live broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. un investigators say syrian artillery is responsible for less than twenty of the one hundred eight deaths in houla the rest including children show signs of brutal execution. and we suspect that. there is a nation state behind the development of these cyber attack. russian security experts who discovered one of the most malicious computer viruses ever found targeting the middle east say it's most likely sponsored by a foreign government. and as occupy protesters in the u.s. are labeled terrorists grilles the group's activists about their true goals in the latest edition of his interview program throughout the day here on r.t. .

online on screen this is r t live from central moscow twenty four hours a day u.n. investigators say less than twenty of the one hundred eight people killed in the houla massacre in syria died from artillery fire the rest including dozens of children were executed the syrian government says evidence points at opposition islamists while the rebels blame the government the western media has been flooded in recent days with alleged eyewitness reports suggesting troops but there are also some very different accounts. they attacked and killed all the soldiers that raged blocks then the bandits stormed our towns and burned ospital in our houla diva killed our pharmacist at his trucks door because he treated and wounded soldier our children can go to school so we can go out into the phone fields and work no one but the army can protect us. 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 the soldiers manning the road blocks disaster that terri schiavo narratives in the fields on the side of the gurning our home so we escaped all gore but they were there to an attack to forget and i don't want that but haunt that get let the stuff out of the crook a former british intelligence officer who now studies islam is militant says the specifics of the who to slaughter shed light on who might be to blame. methodology this type of killing of beheading of slitting of throat slitting of throats of children two and of this relation of bodies has been a characteristic not. not of syria not of lebanon but really of what happened in the anbar province of iraq and so it seems to point very much in the

direction of groups that have been associated with the war in iraq against the united states who perhaps return to syria or perhaps iraqis who come up for a man to take part of it yes we're talking about al qaeda like groups. there's very end of the spectrum of the opposition they may be a minority in terms of the numbers of the overall officer but they are now defining the war. and investigation into the who that atrocity is still not yet complete but a number of western nations including the u.s. are expelling senior syrian diplomats anyway artie's lucy kevon of brings us the details. france and australia have joined the u.s. in expelling their syrian ambassador as well other countries including germany italy spain and canada have started the process of sending diplomatic staff home top of fish oils from many of these western nations have placed the blame on this weekend's houla massacre directly on the government of president bashar al assad at

this despite the fact that the investigation into the killings has only just begun critics say that this is unprecedented out of diplomatic showmanship could threaten to undermine the fragile peace process in syria and also send confusing messages especially as the u.n. security council's own most recent statement urges both size both all parties involved in the conflict to stick to that peace plan the other issue at hand here is that the situation on the ground is not clear and some feel that these western countries are sensually pushing a propaganda war of sorts is jumping ahead of themselves in releasing expelling these diplomats before the facts are known. of there and still ahead on the program troy boy t v we take a closer look at how truth is often the first victim in the media's coverage of syria when personal agendas of being pursued plus. you could

russia relations hit new lows off the freedom resigns as head of joy joint venture with russia's. the billionaire poor governance british soil will have more business twenty poles. the kaspersky lab russia's internet security company called it the worst cyber attack in history the un said the flame virus was the most serious cyber warning of. the details on an internet assault that has swept through the mideast. experts that russian internet security firm. are sure that this is a very complex internet virus the most complex ever they say the highest number of infected computers in iran but israel syria and other countries across the middle east have also been attacked flame can make use of the computers webcams it's keyboard it's microphones and other things in order to grab data packet it up and send it back to its controllers and it's this complexity and the targets that have

been hit that have convinced because this is a state backed cyber attack and a very well organized operation and we suspect there that. there is a nation state behind the development of this cyber attack and there are reasons for that these placation doesn't feed into a near existing groups that develops over attack tools and we try not to. be interested in such attacks we try to be pure facts we extract from the cold like maybe language. and in this case we've found only traces of good interview she was to all of that up the kitchen iran has already accused us of the attack you say it's too soon to tell who's behind it but they have added that this is a new development in the growing area of cyber warfare and that compared to what's gone before flame could be classified as a cyber superweapon. more of that story as well as reports and some past major

cyber attacks can be found on our website and there's plenty more there for at the moment including the u.s. ambassador to russia says he still hasn't mastered the craft of speaking diplomatically thought out what led to that surprising conversion from the high ranking diplomat and discover how r.t. is involved. plus the dream of all italians the name given by the artist behind this wax figurine of the country's former prime minister inside a glasgow. off in which is on display in rome find out what the artists are trying to say at r.t. dot com. from disorganized slackers to terrorists the occupy movement has seen his media image go from bad to worse over its nine months of existence protests is now even

face accusations that they pose a threat not just to corporate america but to the country as a whole but activists say it's all just scare mongering to stifle the movement. reports. 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 the self-proclaimed anarchists wanted to stop money flowing to the one percent instead of 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 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 krugman taste 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 the be another one maybe six months later there be another one where now the occupy movement is really take it and no want 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 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 state very important i.r.t. new york. well the occupy movements real mission is explored by june in the sun as he challenges the movement's leaders in the latest edition of his interview program and you can watch the full show in less than twenty minutes from now in the

meantime here's a brief taste of what to expect. i think that it's been sort of a global movement and i guess that started in tunisia where sort of swept across the mediterranean greece spain really the same movement that america they're out of people from greece and spain who were involved in very early days and even before the occupation of putting it together so that i think there's really a global ferment we can see a way of writing that wouldn't happen ten years ago we had these protest movements for seattle and you're and so on very simple but that was the end of it so we can see why it would have happened ten years ago but why didn't it happen five years ago i think primarily social movements around there always borne out of grievance and a sense of being agree and i think these are simply what's happening is simply impossible without a global financial crisis and it genuinely could have been the end of capitalism as we know it we would have had massive problems with distributing food the problem of

complex societies is that when something goes wrong it goes very wrong. and that program in full in twenty minutes from now here in r.t. thousands of egyptians have been voicing their disappointment over the results of the first round of the presidential election in cairo the headquarters of one candidate revolution prime minister ahmed shafik was set on fire by a mob shafiq will face the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the second round next month while for more on the story i'm joined by shut she's a freelance journalist there in cairo so egypt is again locked in protest amid calls for the results of the first round to be canceled how was egypt come to a point where no candidate appears to represent the revolutionaries. i'm sorry could you repeat the question how come we got to a situation in egypt where we're seeing people protesting and clearly not happy with the results of this first round of the election where we got two people who

appear not to represent the interests of the revolutionaries. well while the voting process itself was very smooth last week everything was very peaceful it wasn't until the vote started becoming started being counted and numbers started coming out showing that the top contenders. warsi were surprised candidates surprise leaders in the results which wasn't expected the polls leading up to the vote were showing. perhaps maybe a little but what happened after the results were officially confirmed by the election commission this weekend the people were just the mood turned here in cairo and as well as in alexandria people took to the streets to voice their discontent and anger at the fact that.

these two voices that didn't represent the people didn't represent the middle ground i mean the two candidates. who is an old regime. and. mohammed morsi was a member of the muslim brotherhood there are polar opposites there are two extremes and a lot of the people who support the revolution feel that their voices were not. properly represented and they felt this way for a long time since the revolution there in representation is not in parliament as well clearly a lot of anger against his headquarters that the success of somebody of course who was mubarak's old prime minister that has shocked a lot of people are you surprised to see him now almost neck and neck with these opposition them perhaps almost with a chance of winning this election. well there are so many this is

a vast country with a lot of people that are you know it shows that there's a very rich and de various. political thought in this country i mean it's not just islamist and. the regime. voices here there is there's a vast array and i think the votes were splintered among the revolutionaries in the middle ground and this is why we're left with these two dark horse candidate so therefore does this mean that therefore we're going to have some very unsatisfied revolutionaries and we're seeing them right now in tahrir square despite this forthcoming election perhaps are we going to see more unrest even another revolution or some say the revolution continues. i do think that there is going to be continuing on rast especially with the planned protest this week with the fact that all of these emotions are bubbling over because there haven't been anyone

convicted in since the revolution of the marchers the mubarak verdict is supposed to be this weekend and people are not expecting much the way things have been going people are expecting a small. slap on the wrist kind of thing with him so i do expect this to continue and rest that affect so much for your thoughts good to hear what you have to say there live in cairo you for having a good. joining us live there in egypt or to live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day let's have a look at some other headlines from around the world in our world update a strong aftershock measuring five point one has struck northern italy after a five point eight magnitude earthquake hit a region killing at least seventeen people rescuers say there are more victims trapped under the bridge the main quake hit at nine am local time in the same region that sort of stronger one earlier this month but seven people when the.

friends of these self-confessed norwegian mass killer anders breivik testified to this trial on the insurance their identities will remain anonymous the court heard briefly described himself as a depressed person obsessed with his looks even had a nose job but most of his acquaintances thought he was homosexual the thirty three year old massacred sixty nine people last july and youth camp and planted the bomb the claimed lives in the always capital. now let's return to top story now the reaction to the weekend's houla massacre in syria with witness reports coming from the country difficult to verify each party in the conflict and taking sides in their accounts of what's happening and reports in pursuing a certain agenda authenticity sometimes takes a back seat. when the b.b.c. ran this phase say from iraq mistakingly claiming it was syria it led to some fish

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 always supports wages wars and even though there's no conspiracy the reporter women wrote this i'm sure they were soldiers it's part of a general malaise in the b.b.c. that always calls for intervention and the use of a job of developing nation from the very beginning the syrian crisis is seen to be distorted at every turn and by paid sites throughout the last months the world seen fake video of a pool simple statement that it hasn't quelled the sensation hungry media from jumping the gun on any shocking piece of knees coming from the country ravaged by

conflict and its cause that the peace plan is now failing visited damascus. 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 and move this 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 who are . cry in the western press some from western governments over similar occasions in

kosovo will 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 look at half the regime. with a horrible dictatorship but when the west into and 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 it doesn't move over question 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.

it goes to show 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 the only serve to me further away and not posted to the training is the truth that people in syria have been paying with their lives third thing. well for more on this let's talk to show me an author and journalist she's written extensively on the middle east. and one of the articles that you've recently written you said when it comes to the middle east the u.s. often uses the principle of preemptive action against states that may one day pose a threat to american interests could you elaborate on that. correct the article itself was about the use of unconventional warfare in the middle east by the u.s. special forces but what you're referring to specifically is the bush doctrine which

you know assume that the us has the right to preemptively take action against regimes or governments that were hostile to to washington's interests. and in fact because the bush doctrine has proved to be unpopular because of the iraq and afghanistan invasions and occupations now we're seeing the obama administration sort of change the packaging though the concept remains the same you have recently the development of the atrocities prevention board and now we broadly talk about humanitarian intervention but it's really the same thing as the bush doctrine the goals are the same so all the sides of this unconventional warfare being used in syria. correct there there are and if you if you look at the one hundred plus page unconventional warfare manual the special forces that i touched my article it's almost

a blueprint for how to carry out these things and if you if you read it with syria in mind or iran or libya for that matter you will see steps in there that we read about in our newspapers in the case that syria for instance at the beginning of the introduction of propaganda. and perception change activities to sway the middle population against the regime and then to to create acts like strikes and boycotts to up the ante and then to introduce national front movements like the syrian national council or liberation army as like the free syrian army and the introduction of foreign advisors and foreign aid and foreign weapons into the conflict you know and bringing bringing sabotage and violence into urban areas and how to prop the population along the way so it's there in black and white and everyone should read it it's a roadmap to what's happening in syria so while washington actually succeed with

tactics in syria which is presumably regime change and if it is regime change what happens what is going to replace assad how would it succeed in this type take. well i guess i won't even go that far i don't think washington will succeed i think washington has. used all the arrows and it's clever and we're seeing this increasingly the u.s. cannot launch a military war itself anywhere in the region any longer the u.s. cannot. use the un security council to pass inane resolutions any longer. mainly relies on sort of financial pressures like sanctions and and unconventional military tactics like the unconventional warfare i mentioned here and i think i think it's sort of used up every thrown everything it's got at syria and some of these countries and i think we know this because we were seeing

on the other side of things the escalation activity on trying to strike a nuclear bargain with iran those nuclear talks happening now are there for a reason there's a lot of chaos and instability going on the region and washington needs to manage this certainly in the in the months ahead of the elections thank you very much indeed for your perspective on the show i mean the want to joining us live in beirut. joins us next with the latest business news there he is in the business newsroom spain's credit rating is just being downgraded yes it's banks have taken a battering in recent weeks over the levels and this is a reflection in the last hour of the euro has slumped on the dollar twenty four off the ratings agency. spain from b two b. minus more news from madrid spain last will slow is the record ten percent

a year old year that's the twenty six straight months of the cloyd's government spending cuts roys in your choice of employment rates all. putting off shoppers but u.s. markets already high are seen as a safe haven despite a consumer confidence report showing gloomy feelings over the u.s. economy moving forward markets here are more sco they posted strong gains today on good economic news from asia china both e.l.t.'s the mines they closed above the scene hundred points let's check major movers now russia's top electronics firm citroen igs gained off to trimming first quarter losses and luc will hold a second republic offering in hong kong next year it says b.p. the reacted badly to more money problems its chief executive friedman pictured here is resigned he comes off to the billionaire blocked a big deal between b.p. and the rules they're claiming that violates exclusivity agreements with b.p.

they have been reports the move is all part of rules of strategy to boil t.k. b.p. but oil and gas analyst alexander has of told us that doesn't make sense. i don't think that. current shareholders would like to sell its share for example look at b.p.'s self. responsible for more than twenty percent of its production reserves and revenues a generate in the huge amount of cash every quarter but also one of shareholders will sell to the share i don't know any comparable asset at the same price so they will get a huge cash pile probably from twenty 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 will want to change these assets for anything. so for business for today bill we'll have more in about nine hours in the

morning or i don't get some rest then thanks very much indeed down a bushel there now in a few minutes from now the seventh edition of julian assange his interview show into the program that's coming your way as promised not long ago that will be able to wrap up of our top stories stay with us live here in moscow. mission of free accreditation free zones for judges is free from a challenge free. free spirit.