thanks. u.n. monitors counted thirty three children among the dead in the western syrian town of holland where activists claim government troops have massacred more than ninety people. prime minister dmitri medvedev takes the reins of power at the united russia party promising to reform the country's biggest political force and get rid of all the people that discredited. and destroying dissent with elections ahead of the georgia regime so got no appetite for opposition a year after violently dispersing independence day red. it's seven o'clock here in moscow you're watching r t i'm to bomb would say let's

take a look at the stories first a u.n. monitors confirm tanks and heavy machine guns have been used to pound the western syrian town of harlem where activists say more than ninety people have been killed by government forces this week a u.n. report accused both the regime and the rebels of gross human rights violations in france are the friends of syria group that seemed to remove president assad and one field position condemned the violence and called an urgent meeting there are also reports that the free syrian army is now refusing to abide by the ruling might. there for it who's been covering events in syria for some time says politics has to go on the back burner when people are losing their lives day. is just absolutely devastating tragedy for those people confirmed killed for children there is no ceasefire it simply doesn't exist this crisis that was just becoming increasingly militarized and having this devastatingly high death toll and so we actually spoke

to the acting foreign minister in syria he was in moscow just the other day i asked him where the final responsibility. lies what's happening in the 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 but 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. accusation. you see the rhetoric right from the beginning of again the u.n.

monitors being there 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 terminologies but what is what's the alternative you know you're constantly giving these problems without any other solution is only going to lead to further violence and you see in some of the western countries again continuing right through this peace plan calling for the arming of the opposition we know the answer traveling into the country you know all of this is undermining massively the u.n. a tense 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 that is going to get it. from it is. the security council going to intervene and protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this this is funny to

. be concerning because you're sort of seeing this this peace plan mumbling and. we've heard from many many people this is the only viable option right now for ending this situation peacefully without further deaths in it's not an easy process and whilst we were there with the u.n. observers here we 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 those words but it really is that extreme. john glaser from end to war dot com says the west should review its tag takes before supply more weapons to anyone in syria. the un is unable to do much of anything because it's the reason the conflict has been progressively worse and has not gotten any better even with the cease fires because outside powers apparently insist on

continuing to militarize the conflict you have the us and other western countries along with the gulf states in the arab gulf states funneling money and weapons and other kinds of aid to the syrian opposition despite the fact that they themselves have committed crimes this outside intervention in bold in both sides and it prevents a more peaceful resolution from from being ports coming and outside powers need to think again if their policy right now is to militarize the conflict in arm either side. prime minister dmitri medvedev has been appointed the chairman of the country's ruling united russia party his modernization mantra is already in evidence as a valid a major overhaul at the top as well as the whole primaries and to increase democratic competition within the party. explains what to expect from united russia's new leader. first and foremost he did say that the party is in need of

some off some overhaul in order to be more modernized he did a call on the party members to be war active only internet she said that taxing more young voters and younger members of the party is crucial to the party's development you'll superposed 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 wirehead basically he did outline some of the major areas where the party should be working in order to progress and 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 free afraid of criticism because after all it is in the in the disputes and in conversations where the truth is being born a basically he did outline and not particularly in any detail of his plan for the party but it does look like he's set on moving it forward he's also the first a prime minister to actually belong to a party wasn't was and wasn't

a member of the united russia. it's been eight years since georgian government forces broke up a really demanding presidency squid and opposition voices are still feeling the full force of suppression the clashes last may salty people killed as police use water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds dozens were injured and hundreds arrested when our try to hear the way of the country's independence day celebration in georgia will hold palin and presidential elections later in the year but as maria national found out there's little to cheer for anyone hoping for a change. closer to study to one of georgia's main television channels that slogan proclaims news is made here 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 in their offices

behind closed doors in georgia where there are only three national channels broadcasting news channel one is state run while the owners of the two others study two and imagine 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 these three air often repeat each other which raises concerns over the editorial 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 george and paul ticks 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 us dollar but these are turning to the media sources can hardly get an audience outside the capital tbilisi worthiness 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 and terry and regime. are 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 presidents 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 will 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 the media the press is among the most tightly mourning and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections like independent information means voters will make it a season that is likely far from being informed and according to many often be very . brief notion out see really see daughter. when it comes to free speech everywhere else the much of it is down to our rampant take up of social media but later we ask if we are tired of tweet the pokes and likes. one reason i think that

i'm deep in its social media strategy is because my family my little bit sick of it so we have to be really good. residents of the big apple what they think the future holds for popular networks. the i.m.f. chief is shedding no tears for troubled greece a demanding they saw to their own problems by paying their taxes christine legarde says i she's got no intention of softening the country's bailout terms even though a starry tea and unemployment's are led to a rise and so with science the social and political philosophy lecture. terrorism believes austerity will drain greece trying i think she was honest insurer cynicism that's the cynicism all the ruling labor and global elites might just not telling the truth i think that's a fair comparison between nigeria and greece was totally unjust but this. is where

countries are facing the same connie 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 money is going to be taken is going to be what else 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 i've heard taxes and can do it legitimately in greece are mainly those people the social strata left i.m.f. policy that's big business big banks we must say that the terms of the loan agreement imply layering docsis for big business big banks and raising taxes for the average wage earner. syrian groups in canada are making legal moves to overturn a law designed to suppress their three months of protest over

a hike intuition fees it requires them to give eight hours notice ahead of the rally and the syrians say that's unconstitutional they came back authorities move have only fueled the protesters anger with one hundred thousand taking part in demonstrations earlier this week the rallies have led to violent clashes with police and over two thousand five hundred arrests since february student newspaper editor corey poole things of the movement is taking on ever growing significance. to the government is trying to make it about. trying to keep it as a student issue it's a student issue led by simply students and. it can be it can be called with maybe some simple negotiation but i don't really think that is exactly the case i feel that it's an ideological issue it's a movement that has grown beyond the simple fact which was an increase and now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought up in the government.

mismanagement of funds corruption within the government and so mismanage and mismanagement of the university system and generally people are really upset and i don't think that this issue will simply go away and it's not just keep back there seeing anger growing as we report online at the protest still in toronto our year to you as students pledge to send shoulder to shoulder with those well being and that the city. also at r.t. dot com medals of just on that the disillusioned american soldiers are throwing away their military decorations a while for what they regard as an unjust war. 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 the muslim community believes it's being badly unfairly victimized as my dinner question of our reports. 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 that 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 and 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 seem to cross country or getting visited on a regular basis by a p.r. agents 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 i think it's part of. the sims based on their religion. but really this is a war on islam. and this. 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 minds 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. vilified 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 there is no city. that's not just about the muslim community because what happens is that our constitutional freedoms start getting weakened for everybody and we're starting to see that more and more because we have allowed this to happen 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 there's you know mental chatter 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. pledging the question archie reporting from los angeles

california. now all of a billion people use the likes of facebook and twitter but next the we ask if we're all getting a bit wary 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 to use know what 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 love you one provision was like linked in but the public ones like of

in the to be very specific to be very useful with well you know 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. am a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good right it just seems to be so omnipresent now that i think there's something bigger and greater and better going to come about. than the second coming jesus is going to come through social media next and worse has twitter about me i need to be part of jesus's twitter 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 anyone cares. around the world in grief right now runs and voice you when agency says evidence of enrich uranium found at an underground bunker for june to a technical glitch officials discovered traces that wind raised to twenty seven

percent which is higher than previously thought the west as suspects iran of building nuclear weapons which require you read me i'm in which up to ninety percent to run the denies the allegations. financial irregularities and internal conflicts at the vatican have been exposed and the pope's butler is a been arrested for goodness sakes police say he was in illegal possession of confidential documents including letters alleging corruption at the church's highest levels the vatican's already snooping on the author of the book containing memos between the pope and his personal secretary. a u.s. drone strike has killed at least four people in pakistan the missiles hit a house in the country's was it is done tribal region security officials as say those killed where taliban militants relations between the u.s. and islamabad have been tense assumes twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed in

a nato air strike last november i. love it so hate it one hundred twenty five million fans tuned in to watch as we didn't win this year's a euro vision song contest but it was these spirity grannies from russia charmed the crowd with the hit party for everybody. the brand of the bubble he claimed a respectable second place with serbia taking despite the lighthearted nature of the event not all countries enjoyed full support at home ukraine has seen division over its entry in the final and as a legacy at a chef ski reports the country song for europe is staring an undercurrent of racism . the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singer 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 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 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 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 food a 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 is clear to me that these are people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and watch 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 past form in parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing nationalist align themselves and 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. reporting from kiev in ukraine. we have a recap of our top stories up break up but still ahead there is another special report about life in a hidden village in one of russia's most remote regions states and for that. you'll. fall back. on.

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