into the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. torture and human rights abuses rampant on both sides in syria a un report blames the regime and the rebels as violence rages on. testing times canadian police round up nearly seven hundred students who refused to end their protests against plans to dramatically hike jewish. euro zone countries scramble to keep the block from crumbling fashioning plans for unity in case greece opts to go it alone. three pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story both sides of the syrian conflict the government and opposition have been accused by the un of torture and

other serious human rights violations the world bodies latest report on the country says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite the shaky six week cease fire 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 pro assad supporters as well as abducting civilians london based activists are walk off says the fact the un has now acknowledged the opposition role in the violence is a positive step. book in the making a sort of progress on twee last time around. there was no mission it'll neither of the armed groups nor of their atrocities and this happened when the you in the 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 having the sort of a majority but we're getting there fourteen months down the line there are quality

that there are groups that those who saw committing atrocities so there's a bit of suspicion with regard to the victims of such organizations you know the human rights commission or the i mean. 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.n. has taken a decisive actions with regard to to libya but 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 that 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's flown from the falls flat in the university and there is a sort of accuse ation of the syrian forces. of committing such a crime this person called us and our group was actually

a government supporter or so it's a welcome step that they have a knowledge that there are groups but they need to take it a little bit further and really scrutinize more of the information they're getting social media plays a vital role in syria's conflict with both sides trying to shape domestic and international opinion in their favor chilling videos of acts of brutality have the power to go viral and be broadcast globally on television networks but sometimes pictures aren't everything they appear to be just a warning you may find some of the images that oksana boy calls 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 received fans of social media often say that without facebook or twitter the arab spring wouldn't have been so sweeping 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 troops the backstory claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to santa all just era how 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 project on the country 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 stage killings for social media consumption is now leading to quite real deaths in syria these somebodies book pages really look like hit lists we've got used to us 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 buy this is where he can we 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 for sports became them two months ago because i'm in world markets . mohammed was more like the president off aleppo a 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 town 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 this for them 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 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 fruits or to kill and these they caught him he 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 see syria. early results from egypt's presidential election suggest the muslim brotherhood candidate is in the lead and that there will be a runoff vote next month mohamed morsi could be either the former prime minister ahmed shafik or a leftist candidate. most of the votes have been counted but official results are expected to be announced next week the contenders are hoping to replace hosni mubarak who was forced by the country's revolution fifteen months ago meanwhile the actual powers of the office of the president yet to be defined by the country's interim constitution based journalist sonny fozzy thinks it's create. a potential conflict of power in egypt. when we call before 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 zanu 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 to speak 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 quite good it is. well stay with us here on our t.v. still to come this hour knowing enemy u.s. military brass calling for answers with the armed forces twice exposed befalls string and he muslim attitudes during the training of troops. but first nearly seven hundred arrests made in canada during the latest protest in quebec against a huge planned rise in student tuition fees rallies have been going on for more than one hundred days now and in an attempt to quell canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever authorities adopted new emergency laws restricting protests but the controversial measures of only fueled public discontent activists endure gavin marshall says the situation in quebec is 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 governments 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 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 if greece should reject its own austerity and ballad of the single currency the e.u. making plans for closer ties to strengthen the block with the divisive issue of joint borrowing again on the table parties peter all of our reports on the

expectations placed on the region strongest and weakest economies should they stay well should they go germany's angela merkel is. tiffin mine 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 the 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 europe or to go ireland i did here and also spain and italy but from the beginning the 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 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 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 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. 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 those films video by

those who want to promote speculative scenario let's wait i do we'll do 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 these are all of a billion. debt and cuts are reigning across the eurozone but in spain the crisis is putting even musical careers at risk. to spanish entry in saturday's euro vision song contest final being asked not to win because the country can't afford to host the next musical extravaganza. and also online a parliamentary hunch up heated debate descends into a dingdong between ukrainian m.p.'s over a bill that could make the russian the second official language in parts of the country the full story behind the first pick ups at r.t. dot com. the u.k.

says world leaders with records of human rights abuse in their countries will be banned from the london olympics but the question remains of whether the king of bahrain will make it on the list the regime is faced with allegations of torture and killings in an opposition crackdown but king hamad had lunch with the british queen only last week let's get more on this from human rights activist peter tatchell live from london thanks for being with us so we don't know if the invitation list is final yet but this general discrepancy why are it does it seem that there are some countries being treated differently than others. well quite clearly there is double standards going on the united states itself and stands accused of many great human rights abuses in abu ghraib in iraq in afghanistan it will surely induced definitely be on the invitation list but i think that the consensus of british people is that our government as a democracy should not be dealing with dictatorships we should not be going out of our way to embrace them and welcome them because we stand attempt to stand for

human rights and democracy and therefore collusion with tyrannical regimes is completely against those principles now the king of bahrain has attended a number of royal functions in london which has raised criticism from human rights activists why is the family still being favored. well i think it's partly because britain and the united states have long historic ties with bahrain of course the united states has its fleet naval fleet base there plus of course oil you know this is all i'm afraid all about money and profit making and i think time and time again we've seen sadly western governments that trumpet their support for human rights often put them in second place when it comes to lucrative oil and arms deals i think also of course the royal family have a long historic tie with other rule families including the world family about rain but as you point out given the very grave human rights abuses of recent times it

really is unconscionable that the british queen our head of state should be facing and welcoming the dictator of bahrain or you know that the bahrain center for human rights has documented at least fifty people killed in the protests crackdown by the government. about one half thousand people have been arrested and the only two thousand bahraini injured as a result of security force attacks including doctors and nurses who have been beaten and tortured because they help the injured and to me as a human rights campaigner i find it totally unacceptable and i think this is a view shared by most british people totally unacceptable that the leader of such a regime should be welcomed in britain. now and in other instances iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad he is not banned from the games of course he can attend but there are signs that he won't be getting

a very warm welcome if he does do you think this ban is targeting anyone specifically. well at the moment the governor's not made it official that there was a band and hasn't said what the band will constitute i don't think at the moment any world leader is specifically banned from entering the country i think they may be excluded from some of the events hosted by the british government and i would say to our government that it has to be consistent if you're going to make. a human rights a touchstone a a core value something that world leaders have to adhere to then you have to apply any restrictions systematically and consistently and so for example you know i think that's a very strong case for saying that president putin should not be invited if. he writes abusing government invited because russia of course stands accused by human rights watch and arms international very grave human rights abuses and i as one

stand with the russian people in their call for democracy and human rights for free and fair elections and this is a matter which has to be applied of course right across the board so saudi arabia swazi land darfur. sudan there are many many countries around the world where dictators reign and where i don't think they should be given a free ride and free welcome all right thanks very much for your insight peter tatchell human rights activists joining us live from london. free now to some other stories making headlines across the globe suicide bomber struck a police station in central turkey killing one officer and injuring twenty others right around their vehicle into the building leading to a clash with guards the device was then detonated soon after the fighting it's not known who was behind the assault. washington is punished islamabad for the jailing of a doctor who helped the cia try to 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 had into shock. he was accused of running a fake cia vaccination program as part of a hunt for the former al qaeda leader u.s. special forces killed bin laden last may during a raid on his compound in the city of about about. french president francois law and says the country's troops have accomplished their mission in afghanistan and it's time for them to leave you speaking while on a surprise visit to the country along he made a campaign promise to bring french combat forces back by the end of the year earlier than planned but during his recent visit to the u.s. for a nato summit he said france would continue supporting afghanistan in nonmilitary ways. finally in news block islamic militants use religion to justify their violence but now the u.s. military is being accused of doing the same it's been forced to drop one of its training courses after claims it was teaching islamophobia nurturing the idea that the u.s. is fighting a war against islam and the review of all textbooks has been ordered the p.r.

damage may already have been done as artie's guy reports. the us marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched his name from werewolves 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 in the year ten ninety six we do three things and they all begin with the letter. we and rage are islamic and 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 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 american troops player tries to recruit others in order to fight the enemy you believe bers to show you 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 via riginal sin of this entire enterprise which was the carter doctrine really. shrewd 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 waging wars in muslim countries to fight terror bring about democracy peace and so on you'll never hear the word say but what kind of message does it send when their own marines call themselves per se and could say the logos on their warplanes i'm going to check our reporting from washington. marina joins us now from the business desk with all the latest financial news what's up this hour. about the european markets the footsie has now

slipped into negative territory we knew that this optimism last very long it doesn't these days at the latest figures or see that the losing the half a percent the dax was losing but in fact on the screen you can see that it's down point but in fact point one five so there was a little bit of optimism is i'm still remain in europe now we know that in germany we had positive consumer confidence figures and confidence that had stabilized and that's what has investors basically going between gains and losses when it comes to that and the country now also we know that trading and or spanish lender bankia has been suspended in madrid and now we're hearing reports that the bank. asked more money from the government for a bailout of war the about nineteen billion dollars so that really has some european investors concerned there all right if we move on and take a look at russian markets here we had a pretty much hope the session and we can see the figures in now and negative says already the arts yes is losing almost one percent while the my sense is losing at

the border of a percent now among the reasons is of course concerns about the euro zone and that's the spine of the fact that we have a rise in oil prices this not only helps the russian economy and helps russian markets of course but not this time around the cycle that some individual share moves on the my sags it's a sea of red as you can see is burbank is down point seven percent and we know that it's one of the only betters for this or at least it's in the east bank and it's a deal reportedly worth around three and a half a billion dollars and we have oil majors of course losing we have a look well down just a bit and ralston that's down over a one the percent this hour now another reason russia's gasper on could change one of its partners in the company's most promising offshore projects according to commerce on daily newspaper it is considering abandoning this partnership with stacks of oil and that's to develop the gas rich soccer field in the barents sea gas from is in conflict with an old region for him overworking schemes and

reportedly wants to replace it with. now the current partnership which also includes french toads how is expected to be discussed with pricing there president vladimir putin later today. like to look at currencies and see what the latest figures are if i could see them i would tell you there we go the euro is again against the dollar as you can see that when it comes to the ruble it's now losing against balls we've had the revised been losing again and has been flat or near today this is that make sure in this hour enough we move on second look at oil prices and see what's happening there and i we can see that they're not again in light sweet is headed towards the new one dollars per barrel when it comes to the breadline is headed towards one hundred seven dollars per by. now or has lost about one percent this week it was its fourth week with the client since all this it was the longest. of course of investors. will have a next update for you thanks very much moreno for that. well remember stay with us

here on our g coming your way in a few minutes peter labelling cross-talk i guess we talk about whether some of the world's nuclear superpowers are interested in finding a peaceful and diplomatic solution with iran that's after an update of our top stories stay with us.

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