trial by t.v. the syrian the houla massacre blame game escalates as the media opens its arms to sensationalism while showing truth to the door. cyber warfare steps into a new era as russian security experts reveal that the most dangerous virus ever discovered has been devastating middle east computers for years. and the new face of u.s. homegrown terror f.b.i.'s dirty tactics by critics the tools to tar the entire movement reputation and present them as domestic terrorists.

live from moscow this is our rule re sushi it's good to have you with us the most gruesome episode in syria's uprising is quickly turning into a p.r. battle as each side and their allies portion blame for the slaughter in houla just four days after the murders of over one hundred men women and children the media has been flooded with images furthering one or the other agenda as r.t. sarah furthur reports authenticity has not taken a backseat. when the b.b.c. ran this space a from iraq mistakingly claiming it was syria it led to some fierce criticisms somebody is using my images from iraq as propaganda against the syrian government to prove the massacre i'm really surprised that an organization like the b.b.c. cannot be bothered to check sources and is ready to publish any image sent by a citizen activist or journalist or whoever they are the b.b.c.

is like a british bombing club it's always support stages wars and even though there's no conspiracy the reporter women wrote this i'm sure they were told you it's part of a general malaise in the b.b.c. that always calls for intervention and the use of major. developing nation from the very beginning the syrian crisis is seen to be distorted at every turn and by side throughout the last month the world seen fake video reports and false statements that this hasn't quelled the sensation hungry media from jumping the gun on any shocking piece of news coming from the country ravaged by conflict and its cause that the peace plan is now failing and visited damascus in a statement he said. the government to take steps to signal that it is serious in its intention to resolve this crisis peacefully and this

message of peace is not only for the government but for everyone every individual with a gun but while many media outlets loudly condemn the regime there has been little criticism of the open and blatant funding and arming of the syrian opposition and leave this earth to massively undermine ceasefire attempts and now the war drums again seem to be beating john rees from the stop the war coalition called this the benghazi moment the moment where things are portrayed as being so bad that there's no other option but intervention. some of us who've been around long enough. crime in the western press some from western governments over similar occasions in kosovo remember the way in which saddam hussein regime was characterized because of its atrocities in iraq the same rhetoric says could lead to even more lives lost we saw what happened in libya with this everybody understood the gadhafi regime.

horrible dictatorship but when the western we ended up with thirty five. already is estimated to more than ten thousand lies being lost in the conflict the death toll continuing to rise even the un observers have been in the country but inside syria and amidst the devastation there is still hope for syria does move over oppression intervention we are completely against arming the uprising. as well as we are against. we declared that very clear very loud the mistake made by the b.b.c. the real problem is when covering the syrian conflict the events of recent weeks of also showing that the mudslinging finger pointing and accusations that have been such a mark of the syrian crisis the only serve to further away and not closer to the train it's the truth that people in syria have been paying with their lives.

and are commenting on the b.b.c.'s blunder with the iraq picture journalist and human rights investigator keith harmon snow says there's simply no way you could have been posted by mistake. this particular photograph claiming to be a massacre of children in syria with years later a major element of the gander accusing saddam hussein's government of killing all these children often first by so it was a nasty piece of propaganda it was very well known where this photograph came from if people believe that this is accidental or if it's citizen journalism they are really deceiving themselves these images are certainly used to peddle the war the manufacture of consent as we were given by the book by non chance of the claim that we can't get journalists into syria i think is nonsense there are cia agents through my m i six even if there are most not agents all over the place in syria at this very moment as they were in libya manufacturing it gives about claiming to be

you tube videos there are citizen journalism you can see from the label activist or photo from activists i mean that's nonsense to the b.b.c. just there's a little bit up or down photos from an activist in post and without everything they do is fact checked this is propaganda no mistake now after. the mainstream media has been inundated in recent days with actual eyewitness reports blaming assad and his troops for the slaughter in syria that despite the fact that what happened in houla is still under investigation and no one has yet been able to verify any witness accounts some people who claim they were at the heart of the massacre offered a very different perspective compared to what's dominating global news coverage but . that they attacked and killed all the soldiers that raged rocks then the bandits don't our towns and then the hospital in. these and killed our pharmacist at his truck still because he treated and wounded soldier our children can go to school so

we can go out into the phone feel someone no one but the army can protect us a haven or the other gangs came yesterday and they said either you help us kill soldiers a policeman or we will kill you then they started killing our wives and children along with us. soldiers manning the road blocks that somehow down terry askew learned their relatives in the field it's. always keep the older but they were there too and it took to figure. this out. one of the witnesses also remarked that she felt violence in the area had intensified ahead of kofi annan arrival to the country the un also confirmed today that almost one hundred of those killed in houla died as a result of execution style killings and fewer than twenty died from the government bombardment the un envoy is currently in damascus holding talks with the syrian president assad is expected to appeal to the leader to put more effort into implementing the internationally backed six point peace plan but there are still

plenty of obstacles in the way rampant weapons appropriation for one something that our correspondent maria phenomena went to investigate. she is keeping us up to date throughout all of the twenty four hours springs on this feed is current and she talked to a number of arms dealers and smugglers one of whom was particularly proud of his latest acquisition torn from the body of a syrian officer he had killed maria's feet for the chilling reality of arms trafficking. and i coming up on the program this hour that of the academic epidemic lost amid economic distress calls the problem of growing illiteracy plagues the e.u. worsened by social rifts within the e.u. . plus in jail taking a holistic approach to rehabilitating the inmates which has decreased the number of real offenders. this is r.t.

the worst cyber attack in history that's how russian computer security giant casper ski lab has described a virus sweeping the middle east it's called flame and the infection is spreading through systems stealing unprecedented amounts of sensitive data with details now artie's tom bot. they most infected computers have been discovered in iran but israel has also been attacked as has syria and other countries across the middle east it's thought the virus has been operating since august two thousand and ten but both cast perske and other internet security firms say it may have been stealing data from computers 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 you say it's too early to say who's behind the attack but they do add that this is

a new stage in the level of cyber warfare across the globe and that these viruses could become super weapons in that 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 destructs net 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 or package it up and send it back to the attackers this level of sophistication and also the targets hit or what's making kaspersky lab think that this is a government backed cyber attack. reporting right there we'll have more on the story as well as reports on previous major cyber attacks all to be found on our web

site at see what else now is awaiting us dot com for example of the u.s. ambassador to russia says he still hasn't mastered the craft of speaking diplomatically find out what led to that surprising confession from the high ranking diplomat also discover he is involved. a russian aircraft carrier could host a major ice hockey game as p.r. stunts for the country's popular sport reaches. he is coming to live from moscow since it started nine months ago the occupy movement has frequently been shelled with criticism mocked and misunderstood but now was artie's marina portnoy reports slander and scare mongering are also being used to bring the corporate drive to

a standstill. what began last september returned with a vengeance on the first of may tens of thousands of americans across the country expressing collective outrage over wealth inequality political corruption and corporate green by the evening federal agents have busted up an anarchist plot in cleveland five people are under arrest the occupy movement made headlines for a very different reason this group here of so-called anarchists are in custody accused of wanting to blow up a bridge in ohio of a self-proclaimed anarchists wanted to stop money flowing to the one percent and said the federal government a message they have even ties to occupy cleveland as well the f.b.i. says the five ohio suspects were intent on using violence to express their ideological views that allowed some occupy critics to incriminate the entire movement is occupy wall street based on the allegations that we have or that bridge should it be considered a domestic terrorist organization the f.b.i.

not only for you know the alleged terrorist plot it also used a government paid informant to help orchestrate it that man identified as shaquille as these collaborated with the suspects loaned cash made introductions and then an undercover f.b.i. agent sold these folks according to the prosecution the c. four explosives orchestrated ok it's just i was involved in this for a long time i was trained to entrap another game very well f.b.i. informant turned whistleblower craig spent six years working for the agency he says as long as the u.s. remains a threat to washington and wall street cases like the cleveland five will become more common sense. but that's the goal. now maybe three months later to be another one maybe six months later there be another

one where now the occupy movement is really take it and no one to be around them so much because there may be some type of terrorist plan or plot. before the cleveland five came the new book for a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have warded f.b.i. operatives provided the fake c four and actually showed them a fake stinger missile the four muslim suspects were arrested and charged with attempting to carry out terrorist attacks no direction by a foreign entity or real terrorist group instead direction came from an f.b.i. informant to monitored induced and facilitated the fabricated plot reportedly paid one hundred thousand dollars for his services in america's post nine eleven decade scores of u.s. muslim citizens have been arrested and convicted through sting operations involving f.b.i. informants. today as the ninety nine percent becomes a bigger challenge for washington some say angry activists could replace scary muslims as the so-called new face of homegrown terror i think that occupy wall

street is dealing with big enough issues and there are enough people who are committed enough to the movement that it probably will have political prisoners maybe sooner than later occupy cleveland issued a statement saying that while the five men arrested were associated with the movement they were in no way representing or acting on behalf of the group and f.b.i. spokesperson also said the incident was not an occupy movement wants facts which so far have not stopped many from branding occupy with an unfavorable staying in important i.r.t. new york. and doing a song join the latest edition of his own exclusive interview show right here on i see has been talking to some leaders of the occupy movement you can catch it all next hour to hear them discuss where their ambitions lie. it is on a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital the u.k. prime minister david cameron has held

a meeting with top financial officials and ministers to discuss contingency plans for the eurozone crisis britain not a member of the single currency is increasingly feeling it's a domino effect as fears of a greek exit trigger a sharp rise in borrowing costs hollande green the editor of popular economics dot com says that austerity measures can only work if the government starts spending we shouldn't be thinking of an austerity measure where everything gets tight that once when when they when there's a recession and people can't create demand get spending money then the government has to spend that well there are various economists who study this problem and what they said was if you increase expenditures by the expenditure by the same amount you increase taxes you increase national income and that doesn't increase debt if the greeks are going to have to resort taxes of the spanish and even italians if they would spend an equal amount as they raise their taxes there's no increase in

debt and it spurs growth. that would is not among the first things that spring to mind when talking of europe's problems however while at wildly overshadowed by the financial crisis illiteracy remains a prominent issue even in the most advanced parts of the e.u. and as artists are our cilia reports it's multiculturalism but suffering the most. there are two issues prevalent in much of europe today baby at the forefront of election campaigns and debates one how to get more people working and to how to address the growing social divisions resulting from unemployment and ineffective integration policies but there's something integrity these efforts of some say is still largely a taboo topic illiteracy. a european union study has found that more than seventy five million adults lack basic reading and writing skills in belgium about one in ten adults have low literacy levels are reality even more striking in highly populated urban areas and for foreigners there's the added challenge of reading and

writing in a new language and here literacy is directly linked with social integration. because there is a shortage of jobs employers tend to seek higher levels of education even for positions where it's not necessary to have a diploma it penalizes people with no degrees or who have low literacy the plight of whom is not helped by the rise of anti immigration rhetoric in europe without mysti international highlighting the discrimination faced by muslims in education and employment. ironically in a country where its leader was widely quoted as saying multiculturalism has failed a new immigration and integration survey showed that only a third of foreigners had trouble finding a job in berlin in stark contrast with seventy nine percent in lisbon in portugal and milan in italy critics say the results may only be a consequence of better economic conditions in germany and nothing more regardless

those monitoring illiteracy in europe reiterate the risk of social exclusion it would be wonderful if. we wait for that to happen. that we have in the group to make such a fuss about this matter. the politicians policy makers will have to set up as they say before it's too late tesser cilia r.t. brussels. more will see katie soon with the business for now though let's kick off for the r.t. world update will start in canada where legal professionals have now you joined a massive protest against a recent bill which tightens the noose on demonstrators hundreds of them marched the streets of montreal clad in judge's robes and holding a banner declaring the lawyers against the new law it was adopted after more than three months of student protests and violent clashes with police over an increase

in tuition fees. protests have erupted in egypt's capital as hundred set fire to the campaign headquarters of former prime minister. thousands more flooded to rear square demonstrating against presidential election results they called for shafique closely linked to the former regime to be banned from running for office he said to face the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the second round of egypt's election in june. a powerful magnitude six earthquake has struck north eastern italy killing at least eight people it's the second deadly tremor in almost a fortnight thousands fled their homes after the first quake and are now living in makeshift camps the region has been plagued by aftershocks over the last two weeks . south asia's largest jail is aiming to turn dangerous criminals into better citizens by taking a rather unique approach using creative rehabilitation and putting an emphasis on

the work skills they say the scheme is showing real results and appreciative reports. it's a bustling factory in india men making everything from steel pipes to fabrics. it's sat on a beautiful campus with manicured lawns and fountains a far cry from the have to cross all of new delhi. but the workers in the seeming utopia actually have no choice about being here in fact they have no freedom at all because they're inmates in. south asia's largest jails the har. i'm a round i make good clothes here which is sold in the outside world nirmal singh is one of twelve thousand inmates in bihar and he's serving a life sentence for murder. now he makes one hundred rupees or two dollars a day for his work i feel that no matter what crime i committed in the past i don't want to commit any more or do anything wrong when i'm free i want to look for

a job as we've. seen heart is a revolutionary facility in india housing everyone from high profile criminals like former prime ministers to common robbers the masterminds behind this chill provide training for in maids as well as other activities like meditation music and painting to calm their spirits. i object to was i give them that kind of a holistic reform correctional by was the mind gets dry cleaned and then they leave the prison i do not come back that big gets handed them says many convicts here at the hard jail save their learning skills on the sprawling four hundred acre campus that they hope they can apply in the outside world authorities say the reform programs are working and only seventeen percent of the prison population are repeat offenders they hope that number will continue to go down it's an impressive statistic recent studies show that the real offending rate for prisoners in the united states is as high as sixty percent and around fifty percent

in the u.k. one thing can be certain he said that if you do not do these groups the reforms then the criminality. is bound to go up. while the inmates say there is nothing that compares to freedom most are trying to make the best of their time in the har. good at least we have something to pass the time but the only thing that i miss the most is being with my family the nirmal like his fellow inmates wishes only for a better life ahead when and if there ever released preassure either r t new delhi india. instead of civility business as we go. to understand it so it was a holiday weekend in america so the barbecues are far out of the beer was probably flowing out of the market investors are doing at the moment maybe perhaps a bit hung over still hopeful sibley what like it but the trading desk they're

going to have a lot to digest today because there's so much going on and some highs and lows really i mean over stateside it's to summarize right now but i count tell you that u.s. stock futures all pointing higher now there's also expected to be some good news coming out of the u.s. today consumer confidence is expected to rise as well as housing starts as well so helping to boost the momentum that. but having said that i have a new europe that's still some major concerts going on now lol so we have the footsie territory it's just dropped as a society can only really put that down to the fact that there's been some more details come out about the whole banking situation in spain and how fragile it really is and how much exposure there is to these. lines that they're calling on the us despite the fact that we had gangs in asia earlier on in the session so as i say concerns about this buy and also i just read just now they have their retail sales come out in spain as well and listen to this twenty two month lows they're

looking at right now believable also the lowest since records began in two thousand the race is bit of a nightmare all round in this talk about spain being the next country that is going to need some kind of buyout so right now the footsies close a little bit of that momentum let's move on and have a look at how the russian mob his fairing and see that there's still holding on to the days right now but not nearly as hard as we had on in the session that we're getting to the end of the moment so traders attending to hold on to their positions on the russian officer will be trying to get away from these two year lows that we've been looking at ways that they and if we move on to the stocks we'll see how they're faring this hour we're still wasn't getting some i says stuff i thought it was as good as there was on its own two tenths of said new quote as well as still benefiting from those high oil prices this is the one i'm going to talk about eight tenths of a percent opposed to territory and what i want to talk about is the recent resignation of the c.e.o. he was also the chairman as well on talking about moko now he resides from

various positions without providing any reasons behind the move this was for the russian venture to be paying now he was one of rich's rushes excuse him off co-owners to deal with a rough draft and be paid claiming it was violating the existing. agreements of teaching k.p. pay now there has been some reports the move is part of a rule set strategy to buy an outing k.p.c. bumps oil or gas as an example not at all from the gas pump wright says it does not make much sense to sell the company citizens of this. i don't think that actual current shareholders would like to sell its share for example look at b.p.'s self is responsible for more than twenty percent of its production reserves and revenues a generating a huge amount of cash every quarter but also one of shareholders sell to b.p.

share i don't know any particular comparable asset at the same price so they will get a huge cash pile probably from twenty billion to thirty five billion dollars for fifty percent stake in the company what would be the use of the cash. in a current market environment when you have a such an asset with a such characteristic or such a growth profile. i wouldn't say that anybody will want to change this as for anything i could have a look at those oil prices and while we're on the topic and they are indeed makes that is ours you can see we've got the brand just dropped into negative territory this fall it's me from. i wanted to mention that the i boxed in by is actually dropping i can see that this is a part chart. one point six percent and have a negative territory this is the only both in the european region toppling the ruble that is not gaining against the euro and the us dollar has to step into is that china and this time they're going to have their own direct trading of that you

want on the japanese yen next month the two countries will not be using the u.s. dollar as a middleman in the hope the move will be used by law to try and out china is japan's largest trading partner despite sometimes tense relationships between them moving elements of what you need credit it's lazy bank is closing down its russian brokerage services you need credit securities around one hundred people will lose said jobs and get legal compensation from the italian lender is not the first disillusion there's been for foreign companies last year global john paul has closed its offices you know russia all right then hopefully no more red potshots may. thanks very much carrie see you next. just three minutes now i will go to the headlines and then attempt to time the sports.

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