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focusing live from moscow you're watching r.t. 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 but world bodies latest report on the country says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire un commission says the majority of abuses have been committed by the syrian army but also cases of armed rebels executing captured soldiers and pro-us at supporters as well as civilians bundling based activists are one half. that has no knowledge the opposition goal of balance is a positive step. clearly i'm 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 the sort of a majority but we're getting there fourteen months on 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 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 for flight in university there is a sort of it is asian of the syrian forces. of committing such a crime but this person called years in our blood 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 of the information they're getting . or social media is playing a vital role in a serious conflict as both sides try to shape the mystic and international opinion in their favor chilling videos of acts of brutality the power to go viral and be broadcast on a global t.v. networks but sometimes the pictures aren't everything they appear to be may find that some of the images in on a boycott report disturbing. 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 receive forms of social media often say

that without facebook you tube or whether the arab spring wouldn't help been so sweeping or so contagious but there is also a growing number of those who believe that without these websites the arab revolutions wouldn't have been so deadly and so destructive. this may be the most disturbing video from the syrian frontline says he had an opposition activist allegedly buried alive by process troops the backstory claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to stand to al-jazeera whatever his initial footage was in terms of the impact it was no match for his alleged execution which ran 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 or 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 prosser troops 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 got used to those i mean this is happening now for one in. the head of a leper 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 his car this is the number of his law by this is where he can we 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 years. because of two months ago because the wind was martyred . muhammad was more likely the president of aleppo student union he was kidnapped a few days after his name and photo surfaced on facebook. 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 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 but 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 side it's so far failed to do anything to stop the calls for the killing of his supporters and many like the social activist believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to divert the foods 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 until some start using it as a cover to rob and kill a club worker artsy aleppo syria. the first round of egypt's historic presidential election is now over the counter expected to continue over the weekend dozen candidates into a place like it was four star general position fifteen months ago front runners are islamists and former regime officials muslim brotherhood has already announced it's contenders leading in the polls if their candidate wins more than fifty percent of

the vote and i know between top tier will take place next month rather short as of yet the trees into detention kyra based journalist. say that's creating tension computer howling. 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 derive 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 then you could assume.

there is a conflict of interest for the both of them would like to maximize their power and some people and some analysts this is peace if islamists lose. the presidential. seat. parliamentarian system rather than a presidential system so leaving is a matter of the constitution until we get a new president. it's quite good it is. well coming up on r t nuclear negotiations find out about the latest diplomatic efforts aimed at persuading terry on to end its nuclear research talks now set to head to moscow next month. and then garson the u.s. military operates twice exposed and to treat including the train some trees. nearly seven hundred arrests have been made overnight in canada during the latest

protest in quebec against a huge planned rise in student tuition fees the rallies have been ongoing for more than one hundred days in attempts to quell calenders most sustained student demonstrations ever protests adopted emergency loans restricting protests the controversial measures have only fueled public discontent activist and you have in martial the situation in quebec it's only part of a global problem. 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 more repressive passing bill seventy eight last week 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 or 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. eurozone nations are rushing to shield themselves from the shock waves should greece rejected. balun to the single currency he was making plans for closer ties to strengthen the block the divisive issue of joint borrowing once again on the table although reports now expectations placed on the region's strongest and weakest economies. should they stay or should they go germany's. is adamant to your mind is that for my bought i would like to say that i think we agree we want greece to remain in the euro zone we know that it's 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 a view certainly not shared by all but if it what happens if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this will spill 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 spain and italy that 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 you 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 difficulties big recession and so on but we can live with it we can cope with it well 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 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 will not. by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait at the wheel 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

but over at r.t. dot com with more on the human cost about how a sixty year old greek musician and his ninety one year old mother jumped to the deaths. of a prominent isis destroyed their. also online today a parliamentary punch up heated debate descends into a ding dong between ukraine and he's over a bill that would make russian the second official language in part of the country see this fisticuffs in full. iran and the 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 the world powers want iran to stop enriching uranium in exchange for incentives which refuses to do pain turned decline calls to ease sanctions on tehran despite agreeing to a down u.n. inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out nuclear weapons related research it's

a consultant says holding meetings is unlikely to bring about a meeting of minds. you know i look at. 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 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. i 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 market 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 around the world for you now ethnic clashes at the border between the car sale in mali in west africa left thirty people dead more than a thousand displaced fighting erupted three days ago between opposing tribal groups over land rights the source of the dispute is an agreement which allows herders in the universe and to take their livestock to camps in mali tension has been on the rise in the border region since bonnie's president was ousted in the coup two months ago. washington has punished islamabad for the jail you have if you don't go to the cia track down osama bin laden u.s. senate committee has decided to cut pakistan's aid by thirty three million dollars

a million each year of the prison sentence given to shock you afridi he was accused of running a fake cia vaccination program as part of the hunt for the former leader u.s. special forces killed bin laden during last major in a raid on his compound in the city of about a. french president francois hollande has made a surprise visit to afghanistan is expected to discuss the upcoming withdrawal of french troops from the country alone that made a campaign promise to bring the french combat forces back by the end of this year and. and during his recent visit to the u.s. where nato summit plan said though that france losing afghanistan in one military ways. costa rica and mexico on high alert as two separate volcanoes showing signs of imminent eruption their activity has been increasingly high for the past few weeks as they spew out huge clouds of ash and

fire iraq with origins have already alerted millions of residents about possible evacuation from the surrounding areas. islamic militants might be using religion to justify their vote it's another u.s. army has been accused of doing the same it's been forced to drop one of its training courses claims it was teaching islamophobia the truth the idea that the us is fighting a war against islam though a preview of textbooks has been awarded the p.r. might already have been done a lot he's got a chicken. the u.s. marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched his 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 tenth version of the nine prior to say which began of the year ten ninety six we do three things and they all begin with the letter. we had a rage our islamic and our allies we embolden our islamic enemies this is the gun 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 of course teaching senior officers at the joint forces staff college that quote the u.s. is at 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

materials 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 air of the air 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 extend not only force academy at all over the you know the united states air force but it was just as bad in the navy and army in this video game christians are killing muslims a few years back it was a wildly popular game among the american troops oh please your 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 we got it stopped how it was 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 riginal 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 to fight terror bring about democracy peace and so on we'll never hear the words. but what kind of a message does it send when their own rules. call themselves the seders and could proceed along borders on their warplanes i'm going to check our reporting policy. well just ahead team takes you to one of the capitals pucks because it's thanks sharon adventure activities as well. it's not maybe a big hit i've got my helmet on my brief tutorial how to work this stuff like a car. as i take my first steps here it's obvious i need the courage to take on this challenge not for the faint hearted here we go. talk about a good way how to turn off the calories i'm

a grown strong guy but i have to admit it's a little scary i now have to go on a bike on the road i'm going to play but it's a great example and it's even if you're in a coma. but for me. it was a small squat isn't just over the head nutty now though it's time to get the latest from the world of business is there hi there so we understand there's been some news about the popularity of russian t.v. . kerry and in fact apparently it's not t.v. that russians are interested in as of russia's top search engine is the one that beat all the t.v. channels in terms of the number of viewership now the research was done by analytics firm at sea and the us and for the first time the daily number of people

visiting their website exceeded the number of viewers of any other t.v. russian russian t.v. channel market player say the growing popularity. next will lead to an increase in its advertising profits which could become the biggest in the country's media by next year however when it comes to news the latest opinion polls show that seventy two percent of russians still get them from t.v. . right something to look at the markets asia is the only one trading right now and the numbers there are a mix the nikkei is adding points to two percent of all the hang side and still lower lucent point three percent and investors are mainly concerned about everything that's happened in europe we got some positive comments yesterday from a town of prime minister mario monti who said that they will do everything they can to make sure that who stays in the euro zone so the ultimate sense mint is coming from there however chinese investors are worried about the health of the path all

of the countries of growth and that's why we've seen that it's of figures there in the hong kong now moving on to the u.s. and that they're trying to session mixed as well there on the thursday who saw that the nasdaq slipped into negative territory and that was a mainly due to the uncertainty that still remains in europe decides even though we are getting the positive comments we still don't know for sure and that's where we see in fall it's all sessions in markets across the board at this appointment there was stuff in the in cold and the shares are dropped almost seven percent that's after the jewelry retailers said that it's twelve twenty twelve forecasts would be lower in terms of profits and sales and a decline in demand for its products overseas and the mess that it would take a look at the currencies the euro is still losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble those figures are all from thursday's trading session and their losses against both major currencies and we'll give you the updated figures for that when the russian markets open which is

a little less than an hour from now and basically a ball we see with thursday session is that then that on the poles of nautilus the choppy session throughout the day russian markets writers to bring it back and they ended r.t.s. adding one point eight percent was my sex out it over supersize and they're now oil prices are headed south once again which is never good news for the russian markets and we'll see how there are you reacting to that plan they open. this is that last over one percent this week it was the fourth decline in the ever all fourth weekly the card i should say and in general has been the longest losing streak since all those so don't bear the news for russell investors but this is what i have for you this hour terry back to you ok thanks mary and i will speak to you again soon but shortly we reveal the secrets of russia's answer to silicon valley first up and you the headlines.

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