they're trained for human rights 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 to rivals fight the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military deaths alongside civilian one 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 sand and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they're one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence a very different perspective of the crisis the original cites 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 arab league monitor the original observatory strickly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees new servers are 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 they're impostors. as are we

and these figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political views so far by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear i sit on their victory for human rights. or regional organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against something that you know flies are all we need is to stop the bloodshed in 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 is 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 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 stop 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's are to london. and it's ready website reports that the british and the qatari special forces are already in syria assisting the rebels risk a middle east expert says if the claims prove to be true it won't help bring peace to the region. but this will probably mean more escalation on the ground some more covert military operations and on the political level we've also heard that some arab league countries all the arab league in very little is intending on the officially recognizing the syrians are just one council leader syrian political

opposition body so i think it has something which is what we expected and of course really i see that more violence will be in the making however we also do hear that the russians for example are providing the most assistance is possible they can to the syrians to deal with this issue now don't forget that the russian side has cautioned time and again of the rise of islamic fundamentalists so the presence of islamic fundamentalists inside syria those who oppose a syrian regime and syria has also spoken all of them as well the son of a sudden the members of al qaida in the syrian ambassador to lebanon made it very clear one week ago when he said that most of the weapons and most of infiltration most of the smuggling is coming in from the level and unfortunately as the escalation from us as opponents into the increases i think that we are going to discover more and more smuggling and more and more of a negative role from some lebanese in the syrian issue. you're watching are to you it's good to have you with us europe has become more dependent on oil imports from

iran new research suggests the e.u. countries brought more oil from the islamic republic in two thousand and eleven with the biggest customers being spain and italy but with the e.u. planning to cut off trade in july in line with the international sanctions against iran many on the continent of oil and concerns the move will backfire toronto's also warning europe that it's shooting itself in the foot in the view is shared by spain's ambassador to iran who says his country suffers the most from the continuing e.u. pressure against the islamic republic and some in madrid believe the oil embargo has actually been forced upon europe that. it would we're seeing here is not at the station that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to disembark go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union 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 iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to these new tension and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be part of it in a way that would bring them back. in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the u.s. and that can happen because of these of these political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say cut all 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 supplies if they cut this a. now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. well still to come for you this hour here on r.t.

financial troubles prove a health hazard in the u.s. as manufacturers gamble on america's caffeine dependency often with disastrous results and that story coming away a little bit later on in the. school the sky high ambitions of the russian region the pioneers the country's aviation industry that's to come in our close up series . now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow one of the most senior al-qaeda chiefs in pakistan has been killed by an american drone strike along with at least three other suspected militants the attack took place in the north waziristan tribal area close to the border with afghanistan but monsoor is suspected of killing dozens of people in that country and abroad it comes after the bureau of investigative journalism found hundreds of civilians died because of similar cia ordered aerial attacks chris woods who compiled the report thinks the u.s.

is simply ignoring the condemnation over its deadly drone policy. and the cia has been saying for some time that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least two thousand and ten every news agency. in pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is finding that that's not the case we know that civilians are being killed in pakistan but with these drone strikes the does seem to be an indication here that these drone strikes are happening at this point what pakistan wants not because of what pakistan wants because of causing huge problems within pakistan united states court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time a case has been brought in the united states that has attempted to look at work that these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege but that's where they say actually this is a covert operation and we can't discuss it well it's somewhat been blown out of the water by the president himself going on google recently and talking to americans

about the existence of this so-called program. pakistan's foreign minister told us here at r.t. that instead of helping to fight the insurgency u.s. drone strikes are actually hindering the war on terror. the 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 for a long sort of unitary approach. in how we want to rid this region in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and head north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they're going to productive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one straight leads to getting you target number one or target number three to be you're creating five more targets with ten more targets

in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gets to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. and you can watch that interview unfold in just over an hour's time here on out. let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour with the r.t. world off then we'll start with greece where the leaders there have finally reached an agreement on new austerity measures without the cuts the country wouldn't be able to get the crucial one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and avert a default a spokeswoman for the prime minister's office said the deal with allow alternative cuts to those rejected early thursday the main sticking point was proposed deep cuts into pensions. a criminal court in the mall be issued an arrest warrant for ousted president mohamed nasheed this comes

a day after the leader was among dozens injured when a riot police used force against protesters as unrest deepens. resulting resulted from a police mutiny and popular protest over a controversial decision to arrest of top judge nasheed claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return to office. his troops have killed thirteen kurdish insurgents in two separate clashes in turkey nine people died near the town of being goal and four others near the town of course after rebels attacked a military station there it's less than a week since turkish warplanes bombed through suspected rebel targets in northern iraq tens of thousands have died since nine hundred eighty four in the kurds continued to fight for autonomy in turkey's southeast britain could soon start using chemical weapons for domestic law enforcement a group of experts from the national academy of sciences believes the government intends to develop nerve agents for the police to use against rioters mark book

field from the education activist network says it's part of an intensifying crackdown on shows of public discontent. nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gases be 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 and 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 street but similar a cure and so is what happened but we need to say is that the police have over extended 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. well you watching are from also a quarter past the hour now here and you can always get more news online just by going to r.t. dot com some of the stories waiting for you right now including the anniversary only. new government is deploying more tanks and troops across the country just a year after the fall of the former president mubarak's regime. also the painful aftershocks of the war heavily armed fighters carry out a bloody attack on a refugee camp on the outskirts of tripoli. on life.

in the u.s. when the economy needs a fix so do the people the country is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and this addiction to caffeine is being exploited by someone scrupulous producers who are looking to boost their profit. in a portnoy reports. in the city that never sleeps are perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every manhattan 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 wrong. so i go to are both of the three of us actually yes i don't know if i could give a i love. it five or six cups a day yes probably not good to much of anything like this are going to drink three cups the. 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 cap being 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 imperative 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 or it is a caffeinated nation we know. 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 for frequent reasons 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 kept being a butt load 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 on compromise with more and more americans looking for their legal hot arena port knocking out r.t. new york. if i may just a moment here on r.t. it's katie with a business but for now do join us so our number adventurous two of russia up next our close up team.

this time we have traveled almost a thousand kilometers east of moscow to the only on off screeching the main city best known as the birthplace of vladimir lenin during the soviet times the region flourished as the center of the country's military and aviation industries and its current terror roger has been finding out it has all the potential to win back that reputation. it was in the late seventy's that the reality aviation complex was created obvious star is one of the largest manufacturers of passenger planes as well as re modernizing existing cargo planes that travel worldwide there 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. a new construction line will launch which will cover the production

and the modernization of unique airplanes in the world that are popular such as the roost on the watch t.v. well good news but airlines have used their response freighters to assist in un and red cross relief projects but they'll haul satellites yachts and even the sukhoi superjet to can imagine the two thousand kilos of those this big brother who brought it from africa to. north from the europe for. special so that gratian vitale also transported one hundred thousand keel. lows 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 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. but almost every students start training these

models which gives them the complete feeling of what it's like to sit 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 all the 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 two thousand and eleven the new strategy comprises the development of two major segments in the russian space industry its military aviation its commercial aviation and its transport of a ship but what are the major perspectives the goals of other star in your young

afghan russia threw out now we are working over the. program of building aircraft and we have to get first orders for there. it is good to have you with us here on our stick around africa with the business. hello there welcome to the business program this hour we start with a story that has had the whole of the russian market talking minority shareholders and the country's second largest bank sweetie baby to get all the money back then vested in the company's i.p.o. in two thousand and seven despite the share price currently being hauled the list price for more i'm joined by a business. or so hi daniel ferguson then what's going on with

v.t. will buy the shares at the price investors paid in two thousand and seven so-called people's i.p.o. at thirteen point six copecks it's almost double the current price of seven copecks media putin says the money will come from lenders profits not from state funds although the government will remain the main shareholder the bank with the sixty thousand dollars worth of shares from each shareholder in total the move will cost the bank up to six hundred million dollars that's one fifth of the tepees net profit the tbs both today said such buybacks won't happen again. we live in a special time characterized by deep in prolonged financial crisis the instruments that work for decades a failing today otherwise the germans would not be rescuing the greeks the e.c.b. would not be giving interest free loans of course such moves cannot be the norm every investor must understand he's responsible for the shares he bought but in

russia this was one of the first ship placements and back in two thousand and seven none of us really understood the world was heading towards a global recession one. hundred caused in there somewhere very people do feel tricked by v.t. b.'s lavish advertising for the public i.p.o. back in two thousand and seven which suggested big returns with a low risk of losses the buyback will happen within a month in other words before mr curtin stands in. some see the movie. v t v minority shareholders paid for by the banks main institutional investors they've been excluded from the boys and have threatened to sue i'm the civis carefully calculated based on. the current share price is actually the fair warning . thanks very much indeed for that done you know on our business desk thank you. and on to other news the prime minister has also discussed another plan likely to appeal to the electorate fusions said away must be found to close the subject of

unfair privatizations in the ninety nine to as he suggested that the tycoons that took control of the country's resources should pay a one time say he acknowledged that the process of privatization after the collapse of the soviet union was dishonest the exact details of the plan have not been worked out and said this should be done with the public and so. we're going to have a look at the markets now first we'll get started with exchange rates there is damning value against the dollar on the ruble foreign signals that e.u. ministers have approved a second pockets for grains the russian currency is high against the dollar against the euro this. oil is climbing even higher degree leaders have reportedly reached a deal in talks over the austerity cuts freezing temperatures in europe are also

boosting demand for. and soaks in europe are on the rise after a deer is struck in greece a statement by the greek government is expected to short today as you can see investors are going there and do see as and that all they're really should i say this is there is hope of dissent up his point eight percent. on the u.s. markets they got off to a good start like kicked off in the black by. as you can see it's a mixed picture for the now for the dow jones on the nasdaq trading. and a different story in moscow both yachts yes on the my six finished up the day of trade in the red yes point three percent down the my six point eight percent down. or see how the individual moves got on the my stacks who call it finished up over half a percent in the red bull snap with nearly two and a hard percent in the red in p.t.b. was point four percent down fall in the by about announcement that he was telling

us about. slowing growth in asia and europe is the right thing to weaken the core of the russian economy a standard bank expects no recovery and jamaal for war materials until late twenty thirty one the bulk of china's stimulus policy should be felt however dimitri pumpin skate chairman of russia's biggest pipe producer t m tases there it is not being seen in practice. is the limited based on purely economic trends there are reasons for metal prices to fall but we aren't seeing the same practice at the moment in fact it's the opposite of our main suppliers of raise their prices slightly the first quarter of the year this could be a seasonal factor but according to our supplier forecast we're unlikely to see any downward movement that would compare with the fourth quarter of last year. but also the business news for now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes joining them.

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with mike stronger. global headlines. headlines the u.n. is considering a joint mission with the arab league to end the bloodshed in syria but whatever conflicting reports of the number of casualties or verify a true picture. as europe plans to go on iran there are concerns the move could hit countries most. crude european countries. and several high profile al qaeda militants have been killed in pakistan in a recent series of u.s. drone attacks but an independent report has found hundreds of civilians have died in similar strikes. i do stay with us here in our.

max kaiser this is the guys report all of block all stacy max kaiser brussels discovers a new fifteen billion euro black hole in greece's finance and it is. doable or cool. max i didn't mean to tell you does that too close to the event horizon the greek event horizon come back i'm broke.