we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals the get everything you needed. a day of silence campaigning and political ads are cleared from the russian airways as voters shake off their apathy and prepare for what's expected to be the highest presidential election turnout in decades. yet another suicide bombing strikes in syria the latest in a chain of attacks against government supporters as the syrian national council far from home in turkey to fuel the fighting. plus u.s. president barack obama is caught between those for and against a military strike on iran's nuclear sites just as he prepares to face the mighty israeli lobby our top stories this hour.

around the clock around the world this is r.t. live here in our studios in central moscow all political campaigning is all fair in russia a day before the presidential election voters are now deciding for themselves who they want to see as head of state for the next six years and it's the growing public involvement in the country's political life has made this fight stand out from the ones before. this election is going to be quite different compared to all the other presidential polls russia's had is being held in the wake. of mass rallies being held in the country and a spike in social and political activity among the public in general it started after the. election early in december scores of people have been taking to the streets amid accusations of ballot fraud russians seem to be taking far greater interest in politics than they used to the degree of political life in the country

looks to be the highest since probably the ninety's. rallies in against the candidates there's also been a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential indeed what a lot of effort has been need in order to make this as transparent as possible thousand polling stations have been equipped with what will be feeding videos conducted at these polling stations. for any internet user to be able to watch online and several hundred thousand observers have been invited due to the spike in social activity high voter turnout is expected as well according to some polls it could be over seventy percent just to remind you are taking in this election the winner will need to secure fifty percent plus one vote if neither candidate manages to achieve that second round will be introduced in which the most popular. simple

majority vote and we'll be bringing you special coverage. starting at five pm g.m.t. on sunday june for the latest results analysis and candidates reaction and already you can find additional information on our website. devoted to the upcoming contenders profiles of prospective previous ballots and also answers to questions such as why. makes an ideal present in the opinion of russians all this and much more for your daughter called. a suicide car bomber has struck in the southern city of daraa killing at least seven people and wounding several others is the latest in a series of bombings targeting pro-government neighborhoods comes amid reports that over one hundred mercenaries many of them french have been caught as they fled the city of homs. has the latest from syria. two days after the rebel fighters pulled

out from gabala neighborhood in holmes fees a growing of revenge attacks by the rebels the chief of the free syrian army has sat that's withdrawal was a tactical on your position syrian national council who was recognized by european union as legitimate representative of the syrian people has warned of massacres claiming they would provide leadership that is a good sized colleges and give their weapons the opposition group already formed a military council to coordinate their weapons supplies these reports call the free syrian army claims that it's already received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from the u.s. and french forces i'm in the rebels has been considered as an excellent idea by qatar and saudi arabia earlier with a twenty two nation arab league also view this as an option if the violence doesn't stop here in syria humanitarian organizations have been accused your president bashar al assad to agree on a daily hour ceasefire to allow people to cherry aid to be brought to the areas

with cries and so continues but the rock concerts that the opposition supporters abroad may use these to bring weapons to the rebels meanwhile it seems that the foreign nations involvement in this crisis in syria stretches far beyond weapon supplies local and regional media has been have been reported about more than one hundred foreign offices detained in homs most of them reportedly french paratroopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the streets of that suffers from an almost month long siege is deteriorating the international red cross and syrian red crescent are both working on the ground they've brought in trucks of food water medical supplies and all the emergency aid they're also expected to evacuate injured people and to take away bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in hopes. to make the middle east expert says the only option for syria is the tables in the alternative would be disastrous. but key

thing is where the intermediaries not aligned with either side are capable of pushing both sides to a conference table to agree to a solution to this crisis it seems to me both ways or go very hard on both. the assad regime carries on as if it doesn't realize how heated it is by some states comfortable very good and the opposition which is armed now increasingly by the west are turning nasty and this does not help anyone in syria if it goes on like this it's becoming more and more sectarian if minorities christians whoever else are being targeted now by the so-called liberation from forces of the country so i think what it suggests is the negotiated settlement and for people to push both sides to sit around it there. was still to come this hour when promises just

don't cut it anymore markets ring the alarm bells with the up another downgrade from greece during the e.u. out of its euphoria over the fiscal they will it says will ease its debt worries. plus in the u.k. users of a file sharing website are threatened with jail terms reserved for murderers just for downloading music is another portal falls victim of the internet crackdown. story sort of come first barack obama is leaving the world guessing about whether the u.s. will launch an attack on iran's nuclear activities is in decisiveness on the matter has vexed those for and against the strike what is going to come reports on the conflicting pressures on the president ahead of super crucial meetings with israel's leader. president obama's walking on a razor's edge on one hand members of his administration keep saying a war with iran would be in the state us know what they are i think or something

united states believes in attack on iran on iran not only would be premature but crazy on the other hand president obama keeps saying a war with iran is still an option and that he is not quote unquote blocking the powerful israeli lobby which president obama will be pressing shortly expects to hear a blunt answer to the question is the u.s. ready for war with iran and will washington back israel should it decide to attack first the only way to stop. a very very clear message within a week from. the war. and we say president obama's appeal here to go along with this really plans on iran might hurt him in a deal like should the president carry you know the overwhelming majority of the jewish vote and funding. and if he is perceived

as an enemy. enemy of israel or wrong on the issues. for community here in this country it could have a adverse impact on the funding of votes. really prime minister netanyahu speech in the u.s. congress last year was greeted with innovation many u.s. lawmakers slammed the rhetoric of the obama administration which suggests that there is still room for diplomacy with iran and many in israel believe that if we wait too long we'll be at the point of no return it seems to me to be painfully obvious that this administration's policy is not only the same but that it's failed to achieve a core objective but both those who would back a strike against iran and. those who seem to be tired of the administration's ambiguity and the us it could end up very very badly we need to go to war and we have to make that very clear to our israeli friends we're not going

to go to war they're not going to go to war by flying over our airspace over iraq we're not going to support them if they do it will be on their own it consequences will be theirs because. if they start a massive war. interprete. connivance would be disastrous for afghanistan in iraq in terms of. this pay for urgency committee for israel. in washington they campaigned very obviously pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on ready to go to war. in the run up with this year's elections. but many it would make a mockery if you ever present obama's nobel peace prize as well.

from the coalition says it's. i don't think israel's assertions are real at all i think it's part of a game plan that's part of a coordinated assault iran does not have a nuclear weapon israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons iran subscribes to the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency its nuclear program is monitored israel won't sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty israel routinely invades its neighbors as it has over the past four decades iran has never started a war so when you look at all of these actual facts you would say the real menace to peace in the middle east is israel iran is not a menace is iran is being targeted and i think this is part of the israeli high arrogating to itself the way to strike as it did in iraq in one thousand nine hundred one against nuclear facilities as it did in syria in two thousand and seven as it would like to do now in iran but the united states government is somewhat

afraid that if israel carries out a unilateral straight within the middle east this will play out as a paradigm by the israelis dying as government against the middle eastern country and those lines all of the middle east will unite against israel and so the united states has its concern that israel might be too promptly in terms of carrying out unilateral military aggression. going up and he will be looking at the debate raging in the u.s. over whether government or media should support ideology its. people that's all i want you to believe something that everyone else follows like sheikh people started . to look at the old farts of the details make their own opinion. president reporters being on the streets of legal cause can feel what they think about that he states or media taking a position on religion. and the child trade flourishes in the pool

as new adoption or as aimed at improving the situation open of gold door to organized crime. still to come but first movies raise. again spoil the party for e.u. leaders by downgrading greece to the lowest rating and it's been scaled right after a summit in brussels almost all e.u. states except britain and the czech republic signed up to the so-called fiscal cliff supposed to keep deficits within limits with tough new budget rules but financial analyst called energy doesn't believe the agreement will ever be implemented. talk is cheap and we've seen you around here for a round of this but the truth. you have nations over in europe in here in the united states for that matter but seem to think that they can spend more than a take in taxes and you can't do this people say that austerity is going to collapse economic demand well the truth is that governments have been borrowing money and spending what they don't have so they've been falsely representing economic demand for three decades and now it's time to pay the check so to speak if

we have to eat our broccoli or promises eat our peas. i don't believe that it's going to actually be implemented i believe that the greeks will continue to say they'll do it but when you really get down to it it's not going to happen in the same things likely to occur places like spain where you have terrible unemployment problems i think it's inevitable that greece is going to default i don't see how they can get out of this mess so the bite of faltering they spent the money they don't have it they chant contract their government spending an economy you know be able to pay it back and so the obvious thing to do is to walk away and say so sorry so sad we're not going to pay you the knock on effects again depending on what other nations decide to go down the same road could be extraordinarily severe. handed new take on high unemployment on our website you can have a look at the methods debt ridden european countries are using to stay afloat desperate times call for desperate measures in spain as

a small town give the green light to grows of cannabis just to avoid total unemployment. is on the website and i would russia's bolshoi theatre sends culture online with plans to brew causes iconic ballet performance is not each you. phone she. web site r m b exclusive dot com has been shut down by britain's organized crime police for alleged copyright violations anyone who downloaded music from there is being threatened with jail terms equivalent to the punishment three piece or murderous artist or smith reports on what this could mean for the world wide web. if you downloaded this song through the website or and be exclusive it's not just the prison of logs you got to be afraid

of instead of finding the usual blog comment tree and links to r. and b. and hip hop music recent uses of the site was shocked to find their online activity was under police scrutiny and they could be jailed for ten years more than the usual penalty for many violent crimes and a ten year prison sentence you would expect that to be handed down for very serious offenses serious sexual assaults rape manslaughter very violent offenses. and you would normally expect it to be handed down and respective of downloading music illegally the u.k. government serious organized crime agency or soka confirmed it rested this site but wouldn't talk to us about why it's threatening users with a decade behind bars instead they sent this statement secret law gets organized

criminal enterprises profiting from the exploitation of the u.k. public and legitimate businesses much of the music offered for download by the r. and b. sc loser dot com web site was illegally obtained from artists leading the industry to attribute losses of approximately fifteen million pounds per year to this on its activity that's raised questions about how the police became the personal in forster of the recording industry standing guard to protect corporate profits and it's also given those concerned with internet freedoms and unpleasant glimpse into a more regulated each if the treaty to protect against online copyright infringement and piracy goes ahead they claimed that see your ip address was being monitored so you could be monitored and tracked again this was. a move which seems quite unprecedented in the united kingdom i'm afraid that we're going to see this kind of abuse on the scale if actor comes to pass after

a short response from internet campaigners the government agency has now taken down the harsh message and replaced it with this simpler one which just taking control of the domain but it's already caused much worry and distress on twitter many users the pair not even to have known they were visiting a dodgy site and certainly didn't think they ought to do time for it internet campaigners say that this was meant to freud said that in reality severe penalties couldn't be applied to casual downloads they also say there's nothing to link r. and b. exclusive with criminal gangs so why. even if this is what they're labeling serious organized crime what happen to traditional serious organise time as most people understand it the more amount for drug dealing as far as i think the public are concerned that that crime still happening on our streets opposition act outside

the us around europe this month centers on fears that cyberspace will fall under strict government control and while the serious organized crime agency through this is its efforts on r. and b. and hip hop fans many worry that serious organized criminals are getting away with it. or teach them to. asking what you think about activists fighting for internet freedom are members of hacker groups like anonymous heroes or criminals have you also look at the results so far what we can see there on screen at the moment of the overwhelming majority believe that anonymous are good as they have found another way to show governments people's displeasure around twenty percent down or ability to change much and seven percent think that hackers and i think the criminals and their police is in jail and to to want. well let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day a pair of suicide struck at an army base in southern yemen killing one soldier and

injuring three others they drove a truck packed with explosives into the camp reportedly getting past guards i say they had a present for the commander for the latest in a string of blast targeting government forces country's defense ministry says al qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attack. because of taking to the streets in hong kong calling for the right to vote in the city's upcoming elections at the moment only in the committee of around one thousand people will be given the chance to choose a new leader and history has also criticized the city's current chief executive officer allegations he accepted perks from local tycoon. he says his recent seven billion dollars deal to settle claims from thousands of fishermen and businesses affected by the gulf of mexico oil spill comes ahead of a much anticipated trial in the us in which the american government is expected to claim billions of dollars in fines the b.p. oil rig deep water horizon exploded in april two thousand and ten killing eleven

leaking four million barrels of oil to religion and politics mix well that's a major part of the debate raging in america's presidential campaign so what is resident reporter hit the streets of new york to also people there if the government all the media should be behind ideologies. when if it ok for a government or the media support and i galloped this week let's talk about that i don't think. i think that the government is that a serve the people of the media is there to report the news not make editorial direction on any of their reporting i don't think it's right they cannot say they support it but i think they can to different ways so if you support more subversive ways. that's probably what they do anyway right probably people are choosy about who is supporting their cause. absolutely their their

people are too easily swayed from a proper candor is the people that want you to believe something bad one else caused by sheet people start their own personality and look at the own facts in the details make their own opinion that's what they should do and not just followed everybody else there's a pretty great principle in psychology that you start and finish where you are so you like what you like and you don't like the other guy for liking something different but that's just human nature but i mean that the principle of democracy it's unusual it's a kind of a crazy idea you can get wacky people like your answer your crazy sister and you just line them up by the millions and you somehow assume that all these crazy people acting together will have a wisdom greater than the do you think that governments try to impose will through propaganda without a doubt so why do some people when they hear their point of view being spouted think it's justice being time but then i don't agree with it they call it

propaganda. well. that's is the nature of that's is the nature of of rhetoric in general your your opinion is always right and everyone else's opinion is always propaganda and in that circumstance whether or not you believe it's ever ok for a government or the media to support an ideology the bottom line is we should all remember it's all too easy to become hypocritical when it comes to the support of our own police. orphans in the paula being sold at a huge profit by human traffickers and its alleged illegal orphanages are acting as supplies to people who want to make a fortune from awful abuse children. has more on this. today thirteen year old chen mohan childbearing is all smiles but it wasn't that long ago that the teenager with living in an illegal orphanage in

a polish capital kathmandu you know it was the home to be given rations for the children but they can take as we take off the food for themselves while giving those only a small portion of it and we also get drunk pizzas. moment is now living in a home run by the umbrella foundation an irish angio working with nepal's government to keep track of katmandu activated fifteen thousand children living in orca images. investigations have uncovered that around eighty percent of the kids actually have parents often times families living in rural parts of nepal will sell their children to traffickers who they believe will give them a better life and you have a traveller who goes to a village and says very poor people people of high illiteracy more education they're told that if you give us. the receive a small amount of money from an international family or in return we will bring

them to help when you will get an excellent education traffickers are known to buy in a colleague childbirth around fifteen dollars and then fell them to orphanages that are not monitored by the government they are then sold on for up to twenty five thousand dollars to pay on lease from abroad while they're living in the orpen ages many of the children are reportedly abused and forced to work some are even sexually assaulted and forced to work in the fields. every morning to clean the house and also to look after the trials in a poly government admitted that almost half of the country's orphanages were involved in illegal international adoption but since then things have changed. nepal has been an international adoption while child advocates believe that this will help prevent the trafficking of children organizers of orphanages they're worried about how they're going to continue to run without money from abroad remains works for nepal children's organization which runs eleven legal orphanages

across the country he says that before the ban on international adoption has orphanage in katmandu me thousand dollars for every child that got adopted by a porn family. it has been difficult for us to run the home after the suspension of legal national adoption because we still have to provide for the daily necessities of every child in the home and take care of the medical to today many kids are trying to reunite trafficked children with their family but many like shin mohammed barely remember their real sibling from parents anymore preassure e r t kathmandu nepal are. coming up to twenty seven this policy on how about with a reminder of our top stories in just a few minutes from no go away this is o.t. live in moscow.

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