torture and human rights abuse is rampant on both sides in syria the un shares the blame between the regime and the rebels rages on. testing times canadian police around up there the seven hundred students refused to end their protests against plans to dramatically fight jewish and feeds. and countries scramble to stop the block from crumbling fashioning plans for unity case agrees to go it alone. twenty four hours a day this is out me the two sides of the syrian conflict the government and the

opposition have both been accused by the un of torture and other serious human rights violations the world latest report on the country says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week ceasefire un commission the says the majority of abuses have been committed by the syrian army but also found cases of armed rebels executing captured soldiers and supporters as well as abducting civilians a london based activist says the fact the u.n. has now launched the opposition roll balance is a positive step. clearly making a sort of progress aren't we last time around i checked there was no vision at all neither of the armed groups nor of their atrocities and this happened when the un general assembly was voting on syria and they got a vote with a majority of one hundred thirty seven countries so had some of those atrocities been mentioned probably that wouldn't have been the result let alone having that

sort of a majority but we're getting there forty months of the line there are calling that there are groups that are committing atrocities there is a bit of suspicion with regards to the real objectives of such organizations you know the human rights commission or the amnesty international who today accused the un of being not fit for purpose for failing to have a decisive action with regards to syria now the un has taken a decisive actions with regard to libya but was that for the benefit of the libyan people now tens of thousands of dead libyans would tell you know was that for the good of libya itself perhaps libya will not exist anymore so the objective was clearly only to topple the regime now is the objective of toppling the regime in syria would be good for the syrian people probably almost probably you would not also these organizations seem to be a little bit manipulated by the opposition so for example the report talks about his student who is for an from the air force flight in university and there is a sort of of his ation of the syrian forces. of committing such

a crime but this person called yours and i brewed was actually a government supporter so it's a welcome step the knowledge that there are armed groups but they need to take it a little bit further and really scrutinize more the information they're getting more social media is playing a vital role in serious conflict as both sides try to shape domestic and international opinion in their favor chilling videos of acts of brutality have the power to go viral and be broadcast on t.v. networks but sometimes the pictures aren't everything they're paid to be may find some of the images in on a boycott report disturbing. and we are having some technical problems with that report but we can bring it to you. in just a moment. hash

tag change status update freedom social media have often been credited for empowering the arab youth in their struggle to shake off decades old chalk received fans of social media often say that without facebook you tube or twitter the arab spring wouldn't help been so sweeping or so contagious but there's also a growing number of those who believe that the websites the arab revolutions wouldn't have been so deadly and so destructive. this may be the most disturbing video from the syrian frontlines as an opposition activist allegedly buried alive by process our troops the back story claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to santa. whatever his initial footage was in terms of the impact it was no match for his alleged execution viral on you tube presented as yet

more proof of the inhumanity of the regime meanwhile the authenticity of this video is still highly questionable these contrived and staged videos are used by the opposition to justify a western backed regime change projects on the contrary the creativity of syrian opposition fighters has already been exposed for when they were caught posing as process supposedly carrying out the regime's brutalities. but what started as the killings for social media consumption is now leading to quite real deaths in syria these somebodies book pages really look like hit list but we've got used to those and this is happening now for one in. the head of aleppo chamber of industry says many of his fellow businessman found their photos and personal details posted on the opposition's web sites with explicit callings to murder them this is the car his car. this is the number of iscar this is the number

of islam by this is where he lives go kill him go down get him and these are not just empty threats dozens of public figures and government officials were gunned down in syria in recent months just for being perceived as sympathetic to the authorities this is a national hero. for sports became two months ago they killed him in twelve martyrs . mohammed was more like the president of a leper student union he was kidnapped a few days after his name and photo surfaced on facebook but. i believe that my abduction was directly linked to my political activity i received many threats over the phone and eventually they did what they promised. to do unwavering in his political allegiances mohammed sas his family had to pay a ransom to free him it included a car a laptop and around ten thousand dollars. what's happening now in syria is that we

have some people who participate in peaceful demonstrations and whose demands we support at this moment there are also a lot of those who are trying to take advantage of the current situation to seize people's properties were kidnapped them for ransom. while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported by charlotte assad it's so far failed to do anything to stop the calls for the killing of his supporters and many like the social activists believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to divert the fruits or to kill and these they cut in me is ultimately at the core of the syrian crisis there is nothing wrong in calling for more freedom till some start using it as a cover to rob and kill a club or car to see aleppo syria. the first round of egypt's historic presidential election is now over with counting expected to continue over the. weekend

a dozen candidates to replace barack was forced out in the revolution fifteen months ago front runners are islamists and former regime officials the muslim brotherhood has already announced its contender is leading in the polls if no candidate wins more than fifty percent of the vote another round it's not the actual sounds of the president yet to be defined by countries institution based journalist using. attention to it. when we call the. constitution should be first. most of egyptians have voted for that we have to get elected parliament first and then we can drive the constitution but currently most of the people say if we have a president who. would have a constitutional responsibility clear the. constitutional responsibilities that can

make a conflict between different political factions and between the parliament and the new president since both of them will be responsible for the nuclear situation there is a conflict of interest for the both of them would like to maximize their power and some people and some analysts and speak if islamists lose. presidential. seat they may favor. parliamentarian system rather than a presidential system so leaving is a matter of the constitution until we get a new president. it's a quite very risky. well coming up on r t nuclear negotiations find out about the latest diplomatic efforts aimed at persuading tehran to end its that's what research hopes now said to moscow next.

that was meant for the u.s. military operates twice exposed as phone and is not open to its training. seven hundred arrests have been made overnight in canada in the latest protest in quebec against a huge and rising student tuition fees the rallies have been ongoing for more than one hundred days in attempts to quell canada's student demonstrations over the thirty's adopted new emergency laws restricting protests and controversial measures of any field with public discontent activists and you have a national thinks that the situation in quebec is only part. now it's a social movement it's being referred to as the maple spring and on the one hand you have the government becoming. passing bills. which removes severely restricts our constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression so you have a crack down i

a totalitarian like crackdown by a mafia connected government on a student movement and on the other hand you have a student movement which is becoming more resilient more energized to react against this freedom attacking legislation what's happening in quebec it's about what's happening to my generation around the world we're fighting against global austerity measures imposed by an elite who simply want more for themselves and last for everyone else. now eurozone nations are rushing to shield themselves from the shock waves should agree soon rejected only austerity and now out of the single currency the e.u. is making plans for closer ties to strengthen the block with a divisive issue of joint borrowing once again on the table what is peter all of the reports of the expectations placed on the region's strongest and weakest economies. should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant if you mind is that for my part i would like to say that i think

we agree we want greece to remain in the euro zone we know that is the same for a majority of greek people. but it seems plans are being drawn up in case those hopes fail the german bund as punk says the situation in greece is extremely worrying but isn't predicting the demise of the single currency should the greeks quit the euro view certainly not shared by all if it won't happen if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this puts on a domino effect all over europe because then we have also a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro zone and every problem is nowhere then the others will also begin to start ok it's a very nice solution for us we all sort of adepts for so fast it's easier to pull out of the euro portugal ireland i did here and also spare in

a new to it from the beginning the only question was right now it's there in fact year zero skeptics feel that drastic german government action may be needed if europe's dominant economy is to avoid being swamped in the economic mire which is so called carex it or greek exit could cause the only logical to your solution for this problem where we are in is that germany parts of germany has to pull out of the euro then the new currency that we have will go through the sky we will have big difficulties because sasha not so long but we can live with it we can cope with it but it's not just here in germany that a post greek eurozone is being discussed finance ministers from all member states have been drawing up contingency plans to try and determine how a greek exit would affect their economies european leaders continue to throw their

support behind greek single currency membership the country's rerun elections next month are rapidly looking like a referendum on the euro in everything but name france's socialist president speaking after the informal summit looked like a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than austerity. if . it was mentioned that we would be using the structural fund to support the growth efforts of greece as well so that the greek voters can be confident as to what support will come after june the seventeenth you so as the future of greece in the eurozone enters what could be its final act toppy you figures say it's all down to its people let's wait for the people of greece to have their say on the seventeenth of june. and we were told. by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait at the real of the greek people but it's wait and see time but with deep

resistance in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis peter all over. well so much for the political cost of the greek crisis whatever at r.t. dot com we have more on the human cost it about how a six year old greek musician and his ninety one year old mother jumped to their deaths at the moment the crisis destroyed their livelihoods. also online a parliamentary punch up debate descends into a ding dong proved to be pretty and peace over a bill that would make russian the second official language in parts of the country to little video at r.t. dot com. iran and a group of six world powers will hold further nuclear talks in moscow next month the decision was made to negotiations in baghdad the sides exchanged proposals but no agreement was reached but world powers want iran to stop enriching uranium in

exchange for incentives which it refuses to do pain turn declined calls to ease economic pressure on terror on the spot it agreeing to allow u.n. inspectors into a military site that suspected of carrying out nuclear weapons related research political consultant. says holding more meetings is unlikely to bring about a meeting of minds. you know i look at iran and the west as sort of like mars vs venus they want completely different things even if the west was inclined to ease the sanctions that are proposed for july and they can't simply turn off the spigot and that's exactly what iran wants iran's not going to get what it wants probably the west isn't going to get what it wants either there are some optimists out there about this process i don't happen to be one of them in the west i think what the west and israel are looking for is something which iran is simply not going to give

them they're looking for a complete cessation of enrichment they're looking for a reversal of a process that has gone on for more than a decade now i just don't see how this is going to happen fortunately there's plenty of oil in the world markets and those nations that need to find alternative sources of oil are likely to be able to do so and those nations that have become accustomed to working with the iranian central bank will find other ways to do business with iran if that's what they need to do. some other stories we're around the world now ethnic clashes that the border between the kenya fast and mali in west africa have left thirty people dead more than a thousand displaced fighting erupted three days ago between opposition tribal groups and the land rights the source of the dispute is an agreement which allows herders in uniform say to take their livestock to camps in mali tension has been on the rise in the border region since monday's president was ousted in the coup two

months ago. washington has punished is the nevada for the jailing of don't know who is cia trying some of the larger us senate committee has decided to cut pakistan's aid thirty three million dollars a million for each year of the prison sentence. he was accused of running a fake cia vaccination program as part of the hunt. the former high in the u.s. special forces killed bin laden last may during a raid on his compound in the city of about about. costa rica and mexico are on high alert as two separate volcano shows signs of interruption their activity has been increasingly high for the past few weeks as they speak huge clouds of ash and fiery rock. authorities have already alerted millions of residents about possible evacuation from the surrounding areas.

islamic militants might be using religion to justify their audience but now the u.s. army has been accused of doing the same the training of american soldiers has been infiltrated by islamophobia the idea that the u.s. is fighting a war against islam there were a view of all training textbooks has been awarded the p.r. damage might already have been done so he's going to church and of course. the u.s. marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched this name from where walls to crusaders the symbol invoking christian conquest and colonization of muslims during the middle ages has been freshly painted on the squadrons f. eighteen fighter jets. by doing this by making us look like. exactly what we are which is the ten version of the nine prior to say which began in the year ten ninety six we do three things and they all begin with the letter go we had a rage our islamic and our allies we embolden our islamic enemies this is the game

and then we could do nothing more that serves as an example or a lubricant for already angry and pissed off young islamic men and women mr weinstein says this is not the first time his foundation has to fight to remove crusaders symbols used by u.s. military but it's not just symbols the idea that the u.s. is fighting a war against islam has infiltrated american military training the most recent incident involved a corps teaching senior officers at the joint forces staff college that quote the u.s. is ad war with islam and we are to just recognize that we're at war with islam end of quote in response to a public backlash over the leaked information the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey ordered to probe into entire islamic training. mikey weinstein told us about a separate incident of the same kind we have the absolute eyewitness testimony where it's very very clear that the statement made is we have to kill it is law and

this is to the cadets of the air force academy where every american citizen to put it to put it through earlier force academy annapolis or west point cost four hundred thousand dollars and this is what they're being told this fundamentalist christian crusader. or seem was axed and not only the air force academy and all over the you know the united states air force but it was just as bad in the marine corps navy and army in this video game questions are killing muslims a few years back it was a wildly popular game among the american troops poker players choice to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of the leaders to show you the opposition. mikey weinstein says their organization helped stop the game from being delivered to u.s. troops serving the broad gotta stop how it's getting into the care packages and being being shipped over all of our troops i guess along with toothbrushes and you know packets of peanuts there's a perception among many muslims that the u.s.

is on a crusade in the islamic world but some argue it's more based on the idea of transforming the region rather than imposing the religion on them via regional sin of this entire enterprise which was the carter doctrine really positive. through the use of american hard power we were going to be able to shape and determine the destiny of a very large part of the world when are we going to acknowledge that we are not going to be able to determine the fate of one point four billion muslims we don't have the wisdom we don't have the will we don't have the wallet what do you hear in the speeches by u.s. officials is usually something along these lines we're waging wars in muslim countries by terror. democracy peace and so on you'll never hear the words say what kind of a message does it send when their own dreams call themselves the seders and put

logos on their warplane i'm going to check out reporting from washington. now just ahead moscow out team takes you to one of the capital's prettiest parks which has its fair share of adventure activities as well. it's not going to be a big. the work itself. can be done. by take my first steps here it's obvious i need courage to take on this challenge not for the faint. here we go. talk about a good life how to turn off the calories i'm a grown strong guy but i have to admit it's a little scary up here i now have to go on a bike helmets. i'm going to play but it's a great example and it's you can enjoy the moment. for me.

little one small school. system in five minutes time. now to check in with our business. hi carrie thank you well all eyes are on europe right now which on the thursday's trade in session in the black investors are more optimistic today after italian prime minister mario monti said that greece would stay in the euro zone and that they're working towards the joint issuance of europe markets always react positively after comments like that let's take a look at how the asian trading session is go in there as you can see there it's a mixed picture some of the markets have a reverse earlier gains in china and by something said about the path of all the country's growth we can see that hindsight point three percent this hour with

a look at the u.s. markets there right now working but where is the picture from thursday's close and it's a mixed picture there as well and besser is more optimistic after the comments made in europe but uncertainty remains and that is why the guys that drop low are losing almost one of the four percent and highlight or perhaps disappointment was so. pretty and poll which shares almost seven percent and that's after the jewelry retailer lowered this twice it's well forecast for profit and sales citing a lower demand domestically and overseas it would take a look at currencies and see what the numbers there are the euro is losing against the dollar but it's pretty much what i should say when it comes to the ruble it lost against both major currencies on thursday and will tell you the latest figures for that when the russian markets open which is in about two hours from now if we take a look at how the russian markets at the trading session on thursday after and be

trading session they did manage to reverse some losses and ended the session on the positive note to see that the r.t.s. added one point eight percent of all of them i said stay over it see percent there and oil always has a significant impact on the russian market and prices there are heading south once again in fact they're also around of one a person this week and it was the fourth weekly the client and it's been the longest losing streak since all this well then other news we have russians need in search engine index which apparently it has become the country's a main media resource every search firm analytics says that for the first time the data number of people visiting the web site exceeded the number of viewers of any russian t.v. channel and that research from as c.n.n.'s and market players say the growing popularity of that sweets an increase in its advertising profits which could become the biggest in the country's media already next year however when it comes to news

the latest opinion polls show that seventy two percent of russians still get them from c.b.s. . and that's good enough for us i guess carrie. thanks for the update marina or london a few minutes we'll go to the extremes to expose new corners of the russian capital something update of our top stories all.

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