: in the square, the crowds are growing and the tension is mounting. back at the april 6 headquarters, they need to know what's going on, so someone buys a satellite dish and tv. >> that night they watch the national headquarters of the ruling party burn, and then a pivotal moment: the army is now on the streets. the police have been completely withdrawn. the protesters are delighted. they're counting on the army to be on their side. >> narrator: they head out into the night, determined to protect tahrir square and the safety of protesters sleeping there. and now they have gained the support of the muslim brotherhood. it's been less than a week since the first protests in the square. despite the violence, hundreds of thousands came. as the world watched, the people continued to clamor for change. ahmed maher wants to make sure april 6 plays a role in that change. they hold a press conference. a reporter asks how long they intend to keep protesters in the square. >> narrator: maher confirms that there will

investigative journalist and author of the book blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army household and jeremy discuss the escalating events a libyan and the rest of the middle east as well as the big picture on the american approach to security around the world let's take a look. at germany the new york times is reporting today. is male the senior aide to say felt is one of colonel gadhafi has been talking with british officials this week what's your interpretation of that assuming it's true. so i think that your story. see the beginning stages of the cracking of the regime from was within this is something that is very common when when these regimes are put under pressure by airstrikes or by a lot of international attention and they also have this small but significant domestic uprising from a thousand or so rebels and i think that some of these individuals including the libyan foreign minister who recently defected to britain i think we're starting to see the cracks cracks in the regime and i think many in the arab world would rather see khadafi go from some some sort o

russian activists sound the alarm of a vicious bullying in the army that's claiming more and more young lives. plus new york authorities cashing in what policing the painful thanks to a series of new regulations and fines for petty crime. hello this is r t from moscow it's now ten pm saturday night my name's kevin zero in on the top story for you there eyewitness reports of more deaths in syria today as army troops backed by tanks and helicopters try to regain control over the besieged southern city of daraa at least four were killed there this morning and that's just a day after the biggest anti regime rally ended with woman sixty killed across the country government troops allegedly opened fire and used tear gas against demonstrators with snipers nothis is in plain clothes helping to crackdown on the opposition the u.n. human rights council condemned the bloodshed in a u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation. and indeed washington's going even further preparing sanctions against the syrian political elite and a freeze of their assets iran's revolutionary guards