limits. we can be called. chums and. it's always personal. except for one day when choice matters to everyone. the presidential election gets underway here in russia with voters in the far east the first in the country's nine time zones go to the polls a record number of observers are also at the polling stations with almost two hundred thousand web cameras set up to monitor the voting process online. and on the news of another suicide bombing strikes in syria the latest in a chain of attacks against government supporters see the syrian national council far from harming turkey fails 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 israeli

lobby. around the clock around the world this is the life here in our studios in central moscow the presidential election has kicked off here in russia though it is in the eastern most part of the country of the first to cast their votes it will take twenty one hours for the whole country to complete voting and i'll teach you that up is going on as more for us. every hour more polling stations open in russia as the country stretches through nine time zones which means that the voting began in the most eastern parts of the country and when it was still midnight in moscow and killing right region in the most western parts of russia will be the last to join the vote it's happening at a very interesting time i mean a spike in social and political activity among the public who have seen massive

rallies for and against the candidates we've also seen scores of people taking to the street after the parliamentary election in december amid accusations of ballot fraud and a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential poll is underway and indeed a lot has been done in that sense over ninety thousand polling stations have been equipped with cameras to feed videos including close up shots of boxes on the web so that internet users can watch online how the vote is conducted right there had these polling stations see through ballot boxes have been introduced and several hundred thousands of servers have been invited now. just to remind you five candidates are taking part in this race the winner will need to secure fifty percent plus one vote if neither candidate manages to achieve that a second round will be introduced in which the two most popular candidates will compete for

a simple majority of votes very high voter turnout is expected as well over seventy percent according to some polls. of course we'll be bringing you special coverage of the election here on r.t. starting at five pm g.m.t. today sunday june in for the latest results analysis and candidates reaction and already you can find additional information on our website marti dot com you'll find pretended profiles of retrospective of previous ballots and not just a question such as what makes deal leader in the opinion of russians will listen much more for you but r.t. dot com. a suicide car bomb has struck in the sudden syrian city of daraa killing at least seven people and wounding several others is the latest in the series of bombings targeting government neighborhoods that comes amid reports that over one hundred most reason many of them french had been caught as they fled the city of homs artie's reflection has the latest from syria. two

days after the rebel forces pulled out from babar a neighborhood in homes face a grow you know free range attacks by the rebels the chief of the free syrian army has sad but thursday's withdrawal was a tactical on your position syrian national council who is recognized by european union as legitimate representative of the syrian people has warned of massacres claiming they would provide leadership that is a good guys fighters and give them weapons the opposition group already formed a military council to coordinate their weapons supplies these reports follow the free syrian army claims that it's already received weapons and empty aircraft missiles from u.s. and french sources arming the rebels has been considered as an excellent idea by qatar and saudi arabia earlier with a twenty two nation arab league also viewed this as an option if the violence doesn't stop here in syria humanitarian organizations have been appealed to president bashar al assad to agree on a daily smooth hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to be brought to the areas

where prices still continues but the rock concerts that the opposition supporters abroad may use these to bring weapons to the rebels bill while he it seems that the poorer nations involvement in this crisis in syria stretches far beyond weapon supplies local and regional media has been have been reported involves more than a hundred foreign offices the tains in homs most of them reportedly french paratroopers meanwhile humanitarian situation in the city that suffered 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 seven trucks of food water medical supplies and all the emergency aid they're also expected to ever create injured people and to take away bodies of those many who were killed during the clashes in homes. well still to come this hour here in r.t. when promises just don't come any more markets will be alarm bells with yet another

downgrade for greece steering the. you out of it's euphoria over the for school deal it says will these words. plus u.k. users of a full sharing website and threatened with jail terms reserved for murderers just for downloading music is another portal falls victim of the internet crackdown. the story still to come but 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 those for and against a strike but he's got a charm reports on the conflicting pressures on the president ahead of crucial meetings with israel's leader. president obama's walking on a razor's edge on one hand members of his administration keep saying the war with iran would be a mistake u.s. military i think or something that's. going to iraq iran not only would be premature. on the other hand president obama keeps saying the world with the rand

is still an option and he is not quote unquote blocking the powerful israeli lobby which president obama will be addressing 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 the. police. is a very very clear message within a week from. the war what with them and we say president obama's failure to go along with this really plans on iran might hurt him in the ally chits the president carried you know the overwhelming majority of the jewish vote and back in two thousand. and if he is perceived as an enemy of. 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. israeli prime minister netanyahu speech in the us congress last year was greeted with innovation many u.s. lawmakers slammed the rhetoric of the obama administration which suggested 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 the core objective but both those who would back a strike against iran and those who wouldn't seem to be tired of the administration's ambiguity and the us it could very very badly we need to go to war and we have to make a 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. if they do it it will be on

their own it consequences will be theirs because. if they start a massive war. interpret as being done without a connivance it would be disastrous for us in afghanistan in iraq in the terms of. this post that was paid for by the merge and see committee for israel. many bus stops in washington the campaign very obviously pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on he's ready to go to war with iran in the run up to this year's elections he might want to. make that many he would make a mockery of diplomacy and separate and president obama's nobel peace prize as well . from the coalition says its role in this really threatening peace in the middle east. i don't think israel's

assertions are real at all i think it's part of the game plan it'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 hype arrogating to itself the right to strike as it did in iraq in one nine hundred eighty 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 scrape within the middle east this will play out as

a paradigm by the israelis against the middle eastern country and those lines all of the middle east will unite against israel and so the united states as i was concerned that israel might be too promptly in terms of carrying out unilateral military aggression coming up this hour here in r.t. will be looking at the raging in the u.s. everywhere the government should support certain ideologies people that want you to believe something very well suppose like sheep feel so out there now to look at the old farts of the details make their own opinion that's what they should do. our president reporter has been on the streets of new york asking people there what they think about the state media taking a position on gay marriage. was a story of the child trade flourishes in the pool this new adoption laws aimed at improving the situation in the dark door to organized crime. movies ratings agencies again spoil the party for leaders by parent grading. greece

to the lowest rating on its own scale right after a summit in brussels almost all e.u. states except britain and the czech republic have signed up to the so-called fiscal pact supposed to keep deficits within limits with tough new budget rules but financial analysts covariant it doesn't believe the agreement will ever be implemented. talk is cheap and we've seen round after round of this but the truth is you have missions over in europe in here in the united states for that matter but seem to think that they can spend more limitation in taxes and you can't do this people say that austerity is going to co-ops economic demand well the truth is that governments are pretty far away 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 those obama so the turkeys. 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 the same thing's likely to occur in places like spain where you have term one point of problems i think it's inevitable that greece is going to default i don't see how they can get out of this mess over them by defaulting they spent the money they don't have it they chant contracts their government spending an economy you know be able to pay it back and so we obviously need to do is to walk away and say so sorry so sad we're not going to pay you could knock on effects depending on what other nations decide to go down the same road could be extraordinarily severe and and you take on high unemployment on our website how he dot com i look at the methods debt ridden european countries are using to stay in. their spare time school for desperate measures in spain is a small town gets the green light to grow as have kind of it's just a point total unemployment. which is pushing with it sends culture online with plans to brew because it's iconic performances by.

file sharing website hour and be exclusive dot com has been shut down by britain's organized crime police for alleged copyright violations anyone who can lead to music from there has been threatened with jail terms equivalent to the punishment for rapists all murderous but his or smith reports on what this could mean for the right web. if you downloaded this song through the website or and be exclusive it's not just the prisoner of love you got to be afraid of instead of finding the usual blog commentary and links to r. and b. and hip hop music recent users of the site was shocked to find their online activity was under police scrutiny and that 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 handy to him for very serious offenses serious sexual assault rape manslaughter very violent offenses. and you would normally expect it to be handed down and respective of downloading music legally the u.k. government serious organized crime agency or soccer confirmed it arrested this site owner but wouldn't talk to us about why it's threatening users with a decade behind bars instead they sent this statement. which will get 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. exclusive dot com website was illegally obtained from artists leaving the industry to attribute approximately fifteen million pounds per year to the site's activity

that raised questions about how the police became the personnel in force through the recording industry standing gods to protect corporate profits and it's also given those concerned with internet freedoms and unpleasant glimpse into a more regulated each or if the treaty to protect against online copyright infringement and piracy goes ahead to claim your ip address was 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 can see this kind of abuse on the industrial scale if act comes to pass after a shock response from internet campaigners the government agency has now taken down the harsh message and replaced it with this simpler one which just says they've taken control of the domain but it's already caused much worry and distress on

twitter many years as a pair not even to have known they were visiting a dodgy site and certainly didn't think they'd be liable to do time for it internet campaigners say the notice was meant to frighten and in reality severe penalties couldn't be applied to casual town looters they also say there's nothing to link r. and b. exclusive with criminal gangs so why even involved if this is what they're illegal in serious organized crime was committed to show serious organized crime as people understand it the more. drug dealing. i think the public concern that crime still happening on our streets opposition to act out in force around europe this month centers on fears that cyberspace will fall under strict government control and while the serious organized crime agency focuses its efforts on r. and b. and hip hop fans many worry that serious organized criminals are getting away with

it you're a smith arty london. under the website we're asking what you think about activists fighting for internet freedom on them because of hacker groups like anonymous heroes or criminals have your say on this at all t dot com the some of the results so far on screen well the results of our poll of that an overwhelming majority believe that a lot of us are good as they have found another way to show governments people's displeasure around twenty percent how to reproduce or to change much service and then think that hackers and nothing criminals and their place is in jail it's our ttyl come to express your point of the. connection between freedom of speech on the internet and the global economy that's just one of the masses raised in today's cars report you can watch the full version later this hour but here's a taste for you. what's incredible is that a killing in a signage ran a hedge fund and he used all this data to trade with inside information and i don't regret trading he'd be a billionaire today and people would accuse him of trading on inside information

but he would buy his way out of any legal problems and he would claim like lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs that he's making a market he's adding liquidity and they would say oh yes sir your head g.v. is we want to stick our freaking filling up restructuring because europe our god but then of course because he shares information with the public like the press. he's. because he's telling the truth and sharing information with the public these are enemy. time for a look at some other news making headlines around the world in our world update a pair of suicide bombers have struck 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 by saying they had a present for the commander it's the latest in a string of blast targeting government forces the country's defense ministry says

al qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attack. protestors are taking to the streets in hong kong calling for the right to vote in this city's out coming elections at the moment only an elected committee of a rather thousand people will be given the chance to choose a new leader and so it is also criticized the city's current chief executive officer allegations he accepted perks from local tycoons. b.p. says it's reached a seven billion dollars deal to settle claims and thousands of fishermen and businesses affected by the gulf of mexico oil spill comes ahead of a much anticipated trial in the u.s. in which the american government is expected to claim billions of dollars in fines the b.p. oil rig the deep water horizon exploded in april two thousand and ten killing eleven workers and leaking four million barrels of oil. so do religion and politics mix well that's a major part of the debate raging in america's presidential campaign. the report on the streets of new york to ask people if the government or the media should be

behind. when is it ok for a government or the media to support an ideology this week let's talk about that i don't think it ever should happen. i think that the government is that serve the people of the media is there to report the news not make editorial direction on any of the reporting i don't think it's a very big amount say they support. different things you support more is the first ways. that's probably what they do anyway right. probably people are choosy about who is supporting their cause. absolutely their. people are too easily swayed probably propaganda is the people that want you to believe something they want to like she feels out 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 follow 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 so unusual it's a kind of a crazy idea that you can get wacky people like you're in your crazy sister and you just a line them up by the millions and you somehow assume that all these crazy people acting together will have a wisdom greater than the key do you think 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 just this being time but then if they don't agree with it they call it propaganda. well. that's is the nature of this is the nature 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 beliefs. all things in the pool of being sold at a huge profit by human traffickers and it's and it's legal for the ages are acting as suppliers to people who want to make a fortune for a lot from abuse children reports. today fifteen year old chin moment child theory is all smiles but it wasn't that long ago that the teenager with living in an illegal or in a pulse capital katmandu. is that the homes would be given rations for the children and the caretakers would take half the food for themselves well giving others only a small portion of it but they would also get drunk beaters. moment is now living

in a home run by the umbrella foundation and irish angio working with nepal's government to keep track of katmandu have to meet it hit teen thousand children living in orphanages. investigations have uncovered that around eighty percent of these kids actually have parents often times families living in rural parts of nepal will sell their children she traffickers who they believe will give them a better way if you have the traffickers village says very poor people people. receive notification they're told if you give us your children you will receive a small amount of money from an international family or an individual in return we will bring them to come into. the case. traffickers are known to buy an apology child her around fifteen dollars and then sell them to orphanages that are not monitored by the government they are then sold on for up to twenty five thousand

dollars to families from abroad while they're living in the orphanages many of the children are reportedly abused and forced to work some are even sexually assaulted and who forced to work in the fields would be woken up early every morning to clean the house and also to look after the cats and because infant child the nepali government admitted that almost half of the country's orphanages were involved in illegal international adoptions but since then things have changed. now paul was being an air national adoption wild 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 ride out money from abroad. pony works for nepal children's organization which runs eleven legal orphanages across the country he says that before the ban on international adoption is orphanage in katmandu made thousand dollars for every child that got adopted by a foreign family. has been difficult for us to run the home after the suspension of

international adoption because we still have to provide for the daily necessities of every child in the home and to care of the medical bills to today many orphanages are trying to reunite track of children with their family but many lection mohanned barely remember their real siblings and parents anymore preassure either archie kathmandu nepal. twenty six minutes past the oh but you're up to date for the moment but with the headlines after a short break stay with us live here. russia

votes for president archie looks at the five running for the kremlin top job the candidate jealousies you got of sixty seven chance to achieve most of communism from before his time on the record second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. the two thousand and twelve votes will be his fourth plan for presidency free education and housing punish illegal immigration and introduce ethnicity stops in pa sports controversy to gallows communists usually vote with putin's party on the big issues known abroad for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners into discontented industrial working class. presidential election two thousand and

twelve on portsmouth. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is in protein up on all over. the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the forms the movement empire that the united states is trying to insist on machine most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't appalling bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in there in our bases of it are the noises i would north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're all

bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the end of world war two the spaces i've been through. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. to. be questions be a thing else to get everything you needed. to take.