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we wanted to present. something of. value in decries the brutal massacre of one hundred eight men women and children in syria as details of the deaths caused doubts on rebel accusations of government involvement. lebanese traffickers open up their business to syrian rebels will have profit and slice of spiritual satisfaction. and the leaders of the occupy movement gather together on julian assange interview show as he challenges their philosophy of world wide change. it's not o'clock here in moscow you're watching r t with me to bomb would say let's
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take a look at the stories at this hour the u.n. security council has strongly condemned the murder of one hundred eight men women and children in the syrian village of paula according to initial reports that many of the victims were executed at point blank range the syrian government has fled out rejector of responsibility for the murders saying a third party is behind the slaughter aimed at destabilizing the situation syria's largest and best on drivel group reacted to the slaughter saying it want to abide by an international cease fire unless the u.n. intervenes our correspondent. has more on the security council's response. united nations security council members cut their weekend short to hold a three hour closed door emergency meeting on the way to developments in syria where on friday in the bloodiest massacre since the anti-government clashes started on the ground a year ago took place where over one hundred people were killed including dozens of women and children prior to the meeting britain and france were calling for
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security council members to adopt a joint press statement pointing the fingers out the syrian government russia however who previously vetoed a regime change resolution on syria said it would prefer to wait to hear what the head of the un observer mission in syria had to say and this is why the meeting was adjourned now after the meeting a joint press statement abhi noted nations security council members was released the security council has condemned these violence while and killings which included artillery and tank shellings the security council says this is a breach of international law and greet each of syria's commitments under united nations security council resolutions but what's important here is that the council also can condemned close range killings including knives being used to slaughter people and the key here is that it's not clear as of yet who was behind these close range killings and russia says that the majority of the deaths took place at close
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range so it's important to discover who exactly stood behind that we do know of course that the syrian government has been denying any involvement in this massacre saying it had nothing to do with that we have heard from the deputy russian foreign minister say earlier that a clear and careful investigation into this massacre has to take place and the united nations observer mission is currently conducting such an investigation. now the rebels are adamant that the blame for the who lies with the government but former pentagon official michael maloof says the rebel side of the story just doesn't add up there's been allegations that there were gangs that are under the control of the government but the whole area was actually her is actually under the control of the free syrian army so i don't see how the government forces could have come in systematically killed all these people up close like that the opposition
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has been infiltrated by al qaeda that is al-qaeda as an act and i think you have certainly more radical elements are coming in and plus are getting much more exotic arms in order to. arm the opposition itself and as a strife in syria drags on we take a look at the liberated international arms network that's keeping the rebels locked and loaded. and i reports in a deadly trade driven by profit and say a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars and this is thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. sparks shaadi not his real name also has rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talk in shut his garage in tripoli lebanon on
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syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for really have the stuff we buy from her and their allies and research they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as iran makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict in the gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items that coast has gone up five and sometimes even ten times and the more the conflict drags on the mall look at if it is for the weapons dealers but money is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy do you t. to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we are with them. till they do it in sunni dominated north lebanon where we meet the arms dealer
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those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stop fighting entirely. we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain saudi arabia also send us money. walkie talkies. borders he says every day tons of this aid go through his hands but for him it's not enough as soon as he gets better he'll return to syria. is a sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. their demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising
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a role so the support package every ounce. we also made some of fish a call might bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group suspected of links to international terrorism but he says his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal. to make cool to overthrow the government would make all the scholars speak for i guess the. issues that make them all applies i guess the government and other some a fish a can triple the runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. already helped the tunisian and egyptian revolution we want to rid of this regime. shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret every sellafield short so as not to draw too much
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attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and i saw. syria completed. notchy reporting from northern lebanon. the massacre in houla has also sparked calls for an emergency summit of the so-called friends of syria a group of nations unconditionally backing the rebels this as britain's foreign minister meets with his russian counterpart in moscow today in an unexpected attempt to win russian support for greater pressure on assad our correspondent going to have more on the upcoming meeting morning to you hugo or are we expecting syria to dominate the discussions. syria is definitely expected to dominate the talks william hague the british foreign minister is known to be a few scrutiny of the assad regime he has been calling for the the stuff for up rules from the international community especially after the recent massacre in the
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syrian town of houla and earlier mr hague said that he understood moscow's strong influence on syrian authorities and said he was going to try to talk surveil liar off into applying more pressure on president assad in order to comply with the coffee on a peace plan which is supported by both britain and russia but the relations between the two countries have been complicated including when it comes to syria london has been taking more of the sign of the opposition while moscow has been promoting a more balanced approach so whether or not mr hague will be able to talk to be allowed into this approach is yet to be seen. but if these ties are so strange just what can these talks hope to achieve. or courting to the a russian foreign minister himself previously the relations between britain and russia hit their lowest point but to now they all are starting to improve and among other
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issues which are going to be discussed at this meeting is ghana stance specifically russia's assistance to the military operation by the alliance there especially with britain expected to start pulling out its troops from the country and a wide range of other cultural and economic issues which could also boost relations between the two countries. now as a god of peace cannot they r.t. correspondent thank you very much for shedding some light on the upcoming meeting. now still to come on our team mainstream news outlets in the u.s. replicate the view was to alternative sources as more people refused to swallow the coppered spin. plus montreal boiling over people of all ages and walks of life joined local students venting their anger over to mission heights and the authorities protest crackdown. julian assange and the occupy
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movement phenomenons a much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media now for the first time the two come together in our team to discuss how the n.t. corporate alliance plans to change the world. now recognize that public policy comes on happening at the national level and policymakers are actually the ones who are national parliaments they're also on the ones who are dictating policy on anyway accounts for all of them representatives and that's a global phenomena i mean should we all just have a global financial crisis we have a global political crisis because our institutions no longer function exactly and this is one of the points of the global justice movement which is there are these sort of newly created in ministry of global planetary political mechanisms that would like the w t o like the i.m.f. the people at least in places like the us weren't even supposed to know exist but were in fact governing the world to them as a first really effective planetary bureaucracy which was created in the name of the sort of free market idiology which is supposed to stand against the bureaucracy but
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in fact exactly the opposite that's the result as always in the name of democracy because that's the thing which is obviously lacking the financial crisis just brought it home especially in the matter of that i think where you know became very clear that the depths of the big players could be completely really go shielded by these sort of through these global mechanisms but yours can't because your politicians are beholden to them and out to you. the seven show of julian assange just series is coming up tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. and if you've missed the previous six or watch them at our sons are done r t dot com there's also plenty more to see on our website including the story while what daredevils do if they get bored with skydiving or bungee jumping these russian adrenaline junkies will call themselves a road jumpers have the hot stuff going on laughs. no room for heroes and the american war veterans who felt so pleased by the system that they threw the
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medals away in disgust. now the us mainstream media is repartee losing its audience as malviya was tile the narran news diet people are increasingly looking for more accuracy and objectivity outside the scope of corporate controlled outlets as marina reports. he's the most trusted fictional name in news the lead character of h.b.o.'s upcoming series newsroom is on a mission to tell the truth in the face of u.s. corporate and commercial pressures where you are what makes the greatest country in the world are no one. venting their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction morgan holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate owned news
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networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and iron ore awards last month cnn's readings dropped to their lowest in a decade here on the nominees in march fox lost nearly twenty percent of their viewers and for years and as n.b.c. has consistently remained least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms and the executive suites of these media companies they're in a panic about this. peter hart is the activism director at fair a us media watchdog group he says an increasing number of americans are abandoning mainstream media for alternative independent or foreign news outlets once people shift and say c.n.n. is not for me fox is not for me on this and b c isn't doing what i really want them to do or need them to do then it's hard to get them back how do you convince somebody that your media system works when their experience tells them that it
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doesn't when last on his biggest global story was born in new york city it was largely ignored by most mainstream news outlets but. this organize they look funny is one of the protesting nobody seems to know until it became impossible to suppress. this spring the fight against corporate greed is still being waged but at this event in times square demonstrators are surrounded by new stickers but no mainstream t.v. cameras the occupy movement is it waiting for the all mighty powerful networks to show up and reports about their demonstrations instead the grassroots group has made immediate distribution all part of its campaign creating newspapers like this one which report about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most mainstream news outlets in the us i have
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a dozen giant conglomerates currently controlled mainstream media. critics say this leaves just a few companies capable of strangling the voice of america's free press the first amendment just keep shrinking it in for. a handful of profiteering corporations who don't care a lot about journalism don't care a lot about democracy have taken control reporting the truth means risking all the dangers of digging too deep cost america's legendary newsman dan rather. or his coveted chair at c.b.s. the trust a journalist was forced to resign after reporting that george w. bush went missing during his national guard service to avoid being drafted to vietnam. because my team reported a true story it was a top story a story a lot of people didn't want to believe and it was subjected to a terrific propaganda barrage to discredit a case in which art imitating life in the film of. a life now seem
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more americans are turning to the alternative and this comes less in the day after the city. of new york. so he is newly elected president has been criticized in the west of for his nationalistic views still joining the e.u. remains his top priority during an interview with our team he told us how he intends to balance that this goal with his convictions you can watch it in full next hour but here's a preview. yes i am a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will respect them because of our constitution the constitution that tad it and i wrote together i respect it sincerely i'd like to bring order to serbia the way that germany is organized probably a lot of time will pass until the western press accept me treats me fairly as for many years they've written about me negatively now it's difficult to change that but after achieving victory in unacceptable conditions during an incredibly dirty
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media campaign it's more probable that the media will change their opinion too moreover i showed that i want to be the president of all the citizens of serbia but i've resigned the position as head of the party that i found it only three years ago and i took it to the top of the serbian political scene i left it as if it was a child and now my objective is to make serbia a developed and successful country and for that i need the support of all citizens . to bet's university student federation has confirmed it will return to negotiations with provincial authorities on monday the talks over two asian feeds are stalled over a month ago sparking a wave of ongoing mass protests in montreal the government treatment of protesters indicates the size are no way to be a compromise as a guy allegedly can't reports. it's not just about tuition hikes anymore
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even many of those who didn't care much about the problems facing students in care back have now joined the ranks of protesters. it is something that we should and have to do in this region potentially again and we have to be there and we have to make noise you guys it's the end of the democracy if we keep on this way and the father of her own solo grown daughter for the future i'm sure. the country and the city needs to tens of thousands marching every day making a noise to express anger at what they see as draconian government measures to suppress people's rights to freedom of assembly and expression earlier this month the government here adopted an emergency anti protest law to make it illegal to assemble without permission and to insist on a precise road map of any planned march or demonstration this is a map of montréal yes that's not going to always that is that's worked with
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a couple don't know. are kinda hard to understand or for very much for your insight for today but. the first time i have three hundred narratives or to start more ads or observe this sort of regard the day after the anti protest law was passed a quarter of a million people spilled onto montréal streets in defiance in a peaceful march more than seven hundred were arrested in just one day there were people coming out of the bar actually at that time and they were arrested and they weren't going into the demonstration there there had been tear gas fear. a lot of physical or spatial but the people keep more change and banging their pots and pans each now risking a fine of up to five thousand dollars when there are so many people that get arrested ready canada. media or in spending much time showing widespread incidents of police brutality. journalists in canada live in which the politicians
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and live which good good good good good the gang are making the rules show they don't going to get outside and see what's happening in the streets really and they don't want to know about police brutality did don't want to know about it. you can see how dramatically the protests have evolved over the past three months in february when they started it was that if you do took a back seat the government of the problems the gatherings were generally very peaceful like the police reaction was overwhelmingly harsh and as if that wasn't enough to banks leaders thought a quick fix law to quell the protests would spell the end but it did and now they're facing anger over fees and freedom i'm going to check out on from the streets of montreal canada r t. the government's reluctance to serve the interests of the middle class while bludging big corporations has embraced the public on both
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sides of the atlantic the met is tackled in the latest edition of peter lavelle's cross talk at seven thirty am g.m.t. here's a taste. just two months ago i got a letter from the r.s.a. i was over there with three hundred dollars for a mistake that i made an honest mistake that i made right but meanwhile you have multibillion dollar corporations that literally hire lawyers and accountants to make sure they don't pay any taxes right but yet they want to they want to be here and they want to know that on the floor and they don't want they don't want to contribute but they don't want to contribute to the greater collective right this idea very well being individual and then finally i'm floating out how you're beings exist that's. what they're in when you want to lay off people would you like me in the way he was your employer and this was where i live right now anyway. let's go to our event i really really hope rachel oprah was not into the job creators come from the wealthy nonsense i mean come on our great nation comes from a strong job creator might. i enjoy a traitor or so i'm sober a choice i'm very bitter i create jobs and i'm for people.
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now look at some other top stories from around the world have gathered in like you stand for the country's prime minister yousaf raza gilani to resign becomes after he was convicted for contempt of court for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the pakistani president opposition party leader in iran conses he'll file a petition against the parliament's failure to force him to step down. powerful winter storms have raged through central chile leaving at least one person dead and thousands of days of heavy rain and seventy mph winds have cottle washed out roads and damaged homes and businesses many families in affected areas are now living in temporary shelters which the chilean president sebastian pinera has been visiting. let's not join katie on the business does fall the latest market action hi katie so what's the latest i have
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a vote right now concentrating on asia and they're actually extending their gaze today and they've been encouraged by a great opinion poll just show that by just a warning to politics supporting the european union's policies not to helping to relieve over our head greek exit from the euro as i know we also had a report coming out of china showing the profit that china's industrial production slowed so those hoping cap perhaps because of gains that we would have expected now out of the kerry they've got to creep up in supposed to terry to this they just haven't thought it out their top performance today is that nintendo and that's because they get good at their income from the year i was headed to us to see how they closed up shop on friday evening now wall street dick was a look back not such concerns i have a strange find out to help push the u.s. stocks at lower levels. sounded oppose the writings of five spanish banks by.
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entering a double date as you can see that it was not fit in the law from the. exchange rate as the how the common currency is performing right now it is one twenty five ninety five the ruble finished up. on the common currency in the. figure. and the list goes on to the markets as we have a close bond it was a down day for the boston market. we have now we also had some. thirty six point five billion dollars of investment that's what attracted the first quarter of the yeah the result was eighteen. and that's because of all the global economic. that we're seeing at the moment now a bit of optimism coming from chris but he's from true. and he says that he could
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see momentum improving say. i think that we're coming towards the most decisive month of the year for global markets and including for russian equities you know we're over the last couple of months we've had to build up all these problems some are performance in the u.s. economy some missed numbers there and you see a slowdown in china of course the continuing problems in europe so what we're here for hoping for is that over the next week some particularly focused around the g. twenty meeting in the middle of june in mexico where we're hoping is that we will see more of a coordinated policy response from the world's biggest economies something similar to what we saw at the g. twenty meeting in april. which then led to stability in markets recovering. moving on after two decades of downtime moskos surgeon gerry truck mike is ill has been given up hope of back up to succeed russia's largest and despair bank in the
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city hall have agreed to jointly help the factory increase its production up to one hundred fifty thousand calls a year by twenty nineteen according to a plan to will be assembling vehicles under brand names of global car majors such as reynolds and hide among the most likely partners and the total project investments will reach three hundred seventy five million dollars and that if you go into those all important oil prices will see that they are indeed gaining so hopefully that will add some amends and in moscow and the next hour to have it all have the opening figures for the russian markets. well thank you so much there katie for the updated with the business the right i'll be back with a return of our top stories for you in just a few minutes. if
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