the un cries the brutal massacre of one hundred eight men women and children in syria as details of the grisly deaths cost down accusations of government involvement. lebanese arms traffickers open up the business to syrian rebels for a hefty profit and a slice of spiritual satisfaction. that leaders of the occupy movement gather together on julian assange show as he challenges their philosophy of worldwide change. the boston markets have opens out today. that helped by rising oil prices and concerns that

a great exit from the euro zone has slightly tell me all the details on the figures in about twenty minutes time. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at our. he when a security council has strongly condemned the murder of one hundred eight men women and children in the syrian town of houla according to initial reports many of the victims were executed at point blank range the syrian government has flat out rejected responsibility for the murders saying a third party is behind the slaughter aimed to stabilizing the situation seriously largest and best armed rebel group reacted to the slaughter saying. by international cease fire rules unless the u.n. intervenes our correspondent. honestly you. know it's more of the security

council's response and united nations security council members cut their weekend short to hold a three hour closed door emergency meeting on the latest 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 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 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. meantime the rebels are adamant that the blame for the houla massacre lies with the

government but former pentagon official michael maloof says the rebel side of the story just does not. there's been allegations that there were gangs that are under the control of the government but the whole area was actually here is actually under the control of the free syrian army so i don't see how the government forces could have come in and systematically killed all these people up close like that the opposition has been infiltrated by al qaeda that is. i think you have certainly more radical elements that are coming in and plus are getting much more exotic. arms in order to. arm the opposition itself and as the strife in syria drags on we take a look at the elaborate international network that's keeping the rebels locked and loaded. now reports on a deadly train driven by profit and faith. salie shows

off. this is five thousand dollars and thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. parks shandi not his real name also has propelled and ten degree needs which he showed me in private. contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shop his garage in tripoli lebanon on syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for a really heavy stuff we buy from her and they're ours and resell they have a nerve and they're getting it for free and as iran makes their entire story. it will take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items the 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 support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we are with them to help them topple assad they do it in sunni dominated no flab and on where we meet the arms dealer 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. ahmed twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the bubble armor siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely . we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain

with france saudi arabia also send us the money we buy weapons walkie talkies. from the syrian 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 there are demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so support package everything counts. we also need some officiate omar bakri 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 what will become a call to overthrow the government will make all the scholars speak for against

these issues and make them all applies i guess the government and others have a fish a can triple he runs this car parts shop and 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 help the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret to every selfie shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad's. syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. where 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 and this as britain's foreign minister meets with his russian counterpart right here today in moscow in an

expected attempt to win russian support for greater pressure on assad and with more on that today's meeting coming up in just about an hour's time. he got a piskun offer points. well syria is definitely expected to dominate the talks william hague the british foreign minister is known to be a fuse critic of the assad regime he has been calling for the this stuff for a rose from the international community as specially after the recent massacre in the 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 loughborough 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 offer approach is yet to be seen previously the releases between britain and russia hit their lowest point but and now they all are starting to improve and among other issues which are going to be discussed at this meeting is ghana stan 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. reporting there well it's good to have you with us on the program today still to come for you that of bias backlash mainstream news outlets in the u.s. so rapidly losing viewers to alternative sources as more people refuse to swallow the corporate spam. busts montreal boiling over people of all ages and walks

of life now or join a local students venting their anger over to wish and some your protest crowd. julian assange and the occupy movement phenomenons are much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media well now for the first time the two come together here on t.v. in order to discuss how the corporate alliance plans to change the world. now recognize that public policy outcomes on happening at the national level and the policymakers are actually the ones who are national parliaments they're elsewhere and the ones who are exciting policy on any way counts or you know one of them that's what some steps in as a global phenomenon i mean should we all just have a global financial crisis we have a global political crisis because our institutions no longer function yeah exactly and this is one of the points of the global justice movement which is there are these sort of newly created in ministries 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 remains the first really effective planetary bureaucracy which was created in the name of the sort of free market ideology which is supposed to stand against it but in fact exactly the opposite thus the result is 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 debts of the big players could be completely renegotiated by these sort of through these global mechanisms but yours can't because your politicians are beholden to them and not to you. and the seventh show of julian assange just program coming up tomorrow g.m.t. if though you missed the previous six just watch them at a songe dot com also plenty more other items to see on our website including these

stories have a look at this what should dead devils do if they get bored with skydiving or bungee jumping these russian adrenaline junkies who call themselves rope jumpers have one particularly hard stopping answer that footage of our two dogs plus. no room for heroes of the american war veterans who felt so betrayed by the system that they threw the medals away in disgust. all right in about ten minutes time is katie with the business side but for now the u.s. mainstream media rapidly losing its audience as more viewers tire of a narrow news diet of people are increasingly looking for more accuracy and objectivity outside the scope of corporate controlled outlets this report artie's

marina portnoy. because the boy 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 it was the greatest country in the world i don't know what you're venting their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction morgan holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate own news networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and i report awards last month cnn's ratings 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 this n.b.c. has consistently remained least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms in 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 doesn't when last on on his biggest global story was born in new york city it was largely ignored by most mainstream news outlets but. they are at the store going on as they look for there 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 news tickers but no mainstream t.v.

cameras. the occupy movement is it waiting for the almighty powerful networks to show up and report about their demonstrations instead the grassroots group has made media distribution all part of its campaign creating newspapers like this one would support about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most in mainstream news outlets in the us how a dozen 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 his coveted

chair at c.b.s. the trust the 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 i had my team reported a true story it was a tough story a story a lot of people didn't want to believe that it was subjected to repeat propaganda barrage to discredit to a case in which art is imitating life is becoming. a life now seeing more americans turning to the alternative and this comes less than saying no to this if you were in a port ny r.t. new york. we are not far off from the world update here on r.t. for now though serbia's newly elected president has been criticized in the west for his and nationalistic views still though joining the e.u. remains his top priority during an interview with r.t. he told us how he intends to balance their skull with his convictions you can watch

see the interview our next hour here on r.t. for another way quick preview. 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 but now it's difficult to change that but after achieving victory in an acceptable conditions during an incredibly dirty 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 and 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 when now my objective is to make serbia a developed and successful country and for that i need the support of all citizens

. it is nearly twenty minutes past the hour here and moscow university student federation has confirmed it will return to negotiations with prevent thora to use on monday the talks freeze stalled over a month ago sparking a wave of going mass protests in montreal but government treatment of protesters indicates the sides are nowhere near a compromise so it is gone a trigger can reports. it's not just about to wish an hikes anymore even many of those who didn't care much about the problems facing students have now joined the ranks of protesters. it is something that we should and have to do in this region but that's not ok 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 on our

own cool on the ground. for the future. of. the country and the. 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 protests 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 you're not going to always ducks. are kinda hard to understand or for very much very very sorry for to break. the first time i have i leave you now if you're to start on the idea of doing this sort of thing i got a day after the anti protests 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 from the. are actually at that time and they were i rested and they weren't going to do demonstration there had been tear gas. a lot of physical or station but the people keep more chain 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 arrest everybody canada's media aren't spending much time showing widespread incidents of police brutality. journalists in canada live in which the politicians and a live look good good good good good the ganger is 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 these 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 the students of the government of the problem gatherings were generally very peaceful but 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 tangere over fees and freedom i'm going to check on from the streets of montreal canada r t. but the government's reluctance to serve the interests of the middle class while obliging big corporations and raise the public on both sides of the atlantic and out of the tackled in the latest edition of cross talk that's coming your way in no less than ten minutes time for now a quick preview. 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 insure. but i don't want to contribute to the greater collective fright this idea very well being individual and then finally i'm flying out of your beings exist that's. what they're going to want to leave people would you like the reasons you're employed and this is where i live right now i mean. 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 john creator myself i enjoy usually rachel i'm sorry rachael i don't think you are and i create jobs and i employ people. ok now starting with pakistan let's get to the r.t. world update for you thousands have gathered calling for the country's prime minister yousaf raza gilani to resign it comes after he was convicted for contempt

of court for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against a pakistani president opposition party leader in iran khan says he will file a petition against parliament's failure to force him to step down. for winter storms of rage through central leaving at least one person dead and thousands homeless three days of heavy rain and seventy mile per hour winds have cut off power 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 go to katie there you are standing we're standing by the r t business desk good to see you again the european markets now open what's the story there was so far so good at the wrong way they are pasting gains or not so because concern is that greece leaving the euro zone has actually. investors really encouraged by that was all because of the greek opinion paul was

saying that voters are warming to the policies that supports a. bailout package that so. investors really feeling the love. eight tenths of a percent of the dollars or one point three percent also worth considering that it's the memorial day holiday in the u.s. today so we're expecting volumes to be lighter throughout the dice and this is how all those sentiments are playing into the common currency bizarre and it's still get even put it one twenty six zero one the rubles performance in this destiny is higher than the u.s. dollar against the euro and talk about it have a look at the markets and see you have the best school day and they are indeed with the artists around one point seven percent of the mises one point four tenths of a percent imposed to that territory now the russian economy attracted thirty six point five billion dollars of investment in. those pots i have to tell you it was eighteen percent lower than last year and that's because of all the global economic

and see that we've got at the moment let's have a quick snapshot of the stocks though the energy majors roughness and gas from that getting around two percent age who goes by that as well market players are expecting the company to make an announcement on a deal acquiring a turkey spraggs who weighs in here on that one this i pods or oh i have a two percent in positive territory at this hour around millions of the stories to do with the rush off to two decades of down time most guys are legendary truck micah's ill have been given who offer a back up to succeed russia's largest and despair by the city hall have agreed to jointly help the factory increase its productions up to one hundred fifty thousand calls a year by twenty nineteen now according to the plan zille will be assembling vehicles under brand names of global mages and these include faith rental. and that the supposedly the most likely part is now the change of project investments will reach

three hundred seventy five million so it was not russia's job aka increase its attractiveness to high skilled foreign is because juries chopper crew service. he says the number of c.v.s. apply boy x. eleven has said most of the applicants are native english speakers looking for a position in oil and gas all the banking sectors say russia's growing economy looks like a more promising destination a light of all the financial problems across a goliath all writers get out of the markets and check out there is a market like what is it the still climbing out today are feeling the momentum coming from the eurozone and today and that's helping to outweigh a report the profit growth slowed to china's industrial companies as you can see the hindsight seven tenths of a percent and then they pay around fifty basis points as we check out those oil prices they're still managing to gain us despite u.s. stock calls reaching a twenty two month high also got the optimism from greece as i've been talking about and tensions over

a run in that nuclear program that is also playing its those prices at this hour ok rory so that is the markets now there are fifteen minutes with the latest figures for what it's all looking good for the weather dog give us some more good news next hour i'll try. forward in just a moment or two the headlines that is going to be backed up with people of cross talk. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as

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