we have learned we need education to make things work syria -- to make things work. we have standards for food safety of. the standards work to protect public health. we have standards in a variety of fields. i think it is a viable strategy appear reagan -- a viable strategy. >> why did you come down? did you feel you were compromising the nutritional value? why did you think you could? >> the standard was half a cup. we thought five was a regional with -- we thought that was reasonable. perhaps when more people are eating vegetables, we will be able to get to these standards. >> you were basically doing the same thing the school district >> one thing i have heard from mcdonald's is there are studies that demonstrate that the toy is incentive to make on healthy choices -- unhealthy choices. why did you think they are spending the money? >> often when people are challenging a new policy, they say there is no study. we do not know if that would work. we cannot know if it works until we studied it to cure a good -- until we study it. they have the data on fell to the ch

about eighty percent of syria's juvenile crime stick placed in me all night when children in syria are supposed to be looked after by their parents investigate what's put russia at the top of the youth crying table. but first russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders moscow's presented the plan which would limit the alliances military presence in its youngest member states and has more now from moscow. roll show wants to prevent nay say from placing any major full says close to its border it wants to set a formal limits i count on that the amount of the alliance's forces of that all place close to its borders particularly in its new members states which do light that bit closer to the russian our borders in doing this russia believes that it simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand nine hundred when it promised not to move quite as much as the thumbs which further to the east say russia simply things that they are all saying nato to keep to that promise that was made

extraction while lebanon still needs to sort out the boundaries of its economic zone with cyprus and syria and it will be years before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend into lebanese territory policy r.t. television. and still to come for you this hour here on r.t. convinced global warming is just a lot of hot air we talk to activists who say mother nature gave them a sign that they are right by sending snow two years ago all the details in just a few minutes. about eighty percent of syria's juvenile crime story plays in the evening or night when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's put russia at the top of the youth crime tables. the u.n. has an investigation into claims of torture in iraqi prisons following the latest revelation from wiki leaks that was all blowing website also raised concerns that kurdish controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw and sebastian may reports many in the country do fear two thousand and eleven deadline is too soon for local security f

eighty percent of syria's juvenile crimes take place in the evening when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's at the top of the youth crime tables. the un has done investigation into claims of torture in iraqi prisons following the latest revelation from wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site also raised concerns that kodesh controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw. reports many in the country do fear the two thousand and eleven deadline is too soon for local security forces to cope on their own. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk we're in the suburb of duck cook and the police have just a few minutes to get into position before sunrise. daybreak's in the raid begins police under the supervision of the u.s. army go door to door searching rooms and checking residents against lists of unknown terrorists. dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they've cut terror attacks by over fifty percent in the past few mon

extraction while lebanon still needs to sort out the boundaries of its economic zone with cyprus and syria and it will be years before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend into lebanese territory police here are t. tell if they have. had for you here on r.t. the price of a safe border what will it russia nato troops being stationed ever closer to its front expert analysis is coming up in just a few minutes. so insider trading illegal for the average american but not if you're a senator r.t. looks at how u.s. officials are using legal loopholes to line their pockets. the u.n. has done investigation into the alleged torture in iraqi prisons details of which were leaked by the whistle blowing website wiki leaks also among the documents is a report expressing concern that kurdish controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw and as sebastian maya found out in court cook many non kurds living in the relatively stable region fear they will soon become targets. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraq

about eighty percent of syria's juvenile crimes take place in the evening or night when children in syria are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's good russia at the top of the crime table. russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders moscow has presented a plan which would limit the alliances military presence in its youngest member states for more we're now joined live by r.t. is alex hebert who is waiting for us here in moscow and hello to you allison so can you give us more details on exactly what is it that russia wants. well so wants to prevent naysay from placing any major forces close to its border it wants to set a formal limits i kept on the amount of the alliances force is that all place close to its borders particularly in its new member states which do you like that bit closer to the russian border is it doing this russia believes that it's simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet. mikhail gorbachev back in one nine hundred ninety when it promised not to move quite as much as the

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. >> the united states has accused syria, iran and the islammist group hezbollah of endanchinge egg thetability of lebanon. the american ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, sigeled out syria, accusing it of arming hezbollah and other groups. hezbollah's leader called for all lebanese to boycott the tribunal investigating the murder of the former prime minister. now, life on earth in general is facing unprecedented threats from the growing human population. many species face a dismal future but there are success stories. in the latest of her reports for the bbc series fragile earth, rebecca morrow has been in spain trying to save the world's rarest cat. >> we're on the trail of the rarest cat in the world. the iberian link is widespread across spain and portugal. now it's almost extinct. we have such tight windows to see before sunrise to access it. there are only 30 left in the area so our chance of seeing one are probably going to be pretty slim. but the previous day i visited a high-tech center where a glimpse is guaranteed. with the lynx's numbers plummeting, scientists wer

. >> due to the conflict, due to the competition between the parties, between israel, jordan and syria israel grabs half the water and a little more than a quarter is grabbed by syria and a little bit under a quarter is taken by jordan and the result is 98% of the historical flow of the jordan today no longer, no longer flows. we're left with something around 2% and this is not fresh water. this is a mixture of sewage water, agricultural runoff, saline water. what's left is very, very sad sight of a river that is holy to half of humanity. >> reporter: one that no longer flows into another fabled body of water. >> the dead sea is dropping by some three feet every year, that's from my hip down. >> reporter: only the ruins are left of a hotel verandah from where tourists use to stick their toes into the dead sea. today, its shoreline has receded more than a half mile away. from their respective sides, jordan and israel further drain the dead sea as they mine it for potash, a valuable fertilizer. >> at the moment our governments are trying to do absolutely everything. we're trying to maxim

. >> due to the conflict, due to the competition between the parties, between israel, jordan and syria israel grabs half the water and a little more than a quarter is grabbed by syria and a little bit under a quarter is taken by jordan and the result is 98% of the historical flow of the jordan today no longer, no longer flows. we're left with something around 2% and this is not fresh water. this is a mixture of sewage water, agricultural runoff, saline water. what's left is very, very sad sight of a river that is holy to half of humanity. >> reporter: one that no longer flows into another fabled body of water. >> the dead sea is dropping by some three feet every year, that's from my hip down. >> reporter: only the ruins are left of a hotel verandah from where tourists use to stick their toes into the dead sea. today, its shoreline has receded more than a half mile away. from their respective sides, jordan and israel further drain the dead sea as they mine it for potash, a valuable fertilizer. >> at the moment our governments are trying to do absolutely everything. we're trying to maxim

arrived in belgrade loaded their trucks immediately and two days later they were unloading them in syria of a book aided city that really needed humanitarian aid food in the made a sense to literally save people from perishing you know our current drove through the mountains in the cold of winter and along the way they helped this swedish team and there were vehicles that were stuck because we had come us six by six trucks with a great drivers so on the one hand. this is how you establish close ties with colleagues from other countries and on the other hand the un declared immediately that they couldn't do without the russian crew any more and indeed for the next afford to seventy years we were doing un tasks all the time but we were delivering aid to the most difficult areas of the closed and claws were battles were reaching across the front lines and so on representing the us such was our first experience that began in one thousand nine hundred three so this is headlines does the russian emergency ministry rescues twelve people an hour that makes for one person in every five minutes or

. >>> the ambassador from syria to the united nations has dismissed allegations that syrians have been smuggling arms into lebanon. the ambassador has accused hezbollah and its allies, syria, and iran, of endangering serious independence. >>> gunmen have shot dead six teenagers in mexico city which may have been related to a feud between criminal gangs. mexico is suffering criminal violence, but such mass shootings are rare across mexico city. >>> ships carrying emergency aid have reached some of indonesia's's remote islands. they were ravaged by monday's tsunami. it is confirmed around 370 people have died, but hundreds more are still missing. indonesian authorities are struggling with another repeated disaster, the volcano in central java killing 33 earlier this week, and now it has erupted again. >> one mass grave. one shared the motion. itgrief. -- grief. each coffin was gently laid to rest. another cemetery, another burial. the crowd here gather to pay their respects to a man known as the gatekeeper. in a land steeped in mysticism, his job was to appease the volcano's angry spirit

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who is almost that close to the finishing line it seems at the moment with relations with iran and syria sort of confirming his role as the next prime minister now seems that he has another hurdle to jump across this is u.s. military documents really like unlike any previous media story or anecdotal report from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years and nowhere is that more true than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said quite matter of factually we don't do body counts but americans have

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. >> thank you syria -- thank you. >> i am opposing the ordinance. i am speaking as a mother of three children and grandchildren of six children. i think the ordinance is wrong because it takes away people's responsibilities for themselves and for the children. today we have numerous people speaking. there is no doubt we do have an epidemic. thank you for pointing out an occasion for people to solve this issue. this is getting worse. we can work together. the scope of the problem is serious. we eat at fast-food, but most of the time we eat at home, so when you eat at a restaurant, it is easy to point a finger at a restaurant, and if they are the ones causing the problem, they provide food people want to eat. we do have a standard to guide us as to how to eat, and i think most of the restaurant industry does try to comply. i think consumers have plenty of choices including mcdonald's to reagan -- including mcdonald's the reagan we need to work together. >> what city did you live in? >> i have a mcdonald's if business in the city appear reagan >> how d

. >> the number of animal bed syria and -- and beds. >> it is going back to what the code says and the interpretation, and this seems to be an outside a los that interpretation. -- outside of that interpretation. >> i think your explanation exhibited good organizational skills, so i think you will do really well. i am familiar with some of these facilities. there is one close to my dental office. they have residential of of them. ei have not heard of too many problems. i am not saying there are not any. it seems very popular. i would move that we approve with the conditions of approval forwarded by staff and exhibition exhibit a, and i did not know if we have to include the standards. comissioner sugaya: i had a misconception of what the use was going to be. now you clarify there is no overnight space. if we have the dogs split stocks -- up, 15 dogs to an area, and if they are all there, 60 dogs, so how does the situation worked, how many times during the day do dogs poo? i asked because according to the conditions of the health or were of the construction comes from, you're supposed t

israel has fired air strikes against syria and iraq eight nuclear reactors. iranian leaders have threatened dire retaliation. in new york mahmoud ahmadinejad said if iran was attacked by israel there would be a war without limits. weapons like the ballistic missile could hit israel. some strategists think iran's response should be more carefully judge. >> once you start firing service with missiles you are leaving fingerprints that people can retaliate against. if you crank up your circuits it is hard to find [unintelligible] there will be people firing things in gaza and 11 non all of which would create a the hornets nest. >> today's a visit to lebanon where president ahmadinejad has been received by his supporters underlines iran's options for using proxies' to retaliate. american strategy is to issue sanctions while supporting opposition groups inside iran. hillary clinton urged iranians to seize their own destiny. >> mrs. clinton was -- she has reached out to those who want to revolt in order to damage our secret government. she has said the u.s. will try

do you still after such criticism, are you still considering moving the israel-syria tract? >> well, first of all, the pursuit of peace in the middle east is in everyone's interest. including syria's. we're not trying to score points with anyone. we're trying to end a conflict. so, we are interested in pursuing a peace between israel and the palestinians. we are interested in seeing the establishment of a palestinian state and security that both the palestinians and the israelis want and deserve. we are willing to work with any country that is genuinely interested in constructively working toward peace in the middle east. it is in syria's interest to pursue peace in the middle east and we would hope, as we've said, to see progress on the syrian-israeli track and the lebanese-israeli track. i don't think that we see that these, you know, threads are in competition. perhaps that might have been true 10 years or 15 years ago. but we are pursuing comprehensive middle east peace. we want to see countries in the region play a constructive role . many of them are. and we hope that

they recorded videos and posted them on facebook, even though the site is officially banned in syria. the public backlash against dissidents was so swift and vocal that the government had to remove them from their positions. [applause] that is why the united states and the obama administration is such a strong advocate for the freedom to connect. earlier this year i gave a speech about our commitment to internet freedom, which if you think about it, is the freedom to assemble, the freedom to freely express yourself, the right of all people to connect to the internet into each other to access information, share their views, participate in global debate. i am well aware that telecommunications is not any silver bullet, and these technologies can be used for repressive purposes, but all over the world we see their promise. we're working to leverage the power and potential in what i call 21st century statecraft. part of our approach is to embrace new tools. kebbel we are also reaching to the people behind these tools, the innovators and entrepreneurs themselves. we know that many business