torture and human rights abuse is rampant on both sides in syria a un report blames the regime on the rebels as violence rages on. testing times canadian police round up nearly seven hundred students refused to end their protests against plans to dramatically high commission fees. eurozone countries scramble to stop the block from crumbling rationing plans for unity in case greece opts to go to larry. plus russian markets. games i should say questionis boy europe follow suit and find out in the business update about.

live from moscow twenty four hours a day you're watching out 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 while the bodies latest report in the country says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week ceasefire the u.n. commission says the majority of abuses have been committed by the syrian army but also filed cases of armed rebels executing captured soldiers and crew assets supporters as well as abducting civilians london based activists i want half says the fact the un has no knowledge of the opposition roundabout and is a positive step. clearly making a sort of progress aren't we last time around i checked there was no ovation at all neither of the armed groups nor of their atrocities and this happened when. the

u.n. 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 fourteen months down the line there are quality that there are groups that are committing atrocities there is a bit of suspicion with regard to the real objectives of such organizations you know the human rights commission or the amnesty international who today accused the u.n. of being not fit for purpose for failing to have a decisive action with regards to syria now the u.s. has taken a decisive actions with regard to libya was that for the benefit of the libyan people now tens of thousands of dead libyans will 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 friend from the falls flat in the university and there is a sort of the syrian forces. of committing such a crime this person called us and i was actually a government supporter or so it's a welcome step the mayor of acknowledged 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 on 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 local t.v. networks but sometimes the pictures on everything they appear to be may find some of the images in oksana porkers report now disturbing. hash tag change status update freedom social media have often been credited for empowering the arab youth

in their struggle to shake off the decades old chalk receive fans of social media often say that without facebook or twitter the arab spring wouldn't have been so sweeping or so contagious 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 troops the backstory claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to santa all just era where 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

you tube 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 prosecute supposedly carrying out the regime's brutalities. but what started as staged killings for social media consumption is now leading to quite real deaths in syria these somebodies book pages really look like hitlist got used to this and this is happening enough i want to. the head of a leopard 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 low bar this is where he lives go kill him go down get him and these anon 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. yes sports became them two months ago they killed him in march. 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. i believe that my abduction was directly linked to my political activity i received many threats over the phone but one dimensionally they did what they promised. to do unwavering in his political allegiances mohammed sas his family had to pay a ransom to free him included a car a laptop and around tampa thousand dollars but. what's happening now in syria is that we have some people who participate in peaceful demonstrations and whose demands we support about this there are also a lot of those were trying to take advantage of the current situation to seize

people's properties or kidnapped them for ransom. while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported by charlotte's 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 doesn't like we can use it to the fruits of the kill and they caught i mean it is ultimately at the core of the syrian crisis there is nothing wrong in calling for more freedom from start using it as a cover to rob and. artsy aleppo syria. the first round of egypt's historic presidential election is now over the counting expected to continue over the weekend was the brotherhood has claimed a runoff between its candidate mohamed morsi and the former prime minister next month doesn't contenders are hoping to

a place that has forced the country revolution fifteen months ago i mean while the actual powers of the president have yet to be defined by the country's interim constitution car. based journalist you see that's creating tension time in egypt. when we call the four of 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. would have a constitutional responsibility clear the. constitution as sponsibility as that can make a conflict between different political factions and between the parliament and then you president since both of them will be responsible for the new constitution and there is

a conflict of interest of the both of them would like to maximize their power and some people and some analysts as peter if islamists lose as deserved because eventually. presidential seat they may favor to have a 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 a nuclear negotiations find out about the latest diplomatic efforts aimed at persuading tehran to end its nuclear research talks now set to head to moscow next month. and embarrassment for the u.s. military after it was twice exposed and to islam attitudes including to the training of soldiers. 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 the thames to quell canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever don't is adopting new emergency laws restricting protests the controversial measures have only fuels public discontent activist and ugandan marshall thinks the situation in quebec is a part of the 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 crackdown a 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. eurozone nations are rushing to shield themselves from the shock waves to greece rejected zone austerity and bow out of the single currency the e.u. is making plans for closer ties to strengthen the bloc divisive issue of joint borrowing once again on the table artie's peter all of the reports now on the expectations placed on the region strongest and weakest economists. 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 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 blunders bank 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 if it would happen if it would 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 every problem is solved 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 europe or to go ireland i did here and also spain and italy but from the beginning only question was where 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 corrects

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 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 the rapidly looking like a referendum on the euro and everything but name france's socialist president speaking after the informal brussels summit looked like

a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than a sturdy. 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. so as the future of greece in the euro zone enters what could be its final act top e.u. 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 let ourselves be derailed by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do we'll of the greek people but it's a wait and see time but with deep resistance in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis peter all of. their lives. are so much for the political costs of the greek crisis but over the r.t.

dot com we have more on the human cost about how a sixty year old greek musician and his ninety one year old mother don't to their debts if the apartment is a crisis to spread the line it's. also online today a parliamentary punch up heated debate descends into two in ukraine and peace over a bill that could make russian the second official language in parts of the country . the story behind the fisticuffs that didn't come. now iran and a group of six world powers will hold further nuclear talks in moscow next month the decision was made during the gauche nations in baghdad the sides exchanged proposals but no agreement was reached and world powers want to round to start in which a rate of exchange for incentives which it refused to do they may turn declines are calls to police actions on tehran despite it agreeing to allow u.n. inspectors into military site but suspected of carrying out nuclear weapons related

research washington says it's now tehran's job to even out the differences in western europe keep up the pressure political consultant. says the gap is now too wide to close through talks. 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 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 the 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. because a lot of stories from around the world at this hour ethnic clashes at the border between. mali in west africa have left thirty people dead and 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 holders in . to take their livestock to camps in mali or tension has been on the rise in the border region since mom is president was asked to the coup two months ago. washington is punished islamabad for the jailing of. cia track down osama bin laden

u.s. senate committee has decided to cut pakistan's aid by thirty three million dollars million for each year of the prison sentence given to freely he was accused of running a fake cia vaccination program as part of the hunt for the former al qaeda leader u.s. special forces killed in the last raid in a raid on his compound in a city of about. french president francois alone has made a surprise visit to afghanistan expected to discuss the upcoming withdrawal of french troops from the country on a campaign promise to bring french combat forces back by the end of this year earlier than planned however during his recent visit to the u.s. for later summit he said france will continue to support afghanistan in nonmilitary ways. costa rica and mexico on high alert as two separate volcanoes are showing signs of interruption their activity has been

increasingly high for the past few weeks as they spew out huge clouds of ash and fiery rock in the forty's have already in the millions of people about possible evacuation from the surrounding areas. islamic militants might be using religion to justify their violence but now the u.s. army has been accused of doing the same it's been forced to drop one of its training courses off the claims it was teaching is them a phobia they're trying the idea that the u.s. is fighting a war against islam and though a review of all the textbooks has been awarded the p.l.o. dommage might already have been done so it is going to take on reports. the us 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. but 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 enrage 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 accelerant 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 ought 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 islam and this is to the cadets at the air force academy where every american citizen to put a bullet could have through or 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 mean mom or seem was extant not only the air force academy at 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 american troops poker player tries to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of nonbelievers after killing the opposition will

essentially redeem you mikey weinstein says their organization helped stop the game from being delivered to u.s. troops serving abroad 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. 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 the original sin of this entire enterprise which was the carter doctrine really posited. 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 you'll never hear the words say but what kind of message does it send when they're all means call themselves proceed and could proceed to locals on their warplane i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . now later on bosco out to team it takes you to one of the capitals most picturesque parks which has its fair share of adventure activities as well. ok it's time for me to be a big hit i've got my helmet my honest my briefcase oriel how to work this stuff. because you know. if i take my first steps here it's obvious i need courage to take on this challenge not for the faint hearted here we

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the euro zone and you can see that optimism reflected in the figures that the dax is adding point seven percent whereas the footsies just the knowledge and of course even though fears remain about the so-called gregg's that as we heard and the comments like that do help investors and we've seen figures going out poised but it's still early in the session suv thing if we will see them heading higher even more now let's move on to russia it's now a little bit over an hour into the session here and we can see that the figures have now reversed earlier losses and now they're heading as a positive. territory the my six is out in a half a percent this hour and what's also helping russian investors in the fact that oil prices are going to our let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my six oil majors haven't had a chance to react so much to the oil prices yet because oil prices before where heading south in fact they lost one percent this week and also talk about that a little bit later but as you can see is for a bank is higher and that's because it's become the only better it's

a boy bank denise bank an analyst said the deal could be worth three and a half a billion dollars there let's take a look at currencies and see what's happening there when it comes to the euro it's again in against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble this hour it's gotten against both major currencies and then if we look at oil prices finally as i've said they've lost about a percent this week it's been the longest losing streak in since all this and there we go with every verse earlier losses was that light sweet is trading close to ninety one dollars a barrel when it comes to the bright line it's a little bit over one hundred six dollars a barrel moving on to asia it was a mixed picture earlier on but now both markets are in positive territory and that's despite the fact that chinese investors are said to be concerned about the path of all of the country's future and economic growth and we see that in the case at any point two percent and the hang hand sign is similarly in the back there now

when it comes to the u.s. the markets there are closed they ended the session mixed there was some optimism following the comments in by the new york of course by the nasdaq that slipped lower and one of the disappointing the straps there was tiffany and co it dropped almost seven percent and that's on news that it has lowered the twenty's while forecast for sales and profit amid declining demand in overseas as well as the mess that could be there now in other news of russia as the gas problem could change one of its partners in the company's most promising offshore project belin. proclaimers that is considered a back end of this partnership with science oil and that's the developer the gas rich software of fields in the barents sea gas from is in conflict with in the region from overworking schemes a report of you wants to replace it with dutch shell the chrome partnership which also includes french told style is expected from the scots with president vladimir putin later in the day i will of course keep you up to date as soon as we hear any

news on that story. ok thanks for that marina. in the few minutes speed lavelle in cross talk asks whether some of the world's super powers are truly interested in finding a peaceful diplomatic solution with iran itself an update of our top stories.

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