the un decries the brutal massacre of one hundred eight men women and children in syria as details of a grisly deaths cost doubts on the rebel accusations of the government being involved. lebanese arms traffickers open up the business to syrian rebels for a hefty profit and a slice of spiritual satisfaction. and leaders of the occupy movement gather together on julian assange and use interview program as he challenges that philosophy of world wide change.

it is good to have you with us here on our to today rule research and welcome to the program the u.n. 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 rather than by or to the republic bottom and the syrian government has flat out rejected responsibility for the murders saying a third party is behind the slaughter aimed at destabilizing the situation syria's largest and best armed rebel group reacted to the slaughter saying it won't abide by an international cease fire unless the u.n. intervenes our correspondent and as i see a more on the security council's response united nations security council members cut their weekend shorts to hold a three hour closed door emergency meeting on the lead us 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 a hundred people were killed including dozens of women and children prior to the meeting britain and france what. falling for security council members to adopt a joint press meant when ting 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 now the rebels are adamant that the blame for the houla massacre lies with the government but former pentagon official michael maloof says the rebels side of the story just does not add up. there's been allegations that there were gangs that are under the control of the government but that 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 and systematically killed all these people up close and like that the opposition has been infiltrated by al qaeda that is al-qaeda is that 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 strife in syria drags on we take a look at the elaborate international network that's keeping the rebels a locked and loaded where if a national report and i deadly try driven simply by profit and faith and so it shows off he's good. this is five thousand dollars and this is thirteen hundred eighteen hundred in two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. parks 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 syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for really have the stuff we buy from her and they're ours and resell 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 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. they do it in sunni dominated north lebanon 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. mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the baba amr 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 france saudi arabia they also send us money we buy weapons walkie talkies satellites in the syrian borders he says every day tons of these aid go through his hands but for him it's not enough as soon as he gets better he'll return to syria.

ahmed is sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically their demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising are also part of the support package everything counts. we also made some of fish a call made bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group suspected of links to international terrorism but he sees his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal would be to make call at the overthrow of the government we will make or the scholars speak for against the army's issues and make them all up lies against the c.i. government and other similar 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 army already helped 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 seven feet short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody has something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. that 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 is meeting with his russian counterpart right here in moscow at this moment in an expected attempt to win russian support for greater pressure on our side our correspondent you've got a percent off has more on the ongoing meeting. the two foreign ministers are holding a meeting behind closed doors as i'm speaking right now of course syria is among

the most important issues william hague the british foreign minister is known to be a fierce critic of the assad regime he's been calling on the international community to toughen its approach especially after the recent massacre in the syrian town of houla and earlier mr he said that he understood russia strong influence on the sea enough toadies and he said he is going to trying to talk syria lamoral into applying more pressure on syria in order to comply with the coffee on and peace plan which is supported by both great britain and russia but the relationship between the two countries is quite complicated especially when it comes to syria since britain has been taking more of the side of the opposition while russia has been promoting more of a balanced approach so. we are going to find out if mr hague was

able to achieve his goals at this meeting just in a few minutes since we are waiting for the final media conference all for both foreign ministers in just a few moments. well as artie's are you right there are still to come for you here in the program that of bias backlash mainstream news outlets in the u.s. are rapidly losing viewers to alternative sources as more people refuse to swallow the corporate spin. class of montreal boiling over people of all ages and walks of life joined local students who are venting their anger over to wish in a hikes and out of the authorities protest crackdown. it's ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital julian assange and the occupy movement phenomenon much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media and now though for the first time the two come together here on r t to discuss how the anti corporate alliance

plans to change the world. now recognize that public policy outcomes on happening at the national level and policy makers are actually the ones who are national parliaments they're elsewhere and the ones who are exciting policy on anyway counts all you know one of them representatives and that's a global phenomenon and we'll 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 is the first really effective planetary bureaucracy which was created in the name of the sort of free market idiology 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. the seventh show of julian assange just program coming up tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. but if you've missed the previous six just watch the. t.v. dot com there's also plenty more for you to see on our website including these stories have a look here what should dare devils do if they get bored with skydiving or bungee jumping because russian adrenaline junkies who call themselves rope jumpers have a heart stopping. us. no room for heroes we meet the american war veterans who felt so betrayed by the system that they threw their medals away in disgust.

this is r.t. live from moscow the us mainstream media is rapidly losing its audience as more viewers tire of a narrow news diet people are increasingly looking for more accuracy and objectivity outside the scope of corporate controlled outlets as artie's marina portnoy now explains. believe me i'm 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 the greatest country in the world i don't know what. their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction forget holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate owned 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 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. other 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 autumn's biggest global story was born in new york city it was

largely ignored by most mainstream news outlets but. this organize they look for that 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. camera. 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 a media distribution all part of its campaign creating newspapers like this one with support about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most 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 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 of my team reported a true story was a tough story a story a lot of people didn't want to believe in that he was subjected to but to repeat propaganda barrage to put it to a case in which art imitating life is the tone of. a life now seeing

more americans turning to the alternative and this comes less than i'm saying all through the city marina port ny r.t. new york. and r.t. is coming to life from moscow serbia as a newly elected president has been criticized in the west for his nationalistic views still joining the e.u. remains his top priority and during an interview with r.t. he told us how he intends to balance this goal with his convictions you can watch the interview in a full in about her fifteen minutes time for now though a quick preview here. 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 the cost to meet certain 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 to moreover i showed that i want to be the president of all the citizens of serbia i resigned the position as head of the party that i found it really 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 developed and successful country and for that i need the support of all citizens. this is r.t. in just a few moments the world update for now although quebec's university student federation has confirmed dead will return to negotiations with prevention all of thora t. is on monday the talks over to wish and fees stalled over a month ago sparking a wave of ongoing mass protests in montreal but government treatment of protesters indicates the signs are nowhere near a compromise as artie's guy nature can reports. it's not just

about tuition hikes anymore even many of those who didn't care. much about the problems facing students in quebec have now joined the ranks of protesters. it is something that we should and have to do in this region to protest against and we have to be there and we have to make noise he does it's the end of democracy if we keep on this way and the father of her own colangelo grown daughter in the future to ensure. that 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 quite a this is

a map of montréal yet not one hundred always that duckworth would think about don't know but i think that there is sound for democracy there inside for quite a bit. the first time i write a five. minute narrative because stars in their ads are observing this sort of regard a 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 there from the bar actually at that time and they were arrested and they weren't going into the demonstration there or there had been tear gas. 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 they can't arrest everybody canada's media aren't spending much time showing incidents of

police brutality. of journalists in canada. live in which the politicians and the live looks good good good good again guys making the rules so they don't going to get outside and see what's happening in the streets really and they don't want to go about this because that he didn't want to know about it. you can see how dramatically depôt have evolved over the past three months in february when they started it was that you do. the government of the projects the gatherings were generally very peaceful like the police reaction was overwhelmingly harsh and as if that wasn't enough to banks leaders think thanks a lot 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 the streets of montreal canada r t. well 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 the matter is being tackled in the latest edition of people of ellis cross talk that's at eleven thirty g.m.t. for now a taste. just two months ago i got a letter from the r.s.a. i was over there were 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 i want to point out 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 to you all beings exist that's. their employer you want to lay off people would you like me in the radio if you're employed on this because where i live right now anyway. that's good about it and i really really hope rachel rachel is not into the job creators come from the wealthy nonsense i mean come on our great nation comes from

a strong i don't know where john created on my side either i'm going to make sure the original i'm sol rachael i don't think you are and i create jobs and i employ people. this is our moment katie with the business for now the pakistan kicks off the world update from gaza calling 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 the pakistani president opposition party leader in iran says he'll follow a petition against parliament's failure to force him to step down. powerful winter storms have raged through central chile living at least one person dead thousands of now three days of heavy rain and seventy mile per hour winds of. road. and businesses many families in affected areas are now living in temporary shelters which the chilean president sebastian pinera has been visiting.

i don't have a business desk oh there's curfew could do so you are going. to investors have the monday morning or blues or all day tripper and enjoying their coffee absolutely i think they are all the chap here today rory so to speak because they're having a bit of a breeze and that's because the games are extending this hour investors seem pretty content with what they're hearing from greece right now much softer on opinion polls show that the great people are warming up to the pro euro policy new democracy and that's supposed to be anti europe policy so brits are now it's all rosy though because shares of the spanish bank bank here have sunk twenty eight percent of those all of the news of the spanish government was faltering jets twenty four billion dollars and that makes it the biggest bailout in spain history but for now as i say there's contentment in the air as far as european markets arkansas let's get into the common currency as a whole the sense it's

a play against now despite a record number of those expecting the euro to pull on it downwards it is obvious one twenty six zero one as for the russian ruble it's got a mix before max against the basket of currencies ok moving forward to see how the russian markets are getting on see if they're holding on to their gains today and indeed gauri they're also enjoying their coffee right now would go up yes one point seven percent of the mice that's around rather one of the have said it was i don't know a snapshot of the sort to see that was a loophole as to gating in the session we've all schools as well there on the rise not off the market players are expecting them to announce their deal with the turkish bags were holding tight for that while i'm all russian news off to decades of downtime most legendary to make his ill has been given a proper back up to succeed russia's largest i despair of the city hall have agreed to jointly help the factory increase its production to up to one hundred fifty thousand calls a year by twenty nine t.

according to the plans il will be assembling very. calls under brand names of global call majors these include fia reynold hind i among the most likely they're expected all the total project investments will reach three hundred seventy five million dollars. russia's job market increasing its attractiveness for high skilled foreigners last year the country's top mccrimmon service had talked to says the number of c.v.s. apply by ex-pats eleven percent most of the applicants are native english speakers looking for a position in oil and gas while the banking sector is russia's growing economy looks like a more poorer missing what destination in light of all the global economic problems we've got at the so let's check out the asian markets and we've still got positive colors figures on the screen for you that they tell you. what's a positive and then we go and they carry around half a percent up in the us despite our profit growth slowing in china's industrial companies so demonstrating their resilience about news just what we all price is

well they are still gaining so that very much it's great for the russian markets are enjoying gains as well and that's the spot us stock calls reaching a twenty two month the high tensions in iran as well that playing into those prices is. how the markets look i'm going to be chained to this chair right here just keeping an eye on the figures of iraq about fifteen minutes very very good thanks so much see you next hour. our still to come here are three of the headlines and our exclusive interview with the newly elected president of serbia interesting word . religion and they. are insufferable.

i. apologize for interrupting our regularly scheduled programming there the foreign ministers of britain and russia are now giving a joint news conference here in moscow the main focus out of syria let's listen in great britain and northern ireland mr william cake signed the pledge of consultations between demeans through foreign appears to the russian federation from before income groups office or the united kingdom of great britain movement or limiting them to phone ten twelve. was dismissed. for ice as we are watching this live presser here in central moscow of william hague the british foreign secretary and it had a russian counterpart there so he laughed it off as being a timing to mutual cooperation treaties between both countries we are going to get back to them shortly here on our. main focus is that of the ongoing syrian crisis

as i understood that the british parliament was but the russia has a strong leverage with those in syria saying that those and. and we understand that we can now listen in to see what's turkey laughed it off it was just getting go when we were. on the boat you had me but i see that it could be but if we look at what is actually russian great britain are making progress in disability there but let's roll resolutions and there's no way you're going to increase our cooperation with serious serious primarily astri the international spears who have just signed it laughs consultations between the russian foreign ministry and the foreign office would have to use your listener line is intense and just step out certain contexts and make them more systemic so it's absolutely in your face or regards discussions so to q. globally and to reaching a lot of fears and actual we are already implementing was flattered you cannot see this people and includes fifteen to one but the excuses that come.