now it's an hour to you were monitors dispatched to the western syrian town of houla where activists say government troops of massacred more than ninety people. scotland's partition mission in the campaigns launched towards an historic both which could see the country break free from britain. prime minister dmitry medvedev take charge of united russia party wants to clear out those who discredited it while also remolding it for the online era. and destroy the sense with elections ahead please georgia regime still got no appetite propositioning year after violently dispersing independence day rally.

nine pm saturday night here in moscow this is our names kevin and it's good of you company here monetization sent to the western syrian town of houla where activists say more than one thousand people have been killed by government forces it's also claimed the troops used tanks and heavy machine guns to pound the area this week the un report accused both the regime and the rebels of gross human rights violations in syria the friends of in france one of the friends of syria group that's keen to remove present the sand and fog has the opposition condemned the violence and called an urgent meeting but also reports of the free syrian army is now refusing to abide by the u.n. peace plan our correspondent sara firth is with me she's been covering events extensively for us and everything has been going on there in syria both sides of the teachers are going through this atrocity of blaming each other what do things happen here it's a very difficult set. i mean you see the video of course it's not been verified yet

by the media outlets and it has been by the un observers have been in that town they go next to see what's been happening and we know a friend the head of that rocket made he said they can confirm the artillery tanks and shells who exactly is behind it yet we can't say again you're seeing what always happens in these situations to sort of claim and counterclaim now the activists who were there were saying that after the friday demonstrations these attacks started rubbermaid the head of the that u.n. mission visiting there could indiscriminate unforgivable and really devastating video and we've seen so many situations like this happening it's very very hard to get anyone really to i say take responsibility and that's really having these monitors on the ground there revisiting the implementation of this peace plan which at the moment is just i mean barely both sides barely paying lip service to the fact that it's going on you know when we were there the places that we visited the

violence is still absolutely rampant and so you know you have people pointing the fingers of blame left right and center but at the end of the day you have lots of different factions fighting out who seem willing to put their arms down and we were speaking to the deputy foreign minister in syria he's just been visiting moscow and i'll thing you know why does the final responsibility for what is going on in syria right now life and we can have a listen to what he said. the ball is not in the court of a syrian government or of the syrian people it is in the court of those who do not want to see peace and stability and security in serbia particularly those who are calling and declaring every now and then for arming the armed groups for also smuggling of arms and weapons into the syrian territory from neighboring countries and also financing these armed groups there is

a proverb that says when you accuse others and the point your finger is accusing others just remember sri finger is of accusations are very active against you. as you say you've recently returned from there what is going to happen with this faltering ceasefire do you think. it's very very concerning the rhetoric that's already coming out in the back of some of these instances you know it's not even the end of the three month mission yet and already you're hearing people calling it a failure now of course we can see that it isn't working in its current form the violence isn't ending and in fact the free syrian army have come out and said if the security council can't provide civilians in these areas protection they're not going to even comply with the cease fire agreement anymore now where that leaves

the situation i mean you've got the security council now being talked about having perhaps a meeting in the coming days the friends of syria of course acting separately from this u.n. mission i think what's very important to remember it's a look at what the viable alternatives are here and there aren't any and where that leaves the civilian population in the country i mean. it's very very worrying and i think what really needs to be fakes and these people who are in the country these u.n. monitors they are having some impact however small maybe let's build on that rather than talking about scrapping the whole thing as we did with the arab league and having more deliberation because you know what for all intents and purposes the international community have shown the friends of syria that was they have this very strong rhetoric they're not actually taking any other types of actions so you know maybe let's focus on what the u.n. mission can do and we've seen the report that was leaked the other day from. and i thought the most important line from that was we're talking about responsibility

for what's going on here however complex the situation in syria has got now he said that at the heart of the syrian crisis is the extensive human rights violations and the denial of the legitimate aspirations of the syrian people and really you know point things the blame we like that you can argue that i don't think so for friends for give us your thoughts or just reminding our viewers if you just joined us the headline tonight is that u.n. monitors now reporting the syrian town of houla have been ninety people killed by government forces we'll get more detail i'm going to get smoke coming from jordan from a political analyst revolution but later in the program another surfing service much . supporters of independence for scotland have launched a campaign which they hope will let them break free of the three hundred five year old union with england the scottish national party and galloping one million signatures needed to call a referendum in twenty fourteen if backed by voters scotland could separate from the rest of the u.k. by twenty six the opinion of polls show more than forty percent of scottish people

back independence here were pale and smith says scotland's cape or the prospering on its own within europe. there's a lot of balls over the but sure great deal of support in a group deal of democratic legitimacy for the s.n.p. government in edinburgh serving the people of scotland well with competent government doing lots of good stuff representing scotland's interests within the european union and the wider world there is no question absolutely no question under any anybody's interpretation of the figure scotland more than that's where we have a considerably rich symptoms of natural resources human resources now we've got water we've got the ability to feed ourselves we've got all sorts of good things going on it's up to the people of scotland to decide what sort of country we want to be and you talk about separating and that's just not how we see things we see this as joining me in stream of the world joining the european union joining the united

nations joining all sorts of other organizations look at all the global challenges that cross borders and we need to work together but we need to be represented by a government that actually does represent you presently the london government simply just does not do that and it's very very clear to the people of scotland we can do better. as well as now being prime minister to be from a vet have been appointed to head the country's ruling united russia party that is modernization mantra is already in evidence he's proposed holding primaries to increase democratic competition explains what to expect from the party's new leader . first and foremost he did say that the party is in need of some of some overhaul in order to be more modernized he did a call on the party members to be more active on the internet she said that taxing more young voters and younger members of the party is crucial to the party's development he also proposed primaries in order to create a greater competition within the party ranks he did say that the ruling posted in

the party should be harder to wire and basically he did outline some of the major areas where the party should be working in order to progress not stand still she did say that there is a competition that the united russia is facing at the moment and they should be able to handle the competition to not be pretty creative criticism because after all it is in the in the disputes and in conversations where the truth is being born basically he did outline and not particularly in any detail of his plan for the party but it does look like he is set on moving it forward he's also the first prime minister to actually belong to a party by him it was and wasn't a member of the united russia. it's pretty years since georgian government forces broke up a rally demanding president saakashvili quit and opposition voices are still feeling the full force of suppression the clashes last may short two people killed were police used water cannon rubber bullets to disperse the crowds dozens were injured and hundreds of arrested when officers tried to clear the way for the

country's independence day celebrations georgia told parliamentary presidential elections length of the year but it's rare for national for r.t. found there's little cheer for anyone hoping for a church. service to study to one of georgia's main television channels that slogan proclaims news is made here from the country's germany's charter complains that sometimes it's literally so and works equally for all georgian major broadcasters. they do not cover news they make it in their offices behind closed doors. in georgia there are only three national channels broadcasting news channel one a state ran while the owners of the two others are starting to and in medi have close ties with georgian president mikheil saakashvili and his administration they are the main sources of information for the country's almost four point five million population ziad says the news reports of these three air often repeat each

other which raises concerns over there it is tauriel independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting. they're quite black and white circus really is good opposition is bad but they really touch georgian politics at all when i watch it i have the feeling that there are no problems in georgia and their main mission is to entertain people not to inform them other channels content is more diversified from the corruption in the country's elite and political prisoners to a controversial purchase by the president's mother of a historic bilton in central but to me for just one larry which is less than one u.s. dollar but these are all turning to the media sources can hardly get an audience outside the capital tbilisi organisers of local authorities prevent us from broadcasting in the provinces although we do have a license the people running the biggest company the former minister of defense and the head of the government communications committee who are also co owners of the

three biggest channels all of them are friends with the president apart from financial markets says the authorities practice other kinds of pressure to include in what he says is a feature of any offer of terry and regime. our journalists have been beaten up their equipment stolen and there's been no investigation do we really have freedom of press if our correspondents every time they go to an opposition rally have to wonder if they're going to be beaten or not irakli and used paper reporter says he has been beaten up twice in the last month by the president and interior minister as security for attempting to cover the events with the two top officials where only government approved media were invited. me here very hard and also yelled how did i come here at all that i would be blacklisted and would never find decent work and i think as elections approach such pressure will only get tougher for most of the population here and told to get the news from spain own the safe

and for media the press is among the most tightly mourning and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections a lot of independent information means voters will make it a season that is likely far from being informed and according to many far from being free. various nationalities to billy see georgia. the i.m.f. chief has no tears for troubled greece demanding they sought their own problems out by paying their taxes christine legarde says she's got no intentions of softening the country's bailout even though austerity unemployment's led to a rise in suicides there let's get some reaction from greece and should we talk to pentagon to satiric he's a journalist and lecture about social and political philosophy at the university of the aegean mysterious good evening what about you listened in with great intent to what christine legarde ever say there or you think of her comments on a store heart the earth. well i think she was honest in sure cynicism that's the

cynicism of the ruling neo liberal global elites. but she's not telling the truth. i think that's a fair comparison between a jury and really this was totally and asked for a very simple reason because greece and third world countries are facing the same and austerity packages the same structural adjustments the same embedded neoliberalism it's not that money's going to be taken from greece and given to africa money is going to be taken is going to be what is going to be looted from africa and the majority of the people in greece and i would also like to say another comment because she said. the tax evasion in greece but the problem is that the people who regularly taxes and can do it legitimately in greece are mainly those people those strata that. i am esposa that's big business big banks and

it's has also been said we must say that the terms of the loan agreement also imply leering taxes for big business and big banks and raising taxes for the average wage earner that's the point. ok i'm not i to take what you're saying and the way you see what she was saying i suppose a mother people would take it more literally saying that you know she's are comparing the terrible poor innocent in some countries in africa to what's happening in greece and telling the greeks they can't get chickens you know it could be a lot worse you could be living like it is in africa some people will see it like that nonetheless the what or how you look at it how are her comments going to go down in this vote next month. well it's will certainly raise even more anger in greek society i think it sounded like a direct intervention like an attempt to you know affect the outcome of the

election and to intervene in our internal affairs and in our own right to decide for ourselves what's right for our country and i think that sets such interventions . how useless it is to rely on the terms of the so-called help from the i.m.f. or the european union because it that's exactly the point the times are really devastating in social regards the social situation in greece so i think that is high time for you but the greeks knew that before but i guess the greeks knew that before you accepted the first round of a didn't you actually it wasn't accepted by the greeks only if you think that governments that had no legitimate let's do messy as it was made a mess and playing in the elections in may when those five this got only thirty two percent well the government decided it's not the people in greece the people who

never had a chance to actually choose what kind of policies they demand and even then the question of the referendum was raised it was practically it didn't have a referendum in greece on the contrary. a government by x. european central banker was imposed upon us. now there are reports that french banks which are my of course the blandest most exposed to greece and also german banks as well have stepped up their efforts to drug contingency plans now for greece's possible euro zone pull out as it sounding like a done deal to the stage. well i think that it is that. there's a great bird it's really possible to see. some sort of greece's exit from the euro zone it can i don't know it's going to be i you know i think a summer and exits on our own terms or is it just going to be a force exit but i think that it is. it is not come that one can

see it possible to see something like that kiran to the deck will condemn season of problems and. i'm contradictions old all the results of the history of the policies can lead to such a result because it becomes totally totally unsustainable this whole policy including bruises but what he wrote in the euro zone but what your other option the other option is just as unpalatable isn't it sort of part into the fire stuff. well yes and that's why i think that it is necessary for people in greece will actually want to see a difference a different policy to actually consider the question of the exit of the euro zone tensely it is true that's talking about exiting the euro zone is not very popular in greek political discussion because they think that people have a strong support for the euro because they have associated the rock might with

inflation and insecurity but the problem is that as every day goes the euro becomes also associated with a steady with social devastation with all kinds of economic and political intervention from that part of the european union and the i.m.f. so i think that's why we must consider it's not going to be using it's going to be very fast and hard for this whole society transition period but i think that in the end what you're seeing back monetary summer and and also a different course in what concerns economic and social policy that should include nationalization of the banking system extend into public sector intervention and income distribution and a collective effort you know reconstructing the productive capabilities of this country i think that in the long run this is better than the slow downs of the site

it's restorative i understood your thoughts pedagogy satiric generous to lecture about social and political philosophy at the university of ga and prescience thoughts. groups in canada are making legal moves to overturn a law designed to suppress the three months of protests over a hike in chu ition fees that requires them to give eight hours notice out of a rally other students say that some constitutional the quebec authorities moves have only fueled the protesters and given with one hundred thousand taking part in the demonstration earlier this week the rallies have led to violent clashes with police and over two thousand five hundred arrests since february newspaper editor corey paul thinks the movement's taking on an ever growing significance. i think that the government is trying to make it a lot. to try to keep it as a student issue that it's a student issue led by simply students and. it can be it can be quelled with maybe some simple negotiations but i don't really think that is exactly the case and i

feel that it's an ideological issue it's a movement that has grown beyond the simple fact that we're tuition increase and now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought up in about government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself mismanagement mismanagement of the university system and generally people are really upset and i don't think that this issue will simply go away. there's of course a concert later tonight which will have one hundred twenty million fans glued the universe in some contests is on the air but there's division in one country over its entry to the final. reports now on how ukraine's song for europe steering on the current of racism. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singular who is representing ukraine at the eurovision song contest says its message is positive that her country opens its arms to any guest but the reaction of ukraine's nationalists that is being

performed by a woman with african roots suggests quite the opposite. the jury which decided gotama should go was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to europe vision like how she sings but now people might get an impression that ukraine is a country somewhere in africa. the daughter of a ukrainian mother and a congolese father may have been heard by this attitude but still try to play down with a smile i don't like it i hate to a season i hate when people. have so much negative like this. i hate it when people try to choose you like a friend because you why do you black. this is no isolated racism among ukraine's nationalists over the years they've been making the ideology known in other ways deemed offensive by many from attacking war veterans on victory day last year or cooking eggs and bacon on t.v.

turn or flame which commemorates fallen red army soldiers all the previous actions of ukraine's right wing radicals have been mostly acts of hooliganism they have rarely made headlines especially in the global media but with the euro twenty twelve football championship coming to ukraine some pundits in the west believe this is about to change reporter brian flynn from britain sun newspaper disguised himself as a right wing sympathizer to go undercover into a nationalist field cam in western ukraine his footage shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wreck some real haversack flynn believes their destructive skills could be employed. quite soon with football hooligans being among those trained at the camp with the very clear about a number of of things that their ideology sort of points in the direction of one of them is is a belief that there should be no black players playing for european clubs as one of

the generals told me it wouldn't it's not fair it should be england against ukraine not ukraine against england and africa but it does make clear that any fans going to ukraine should should be very careful it's clear to me that these are people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and i watched what they fired live weapons. the danger of major violence at the football event may still be averted if authorities take action but another great risk looms for ukraine the ruling party is losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament. nowadays no one would be surprised to see the nazi salute at folk festivals in western ukraine or nationalist some regional powers in other parts peace can still take action against neo nazis and much of the very same people will have parliamentary immunity and an unlimited platform in parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing

nationalist align themselves in glorifying everything ukrainian at the same time they are strongly supportive of their country's european integration but with increasingly vocal zina for big and racist statements it's hard to imagine brussels listening to their opinions on ukraine becoming an e.u. member state should they make it to power. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. over a billion people use the likes of facebook and twitter but next tonight we ask if we're all getting a bit weary of being wired. social media websites have been making headlines for years is the craze coming to an end any time soon this week let's talk about that do you use social media i used to actually just lead to my facebook why is getting tired of it tired of trying to keep up with everyone do you think the world is getting a little bit over social media yeah

a little bit yeah you know when mom start using social media time to go my grandma is actually using it do you use no why not because i don't like being tried the like of putting too much of my personal information on this kind of social network photo you assume i like the one provision ones like linked in but the public ones like of in the to be very specific to be very useful with you some people put a little too much information on there i think yeah why do we care about what people eat and what they're doing every second every and every meal they ate you know but it's a good way to keep in touch with people too so what about the phone what about you know going over to your neighbor's house and saying hi exactly i think people are getting away from that and it's too easy to just do it online nowadays i think there's a lot of good uses for there are some uses we found in the school system not so good like what some of the bullying that goes on and i think is too many young people are kind of think what's the big deal if i give somebody a threat over there where i've seen police officers get involved with kids or do

those kinds of things because it's it's a threat whether it's on facebook were in person so do you think that social media is going to change to be a little bit safer or is it just going to get where i think it needs to change and i think it takes everybody to get more with a tender standard i actually do social media strategy for a job yes your life depends on social media a little bit i do other things as well but it's one of them yes he use it every day in your personal life i do one reason i think that i'm decent at social media strategy is because i. i am a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good rights it just seems to be so omnipresent now that i think there's something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. that the second coming jesus is going to come through social media and acts and words his twitter that's i'm going to need to be part of jesus that's what i'm sure he has what right right right exactly so do you think the social media craze is coming to an end why don't you tweet about it and see if

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