russia warns against placing the blame for a massacre in the syrian city of soley on the government saying opposition government may also have been involved. as the syrian conflict drags on it's being fueled by weapons flowing from neighboring lebanon illegally dealers are driven by profits and faith. and after weeks of violence student protests in calendar and hundreds of arrests talks of a chill wish and costs to set to resume but it's no longer just about securing things.

online on screen this is r.t. live from central moscow twenty four hours a day russia says both the syrian government and opposition government may have been involved in the deaths of more than one hundred civilians including over thirty children in the city of huda over the weekend speaking after a meeting with his british counterpart in moscow the foreign minister sergei lavrov want against assigning blame for the massacre. has the details. brushless calling for an international investigation to be held looking into what happened in houla while the west including the united states and great britain are pointing their fingers at our side while the foreign minister a while roth says that it's too early to make any conclusions since it's clearly the situation is not one sided at all again you're all pretty good you the u.n. security council on sunday the head of the international peace mission in syria confirmed that in houla there were signs of artillery and tank shelling but there

were also many corpses with head wounds from bullets fired from close distance and signs of a slaughter so both sides apparently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people including women and children this area is under the control of our militants and it's also surrounded by government troops the u.n. security council has asked the u.n. observer mission on the ground to best to gauge what exactly happened in houla. moscow is now lifting the responsibility from assad for the violence but is stressing that equal pressure has to be applied both on the authorities and on the opposition and it's not only vital for them to put their weapons down and peaceful you negotiate but also for the international community for all the outside players to reach one unified position and so you are off says only in that case could the peace plan be fulfilled which is currently the only way out of the crisis also outlined that moscow is in contact with both the and the opposition and he

says that from these contacts with the rebels it's clear that some forces outside of syria but within the region are giving them other signals which are not aimed at fulfilling the peace plan but are actually aimed at violating boosting calls for foreign military intervention the foreign minister has called on these players to make up their minds whether they want regime change or the start of the deaths of people in syria. it is warning not to rush to conclusions sergey lavrov referred to the balkans war in the ninety's he described how a group of european officials calls the nato intervention by declaring a genocide in the small village though never made public leaks from a later investigation suggested the victims were actually cause of our militants killed in fighting political analysts from serbia called which believes the comparison with syria is valid. atrocity management has done wonders first for the bosnian muslims during the bosnian war ninety two to ninety five and then for the

costs of albanians in the run up to the nato bombing of one thousand nine the political utility atrocity management is immediate and we have to ask in this particular case who has to gain from this situation certainly not the syrians slaughtering innocent civilians under the noses of international observers this thing stinks to heaven and i would bet my last gold needle that we are indeed looking at a case of premeditated cold blooded murder of civilians by the serial by the syrian rebels in order to provoke international intervention. and while the outrage over the massacre in houla spreads an eagerness to illustrate events in the most harrowing way has misleading results go to our website find out about the b.b.c. story which used images of rows of children's bodies sent in by an activist only they have turned out to have been taken in iraq almost

a decade ago the photographer who took the pictures pictures thinks they're being used for propaganda you get all of the tales on that at r.t. dot com. as the strife in syria drags on the rebels are getting strong support from lebanon everything from medical treatment to weapons. from notional reports it's not just profit driving the daily deadly trading guns. as seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars industry two hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. barks chardy not his real name also has rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private people come 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 research 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 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. will 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. 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 france saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies. and 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 sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. their 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 send in the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal. to make all the overthrow of the government will make all the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all applies i guess the cia government and other selfish 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 revolutions we want to get rid of this regime. shake marzan doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret every selfie short 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. party life here must go with the twenty four hours a day still ahead for you this affording ratings is a symptom of distrust. of what's causing a growing number of americans to abandon the mainstream media in favor of independent or foreign outlets or even fictional programs. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands

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a report on. eleven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital as the news continues here in l a t joining the sounds of the occupy movement have much in common they both criticize governments and often condemn by the mainstream media so now for the first time the world's most famous whistleblower and the leaders of the global protest movement come together here on r.t. in the mages edition of a sound his very own interview program they discuss the spread of the occupy demos . occupy sort of similar for a while for the first week or ten days or something until there was violence. well yes i mean what i mean police violence but nonetheless we did not provoke it like it's violence we took a radical you can record please speak we took a nonviolent direct action we went and we occupied a square so we could have

a general assembly and starts talk about the world that we wanted to live in which we saw is completely antithetical to the world we're currently living in and the structures that governed it so yeah i mean i guess by being there by exercising directly democratic process we're posing a threat and so the police had to respond i mean there's nothing that terrifies the american government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in america that are there for to react violently. and then you catch the seventh edition of during this hour just series in full tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. right here on r.t. and if you've missed the previous six you can always watch them online at a song dot altie dot com. to the protests in kind of the now and there's hope the standoff between students and authorities in quebec could soon come to an end with talks due to resume on monday thousand strong demonstrations against jewish and fee hikes have been taking place on a nightly basis for over

a month but a new motion see laura's cause such anger cutting fees may no longer be enough to get a check on reports. it's not just about tuition hikes anymore 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. 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 our own cool on the ground. for the future. of. the country. 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 yet that's not true always that. our conduct there is sound or for very much very very sorry for to break. the first time i have five. minute narratives or to start on the idea of doing this for. 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 of the bar actually at that time and they were arrested and they were. weren't going into the demonstration there there had been tear gas. a lot of physical or spatial but the people keep marching 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. journalists in canada live in which the politicians and a live look 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 the students ok back versus the government of the problem the 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 montréal canada r.t. . if you get that all the stories we're covering on screen are also available on our website on t.v. dot com online all the time and his was there for you at the moment should you log on what should dead of those do if they get bored with skydiving and bungee jumping these russian adrenaline junkies who call themselves. have a halt. plus. splashing the cash to mark zuckerberg front of the country's biggest social network shows off his riches by making paper planes out of banknotes find out how much money the board millionaire was throwing away it. so news now from across the globe at this stage of the day in our world update.

revolution prime minister will both fight it out in a runoff in egypt's presidential election the first and second places of. being confirmed by the electoral commission but two of the other defeated candidates are demanding a recount saying there were violations during the voting the second round would take place next month. former british prime minister tony blair's appearance before an inquiry into media ethics has been interrupted by a man shouting war criminal investigation is looking at the issue of phone hacking by journalists blair faces questions about his relationship with rupert murdoch who own the main newspaper involved the news of the world his government was described by a former colleague as being too close to the media giant it's alleged the likes of prince charles and gordon brown were among the hacking victims. head of the international monetary fund has been forced to express sympathy with greece's financial struggle on facebook christine the guard social network page was

bombarded with tens of thousands of messages after comments she made in a newspaper interview she caused outrage by saying she had more sympathy for poor african children than greeks suffering economic problems insisting the greek culture text of asians was the main cause of their hardship that this is. so because newly elected president is confirmed joining the remains his top priority however he told r.t. there are things he won't give up for the sake of membership and you can see his interview in full in a little over ten minutes from now in the meantime here's a quick preview for you. europe is a very attractive partner for serbia and our country should meet almost all the conditions that the e.u. imposes this process should stop only if they ask us to renounce part of our territory i'm referring to kosovo and we're talking. to the e.u. i don't know first of all they have the crisis of expansion today it's clear that we will be in during the next ten years of the same time they have the existential crisis the euro as a currency the turning weaker by the day on the other hand it's

a big question how long is germany going to help members of the union that's to say how long should german taxpayer support the countries in crisis. the u.s. mainstream news media is rapidly losing its audience with the biggest network suffering from sinking ratings rising independent outlets and internet sources provide an alternative to corporate controlled news and as artie's marina portnoy reports media giants are increasingly obsolete. but 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 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 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 warns 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. 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 outlets once people shift and say c.n.n. is not for me fox is not for me on the sunday she is doing what i really want them to do i need them to do that 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 it is. this organized a look quote as 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 occupied. movement is it waiting for the almighty powerful networks to show up that reports about their demonstrations instead the grassroots group doesn't need immediate distribution of the heart of its campaign reading newspapers like this one which reports about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most in mainstream news outlets the first amendment just keep shrinking in importance. 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 trusted 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 where people didn't want to believe that it was subjected to repeat propaganda barrage to discredit a case in which art is imitating life is becoming. a life now seeing more americans turning to the alternative marina port i.r.t. new york. twenty two minutes past eight in the evening here in the russian capital natasha joins us next with the latest from the world of business

a hell of the markets and the day here in moscow well bill there were a mixed bag really let's start with europe since wall street will remain closed on monday for memorial day europe and the mix as i already mentioned as you can see the footsie managed to hold onto some of the gains but the downside had slipped into bread over the past couple of hours of trade and then today about one percent in the bread and of course trading on a mixed bag of news the optimism again. a relief from greece where an opinion poll showed that the greek people ready to vote for a bailout new democracy party in next month's elections if that happens there's hope that greece will actually implement the austerity measures then hold onto the euro but on the other hand of course spain is adding a grain of salt the you do the troubled bank bank he shares that had slipped twenty

eight percent of the news that it's asking the government to inject twenty four billion dollars into its system essentially that would be the biggest bailout in spain's history and let's move on to the european currency as you can see the euro is doing quite well on some of this often is it's a gaining against the u.s. dollar but that's not really lowering the record number of experts who say the euro is facing a continued downward spiral going forward we'll see what's going to happen without the russian ruble is trading mixed against the major currencies it's gaining to the dollar and alluding to the euro and let's move on to the russian equity markets they finished the day also. they were actually with some gains as you can see the the r.t.s. is was gaining around half a percent that my sex around three quarters of a percent and that despite the latest data that showed that of the russian economy

attracted thirty six and a half billion dollars of investments in the first quarter and that's an eighteen percent drop compared to the same period last year let's check out the biggest movers on the my sex the smart day they included in the financial sector the spare bank which gained more than half a percent a lukoil was gaining on stronger oil and t n p b p managed to bounce back after spending most of the day in the red on the news that it's sealed remained resigned from the company and of course. but not least the oil markets one of the important the caters of the health of the russian equity markets and it was doing. value despite the news that the. u.s. stock piles were at a twenty two month high apparently all those good news coming out of greece and the continued tensions over wrong nuclear program war and now off to push oil higher

and london and is once again attracting a real estate buyers from around the world they see the city as a safe haven and as a result real estate prices and namely the prices of those top prime a london is residential properties are already up three percent so far this year the head of the research at night frank u.k. says this trend is likely to continue for. it's seen as a aaa asset with the london postcode if you like it's it's something that people can invest in and then they know their money will be safe it's secure here it's safe it's politically secure economically fairly slight you separation from the euro zone yes we're involved but we're not in the euro zone so people do see it as somewhere to come they would feel safe if they just create the come for you to be wealthy they can come here and there but there's no political threat or anything like that so we've seen that we saw the russian elections there was

a spike of interest from russian buzz we saw the eurozone crisis the european buyers now flooding in to the concentrate on the market so you can really see when things happen across the world it is reflected in the consumption of the market it's quite remarkable. and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour but as usual you can find a lot more stories there on our site that's. great thanks i will see you a bit later anyway thank you very much indeed and by the way your interview with the newly elected president. that's coming your way in a few minutes from now after a recap of our top stories stay with us live here this is r.t. .

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