the e.u. pressure pressure on the syrian regime as it agrees to a travel ban and asset freeze of president assad's family members including his wife. michael japanese radiation data and in the trash claimed the fukushima officials did lead to e-mails detailing evacuation routes of the height of the nuclear crisis. to fight israel says no timeline to stop iran from getting a nuclear bomb has been agreed upon with the u.s. but washington warns of a regional war if israel struck. oil is rebounding from the luvvies plays

in a week long concern supplies may tighten up on this thing and iran talking about twenty minutes are happy that typically a. worldwide news twenty four seven this is artsy live from moscow with me role research showing the e.u. continues to pursue its strategy of pressure on the syrian regime to force it out of power foreign ministers have agreed to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on the british born wife of the country's leader. is among twelve officials all family members to be added to a number of figures including the president and already subject to sanctions washington has also threatened to tighten the screws on the syrian government and isolated even more if present the. aside it doesn't comply with the u.n.

statement appealing for a cease fire with violence still raging in the country the opposition has dismissed international calls on both sides to implement kofi annan peace plan not meeting the needs of the people government consultant christopher forstall who has recently returned from syria says he's deeply concerned that the sanctions may have been a response to recently leaked emails between the assad family. western countries western media say that this was a car and means i see it as a threat as a personal threat to the family of personally of the president of course that is beyond anything what is allowed in foreign policy on this civil civilized countries and again i am ashamed of this kind of policy but. tried reforms from the start of his tenure and should he have been you know in a friendly manner supported by other countries and syria would have been

a much better position knowing what we have done is this the west has you know this stimulated corrupt regimes and unfortunately also a d.l. a turkey to interfere in a syrian situation and what we have now is that is much as president obama you know openly declared in the beginning of this month in his lengthy interview that we have a state sponsored terrorism in the masters i was present with this you know the double bump attack in damascus that it's very clearly a secret service business with some you know people attached and we have a situation now where the syrian national council is calling for much more violence more arms from outside hopefully some military intervention and things like that i call this again terror management. from syria to bahrain which has been caught up in a fresh violence as security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government

protesters just outside the capital manama but the rallies erupted in several cities against the decades long rule of the royal family and military forces have been accused of killing scores of protesters arresting thousands sense an anti-government revolt broke out last year the arrest it comes amid the retrial of up to twenty doctors and nurses convicted of trying to overthrow the government by simply treating demonstrators injured in last year's uprising the original prosecution of the medics brought widespread international condemnation global research correspondent finian occurring and witnessed some of the doctors treating the wounded during the crackdown i think the regime is persecuting the medics to keep them from telling the truth. and peaceful coexistence and this is being in the hospital also in the near. the doctors the nurses it is

chaos and you are doing and running if you push through this we do what you will to cope with hundreds. of people coming in with terrible injuries from. rules to. run things in life things like the regime is changing or good in their lives is one of the prime witnesses to really religious. issues of human rights then he. says to what the current regime. against peaceful civilian conspiracy in the way he didn't diminish speak arabic you should be intimidated and i think that's work what's going on and this is. you've gone through. this ritual shoot through a procedure. but it was a global resource correspondent for c.n.n. coming in for. it has emotional at the height of japan's nuclear crisis last

march the authorities in fukushima concealed the radiation data vital to safely evacuate people from that area japan has a computer system designed to predict the spread of radioactive releases but local media reports say the prefectures government deleted the emails detailing evacuation routes asia times correspondent pepe escobar says this sounds like a major cover up you need one guy you send this i.t. guy to the ministry of education to do nuclear safety tech it's so cute and it took the disaster response headquarters in fukushima prefecture you find who sent these e-mails who received these e-mails because there are lots are all these operations probably a lot of people who share the insight is what is in talk to but i see that if. you're excel is deeply involved so now they're shifting the blame for this little

level altricial they were actually detect in their worst radiation in same areas into same time be sure also with their life or emission from the public so if everybody is even full you know it sounds it looks. like a major cover up in that it's up to japanese public opinion to ask questions so it's a pretty stress of course in japanese public opinion good to see during. the pill to elements in fault and effect that nobody wants to lose face over and needles through disaster like what's for consumer i'm not sure it seems that the fortunes. so good to have you with us here on our team today still to come in the program the prejudice faced by gypsies and travellers in the u.k. . living the same poppy. discriminating against the roma community as families are campsites and some pubs

even refuse to serve. three years on from the reset in russia u.s. relations there appears to have been little progress beyond that stage from the russian perspective america's plans to build an missile system in eastern europe are a continuing bone of contention president dmitry medvedev has addressed that issue at a security conference here in moscow today and. has been covering the. the theme of this russian international affairs council conference happening in moscow is a euro atlantic security community in the question is it a myth or reality and president has made it came out and said it straight he thinks so far it is a myth but he went on to to highlight how not only can it become a reality but it needs to become reality when he went on to do was to point out why it's so far has not been and why that reset that began back in two thousand and

nine made a lot of progress in trying to trying to do with the signing of the new city take arms reduction treaty that obama and medvedev sybase of it being that we're hearing not just from inventive from the experts that are here is the back has stalled and one of the main issues hampering progress on european security is one russia nato ties which madrid it pointed out are very important in the are making progress but not enough he said doors are open for dialogue in terms of missile defense but time is running out basically the problem we've heard it time and time again is that russia needs written guarantees that any kind of expansion on missile defense in eastern europe or anywhere in europe for that matter needs to be on paper that it's not against russia just telling them that it's against iran no matter how well relations are going or how much trust there is it needs to be on paper and again this is something we've heard and once again president medvedev highlighted that a lot of experts here say that's not going to stop with the pledging you're going

to commute back into the kremlin in may these problems are not just going to go away by themselves we just sit down and get through them and not through force. reporting that will be a website is a great place to go for more news and analysis of the stories people lined up for you there right now it ought to dot com including the u.n. human rights council of israel to reverse its settlement policy in the west bank the country fiercely rejects the decision. i watch dramatic footage right here on american helicopter crash in afghanistan just last month remarkably no one is. with all of the other best videos we have. these are the images. corporation.

israel says there's no agreement with washington or 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 would leave hundreds of people dead. of war would spell disaster not just for america but also for israel. there's been an ongoing campaign for the last couple months in which the u.s. military is leaking information about a 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. its main objective is really difficult to achieve militarily if not impossible so this is a way also for the military military to push back and 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 they're not on yahoo 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 will 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 between 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.

this is r t the u.s. soldier suspected of carrying out a bloody massacre of afghan civilians are now expected to be charged with seventeen counts of murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder star sergeant robert bales is currently awaiting trial in the u.s. and could face the death penalty if convicted his lawyer says that there is a lack of evidence against his client who doesn't confer stop or killings and investigation by the afghan parliament claims up to twenty others could have been involved veteran and activist michael cries nurse says the trial is unlikely to improve the opinion the afghan people have of the u.s. . politicians and the generals and the officers in the military commanders they have made every single person in afghanistan the enemy and it is an occupation that the people overwhelmingly up close and this is the this is the nature of the occupation where every single afghan is considered fair game by the u.s. military and if we look at the have

a sister of the massacres that have taken place in iraq and afghanistan look at the deeper massacre and the source square where blackwater guards massacred dozens of people and these cases of people got off with no deals and so one could argue that these were fair to the people that were indicted but they weren't simply thrown under the bus and made examples of they absolutely were not fair to the victims and their families and so the first asked surgeon bales whatever his trial is for it to be really fair to the afghan people most truly take their lives in consideration and bring true justice to them which would really be you know a life sentence for this soldier so we want to talk about here we have to talk about the fairness for the afghan people who are now mourning the loss of their family and the interesting thing is you know we hear the name stuff sergeant bales quite a bit we're not really hearing the name of his victims but 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 i say the fear trials should be fair for the afghan people

who are the real victims. you know a time at a time it's casey with the markets but for now education health and a place to live all considered basic rights by democracies around the world but it seems not everyone in the u.k. isn't titles of them europe's schuman rights watch programs being was eroding it on britain for its treatment of gypsy and traveller communities citing evictions of dozens of families from farm lands last october i was a details on this offseason that. sapir is a victim of racism she's training to be a barrister but as an english gypsy she's frequently turned away from because refusing to serve travellers two thousand and twelve two thousand and this is happening freely every day freely 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 with. another ethnic minority went to

hard. and i said i'm sorry you can't come in here because of who you are absolutely outcry saffir 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 to your. wife or a heritage you made your whining about the full story for the people living there yet i feel sorry for the pain that made the riddick thought of it that way is that all they were there and they try to start some source of strain so they're just this is the paper where they are piece of property it's like anything to 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 checks in travelers need to access to. their rights to move on to

a private family life respected and that is what is in 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 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 them there was a roof over their heads but i can show it if i wish to i can't fault them but the offer is there so i wish to carry on living as they are outside of the law that's a matter for. 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 a law they say discriminates against 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 it is still quite big it's not big enough for everyone according to the local authority anyone outside of that plant so all these caravans is in breach of planning regulations so it's pursuing yet another court order to have all of these people roaming 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're getting the least help are the bennett party london. time now for our world update her an hour to some other international headlines and grief we'll go straight to live pictures for you here in r.t. . hundreds of people have now gathered outside the city hall in toulouse for an

anti racism rally in the wake of deadly shootings in the french city a minute's silence will be observed for the victims of a self-styled islamist jihadist i mean while france faces calls to investigate why mohammad was allowed to kill when he had been tracked for months and even been put on the u.s. no fly list he was killed by a police sniper on thursday following a thirty two hour siege up filled himself killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. on the leader of mali's a military coup has declared that the rebels don't intend to stay in power and will pass control to a democratically elected leader renegade soldiers have suspended the constitution and all state institutions there's no confirmation for now about the whereabouts of ousted president the un security council has denounced the coop the on the stage of mutiny and seized power after anger at the government's mishandling of an ethnic

insurgency. the los angeles county coroner says whitney houston suffered a heart attack before drowning in a hotel room last month or tops the results were released on thursday and showed use of cocaine was a contributing factor to her death houston had struggled against drug addiction for years she died at the age of forty eight on the eve of the grammy awards. 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's marking its sixtieth anniversary with its criticism over the influence it has on public opinion and with its ability to spread information around the world irrespective of whether it's true or not r.t. is a nice to see a chuckle 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 that tweet really should just be a random utterance and i don't think it should be held to almost zero standard whatsoever it's really sure just a brain fart could have for 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 checking than a column does the fact column is a higher standard than a blog 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 of the bloggers were thousands of miles from the action . do you think 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 saying cops 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 for 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 the right to do 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 force from inside the room close doors to private affairs outed 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 terrible things about his bosses on twitter and his job or someone like as their client who's now back on him as a seed but in two thousand and seven he was on with ted russert and tweeted. tim russert with an asset i need to. you know wast 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 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 subjective i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come to twitter already stupid and they simply use it stupidly i think probably the latter is closer to the truth a micro blog is a minefield for those not cautious make a twitter account and post you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't want be reported in a newspaper you probably shouldn't but 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 surprising me with. if you really care what

sandra bullock over we're following as the say it's not always time for you social networks or the death of. war time is wasted on what it can contribute and information. everyone's we kept saying everybody else and since the world burns 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 talk trending topics of today include bieber our boyfriend and things i hate about sex some tweeters may well regret that one is that the target r r t. right asteroid of. if you care if your honor yesterday was read all across the board today perhaps or the markets may have improved oh don't get too optimistic i

have a guess. it's not brilliant but it's not quite as bad as yesterday actually rory let me get started with oil now oil is. and that's from it's a low it's close in a wait and why its own concerns and supplies may tighten on persisting tensions in a wrong despite the global pressure though the international energy agency says it's not planning to raise a merger with the crude stockpiles as you can see that there are opposed to territory at this hour but we look at the european markets now earlier on we saw gains. it's lost traction completely now this hour it was on track for its weekly loss of more than two posts and it looks like it really is on track to investors out in the u.s. himself later on today so once that comes out they might pick up some momentum in the region if we look at the euro dollar see how that's doing

a much just about managing to hold on to gains this hour. is a thin day of trading today so that currency path isn't saying much much action or told if you look at the ruble you can see it still makes against the main cars this is up against the u.s. dollar and a low against the euro at this hour as we look at the russian markets they are heading lower it is indeed a mixed picture right now but they have been having lower as the day has gone on and they are now looking up for that seventh day of losses and that's their worst losing streak in seven months if you look at the stock to see how they're faring it was down all stars my support itself back up we've got bank. has been seeing the states in the bank dropping to the. fifty percent if we carry over move on to into rao other power x. calls out that is despite the company saw

a net loss of around five billion dollars in two thousand and eleven compared to that in the previous yeah we move on to. a nationwide campaign has kicked off encouraging russians to buy anything that's great arena because there are reports on how a few thousand rubles could make a multi a big difference. normal is when russian companies and officials encourage their country many to buy it locally made produce abnormal is what russians encourage their community to buy foreign goods spend their summer holidays abroad and thus there as well these are dire economic times for the euro zone and a couple of russian organizations specialize in international humanitarian cooperation decided to extend greece helping hand we call our population to show solidarity with greek people and greek products and i hope it will help the greek economy and will give the opportunity to have more expert

products for sure it's not governmental organizations who are and you if you know other countries there are such community is. going to zation this they should support greece which is in the difficult economic and social situation russia has over one hundred fifty thousand greek people living here but it's not them who are being targeted in this initiative it's russians so what are these organizations locals to buy and try to really make a big difference now here we have items such as. all of oil as well as long island all this is worth around one hundred fifty euros and the organizations promoting the by going through this sort of claim with every loss and spends the same amount of greek produce. here is the country and additional fifteen suits in europe was one hundred euros might seem like

a lot of money but that's the case for some of moscow's high end supermarkets like this one the organizations also want russians to go to greece on holiday and even buy houses there which they claim are at record low prices the reaction from the public has been mixed some people on twitter have applauded the initiative saying this rate creative and have encouraged their friends to join in others ask why the helping hand is limited to greece and what about buying spanish real hard or portuguese sort of caught. behind the initiative are under no illusions it will be an unfettered success but they say every little helps so why not indulge in some greek delicacies. there's this arty. thing as you say on my time they have a great weekend on your place and we'll be back next hour with the bye for now.