lol. you know it's an hour to your monitor's dispatch to the western syrian town of houla were activists say government troops have massacred more than ninety people we speak to our correspondent who has recently come back from syria is in the studio with us tonight also in the headlines so prime minister dmitri medvedev takes charge of the united russia party and wants to clear out those who discredited models to remold the good for the online era. destroying the cell with elections that had the georgia regime still got no appetite for opposition a year after violently dispersing independence day rally.

pm saturday night a remarkable welcome to if you just joined us rob you're watching around the world my name is kevin know and this is our team here monitors visited the western syrian town of houla where activists say more than ninety 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 a u.n. report accused both the regime and the rebels of gross human rights violations i mean time in france the friends of syria group remove president assad from this the opposition condemned the violence and called an urgent meeting and there are also reports of the free syrian army is now refusing to abide by the u.n. peace plan doesn't mention our correspondent sara firth is with me she's been covering events extensively for us in syria just recently back could see her the studio let's just talk about what's happened now in this town where they're saying ninety people have been massacred both sides blown each other for what's your take on what's what's happened here is just. the state's all tragedy number of people confirmed killed the children as well and the u.n.

monitors have been able to gauge the area today in the aftermath of this incident happening. we've heard the statements coming from the u.n. head that made he called it indiscriminate unacceptable we know that the. issued the statement has been issued by by the u.n. they've confirmed. the use of shells of artillery and they've also called on the syrian government to stop stop the violence in populated areas what you're seeing here really is that the u.n. monitors are on the ground at the moment in the country to see the implementation of this peace plan until you oversee the cease fire and what's become very very clear now is that in lots of these places where they're based where they're visiting there is no ceasefire to oversee it simply doesn't exist and you know right from the very beginning the violence in syria has just been continuing with both sides have not been biding by the peace plan have been violating the separate

points on that in the fighting has continued and you see mr dylan death toll just climbing daily and you know in recent weeks actually we stain these types of incidents in some of the more restive areas in syria really stepping up again and it's very very concerning because you know this crisis now is just becoming increasingly ritualized and having this devastatingly high death toll and so we actually spoke to the director foreign minister in syria he's in moscow just the other day i asked him where the final responsibility lies what's happening in country right now. 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 this or in total

from neighboring countries is 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 fingers of accusations are directed against you. and there it's very difficult when these situations happen because you know one of the real markers of this crisis has been every time it happened he had sort of claim and counterclaim very very difficult to get to the truth of the situation and now you've traveled with the u.n. mission you traveled with those guys taken what you said already that the basically looks like this piece. is breaking down and we're also hearing that this report tonight now saying the free syrian army is refusing to abide by the u.n. peace plan we need to get some more details on the jews just how widespread that is . what is the future for the peace plan do you think as you've seen it in the cold

light of day i mean the free syrian army and some of these areas have already come out and said without the security council guaranteeing civilian protection that it's not going to even attempt to abide by this cease fire talks deeply concerning because this sort of saying this this peace plan on raveling and we've heard for. many many people this is the only viable option right now for ending the situation peacefully without further deaths i mean it's not an easy process and whilst we were there with the u.n. observers traveled with them to some of the very very fierce fighting areas. and i could at the time in my civil war and i was very very wary of using this was that it really is that extreme in some of these areas in the country now the fact that the u.n. are able to travel to these places you know at least is is something and so i think it's important that we build on. the brink of something far worse than we've already seen oh absolutely and i mean you see the rhetoric right from the beginning

again the u.n. monitors being has been now before the plans even reach this three month deadline that it's a failure well ok but it's one thing to say terminologies but what is what's the alternative you know constantly giving these problems without any other solution is only going to lead to further violence and you seeing some of the western countries again continuing right to this peace plan calling for at. the arming of the opposition we know the answer travelling into the country you know all of this is undermining massively the un it tends to implement a cease fire which is so important that you know that they're able to continue that work and get that done and i think it's very important to remember you know politics aside in this the human cost of this conflict is devastating and if the u.n. mission thousand it is going to get even higher ok so if a correspondent just recently back from from syria thanks ever so much and just to remind you as well if you've just joined us the one of the main very unfortunate

headlines tonight you were monitors who visited the western syria turn of. a reporting that ninety people have been killed were activists in saying it's by government forces of course there are two sides to this we got another view pretty glamorously bruma lucia believes the houla massacre must been orchestrated by the rebels. it's the armed gangs behind that and the reason i say that is because these three massacres took place in the context of a broad attack against army roadblocks and security stations throughout the area they also attacked the national hospital in the region and they set fire to the national hospital and then they turned to that civilian houses and some of the neighboring villages and they started killing and the sperm monthly and some of those killed some of the families killed were known further. to the syrian regime and to bashar assad these people do not want to see

a political solution instead they want to see an armed intervention and thought of national foreign intervention in syria under the pretext of massacres i think the political timing is always very suspicious it would not make sense for the syrian army to commit these massacres and withdraw and then just let the rebels come and take photos and make documentaries about them and these crimes were committed by the armed gangs that are supported from abroad from the g.c.c. countries and from the nato specifically through turkey. about los tonight as well as now being prime minister dmitri medvedev has been appointed to head the country's ruling united russia party and is modernization mantra's already in evidence he's proposed holding primaries to increase democratic competition. explains what we expected from the party's new leader. first and foremost he did

say that the party is in need of some. overhaul in order to be more modernized he did now call on the party members to be more active on the internet she said that track to 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 posed in the party should be hard to acquire 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 for a period of 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 united russia. surely on the program a sour note strikes what you revision some contest entry ukraine nationalist ranks three of the singers mixed ethnicity and it's not the only major event the racism face even as reports suggest. that next but a year now since georgian government forces broke up a rally demanding president saakashvili quit opposition voices a still feeling the full force of suppression the clashes last may saw two people killed as police used water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds dozens were injured and hundreds arrested when officers tried to clear the way for the country's independence day celebrations now george will hold parliamentary and presidential elections later in the year but as for motion and found there's little to cheer for anyone hoping for change. to stop the two one of georgia's main television channels slogans. claims news is made here is the answer

from the country's journalists charter complains that sometimes it's literally so and works equally for all georgian major broadcasters. they do not cover news they make it there 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 mehdi had 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 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 it 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 ministers 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 but 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 he 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. race nationality to believe see daughter. will make time much of today's global free speech lies in our rampant take of social media but later we ask if we're getting tired of tweets pokes in like. one reason i think that i'm decent at those media strategies because i am a little bit sick of it so we have to be really good folks here well later we ask residents of the big apple what they think the future holds the popular networks. the i.m.f. chief shouting no tears for trouble greece demanding they sort their own problems by paying their taxes christine legarde says she's got no intentions of softening the country's bailout terms even though a sterile tea and unemployment's led to a rise in suicides there as part of social and political philosophy lecture upon a goddess a terrorist who believes a sterile tea will drain grease dry. i think it was honest insurer cynicism

that's the cynicism of the ruling neo liberal doorbell it's just not telling the truth i think that's a fair comparison between a jury i agree it was totally and asked gris world countries are facing the same recording and austerity packages the same structural adjustments the same embedded neo liberalism it's not that money is going to be taken from greece and given to africa mali is going to be taken is going to be what is going to be looked at from africa and the majority of the people in greece the tax evasion in greece but the problem is that the people who regularly our taxes can do it legitimately in greece are mainly those people the social strata that's it. that's big business big banks we must say that the terms of the loan agreement they're also imply leering taxes for big business big banks and raising taxes for the average wage earner.

student groups in canada are making legal moves to overturn a law designed to suppress the three months of protests over a hike in tuition fees that requires them to give eight hours' notice ahead of a rally in the student say that's unconstitutional the quebec authorities move on even fuel the protesters anger with one hundred thousand taking part in a demonstration earlier this week the rallies have led to violent clashes with police and over two thousand five hundred arrests since february two newspaper editor corey poole thinks the movement's taking on ever growing significance. i think of the government is trying to make it a lot if they try to keep it as a student issue that it's a student issue led by simply students and that. 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 that it's a. movement that has grown beyond the simple fact of which was an increase in now

encompasses many many problems. that are being brought out in the 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 this issue will simply go away and it's not just. growing it's reporting online tonight the protests ontario to the students their pledge to stand shoulder to shoulder with those rather than other cities and why you are tito probably forget of it also reporting about the medals of dishonor disillusioned american soldiers throwing away their military decorations awarded for what they regard just war. a concert has just kicked off which will have one hundred twenty million fans glued

it is of course your vision song contest but there's division one country over its entry in the final. reports on how ukraine's song for europe is stirring undercurrent of racism. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation sing it a guy 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 by turner 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 the congolese father may have been hurt 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 late 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 kiev's eternal 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 eight well 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 food a shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wreck some real haversack full in 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 black fans going to ukraine should should be very careful because 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. many muslims living in the united states are

getting accustomed to the growing suspicion they get from law enforcement the government's justification is that it helps prevent terrorist attacks but then community believes they're being unfairly victimized as report. yes a fog prepares for his daily prayers fear creeps into the back of his mind as to whether the person next to him is a spy are you you know felt that there was a sense of mistrust but i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was somebody new at the mosque that i had never seen i would always feel in the back of my mind that you know who is this person and what are they here for a fight is one of many american muslims who came under the surveillance of the aphelion south in california what he thought was a fellow warship or at a mosque turned out to be an informant the subject of monitoring muslims doesn't exactly come as a surprise to many in the u.s. this is been happening all across the country simply because so many will soon to

cross the country are getting visited on a regular basis by a p.r. agency for doing joint terrorism task force officers so many are having problems now the consul of american islamic relations in california is suing the agency for what it says is an attempt to incriminate people based simply on their religion that the muslims are what the outcome americans were the fifty's sixty's and seventy's i think it's a war a religious war and i think it's part of. the sims based on their religion. i believe this is a war on islam. and islam craig monte was an aft be an informant sent to infiltrate the muslim community in south in california and he says that while the f.b.i. insist it's acting to defend the u.s. from potential terrorist attacks and slapping suspicion on an entire religious group people here say americans have their mind sent to mistrust arabs and muslims

and it's not simply because of the identification of the nine eleven hijackers but more from a decade of muslims being. they look fine by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. are right but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many minority communities targeted because of their free and fair if message. this not just about the muslim community because what happens is that our constitutional freedoms start getting weak and for everybody and we're starting to see that more and more because we have allowed this so hot that it means for a fod and many others in minority communities nationwide they will be forced to live life looking over their shoulders even in their own country i have to constantly watch myself it's almost like this you know mental check that i have to

constantly put myself through whenever i visit or go to the mosque or go to events with the community because you never know somebody that might be listening might be enough yeah i'm met by in the bush the archie reporting from los angeles california . over a billion people use the likes of facebook and twitter but next we ask you for 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 of 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 to like

putting too much of my personal information on this kind of social network. i like the one provision ones like linked in but the public ones like to be very specific to. 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 we 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 a something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. yet the second coming jesus is going to come through social media and that's it worth his twitter about so i need to 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 be if anyone cares.

so i've got about two minutes to do that with them before about with the headlines for your own out see in a few minutes after that because report on the how accounting fraud is no wall street business model interesting viewing coming up as always here on out to you from moscow. the. wealthy british style sun. rises times with.

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