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russia warns against only blaming the syrian government for the massacre in the town of houla saying rebel forces base some of the responsibility for the deaths of more than one hundred civilians. as the syrian conflict drags on largely investigate weapons trafficking from neighboring lebanon we legal arms dealers are driven by profit and face. and russia's cause pesky lab identifies one of the world's most dangerous computer viruses are used in cyber attacks across the middle east.
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online on screen this is r t live from central moscow twenty four hours a day russia says both the syrian government and opposition gunmen may have been involved in the deaths of more than one hundred civilians including over thirty children in the town of houla on friday speaking after meeting with his british counterpart in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov want to gaze assigning blame for the massacre. pisco not 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 to confirm that in houla there were signs of artillery and tank shelling but there
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were also many coops as we've had. fired from close distance signs of a slaughter that will save both sides apparently had a hand in the deaths of people including women and children this is under the control of a military also surrounded by government troops and the u.n. security council has asked the u.n. observer mission on the ground to best gauge what exactly happened in houla moscow is not 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 be 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
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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 . the u.s. in the meantime is once again warning syria it could play as an armed intervention america's top soldo one that the pentagon is prepared to act to mentoring if and when it is austine geo political analyst eric draitser says and this would not be the first time washington used and atrocity as an excuse for action needed to devastating consequences i think it's being taken quite seriously we've seen a precedent in the last ten fifteen years with the united states in particular in the balkans if we remember the pretext of suppose that serbian ethnic cleansing in
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kosovo was one of the main reasons why president clinton was able to lead a military intervention in kosovo the same is true here in syria the situation at the united states doesn't seem to be able to control and so it looks like the houla massacre may be the pretext that they would like to use in order to launch a military intervention in order to instigate regime change which has been the goal all along but we've seen the precedent set recently in libya if you want to call it a success i think you'd probably be not talking to the fifty to one hundred thousand libyans who would have something to say about whether or not that was a success the situation in syria is markedly different because i think that the united states and their western allies thought that the assad regime would have been toppled by now and because the assad regime has been holding on for so long it seems that the united states and saudi arabia qatar and the rest of their allies are down to their final option which would be military intervention not an ideal situation for them but one that they're prepared to to go. and while they are
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draped over the massacre in houla spreads and eagerness to illustrate events in the most harrowing way as misleading results go to our website to find out about the b.b.c. story which use images of rows of children's bodies sent in by an activist only they turned out to be have been taken in iraq almost a decade ago the photographer who took the pictures things they've been used for propaganda get all the details that are t dot com. weapon traffic into syria from lebanon has now become a reality with a constant flow of weapons going to the rebels and as r.t. is a marie of the national found out of for many involved in this deadly business it is a matter of faith and not just money a show of shows of 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.
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bucks shaadi not his real name also has rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private people come all contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shop his garage in tripoli lebanon on syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for really heavy 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 ends 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 t.
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to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. 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 weapons walkie talkies satellites 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 returned to syria. ahmed is sellafield
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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 sounds. we also made 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 will cause the army to make a call at the overthrow of the government we will make all the scholars speak for against the steel army's issues make them all up lies against the c.i. government and other summer fish a can triple he 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 the syrian liberation army already helped the tunisian
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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 every sellafield 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. russian security experts say there found a powerful p.c. virus that they claim has been years for years to spy on middle eastern countries such as israel and iran iran has already said that the virus was responsible for recent incidents of mass data loss in the country. and has more expert russian internet security firm lab say they've discovered what they're calling the largest cyber attack ever calling the virus flame. they most infected computers
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have been discovered in iran but israel has also been attacked as has syria and other countries across the middle east it's sort of virus has been operating since august two thousand and ten that both casts perske and other internet security firms say it may have been stealing data from him it is for years before that iran has already accused the u.s. and israel of being behind the attacks and say that the virus may have been behind massive data losses that they've had in their computer systems recently because first you say it's too early to say who's behind the attack and they say it's unlikely israel would have been behind it because they were attacked themselves but they do add that this is a new stage in the level of cyber warfare across the globe and that cyber warfare itself could become a new level of intensity and that these viruses could become super weapons in that
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realm the flame virus is likely to go down in history as the third great cyber attack of its kind in two thousand and ten to stuxnet virus attacked iran's nuclear program while the dooku virus was busy stealing data from computer systems around the world flame though is much bigger its code is twenty times the size of stuxnet it and it can make use of a computer's webcam keyboard monitoring and also screen shots to steal data package it up and send it back to the attackers this level of sophistication and also the targets hit a what's making kaspersky lab think that this is a government backed cyber attack. still ahead for you this hour falling ratings at a symptom of distrust we look at what's causing a growing number of americans to abandon the mainstream news media in favor of independent of foreign outlets we really special programs.
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should be a massage and the occupy movement have much in common they both aren't afraid to criticize governments and 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 on our team in the latest of us launches a very own interview programs and they discuss the global appeal of the occupy demonstrations. sort of similar for a while for the first week or two or ten days or something until it was for. well yes i mean what are police march but nonetheless for region up through local a silence with a radio you can record speech we took a nonviolent direct action we went and we occupied the 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
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directly democratic process we're posing a threat and so the police had to respond when there's nothing that terrifies me american government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in america. there for to react like. you can guess is that the addition of julian as songes series in full later at eleven thirty am g.m.t. here on our team and if you visit previous six or you can always watch them online at asuncion dot r.t.e. dot com. facebook fury has forced at the head of the international monetary fund to express sympathy with greece's financial struggle christine legarde the course outraise in a newspaper interview by saying she had more sympathy for poor african children and greek suffering economic problems she suggested that the greek culture of taxation was the main cause of the hardship prompting tens of thousands are furious messages on her page highland green the editor of
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a population cannot mix dot com says that austerity measures can only work if the government stuff spending germans and northern europeans strong financially when the euro was introduced at that time in fact there are really two thousand germany had its many recession and they were able to underprice greek exports and so they took over the export market. growth suffered tremendously during the early two thousand it's. called group and has wrought written about this extensively what they really need is a marshall plan of europe and i'm surprised christine legarde will make comments like this at a time when he when she believes that austerity is not the answer to their problems she's talked about that in the past because this is kind of a comedy show to me i mean really you need a marshall plan for europe and there is a way to rescue both the euro and to rescue greece we shouldn't be thinking of an austerity measure where everything gets tight once when when the when there's
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a recession and people can create demand get spending money then we government has to spend that. don't forget that all the stories we're covering are also available on our website at r.t. dot com here's what's also there for you right now that means that the authorities in pakistan threaten six people with the death penalty for allegedly violating tribal traditions by dancing together the details at r.t. dot com. splash in the cash russia's answer to maga zack a bag of founder of the country's biggest social network shows up his riches are by making paper planes out of banknotes find out how much money the board millionaire was throwing away at our t. dot com. some more world news from across the globe a massive fire at a shopping center in qatar has gotten a thirteen children local teachers and firefighters witnesses say the complex did
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not appear to have any alarms or sprinklers it's thought of the blaze began around midday at the luxury mall it took several hours to put out a cause that is still on there was no one. in cairo hundreds of people have attacked the campaign headquarters of former prime minister after much of pique thousands more flooded to hear the square in protest over presidential election results the demonstrators were demanding the figure who is closely associated with the former regime be banned from running for office two other defeated presidential candidates have demanded a recount alleging voter fraud. former british prime minister tony blair's appearance before an inquiry into media ethics has been interrupted by men shouting war criminal investigation is looking at the issue of phone hacking by journalist blair faced questions about the relationship with rupert murdoch who own the news of the world the main newspaper involved as well as convey left at the inquiry eggs that were thrown at one of his vehicles. the
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us mainstream news media is rapidly losing its. audience with the big networks suffering from sinking ratings rising independent outlets and internet sources are increasingly providing an alternative to corporate control news and as our tees maar in a partner are reports the media giants are fast becoming obsolete. think i'm like 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 i'm. venting their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction taking mortgage holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate owned news networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to
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take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and i report 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 for years and this n.b.c. has consistently remained least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms in the executive suites of these media companies they're in a panic about this. 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
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largely ignored by most mainstream news outlets but. they are at the store going on as they look for there is one of the protesting nobody seems to know in total 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 new stickers but no mainstream t.v. cameras the occupy. movement is it waiting for the almighty powerful networks to show up and report about their demonstrations instead the grassroots group has made media distribution all part of its campaign reading newspapers like this one which support about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most mainstream news outlets the first amendment just keeps shrinking in importance as a handful of profiteering corporations who don't care a lot about journalism don't care
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a lot about democracy have taken control reporting the truth means risking all the dangers of digging too deep cost america's legendary newsman dan rather his coveted chair at c.b.s. the trust the journalist was forced to resign after reporting that george w. bush went missing during his national guard service to avoid being drafted to vietnam. because i and my team reported a true story it was a tough story a story a lot of people didn't want to believe that it was subjected to but to repeat propaganda barrage to discredit to a case in which art is imitating life is becoming. a life now seeing more americans turning to the alternative marina portnoy r.t. new york. i'll be back with a roundup of the top stories in about ten minutes time but before that interview with the newly elected president of the station so that.
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that's what it is mr president thank you very much for giving your time to this interview the international media see you as a nationalist in the right wing however you based your election campaign on good relations with the european union. that is that they are absolutely right i am a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will respect their will because of our constitution and the constitution that tided and i wrote together i
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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 now they've written about the negative but now it's difficult to change that but after achieving victory and unacceptable conditions during an incredibly dirty media campaign it's more probable that the media will change their opinion to the fore moreover i showed that i want to be the president of all the citizens of serbia at. the launch you are free to support if you are traditional value to save you you have been stung by their voices at their store i'm not afraid because europe is a very attractive partner for serbia and our country should meet almost all the conditions that the e.u. imposes for this process should stop only if they ask us to renounce part of our territory i'm referring to kosovo and talk it up until now i've been open and sincere with the citizens of serbia and i'm going to continue cooperating with the . people but the moment they impose such conditions i told people immediately i
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think that's why i won't give michael kennedy but you know in our country the dismissal of a president is almost impossible nevertheless my term will last five years only if the citizens allow it that if they no longer want to see me in this position i will walk away right now i'm convinced that the politics that i've been representing are the only good politics for serbia mr beer. in your first statement after the elections you said that salvia will not turn away from the european path and at the same time you've promised to hold a referendum where the citizens will have to decide if they want to join the e.u. or not we keep this promise. misuse of order so that the referendum is going to happen we agreed with the democrats that when all the conditions are fulfilled for serbia's entry to the e.u. we will go to the page s. with the question we do you want to be in the e.u. they will decide that's how they did it in croatia only a few months ago but only after they had fulfilled all the conditions and when the
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e.u. had accepted croatia then they organized the referendum that i think it's necessary to cooperate with citizens a lot more than in the past but that doesn't mean that i'm resigned to the european way my only fear is that they'll impose conditions that i personally wouldn't accept but probably the citizens would say let's fulfill it too because we want to be in the e.u. i won with fifty percent of a vote and i know that the other half are didn't support my ideas that's why i believe that i should ask them all to that is the ability of these in the world as a servant to come over tonight when serbia is in a difficult economic situation when the country's unemployment rate exudes twenty four percent on the other side europe also has its problems and its becoming poorer day by day so why do so still want to become members of the point you failed at the greek scenario could be repeated in your country love to go to queerness you know greece is another thing greece is a member of the e.u. which was spending way money then ago duesler was that because then one day it came out that it didn't have anything like that it took advantage of the surveyors which
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is not a state but a union of stories the trust one another one is that serbia is far behind any of the zuma member countries will serbia enter the e.u. i don't know first of all they have a crisis of expansion or here 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 is 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 evening that's to say how long should german taxpayer support the countries in crisis as i promised to guide serbia to a path where no one could say that you don't want to end like you and the truth is that the world is a lot bigger. just a bit because my victory is a victory of the ideology of both the e.u. and russia will not be warfare. doesn't work that was interesting you don't see that sebi a will have to she's between the e.u. and russia you think it's possible to keep the right balance between them. you have a call of the level that i prefer not to have to make the choice of us that i'd
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like serbia to be at home with two doors one to the west and the other to the east you know serbia simply belongs to the east as well as to the west we have a traditional and deep relationship with russia not only in terms of origin but also in religion what's that history customers language for that we have complimentary industries the field that we've had exceptional economic relations since the second world war that we can be a good bridge between europe and russia and the best partner of russia in the east because of the other the. it seems like serbia is always having to make conditions to become e.u. mendis the other candidates have to join nato what if they want you to join a team with you. believe serbia will never enter nato as this is the will of the majority of the serbian period and the e.u. will never impose this condition because serbia doesn't have any reason to enter i don't see any sense in its existence but if nato becomes an organization which together with the collective security treaty organization would fight against
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organized crime of the world then we would have participated in serbia is a small country surrounded by nato members there's no one serbia would start a war with us we don't need nato to defend it we are militarily neutral and it will stay like that forever so. as all this it takes in russia as well as in serbia you hear very often that the hague tribunal is uncertain do you plan to continue the cooperation with the chinese be you know initiated by the democrats. i've been the team leader who defended voice live show and i struggled against carla del ponte a for many years even personally in strasbourg. had a very difficult conversation in the presence of many parliamentarians of the european council was the hague tribunal will exist until the situation in the world changes and with other people have been convicted that people are dying that often but the tribunals has the support of all countries and so far no one has launched a process to stop it anyway it will be closed soon because there are only
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a few president left and it will close in a fairly negative way for the global justice system open as the former president of serbia died in the house of president the presidents of ovation and balls and you have not been convicted obviously is discrimination of the serbian began long ago and today nothing has changed in segregation continues obviously it's not fair but the serbian government adopted the wrong co-operation with the hague tribunal a little we have to respect that norrin stand boys like we've enjoyed many injustices in this world with that a. thank you thank you. don
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