feinstein. starts on t.v. dot com. syria's last chance the u.n. chief says the peace plan is the only option now to end the fighting despite the organization slamming both sides for gross human rights abuses. in egypt a muslim brotherhood candidate claims the raid the lead in the presidential race there setting the stage for a potential run of show with mubarak's last prime minister. and detention for seven hundred students mass arrests in canada is increasing the furious rallies over college fees the demonstrators say they're refusing to stop.

there are now in moscow this is our. top story syrian opposition groups claim at least two people have been killed after government forces opened fire on protesters demanding president assad's resignation the violence follows the head of the u.n. saying kofi annan peace plan is syria's only hope no despite its new report accusing both sides of gross human rights abuses the document says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire and it puts most of the blame for the abuses on the syrian army but it also far cases of armed rebels torturing and executing captured soldiers and pro assad supporters as well as abducting civilians as xander boyko for r.t. found out the opposition is coming through to using the internet to push its agenda you may find some of the images report disturbing. cash tax change status update. 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 help been so sweeping so contagious there is also a growing number of those who believe that without these websites the arab revolutions wouldn't have been so deadly and so destructive. this may be the most disturbing video from the syrian frontlines as an opposition activist allegedly buried alive by process our troops the back story claims the victim was caught in possession of a video he intended to santa. 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 you tube videos are used by the opposition to justify a western backed regime change projects on the country 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 somebodies book pages really look like hit list but we got used to this and this is happening now if i want to. the head of a leper chamber of industry says many of his fellow businessman found their photos and personal details posted on the opposition's web sites with explicit callings to murder them this is the car his car this is the number of his car this is the number of his mobile this is where he completely lives go kill him go down get him

and these are not just empty threats dozens of public figures and government officials were gunned down in syria in recent months just for being perceived as sympathetic to the authorities this is a national hero for sports became them two months ago he killed them in twelve hours. mohammed was more lucky 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 this but when 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 activists believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to the fruits of the killed and these they car to 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 assad worker artsy aleppo syria. international relations expert the rockwell says that in spite of all the talk about establishing peace regime change is the real goal being pursued by the west. all this trouble and serious 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. us on the stuff in series just as it was in all those years ago in afghanistan against the russians and that's causing trouble so the un finally has to admit a little bit that the people it's associated with the u.s. and its allies are causing the trouble they still claim that government is the real problem i'm no fan of the assad government or any government but this all started these deaths or the vast majority of them are the fault of the us government when they break up syria look at a stronger syria just as they've destroyed iraq it's like they're trying to destroy a stand to make the whole middle east a playing field for the u.s. for its military its oil interests and so forth to take over everything destroy everything run everything divide and conquer and so forth so it's

a very ancient story but it's a very sad and rotten story. big time a group of lebanese shia muslims kidnapped in syria less than a week ago being released this raised fears that lebanon is getting dragged into its neighbors bloody conflict that's getting late so this developing story live in beirut for us is. even more it could see now we know what we know about why they were kidnapped in the first place is good news they've been released but what's the story behind this. well catherine kevin why this happened this is actually the question that still remains open we're hearing here in beirut that the lebanese pilgrims that kidnapped earlier on tuesday in syria have indeed been freed they all feel ok and they're all unharmed and there right now making their way back home but actually who was behind these kidnapping and why this happened and even who the lebanese negotiators have been in contact with all over their release we

have little information actually about this so far the incident happened on tuesday not far from the syrian northern city of aleppo near the turkish border the man were a tour in from iran through turkey and as soon as shortly after they crossed the turkish syrian border. their boss was stalked by gunmen the women from the boston roll released while the men were taken hostage again we have little information and actually it's not yet clear so far who exactly was behind this kidnapping but as. kidnapped and now freed pilgrims who are shia muslims and this incident happened in syria where the sunni led uprising had been raging for the last fourteen months of course shortly after the news of this kidnapping emerged many have started talking about religious and political reasons behind this kidnapping pointing finger at

syrian opposition especially free syrian army although the f.s.a. commanders immediately denied their involvement so why political reasons could be behind this kidnapping because shia here in lebanon on and of course in syria generally support the. present president assad the syrian president bashar assad and his regime while sunni. don't support it and. they back the rebels and the uprising. against the president bashar al assad but as i say a lot clearer exactly what happened and according to the latest reports they they were eleven hostages not thirteen as it was. initially syria we've been reporting extensively lately a conflict spill here the conflict in syria is reverberating through lebanon with him over a dozen people have died of me in the clashes in just the past week you're in

beirut yourself how tense is the situation there. well indeed this incident happened came at a movement over deep and rising tension inside lebanon over syria of the country and we can see every day everywhere he in lebanon is literally divided over syria the ruling coalition headed by sheer. hezbollah and used in communities all over eleven on support the regime of president bashar al assad while sunni communities. back the rebels and the uprising against president bashar assad and we've been witnessing several clashes recently here in beirut and. many other cities all over lebanon with at least eighty people. fall in value so it's been quite tense recently and fears have been growing that of the

conflict from syria is right now spilling over cross the border and that may lead lebanon itself to a civil war this is something people have been able to speak to here in lebanon have very much afraid because the country still recovering from previous war and a twenty two years ago and they say another war is just something they will not be able to survive but hopes are very high that this recent development of this keep nothing story this happy ending will be able to ease those tensions in the country roof emotional correspondent. bruce of the developing story tonight. coatings underway after two days of voting the first round of egypt's presidential election with results to early next week but the country's largest political force the muslim brotherhood already claims its kind that is leading the race mohamed morsi is expected to face off in the second round now against ousted president mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik got off will take place of middle of

june the muslim brotherhood controls in a half of the country's parliament mostly as pledged to usher in sharia law if he's elected a former israeli ambassador to egypt told r.t. that the islamist candidate is unlikely to go easy on television we have still a lot of time in two and a half weeks until the second round we might see offers counteroffers deals statements the collaboration's whatever the basic line is that who of this talk contender is going to win it is going to. be the one who became the prime minister and during that time. i think that he will be dedicated more for the domestic affairs and the domestic problems because there are huge there will be the muslim brotherhood is going to join forces with hamas in gaza and definitely he will support publicly overtly. the palestinian issue and this might put israel and egypt on

a track of pleasant statements between two capitals. calenders increasingly violent student protests on the seven hundred arrests on wednesday night the quebec rallies have now been going on for over one hundred days many of those detained were carted off in public buses which police converted temporary holding pens the demonstrations swelled after quebec's government passed emergency laws last week to make the protests more difficult to organize one troll based journalist adam kovacs says there's no sign that either side is set to budge any time soon. i honestly can't tell you what cons the mass arrests everything from our colleagues that are spoken to you and people who are there are they said that what 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 wish you have been very critical of how the police are going to handling themselves there was a video that went viral the police storming on to a bar how do you know and pepper spraying here in south korea chair was thrown most

of the people who were on that have you know were just there to be at the bar of it they weren't there as part of a protest are usually pressure is mounting from both sides of provincial government is the seeing pressure people are kind of sick of these protests going on there's an election coming out and students are really showing 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. a game of brinkmanship spinning played out of the dilemma over greece staying or quitting the euro economists see europe's money men offering athens nothing but more austerity even though greek voters are increasingly likely to reject that next month peter all of a british ship today. 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 bund as punk says the situation in greece is extremely worrying but isn't predicting the demise of the single currency should the greeks quit the euro a view certainly not shared by all if it won't 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 a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro zone and 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 euro portugal 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 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 difficulties because sasha 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 in 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. it was mentioned that we would be using the structural fund to support the growth of richard 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. by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do the 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 peter all of the r.t.

. more the days world news in brief a suicide bomb at a police station in turkey killed one policeman injured sixteen others two attackers tried to ram their vehicle into the building leading to a gun battle then with guards the bomb was detonated shortly after it's unclear who's responsible for the attack with planes being placed on a kurdish separatist group. president francois hollande says the mission of french troops in afghanistan is complete now and it's time for them to return home he made the statement while on a surprise visit to the country and promised to bring french combat forces back by the end of twenty twelve a year earlier than an initially planned there around three and a half thousand french troops currently deployed in afghanistan. borders of scottish independence launching a campaign on friday to end the three hundred five year old union with england within great britain the yes camp a will seek one million signatures to win a referendum vote on the matter in twenty fourteen if backed by voters scotland

could separate from the rest of the u.k. by twenty sixteen opinion polls show that around forty percent of scottish people are sympathetic to independence. it's a privately owned space supply vehicles docked with the international space station it's the first ever commercial delivery to humankind's only outpost on the final frontier that the unmanned dragon capsule was launched by american company space x. it was billionaire owner helped create pay pal instantly now says grounded its space shuttle program and step back from all brittle missions right now in favor of private companies like this. america's military straining is being put under the microscope for blatant anti muslim elements from a course that toward islam is the enemy through to crusade symbols on some fighter jets is now an urgent review on the way the president is going to teach you can reports from washington the p.r. damage may already have been. the u.s. marine fighter squadron one twenty two has switched his name from where walls to

crusaders the symbol invoking christian conquest and colonization of muslims during the middle ages has been freshly painted on the squadrons f. eighteen fighter jets. by doing this by making us look like. exactly what we are which is the tenth version of the nine prior to say which began of the year ten ninety six we do three things and they all begin with the letter echo we had a rage our islamic and our allies we embolden our islamic enemies this is the give me that 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 us 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 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 of the 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 x. to not only the air force academy at all over the you know the united states air force but it was. 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 poker player tries to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of nonbelievers to kill the opposition centrally bridie view mikey weinstein says their organization helped stop the game from being delivered to u.s. troops serving the broad gotta stop how it's 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 on we'll never hear the words say but what kind of message does it send when their own rules call themselves per se and could say to locals on their war plane i'm going to check out reporting from washington. you got me thought so much you can was captured and they were stories and comment on a website as well as catch up with business now is kitty pilgrim is that your business desk coming up to twenty four minutes past eight o'clock. but a pretty choppy week when i look at it isn't it for the markets how's it looking today the end of the week and he went out i know i was. thing i was going to say i know i've got

a little bit of good news coming up for you to the european markets but i'm going to kick start with the u.s. because right now it's too choppy for them really so they're struggling and that's because it was a bit of a nightmare in europe because we had so many new sentiments coming out very much coming out to do with the banking sector bank they had to stop trading today and that's because apparently they've had to go to the government cup in hand and ask for nineteen billion dollars so that was really filtering through the markets them causing them to out really nosedive so this had a look at the u.s. markets and see how they're reacting this then the first part of the trading day look at the dow jones up point two percent down the nasdaq around four basis points so i also want to mention place because well because we get so we've got to be. it's going very quickly indeed with the motor showing it away now the i.p.o. is still losing about two percent now there's been a lot of evaluations of how much that stock is now was apparently

a thirty dollars eighty and if you consider it came in at thirty eight dollars an issue day on believable ok let's get on to europe now as i say there was a glimmer of hope kevin and it's here on the screen right now because earlier on today we had the dax closed posting. drops to throughout the session and we've got that the first thing i can i it's not dramatic but it's still up opposed to charity by three bases boys other adults around four tenths of a percent ops the policies back on friday night sort of where he didn't just evolve those are going to be common currency now don is trading now at a twenty two month so that's feeling a lot of the pressure that was a lot of discussions about euro bolton's apparently about merkel the german chancellor is leaving the door not is a surprise because she's been opposed to it throughout the discussions of the leaders involved for the last one to watch the levels performance of a lot of stuff against the common currency. the u.s. dollar we've looked at the russian mob we'll see that they did indeed go up today

because they also sent down the my food to be sent down. should i say let's have a look at the salt and see how they performed so we had to put down a little cold as well not benefiting from the high oil prices for tens of percent and gas from as well six tenths of a cent and down the stocks i'm going to discuss right now because we've got some news that russia is that gas from says that a new deal is on the calls with so all over its participation in the promising start many gas projects and it could be side as that is next month that gas problem is all going with the norwegian overworking skeins of a pull for me wanted to replace it with dutch shell by separate the head of gas from a memo said that the startling strategy could shift its focus towards liquefied natural gas production. as i was russian news the russia says the former deputy prime minister who is also in charge of the energy sector he's got

a new job. today the c.e.o. of rural stefano took a dialogue chief economist course we thought he explained what this means for boss to have to have a listen that does lead to the speculation that this must mean that the states know intends to consolidate the sector make it bigger this is something that was talked about over the last decade to russia for example one point was talking about creating something similar to saudis around closer to one big company controlled by the state controller the major energy that's so there's a lot of speculation right now there's no hard but i think we can certainly say that with the appointment of mr section it is more likely that we will see rust there acquiring other assets becoming bigger becoming a bigger player. that's the markets now kevin i'll be back in about fifteen minutes time with the latest update good stuff. a little bit of good news out of all the gloom very good good see you see in an hour and talk about good news across the world of course to spring time so stand by for

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