britain and russia are split over the syrian crisis while both agree kofi annan peace plan is the countries are the least salvation though they remain divided over its implementation. that is the un cries the brutal massacre of one hundred sixteen men women and children in syria the details of their grisly death cost down on rebel accusations of government involvement. and leaders of the occupy movement gather together on julian assange interview show it challenges their philosophy of worldwide change.

on air and online this is the with me rule research a live in moscow kofi annan peace plan faces a severe test as the man behind the initiative arrives in syria just days after one of the bloodiest episodes in the uprisings history having met in moscow the foreign ministers of britain and russia say they are committed as ever to the plan with the glaring differences you go to has more on their fears. before coming to moscow william hague the british foreign minister said that moscow has a strong influence over syrian authorities and he said one of his main goals was to talk the russian foreign minister into applying pressure on president assad but even though london openly acknowledges that it's not only our son who is responsible for all the violence in the country it's also not hiding its desire of seeing him gone from power and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says moscow

applies pressure on syrian authorities almost on a daily basis but it's not really clear why this pressure is being applied only on one side of the conflict we mean we're dealing with a situation where both parties probably were involved in the deaths of innocent people our priority is to stop the killings in syria and we believe this must be everyone's priority but when some of our partners start saying that we are the solution is regime change i start doubting their sincerity when they say they want to end the violence but it is. also stressed it's vital not only to get the rebels on the syrian authorities to peacefully negotiate but also for all the outside we are still international community to reach one unified position russia and britain to condemn strongly the violence in syria especially the recent massacre in the town of moore and they do agree that in the grand scheme of things the only way out of this crisis is the quote be on and peace plan but unfortunately it seems they

still disagree on ways of achieving it. do you go to school for porting now the u.n. security council is also strongly condemned the motor of one hundred sixteen men women and children in the syrian town of houla according to official reports many of the victims were executed at point blank range rather than by that of an artillery bombardment the syrian government has fled how rejected responsibility for the murders saying a third party is behind the slaughter aimed at the stabilizing the situation syria's largest and best and rebel group reacted to the slaughter saying it won't abide by an international ceasefire and less at the u.n. intervene. an associate 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 wait as 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 for 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 to all be noted nations security council members was released the security council has condemned these violence while and hearings which included artillery and tank shellings the security council says this is a breach of international law and agree to 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. it 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 it but 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. does the strife in syria drags on we take a look at the elaborate international network that's keeping the rebels locked and loaded has more if a national report on a deadly trade driven by profit and faith as solace shows off. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred

eighteen hundred and two thousand and seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. bucks shaadi not his real name also has a look at propelled and tend grenades which he showed me in private you can come contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shot 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 here 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 they coast has gone up five and sometimes even

ten times and the more the conflict drags on the mall look at it it is for the weapons dealers but money's 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. will help them topple assad till they do it in sunni dominated north lebanon where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out 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 his now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely. we have supported syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain france saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies. in the borders and

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. is 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 part of the support package everything sounds. we also made some of fish a call might have 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 what would be to make a call at the overthrow of the government would make all the scholars speak for against these issues make them all applies i guess the government and other some

officiate 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 help the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime. shake muslim doesn't wear a muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every sellafield shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. it's good of you to join us here on the program today still to come for you that of a biased backlash from mainstream news outlets in the u.s. are rapidly losing viewers to alternative sources as more people refuse to swallow the corporate spin. plus montreal boiling over people of all ages and walks of

life joined local students venting their anger over to wish in the sand the authorities protest a crackdown. it's ten minutes past the hour here in moscow julian assange and the occupy movement a phenomenon much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media now though for the first time the two come together on our t.v. 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 policy makers are actually the ones who are national parliaments they're elsewhere and the ones who are exciting policy on any way counts or not them that's what some steps in as a global phenomenon lynch and we'll 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 i mean is 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 seven show of julian assange series are coming up tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. if you manage to miss the previous six you can watch them at a song store dot com there's also plenty more to see on our website including these stories have a look right here and i want you dare devil do if they get bored with skydiving or

bungee jumping these are russian adrenaline junkies who call themselves robot jumpers have one heart stopping on plus. no room for heroes our teammates the american war veterans who felt so betrayed by the system that they threw their medals away in disgust. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow at 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 but this report r.t. is marina important. think i'm going 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 are you aware of what makes the greatest country in the world i don't know what i'm. venting their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction morgan 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 iron ore awards last month cnn's ravings dropped to their lowest in a decade here on the nominees in march fox lost nearly twenty percent of their viewers and four years and as 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. but the 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 outlives 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 you convince somebody that your media system works when their experience tells them that it 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. they are at the store going on as they look for days 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 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 john 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 i had my team reporting the true story 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 imitating life is becoming. 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. comes to you live from moscow in a moment the world update for now though serbia's newly elected president has been criticized in the west for his nationalistic views still joining the e.u. remains his top priority during an interview with r.t. he told us how he intends to balance this goal with his convictions and you can watch the interview in full next hour here on r.t. if another 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 but i've 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 a developed and successful country and for that i need the support of all citizens . thanks for joining

us on r.t. today university student federation has confirmed it will return to negotiations with a prevention law thora to use on monday the talks over to wish and fiji stalled over a month ago sparking a wave of ongoing mass protests in montreal but government treatment of protesters indicates the sides are nowhere near a compromise as artie's guy in a church can reports. is that just about any more even many of those. so didn't care much about the problems facing students in keg have now joined the ranks of protesters. it is something that we should and have to do in this region but that's not yet and we have to be there and we have to make noise he does it's the end of the of the democracy if we keep on this way and the father of her own colangelo grown daughter for the future. of the country in the city of new tool 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 side of this is a matter of montréal yet not one hundred always that exact words would think of although. i think they're not going to sound or for very much for their inside for quite a bit. the first time i write a five. minute narrative or to star in their ads or observe 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 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 and can't. live in which the politicians and the live looks good 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 know about these because he didn'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 you do so can take the government of the problem 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 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 has enraged the public on both sides of the atlantic and the matter was told in the latest edition of cross talk and about ten minutes time for now a quick 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 you know that. 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 not how you beings exist that's. their employer you want to lay off people would you like me on the radio if you're employed on this because you are my life right now anyway. that's good about i have and i really really hope rachel rachel is not into the job creators come from the wealthy nonsense i mean come on job creation comes from the job creator my side i don't exactly right so i'm sol rachael i don't think you are and i create jobs and i employ people. just a moment katie with the business for now if the world update starts with pakistan 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 the pakistani president opposition party leader in iran can says he will follow a petition against parliament's failure to force him to step down. for winter

storms have raced through central chile 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. time to talk numbers there is currently the business desk good to see you. understand of course that you and i are both british ex-pats living and working here in moscow but we're not exactly the only ones own way we're not rory we could have more competition on our hands because there's more people like us heading this what i am going to talk about a little bit later on let's go see the markets first of all because lots going on the u.s. markets are closed memorial day today but we have the asian markets finished up. today that was snapping a three day losing streak the european markets that's still edging up with as you

can see the people of greece then all swain's to also as you pro euro part is excuse me which is giving the markets up like today now another topic of discussion on the trading floor is this situation the fact that the government will pump twenty will believe it is a troubled land bank and that would effectively nationalize the banks so that it's sparking phase of the stability of the financial sector but as you can see just to try to save over all the contents that i am moving on to the common currency we'll see how that's playing into where we've got one twenty five eighty three says continuing to get another. soft coming off the back of a seven month low because the variable is stayed pretty much the same as the today has to be said is getting a gives us a losing towards. our moving on which we see how the russian market safari and they too are enjoying the gains of the session but the artist in the my sex up around the same amount as the best sort of coming off a two year love actually last week it was

a very tumultuous to say the least but now we've got kind of this good stuff let's get on to a snapshot of the stocks right now. by easy gaining market players are anticipating the do is go through with the targets but go a little also up or is up as well so as well considering their first net profit last seen some investors who say morale is satisfied ever got hincapie paid out bucking the trend down seven tenths of a percent and was off to the c.e.o. has resigned as i've got more details on this story now he's a city at the same time the chair of the russian british event for its men now he's resigned from both positions without providing any raises by the day he was one of russia's coders who blocked the deal between be paid claiming it was violating existing agreements with think a.b.v. now friedman is one of russia's richest people within the sphere of banking.

this is the story i was talking about rory it looks like russia's job market increases attractiveness while high skills foreign born is lost another cut just talk recruits a service headhunters so the number of see these apply by ex-pats eleven percent most of the applicants all native english speakers looking for a position in oil and gas so even the banking sector is russia's growth could have a list like a more promising work destination a lot of all the financial problems going on across the. pond finally the financial ugly ducklings of the euro zone spain italy and greece are now facing a normal sort of crisis and it is. olive oil water is prices plunged to a ten year as economic problems hit domestic consumption this could worsen the situation of the three countries accounting for seventy percent of the world's oil oil oil all that oil out but i would call more overspray it is expected to have a record to harvest all oil. something that definitely won't support the price and

also another kind of always see the bread prices for those are the lights we step over ninety one dollars per barrel on the bread edging towards one hundred and eight so they are indeed gaining they've been gaining throughout the session was all from a metasearch so this guy will be back in the next hour with all the details fantastic if he enjoyed the afternoon thanks very much. harder still to come here now to the headlines. and cross talk.

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