reign it in uproar rubber bullets and tear gas meat and two regime protesters in the capital who came out to defend doctors and nurses being retired being retried for treating injured protesters. gearing up to fight israel says no timeline to stop iran from getting a nuclear bomb has been agreed with the u.s. while washington warns of a regional war israel strikes. and a u.s. soldier suspected of massacring afghan civilians most of them children expect to be charged with seventeen counts of murder.

eight am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story bahrain has been caught up in fresh violence the security forces use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse antigovernment protesters outside the capital manama the rallies erupted in several cities against the decades long rule of the al khalifa royal family military forces have been accused of killing scores of protesters and arresting thousands this anti-government world broke out last year the unrest comes amid the retrial of up to twenty doctors and nurses who were convicted of trying to overthrow the government by treating demonstrators injured in last year's uprising the original prosecution of the medics brought widespread international condemnation global research correspondent finian cunningham witnessed some of the doctors treating the wounded during a crackdown and he thinks the regime is persecuting the medics to keep them from telling the truth. in the

hospital near the. doctors the nurses just chaos and they were doing in my. experience resume usual to cope with hundreds or thousands of people coming in with terminal injuries from. a roof. on the things that i think the regime is continuing for given that it is nothing more than the prime witnesses to really who are religious. issues of human rights then he. says to local government. against peaceful civilian community when we meet in the middle east speak arabic and will speak the communion and i think what's behind this if. you don't believe it's going to be just. procedure. much of the rest of the

arab world has been played out on t.v. screens across the globe it seems that war is good for ratings but some networks are affecting rather than are reflecting the conflict or he's excited boyko reports lights camera action and he satellite channel broadcasting in arabic promises to give it your is bald and impartial take on what's happening in that region. at the top of the news bulletin is protest violence and rain and no go territory for many of the industry giants who are trying to build truth here into sending to the to the other people on the other countries' easy t.v. is into its second to be clear but it takes pride in already having ruffled some feathers and intends to throw spotlight on corruption and mismanagement in government but involve all should be a watchdog for the arab media themselves. media channels of sporks t.v.

for politicians or parties or most of countries a former iraqi politician and citizen washington lobbyist channels director general is used to talking in headlines for him journalistic ethics is not about the lack of it it's a real preferences or political connections it's coming clean about them something that many of about five hundred arab satellite channels past but failed to do so there is a perplexing correlation between the rise in the number of arab satellite channels and the increase in violence throughout the region the expression media wars has already become a sad phrase in arabic so much so that media and wars seem to be feeding off one another meaning t.v. start of war happened to be an audience catcher the first gulf war was a watershed event for c.n.n. artsy came to prominence after the conflict between georgia and south said here a few channels have earned more accolades for its word importing than al-jazeera

that is until the channel that it once was content with revolutionizing arab news coverage set its sights on revolutionizing the arab world is clearly for anyone focus. is focused on one. who removed the regime with all possible millions and its government the government of. he sponsored. is calling to smuggle weapons into syria and calling to smuggle weapons into a member of the united nations is a mouthful that is almost criminal i mean you don't smuggle weapons into a country and give it to people government institutions that is totally unethical and illegal well al jazeera is probably the most prominent example of setting thing you said gender it's obviously not the only one over the past year arab journalists have been seen riding tanks and warming up crowds you know state media and official

media so there's a lot of such a big problem because it's can be predicted by media that call themselves independent and and in fact they're not independently funded by some specific political force and this is a good problem and this may be the reason why a new arab channel goes in there every few months in one of the most saturated media markets in the world there is still a large need for integrity. artsy beirut lebanon the syrian opposition has dismissed a u.n. statement appealing for a cease fire is not meeting the needs of the people while it's rages on despite international calls on both sides to kofi annan peace plan washington's threatened to come down hard on damascus if it doesn't comply and is adamant that president assad must go u.s. based journalist patrick hemmings and says the western media is presentation of the conflict doesn't often jive with reality. i think the media has played a massive role in syria again i hate to harken back to libya but if you look back

at libya the reports that led to the un resolution one thousand seventy three a lot of them came from the libyan opposition and we're seeing the same thing in syria with the syrian observatory for human rights which is in london and the syrian national council is based in paris you have these kind of foreign bodies these odd foreign bodies feeding these human rights statistics and building up the death count when in fact now human rights watch has just been implicated really in covering up rebel abuses in syria and that's a major thing because if you think the whole the whole thing is really based on a humanitarian issue that's how it's framed in the media in the west and we don't know where these statistics are coming from c.n.n. has been caught staging fake news with danny de am the u.s. of britain and their allies sit on one side of the table and they would like a ceasefire but they do not want to just on the rebel groups ok that kind of one of

them to to run wild through the streets of damascus and so forth and this is the exact same sort of paradigm we saw in libya see this compose come down to politics where you talk about the u.n. and the security council because it is a political body. stay with us here on r t still to come on the prejudice faced by gypsies and travellers in the u.k. . so sort of played live in peace and poppy and he seems to think he's bad and mean a britain slam for discriminating against the roma community is families are addicted from campsites and some even refuse to serve them. last letters online for six years now but has done more harm than good reinvestigate a few minutes. the first israel says there's no agreement with washington on what would be the next and the right time to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon and u.s. military meanwhile concluded that an israeli strike on iran would spill into a regional war that could leave hundreds of americans dead author trita parsi says

a war with knots would not only spell disaster for the u.s. but for israel too. there's been an ongoing campaign for the last couple months in which the u.s. military is leaking information about how dangerous it would be if the israelis were to attack iran how counterproductive it would be and what it would do to the united states because it would drag the us into a war that its main objective is really difficult to achieve militarily if not impossible so this is a way also for the military military to push can make sure that the politicians or the civilians don't make a decision that would put the military again at the center of a disaster from one perspective one can say that then it's on the whole governments seems to be more fearful of a negotiated settlement on the iranian nuclear issue because of a fear that the u.s. would go with a compromise that were not meet these really very much and as a result they actually seem to be more comfortable with the idea that there would

be a military confrontation but i think that is also a miscalculation of what lies in israel's interest because in the long term the war will not be in israel's interest either because they were bringing about not only a tremendous amount of turmoil in the region but also so far israel has not had a military confrontation with any of the middle east since non arab states in fact tween iran and israel over the last two and a half thousand years the relations have more often than not being good it would be a very strong red psychological red line if it were to break out between israel and . the u.s. soldier suspected of carrying out a bloody massacre of afghan civilians is expected be charged with seventeen counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder staff sergeant robert bales is currently awaiting trial in the u.s. and could face the death penalty if convicted his lawyer says there's a lot of evidence against his client who hasn't confessed to the killing and investigation by the afghan parliament brings up to twenty others could have been involved war veteran and activist michael prysner thinks the trial is unlikely to

improve your opinion afghan people have of the u.s. . politicians and the general down the officer in the military commanders they have made every single person in afghanistan the enemy it is an occupation that the people overwhelmingly oppose and this is the this is the nature of the of the occupation where every single afghan is things that are fair game by the us military if we look at the have bases where of the massacres that have taken place in iraq and afghanistan look at the massacre in the course square where blackwater guards massacred dozens of people and these cases of people got off with no real punishment and so one could argue that these were fair to the people that were indicted and they weren't simply thrown under the bus and eight examples of they absolutely were not fair to the victims and their families and so for its past thirty bales whatever it is trial is for it to be really fair to the afghan people most truly take their lives and consideration and bring to justice for them which

would really be you know a life sentence for this soldier so we want to talk about fear we have to talk about the fairness of the afghan people who are now mourning the loss of their family and the interesting thing is you know we hear the name suffering bales quite a bit but we're not really hearing the names of his victims of the children who are going to see their parents again of the people he killed in their beds in the middle of the night and so i say that fear trial should be fair for the afghan people who are the real victim. or website is the place to go for more news at alice's here's what's on the line right now. a u.s. marine faces a downgrade in iran for blatantly condemning president obama and u.s. afghan policies on facebook. prison break russian style a convicted murderer in the city of what would be a tries to escape jail by helicopter but was caught by police find out how the plot was foiled but our team ducked.

the official anti allocation. from the. video. r.s.s. feeds. on. education health and a place to live are considered basic rights by democracies around the world but it seems not everyone in the u.k. may be entitled to that europe's human rights watchdog has been zeroing in on

britain for its treatment of gypsy and traveller communities saving evictions of more than eighty thousand millions from farm land last october okies over better reports on the daily discriminations sophia is a victim of racism she's training to be a barrister but as an english gypsy she's frequently turned away from was refusing to travel as two thousand and twelve two thousand and seven this is happening freely every freely discriminating against a rice culture that has a minority to say nothing on i would say it with racism because you know i for example if you are another ethnic minority who went. and i said i'm sorry you can't come in here because of who you are i mean absolutely outcry saffir blames the media the only coverage gypsies get in britain ridicules their culture despite complaints of racism this was deemed suitable

advertising and no wonder when public opinion so overwhelmingly hostile to your. wife or dear to you made your wondering about the full story of the play who was living here i feel sorry for the pain that made me reject thought of it that way and is that all that they are all there and they try to start fights and sorcery away they're just and this is all the people really and i piece of garbage that and if you do the things you hear about enrile but others are now listening to human rights watchdog slammed the british government for discriminating against gypsies and travellers trips in travelers and the access to. any of their rights to a home or to a private family life respected and that is what isn't present and not respected in this country. dale farm used to be the largest concentration of travelers in the u.k. housing over a thousand people but then the bailiffs came october's

a vixen the violent end to a decade long legal battle that's left fifty families homeless. critics say could have been averted had the government provided enough legal caravan sites in the first place one square miles all that's needed to house the four thousand gypsies with nowhere legal to live in the u.k. right now but local authorities are refusing to give up land pledging housing instead it's a matter for the there is a roof over their heads but i can charge if i wish to. have your for is that if i wish to carry on living as they are outside of the law but so much of it. a roof yes but simply not an option for a centuries old nomadic culture that's why many they'll farm prefer to live outside of the law they say discriminates against them the travellers who are left are allowed to stay so long as they stay within these walls that's the legal plot that's left here that is still quite big it's not big enough for everyone according

to the local authority anyone outside of that plot so all these caravans is in breach of planning regulations yet another court order to have all of these people remaining travelers and gypsies are one of the most vulnerable groups in britain they have the lowest life expectancy and education levels of any ethnic minority but at the moment they get in the least help are given it hearty london. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe france is being accused of intelligence failures with calls were investigated by a self-styled islamic jihad as was allowed to kill seven people in toulouse mohamed merah it was being tracked for months and had been even on a u.s. no fly list he was killed by a police sniper thursday after a thirty two hour siege film himself killing a rabbi and three children a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. renegade mollies

soldiers have looted the presidential palace with gunfire heard on the streets after they ousted president tory no confirmation about the former leader's whereabouts and u.n. security council to denounce the coup and called for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule and the democratically elected government the army staged mutiny and seized power after anger at the government's mishandling of an ethnic insurgency. and u.s. could resume sending military aid to egypt secretary of state clinton is expected to waver acquirement of the country's new with already used to support a transition to democracy so the u.s. aid can continue critics say would send the wrong signal to the egyptian army which has been in power since president mubarak was toppled last year the country's military rulers have been criticized for crackdowns on n.g.o.s and pro-democracy campaign. the l.a. county coroner's office says pop legend we need houston suffered a heart attack before drowning in a bathtub in her hotel room last month autopsy results were released thursday and

showed use of cocaine was a contributing factor in her death he still had struggled against drug addiction for years she died at age forty eight on the eve of the grammy awards ceremony. it's a social networking site that started as a platform for personal trivia about daily lives and turned into a formidable force to help bring down governments twitter is marking its six year anniversary but there's criticism over the influence it has on public opinion with civility to spread information around the world irrespective of whether or not it's true or he's honest i see a church in reports. six years ago. the little blue bird chirped its first tweet a new era of social networking took off a point of view squeezed into one hundred forty characters a tweet really shouldn't just be a random utterance and i think it should be held to almost zero standard whatsoever it's really just a brain fart but with half a billion users today from anonymous bloggers to world leaders twitter has become a much more powerful force than that. the micro-blogging site helped the spread of

protests during the arab spring but it's also become a tool for manipulating public opinion a book has a higher standard of joking than a column does the fact column is a higher standard than a blog a tweet is the lowest circle of fact during iran's green revolution tweeted i witness accounts of government brutality helped boost western support for protestors turned out many other bloggers were thousands of miles from the action. you thought he's also appreciate the power of a tweet recently occupy wall street somebody who we don't know who posts you know a message that says a cop should be killed ok my guess is the cops post you know because then they were the ones that reacted to it made it a story whether from this information or propaganda you have a very misleading tweet from some of the members of the security council in the sense of a clear plan of using it for propaganda right today we said you know and it's it's

it's very selective they don't want reporter to try to find out what happened in a closed door meeting but they're tweeting things are often forced from inside the closed doors to private affairs our did reckless twitter posts have seen its authors humiliated and virally hated even fired so whether it's somebody like charlie sheen who can come out and say it's for terrible things about his bosses on twitter and lose his job or someone like as their client who's now back on him as are the seed but in two thousand and seven he was on. with tim russert and tweeted . tim russert with an acid spine attempt. you know lost his contract with imus of the c.e.o. for arguably the most notorious downfall now former congressman anthony weiner's tweeting a photo of his most private of parts we are certainly is one model of what not to do and i think that if i were ever going to cheat on my wife i don't think i would

start by broadcasting it over twitter. but this new broadcasting tool available to all is seductive i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come some twitter already stupid and they simply use it stupidly i think probably the latter was closer to the truth the micro blog is a minefield for those not cautious make a twitter account can post you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't want they've reported in a newspaper you probably shouldn't put on twitter so what are we putting on twitter and early study found so-called pointless babble made up forty percent of tweets news only four percent it's always. use if you really care would seem to belittle where we are following as the say it's not always time for you social networks or the death of. work time is wasted on how to contribute and information. everyone's made we can't see everybody else about nonsense the world. at the end of

the day you can use it to dumb down you can use it to smarten up that's how you use anything that really matters the sixth anniversary of the first tweet marks billions of tweets already posted and revolutions guided lady gaga is the number one blogger with over twenty one million followers the micro blogs top trending topics of today include bieber our boyfriend and things i hate about sex some tweeters may well regret that one as they say churkin r r t. don't overdo the business just create is there with all the windows on the market there's an hour to get away yeah yeah but we're not going to get out she. came with a she because that up and running today they are in the middle of the trading day at the moment and they're not doing too well and so and that's because of overnight losses from wall street as you can see some scarlet colors on your screen right now and it is buying property shares

a leading the decline for actually bank of china is down more than one and a half percent now in japan the nikkei as you can see the strong yen that's causing problems because it is a strong current if we look at some of the if we can show as i can tell you. pull down around one big exporters that they are suffering today and as i just mentioned there was a disappointing day in the u.s. to have a look at how they finished up yesterday and they did indeed fall amounts over concerns about china or poor thing a fall in manufacturing brazen fresh concerns going global. also euro zone that model progeny and services unexpectedly surprised and energy majors were among the biggest losers in the u.s. that we look at the oil figures we see how they're fairing this hour and oil is actually a valid thing from the lowest lows we. wised. up assisting

you know wrong it's national energy agency says it's not planning to release its secret stockpiles despite price growth there was some clues as to that was going to happen yesterday but so far meanwhile the number of americans pointing to the economic route in the u.s. the world's largest oil to the highest level in eight years and that's according to a survey so optimism from the u.s. from the u.s. . significant rise in crude prices unless consumption rises in us we could be more oil. today if we look at the russian figures from yesterday they could be opening up shop in just under two hours time so as you can see is afraid disappointed they opened up yesterday but they just continued to plummet throughout the day it was disappointing and that was concerns about global of great things actually. losing streak since.

if you look at these stocks and see you with the biggest loser now we've just seen the crude prices they were indeed love this is no surprise a new poll is down. financials grandmother the biggest news in fashion week over the sense as well they had a very disappointing day because they started off i was rather strong and then i was just around with just what was said was let's have a look at currencies and see how they're getting are. probably. will be we'll be seeing if it has any movement at all in any kind of. business yes they as you can see in the action against us. the year as far as goals and how that's getting very mixed this week in days right now it's a marginally higher. but it's still heading for its second weekly decline to its lowest level in more than three months yesterday and

that's on concerns about the global economy are expecting gold to improve and that's the markets the now how by looking. thanks very much. here on r.g.p. we've got coming up after that but first i'll be back with a look. from . the.

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firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. please. please just say. it's just so.