which brightened. from finest impression. starts on t.v. dot com. russia warns against placing the blame for a massacre in the syrian city of houla solely on the government saying opposition government make also have been involved. as the syrian conflict drags on is being fueled by weapons flowing from neighboring lebanon. is a driven by profit and pain. and after weeks of violence student protests in canada and hundreds of arrests but you wish the costs are set to resume but it's no longer just about soaring fields.

online on screen this is r.t. live from central moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour the russian government says that 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 houla over the weekend speaking after a meeting with his british counterpart here in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov want against assigning blame for the massacre going off has the details. russia is 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 us sidewall the foreign minister a lot of roth says that it's too early to make any conclusions since it's clearly the situation is not one sided at all. but to do at 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 cool says we've had it fired from close distance and signs of a slaughter google says both sides apparently had a hand in the deaths of people including women and children this is under the control of the 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 test 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 where's to reach one unified position so you have it off says only in that case could be peace plan he 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 stop of the deaths of people in syria. and it's. warning not to rush to conclusions refer 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 although never made public leaks from a later investigation suggested the victims were actually cause of our militants killed in fighting political analyst from serbia. who believes the comparison with syria is valid atrocity management has done wonders first for the bosnian muslims during the bosnian war in ninety two to ninety five and then for the course

of all binion's in the run up to the need to 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 hurt bet my last gold needle that we are indeed looking at a case of premeditated called blooded murder of civilians by deceiving the syrian rebels in order to provoke international intervention. and while the outrage over the massacre in houla spreads and eagerness to illustrate events in the most harrowing way has misleading results got a website right now to find out about the b.b.c. story which used images of rows of children's bodies sent in by an activist only they turned out to be taken in iraq almost a decade ago people talk of who took the pictures thinks they're being used for

propaganda get all the details on this dot com. and as the strife in syria drags on the rebels are getting strong support from lebanon everything from medical treatment to weapons and as artie's money financial reports it's not just profit driving the daily and deadly trade in guns. as seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars this is thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and 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. or contact me every day we have a revolution next door. talking shot 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 duty to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. they do it in sunni dominated no flub 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 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 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 to 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 counts. we also need some of fish a calmer bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group suspected of links to

international terrorism but he says his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal. to make all the overthrow of the government will make all the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all again the c.i. government and other some of fish a can triple the runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. already helped the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want to get rid of this regime. shake marzan 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 has something these days just to see their mission and i saw the free syria completed. an r.t.

reporting from northern lebanon. still ahead of you this hour here on r.t. forming ratings is a symptom of distrust. but what's causing the growing number of americans to abandon the mainstream news media in favor of independent or foreign outlets or even fictional programs. still to come for the first facebook fury has forced the head of the international monetary fund to express sympathy with greece's financial struggle christine legarde caused outrage by saying she had more sympathy for poor african children than greeks suffering economic problems she also suggested that the greek culture of tax evasion was their main cause of their hardship prompting tens of thousands of furious messages on social networking page well for more on this story i'm joined by george graham attorney and professor of international law clearly a vast number of greeks not at all happy over this are you personally insulted by

the guards comments well you know it's a huge hypocrisy for christine legarde to bear the music of the. various have been a video last week before congress i can tell you that it's very it's going to with a very poor people exactly because it's oil it's other sources looted by a multinational corps by this exactly out of the auspices of this. increase so if with there is one thing between the music. in the media is that they are following the same policies. of austerity in what way are people's lives affected now due to this crisis in greece give us a quick idea of how their suffering. well you can understand the people suffering are exactly the people of the they have nothing to evade taxes they're unemployed

they're poor we have huge increase of suicides the last three. we delayed man of sixty who. committed suicide together we used mother been for the fifth floor because she was because she had real property she was with us not one of the most poor people in greece but even them are now very very much affected by the crisis but what is it unfair for the card to play much of this crisis on the fact that the greeks fail to pay their tax they've been evading taxes for ages according to a two thousand and eleven report by the e.u. is task force there in greece the amount of tax owed for the state is something like seventy eight billion dollars so that is an element surely the greek people have brought upon themselves and they. well. tax evasion tax fraud is a fact but the people of the very very out of the people who they have sent the money into switzerland not the people working there now victims of these austerity

policies. that the facts of a deal out of way for us to really import capital from the for the inability to greece so it's completely hypocritical to blame the total of the population where they are just the few that are they are going out profited by this let's talk about let's talk about it's a very important election now june seventeenth the pro and all anti austerity parties are apparently now neck and neck in opinion polls ahead of this vote on june the seventeenth interesting isn't it we're seeing the. austerity party now getting considerable backing is that because there's a real risk of dropping out of the euro forcing many greeks to change their minds do many greeks actually want to keep the euro now. will you know the first result of the elections in may is that the now nobody is supporting openly the austerity

measures even the two political parties that were part of the coalition that are supporting the austerity measures now we are speaking about. this shows exactly to the lack of legitimacy of these policies or the other can't varies a campaign of terror or they're trying to persuade us that the dilemma is not between the policies. and the policies of the social state but it is a yes or no to the euro at the eurozone but nobody wants the euro. to go out of the euro or out of the euro zone at this moment it's a completely false dilemma. george thank you so much for your comments good to have your point of view live there in athens attorney. as international law thank you. for. joining us are the occupy movement have much in common they both criticize governments are often condemned 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 latest edition of his and his very own interview program they discussed the spread of the occupy demonstrations occupy. sort of simmer for a while for the first week or ten days or something until there was violence. well yes i mean one of the police more outspoken on the worst parts. of the record. 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 and there's nothing that terrifies the american government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in america.

there for to react violently. and you can catch the seventh edition of june in the sciences series in full tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. right here on r.t. by the way if you've missed the previous six programs you can always watch them online at www dot dot com. to the protests in canada 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 tuition fee hikes have been taking place on a nightly basis for over a month but a new media emergency law has caused such anger cutting fees may no longer be enough to can has this report. it's not just about to wish and 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 potentially again and we have to be there

and we have to make noise he does it's the end of the democracy if we keep on this way and the father on her own goal on the ground. for the future to ensure. 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 decided this is a map of montréal yes that's not going to always that is that correct to think about. our conduct there is sound for for democracy there inside for quite a bit. the first time i have a highly rated narrative because stars in their ads are doing this sort of

regarding 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 arrested in just one day there were people coming out of the bar actually at that time and they were arrested and they weren't going to do that once ration there or there had been tear gas to. a lot of physical or stations but the people keep more change and banging their pots and pans each now risking a fine of up to five thousand dollars when there are so many people that get arrested ready canadas me. d.-a aren't spending much time showing incidents of police brutality. journalists in canada live in which the politicians and live looks 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 his 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 kept 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 tanger over fees and freedom i'm going to check out from the streets of montreal canada our team. to get all the stories we're covering here on screen also available on our website don't come here's what else is there for you right now what should dead devils do if they get bored with skydiving and bungee jumping these russian adrenaline junkies who call themselves break jumpers have a heart stopping also as you can see. the splashing the

cash rushes off set to maga zuckerberg founder of the country's biggest social network and shows off his riches by making paper planes out of banknotes find out how much money the board of millionaire was throwing away. so more world news now from across the globe in our world update at twenty seven minutes past the hour a massive fart a shopping center in qatar has killed at least thirteen children and to far witnesses say the complex did not appear to have any alarms or sprinklers it's thought the blaze began around midday thing at the mall and took several hours to put out because the still. prime minister will both

fight it out and runoff in egypt's presidential election the first and second places of mohamed morsi and shafique have been confirmed by the electoral commission but the other defeated candidates are demanding a recount saying there were violations during voting the second round will take place next month. the former british prime minister tony blair's appearance before an inquiry into media ethics has been interrupted by a man shouting criminal investigation is looking at the issue of phone hacking by journalists blair faces questions about his relationship with rupert murdoch who owned the main newspaper involved the news of the world his government was described by a former colleague has been too close to the media giant to lead the likes of prince charles and gordon brown were among the hacking victims. the us 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. 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 taking morgue and 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 ratings dropped to their lowest in a decade and here are 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 in the executive suites of these media companies they are 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 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 part of its campaign reading newspapers like this one which report about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most in mainstream news outlets or 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 i had my team reported a true story was a top story

a story where people didn't want to believe that he was subjected to repeat propaganda barrage to put it to 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. just twenty four minutes past the hour joins us next with the latest from the well the business it's in these you know credit bank is closing its russian brokerage subsidiary people are going to lose their jobs on the tension absolutely unfortunately they are and they're both hundred people there and develop certainly get compensation from unicredit all the details for you in just a couple of minutes but first let's check out the equity markets and namely europe since wall street will remain closed for memorial day on monday and as you can see the european equity markets and of

a mixed footsie managed to hold on to some of its gains while the dax ended up. poor percent in the red and of course there was a mixed bag of news as well the optimism was mainly coming from greece where the latest poll showed that the greek people are ready to for the bailout new democracy party in next month's elections and that means there's hope that greece will implement the austerity measures and keep the euro but on the other hand of course the spanish story was really adding a grain of salt shares of the troubled bank bank keyless left more than twenty five percent on the news that it asked the government to inject twenty four billion dollars of cash into its system making it the biggest bailout in spain's history at last check out the euro despite all the negativity coming from spain it managed to do quite well it was gaining value against the u.s. dollar as you can see there and the russian currency the ruble ended up mixed it

actually gained value gets the dollar but lost against the euro and let's check out the russian equity markets let's see how they ended the day they held onto some of their gains although that was not as robust as earlier in the day and actually it actually did shrink some of its gains the latest data show that the country's economy attracted thirty six and a half a billion dollars of investments in the first quarter and that may seem like a lot but that's actually an eighteen percent drop compared to the same period a last year and let's have a look at some individual share movers on the my six some of the biggest movers included this very bank that gained more than half a percent that's in the financial sector everybody was expecting very bank to announce his deal with a turkish bank and a lukoil in the energy sector gained on rising oil but t. and p.

that was losing value all of the day managed to. balanced. it was losing and investors were punishing the stock. it became known its c.e.o. only hope friedman resigned from the company without explaining the reasons for the resignation italy's unique credit of banks is planning to close down its a russian brew grid services unit unicredit securities around one hundred people will lose their jobs and get financial compensation from the italian lender it's not the first disappointment for foreign financial companies in russia last year a global giant barclays closed its offices in the country and let's now move on to the oil markets definitely an important indicator of the health of the. russian equity market and oil was doing quite well it was gaining value and that's despite the data that show that u.s.

stockpiles reached a twenty two month high but apparently all that optimism coming out of greece and the continued tensions over iran's nuclear program or enough to push oil higher and a london is once again attracting. real estate buyers from around the world they see london as a safe haven haven't already driven the prices of top notch residential properties up three percent so for this year the head of research at night frank u.k. says this trend is likely to continue going forward. it's seen as a aaa asset with the london postcode if you like it if it's something that people can invest in them then they know their money will be safe it's secure here it's safe it's politically secure economically fairly slightly separated 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 well so they come for

you the wealthy they can come here and there but there's no political threat or anything like that so we've seen that and we saw the russian elections that was a spike of interest from russia as we saw in 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 concept of the market it's quite remarkable. because from the business desk for now you can always find a lot more stories on our site r t dot com slash business and i'll see you in a couple of hours. culture is that so much easier to make if a lot of people in your area of berkeley thinking the welfare state will attempting to save the struggling city why are we reaching the point where society is ripped apart by socialist.