syria's last chance the u.n. chief says that peace plan is the holy option to end the fighting despite your organization slamming both sides for gross human rights are violated. in egypt the muslim brotherhood candidate claims the lead in the presidential race is setting the stage for a potential runoff showdown with mubarak's last prime minister. detention first seven hundred students from mass arrests and out of this increasingly riotous rallies over college fees but the demonstrators refuse to back down.

six pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story at least two people have been killed after syrian government forces opened fire on protesters demanding the resignation of president assad the violence comes after the un's chief said kofi annan peace plan is syria's only hope despite a new report from the world body accusing both sides of gross human rights abuses the document says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire putting most of the blame for the abuses on the syrian army but has also filed pieces of armed rebels torturing and executing capture the soldiers and pro assad supporters as well as abducting civilians as artie's excited boyko discovered the opposition is becoming shrewd at using the internet though to push its agenda just a warning you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. cashback change status update freedom social media have often been credited for empowering the arab

youth invest triangle to shake off decades old talk crissy fans of social media say that without. facebook you tube or twitter the arab spring wouldn't health been so sweeping 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 back story claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to santa 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 i mean while 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 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 days some plays book pages really look like hit list but we got used to those only this is happening now for one in. the head of aleppo chamber of industry says many of his fellow businessman found their photos and personal details posted on the opposition's web sites with explicit callings to murder them this is the car his car this is the number of 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 their thirty's this is a national hero. for us sports became them two months ago they killed him in twelve hours. mohammed was more likely the president of aleppo 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 kidnap them for ransom. while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported by charlotte sod it 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 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. irrational relations expertly rockwell says that in despite of all the talk of establishing peace or regime change is the real goal being pursued by the west. all this trouble in syria's been stirred up by the u.s.

by its allies israel and britain france and so forth to overthrow the syrian regime to cause trouble to get rid of the last secular arab regime bring in al qaida the us is on the son of al qaeda in syria just as it was in all those years ago in afghanistan against the russians and it's causing trouble so the u.n. finally has to admit a little bit that the people it's associated with that is the u.s. and its and its allies are causing the trouble they still claim that the assad government is the real problem i'm no fan of the assad government or any government for that matter but this all started these deaths or the vast majority of these deaths are the fault of the u.s. government when they break up syria look at this troy syria just as it destroyed iraq is like they're trying to destroy a van a stand to make the whole middle east a a playing field for the u.s. for its military for its oil interests and so forth to take over everything destroy everything from everything divide and conquer and so forth so it's

a very ancient story but it's a very sad and rotten story. some countries arming disparate groups of unknown rebels is a dangerous game for others it's a mission statement as we report online the u.s. reportedly a step away from shipping arms to syria and looking at how to select the correct members of the opposition who won't point the u.s. guns the wrong way plus the filthy luger in the holy city the vatican's bank chief gets the boot over money laundering accusations details at r.t. dot com. counting under way after two days of voting in the first round of egypt's presidential race with the results to early next week the country's biggest political force the muslim brotherhood already claims its candidate is leading the

pack mahmoud mercy's expected to face off in a second round against ousted president mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik the runoff will happen in the middle of june the muslim brotherhood controls nearly half the country's parliament and mercy has pledged to usher in a shari'a law if elected there's a growing concern in egypt about how much control the ruling military council is ready to cede and the absence of a new constitution paves the way for a power struggle according to some observers. when we've called for to have a constitution should be for this. most of the egyptians have voted for that we have to get elected parliament and then we can do the. constitution but currently most of the people say if we have a president who. would have a constitutional responsibility clearly. could the situation is sponsibility can make a conflict between different political factions and between the parliament and then

you put is that and since both of them would be irresponsible for then you could assume. that is a conflict of interest of the both of them would like to maximize their power and some people and some analysts this is peace if islamists lose as. it is and then. a. parliamentarian system rather than a british and system so leaving is a method of the constitution until we get a new president. it's a quite good it is. a cat it is increasingly violent student protests are nearly seven hundred arrests wednesday night alone the back rallies have now been going on for more than one hundred days many of those detained were carted off in public buses that police had converted into temporary holding patterns demonstrations swelled after quebec's government pastor bergan scene was last week making protests

more difficult to organize montréal based journalist adam kovacs says there is no sign either side will back down any time soon. i honestly can't tell you were constant mass arrests everything after met colleagues that i've spoken to you and people who are very. touched off this mass arrest was a thrown water bottle if that some people claim to have not even seen that well i even people who don't agree with the students' point of view aren't you we should have been very critical kind of we said been handled. themselves there was a video that went viral of the police storming on to a bar how do you know and pepper spraying after a chair was thrown most of the people who were on that have you know were just there to be a barbecue they weren't there as part of a protest peacefully pressure is mounting from both sides on a conventional government be seeing pressure people are kind of sick of these protests going on there's an election coming up and students really show no signs of slowing down so if you in terms of an end in sight it's very hard to see how

this will resolve itself or when still to come in the program britain's not playing fair with the olympic gasless the country banning world leaders accused of human rights abuses from attending the games though the king of bahrain accused of violence at home has been to dine with the queen. crusaders in the us military we report on the training that taught some troops that islam is the enemy . but first a game of brinksmanship playing out in the dilemma over greece staying or quitting the euro economists see europe some money mad offering athens nothing but more austerity even though greek voters are increasingly likely to do reject that next month artie's peter all of our reports. should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant to feel 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 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 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 euro portugal ireland i did here and also spain and there to be had from the beginning the only question was where right now it's there in five 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 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 the seventeenth. so as the future of greece in the eurozone 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 i was. by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do will 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 these are all other r.t. . friends banding world leaders who are committed human rights abuses from attending the london olympics but the king of bahrain who's regime is accused of torture and killings and an opposition crackdown still came to dine with the queen last week human rights activist peter tatchell says britain and the us give bahrain a pass and it all comes down to oil. quite clearly there is double standards going on the united states itself saying stands accused of many great human rights abuses in abu ghraib in iraq and afghanistan it will surely 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 or we attempt to stand for human rights and democracy and therefore collusion with to run a call regimes is completely against those principles britain and the united states

have long historic ties with bahrain of course the united states has its fleet naval fleet base there part 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 in arms deals i think also of course the royal family have a long historic tie with other rule families including the royal family of bahrain but 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide bomb at a police station in turkey has killed one policeman and injured sixteen other people it two attackers tried to ram their vehicle into the building leading to

a gun battle with guards the bomb was detonated shortly after it's unclear who's responsible for the attack but the delay in the blame is being placed on a kurdish separatist group. president francois hollande to says the mission of french troops in afghanistan is complete and it's time for them to return home he made this statement a surprise visit to the country alon promised to bring french combat forces back by the end of two thousand and twelve a year earlier than first pled there around three and a half thousand french troops currently deployed in afghanistan. supporters of scottish independence launching a campaign friday to end the three hundred five year old union with britain within great britain the yes scotland campaign will seek a million signatures to win a referendum vote on the matter by twenty fourteen if backed by voters scotland could separate from the rest of the u.k. by twenty sixteen opinion polls show around forty percent of scots are sympathetic to independence. a privately owned space supply vehicle has docked with the

international space station it's the first ever commercial delivery to humankind's only outpost on the final frontier the young man dragon capsule was launched by an american company space x. whose billionaire owner helped create pay pal nasa is grounded space shuttle program and step back from orbital missions in favor of private companies. and this is live video that you're looking at of the capsule having docked with the international space station that we're bringing you from orbit. this again the first commercial trip to the i.s.a.'s. finally in this news block the u.s. military is training is being put under the microscope for blatant anti muslim elad elements from a course that taught islam is the enemy to crusade symbols on some fighter jets there is an urgent review currently underway into the situation but as our he's got a cheeky on reports from washington the p.r.

damage may already have been done. the u.s. marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched its 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 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 a corps 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 is law 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. or seem was axed and not only the air force academy at all over the you know the united states air force but it was. just as.

the marine corps navy and army in this video game christians are killing muslims a few years back it was a wildly popular game among american troops publicly or tries to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of nonbelievers after killing 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 the original 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 long you'll never hear the words say but what kind of message does it send when their own rules call themselves the satan and could say the locals on their warplanes i'm going to check out reporting from austin marty. let's head over to the business desk now katie pilbeam standing by to give us the latest of the big board numbers so how do things look hey that well the u.s. markets are just friends and that's very much feeling the pressure coming from the european region and that's what investors are focusing their attention on that.

because we've had a lot of pessimistic data coming out today a lot of concerns coming from the spanish banking system so let's have a look at how the u.s. is reacting to all of this at the moment as i was saying the spanish banking system now bank here which is a massive bank in spain they actually suspended their trading ahead of a board meeting to approve capitalize ation plan on the point is they need more money from the government that is was going on today and the u.s. markets as you can see the nasdaq's just wanted to climb up a fraction that just a tenth of the said and the dow jones around a quarter in negative territory this hour about spain as well spain's a ten year government bonds have also shots highest so american investors really focused on that spain today i get is get over to europe and see where the action is going on now they are continuing to a raise those gains that seem a distant memory earlier on in the session and it continues to be the mining and

the telecommunications stalls that are really having a pretty dismal day now the percent of the issuance of the euro bonds is now on the table and that's because the italian prime minister mario monti has said that e.u. leaders all the supporters of the. merkel we're not sure yet we're going to be holding tight for that one have a look at how these centers are all feeding into the common currency this hour we can see that it's had a rule challenging search one twenty five twenty six there for the traders very past the ruble as well that's going to be closing off in about ten minutes time or so and as we can see is are losing out to the u.s. dollar and the european currency this hour and that is investors really jump ship and get away from a risky like a movie or what have a quick snapshot of how the biggest blue chips here moscow are looking out with the russian markets as well to look at the also yes over a percent down on the my six around point two percent in negative territory and that's how it looks to be set to close today on the back but as i said. following

on from what's going on in europe here moscow and these are the biggest companies here with us but like that around nine tenth's of a percent down they've got to do going on with us denny's bank today apparently the deal is supposedly around three and a half billion dollars we've also got and you may just pretty saving the pictures a new color ross now getting set to finish the day on a down note i can't now i'm talking about a rush of russia's former prime minister who was in charge of the energy sector as well he's been reappointed as a c.e.o. of truck a dialogue chief economist chris weaver explains what that means for the company. that does lead to the speculation that this must mean that the state now intends to be like consolidate the sector make it bigger this is something that was talked about over the last decade of russia for example one point was talking about creating something similar to these around closer to one big company controlled by

the state controlling all the major energy so there's a lot of speculation right now there's no hard news but i think we can certainly say that with the appointment of mr such and it is more likely that we will see rust after acquiring other assets becoming bigger becoming a bigger player. you can see they all gaining traction this hour now a lot of because i did mention the german chancellor angela merkel now apparently. because it remains a big day she's apparently keeping the. absolutely looking forward to hearing more about that thanks very much for that update katie a few minutes we'll go to extremes. explores new corners of the russian capital but first headlines.

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