it starts on t.v. don't come. to the. top arrange it in a hot or rubber bullets and tear gas meet and the regime demonstrators in the capital came out to defend doctors and nurses be retried for treating injured protesters. to fight israel says no timeline to stop iran from getting a nuclear bomb has been agreed with the u.s. and washington warns of a regional war if israel strikes. the u.s. soldier suspected of massacring afghan civilians most of them children expected to be charged with seventeen counts of murder.

ten am in moscow i could have you with us here on our team our top story bahrain has been caught up in fresh violence a security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government protestors outside the capital manama rallies erupted in several cities against the decade long rule of the al khalifa royal family military forces have been accused of killing scores of protesters en arrested thousands since an anti-government revolt broke out last year the interest comes amid the retrial of up to twenty doctors and nurses convicted of trying to overthrow the government by treating demonstrators injured in last year's uprising he original prosecution of the medics brought widespread international condemnation global research correspondent fiddy and pending and witness some of the doctors treating the wounded during the crackdown and things the regime is persecuting the medics to keep them from telling the truth. and they too should be human.

because but also money in. the doctors the nurses just chaos and they were doing in my. experience with children with hundreds or thousands of people coming in with terrible injuries from. the things i think i mean the regime has changed or given the medics is going on the line says to really horrendous. issues of human rights then. since to what the current regime were so. many millions of peaceful civilian conspirators in the way he did the message speak out iran will speak and communion and i think what's with hind this is. if you don't. dismiss will shoot through a procedure. well actually at arrest in the arab world has been played out on t.v.

screens around the globe and seems war is good for ratings but some networks are being used of affecting rather than reflecting the conflict or his acts out of boyko reports from a very lights camera action and he satellite channel broadcasting in arabic promises to give its viewers a bald and impartial take on what's happening in the 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 the truth here into sending to the other people on the other countries' easy to be is into its second week when they are but it takes pride in already having ruffled some feathers it in turns to throw spotlight on corruption and mismanagement of government but above all to be a watchdog for the arab media themselves other media channels of the spokes t.v.

for politicians or parties or most all countries and former iraqi politician and citizen to 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 profess but failed to do so there is a perplexing correlation between the rise in the number of arab satellite channels i think reason 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 thinking of one another meaning t.v. star 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 war importing than al-jazeera that is until the channel that once was can time with revolutionizing arab news coverage set its sights on revolutionizing the arab world is clearly for anyone for . the right is focused on the one. who moved in with all possible means and and its government the government of concord which was. the sponsor of the era. call inclusive modern weapons into syria and calling to smuggle weapons into a member of the united nations that is america is almost criminal but i mean you don't smuggle weapons into a country and give it to people to shoot at government institutions that is totally unethical and illegal while al-jazeera is probably the most prominent example of setting thing you said gender it's obviously not the only one of the past year arab journalists have been seen riding tanks and warming up crowds you know state media

and official media because there's not a such a big problem because it's can be political but the media that call themselves independent and and in fact they're not independent they are funded by some specific political force and this is their 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 media. artsy they are with a lot of known syria's opposition has dismissed the u.n. statement appealing for a ceasefire as not meeting the needs of the people violence rages on despite international calls on both sides to implement kofi annan peace plan washington has 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 henning's and says western media's presentation of the conflict is often far from 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 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 the 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 seabiscuit does come down to politics when 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 the prejudice faced by gypsies and travellers in the u.k. . shows that it was even a piece of property that he says from the things he's about i mean britain slammed for discriminating against the roma community as families are addicted from campsites and some pubs even refuse to serve them. plus twitter online for six years now but hasn't done more harm or more good investigate if humans. but first israel says there is no agreement on the table with washington on what would be the right time to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon the u.s.

military meanwhile has 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 would spell disaster not just for the u.s. but israel to. there's been an ongoing campaign for the last couple of 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 the military to push back and make sure that the politicians of 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 the netanyahu government 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 would not meet the israeli red lines and as

a result they actually seem to be more comfortable with the idea that there would be a military confrontation but i think there 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 it will bring 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's non arab states in fact tween iran and israel over the last two and a half thousand years their relations have more often than not been good it would be a very strong red psychological red line if it were to break out between the two of them iran. the u.s. soldier suspected of carrying out a bloody massacre of afghan civilians expected me to charged with seventeen counts of murder and six counts of assault and 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 lack of evidence against his client who hasn't confessed to the killing and

investigation by the afghan parliament things up to twenty others could have been up work better at activist michael prysner thinks the trials are likely to improve the opinion about two afghan people of the u.s. . the politicians and the generals and the officers and the military commanders they have made every single person in afghanistan the enemy and it is an occupation that the people overwhelmingly oppose and this is the this is the nature of the occupation where every single afghan the things that are fair game by the u.s. military if we look at the have bases or of massacres that have taken place in iraq and afghanistan look at the time massacre in the source square where blackwater guards massacred dozens of people and these cases of people got off with no jail time and so one could argue that these were fair to the people that were indicted but they weren't simply thrown under the bus an example of they absolutely were not fair to the victims and their families and so for staff sergeant bales whatever his

trial is for it to be really fair to the afghan people most truly take their lives and the things that are rationed and bring true justice to them which would really be you know a life sentence for this soldier so we want to talk about syria what 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 sergeant 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 the people he killed in their beds in the middle of the night i say a fair trial should be fair for the afghan people who are the real victims. the actions of american military personnel now could be coming under the microscope of authorities as we report on our team. a u.s. marine is facing a downgrade in iraq for taking a facebook to condemn president obama and u.s. policies in afghanistan. also online prison break russian style a convicted murderer in the city of holy scapes jail by helicopter but is caught by police in the end find out how the plot was foiled at r.t.

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education health and a place to live are considered basic rights by democracies around the world but it seems that everyone in the u.k. may be in title of europe's human rights watchdog has been zeroing in on britain for its treatment of gypsy and traveller communities citing evictions of more than eighty families from a far away i'd last october or for better reports on the daily discrimination. saffir is a victim of racism she's training to be a barrister but as an english gypsy she's frequently turned away from bars for refusing to serve travellers two thousand and twelve two thousand levon this is happening freely every guy really discriminating against a race a culture that has a minority that has done absolutely nothing wrong i would say it with racism because you know i for example if. another ethnic minority went to par. and i said i'm sorry you can't come in here because of who you are unhappy

absolutely outcry so fear blames the media the only coverage gypsies get in britain ridicules their culture despite complaints of racism and this was deemed suitable advertising no wonder when public opinion so overwhelmingly hostile if you don't know. why or the character if you may yeah whining about the full story for a good living yeah i feel sorry for the pain that they predict or it that way is that all they hear will there and i trust our thoughts and sources straight away so they're just this is the paper where they and i piece about each that and it's just another thing to hear about and we lay but others are now listening to human rights watchdog slammed the british government for discriminating against gypsies and travellers close in travelers need access to what they need our rights to and to a private family life respected and that is what is presently not respected in this

country. dale farm used to be the largest concentration of travelers in the u.k. housing over a thousand people had been 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 them there is a roof over their heads but i can so i can so i wish to force them so with the offer was that they wish to carry on living as they are outside of the law but so much of. a roof yes but simply not an option for a centuries old nomadic culture that's why many dale farm prefer to live outside of

the law they say discriminates against them travelers who are left are allowed to stay so long as they stay within these walls that's the legal plot that's left clear that is still quite big it's not big enough for everyone according to the local authority anyone outside of that block so all these caravans is in groups of planning regulations pursuing 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 are getting the least help i've been it r t london. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe france is the use of intelligence failures with calls to investigate why a self-styled islamic jihad as was allowed to kill seven people in toulouse mohamed merah was being tracked for months and even on a u.s. no fly list he was killed by

a police sniper thursday out there at thirty two hour siege himself killing a rabbi and three children at 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 gore a no confirmation about the former leader's whereabouts the u.n. security council's denounced the coup when called on the immediate restoration of constitutional rule and the democratically elected government of the army state in the media and seize power after anger at the government's mishandling of an ethnic insurgency. that the u.s. could resume sending military aid to egypt secretary of state clinton expected to waiver requirement for the country's new authorities to support a transition to democracy so the u.s. aid can continue critics say it sends 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

campaigners. the l.a. county coroner's office says pop legend whitney houston suffered a heart attack before drowning in a bathtub in her otel room last month autopsy results released thursday and showed the use of cocaine was a contributing factor to her death houston had struggled against drug addiction for years she died at age forty eight on the eve of the grammy awards. filey in this news block it's the social networking site that started as a platform for personal trivia about our daily lives but became a formidable force in helping bring down governments twitter marks its six year anniversary but there's criticism over the influence it has on public opinion and its an ability to spread information around the world regardless of whether or not it's true or he's honest as he churkin or reports from new york. 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 that tweet really should

just be a random utterance and i feel like 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 a column is a higher standard than a blog tweet is the lowest circle of fact during iran's green revolution tweeted eyewitness accounts of government brutality helped boost western support for protestors turned out many of the bloggers were thousands of miles from the action . you thirty'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 say 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 it they're kind of using it for propaganda today we said you know and 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 room closed doors to private affairs outed reckless twitter posts have seen its authors humiliated and virally hated even fired so either it's somebody like charlie sheen who can come out and say it's from terrible things about his bosses on twitter and lose his job or someone like as a client who's now back on him as a v.c. but in two thousand and seven he was on with tim russert and tweeted. you know some time russert with an acid spiny test. you know lost his contract with imus and 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 wiener certainly is one model of what not. 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 seductively i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come to twitter already stupid they simply use it stupidly i think probably the way to risk russians in the true microblog is a minefield for those not cautious but make a twitter account and post you know anything you wouldn't want your mondesir wouldn't want be reported in a newspaper you probably shouldn't get 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 is a waste of time for me. yes if you really care what sandra bullock aware of your

following has to say it's not always time for you good social network or the difficult work time is wasted on junk in trivia and information. everyone's made we kept seeing 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 it'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 but run as they say turkey r t. so on over to the business. katie there with all the latest on the markets this hour yeah that's right well i'm going to kick off with actually because they opened in the last twenty minutes or so so let's see the biggest i can tell you is

a positive. yes. in the black today as you can see that more this guy's around a third of each of the indices and that's also finishing off on its worst losing streak since september yesterday yesterday but they also in the back and finished up interesting to see how the day develops if you look at asia we can see then i'll finishing up the day's trade extending the biggest surprise of the year following on from losses on wall street. leading with the cries with bank of china now. we've got a stronger yen in japan and it's blank on exports. and also news from china as well with them manufacturing unexpectedly weighing on sentiment. for how to look at how they finished up. yesterday as i say that data from china was

really filtering through. the u.s. markets well. they also had news from the eurozone as well with manufacturing and services unexpectedly in march as well and it was energy majors that were among the biggest losers. if you get out of it to boil we'll see that it's actually a brief pounding from the lovers close in a week that some concern supplies may tighten on system tensions in iran the international energy agency says it's not planning to release the emergency crews supplies despite the price that we can see just now on our screen meanwhile though it's not all doom and gloom because the number of americans pointed to economic improvement in the u.s. the world's largest crew consumer has climbed to the highest level in eight years that's according to a survey clyde. now this aren't expecting a significant rise in crude prices. consumption in the us goes up so

it's an important month so watch our. current system see how that was see the euro dollar has just kicked into the red out she just recently is now one of thirty two ninety seven so it's just just a fraction in the red on the ruble finished up. we see how. today's trading session if we look at gold see that recently has to get. into the red. today supposed gold so far in the red and gold that they own course now for its biggest weekly decline after its lowest level in more than two months yesterday got some signs of global economic difficulty really is best for. the markets for days now and then it's now i'm going to be looking at the individual moves on the russian market. remember there is moscow out.

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