torture and human rights abuses rampant on both sides in syria the un report blames the regime and the rebels as balance rages on. testing times canadian police rounded up nearly seven hundred students refused to end their protests against our institution back to the fight commission. and eurozone countries scramble to stop the bloc from crumbling fashioning plans for unity case greece ops to go to learn. this is r.t. international news and comment twenty four hours a day welcome to the program 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 what is the latest report on the country says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six weeks to spark un commission says the majority of abuses have been committed by the syrian army but also filed cases of armed rebels executing captured soldiers and supporters as well as abducting civilians and on the base activists have says the fact the u.n. has now launched the opposition to 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 the

sort of a majority but we're getting there fourteen months the line there are polishing 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 friend from the falls flat in university and 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 or so it's a working 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 . 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 the global t.v. networks but sometimes the pictures on everything they appear to be may find some of the images in on a book 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 decades old talk chrissy's 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 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 frontlines as we 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 sand to al-jazeera 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

prosser 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 days some of these book pages really look like hit list but we got used to those and this is happening now for one in. 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 law by this is where he could that 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 their thirty's this is a national hero. for sports big kill them two months ago they killed him in the

world market. muhammad was more likely 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 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 assad 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. have been like we can use it to divert the fruits or to kill and this they caught 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 or car to see syria. but any results from egypt's presidential elections the testing muslim brotherhood candidate is in the lead that they'll be a runoff next month but he against mohamed morsi could be a former prime minister. that's according to the brotherhood's own estimates more than half of the votes have been counted so far it doesn't contend is a place that was forced out by the country's revolution fifteen months ago if you are the actual piles of the president have yet to be defined by the country's

interim constitution a car a base journalists and fanzines that's creating a potential conflict of power in egypt. when we call before the. constitution should be furthest. most of egyptians 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 then you president since both of them will be responsible for the new constitution and 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 and. deserve

presidential presidential seat they may favor a 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. coming up on r t a nuclear negotiations find out about the next 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 to that excuse me june training of soldiers. nearly a seven hundred arrests have been made overnight in canada in the latest protest in quebec against a huge planned rise in student tuition fees that is have been getting more than one hundred days in an attempt to quell

a kind of his most sustained student demonstrations ever authorities adopt a new nation see laws restricting protests to the controversial measures have any field public discontent activists and you gavin marshall thinks the situation in quebec isn't 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 bills 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 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. the euro zone nations are rushing to shield themselves from the shock waves should greece rejected sonar sterrett in bow out of the single currency the e.u. is making plans for closer ties to strengthen the block with divisive issue of a joint borrowing once again on the table artie's peter all of a report some expectations placed on the region's strongest and weakest economists . should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant too 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 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 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 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 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 big difficulties because sasha meant so long 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 let the sellers be derailed by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do the will 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 these are all of a faulty bell in. well so much for the political costs of the greek crisis over on to dot com we have more on the human cost read about how a sixty year old greek musician that his ninety one year old mother coming to the

deaths from the floor apartment is a crisis destroyed their livelihoods. or so on live upon a metric ton chop heated debate descends into a ding dong between ukraine and pages of a bill that would make the russian the second official language in parts of the country full story behind the fisticuffs as a party don't come. it's easy to. download the official anti application to your i phone or i pod touch from the top

story. watch our life on the go. video on demand parties mine broadcasts and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. now iran and the group of six world powers will hold further nuclear talks in moscow next month the decision was made during the goshi ations in baghdad which russia described as positive despite some differences which remain the sides exchanged proposals but no agreement was reached national group wants iran to stop reaching uranium in exchange for incentives but she refuses to do they intend declined course to ease sanctions on tehran despite agreeing to the only spector's into military site suspected of carrying out nuclear weapons related research has been since it's now tehran's job to compromise with the u.s. and europe keep up the pressure political consultant daniel loudness says the gap

is too wide to clear 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. well there are some other stories we're around the world this hour suicide bombers have struck a police station in central turkey killing one officer injuring twenty other people it's like it's tried to ram a vehicle into the building leading to a clash with gods but the vice was then detonated soon after the fighting it's not known who is behind this sort. of. washington is punished is that a bad for the jailing of a doctor who helped the cia track down osama bin laden the u.s. senate committee has decided to cut pakistan's aid by thirty three million dollars a million for 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 al qaeda leader u.s. special forces who killed bin laden last major in a raid on his compound in the city of. french president francois hollande

says his country's troops have accomplished their mission in afghanistan and it's time for them to leave he was speaking while on a surprise visit to the country on it when a campaign promise to bring the french combat forces back by the end of this year earlier than planned however during his recent visit to the u.s. for a nato summit he said france would continue to support afghanistan in nonmilitary ways. there is a mix of 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 after claims it was teaching islamophobia they're trying the idea that the us is fighting a war against islam and their review of all textbooks has been awarded the p.r. damage might already have been done as artie's going it if you can the reports. the us marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched his name from where all this

took crusaders the symbol invoking christian conquest in 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 echo we have 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 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 anti 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 at the air force academy where every american citizen to put it to put it to death through air force academy annapolis or west point costs four hundred thousand dollars and this is what they're being told this fundamentalist christian crusader. or seem was extend 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 the american troops player tries to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of the. to show you the opposition will essentially be viewed mikey weinstein says their organization helped stop the game from being delivered to u.s. troops serving abroad 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 to 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 to fight terror bring about democracy peace and so on we'll never hear the words say but what kind of message does it send when their own remains call themselves for satan and could say to locals on their war plane i'm going to check our reporting from washington. let's check out all the business news now and cross over to marina hi carol we have lots of optimism here shares in european markets are going from strength to strength and they're led by germany it was like a look at the latest figures will see that the footsie is at a point three five percent. exactly this hour and i said that the gains are led by

germany and slater's that are shows that consumer confidence in the euro zone's biggest economy has now stabilized so it's provided a major boost for investors of course now elsewhere. in madrid spanish lender bankia the shares that have stock trade in that market regulators there say that that may affect the normal share trading and that's why it will stall now in russia it's been a lucky loss or should session markets pretty much from negative to positive shares we can see that the arts yes is good for three percent and we see that my six has now made the turn around and is in positive territory as well but as i said they have been gone back and forth pretty much of volatility not much in fact in there we could say that oil prices are going higher but then again the concerns about europe are still lingering that you know if you take a look at the individual and moves on them why sex. is still high added over half a percent local is also doing quite well and when it comes to suburban wilson all that is the only better to get circulars that that is banks so that's

a fact that investors because the deal is expected to we were three and a half a billion dollars now we don't sit well with currencies we see that they do euro is add in the against the dollar oil comes through the ruble this hour it's losing that guys are both major currencies oil wish i was rushing to tell you about earlier always has an effect on the russian economy and this time prices are heading higher that's after losing about one percent this week we've had a long losing streak that we can see that light sweet is out around ninety one dollars a barrel bright blenders out on one hundred and seven and in fact this week it had its longest losing streak since august but now things are turning around there now when it comes to the u.s. markets there are close by let's take a look at the trade as session on thursday it always has an effect on how markets perform the following day and it was a mixed picture investors were optimistic there after the italian prime minister mario monti said that they would do everything they can to make sure that greece

stays in the euro zone but the same dime that dropped lower and one of the disappointing shares there was the from the enco and that's because the shares dropped almost seven percent and the. so news that it will lower its once it's well forecast after demand is the climb in both domestically as well as overseas now in all the news of russia as a gas from could change one of its partners over the company's most promising offshore project or sunday newspaper says it is considering abandoning this partnership with and developing the gas which field in the barents sea gas from is in conflict with a norwegian for a mobile working schemes and reportedly wants to replace it with dutch shell the current partnership was also includes french so it's haul is expected to discuss with president vladimir putin later in the day. hi karen this is how the business of day looks out back to you ok good stuff thanks mike. shortly reveal the secrets russians are to silicon valley first with

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