reading the diaries of those times are two. tonight on r t activists in syria are holding a nationwide day of protests against the government with reports that demonstrators have been fired on the u.s. meantime are struggling actually this going syria's alliance with a rant because the latest just ahead. russian security forces killed ten armed militants including a leader of the terrorists out responsible for a number of attacks. and russian pilot found guilty in new york of conspiracy to smuggle drugs has taken to america legally the buz the in custody according to moscow. and the cost of borrowing in russia goes up as the central bank increases

its reply nansen rate by twenty five basis points find out more on business twenty minutes. both of this is our team from moscow is kevin owen here with me this hour at nine pm in the russian capital and more than two thousand people have reportedly been killed in clashes across syria as thousands of food out of the streets for a friday range i would say around five have been injured in the coastal town of attack here the base of the ruling elite after agents in plainclothes fired on demonstrators in the capital damascus police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of demonstrators the opposition promised president assad the biggest rally yet following a series of killings of demonstrators and the bloody crackdown of course international condemnation by the u.s. even pointing iranian interference on the side of the government it is ridiculous

collapsible both accusations could be thought of. some like it hot but this. things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world is ips tunisia libya now syria more than african region and the middle east and often brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who is next in line for the greater evil in the region the answer may lie on the surface. president assad is disingenuously blaming outsiders while of the same time seeking a rainy and assistance in repressing syria's citizens this week to be a human being with him and it's where exactly the united states is looking to get involved i think iran has been targeted for some time now and if you watch the propaganda about syria washington is now claiming. iran is helping

syria oppress protesters what's different about syria about clojure in both cases really know for a fact that the united states government was supporting opposition groups and so it's only those two countries where washington there's an interest in continuing to iran has been a longstanding alliance with syria in this strategically important region right next to iran's arch nemesis israel syria syria isn't the same as libya geopolitically we always realize that syria is iran's springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful sunni jesica impact on iran's positions this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria events in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar development in iran unfortunately patti's iran will repeat the syrian

scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian ports in nervous proximity to tel aviv. but the mask is crippled by crisis iran neal lose its footing in the region this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve your national objectives under the pretext that you are actually trying to protect human rights should the u.s. and its allies decide to go through with a habit of meddling in aiding the aleutian forces in the region the result may be catastrophic that if there is foreign intervention in syria yes iran's intervention in response that is a definite and very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the u.s. invaded that country and if suspicions proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran in the u.s. get involved in a real confrontation it in. moscow. the u.n.

has given the go ahead for an investigation retirement a serious bloody crackdown on the protesters and surveilling the immediate release of political prisoners and human rights council also wants restrictions on journalists and the internet lifted but writer told us it's too late to take that action now what is collapsing in the us is the west on policing the west i'm going to see has been to demonize oakland county they support other counties like the. benelli and other fifteen which were not better or more democratic. than. them because they were friendly to the west and was very often lead to our own interests or whatever and also doing during the attack i always say that once you start. doing this policy it's going to by friday and those breaks and the whole police is collapsing taking the only way we can do is to stay out of the. bad events i don't think we can we are able to fix what's going to happen because

what's happening is to some extent. what he sees so in those areas where he sees a feeble. yemen is another arab state where a nationwide uprising refuses to go away new killings have led to demands for presence of media resignation despite a deal with the opposition to step there within a month and then to view without say the leader told us the dangers of rushing into change a greater than his opponents imagine. that our opponents reject the idea of holding presidential and parliamentary elections because they are aware they won't be able to gain the majority as a matter of fact what we are having is an unconstitutional coup and they are trying to force the muslim and or against the constitutional transfer of power in treaty thirteen we read and ready to agree to their plans so as to avoid bloodshed. some countries in the region and some western nations conniver to its tendencies currently being seen in the so-called new middle east and is this the controlled

chaos and i really wasn't prepared for this enough to have a look at what's going on in egypt tunisia and other countries the scenario cannot be called anything other than a plot against the region i believe that at the end they would stoop to anything. bunch more out of the program tonight including smaller russian roadrage. felt really alone this all three and to get space is now bad for all alike find out why the people of the world's largest oil producing country have suddenly found themselves running on empty. ten militants have been killed in a special operation by security forces in russia's north caucasus a story say that among the terrorists with a head of an extremist group and others responsible for the deadly attacks in a region that is within a cochon of its got the latest for you. another successful on ttyrec operation has been carried out by russian special forces on friday morning after a thing happened at the border between the region and the ball carrier republic

when a group of militants were cornered in a residential area and after the civilians at the scene were evacuated to safety and militants refused to surrender and opened fire at the end of the shooting ton militants including at least two women were killed now russian special forces say among those militants were some high profile terrorist and regional investigation committee also. among them were some leading figures in a so-called but son gang in the republic of combating of al qaeda. they were not regular bandits but high profile ones they're responsible for one hundred crimes in the republic of korea little korea and the other regions we were meeting the house where they were killed as a good person with was among those militants who were killed in that operation and he was believed to be involved in a number of terror attacks not only in that region but across the north caucasus including a terror act out the hydro power plant and of the terror attack on the racecourse

our last year now in not a figure among terrorists as you have just poor was also among the killed militants investigators accused job with again of attacking tourists from moscow in february twentieth levon and russian security forces also further d.n.a. tast would probably be required to identify some of the militants and as this identification process is under way at the scene of the special operation at the moment. i did a coaching over reporting for us with the leaks founder julian assange has vowed to continue revealing the world's secrets speaking in an exclusive interview to us the controversial whistleblower told us the media could have helped prevent many conflicts around the world one of the hopeful things that i discovered is that it really every war that has started in the past fifteen years has been

a result of the media why. media could have stopped it if they had searched people they had. frequented government propaganda they could have stopped it but what does that mean. that means basically populations that live. populations have to be or population will remain and we'll. go into so if we have a quick media environment also have a peaceful. when there was for demonstrations in egypt praised for everyone around . them. so facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying mission and seventy percent. here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people all seem we need i would say it's all accessible to us and there was.

just a short excerpt from the full version of our interview with during the signs which will be showing if you got the caption all day on monday here on our team from moscow. world's eyes have been on that all the prince william and kate middleton tie the knot in a love. police officers applauded one of the biggest security operations in the u.k. over forty people were arrested in the run up to the event. intelligence officer told me that the police approach. had to take measures to protect the event from any sort of terrorist groups irish republican dissidents or middle eastern terrorist groups and i don't think anyone complains about the fact that they're trying to stop and get stopped protesters exercising their right to freedom of expression around the royal wedding is of much greater concern because the police are talking about such squads and drawn raids and in fact there's the sort of

measures that are indeed used in countries like syria but we used against u.k. protesters including notably leading peace activists charlie veach yesterday as a preventive measure and as apparently just disappeared into the system his family his girlfriend can't trace him they're being blocked in light by the police even his lawyers can't find him so he seems to have sort of disappeared in a rather cath caressed way and i think it's dangerous dangerous path to go down because this man hadn't done anything he might even suspect he might want to protest but he hadn't done anything so effectively what we're looking at is an already in thought crime within what is a notional u.k. democracy. russian oil producers have to come up with a new plan to make big profit because authorities are cutting their exports much lower prices on the domestic market have heard many of them selling abroad and forgetting about local demand as a result petrol stations have been drying out and pump prices have been skyrocketing the telling of a cover for the funds of one of the world's biggest oil producer on empty. russia with no sounds ridiculous yet what it is we want to buy

a different cast agency all of them are closed here we've been waiting in line for hours what is this isn't this supposed to be that will this country overnight fuel prices jumped twenty five percent in several russian the agency as the batch all runs out the prize goes up even more their supplies enough only for two weeks all prices skyrocketed at the beginning of the year but russian authorities made an effort to get actual costs as a consumer friendly level as a result of foreign markets became much more attractive and profitable for russian will producers. we understand that people have the right to demand prices will last but it's a loss today in russia batu is thirty to forty percent cheaper than in the neighboring countries will reduce ukraine to mention the bow take states the outcome of fixing a fair price has had a questionable outcome for buyers and sellers as a result of companies pulling out of the domestic market what's left is becoming

more and more expensive as batch will become scarce resource that price is going up and no one likes it and we're free prices will rise even more and then one meanwhile in the russian capital it's small gas retailer stations that are under the threat of being closed down it's simply became not profitable for the oil giants to self-heal to them down this road alone the saw three am to gas stations now battle the lines. in the russian capital there are thousands of other petrol stations to choose from but regional authorities are getting to find cases against the oil companies and. companies deliberately limit it all stopped supplying fuel to independent good schooling stations in the region who are going to take them to trial minister vladimir putin has ordered an increase in expert on washing starting from me so that companies can make extra profit selling for higher prices abroad leaving them in a no win situation and those in need of fuel have been promised thousands of tons

of cash on the way. our team lost. but more so it's not my job to say don't call these stories online to my interest the reality of the situation in syria is far from the picture painted by the western media according to an eyewitness of the country an online interview gets no perspective that story tonight out single. and new partnerships promising to be with issues come film festival with russia china take on the international week the state's first loss on live from a snide news continues here at r.t. just a minute. twenty years ago the largest country in. the suitcases of.

what had been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. wealthy british style it's an expert on. the. market finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines few minutes you guys are reporting on our. next tonight moscow says that the russian pilots that's been found guilty of drug trafficking by a jury in new york came under psychological and physical pressure in the u.s. consulate in you're ashamed he was arrested last year in liberia and then taken to america he was accused of smuggling drugs around the world and trying to bribe

senior liberian officials resulted in a sincere churkin reports he insists he is innocent. words not deeds landing foreigners behind bars in the us russian pilot constantini or shango has been found guilty by a manhattan federal court jury of conspiring to smuggle drugs across borders the man was scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year and promptly taken to america along with three other suspects from africa what your shimko faced in the u.s. was a ten month wait for a trial a month long hearing and now a guilty verdict the pilot and his family maintain his innocence. paul the facts are fabricated all the tapes were distorted by the prosecution perfect u.s. officials played a leading role in the arrest of the russian citizen posing as drug dealers american secret agents conducted meetings with the four resulting in hours of recordings the prosecution then put forward as proof of your shame doesn't tend to conspire to

smuggle tons of cocaine to south america and later into the us in liberia he was surrounded by five agents the second he stepped off the plane he was accompanied by guards they spent day and night in his room only during the trial did he find out that all he had around him were agents they introduced him to some man who transported drugs that's it nothing else happened they wanted to jail him and they did your shrink was defense team echoes this the defendant did not. wish to see you for me. asking if he was related to the united states meanwhile your shango has never even set foot on american soil that is until he was handcuffed and brought to america by force in may of last year russian officials were not truly notified of his arrest the man was effectively missing for a month and moscow cited a breach of international law we have. apologized to russia the state department's

excuse we pressed the wrong button on the fax machine. to be really for the. notifying romania instead of russia to observers this seemed a joke on the day of the guilty verdict the most important question why this trial is being held on u.s. territory remains unanswered there still is the issue that was decided before a trip. related to the concept of manufacture jurisdiction which the judge decided pretrial against. that i believe is still available issues. can be patient in appellate court and appeal cannot be filed until after the sentencing but hopes are dim he was appeal courts are generally reluctant to reverse decisions made by jury court the sentencing of constantine your son posits spezza three months on july twenty eighth c. will find out his destiny on us soil if you for us and pilot faces ten years

license at sea hindmarsh country which people needed help why is this a trip in our part see. cozier shakiest case is being compared to that of another russian was still way to the us masoud country for it to boot investigative journalist wayne madsen says both cases highlight america's disregard for international regulations. and the problem here is the extraterritorial imposition of u.s. law. on people who have really no it in both victor boot case selling even if you believe he was selling weapons to the colombian fark what does that have to do with the united states now the federal government as well that those weapons would be used to target american citizens that's that's kind of that's a giant leap. that cocaine was coming from the colombian fark and making its way through africa into western europe but where's the connection the united states and whatever happened to interpol in these matters why is it that the united states is

trumping interpol there's many things about this case that are strange first of all we know that the irish apparently was offered a deal by federal prosecutors to if he would testify against her boot they're actually in the same prison in new york the southern district of new york is notorious it's one of the places that the cia likes to use the. records in addition to the u.s. it's record washington d.c. and the u.s. this record number ginia there the price cia courts to try these cases and i think we have to look at the impartiality and i don't think the impartiality is there. well in madison elsewhere around the world tonight at least seventeen people have died and five more are missing the ferry accident in the river nile in egypt some reports say the victims were on a bus that slid off the ferry while other reports of the boat capsized completely transport accidents are common in egypt and are often blamed on poor maintenance and a lack of regulation. the number of people killed by powerful tornadoes sweeping through

the southeast of united states is rising rapidly nearly three hundred hours their lives most victims were in alabama where the storms were described as the worst of two major cities with paralyzed by the deadliest tornado outbreak in nearly forty years the state of emergency declared in seven states with many people left homeless. interpol says it's now the attack on a cafe in iraq oh the killed sixteen was most likely to green a suicide bomber under the bus the heart of medications all quarter with most of the victims foreign tourists a group she had claimed responsibility officials for their part say it's too early to lay blame for the explosion though suspicion has fallen on cells linked to al qaeda is the deadliest attack in the country since two thousand and three. crewmembers on the international space station begins to meet some treats from earth courtesy of a russian freighter the progress successfully dr the i assess and delivered more than two tons of cargo the team up there got fresh fruit and vege as well as

parcels from psychologists on a more technical side of things they also got a new oxygen regeneration new live equipment for biotech experiments was interesting gives may be included fruit flies. only must be the longest flight of of those bugs at the same apparently using them for experiments. but coming up we're joining an expedition to the arctic circle very shortly tonight and to recap of our top stories the latest business with dmitri out of this quick break. no you want your business out with. the cost of borrowing is going up in russia the

central bank has increased its key interest rate by twenty five basis points to eight point two five percent it's the second hike this year after the bank increased the refinance rate by the same amount two months ago i think somebody. outlines the reasons for the move. well the central bank is obviously concerned about inflation and particularly they mentioned in the statement that they're concerned about one trade privately which the central bank. note is that mentions that they see a decrease in savings rate this means that people are going to bang for their boring they are going to spend more and this will drive inflation high and so the central bank is trying to prevent this by raising rates the making deposits more attractive so being in savings more attractive for people. so you have the markets now the dow and. positive of the dow is up almost half

a percent that's driven by caterpillar shares that leading the way up more than two and a half percent better than expected results in europe a very quiet day as london was closed for the royal wedding national holiday on the markets were driven by to day that the backs is up half a percent or was actually one of the biggest losers down two percent more boss while he was. here in moscow equity markets ended the week on the negative note bringing the overall losses on the r.t.s. to one point two percent the bisects two point nine percent second look at some of the movers in friday's session rosneft down one hundred percent despite high oil prices also last despite reporting a sixty percent increase in net profit for the first quarter and positive points all results failed to prevent us from shares from declining more and that it later i'm banking source but also down because even in point nine percent of. all russian

markets have been vulnerable to profit taking in lower trade levels over the past week again which alpha capital believes however this is simply jew so there are performing other markets reza clipboard was soon no rush was late getting its leg however the proof couple of hours it was are performing all. other developed markets so i believe that it's from l.a. consolidation of course produces some profit taking some segments where it would be stronger than the rest of the market for a person still sector with. russia still majors being significantly lower this week however we still see the top players and top blue chips like ruth nicole gas problems para bank. some others russia's gas monopoly gas promise reports of pumped up results last year net profit rising by a quarter thirty five billion dollars higher than the pre-crisis level gas from

benefited from strong local demand with domestic sales up twenty seven percent sales in europe however slipped one percent but analysts expect the mountain pickup partially due to supply disruptions from the middle east and africa. tell us were better than we expected yeah sure much much better and as a result of our revenues were above our expectations that in two was also about expectations thanks willow and yet interest expense and high gains from unit sales this year seems to be a very good year potential for full gas from in terms of sales of i think there's a fair chance that in terms of growth in this gas plant will not suffer from the seasonal slowdown that's new off with the second quarter thanks to the price of the e.u. in europe. russia's most popular search engine yandex is hoping to raise up to a billion dollars in its upcoming i.p.o. a new york company will start marketing the listing next week the number of shares is yet to be determined down the axis placement come six months after the one

billion dollars london float of its biggest russian rival male thoughts you might confuse this edition of business we will be back next hour with an update coming back from the headlines and say what's. for. lunch it would be soon

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