it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership the syrian observatory for human rights is left several media outlets quoting false information as two rivals fight for the same name the regional group was hijacked by opposition activists are posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sides claim they're the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures showed just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops

a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how got the original observatory strictly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming their impostors as are we and he's fit. is have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c.

australia and other groups say they tried to pass some political views censored by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made the clear a sit on their victory for human rights that origin our organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed deal that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this at the moment whilst people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report the casualties of. government troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human

rights observatory the un stopped counting the death toll claiming it is too difficult to keep track of but its human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter either bennett r.t. london. syrian journalist camilla trotty says the outside meddling already underway in syria is fueling the conflict by making the rebels fight on against the regime. a year after the beginning of the crisis it's clear that intervention in syria affairs has not been very constructive because the interventions taking place by the most motivated players and they're motivated for their own reasons we have turkey gulf arab states and the international community which is the united states and its allies in europe. they are all interfering with the whole of weakening the

syrian regime weakening its ties to your own two because they've been pushing your position to another to speak to the scenery jeem they have convinced opposition that the syrian regime's about to forward and therefore there's no need to talk to them so we know where there was a intervention even if it's not for by using force has been very negative. moscow's condemning all sides of the syrian conflict for instigating violence while saying president johnson is ready for talks with the opposition now political analyst to bring a militia believes russia's approach will actually help solve the crisis by leaving the rebels in syria now a choice but to negotiate. after so many a months of military operations by the rebels in syria at this pretty clear

that what we are dealing with here is definitely a. protest but the armed rebellion supported from abroad. as helping peace more than anything because at the styling the forum backed opposition that cannot ground on the foreign intervention as happened and libya and the iraq the top of the regime and there are four and five of the it's creating better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense the vehicle is fostering peace. coming your way here in our new layer the program the legal and diction the caffeine craving for workaholic american opens the market to new energy boosting fix but there is a hidden danger also i had here in our team the latest edition of our russia close ups. the closer the team has been to the whole bar of screen.

where the country's a little wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our chief goes to the area. dr len it would look into a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. that's where the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the creature. russia close up. as the u.s. and its allies pile sanctions on iran our its nuclear program the country's president is set to face pressure on the home front to iranian lawmakers have someone to hang out of state parliament for the first time since the islamic revolution in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine motive but in a job way answer questions on his management of government and economic policies this comes amid a lay. this oil route between iran and the west european union is preparing to stop importing iranian fuel from july e.u.

consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the islamic state mourns europe's shooting itself in a suit by cutting off trade and that use shared by the spanish ambassador to tehran madrid days journalists mianyang marotta says the e.u. market was actually masterminded in washington and serves the u.s. interests. what we're seeing here is not at this station that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union the european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connection of that has been lost after the reign of revolution and the situation was improving until we came to this new tension and he's not just displaying the need to really also greece imports lots of oil from iran it could be hard hit in

a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move it's now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say cut off the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative suppliers if they cut the supply and now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. three people have been killed in a drone attack in pakistan the victims have yet to be identified by they are believed to be militants the latest attack comes after a report by london's bureau of investigation journalism which uncovered does. ns of deadly drone strikes carried out by the us in pakistan president barack obama has claimed the attacks only target terrorists but the findings suggest the strikes of

those who killed scores of civilians and rescuers who rushed to help those head by missiles coming up next hour pakistan's foreign minister tells r.t. that u.s. drone strikes are actually damaging the war on terror here's a preview. this region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approach. in how we want to rid this region in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north resolution to be used in within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're

creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks. of britain could soon be turning to count all weapons to enforce a law according to the national academy of sciences if made legal police could use substances currently banned for military use mark bergdahl from here to cation activists network says the u.k. shouldn't be using the same time of gas that was internationally criticized when used by greek police last year. in capacity. as it is called has been used against protesters in the doing general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of that tear gas in normal language it's called. and has said that the greek government has waged

a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from from the gases being used against protesters against larger crowds and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets. thus it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k. is starting to use the same measures as countries as mubarak has done in egypt or even the greek government has done to its very own citizens over the general strike so it wouldn't surprise me if these chemicals are being used on british streets but similar a cure and so is what happened but we need to say is that the police have overextended the use of force on previous demonstrations so far they have curtailed the right to protest by threatening students to use rubber bullets and water cannons and the latest announcement actually makes very clear the intentions of the police to further curtail our right to protest. alice take

a look at some other stories from around the world the crucial meeting between greece prime minister and debt inspectors on averting the country's bankruptcy has and it was no result lucas papademos failed to secure this board of u.s. coalition for a raft of new stary measures they reportedly could not agree on cuts in pensions eurozone finance ministers are to discuss the bailout on thursday and the greek political leaders were expected to agree a deal prior to that meeting. the criminal court of the maldives has issued an arrest warrant for ousted president mohamed nasheed at his former defense minister now this comes after supporters to go to the streets to demand to be reinstated they seize control of several police stations throughout the country in protest these ousting came thanks to a police mutiny and popular protest over a controversial decision to arrest a top job and she claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return

to office. for kurdish rebels have been killed after attacking a turkish military station near the town of one turkish soldier was also killed and it's less than a week since turkish warplanes bombed three suspected rebel targets in northern iraq tens of thousands have died since nine hundred eighty four in the kurds fight for autonomy in turkey's southeast. at least eight people have been killed in the car bomb attack in the somali capital mogadishu these last militant group al-shabaab claimed responsibility saying it targeted a restaurant frequented by members of parliament at least two lawmakers were injured in the blast african union troops have all largely pushed the group out of the capital but suicide bombings continue. now americans trying to keep up in the rat race are looking for a boost the united states is now the world's largest consumer of coffee it's

a passion pushing people. to devour caffeine and potentially dangerous amounts our she's wearing apart now reports on the country's craving. in the city that never sleeps or perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every man had street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it i get problems. so i go to are both of these real yes actually. i could be able to. get it five or six cups a day but i'm not good to much of anything. is going to drink three cups definitely . americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical

experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily maximum recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to kathleen has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high. unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work and heritage in america who are working really long hours people are chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid ongoing economic instability u.s. energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven. the newest stimulant hitting the market is a slim

a plastic inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth no one country ordering. american it is a caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. consume that caffeine meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective is to create repeat customers to get people to their product. is clearly an addictive substance and by creating all these products they're definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is you know happy over consumption of coke and it can be while going after new consumers one u.s. company created national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's

nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them caffeine and a boatload of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who say for local killed their son police say dozens of students had been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink. but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains uncompromised with more and more americans looking for their legal high. r.t. new york. and you can always find more news online just log on to our t. dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now on the anniversary army why it's new government is deploying more tanks and troops across the country one year after the fall of mubarak's regime. and a painful after shocks of the war have all yarm fighters carry out

a bloody attack on a refugee camp on the outskirts of tripoli free their houses online. well it's time now for our russia close up series we're heading to central russia to discover another little known region of this vast country. and we are heading to the birthplace of lenin but now the region is making its name making passenger planes and teaching the pilots of tomorrow are these current our watch he tells us about a place with sky high ambitions. it was in the late seventy's that the.

aviation complex was created obvious store is one of the largest manufacturers of passenger planes as well as re modernizing of existing cargo planes that travel worldwide their islam plane is one of the largest operating cargo aircraft originally designed for the russian military but when the soviet union fell a demand did too obvious star has been renovating existing response and are now planning a major comeback for the new construction line will launch which will cover the production and the modern. zation of unique airplanes in the world that are popular such as the roost on. vogue and you bet airlines have used their wrist line freighters to assist in un and red cross relief projects but they'll haul satellites yachts and even the suhoor super jet two can imagine the chief. of those this brother who brought it from africa. from the europe for a. special celebration with ollie also transported one hundred thousand

kilos of beaujolais wine from france to japan he says without ever breaking a single bottle many little boys dream of becoming pilots but the path to get there isn't always an easy one here at the only one of six civil aviation school it's the only place in russia where one can get a higher education with courses offered in academics meteorology and over one hundred fifty hours of flight time. the students start the training of these models which gives them the complete feeling of what it's like to seat in a real aircraft flight. and it's true the images on the screen and vibrations of the simulator made even me feel like i could be a pilot i'm joined today by a. director of corporate communications of the united aircraft corporation thank you for being with us olga since obvious star has been in existence since one thousand nine hundred eighty how do you evaluate the development of the corporation

today we are working together with. the new strategy. and eleven the new strategy comprises the development of two majors segments in the russian space industry its military aviation its commercial aviation and its transport. but what are the major perspectives the goals of other star in oriental sky and russia throughout the now we are working over the. throne. building. craft and. planing to get first orders for their. thank you very much but you can join us a from aviation to automobiles and we're with close up takes you on the second part of our series where we discover it was jeeps and join the people who meet them and even take us on a wild ride bracing them charon terra screech. now it's time to look it's happening in the world of business carrying us here with us.

hello and welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me entrepreneurs will get a chance to tell prime minister putin what they're hoping for in the next administration later in the day innovation and high technology have been top priority for the for this government and foreign specialists agree that russia has potential to be put into practice right know in russia the same as in very early in germany everyone is looking for this engine of job or a huge advantage in the basement and the will is there what do we have to sell it come by the people in thirty forty years you could do here in three four years the most important thing is the culture that on corporate north strip and start up is good then. school of. different foundations that

fund the company we need more of them there is a lot of wealth in the right here and then we have to curry a sort of it atmosphere and education that the well could contribute to the startup world. let's take a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro's getting value against the dollar and the ruble following signals that new ministers will approve a second bailout package for greece also stronger for those pushing the overall high against the u.s. currency oil climbs for a third day countering concerns that europe's debt crisis will worsen future of the little changed up that's the second wednesday light sweet is trading above ninety nine dollars a barrel while brant is it over one hundred seventy dollars per barrel. now let's look at europe where stocks are higher as investors continue to monitor the latest

news release the puts he is gaining over one third of a percent the dax is up twenty eight percent this hour. here's moscow where markets are trading in the black as well stronger for the supporting energy stocks although they are trading makes let's have a look at some individual shambles on the line six blue corn is gaining over half a percent is losing more than one and a half percent bank is also lower after announcing it will buy back shares from minority shareholders at thirteen point six x. that was the price of the i.p.o. in two thousand and seven and nearly doubled to mark potts looking at trends on the market. says investors are sitting on cash waiting for signals to buy and. we are it's very important levels. to this is very close to breaking two hundred. everest moving average and oof we break these levels so probably we will see

further growth and that can be substantial last week we saw all kind of decent inflows seen through russia to keep it fun see and generally measure market funds so i think that many investors are sitting on cash and waiting for my car kind of strong to signals that this rally will continue. so the business news for this hour but don't go away we'll have headlines coming up for you.

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welcome back here with here's a reminder of the top stories the violence in syria escalates but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as opposition forces offer contradicting claims over just how many people are dying. the e.u. gets the shakes over its own embargo on iranian oil as officials express concern in europe and the loser. pakistan's foreign minister has told r.t. that america's drone strikes are pushing new recruits into the arms of the region's militant groups and you reported claims to have uncovered scores of civilian deaths in the u.s. led attacks. well next hour he takes to the skies to look at how hot air ballooning is becoming increasingly popular in russia that's in our special reports don't miss

it. people couldn't fly for a long time i don't think because they didn't think it was possible we can learn how to do that without machines anywhere if you want to. get through your online people here are remand ticks but they have generous souls a lot sooner this is something out of this world and in chanting experience. the skies would brings these people together they come here from all over russia and the world are. always people stick together because of both the love of ballooning and that none of them will be able to do it singlehanded each person is a zone of responsibility those on the ground are responsible for the ones in the sky together they are a close knit team.