trial of buy t.v. the syrian houla massacre a blame game escalates as the media opens its arms to sensationalise showing truth the door. cyber war first steps into a new era as a russian security experts reveal that the most dangerous virus ever discovered has been devastating middle east computers for years. new face of u.s. homegrown terror f.b.i. dirty tactics occupy critics the tools to target the entire movements reputation and present them as domestic terrorists.

on air and online this is the with me rule research i live in moscow 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 the images furthering one or the other agenda and as r.t. sarah furthur port's authenticity has taken a backseat. when the b.b.c. ran the space a from iraq mistakenly 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 supports majors 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 that from the very beginning the syrian crisis has seemed 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 bold 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 a move that is served 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. remember cry 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 john says could lead to even more lives lost we saw what happened in libya with this everybody understood the khadafi regime. horrible dictatorship but when

the west we ended up with thirty five. already is estimated that more than ten thousand lies are being lost in the conflict the death toll continuing to rise even was the un observers have been in the country but inside syria and amidst the devastation there is still hope for syria that doesn't move over oppression intervention we are completely against arming the uprising. we are against. we declared very clear very loud the mistake made by the b.b.c. the real problems 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 have only served to me further away and not closer to the tree that's the truth the people in syria have been paying with their lives.

commenting on the b.b.c.'s blunder with iraq picture journalist and human rights investigator keith. simply could have been posted by mistake. this particular photograph claiming to be a massacre of children in syria was years from 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 when his 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 paddle the war the manufacture of consent as we were given by the book by non chomsky for example and the claim that we can't get journalists into syria i think is nonsense there are cia agents there m m i six agent there are most agents all over the place in syria at this very moment as they were in libya manufacturing five images about libya

claiming to be you tube videos or citizen journalism you can see from the label activist or photo from activists i mean that's nonsense to the b.b.c. just doesn't do that they don't put down photos from an activist and post and without everything they do is fact checked this is propaganda no mistakes no acts of. now the mainstream media has been inundated in recent days with alleged witness reports of 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 the news coverage but i thought they attacked and killed all do soldiers that raid locks then the bandits don't die towns and burned hospital in. these and killed our farm assisted his truck still because he treated and wounded soldier our children can't go to school

so we can't go out into the phone field somewhat no one but the army can protect us hey you know as you know he of gangs came yesterday and they said either you help us kill soldiers or policemen or we will kill you then they started killing our wives and children along with the soldiers manning the road blocks is that so hard that terrorists killed no narrow tubes in the field and they started to burning our homes. but they were there to an attack to forget and i don't want to hold on let the stop and one of these eyewitnesses also remarked that she felt violence in the area had intensified the head of kofi annan is a rival to the country other u.n. also confirmed today that almost one hundred of those killed in who died as a result of execution style killings and fewer than twenty died from the government bombardment the u.n. 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 the rampant weapon of proliferation for one something that our correspondent for national investigative. she's keeping us up to date on that through her twitter feed she talked to a number of arms dealers and smugglers one of whom was particularly proud of his latest that we. from the body of a serial killer check out maria's feet for the chilling reality of arms trafficking . coming up a bit later on this program here on r t academic epidemic with economic distress calls the problem of growing illiteracy plagued. by social rifts within the union. plus the indian jail taking a holistic approach to rehabilitating their inmate switches decrease the number of . it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today the worst cyber attack in history that's how russian computer giant kaspersky

lab has described it described a virus sweeping the middle east dubbed flame the infection is spreading through systems stealing on president amounts of sensitive data his art he's told 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. and more on the story as well as reports on previous major cyber attacks can be found on our website on t.v. dot com and see what else is standing by for you there right now other u.s.

ambassador to russia says he still hasn't mastered the craft of speaking diplomatically find out what led to the surprising confession from the high ranking diplomat and discover how he is involved. a russian aircraft carrier could host a major ice hockey game as p.r. stunts for the country's popular sport reaching new heights. so i will get to the world of that in a few minutes but for now since it started nine months ago the occupy movement has frequently been shelled with criticism and misunderstood but now as aunties 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. 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 the self-proclaimed anarchists wanted to stop money flow into 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 ease 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 all orchestras 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. 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 toward 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 who 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. julian a song on the latest edition of his own exclusive program here on our team has been talking to some really does of the occupy movement so you can stay if you want to global issues in about fifteen minutes time. now 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 being

a member of the single currency is increasingly feeling its 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 our of an austerity measure where everything gets tight that once when when the 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 expenditures 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 that the spanish and even the italians if they would spend an equal amount as they raise their taxes there's no increase in debt and it spurs growth. while it's not among the first things that spring to mind when talking of europe's problems however while widely overshadowed by the

financial crisis illiteracy remains a prominent it's you know even in the most advanced parts of the e.u. and it's not his test or australia report said small t culturalism that such really suffering the most. there are two issues prevalent in much of europe today 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 a 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 time to seek higher levels of education even for positions where it's not necessary to have a diploma penalizes people with no degrees or who have. the plight of home is not helped by the rise of anti immigration rhetoric in europe without misty 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 and new immigration and integration surveys show 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. for that to

happen. that we have. in the group. such a fuss about this matter. the politicians policy makers will have to sit up as they say before it's too late does or sylvia r.t. brussels. and straight to kandor now to kick off the r.t. world update our legal professionals have now joined a massive protest against a recent bill which tightens the noose on them with strangers hundreds of them marched the streets of montreal clad in judge's robes and holding a banner declaring 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 shafi thousands more flooded to rear

square demonstrating against presidential election results they call for shafi who is 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 that struck northeastern italy killing at least ten 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 tents the region has been plagued by aftershocks over the last two weeks . you know. in a moment katie with the business for now though south asia's largest jail is aiming to tun dangerous criminals into better citizens by taking a rather unique approach using creative rehabilitation and putting an emphasis on the work skills i say the scheme is showing real results appreciate it reports.

it's a bustling factory in india men making everything from steel pipes to fabrics. it's set on a beautiful campus with manicured lawns and fountains a far cry from the hectic bustle 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 their inmates in south asia's largest jails the hard. i mean all round it i'm a good player who is 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 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 minister is 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 way by which the mind gets dry cleaned and then they leave the prison i do not come back that big gets handed in 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 for had when and if they're ever released preassure either r t new delhi india. or a time to indulge ourselves in a bit of business here good to see you again i know you've been crunching those numbers along with your luggage so do tell us so what was your lunch it was super tasting it was really nice i'm trying to be healthy at the moment i'll talk about digesting the u.s. markets they're going to have a lot of information to take into day and that's because they're returning from the holidays as a weekend the memorial holiday they were celebrating but i can tell you that u.s.

stock futures all pointing higher and that is ahead of the bell him on wall street now consumer confidence is pointing up what's housing data is also expected to be better than it was last mob. but i want to talk about spain because that's where all the news sentiments are coming out today now if we take a look at the european markets will see that investors are really demonstrating their resilience at the moment because the fragile spanish banking sector is really good investors on their toes and that's because of the sour property market is fit to be worse than originally thought and i can also say that we are back is one of the only bosses in europe that is actually posting losses today. nearly two percent down actually now i want to talk about spend a little bush because they are not spending their money right now now this is. a record plunge year on year and all that was falling almost ten percent a mots the white fret twenty second consecutive month of declining sales

a spanish upas of being discouraged by the government's austerity measures rising taxes and europe's highest rate of unemployment of over twenty four percent so all of that does put you off your shopping appetite very much indeed so let's have a russian market is also that they're holding on to their guys right now and we had some post of sentiments coming out of china they've pledged to boost growth as well so we're feeling the momentum here mostly right now but the altie has around seven tenths of percent of the mises i is up ten percent off high in post of territory does have a stock so most see who's gaining this loophole is indeed benefiting from those high oil prices also the company president or a secondary public offering in home called as well the list but i'm just holding on to that have a slight guys or two tenths of a percent around that antin k.b. pe this is what i want to talk about because i have one less employee and it was the top man in the sea and the chair holding him going to tell you about right now

now is the russian british venture to be paid now he's mackell the freights when you consider that he has resigned from both positions without providing any reasons behind the move he was one of the. ionas and he was one of the ones who built the out to deal between roughness and be paid claiming it was violating the existing agreements of ten k.b. pay now the has been some reports the move is part of a roughness just east by out b.p. boss oil and gas this alexandretta not at all from gas from banks says it does not make much sense to sell the company. i don't think that. current shareholders would like to sell its share for example look at b.p.'s self think a b.p. is responsible for more than twenty percent of its production reserves and revenues a generation a huge amount of cash every quarter but also one of shareholders will sell to the 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 these cash. in a current market environment when you have a such an asset with a such characteristic is such a growth profile. i wouldn't say that anybody would want to change this as it's for anything. talking of all we're going to check out the prices right now see how they're faring as a positive sentiments coming out of the biggest consumer of oil coming out later on today is not helping boost the prices but for the for that just down ever so just like fraction this stuff would give us the exchange rates for those globe trotters up but we'll see that the euro dollar is losing just ever such a slight fraction on the ruble is losing against the euro and the u.s. dollar at this and i'm talking of exchange rates a different climate ahead into some asian was japan and china that's what i'm going

to talk about now they're going to start direct trading also you want on the japanese yen and that's of next month that the two countries will not be using the u.s. dollar anymore as the middleman and the reason boy is because they wanted to boost to trade now china is japan's largest trading partner despite sometimes tends to relationships between the two in the past all right there i have to say goodbye for now don you bush up next of all you numbers are many things going to enjoy the rest of the off the. authority just a moment the headlines and i will step aside for the world's most famous whistle blower but have.

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